Ghyll:Encyclopedant Calendar

To nurture the creation of a Ghyll Encyclopedia that will be of use to all of Ghyll's citizens, the Encyclopedants--key editors, and instigators of the encyclopaedic effort--are taking certain measures to ensure that some regional variations are normalised to canonical systems. One of the regional variations that the Encyclopedants have felt it foremost necessary to address is that of dates and times.

What this means to scholars is that when you submit entries that contain dates and times in a regional system, you will be asked (if we can get a message back to you) to provide them instead in the Encylopedant Calendar. It is the aim of this notice to define that calendar, and provide you with tips on the conversion. Should it be impossible for you to be contacted, the Encyclopedants will take up the changes themselves, attempting to provide normalisations where possible, and omitting dates otherwise.

The Encyclopedant Calendar

EC Linking Shortcut: When using EC dates in your entries, always use the special [[EC]] syntax to link back to this page. For example, typing "-20 [[EC]]'" will produce the proper text, as well as an automatic link back to this explanation and timeline (below).

The Encyclopedant Calendar (EC) is based on years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. There are sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day, seven days to a week, four weeks to a month, and a dozen months to a year. Hence there are three hundred and thirty six days in a year, as corresponds with a full rotation of our seasons.

The epoch for the Encyclopedant Calendar, i.e. 0 EC, is based on the date that the call for entries was first set forth over the fair lands of Ghyll. Hence, the first year of the creation of the Ghyll Encyclopedia will take place throughout 0 EC. Since scholars will generally be mentioning dates only when they have occured before the creation of the dictionary, it is expected that dates prior to 0 EC will be most heavily represented in entries: the syntax for doing so is to use a negative number for the amount of years. Note that -1 EC is the year before the creation of the Ghyll Encyclopaedia. It is expected that the first round of definitions for the twenty six letters of the alphabet will take one EC year to complete, and hence the next time we call for definitions of words beginning with "A" is predicted to occur at the start of 1 EC.

To identify a Ghyll month, use the year followed by a slash followed by the number of the month. Likewise, for a day, use the year followed by a slash followed by the number of the month followed by another slash followed by the day. Example: the fifth day of the seventh month of -20 EC would be written as -20/7/5 EC. For the names of individual months and days, consult the Bursine Calendar (on which the EC is based).

Ghyll Timeline

In order to aid scholars' abilities to convert their regional dates into EC, the Encyclopedants have taken it upon themselves to research the dates for the events described in the first set of entires received for the letter "A". It has been a painstaking and laborious process, but it should enable scholars to more easily research the EC date for events that they describe. The timeline is as follows:

