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Baldur's Gate 3 takes place in [[Timeline#1492|1492 DR]].<ref>[[Baldur's Mouth 1492 DR Issue 83|''Baldur's Mouth 1492 DR Issue 83'']]</ref><ref name="tollledger" /><ref group="note">DR stands for Dalereckoning, the most common calendar in Baldur's Gate 3's setting of the [[Faerûn]] continent, and the only calendar used in-game.</ref> It immediately follows the events of its prequel, {{FRWiki|Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus}}, which took place earlier in the same year.{{cite web
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This is a non-exhaustive list of dated events noted in-game occurring during and before 1492. This is in chronological order.
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== Far Past ==

=== -339 ===

* The Netherese archmage Karsus attempts (unsuccessfully) to seize control of the [[Weave]] from Mystryl (a previous incarnation of [[Mystra]]) and become a god.  His failure results in his death and the fall of the Empire of [[Netheril]]

=== 612 ===
* Eravask the Forebear becomes master vampire in [[Baldur's Gate]].<ref name="vbv">''[[Vampires before Vellioth]]'' — [[Lady Incognita]]</ref>

=== 698 ===
*Zholtan Farr the Eviscerator succeeds Eravask as master [[vampire]] in Baldur's Gate.<ref name="vbv" />

=== 713 ===
*Madame Tallon the Well-Preserved succeeds Zholtan Farr as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.<ref name="vbv" />

=== 888 ===
*The end of Madame Tallon and the beginning of the Interregnum: a temporary suppression of the master vampires of Baldur's Gate by the Lathanderians.<ref name="vbv" />

=== 955 ===
*Blaiseuse the Coryphee becomes master vampire in Baldur's Gate. She is noted for leading her spawn in ecstatic blood dances.<ref name="vbv" />

=== 986 ===
* The [[Ruined Battlefield|Battle Near Reithwin]] concludes, a clash between Kethric Thorm's [[Dark Justiciar]]s and the [[Harpers]]. <ref name="reithwinnecrology">''[[Reithwin Necrology]]''</ref>

=== 998 ===
*Dyckson Nightbinder succeeds Blaiseuse as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.<ref name="vbv" />

=== 1019 ===
*Faibleur the Fleeting succeeds Dyckson Nightbinder as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.<ref name="vbv" />
*Hideous Gathwycke 'Who Knew Not Satiety' succeeds Faibleur as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.<ref name="vbv" />

=== 1138 ===
*Donnela Szarr the Architect, who opened [[the Tourmaline Depths]], succeeds Gathwycke as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.<ref name="vbv" />

=== 1204 ===
*[[Vellioth|Vellioth the Martinet]] succeeds Donnela Szarr as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.<ref name="vbv" />

=== 1276 ===
*[[Cazador Szarr]] 'The Avid' succeeds Vellioth as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.<ref name="vbv" />

== 1300s ==
=== 1356 ===
* Bruenor Battlehammer slays shadow dragon Shimmergloom, and becomes the Eighth King of Mithral Hall. <ref name="dwarvenhistoryabriged">''[[Flintdigger's Abridged Dwarven History]]''</ref>
=== 1371 ===
==== Uktar ("The Rotting") ====
*3 Uktar — Apprentice starts writing a journal <ref name="apprenticejournal">''[[Apprentice's Journal]]''</ref>
*6 Uktar — Two druids from the [[Emerald Grove]] are sent up north. <ref name="emeraldlogbook">''[[Logbook XII: 1371]]''</ref>
*9 Uktar — Adventurers from Baldur's Gate set up camp, clearing some forest near the Emerald Grove.<ref name="emeraldlogbook" />
*10 Uktar — The Emerald Grove Druids confrontation with the adventurers doesn't go well.<ref name="emeraldlogbook" />
*12 Uktar — The Emerald Grove Druids retaliate with a mudslide. They hear reports of a Red Wizard in a nearby village. Rangers are sent to investigate. <ref name="emeraldlogbook" />
====Nightal ("The Drawing Down")====
*6 Nightal — Former Red Wizard [[Ilyn Toth]] starts a journal. He has begun work as an Apothecary in [[Blighted Village|Moonhaven]]. He continues his necromantic research and sends his familiar to secure bodies.<ref name="darkjournal">''[[Dark Journal]]'' — [[Ilyn Toth]]</ref>

=== Unknown ===
==== Olam's Journal (1300s) ====
[[Olam's Journal]] begins after Ketheric is slain, elsewhere described as being a hundred years before the beginning of the game.{{Verify}} 

The journal's use of "Darkness" presumably is recording the days since the [[shadow curse]] was unleashed. [[Books by Author|Olam]] describes it as being as cold as the "Claw of Winter," so we can assume it isn't during Alturiak. 

