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The Chronicle of Arda

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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IV 6 to IV 55
(a period of 49 years)

 • 7,057 years after the Return of the Noldor
 • 3,149 years after the Downfall of Númenor
 • 9 years after the War of the Ring

Samwise Gamgee's Time as Mayor of the Shire

The Fourth Age

61427By royal edict, Men are formally banned from entering the boundaries of the Shire.
Peregrin Took weds Diamond of Long Cleeve.
Birth of Merry, fourth child of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
Midyear's Day Will Whitfoot resigns as Mayor of Michel Delving, and Sam Gamgee is elected in his place.
71428Death of Hamfast 'Gaffer' Gamgee.
81429Birth of Pippin, fifth child of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
91430Birth of Faramir Took, son of Peregrin and Diamond of Long Cleeve.
Death of Vigo Boffin.
Death of Merimac Brandybuck.
101431Birth of Goldilocks, sixth child of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
Death of Odovacar Bolger, father of Fredegar Bolger.
111432Birth of Hamfast, seventh child of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
Death of Saradoc Brandybuck. He is succeeded as Master of Buckland by his son, Meriadoc of the Company of the Ring.
121433Birth of Daisy, eighth child of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
131434The Thain of the Shire, Master of Buckland and Mayor of Michel Delving (at that time Peregrin Took, Meriadoc Brandybuck and Samwise Gamgee) are made Counsellors of the North-kingdom.
Samwise Gamgee is elected Mayor of the Shire for the second time.
Death of Paladin Took II. Peregrin Took becomes Thain of the Shire.
141435Death of Olo Proudfoot.
Birth of Primrose, daughter of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
151436Aragorn travels to the North-kingdom, and dwells for a time at Annúminas. He grants the Star of the Dúnedain to Samwise Gamgee, and Sam's daughter Elanor becomes one of Queen Arwen's maids.
Death of Glóin son of Gróin, the father of Gimli Elf-friend.
Birth of Bilbo, son of Sam Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
171438Birth of Ruby, youngest daughter of Sam Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
191440Birth of Samwise Gamgee's second-youngest son, Robin.
Death of Tolman Cotton the elder.
201441Samwise Gamgee is elected Mayor of the Shire for the third time.
211442Samwise, Rose and Elanor travel south, and stay for a year in Gondor with Aragorn and Arwen. During this year, Tolman Cotton serves in Sam's place as Mayor of the Shire.
Birth of Tolman, youngest child of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton.
221443Death of Filibert Bolger.
271448Samwise Gamgee is elected Mayor of the Shire for the fourth time.
301451The wedding of Sam Gamgee's daughter Elanor to Fastred of Greenholm on the Far Downs.
311452The Westmarch is officially incorporated into the Shire.
331454Birth of Elfstan, son of Fastred of Greenholm and Sam's daughter Elanor.
Likely date of the death of Imrahil of Dol Amroth.
341455Samwise Gamgee is elected Mayor of the Shire for the fifth time.
411462Fastred of Greenholm is made Warden of Westmarch by Thain Peregrin, and removes with his family to Undertowers in the Tower Hills.
Samwise Gamgee is elected Mayor of the Shire for the sixth time.
Holfast, son of Frodo Gardner, born in the Shire.
421463Wedding of Faramir, the son of Peregrin Took, to Goldilocks, daughter of Samwise Gamgee.
481469Samwise Gamgee is elected Mayor of the Shire for the seventh and final time.
551476Midyear's Day At the Free Fair on the White Downs, Samwise Gamgee resigns as Mayor of the Shire.

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