Chronology of Warhammer 40,000

This arcticle recalls the chronology of the Univers of fiction of Warhammer 40,000.

The dates are those of the Imperial System of Dating, for example 456.M41 means year 40456 after Jesus-Christ.

Prehistory

Approximately 60.000.000 years before the birth of the Emperor: Nécrons build gigantic damning up-biomechanics, kinds of sarcophagi of protection, to make survive their spirits a cataclysm threatening their existence. It is propable that they is them It tans which started this catastrophe.

Old story (m3 with M31)

This period represents the beginnings of the human history until the end of Old of Gold of Impérium.

Ascention Human

Warp is discovered in m3.

March is colonized in 200.M3.

M16: Humanity begins its expansion starting from the ground, of the close solar systems are colonized by using the primitive orders of secondary-light. Progress is slow and the new colonies must survive as units independent isolated from the ground with up to ten generations of voyage. The ten thousand years period to come is known like the Technologique Middle Ages.

M21: The discovery of better Warps engine allows a larger dispersion. The first races extraterrestes are met followed wars with it.

The gene of navigator is insulated, the Warps voyages becomes even faster. Families of navigators and the trusts become the powerful political entities. The expansion of humanity becomes galactic, standard system of the construction of gauge (STC.) improves to help of new colonies. Titans are developed for the fast ground movement.

The history Squat starts with the age of the foundation. The colonies of extraction of the Squats worlds are in constant contact with Terra and there is no distinction with the human normal ones.

M25: The treaty of Horiax mentions genetic techniques of change.

The Era of the Fights (M26 with M30)

De M25 with M29 the first worlds of Eldar are discovered.

M26: Human psys start to make their appearance; at the same time embryos of civilizations start with effrondrer under the madness and the insurrections. Fratricidal wars disjoin the mankind, of the démoniaques creatures have not protected psykers and subject whole worlds. Warps storms isolate several parts of the galaxy, the Earth included.

Beginning of the age of insulation for the Squats. The colonies of extraction become self-sufficing, and formation of independent fortresses. For this period the guild of engineers develops in socio political power and the fortresses form the political agreements and commercial complex which become leagues. The Mechanicus worship is founded over Mars like mechanism of survival to maintain necessary technology for the life to survive on planet. The worship builds their high furnace bridge and builds their vast combat machines known under the name of Titans.

Light reduction in the Warps storms, the worlds Squats and races extraterrestes meet, the time is known under the name of age of the trade. Squat use their enormous mineral richness to trade of the weapons and the systems of high-technology with Eldars and Orks. During the conflicts between the Ork S and the Eldars, the Squats remain neutral and maintain a trade with the two parts.

M27: A probe is dispatched of Terra, its mission is to reach the limit of the universe. 14.000 years after it must still begin its return voyage and several of the signals sent by the probe are of Orks nature.

M28: Studying the model of the Warps storm, Mars prepares massive forwardings being composed of the whole legions of Titan and the thousands of Servants to explore the galaxy. The successful colonies become thereafter worlds of forging mill and worlds of knight of the Adeptus Mechanicus. This process continues throughout the êre fights.

Able to acquire food or the resources sufficient and without access to the Warp voyage, the ground is under the rêgne of small strongholds directed by lords of the war. Billion human beings dies because of the war and the famine.

Grunhag Flayer, a Lord of Ork war attacks the Squats worlds with an enormous fleet. Many fortresses are eliminated by Orks. This marks the beginning of the Squat age of the wars with the hostility towards Orks and the mistrust towards Eldars which remained neutral during the conflict.

The first modified warriors help the emperor in the conquest of the ground.

The Fall of Eldars (M30)

See also: Eldar (Warhammer 40,000) #La Fall

The Great Crusade (M30 with M31)

Heresy of Horus (M31)

Modern history (M31 with M41)

This period recalls the creation of current Impérium following the Heresy of Horus, until the current time.

Birth of Impérium (M31)

The shortly after the Heresy of Horus, the Empire underwent a vast reform structural of its organization in order to reduce the risks of future catastrophes. In the absence of the Emperor, the capacity was transferred to the High Lords from Terra, and the imperial army was divided between the imperial Garde and of the imperial Flotte. The Inquisition also was creates during this period. Space Marines also underwent a structural reform under the direction of the Primarque Roboute Guilliman, the principal change being to divide the Legions between chapters of nautical mile. The structure of Imperium since remained in this state.

The Old one of the Apostasy (M36)

Black Crusades (M31 with M41)

The Black Croisade is a term used to describe the massive incursions of the Space Marines of Chaos into imperial space. The crusades more virilantes are those carried out by Abbadon the Plague.

The 12th Black Crusade (139 with 160.M41)

The Gothic War is the name given to this conflict carried out by Abbadon the Plague. The place of the conflict was the Gothic Sector. These 21 years of war had many consequences, an imperial world was destroyed and out of the million people were killed. More important still, the events of the Gothic War révélérent the true nature and the goal of old the space bases known lunatics of Imperium like black stone fortesses. It is this conflict which provides the major part of the history for play Battlefleet Gothic.

The 13th Black Crusade (999.M41)

The 13th Black crusade is most recent of the incursions against Imperium by Abaddon the Plague, and was used as a basis for the countryside of the summer 2003, the Œil of terror. Each playable race in the play fought in this Black Crusade, including the Tau, which benefitted from the redeployment of forces of Imperium to launch the Third Sphere of expansion of their empire. The war had like consequence of the massive losses among so much Imperium and the Xenos forces, with the death of Eldrad Ulthran while trying to recover a black stone fortress. In the final analysis, the forces of Chaos were pushed back thanks to the naval fleets Obscuras, Solaire, Gothique and Pacificus of which took again the control of the Cadienne Door.

Current history

This part referred with the elements which take place in the present of Warhammer 40,000, the thousand-year-old 41éme. These elements often have summers used as insparation for the world summer campaigns, whose results influenced the background of the supplements left then.

The Emergence of the Empire Tau (M37 with M41)

At the end of the thousand-year-old 37ème the race of the Tau was unified under the doctrines of the Supreme Good. They profitérent of their technological advance to colonize space. Imperium came into contact with the Tau only during the thousand-year-old 41ème, and the number of conflicts between the two empires was tiny compared to other conflicts (with the Orks or the Chaos).

The expansion of the Tau had also the consequence to integrate several species in their rows, such as the Kroot S and Vespid.

The Resurgence of Nécrons (M41)

At the end of the 41ème Millénaire the Nécron S awoke and renewed their harvest of the life races of the galaxy for their Masters, them It tan. The cause of this alarm clock is unknown, of the theories evoke the shade of the Tyranide S in the Warp or the disturbance of a fleet of exploration of Adeptus Mechanicus.

Tyrannical Wars (745 with 999.M41)

The Tyrannical Wars are the various conflicts engaged by the brutal invasion of the race Tyranide in the galaxy. Three large Fleets Hives of invasion were to date discovered, the Behemoth fleets, Kraken and Leviathan.

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