This is an unofficial timeline of events for the wiki. It assumes that measurement units in the source texts, unless qualified or implied otherwise, refer to Earth units. Therefore, the following may be wrong.
14th century BCE
- 1345-991 BCE: Idiran Second Great Exile following the the Skankatrian-Idiran war[1]
10th century BCE
- 990 BCE: Idirans retake Idir, ending the Second Great Exile[1]
8th century BCE
- c. 8th century BCE: Chelgrians traditions of the 22nd century CE span back to this time
Chelgrian traditions leading to the 22nd century CE Caste War are said to span 3000 years[note 1][note 2]
5th century BCE
- c. 5th century BCE: the belief that the souls of the dead spend one year in limbo before entering heaven becomes widespread amongst Chelgrians
Noted to have been a consistent Chelgrian belief for 2700 years from the perspective of the 22nd century CE[note 3]
7th century CE
- c. 7th century CE: Chelgrians fight the Last Unification War
Noted to have occurred 1500 years before the 22nd century CE.[note 4]
8th century CE
- 8th century CE: the Culture stops building "genuine" warships[1]
11th century CE
- c. 11th century CE: Bregan Latry decides to build a system of sailing cable cars in the Epsizyr Breaks on Masaq' Orbital
Noted to have happened 1100 years before the 22nd century CE[note 5]
12th century CE
- c. 12th century CE: the family of Tibilo Quilan, a Chelgrian, starts a trend for being landowners, traders, bankers and insurers
Quilan's family is noted for a 1000 years in these professions from the perspective of the 22nd century CE.[note 6]
13th century CE
- 1267 CE: first Idiran-Culture dispute[1]
- 1288 CE: second Idiran-Culture dispute[1]
- 1289 CE: the Culture builds its first genuine warship in five centuries[1]
14th century CE
- 1307 CE: third Idiran-Culture dispute[1]
- 1310 CE: Peace Faction splits from the Culture[1]
- 1326 CE: formation of Culture War Council[1]
- 1327 CE: Idiran-Culture War officially begins with the direct involvement of Culture forces[1]
- 1327 CE: ratification of Idiran-Culture War Conduct Agreement[1]
- c. 1331 CE: Idiran Empire unsuccessfully attempts to capture a Culture Mind at Schar's World
- 1332 CE: Homomdan enter the Idiran-Culture War on the Idiran side[1]
- 1333 CE: Idiran-Culture War Conduct Agreement amended to forbade destruction of populated, non-military, habitats[1]
- 1335 CE: Idiran-Culture War enters second phase[1]
- c. 1357 CE: Homoda withdraw from the Idiran-Culture War[1]
- Before 1367 CE: the Changer species becomes extinct[8]
- 1367 CE: space warfare effectively ends in the Idiran-Culture War[1]
- 1375 CE: Idiran-Culture War officially ends[1]
17th century CE
- c. 1675 CE: small, backwater, conflicts fought by remnant forces of the Idiran Empire from the Idiran-Culture War cease[1]
- c. 17th century CE: Bregan Latry completes transforming the Epsizyr Breaks on Masaq' Orbital into "Pylon Country".
Noted to have taken 600 years from c. 11th century CE[note 10]
19th century CE
- 1813 CE: the Culture statistically "proves" the Idiran-Culture War was morally justified[8]
22nd century CE
- Late-22nd century CE: year 3455 (Chelgrian reckoning)[9]
- Late-22nd century CE: Chelgrian State unsuccessfully attempts to destroy Masaq' Orbital
Notes
- ↑ "'The background to the war, my studious Homomdan pal, is three thousand years...'"[2]
- ↑ "'So in comes Kapyre, out goes common sense, out goes thousand years of tradition...'"[3]
- ↑ "'It has been a consistent article of our faith for twenty-seven hundred years,' he said casually, 'that the souls of the departed are held in limbo' for a full year...'"[2]
- ↑ "It had duly suffered the same fate as a handful of cities round the globe during the Last Unification War fifteen hundred years earlier..."[4]
- ↑ "'Eleven hundred years ago he got it into his head that what this place really needed was a system of sailing cable cars.'"[5]
- ↑ "'Quilan’s family had been landowners, traders, bankers and insurers for a thousand years. '"[3]
- ↑ "The Culture's General Contact Units, which until now had borne the brunt of the first four years of the war in space..."[6]
- ↑ "But the Culture [...] had fought for almost four years without showing any sign of giving up or even coming to a compromise."[6]
- ↑ "'Well, you wait and see,' the boy said, nodding at her. 'I think we'll pull out of the war and let the Idirans get on with their expansion - or whatever you want to call it. The war's been sort of exciting, and it's made a change, but it's been nearly four years now, and...'"[7]
- ↑ "'By the time he’d finished, six hundred years after he’d started...'"[5]
- ↑ " The war had ended nearly eight hundred years ago... "[2]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 Consider Phlebas, The war, briefly
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Look to Windward, chapter 5
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Look to Windward, chapter 6
- ↑ Look to Windward, chapter 10
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Look to Windward, chapter 9
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Consider Phlebas, chapter 2
- ↑ Consider Phlebas, State of play: two
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Consider Phlebas, Dramatis personae
- ↑ Look to Windward, chapter 2