Time line

c.1000

    --The dwarven realm of Dareth is found to be in shambles. The remaining dwarves fled to
    Mount Sundabar, where they are shattered by white dragons.
    --The archmage Ultham creates the Magical Chessmen of Ultham-Urre in Chessenta.

1000/Year of the Wailing Winds

    --Riatavin established as a trading post and temple city with the backing of the Spulzeer,
    Krimmevol, and Coprith families.

1001/Year of the Awakening

    --Many ruins discovered and old magic and undead released.
    --Tuelhalva Drakewings encounters Gargauth trapped in a pit in Peleveran. Gargauth's
    words inspire Drakewings to plot a break from the Sembian Cult of the Dragon cell.
    --The shadow dragon Aurgloroasa begins to corrupt High Old One Dagan, son of Belgin,
    blood of Jangarak, by whispering to him in his dreams.

1002/

    --Centuries of long skirmishes between Durpar and Ulgarth come to an uneasy halt as the
    two nations finally reach a balance of power.

1006/

    --Felbarr, the last remnant of Delzoun, is deserted by the dwarves.

1007/

    --The city walls of Waterdeep expand, absorbing the ruins of Halaster's Hold (the walls
    run along the lines of what are now the northern borders of Dock and Southern Wards).
    Ahghairon builds his tower out beyond the city walls, and he also places magical barriers
    around the ruins of Halaster's tower, preventing many dangers from escaping into the city.

1010/

    --Laborers finish the extensive harbor fortifications at Midsummer, and the Free City of
    Waterdeep is officially established.
    --Laroun becomes the first Warlord of Waterdeep.

1016/

    --Cathakay dies in battle against a gold dragon. Her niece Melanith becomes Queen of
    Dambrath.

1018/Year of the Dracorage

    --Death(?) of King Tchazzar, unifier of Chessenta, in battle against the sahuagin. His body
    is never found.
    --Tuelhalva Drakewings frees Gargauth. A horde of abishai baatezu summoned by
    Gargauth allows Drakewings to take over the realm. Drakewings' faction breaks from the
    Cult in Sembia and relocates to Peleveran. Less than one month later, Algashon incites a
    Rage of Dragons and destroys the entire nation of Peleveran. Both Drakewings and
    Algashon perish.
    --Rage of Dragons in Faerûn and the Heartlands. The cities of Lheshayl and Ormath are
    heavily damaged, and four dragons are killed in the Shining Plains (including the great
    wyrm Andraxis).
    A great flight of dragons assaults Zhentil Keep. The old Keep is destroyed, but the city is
    saved by its wizards, and priests of Bane. The Cult of the Dragon is widely blamed for the
    devastation, and the inhabitants of the Keep first take note of the Cult as a recognized
    enemy (as opposed to a dimly perceived nuisance).
    --The blue dragon Alasklerbanbastos contacts the Cult of the Dragon for additional power
    in hopes to rival the apparent ascension to godhood of Tchazzar.
    --The wyrm Sapphiraktar the Blue joins in the massive flights of dragons ravaging the
    Realms. He emerges from his normal Calim desert habitat and destroys much of Calimport
    and Keltar in Kythorn and Flamerule.

1019/Year of the Sure Quarrel

    --Assassin wars in the South; many satraps killed by crossbow-wielding thieves.
    --The Dragon's Plague, named for the scaly appearance of those infected, hits the cities of
    Calimport and Keltar.

1020/Year of Smouldering Spells

    --Thay develops much of its unique fire magic.
    --House Extaminos begins openly ruling Hlondeth.

1021/Year of the Howling Axe

    --Thay strikes against the Harpers.
    --Bhaalian liches walk the Heartlands.
    --Elminster and Khelben agree to re-form the Harpers; the Harpers go underground.
    --Azoun II (? to 1046), King of Cormyr.

1022/Year of the Wandering Wyvern

    --Refounding of the Harpers; Elminster recruits an adventuring group led by Finder
    Wyvernspur to become the core of the new organization.
    --Haedrak (988 to 1059), 1st cousin on father's side, King of Tethyr.
    --The half-elven hero Aglauntaras builds the Tower of the Rising Moon in Deepingdale.

1023/

    --Durpar and Ulgarth reach an armed peace settlement.

1024/Year of Lathander's Light

    --Amid some protest over tradition, though none over the young man's ability, the
    35-year-old Orjalun is named Keeper of the Vault of the Sages in Silverymoon.
    --The Cult of the Dragon's cell in western Unther is driven out by the repeated attacks by
    the faithful of the well-established followers of Tiamat.

1026/Year of Crimson Magics

    --Warlord Laroun dies in a series of massive raids by the Black Claw orc tribes. Raurlor,
    leader of Waterdeep's army, becomes Warlord.
    --Ahghairon creates the magical axe, Azuredge.
    --The Black Claw orc horde meets its' final defeat at Stump Bog.
    --Fall of the orc realm of Uruth Ukrypt.
    --The elder red wyrm Maerithryvvin slays the reclusive mage Artabranth, and destroys his
    tower in Eshpurta.

