FIRST MILLENNIUM IC

-986: Phoenix King Tethlis the Slayer initiates the Scouring to drive off every Dark Elf from Ulthuan.

-975: Battle of a Thousand Woes: A Dwarf attempt to recapture Red Eye Mountain fails when the Dwarf army is ambushed somewhere north of Karak Kadrin. Many Dwarfs are slain and the Dwarfs give up their attempted reconquest's. The Dwarfs concentrate on fortification and consolidation, so few records are made of Orc activity for the next few hundred years.[1a] Apophas is reborn as the Cursed Scarab Lord and begins to roam the world in search for the one soul that will release him from his eternal torment.

-951: Under cover of a poisonous mist, the Skaven make their boldest attack yet, emerging to take the ruins of Conqueso.

-950: Thug the Fist becomes the first Overtyrant over all Ogre tribes.

-917: Nehekhara is invaded by Lizardmen from the Southlands who are searching for lost plaques looted from their temple-cities in ages past. The reptilian warhost smashes aside skeletal armies at both Ka-Sabar and Bhagar as they continue to march ever deeper into the Land of the Dead. They are finally defeated at the City of Kings when Liche Priests focus the rays of the sun through the mirrored prisms atop Khemri's gold-capped pyramids.

-811: Morghur the Corruptor is slain for the first time. The Glade of Woe is created.

-750: The Red Cloud Goblin tribe discover a long-lost Dwarfen passage linking the Red Cloud and Fire Mountains. They use this secret way to attacks Karak Azul and are repulsed. They then go on to attack and partially occupy the hold of Karak Azul. Ten years of hard fighting follow before the Goblins are eventually expelled.

-740: Bitter infighting in the ranks of the Red Cloud Goblins allows the Dwarfs to reclaim control of Karak Azul, though the passage beneath the mountains must be guarded for all time lest the Goblins infiltrate through it once more.

-732: Mounting one last offense, Malekith launches a winter offensive and wards his soldiers from the cold with magic. The Siege of Tor Lehan begins, which ends with no survivors on either side.

-701: Battle for Karak Eight Peaks. The Book of Grudges records that Miners in first break into a Skaven tunnel. The Dwarfs are shocked to discover the extent of the Skaven burrows beneath them. A terrible and bitterly fought underground war begins.

-700: A group of Wood Elves decides to leave Athel Loren, becoming known as the Lost Kindred.

C. -700: Elf seafarers report Tilean shepherds grazing their flocks amid the tumbled colonnades of former Elf cities.[2a] Skaven first break through into the lower levels of Karak Eight Peaks.

-696: The Dark Elves are finally driven from Ulthuan. Anlec is destroyed again.

-679: The foundations of the White Tower of Hoeth are laid.

-666: Morrslieb hangs low in the sky for a full month. Madness washes over the world, with the followers of the Chaos gods battling each other for control over the growing storms of magic. No power gains ascendancy, but Khorne's seven year dominion is at an end.

-650: Baragor, the first Slayer King, dedicates the great shrine of Grimnir in Karak Kadrin, making it into the centre of the Slayer Cult.

-642: The Black Maw tribe of Ogres descends upon the city of Quatar, intent on a feast of bread made from the ground bones of ancient kings. Several tombs are demolished and countless hundreds of Skeleton Warriors are smashed asunder by the Ogre horde, before an army of statues marches out of the Charnel Valley and utterly destroys the invaders.

C. -600: Vorag Bloodytooth unites the scattered tribes of Ghouls that lurk below Cripple Peak and becomes the first and only Ghoul King. The vast if undisciplined army under his command quickly overrun and all but destroy the Red Cloud Goblin tribe. The survivors of the tribe are enslaved and forced to build the Fortress of Vorag to the east of the Plain of Bones. Vorag next turns on the Grey Hag Goblin tribe, who are forced to retreat into their mountain lair. While besieging the Goblin lair Vorag is struck by a well- aimed boll from a Goblin bolt thrower and killed. Leaderless, the Ghouls scatter and make their way back to Cripple Peak. The fortress of Vorag is forgotten and falls into ruins.

-594: This marks the beginning of the century-long campaign fought against the jungle Orcs of the Scorpion Coast. Kroq-Gar ends the fighting by slaying the Warbosses of all six enemy tribes.

-513: Karak Eight Peaks falls to attacks by Orcs, Goblins and Skaven. The Dwarfs record that Karak Eight Peaks falls as King Lunn orders the last survivors of the fierce battle to seal the tombs, armouries, and treasure holds, and break out towards Karaz-a-Karak. After the Dwarfs have been driven out the Skaven fight constant battles with the Goblins for possession of the upper levels.

C. (-500 to C. -300): The Skaven battle the greenskin hordes for domination of Karak Eight Peaks, or the City of Pillars as it is renamed. The top levels and ruined city are cleared of Orcs and Goblins by around -300.