Date	Ghyll Event
-??,???,??? EC	Mount Yurch is suspected of forming around this time period.
-??,???,??? EC	The Avazian civilization falls.
-10,000,000 EC	(Circa) Common ancestors to Ghyll humanoids and Burnflies roam the planet.
-5000 EC	(Circa) Ghyll humanoids are settled on the coasts of the Dagger Seas.
-3000 EC	(Circa) Rise of city-states on the Dagger Peninsulas.
-2750 EC	(Circa) The Nitenmangrey show up in the Dagger Seas.
-2500 EC	(Circa) The Nitenmangrey rise to prominence in the Dagger Seas.
-2000 EC	(Circa) References to the Budgerigar Master have been dated from this period.
-1648 EC	Kebonston Lefkrane first uses the name Nitenmangrey.
-1050 EC	Bursine the 14th becomes a Hive-Lord of the Nitenmangrey.
-998 EC	Bursine the 14th stops being a Hive-Lord for the Nitenmangrey.
-??? EC	(Circa) The Chesix System Of Measures originates around this period.
-??? EC	(Circa) Discovery of the perfect ratio for Kreem Pyes dates from this period.
-900 EC	(Circa) The Nitenmangrey culture became extinct.
-400 EC	The "Old City" district of Iganefta was formed around this time.
-400 EC	Primitive forms of Bindlet Ball have been discovered in art of this period.
-400 EC	Bute University is founded; an experiment in tolerance.
-400 EC	King Harandraff the Great marches on Bute University and begins siege.
-400 EC	King Harandraff the Great finds himself in a Civil War.
-400 EC	Members of the Carsokian Clan are known as violent traditionalists.
-400 to -323 EC	(Circa) The Battle of Barnum Stones takes place; exact dates unknown.
-400 to -323 EC	(Circa) Salerny Redthighs is the shaman-chief of the Looliers.
-349 EC	(Circa) Legends suggest the Opoudelian Starker was born around this time.
-333 EC	The Civil War against King Harandraff the Great ends; entire family tree dead.
-330 EC	Birth of Andelphracia.
-322 EC	The Carsokian Clan "relocates" to the Sarfelogian Mountains.
-300 EC	(Circa) Birth of Briorus Jan-Vanderschusen.
-300 EC	Andelphracia and Quezlar 6 were active in this period.
-294 EC	Birth of Odgar IV ("I've" not "Fourth").
-281/2/18 EC	Wakanpantricist Guard subdues the town of Thungerbarg near Plain of Brahang.
-280 EC	Birth of Paul Glosford (eventually "Lord").
-280 EC	Arariax the poet was born in the Evesque Valley.
-280 EC	Odgar IV wins prize at Calends Gala pie-eating contest.
-266 EC	Odgar IV unexpectedly gets elected to post of rejah.
-266 EC	A young Paul Glosford rises to power in the Dead Crabbits gang.
-260 to -251 EC	Arariax holds the Calends Gala Author Laureat for 9 years.
-260 EC	Lord Fredrick Paul Glosfordshier declares himself Lord-Mayor of Iganefta.
-260 EC	(Circa) Construction of Iganefta-on-the-Sea is undertaken.
-252 EC	Lord Glosfordshier is assassinated by the Committee of Public Safety.
-250 EC	First conclusive proof that Ickles exist was discovered around this time.
-249 EC	The Extraordinarily Bloodless Revolution occurs.
-??? EC	The Brothers of the Lantern school is established (exact date unknown).
-239 EC	Publication of Songs of Odgar the Fourth.
-239 EC	Death of Odgar IV; end of his reign as rejah.
-232 EC	Birth of Phylostarus.
-200 EC	Bute University celebrates its bicentennial by expanding their campus.
-200 EC	Historical records before this point are difficult to decipher.
-195 EC	Phylostarus proves that Pinky is larger than Perky.
-192 EC	Birth of Captain Riquiras.
-185 EC	Olaff Devork founds the Harrabloon Bank.
-185 EC	The Houvers revolutionary group is formed.
-183 EC	Significant numbers of the Carsokian Clan move back to Cranee from the Sarfelogian Mountains.
-183 EC	The Cranee Historical Society is founded.
-180 EC	Berell is rumored to have left the Brothers of the Lantern.
-175 EC	The Carsokian Clan "discovers" that Captain Riquiras is a member.
-174 EC	The Carsokian Clan "discovers" that Captain Riquiras isn't a member.
-172 EC	Earliest recorded drawings of Besq Boats date from this time period.
-162 EC	Death of Phylostarus.
-160 EC	Birth of Ibaan Malmiz.
-159 EC	Captain Riquiras and his men discover the "Brass Hell", also known as "Captain Riquiras' Idol".
