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3E 1 - Begining of Third Era

The Third Era is pronouced by Tiber Septim in 2E 897, after the uniting of all provinces in Tamriel.

3E 20 - Destri Melarg Born

Destri Melarg, a well-known historian and translator of old Redguard verse, born as simply Destri in the city-state of Rihad.

3E 38 - Tiber Septim Dies, King Pelagius Crowned

Tiber Septim, conquerer and ruler of all of Tamriel for 38 years, dies. Succeded by his eldest son Pelagius. The new king's reign was as glorious as his fathers although it only lasted 3 short years.

3E 39 - Destri Melarg Enters the Imperial City

Destri Melarg, famed Redguard historian and translator, enters the Imperial city to study at the age of 19 and takes the last name of Melarg.

3E 41 - King Pelagius Dies, Queen Kintyra Crowned

Pelagius, son and successor to Tiber Septim, is assassinated as he knelt for prayer at the Temple of One at the Imperial City by the Dark Brotherhood. Pelagius had no living children so the crown of the Empire was passed to his first cousin, the daughter of Tiber's brother Agnorith, Kintyra. The former Queen of Silvenar was blessed with a time of prosperity and good harvests, and was an avid patroness of art, music, and dance.

3E 48 - Queen Kintyra Dies, King Uriel Crowned

Kintyra, the daughter of Tiber Septim's brother Agnorith, Queen of Tamriel dies. Kintyra's son was crowned after her death, the first Emperor of Tamriel to use the imperial name Uriel. The Emperor Uriel I was the great lawmaker of the Septim Dynasty, and a promoter of independent organizations and guilds. Under his kind hand, the Fighters Guild and the Mages Guild increased in prominence throughout Tamriel.

3E 64 - King Uriel I Dies, King Uriel II Crowned

King of Tamriel, Uriel I, son of Queen Kintyra dies. The kingdom is taken over by his son, Uriel II (Fifth Emperor). Tragically, the rule of Uriel II was cursed with blights, plagues, and insurrections. His tenderheartedness inherited from his father did not serve Tamriel well, and little justice was done.

3E 82 - King Uriel II Dies, King Pelagius II Crowned

King of Tamriel, son of Uriel I, dies after 18 years of ruling. The kingdom is successed by his son, Pelagius II. Pelagius II inherited not only the throne from his father, but the debt from the poor financial and judicial management. Pelagius dismissed all of the old Elder Council, and allowed only those willing to pay great sums to return. He encouraged similiar acts of his vassals, the kings of Tamriel, and by the end of his seventeen year reign, Tamriel had returned to prosperity. His critics, however, have suggested that any advisor of wisdom, but without gold had been forcibly ousted.

3E 99 - King Pelgius II Dies, King Antiochus Crowned

The King of Tamriel, son of Uriel II, dies after 17 years of ruling Tamriel. His son, Antiochus, now reigns over the kingdom. Antiochus was certainly one of the most flamboyant of the usually austere Septim family. He had many mistresses and nearly as many wives, and was renowned for his grandness of dress and good humor. Unfortunately, his reign was rife with civil wars, surpassing even that of his grandfather, Uriel II.

3E 110 - War of the Isle

The province of Summurset is nerarly lost under the leadership of Antiochus, 11 years after he took the throne after his fathers', Pelagius II, death. The united alliance of the kings of Sumurset and Antiochus only managed to defeat King Orgnum of the island-kingdom of Pyandonea due to a freak storm. Legend credits the Psijic Order of the Isle of Artaeum with the magic behind the storm.

3E 112 - King Antiochus I Dies, Queen Kintyra II Crowned

King Antiochus dies after 13 years of ruling and his daughter, Kintyra II takes the throne. The story of Kintyra II, heiress of her father's throne, is certainly one of the saddest tales in modern history. Her first cousin Uriel III, son of Queen Potena of Solitude, accused Kintyra of being a bastard, alluding to the famous decadence of the Imperial City during her father's reign. When this accusation failed to stop her coronation, Uriel bought the support of several disgrunted kings of High Rock, Skyrim, and Morrowind, and, with Queen Potena's assistance, coordinated three attacks on the Septim Empire. The first attack occured in the Iliac Bay that separates High Rock and Hammerfell. Kintyra's entourage was destroyed and the Emperess was taken captive.

3E 114 - Queen Kintyra II Reportedly Dies

Queen Kintyra is reportedly slain after being captured by Uriel III. In truth the Queen is held captive until she dies in her cell in 3E 123 (23th of Frostfall, now named the day of Broken Diamond).

