Timeline

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Darkness Comes to Kurald Galain

• Lord of Hate dissolves Jaghut civilization
• Mother Dark assumes leadership of the Tiste
• Anomander Rake named First Son of Darkness
• Caladan Brood and Anomander Rake trade oaths, binding them together
• Birth of the Tiste Andii and Tiste Liosan
• Draconus opens the Gate of Darkness in Kharkanas
• Tiste civil war

The First Days of the Sundering of Emurlahn

• The K'Chain Che'Malle civilisation is dying out in the Malazan world. The Forkrul Assail are becoming fewer in number. The Jaghut and Imass are present.
• Anomander Rake leads the first Tiste Andii settlers to the Malazan world.
• The combined forces of Silchas Ruin's Tiste Andii and Scabandari's Tiste Edur invade the Malazan world defeating the armies of the K'Chain Che'Malle on Lether and seizing the gate between worlds. Sandalath Drukorlat falls in battle with the K'Chain Che'Malle.
• Scabandari Bloodeye betrays Silchas Ruin, slays his entire force, and leaves him imprisoned within an Azath House.
• At the behest of Mael, Gothos conducts an Omtose Phellack ritual over the Tiste battlefield sealing it in ice and accidentally closing the pathways of the dead in Lether.
• The K'Chain Che'Malle's sole remaining city is Morn where the K'Chain Nah'ruk plot rebellion.
• Menandore and Sukul Ankhadu imprison Sheltatha Lore in the Azath Tower.
• In revenge for the Tiste invasion, the K'Chain Che'Malle send their sorcery into Kurald Galain like a plague. All gates in Kurald Galain are sealed and Mother Dark is driven into The Abyss.
• Scabandari is tracked down and slain by Kilmandaros. His spirit is placed in a prison of eternal pain.

K'Chain Che'Malle civil war

• The short-tailed K'Chain Nah'ruk turn on the Matrons. The Matrons may have created the rent at Morn in an attempt to defend themselves.

298,665 years before Burn's Sleep

• Maeth'ki Im (Pogrom of the Rotted Flower), 33rd Jaghut War
• Pran Chole, Onos T'oolan, and Kilava Onass are still mortal
• The chaining of the Jaghut Tyrant Raest by a temporary alliance of Jaghut and Imass
• Onrack T'emlava betrays his mate to have an affair with Kilava Onass. He breaks Imass law by painting her image.
• Four Jaghut Tyrants on Seven Cities raise a compact to destroy the land putting in motion the events leading to the Ritual of Tellann.
• A Jaghut mother, hunted by Imass gives her son and daughter to Kilava, who then places them in the Rent
• Kilava slays all of her kin except for her brother, Onos T'oolan
• The First Gathering of the Imass and the Ritual of Tellann

119,739 years before Burn's Sleep

• Fall of the Crippled God
• The continent of Korel is devastated
• Togg is separated from Fanderay
• The birth of the Great Ravens

119,736 years before Burn's Sleep

• Time of Dying
• High King Kallor destroys the entire continent of Jacuruku
• K'rul, Draconus and Sister of Cold Nights curse Kallor to immortality, he in turn curses each of them.
• K'rul creates the Imperial Warren by sweeping the devastation from the land into the new Warren so that the land might heal
• Togg disappears into the Warren of Chaos looking for Fanderay

92,836 years before Burn's Sleep

• Icarium makes an offering of a timepiece to a city of the First Empire in the coastal area that would later become Raraku

33,421 years before Burn's Sleep

• Seventh century of the 12th Lamatath campaign of the Jaghut War

6,031 years before Burn's Sleep

• Hel'eth Jal Im (Pogrom of the White Stag), 51st Jaghut War

3,411 years before Burn's Sleep

• Temal begins constructing the Stormwall

3,011 years before Burn's Sleep

• The Stormwall is completed, the beginning of the Korel calendar

837 years before Burn's Sleep

• The city of Darujhistan is founded

835 years before Burn's Sleep

• Approximate year of Seti expulsion from Fenn lands. Nightchill somehow involved.

1st year of Burn's Sleep

• Sensing the coming battle against the Crippled God's infection within her flesh, Burn sleeps. She makes of herself a weapon, placing all of her spirit and power into a hammer capable of breaking the chains poisoning her.
• After several thousand years on his "solitary path", Caladan Brood returns around this time bearing the hammer of Burn. He, Rake, Hood, and the Queen of Dreams agree that the hammer should not be used.

