The timeline documents important dates and events in the Witcher series, with the dates in human calendar are counted from the "Revival" (mentioned in Season of Storms) or the "Resurrectionem" (mentioned in Crossroads of Ravens).

In writing, the notations are written with a lower case "p" and upper case "R", such as "1215 post Resurrectionem" and "1 July 1245 p.R." However, it's yet to be seen how "before Revival/Resurrectionem" is written.

For easier viewing and separation of canon/non-canon this page has been split into 4 sections. Only the main page is considered canon, the others are non-canon (like the games, Netflix show, and other adaptations).

Ciri's year of birth is somewhat inconsistent across the books although Sapkowski has confirmed in a Reddit AMA that she was born in 1253. See Ciri#Ciri's age for further details.

Prehistory to 240s BR

• Five million years before the 13th century p.R. humans would come into existence in another world, evolving from apes
• A glacier spread over the land that would one day be Kaedwen, carving the mountains and the Lakeside March waterways
• Gnomes were the first race in the Northern Realms
• Dryads would come into existence
• According to Avallac'h; the phallic cult was typical for primitive civilisations. This could, however, be a joke along with the prehistoric existence of the now extinct purple bison
• Dwarves arrive in the Northern Realms and meet the Gnomes who had small settlements in Mahakam and Tir Tochair
• Between the 2230s BR and the 240s BR the Aen Seidhe arrived on the Continent during the Age of Migration.^{[N 1]}

230s to 1 BR

• The Conjunction of the Spheres
• Humans arrive in the world
  • Dauk and Wozgor people settle in the Continent's north
• Emergence of goddess worship in the form of Melitele, one of the oldest and most widespread systems of beliefs
• Development of a written language based on elven runes and dwarven ideograms

1 p.R

• The Revival/Resurrectionem

10s to 750s

• The human ancestors of the modern Nilfgaardian people would land in the south of the Continent and mix with the Black Seidhe.

760s

• The necropolis at Fen Carn is created
• Nordling people arrived in the north of the Continent during the "First Landing" or "Landing of the Exiles". They would likely land at the mouth of the Yaruga and the Pontar Delta.
• Jan Bekker would harness the Power and the first human settlement is established where he did so. He would also begin testing children for Source.

Between 760s and 830s

• Reigns of Dezmod and Sambuk begin simultaneously
• The introduction of a new (twenty-four character) alphabet
• The Novigradian Union is formed
• Geoffrey Monck takes a group of children to be trained by the elves at Loc Muinne
• Mages' seat in Mirthe is established
• Massacre at Loc Muinne and Est Haemlet carried out by Raupenneck of Tretogor's army. Carnage at Shaerrawedd

830s

• Raffard the White ends the Six Years' War between warring kings. While he does not officially rule, he becomes the first advisor to Temeria's mentally ill king, commanding power from behind
• Creation of the Brotherhood of Sorcerers and adoption of "the Law" drawn up by Herbert Stammelford, Aurora Henson, Ivo Richert, Agnes of Glanville, Geoffrey Monck and Radmir of Tor Carnedd
• Formation of the Chapter of Wizards and Supreme Council of Mages
  • A war is waged against all those who do not recognize the the Law. Raffard the White is among those killed in the ensuing conflict

839

• Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy, vampire and good friend of Geralt, is born

950s

• Due to demand from militaries and kings for superhumans that could become the next evolution of humanity, an elite group of Sorcerers called the Circle set out to achieve their wishes. They tried many different theories but before they could put the mutagen theory into practice one sorcerer, potentially Alzur, stole all the material and fled to the old citadel Mirabel at the foot of Trannberg. There the first witchers would be created.
• The renegade sorcerer responsible for stealing the Witcher formula would die under shadowy circumstances.