* Darkness 2 — Olam recalls how Ketheric's curse changed the land. <ref name="olamjournal">''[[Olam's Journal]]'' — Olam</ref>
* Darkness 5 — Olam calls his familiar Corvin to him. He searches the land.<ref name="olamjournal" />
* Darkness 18 — Olam finds scrolls by the House of Healing, but doesn't dare enter. <ref name="olamjournal" />
* Darkness 26 — Olam can bear his torment no longer. <ref name="olamjournal" />

==== Moonhaven Logbook (1372 or later) ====
The year of the [[Moonhaven Logbook]] is not given. However, the [[Apprentice's Journal]] is dated 3 Uktar 1371. 

Further digging in the Apothecary will also dig up the [[Dark Journal]] which reveals the apothecaries past as a Red Wizard named Ilyn Toth. It explains why he goes to great pains to note whether visitors to Moonhaven are Thayan or not. The Dark Journal is also dated 1371. However, since this logbook refers to events in earlier months that are certainly after he has gotten established, it is probably not recorded in 1371 but a later year.

* 26 Eleasis — Calishite Merchant Oliver Synge arrives in [[Moonhaven]] <ref name="moonhavenlog">''[[Moonhaven Logbook]]'' — [[Ilyn Toth]]</ref>
* 27 Eleasis — Oliver Synge leaves Moonhaven <ref name="moonhavenlog" /> 
* 7 Eleint — A possibly Rashemi stranger passes through Moonhaven <ref name="moonhavenlog" />
* 14 Marpenoth — Three men in black armour pass through Moonhaven <ref name="moonhavenlog" />
*2 Uktar — Journeyman Hackett passes through Moonhaven <ref name="moonhavenlog" />
*30 Uktar — Moonhaven raised by soliders in black armour <ref name="moonhavenlog" />
*14 Nightal — The key gem of [[Necromancy of Thay]] goes missing. Apothecary suspects apprentice <ref name="moonhavenlog" />
* 15 Nightal — Oliver Synge passes through Moonhaven without stopping <ref name="moonhavenlog" />
*18 Nightal — Apothecary apprentice disappears near well <ref name="moonhavenlog" />
*20 Nightal — Smoke on the horizon. Apothecary suspects a potential raid. <ref name="moonhavenlog" />

==1400—1491==

=== 1477 ===
*Tarsakh — [[Amanita Szarr]] recalls how at 13 she was summoned to [[Szarr Palace]]. <ref name="summoned">''[[Tarsakh 1477]]'' — [[Amanita Szarr]]</ref>
*Kythorn — Amanita Szarr struggles against her vampiric nature. She recalls how she has been imprisoned in the attic for over a year.<ref name="imprisoned">''[[Kythorn 1477]]'' — [[Amanita Szarr]]</ref>
*Flamerule — Amanita Szarr rejects the name of Szarr. She dubs herself Lady Incognita and vows to stay in the attic. <ref name="ladyincognita">''[[Flamerule 1477]]'' — [[Amanita Szarr|Amanita "Lady Incognita" Szarr]]</ref>

===1481===
*2 Alturiak — Last entry of [[Lenore De Hurst|Lenore De Hurst's]] [[De Hurst's Diary|diary]]. She has been called to Baldur's Gate to confer with other clerics of Mystra.<ref name="dehurstdiary">''[[De Hurst's Diary]]'' — [[Lenore De Hurst]]</ref>

===1482===
*13 Uktar — Orin pledges herself to Bhaal.<ref name="manifesto">''[[Manifesto]]'' — [[Orin the Red]]</ref>
*[[Ulder Ravengard]], Marshal of the [[Flaming Fist]], is elected as Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate after {{FRWiki|Abdel Adrian}}'s death at the hands of Viekang, a fellow [[Bhaalspawn]].

