An approximate timeline

Leaning heavily into Molin Torchholder's accounts, but understanding the nature of Sanctuary and how different and unreliable narrators will differ on these.
--note-- The timeline at the moment resembles a work in progress, because it is. A narrative like this does not loan itself well to being pinned down to numbers.
Due to this focus, years are listed in approximate Rankan calendar years.
Notes may contain spoilers.
Year 	Month, season, or festival 	Event 	Notes 	Book 	
-? earlier 	 	 	Ilsig allies with mountain tribes to drive out Ranke 	Sanctuary novel 	
-100 	 	 	Ranke and mountain tribes drive Ilsig from the World's End mountain. Sanctuary is populated by Ilsigis fleeing heavy taxation and military losses. Alternately, Sanctuary is populated by Ilsigi slaves who refused to return after a successful revolt. 	Sanctuary novel, first Introduction 	
Distant past	 	 	Sanctuary is a thriving port city. Caravans come through bearing goods. Ships come and go trading at the ports. Something changed. Was it the Ilsigi tax dodges, beginning the town's culture of independence and self-reliance? Or was it something further afield?	Hakiem's story, and other sources 	
-30ish 	 	Rashan born 	Priest of Savankala 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
1 	 	Ranke conquers Ilsig 	Founding of Rankan Empire (a Rankan kingdom preceded it) 	RPG boxed set timeline 	
 	 	 	 	 	
10 	TenSlaying, Lunar New Year 	Molin conceived 	The TenSlaying rite is held periodically, but a special rite might be held decennially 	from the Sanctuary novel, but the context is unclear 	
11 	 	Molin born 	Nisibisi mother, died shortly after 	 	
12 	 	Tempus born--or was it 350 years before? 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
15 	 	Ranke defeats the mountain tribes and opens the pass, beginning Sanctuary's decline 	Molin is an acolyte, age 5 	"The God Chosen" Lynn Abbey in _The Dead of Winter_ for Molin 	
 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
20s 	 	Abarsis' father is killed, Abarsis enslaved 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
22 	 	Hanse born 	 	 	
23 	 	Kadakithis born 	Hanse and Kadakithis are approximately the same age, but Hanse doesn't know when he was born 	"The God Chosen" states Molin was in his early thirties when he went to Sanctuary, putting 11-14 years difference between his age and Kadakithis' 	
24 	 	Molin engineers siege of Valtosin, age 14 	 	"The God Chosen" Lynn Abbey in _The Dead of Winter_ for Molin 	
 	 	 	 	 	
30s 	 	Molin marries Rosanda, whose sister would later be Kadakithis' mother 	 	 	
c 38 	 	Ranke abandons northern expansion to focus on eastward 	 	Game boxed set chronology 	
 	 	 	 	 	
40s 	Rankan era in Sanctuary begins 	 	 	Anthology begins 	
42 	 	Kadakithis goes to govern Sanctuary, at 19 years old 	 	"Dream of the Sorceress", 1st book
RPG puts this at year 48 	
40s 	 	Gyskouras is born 	 	 	
 	Mageguild Festival/ Ilsigi New Year	Vashanka leaves, is exiled, or is semi-killed, depending on who you ask 	 	 	
46 	 	Theron takes the Rankan throne 	 	 	
47 	winter 	False Plague Riots, pillar of fire 	 	 	
 	summer 	Tempus returns to Sanctuary, bearing Theron's threat to raze the place if it does not reform 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
50s 	 	Dark Horde sacks Ranke 	7 years later Kadakithis leaves for Ranke, never to be seen again. Shupansea leaves for Beysib the same day. Not long before, Kadakithis' cousin, the third emperor to try the throne that year, is killed. 1136 in Kindle, the novel Sanctuary. 	 	
60s 	 	Reign of Theron the Usurper in Ranke??? 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
67 	 	Cauvin is born (approximately) 	 	 	
81 	summer 	S'danzo abandon Sanctuary 	 	1803 in Kindle edition, S novel 	
82 	fall 	Drought 	 	 	
84-85 	midwinter month of "Moruthus" 	"Quickening" plague. Servants of Dyareela enter the city. Fire engulfs the bazaar 	"though two years had passed since then" Ilsig had apparently had a lean harvest. Ranke had an unnamed and presumably unlamented emperor.
Walegrin "in his fifties" Kindle 1980. Yep, Molin's got his years wrong, or he's using an alternate dating system 	 	
84 	winter.
Dyareelan era begins 	Dyareelan cults take Sanctuary's temples
Molin leaves the palace at Sanctuary 	 	Sanctuary (novel), past 	
84? 	spring 	Nisi falls, eastern horde razes Rankan city Lirt, "Vengestis the Magnificent" takes Rankan throne in a coup	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
77? 	autumn 	The Irrune nomads enter Sanctuary, fleeing the Dark Horde 	 	 	
78? 	 	Dyareelans split into two sects 	Slaying of Vengestes 	Novel ch 7 lists this as 87 or shortly after, but it appears that Molin's dates are about 10 years off mine. This means Vengestes only reigned for 4 years.	
79? 	 	spring drought followed by summer floods and plague 	Mother's Servants, the more moderate Dyareelan sect, is lost.
Ferrex reigns, mad emperor of Ranke who replaced commanders with talking birds 	Novel ch 7 see above 	
80? 	autumn 	Bloody Hand executes the younger brother of the Irrune leader Arizak 	 	 	
82? 	spring 	Irrune invade the area outside Sanctuary's walls, but do not breach the walls 	Bec is born? 	Ch 7 "spring of 91" Molin "in his seventies"
Dyareelans ruled Sanctuary for 9 years (but their entry was gradual) 	
80s 	Irrune era begins * 	 	 	 	
c 85 	 	Molin names an heir 	Kindle 1893 "How different these last two decades (since Illyra's explanation of the S'danzo exodus) would have been")
Cauvin says he was freed from the Pit ten years before, when he was eight years old. 	Sanctuary (novel) 	
c 86 	 	Shadowspawn names an heir 	In Turning Points story "Role Model", Hanse names his heir in his sixties and the year is noted as 86.