-158 EC	The Barnum Stones are moved to Stindersgrough by Corvin Axehand.
-157 EC	Death of Captain Riquiras.
-157 EC	Death of Olaff Devork.
-157 EC	The Carsokian Clan "discovers" that Corvin Axehand is a member.
-157/7 EC	Birth of Mary Elizabeth Carsokian.
-153 EC	First appearance of Grommie name in Iganeftan records.
-150 EC	Earliest known use of the phrase "Andelphracian Lights".
-150 EC	(Circa) Alarius published "Stepping Stones", considered one of his greatest poems.
-147 EC	Godfroi Hasawithe places his first deposit in the Harrabloon Bank.
-145 EC	Harrabloon Bank successfuly lobbies for a bank holiday.
-130 EC	(Circa) Gyll Hill is first used on on a female privvy manuscript.
-120 EC	Birth of Izzimae Grommie.
-123 EC	Birth of Thoedore Aspic.
-116 EC	Birth of Daffid Grommie.
-106 EC	Birth of Frandos Wakami.
-100 EC	The Brothers of the Lantern begin to specialize in four classical subjects.
-100 EC	(Circa) Wild budgerigar birds are believed to have become extinct.
-100 EC	(Circa) Common chuckarando are introduced to the Evesque Valley.
-100/7 EC	On an unknown Ulfsday, Mary Elizabeth Carsokian becomes head of the Carsokian Clan.
-100 EC	Wilhelmina Corinne Bardway invents the ghoulwood viola and the supranatural luminescence meter.
-99/12/21 EC	The townsfolk of Iganefta immolate their Mayor, Geoffrey Prepuce, and judge his effigy.
-99 EC	Death of Ibaan Malmiz.
-98 EC	Supetupheraraphes founds the Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge.
-98 EC	Supetupheraraphes becomes President of the Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge.
-98 EC	Izzimae Grommie climbs Mount Yurch.
-97 to -94 EC	A battle wages between a branch of the Carsokians and Endlessly Rising Staircase Movement.
-93 EC	Daffid Grommie Aquires Iganefta Recorder from Thoedore Aspic.
-90 EC	An unknown traveler writes in his journal about cactus forests.
-90 EC	Last recorded stargazing session at Baleman amphitheatre.
-88 EC	(Circa) Ignatius Maximillian Albertus Crank discovers the dead talk in Elminster Mire.
-87 EC	Birth of Mork Waterson.
-86/1/2 EC	(Circa) Birth of Doc Rockett.
-80 EC	Birth of Rikkard Grommie.
-80 EC	Frandos Wakami weds Syliva Beth Panderlock.
-80 EC	Ignatius Maximillian Albertus Crank was touring around this time.
-80 EC	The Office of Knowledge About Things is founded.
-79 EC	Fijjit Mejora, a pachyderm in the courier business, retires.
-78 EC	DermPachyges, pachyderm courier service, forms with Frandos Wakami as overseer.
-77 EC	Meldersen becomes President of the Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge.
-75 EC	The Earthquake of Fluyr destroys the Baleman amphitheatre.
-75 EC	Because of the Earthquake of Fluyr, Keglacians migrate further south.
-75 EC	Founding of the Odlucian Library by Thoedore Aspic.
-75 EC	Birth of Iain Underholm Smallwood.
-74 EC	Construction and formation of the Cataract Road begins.
-73 EC	Birth of Lane Smallwood.
-73 EC	The Office of Knowledge About Things studies liquid movement.
-71 EC	Izzimae Grommie becomes Supreme Omigod of the Order of Truth.
-70 EC	Two transcriptions of the Echecharion are known to exist.
-70 EC	(Circa) Birth of Bysted Timperton.
-69/4/12 EC	Birth of Bavarian Creame.
-68 EC	Competition in Mechanaut design becomes known as a "race".
-66 EC	Birth of Johan Ichabod Lightning, AKA "Johnny".
-65/2/18 EC	Birth of Godfroi Hasawithe.
-64/7/26 EC	Doc Rockett weds Nyorgard Frunt of Iganefta.
-63 EC	Johnny Lightning's parents emigrate to Iganefta-on-the-Sea.
-62/7/11 EC	Birth of Baron Claude Lloyd Albert Smallwood.
-62 EC	Construction and formation of the Cataract Road ends.
-60 EC	(Circa) The current form of Bindlet Ball, based on Awal shrinkage, is developed.
-60 EC	Bavarian Creame is, at the early age of 9, admitted to the Amphitheatre aristocracy.
-50s EC	(Circa) Parts of Ghyll enter the age of religious tolerance.
-58 EC	Birth of Windsor Creame.
-56 EC	Rancticirchiretic becomes President of the Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge.
-56 EC	Meldersen becomes Master Librarian.
-55 EC	Birth of Umgumphornitz Rockett.
