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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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I 500 to I 509
(a period of 9 years)

 • 499 years after the Return of the Noldor
 • 3,400 years before the Downfall of Númenor
 • 6,540 years before the War of the Ring
The Brief Life of Eluréd

The First Age

c.500Death of Larnach.
501Húrin encounters Morwen at the Stone of the Hapless, where he witnesses her death.
Húrin goes to the ruin of Nargothrond, where he slays Mîm and recovers the Nauglamír.
502Húrin recovers the Nauglamír from Nargothrond and carries it to Doriath, where it is reforged to hold a Silmaril.
Wedding of Tuor and Idril in Gondolin.
Likely date of the death of Húrin Thalion.
Death of Thingol and departure of Melian. The Dwarves of Nogrod ransack Menegroth.
503Birth of Eärendil in Gondolin.
Deaths of Beren and Lúthien.
Journey of Dior to Doriath.
Birth of Elwing, daughter of Dior and Nimloth.
506Midwinter Assault by the Sons of Fëanor on Menegroth. Dior, Celegorm, Curufin and Caranthir are all slain; Elwing flees to the Mouths of Sirion with the Silmaril.
508The survivors of Morgoth's attacks on Beleriand begin to gather at the Mouths of Sirion.
509Maeglin is captured by agents of Morgoth, and betrays the location of Gondolin.

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