Grand Unified Timeline/The Far Future: Difference between revisions

* ''Blade of Eternity disappears into the Warp (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Start of the Dark Age of Technology. Colonisation of the solar system begins in earnest. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Humanity invents Warp drive and first encounters xenos. Psykers first appear among humans. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Titans invented on Terra. Humans begin remaking the galaxy in their own image. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Golden Age of Mankind begins. Emergence of the Navigator gene allows Human spaceships to make longer and faster Warp Jumps, dramatically increasing the speed and range of galaxy-wide colonisation. Perfection of Standard Template Constructs. Humans become the dominant force in the Milky Way. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Discovery of the Savia, Metrium, and Sodallagain systems (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* The Dark Age of Technology ends as humanity's Iron Men [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot|rise up against them]]. Human civilisation is plunged into anarchy as Warp Storms render interstellar travel all but impossible. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* The Emperor of Man creates the first genetically-altered, power-armoured warriors to aid in his conquest of Terra. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* The Emperor creates the Primarchs, twenty demigods made from his own genetic material, only to see them scattered across the galaxy by the powers of Chaos. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* The Fall of the Eldar. The combined debauchery and sadism of the Eldar race creates the Chaos god Slaanesh, the Dark Prince of Excess. In an instant the heart is torn from the Eldar civilization, leaving behind a wound in reality dubbed the Eye of Terror. The shockwaves of Slaanesh's birth dispel the Warp Storms isolating Terra, allowing the Emperor to launch his Great Crusade to reunite humanity. One by one the Primarchs are rediscovered and given command of the Space Marine Legions. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* [[Horus Heresy]] begins. Warmaster Horus defects to Chaos and leads fully half of the Imperium's armed forces to damnation. Galaxy is sundered in [[Civil War]]. Horus initially joined by World Eaters, Emperor's Children, and Death Guard. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Drop Site Massacre. An Imperial assault on Horus is defeated, resulting in the decimation of the Iron Hands, Salamanders, and Raven Guard. Night Lords, Iron Warriors, Word Bearers, and Alpha Legion defect to Horus and Chaos. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Siege of Terra. Blood Angels, Imperial Fists, and White Scars defend the Emperor's Palace from Horus' Chaos Legions. Sanguinius is killed by Horus. Horus is then killed by the Emperor, who is mortally wounded and hooked up to the Golden Throne. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Great Scouring begins. Loyalist Imperial forces gradually reclaim the galaxy from the traitors. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Division of the Dark Angels Marines. Destruction of Caliban. Luther is captured and held in stasis; Lion El'Jonson apparently killed. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Codex Astartes compiled by Roboute Guilliman. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Foundation of the Grey Knights. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* End of the Scouring. Formal end of the Horus Heresy. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Second Founding. Space Marines Legions split into smaller Chapters to prevent a catastrophe on the Horus Heresy. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Jaghatai Khan disappears in battle against the Dark Eldar. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Space Wolves Legion renamed Sons of Horus (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Disappearance of Leman Russ. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Karis Cephalon resettled (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Rogal Dorn dies in combat against Chaos. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* First Black Crusade. Chaos loses. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Laer massacred by Emperor's Children (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Temple of the Saviour Emperor becomes the official religion of the Imperium. Remaining loyalist primarchs die or disppear. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Veneris II becomes the first Ecclesiarch to be appointed as a High Lord of Terra (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ecclesiarch becomes a permanent position among the High Lords of Terra (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* The Beheading: High Lords of Terra assassinated by Drakan Vangorich, Grand Master of Assassins. Vangorich meets his end in a bloody battle against the Space Marines. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Second Black Crusade. Chaos loses. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Astropath Wars take place (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Third Black Crusade. Chaos loses. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* War of the Confessor (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Foundation of the Howling Griffons (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Admiral Ursurs exiled from the High Lords of Terra and assigned to lead an Imperial expansion into the edge of the Milky Way (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Contact lost with Admiral Ursurs (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Siege of Eternity's Gate (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* The ''Blade of Infinity'' emerged from the Warp (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ghosts rise from the dead to defeat a Warp invasion (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Fourth Black Crusade. Destruction of Citadel of Kromarch. Chaos loses. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* The Howling: A group of Black Templars kill the Cacodominus, and the pychic backlash disrupts the Astronomicon, destabilising the Imperium (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Suicide of Lasko Pyre, the only person ever to escape Dark Eldar slavery (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Blackstar Crusade. M'Laar XIII conquered by Lord Ekrak, who ascends to daemonhood. Forces of Chaos proceed to fight among themselves for control of the planet. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Kai system absorbed into the Eye of Terror (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Obscuran Uprisings. Sons of Vengeance go renegade (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Segmentum Pacificus secedes from the Imperium (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' <ref>Assuming that the Terra Nova Interregnum ended with the Cataclysm of Souls, in 975.M35. Lexicanum states that the Terra Nova Interregnum lasted for 900 years.</ref>)

