This post offers a comprehensive timeline and global perspective of the Western Concordiat's history.
For shorter and more focused timelines, see also:
- Garou Timeline
- Greek Timeline
That said, if you would like to see anything added, please contact Xenia.
Comprehensive Timeline
Key
Mortal/Divine Events
Garou Events
Tribal-Specific Events
Golden Age (Pantheon)/Stone Age (Mundane), Before 7,000 BCE
Gaia comes into existence - Year unknown. Gaia creates the earth, as well as the animals, plants, Triat, and Titans.
Reign of Cronus - Year unknown. Titans and Triat govern earth. Humans are created.
100,000 BCE - The Great Winter begins. An unendurable cold that settled over the northern parts of the world. (The Ice Age)
25,000 BCE - The Great Winter ends.
9,500 BCE - Agriculture begins, signifying the rise of the Weaver over the next few centuries.
The Severing - Year unknown. The Weaver traps the Wyrm and begins pulling apart worlds and raising the Gauntlet between them.
The Pact - Year unknown. Garou establish ancient pacts with Spirits, offering chiminage, worship and protection in exchange for spiritual enforcement of the garou’s rites, gifts, and ways of life.
Silver Age (Pantheon)/Copper Age (Mundane), 7,000 BCE-3,000 BCE
Reign of Zeus - Year unknown. Cronus overthrown; the ascension of Zeus signifies the start of the Silver Age: the age of war.
7,000 BCE - Copper Discovered. Metal weaponry theorized to be the catalyst for The Impergium. King Rests-the-Moon of the Silver Fangs calls for a culling of the human population.
The War of Rage - Year unknown. Reports differ on when it began, as the Silver Fang clan that started the War of Rage has been stripped from the Silver Record in shame and is known only as ‘The Unnamed’.
5,000 BCE - Human civilization establishes itself in Mesopotamia.
3,500 BCE - Minoan civilization begins. Mesopotamian religion is founded and is ruled by Anu, Enlil, Enki, Ninhursag
3,162 BCE - The Three Sovereigns rule China.
3,100 BCE - First Dynasty in Egypt.
Bronze Age (Pantheon & Mundane), 3,000 BCE-1,250 BCE
3,000 BCE - The secret of Silver revealed to humanity, along with early forms of the written word, forcing reconsideration of Impergium and considered the nail in the coffin of the Silver Age. Luckily, Bronze is discovered along the same time, which proves much easier to work with, so silver becomes less important as a weapon. Athens established as a Mycenaean community. Troy founded. The Concord. The War of Rage ends and the Litany is adopted. The last time Gaia appears in public before withdrawing to the umbra.
2,950 BCE - The Tower, the first ever city sept, is built in Babylon by Warders of Man.
2,797 BCE - The Yellow Emperor, first of the Five Emperors, establishes Chinese civilization.
2,700 BCE - Minoan Civilization ancient palace city Knossos reaches 80,000 inhabitants. Old Kingdom begins in Egypt.
2,500 BCE - Mammoth goes extinct.
2,242 BCE - Tuatha Dé Danann gain sovereignty over Hibernia after the Great Flood (North Sea focal point)
2,200 BCE - Bronze Age begins in Britain.
2,070 BCE - Yu the Great creates Xia dynasty in China, transferring governance to mortals after saving them from the Great Flood (Asiatic focal point).
2,055 BCE - Middle Kingdom begins in Egypt.
2,000 BCE - Wyrmslayer, a Child of the Horned One, forges the first Klaive.
1,700 BCE - Indus Valley Civilization comes to an end.
1,600 BCE - Minoan civilization on Crete destroyed by the Minoan eruption of Thera. Mycenaean Greece begins.
1,500 BCE - Hinduism founded
1,450 BCE - The Great Flood (Mediterranean focal point)
1,400 BCE - Athens becomes focal point of the Mycenaean civilization.
Iron Age, 1,250 BCE - present
1,250 BCE - Mycenaean Impergium begins. Siege on Thebes
1,200 BCE - Bronze Age collapse; beginning of Iron Age. Trojan War. The city sept therein fell. In the aftermath, garou meet gods for the first time.
1,100 BCE - The Trials. Grecian garou are put through a number of tests and trials to prove their worth. Use of Iron spreads significantly. Dorian occupation of Greece.
1,000 BCE - Mycenaean Impergium ends. The garou enter into a pact with the Greek gods. Beginning of Greek Dark Ages.
900 BCE - Sparta is founded.
814 BCE - Carthage founded.
800 BCE - Stargazers head west for totem reasons. [Stargazers]
776 BCE - First Ancient Olympic Games.
753 BCE - Founding of Rome.
750 BCE - End of Greek Dark Ages.
672 BCE-525 BCE - The 26th Dynasty in Egypt; the increasing contact between Greece and Egypt (and the import of mercenaries from the former to the latter). An alliance rises between the Silent Striders and Black Furies.
612 BCE - Scythians and Medes sack Nineveh, causing the fall of the Assyrian empire.
550 BCE - Foundation of the Achaemenid Empire in Persia by Cyrus the Great.
550 BCE - Byzantium Colony founded.
539 BCE - Fall of Babylon. The Tower, the only existing city caern, falls.
512 BCE - Darius I of Persia subjugates eastern Thrace, Macedonia submits voluntarily, and annexes the Libyan Kingdom. Persian Empire at its largest.
508 BCE - Democracy instituted at the Republic of Athens.
499 BCE - Greco-Persian Wars begin.
490 BCE - Greek city-states defeat Persian invasion at Battle of Marathon.
480 BCE - Buddhism founded.
480 BCE - Persian invasion of Greece by Xerxes I; Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis.
478 BCE - Formation of the Delian League (Athenian League) to defend against Persian aggression.
470 BCE - Birth of Socrates. Sealing of Sutekh. [Silent Strider]
465 BCE - Murder of Xerxes I
460 BCE - First Peloponnesian War (Athens v. Corinth).
449 BCE - The Peace of Callias ends the Greco-Persian Wars.
447-432 BCE - Construction of Parthenon begins and ends.
446 BCE - First Peloponnesian War ends, prompting the Thirty Years' Peace.
432 BCE - Battle of Potidaea. Fall of Hiera Orgas.
431 BCE - Beginning of the Peloponnesian War. Game Starts.