| Source | Common
Year | Event |
| WG8 | c. -325 | Jurnre founded. |
| A base date of 576 CY, when WG8 Fate of Istus takes place, is modified by 'nearly nine hundred years ago' to arrive at the date of c. -325. [pg. 25] |
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| WG8 | c. 376 | Rel Mord built. |
| A base date of 576 CY, when WG8 Fate of Istus takes place, was modified by 'In the two centuries since it was built' to arrive at the date of c. 376. [pg. 14] |
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| WGR1 | c. 420 | Castle Greyhawk mysteriously abandoned. |
| A base date of c. 320 CY, when the castle was built, was modified by 'after just a century of occupation' to arrive at the date of c. 420 [pg. 2] |
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| WG8 | c. 476 | Elredd founded. |
| A base date of 576 CY, when WG8 Fate of Istus takes place, was modified by 'came into being only a century or so ago' to arrive at the date of c. 476. [pg. 14] |
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| WG8 | c. 476-496 | Red Death plague. |
| A base date of 576 CY, when WG8 Fate of Istus takes place, was modified by 'some four score years ago' and 'nearly a century ago' to arrive at the timespan of c. 476-496. [pgs. 6 and 40] |
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| GA | 525 | Storrich surfaces in Dyvers spouting outlandish tales. |
| A base date of 523 CY, when Storrich fled, was modified by 'two years later' to arrive at the date of 525 CY. [pg. 97] |
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| WG8 | c. 536 | Diambeth, an Elreddi bard, dies. |
| A base date of 576 CY, when WG8 Fate of Istus takes place, was modified by 'four decades ago' to arrive at the date of c. 536. [pg. 40] |
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| Folio | c. 556 | Fruztii become suzerainty of the Schnai; |
| A base date of 576 CY, when the Folio was completed, was modified by 'for the past two decades' to arrive at the date of c. 556. [pg. 10] |
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| Folio | 561 | Humanoids invade Bone March; |
| A base date of 560 CY, when the Humanoids made forays into Bone March, was modified by 'the next year' to arrive at the date of 561. [pg. 10] |
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| WoG | Numerous children disappear from the City of Greyhawk. |
A base date of 576 CY, when the Catalogue was completed, was modified by 'fifteen years ago' to arrive at the date of 561. [Gloss, pg. 26]
Which leads to a question that the answer still eludes me. If the Glossography was compiled in 998 CY then should the references therein be based upon that date? |
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| T1-4 | 566 | Chapel established at Nulb. |
| A base date of 569 CY, when the Battle of Emridy Meadows was fought, was modified by 'in but three years' to arrive at the date of 566 CY. [pg. 5] |
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| WoG | 575 | Barony of Ratik and Frost Barbarians sign Pact; |
| A base date of 576 CY, when the Catalogue was completed, was modified by 'last year' to arrive at the date of 575 CY. [Gloss, pg. 29] |
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| T1-4 | 578 | Bandits begin riding the roads again around Hommlet; |
| 579 | Outsiders and adventurers begin arriving in Hommlet; |
| A base date of 569 CY, when the Battle of Emridy Meadows was fought, was modified by the following: |
| Life in Hommlet quickly returned to a semblance of its former self, before the rise of the temple. For five years afterward, the village and the surrounding countryside have beomce richer and more prosperous than ever before . . . . Other adventurers, knowing of the evil that had once resided in the area, came to seek out similar caches. [pg. 5] |
| In this paragraph is the mention of the troll and how it was killed by some adventurers. After that adventurers continue to come but find nothing. This period of wanderlust encompasses 569 CY to 573 CY. |
| After a time, adventurers stopped coming to the area . . . . and Hommlet continued its quiet existence for four years more. [pg. 5] |
| This period of quiet existence encompasses 574 CY to 577 CY. |
| But then, a year ago, the bandits began to ride the roads again -- not frequently, but to some effect. [pg. 5] |
| The year of rising banditry is 578 CY and the module itself should take place in 579 CY, ten years after the Battle of Emridy Meadows. |
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| CoG | 582 | City of Greyhawk painting unveiled; |
| The date for the City of Greyhawk boxed set was determined from the passage concerning the History of the Fellowship of the Torch, where it states, "[t]he group met for the first time in 578 CY, four years ago." The base date of 582 CY is used for all time references in the City of Greyhawk boxed set requiring indirect dating. [City of Greyhawk boxed set; GoF, pg. 3; FFF, pg. 71] |
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