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EVENT

Slaine MacRoth weds Dredeleine; War between Black Towen and the Heart of the Wood begins; Zagyg founds trading post of Greyhawk

Iuz and Keoghtom captured by Zagyg and imprisoned

Baklune Republic secedes from Suel Empire

Atter Towen built

Heart of the Wood assaults Black Towen and Atter Towen; Veluna captured by Frodomere; Ahmazda captured by Mallamie; Celene pays Frodomere's ransom demand; Veluna departs for the East

Vecna becomes Lich-Emperor of Suel

Celene captures the Black Cauldron, The Ship of Earth and Sea, and The Sword of the Moon

Llewellyn MacArt born

Battle of Atter Towen; Ahmazda destroyed; Gnarley Bones retreats, builds Slaine Towen; Celene departs for the East

Black Towen sealed, Frodomere and Mallamie trapped within; Llewellyn MacArt crowned High King of Burghoff, dies at Slaine Towen

Invoked Devastation, Rain of Colorless fire; Destruction of Suel Empire; Creation of Hellfurnaces; Suloise exodus begins

Zagyg begins construction of Castle Greyhawk; Free Township of Greyhawk founded; Iuz and Keoghtom imprisoned beneath Castle Greyhawk

Suloise refugees reach Wooly Bay; Zagyg declares Greyhawk a Free City

The Great City of Rauxes is founded; Kingdom of Aerdy established

Fortress of Skulltop erected by rogue Suloise general

Murgleyes assassinated; Haunting of Skulltop begins; Skulltop abandoned

Free City of Longspear established

Iuz released from his imprisonment

Kingdom of Keoland bequeathed to Sir Keol of Furyondi by Overking Eos II

Iuz wars against the Great Kingdom; Creation of Shield Lands

King Leon I of Keoland orders construction of Gandersheim to begin

King Leto IV of Keoland lays claim to Longspear; Battle of Dimrale Dale

Province of Shankshire bequeathed to Sir Thomas the Lion by King Leto IV of Keoland

The Drowning of Mîmroddin

The Yeomanry Secedes from the Kingdom of Keoland; Keoish-Yeoman civil war begins

The Red Winter; Keoish forces routed from The Yeomanry; Yeoman sack Longspear, capture Gandersheim and sack Gundersdorf; Keoland recaptures Gandersheim

The Short War

King Leo I of Keoland signs the Treaty of Longspear

Tanak Constantine born

Knights of the Watch founded

The Battle of Seven Nights; Temple of Elemental Evil destroyed; The Witch King first appears

The Lortmill War; Humanoids driven from Lortmills, come to The Pomarj

The Pomarj falls to humanoid control; the Witch King captures the Black Cauldron from the Heart of the Wood

The Sea Princes land their fleet at Jetsom Island; Battle of Jetsom Reef; Monmurg captured; Keoland's Southern Quarter falls

War of Burghoff; Sea Princes capture Burghoff

The Despotrix assumes control of the Free City of Hardby

Battle of Dark October; Sea Princes invade Longspear, thwarted by Tormaq, fail to capture Gandersheim

Heart of the Wood forces and Knights of the Watch storm Atter Towen; Atter Towen destroyed

Nackles arrives in Dreadwood, settles in ruins of Atter Towen

Tanak Constantine dies

Overking Orin IX dies, Ivid IV crowned Overking of Oerth

Janziduur recovers the Spear of the Sun

May: Stormcrows first meet in Saltmarsh October: Stormcrows clear Skulltop; Murgleyes destroyed

September: Nackles burns portion of Dreadwood
October: Tanak Constantine returns; Battle of Elmreddy Glen; Nackles flees Dreadwood, arrives at Skulltop

April: Tallin Allindel dies; Llewellyn MacArt resurrected; Burghoff War of Independence begins
May: Gnarley Bones encounters Danzig Farplains; Illearth Staff created
June: The Eye of the Witch recovered from Lashan July: Nightmare Beast released August: Alecto released from Mommy Fortuana's carnival
September: Janziduur excommunicates Wolf and Danzig, deposed as High Priestess

January: Snake Mother freed from her imprisonment
March: Snake Mother destroyed; Aarioch Mordanus-Vangaard killed; Alecto steals Egg of the Phoenix from the Valley of the Earth Mother
May-August: Harlequin begins murders
July: Tanak Constantine breaks seal on Black Towen, Opens Chest of Many Winters; Winter of Tears begins; Suderham destroyed by volcanic explosion; Sharshelle dies
November: Gnarley Bones begins march north; Burghoff destroyed; Iuz invades Perrenland

January: Alecto defeated in Sepulchre; Olyhydra defeated by Tanith Constantine
March: Bronwyn defeated
June: The Last Battle
November: Iuz captures Perrenland; Iuz invades Ket

February: Ket repels Iuz forces with aid from Veluna (Country of); Iuz forces fall back to Yatils; Horned Society attacks Shield Lands
June: Khaverdess reveals itself; Longspear captures; Siege of Rollin begins
October: Gleam killed; Lord Gustav of Shankshire killed; Shivenakh destroyed; Black Cauldron destroyed; Tanak Constantine dispelled; Chest of Many Winters closed

January: Longspear declared capital of Terromberre
March: The Great Spring

June: Frodomere escapes Black Towen
July: Shankshire crops fail; Frodomere captures town of Vaillancourt, terrorizes Shankshire
September: Stormcrows gather; Mallang encountered October: Frodomere destroyed; Age ends; First Council of Five Nations; Giants capture Rollin; Terromberre forces besiege Gandersheim; Second Council of Five Nations
November: Nosra, the Hill Giant chief slain; Grugnir, the Frost Giant Jarl slain December: Terromberre forces cross Javan; Tanith Constantine becomes Court Magician of Monmurg; Hold of the Sea Princes signs treaty with Terromberre; Danzig Farplains disappears