Timeline

A **Timeline** for events in *Foundation*.

## Major events

* Circa -6,370 Era Imperial
	+ Demerzel is constructed.
* Circa -3,000 Era Imperial
	+ The religion of Luminism is formed
* 0 Era Imperial
	+ The Galactic Empire is formed.
* Circa 1,102 Era Imperial
	+ Demerzel walks The Spiral on the Maiden
* 7,020 — 7,240 Era Imperial
	+ The Robot Wars are fought, a conflict spanning 220 years.
* Circa 8,240 Era Imperial (approximate date)
	+ The dynasty of Empress Hanlo begins, including her daughter Empress Ammentic, begins.
* Circa 9,067 Era Imperial
	+ Thespis comes under Imperial rule.
* 9,240 Era Imperial
	+ The supplies of palladium on the planet Oona's World are exhausted.
* Circa 10,240 Era Imperial (approximate date)
	+ The dynasty started by Empress Hanlo comes to an end.
* Circa 11,167 Era Imperial
	+ The Anthor Belt Agreement is signed, establishing peace between the planets Anacreon and Thespis.
* Circa 11,240 Era Imperial
	+ The Galactic Empire abandons its holdings on Ignis.
* Circa 11,402 Era Imperial
	+ Disappearance of the Imperial warship *Invictus*, constructed during the reign of Emperor Taurelian as the crown jewel of his fleet.
* Circa 11,567 Era Imperial
	+ The Abraxas Conjecture is postulated. It would not be solved for five hundred years.
* 11,630 Era Imperial
	+ Cleon I discovers the imprisoned Demerzel in a chamber hidden in the Imperial Palace on Trantor.
* Circa 11,640 Era Imperial
	+ Spacers are first genetically engineered by the Galactic Empire.
* Circa 11,667 Era Imperial
	+ Beginning of the Genetic Dynasty.
* Circa 11,686 Era Imperial
	+ Death of Cleon I.
	+ Cleon II ascends to the throne.
	+ Start of the Genetic Dynasty
* Circa 11,700 Era Imperial
	+ Cleon II sabotages the wedding of the Anacreon Huntress with Thespin King Throy un Thark, resulting in her death and tensions between Anacreon and Thespis.
* 11,979 Era Imperial
	+ A Thespin prayer song is last sung, until the Bombing of the Star Bridge.
* 11,987 Era Imperial
	+ Birth of Orlio.
* 11,999 Era Imperial
	+ Master Orlio begins working for the Galactic Empire at the age of 12, cleaning the Mural of Souls.
* Circa 12,032 Era Imperial
	+ Hugo Crast is born on the planet Thespis.
* 12,040 Era Imperial
	+ A bottle of Locris wine, which would later come into the possession of Hober Mallow, is bottled.
* 12,043 — 12,047 Era Imperial
	+ Hari Seldon and Yanna Seldon create the Prime Radiant.
	+ Yanna Seldon is killed by Dr. Tadj, who is later murdered by Hari Seldon.
	+ Hari Seldon accepts imperial offer and arrives at Streeling University on Trantor.
* 12,050 Era Imperial
	+ The Zeonian Rebellion occurs.
* 12,060 Era Imperial
	+ Cleon XIII is born.
* 12,066 Era Imperial
	+ Thespis detects a rogue asteroid believed to be from the Anthor Belt and began mining the palladium, tithing ten percent to the Empire. Anacreon believes that Thespis acted in bad faith and against the Anthor Belt Agreement.
* 12,067 Era Imperial
	+ Gaal Dornick leaves Synnax after solving the Abraxas Conjecture.
	+ Tribunal of Hari Seldon and Gaal Dornick.
	+ Destruction of the Star Bridge and .
	+ Creation of the Foundation, Hari Seldon and his followers exiled to Terminus.
* 12,068 Era Imperial
	+ The Galactic Empire razes Anacreon and Thespis.
	+ 8/8: Death of Hari Seldon aboard the *Deliverance*.
	+ Gaal Dornick ejected in an escape pod by Raych Foss.
	+ Raych Foss executed for the murder of Hari Seldon.
* 12,072 Era Imperial / 1 Foundation Era
	+ *Deliverance* arrives at Terminus.
	+ 12/11: *Deliverance* is decommissioned by scuttling it on the surface of Terminus.
* 12,080s Era Imperial / 10s Foundation Era
	+ Salvor talks with her father while stargazing and learns the adage "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent".
* 12,086 Era Imperial / 15 Foundation Era (19 years after the Bombing of the Star Bridge)
	+ Cleon XI ascends as Brother Darkness.
	+ Cleon XII becomes Brother Dusk.
	+ Cleon XIII becomes Brother Day.
	+ Cleon XIV born, becomes Brother Dawn.