-54 EC	Ghyll Bindlet League, for Bindlet Ball, is founded.
-54/10/12 EC	Inaugural Day of Champions.
-53 EC	Frandos Wakami, CEO of DermPachyges for 25 years, ends his reign as dictator.
-53 EC	The Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge's Steering Committee begins using three oxen in its motif.
-52 EC	Birth of Thureau Grommie.
-51 EC	Birth of Slilmornay Rockett.
-51 EC	Quester and Phorrus invites Doc Rockett to write a monthly essay column.
-51 EC	Non-member Doc Rockett is granted access to the Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge's Cake.
-51/10 EC	The first Quester and Phorrus essay by Doc Rockett is published.
-51/7 EC	Johnny Lightning and others attempt to rob a branch of the Harrabloon Bank.
-50 EC	The last reported, though questionable, sighting of the Budgerigar Master.
-50 EC	Ball Lightning Liqueur and "Awal Sleeps" begin to see common usage.
-47 EC	Godfroi Hasawithe returns to Folktown to start an investment partnership.
-47 EC	Godfroi Hasawithe makes his first deposit in the Harrabloon Bank.
-46 EC	Brother (of the Lantern) Honuphrius denounces Arariax's early/middle poems.
-45 EC	Bavarian Creame weds Baron Claude Lloyd Albert Smallwood.
-45 EC	The NeoAlezanians secret societal order is founded.
-45/11 EC	Carl Kapek discovers process of instilling simple intelligence, creating the first EctoMechanaut.
-45/4/8 EC	Harrabloon Bank's successfully lobbied yearly Bank Holiday first occurred on this date.
-44 EC	Bob Phanqué publishes a "fictional" account of Kebro-shepenor.
-44 EC	Godfroi Hasawithe and Tistar Wakami wed.
-41 EC	Death of Daffid Grommie.
-41 EC	Control of the Iganefta Recorder and family company go to Rikkard Grommie.
-40s EC	(Circa) Doc Rockett endorses Trung Tro Hampher for Mayor of Iganefta.
-38 EC	Incumbent Folktown mayor loses re-election; purportedly prefers another Bindlet Ball team.
-38 EC	Godfroi Hasawithe and Tistar Wakami separate, but remain married.
-37 EC	Battle occurs over petrified Aelfant dung-ball at the Plain of Brahang (thrown by the NeoAlezanians).
-36 EC	Death of Izzimae Grommie.
-35 to -22 EC	The important Quindred Couplet laxicons were issued during this period.
-35 EC	Bavarian Creame becomes mayor of Folktown, at the early age of 34.
-35 EC	Ramingotes and Fondal prove that Gyll Hill is etymologically unrelated to "Ghyll".
-34 EC	Doc Rockett publishes Rockett's Guide to Wakanpantricism in two volumes.
-33 EC	Bavarian Creame divorces Baron Claude Lloyd Albert Smallwood.
-33 EC	Doc Rockett divorces Nyorgard Frunt.
-33 EC	Doc Rockett weds long-term companion Archovy Infatale.
-32 EC	Awal becomes President of the Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge.
-31 to -25 EC	Most Senior Banker of the Harrabloon Bank implicated in another Bavarian Creame divorce.
-31 EC	Bavarian Creame weds Sir Bartholemew Sinch.
-31 EC	Birth of Siam Sinch, daughter of Bavarian Creame.
-31 EC	Death of Sir Bartholemew Sinch, husband of Bavarian Creame.
-30 EC	Johanniz Fermple becomes Master Librarian.
-30 EC	Death of Thoedore Aspic.
-28 EC	The Usual Suspects bronze statue appears in Iganefta, thanks to the NeoAlezanians.
-27 EC	Viktor MiBrons writes a book about Kebro-shepenor, published by Shepenor Press.
-25 EC	Birth of Daniel Mboya.
-25 EC	Death of Carl Kapek.
-25/9 EC	The first EctoMechanaut Jacques disappears shortly after the death of his creator.
-25/4/1 EC	H.A.N.D.B.A.G. petitions the Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge and is ignored.
-23 EC	The 4th Edition of Gala Rules and Traditions is released.
-22 EC	Doc Rockett writes "Thinking About Thinking" essay.
-21/10/12 EC	The Day of Champions Bindlet Ball game lasts for seven days.
-20s EC	(Circa) DermPachyges undertakes a failed attempt to eradicate Aelfants.
-20s EC	Were it not for Laxicons, would've been known as the era of a Great Toilet Paper Shortage.
-20 EC	Death of Edvard von Craghelm.
-19 EC	Bindlet Ball, Its Rules And History published (Aliens Press, 964 pages).
-18 EC	Birth of Gibbous Saunders.
