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timeline of the warhammer 40,000 universe.modified and harmonised by simon regan from the works of james moffitt, seanpatten, david donachie, jacques chester.
colour code: black - general history. blue - space marines. olive - ig. red - ecclesiarchy, administratum.dark red - technology.green - alien/chaos. 
time event:
?: creation of the galaxy. emergence of the c'tan and the old slann. the warp is a placiddomain, devoid of intelligence. the c'tan and the old slann seed many worlds for life, inthe hopes that their creations will aid them in their struggle against the other. both theorks and the eldar may be old slann creations, whilst the necrontyr are clearly the spawnof the c'tan.?: the war in heaven. the c'tan, allied with the necrontyr, launch a vast assault against theold slann, unleashing weapons too terrifying to imagine, churning the warp into afrenzied sea of chaos, deadly to the old slann. the old slann prevails against the c'tan andtheir minions via the construction of the webway, a galactic corridor linking one locationwith another for instantaneous transport. the same arcane technology was used to seal thec'tan behind the gate of vaul. the old slann contain the essence of the barrier within theseven talismans of vaul, but the c'tan contingency plan exacted a terrible toll on theyoung galaxy.60,000,000,000 bc (approx): galaxy wide catastrophe. faced with extinction, thenecrontyr constructed metal bodies as repositories for their hyper-advanced minds. toweather the impending galatic bio-meltdown the necrontyr constructed huge stasischambers to shelter inside. note: the c'tan are believed to have caused the near-extinctionof life in the galaxy at this time.9000 bc: birth of the emperor, an immortal superhuman created from the psychic spoor of the old shamans, who predicted a time when mankind would need a saviour from evil (inthe age of strife).8000 bc - 1400 ad: birth of khorne, tzeentch, nurgle (chaos gods). their foul presence inthe warp mirrors the atrocities commited by the living races of the galaxy (khorne takesform from war, tzeentch from betrayal and sorcery, and nurgle from plague and filth).2,100 ad: mars terraformed.2,200 ad: mars settled.3,000 ad: warp discovered.14,000 ad?: eldar learn secrets of webway technology from the slann. old slann culturedies out. slann warn eldar of their own fall. 15,000 ad: sublight spacecraft begin slowly colonizing nearby stars. at first progress isslow, and the new colonies must survive as independent units isolated from earth by up toten generations of travel.
 
20,000: dark age of technology.
discovery of navigators and development of warp driveaid colonization. galaxy explored in less than 1,000 years. stc developed. titans invented. the great diaspora- humans seek to remake galaxy in their own image, including seedingworlds with familiar animals. 
21,000: alien wars.
mankind encounters and fights with orks, eldar. 
23,000-24,000: age of strife.
appearance of psychic powers, and warp entities. earth andcolonies cut off by warp storms. appearance of abhumans. man fights man. stc systemlost. age of isolation- squat worlds cut off. formation of leagues.24,000: horiax treatise mentions genetic alteration techniques. 
27,000: civil war
on earth. earliest modified warriors aid the emperor in conquest of terra.29,500?: appearance of emperor. earth tribes united. imperium begins. age of trade-squats trade with orks, eldar (lasts 3000 yrs).
28,000: primarch project.
20 primarchs created by emperor. embryos are scatteredthrough the warp by chaos forces. great crusade begins. 28,500?: age of wars: squats betrayed by orks, eldar. 28,600?: first founding. 20 chapters of space marine created from gene seed samples thatsurvived from the primarch project . 28,700?: eldar build craft ships, heeding the slann warnings. 28,800?: fall of the eldar. eldar society collapses, creating chaos god slaanesh.homeworlds lost in creation of eye of terror. end of the warp storms and the age of strife. 28,826: during banquet honoring pacification of the cheraut system, lord princepsichabod lethrai tells tale of conflict between primarchs konrad kurze and rogal dorn.shortly after their duel, kurze disappeared, taking his fleet to nostramo and destroying the planet, the first step in a campaign of terror whence kurze eventually renounces theemperor. 29,125?: lunar wolves renamed sons of horus. 
