D'ni - Earth Timeline

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: New Mexico chronology bolded

 

D'ni Events

 

 

Earth Events*

 

 

 

54000-60000 BCE

Capulin Mountain erupted, part of the last stage of a great period of volcanism that began 9 million years earlier.

 

 

 

c. 25000 BCE

Sandia people leave earliest evidence of human existence in what is now New Mexico.

 

 

 

c. 12000-9000 BCE

Clovis hunters roam area in search of mammoth, bison and other game.

 

 

 

c. 11500-8000 BCE

Paleo Indian Culture - Highly mobile, little revisitation, low population density, high quality rock tools. Technology of fluted points, rare ground stone in Ventana Cave, Arizona, Lehner Ranch in South Arizona an important site, extinct mammals and Clovis points.

 

 

 

c. 11300-8000 BCE

Folsom people flourish throughout Southwest at the end of the last Ice Age.

 

 

 

c. 10000 BCE

1) Dog domesticated (Middle East) (2) Farming first developed in Fertile Crescent; Intensive flock management in Zagros Mountains

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c. 10000-500 BCE

Cochise people are first inhabitants to cultivate corn, squash and beans, the earliest evidence of agriculture in the Southwest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c. 8350 BCE

Earliest known walled city at Jericho

 

 

 

c. 8000-1800 BCE

Archaic Period - More regionalism of cultures with diverse projectile point traditions, side-notched, corner-notched, and barbed points. Technology includes digging sticks, srrated stone, ground stones, manos and metates, storage baskets. Residential and logistical mobility. Tome and space scheduling requires intense knowledge of landscape. Early domestication of plants. Slow change to living year around in one place.

 

 

 

c. 8000 BCE

(1) Potatoes and beans cultivated in South America (2) Earliest permanent farming villages in Fertile Crescent

 

 

 

c. 7998 BCE

Ice Age Hopi Legend: End of the 2nd world, they stayed under the earth with the "Ant People." The Hopi origin myth states their nuclear home is called "Kiva." Hopi Legend: Ant People's great Kiva provided sanctuary during the first world destroyed by fire and second world by ice (glaciers).

207 BE

Ri'neref born on Garternay

 

7864 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

117 BE

Ri'Neref (90) becomes a Guild Master in the Garternay Writer's Guild.

 

 

 

7774 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

73 BE

Ri'neref dismissed from the Guild of Writers for refusing the order from his Grand Master to write an Age which violated his moral principles

 

7674 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Ri'neref began working on the Book of D'ni after his dismissal from the Guild of Writers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

59 BE*

Circa 59 BE the fact that Garternay was dying was confirmed and the information made public

 

 

 

 

7716 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

0 DE

The D'ni people start their calendar with a zero year

 

 

7657 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great Zero monument built on Ae'gura

 

 

 

 

 

 

c. 7500 BCE

First manufacture of textiles in the Middle East using flax

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c. 7000 BCE

Goats, sheep, and pigs domesticated (Middle East)

1 DE*

Ri'neref became the first King of D'ni at the age of 207

 

6756 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 DE*

Guild of Writer's buildings completed. (8th year after coming to D'ni)

 

7649.9.27 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

48 DE

Construction began on a temple to Yahvo

 

 

7609 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

63 DE

Temple to Yahvo, known as the Regeltovokum, completed

 

 

7594 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

84 DE

Construction and installation of massive shafts and fans for air circulation in D'ni was begun

 

 

 

7573 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

100 DE

The first 18 Major Guilds of D'ni were dedicated to Yahvo on The

Day of the Circle

 

 

7556.4.8 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

114 DE

Construction and installed of massive air circulation system completed

 

 

 

7543 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Numerous records point to a small group of D'ni disappearing after the completion of the air circulation system. It was assumed that they remained upon the surface of Earth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

120 DE

King Ri'neref died at age 327

 

7537 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ailesh became 2nd King at age 170

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

233 DE

Common Library finished during reign of King Ailesh

 

 

7424.5.7 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

300 DE

King Ailesh died at age 350

 

7357 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shomat became 3rd King at age

44

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

347 DE

King Shomat's palace was completed

 

 

7310 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

387 DE

Both of King Shomat's brothers disappeared. It was commonly presumed that Shomat brought about their deaths

 

 

 

 

7270 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

400 DE

A prophetess was chosen to assist King Shomat. The choosing of prophetesses as guides for the Kings began with Shomat and became a tradition for all the remaining Kings of D'ni

 

7257 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

555 DE*

King Shomat died at age 299

 

7102 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coronation of King Ja'kreen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

558 DE

Design of the duplicate of the Arch of Kings

 

 

7099 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

600 DE

Construction began on the duplicate of the Arch of Kings (Ja'kreen Monument Book)

 

 

 

7057 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

625 DE

A duplicate of the Garternay Arch of Kings was completed in D'ni. Thereafter every king began his reign by sailing under the Arch (DRC site; Ja'kreen Monument Book)

 

7032 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

643 DE

Temple of the Great King completed. The temple was also meant to fulfill prophesy. The gold throne from the Temple of Yavho is moved here.

 

7014 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

775 DE

Much private construction on Ae'gura, including the J'Taeri district.

 

 

 

6882 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

812 DE

Coronation of King Veesha

 

6845 BCE

 

 

 

 

6793 BCE

Ice Age had ended and climatic patterns were established. (Hopi Legend 3rd World begins)

997 DE

Mararon became 6th King at age 73

 

6660 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

1124 DE

King Mararon restructured the Common Schools, and instituted the first of the minor guilds.

