• Start of the novel: Edge of Destiny •

► Destiny's Edge is formed and kills one of Jormag's champions, the Dragonspawn, as well as several other dragons' champions.
► Rytlock Brimstone is in possession of the famous sword Sohothin.
► The Xunlai Guild of Cantha is acquired by Hyeoksin Jade and renamed Xunlai Jade by Park Chul-Moo and Joon.

► Ulgoth the Mighty unites the Harathi and Tamini under Modniir rule in the centaur alliance to attack the human nation of Kryta.
► A wave of refugees from Elona settle in Divinity's Reach.

• Start of the Novel: Sea of Sorrows •

► Zhaitan, the Elder Undead Dragon, awakens.
► Rising of Orr.
► Lion's Arch floods.
► Zhaitan's Great Tsunami destroys Old Kaineng.
► Kuunavang beseeches Soo-Won to leave the depths and defend Cantha.
► The tengu charge through Zhaitan's forces and establish the Dominion of Winds.

► Rata Arcanum is wiped out by the druids after Zinn attempted to terraform Draconis Mons.
► Elona falls to Palawa Joko.
► The Order of the Sunspears are wiped out.

► King Adelbern of Ascalon recalls the Ebon Vanguard.
► Ebonhawke is established.
► Minister Reiko Murakami, founder of the Ministery of Purity, is slain.

• Start of Guild Wars: Beyond •

► Beyond begins in Kryta with the War in Kryta, following the events of Guild Wars Prophecies and Eye of the North, along with the stand-alone quest chain Zinn's Task. It then continues the story of Gwen and Keiran Thackeray in Hearts of the North. The third chapter deals with Cantha in Winds of Change.
► Miku's adoptive family is killed by the White Mantle. She seeks vengeance, and crosses path with Keiran Thackeray. The two confront the White Mantle together.
► The Krytan civil war ends with the defeat of the White Mantle, and Princess Salma is crowned.
► All Mursaat are wiped out from Tyria except for Lazarus the Dire who was in hiding.

• Start of Winds of Change in Cantha •

► The last Seer dies, gifting the Shining Blade with the weapon of their namesake.
► The Seraph are established.
► The Ministry of Purity rise to power in Cantha.
► Miku returns to Cantha to face her past.

• Start of Prophecies (after pre-Searing) •

► A major dispute breaks out in Rin between Prince Rurik and King Adelbern. Adelbern refuses to ally with Kryta and wants to force the people to rebuild on the spot. Rurik believes that staying condemns the humans to die of hunger or under the claws of the Charr. Furious at his insubordination, Adelbern strips Rurik of his titles and banishes him from Ascalon. Rurik decides to guide a massive caravan of Ascalonian refugees through the formidable Shiverpeak Mountains toward Kryta to offer them a safe haven.
► During the Frost Gate mission, the caravan is attacked by the rebel dwarves of the Stone Summit. To allow the refugees to escape safely, Rurik sacrifices himself by holding off the enemies alone on the bridge. He is killed in combat by Dagnar Stonepate (cousin of King Jalis Ironhammer), the leader of the Stone Summit rebellion.
► The White Mantle recovers the Scepter of Orr in a ruin of Majesty's Rest. It is stolen by a Shining Blade spy, who entrusts it to The Lich Lord under the guise of Vizier Khilbron. He will use it to control the Titans.
► The corpse of Prince Rurik is found and defiled by The Lich (in the guise of Vizier Khilbron)). Rurik is reanimated as an undead servant endowed with his own consciousness (forcing him to realize the monstrosity of his actions). He will eventually be put down by the players and his soul will be freed.
► The Lich Lord attempts to open the Door of Komalie, and the Mursaat are nearly wiped out. The Lich Lord is defeated and the Scepter of Orr is gone again.
► Glint's Flameseeker Prophecies come to an end.
► The Titans ravage across Tyria before being slain.