-17 EC	The Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge's motto is translated, and quickly changed.
-17 EC	A misjudged Fefferberry adjusts the measure of the gyup substantially downward for one year.
-16 EC	Fefferberry crop nearly lost due to extremely late ripening; wine of this vintage is highly sought.
-15 EC	(Circa) The three largest laxitive companies fall into disrepute and bankruptcy.
-15/9/13 EC	Death of Frandos Wakami.
-14 EC	An act is passed that prohibits professional Bindlet Ball players from running for political office.
-14 EC	Bobby Shwarmph publishes paper in Brothers of the Lantern scholarly journal.
-13 EC	Folktown Records weekly newspaper founded, Ulfsday, the 22nd of Conti.
-12 EC	Iain Underholm Smallwood abdicates his barony to Baron Claude Lloyd Albert Smallwood.
-12 EC	Baron Claude Lloyd Albert Smallwood travels to the cactus forests.
-12 EC	Doc Rockett publishes his first book of poetry, Spiddic Poetry.
-12 EC	Death of Sylvia Beth Panderlock.
-12 EC	Slilmornay Rockett becomes Master Librarian.
-11 EC	Doggerel plague sweeps parts of Ghyll.
-11 EC	Blivingdel becomes President of the Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge.
-11 EC	Much-publicised marriage of artist Siam Sinch and statesman Gabson Foye.
-11 EC	First, often revealing, lumograms of Bethany Mboya released.
-11/10/12 EC	Rikkard wins bet with Indigo Huac, owner of Folktown Records, over Bindlet Ball final.
-10 EC	Doc Rockett contracts emphyteusis during chitin-repair surgery.
-10/1 EC	The Night of Cloaks and Daggers occurs in relation to the Charterhouse Collection.
-9 EC	First writings, in the form of small pamphlets, by Bethany Mboya released.
-9 EC	Doggerel plague is happily forgotten; no feigned ignorance is needed.
-9 EC	The Egron Eagles Bindlet Ball team disappears from seasonal scoring records.
-8 EC	Birth of Morphous Ibb.
-8 EC	Daniel Mboya and Niala Wallinger end their relationship.
-8 EC	Windsor Creame weds Bavarian Creame.
-8 EC	Death of Rikkard Grommie.
-7 EC	The Brothers of the Lantern: Unauthorized, Unofficial, and Unapproved published.
-7 EC	The Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge release exceptions to quarantine protocol.
-7 EC	Daniel Mboya suffers an "unfortunate accident", causing retardation.
-7 EC	The longest, and still in the 4th period, Bindlet Ball game starts.
-7/10/12 EC	Iain Underholm Smallwood is assassinated at the Day of Champions.
-5 EC	A documented study of the cactus forests takes place.
-5 EC	Monument to Frandos Wakami erected in Folktown on Cataract Road.
-5 EC	Godfroi Hasawithe retires almost completedly from business.
-5 EC	Garth Haversham accidentally Answers a Hive-Lord Question and is immediately banished.
-4 EC	Daniel Mboya returns to society, after years of rehabilitation.
-4 EC	Resentful Ghyll, by Doc Rockett and Juzh Iruk, is published.
-4 EC	The Folktown Flergit Beasts are this year's Hoopkah leaders.
-4/7/22 EC	Last known appearance of Bobby Shwarmph.
-4/4/6 EC	Death of Doc Rockett.
-3 EC	Godfroi Hasawithe moves into the ground floor of the Charterhouse Estate.
-3 EC	Due to bureaucratic errors, the Egron Eagles Bindlet Ball team plays again.
-3 EC	The Iganefta Fefferberrys are this year's Hoopkah leaders.
-2 EC	Egron is discovered to be crawling with doggerel plague victims.
-2 EC	Bethany Mboya exposed by Gabson Foye.
-2 EC	All who studied the cactus forests in -5 EC die on Rishbard Nonce.
-2 EC	27 climbers die on Mount Yurch, the latest disaster associated with the Mount.
-2 EC	The Folktown Flergit Beasts are this year's Hoopkah.
-2 EC	The Events of Solitude discovered to be a media concoction.
-1 EC	Mork Wasterson, 87 years old, wins the Author Laureat at the Calends Gala.
-1 EC	The Folktown Flergit Beasts are this year's Hoopkah leaders.
0 EC	Bute University completes its new science buildings.
0 EC	Death of Daniel Mboya.
0 EC	Ghyll Encyclopedia founded.
0 EC	The Cranee Deathbugs are the Hoopkah leaders this year.
2 EC	M'Kev D'wal plans to officially retire this year.
100 EC	Pziqq-tree ecology in the Sarfelogians should recover by this year

