Skyrim Timeline
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2018 4:53 am
Note: text coloured red indicates my own additions
First Era
1E0-139 - A period of chaotic land-grabs and war with the Falmer. Numerous kingdoms are founded by Ysgramor’s Companions and Shor’s champions, only to be abandoned and collapse. The area of Skyrim occupied by the Nords fluctuates wildly during this time
1E68 - Last refugees from Atmora arrive in Skyrim. No further contact is made, and the Nords consider Skyrim to be their homeland from this point onwards
1E139-143 - King Harald wages several wars of extermination against both the Falmer and the Dragon Cult, founding the united Kingdom of Skyrim at the point of his expurgation of both
1E221 - Following the death of Harald, the Moot is founded from the leading jarls in order to ensure a worthy successor is chosen
1E240-290 - Beginning with King Vrage, Skyrim conquers Morrowind and High Rock over the next fifty years, founding the Old Nordic Empire. After the Alessian Rebellion, their territory extends deep into the Nibenay as well
1E242 - The Alessian Rebellion against Ayleid rule in Cyrodiil begins
1E242 - Alessia calls for help from the chieftains of the Nordic Empire. There is no great enthusiasm from the High King’s court to intervene against their powerful Ayleid neighbours to the south
1E243 - Several southern Nordic clans and warrior groups rally around the son of a lesser jarl from the border of Ayleid Falkreath, who sees the Rebellion as an opportunity to extend his inheritance and push elven influence back beyond the Jeralls. These Nordic mercenary forces make contact with Alessia’s forces at Heldon, enacting a pogrom of the Ayleids in Falkreath.
1E243 - Nordic forces capture Imperial city alongside Alessia’s armies; the Alessian Empire is absorbed as a loose protectorate of the Nordic Empire
1E243 - The Nordic mercenaries who first joined the Rebellion are granted the Colovian territories; Falkreath - under its new jarl - opts to trade on the prestige it won during the war and be incorporated into the Alessian Empire, rather than remain part of the Nordic Empire
1E266 - The Colovian Estates are formally founded as vassal kingdoms of the Alessian throne
1E358 - As the Nordic Empire begins to lose control of its holdings, the Alessian Empire begins to eclipse it and power shifts southward. More and more of Skyrim's Cyrodiilic territory is ceded to the Nibenese aristocracy. The Direnni Hegemony take western lands from Skyrim
1E361 - High King Borgas, last of Ysgramor’s line and a chief supporter of the prophet Marukh, outlaws the Nordic pantheon and enforces the Alessian Reforms throughout the Nordic Empire
1E369 - The death of Borgas leads to War of Succession and the end of the Nordic Empire. The majority of High Rock is captured by the Direnni Hegemony
1E401 - Skyrim loses its last holdings in High Rock
1E416 - The Dunmer revolt against Nordic rule and reclaim Morrowind, in a “great slaughter”. Nordic forces, consisting of famous Tongues such as Jurgen Windcaller and Hoag Merkiller, are defeated by the First Council. After this loss, Jurgen (now called “the Calm”) founds the pacifist School of the Voice
1E420 - Skyrim loses its last holdings in the Nibenay. Skyrim’s southern Kingdoms fall fully under the influence of the Alessian Empire.
1E477 - The Direnni Hegemony conquers western Skyrim, including the entirety of the Reach. High King Kjoric the White is under increasing pressure to resist foreign incursions and restore Skyrim’s independence, leading to ill-advised aggression against the Alessian Empire
1E478 - High King Kjoric, in a revolt against Alessian influence over Skyrim, is defeated by Emperor Goreius at the Battle of Sungard and killed. His son Hoag Merkiller takes the throne
1E482 - High King Hoag, in revenge for his father's death, sides with a Direnni rebellion and is killed in the Battle of Glenumbra Moors by the forces of Emperor Goreius. He is succeeded by Wulfharth of Atmora - named "Tongue of Shor" - and the Alessian Reforms are reversed across Skyrim in a “fiery” reinstatement of the Nordic pantheon
1E498 - Elven power in High Rock is broken and the Bretons become self-determining. The Reach is reconquered by Skyrim and Nordic settlers began to occupy the fertile region
1E533 - High King Wulfharth dies and is succeeded
1E660 - Mauloch, god of the Velothi Mountain Orcs, is defeated at the Battle of Dragon Wall by the Kingdom of Eastmarch and their vassal Kingdom of the Rift, and supposedly causes the Sun’s Death (Red Mountain eruption) and the Year of Winter in Summer (in 1E668)
1E668 - War of the First Council. A reborn Wulfharth (or, in some tellings, Shor) again leads Nordic forces against Morrowind, hoping in the chaos to reclaim Shor’s Heart on Vvardenfell. Vivec destroys Wulfharth’s body utterly, and the Nords are defeated in Morrowind for the final time
1E808 - Ra Gada refugees invade Hammerfell, driving Beastfolk, Nedic and Orcish tribes eastward into the Reach and disrupting the comfortable Nordic settlement there
1E908 - Orsinium is destroyed by combined High Rock and Hammerfell forces. Refugees flee to the Reach and are absorbed into the tribes already living there, given them the strength to once again push the Nordic settlers out of the region
1E1030 - Empress Hestra’s legions conquer the Reach. The Reachman under Faolan (or “Red Eagle”) resist but are quickly defeated
1E1200 - The Dragon Break and Middle Dawn. Alduin awakens early and devours the Kalpa, until Kyne gathers the Nordic pantheon and the entire Nordic race and invades the Dragon’s gullet, forcing Him to regurgitate the world exactly as it had been. Those marked with the Dragon’s bile will go on to be great heroes in other Kalpas
1E2208 - Approximate end of the Middle Dawn. Skyrim is restored to its pre-Dragon Break borders
1E2260 - The Thrassian Plague afflicts Tamriel. Southwestern Skyrim is particularly affected and severely depopulated. The Kingdom of Haafinheim joins the All Flags Navy against Thras
1E2321-2331 - The War of Righteousness.
