Outline of Narnian History
so far as it is known...
by C. S. Lewis


Narnian                                         English
date                                            date

                                                1888 Digory Kirk born.
                                                1889 Polly Plummer born.
1    Creation of Narnia.
     The Beasts made able to talk.
     Digory plants the tree of Protection.
     The White Witch Jadis enters Narnia
     but flies into the far North. Frank I
     becomes King of Narnia.

180  Prince Col, younger son of King Frank V
     of Narnia, leads certain followers into 
     Archenland (not then inhabited) and
     becomes the first king of that country.

204  Certain outlaws from Archenland fly        1927 Peter Pevensie born.
     across the Southern desert and set up      1928 Susan Pevensie born.
     the new Kingdom of Carlomen.

300  The empire of Calormen spreads mightily.   1930 Edmund Pevensie born.
     Calormenes colonise the land of Telmar to
     the west of Narnia.

302  The Carlormenes in Telmar behave very      1932 Lucy Pevensie born.
     wickedly and Aslan turns them into dumb    1933 Eustace Scrubb and
     beasts.  The country lies in waste. King        Jill Pole born.
     Gale of Narnia delivers the Lone Islands
     from a dragon and is made Emperor by
     their greatful inhabitants.

407  Olvin of Archenland kills the Giant Pire.

460  Pirates from our world take possession
     of Telmar.

570  About this time lived Moonwood the Hare.

898  The White Witch Jadis returns into
     Narnia out of the far North.

900  The Long Winter Begins.

1000 The Pevensies arrive in Narnia. The        1940 The Pevensies, staying
     treachery of Edmund. The sacrifice of           with Digory (now Pro-
     Aslan. The White Witch defeated and the         fessor) Kirk, reach
     Long Winter ended. Peter becomes High King      Narnia through the Magic
     Narnia.                                         Wardrobe.

1014 King Peter carries out a successful raid
     on the Northern Giants. Queen Susan and
     King Edmund visit the court of Calormen.
     King Lune of Archenland discovers his long
     lost son. Prince Cor defeats a treacherous
     attack by Prince Rabadash of Calormen.

1015 The Pevensies hunt the White Stag and
     vanish out of Narnia.

1050 Ram the Great succeeds King Cor as king of
     Archenland.

1502 About this time lives Queen SwanWhite of
     of Narnia.

1998 The Telmarines invade and conquer Narnia.
     Caspain I becomes King of Narnia.

2290 Prince Caspain, son of Caspain IX, born.
     Caspain IX murdered by his brother Miraz
     who usurps the throne.

2303 Prince Caspain escapes from his uncle      1941 The Pevensies again
     Miraz. Civil War in Narnia. By the aid          caught into Narnia by
     of Aslan and of the Pevensies, whom             the blast of the magic
     Caspain Summons with Queen Susan's magic        horn.
     horn, Miraz is defeated and killed. Caspain 
     becomes King Caspain X of Narnia.

2304 Caspain X defeats the Northern Giants.

2306 Caspain X's great voyage to the end of     1942 Edmund, Lucy and Eustace
     the World.                                      reach Narnia again and
                                                     take part in Caspain's
                                                     voyage.

2310 Caspain X marries Ramandu's daughter.

2325 Prince Rilian is born.

2345 The Queen is killed by a serpent.
     Rilian disappears.

2356 Eustace and Jill appear in Narnia and      1942 Eustace and Jill, from
     rescue Prince Rilian. Death of                  Experiment House, are
     Caspain X                                       carried away into Narnia.

2534 Outbreak of Outlaws in Lantern Waste.
     Towers built to guard that region.

2555 Rebellion of Shift the Ape. King Tirian    1949 Serious accident on
     rescued by Eustace and Jill. Narnia in          British Railways.
     the hands of the Calormenes. The Last
     Battle. End of Narnia. End of the World.


Taken without any permission of any kind from "A Closer Look... The 
Chronicles of Narnia" printed by Public Media Video.  Who re-printed it
with permission of Macmillan Publishing Co. from _Past_Watchful_Dragons_
by Walter Hooper.