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Welcome to The Chronicle of Arda. This section of the site provides automated annals for all four Ages of the Sun and Moon. For any period of Arda's history, the Chronicle will display the events that happened in that time. Events and characters are entered into the Chronicle as they are added to the main database: like the rest of The Encyclopedia of Arda this section of the site is expanding all the time.

You can have the Chronicle look up events for specific dates by entering one or two years in the form below. If you enter two dates, the Chronicle will display events that happened between those two years. If you leave one of the dates blank, the Chronicle will display events in the century around the single year you specify.

For years after III 1601 (the year of the foundation of Shire, and therefore Shire Year 1), the Chronicle will also show years by the Shire-reckoning in a second column.

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II 32 to II 442
(a period of 410 years)

 • 621 years after the Return of the Noldor
 • 2,877 years before the Downfall of Númenor
 • 6,017 years before the War of the Ring
The Rule of Elros Tar-Minyatur

The Second Age

32Arrival of the Edain in Númenor. Elrond's brother Elros becomes their first King, taking the name Tar-Minyatur.
c.40Around this time Dwarves out of the Blue Mountains migrate eastwards and settle alongside the Longbeards in Khazad-dûm.
61Birth of Vardamir, the eldest child of Elros Tar-Minyatur.
192Birth of the eldest son of Vardamir Nólimon, who will go on to rule Númenor as King Tar-Amandil.
203Birth of Vardilmë, second child and only daughter of Vardamir Nólimon.
213Birth of Aulendil, third child of Vardamir Nólimon.
222Birth of Nolondil, youngest child of Vardamir Nólimon.
350Birth of the eldest son of Tar-Amandil, later to rule Númenor as Tar-Elendil.
361Birth of Eärendur, younger son of King Tar-Amandil of Númenor.
371Birth of Yávien daughter of Nolondil in Númenor.
377Birth of Mairen, daughter of Tar-Elendil of Númenor.
382Birth of Oromendil son of Nolondil in Númenor.
395Birth of Axantur son of Nolondil in Númenor.
442Death of Elros Tar-Minyatur. He is succeeded as King of Númenor by his son Vardamir, who immediately abdicates in favour of his own son Tar-Amandil.

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