Years 2001-3001 AE.

21st Century AE

• 2056: The Catastrophe began. GMChronology

• 2071: Typical year for beginning of the Dark Age

22nd Century AE

• Nadir of the Dark Age generally considered by historians to have occurred in this century.

• 2101: Reopening of the Eastern Ponyland University

• 2121-2123: The New Volcano first appeared.

23rd Century AE

• Isle of Yore dominated by warlordism.

• 2265: Ironbound one-off campaign takes place. The earth-unicorn warlord Iron Horn of Calkin is critically injured and never fully recovers.

• ca. 2270s continuing fall of the oceans leads to expansion of the lowlands.

24th Century AE

• General expansion of camels from Ponyland into the lowlands.
• Relatively stable feudal civilization emerged among upland peoples on the Isle of Yore, scarcity-driven conflict still fairly common between feudal powers and confederacies.

25th Century AE

• 2496: The oceans ceased to fall, according to the records of the hermit sage Lonepone of the Dusts

26th Century AE

• Nothing noted yet.

27th Century AE

• Earliest definite evidence of the dynasty of Duchess Aflori in the Hayminnow Islands.

• 2638: The lighthouse ruins in Old Light collapse.

• 2670s: Camel Wars with lowland nomadic tribes trying to conquer the Isle of Yore. They are eventually defeated, and the alliance of feudal lords that defeated them ushers in a period of relative peace.

28th Century AE

• Development of the Irrigation system on the Isle of Yore begins in earnest during a period of relative peace.

29th Century AE

• 2817: Last eruption of the Yellow Mountain on the Isle of Stonepipes

• 2835: Fall of the Cloister of New Canterlot

30th Century AE

• 2921: The aquifer of the Valley of Yore fails suddenly.

• 2936: the Edge founded.

• 2940-2955: Crystal Forest growth destroys the Valley of Yore and Mulephis is cut off from the Eastern Dusts

• 2950s: last great famine (thusfar) begins (due to the loss of the Valley of Yore's agricultural output.)

• 2950: Founding of Penna Plain