A CHRONOLOGY OF SOME IMPORTANT EVENTS IN HUMAN HISTORY

BEFORE GUILD
19000-16500 Early civilizations on Terra.
circa 17400 Birth of Atreus (the Black), father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, the Atreides referred to by the poet, Homer, and the founders of the patronymic in the Terrean province of Greece. These latter successfully lead a small interprovencial war in an effort to regain Menelaus’ wife, Helen.
16500 Aleksandr creates FIRST EMPIRE.
16400-16000 ROMAN EMPIRE arises and conquers the known world, except for China, which resists until 14400.
15800 Imperial Seat moved to Byzantium in retreat before provincial rebellions and minor jihads.
14700-14608 THE GREAT STRUGGLE: The Century Without an Emperor.
14608 Discoveries in America allow Madrid to attain the status of the Imperial Seat.
14512 BATTLE OF ENGLICHANNEL. Seat of Empire moved from Madrid to London.
14500-14200 THE GOLDEN AGE OF INVENTION: Development of radio, television, atomics, rocketry, genetics, and the computer.
14255 First atomics demonstrated in an intraprovincial war. Seat of Empire moved to Washington.
14100-13600 THE LITTLE DIASPORA: The solar system is colonized, and the population of Terra is eventually outnumbered by 20 to 1.
13402 Ceres gains the Imperial Seat after a planetoid strikes Terra.
13402-13399 THE RESCUE OF THE TREASURES from Terra.
13360 Terra re-seeded and set aside (by Imperial edict) as a natural park.
13004 SUSPENSOR-NULLIFICATION EFFECT discovered.
12200 THE EMPIRE OF TEN WORLDS. Communications becoming strained.
11200 THE EMPIRE OF A THOUSAND WORLDS (an empire in name only, because Imperial power was so diffuse as to be nonexistent).
11105 AGE OF PRETENDERS begins when Ceres is destroyed by rebellion, and the Imperial Seat ceases to exist as a single entity.
11100-7562 THE AGE OF TEN THOUSAND EMPERORS (sometimes called “The Great Dark Ages”).
7593 I. V. Holtzman born on Liesco II.
7565 Holtzman disabled and cyborged.
7562 Holtzman reveals the “wave-effect” nature of the suspensor-nullification device.
7556 Holtzman severely damaged and thrown into a cometary orbit. Communications with him are lost.
7562-5022 THE WARS OF REUNIFICATION, consequent on the immediate communication made possible by Holtzman Effect.
5022 THE EMPIRE OF TEN THOUSAND WORLDS united under Ladislaus the Great.
5022-3678 THE FIRST GOLDEN AGE.
3832 Holtzman reappears at Liesco, and presents the theory for construction of the DEFENSIVE SHIELD.
3678 THE SILICON PLAGUE: the “Death of the Machines.”
3678-2000 THE LITTLE DARK AGES, ending with the development of plague-resistant conductors.
2000-1800 THE RETURN OF COMPUTERS (sometimes called “The Second Reunification”).
1970 Holtzman reappears, and presents his UNIFIED THEORY.
1800-400 THE SECOND GOLDEN AGE. Circa 700 the first anti-computer pogroms occur.
711-200 Tensions increase between programmites and humanity-firsters, tensions which Jehanne Butler was to exploit.
   
Events covered in Dune: Butlerian Jihad, Dune: The Machine Crusade and Dune: Battle of Corrin, by Brian Herbert
200-108 THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD. In 108, Holtzman returns and is destroyed by forces of the Jihad.
ca. 100 Ixians, refugees from the Jihad, led by Aurelius Venport, discover TUPILE, the Sanctuary Planet(s).
88 THE BATTLE OF CORRIN.
86 FOUNDATION OF HOUSE ATREIDES when Demetrios Atreides is made Baron Tantalos in reward for aiding the Corrinos.
84 First MELANGE-guided journey through hyperspace, by Norma Cenva.
12 B.G. - 70 A.G. The Reign of SAUDIR I, “The Great.”
10 Corpus Luminis Praenuntiantis (the future Spacing Guild) begins negotiations with the Empire.
10-5 THE GREAT FINANCIAL SYNOD, on Aerarium IV, creates CHOAM.
0 THE LION THRONE, THE SPACING GUILD, and CHOAM (as an arm of the Landsraad) combine to establish the form of human society for the next ten thousand years.