Timeline (Original Dune)

This is a timeline of universal history. The date system used in this timeline is the Universal Standard Calendar.

Timeline
8th century BG
 * 11000 BG
 * The beginning of space travel.
 * Following the Second Interspace Migrations, the Jews hide their identity from the non-Jews. c. 5000 BG
 * Sandtrout are brought to water-rich Arrakis and begin desertification. Sandtrout-sandworm-melange cycle begins. 1381 BG
 * The Zensunni break away from the teachings of Maometh. The Zensunni Wanderers roavel frm one world to another in search of freedom from persecution and enslavement by the Imperial raiders before ultimately landing on Arrakis where they evolve into the Fremen people of the deep desert over thousands of years.
 * c. 1000 BG
 * During the rule of Shakkad the Wise the scholar Yanshuph Ashkoko discovers the geriatric spice melange on Arrakis.

c. 500 BG
 * Tibana, an apologist for Socratic Christinanity from IV Anbus, writes: ‘The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness’.

108 BG c. 98 BG
 * The Bene Tleilax, a guild of secretive, genetically altered humans who inhabited Tleilax, are formed.
 * 201 BG
 * The Butlerian Jihad against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots begins.
 * The Butlerian Jihad ends after wiping out most of the machine-based technology and also the majority of historical documents. The god of machine-logic is overthrown by the masses and a new concept is raised: "Man may not be replaced." Culture based on the production of highly developed machines survives only on Ix and Richese.


 * Foundation of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and beginning of the breeding programme to achieve the Kwisatz Haderach, the 'one who can be in many places at once'.
 * 88 BG
 * Battle of Corrin. House Corrino takes its name and establishes the Corrino Empire from Salusa Secundus.
 * The Golden Lion Throne is set up.
 * The Great Houses of the Landsraad are established.
 * An Atreides banishes Bashar Abulurd Harkonennen for cowardice, beginning the Atreides-Harkonnen feud.

c. 80 BG

c. 50 BG
 * The Bene Gesserit Mother Superior brings about a secret agreement with the Jews.
 * Gilbertus Albans founds the Order of Mentats to pass on his knowledge of high level machine logic to a mankind left without computers.
 * Norma Cenva marries Aurelius Venport and they have five children. Norma Cenva designs the first foldspace ship, and gives it to Venport, who is remembered as the designer.
 * The Commission of Ecumenical Translators compiles the Orange Catholic Bible on Old Earth across seven years, meant to quell all religious divisions.


 * 1 BG/AG
 * Foundation of the Spacing Guild, who monopolize space commerce, transport and interplanetary banking, establishing more uniform and orderly interstellar travel and finance, as well as the imposing of the restrictions of the Guild Peace. Beginning of the Guild calendar. CHOAM (Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles) is founded.

1st century AG

c. 100 AG
 * Life of the religious write Neshou.


 * The Great Convention is signed. According to the Convention, the combined power of the Great Houses may destroy anyone who uses atomic power against human beings.

3rd century AG


 * The poisons commonly used in a War of Assassins are compiled in the Assassin's Handbook. It will later be expanded to include those deadly devices permitted under the Guild Peace and Great Convention.

2200s AG


 * A special breed of tiger, Laza tigers, are brought to Salusa Secundus.

c. 5000 AG


 * A Bene Gesserit Sister on Rossak discovers a plant that enables thought-merging. From this date, Sisters working at the Fremen (Sayyadinas) will preserve Zensunni history by thought-merging and memory transfer instead of oral history.

10075 AG


 * Thufir Hawat is born.


 * 10082 AG
 * Wellington Yueh is born.


 * 10092 AG
 * Wanna Marcus is born.

10110 AG


 * Vladimir Harkonnen is born.

10111 AG


 * House Harkonnen gains stewardship of Arrakis, holding the planet in quasi-fief under a CHOAM company contract to mine melange.


 * 10112 AG
 * Yueh graduates from the Suk School.

10132 AG


 * Glossu Rabban is born.

10133 AG


 * Hasmir Fenring is born.

10134 AG


 * Shaddam Corrino IV is born.

10140 AG


 * Leto Atreides I is born.