* Ecclesiarch Benedin IV moved the Ecclesiarchy from Terra to Ophelia VII (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* An Imperial exploration vessel arrives on Angelis to investigate some unusual pyramidal struggles (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* An Ork Space Hulk crashed on Angelis, killing all the Imperials. War breaks out between the surviving Orkz over whether the wreck of their ship more resembles Gork or Mork. Angelis is renamed Gorkamorka (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Surviving Imperials on Gorkamorka gain access to a Necron tomb (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ecclesiarch Greigor XI begins the return of the Ecclesiarchy to Terra (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Return of Ecclesiarchy to Terra completed (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Foundation of the Executioner and Mantis Warrior Space Marines (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Tallarn Desert Raiders under the command of Lurenz harass Eldar on Holon Prime (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Tau discovered by the Imperial vessel ''Land Vision'' (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Inhabitants of Grendel's World massacred by Night Lords (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Cataclysm of Souls: Ecclesiarchy attempts to reunite the Imperium with the Segmentum Pacificus and create a theocratic state (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Sabbat Worlds annexed for colonisation by Imperium of Man (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* ''Mythos Angelica Mortis'' written (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Thirteenth Founding results in the creation of the Exorcist and Death Spectre Space Marines (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Other Space Marine Chapters created in Foundings 14 - 20 (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* 21st Founding: Black Dragon, Fire Hawk, Lamenter, Flame Falcon, Minotaur, and Sons of Antaeus Chapters formed. All suffer from bad luck. Project ended when the fledgling chapters are attacked by the Emperor's Children. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Gervahrt Repeal: The only known incidence in which the promotion of a Black Templar Sword Brother to Marshall is blocked. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Wars of Vindication: Bloody internal conflict within the Officio Assassinorum. Conflict ends when the Grand Master of Assassins kills the usurper Jarek, and then goes into self-imposed exile. Inquisitor Jaeger founds the Ordo Sicarius to keep the Officio Assassinorum in line (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Age of Apostasy begins as the Ecclesiarchy and Administratum begin manoeuvring for power, wealth, and influence within the Imperium, leaving the outer regions to fall to Chaos and xenos (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Goge Vandire, Grand Master of the Administratum and instigator of the Wars of Vindication, seizes control of the Ecclesiarchy. He takes on the [[Amazon Brigade|Daughters of the Emperor]] as his [[Praetorian Guard|personal bodyguard]] and renames them the Alicia Dominica. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Birth of Sebastian Thor (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Sebastian Thor leads the combined forces of the Space Marines, Imperial Guard, and Adeptus Mechanicus against Goge Vandire. Vandire's space forces are destroyed by the Storm of the Emperor's Wrath, and he himself is assassinated by the Alicia Dominica. Sebastian Thor is appointed Ecclesiarch. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ecclesiarchy is forbidden from maintaining a force of men at arms. Sebastian Thor gets around this by reforming the Daughters of the Emperor into the Adpetus Sororitas and making them the military arm of the Ecclesiarchy (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Sebastian Thor resigns as Ecclesiarch and wanders the Milky Way as a preacher (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Empire of Cardinal Bucharis comes into conflict with the Space Wolves (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Plague of Unbelief (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Sebastian Thor dies on Terra at the age of 112. He is succeeded as Ecclesiarch by Alexis XXII (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Covenant Sanctorum and Covenant Prioris split into the Orders of the Ebon Chalice, Valorous Heart, Fiery Heart, and Argent Shroud. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Beelze Conflict (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Birth of Saint Sabbat (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Second Purging of Lastrati (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Fifth Black Crusade. Chaos loses. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* 16th Armageddon Steel Legion put down a rebellion by The Way of the Emperor's Flesh on Cassell (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Sixth Black Crusade. Chaos loses. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Nemesis Incident. In the aftermath, the Storm Wardens are sealed away and isolated from the rest of the Imperium (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* The Great Cull (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Salamander Captain T'Sel seeks atonement through a warrior pilgrimage through Rhialla, Colcha, and Armageddon (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Abyssal Crusade: 30 Space Marine Chapters sent into the Eye of Terror to cleans it of Slaanesh as atonement for not living up to the Emperor's standards (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Cadian shocktroopers defeat the Alpha Legion on Mihok Secundus (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Foundation of the Order of the Fiery Heart, later renamed Order of Our Martyred Lady (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Apostles of the Blind King go renegade and blow up several stars in the outer Segmentum Obscurus, starting the Occlusiad War (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Dark Angels defeat Daemons on Persembe II (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* End of the Occlusiad War. Blind King is killed and his Apostles collapse. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Urhua Thereaux send to assassinate Governor Yawell, but her ship is caught in a Warp rift. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Seventh Black Crusade. Blood Angels slaughtered at Mackan Chaos loses. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Heavenfall Massacre (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Eighth Black Crusade. Chaos loses. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Disciplines of Caliban founded (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Tau united by the Ethereal Caste under the philosophy of the Greater Good (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Effective lances developed on Mars (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Sabbat Worlds fully settled by Imperium (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Zoats arrive in the Milky Way, fleeing the Tyranids. They are massacred (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Bloodtide Awakens (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Last Zoats killed (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Subodai of the White Scar Space Marines goes on a warrior pilgrimage through V'Run, Jurn, and the Taleris Belt (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Zeriah captured by the Dark Angels on Altid 156 (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Eldar craftworld Iybraesil first detected in Segmentum Obscurus (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ninth Black Crusade. Chaos loses. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Salonika Crusade begins (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Order of the Bloody Rose and Order of the Sacred Rose founded (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Skopios base taken over by C'Tan and converted to Necron production facility. Base destroyed by Elysian Drop Troops (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperial Guard Bluebloods 87th Regiment massacred by Dark Eldar (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Chaos assaults on Sabbat Worlds increase in frequency and intensity (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Tenth Black Crusade. Chaos loses. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Destruction of Stalnivast (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Eleventh Black Crusade. Chaos loses. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Autarch of Krieg declares independence from the Imperium. Krieg is nuked sterile (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Black Templars conquer Jerulas System for the Imperium. Land Raider Crusader Standard Template Construct is rediscovered and quickly becomes standard issue among Space Marines. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Land Raider Crusader finally officially recognised by the Adeptus Mechanicus (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Squat Civil War (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Black Templars clear Orkz out of Donian sector (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* ''Unholy Harbinger'' emerges from the Warp (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Defence of Balle Alpha (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Nexxus Exculpation: An Imperial Army Corps defeats an invasion by the Emperor's Children. To maintain secrecy, the Ordo Malleus bombs the Corps from orbit and blames the attack on rogue Eldar. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Battle of Colonial Bridge. Darnath Lysander of the Imperial Fists first distinguishes hmself (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Darnath Lysander takes control of the Eldar vessel ''Blood of Khaine''. For his courage, he is promoted to commander of the Second Company of the Imperial Fists (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Yuctan Incident: Imperial patrol force wiped out by Necrons in Yuctan System (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Hive World Vidium lost to Dark Eldar (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Kroot expansion begins (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Conflict begins on Koralkal VIII between Tyranids and the Catachan 18th Jungle Fighters Regiment (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Conflict on Koralkal VIII ends. Catachan 18th placed in quarantine (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Catachan 18th released from quarantine (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ultramarine Shield Bearers of Alutia take a warrior pilgrimage through Ryza, Catachan, and Archios (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* On Roxanzand, Warlord Uglak the Unsotoppable is killed by a Vindicare Assassin and his Gargant destroyed (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Craftworld Yme-Loc first detected in Segmentum Obscurus (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* An Ork Waaargh! attacks the far eastern rim of the Milky Way (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Two High Lords of Terra assassinated (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Saint Drache martyred on Kroynth (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* A famine on Beznos kills millions (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Pontius Glaw first touched by the Warp (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* On planet Farglum, Hive Tumulus cleansed of Epicurian Cult by the Order of the Valorous Heart (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Construction of ''Planet Killer'' completed in the Eye of Terror. 12th Black Crusade begins. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* ''Planet Killer'' destroyed (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* 12th Black Crusade ends with the defeat of Abaddon. Again. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Conflict between Death Korps of Krieg and Orkz under Warboss Skarmork on Castaburg (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Subsector capital of Helica moved from Gudrun to Thracian Primaris (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Hydra Flak Tank discovered (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* 17% of Golden Halos Space Marines wiped out following a collision with [[Ghost Ship]] ''Celestion'' (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Inquisitor Quixos declared an Extremis Diabolus by Inquisitor Eisenhorn (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Eisenhorn tracks down and kills Quixos (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Birth of Solar Macharius (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ultramarines cleanse Copul IV (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* A combined force of Ultramarines and Imperial Guard cleanse Balur of Orkz (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Severus wounded on Corinth and interred in a Dreadnought (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Several Inquisitors murdered (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Jaq Dracos raids the Black Library and later dies in the Webway (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Incineration of Sabulorb (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Macharian Crusade begins (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* End of Macharian Crusade. Death of Solar Macharius (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* First War for Armageddon. Space Wolves and Grey Knights defeat World Eaters (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Inquisitor Hesten begins compiling the Hesten manuscript (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Arch Maniac of Calvera leads a Waaargh! to attack Emiline's Hope. Order of the Bleeding Heart attempts to get the bones of St. Emeline off the planet before the Orkz find it (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Valstadt 13th Armoured Regiment take part in the Lammas Crusade (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Hesten completes his manuscript (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Armageddon cut off from the rest of the Imperium by Warp storms. Food shortages lead to armed uprisings (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Chaos activity begins to increase in the Segmentum Pacificus. Birth of Warmaster Slaydo (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Logan Grimnar becomes new Grand Wolf of the Space Wolf Space Marines (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ferrozoica Hive and Vervunhive conduct a trade war on Verghast (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Tau probe discovered in Koath system inviting those who find it to join the Tau Empire (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Corinthian Crusade: Mixed force of Space Marines led by Marneus Augustus Calgar begins waging war against the Orkz in Charadon (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Siege of Tulwa. Fortress of Pain, base of the Iron Warriors, destroyed by Calgar's force (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Corinthian Crusade ends. Orkz severely defeated. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Valos stripped of life by Hive Fleet Behemoth (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* 26th Founding. Creation of the Mentor Legion and Storm Giants Chapters (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Chaos completely usurps control of Segmentum Pacificus from Imperium of Man (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Beginning of Balance Wars (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Damocles Crusade: Imperium declares war on the Tau Empire, but the conflict ends in a stalemate. Imperium finally negotiates a peace treaty when its forces are needed to counter Hive Fleet Behemoth (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Balance Wars end (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* End Times foreseen by Taggarath of Corino, who is promptly executed for heresy (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* First Tyrannic War: Hive Fleet Behemoth attacks Macragge, homeworld of the Ultramarines. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Battle for Macragge. Tyrannids driven out of Ultramar at massive cost to the Ultramarines. Meanwhile, Orkz take control of Quintarn, Tarentus, and Masali. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Khulan Wars begin (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperium is victorious in the Khulan Wars (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* September 25: Sabbat Worlds Crusade begins with assaults on Formal Prime, Onscard, Long Halent and Indrid (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperial assault begins to liberate Newfound Trailing group (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* October 31: Imperial Guard under command of Jater Elbeth arrives to liberate Fornax Aleph (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* First zombie plague occurs. Quarantine of Hydra Minoris (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* January 1: Contact lost with Jater Elbeth (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* March 20: Iron Snakes arrive to liberate Fornax Aleph (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* May 9: Fornax Aleph struck by an asteroid. Daemons swarm out. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* January: Iron Snakes victorious over daemons. Fornax Aleph returned to Imperium (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Orkz driven out of Ultramar (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Chaos counterattack breaks Imperial midline and almost retakes Sverren (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperial Guard defeats Chaos counterattack on Valens 160 (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperium and Chaos begin building up their forces for the Battle of Balhaut (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Battle of Balhaut results in victory for the Imperium. Deaths of Warmaster Slaydo and Archon Nadzybar. Imperium begins a spinward assault on the Cabal systems (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Urdesh falls to Chaos (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Eldar pirates, under the command of Prince Yriel, attack Imperial installations on Catachan and Ruza (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperium defeated in battle at Parthenope (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperium gains control of Sapiencia. Death of Rusheck Vakkim (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Death of Asphodel and defeat of Chaos at the Battle of Verghast (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Rise of Archon Unlock Gaur. Chaos and Imperium reach a stalemate (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperium regains control of Urdesh (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperium suffers a massive defeat at the hands of Chaos in the Khan system (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Brazen Skulls Space Marines listed as extinct (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Gereon Mission (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperial counterattack drives Chaos out of the Khan system (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Andreas Carnhie unites Imperial Guard, Imperial Navy, and Adeptus Mechanicus to drive Blood Pact from Lyubov (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Fourth Quadrant Rebellion (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Battle of Maedrax: Eldar destroy an Imperial explorer force before it can awaken a Necron tomb, and then destroy the Necrons. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Cadian 23rd regiment puts down an uprising on Krandor (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Siege of Zalathras. Marneus Augustus Calgar single-handedly prevents the Orkz from breaking through the Zalathras Gate for 24 hours (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Eldar craftworld Lugganath discovered by the Imperium (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Thousands of ships are lost in the Warp after the Astronomicon flickers (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Hive Fleet Naga appears in the Milky Way (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ishareq falls to Haemonculi (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Purgation of Jhanna: Ultramarines retake Omon and Vorlencia from Chaos (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Halathel attacked by Hive Fleet Naga (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Iron Snakes prevent Dark Eldar from raiding Naxos (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Eldar on Halathel wiped out by Tyranids and its Worldspirit is destroyed. Tyranids on Halathel wiped out by Yriel's fleet (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Hive Fleet Naga destroyed by an alliance of the craftworlds Malan'tai, Iyanden, and Idharae (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Malan'tai destroyed by the single survivor of Naga, called the Doom of Malan'tai (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Siege of Vraks begins (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Sven Ironhad steps down as Great Wolf of the Space Wolves and leads his Great Company to the Eastern Fringes (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Abaddon raids Ildarina, but is driven off by Craftworld Alaitoc (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Siege of Vraks ends with everybody dead. Vraks is quarantined by the Inquisition (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Vinculus Crusade: Black Templars and Order of the Bloody Rose clear out an assassin cult, led by Vinculus, on Peleregon IV (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* All inhabitants of Birmingham massacred by Dark Eldar (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Third Inter-Guild War begins between Inca Sector Guild Fathers and Eldar Pirates. Guild Fathers supported by Sons of Antaeus and Subjugator Space Marines (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Inquisitor Solomon Lok leads an expedition to Anphelion (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Battle of the Steel Cross. Crimson Fists defeat Orkz (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Battle of Arconar: Eldar pirates defeated and scattered, and their bases captured, by Ultramarines under Marneus Augustus Calgar (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Saint Cyllia Massacre: Adamant Fury Titan Legion corrupted by Chaos and massacre the local Planetary Defence Force (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Crimson Fists break through Eldar lines despite heavy resistance (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Birth of Uriel Ventris (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Battle of Knarts Landing: Marneus Augustus Calgar defeats a rebel army led by Dornal in 30 days, with just 17% casualties (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Uriel Ventris begins training as an Ultramarine (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Crusade of Wrath: Black Templars reclaim several planets near the Maelstrom from the Word Bearers (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Uriel Ventris graduates from Ultramarine barracks on Macragge and goes on to complete his training at te Fortress of Hera (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Long midnight: Eldar pirates prey on Persya sector for six months before being driven off by Imperial Patol Praxion (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Cortez of the Crimson Fist Space Marines defends a breach in Maladon's walls for 21 hours of constant fighting (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Sanctuary 101, convent of the Order of Our Martyred Lady, destroyed by Necrons (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Faze V discovered by a Rogue Trader, and the entire local Human population is linked into a massive group mind before being utterly destroyed by the Dark Angels. Bekenel recovers some sort of secret information (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Uriel Ventris becomes an Ultramarine scout (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Tau Empire invaded by Hive Fleet Gorgon (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Third Inter-Guild War begins (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Badab War begins when Lufgt Huron, master of the Astral