 

6533 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning of major revisions to educational system under King Mararon. Common Schools placed under Guild of Legislators. Years of education increased from 6 to 15 years, after which students could enter one of the newly-established Minor Guilds (Architects, Miners, Educators, Bankers, etc.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1159 DE

King Mararon died at age 235

 

6498 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coronation of King Koreen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1303 DE

Religious sect "Judges of Yahvo" (the RegolantantEok) steals Books and Ink to write illegal Ages

 

6354 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

1320 DE

Judges write Pento Age and gain control of the inhabitants, forming them into an army

 

6337 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

1323 DE

First Arrival of the Great King. Beginning of the Pento War. Judges and Pento warriors attack Palace. King Koreen sends pregnant wife into hiding in private Age. Son Ahlsendar (the Great King) is rumored to have been born as she sailed under the King's Arch during her flight.

 

 

 

6334.9.30 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

1352 DE

King Koreen assassinated. Ahlsendar takes advantage of civil strife among the Pento to return to D'ni, fulfilling the prophesies of the Great King.

 

 

 

 

 

6305 BCE

 

 

Ahlsendar became 8th King at age 29*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1376 DE

End of Pento War. Coronation of King Ahlsendar.

 

6281 BCE

 

 

 

 

c. 6200 BC

Copper smelting in Asia Minor

1466 DE

Ahlsendar's family killed by Pento leader Mekarr. Ahlsendar destroys Pento Age with bio-weapon plague. Plague is carried to other Ages by sick Pento

 

6191 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

1501 DE

Ahlsendar sealed into Temple of the Great King with all infected Books and all Books linking the D'ni to their past. Coronation of King Solath.

 

6156 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

1502 DE

Temple of the Great King renamed as Tomb of the Great King.

 

 

 

6155 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sealing of the Great Temple

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1520 DE

Prophetess Nemiya (former advisor to the Great King) writes the Book of Nemiya, calling the Great King a "fraud and imposter", criticizing his genocide, and sending the culture into religious upheaval.

 

6137 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

1650 DE

Civic district of Karim, with concert hall and opera house, completed. Helps re-unify D'ni and divert attention from religious arguments. Planning began in 1604 DE and construction in 1610 DE.

 

6007 BCE

 

 

 

 

c. 6000 BC

Irrigation in Zagros Mountains (1) Cat domesticated (Northeast Africa) (2) Cattle domesticated (Turkey)

1779 DE

Coronation of King Me'erta

 

5878 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

1817 DE

Me'Erta suggested that the line of the Great Zero was inaccurate

 

5840 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Through 1902 DE, cult temples sanctioned and encouraged by King Me'erta are built along a proposed new line for the Great Zero. Temples of the Tree (1843), Water (1876) and Sacred Stone (1902) are built. Few adherents of the Temple of Yahvo remain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1975 DE

Me'erta attempts to change the Writer's Guild Oath written by Ailesh at the urging of his mother, Jolatha. Grand Master Writer Tremal refuses and is assassinated. Writer's Guild closes ranks and refuses to change Oath.

 

5682 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

1999 DE

Seal of the Tomb of the Great King secretly broken by request of Jolatha. Jolatha sickens and dies after taking many Books from the Tomb to the Temple of the Tree. Me'erta re-closes the Tomb and strengthens the seals.

 

5658 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

2015 DE

Coronation of King Gan. Evolved version of Ahlsendar's Plague, released from the Tomb when the seals were broken, strikes D'ni. Many are killed, and fertility rates are cut in half. Search for cure occupies reigns of Gan and the two following kings.

 

5642 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

2070 DE

Coronation of King Behnashiren

 

5587 BCE

 

 

 

 

c. 5500 BCE

Cotton cultivated in India

2193 DE

Coronation of King Hemelin

 

5464 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

2257 DE

Lost Book of Birenni found, leading to cure for plague, which

is declared ended in 2262 DE.

 

 

5400 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

2350 DE

Minor Guild of Miners encouraged by King Hemelin to improve methods and technologies.

 

5307 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

2356 DE

Naygen became 14th King at age 86

 

5301 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

2397 DE

Start of "D'ni Renaissance" of the arts, encouraged by King Naygen, who also encouraged search for "truths" leading to an increase in religious confusion. Very popular play on Pento War by playwright Sirreh is hosted by Eamis Theater Company, raising the importance of theater in the popular culture.

 

5260 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

2408 DE

The musician Airem became renowned, selling out concert halls. His work sometimes ridiculed the Great King.

 

 

 

 

5249 BCE

 

 

 

 

c. 5200 BCE

Chickens domesticated (China)

2488 DE

First successful extrusion tests carried out by Guild of Miners

 

 

5169 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

King Naygen made the Guild of Minors a major guild, replacing the Guild of Fine Artists. The Guild of Fine Artists became the Minor Guilds of Sculptors, Artists, Actors, and Musicians

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2500 DE

Peak of religious confusion, with about 2500 registered sects.

 

5157 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

2502 DE

Construction began on a new Council Chamber for the Guilds. As King Naygen had proposed, it was built over the top of the tomb of the Great King, which then became barely visible

 

5155 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

2533 DE

King Naygen died at age 263

 

5124 BCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coronation of King Hinash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2535 DE