Timeline

Baldur's Gate 3 takes place in 1492 DR. It immediately follows the events of its prequel, Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus, which took place earlier in the same year.

This is a non-exhaustive list of dated events noted in-game occurring during and before 1492. This is in chronological order. x

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.

698

• Zholtan Farr the Eviscerator succeeds Eravask as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.

713

• Madame Tallon the Well-Preserved succeeds Zholtan Farr as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.

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.

955

• Blaiseuse the Coryphee becomes master vampire in Baldur's Gate. She is noted for leading her spawn in ecstatic blood dances.

986

• The Battle Near Reithwin concludes, a clash between Kethric Thorm's Dark Justiciars and the Harpers.

998

• Dyckson Nightbinder succeeds Blaiseuse as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.

1019

• Faibleur the Fleeting succeeds Dyckson Nightbinder as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.
• Hideous Gathwycke 'Who Knew Not Satiety' succeeds Faibleur as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.

1138

• Donnela Szarr the Architect, who opened the Tourmaline Depths, succeeds Gathwycke as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.

1204

• Vellioth the Martinet succeeds Donnela Szarr as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.

1276

• Cazador Szarr 'The Avid' succeeds Vellioth as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.

1300s

1322

• Astarion makes Sebastian a vampire spawn, one of his first victims.

1356

• Bruenor Battlehammer slays shadow dragon Shimmergloom, and becomes the Eighth King of Mithral Hall.

1371

Uktar ("The Rotting")

• 3 Uktar — Apprentice starts writing a journal
• 6 Uktar — Two druids from the Emerald Grove are sent up north.
• 9 Uktar — Adventurers from Baldur's Gate set up camp, clearing some forest near the Emerald Grove.
• 10 Uktar — The Emerald Grove Druids confrontation with the adventurers doesn't go well.
• 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.

Nightal ("The Drawing Down")

• 6 Nightal — Former Red Wizard Ilyn Toth starts a journal. He has begun work as an Apothecary in Moonhaven. He continues his necromantic research and sends his familiar to secure bodies.

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.^{[Needs Verification]}

The journal's use of "Darkness" presumably is recording the days since the shadow curse was unleashed. 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.
• Darkness 5 — Olam calls his familiar Corvin to him. He searches the land.
• Darkness 18 — Olam finds scrolls by the House of Healing, but doesn't dare enter.
• Darkness 26 — Olam can bear his torment no longer.

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
• 27 Eleasis — Oliver Synge leaves Moonhaven
• 7 Eleint — A possibly Rashemi stranger passes through Moonhaven
• 14 Marpenoth — Three men in black armour pass through Moonhaven
• 2 Uktar — Journeyman Hackett passes through Moonhaven
• 30 Uktar — Moonhaven raised by soliders in black armour
• 14 Nightal — The key gem of Necromancy of Thay goes missing. Apothecary suspects apprentice
• 15 Nightal — Oliver Synge passes through Moonhaven without stopping
• 18 Nightal — Apothecary apprentice disappears near well
• 20 Nightal — Smoke on the horizon. Apothecary suspects a potential raid.

1400—1491

1477

• Tarsakh — Amanita Szarr recalls how at 13 she was summoned to Szarr Palace.
• Kythorn — Amanita Szarr struggles against her vampiric nature. She recalls how she has been imprisoned in the attic for over a year.
• Flamerule — Amanita Szarr rejects the name of Szarr. She dubs herself Lady Incognita and vows to stay in the attic.

1481

• 2 Alturiak — Last entry of Lenore De Hurst's diary. She has been called to Baldur's Gate to confer with other clerics of Mystra.

1482

• 13 Uktar — Orin pledges herself to Bhaal.
• Ulder Ravengard, Marshal of the Flaming Fist, is elected as Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate after 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.

Unknown

• Duke Vanthampur dies. This may have occurred in 1491 or 1492.

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.

1492 – Current year

Baldur's Gate 3 takes place in the year of 1492 DR, known as the "Year of Three Ships Sailing"

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
  • The tieflings of Elturel become scapegoats for the crisis. The increased prejudice forces them to leave the city, becoming refugees

Tarsakh ("The Claw of Storms")

• 29 Tarsakh — A contractor finishes installing a concealed sliding door in Lady Jannath's Estate.

Eleasis ("Highsun")

• 20 Eleasis - A nautiloid crashes on the banks of the River Chionthar, with a number of its captives making it out alive.

Eleint ("The Fading")

• 14 Eleint — The tiefling refugees have settled in at Emerald Grove

Marpenoth ("Leaffall")

• 2 Marpenoth — Adventurers in search of the Nightsong arrive at Emerald Grove
• 9 Marpenoth — Four merchants with a single wagon cross the Risen Road tollhouse
• 12 Marpenoth — Fifteen Flaming Fists Fists and a Guantlet cross the Risen Road tollhouse
• 21 Marpenoth — Brewer and two guards headed for Waukeen's Rest cross the Risen Road tollhouse

Uktar ("The Rotting")

• 2 Uktar — Seven farmers (wounded) cross the Risen Road tollhouse
• 3 Uktar — Risen Road tollhouse sends couriers to request extra guards
• 7 Uktar — Too many farmers to count, carrying their own dead, cross the Risen Road tollhouse
• 11 Uktar — The toll collecters find Risen Road post untenable
• 16 Uktar — The toll collecters prepare to leave the Risen Road Tollhouse

Unknown

• Lord Enver Gortash becomes a contender.
• Ravengard returns and endorses Gortash for Archduke

Unspecified Year

Waning Moon: Consignments

• 10 Tarsahk — Ketheric Thorm is informed by Thisobald Thorm that the Mason spoke out against him
• 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.
• 23 Eleint — Harpers poison Ketheric Thorm. He survives, evidence of his immortality.

Experiment on Cruor

• Nightal 3 — Bhaal sends a butler to his chosen. The butler is returned.
• Nightal 4 — The butler returns, praising its murderer. It is murdered again.
• Nightal 9 — The butler returns again. Bhaal's chosen makes plans for it.

See Also

• Calendar of Harptos
• Present Age