Timeline
A great deal of the chronology of this era is still in doubt. What follows are just the uncontroversial facts.
A long time ago
- Gravitopolis founded (possibly by The Mole)
- Iron Codex written
- Prophecies of Beral written
Prior to the reign of Septarch Quintillian
- Cloudstone craft in wide use
- Aetherists established
- Heydey of House Oncilla
Just before or early in Quintillian's reign
- Convection Engine invented
- Cid Highwind's "famous flight"
- First recorded activities of the Oversight Committee
During Quintillian's reign
- High Beneficent Toth serves as Vizier
- Atapa Skara serves as Vizier
- 217 SE. Death of Quintillian.
Probably within a decade after Quintillian's death
- First Festival of All Stars
- Beginning of the Aberration and appearance of Dead Air
- Dwight Lansford founds the Naturalists
- Brief reign of the Al'Shaine Stratocracy
- The Straylight Reforms
- Aberration worsens; Thin Aether phenomenon
- Disappearance and reappearance of the Basilica of Ysithmir
- Universal Church of Gilded Dagon wanes in influence
- The Year of Prohibition
- First phases of the Little War. Naturalists disgraced
- … Dead Air worsens for a decade or so …
Either toward the end of that decade, or else after it's up
- Smokeships invented
- High Beneficent Toth serves on the Oversight Committee
- The Gravitopolis War
- Aetherists purged by the Oversight Committee
Probably after that decade is up
- Crossing-over of the Sandalphon
- Penultimate Festival of All Stars
239 SE
- Last flight of the Ebon Legion. (Might be before or after the crossing-over, as far as we know.)
Late 243 - Early 244
245
- Floating Congress established
Around 250 SE or so
- Little War concludes (Although major hostilities apparently concluded rather earlier)