Timeline of the Iron Kingdoms

Prehistoric Era (Old Races Era)

All of the elven tribes unite as the Empire of Lyoss (far to the
c. 10,000 BR
east beyond the Bloodstone Marches).
c. 8500 BR Feud of Ages begins among the dwarves.
Feud of Ages ends Stone Lords of the Thirteen Great Clans
c. 8200 BR
settle in Ghord.
The Dwarven Moot composed of the Hundred Houses in Ghord
c. 7500 BR is established; Dwarves are granted the lore of arcane magic by
their gods with strict rules regarding its use.
The Canon of the True Law is discovered at the ruins of Icthier
c. 6500 BR
by tribes of nomadic humans. Menoth worship begins.
Many tribes of nomadic humans begin settling into agricultural
c. 6000 BR communities around Ancient Icthier. Cinot is credited with
teaching agriculture to early tribes.
Menite priests Belcor and Geth lead Exodus northward from
c. 5500 BR
Ancient Icthier in search of more fertile lands.
Humans begin settling around the Black River at the Valley of
c. 4800 BR
Morrdh.
The elves begin to build the mystical Bridge of Worlds in order
c. 4250 BR
to span the gap between Caen and the Veld.
The Bridge of Worlds is completed and the elven gods come to
c. 4000 BR
Caen, whereupon the bridge explodes and destroys Lyoss.
c. 3900 BR Shyrr is founded along with other great cities in Ios.
Molgur tribes dominate most all of western Immoren and vie for
c. 3700 BR
control.
Lords of Morrdh unite settlements, creating the first civilized
c. 3500 BR kingdom of humans. Morrdh begins claiming Molgur territory.
Toruk creates his dragon brood.
Warlord Era
c. 2800 BR Warrior-priest Valent Thrace establishes the Hold of Calacia.
c. 2230 BR Priest King Golivant of Calacia is born.
Priest King Golivant drives the Molgur tribes from the Wyrmwall.
c. 2200 BR
Priest King Khardovic is born.
c. 2175 BR Priest King Golivant dies and his kingdom breaks up.
c. 2170 BR Priest King Khardovic founds the Kingdom of Khard.
c. 2050 BR King Golivant III re-conquers Calacia and renames it Caspia.
c. 2045 BR Priest King Khardovic dies.
Thousand Cities Era & the Rise of Morrow
c. 1930 BR The Twins, Morrow and Thamar, are born.
The Twins, Morrow and Thamar, ascend after the march to
c. 1900 BR
Caspia. The Cult of Morrow begins to spread.
c. 1880 BR Menite priests initiate the Purging.
1866 BR Orellius I founds the Divinium in the Wyrmwall Mountains.
Rab Vinstra leads the Midar from Morrdh and establishes the
c. 1850 BR
Midar Kingdom.
Kossite, Skirov, and Khardic tribes battle for regional
c. 1690 BR
dominance.
 Plague ravages Kossite and Skirov tribes. Khards seize Molga
c. 1670 BR
and rename it Khardov.
Human clans unite establishing Thuria. Trollkin migrate
1612 BR
northward.
c. 1500 BR The kingdom of Morrdh disintegrates due to causes unknown.
Khardov, the largest city of the north, begins exercising
c. 1450 BR dominance over neighboring territories, primarily through force
of arms.
1421 BR Sveynod Skelvoro declares himself first Emperor of Khard.
1415 BR Khard-Kos War begins.
1387 BR Toruk kills and consumes the athanc of the dragon Gaulvang.
1382 BR Kos surrenders to the Khards ending the Khard-Kos War.
1370 BR Several allied warlords establish the nation of Tordor.
1330 BR Horselords join the Khardic Empire
1322 BR Tordoran Conquest of Thuria begins.
1313 BR Tordor annexes Thuria ending the Tordoran Conquest.
Most Skirov chieftains renounce the Devourer, convert to
1277 BR
Menoth, and pledge loyalty to the Khardic Empire.
Primarch Lorichias is assassinated by Khorva, a Menite
1250 BR scrutator. Asc. Katrena appears and slays Khorva in a massive
display of power; ascension of Sc. Khorva.
1141 BR Khardic Empire attacks Hellspass.
Hellspass War ends with ogruns swearing an oath to Khardic
1118 BR
governors.
Umbrey declares itself an independent principality from the
1102 BR
Khardic Empire.
Voldu Grova writes the earliest records of alchemy and refers to
1100 BR
crude liquid explosives.