===1491===
*The Council of Four consisted of Duke [[Belynne Stelmane]], Duke [[Dillard Portyr]], Duke [[Thalamra Vanthampur]], and was chaired by Grand Duke [[Ulder Ravengard]]. <ref name="dukesofbg">''[[The Dukes of Baldur's Gate]]''</ref>

===Unknown===
* Duke Vanthampur dies. This may have occurred in 1491 or 1492.<ref name="dukesofbg" />

==== Dead Druid's Journal (~1440) ====
Described as "a handwritten journal, abandoned for some fifty years." Presumably no earlier than 1430 and no later than 1460. 

*A druid records his first encounter with the [[shadow curse]]. <ref name="druidjournal">''[[Dead Druid's Journal]]''</ref>
==1492 – Current year==
''[[Baldur's Gate 3]]'' takes place in the year of 1492 DR, known as the "Year of Three Ships Sailing"<ref name="tollledger">''[[Tollhouse Ledger (Risen Road)]]''</ref>

=== Pre-game events ===
* In an event known as "the Descent", [[Elturel]] is plunged into [[Avernus]], the result of an Infernal conspiracy involving [[Zariel]] among others
** Grand Duke Ravengard disappears during the Descent, but is returned alongside the rest of the city to the Material Plane<ref name="dukesofbg" />
** The tieflings of Elturel become scapegoats for the crisis.  The increased prejudice forces them to leave the city, becoming [[Tiefling refugees|refugees]]

===Tarsakh ("The Claw of Storms")===
*29 Tarsakh — A contractor finishes installing a concealed sliding door <ref name="contractorrecord">''[[Contractor's Record]]''</ref>
=== Eleint ("The Fading")=== 
*14 Eleint — The tiefling refugees have settled in at [[Emerald Grove]] <ref name="groveannals">''[[Grove Annals]]''</ref>
===Marpenoth ("Leaffall")=== 
*2 Marpenoth — Adventurers in search of the Nightsong arrive at Emerald Grove <ref name="groveannals" />
*9 Marpenoth — Four merchants with a single wagon cross the Risen Road tollhouse <ref name="tollledger" /> 
*12 Marpenoth — Fifteen Flaming Fists Fists and a Guantlet cross the Risen Road tollhouse <ref name="tollledger" />
* 21 Marpenoth — Brewer and two guards headed for Waukeen's Rest cross the Risen Road tollhouse <ref name="tollledger" />
===Uktar ("The Rotting") ===
*2 Uktar — Seven farmers (wounded) cross the Risen Road tollhouse <ref name="tollledger" />
* 3 Uktar — Risen Road tollhouse sends couriers to request extra guards <ref name="tollledger" />
*7 Uktar — Too many farmers to count, carrying their own dead, cross the Risen Road tollhouse <ref name="tollledger" />
* 11 Uktar — The toll collecters find Risen Road post untenable <ref name="tollledger" />
*16 Uktar — The toll collecters prepare to leave the Risen Road Tollhouse  <ref name="tollledger" />

=== Unknown ===
* Lord [[Enver Gortash]] becomes a contender.<ref name="dukesofbg" />
* Ravengard returns and endorses Gortash for Archduke<ref name="dukesofbg" />

==Unspecified Year==
===Waning Moon: Consignments===
*10 Tarsahk — [[Ketheric Thorm]] is informed by [[Thisobald Thorm]] that the Mason spoke out against him <ref name="waningmoon">''[[The Waning Moon: Consignments]]'' — [[Thisobald Thorm]]</ref>
*6 Flamerule — Thisobald is poisoned with truth serum, and confesses to poisoning drinks, Malus 'treatments', interrogations and more. His poisoner threatens to reveal it to the authorities unless bribed.<ref name="waningmoon" />
*23 Eleint — Harpers poison Ketheric Thorm. He survives, evidence of his immortality. <ref name="waningmoon" />

===Experiment on Cruor=== 
*Nightal 3 — Bhaal sends a butler to his chosen. The butler is returned. <ref name="cruorexperiment">''[[Experiment on Cruor]]'' — [[Dark Urge]]</ref>
*Nightal 4 — The butler returns, praising its murderer. It is murdered again. <ref name="cruorexperiment" />
*Nightal 9 — The butler returns again. Bhaal's chosen makes plans for it. <ref name="cruorexperiment" />

==Footnotes==
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==See Also==
*{{FRWiki|Calendar of Harptos}}
*{{FRWiki|Present Age}}