Timeline

A general timeline of continental history. The majority of Limeria uses the **New Gilded Calendar**, also called the **Novatian Calendar**, created during the Gilded Empire. Today, it is the most widely used calendar, being used across the continent and by nations intent on global trade and interaction.

Before the Gilded Calendar, the Sacramental Calendar was used by the church and all nations who followed it (i.e. most North Limerian nations). During the Sacrastinian Reformation in the mid 9th Millennium, the calendar was adopted by the church and subsequently most northern Limerian nations. Minor changes were made to make it more accurate, adding a five days onto the calendar to account for the planets solar orbit and thus avoiding a leap year and reorganizing dates within the calendar so the important dates of the solstices and the equinox's could be placed in the center of months indicating their importance. Each calendar used a slightly different tally for years (the Sacramental Calendar was in the 4000's) and thus the council relegated to the change seamlessly transferred significant dates. The process was a huge undertaking at the time but the reformation council thought that it was well worth the effort. The reformation council sought to use this calendar as the Gilded Calendar was already used by many local governments while the official church calendar was more complex and thus only used at the national and epistemological level as it was the higher class of lords and clergy that had the necessary education to understand it. This complexity was due to the calendar using feast days for dates and attributing months to the Divine. The Gilded Calendar used seasons to track its dates and months making it more valuable to the lower peasant class and much simpler to understand. Thus at the Winter Solstice of Y8500, the calendar was officially put into use. As colonial empires began to expand and the north grew into the center of continental culture and trade, the calendar was picked up and used by other nations.

Bishop Novatian was a heavy advocate for the adoption of a continental standard of date keeping believing that such a system could help unify not only the church but nations around the north. When it was decided to adopt the calendar, the bishop led the council organizing its creation. The new calendar is sometimes referred to as the Novatian Calendar due to his influence.

There are six months in the Gilded Calendar corresponding to the passing of seasons. This is due to the ancient gilded religion of the Primordial Cult which placed importance on the passing of seasons. Every week has 10 days and every month has 70 (except the spring and fall months who have an extra 10 days) days for a total of 400 days a year. The months of the Gilded calendar have two names; a gilded name used by the guilds themselves, and a common name used by the peasantry of Northern Limeria who were unable to read the ancient gilded texts. The months are (from common name to gilded name): Low Summer (Solis), High Summer (Estival), The Autumnal (Vernal), Low Winter (Glacia), High Winter (Hibernal), The Vernal (Floreal).

Ages of time themselves are organized into Millenniums due to humanities slow progress across its thousands of years of history. *Y* (for Year) is used before each numerical writing of the current year, to be read was Y10 000, Year 10 000 or Year Ten Thousand. Prehistory year markers are written as *-Y* are counted in reverse order from Y1, although they are rarely seen in academic history as much of humanity's past is lost due to the Prehistory floods, commonly referred to as the Fall.

## Prehistory (The Antediluvian)

Also called the Time Immemorial, a period in time before the written word or any archeological evidence of human civilization.

## The 1st Millennium (First Age)

**First Century**

Y1 - The Temple of Eon is built on Mount Arkos, marking the first complex structure build by mankind and the beginning of recorded history.

## The 7th Millennium (Golden Epoch)

**Sixtieth Century**

The height of the Gilded Empire is reached.

## The 10th Millennium

**Hundredth Century**

The Northern Century. Where the nations of Northern Limeria expanded to dominate the continent.

## The 11th Millennium

**Hundred and First Century**

Y10 000 - The current year.