1060s

• Aelirenn's Uprising
  • Dilapidation of Shaerrawedd

1100s

• Vizimir I is born sometime in the early 1100s

1120s

• King Radovid III, looking for resources to wage war against Aedirn, decides to tax the Appanage of Kovir. The Appanage declares itself as the independent Kingdom of Kovir, resulting in war between the new kingdom and Redania. Despite support from ally Kaedwen, the war ends with Kovir's victory and the First Treaty of Lan Exeter is signed.

1130s

• Lara Dorren gives birth to Riannon before Lara dies from exhaustion. Riannon is adopted by the Redanian Queen, Cerro.

1130

• Dagread moves Kaedwen's capital from Ban Ard to Ard Carraigh

1133

• On Birke, in the village of Sylvan Dam, the prophet Lebioda delivers a sermon to his students

1140s

• Radovid III dies as the last Redanian king to bear the title of King of Kovir and Poviss. Kovir and Redania are officially separate from each other.

1150s

• Aedirn conquers Dol Blathanna
• Falka's Rebellion takes place
  • Vridank, Cerro, Heltmult, and Denhard are murdered by Falka
  • Falka becomes pregnant
  • Falka captures Princess Riannon (who's pregnant with twins) and imprisons her in Houtborg. The two give birth around the same time and the three babies become known as the Houtborg triplets.
  • The rebellion is quelled and Falka is burned at the stake
  • Vizimir I is crowned as the new king of Redania, and is promptly divorced from his infertile wife Joanna of Houtborg, and marries Ramona Thyssen to continue the Redanian line
  • Goidemar rescues his wife, Riannon, and takes in all three children
• Goidemar becomes king of Temeria

1150

• Dagread proclaims an ukase allowing witchers to carry their work freely in Kaedwen's crownlands and border Marches and removes the local authorities' jurisdiction over them

1156

• Coram II is born

1170s

• Outbreak of the Black Death plague in Vizima. Princess Adela dies helping priests in the hospital.
• Prince Amavet is cruelly murdered by Count Roger Kameny and his men
  • On Goidemar's orders, Roger Kameny is subjected to torture and torn apart by horses. This incident prompts the Temerian nobility to rebel which is suppressed by the intervention of Cidarian forces led by King Liam.
  • Less than a year later, Amavet's illegitimate children, twins Muriel and Crispin, are born
• Riannon dies, struck by the death of two of her children
• Goidemar marries Liam's daughter, Adda of Cidaris, and the couple soon welcomes a son, Cedric.

1173

• Belleteyn (night between 30 April and 1 May) - Yennefer of Vengerberg is born

1178

• Coram II and Fiona are married

1180

• Corbett is born to Coram II and Fiona

1186

• Yennefer of Vengerberg graduates from Aretuza and becomes an official sorceress

1190s

• Crispin disappears without leaving a trace in Metinna during a war with Nilfgaard
• Sometime in the late 1180s or early 1190s, Muriel marries Robert of Garramone and the couple have two children: Robert II and Adalia (the future queen of Cintra).
  • 7 years after they were married, Robert I dies in battle

1191

• Coram I dies and his son, Coram II, ascends the Cintran throne

1192

• The Description of a Monstrum or a Witcher is written by Artamon of Asguth and anonymously published through Ban Ard Academy

1194

• A mob attacks Kaer Morhen, motivated by The Description of a Monstrum or a Witcher and secretly backed by Artamon and Cervia. A total of 7 witchers die defending the keep while one fled.
  • King Eoin of Kaedwen has some of the lower mob members killed, but not the real ringleaders.

