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Welcome to The Chronicle of Arda. This section of the site provides automated annals for all four Ages of the Sun and Moon. For any period of Arda's history, the Chronicle will display the events that happened in that time. Events and characters are entered into the Chronicle as they are added to the main database: like the rest of The Encyclopedia of Arda this section of the site is expanding all the time.

You can have the Chronicle look up events for specific dates by entering one or two years in the form below. If you enter two dates, the Chronicle will display events that happened between those two years. If you leave one of the dates blank, the Chronicle will display events in the century around the single year you specify.

For years after III 1601 (the year of the foundation of Shire, and therefore Shire Year 1), the Chronicle will also show years by the Shire-reckoning in a second column.

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One hundred years around II 889

 • 1,428 years after the Return of the Noldor
 • 2,380 years before the Downfall of Númenor
 • 5,520 years before the War of the Ring

The Second Age

840Birth of Nessanië, daughter of Hallatan, in Númenor.
843Aldarion returns to Númenor aboard the Palarran after a fourteen-year voyage to Middle-earth.
850Aldarion sails Eämbar around Númenor to celebrate the centenary of its making.
852Birth of Hallacar son of Hallatan in Númenor.
858Aldarion and Erendis become betrothed, and King Tar-Meneldur marks the occasion with the gift of a White House in Emerië.
869Return of the Palarran to Númenor from its fourth voyage to Middle-earth.
870Wedding of Aldarion and Erendis.
873Birth of Ancalimë, daughter of Aldarion and Erendis, later Queen of Númenor.
875Work begins in Rómenna on the building of the ship Hirilondë.
877Spring Aldarion's flagship Hirilondë is launched.
882Aldarion returns to Númenor after a five-year voyage aboard the Hirilondë; he becomes estranged from his wife Erendis.
883Tar-Meneldur surrenders the Sceptre of Númenor. He is succeeded by his son, who becomes King Tar-Aldarion.
Tar-Aldarion, newly crowned King of Númenor, sets out for Middle-earth aboard his great ship Hirilondë.
889No events are recorded for the specific year you selected.
892Tar-Aldarion pronounces his daughter Ancalimë as the formal King's Heir of Númenor.
900Death of Caliondo.

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