• Start of Factions •

► Master Togo (half-brother of Emperor Kisu) summons Mhenlo to the Shing Jea Monastery.
► In late fall, Shiro Tagashi returns after 200 years, unleashing the Affliction plague in Cantha.
► Kuunavang is freed and allies herself with the mortals.
► The Affliction causes countless casualties, from the poor souls condemned to the streets to the most prosperous families like the Yuudachi, the ruling dynasty of the Order of Sai Ling. Miraculously surviving the massacre, Ashu Yuudachi is placed under the guardianship of his aunt, Reiko Murakami.
► During the siege of Raisu Palace, Shiro Tagashi assassinates maître Togo to use his royal blood to break his curse as an Envoy and become a mortal of flesh and blood once more, just before being defeated in turn by the players.
► Driven further and further from Kaineng by the Afflicted, Miku secrets herself aboard a ship heading for Lion's Arch.
► The Tomb of the Primeval Kings falls to mysterious demonic forces.

► Using forbidden scrolls, Vizier Khilbron (manipulated by Terick, alias Razakel, a demon of Abaddon) triggers a massive magical explosion to halt the Charr invasion in Orr: the Cataclysm. The sheer power sinks the continent of Orr beneath the ocean waters and transforms the entire Orrian population into undead, bound by occult forces.
► The Scepter of Orr is also lost in the Cataclysm. It is a relic that grants the power to control the dead.
► The Bay of Sirens and Gulf of Jerick are merged and renamed the Sea of Sorrows.
► After 191 years of hostilities, the Tengu Wars in Cantha finally come to an end.

► Ermenred of Ascalon, ambassador and explorer, travels to Cantha to meet Emperor Kintah; informal trade routes open between Ascalon and Cantha.

► Cantha's embassy formally closed in Ascalon City and Elona. Corsair activity rises as a result of this.

► Long-standing trade agreements between the Tyrian human kingdoms and the Canthan Empire dissolved by imperial decree.

► Nolani is founded in the Kingdom of Ascalon.
► Palawa Joko invades Elona, captures most of Vabbi, and earns the sobriquet "Scourge of Vabbi".

► Lord Odran, through countless sacrifices, opens permanent portals to The Mists and becomes the first recorded living mortal to enter The Rift.

► From his childhood in Kryte, Prince Oswald Thorn distinguished himself through his cruelty and machiavellian nature, going so far as to kill a friend and abandon a companion to death. Thriving on a thirst for power, he assassinated his older brother to seize the throne, had his opponents executed during his coronation, and eliminated or tortured his seven successive wives as well as his own son, the Bloody Prince. His reign was marked by tyranny, widespread famines, and brutal conflicts, notably with Elona, until his revolting subjects ambushed him, killed him, and concealed the pieces of his corpse.
Transformed into the Mad King in the Underworld, he manages to partially break his seals to return and haunt Tyria every year during Halloween, once again sowing chaos among the living.

► Astral Ward is founded (secret organization silently protecting the world of Tyria from various threats) by a Taryn.

► Prince Chang Hai, a Warrior Monk, becomes the first Ascendant emperor of Cantha.
► Beginning of Cantha's Age of the Bat.
► In Tyria, within the Regent Valley, King's Watch is built where Doric was crowned the first King of Ascalon.

► Balthazar, Dwayna, Grenth, Lyssa, and Melandru confront Abaddon in an apocalyptic war. The violence of the clash is so immense that the surrounding lands are devastated, transforming the verdant Crystal Sea into an arid desert and creating the region now known as The Desolation.
► Abaddon is defeated and imprisoned within the Realm of Torment, as well as the Margonite.
► The Exodus of the Five Gods takes place. They leave the physical world of Tyria to no longer interfere directly with mortal affairs. This becomes Year 0 of the Tyrian calendar.

► Abaddon gives magic to the races of Tyria, resulting in wars emerging across Tyria.
► Doric journeys to Arah and pleads with the Gods to take magic back. The Gods rescind the magic in Tyria to the Bloodstone, sealed with Doric's blood and stored in the volcano Abaddon's Mouth, to prevent anyone from ever wielding power over all magic again.
► Abaddon begins to transform the Margonites into demonic beings, beginning with Jadoth.
► Abaddon declares war on his fellow gods and assaults the Gates of Heaven.

