| -299 | Year of Heartsblood |
| -298 | Year of Nine Watchers |
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- The city of Karse is founded by Netherese refugees.
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| -297 | Year of Scrying Orbs |
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- Thieves who manage to loot most of the royal treasury steal King Glaurauth's regalia, the Crown and Scepter of Saldrinar. The king's wizards pursue the thieves inland from their anchorage at what is now Procampur, but the wealth of Westgate's monarch is eventually lost in Elvenblood Pass, located north of the Vast, when a horde of orcs falls on Glaurauth's agents.
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| -296 | Year of Factols |
| -295 | Year of Harsh Words |
| -294 | Year of Sundry Violence |
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- The Coronal Luszoch rises to power in Aryselmalyr, and makes veiled threats to all allied and subject powers during his forst tour of the empire. While no one acts outwardly, all forces prepare for war but wait for the belligerent coronal to make the wrong move.
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| -293 | Year of Tyrant Hawks |
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- The Warlord Karlag falls at the battle for the garrison-town of Calimaronn. Another clan chieftain, Mong Ithal, leads the clans to victory. Calimaronn, as well as the river it fords, is named Ithmong, after Ithal.
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| -292 | Year of Envenomed Nectar |
| -291 | Year of the Setting Suns |
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- Netherese citizens fleeing conflicts between the Survivor States begin to filter into Cormanthyr.
- King Glaurauth of Westgate dies of heartstop. As his three offspring all died before reaching their tenth year, the aged monarch leaves his throne in turn to his successor as captain of the city guard, Thorndaer of the Golden Helm.
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| -290 | Year of Fiery Slumber |
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| -289 | Year of Spiteful Stones |
| -288 | Year of Eight Lightnings |
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- At Ithmong, Calimshan accedes independence to the lands of Tethyr and its people. The chiefs of Tethyr's clans create a ruling Council of Clans.
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| -287 | Year of Hard Currency |
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- The city of Karse falls victim to the begrudging followers who believe the god Karsus is a sham.
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| -286 | Year of Foul Awakenings |
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- Westgate falls during the course of a single night to a small army of elite mercenaries who emerge from catacombs beneath the city. By morning's light, King Thorndaer and his entire family are dead, and King Orlak rules over the oldest port in the western Inner Sea region. Until the end of his reign, the Night King holds court only after the sun has set, is never seen during daylight hours, and always keeps his entire face (except his eyes) shrouded with a black-and-white-hatched porcelain mask, leading many to suspect (correctly) that the long-lived monarch of Westgate is a vampire.
- The inhabitants of Karse war amongst themselves leading to the destruction and abandonment of the city. The lich arcanist Wulgreth of Netheril takes up residence in the ruined city.
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| -285 | Year of Early Graves |
| -284 | Year of Lost Faith |
| -283 | Year of Shattered Portals |
| -282 | Year of the Vampire's Cloak |
| -281 | Year of Silvered Thoughts |
| -280 | Year of the Impudent Kin |
| -279 | Year of Gems Aflame |
| -278 | Year of the Ruling Sceptre |
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- Tethyr's Council of Clans falls apart due to the greed of younger chiefs and the passing of the warlords who freed the land from Calimshan. The clans fall into infighting for the next 60 years.
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| -277 | Year of the Winking Eye |
| -276 | Year of Overflowing Casks |
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- Jhaamdath begins construction on the largest navy yet seen on the Inner Sea.
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| -275 | Year of the Grinning Pack |
| -274 | Year of the Purring Pard |
| -273 | Year of the Dancing Faun |
| -272 | Year of Songstones |
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- Citadel Adbar is completed this year.
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| -271 | Year of the Auburn Beauty |
| -270 | Year of the Winter Wolf |
| -269 | Year of Mournful Moments |
| -268 | Year of the Sunbright |
| -267 | Year of Crumbling Caverns |
| -266 | Year of Hastening Heralds |
| -265 | Year of Burgeoning Victory |
| -264 | Year of Scriveners |
| -263 | Year of Midwives |
| -262 | Year of the Broken Promise |
| -261 | Year of the Lost Princess |
| -260 | Year of Hunting Hounds |
| -259 | Year of the Pyre |
| -258 | Year of Many Moons |
| -257 | Year of the Stricken |
| -256 | Year of Able Warriors |
| -255 | Year of Furious Waves |
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- Jhaamdath, a long-time rival of Calimshan, falls to a tidal wave summoned by the elven High Mages of Nikerymath. The resulting cataclysm inundates Jhaamdath, forming what is now known as the Vilhon Reach.
