The Annals of History

**The History of the Seven Kingdoms** has always been the history of the royal family and their struggles. Here, the story of the past seventy years of Westerosi history is outlined for the ages, and for curious eyes.

## The Fourth Century AC

### **300 - 310AC**

* **300 AC:**
	+ Tommen I Baratheon becomes King of the Seven Kingdoms.
	+ Aegon Targaryen lands in the Stormlands with the Golden Company.
	+ Stannis Baratheon assists the Night’s Watch at the Wall, then marches south to Winterfell against Roose Bolton.
	+ Euron Greyjoy is elected King of the Ironborn and captures the Shield Islands.
* **301AC:**
	+ Aegon Targaryen takes control of the Stormlands. Varys the Spider persuades Prince Doran Martell to join the campaign against the Lannisters.
	+ The White Walkers pass the western end of the Wall. The defenders at the Shadow Tower are overwhelmed and fall back to Castle Black. Ravens are sent to Winterfell and King’s Landing. Stannis Baratheon abandons the siege of Winterfell and marches north once more.
	+ Aegon Targaryen’s army besieges King’s Landing. Varys arranges for the Kingsgate to be opened and allow Targaryen forces to enter the city. The Royal Court flees by ship to Duskendale, and from there to the Riverlands and the Lannister army pacifying the region. Aegon is crowned Aegon VI Targaryen by Jon Connington with Maekar’s crown.
	+ Aegon VI names Jon Connington Lord Paramount of the Stormlands and restores all lands taken from House Connington after Robert's Rebellion.
	+ Tommen Baratheon and Queen Regent Cersei Lannister establish a new capital at Casterly Rock. Lannister forces in the Riverlands compel the surrender of Riverrun. Aegon’s forces enter the Riverlands and seize Harrenhal as a base of operations.
	+ The Queen Regent declares the High Sparrow a false avatar of the Seven, elevated by a violent mob rather than the will of the gods. She issues a decree in King Tommen's name restoring the Starry Sept of Oldtown to its previous place of primacy in the Faith.
	+ Euron Greyjoy sends a few small groups of reavers to raid the coast of the Reach and cause as much chaos as possible, using different sails and banners to make their numbers seem larger than they are. When Mace Tyrell calls upon his son Garlan to defend the coasts and Lord Paxter Redwyne to crush the Ironborn fleet, the bulk of Euron's fleet sails for the Arbor.
* **302AC:**
	+ Roose Bolton sends Ramsay Snow and his Bastard’s Boys on a scouting mission to determine what the Baratheon army is doing. They encounter a party of White Walkers along the way and return to Winterfell with a captured wight. Roose Bolton sends ravens to the Casterly Rock and the Lannister army in the Riverlands for reinforcements. His message is dismissed by Cersei Lannister as nonsense.
	+ Robin Arryn dies in the Vale. Harrold Hardyng inherits the Lordship of the Eyrie as Harrold Arryn.
	+ Targaryen forces clash with Lannister forces at Acorn Hall.
	+ Baratheon forces on Dragonstone mine dragonglass in quantity to create daggers, spear tips, and arrowheads to ship to White Harbor.
	+ The Greyjoy fleet narrowly avoids a confrontation with the Redwyne fleet returning from the Arbor thanks to the superior speed of the Ironborn longships. Garlan Tyrell, having guessed at the Ironborn's plan, sails from Oldtown to retake the Shield Islands and lay a trap for the Ironborn on their return.
* **303AC:**
	+ The combined forces of Stannis Baratheon, the Night’s Watch and the Wildlings strike against small groups of White Walkers broken off from the main host but avoid the main body of the army of the dead. Stannis’s forces abandon Last Hearth and relocate to Karhold as the Others close in.
	+ A combined Bolton and Frey force attempts to defend Deepwood Motte and is driven back by the advancing army of the Dead.
	+ Harrold Arryn weds Sansa Stark after her marriage to Tyrion Lannister is annulled by the High Septon. Petyr Baelish finds the mood in the Gates of the Moon turning against him and slips away in the night. His body is later found in the snow along the High Road a few miles from the Bloody Gate with the skin of his face cut off.
	+ Garlan Tyrell's forces remain in hiding until the returning Ironborn are drunk celebrating their triumphs, then sets as many ships as possible afire during a daring night raid. Euron Greyjoy eludes his grasp.