<1E2703 - Falkreath falls under vassalage of the Nordic High King.
1E2703 - The Akaviri invade Tamriel from the northeast, landing somewhere near the border of Skyrim and Morrowind. With their campaign in Morrowind blocked by the Tribunal, the Tsaesci army cuts through eastern Skyrim and occupies the nominal capital of Kynholm. The western Kingdoms join the confederacy under Reman Cyrodiil and defeat the Akaviri at Pale Pass. With the invasion defeated, Skyrim is made a protectorate of the Reman Empire
1E2704 - The Reach is split between High Rock and Skyrim
1E2714-1E2762 - Increasingly megalomaniacal, Reman orders an invasion of the Nordic Underworld from several points across Skyrim. Most of these sorties return empty-handed, but a few disappear without trace. One party returns with what they claim to be a scrap of the Bearskin of Tsun, which is now held in the Imperial Treasury
1E2804-2805 - The Winterhold Rebellion against the Reman Empire, caused by the ill-treatment of Nordic workers by the Imperial authorities. The conflict never escalates beyond skirmishing, and Reman II (having deposed the unpopular Emperor Kastav) is able to negotiate a peace in the following year
1E2840-2920 - The Four-Score War against Morrowind. Nordic clans and auxiliaries support the Legions fighting in the north, allowing the Empire to focus its forces further south and push as far as Black Gate
1E2920 - The last Reman emperor is killed and the First Era ends
First Era
1E0-139 - A period of chaotic land-grabs and war with the Falmer. Numerous kingdoms are founded by Ysgramor’s Companions and Shor’s champions, only to be abandoned and collapse. The area of Skyrim occupied by the Nords fluctuates wildly during this time
1E68 - Last refugees from Atmora arrive in Skyrim. No further contact is made, and the Nords consider Skyrim to be their homeland from this point onwards
1E139-143 - King Harald wages several wars of extermination against both the Falmer and the Dragon Cult, founding the united Kingdom of Skyrim at the point of his expurgation of both
1E221 - Following the death of Harald, the Moot is founded from the leading jarls in order to ensure a worthy successor is chosen
1E240-290 - Beginning with King Vrage, Skyrim conquers Morrowind and High Rock over the next fifty years, founding the Old Nordic Empire. After the Alessian Rebellion, their territory extends deep into the Nibenay as well
1E242 - The Alessian Rebellion against Ayleid rule in Cyrodiil begins
1E242 - Alessia calls for help from the chieftains of the Nordic Empire. There is no great enthusiasm from the High King’s court to intervene against their powerful Ayleid neighbours to the south
1E243 - Several southern Nordic clans and warrior groups rally around the son of a lesser jarl from the border of Ayleid Falkreath, who sees the Rebellion as an opportunity to extend his inheritance and push elven influence back beyond the Jeralls. These Nordic mercenary forces make contact with Alessia’s forces at Heldon, enacting a pogrom of the Ayleids in Falkreath.
1E243 - Nordic forces capture Imperial city alongside Alessia’s armies; the Alessian Empire is absorbed as a loose protectorate of the Nordic Empire
1E243 - The Nordic mercenaries who first joined the Rebellion are granted the Colovian territories; Falkreath - under its new jarl - opts to trade on the prestige it won during the war and be incorporated into the Alessian Empire, rather than remain part of the Nordic Empire
1E266 - The Colovian Estates are formally founded as vassal kingdoms of the Alessian throne
1E358 - As the Nordic Empire begins to lose control of its holdings, the Alessian Empire begins to eclipse it and power shifts southward. More and more of Skyrim's Cyrodiilic territory is ceded to the Nibenese aristocracy. The Direnni Hegemony take western lands from Skyrim
1E361 - High King Borgas, last of Ysgramor’s line and a chief supporter of the prophet Marukh, outlaws the Nordic pantheon and enforces the Alessian Reforms throughout the Nordic Empire
1E369 - The death of Borgas leads to War of Succession and the end of the Nordic Empire. The majority of High Rock is captured by the Direnni Hegemony
1E401 - Skyrim loses its last holdings in High Rock
1E416 - The Dunmer revolt against Nordic rule and reclaim Morrowind, in a “great slaughter”. Nordic forces, consisting of famous Tongues such as Jurgen Windcaller and Hoag Merkiller, are defeated by the First Council. After this loss, Jurgen (now called “the Calm”) founds the pacifist School of the Voice
1E420 - Skyrim loses its last holdings in the Nibenay. Skyrim’s southern Kingdoms fall fully under the influence of the Alessian Empire.