3E 114 - Destri Melarg Dies

Destri Melarg, a well-known historian and translator of old Redguard verse, dies leaving numerous unfinished histories and untranslated verse.

3E 119 - Pelagius III Born

The future emperor of Tamriel is born.

3E 121 - Uriel III Proclaimed King

Queen Kintyra II had been killed several years ago while in prison and the battle between the empire and Uriel III with his alliance of unhappy kingdoms of High Rock. Skyrim, Morrowind and Queen Potena. In the third major and final attack against the Imperial City itself was relatively quick taking only a fortnight to secure. At this time Uriel III proclaimed himself Emperor of Tamriel. He improperly named himself Uriel Septim III even though his true name was Uriel Mantiarco from his father.

3E 121 - War of the Red Diamond

This war was between the three surviving children of Pelagius II: Potema, Cephorus, and Magnus, and their offspring. Potema, of course, supported her son Uriel III, and had the support of all of Skyrim and northern Morrowind. With the efforts of Cephorus and Magnus, High Rock turned. Hammerfell, Sumurset Isle, Valenwood, Elsweyr, and Black Marsh were divided, but most kings supported Cephorus and Magnus.

3E 123 - Queen Kintyra II Dies in Her Cell

Although reported to have died in 3E 114, Queen Kintyra dies in her cell in 3E 123. The 23th of Frostfall is now named the day of Broken Diamond after her memory.

3E 127 - King Uriel III Dies, King Cephorus I Crowned

Uriel III was captured at the Battle of Ichidag in Hammerfell. En route to his trial in the Imperial City, a mob overtook his carriage and burned him alive within it. His captor and uncle continued on to the Imperial City, and by common acclaim, was proclaimed Cephorus I, Emperor of Tamriel. Cephorus' reign is marked by nothing but war. By all accounts, he was a kind and intelligent man, but what Tamriel needed was a great warrior, and that he was. It took an additional ten years of constant warfare for him to defeat his sister Potema.

3E 133 - Destri Melarg Dies

Destri Melarg, famed Redguard historian and translator, dies at the age of 113.

3E 137 - Potema, Queen of Solitude Dies

It took an ten years of constant warfare for King Cephorus to defeat his sister Potema after he became emperor of Tamriel. The so-called wolf queen of Solitude died in the siege of her city-state.

3E 140 - King Cephorus I Dies, King Magnus Crowned

Cephorus never had the time during the war years to marry, so it was his brother, the fourth child of Pelagius II, who assumed the throne. The Emperor Magnus was elderly, and the business of punishing the traitorous kings of the War of the Red Diamond drained much of his health.

3E 145, 8th of Second Seed - King Magnus Dies, King Pelagius III Crowned

Legend accuses Magnus' son and heir Pelagius III of murder, but that seems very unlikely. For no other reason, Pelagius was King of Solitude, following the death of Potema, and seldom visited the Imperial City. Almost from the start, Pelagius III, sometimes called Pelagius the Mad, his eccentricities of behavior was noted. He embarassed dignitaries, offended his vassal kings, and, on one occasion, marked the end of a grand ball by attempting to hang himself.

3E 153 - Queen Katariah Takes Over Throne

The long-suffering wife of King Pelagius III was finally awarding the regency of Tamriel and Pelagius III was sent to a series of healers and asylums until his death in 3E 153 at the age of thirty-four. The Emperess Regent of Tamriel was proclaimed Emperess Katariah I upon the death of her husband. Some who do not mark the end of the Septim bloodline with the death of Kintyra II consider the accendancy of this dark elf woman as the true mark. Her defenders assert that though Katariah was not descended from Tiber, the son she had with Pelagius, was, so the chain does continue. Despite the racist assertations to the contrary, Katariah's forty-six year reign was one of the most glorious in Tamriel's history. Uncomfortable in the Imperial City, Katariah travelled extensively throughout the Empire, such as no Emperor ever had since Tiber's day. She repaired much of the damage the broken alliances and bungled diplomacy had created. The people of Tamriel came to love their Emperess far more than the nobility did.

3E 153, 2nd of Suns Dawn? - Pelgius III Dies

After being taken from the throne due to his madness Pelagius III was sent to a series of healers and asylums until his death at the age of thirty-four on a warm night in Suns Dawn after a brief fever in his cell at the Temple of Kynareth in the Isle of Betony. The 2nd of Suns Dawn, which may or may not be the anniversary of his death (records are not very clear) is celebrated at Mad Pelagius, the time when foolishness of all sorts is encouraged.

