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 occurred 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.
-6000 EC	(Circa) Before now, graphorn herding and selective breeding didn't exist.
-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.
-2100 EC	An unnamed scholar begins to perform tests on splak.
-2004 EC	A house cataclysmically explodes, destroying itself and the buildings around it.
-2000 EC	(Circa) References to the Budgerigar Master have been dated from this period.
-1648 EC	Kebonston Lefkrane first uses the name Nitenmangrey.
-1525 EC	The phrase "burning the midnight splak" originates around this time.
-1206 EC	Yellow powder, herbs, and splak are first mixed together.
-1100 EC	Agricultural and toolmaking peoples are settled near Arbuckle Hill
-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.
-910 EC	Blasphemers' Crusade called on Nitenmangrey heretics.
-900 EC	(Circa) The Nitenmangrey culture became extinct.
-800 EC	Arbuckle Hill communities smaller than 200 souls.
-800 EC	(Circa) The Rod of Quiends is discovered near Shepenor.
-800 EC	(Circa) Earliest possible date for the birth of Aminfarances (with latest possible being -430 EC).
-700 EC	(Circa) Map of Folktown showing Arbugghyll Manor at Arbuckle Hill.
-640 EC	Folktown Free Charter from Proto-Harandraff ((-730 EC, -600 EC), 9ρ, 0).
-639 EC	Folktown courts hear testimony in the "Baby Alek" case.
-638 to -565 EC	Folktown court activities concerning the outcome of the "Baby Alek" case.
-630 EC	Folktown's The Institute for Reactive Chemistry in Pursuit of Civil Justice is formed.
-628 EC	Folktown's The Institute for the Fabrication of Delicious Treats... is formed.
-604 EC	Folktown's The Institute for Mercantile Research in Pursuit of Civil Justice is formed.
-599 EC	Folktown's The Committee for the Measurement and Maintenance of Measure of... is formed.
-598 EC	Folktown's The Institute for Standards in Mercantile Exchange in Pursuit of Civil Justice is formed.
-570 EC	Folktown's The Institute for Philosophical Research in PCJ is formed.
-560 EC	Folktown's The Institute for Wiping that Smug Grin off of Your Face in PCJ is formed.
-551 EC	Folktown's The Institute for Municipal Earth Moving Arts in PCJ is formed.
-520 EC	Folktown's The Committee for Standards and Decency in Pantomime in PCJ is formed.
-503 EC	Thou Greatly Heeded forms the Color and Noise Foundation.
-503 EC	Death of Thou Greatly Headed.
-500 EC	Folktown's Chump Town Bank was renamed "The Folk Town Bank".
-500 EC	(Circa) Oldest known occupation of the core building of Undivaggen.
-473 EC	The Qestarius River starts changing for the worst; oily, receding, etc.
-464 EC	Birth of Eixis Anos.
-450 EC	"Chump Town" is renamed Folktown.
-446 EC	Thungerbarg no longer harvests the weird-tasting fish of the Qestarius River.
-440 EC	Birth of Exis Ehnos (Exis of Whunn).
-433 EC	First edition of Quarters of Horreld Fencing published.
-431 EC	Eixis Anos marries poet and brewer Dashpine.
-430 EC	The expedition of Croam Olpo establishes trade with the Xurient.
-430 EC	(Circa) Latest possible date for the birth of Aminfarances (with earliest possible being -800 EC).
-420 EC	Folktown Court issues "Grand Declaration".
-419 EC	Eixis Anos is promoted to colonel in the Threel Border Guards.
-410 EC	Folktown's The Council for the Preservation of Legislative Tradition in PCJ is formed.
-400 EC	Bute University is founded; an experiment in tolerance.
-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	Members of the Carsokian Clan are known as violent traditionalists.
-400 EC	(Circa) Wormwood is imported from the Xurient; possibly too Yesticale worms.
-400 EC	(Circa) Records show the Wallingers occupying Undivaggen.
-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.
-400 to -323 EC	(Circa) The use of carthage becomes widespread.
-397 EC	King Harandraff the Great marches on Bute University and begins siege.
-397 EC	The modern Boxing Day is rooted with the Army of Whunn march on Bute.
-397 EC	King Harandraff the Great finds himself in a Civil War.
-397 EC	Death of Azer Wallabin.
-390 EC	(Circa)The initial scholarly investigation into Geometric Hermeneutics
-390 EC	The Civil War against King Harandraff the Great ends; entire family tree dead.