263rd year of Burn's Sleep

• Gas is first used to light one of the quarters of Darujhistan

264th year of Burn's Sleep

• Approximate year of the liberation of Karakarang. Nightchill somehow involved.

363rd year of Burn's Sleep

• Approximate year Anomander Rake was last visited by Icarium who was in the company of Mappo Runt and Osseric. Caladan Brood was also present.

758th year of Burn's Sleep

• Approximate period that The Unbound swore fealty to the Crippled God
• Approximate period of Pahlk Orlong's raid on Silver Lake.

764th year of Burn's Sleep

• Approximate year that the River Catlin reroutes itself away from Saltoan. The city attempts to recapture river traffic by constructing Korselan's Canal, but is unable to halt its inevitable decline.

1012th year of Burn's Sleep

• The Nathii Expedition identifies Buryd Fissure in the Laederon Plateau as the site of the seventeenth or eighteenth Kron T'lan Imass Jaghut War. The expedition's Adept determines that the Kron's Jaghut nemesis still survives within the glacier.

Path to Ascendancy

• Wu and Dorin Rav meet in a cavern under the Seti Plains and form an unlikely partnership.
• King Chulalorn the Third of Itko Kan sends his army to seize the city of Li Heng. The Protectress successfully resists his forces at great cost.
• Wu rediscovers the way to Kurald Emurlahn.
• A young Dassem Ultor founds a temple to Hood at Li Heng.
• Wu and Dorin Rav (now named Dancer) are expelled from Li Heng after their attempt to organise the criminal elements there.
• Tarel seizes control of the Napan Isles and becomes king. His sister, Sureth, and those Napans loyal to her are driven into exile on Malaz Island. These include Hawl, Choss, Grinner, Tocaras, and Cartheron and Urko Crust.
• Wu and Dancer establish themselves in Malaz City, purchasing Smiley's to serve as their base of operations. Sureth and her Napans become their employees at the tavern. They go to war with the city's ruler, Mock, ultimately taking control of the pirate-king's Hold and his city.
• The death of Demidrek Ithell leads to political turmoil in Kartool. Tayschrenn, a high-ranking priest of D'rek, is put on trial and forced to flee to Malaz City.

1058th year of Burn's Sleep

• Malazan Empire is founded

1061th year of Burn's Sleep

• Approximate year when Itko Kan becomes part of the Malazan Empire

1066th year of Burn's Sleep

• The Crimson Guard vow to defeat the Malazan Empire
• Approximate year Li Heng and The Protectress fall to the Malazans at the hands of the T'lan Imass.

1067th year of Burn's Sleep

• Approximate year of the Malazan invasion of the Crimson Guard lands on Stratem
• Approximate year of the start of the Crimson Guard Diaspora
• Approximate year of Ryllandaras' captivity at Li Heng

1080th year of Burn's Sleep

• Likely year of Karsa Orlong's birth.

1084th year of Burn's Sleep

• Year(+/- 1) of Dujek Onearm's birth according to a reference in Gardens of the Moon. Go to Talk:Timeline for discussion of possible timeline inconsistency.

1085th year of Burn's Sleep

• Approximate year of Icarium and Mappo Runt's travel to the ancient ruined city of Trebur on Seven Cities.

1099th year of Burn's Sleep

• The ice filling Buryd Fissure in the Teblor lands of the Laederon Plateau suddenly melts. It reveals the preserved bodies of countless beasts and the bodies and broken stone weapons of an ancient T'lan Imass battle much to the Teblor elders' puzzlement.

1101st year of Burn's Sleep

• Approximate year the Letherii Empire conquers Bluerose.

1104th year of Burn's Sleep

• Approximate year of the Seti pacification on Quon Tali.

1123rd year of Burn's Sleep

• Malaz City overflows with sewage

1134th year of Burn's Sleep

• Likely year of Itkovian's birth

1135th year of Burn's Sleep

• (Probable) Start of the occupation of the Lands of Fist by the 6th Army

1141st year of Burn's Sleep

• Birth of Toc the Younger

1142nd year of Burn's Sleep

• Ganoes Paran born in Unta

1143rd year of Burn's Sleep

• Probable year of Tavore Paran's birth
• Probable year of Lorn's birth

1144th year of Burn's Sleep

• Construction begins on the Eternal Domicile in Letheras

1145th year of Burn's Sleep

• Korelri year 4156 SW (Since the Wall)
• Year 11 of the Malazan Occupation of the Lands of Fist

