523 DR (Year of Trials Arcane)
¸ (-509 NR ) Realm of Three Crowns: The rising power of orc hordes in the North leads to the Council of Axe and Arrow. There, the humans of Delimbiyran, the dwarves of Dardath, the elves of Ardeep Forest, the gnomes of Dolblunde, and displaced halflings from Mieritin collectively found the Tri-Crowned Kingdom of Phalorm. The aging Ulbaerag rejects an invitation to join the Realm of Three Crowns.[881620000 p.8] [177380000] [885670000 p.6] [WTC11836]

574 DR (Year of the Gored Griffon)
¸ (-458 NR ) Silverymoon rises to become a small trading post town.[WTC11836]

615 DR (Year of the Lamia's Kiss)
¸ (-417 NR ) In response to Uthtower's call for aid, the lich Iniarv floods the land, drowning the armies of Uthtower, Phalorm, and the orcs to form the Mere of Dead Men. The orcs flee into the Sword Mountains, and Phalorm (The Fallen Kingdom as it came to be known) collapses when its Fair Folk abandon Faerûn for Evermeet. Ardeep remains an elven realm in name only.[881620000 p.8] [177380000] [885670000 p.6] [WTC11836]

¸ The Winter Sphinx of Westgate falls prey to the charms of the lamia Nessmara, who has assumed the guise of a gynosphinx, and they rule in tandem.[WTC11836]

616 DR (Year of the Ensorceled King)
¸ A visiting wizard shatters the illusions guarding Westgate's lamia queen, and she and the androsphynx battle to the death.[WTC11836]

627 DR (Year of the Bloodcrystals)
¸ (-405 NR ) Ecamane Truesilver and his nine apprentices arrive in Silverymoon. Claiming five goddesses (Eldath, Mielikki, Lurue, Mystra, and Sehanine) drew them here, the mages create a school of magic patterned on elven teachings.[WTC11836] [TSR1165]

640 DR (Year of the Fanged Beast)
¸ First mining and trading encampments established at what will become Zhentil Keep.[WTC11836] [TSR1120] [TSR1085a]

659 DR (Year of the Hunting Ghosts)
¸ (-373 NR ) Known as the Year of Mage's Dawning in Silverymoon, 30 wizards from Myth Drannor and 20 wizards from elsewhere in the Realms migrate to the Gem of the North, and begin establishing its role as a sister city to Myth Drannor and a center of magical and mundane learning.[WTC11836] [TSR9558]

661 DR (Year of the Bloody Tusk)
¸ Height of Myth Drannor's peace and prosperity.[TSR1085a] [TSR9558]

668 DR (Year of the Telling Tome)
¸ Wizards begin mysteriously disappearing this year from Myth Drannor and all of Cormanthyr. The only clue is that all the visible gates throughout the city crackle ominously and flash blue lightning within their boundaries. (In truth, Halaster Blackcloak of Undermountain is abducting wizards at random and banishing them to the Underhalls.)[WTC11836] [TSR9558]

679 DR (Year of the Scarlet Sash)
¸ Hillsafar is nearly destroyed by an army of deepspawn-bred monsters emerging from the tangled, treacherous Beast Marches to the west. The Akh'Velahr reinforcements of Cormanthyr succeed in dispersing the beasts by the first snowfall of winter. A small garrison of troops remains stationed in Hillsafar for the protection of the northern forests and villages until Myth Drannor's Fall.[176650000] [WTC11836] [TSR1085a] [TSR9558]

¸ Uther recognizes the League of Samathar. Unther never recovers from the long, costly campaign to retain the Wizards' Reach, and the Second Untheric Empire ends.[177380000] [176650000] [WTC11836] [TSR1085a] [TSR9274]

694 DR (Year of the Ominous Oracle)
¸ (-338 NR ) The Circle of Flames and the wizards of Windsong Tower begin spiriting magical items and tomes (including the Scrolls Ardentym and the Keryfaertel) to safety. Many end up in Ascalhorn and Silverymoon in the trusted hands of colleagues there (in the cases of wizards not moving there themselves), though some wizards take off with their secrets for parts unknown over the next twelve years.[WTC11836] [TSR9558]

708 DR (Year of Bound Evils)
¸ Three nycaloths escape their dimensional pocket prison that floated invisibly high above Cormanthyr. Their freedom depended on a "red dragon that never held malice or greed in its heart [flying] over the Coronal's throne." As Saeval Ammath and his adopted dragon-mount Garnet flew above Myth Drannor, they weakened the dimensional prison enough for the nycaloths to escape.[WTC11836] [TSR9558]
¸ High Mages and three battalions of Akh'Faer mages battle a resurgence of evil beasts and cultists of the fallen god Moander near the site of his fallen temple. While the cult is dispersed, numerous "lost spells" of Moander's clergy are recovered from the ruins by the elder priests and restored to use.[WTC11836] [TSR9558]