	+ The Ironborn fleet abandons the Reach and returns to the Iron Islands, avoiding a Lannister fleet from Lannisport by braving open ocean in rough winter seas far from the coast. The Ironborn settle in for the winter to repair their ships and wait for the return of spring. Victarion Greyjoy and the remnants of his fleet return from his unsuccessful mission to Essos to bring Euron's offer of marriage to Daenerys Targaryen.
* **304AC:**
	+ Baratheon forces evacuate from Karhold by sea and travel to White Harbor.
	+ The Dreadfort falls to the advancing army of the Dead.
	+ Sansa Arryn convinces her husband to send troops to the North to aid in the fight against the Others. Bolstered with fresh reinforcements from the Vale, Stannis Baratheon moves to defend Hornwood.
	+ Jon Snow is sent south on a diplomatic mission to meet with Aegon VI.
	+ Walder Frey is murdered at the Twins after hosting Lord Petyr Baelish as a guest. Edwyn Frey in the North and Black Walder Frey in the Riverlands both claim lordship of the Twins.
* **305AC**
	+ Aegon Targaryen pulls his forces back from the Riverlands and sends them north.
	+ Varys the Spider's agents discover Aerys II Targaryen's old stockpiles of Wildfire under King's Landing. Jon Connington orders it loaded up and transported to the North.
	+ Bolton and Frey forces retreat from Winterfell to Castle Cerwyn.
	+ Jaime Lannister is ordered to pursue the Targaryen army and destroy it. Randyll Tarly is placed in command of a Reachman army and sent to reinforce them. They defy the Queen Regent's orders and march North to meet Roose Bolton instead.
	+ Black Walder Frey attempts to garrison the Twins with men loyal to him as the army marches through, but he is refused from leaving any able-bodied soldiers behind.
* **306AC:**
	+ The combined forces of King Tommen I Baratheon muster at Moat Cailin. The combined forces of Stannis Baratheon and Aegon Targaryen are encamped at White Harbor. Cautious lines of communication are opened between the two camps.
	+ Queen Margaery Tyrell gives birth to Princess Rosamund Baratheon at Casterly Rock.
	+ The High Sparrow dies. Jon Connington sends troops to 'protect the Most Devout from intimidation by the Sparrows.' He sets the stipulation that the next High Septon must disband the Faith Militant.
	+ Jon Connington suppresses the Poor Fellows and Warrior's Sons who will not voluntarily disarm with the City Watch and the portion of the Golden Company under his command.
* **307AC:**
	+ Battle of White Harbor. Stannis Baratheon leads a desperate cavalry charge into the heart of the Others’ lines and personally slays the Night’s King at the cost of his own life. Six out of every ten men sent to fight the Others never return home. Funeral pyres burn for weeks along both banks of the White Knife.
	+ Aegon VI Targaryen agrees to wed Shireen Baratheon and unifies their claims to the throne. Aegon and Shireen name Rickon Stark as the Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North. Jon Snow is released from the Night's Watch and serves as Regent of the North until Rickon reaches his majority.
	+ The division of the Seven Kingdoms becomes formalized, with the Reach, Westerlands, and Riverlands recognizing Tommen Baratheon as King, while the North, the Vale, the Stormlands, Dorne, and the Crownlands bending the knee to Aegon VI Targaryen and Shireen Baratheon. The Iron Islands remain independent under King Euron Greyjoy.
	+ The young Lord Edrick Bolton, son of Roose Bolton by Walda Frey becomes a ward of House Manderly at White Harbor until he reaches his majority.
	+ The remnants of the Golden Company make Harrenhal their winter quarters.
	+ Aegon VI recalls Edric Storm from Essos, legitimizes him, and names him Lord of Storm's End but does not restore the Lord Paramountcy to House Baratheon.
* **308AC:**
	+ Aegon and Shireen celebrate the births of their first children, Aelor and Aelora Targaryen.
	+ King Aegon contacts the Conclave at the Citadel and asks that they research the genealogies of Houses that went extinct during the war against the Others to determine the rightful heir in order that they endure after shedding their blood to stop the great enemy.
	+ Death of Cersei Lannister. The title of Lord of Casterly Rock passes from House Lannister to King Tommen and House Baratheon.
* **309AC:**
	+ Princess Margot Baratheon born at Casterly Rock.

