The Return of the King

1980. The Witch-king comes to Mordor and there gathers the Nazgûl. A Balrog appears in Moria, and slays Durin VI.

1981. Náin I slain. The Dwarves flee from Moria. Many of the Silvan Elves of Lórien flee south. Amroth and Nimrodel are lost.

1999. Thráin I comes to Erebor and founds a dwarf-kingdom 'under the Mountain'.

2000. The Nazgûl issue from Mordor and besiege Minas Ithil.

2002. Fall of Minas Ithil, afterwards known as Minas Morgul. The palantír is captured.

2043. Eärnur becomes King of Gondor. He is challenged by the Witch-king.

2050. The challenge is renewed. Eärnur rides to Minas Morgul and is lost Mardil becomes the first Ruling Steward.

2060. The power of Dol Guldur grows. The Wise fear that it may be Sauron taking shape again.

2063. Gandalf goes to Dol Guldur. Sauron retreats and hides in the East. The Watchful Peace begins. The Nazgûl remain quiet in Minas Morgul.

2210. Thorin I leaves Erebor, and goes north to the Grey Mountains, where most of the remnants of Durin's Folk are now gathering.

2340. Isumbras I becomes thirteenth Thain, and first of the Took line. The Oldbucks occupy the Buckland.

2460. The Watchful Peace ends. Sauron returns with increased strength to Dol Guldur.

2463. The White Council is formed. About this time Déagol the Stoor finds the One Ring, and is murdered by Sméagol.

2470. About this time Sméagol-Gollum hides in the Misty Mountains.

2475. Attack on Gondor renewed. Osgiliath finally ruined, and its stone-bridge broken.

c. 2480. Orcs begin to make secret strongholds in the Misty Mountains so as to bar all the passes into Eriador. Sauron begins to people Moria with his creatures.

2509. Celebrían, journeying to Lórien, is waylaid in the Redhorn Pass, and receives a poisoned wound.

2510. Celebrían departs over Sea. Orcs and Easterlings overrun Calenardhon. Eorl the Young wins the victory of the Field of Celebrant. The Rohirrim settle in Calenardhon.

2545. Eorl falls in battle in the Wold.

2569. Brego son of Eorl completes the Golden Hall.

2570. Baldor son of Brego enters the Forbidden Door and is lost. About this time Dragons reappear in the far North and begin to afflict the Dwarves.

2589. Dáin I slain by a Dragon.

2590. Thrór returns to Erebor. Grór his brother goes to the Iron Hills.

c. 2670. Tobold plants 'pipe-weed' in the Southfarthing.

2683. Isengrim II becomes tenth Thain and begins the excavation of Great Smials.

2698. Ecthelion I rebuilds the White Tower in Minas Tirith.

2740. Orcs renew their invasions of Eriador.

2747. Bandobras Took defeats an Orc-band in the Northfarthing.

2758. Rohan attacked from west and east and overrun. Gondor attacked by fleets of the Corsairs. Helm of Rohan takes refuge in Helm's Deep. Wulf seizes Edoras.

2758-9. The Long Winter follows. Great suffering and loss of life in Eriador and Rohan. Gandalf comes to the aid of the Shire-folk.

2759. Death of Helm. Fréaláf drives out Wulf, and begins second line of Kings of the Mark. Saruman takes up his abode in Isengard.

2770. Smaug the Dragon descends on Erebor. Dale destroyed. Thrór escapes with Thráin II and Thorin II.

2790. Thrór slain by an Orc in Moria. The Dwarves gather for a war of vengeance. Birth of Gerontius, later known as the Old Took.

2793. The War of the Dwarves and Orcs begins.

2799. Battle of Nanduhirion before the East-gate of Moria. Dáin Ironfoot returns to the Iron Hills. Thráin II and his son Thorin wander westwards. They settle in the South of Ered Luin beyond the Shire (2802).

2800-64. Orcs from the North trouble Rohan. King Walda slain by them (2861).

2841. Thráin II sets out to revisit Erebor, but is pursued by the servants of Sauron.

2845. Thráin the Dwarf is imprisoned in Dol Guldur; the last of the Seven Rings is taken from him.

2850. Gandalf again enters Dol Guldur, and discovers that its master is indeed Sauron, who is gathering all the Rings and seeking for news of the One, and of Isildur's Heir. He finds Thráin and receives the key of Erebor. Thráin dies in Dol Guldur.

2851. The White Council meets. Gandalf urges an attack on Dol Guldur. Saruman overrules him.55 Saruman begins to search near the Gladden Fields.

2852. Belecthor II of Gondor dies. The White Tree dies, and no seedling can be found. The Dead Tree is left standing.

2885. Stirred up by emissaries of Sauron the Haradrim cross the Poros and attack Gondor. The sons of Folcwine of Rohan are slain in the service of Gondor.

2890. Bilbo born in the Shire.

2901. Most of the remaining inhabitants of Ithilien desert it owing to the attacks of Uruks of Mordor. The secret refuge of Henneth Annûn is built.

2907. Birth of Gilraen mother of Aragorn II.

2911. The Fell Winter. The Baranduin and other rivers are frozen. White Wolves invade Eriador from the North.

2912. Great floods devastate Enedwaith and Minhiriath. Tharbad is ruined and deserted.

2920. Death of the Old Took.

2929. Arathorn son of Arador of the Dúnedain weds Gilraen.

2930. Arador slain by Trolls. Birth of Denethor II son of Ecthelion II in Minas Tirith.