3E 200 - Queen Katariah Dies, King Cassynder Crowned

Katariah's death in a minor skirmish in Black Marsh is a favorite source for conspiracy-minded historians. The sage Montalius' discovery of a disenfranchised branch of the Septim family's involvement with the skirmish was a revelation indeed. When Cassynder assumed the throne at the death of his mother, he was already middle-aged. Only half-elven, he aged like a Breton. In fact, he had left the rule of Wayrest to his half-brother Uriel due to poor health. Nevertheless, as the only true blood relation of Pelagius, and thus Tiber, he was pressed into accepting the throne.

3E 202 - King Cassynder Dies, King Uriel IV Crowned

To no one's surprise, the Emperor Cassynder's reign did not last long. In two years, he was dead. Uriel Lariat, Cassynder's half-brother, the child of Atariah I and her Imperial consort Lariat, left the kingdom of Wayrest to reign as Uriel IV. Legally, Uriel IV was a Septim: Cassynder had adopted him into the family when he had become King of Wayrest. Nevertheless, to the Council and the people of Tamriel, he was a bastard child of Katariah. Uriel did not possess the dynamism of his mother, and his long forty-three year reign was a hotbed of sedition. Uriel IV's reign was difficult and long one. Despite being a legally adopted member of the Septim family, and despite the Lariat family's high position -- indeed, they were distant cousins of the Septims -- few of the Elder Council could be persuaded to accept him fully as a blood relation of Tiber. The Council had assumed much responsibility during Katariah I's long reign and Cassynder I's short reign, and a strong-willed alien monarch like Uriel IV found it impossible to hold their unswerving fealty. Time and time again, the Council and Emperor were at odds; and time and time again, the Council won the battles. Since the days of Pelagius II, the Elder Council had consisted of the wealthiest men and women in the Empire, and the power they wielded was ultimate.

3E 247 - King Uriel IV Dies

The Council's last victory over Uriel IV was posthumous. Andorak, Uriel IV's son, was disinherited by vote of Council, and a cousin more closely related to the original Septim line was proclaimed Cephorus II by the next year.

3E 248 - King Cephorus II Crowned

Cephorus II was chosen as emperor by vote of Council, since he was a cousin more closely related to the original Septim line than was King Uriel IV son, Andorak. Cephorus had been a Nordic king of ??. For the first nine years of Cephorus II's reign, those loyal to Andorak battled the Imperial forces. In an act that the sage Eraintine called Tiber Septim's heart beating no more, the Council granted Andorak the High Rock kingdom of Shornhelm to end the war. Andorak's descendants still rule that land.

3E 249 - Camoran Usurper Invades

Of course, Cephorus II had foes that demanded more of his attention than Andorak. From out of a nightmare, in the words of Eraintine, a man who called himself the Camoran Usurper (rumoured to be a lich) had led an army of daedra and undead warriors on a rampage through Valenwood, conquering kingdom after kingdom. None could resist his onslaughts, and as month turned to bloody month, fewer even tried. Cephorus II sent more and more mercenaries into Hammerfell to stop the Usurper's northward march, but they were bribed, turned into undead, or slaughtered. In short, the destruction of the forces of the Usurper had little do with efforts of the Emperor. The result was a great regional victory and an increase in hostility toward the seemingly inefficious Empire.

3E 253 - Usurper Controls Dwynnen Region

The region of Dwynnen was invaded and captured by the Camoran Usurper and held by an army of zombies, ghosts, vampires and skeletons.

3E 266 - Lord of Reich Gradkeep (Anticlere) Dies

The Lord of now the Anticlere region fell deathly ill and died later in the year. It was one of the reasons why the resistance to the Usurper was so slow to develop in High Rock.

3E 267 - Camoran Usurper Defeated

The Baron Othrok and his less legendary allies, the rulers of Ykalon, Phrygia, and Kambria, changed this unfavorable perception. News of the Usurper's barbaric treatment of captives and abuse of conquered lands, mostly true, spread rapidly through their territories, and then to their neutral lands. Within a few months, the greatest navy ever combined organized along the High Rock edge of the Iliac Bay. Only the navy of Uriel V's illfated invasion of Akavir was comparable. How the combined forces of High Rock defeated the endless army of the Camoran Usurper is certainly worthy of a lengthy book in itself. And perhaps, it is best left to the public imagination. Certainly the weather worked against the Usurper, which is reason in itself to attribute divine intervention.

3E 268 - King Uriel V Crowned

Uriel V turned opinion back toward the potential power of the Empire. Turning the attention of Tamriel away from internal strife, Uriel V embarked on a series of invasions beginning almost from the moment he took the throne.