1147th year of Burn's Sleep

• His small army facing nightly maulings from three tribal nations, Dassem Ultor develops a Malazan strategy that will still be known and practiced as 'Dassem's answer' decades later
• Crusade of 1147 - The Nathii call for the obliteration of the Teblor of the Laederon Plateau

1148th year of Burn's Sleep

• Udinaas is enslaved by the Hiroth after the whaling vessel, the Brunt, is captured by Tiste Edur

1149th year of Burn's Sleep

• Fiddler joins the Malazan Army
• Probable year of Felisin Paran's birth
• Start of the Tiste Edur War of Unification that will ultimately bring together the five tribes under Hannan Mosag's leadership
• Hull Beddict is promoted to Sentinel and sent to study the Nerek, Tarthenal, and Faraed tribes on the Letherii Empire's northern frontier

1150th year of Burn's Sleep

• The Pannion Seer returns from the Mountain to Bastion speaking the Words of Truth. Accepting the first Embrasure, the citizens murder a passing caravan from Elingarth. Nine months later, Anaster, the First Child of the Dead Seed, is born.

1151st year of Burn's Sleep

• Gerun Eberict's brother Harlest dies in a fall.
• Birth of historian Imrygyn Tallobant.

1152nd year of Burn's Sleep

• The Malazan Empire begins its conquest of Genabackis
• Kellanved and Dancer disappear on a mysterious two year journey

1152/1153 Burn's Sleep

• Slaughter in Aren by the Logros T'lan Imass as they put down rebellion

1153rd year of Burn's Sleep

• Karakarang, the Holy City of the Tanno cult surrenders peacefully after negotiations between Kimloc and Dujek.
• Seren Pedac discovers former Letherii Sentinel, Hull Beddict, living like an animal near High Fort. She works to bring him back to his senses and they fall in love.

1154th year of Burn's Sleep

• Dassem Ultor is presumed dead at Y'Ghatan
• Riots in the Mouse Quarter of Malaz City are put down by forces under Whiskeyjack
• Last year of Emperor Kellanved's reign
• Night of the Shadow Moon in Malaz City. The Shadow Throne receives its new master.
• First year of Empress Laseen's reign. Laseen begins purge of Quon Tali noble families and the Empire is rocked by riots and mass executions.
• Empress Laseen roots out and exterminates the warlocks of the Wickans, leaving them to die hanging from iron spikes on the walls of Unta
• The Warren of Shadow is open to humans again

1155th year of Burn's Sleep

• Approximate time of Crimson Guard's Second Induction

1156th year of Burn's Sleep

• The Malazan Empire allies with the Moranth and acquires Moranth munitions
• The Malazan 2nd and 3rd Armies march on Mott sparking the twin nightmares of Mott Wood and Blackdog Swamp.
• Buruk the Pale contracts Acquitor Seren Pedac to serve him for a period of ten years

1157th year of Burn's Sleep

• Gerun Eberict, Finadd of the Letherii Royal Guard, stops an assassination attempt on King Ezgara Diskanar. In reward, the king grants him the King's Leave.

1158th year of Burn's Sleep

• First of the Seven Years of Dryjhna, the Apocalyptic
• Approximate year the Malazan Empire loses contact with the 6th Army on the Lands of Fist
• Shurq Elalle drowns in Quillas Canal during The Drownings

1159th year of Burn's Sleep

• Year of the White Veins in the Ebony
• Trull Sengar is Shorn and left to die in the Nascent on his brother Rhulad's order.(see also Talk:Timeline for discussion on timeline inconsistencies)
• The Free Cities establish contracts with the Crimson Guard and the Tiste Andii regiments of Moon's Spawn. The Malazan 5th Army is pushed back and bogged down in Blackdog Forest for the next four years.
• Urugal the Woven's Year
• Karsa Orlong leaves his village (see Talk:Timeline for discussion on timeline inconsistencies)
• The Third Meckros city is destroyed from below by a surfacing mountain of ice. Twenty thousand Meckros perish. The lone survivor is Withal, who is rescued by the Crippled God and brought to his warren. Withal is enslaved until such time as he crafts a sword of the god's design.
• Iron Bars, Corlo, and the rest of the Crimson Guard Second Blade become stranded in the Letherii Empire after escaping Assail.

