1102

Emperor Boris Goldbringer conspires with the High Priests of the Imperial cults to arrest wizards and charge them with heresy.  Many are burned at the stake.

1111

Devastating outbreak of Black Plague begins in the Empire and spreads throughout Old World over the next five years.  Skaven erupt in the rural provinces to take advantage of the plague.  Many are enslaved and small settlements abandoned.  As war and disease ravage the Empire, Talabheim is used as a base for adventurers, trappers and missionaries to explore the upper reaches of the Talabec.  Missions of Taal and Rhya along the major rivers between the Lynsk and Upper Talabec represent Imperial culture and authority.  The trading post of Zobelfluss is established near the site of present-day Praag.

Death of Emperor Boris Goldgatherer the Incompetent.  No successor elected during ensuing anarchy.

First wave of Gospodar peoples migrate through Northern Pass from Farside by pressure from the Ungols, a people moving into steppes from region in northern Cathay.  Monastic missions of Taal and Rhya provide the nomadic Gospodars with agricultural technology and a core of cultural unity.  Gospodars occupy the Imperial towns of Zobelfluss and Eisigbucht and renames them Praag and Erengrad, respectively.  The legend of Boris Ursa comes from this time.

Ropsmann Norse establish themselves as ruling minority in Erengrad despite Khan-Queen Mishka's efforts.  Mishka takes town of Pelzburg and slaughters its inhabitants.

1900

1903

Development of loose confederation of states centred on the city-state of Erengrad.  Ingjald the Red, one of more famous of the Norse Ropsmann princes, rules the port.  A trading post is founded at the site of modern Bolgasgrad where the north and south forks of the River Lynsk converge.

1910

Ungol capital of Dorogo (re-named from Pelzburg) becomes cosmopolitan city with trading links with the Dwarfs, the Empire, and Cathay.

1979

The "Wizard's War" begins in Middenheim and spreads throughout the Empire and the Old World.  Witch Hunters range the land, though their activities are severely curtailed by the Ungols and Norse.

1991

"Wizard's War" ends in the banishment and execution of a number of Demonologists and Necromancers.  Within two years, Cult hierarchies begin violent suppression of sorcery.  A number of suspected hedge wizards and other sorcerers -- who escaped being burned at the stake – flee into the lands of the Ungols and Norse.

2003

Ungol aristocracy is assimilated into Gospodar culture as Khan Chankar weds Gospodar Princess Akila.

2011

Ropsmann princedoms finally establish overland trade with Dorogo.

2085

Khan-Queen Taira Pavlovna creates the Brotherhood of the Bear, a Templar Order dedicated to Taal.

2100

Prince Igor the Terrible of Erengrad, invites Prince Tambor of Dorogo to join the Confederacy of Kislevite States.  When Tambor refuses, Igor sends army to reduce Dorogo.  Tambor is later beheaded.

2101

Igor begins the building of the city of Kislev on the ruins of Dorogo.  He then embarks on a series of campaigns over a forty-year period to consolidate various minor states and principalities of southern and central Kislev.  Internal pressure and increased threat from Stirland, Middenheim, and Ostland forces the Talabheim Emperor Talgris XII, known as “the Fool,” to consider aligning Talabecland with Igor the Terrible's Confederacy of Kislevite States.  Confusion reigns as the Treaty is signed, Talgris is killed, the Treaty lost and Igor's son ejected from the city.

2122

Prince Ivan 'the Lunatic' (Igor's brother) marches on Talabheim.  Talagraad is razed to the ground.  For the only time ever, an enemy enters the Wizard's Way.  They are stopped at Taal Tor, and name it the Bear's Mouth.  The Prince's army disintegrates with the coming of winter and Marshall Braxix chases the rabble east.  Ivan is captured and Braxix surprises everyone by talking to him.  The Agreement of Braxix restores some of  Talabecland's original borders to the Upper Talabec and across the foothills of the Worlds Edge Mountains.

2134

Igor's campaign stalls at foothills of Worlds Edge Mountains and Farside Steppes region.  Igor declares both territories part of Confederated States of Imperial Kislev and names himself Tsar of all Kislev.  With the completion of the Kremlin, Igor moves his capital to the city of Kislev.

2143

Tsar Igor I dies while campaigning across the Lynsk.  Prince Ivan assassinated when travelling to Kislev to ascend the throne.  Rebellions rise across the land until suppressed by the new Tsar Alexandr Njevski.  Kislev reaches its golden age for the next thirty years under Tsar Alexandr I.

2247

After several increasingly weak and ineffectual Tsars, a coalition of government bureaucrats and priests conspires to govern Kislev through puppet Tsars.  Establishment of first agricultural colonies in Farside.