Age of Industry Timeline

This is the timeline for the Age of Industry canon. Up to Skyrim, all events follow the games.

Events of Skyrim
201: Alduin appears, and the Dragon Crisis begins. The Last Dragonborn appears, and defeats him. 203: After a long, bloody civil war, Skyrim is finally re-united under the Empire. 213: Titus Mede II is assassinated by the Dark Brotherhood, and the Empire falls into chaos.

Post-Skyrim
446: General Kamodus, tired of living under the yoke of the Thalmor, stages a coup, and removes them from power in Cyrodiil. He then gathers the support of the other provinces, eventually building an army to take on the Thalmor. After defeating them, he re-unites Tamirel into the Empire, with himself as Emperor. Thus begins the Fifth Era.

5E
431: The farmer Dick Turpin leaves his life of farming, and becomes a famous outlaw. He starts to form the Resistance, in order to end the tyranny of Emperor Kamodus X.

425: The Resistance kills Kamodus.

566: Samarkand splits apart from the Empire.

583: The first of many wars between Samarkand and the Empire.

613: The Psijic Scientific Order is founded on Summerset Isle.

632: Morrowind is absorbed into Samarkand.

641: The Foyada Tong is founded by the Ashlanders.

759: The Psijic Scientific Order manage to create the first firearms.

784: Firearms are used by both sides in war, and are proven to be very successful.

804: Skyrim is conquered by Samarkand.

842: The wars in Cyrodiil end with Samarkand taking the Nibenay basin, but the Empire keeping the rest.

1254: Dwemer tech is reverse-engineered, and the secrets of steam power learnt. The industrialisation of Tamriel begins, as does the Sixth Era, or Age of Industry.