1E477 - The Direnni Hegemony conquers western Skyrim, including the entirety of the Reach. High King Kjoric the White is under increasing pressure to resist foreign incursions and restore Skyrim’s independence, leading to ill-advised aggression against the Alessian Empire
1E478 - High King Kjoric, in a revolt against Alessian influence over Skyrim, is defeated by Emperor Goreius at the Battle of Sungard and killed. His son Hoag Merkiller takes the throne
1E482 - High King Hoag, in revenge for his father's death, sides with a Direnni rebellion and is killed in the Battle of Glenumbra Moors by the forces of Emperor Goreius. He is succeeded by Wulfharth of Atmora - named "Tongue of Shor" - and the Alessian Reforms are reversed across Skyrim in a “fiery” reinstatement of the Nordic pantheon
1E498 - Elven power in High Rock is broken and the Bretons become self-determining. The Reach is reconquered by Skyrim and Nordic settlers began to occupy the fertile region
1E533 - High King Wulfharth dies and is succeeded
1E660 - Mauloch, god of the Velothi Mountain Orcs, is defeated at the Battle of Dragon Wall by the Kingdom of Eastmarch and their vassal Kingdom of the Rift, and supposedly causes the Sun’s Death (Red Mountain eruption) and the Year of Winter in Summer (in 1E668)
1E668 - War of the First Council. A reborn Wulfharth (or, in some tellings, Shor) again leads Nordic forces against Morrowind, hoping in the chaos to reclaim Shor’s Heart on Vvardenfell. Vivec destroys Wulfharth’s body utterly, and the Nords are defeated in Morrowind for the final time
1E808 - Ra Gada refugees invade Hammerfell, driving Beastfolk, Nedic and Orcish tribes eastward into the Reach and disrupting the comfortable Nordic settlement there
1E908 - Orsinium is destroyed by combined High Rock and Hammerfell forces. Refugees flee to the Reach and are absorbed into the tribes already living there, given them the strength to once again push the Nordic settlers out of the region
1E1030 - Empress Hestra’s legions conquer the Reach. The Reachman under Faolan (or “Red Eagle”) resist but are quickly defeated
1E1200 - The Dragon Break and Middle Dawn. Alduin awakens early and devours the Kalpa, until Kyne gathers the Nordic pantheon and the entire Nordic race and invades the Dragon’s gullet, forcing Him to regurgitate the world exactly as it had been. Those marked with the Dragon’s bile will go on to be great heroes in other Kalpas
1E2208 - Approximate end of the Middle Dawn. Skyrim is restored to its pre-Dragon Break borders
1E2260 - The Thrassian Plague afflicts Tamriel. Southwestern Skyrim is particularly affected and severely depopulated. The Kingdom of Haafinheim joins the All Flags Navy against Thras
1E2321-2331 - The War of Righteousness.
<1E2703 - Falkreath falls under vassalage of the Nordic High King.
1E2703 - The Akaviri invade Tamriel from the northeast, landing somewhere near the border of Skyrim and Morrowind. With their campaign in Morrowind blocked by the Tribunal, the Tsaesci army cuts through eastern Skyrim and occupies the nominal capital of Kynholm. The western Kingdoms join the confederacy under Reman Cyrodiil and defeat the Akaviri at Pale Pass. With the invasion defeated, Skyrim is made a protectorate of the Reman Empire
1E2704 - The Reach is split between High Rock and Skyrim
1E2714-1E2762 - Increasingly megalomaniacal, Reman orders an invasion of the Nordic Underworld from several points across Skyrim. Most of these sorties return empty-handed, but a few disappear without trace. One party returns with what they claim to be a scrap of the Bearskin of Tsun, which is now held in the Imperial Treasury
1E2804-2805 - The Winterhold Rebellion against the Reman Empire, caused by the ill-treatment of Nordic workers by the Imperial authorities. The conflict never escalates beyond skirmishing, and Reman II (having deposed the unpopular Emperor Kastav) is able to negotiate a peace in the following year
1E2840-2920 - The Four-Score War against Morrowind. Nordic clans and auxiliaries support the Legions fighting in the north, allowing the Empire to focus its forces further south and push as far as Black Gate
1E2920 - The last Reman emperor is killed and the First Era ends