1160th year of Burn's Sleep

• First year of the Pannion Domin
• Pormqual succeeds Cartheron Crust as High Fist of Seven Cities
• Season of Rot in Unta
• The Siege of Pale begins

1161st year of Burn's Sleep

• Year of the Late Frost
• 103rd year of the Malazan Empire
• 7th year of Empress Laseen's rule
• The Ascension of the Empty Hold
• Itko Kan massacre by the Hounds of Shadow
• Sorry is possessed by Cotillion
• Bauchelain and Korbal Broach leave Lamentable Moll aboard the Suncurl with their new manservant Emancipor Reese. They ply the waters of Laughter's End before wrecking near Spendrugle.
• The War of Unification ends bringing the Tiste Edur tribes of northwestern Lether under Hannan Mosag's rule.
• The Warlock King comes to an arrangement with the Crippled God. He is granted the ability to channel Chaos magic and given the services of a forgotten Demon spirit-god. The Crippled God gives him a vision of a gift awaiting on the ice fields of Lether.
• Elements of the government of the Kingdom of Lether send a fleet of ships to hunt Tusked seals in Edur waters to violate treaty and push towards war.
• Rhulad Sengar takes possession of the Crippled God's sword and pushes the Warlock King aside to become emperor of the Tiste Edur.
• The Great Meeting between the Letherii and the Edur is a failure. Emperor Rhulad launches a war to satisfy the Crippled God's desire for conquest.
• Rhulad opens a rent to drown the warren fragment known as the Nascent. (see also Talk:Timeline for discussion on timeline inconsistencies)

1162nd year of Burn's Sleep

• Letherii Seventh Closure (see Talk:Timeline for discussion on timeline inconsistencies)
• Rhulad Sengar and the Tiste Edur conquer Letheras and Rhulad becomes emperor of the Letherii Empire. The Errant manipulates the death of Brys Beddict.
• Bugg recruits Iron Bars and his Crimson Guard to slay The Pack.
• Silchas Ruin escapes from the now dead Azath Tower. Ruin, Iron Bars, and Ublala Pung slay the Seregahl. The Hold of Death manifests in the tower's place.
• Trull Sengar is likely Shorn. (see also Talk:Timeline for discussion on timeline inconsistencies)
• Sedara Orr employs Darpareth Vayd and the Trygalle Trade Guild to assay the creatures of Verdith'anath.
• Tiste Edur fleets from the Letherii Empire begin preying on Nemil ships.

1163rd year of Burn's Sleep

• 907th year in the Third Millennium
• 105th year of the Malazan Empire
• 9th year of Empress Laseen's rule
• Year of the Cull
• Season of Rot in Unta
• Year of the Shattered Moon
• End of the Siege of Pale Go to Siege of Pale for detailed timeline of siege and events soon after
• The Year of the Five Tusks
• The Jaghut Tyrant Raest is released
• Death of Adjunct Lorn
• Felisin Paran is sent to the Otataral mines by her sister, Adjunct Tavore