1073 BR Kingdom of Rynyr is established.
Toruk is forced from the mainland by his brood and relocates to
c. 1000 BR
the Scharde Islands.
Printing press with moveable type is invented by Rector Janus
940 BR
Gilder.
The Divine Court leaves Ios in search of a means to return to
840 BR
the Veld.
Aeric discovers Nyssor in an icy chasm. Nyss settle in the far
838 BR
north.
The Long Sun, a prolonged drought, kills over one million
822 BR
Immorese natives.
The Horselord Wars begins between the Umbrean princes and
821 BR
the Khardic Empire.
743 BR Drago Salvoro creates the first steam engine.
Korska is conquered and the Umbrean princes swear fealty to
716 BR
the Khardic Empire ending the Horselord Wars.
Korska, dubbed Old Korska, is made the eastern capital of the
714 BR Khardic Empire; Khardov remains the primary seat of power as
the western capital.
Morrowans move the center of the church from the Divinium in
712 BR the Wyrmwall Mountains to the newly founded Sancteum in
Caspia.
c. 700 BR The dragon Halfaug begins terrorizing the far north.
664 BR Khardic Empire reaches its height.
Orgoth Occupation Era
Orgoth blackships land in western Immoren and begin conquest
600 BR
of the Thousand Cities.
c. 600 BR The Wyrmcycle Saga is penned.
Tordor surrenders to the Orgoth after its powerful navy is utterly
593 BR
destroyed.
586 BR Western Caspia falls completely under Orgoth control.
Orgoth invasion stalls at the southern provinces of the Khardic
581 BR
Empire.
Khardic Empire falls to the Orgoth; Old Korska is completely
569 BR
destroyed.
542 BR Orgoth armies conquer Rynyr.
538 BR Toruk destroys an Orgoth fleet bound for the Scharde Islands.
Orgoth Empire exercises absolute power over the kingdoms of
433 BR
men in western Immoren.
Orgoth are said to have slain an unnamed dragon at Uld
Vroggen. The dragon’s athanc is placed in a temple; within the
370 BR
month the athanc hatches and the wyrmling burns the temple to
the ground.
c. 150 BR Thamar negotiates the Gift of magic and imparts it to men.
140 BR The Rivening: almost all elven clerics lose their power.
First Immorese person with sorcerous abilities discovered at
137 BR
Tarna.
Sebastien Kerwin, the Father of Wizardry, circulates his study of
96 BR the principles of arcane magic entitled Dissertations on
Thaumaturgical Formulation.
90 BR Sebastien Kerwin pens The Essence of Divine Magic.
Sebastien Kerwin tutors wizards and institutes the Arcanist’s
81 BR
Academe.
73 BR Sebastien Kerwin pens Principia Arcana Magus.
Orgoth commit the Vicarate Slaughter; over 500 priests are
69 BR
slain.
67 BR Sebastien Kerwin founds the Circle of the Oath.
Sebastien Kerwin theorizes the arcanodynamic accumulator
64 BR and rune plate in his book Synthesis, the first text on
mechanika.
Orgoth destroys Arcanist’s Academe; Sebastien Kerwin thought
63 BR
slain but his body is never recovered.
Scyrah returns to Shyrr, but will not speak of the fate of the
34 BR
Divine Court.
The Order of the Golden Crucible is founded by survivors of the
25 BR
Circle of the Oath.
Beginning with an uprising in Fharin, the Rebellion is declared
1 AR
against the Orgoth by the Iron Fellowship.
7 AR Iron Fellowship is utterly destroyed by the Orgoth.
Oliver Gulvont, alchemist of the Golden Crucible, creates the
26 AR
first handheld firearm.
Orgoth are temporarily repulsed from much of Tordor after the
32 AR
Battle of the Hundred Wizards.
40 AR Orgoth recapture Tordor and put all known wizards to death.
 Alchemists of the Golden Crucible build the first rifles with the
c. 80 AR
patent pinlock fire mechanism.
Rynyr liberated by rifl e-wielding revolutionaries dubbed the
84 AR
Army of Thunder.
Army of Thunder cuts off Orgoth supply routes in Midfast and
85 AR
Merin.
Orgoth armies reclaim Rynyr except for Leryn, slaughtering the
86 AR
Army of Thunder and its supporters.
Rip lung kills thousands in Rynyr, Tordor, and Caspia and is
93 AR
ended in part by Asc. Corben prior to his ascension.
Victor Baerd creates the fi rst arcane rune plate based on
107 AR
Kerwin’s theories.