Claws, destroys an Imperial investigation fleet, secedes from the Imperium, and declares himself the Tyrant of Badab (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Lamenters, Mantis Warriors, and Executioners join with Astral Claws (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Crimson Fists fight Kardian Six Week Campaign without supplies due to destruction of supplies by enemy fire (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Combines force of Tau and Imperial Guard destroy Hive Fleet Gorgon (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Conflict between Fire Warriors and Mantis Warriors in Endymion cluster sparks first actual fighting in Badab War (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Marines Errant recalled from Eastern Fringes to participate in Badab War, but primarily protect convoys (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Red Scorpions and Minotaurs deployed to suppress revolt on Badab (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Lamenters caught in ambush and surrender to loyalists (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Blockade of Badab (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Uriel Ventris inducted into the Fourth Ultramarine Company (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Badab Alliance collapses. Astral Claws defeated, but Huron and a remnant of the Chapter escape into the Maelstrom. Lamenters, Mantis Warriors, and Executioners sent on 100-year penitence crusades. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ahriman sacks Jollana Librarium (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Battle of Amnion: Red Talon Space Marines and Armageddon Steel Legion put down a rebellion (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* ''Emperor's Faithful'' destroyed by Eldar Pirates, resulting in the deaths of 5 million Imperial Guard members and 200,000 Naval personnel (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Contact lost with Vidar sector (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Vaxhallan Genocides: 14 billion Imperial citizens killed by The Purge (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Hismonyie Kallis' ''Green Skins and Black Hearts: The Ork Invasion of Perlia'' published (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Two Eldar Phoenix Lords of Striking Scorpions Aspect duel for 17 days (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Hollow Worlds reclaimed from Red Corsairs by a combined force of Space Marines and Imperial Guard (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperium loses Chicano to a Tzeentch cult (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Second War for Armageddon begins. Ork Waaaargh! led by Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka attacks Armageddon Secundus (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Second War for Armageddon ends thanks to the actions of Commissar Sebastian Yarrick (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Yriel restored as commander of Iyanden fleet (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Balur Crusade: Marneus Augusus Calgar leads a mixed force of Space Marines to drive Orkz from Balur (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ghazghkull Thraka begins raiding various planets (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Establishment of the Dante, Yarrick, and Manaheim stations around the Armageddon system (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ghazghkull Thraka's raiding campaign comes to an end (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ork asteroid base ''Thraka'' destroys Imperial base on Buca III (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* En route to engage Eldar pirates at Crow's World, the Fire Hawks Space Marines are destroyed in the Warp (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Conflict between Ultramarines and Tau on Malbede (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ultramarines and Tau on Malbede join forces to fight Necrons. Tau flee the planet, and Marneus Augustus Calgar then orders an exterminatus (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Chaos cult uprising on Khai-Zhan put down by Cadian 122nd Regiment and Imperial Fist Space Marines (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* ''Terminus Est'' brings zombie plague to Cando system (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Wazdakka Gutsmek starts planning an interstellar supa'eyeway through the Warp (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Orkz under Ghazghkull Thraka conquer Chigon 17 by guerilla tactics (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Skarbrand the Bloodthirster subverts Lutoris Epsilon to Chaos (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Hive Fleet Perseus detected and assaulted by Ultramarines. Marneus Augustus Calgar severely injured in the combat (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Durlan Occellati discovers a Warp through the Wheel of Fire (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Taelos of the Imperial Fist Space Marines takes a warrior pilgrimage through the Maelstrom, Choria, Fell Heart, and Golgotha (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Final encounter with Hive Fleet Perseus (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Space Wolves launch a crusade to cleanse space across the Wheel of Fire (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Fire Hawks declared lost in the Warp (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Hrud Migration begins (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Battle of Hell Town: On Armageddon, the Armageddon Ork Hunters are left to their own devices after being abandoned by the Pyran Dragoons (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Hrud Migration ends (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Eldar prey on Cathoria II underhives (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Orkz led by Ghazghkull Thraka destroy Imperial battlecruiser ''Radiant Way'' (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Wheel of Fire crusade ends when the Space Wolves clear the Orkz off Xit (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Rynn's World invaded by Charadon Empire. Crimson Fists almost destroyed by their own defensive missile (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Helbrecht elected High Marshall of the Black Templars. Black