* 12,092 Era Imperial / 21 Foundation Era
	+ Poly Verisof is born.
* 12,102 Era Imperial / 31 Foundation Era (17 years after the ascension of Cleon XI)
	+ Poly Verisof attempts to reach the Vault but is rendered unconscious by the null field. He is rescued by Warden Salvor Hardin.
	+ Gaal Dornick reaches the *Raven* and soon departs in a cryo pod for Synnax.
	+ Death of Proxima Opal
	+ The First Crisis occurs:
		- Anacreon attacks Terminus
		- Death of Abbas Hardin
		- Death of Phara Keen
		- The Vault opens for the first time ever
		- Salvor Hardin departs Terminus for Synnax, in search of Gaal Dornick
	+ Cleon XIII (Brother Day) walks The Spiral
	+ Death of Cleon XIV (Brother Dawn)
* 12,140 Era Imperial / 39 Foundation Era (approximate date)
	+ The Galactic Empire abandons Siwenna.
* 12,200 Era Imperial / 99 Foundation Era
	+ The Galactic Empire cedes control of the Outer Reach. Ducem Barr continues to send tight-beam messages from Siwenna but receives no answer.
* 12,210 Era Imperial / 109 Foundation Era
	+ As a member of the Gossamer Court, Rue Corintha is bedded by Emperor Cleon XVI. Her selection as his concubine leads her to return to Cloud Dominion rich, celebrated, and on the political ladder.
* 12,225 Era Imperial / 124 Foundation Era
	+ Hober Mallow comes into possession of a bottle of rare vintage Locris wine.
* 12,236 Era Imperial / 135 Foundation Era
	+ Bel Riose disobeys the orders of Emperor Cleon XVII at the Lemul Cluster and is imprisoned on the planet Lepsis. Bel Riose is told his husband, Glawen Curr, has been executed. In fact, it was ruse perpetrated by the Empire as part of Riose's punishment.
* 12,240 Era Imperial / 139 Foundation Era
	+ Gaal Dornick arrives at Synnax and meets Salvor Hardin, who was also in cryosleep and crashed on the planet some decades earlier.
	+ Assassination attempt on Emperor Cleon XVII on Trantor.
	+ Kray Dorwin's body is recovered after a century in space, and the truth of the events on Terminus are revealed to the Galactic Empire.
	+ The Second Crisis occurs:
		- The Vault on Terminus opens and requests Hober Mallow presence.
		- Terminus is destroyed by the Superluminal Armada on orders of Emperor Cleon XVII. All jumpships of the Imperial fleet, along with it's flagship the *Shining Destiny*, are destroyed shortly after thanks to the Spacers sabotage.
		- Spacers uprising against the Galactic Empire succeeds, depriving the latter of its means to travel on space-folding ships.
		- Genetic Dynasty is in shambles, as all three brothers are either killed or on the run. Demerzel is forced to decant exponents of all three of them, for the first time ever.
		- Foundation survives the destruction of Terminus and abandones it.
	+ The Second Foundation is founded on Ignis.
* 12,241 Era Imperial / 140 Foundation Era
	+ After a year of teaching the Mentalics, Hari Seldon and Gaal Dornick go into cryosleep on Ignis.
* 12,392 Era Imperial / 291 Foundation Era
	+ The Mule feels the arrival of Gaal Dornick in his time period.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Long Ago, Not Far Away"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Foundation: The Art and Making of Seasons 1 & 2"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 "A Glimpse of Darkness"
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Preparing to Live"
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "King and Commoner"
6. ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 "The Emperor's Peace"
7. ↑ "The Sighted and the Seen"
8. ↑ "Why the Gods Made Wine"
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 "The Mathematician's Ghost"
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 "Where the Stars Are Scattered Thinly"
11. ↑ "Barbarians at the Gate"
12. ↑ "The First Crisis"
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 "In Seldon's Shadow"
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 "Creation Myths"
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Creation Myths"