3E 271 - Uriel V Conquers Roscrea

3E 276 - Uriel V Conquers Cathnoquey

3E 279 - Uriel V Conquers Yneslea

3E 284 - Uriel V Conquers Esroniet

3E 288 - Uriel V Invades Akavir

Uriel V embarked on his most ambitious enterprise, the invasion of the continent kingdom of Akavir. This was ultimately a failure, for two years later Uriel V was killed in Akavir on the battlefield of Ionith. Nevertheless, Uriel V holds a reputation second only to Tiber as the great warrior emperor of Tamriel.

3E 290 - King Uriel V Dies, King Uriel VI Crowned

Uriel V is killed in Akavir on the battlefield of Ionith. His son, Uriel VI, was but five years old. In fact, Uriel VI was born only shortly before his father left for Akavir. Uriel V's only other progeny, by a different woman, were the twins Morihatha and Eloisa, who had been born a month after Uriel V left. The consort Thonica as the boy's mother was given a restricted Regency until Uriel VI reached his minority. The Council retained the real power, as they had ever since the days of Katariah I. The Council so enjoyed its unlimited and unrestricted freedom to make laws (and profits), Uriel VI was not given full license to rule until 307, when he was 22 years old.

3E 307 - King Uriel VI Takes Crown

It was not until Uriel VI was 22 years old that he was given full license to rule. He had been slowly assuming positions of responsibility for years, but both the Council and his mother, who enjoyed even her limited regency, were loath to give him reign. By the time he came to the throne, the mechanisms of government gave him little power, but the power to veto.

3E 313 - King Uriel VI Finally Gains Control

Uriel VI's power to veto was regularly exercised and by 313 he could boast with conviction that he truly did rule Tamriel. He utilized defunct spy networks and guard units to bully and coerce the difficult members of the Elder Council. His sister was his usual ally, after her marriage to Baron Ulfe Gersen of Winterhold brought her considerable wealth and influence. As the sage Ugaridge said, "Uriel V conquered Esroniet, but Uriel VI conquered the Elder Council".

3E 319 - Arslan II Born

Asrlan the Second, father to the future Daggerfall King Lysandus is born.

3E 320 - King Uriel VI Dies, Queen Morihatha is Crowned

When Uriel VI fell from his horse and could not be saved by the finest Imperial healers, his beloved sister Morihatha took the throne. At 25 years of age, she had been described by (admittedly self-serving) diplomats as the most beautiful creature in Tamriel. She was certainly well-learned, vivacious, athletic, and a well-practiced politician. She brought the Archmagister of Skyrim to the Imperial City and created the second Imperial Battlemage since the days of Tiber Septim. Morihatha finished the job her brother had begun, and made the Imperial Province truly a government under the Emperess. Outside the Imperial Province, however, the Empire had been slowly disintegrating. Open revolutions and civil wars had raged unchallenged since the days of her grandfather Cephorus II. Carefully coordinating her counterattacks, Morihatha slowly took back her rebellious vassals, always avoiding overextending herself. Though Morihatha's military campaigns were remarkable successful, the Council was often frustrated by her deliberate pace.

3E 336 - Nulfaga Born

Nulfaga, mother to the future Daggerfall King Lysandus, is born.

3E 339 - Queen Morihatha Dies, King Pelagius IV Crowned

One Councilman, an Argonian named Thoricles Romus, furious at her refusal to send troops to his troubled lands, is believed to be the man who hired the assassins who claimed her life in 3E 339. Romus was tried and executed, though he protested his innocence. Morihatha had no surviving children, and Eloisa had died of a fever four years before. Eloisa's 25-year-old son Pelagius was crowned Pelagius IV. Pelagius IV continued his aunt's work, slowly bringing back the seditious kingdoms of his Empire. He had Morihatha's patience and deliberate pace in his endeavors, but, alas, he did not have her success. The kingdoms had been free of constraints for so long, even a benign Imperial presence was odious.

3E 340 - Eadwyre Born

Eadwyre, future King of Wayrest and husband to Carolyna, is born.

3E 353 - Mynisera Born

Mynisera, future wife to Lysandus, King of Daggerfall, is born.

3E 354 - Lysandus Born

Lysandus, future King of Daggerfall, is born to Arslan II and Nulfaga.

3E 368 - Cameron Born

Cameron, future King of Sentinel, is born.

3E 368 - Carolyna Born

Carolyna, future Queen of Wayrest and wife to Eadwyre, is born.

3E 369 - Akorithi Born

Akorithi, future Queen of Sentinel and wife to Cameron, is born.