1030/Year of Warlords

    --Zulkirs established as the ruling body of Thay.
    --Aencar becomes Warlord of Battledale.
    --Raurlor increases the size of Waterdeep's standing army and navy to a size unseen since
    the Fallen Kingdom. His rulership turns Waterdeep into a garrison and military
    encampment, "to protect Waterdeep from her many, jealous enemies."

1031/

    --Internal strife in Thay as the Zulkirs continue to establish their rule until 1074 DR.

1032/

    --Raurlor announces his plans to establish the Empire of the North. Ahghairon defies him
    and causes Raurlor's death. The wizard takes the Warlord's seat, declaring himself the first
    Lord of Waterdeep. He restructures Raurlor's armies and navies into the city guard (army
    and navy), and the watch (city police), bringing order to Waterdeep.
    --Allussus Korolx and Miliredarr Wardh, two ancient sages and trustworthy comrades of
    Ahghairon, become two of the first Lords of Waterdeep.
    --Year 0 of Northreckoning.

1034/Year of Bane's Blood

    --Bowgentle of Silverymoon is born on the last day of this year to a fisherman and his wife.
    Guards on the city walls later reported the sighting of exactly 21shooting stars at the time
    of his birth.
    --High Old One Dagin, a dwarven priest of Dumathion, becomes King of Thunderholme.
    The death of the old king and his son were caused by the Sibilant Shade, who had
    corrupted the priest.

1035/

    --Waterdeep grows under Ahghairon's and the Lord's rule, the walls expanding again (to
    the current area of Waterdeep Way and River Street) to handle the increased population.
    The system of Wards comes into being, initially creating Castle Ward, Trades Ward,
    Temple (later Southern) Ward, and Dock Ward.

1037/

    --Otherplanar creatures spill out of Undermountain into Waterdeep, but are turned back by
    Ahghairon and Kherris, a masked Lord wielding Azuredge. Ahghairon refortifies the
    magical and physical defenses around the ruins.

1038/Year of Spreading Spring

    --Rotational Shift of Toril.
    --Global warming. Lands of Narfell, Vaasa, and Damara are fully free of ice. Large-scale
    immigration begins to these lands.
    --Aencar begins to unify the Dales, takes the title "Mantled King".

1043/

    --Bowgentle begins to learn magic at the feet of Quintas Uhlawm the Kind, an enchanter
    and Harper.

1044/Year of Singing Shards

    --Aencar the Mantled King dies. The Dales split up into independent, though allied,
    communities.
    --Mt. Ugruth erupts on the last day of the year, doing little except to blanket Hlondeth in a
    layer of ash.
    --By this time, Chondath has become little more than a collection of loosely-allied
    city-states.

c.1050

    --The noted conjurer Ulcaster founds a short-lived school of wizardry on the future site of
    Beregost.

1050/

    --High Mage Threskaal passes away after the longest rule of any High Mage of
    Silverymoon; Orjalun is named as his successor.

1053/

    --King Selkarin of Estagund mounts a failed naval invasion of Dambrath.

1054/Year of Toiling Terrors

    --The regent Dagan dedicates the newly completed temple of Dumathoin to Null, the
    draconic deity of death and undeath. The shadow dragon Aurgloroasa is summoned and
    soon Thunderholme falls to the dragon's power.
    --High Mage Orjalun of Silverymmon notes Bowgentle's skills in magic and teaches him
    for a short time.

1057/

    --The abandoned dwarf-hold of Felbarr is garrisoned by troops from Silverymoon.
    --Unther sends and army to reclaim Chessenta, but fails miserably.

1058/

    --Bowgentle leaves Silverymoon to embark on a great career matched in scope only by the
    deeds of Elminster of Shadowdale.

1059/

    --Coram (1010 to 1065), 5th son of Haedrak, King of Tethyr.

1060/

    --Retreat of Great Glacier.
    --Dwarves of the Herlinga clan from Sossal sail across the Great Ice Sea and inhabit the
    Glittering Spires.

1064/

    --The city walls of Waterdeep swell (running along the current locations of Selduth Street
    and the Coffinmarch) to handle increasing numbers of people. A low wall abutting the city
    walls surrounds the eastern cemetary of the city.
    --Waterdeep's population surpasses 50,000 this year.

1065/Year of the Watching Wood

    --Battle of Ingdal's Arm, the Yuir half-elves defeat the humans. The founding of Aglarond.
    --Brindor is elected first king of Aglarond.
    --Coram II (1050 to 1070), 2nd grandson of Coram, King of Tethyr (slain by Teremir II).
    --Harpers in the North find the lair of the dracolich Alglaudyx and manage to destroy the
    undead creature, seizing its rich hoard for Harper coffers. With this newfound wealth, the
    Harpers invest in valuable properties and businesses in cities up and down the Sword
    Coast.