1198

• Coram II dies and his son, Corbett, ascends the Cintran throne and marries Elen of Kaedwen
• Dagorad, Corbett and Elen's only child, is born

1200

• In the village of Forest Dam, an obelisk is erected by Spyridon Apps to commemorate the prophet Lebioda's sermon there sixty-seven years prior

1200s

• Temeria and Redania split Emblonia between themselves

1203

• The Borsodi brothers officially enter business, trading horses and livestock from a shed in the countryside^{[N 2]}

1208

• Adalia marries Ragbard of Ellander, who dies half a year later
• Queen Bienvenu of Temeria arranges for Adalia to marry Prince Dagorad of Cintra and they get married soon after

1210

• King Corbett of Cintra passes away and his only child, Dagorad, ascends the throne at the age of 12
• Elen of Kaedwen dies less than a year after Corbett

1211

• Geralt of Rivia is born
• Esterad Thyssen is born
• Roegner of Ebbing, Ciri's grandfather, is born^{[N 3]}

1212

• Kobus de Ruyter is born

1213

• The Striga of Brunanbruh is born.

1215

• The Mansfeld family, Margraves of Keadwen's Lower March, march their army into Aedirn and set their border by the river Dyfne. King Videmont of Aedirn retaliated and pushed the Mansfelds back across the Pontar in a bloody battle.

1218

• Calanthe, Ciri's grandmother, is born^{[N 3]}

1219

• Sigismund Dijkstra is born

1220s

• Audoen separates Hengfors from Kovir during the Secession of Poviss and forms there his miniature kingdom, which includes Arcsea
• Virfuril defeats Medell's armies at Hagge

1220

• Ildiko Breckl is born

1222

• Miodrag the becomes King of Kaedwen

1225

• King Osmyk of Kerack passes away, his son Belohun ascends the Keracki throne.
• Olaf Stigvason is born
• Kaedwen threatens to push into the Kingdom of Hengfors. Kovir comes to their defence and the Peace of Barefield is signed.
• A Meganeura attacks the construction crew of the Great Highway in Kaedwen near the border to Upper March. Preston Holt is able to kill it but his leg is grievously wounded, leaving him with a permanent limp.

1228

• A group of dissidents forms against Fergus var Emreis, with Vysogota of Corvo as one of its leaders
• A noblewoman from Ard Carraigh arrives in Brunanbruh Castle with her 15 year old daughter. The daughter would have a curse cast on her just before Midwinter and dies. She would arise as a Striga before the Yule was out.

1229

• Dandelion is born
• Geralt sets out on the Path for the first time
• Crossroads of Ravens begins in March

1230

• Death of Artamon of Asguth. An investigation into his death would begin just over a day later on the 3rd of May
• Preston Holt is executed via strangulation at Sturefors for the murder of Artamon of Asguth

1231

• Death of Cervia Herrada de Graffiacane
• Aplegatt is born
• Crossroads of Ravens ends before May

1232

• Dagorad dies and his only child, Calanthe, becomes queen of Cintra

1233

• Battle of Hochebuz

1234

• Peter Evertsen is born

1235

• Roegner of Ebbing and Calanthe are married^{[N 3]}

1237

• Roegner of Ebbing is saved from death by Duny, going by the name "Urcheon of Erlenwald", who invokes the Law of Surprise as his payment
• Pavetta, Calanthe and Roegner's daughter, is born^{[N 3]}

1238

• Esterad Thyssen and Zuleyka of Talgar are married

1239

• The beginning of the Northern Wars, annexation of Ebbing
• Houvenaghel is born
• Windhalm of Attre is born

1240s

• Radovid IV takes Arcsea
• Radovid IV dies
• Heribert becomes king of Redania and argues with the Chapter of the Gift and the Art about money, resulting in mages boycotting Redania. Although he doesn't rule long, the mages' boycott would remain years after his death.
• Vizimir II becomes King of Redania

1241

• Muriel dies
• The massacre in Iello, enacted by the witcher Brehen, takes place (according to years calculated from in-novel letters, inconsistent with dates from the Saga)

1242

• The Brotherhood of Sorcerers employ the services of the jurists Codringher and Jacob Fenn in discrediting the witness of a scandal known as "The Grain Scam" (according to years calculated from in-novel letters, inconsistent with dates from the Saga)

1245

• Roegner of Ebbing dies
• June-August - events of the Season of Storms novel (according to a year mentioned in the in-novel letters, inconsistent with dates from the Saga)