-500: Rise of Humanity in the Old World.

-469: Orc Warlord Dork leads a huge army of Orcs and Goblins to take the Dwarf hold of Karak Azgal which he destroys and abandons, leaving the secrets of its depths unexplored.[1a]

-466: Karak Drazh is occupied by Dork’s forces and renamed Black Crag. Within fifty years of the fall of Karak Eight Peaks the Dwarfs have lost all of their major holds south of Karaz a Karak with the exception of Karak Azul, which is under constant siege. All the mountains between Mad Dog Pass and Karak Eight Peaks are Orc or Goblin controlled.

-455: King Qu'a of Zandri and King Rapesh of Numas form an alliance and attempt to overthrow Settra. The King of Khemri is only saved from an assassin’s magical blade by the intervention of his bodyguard Nekaph. The rebel kings battle against Khemri’s legions for seven days and seven nights, but Settra prevails, and the defeated kings slink back to their tombs. Settra orders their pyramids toppled and commands his Tomb Guard to drag their mummified corpses from their resting places whereupon they are set ablaze, and their charred skeletons are shattered beneath the heavy wheels of Settra’s golden chariot.

-420:Dwarfs discover gunpowder.

-370: According to Dwarf tradition the rampages of Urgok the Beard Burner occur about this time. Orcs and Goblins almost overwhelm the remaining Dwarf holds but are finally beaten back at the Battle of Black Water.

-326: The Dwarf city of Silver Pinnacle is invaded by Neferata, former queen of Lahmia.

C. -315: Skaven overrun Crookback Mountain in the Dark Lands and enslave several tribes of Night Goblins living there.

-290: The first Loremasters gather at the half-completed Tower of Hoeth.

C. -250: Clan Rictus bribes the Council for exclusive rights to establish a foothold at Crookback Mountain, the underground gateway to the Dark Lands.

-250: Ushoran founds the city of Strigos upon the ruins of Mourkhain.

(-241 to -236): The Chariot Wars — King Behedesh of Zandri utterly destroys both the Black Wolves Goblins and the Gouging Tusk Orcs in a merciless campaign that concludes in the heart of the Badlands with an epic battle involving over seven thousand chariots.

-223: Melkhior, one of W’soran’s students, slays his master and takes the Book of Nagash from his vault.

-215: First Dark Elf raiders penetrate Lustrian jungles to steal sacred artefacts.

C. -200: Mourkain is sacked by Orcs and Goblins, led by Warboss Garsnag Craktoof. Ushoran is destroyed while defending the gates, by the Orc shaman known as “Red Eye”. The surviving Strigoi Vampires are driven into the wilds and their people scatter; eventually devolving into the Ghoul Kings.

-150: The first Black Orcs are created via experiments of the Chaos Dwarfs.

C. -100: Nagash returns to Cripple Peak and destroys Clan Rikek.

-100: Black Orcs lead their fellow greenskins in revolt against the Chaos Dwarfs. The revolt fails to overthrow the Chaos Dwarfs, thanks to a betrayal by the Hobgoblins, earning them the enduring hatred of other Greenskins. The Chaos Dwarfs react by purging all greenskin slaves from their capital, while elevating Hobgoblins to a higher position in their society. However, many Black Orcs still escape into the World's Edge Mountains and the Mountains of Mourn and begin proliferating.

-50: Artur, chief of the Teutogens, discovers the Fauschlag Rock (later the Ulricsberg).

-40: Nagash is reborn exactly 1,111 years after he was destroyed. He attempts to force the Tomb Kings to obey his orders, but they rebel, and under the leadership of the Tomb King Settra force him to retreat to Nagashizzar. Upon his arrival, Nagash finds his fortress overrun by the Skaven, and drives them all out in a single night. Over the next three decades numerous Skaven counter-attacks are repelled by Nagash's forces.

-39: Settra turns against the other Tomb Kings and is defeated in a battle that lasts seven days and seven nights. He retreats to Khemri to found an Undead empire that will rival Nagash’s in size and power.

-30: Sigmar is born to the chief of the Unberogen Tribe. Nagash forges his Iron Hand.

-20: The Jutones settle in Westerland after having been driven from their lands by the Teutogens. A bloody war against the native Fimir begins.

-15: Sigmar rescues Dwarf King Kurgan Ironbeard from Orcs. Kurgan gives Sigmar the rune hammer Ghal Maraz.[1a] Arkhan the Black crushes a huge Skaven horde at the Battle of Death Rock. The Skaven defeat is so devastating that they give up attempting to recapture the Cursed Pit.

-10: Marius, chief of the Jutones, founds Marienburg at the mouth of the River Reik, atop the ruins of an ancient High Elven fortress, Sith Rionnasc'namishathir.

-8: On his father's death, Sigmar becomes chief of the Unberogens.

-1: The Battle of Black Fire Pass.[1a] Greenskin hordes driven out of the Old World.