10154 AG


 * Jessica Harkonnen (later Atreides) is born, the daughter of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and Bene Gesserit Sister Tanidia Nerus as part of the Kwisatz Haderach breeding programme.

10156 AG


 * Elrood Corrino IX dies. Shaddam Corrino IV becomes the 81st Padishah Emperor. Birth of Liet Kynes, son of the Imperial Planetologist Pardot Kynes, who hopes to transform Arrakis into a paradise world.

10160 AG


 * Tleilaxu Face Dancer Scytale is born.

10160s AG


 * The Harkonnens begin stockpiling melange.

10163 AG

10168 AG
 * Appropriations for Sardaukar training begin going down for 30 years.


 * Jessica graduates from the Bene Gesserit Mother School on Wallach IX under Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, tested by her with a gom jabbar and proven as "human".

10174 AG

10175 AG
 * Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen is born.


 * Jessica Atreides becomes the bound concubine of Duke Leto Atreides I. Death of Pardot Kynes. His son Liet becomes Imperial Planetologist. Birth of Chani Kynes, daughter of Liet Kynes and the Fremen woman Faroula.
 * 10176 AG
 * Anirul, the wife of Shaddam IV and a Bene Gesserit of Hidden Rank, dies. Paul Atreides, the Kwisatz Haderach achieved one generation early, is born to Duke Leto Atreides and the Lady Jessica, who disobeys the Sisterhood's command to produce a daughter which will be mother to the Kwisatz Haderach.

10181 AG


 * Kaleff, son of Geoff, is born.

10183 AG


 * Orlop, son of Jamis, is born.

10185 AG


 * Lady Jessica Atreides meets Dr. Yueh.

10187 AG
 * 10186 AG
 * The Harkonnens murder Wanna Marcus, the wife of Dr Yueh.

10189 AG
 * Duke Leto Atreides I masters train a small, Sardaukar-level force. This makes the Emperor feel threatened.

10192 AG
 * Birth of Lichna, daughter of Otheym and Dhuri.
 * 10191 AG
 * The fief of Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, is taken from the Harkonnens and given to House Atreides.
 * The Atreides leave Caladan, which comes under the Siridar-Absentia on Count Hasimir Fenring whilst the Atreides rule Arrakis.
 * House Harkonnen attack House Atreides in the Siege of Arrakeen with help of the Emperor's Sardaukar.
 * Death of Kinet and Czigo.
 * Piter de Vries kills Dr Wellington Yueh.
 * Duke Leto Atreides kills Piter de Vries and Iakin Nefud.
 * Duncan Idaho is killed by Sardaukar.
 * Paul and Jessica escape and join the Fremen.
 * Jamis is killed by Paul, and Paul inherits Harah, Jamis' wife.
 * Liet Kynes is killed by a spice blow.
 * Paul becomes known as Muad'Dib and becomes somewhat of a religious leader among the Fremen.
 * Jessica Atreides converts the Water of Life and becomes the next Reverend Mother of the Fremen.
 * Alia Atreides is born.
 * Rabban is handed the fief of Arrakis; this marks the second time the Harkonnen's have controlled Arrakis and therefore, the spice production of the known universe. He kills 9,000 Fremen.
 * Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen turns 17 years old.
 * Birth of Leto Atreides II the Elder to Paul Atreides and Chani Kynes, who becomes his concubine and lover.


 * Rabban kills another 6,000 Fremen. Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen has a child with Lady Margot Fenring, wife of Count Hasimir Fenring.


 * 10193 AG
 * Paul regains control of Arrakis and the spice-mining monopoly, which he stops.
 * Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen attempts at killing the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
 * The Spacing Guild lowers its price so that every Great House's army heads to Arrakis.
 * Shaddam IV arrives with five legions of Sardaukar, the Spacing Guild and the Great Houses in the Arrakis airspace to stop Muad'Dib.
 * Thufir Hawat kills himself.
 * The Desert War ends with the Battle of Arrakeen.
 * Leto Atreides II the Elder is murdered in a raid on a sietch by the Sardakur.
 * Glossu Rabban Harkonnen is slain by the Fremen.
 * Alia kills the Baron by means of the Gom Jabbar, causing the title of Baron to pass to Feyd.
 * Paul Atreides, the man behind the mysterious Muad'Dib, kills Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in kanly.
 * Paul declares that he will marry the Princess Irulan and become Padishah Emperor of the Known Universe.
 * The Spacing Guild essentially yield to Paul's control, wishing to preserve the spice content of Arrakis.
 * The Bene Tleilax create a Duncan Idaho ghola named Hayt to present to Paul.
 * Stilgar becomes governor of Arrakis and Minister of State. 10196 AG