710 DR (Year of the Toppled Throne)
¸ (685 CR ) Drow attacks in Cormyr claim the lives of three noble families of the realm; while believed dead, most of the nobles survive as slaves in the Underdark.[WTC11836] [TSR9558]
¸ A gate to the Abyss opens above the palace of Westgate, and a large host of tiefling warriors invades. The leader of the tieflings, Iyactu Xvim the Baneson, seizes the throne of Westgate.[WTC11836]

711 DR (Year of Despairing Elves)
¸ Late in the autumn of this year, the Army of Darkness overruns the mining and trading encampments on the western Moonsea (the site that will become Zhentil Keep).[WTC11836] [TSR9558]
¸ The Weeping War begins on the Feast of the Moon with the Northern Massacres campaign as the Army of Darkness engages many elf patrols and destroys many elf villages and clan enclaves.[WTC11836] [TSR9558]

712 DR (Year of the Lost Lance)
¸ The Weeping War continues through the year, resulting in the deaths of many heroes and the collective Harpers at Twilight. There are four major campaigns this year, and Myth Drannor nearly falls prey to the Army of Darkness.[WTC11836] [TSR1085a] [TSR9558]

713 DR (Year of the Firedrake)
¸ The Weeping War rages on, though the allies manage to eliminate Malimshaer and Gaulguth, two of the three nycaloths leading the Army of Darkness. While three major campaigns rocked the forest for much of the year, there is a tense peace from Greengrass to Midsummer's Night. During this time, many Myth Drannan natives emigrate either to sister cities outside of Cormanthor or to Semberholme and Tangled Vale settlements.[WTC11836] [TSR9558]

714 DR (Year of Doom)
¸ Myth Drannor falls under siege by the Army of Darkness. Only two hundred elves and allies out of three thousand escape to tell of its passing.[WTC11836] [TSR1085a]

720 DR (Year of the Dawn Rose)
¸ The Gathering of the Gods at the Dancing Place signals the refounding of the Harpers at the request of some elves from Elven Court. In attendance are all 15 of the Harpers at Twilight who survived the previous decade, including Lady Alais Dree, Elminster Aumar, Khelben Arunsun (once the Nameless Chosen), and Meil "Darkhunter" Araeln.[WTC11836] [TSR1085a] [TSR9558]

734 DR (Year of the Splendid Stag)
¸ The reign of Iyactu Xvim comes to an abrupt end in Westgate as he is forced by a host of mercenaries to flee the city.[WTC11836]

756 DR (Year of the Leaning Post)
¸ Human fisherfolk, mostly from Chessenta and the Wizards' Reach, begin to settle Aglarond's northern coasts in numbers.[176650000] [WTC11836] [TSR1085a] [TSR9235]

796 DR (Year of the the Gray Mists)
¸ Merrydale becomes Daggerdale following vampiric infestation.[WTC11836] [TSR1085a]
¨ Novel: Vampire of the Mists

800 DR (Year of the Black Fist)
¸ Rise in the power of Bane in the Realms.[TSR1085a]
¸ Drow influence in the now-Ashaba valley at its height.[TSR1085a]

834 DR (Year of the Leaping Lion)
¸ Castle Greatstead (Grimstead) built on the borders of Shadowdale.[TSR1085a]

863 DR (Year of the Wondrous Sea)
¸ The Chultan city of Mezro disappears.[WTC11836] [TSR1085a]

864 DR (Year of the Broken Branch)
¸ Castle Grimstead destroyed by drow.[TSR1085a]
¸ Rysellan the Dark founds the Twisted Rune. One of the Rune's earliest lairs lies deep beneath Calimport in what was once an ancient drow temple.[177380000 p.115] [WTC11836] [TSR9589] [TSR9561 p.181]

882 DR (Year of the Curse)
¸ (-150 NR ) Demons and devils battle in the elven citadel Ascalhorn, later known as Hellgate Keep.[177380000] [WTC11836]
¸ (-150 NR ) Triumphant demons stream forth from Ascalhorn, bringing about the fall of Eaerlann. Dwarves allow human refugees to settle in the surface strongholds of Citadel Sundbarr.[177380000] [WTC11836]
¸ (-150 NR ) A great human warrior known as Nimoar the Reaver gathers an armed host and leads them in search of a new home. They come upon Bloodhand Hold and decide to seize it for their own, quickly vanquishing the Bloodhand tribe. The settlement is named Nimoar's Hold.[881620000 p.8] [TSR1085a]
¸ (-150 NR ) The dwarven realm of Ammarindar is overrun by lingering horrors unleashed by the Netherese of Ascalhorn.[177380000] [885810000 p.126] [885780000 p.18] [TSR11509]

