The Lord of the Rings

The Rohirrim settle in Calenardhon.
2545
Eorl falls in battle in the Wold.
2569
Brego son of Eorl completes the Golden Hall.
2570
Baldor son of Brego enters the Forbidden Door and is lost. About this time Dragons reappear in the far North and begin to afflict the Dwarves.
2589
Dáin I slain by a Dragon.
2590
Thrór returns to Erebor. Grór his brother goes to the Iron Hills.
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 2670
Tobold plants ‘ pipe-weed’ in the Southfarthing.
2683
Isengrim II becomes tenth Thain and begins the excavation of Great Smials.
2698
Ecthelion I rebuilds the White Tower in Minas Tirith.
2740
Orcs renew their invasions of Eriador.
2747
Bandobras Took defeats an Orc-band in the Northfarthing.
2758
Rohan attacked from west and east and overrun. Gondor attacked by fleets of the Corsairs. Helm of Rohan takes refuge in Helm’s Deep. Wulf seizes Edoras. 2758-9: The Long Winter follows. Great suffering and loss of life in Eriador and Rohan. Gandalf comes to the aid of the Shire-folk.
2759
Death of Helm. Fréaláf drives out Wulf, and begins second line of Kings of the Mark. Saruman takes up his abode in Isengard.
2770
Smaug the Dragon descends on Erebor. Dale destroyed. Thrór escapes with Thráin II and Thorin II.
2790
Thrór slain by an Orc in Moria. The Dwarves gather for a war of vengeance. Birth of Gerontius, later known as the Old Took.
2793
The War of the Dwarves and Orcs begins.
2799
Battle of Nanduhirion before the East-gate of Moria. Dáin Iron-foot returns to the Iron Hills. Thráin II and his son Thorin wander westwards. They settle in the South of Ered Luin beyond the Shire (2802).
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Orcs from the North trouble Rohan. King Walda slain by them (2861).
2841
Thráin II sets out to revisit Erebor, but is pursued by the servants of Sauron.
2845
Thráin the Dwarf is imprisoned in Dol Guldur; the last of the Seven Rings is taken from him.
2850
Gandalf again enters Dol Guldur, and discovers that its master is indeed Sauron, who is gathering all the Rings and seeking for news of the One, and of Isildur’s Heir. He finds Thráin and receives the key of Erebor. Thráin dies in Dol Guldur.
2851
The White Council meets. Gandalf urges an attack on Dol Guldur. Saruman overrules him. 1 Saruman begins to search near the Gladden Fields.
2872
Belecthor II of Gondor dies. The White Tree dies, and no seedling can be found. The Dead Tree is left standing.
2885
Stirred up by emissaries of Sauron the Haradrim cross the Poros and attack Gondor. The sons of Folcwine of Rohan are slain in the service of Gondor.
2890
Bilbo born in the Shire.
2901
Most of the remaining inhabitants of Ithilien desert it owing to the attacks of Uruks of Mordor. The secret refuge of Henneth Annûn is built.
2907
Birth of Gilraen mother of Aragorn II.
2911
The Fell Winter. The Baranduin and other rivers are frozen. White Wolves invade Eriador from the North.
2912
Great floods devastate Enedwaith and Minhiriath. Tharbad is ruined and deserted.
2920
Death of the Old Took.
2929
Arathorn son of Arador of the Dúnedain weds Gilraen.
2930
Arador slain by Trolls. Birth of Denethor II son of Ecthelion II in Minas Tirith.
2931
Aragorn son of Arathorn II born on March 1st.
2933
Arathorn II slain. Gilraen takes Aragorn to Imladris. Elrond receives him as foster-son and gives him the name Estel (Hope); his ancestry is concealed.
2939
Saruman discovers that Sauron’s servants are searching the Anduin near Gladden Fields, and that Sauron therefore has learned of Isildur’s end. He is alarmed, but says nothing to the Council.
2941
Thorin Oakenshield and Gandalf visit Bilbo in the Shire. Bilbo meets Sméagol-Gollum and finds the Ring. The White Council meets; Saruman agrees to an attack on Dol Guldur, since he now wishes to prevent Sauron from searching the River. Sauron having made his plans abandons Dol Guldur. The Battle of the Five Armies in Dale. Death of Thorin II. Bard of Esgaroth slays Smaug. Dáin of the Iron Hills becomes King under the Mountain (Dáin II).
2942
Bilbo returns to the Shire with the Ring. Sauron returns in secret to Mordor.
2944
Bard rebuilds Dale and becomes King. Gollum leaves the Mountains and begins his search for the ‘ thief of the Ring.
2948
Théoden son of Thengel, King of Rohan, born.
2949
Gandalf and Balin visit Bilbo in the Shire.
2950
Finduilas, daughter of Adrahil of Dol Amroth, born.
2951
Sauron declares himself openly and gathers power in Mordor. He begins the rebuilding of Barad-dûr. Gollum turns towards Mordor. Sauron sends three of the