111 AR Fraternal Order of Wizardry founded.
Umbrean horselords lead armies of nomads and liberate Korsk
147 AR
and Rorschik.
160 AR Iron Alliance forms.
Elias Decklan meets with the Council of Ten to suggest the
177 AR
creation of the Colossals.
Iron Alliance begins the construction of secret Colossal
181 AR
factories.
185 AR Khards secretly begin construction of Colossals.
188 AR Orgoth destroy Khardic Colossal factories.
191 AR The first Colossal emerges from a hidden factory in Caspia.
The Iron Alliance mounts a multipronged assault against the
198 AR Orgoth. The Iron Alliance begins liberating large territories.
Orgoth initiate the Scourge.
201 AR The last Orgoth depart from western Immoren.
Modern Era (or Iron Kingdoms Era)
The Council of Ten ratifies the Corvis Treaties and defines the
202 AR
modern Iron Kingdoms.
211 AR Steam & Iron Workers Union is founded in Caspia.
c. 220 AR Cygnar and Ord begin building steam-powered riverboats.
Order of Illumination is founded in Caspia by Vigilant Magnus
233 AR
Severin Copernicum.
Magnus Bastion Rathleagh creates the first steamjack with the
241 AR
aid of the Steam & Iron Workers Union.
Trollkin uprising to reclaim lost lands leads to the First Trollkin
242 AR War in Ord and Cygnar. Larkholm is pillaged and burned to the
ground by Cryxian raiders.
243 AR Greylords Covenant forms in Korsk.
First Trollkin War ends as trollkin are beaten back to their
247 AR
warrens.
250 AR Khador invades Ord and Llael beginning the Colossal War.
257 AR Khador is defeated by a coalition of Ord, Llael, and Cygnar.
262 AR Second Trollkin War begins in Cygnar.
Second Trollkin War ends with King Woldred the Diligent
267 AR traveling to Hadriel Fens for peace talks. First warjacks are built
in Caspia.
277 AR Larkholm is rebuilt and renamed New Larkholm.
 Cyriss is discovered by Adept Aldophous Aghamore, an
283 AR astronomer of the Fraternal Order; Cult of Cyriss is founded
shortly thereafter.
Colossal Guard formally disbands. King Woldred the Diligent
286 AR
drafts the Accord-By-Hand Covenant.
King Malagant the Grim begins persecution of Menite clergy in
290 AR
Cygnar and has over 200 priests hanged.
King Malagant the Grim names the Church of Morrow the offi
293 AR cial religion of Cygnar. Khador begins border war with Cygnar.
Khador recruits Tharn.
294 AR Khadoran Institute of Engineering is established in Korsk.
Queen Cherize Vanar disappears on the Lost Day. King
295 AR
Malagant the Grim dies soon after.
304 AR Construction of Stasikov Palace is completed.
Khadoran forces and their barbarian allies are destroyed during
305 AR the Siege of Midfast. Ascension of Asc. Markus after he is killed
during the Siege.
Border Wars offi cially end. Ord cedes Port Vladovar to Khador.
313 AR Khador cedes Laedry to Llael. Cygnar and Llael offi cially
become allies.
326 AR Fortress of Northguard complete.
350 AR First recorded sighting of Deathjack.
Father Ghil Lucant, a priest of Cyriss, discovers a planet which
356 AR
is named after him.
The dragon Everblight destroys Issyrah and is slain by an elven
390 AR army. Everblight’s athanc is said to be buried at the Top of the
World.
393 AR Khadoran Mechaniks Assembly is founded.
464 AR Khador invades Ord after long disputes over piracy.
Peace declared between Khador and Ord after Cygnar
468 AR
intercedes.
Visgoth Sulon declares himself Hierarch and organizes a
475 AR
pilgrimage; thousands of Menites journey to Caspia.
478 AR Construction is completed on the Korsk- Skirov Rail Line.
Cygnaran Civil War begins in Caspia between Menites and
482 AR
Morrowans.
483 AR Coin War begins between Khador and Llael.
The Cygnaran Civil War ends with the death of Hierarch Sulon.
484 AR Protectorate of Menoth is established. Sul is officially founded.
Coin War also ends.
Idrian tribes submit to Protectorate rule. Protectorate and Llael
504 AR begin fighting over mineral rich lands in the northern Marches;
Llael concedes after minor skirmishes.
Khadoran King Ruslan Vygor attacks Cygnar starting the
510 AR
Thornwood War.