10198 AG
 * Shaddam Corrino IV abdicates, and is exiled to Salusa Secundus with his daughters other than Irulan, and Hasimir Fenring.
 * Paul officially becomes the 82nd Padishah Emperor, marking the transition from the Corrino Empire to the Atreides Empire, and Muad'Dib's Jihad begins.

10201 AG
 * The Atreides Empire begins negotiations concerning Tupile, the Sanctuary Planet, with the Spacing Guild.


 * On Salusa Secundus, Wensicia Corrino marries Dalak Fenring and they have a child, Farad’n Corrino.

10202 AG


 * Death of Shaddam Corrino IV. Sabiha is born.


 * 10208 AG


 * Paul Atreides sits on the Golden Lion Throne while for the past twelve standard years, his Jihad of Fremen has crossed the Known Universe and brought a dozen rebellious planets under Paul's rule.
 * Irulan, Edric, Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, and Scytale consipire to destroy the House of Atreides. Irulan wants to bear the royal heir, Edric wants to break Atreides monopoly on spice, and Gaius Helen Mohiam wants the Atriedes bloodline back under Bene Gesserit control.
 * Scytale reveals that the Tleilaxu have created a ghola called Hayt that is a copy of Duncan Idaho.
 * Scytale kills Farok and his son.
 * Paul signs The Tupile Treaty, allowing the Guild to hide the existence of Tupile; The Ixian Confederacy offer submission if Imperial taxes are limited.
 * The Battle of Sembou results in a victory for the forces of the Jihad.

10209 AG


 * Battle of Zabulon. The planet joins the Atreides Empire.
 * Gaius Helen Mohiam is imprisoned at Paul's command when Edric comes to Arrakis to create an understanding between Paul and the Spacing Guild.
 * The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohaim orders Irulan to kill Chani, to prevent an Atreides heir at all costs.
 * Scytale kills Lichna and takes her form.

10210 AG

10215 AG
 * Otheym and Dhuri give the dwarf Bijaz (actually a Tleilaxu Master) toPaul, then are killed by a stone burner which blinds Paul, although he still manages to see through prescience.
 * Chani gives birth to Leto Atreides II and Ghanima Atreides, then dies.
 * Scytale is killed by Paul.
 * Hayt remembers his existence as Duncan.
 * Duncan kills Teilaxu MasterB ijaz on Paul's orders.
 * Paul goes into the deep desert. Alia Atreides assumes regency of the throne for the twins.
 * Stilgar executes Edric, Gaius Helen Mohiam, and Korba.


 * Gurney Halleck sends Leto II a small baliset for his fifth birthday.
 * 10219 AG


 * Alia Atreides is possessed by the dead Baron Vladmir Harkonnen.
 * Jessica and Gurney Halleck return to Arrakis.
 * Leto and Ghanima realize that the terraforming of Arrakis will kill all the sandworms, thus destroying the source of the spice.
 * Paul Atreides, as The Preacher, begins railing against the religious government's injustices and the changes among the Fremen. He journeys to Salusa Secundus to meet Wensicia Corrino's son Farad'n, and in return pledges Duncan Idaho as an agent of House Corrino.
 * Alia attempts to assassinate Jessica, who escapes into the desert with Duncan's help, precipitating a rebellion among the Fremen.
 * Leto seeks out The Preacher. Everyone else thinks he is dead. He finds him and discovers he is Paul, killing his guide Assan Tariq.
 * Duncan and Jessica flee to Salusa Secundus, where Jessica begins to mentor Farad'n, who seizes power from his mother and allies with the Bene Gesserit. Jessica orders Gurney Halleck to infiltrate a group of Fremen outlaws who capture Leto. On Gurney's suggestion, they force him to undergo the spice trance. Leto escapes and sacrifices his humanity in pursuit of the Golden Path by physically fusing with a school of sandtrout. He travels across the desert and confronts his father.
 * Stilgar kills the ghola Duncan Idaho, after he kills Javid and provokes Stilgar.
 * Stilgar kills Buer Argaves.
 * Paul and Leto return to the capital to confront Alia. Upon arriving, Paul is murdered. Alia manages to commit suicide by throwing herself off a high balcony.
 * Leto ascends the imperial throne as Leto II, and sets humanity on the Golden Path, his vision of the future. He takes the Bene Gesserit breeding program into his own hands by interbreeding the genes of Farad’n Corrino and Ghanima Atreides. His control over the spice forces peace and calmness on humanity.
 * Leto orders a new Duncan Idaho ghola from the Tleilaxu to serve him as Swordmaster and leader of the Fish Speakers, the all-female army he begins assembling. He will continue to purchase new Duncans to serve him over the next 3,500 years.
 * Farad'n gives Leto the Sardaukar.

