C.S. Lewis's Outline of Narnia History

NARNIAN YEARS

1 Creation of Narnia. The Beasts made able to talk. Digory plants the Tree of Protection. The White Witch Jadis enters Narnia but flies into the far North. Frank I becomes King of Narnia.

180 Prince Col, younger son of King Frank V of Narnia, leads certain followers into Archenland (not then inhabited) and becomes first King of that country.

204 Certain outlaws from Archenland fly across the Southern desert and set up the new kingdom of Calormen.

300 The empire of Calormen spreads mightily. Calormenes colonize the land of Telmar to the West of Narnia.

302 The Calormenes in Telmar behave very wickedly and Aslan turns them into dumb beasts. The country lies waste. King Gale of Narnia delivers the Lone Islands from a dragon and is made Emperor by their grateful inhabitants.

407 Olvin of Archenland kills the Giant Pire.

460 Pirates from our world take possession of Telmar.

570 About this time lived Moonwood the Hare.

898 The White Witch Jadis returns into Narnia out of the far North.

900 The Long Winter begins.

1000 The Pevensies arrive in Narnia. The treachery of Edmund. The sacrifice of Aslan. The White Witch defeated and the Long Winter ended. Peter becomes High King of Narnia.

1014 King Peter carries out a successful raid on the Northern Giants. Queen Susan and King Edmund visit the Court of Calormen. King Lune of Archenland discovers his long-lost son Prince Cor and defeats a treacherous attack by Prince Rabadash of Calormen.

1015 The Pevensies hunt the White Stag and vanish out of Narnia.

1050 Ram the Great succeeds Cor as King of Archenland.

1502 About this time lived Queen Swanwhite of Narnia.

1998 The Telmarines invade and conquer Narnia. Caspian I becomes King of Narnia.

2290 Prince Caspian, son of Caspian IX, born. Caspian IX murdered by his brother Miraz who usurps the throne.

2303 Prince Caspian escapes from his uncle Miraz. Civil War in Narnia. By the aid of Aslan and of the Pevensies, whom Caspian summons with Queen Susan's Magic Horn, Miraz is defeated and killed. Caspian becomes King Caspian X of Narnia.

2304 Caspian X defeats Northern Giants.

2306-7 Caspian X's great voyage to the end of the World.

2310 Caspian X marries Ramandu's daughter.

2325 Prince Rilian born.

2345 The Queen is killed by a Serpent. Rilian disappears.

2356 Eustace and Jill appear in Narnia and rescue Prince Rilian. Death of Caspian X.

2534 Outbreak of outlaws in Lantern Waste. Towers built to guard that region.

2555 Rebellion of Shift the Ape. King Tirian rescued by Eustace and Jill. Narnia in the hands of the Calormenes. The last battle. End of Narnia. End of the World.

1888 Digory Kirke born.
1889 Polly Plummer born.
1900 Polly and Digory carried into Narnia by magic Rings.

1927 Peter Pevensie born.
1928 Susan Pevensie born.

1930 Edmund Pevensie born.
1932 Lucy Pevensie born.
1933 Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole born.

1940 The Pevensies, staying with Digory (now Professor) Kirke, reach Narnia through the Magic Wardrobe.

1941 The Pevensies again caught into Narnia by the blast of the Magic Horn.

1942 Edmund, Lucy and Eustace reach Narnia again and take part in Caspian's voyage.

1942 Eustace and Jill, from Experiment House, are carried away into Narnia.


1949 Serious accident on British Railways.