1070/Year of the Spawning

    --Teremir II (1045 to 1071), Teremir I's great-grandson, King of Tethyr (slew Coram II
    and temporarily restored line).
    --The copper dragon Galadaeros is visited by the Waterdhavian adventuress Ranressa
    Shiard; the two eventually become friends and found the all-female Galadran Company.

1071/Year of Lion's Roars

    --Alemander I (1038 to 1145), wizard and brother of Coram, King of Tethyr (slayer of all
    of Teremir's last heirs).

1072/Year of the Shattered Goblet

    --Chapter 1 of "Vampire of the Mists". 1072-1102: Vampire of the Mist, p 5-16, i.e. 475
    Barovia (p267) up to 1232 DR at the end of the novel.
    --Jander Sunstar enters the Mists and the Demi-Plane of Dread.

1074/Year of the Tightening Fist

    --Zulkirs quell rebellions and rule in Thay. The last of the renegade mages is killed.
    --By this time, Bezantur is on its' way towards becoming the mercantile and religious
    capital of Thay.

1079/

    --Andilber (? to 1088), King of Cormyr.

1082/Year of the Prancing Korred

    --Building of the fortress of Emmech in Rashemen, at the mouth of the Umber river.

1085/

    --Building of the Watchwall (Giant's Wall) in Aglarond by the galeb duhr of Tannath and
    Undergoth.

1090/Year of Slaughter

    --The Battle of the Bones. A horde of 200,000 goblins and orcs arises from the High
    Moors due to extreme drought and attempted an invasion of the North. The Battle of the
    Bones marks the spot of the great battle that destroys the horde.
    --Followers of Malar led by the fanatical priest Belegoss Wolfwynd mount the Great Hunt.
    The Hunt permanently smashes the power of the southern Dragonreach cities. Elminster
    sets the Harpers to slaying every member of the Hunt.
    --The Great Hunt kills Lunaven Moonstar and desecrates Selune's Waterdeep shrine. In
    response, an army of Selunites falls upon the Hunt, driving the Malarites from the region
    following a great slaughter.
    --Construction begins on the first true temple of Selune in Waterdeep.
    The Imnel Concession: Numerous monsters in the eastern grasslands and financial troubles
    (including paying the army) forces King Imnel IV of Amn to forge a treaty that returns all
    lands south of the Tethir Road to Tethyr in exchange for military and monentary support.
    --The temple of Arlast Halungh is destroyed in the Battle of Slaughterwyrm. Thalaxas the
    Tyrant is killed in the confusion and the Black Book of Beshaba was lost for a while.

1091/Year of Watery Graves

    --The shadow dragon Aurgloroasa attacks and sinks the treasure-laden ship the Winsome
    Wyrm in the harbor of Westgate.
    --The green dragon Dretchroyaster and the very old black dragon female Naxorlytaalsxar
    fight an aerial duel over the waters of Lake Sember. The fallout from this battle, which
    becomes known as the Battle of Falling Fishkill, poisons the lake killing fish by the
    hundreds and forcing a small colony of aquatic elves to return to their ancestral home in the
    Sea of Fallen Stars.

1092/Year of the Aimless Mystic

    --The last members of the Great Hunt are slain. Belegoss Wolfwynd is killed.
    --A mages duel between Akham el Qaandan and Haneq el Fustaf sets part of Calimport
    aflame.

1095/Year of the Dawndance

    --Imphras unites cities of Impiltur.
    --The Skeletal Finger thieves' guild wreaks havoc across Tethyr and Amn from hideouts in
    the Small Teeth.

1097/Year of the Gleaming Crown

    --Founding of Impiltur. The city-states of Lyrabar, Hlammach, Dilpur, and Sarshel unite
    under the banner of Imphras to face hobgoblin hordes advancing from the Giantspires.
    --Imphras is elected 1st king of Impiltur and wears the Lost Crown of Narfell.
    --The High House of Stars (temple of Selune in Waterdeep) finishes construction.

1098/Year of the Rose

    --Chapter 2 of "Vampire of the Mists"
    --Thay attempts 1st invasion of Mulhorand. Thay is defeated at Sultim and withdraws.

1099/Year of the Restless

    --New trade routes forged. First modern contact with Kara-Tur and Zakhara.
    --Lady Alatheene Moonstar of Waterdeep founds the Maids of the Midnight Moon, an
    order of sorceresses dedicated to Selune.
    --By this time, the Moonstar clan has ascended into the ranks of Waterdhavian nobility.

c.1100

    --Searching for a way to immortalize his songs, Finder Wyvernspur dabbles in magic that
    brings about the deaths of two of his apprentices. A tribunal of Harper judges decree that
    Finder's music and name are to be forgotten. He is exiled to a solitary existence on another
    plane for almost 300 years.

1100/The Year of the Bloodrose