► Humans settle Ascalon, driving the charr north, out of their briefly conquered lands.
► Doric is crowned king of Tyrian human lands in Ascalon.
► The city of Rin is erected and will serve as a major center for the study of profane arts. Rin is not the capital of Ascalon; it is considered the 'sister city' of Drascir, the original capital of Ascalon. It was not until much later, during the Guild Wars, that Rin became the capital after Drascir was weakened and then destroyed by the Charr assaults.
► King Doric receives the first Canthan ambassador.

► Humans arrive on Orr, Istan, and the southern valleys of Elona via boats from unknown lands.
► Beginning of Cantha's Age of the Falcon.

► Earliest shown date of attempted Kryptis invasion of Tyria.

► the Forgotten perform a spell on Glaust, champion and scion of the Elder Dragon Kralkatorrik, and grant her free will. Glaust takes on the name of Glint and loses most of her memory.
► Glint conceals the elder races from the Elder Dragons, who gradually fall into slumber to wait for the next dragonrise.

► The Forgotten arrive in Tyria from the Mists according to human legends.

► Last of the giganticus lupicus, the Great Giants, disappear from the Tyrian continent. Suspected date of last rising of the Elder Dragons.
► Following Doyen Sidony's call (leader of the Seers), five of the primary ancient races unite to resist the Elder Dragons:
     - The Seers: They are closely tied to the Forgotten. They acted as guardians or intermediaries, belonging to this same pre-human era of Tyria. (They are also sometimes called 'Prophets')
     - The Forgotten: Created by gods, but not the Six human Gods. They served older divine entities (linked to the Dragons or to primordial forces). When they were discovered by the Six Gods upon their arrival, The Forgotten were already there protecting the world.
     - The Dwarves: They are one of the oldest races. According to writings from the era of the original Guild Wars, they already occupied the Shiverpeaks long before the arrival of humans, having been created by the Great Dwarf.
     - The Jotuns: This people once occupied monumental cities and possessed vast magical knowledge. They are the heirs of a civilization that existed during the previous Dragon cycle, long before the human Gods settled.
     - The Mursaat: Known as the 'Keepers of the Flame', they already existed during the previous rise of the Dragons (roughly 10,000 years before the arrival of humans). They phased themselves out of existence to survive the dragon cycle, reappearing much later.
► The Seers begin experimenting to hide magic from the Elder Dragons and create first the Shadowstone, then the Bloodstone, to store their magic and hide it from the Elder Dragons.
► Just before a crucial assault against Zhaitan, Sidony suddenly withdraws the Seers from the battlefield to focus on the creation of the stones, abandoning the Mursaat and the Forgotten to their fate. He also forces fellow seer Isgarren to remain neutral. The assault fails, resulting in heavy casualties; the Mursaat vow vengeance.
► Sidony creates two magical weapons (Legavo and Mulmund) to counter potential extraplanar invaders. However, the Mursaat ward their armors against them, and these weapons will prove ineffective when the Six Gods arrive. They will later become the Scepter of Orr and the Staff of the Mists.
► Following the betrayal, the Mursaat refuse to store their magic within the Bloodstone. A centuries-long war breaks out between the Seers and the Mursaat, with each side blaming the other for its origin. The Seers develop a resistance against the spectral agony used by the Mursaat. Despite this, the Seers are driven to the brink of extinction, and the Mursaat vanish into the Mists.
► The kodan take refuge against the Elder Dragon reign in the far north.
► Eparch and his brother enter Tyria for the first time and encounter the Elder Dragon Mordremoth. Eparch is saved by Isgarren and brought to the Wizard's Tower for a time, before slaughtering a centaur village and being banished to Nayos by Isgarren.
► Exact dates unknown.

► Approximate earliest recorded dragonrise of the Elder Dragons.

► The Void is raw magic—chaos incarnate. In the beginning, everything was Void. Then the Mother Dragon, Soo-Won, brought order, splitting the Void into six domains of magic. She could not maintain that order alone, so she took on the domain of water and gave the others to the five Elder Dragons. It was on that foundation that all material life on Tyria flourished.