-388 EC	Death of Eixis Anos.
-384 EC	Exis of Whunn is living in Shepenor at this time.
-364 EC	The P-26 Letter, concerning Aminfarances, dates to this year.
-349 EC	(Circa) Legends suggest the Opoudelian Starker was born around this time.
-330 EC	Birth of Andelphracia.
-322 EC	The Carsokian Clan "relocates" to the Sarfelogian Mountains.
-320 EC	(Circa) The Djiknax Creation Manuscripts are written by unknown Exingian scribe.
-306 EC	A cataclysmic event kills 15 Folktown children.
-306 EC	Arthir Jhostings discovered a fundamental truth about cataclysmic events.
-305 EC	Arthir Jhostings coins the term cataclysmatology.
-300 EC	(Circa) Birth of Briorus Jan-Vanderschusen.
-300 EC	Andelphracia and Quezlar 6 were active in this period.
-300 EC	Graves are filled with furniture with little room for the bodies.
-300 EC	50 students recorded as being under the tutelage of Jhostings' cataclysmatology.
-295 EC	Tablankel becomes scarce; the ancestral burial tableau is created.
-294 EC	Birth of Odgar IV ("I've" not "Fourth").
-284 EC	Arthir Jhostings writes his third cataclysmatology paper and was later martyred for it.
-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.
-275 EC	Stockwood Music Festival in Folktown.
-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.
-265 EC	Tablankel becomes extinct; furniture is no longer placed in graves.
-264 EC	A memorial concert for Folktown's Stockwood Music Festival occurs.
-263 EC	A fire destroys a farmhouse on what would become Chez Smallwood.
-260 to -251 EC	Arariax holds the Calends Gala Author Laureate 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.
-257 to -250 EC	Odgar IV's first round of Folktown reforms occurs.
-252 EC	Lord Glosfordshier is assassinated by the Committee of Public Safety.
-250 EC	Arbuckle Abby in Folktown is burned by mob of restauranteurs and barkeeps.
-250/2/14 EC	Martyr of Arbuckle Hill is recognised by Odgar IV.
-250 EC	Odgar IV encourages construction of the Folktown to Iganefta causeway.
-250 EC	Odgar IV reforms Folktown courts, Parliament, and militia.
-250 EC	First conclusive proof that Ickles exist was discovered around this time.
-249 EC	The Extraordinarily Bloodless Revolution occurs.
-249 EC	Palace of Lost Souls now opened to the public.
-248 EC	The Martyr Sign is first erected on Arbuckle Hill in Folktown.
-247 EC	Odgar IV acknowledges the Folktown court "Grand Declaration".
-247 EC	The Cataract Road extension pushed through by Odgar IV is completed.
-246 EC	Publication of Briorus Jan-Vanderschusen's classic book Not That Way, You Splakhead, This Way!
-245 EC	The first restaurant on Arbuckle Hill is burn to the ground.
-??? EC	The Brothers of the Lantern school is established (exact date unknown).
-240 EC	A quarrel with Iganefta ends in Stindersgrough being slowly ejaculated.
-240 EC	(Circa) Chez Smallwood is built around this time.
-239 EC	Publication of Songs of Odgar the Fourth.
-239 EC	Death of Odgar IV; end of his reign as rejah.
-238 EC	Birth of Quinto Quaffmar "Quaff More" Quezlar.
-237 EC	Birth of Algothequinas.
-234 EC	Publication of Herbert Blashford's paper Too Much Metal for Just One Hand: Critical Methodologies and the Works of Odgar Rejah
-232 EC	Birth of Phylostarus.
-220 EC	Folktown University Founded.
-218 EC	(Circa) Stindersgrough decides to merge with Glossfordshire.
-209 EC	Birth of X R Quezlar.
-207 EC	A nameless event, and criminals, produces the Codex RealAxe.
-204 EC	Birth of playwright M. Peershakes.
-202 EC	Quezlar's Quaff, Inc., the wealth of the Quezlar family, is founded.
-201/7/15 EC	First recorded instance of Articulary Motion, by Phylostarus.
-201/7/15 EC	First recorded instance of Cornover Reflex Syndrome.
-200 EC	Bute University celebrates its bicentennial by expanding their campus.
-199 EC	"Industrial giant" Folktown Steamworks founded in Folktown.
-197 EC	"Industrial giant" Alchemical Research Laboratories founded in Folktown.
