Sunrise/Sunset & Calendar Notes

Midwinter (Start M1): Sunrise 8.17am  Sunset 3.52pm - Day Length 7 hours 35 minutes
Start M2: Sunrise  8.07am Sunset 4.30pm
Start M3: Sunrise 7.15am Sunset 5.28pm
Equinox (Start M4): Sunrise 6am  Sunset 6pm - Day Length 12 hours
Start M5: Sunrise 5am Sunset 7.13pm
Start M6: Sunrise 4.06am  Sunset 8.02pm
Midsummer (Start M7):  Sunrise 3.46am  Sunset 8.31pm - Day Length 16 hours 45 minutes
Start M8: Sunrise 04.11am  Sunset 8.15pm
Start M9: Sunrise 5am Sunset 7.20pm
Equinox (Start M10): Sunrise 6am Sunset 6pm - Day Length 12 hours
Start M11: Sunrise 6.43am  Sunset 5pm 
Start M12: Sunrise 7.40am  Sunset 4.06pm


The months have the same number of days as in our own world.


Calendar
Yggsburgh uses the Yggs Year, dating from the independence of Yggsburgh in 1 YY.
Sages and scholars of history in the Realm often use the ancient Sharan Calendar of the long-dead Sharan Empire, which reckons dates in A.U.C. - Ab Urbe Condita, from the founding of the city of Shar. YY 96 = 2712 A.U.C.  AUC is also still used by the city of New Shar, north-west of the Nerian Holy Lands, which maintains many ancient Sharan customs, including the Sharan Church which differs in several important respects from the Great Church of the Realm.
A partial A.U.C. chronology is given here: http://www.meetup.com/London-DnD/messages/boards/thread/5301487
Neria uses an A.D. - Anno Domini - Year of Our Lord - system dating from the Birth of the Son.  YY 96=2712 AUC=AD 2012. 


History


1 AUC Founding of the City of Shar on the Sharan Peninsula.
701 AUC Birth of the Holy Son, Mitra the Crisos (King), in the Holy Land, north-eastern Neria.
Rise of the Sharan Empire across the Inner Sea.
800 AUC Sharan Empire incorporates Kalara to the west.
950 AUC Sharan Empire incorporates all Arda to the north-west.
1000 AUC Golden Age of the Sharan Empire. The Empire extends west to Kalara, north-west beyond Arda to the Isles of Borne, north to Lake Neme, north-east to New Shar, east to the Nerian Holy Land and south-east to Nerian Gyptus. The Holy Son is the prime religion of the Empire.
1220 AUC Appearance of Chaos cults in the Empire.
1300 AUC Increasing decadence.
1370 AUC Civil War between religious factions (St Sarath vs St Delaquain) racks the empire. Sharan forces withdraw from the North & West.
1400 AUC Barbarian and Humanoid migrations begin.
1440 AUC: Rise of the Bafomite Cult.
1445 AUC Last Sharan forces leave Kalara.
1450 AUC Trosk barbarians conquer Kalara, sack Cynadacia
1453 AUC: The Final Battle - City of Shar sacked and destroyed by Bafomite-led monstrous forces from north and south.
1732 AUC Baphomites conquer Kalara from the east.
1979 AUC The hero Thongar defeats the tyrant Kaladrac, becomes King of Willow Vale in southern Arda.
1989 AUC Disappearance of Trionos, King of Arda's Western Kingdom, civil war between his sons.
2009 AUC M1 - Heroes of Willow Vale defeat the evil wizard Egarim, who had ruled the Western Kingdom as King Vale, and restore King Trionos, who marries the vale soldier-cook Pam. 
2010 AUC M6 - Kalaran Invasion of Willow Vale; Trosk Gate sacked with the death of Krask Bloodeye and many heroes. A strike team under Father Baelor defeats The Master at the Temple of Death. At Castle Royal the invading army is destroyed by the forces of the Vale and the army of the West under King Trionos. Baphomet's grip on the earthly plane is weakened, and much of Kalara is subsequently liberated (2010-2020 AUC).


