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Air Nation History

  • 4230 BG


    First permanent air nomad settlement
    Population Migration / Travel
  • 4012 BG

    45 Winter

    Northern Air Temple is completed
    Construction beginning/end

    The Northern Air Temple was the first of the four air temples, and celebrates the patronage of Xuanwu, the black lionturtle of the north.

  • 3887 BG

    45 Spring

    Eastern Air Temple is completed
    Construction beginning/end
  • 3869 BG

    45 Summer

    Southern Air Temple is completed
    Construction beginning/end
  • 3829 BG


    Guru Laghima achieves weightlessness
    Life, Achievement/ Win

    The airbending Guru Laghima achieves weightlessness and lives his final forty years without touching the ground. His philosophical rival, Guru Shoken, advocates that people should follow their own path, unburdened by morals or ideas of enlightenment.

  • 3738 BG

    45 Autumn

    Western Air Temple is completed
    Construction beginning/end
  • 487 BG

    345 BG


    Era of Avatar Yangchen
    Life, Birth

    Additional timelines
  • 0 BG

    20 /5

    The Air Genocide
    Disaster / Destruction

    Additional timelines
  • 0 BG

    21 /5
    100 AG

    20 /5

    Hundred Year War
    Military action
  • 100 AG

    10 /11
    100 AG

    10 /12

    Whaletail Peace Accords
    Gathering / Conference

    Whaletail island was chosen as both a symbolic location near the Southern Air temple, where Avatar Aang is from and where the war began, and as a neutral, uninhabited and unclaimed island, for the peace accords following the Hundred Year War. Fireord Zuko of the Fire Nation, Avatar Aang of the Southern Air temple, Chief Hakoda representing the Southern tribes and Chief Arnook of the North, as well as Earth King Kuei and the council of Generals met here to finalize the ending of the war, and to move forward with reparations.

  • 101 AG

    26 /8

    Founding of the Air Acolytes
    Founding