1247

• The Brotherhood of Sorcerers employ the services of the jurists Codringher and Jacob Fenn in discrediting the witness of a scandal known as "The Grain Scam"
• Dandelion graduates Oxenfurt Academy, becomes a professor and teaches students for a year
• The massacre in Iello, enacted by the witcher Brehen, takes place

1248

• Dandelion decides to devote his life to poetry and leaves to explore the world
• Angoulême is born
• Hjalmar an Craite is born

1249

• Carthia van Canten is born
• Geralt and Dandelion meet at a fête in Gulet
• The short stories The Edge of the World and The Last Wish takes place

1250

• Shani is born
• After half a year spent together in Vengerberg, Geralt leaves Yennefer without saying goodbye and instead leaves a rose on the bed for her

1251

• June-August - events of Season of Storms (calculation based on the rest of books)
• Jarre is born

1252

• Ciri's great-great-great-grandmother Fiona dies in Cleves at the age of 93, forgotten by the world.
• The short story "A Question of Price" takes place
• Duny and Pavetta, Ciri's parents, get married
• Eist Tuirseach and Calanthe are married

1253

• Belleteyn (night between 30 April and 1 May) - Princess Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon of Cintra is born. She is better known as Ciri or the Lion Cub of Cintra.
• The short stories The Witcher and The Voice of Reason take place

1254

• The short story The Bounds of Reason takes place

1255

• Radovid V is born

1256

• Calanthe breaks the engagement of Prince Windhalm of Attre and Ciri
• Death of Pavetta and Duny at Sedna Abyss
• Engagement of Prince Kistrin of Verden and Ciri

1257

• Emhyr var Emreis overthrows and executes the Usurper, taking again control of the Imperial throne.

1258

• Akerspaark is killed
  • Maecht falls into political dispute, and the throne is elected to Hoët, under Emhyr's support and rule.
• Duke Raymund of Toussaint begins his reign of the duchy

1261

• Dandelion travels to Toussaint and meets Duchess Anna Henrietta and the two become romantically involved from Belleteyn to the summer solstice.

1262

• The short story The Sword of Destiny takes place
• Calanthe breaks the engagement of Prince Kistrin of Verden and Ciri

1263

• Engagement of Prince Radovid V of Redania and Ciri
  • King Vizimir II breaks the engagement between the pair
• The Nilfgaardian Empire invades the Northern Kingdoms, triggering the First Northern War
  • The Battle of Marnadal, defeat of the Cintran Army and death of King Eist Tuirseach
  • The Slaughter of Cintra - Queen Calanthe, Ciri's grandmother, commits suicide rather than surrendering to the Nilfgaardians
  • First battle of Sodden
  • Battle of Sodden Hill

1264

• The short story Something More takes place

1265

• Ebbing confederation insurrection
• Duke Raymund of Toussaint dies, his wife Duchess Anna Henrietta takes over
• Ciri begins her training at Kaer Morhen

1266

• March-April - Geralt and Triss Merigold take Ciri to the Temple of Melitele.
• Yennefer starts educating Ciri in the ways of magic.

1267

• Major events in Blood of Elves, Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire and The Tower of the Swallow take place.
• Vizimir II, Meve, Foltest, Demavend, and Henselt meet secretly at Hagge.
• Cintra rebellion takes place. Windhalm of Attre is executed in Cintra.
• 1st July - Thanedd coup; Vizimir II is assassinated; Nilfgaardian Empire invades Dol Angra valley; Second Northern War begins.
• Attre rebellion starts.
• 5th August - the Lodge of Sorceresses is formed by Philippa Eilhart.
• 19th August - the Lodge conspires to wed Ciri to Tankred Thyssen of Kovir in order to create a country ruled by magic, eventually hoping to eclipse Nilfgaard in might.
• 31st August - the Battle for the Bridge on the Yaruga takes place.
• 9th September - The Rats confront Leo Bonhart in the village of Jealousy and are killed in combat.
• 27th September - Vysogota of Corvo discovers the wounded Ciri and takes her back to his cottage to recuperate.
• 31st October - On Saovine Eve, Ciri kills several members of Stefan Skellen's gang in a tavern in Dun Dare. In his cottage, Vysogota passes away.
• November - Ciri kills several members of Stefan Skellen's gang, including Rience on Tarn Mira. Ciri escapes from Bonhart by entering Tor Zireael.