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ca 2050 AUC: Nerian missionaries convert the barbarian tribes beyond Lake Neme to the worship of the True Faith.  Foundation of the Great Church. 
2080 AUC: King Volstadd the Falcon unites the Tribes, with his capital at Dunfalcon on the northern shore of Lake Neme.
2100 AUC: King Volstadd liberates Tilea, the northern Sharan Peninsula south of Neme, from the Forces of Chaos. On Midwinter's Eve 2100 AUC (AD 1400) Volstadd leads the final assault on the ancient ruins of the City of Shar itself, slays the Theocrat of Bafomet, and at dawn on the Day of Son's Birth, before the newly reconsecrated altar of the High Temple of Shar, he is crowned the High King of Man. Founding of the 'Realm of Man'.
2120 AUC: In Arda, Union of the Kingdom of Willow Vale with the Western Kingdom to form the Grand Kingdom.
2200 AUC: The Cnobrii barbarians are driven from the Eastmark by King Volstadd III.  
2300 AUC: The Realm of Man extends to Darish d'Coeur and Arda in the west, to the borders of the Trosk mountains, and east across Traldar to the territories of New Shar, latterly known as the Thyatian Empire.
2384 AUC: Death of Volstadd VIII, end of the Volstadd Line.  The Lords of the far-flung Realm are unable to agree on a successor, decades of civil war follows.  The Realm splits into many smaller territories.
2389 AUC:  As war rages in the south, the red dragon Vermithrag stakes out a domain in northern Herdley.
2399 AUC: The red dragon Vermithrag defeats and critically wounds the hero Kal on Dragon Ridge. Kal is tended to by a mysterious 'White Lady'.
2400 AUC: Recovered from his wounds, Kal undergoes many great quests until at last he faces and defeats Vermithrag, building his own fortress of Kallent atop the dragon's bones. Founding of the County of Kallent. 
2416 AUC: With resources and men greatly depleted after thirty years of war, the Civil War slowly subsides.
2418 AUC (-198 YY): Discovery of salt along Serpent Ridge. Franz Yggs is the first Lord Yggs of Yggsburgh.
2450 AUC: Easterling invasions conquer swathes of the eastern territories, lands lost to the Realm of Man.
2492 AUC: The Siege of Dunfalcon: An Easterling army besieging Royal Dunfalcon is attacked by an army of the Northern Lords led by Otto, Margrave of Talworth, and utterly destroyed, with the death of the Golden Khan. End of Easterling expansion into the Realm.
2600 AUC (-16 YY): In the Eastmark the Unknown Paladin defeats a terrible Demon Lord (Bafomet?) at Stonewyck, at the cost of his own life.
2615 AUC (-1 YY): Battle of the Westfields in Eastmark, defeat of Edmund, the Marquis Talworth by Redfort & Easmoor. Lewis Edward Garmonde, the Lord Yggs of Yggsburgh, rebels against Delkart Count of Easmoor & Huon the Baron Redfort.
2616 AUC (YY 1): Defeat of the Redfort-Easmoor army besieging Yggsburgh. Independence of Yggsburgh.
2635 AUC (YY 20): Death of Edward the Lord Yggs, Lord Mayor of Yggsburgh.  Yggsburgh becomes a Free City.
2712 AUC (YY 96): Completion of the Gazetteer of the Eastmark. Marriage of Sir Garrick to Tabitha Kallent.
2713 AUC M10 (YY 97): Conquest of Herdley by Kallent, death of Odric the Black Priest.
2714 AUC (YY 98): Signing of the Yggsburgh-Redfort-Kallent Treaty of Alliance overseen by Sir Ulrich Hawkes. Easmoor Talworth & Dunfalcon opposed.
2715 AUC M4 (YY 99): Miss Candice Wight, Princess Aole of Neria, Annabel & Ivy Striker, all disappear from Miss Wright's bathing pool in Yggsburgh, along with quantities of jewelry. 
2716 AUC (YY 100): Election year in Yggsburgh. Sir Ulrich Hawkes is a candidate.