BG Timeline/DE

The timeline represents events chronicled in Willis E. McNelly's Dune Encyclopedia, an in universe document supposedly published in the year 15540 AG. It is intentionally vague in places - especially regarding events in early human history.

This page is part of a series of different Dune Timelines.

Before Guild

 * 900 Ma ago: Atmospheric oxygen reaches 19% on Arrakis.
 * 50 Ma ago: A great diversity of marine and land life has evoled on Arrakis.
 * 49.7 Ma ago: Oxygen catastrophe on Arrakis. Oceans largely disappear and an extinction event begins.
 * 48.5 Ma ago: Formation of sedimentary rocks ceases on Arrakis, due to the lack of standing water.
 * 47.5 Ma ago: All traces of remnant oceans and standing water disappear on Arrakis.
 * 200,000 years ago: According to geological data, the third moon of Arrakis/DE is destroyed and debris falls on the planet. According to oft-told legends it happened about 35,000 years ago.
 * 19000
 * Early humans civilizations on Terra.


 * 16500
 * Aleksandr creates the First Empire.


 * 16400
 * Rise of the Roman Empire which conquers the known world, except for China.


 * 16000
 * Fall of the Roman Empire


 * 15800
 * After provincial rebellins and minor jihads, the Imperial Seat retreats to Byzantium.


 * 14700
 * The Great Struggle, begins the Century Without an Emperor.


 * 14608
 * Discoveries in America. Madrid attains the status of the Imperial Seat.


 * 14512
 * Battle of Englichannel. Imperial Seat moves to London.


 * 14500
 * Begins the Golden Age of Invention (radio, television, atomics, rocketry, genetics, computer).


 * 14400
 * China joins the Empire.


 * 14200
 * The Golden Age of Invention ends.


 * 14255
 * An intraprovincial war culminates in the first use of atomics. Imperial Seat moves to Washington.


 * 14100
 * The Little Diaspora begins. The solar system is colonized.


 * 13600
 * Due to colonization, the Terran population is reduced to 20 to 1.


 * 13402
 * Ater a planetoid strikes Terra, Ceres becomes the Imperial Seat.


 * 13402-13399
 * The Rescue of the Treasures from Terra.


 * 13360
 * Terra is re-seeded. By Imperial edict it is set aside as a natural park.


 * 13004
 * Verifax Marktoo discovers the suspensor-nullification effect.


 * 12200
 * Empire of Ten Worlds, which suffers from strained communicatons.


 * 11200
 * Empire of a Thousand Worlds, with diffusal of the Imperial poer.


 * 11105
 * A rebellion destroys Ceres and the Imperial Seat ceases to exist. Age of Pretenders begins.

Great Dark Ages

 * 11100
 * Age of Ten Thousand Emperors or "The Great Dark Ages".


 * 7585
 * Invention of the ornithopter


 * 7600
 * Thinkers' Rebellion


 * 7593
 * Ibrahim Vaughn Holtzman born on Liesco II.


 * 7565
 * In an ornithopter accident, Holtzman is disabled and cyborged.


 * 7562
 * Holtzman escapes his hospital; he reveals the "wave-effect" nature of the suspensor- nullification device.


 * 7556
 * Holtzman severely damaged and thrown into a cometary orbit. Communications with him are lost.


 * 7552
 * The Great Dark Ages end with the Holtzman Effect which allows immediate communication. The Wars of Reunification begin.

First Golden Age

 * 5022
 * The Wars end and Ladislaus the Great unites the Empire of Ten Thousand Worlds and begins the First Golden Age.


 * 3832
 * Holtzman reappears at Liesco, and presents the Planar Effect theory for construction of the Defensive Shield

Little Dark Ages

 * 3678
 * The Silicon Plague or "Death of the Machines." The Golden Age ends and the Little Dark Ages begin.

Second Reunification

 * 2000
 * New plague-resistant conductor and developed, ending te Dark Ages. The Return of Computers or Second Reunification.


 * 1970
 * Holtzman reappears, and presents his Unified Theory.

Second Golden Age

 * 1800
 * Culmination of the Second Reunification. The Second Golden Age begins.


 * 1381:Ali Ben Ohashi breaks away from the teachings of Maometh; beginning of the Zensunni religion.
 * c. 700
 * The first anti-computer pogroms.


 * 711
 * Tensions increase between program mites and humanity-firsters


 * 480: According to legend, Ampoliros sets off.
 * 400
 * The Second Golden Age ends.

Butlerian Jihad

 * 200
 * Riding the tensions, Jehanne Butler leads the Butlerian Jihad/DE.


 * 175:According to an account, Agamemnon d'Atreides, the first recorded Atreides, defends the use of computers before the rioting masses, and is assassinated.
 * 108
 * Holtzman returns and is destroyed by forces of the Jihad as the last thinking machine/DE. End of the Butlerian Jihad.


 * c. 100
 * Aurelius Venport/DE leads Ixians/DE refugees of the Jihad to Tupile/DE.
 * Earliest writings of the Sunni/DE.


 * 88
 * The Battle of Corrin/DE
 * Sheuset I Costin I, the first Padishah Emperor/DE


 * 86
 * In reward for aiding the House Corrino/DE, Demetrios Atreides is made Baron of Tantalos. Foundation of House Atreides/DE.


 * c. 85: Birth of Pausanias Atreides.
 * 84
 * Norma Cevna makes the first melange/DE-guided journey through hyperspace.


 * c. 81:Birth of Theseus Atreides.
 * c. 79:Birth of Konstantinos Atreides.
 * 70
 * Henoor I Salusa I


 * 58: Death of Demetrios Atreides, Pausanias becomes Baron.
 * 43: Pausanias Atreides is ennobled as Baron Pelops.
 * 14
 * Corrin I Palaigo becomes Emperor.


 * 12
 * Saudir I The Great becomes Emperor.


 * 11:Konstantinos Atreides becomes Baron Menelaus.
 * 10
 * Corpus Luminis Praenuntiantis begins negotiations with the Empire. The Great Financial Synod begins on Aerarium IV.
 * Konstantinos dies.


 * 6:Konstantinos II Atreides is ennobled as Count Thuestes.
 * 5
 * The Synod is completed. CHOAM/DE is founded.


 * 0
 * The Lion Throne/DE, the Spacing Guild/DE and CHOAM/DE (as the arm of the Landsraad/DE) combine to form the Imperium/DE.

Continued to AG Timeline/DE