10225 AG


 * Hasmir Fenring dies.

10256 AG

10319 AG
 * Lady Jessica Atreides dies.


 * By this time, there are fewer than fifty sandworms, and these are sick ones kept in a carefully managed reservation.

10400 AG


 * As a result of terraformation, the sandtrout and sandworms become extinct on Arrakis.

c. 11000 AG


 * Through gradual growth, Leto II’s empire becomes multigalactic.

11228 AG


 * The sandblaster wind is last seen on Arrakis.

11230 AG


 * The end of smuggling.

11700 AG


 * The Bene Gesserit investigators begin observing the homogenization of family life.

c. 12000 AG


 * Spreading their machine-based civilization, the Ixians develop an economic technological federation with a center named Ixian Core.

12335 AG


 * Leto executes the Nine Historians.

c. 13000 AG


 * With Leto II’s silent approval, the Ixians no longer follow the orders of the Butlerian Jihad: they produce computers again, in secret.

13610 AG


 * Moneo Atreides is born.

13650 AG


 * The Ixians invent the no-field.
 * Leto II’s no-chamber is built at Dar-es-Balat, on Arrakis.
 * Leto II extinguishes the Bene Gesserit Mentat school on Wallach IX.

13670 AG


 * A new Duncan Idaho ghola begins his service to Leto.

13672 AG


 * Quintinuis Violet Chenoeh joins the Bene Gesserit.

13702 AG


 * The Ixians grow Hwi Noree.

13728-14028 AG
 * 13728 AG
 * Death of Radi, Aline, Ulot, Setuse, Inineg, Onemao, Hutye, Memar and Oala, conspirators against Leto II.
 * The latest Duncan Idaho ghola attempts on Leto’s life, assisted by the Ixian Ambassador Iyo Kobat, but is killed.
 * Iyo Kobat is sent back to Ix after the attempt replaced by Hwi Noree as Ambassador.
 * A new Duncan is given to Leto, who’s first assignment as Leto’s Swordsmaster, as a test, is to kill a rebellious man of House Corrino who attempts to bribe majordomo Moneo Atreides. Duncan assigns the task to a Fish Speaker.
 * Bene Gesserit Sister Quintinius Violet Chenoeh dies in the 53rd year of her sisterhood, the cause being ascribed to melange incompatibility during her attempt to achieve the status of Reverend Mother.
 * Reverend Mothrs Tertius Eileen Anteac and Marcus Claire Luyseyal visit Arrakis.
 * Siona Ibn Fuad al-Seyefa Atreides and the new Duncan Idaho ghola kill Leto II, and gain stewarship of Arrakis.
 * The sandtrout swarming free from Leto’s skin start storing water; they will eventually re-desertify Arrakis.
 * Part of Leto’s empire is inherited by his army, the Fish Speakers.


 * The sandworms, now with animal awareness and a new cunning, reappear on Arrakis.

13750 AG


 * The Ixians invent the first generation of Navigation Machines, breaking the Spacing Guild’s monopoly over spaceflight.

13800 AG


 * The Bene Gesserit moves its center to Chapterhouse.

14000 AG


 * Waves of violence strike the Imperium during the Famine Times. Driven by social unrest, the Scattering begins: travelling with no-ships, a part of humanity spreads to enormous spaces in the universe.
 * Throughout the former empire of Leto II (the Old Empire), planetary governments exist in a loose economic federation held together partly by CHOAM, partly by the Bene Gesserit. Some areas are ruled by the Fish Speaker Council.