Folktown Records History

FR Editions Script: To convert the number of a Folktown Records edition into an EC date, you can use the online script. Just replace the number in the URI (the Web address) with the one that you want the EC date of.

From the first set of entries received for the Encyclopaedia, it is clear that many dates are stated indirectly using Folktown Records edition numbers. Since the Folktown Records has only been running since -13 EC, this only works for recent events, but those are the events most relevant to the inhabitants of Ghyll today, and the Folktown Records are common and popular enough that we can expect more excerpts from them in entries to come. As the editions of Folktown Records have been produced without fail every week from -13/3/22 EC onward, we can provide the following dates for landmark issues:

Date	Folktown Records Event
-13/3/22 EC	The 1st edition of the Folktown Records (FR1).
-12/4/1 EC	The 50th edition of the Folktown Records (FR50).
-12 EC	Windsor Creame joins the writing staff.
-11/4/15 EC	The 100th edition of the Folktown Records (FR100).
-11/10/15 EC	FR124 (Owner Indigo Huac) begins month long ad of the Iganefta Recorder.
-11/11/15 EC	FR128 (Owner Indigo Huac) ends month long ad of the Iganefta Recorder.
-9/5/15 EC	The 200th edition of the Folktown Records (FR200).
-8/6/1 EC	The 250th edition of the Folktown Records (FR250).
-7/6/15 EC	The 300th edition of the Folktown Records (FR300).
-7/9/15 EC	Gibbous Saunders writes to FR312 (Managing Editor Garth Haversham).
-7/10/15 EC	Iain Underholm Smallwood's assassination; four printings of FR316 required.
-5/7/15 EC	The 400th edition of the Folktown Records (FR400).
-3/8/15 EC	The 500th edition of the Folktown Records (FR500).
-2/1/8 EC	FR519 conjectures about Bobby Shwarmph's possible death.
-1/4/1 EC	Morphous Ibb writes to FR578. Tim Timperton responds.
-1/9/15 EC	The 600th edition of the Folktown Records (FR600).
0/1/1 EC	Ghyll Encyclopedia founding coincides with FR614.