Canon Timeline

## Historical Events

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* **1 AU** Unification of Navarre
* **1-2 AU** The Migration of the First Year
* **233 AU** Beginning of War with Poromiel
* **328 AU** Second Cygni Incursion
* **Date Unknown**, Trade Agreement of Resson
* **Est. 434 AU** Second Krovlan Uprising
* **627 AU** Beginning of Tyrrish Rebellion
* **July 1st, 628 AU** Battle of Aretia
* **628 AU** End of Tyrrish Rebellion

## Pre-Fourth Wing Character Timeline

***\*\***Based on ages, story context, and math\*\**

* **607 AU** Mira born
* **March 611 AU** Xaden born
* **July (est. 3-5th) 613 AU** Violet born
* **618 AU** Violet meets Dain
* **621 AU** Xaden's mother leaves
* **627 AU** Mira joins the Riders Quadrant
* **628 AU** Violet, age 14, last sees Brennan prior to Battle of Aretia (July 1st 628). Mira is 21, and in her second year at Basgiath.
* **Est. 629 AU** Father Sorrengail begins having heart problems
* **Est. 630-631 AU** Father Sorrengail dies when Violet is 17-18, Mira would have been around 23-24
* **631 AU** Xaden Enters the Riders Quadrant

## Fourth Wing Timeline

* **633 AU - *Fourth Wing begins.***
	+ **Jan-Feb:** Violet begins training with Major Gillstead for the Riders Quadrant under her mother's orders
	+ **Mid-July:** Violet's Conscription Day (Chp 1)
		- **Following Day:** (Chp 4-6)
	+ **End of July:** (Chp 7)
	+ **August:** two weeks into school, Challenges begin (Chp 8)
	+ **First week of September:** Violet spars Xaden, she's been training with Rhiannon for 6 weeks (Chp 9)
	+ **A week and a half into September**: Gauntlet training (chp 10)
		- **Two days later**: Violet burns Aurelie's belongings
	+ **September 28th:** last Gauntlet practice (Chp 11)
	+ **September 29th:** Gauntlet + Presentation Day (Chp 11+12)
	+ **October 1st:** Threshing (Chp 13-16)
		- **Following Day**: Imogen begins training Violet
	+ **October:** Liam is assigned as Violet's bodyguard (IF Chp 43)
	+ **November:** Violets first assassination attempt (Chp 18-19)
		- **Following day:** Amber is executed (chp 20)
		- Liam starts archive duty with Violet (Chp 21)
	+ **December:** Violet Channels (Ch22)
		- **Following day**: Garrick and Xaden spar
	+ **Winter Solstice:** Challenges meant to resume, but are delayed
* **634 AU Begins**
	+ **Mid Jan:** Challenges resume (Ch23-24)
	+ **Early March:** Violet and Xaden speak with General Sorrengail and Colonel Aetos (chp 24)
	+ **Mid-late March**: Squad Battles start
	+ **April:** Last squad battle challenge (Chp 25)
		- **Later that week:** Violets squad goes to Montserrat (chp 26-27)
	+ **Mid May**: First battle of war games. Violet kills Jack (Chp 28)
		- **Same day:** Violet and Xaden have sex
	+ **Mid June**: Xaden tells Violet about Athebyne
	+ **July 1st:** Reunification Day (FW chp 31-32)
	+ **July 2nd:** War Games begin (FW Chp 33)
		- Liam dies (FW Chp 36)
		- Violet is stabbed on the evening of July 2nd, and falls into a coma for 3 days.
	+ **July 5th:** Violet wakes up (FW Chp 39)
	+ **July 11th:** Graduation \*\***NOTE BELOW**\*\*

***\*\*PLEASE NOTE** there is a discrepancy between Fourth Wing and Iron Flame quotes regarding the time frame between Reunification Day and Graduation Day. Characters in Fourth Wing state in conversation that there are 10 days between the two events, however contextual evidence from Iron Flame quotes place Graduation on July 8th, thus only seven days between Reunification Day and Graduation. Therefore this will be the only page referencing July 5th as the day Violet wakes up, and July 11th as the original Graduation Date as seen in Fourth Wing. Please see Iron Flame Timeline below for corrected timeline\***\****

## Iron Flame Timeline

* **634 AU**
	+ **July 6th:** Violet wakes up (FW Chp 39), meets the Assembly, and chooses to return to Basgiath.
	+ **July 7th:** they leave Aretia
	+ **July 8th:** Xaden's Graduation \*\***NOTE**- see highlighted note above, under the Fourth Wing canon events regarding timeline error\*\*
	+ **Late Sept:** Second squad is taken for their interrogation exam
	+ **Oct 1st:** Threshing + assassination attempt by infantry soldiers
	+ **Oct 3rd-8th:** Archives' Royal Vault heist
		- **Same Day:** Violet is captured and interigated for the next 5 days
	+ **Oct 8th-13th:** Half the Basgiath riders leave to join the revolution
	+ **Oct 28th-31st:** A deal is made with Viscount Tecarus for the luminary, and acquisition of Cordyn's gryphon fliers.
		- **3 days later:** the luminary is received in Aretia
	+ **Nov 1-4th:** Gryphon fliers join the Aretia War College (4 days after the deal is made at Cordyn)
		- **2 weeks later:** Dragon rider and gryphon flier squads are merged together
	+ **Dec 20th:** Battle of Basgiath

## Citations

1. ↑ Iron Flame, Chapter 1
2. ↑ Fourth Wing, Chapter 1
3. ↑ Iron Flame, Chapter 1
4. ↑ Iron Flame, Chapter 22
5. ↑ Iron Flame, Chapter 30
6. ↑ Iron Flame, Chapter 32
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Iron Flame, Chapter 43
8. ↑ Iron Flame, Chapter 45
9. ↑ Iron Flame, Chapter 46
10. ↑ Iron Flame, Chapter 58