29,812 (may be as early as 28,000): great crusades.
primarchs rediscovered and unitedwith their marine chapters. human galaxy reclaimed under pax imperialis.29,000: great crusades continue, accelerated gene-culturing used to fill need for vastnumbers of marines leads to genetic flaws. enables a space marine to be processed in asingle year.29,350: karis cephalon resettled during great crusades.30,012: scouring of isstvan iii. warmaster horus, with 4 other traitor space marine legions,virus bomb isstvan iii to suppress a minor rebellion. frigate einstein escapes with news of horus' corrupt activities. 
30,013: horus heresy.
seven legions sent against horus, but four defect to his side andthree are destroyed. marine fights marine in battles across the galaxy.
30,014 (13th of secundus): siege of earth
. horus lays siege to emperor's palace. emperor teleports on board horus' battle barge. sanguinius killed. horus mortally wounded.emperor wounded, placed in golden throne.30,014-30,021: great scouring. rebel forces throughout the galaxy are quelled. chaosforces retreat into the eye of terror.30,021?: dionerius' "rise of man" describes the wulfen, the 13th comany of the spacewolves, and how they entered the eye of terror to pursue the traitor legions at the end of the horus heresy. primarch guilliman and dorn did not want to lose marines to such a
 
campaign and advised against it, though it is not clear whether russ sent the wulfen in or if they went of their own accord. the wulfen were never seen or heard from again. 30,021?: roboute guilliman compiles the first codex astartes, which lays down the neworganizational doctrine for space marine chapters.
30,021: second founding.
marine legions broken into chapters - each company becomesa chapter, with 10 companies each (this time limited to 1,000 marines per company). 23new chapters created. grey knights secretly created. 30,021?: bjorn the fell handed becomes first great wolf after russ dissapears. after beingfatally wounded, spends the next 500 years at the forefront of space wolves battles as adreadnought. 30,084: jaghatai khan disappears while fighting dark eldar on corusil v, near themaelstrom. presumably he pursued a dark eldar lord through an alien portal that led intothe dimension occupied by the dark eldar (commarragh?). 30,100?: dark founding (13th). unknown number or fate of chapters. no record of thechapters or sample of their gene seed is maintained by adeptus terra. 31,000: the space wolf base, the fang, is attacked by magnus the red and the thousandsons as revenge for the destruction of prospero. 31,000: the temple of the saviour emperor is recognized as the official religion of theimperium, given the title of imperial cult (also known as the ecclesiarchy). 31,200: ecclesiarch veneris ii becomes a high lord of terra. 31,243: inquisitor damasko first postulates that chaos (and other?) gods must use mortalsto manifest their power in the physical universe. 31,500: ecclesiarch becomes a permanent position on the high lords of terra. 31,000+: loyalist primarchs reportedly die or disappear over the following millenia.traitor legion primarchs become daemon primarchs.33,000: first black crusade (known as the blackstar crusade). chaos forces emerge fromthe eye of terror to mount an incursion into the ganglax sector. khorne champion ekrak conquers m'laan xiii and turns it into a daemon world. 34,000: the ecclesiarchy's power wanes. 34, 200: the ecclesiarchy under benedin iv moves to ophelia vii and again grows in power. 34,344: initial imperial surveys of ancient tomb complexes on angelis (gorkamorka). later in m.35, ork spacehulk crashlands on angelis, burying the humans alive around thetemples. the survivors descend into savagery, becoming the diggas. reports of 'ghostwarriors' (re-awakened necrons?) allying with some members of the diggas to subjugatethe other tribes and repulse the orks. 34,500: greigor xi becomes ecclesiarch, declares ecclesiarchy will return to earth. 34,359: imperial explorators gain access to deserted necrontyr tombs on angelis. 34,762-34,765: tallarn scout squad "lurenz's gravediggers" harass eldar forces on holon prime. 34, 843: distress call from grendel's world investigated- planet discovered to have beenattacked and all inhabitants slain by terror tactics of the night lords. 34,999(late m35)?: battle of the broadsword - tallarn supresses the chaemos rebellion. 35, 266: sebastian thor born on dimmamar. 35,000: mythos angelica mortis written, including a description of the emperor'schampion in the appendix cxvi "honorifics of the legions astartes". 
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