3E 375 - Hero of Daggerfall Born

The unamed hero who put to rest the soul of King Lysandus is born.

3E 376 - Helseth Born

Helseth is born to Barenziah and Symmachus.

3E 377 - Arslan II Dies

Arslan the Second, father to Lysandus, King of Daggerfall, dies.

3E 381 - Gothryd Born

Gothryd, son of Lysandus and Mynisera, rulers of Daggerfall, is born.

3E 384 - Morgiah Born

Morgiah is born to Barenziah and Symmachus.

3E 386 - Aubk-i Born

Aubk-i is born to Cameron and Akorithi, rulers of Sentinel.

3E 388 - King Pelagius IV Dies, King Uriel Septim VII Crowned

When Pelagius died, after an astonishing forty-nine year reign, Tamriel was closer to unity than it had been since the days of Uriel I. The current emperor, his Awesome and Terrible Majesty, Uriel Septim VII, son of Pelagius IV, has the diligence of his great aunt Morihatha, the political skill of his great uncle Uriel VI, and the military prowess of his great grand-uncle Uriel V. For twenty-one years he reigned and brought justice and order to Tamriel.

3E 389 - Elysana Born

Elysana is born to Carolyna and Eadwyre, rulers of Wayrest.

3E 389 - King Uriel VII Betrayed by Jagar Tharn

Uriel VII was betrayed by the imperial battlemage Jagar Tharn and was imprisoned in a dimension of Tharn's creation. Tharn used his magic of illusion to assume the Emperor's aspect. For the next ten years, Tharn used Imperial priveleges, but did not continue Uriel VII's schedule of reconquest. It is not entirely known yet what Tharn's goals and personal accomplishments were during the ten years he imitated his liege lord. Also sometime in his ten years of rule, the Daedra Lord Mehrunes Dagon takes over the Battlespire and destroys all of the mages inside. One unknown hero has vanquished the daedras, but eventually the Battlespire was also destroyed in the process. Although no proof now exists, there is speculation that Jagar also had a role in this.

3E 391 - Symmachus Dies

Symmachus, husband to Barenziah, dies.

3E 392 - Greklith Born

Greklith is born to Cameron and Akorithi, rulers of Sentinel.

3E 392 - Carolyna Dies

Carolyna, Queen of Wayrest and wife of Eadwyre, dies.

3E 393 - Lhotun Born

Lhotun is born to Cameron and Akorithi, rulers of Sentinel.

3E 396 - Regional Wars Throughout Tamriel

A series of regional wars occur throughout Tamriel.

• War of the Blue Divide. Sumurset Isle defeats easter Valenwood.
• The Five Year War. Elswyer defeats western Valenwood.
• The Arnesian War. Morrowind destroys the armies of Black Marsh.
• The War of the Bend'r-mahk. Skyrim destroys the combined forces of Hammerfell and High Rock.

3E 399 - Jagar Tharn is Defeated

A mysterious champion defeated the Battlemage in the dungeons of the Imperial Palace and freed Uriel VII from his other dimensional cell. Since his release, Uriel VII has worked diligently to renew the battle to reunite Tamriel. Tharn's interference broke the momentuum, but the years since then have proven that the glorious golden age of Tiber Septim may be visited on Tamriel once again.

3E 401 - Nulfaga Finds the Mantella Nulfaga of Daggerfall, High Rock, finds the exact location of the Mantella, the heart of Numidium.

3E 403 - Lysandus' Murder

Lysandus, King of Daggerfall, is brutually murdered in a cunning trap set by Lord Woodborne of Wayrest.

3E 403 - Cameron Dies

Cameron, King of Sentinel and husband to Akorithi, dies.

3E 403 - War of Betony

The War of Betony, the war between Daggerfall of High Rock and Sentinel of Hammerfell. The war takes its climax when both kings of Daggerfall and Sentinel are slain. In the end, Daggerfall army is lead by new crowned King Gothryd, son of King Lysandus, destroys Sentinel army in the Battle of Cryngaine Field.

3E 405 - Cameron Dies

Another misterious character is sent by Uriel Septim VII to investigated the death of King Lysandus and to find the missing letter the Emperor sent to the Queen of Daggerfall.

3E 427 - Morrowind Blight Curse Begins

In 3E 427 the Morrowind government, with an already weakened authority by questions of authority, was further threatened by the re-awakening of the ancient curse of the Blight from the giant volcano Red Mountain, or "Dagoth-Ur". This is also the date when the legendary unknown stranger first came to Morrowind's shores.