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Welcome to The Chronicle of Arda. This section of the site provides automated annals for all four Ages of the Sun and Moon. For any period of Arda's history, the Chronicle will display the events that happened in that time. Events and characters are entered into the Chronicle as they are added to the main database: like the rest of The Encyclopedia of Arda this section of the site is expanding all the time.

You can have the Chronicle look up events for specific dates by entering one or two years in the form below. If you enter two dates, the Chronicle will display events that happened between those two years. If you leave one of the dates blank, the Chronicle will display events in the century around the single year you specify.

For years after III 1601 (the year of the foundation of Shire, and therefore Shire Year 1), the Chronicle will also show years by the Shire-reckoning in a second column.

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One hundred years around I 266
I 216 to I 316

 • 215 years after the Return of the Noldor
 • 3,593 years before the Downfall of Númenor
 • 6,733 years before the War of the Ring

The First Age

c.240Approximate date of the birth of Mîm the Petty-dwarf.
260Glaurung ravages Beleriand, but is driven back to Angband.
262Likely year of the birth of Balan (later called Bëor) in the lands east of the Blue Mountains.
266No events are recorded for the specific year you selected.
282Probable date of birth of Marach, later to lead his people westward across the Blue Mountains.
289Probable date of birth of Baran, son and successor to Bëor the Old.
307Probable date of birth of Malach son of Marach, later called Aradan.
310Men are discovered in the western foothills of the Blue Mountains by Finrod Felagund.
311Bëor enters the service of Finrod of Nargothrond.
c.313Marach crosses the Blue Mountains with the ancestors of the House of Hador.
314Apparent date of birth of Boron son of Baran.
315Birth of Haldad of the Haladin.
316Aredhel sets out from Gondolin. Later in the year, she is lost in Nan Elmoth, and becomes Eöl's wife.

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