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The Chronicle of Arda

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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One hundred years around IV 49
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 • 7,050 years after the Return of the Noldor
 • 3,142 years after the Downfall of Númenor
 • 2 years after the War of the Ring


The Third Age

30201420Spring Lobelia Sackville-Baggins dies at Hardbottle in the Northfarthing.
6 April The first flowering of the Golden Tree in the Party Field below Bag End.
1 May Wedding of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton in the Shire.
Midyear's Day Frodo Baggins gives up the post of Mayor of the Shire, and Will Whitfoot is restored.
3021142124 March The last day of the Third Age, according to the reckoning of Gondor.
25 March The beginning of the Fourth Age, according to the calendars of Gondor.
25 March Sam's daughter Elanor is born.
21 September Frodo and Sam set out from Hobbiton for the Grey Havens.
22 September Frodo and Sam meet the Last Riding of the Keepers.
29 September Departure of the Ring-bearers.
6 October Sam returns to Bag End on his faithful pony, Bill.

The Fourth Age

21423Birth of Frodo son of Samwise, later surnamed Gardner.
Death of Adelard Took.
41425Birth of Rose, daughter of Sam Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
61427By royal edict, Men are formally banned from entering the boundaries of the Shire.
Peregrin Took weds Diamond of Long Cleeve.
Birth of Merry, fourth child of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
Midyear's Day Will Whitfoot resigns as Mayor of Michel Delving, and Sam Gamgee is elected in his place.
71428Death of Hamfast 'Gaffer' Gamgee.
81429Birth of Pippin, fifth child of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
91430Birth of Faramir Took, son of Peregrin and Diamond of Long Cleeve.
Death of Vigo Boffin.
Death of Merimac Brandybuck.
101431Birth of Goldilocks, sixth child of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
Death of Odovacar Bolger, father of Fredegar Bolger.
111432Birth of Hamfast, seventh child of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
Death of Saradoc Brandybuck. He is succeeded as Master of Buckland by his son, Meriadoc of the Company of the Ring.
121433Birth of Daisy, eighth child of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
131434The Thain of the Shire, Master of Buckland and Mayor of Michel Delving (at that time Peregrin Took, Meriadoc Brandybuck and Samwise Gamgee) are made Counsellors of the North-kingdom.
Samwise Gamgee is elected Mayor of the Shire for the second time.
Death of Paladin Took II. Peregrin Took becomes Thain of the Shire.
141435Death of Olo Proudfoot.
Birth of Primrose, daughter of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
151436Aragorn travels to the North-kingdom, and dwells for a time at Annúminas. He grants the Star of the Dúnedain to Samwise Gamgee, and Sam's daughter Elanor becomes one of Queen Arwen's maids.
Death of Glóin son of Gróin, the father of Gimli Elf-friend.
Birth of Bilbo, son of Sam Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
171438Birth of Ruby, youngest daughter of Sam Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
191440Birth of Samwise Gamgee's second-youngest son, Robin.
Death of Tolman Cotton the elder.
201441Samwise Gamgee is elected Mayor of the Shire for the third time.
211442Samwise, Rose and Elanor travel south, and stay for a year in Gondor with Aragorn and Arwen. During this year, Tolman Cotton serves in Sam's place as Mayor of the Shire.
Birth of Tolman, youngest child of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
221443Death of Filibert Bolger.
271448Samwise Gamgee is elected Mayor of the Shire for the fourth time.
301451The wedding of Sam Gamgee's daughter Elanor to Fastred of Greenholm on the Far Downs.
311452The Westmarch is officially incorporated into the Shire.
331454Birth of Elfstan, son of Fastred of Greenholm and Sam's daughter Elanor.
Likely date of the death of Imrahil of Dol Amroth.
341455Samwise Gamgee is elected Mayor of the Shire for the fifth time.
411462Fastred of Greenholm is made Warden of Westmarch by Thain Peregrin, and removes with his family to Undertowers in the Tower Hills.
Samwise Gamgee is elected Mayor of the Shire for the sixth time.
Holfast, son of Frodo Gardner, born in the Shire.
421463Wedding of Faramir, the son of Peregrin Took, to Goldilocks, daughter of Samwise Gamgee.
481469Samwise Gamgee is elected Mayor of the Shire for the seventh and final time.
491470No events are recorded for the specific year you selected.
551476Midyear's Day At the Free Fair on the White Downs, Samwise Gamgee resigns as Mayor of the Shire.
611482Midyear's Day Death of Rose, the wife of Samwise Gamgee.
22 September Sam Gamgee departs from the Shire. He is said to have passed over the Sea into the West.
631484Spring Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took depart the Shire and travel into the south; Faramir I succeeds his father Peregrin as Thain of the Shire.
Autumn Death of King Éomer of Rohan. He is succeeded by his son Elfwine.
661487Probable date of the death of Elphir son of Imrahil. He is succeeded as Prince of Dol Amroth by his son Alphros.
c.701491About this time both Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took die in Gondor, and are entombed on Rath Dínen.
801501Birth of Harding of the Hill.
821503Death of Faramir, Steward to Aragorn.
911512Apparent date of death of Dwalin, at the extraordinary age of 340.
941515Probable date of the death of Alphros, the last recorded Prince of Dol Amroth.

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