884 DR (Year of the Broken Branch)
¸ The elves destroy a large mercentary force in Sembia.[TSR1085a]

896 DR (Year of the Empty Hand)
¸ Extensive poverty and famine from here to 900 DR.[TSR1085a]

900 DR (Year of the Thirsty Sword)
¸ (-132 NR ) The Vault of Sages is built in Silverymoon.[WTC11836]
¸ Civil war breaks out in Chondath.[177380000 p.115] [TSR9520 p.10] [WTC11836]

902 DR (Year of the Queen's Tears)
¸ The Cult of the Dragon creates the first dracoliches.[WTC11836] [TSR1085a]
¸ The Rotting War: The bitter civil war in Chondath earns its title of The Rotting War. Necromantic magic decimates the battlefield on the Fields of Nun. Plague soon sweeps throughout the land. Chondath breaks up into a nation of loosely aligned city-states.[WTC11836] [TSR9520 p.11] [TSR1085a]

906 DR (Year of the Plough)
¸ Cormyte agents seize the Ashaba valley and name it Shadowdale.[WTC11836] [TSR1120]
¸ Drow driven from the Twisted Tower.[TSR1085a]

913 DR (Year of the Watching Raven)
¸ Sembia founded under the Raven banner.[WTC11836] [TSR1085a]

922 DR (Year of the Spouting Fish)
¸ The wizards of Thay rebel against Mulhorandi rule and sack the provincial capital at Delhumide. Red Wizards declare Thay independent of Mulhorand.[177380000] [176650000] [WTC11836] [TSR1121] [TSR1085a]
¸ End of the Second Mulhorand Empire.[WTC11836]

929 DR (Year of Flashing Eyes)
¸ Several Chessentan cities form an alliance under the leadership of the warlord Tchazzar and secede from Unther. The Alliance of Chessenta drives Unther back beyond the Riders to the Sky Mountains.[177380000] [176650000] [WTC11836] [TSR1085a] [TSR9274]

932 DR (Year of Fireslaughter)
¸ (-100 NR ) First Trollwar: Gangs of trolls begin attacking Nimoar's Hold with increasing regularity. In response, the aging Nimoar led his forces northward against the Everlasting Ones in what became known as the First Trollwar, burning miles of land bare in the process.[881620000] [TSR1085a]

934 DR (Year of Fell Wizardry)
¸ First Thayan invasion of Rashemen. The Red Wizards attempt to invade Rashemen through the Gorge of Gauros but are repelled.[176650000] [WTC11836] [TSR1121 p.4] [TSR9235] [WTC11836] [TSR1085a]

937 DR (Year of the Turning Wheel)
¸ Thesk founded by the Alliance of the Cities of The Golden Way.[WTC11836] [TSR1085a] [TSR9235]

940 DR to 952 DR
¸ (-92 NR to -80 NR ) Second Trollwar: For a dozen years, the defenders of Waterdeep battle gangs of trolls throughout the Dessarin River valley. Beginning with Amphail the Just, who reigned for a year, six warriors claim the mantle of War Lord of Waterdeep during this period, only to fall in never-ending battle with the trolls.[881620000 p.9] [TSR1085a]

940 DR (Year of the Cold Claws)
¸ Ashaba, first Lord of Shadowdale, merges with river.[TSR1085a]

974 DR (Year of the Haunting Harpy)
¸ (-58 NR ) Castle Waterdeep is completed and Laroun, Waterdeep's first female War Lord, takes residence therein.[881620000 p.9] [WTC11836] [TSR1085a]

975 DR (Year of the Bent Coin)
¸ Telflamm established as a royal city-state. Telflamm annexes Nyth and Culmaster.[WTC11836] [[TSR1085a] [TSR9235]

976 DR (Year of Slaying Spells)
¸ A Mulhorandi invasion of Thay is repelled at the River Thazarim.[177380000] [176650000] [TSR1085a] [WTC11836] [TSR9274]

992 DR (Year of the Watching Helm)
¸ Heralds of Fearûn created.[TSR1085a]
Errata: TSR9390 p.23 incorrectly lists this event as occuring in 996 DR