1164th year of Burn's Sleep

• Year of the Moon's Tears
• 10th year of Empress Laseen's rule
• The Sixth in the Seven Years of Dryjhna, the Apocalyptic
• Tellann year of the Second Gathering of the T'lan Imass
• Istral’fennidahn, the season of D’rek, Worm of Autumn
• The Master of the Deck is chosen
• Bauchelain, Korbal Broach, and Emancipor Reese travel to Darujhistan, Saltoan, and Capustan
• The Crippled God forms High House Chains and begins filling its members
• The population of Callows is wiped out by Tiste Edur sea raiders
• Siege of Capustan
• The Whirlwind rebellion begins on Seven Cities
• Fener is pulled into the mortal realm
• Many Soletaken and D'ivers follow the Path of Hands on Seven Cities
• Fist Coltaine leads the Chain of Dogs across Seven Cities
• The Grey Swords rededicate themselves to Togg and Fanderay
• Siege of Coral
• Kallor's betrayal
• Togg and Fanderay are reunited and take the Beast Throne
• The failing Moon's Spawn is set adrift populated only by the dead
• The Tiste Andii settle in Black Coral
• Adjunct Tavore leads the Malaz 14th Army on a punitive expedition to Seven Cities
• Treach replaces Fener as the preeminent god of war
• K'rul's Bar is founded in Darujhistan in the remains of K'rul's Temple
• Tiste Edur assail the Throne of Shadow on Drift Avalii killing Andarist
• Karsa Orlong frees The Unbound
• Korbolo Dom betrays Sha'ik Reborn and the self-declared Master of the Talon's assassins slay the Whirlwind Goddess
• The Master of the Deck sanctions High House Chains
• Korbolo Dom captured and delivered to Adjunct Tavore
• The Bridgeburners ascend
• Adjunct Tavore kills Sha'ik Reborn
• Raraku floods forming an inland sea
• D'rek begins killing her worshippers
• The Nameless Ones release Dejim Nebrahl to hunt Mappo Runt and Icarium.
• A K'Chain Nah'ruk Skykeep buried under Seven Cities is freed of its Omtose Phellack prison.
• The Bonehunters are born in fire at the Last Siege of Y'Ghatan
• Taralack Veed replaces Mappo as Icarium's companion.
• Ganoes Paran frees the remaining Deragoth to kill Dejim Nebrahl.
• The Crippled God subverts the cult of the Apocalypse naming Felisin Younger the new Sha'ik Reborn.
• Bluetongue Plague ravages Seven Cities until Ganoes Paran orchestrates the death of Poliel. Dujek Onearm dies and Paran assumes command of Dujek's Host.
• High House War appears in the Deck of Dragons.
• The isles of Sepik and Monkan are eradicated by the Third Edur Imperial Fleet.
• Karsa Orlong and Icarium are chosen as champions to be returned to Letheras by the Third Edur Imperial Fleet.
• Admiral Nok uses the Malazan Imperial Fleet to extract Adjunct Tavore Paran's Bonehunters from Seven Cities. The Malazan fleet is attacked by the Third Edur Imperial Fleet, but escapes.
• Heboric Light Touch stops the cataclysmic fall of a dozen Jade giants onto Otataral Island. The Moon is terribly damaged by the same event.
• Mathok surrenders the last Whirlwind army. The Whirlwind rebellion is effectively over.

1165th year of Burn's Sleep

• Kyle is conscripted into the Crimson Guard
• 11th year of Empress Laseen's reign
• 99th year of the Crimson Guard's Vow
• Bauchelain, Korbal Broach, and Emancipor Reese overthrow the health-based regime of Quaint.

1166th year of Burn's Sleep

• Malazan civil war - many of the remaining Old Guard form the Talian League and attempt to sieze control of Quon Tali from Laseen
• The end of the Crimson Guard diaspora. The Guard reunites on Stratem before returning to Quon Tali to seek vengeance against the Malazan Empire.
• Battle of the Plains
• Last year of Empress Laseen's reign
• K'azz D'Avore returns to take control of the Crimson Guard
• Anomander Rake faces Traveller at Darujhistan

1167th year of Burn's Sleep

• First year of Emperor Mallick Rel's reign
• Korelri year 4178 SW (Since the Wall)
• Year 33 of the Malazan Occupation of the Lands of Fist
• Malazan Expeditionary Force sent to Korel to bring the renegade 6th Army to heel
• The Jourilan Army of Reform topples Jourilan's monarchy
• Fall of the Stormwall

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• Bonehunters battle against K'Chain Nah'ruk
• Six days later, Tavore's parley with allies
• Battle of the Spire
• Gallan tells Fisher kel Tath the story of Anomandaris and ancient Kharkanas

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Speculations on the start of Burn's Sleep calendar year

The first day of the Burn's Sleep calendar year may be tied to be the first day of Spring instead of the Malazan equivalent of our January 1st. In Gardens of the Moon the changeover from the Year of the Tusk to the Year of the Moon's Tears was tied to the Gedderone Fête celebrating the first day of Spring. It is unclear if the Burn's Sleep calendar followed the same convention. The majority of events covered in Gardens of the Moon leading to the Gedderone Fete were recorded as occurring in 1163 BS. The events of Memories of Ice were recorded as occurring two months after the Fete in 1164 BS. But the Prologue of Deadhouse Gates begins in 1163 BS with the events of the Gedderone Fête already known. Assuming the date is not an error by Erikson, Tavore Paran's ascension to Adjunct was either near instantaneous with Lorn's death or the Burn's Sleep year actually began some time in the two month window between the Fête and the start of Memories of Ice.

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Speculations on the length of a year

A comment made in Midnight Tides seemed to indicate a year in the Malazan world may only have been around 200 days long.

Spoiler warning: The following section contains significant plot details about Midnight Tides.

After being told Gerun Eberict had killed two to three thousand people in the past year, Bugg estimated that the Finadd was killing ten to fifteen people a day. (Using those numbers: 10x200=2000 and 15x200=3000).

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