1268

• Major events in The Lady of the Lake take place
• Red comet, first week of March
• March - Battle of Brenna takes place
• The Second Northern War ends
• Assault on Stygga Castle
• 2nd April - Peace of Cintra – a peace settlement treaty ending the Nilfgaard wars, is signed
• Execution of Vrihedd Brigade officers
• 6 or 7 June – the Rivian Pogrom, Geralt of Rivia is apparently killed by an angry peasant mob, his body is never found. Yennefer of Vengerberg appears to die trying to heal him. The pair were taken away by Ciri to an unspecified place and Ciri left for another world.
• 22nd September - Joanna Selborne appears before imperial officials in the High Tribunal of the Eternal Empire and testifies regarding the events of the previous year.
• First outbreak of plague
• Attre rebellion ends

1269

• In Maribor, Milo "Rusty" Vanderbeck contracts the plague and passes away in the arms of Iola the Second. Four days later, she passes away from the plague alone.

1272

• Second outbreak of the Catriona plague
• Beginning of the witch hunts

1276

• The end of the witch hunts

1290

• Peter Evertsen is promoted to imperial treasurer of the crown

1294

• Third outbreak of plague

End of the thirteenth century

• Beginning of climate change

1301

• Peter Evertsen is falsely accused of misappropriation of imperial funds, found guilty, imprisoned and executed at Winneburg Castle
• Morvran Voorhis ceases being Emperor of Nilfgaard
• Jan Calveit becomes Emperor of Nilfgaard
• Jan Calveit appoints Houvenaghel burgrave and director of mines in Venendal and as reward for services rendered gives him the office of mayor of Neveugen
• Houvenaghel dies

1309

• Start of the War of the Two Unicorns

1318

• End of the War of the Two Unicorns

1328

• Emperor Jan Calveit posthumously rehabilitates Peter Evertsen

1331

• Death of Stella Congreve

1340

• Death of Shani

1350

• the Haak invasion, rumored to have been predicted by Ithlinne

1373

• Prior this year, the majority of Aen Seidhe has left the world through Ard Gaeth, taking with them most of their art and destroying what couldn't be taken
• Young Nimue verch Wledyr ap Gwyn travels to Aretuza
• An unnamed white-haired witcher kills one of the last idrs in Magpie Forest

1432

• Flourens Delannoy is born

1460

• Flourens Delannoy becomes librarian and secretary to the imperial court

1476

• Delannoy becomes a professor at the academy at Castel Graupian

1510

• Flourens Delannoy dies

Distant future

• A few ages after Northern Wars Nimue and Condwiramurs Tilly cooperate to fill missing links in story of Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer.
• Archeologists from the University of Castel Graupian discover Dandelion's lost first writings of Half a Century of Poetry in Beauclair. Estimations from professor Schliemann correctly place the manuscript as a 13th century relic, belonging to the Dark Ages.
• 15 year old Ciri visits the future of her world while escaping the Wild Hunt with Ihuarraquax. Wandering around what seems to be a petrol-smelling asphalt road and a garbage dump, she is disgusted and after learning from the unicorn that this is her world, she is horrified and hopes it is the distant past, not the future that awaits.
• Approximately 3 000 years after Nimue and Condwiramurs' work, the world's unstable orbit reaches maximum and prompts the ice age, known as the White Frost from Ithlinne's prophecy. The epoch is said to end with the "New Sun" and rebirth of the world.

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