- Fall of Aryselmalyr. Coronal Esahl Vesahliir and more than 40,000 sea elves and other aquatic sentients die instantly when the Esahlbane Monolith shatters Coryselmal.
- Start of the Sixth Serôs War. After the destruction of Coryselmal and the end of the Aryselmalyr Empire, all the once subject powers of the Inner Sea vie for control of Serôs.
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| -254 | Year of Quartered Foes |
| -253 | Year of Whirlwinds |
| -252 | Year of Vindication |
| -251 | Year of Black Apples |
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- Emigration of settlers across the Inner Sea from ruined Jhaamdath to what will become Thesk, Impiltur, and the Vast.
- Calimshan, under Syl-Pasha Faud yn Orun el Evyrtaan, reclaims some small areas and towns among the Arnaden lands of the Lake of Steam, now that Jhaamdath's control on these lands has fallen along with its primary cities.
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| -250 | Year of Imprisonments |
| -249 | Year of Silver Wings |
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- General Halflar and his men storm Venom's lair and kill the green wyrm. Unfortunately, they also find out that Venom is not one dragon, but two. The entire force is killed when the second dragon attacks them.
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| -248 | Year of Last Songs |
| -247 | Year of the Striking Lance |
| -246 | Year of Much Cheer |
| -245 | Year of Entombed Blades |
| -244 | Year of Fleeting Fancy |
| -243 | Year of the Rack |
| -242 | Year of the Game |
| -241 | Year of the Sand Shroud |
| -240 | Year of Enslaved Swords |
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- End of the Elf Purges. After fifteen years, the worst of the backlash against the sea elves of the Inner Sea dies down. Those who survived the attacks from koalinth, merfolk, and locathah zealots, and the newly returned (and far more evil) morkoth do so by use of magic (including High magic) and some Dukar protection.
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| -239 | Year of Whispered Lore |
| -238 | Year of Fortunes Fair |
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- Start of the Second Dukars' War. After seventeen years of constant skirmishes amid the powers of the central sea (and a resurgance of the sahaugin presense due to lack of order at the Pillars of the Trident), the Dukar Orders of Jhimari and Numos take proactive steps toward maintaining the peace by attempting to found a Dukar kingdom centered on Myth Nantar: Nantarum.
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| -237 | Year of Windragons |
| -236 | Year of Unfriendly Ports |
| -235 | Year of Laughing Crystal |
| -234 | Year of Wizard's Doom |
| -233 | Year of Destinies Foretold |
| -232 | Year of Forsaken Goblets |
| -231 | Year of the Ringed Moon |
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- Three entire clans of elves fleeing Serôs (the Inner Sea) to save their lives and those of their children migrate to lake Sember within the elven nation of Cormanthyr.
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| -230 | Year of Loss |
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- Calimshan attacks Tethyr, seizing Ithmong and Myratma. Able workers (more than a third of the population) of both these towns are enslaved and brought to Calimport to work on the new Pasha's Palace. The 1,480 warriors among the 5,500 new slaves are all sentenced to the new Djen Arena, where many of them fight to the death against monsters and each other for the amusement of the masses.
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| -229 | Year of the Myrmidon Maid |
| -228 | Year of the Unknown Paraph |
| -227 | Year of Rangers Lost |
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- Calimport increases in population and area to its largest size ever, its true citizens numbering more than 75,000. For the next eight centuries, Calimport remains the largest and most frequented port on Faerûn's shores.
- Shyael Ildacer is born.
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| -226 | Year of the Shallows |
| -225 | Year of the Golden Staff |
| -224 | Year of Forked Tongues |
| -223 | Year of Burning Briars |
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- The Sixth Rysar of Cormanthor begins with the realm's greatest warrior Eltargrim taking up the Ruler's Blade and taking his first steps toward magic (and High Magic).
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| -222 | Year of the Dessicated Corpse |
| -221 | Year of Shambling Shadows |
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- Chief Clovis Ithal of Tethyr dies at the Ithmong Slaughter. His son Darrom rallied the Tethyrians and led them into the city.