### 311 - 320AC

* **312AC:**
	+ Spring returns to the Seven Kingdoms.
	+ Prince Lyonel Baratheon, heir to the Golden Throne born at Casterly Rock.
* **313AC:**
	+ Mountain Clan attacks increase in the Vale, Harrold Arryn sends the Knights of the Vale to quell them. The clansmen prove an elusive target and avoid battle with the Knights.
* **319AC**: Conflagration of the Trident begins.

### 321 - 330AC

* **320AC**:
	+ Euron Greyjoy sacks Oldtown.
	+ The Iron Throne and the Golden Throne sign the Pinkmaiden Accord, leading to the division of the Riverlands into the Upper and Lower Trident.
	+ Harry Strickland becomes Lord Paramount of the Lower Trident; the remnants of the Golden Company become House Strickland's forces.
	+ Jon Lothston named Lord of Darry.
	+ Prince Lyonel Baratheon betrothed to Celia Tully.
	+ Aegon VI sends troops to the Vale to assist House Arryn with putting down the Mountain Clans, who have united under a new King in the Mountains.
* **321-323AC:** Scouring of Pyke. The fleets of the Golden Throne attack the Iron Islands in force. King Euron Greyjoy is slain. Victarion Greyjoy renounces the throne and bends the knee to the Baratheons. Euron never married and had no legitimate heirs, but over a dozen bastards by various woman. The Blood of the Crow’s Eye become rallying points for disaffected Ironborn and are an ongoing source of trouble.
* **324AC:** Aegon VI commits gold to building up the naval power of House Grafton and House Manderly to serve as a counterbalance to the naval power of the Golden Throne on the west coast.
* **326AC:** Prince Aelor Targaryen of Dragonstone and Princess Aelora Targaryen have their heir, Prince Aemon Targaryen.
* **328AC:** Prince Lyonel Baratheon weds Celia Tully at Lannisport in a lavish ceremony. A Grand Tournament is held to mark the occasion and a mock naval battle is fought in the harbor. Princess Margot Baratheon wins the joust as a mystery knight and crowns herself Queen of Love and Beauty after unmasking. Her opponent in the finals, Ser Elwood Tarly, asks for her hand in marriage.
* **329AC:** Celia Tully gives birth to Prince Brynden Baratheon seven moons after the wedding.

### 331 - 340AC

* **332-334AC:** A new Vulture King rises in the Dornish mountains and raids both Dorne and the Reach. A temporary coalition of Dornish and Reach Houses comes together to end the threat to their lands.
* **338AC**: The Blackhand Revolt. Victarion Greyjoy dies, Harlon Greyjoy becomes Lord Reaper. Erich the Blackhand, a bastard of Euron Greyjoy and a woman of House Drumm, holds a Kingsmoot and is proclaimed King of Salt and Rock by his supporters. Blackhand's fleet sacks Kayce.
* **339AC:** Harlon Greyjoy is gravely wounded in battle with the Blackhand. He reportedly cast himself into the sea and drowned himself rather than live as an invalid and a cripple. Harlon's half-brother Qarl Greyjoy becomes Lord Reaper.
* **340AC:** Qarl Greyjoy's forces defeat the Blackhand's forces on Old Wyk; Erich's corpse is staked out on the top of Nagga's Hill to be devoured by beasts and birds.

### 341 - 350AC

* **347AC:** Aegon VI dies; Aelor I Targaryen becomes King.

### 351 - 360AC

* **351AC:** Prince Valarr Targaryen and Princess Vaelora Targaryen are born to Prince Aemon and Princess Clarisse Dayne. The birth is a difficult one, and the princess is but a shade of her former self afterwards. Against the Grand Maester's advice, she becomes pregnant again that same year.
* **352AC:** Princess Helaena Targaryen is born. Princess Clarisse passes moments later.
* **354AC:**
	+ Lyonel Baratheon named Protector of the Realm and assumes a larger role in running the affairs of the Kingdom of the Rock. King Tommen's public appearances become increasingly rare.
	+ Prince Aemon takes a second wife at the insistence of his father. He marries Rhaella Celtigar.
* **357AC:** A Grand Tournament is held at White Harbor to commemorate the victory in the War for the Dawn.
* **359AC:**
	+ Death of Aelor Targaryen, Aemon I Targaryen becomes King.
	+ Septon Owen, a wandering preacher, revives the Sparrows.

### 361 - 370AC

* **360AC:** Septon Owen's followers engage in a campaign of banditry to feed the poor in the name of the gods, culminating in an attack on a wedding feast thrown by House Footly at Tumbleton
* **361AC:**
	+ King Tommen I Baratheon dies; Lyonel Baratheon succeeds to the Golden Throne.
	+ Septon Owen's followers are declared outlaws in both kingdoms and the renegade Septon proclaims the foundation of a new, godly kingdom. The Sparrows are driven from Stoney Sept in the Riverlands, and defeated by a Reachman army near the Goldroad.
* **364AC:** The harshest winter since the Long Night begins. It is dubbed 'The Great Winter'.
* **367AC:**
	+ What becomes known as 'The Great Winter Sickness' breaks out across the Seven Kingdoms with the major cities affected the most; it was bad in Lannisport, worse in Oldtown, but worst of all in King's Landing.
	+ The High Septon offers public prayers for deliverance in King's Landing.
	+ Prince Matarys Targaryen and his mother, Queen Rhaella Celtigar are among the victims of the plague. Princess Helaena is likewise afflicted, but manages to survive; she is blinded by fever and made frail thereafter.
	+ King Lyonel Baratheon makes a pilgrimage to the Starry Sept in Oldtown to entreat the gods for mercy.
* **368AC:** King Lyonel Baratheon visits Highgarden and Old Oak on his return home. He falls ill along the road and dies at Crakehall. Brynden Baratheon crowned King of the Rock.
* **370AC:** King Aemon I Targaryen of the Iron Throne announces a tournament at Pinkmaiden to celebrate the return of spring. All of Westeros is invited to attend - including the Kingdom of the Rock under a banner of peace.