Thornwood War ends after the Battle of the Tongue in which an
511 AR outnumbered Cygnaran force defeats the Khadoran army. King
Ruslan Vygor is killed in battle.
546 AR Serfdom is abolished in Khador.
Kayaz Simonyev Blaustavya founds Blaustavya Shipping &
551 AR
Rail.
566 AR Deathjack is spotted at Porsk and Skirov.
King Vinter Raelthorne III dies. Vinter Raelthorne IV crowned
576 AR
king of Cygnar. Raelthorne IV begins purging political enemies.
579 AR King Vinter Raelthorne IV creates the Inquisition.
581 AR Ios abruptly closes its borders to outsiders.
Arius becomes the Primarch of the Church of Morrow. Vahn
582 AR Oberen takes control of the Inquisition. Commander Adept
Sebastian Nemo invents the storm glaive.
King Vinter Raelthorne IV passes the “Edicts Against Unlawful
Sorcery and Witchcraft” outlawing sorcery. 584 AR Scharde
Invasions begin. The first sorcerers are put on public trial in
583 AR
Corvis; two men and five women are hanged in Widower’s
Wood; over 250 people are executed for “unlawful sorcery”
throughout Cygnar and Llael.
Ayn Vanar XI is crowned queen of Khador. Orsus Zoktavir
587 AR
commits the Boarsgate Massacre.
Scharde invasions end. Garrik Voyle becomes Hierarch of the
588 AR
Protectorate of Menoth.
Infamous Corvis Coven Witchcraft Trial commences in Corvis in
593 AR
which five women are beheaded.
Leto Raelthorne succeeds in a coup against King Raelthorne
594 AR
IV. Leto is crowned king of Cygnar.
Llaelese King Rynnard di la Martyn dies without an heir,
595 AR beginning long debates. Prime Minister Lord Deyar Glabryn IX
is appointed by the Council of Nobles to govern Llael.
D.H. Wexborne, captain of the Mercarian ship Seacutter, is the
596 AR
first Immorese sailor to return from Zu.
Deathjack wipes out the Red Fist mercenary company along the
601 AR
Cygnaran-Khador border.
The Protectorate of Menoth builds secret factories to produce
602 AR
warjacks. Deathjack assaults the main gates of Fort Faulk.
Vinter Raelthorne IV invades Corvis with Skorne allies. The
603 AR Harbinger of Menoth is discovered and brought to Imer to meet
Hierarch Garrik Voyle.
Khador launches a full-scale invasion of Llael. Cygnar declares
604 AR
war on Khador in response.
Khador defeats the Llaelese army and pushes Cygnar out of
Llael after the fall of Merywyn. Riversmet is burned to the
ground. The Order of the Golden Crucible surrenders Leryn to
Khadoran forces without a fight. The Golden Crucible agrees to
produce blasting powder exclusively for the Khadoran military.
The Harbinger of Menoth calls upon all Menites to relocate to
605 AR
the Protectorate. Hierarch Garrik Voyle calls a Crusade to
reclaim western Immoren. The Protectorate attempts to raze the
walls of Caspia. Cygnar counter attacks Sul. Protectorate forces
led by Feora, Priestess of the Flame, burn the Llaelese village
of Myrr to the ground. Cryxian raiders strike deep into Cygnar,
poisoning crops and burning grain silos as far as Bainsmarket.
 Battle of the Temple of Garrodh. Cygnaran forces breach the
walls of Sul. First Battle for Northguard ends in Khadoran
606 AR defeat. Sul-Menite Northern Crusade launched and marches
into Occupied Llael. Queen Ayn Vanar declares herself
empress of the new Khadoran Empire.
Cygnaran siege of Sul broken. Sul-Menites counter with an
assault on Caspia, resulting in the near-capture of the Cygnaran
capital before the death of Hierarch Garrick Voyle. Severius
named new hierarch of the Protectorate of Menoth. Khadoran
forces lay siege to Northguard once more and in the Second
607 AR Battle for Northguard emerge triumphant. Broken Cygnaran
forces retreat south to Point Bourne, Corvis, and Stonebridge
Castle, ceding the Thornwood to the Khadoran Empire.
Cygnaran city of Fellig cut off in the retreat, leaving it isolated.
Ordic military peacefully occupies Fellig to prevent its capture
by Khador.
The new year brings a tense cease-fire along the Dragon’s
Tongue River between Khador and Cygnar, while a similar
608 AR cessation of hostilities holds between the garrisons of Caspia
and Sul. Increased fortifications are erected along borderlands
between Khador, Cygnar, and Ord.