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- King Darrom of Tethyr marries the half-elven Saraala of Clan Tarseth.
- End of the Second Dukars' War/End of Nantarum. Under mysterious circumstances, the powerful undersea city-state of Nantarum loses the war for the Hmur Plateau while under siege by the merfolk forces of "King" Ristan. Forces at the siege noted only a strange humming rising from the mythal and numerous discharges of magical energy lighting the night-darkened sea. When the besiegers swam into the city, they found the only person left alive; the sea elf Dukar Yupal Narlis, his mind destroyed. His thirty Dukar followers and "nobility" stood along the avenue leading to the Council Academy of the Dukars, alll transformed into coral statues with looks of contrition on their faces.
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| -219 | Year of the Sallow Orb |
| -218 | Year of Dread |
| -217 | Year of Sumbril |
| -216 | Year of Bloodied Orphreys |
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- The Third Epoch (Time of the Merfolk) of Serôs (the Inner Sea). This Epoch covers the rise and fall of the merfolk empire of Hmur, as well as the rise of the sahuagin empire of Aleaxtis.
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| -215 | Year of the Oracle |
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- End of the Sixth Serôs War. The new powers of Serôs are shalarin As'arem, the morkoth Theocracy of the Deep Ones, and the merfolk Kingdom of Hmurrath. The rise of Hmurrath signals the start of the Third Epoch.
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| -214 | Year of the Vengeful Mitre |
| -213 | Year of the Great Bell |
| -212 | Year of High Thrones |
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- At the Battle of the Purple Marches, Myratma falls to the Tethyrians, forcing the second Calishite surrender of Tethyr.
- Darrom (-237 to -183), son of Clovis, founds the Ithal dynasty, and becomes the first King of Tethyr. Year 0 in Tethyreckoning.
- Awakening of the beast Ulfoq in the Great Glacier. The beast devours dozens of Nakulutians before returning to its Crevasse. It has not been seen since.
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| -211 | Year of Bound Branches |
| -210 | Year of Holy Hands |
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- Anauria gains its independence from the other two Netheril survivor states.
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| -209 | Year of Valiant Striving |
| -208 | Year of Shattered Havens |
| -207 | Year of Tolling |
| -206 | Year of Elfsorrows |
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- Jassin Aunglor, a moon elf warrior, sneaks into Venom's lair and attacks the green wyrm. Venom's lair collapses in the conflict, burying Venom, Jassin, and Jassin's moonblade beneath tons of rock.
- Mistale Audark, wife of the late General Halflar, requests that she and the remainder of the Audark Clan be transformed into baelnorn to protect the Vale of Lost Voices.
- The Crown Prince of Tethyr, Darrom Ithal II, dies of a fever.
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| -205 | Year of Good Hunting |
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- Chapter 2 of "Cormyr: A Novel"
- Lord of Scepters Illiphar Nelnueve of House Amaratharr is granted rule of the colony forests of the Forest Country (Cormyr) upon his besting of Thauglorimorgorus the Black Doom in a dragons' duel of honor.
- Orc hordes engulf Rystall Wood throughout the year, with the worst hordes arriving in winter.
- Anauria's success as an independant city-state convinces Hlondath and Asram to abandon memories of Netheril.
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| -204 | Year of |
| -203 | Year of the Obsidian Crypt |
| -202 | Year of the Purchased Princess |
| -201 | Year of |
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- Records indicate that Tethyrian royal family rules in Tethyr.
- Candlekeep founded; calendar of Harptos began.
- The humans who are to become the first of the Dalesmen cross the Dragon Reach to the southern reaches of Cormanthor.
- Halruaa is settled by fleeing Netherese wizards.
- Start of the Fifth Age of Calimshan.
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| -200 | Year of Stonerising (NOTE: The name of this year is also given as the Year of Clouds) |
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- The completion of Ithalyr, the first royal palace of Tethyr, on the seashore cliffs of the Purple Hills.
- Coronal Eltargrim declares Semberholme and its environs as an elven sanctuary and refuge.
- Syl-Pasha Kalil el Evyrtaan dies from thousands of viper bites, a magical trap laid by some of his closest advisors. Vizar Asraf el Majizar rules over the start of the Fifth Age of Calimshan, and Calimport becomes a more organized city with structured trade and skilled-workers' guilds.
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