Timeline

Here recounted is the chronology of the world's events, whether true or recorded in legend, beginning with the earliest known date.

Dates themselves are numbered according to their distance to and from the Opening of the Dark Portal, which signals the start of the Year 0, though this is by no means a portrayal of any in-universe calendar, as most races and cultures have their own methods for the measurement of history.

## The Ancient World

These are the most remote reaches of history, and very little is now known of what transpired in this far-flung age, for dragons are the only beings who hold any knowledge of it and they are averse to sharing it with others. Few if any relics have survived since this era, and even many of the dragons who lived to behold it have long passed.

**-200,000**

* The Azj'Aqir, C'Thraxxi, K'thir and N'raqi already ancient by this age walk the world freely. Their dark deities, the Old Gods, lay unchained and the world is a misshapen wasteland shrouded in shadow.
* Ny'alotha, the Sleeping City, is constructed by the Old God N'zoth.

**-185,000**

* The black city of horrors that would one day be known as Ahn'Qiraj is built by the Old God C'thun's designs.

**-160,000**

* Coming of the Titans.
* An era of wars ensues between the Old Gods and the Titans.
* Galakrond, the first dragon, is born.

**-155,000**

* The first of the Old Gods, C'thun, is sealed beneath the earth by the Horusath.
* Ossirian is appointed to watch over his dreaming corpse.
* The Azj'Aqir slaughter themselves in grief and joy for the loss of C'thun.

**-148,000**

* The second of the Old Gods, Yogg-Saron, is cast into the furthest reaches of the north. His frozen body is buried deep in ice, that will only grow thicker with the passing of the ages.
* Without their master, the N'raqi turn into thoughts and shadows and vanish from the earth.
* The Stonekeepers are created by the Titan Khaz'goroth, and they in turn create the giants to patrol the northern wastes of the world for all the years to come.

**-143,000**

* Galakrond is slain, and the dragons are uplifted by the Titans, giving rise to the five great dragonflights.
* Alexstrasza, Neltharion, Nozdormu, Malygos and Ysera are made Aspects and granted rulership over each of their flight.
* Y'sharrj, the third of the Old Gods is undone by the dragons after many years of battling. His whispering carcass is hurled into the fires at the heart of the earth, where forever shall he burn.
* The C'thraxxi turn to bones and crumble apart at Y'sharrj's passing.

**-136,000**

* The Ordering of the World begins. The tainted regions of the world are given new form.
* The Emerald Dream comes to be by the power of the Titan Eonar.
* G'hanir, the Mother Tree, is planted as a seedling on the highest hill of Ticharamir, on the south corners of the world.
* The Old God N'zoth flees with his Sleeping City far into the sky, and from there he continues the battle with the Titans and their kind.
* Riding upon the back of dragons, the Stonekeepers, the giants and the Horusath give chase to N'zoth.

**-134,000**

* Foreseeing his defeat after his millennia of struggle, N'Zoth, the last of the Old Gods, drowns himself in the depths of the seas, and his city drowns with him.
* The K'thir turn into sea beasts and disappear from all reckoning.

**-60,000**

* The Ordering of the World ends. The world is united in a single, unmarred landmass.
* The Titans depart from the earth.
* Mathereden, known also as the Isle of Dragons, is created by the dragon Neltharion.
* G'hanir blooms to its fullness, its boughs stretching so high they pierce the clouds and reach even within the Emerald Dream.
* The Age of Dragons begins.

## The Elder Days

In this era the old races of the known world came to be, and these are as told: troll, night elves and mogu. In later years there awoke the younger races also: dwarves, humans, tauren, pandaren, yaungol and furbolg. Ancient empires rose and stood at the heights of their glory, the very first civilisations were shaped and spread throughout the continent and these are better recorded in the modern day, for there are many surviving accounts dating back to this past.

**-55,000**

* Elven legends set their beginning here, as well as the oldest of their calendars.
* Elune is wed with Malorne, from their union Cenarius, Eneldor and Arathel are born.

**-53,000**

* Cenarius departs from his mother's side and follows his father to Annan'Telereth, the known world.
* There he fathers his own sons and daughters and together they grow the first forests, readying for the coming of the Kaldorei.