BG = Before Guild
AG = After Guild
Dune uses the Universal Standard Calendar.(USC)
When converting The USC to the Anno Domini or Common Era Calendar we assume that the Dune chronology actually uses Earth years.
19,000 BG =
2800 BC ??
Early Humans are living on the planet Earth (Terra).
Second Dynasty wars in Ancient Egypt. (2775 BC – 2650 BC)
16,400 BG to 16,000BG
Roman Empire ??
House Atreides traces it's ancestry to Ancient Greece & Rome.
The Imperial Seat is Rome.
This is interesting, as the Dune universe records the movement of the "Imperial Seat" .
Imperial Seat is a concept of humanity.
The Seat is the center of government and rule of humanity throughout
all history. It changed various positions during the passing of the
millennia, both on Terra and beyond. (Dune Encyclopedia)
16,200BG = BC 0 (Birth of Christ)
15800 BG
Imperial Seat moved to Byzantium on Earth in retreat before provincial rebellions and minor jihads.
14608 BG
The New World (America) is discovered.
Madrid attains the status of the "Imperial Seat".
14512 BG = 1588 AD
London became the Imperial Seat in 14512 BG (Battle of the English Channel).
This of course is the date of the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
14255BG (14155?) = 1945 AD
End of WWII
Washington becomes the Imperial seat after first "atomics".
Atomics refers to Nuclear weapons of course.
14,100 BG -13600BG
The solar system starts to be colonized by humans.
This is the end of the 20th century and early 21st.
14,100 BG = 2000 AD ??
THE LITTLE DIASPORA.
The population of Terra is eventually outnumbered by 20 to 1.
One of the first planets colonized during the Diasporia was Ceres.
13402BG = (2698 AD Approximately)
Ceres gains the Imperial Seat after a planetoid strikes Terra (Earth).
Planetoid = Asteriod ???
13002 BG
Terra re-seeded and set aside (by Imperial edict) as a natural park.
12200BG
Empire of 10 Worlds.
These 10 interstellar colonies were ruled by a single Emperor.
Communication between these worlds was difficult due to the huge distances.
11200 BG
THE EMPIRE OF A THOUSAND WORLDS
(an empire in name only, because Imperial power was so diffuse as to be nonexistent).
11,105 BG
Rebellion Destroys Imperial Seat of Power on Ceres.
Thus begun the Age of Pretenders.
Eventually many small empires & Emperors emerge.
This is the beginning of the "Dark Ages" and the age of 10,000 Emperors.
This age would last nearly 4,000 years.
7,600 BG: Thinkers Rebellion
7,593 BG
Ibrahim Vaughn Holtzman born on Liesco II.
Holtzman is the discoverer of the "Holtzman Effect" .
Thus ends the Dark Ages.
The "Holtzman Effect" was a way to communicate instantly between worlds.
This also led to the invention of the Holtzman drive and the beginning of the "Wars of Reunification"
These wars lasted 2,500 years.
7,565 BG
Holtzman almost killed in a ornithoper accident.
His brain is removed and he is turned into a cyborg.
He was the only such thinking machine to survive the Butlerian jihad.
7562 BG
Holtzman disappears into space and secretly orbits a comet 9 light years away.
While in orbit he discovers the "Holtzman Effect"
This method of instant communication is the nucleus which starts off the "Wars of Reunification".
5694 BG
Holtzman returns but decides to remain hidden.
The war would not end for another 672 years.
5022 BG
The end of the Wars of Reunification.
THE EMPIRE OF TEN THOUSAND WORLDS united under Ladislaus the Great.
Mankind is united into a single Empire.
Thus starts the First Golden Age.
5022-3678BG - THE FIRST GOLDEN AGE.
Sand Trout are introduced to Arrakis - transforming it from a wet planet to a desert.
Sandtrout were the larval form of sandworm.
3832
Holtzman reappears at Liesco, and presents the theory for construction of
the DEFENSIVE SHIELD.
3678
THE SILICON PLAGUE: the “Death of the Machines.”
1800 BG to 200 BG
The Rise & Fall of the Second Golden Age.
1287 BG
Start of the Titan Conquest. There were 20 original Titans.
Titans were human but some became cyborgs (called Cymeks).
The cymek's human brain was held in a preservation canister
The brain could live for tens of thousands of years and
could control interchangeable robotic bodies
1192 - 1183 BG
Walgis Rebellion
1182 BG
Omnius (a super computer with Artificial Intelligence), gains control
It makes servants of the Titans.
400BG
Bene Gesserit begin their breeding program for the Kwisatz Haderach
(a super being - "one who can be many places at once").
221 BG
Birth of Serena Bulter
201 - 108 BG =
6,041 AD
Butlerian Jihad.
A crusade starts against thinking Machines.
The 10,000 systems who had not fallen to the machines joined together
to form the league of nobles. The league of nobles used nuclear weapons on Earth to destroy
the machines.
198 BG
Jihad moves to Bela Tegeuse
195 BG
Honru Massacre.
Omnius uses robotic ships to kill 500,000 humans
88 BG
Battle of Corrin
Omnius is finally defeated.
But before he is defeated he broadcasts a copy of himself into outerspace
86 BG
FOUNDATION OF HOUSE ATREIDES when Demetrios Atreides is
made Baron
Tantalos in reward for aiding the Corrinos.
84 BG
Discovery that the Spice Melange aids Space travel.
5 BG
C.H.O.A.M company is founded.
Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles
It's the single biggest source of wealth in the universe.
It controls all economic activity in the universe, but it needs the Guild
for faster than light travel.
0 BG
THE LION THRONE, THE SPACING GUILD, and CHOAM unite
to form "The Imperium".
1234 AG
The Order of Mentat is created.
Mentats are human computers.
1244 AG
The Order of Mentat moves to planet Tleilax
3367 AG
The first war of Assasins
6600 AG
First Wild Reverned Mother
7193 AG
Fremen populate Arrakis
8677 AG
House Atreides moves to Caladan
10119 AG
Shaddam IV born
10140
Leto I born (Paul Atreides)
10156 AG
Shaddam IV becomes Emperor
10175
Shaddam IV begins the Great Spice War
10190 AG
House Atreides moves to Arrakis (Dune)
10196 - 10208 AG
Paul's Jihad
10209
Leto II Born.
Also known as the
God-Emperor, was the second son of Paul Atreides and
his Fremen concubine Chani Kynes,
10219
Leto II's reign began.
He rules for 3500 years.
Travel between planets is banned. People aren't free and progress is restricted.
People had peace but no freedom
11745 AG
THE ORDER OF MENTATS is suppressed by Leto II.
12335 AG
The execution of THE NINE HISTORIANS.
13724 AG
(13728 AG according to the original saga)
Death of Leto II.
Humanity plunges into Famine but is now free.
Many flee the old empire and head into outer space.
Thus begins "the Scattering".
The Scattering of the Human race would increase it's chance of survival in the long run.
14702
Ruins found on Crompton
15200 AG
Lost ones return out of the scattering.
15525 AG
Leto's journals are discovered.
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