Fourth Age of Man Timeline

Imperial Year	Aebasan Year	Neptaran Year	Event
1315 IC	7940 MT	2065 NC	After serving only five years, King Axil Varuna of Nadera retires at his appointed time, re-establishing the validity of the old Neptaran Royal Code, the law code that had been more-or-less in abeyance during the troubles of the Dark Times. The Chamber of Princes elects Prince Barand Gainza of Trivena to the royal seat.
1324 IC	7949 MT	2074 NC	The Quartz Isle Company is founded by a conglomerate of wealthy families in the Freecity of Neptaris with the express purpose of establishing trade envoys with re-emerging nation-states and colonies in regions left "unclaimed" in the wake of the Dark Times. Operating under charter from Neptaris, they rapidly become a extra-national means to exert growing Neptaran economic and military power across the Betshaban Ocean.
1318 IC	7943 MT	2068 NC	The Concilium Magni Textrini Fatalis Zethensis is held in Zeta, attended by the Archisacerdi of Paelemona the Fatespinner, to decide how to proceed with selecting a new Pontifex in the absence of a clear Emperor of Zeth, who traditionally would select a Pontifex for the faith in their role as Pontifex Maximus. After three weeks of debate, the Council decides that it will elect its own Pontifex from among its ranks. Later that year, the Vedente of Monte Ordito in Treva was elected Pontifex and chose the name Columba.
1325 IC	7950 MT	2075 NC	Princess Anborxe Etxeleku is elected by the Chamber or Princes to the royal seat of Nadera. As Queen, Anborxe proves to be successful in expanding Nadera's economic influence by establishing counting houses in neighboring countries and improving their rising maritime power by establishing the Maritime Academy of Garza. She was so popular that she was elected to an unprecedented second term in 7960 MT.
1332 IC	7957 MT	2082 NC	At the relatively young age of 39, Malach Virex becomes Archdeacon of Cthos the Doomsayer at the Sepulchral Lantern in Seahaven, Marosh.
1333 IC	7958 MT	2083 NC	The Maritime Academy of Garza is established by Queen Anborxe Etxeleku in the Naderan capital city of Garza. The Academy trained navigators, mapmakers and shipwrights, most of whom were then funneled into work for the Neptaran Merchant houses and growing expeditionary fleet.
1335 IC	7960 MT	2085 NC	Queen Anborxe Etxeleku becomes the first elected monarch of Nadera to be re-elected to the royal seat by the Chamber of Princes.
1345 IC	7970 MT	2095 NC	Prince Goren II of House Orzaiz grandson of the King Goren that maintained relative stability in Nadera during the Dark Times, is elected to the royal seat by the Chamber of Princes. his rule is marked by an expansion of Nadera's expeditionary fleet and institution of licensed privateers that preyed on Nadera's enemies (which included any peoples that didn't have a trade agreement with the country).
1349 IC	7974 MT	2099 NC	After years of slowly gaining economic and social control over the town, the Freecity of Neptaris declares Seahaven a colonial possession and assigns Iskandros Melanthios Varro as Eparch.
1350 IC	7975 MT	2100 NC	The Aureliad Consortium, a coalition of Narbonnais financiers, Vistrian mining interests, and Milosian shipping magnates, is formed in the northern ports of the Aurean Sea. Within a decade, the Consortium begins to expand its economic influence well beyond their native waters, establishing trading houses in major ports around the Betshaban Ocean.
1352 IC	7977 MT	2102 NC	The Neptaran War begins as the Freecity of Neptaris declares war on Daredonia.
1354 IC	7979 MT	2104 NC	The Dracian Civil War rages across Dracia in central Aurea as several key factions form a loose alliance against the "Ivory Queen," Magdalena I. Captain Eko Elizondo of Nadera reaches the legendary island of Kesh and returns home with silks, gold-threaded brocades, new spices and other goods from unknown lands across the Endless Ocean. He is celebrated as a national hero.
1355 IC	7980 MT	2105 NC	The Battle of Kzerna ends with the defeat of the Ivory Queen, ending The Dracian Civil War in Dracia. Cyril of House Zabšinac, formerly Lord High Marshal of Dracia, is crowned King Cyril II. The Ivory Queen herself commits suicide rather than face the ignominy of defeat. She is still granted a royal burial by order of King Cyril, marking a reign focused on reconciliation and a return to a profitable Dracia.
1358 IC	7983 MT	2108 NC	Royal Admiral Elizondo, the lauded heroic explorer, departs eastward from Nadera with a large fleet of heavy galleons dedicated to reaching the mysterious lands beyond Kesh.
1359 IC	7984 MT	2109 NC	Present year.