14500 AG


 * Waves of people move on again and again to still farther, unknown places from the Scattering using no-ships.
 * The Bene Tleilax finally invents the way of producing the spice melange artificially. As a result of the wealth of spice Navigation Machines are used less frequently.

14932 AG


 * Miles Teg is born.

14935 AG


 * Sabine Teg is born.

c. 15000 AG


 * The Stolen Journals are found.

15002 AG


 * Cerbol Revolt. Bashar Miles Teg's enemies bow to him.


 * c.15200 AG
 * The Lost Ones begin to return from the Scattering. Among them are dark offshoots of the Bene Gesserit who call themselves the Honored Matres.
 * Bene Gesserit Sister Dortuja is sent to Buzzell for a love affair.

15210 AG


 * The group of Honored Matres escaping back to the Old Empire establish base on Gammu.

15212 AG


 * The Honored Matres take over control of an increasing number of planets. In the meantime the loose economic federation kept together by CHOAM slowly falls apart.

15216 AG


 * The twelfth Duncan Idaho ghola, with serial memories of all of his previous incarnations, is created for the Bene Gesserit.

15218 AG


 * Sheena Brugh is born.

15225 AG


 * Having waited for millennia, the Bene Tleilax sets out to conquer humanity and convert it to the Great Belief of the Tleilaxu.

15228 AG


 * Birth of Yorgi, son of Roitiro, on Chapterhouse.

15229 AG


 * The Bene Gesserit Keep on Gammu (formerly Giedi Prime) is attacked by the Honored Matres. Reverend Mother Lucilla, as well as Miles Teg and the Duncan Idaho ghola, manage to escape to an ancient Harkonnen no-globe.
 * The Duncan Idaho ghola regains it's memories in the no-globe.
 * Patirin kills himself.
 * The Bene Gesserit forces the Honored Matres to destroy all Rakian life.
 * The sandworms of Rakis become extinct and thus humanity is set free of Leto II’s scattered conscience, which kept its future bound.
 * Miles Teg dies.
 * Murbella of the Honored Matres joins the Bene Gesserit. The Sisterhood lead by Mother Superior Darwi Odrade rescue a sandworm from Rakis and takes it to Chapterhouse Planet.
 * The Honored Matres destroy all the planets of the Bene Tleilax.
 * The Bene Gesserit saves and hides the last remaining Tleilaxu Master, Scytale.
 * Scytale, Duncan and Murbella are placed within a no-ship prison on Chapterhouse, where the Bene Gesserit hide.

15230 AG


 * Birth of Murbella’s and Duncan Idaho’s twin daughters, Rinya and Janess.
 * Birth of Miles Teg’s ghola.
 * The Bene Gesserit launches a new Scattering, sending out Sisters and sandtrout to the universe.
 * The Honored Matres conquer Junction and begin destroying the planets of the Bene Gesserit.
 * Ecaz is conquered by the Honored Matres.
 * Sheena Brugh becomes the youngest ever Reverend Mother.

15231 AG


 * Duncan Idaho makes the system of his prison no-ship hide data for him, doing this with his own keys.
 * The sandtrout originating from the rescued sandworm begin the desertification of Chapterhouse.

15240 AG


 * The Battle of Lampadas results in the destruction of the planet. Death of Alef Burzmali.
 * Birth of Duncan Idaho’s and Murbella’s fourth daughter, Gianne.
 * Sandworms appear on Chapterhouse Planet.
 * Death of Darwi Odrade.
 * Logno kills Dama and becomes Great Honored Matre.
 * The Bene Gesserit launch the Battle of Junction.
 * Murbella becomes both the new Mother Superior and the Great Honored Matre after killing Logno at the end of the Battle. She begins the conversion of the Honored Matres to Bene Gesserit Sisters: from the merging of the two groups rise the New Sisterhood.
 * Duncan Idaho, Sheeana Brugh, Scytale, Miles Teg, a few Bene Gesserit and a few Jews escape from Chapterhouse with a no-ship.

20219 AG


 * Peroration of Gaus Andaud on the 10,000th anniversary of Leto II's ascenscion to the throne.