Templars launch a crusade against Cythor Fiends of the Ghoul Stars (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Rynn's World and Crimson Fists decimated by Waa-Snagrod (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Rophanon rebels against Imperial plans to turn the planet into a retirement home and record storage facility (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Rophanon consumed by Hive Fleet Leviathan, and then destroyed by exterminatus (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Second Tyrannic War: Iyanden, Lamenters, and Scythes of the Emperor devastated (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Jotun Bearclaw's renegade Great Company put off returning to Fenris after the battle on Ichar IV due to the travel time involved. Instead, they aid the Kimmerian VIII Regiment fighting Orkz (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ulthwé raid on Aurent repelled by Ursakar Creed (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperium expands into Scintilla System. Numerous Enslavers captured and destroyed. ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Battle of Korsk II: Space Marines crush Lord Varlak's rebellion in a massive tank battle (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Defence of Ichar IV: Mixed force of Space Marines, Imperial Guard, and Eldar, under command of Marneus Augustus Calgar, defeats Hive Fleet Kraken at Ichar IV (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Tau investigate Ghola's Hope (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* ''Wolf of Fenris'' captured by Red Corsairs (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Temple of the Star Child on Levilnor IV destroyed by the Inquisition (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Hive Fleet Medusa enters Milky Way via Ghoul Stars (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Hive Fleet Leviathan causes devastation in Segmenta Tempestus, Ultima, and Solar (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Dark Angels drive off an Ork attack on Piscina IV led by Ghazghkull Thraka and Nazdreg (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Mortifactors and Ultramarines destroy a fragment of Leviathan at Tarsis Ultra (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Sebastian Yarrick and Ghazghkull Thraka meet on Golgotha. Yarrick is captured, but Ghazghkull lets him go as he is planning on invading Armageddon again and wants a good fight. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Dark Eldar massacre Golgothan refugees on Jagdor (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Shadowsun reignites the Tau Empire's third phase of expansion (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperial Guard fails to retake Taros from the Tau. Taros renamed T'Ros (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Historicus Coran Celecius links the Aphis hermitage massacre and other past mysteries to the Necrontyr. He is executed for heresy (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Inquisitor Lichenstein declared Excommunicate Traitoris (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Hive Fleet Moloch invades Milky Way through Ghoul Stars (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Third War for Armageddon: Ghazghkull Thraka attacks Armageddon once again. Imperium responds with a massive counterattack, leading to a stalemate. Ghazghkull eventually gets bored and buggers off; Dark Angels, joined by Sebastian Yarrick, give chase (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ultramarines victorious in Battle of Two-Four. Uriel Ventris appointed Captain of the Ultramarines Fourth Company (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ultramarines Fourth Company under command of Uriel Ventris botches an attempt to put down an uprising on Pavonis, leading to the reawakening of the Nightbringer (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperial Guard repels a Tyranid assault on Tarsis Ultra with the support of the Ultramarines Fourth Company, commanded by Uriel Ventris. Ventris is subsequently exiled for breaching Codex Astartes during the operation (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Thirteenth Black Crusade. Chaos manages to gain a small victory for once. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Hive Fleet Leviathan invades Ork Empire through Octarius system. Both sides fight to a stalemate (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Astronomicon dims. Contact lost with Ultima Macharia, and becomes intermittent with Macragge and Cypra Mundi (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperial Navy port at Bakka crippled by Dark Eldar (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Red Corsairs emerge from the Maelstrom and attack Chogoris, Kaelas, and Sessec systems (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* [[Great Awakening]]: Billions of psykers activated by a mysterious ripple in the Warp. Multiple warp rifts are created and several planets overrun by daemons (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Adeptus Mechanicus discovers flaws in the Golden Throne beyond their ability to repair (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Necron activity detected withing 2,000 lught years of Terra (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Tau driven from Lagan System by Ultramarines 3rd Company (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Night of the Thousand Rebellions (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Ursarkar Creed appointed Lord Castellan of Cadia after several members of the Cadian High Command are murdered (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Zeist Campaign: Mixed group of Space Marines and Imperial Guard under the command of Cato Sicarius reclaims Imperial planets previously lost to the Tau Third Empire expansion (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Two Eldar Craftworlds destroy Imperial and Ork planets in Octarius system to deny biomatter to Hive Fleet Leviathan (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'')

* Imperium, Chaos, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Necrons, and Tyranids attack the Tau-controllwed planet Medusa V at the same time; the Orkz also join in for fun. Several factions achieve their objectives before the planet is consumed by a Warp storm (''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' campaign: ''The Fall of Medusa V'')