Years before Aegon's Conquest

See also Years after Aegon's Conquest

This page is intended to draw a rough chronology of events in the world before Aegon's Conquest, an epoch event which maesters and educated people count years in relation to. George R. R. Martin has been vague in regard to some dates, so this chronology is often based on estimations according to key dates, character ages etc. For a more general overview of the history see the timeline of major events.

The maesters of the Citadel who keep the histories of Westeros have used Aegon's Conquest as their touchstone for the past three hundred years. Birth, deaths, battles, and other events are dated either AC (After the Conquest) or BC (Before the Conquest).^[1]

Years 1 and 2 Before the Conquest

Deaths

• Harren the Black^[2]
• Argilac Durrandon^[3]
• Dickon Morrigen^[1]
• Bastard of Blackhaven^[1]
• Mern IX Gardener^[4]
• Edmund Gardener^[1]
• Gawen Gardener^[1]
• Armen Peake^[5]
• Daemon Velaryon^[1]

Events

• King Harren the Black completes the construction of his new seat, Harrenhal, on the day Aegon Targaryen lands in Westeros.
• Aegon Targaryen and his two queens, Visenya and Rhaenys, begin their Wars of Conquest. They land with their three dragons on three hills close to the mouth of the Blackwater Rush.
• The burning of Harrenhal, the Last Storm, and the Field of Fire occur during Aegon's Conquest.^[6]

Titles and Positions

• Daemon Velaryon is named master of ships.^[6]
• Crispian Celtigar is named master of coin.^[6]
• Tristan Massey is named master of laws.^[6]
• Orys Baratheon is named Hand of the King^[6] and Lord Paramount of the Stormlands.^[7]
• Edmyn Tully is named Lord Paramount of the Trident.^[6]
• Loren Lannister is named Warden of the West.^[6]
• Harlan Tyrell is named Warden of the South and Lord Paramount of the Mander.^[6]
• Torrhen Stark is named Warden of the North.^[6]
• Ronnel Arryn is named Warden of the East.^[8]

Year 9 Before the Conquest

Births

• The man who would later become a High Septon is born.

Year 14 Before the Conquest

Births

• Samgood of Sour Hill.

Year 25 Before the Conquest

Events

• The Red Death, a terrible plague, emerges from the slave pens of Gogossos and sweeps across the Isle of Tears and the remainder of the Basilisk Isles.^[9]

Year 27 Before the Conquest

Births

• Aegon Targaryen is born on Dragonstone.^[1]

Year 29 Before the Conquest

Births

• Visenya Targaryen is born on Dragonstone.^[10][11]

Year 37 Before the Conquest

Births

• Sharra Arryn is born.^[12]

Year 47 Before the Conquest

Births

• Nymor Martell is born.^[13]

Year 52 Before the Conquest

Births

• The dragon Vhagar is born on Dragonstone.^[14]

Year 54 Before the Conquest

Births

• Pater is born.

Year 102 Before the Conquest

Events

• The Doom of Valyria occurs, leaving House Targaryen as the only remaining dragonlords.^[1]

Year 114 Before the Conquest

Events

• Daenys Targaryen has a vision of the Doom of Valyria.^[1]
• House Targaryen flee to Dragonstone because of the vision of Daenys the Dreamer.^[1]
• Five dragons and four dragon eggs are brought to Dragonstone. One of these dragons is Balerion.^[1]

~Year 314 Before the Conquest

Events

• The castle Dragonstone is build on the island with the same name, as the westernmost established outpost of the Valyrian Freehold.^[1]

~Year 400 Before the Conquest

Events

• Ten year old Osric Stark is chosen as the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch and commands the Night's Watch for sixty years.^[15] Maester Balder serves the Night's Watch at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, and writes the book The Edge of the World during Osric's sixty year rule.^[16]

~Year 700 Before the Conquest

Events

• The Second Spice War, last of the wars in the Rhoynish Wars, is fought.^[17][18]

~Year 950 Before the Conquest

Events

• The First Turtle War, first of the wars in the Rhoynish Wars, is fought.^[17][18]

Year 1436 Before the Conquest

Events

• A sect of religious dissidents leave the Freehold to establish a temple upon the main isle of Lorath, creating the foundations for the Free City of Lorath.^[19]

~Year 2000 Before the Conquest

Events

• The coming of the Andals, according to some maesters.^[20]

~Year 3700 Before the Conquest

Deaths

• King Rognar II Greyiron.^[21]

Events

• Extinction of House Greyiron.^[22]

~Year 4000 Before the Conquest

Events

• The coming of the Andals, according to True History.^[20]

~Year 4700 Before the Conquest

• The Old Empire of Ghis is destroyed by the Valyrian Freehold in the Fifth Ghiscari War.^[23]

~Year 6000 Before the Conquest

Events

• Latest point in the timeframe for the Long Night, the building of the Wall, Winterfell, the Hightower, and Storm's End, and the reign of Night's King.^[24]
• The coming of the Andals, according to some sources.^[25]

~Year 8000 Before the Conquest

Events

• Earliest point in the timeframe for the Long Night, the building of the Wall, Winterfell, the Hightower, and Storm's End, and the reign of Night's King.^[24]
• Earliest point in the timeframe for the rise of the Valyrian Freehold and the Ghiscari wars.^[26]

~Year 10000 Before the Conquest

Events

• The Pact is made between the First Men and the children of the forest.^[27]
• The Dawn Age ends and the Age of Heroes begins.^[28]

~Year 12000 Before the Conquest

Events

• The First Men migrate from Essos to Westeros via the Arm of Dorne.^[27]
• The children of the forest use the hammer of the waters to shatter the Arm of Dorne.^[27]

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