The Lord of the Rings

1551 — Many Periannath migrate from Bree, and are granted land beyond Baranduin by Argeleb II.

c.1630 — They are joined by Stoors coming up from Dunland.

1601 — The Corsairs ravage Pelargir and slay King Minardil.

1634 — The Great Plague devastates Gondor. Death of King Telemnar and his children. The White Tree dies in Minas Anor. The plague spreads north and west, and many parts of Eriador become desolate. Beyond the Baranduin the Periannath survive, but suffer great loss.

1636 — King Tarondor removes the King’s House to Minas Anor, and plants a seedling of the White Tree. Osgiliath begins to fall into ruin. Mordor is left unguarded.

1640 — King Telumehtar Umbardacil retakes Umbar and drives out the Corsairs.

1810 — The attacks of the Wainriders upon Gondor begin.

1851 — Gondor loses its eastern territories, and Narmacil II falls in battle.

1856 — King Calimehtar defeats the Wainriders on Dagorlad.

1899 — Calimehtar builds the White Tower in Minas Anor.

1900 — Gondor and Arnor renew communications and form an alliance. Arvedui weds Fíriel daughter of Ondoher of Gondor.

1940 — Ondoher falls in battle. Earnil defeats the enemy in South Ithilien. He then wins the Battle of the Camp, and drives Wainriders into the Dead Marshes. Arvedui claims the crown of Gondor.

1944 — Eärnil II receives the crown.

1945 — End of the North-kingdom. The Witch-king overruns Arthedain and takes Fornost.

1974 — Arvedui drowned in the Bay of Forochel. The palantíri of Annúminas and Amon Sûl are lost. Eärnur brings a fleet to Lindon. The Witch-king defeated at the Battle of Fornost, and pursued to the Ettenmoors. He vanishes from the North.

1975 — Aranarth takes the title of Chieftain of the Dúnedain. The heirlooms of Arnor are given into the keeping of Elrond.

1976 — Frumgar leads the Éothéod into the North.

1979 — Bucca of the Marish becomes first Thain of the Shire.

1980 — The Witch-king comes to Mordor and there gathers the Nazgûl. A Balrog appears in Moria, and slays Durin VI.

1981 — Náin I slain. The Dwarves flee from Moria. Many of the Silvan Elves of Lórien flee south. Amroth and Nimrodel are lost.

1999 — Thráin I comes to Erebor and founds a dwarf-kingdom ‘under the Mountain’.

2002 — The Nazgûl issue from Mordor and besiege Minas Ithil.

2043 — Fall of Minas Ithil, afterwards known as Minas Morgul. The palantír is captured.

2000 — Eärnur becomes King of Gondor. He is challenged by the Witch-king.

2050 — The challenge is renewed. Eärnur rides to Minas Morgul and is lost. Mardil becomes the first Ruling Steward.

2060 — The power of Dol Guldur grows. The Wise fear that it may be Sauron taking shape again.

2063 — Gandalf goes to Dol Guldur. Sauron retreats and hides in the East. The Watchful Peace begins. The Nazgûl remain quiet in Minas Morgul.

2210 — Thorin I leaves Erebor, and goes north to the Grey Mountains, where most of the remnants of Durin’s Folk are now gathering.

2340 — Isumbras I becomes thirteenth Thain, and first of the Took line. The Oldbucks occupy the Buckland.

2460 — The Watchful Peace ends. Sauron returns with increased strength to Dol Guldur.

2463 — The White Council is formed. About this time Déagol the Stoor finds the One Ring, and is murdered by Sméagol.

2470 — About this time Sméagol-Gollum hides in the Misty Mountains.

2475 — Attack on Gondor renewed. Osgiliath finally ruined, and its stone-bridge broken.

c. 2480 — Orcs begin to make secret strongholds in the Misty Mountains so as to bar all the passes into Eriador. Sauron begins to people Moria with his creatures.

2509 — Celebrían, journeying to Lórien, is waylaid in the Redhorn Pass, and receives a poisoned wound.

2510 — Celebrían departs over Sea. Orcs and Easterlings overrun Calenardhon. Eorl the Young wins the victory of the Field of Celebrant. The Rohirrim settle in Calenardhon.

2545 — Eorl falls in battle in the Wold.

2569 — Brego son of Eorl completes the Golden Hall.

2570 — Baldor son of Brego enters the Forbidden Door and is lost. About this time Dragons reappear in the far North and begin to afflict the Dwarves.

2589 — Dáin I slain by a Dragon.

2590 — Thrór returns to Erebor. Grór his brother goes to the Iron Hills.

c. 2670 — Tobold plants ‘ pipe-weed’ in the Southfarthing.

2683 — Isengrim II becomes tenth Thain and begins the excavation of Great Smials.

2698 — Ecthelion I rebuilds the White Tower in Minas Tirith.

2740 — Orcs renew their invasions of Eriador.

2747 — Bandobras Took defeats an Orc-band in the Northfarthing.

2758 — Rohan attacked from west and east and overrun. Gondor attacked by fleets of the Corsairs. Helm of Rohan takes refuge in Helm’s Deep. Wulf seizes Edoras. 2758-9: The Long Winter follows. Great suffering and loss of life in Eriador and Rohan. Gandalf comes to the aid of the Shire-folk.