-195 EC	Phylostarus proves that Pinky is larger than Perky.
-192 EC	Birth of Captain Riquiras.
-191 EC	Folktown Commodity Exchange opens.
-188 EC	The Cadaver is erected on Arbuckle Hill in Folktown.
-188 EC	X R Quezlar first mentions the golden stein of Fefferberry Folklore.
-185 EC	The greater Folktown area sees its first use of a vlorm.
-185 EC	First known appearance of Xlardamnf at The 'Daver.
-185 EC	Olaff Devork founds the Harrabloon Bank.
-185 EC	The Houvers revolutionary group is formed.
-185 EC	Maxilla von Sims finds hat relating to Grephthosthenes.
-185 EC	Kifomyria Altos is rumored to have wintered with X R Quezlar.
-183 EC	Significant numbers of the Carsokian Clan move back to Cranee from the Sarfelogian Mountains.
-183 EC	The Cranee Historical Society is founded.
-183 EC	A stein handle, purportedly Grephthosthenes', dates from around here.
-183 EC	Hallerman's Chaws & Straws is acquired and closed by Quezlar's Quaff, Inc..
-182 EC	Death of Quinto Quaffmar "Quaff More" Quezlar.
-182 EC	X R Quezlar gains ownership of Quezlar's Quaff, Inc..
-180 EC	Berell is rumored to have left the Brothers of the Lantern.
-179 EC	Birth of Rhajoon Quezlar.
-179 EC	Death of Adamantine Areola Duphine.
-179 EC	Folktown courts overhauled; Third Folktown Court Charter results.
-178 EC	First 'Daver fire.
-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.
-172 EC	The first wormwood is "grown" in the greater Folktown area.
-171 EC	Rattallan predicts the world will end -100/10/12 EC.
-171 EC	Rattallan predicts Aelfants will take over the world in 10 EC.
-169 EC	10 year old Rhajoon Quezlar wrestles Quezlar family company away from his dad.
-166 EC	First production of Gimlet by the Amphitheatre aristocracy.
-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.
-156 EC	Death of Xlardamnf.
-153 EC	First appearance of Grommie name in Iganeftan records.
-152 EC	Death of playwright M. Peershakes.
-151 EC	The earliest forms of the Qulirian Energy Converter appear.
-150 EC	Earliest known use of the phrase "Andelphracian Lights".
-150 EC	(Circa) Alarius published "Stepping Stones", considered one of his greatest poems.
-149 EC	Rhajoon Quezlar invents the Quezlarian Ooo to chea... er, pay, his employees.
-148 EC	Birth of Rhajoon Quezlar III.
-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.
-128 EC	A cow was found whose skin was made of milk - the first recorded instance of Zygotic Dermatosis.
-123 EC	Birth of Thoedore Aspic.
-120s EC	(Circa) Birth of Gadsringer Clubberspear.
-120 EC	Birth of Izzimae Grommie.
-120 EC	The Rod of Quiends moves to the Aminfarances Institute of Science and Technomancy.
-120 EC	Whelmin Shirnkal and his mate die, and the Bethelanious Mist appears.
-119 EC	Ibaan Malmiz rediscovers the Clamorxian Decoding Method.
-116 EC	Birth of Daffid Grommie.
-116 EC	Birth of Mo Quezlar.
-114 EC	Death of X R Quezlar.
-106 EC	Birth of Frandos Wakami.
-101 EC	Second recorded instance of Articulary Motion.
-101 EC	Rattallan's prophecy is rediscovered by a Bute University student.
-101/10/9 EC	Rattallan's prophecy comes true as Ghyll goes silent.
-101/10/12 EC	Rattallan's prophecy comes undone; Ghyll hears again.
-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 EC	Death of Rhajoon Quezlar.
-100 EC	Wilhelmina Corinne Bardway invents the ghoulwood viola and the supranatural luminescence meter.
-100/10/12 EC	Rattallan predicted the world will end today.
-100/7 EC	On an unknown Ulfsday, Mary Elizabeth Carsokian becomes head of the Carsokian Clan.
-100/5/10 EC	Phyllis Creanie was found as a mud puddle - the second instance of Zygotic Dermatosis on record.
-99 EC	Death of Ibaan Malmiz.
-99 EC	Death of Rhajoon Quezlar III.
-99/12/21 EC	The townsfolk of Iganefta immolate their Mayor, Geoffrey Prepuce, and judge his effigy.
-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 EC	Death of Algothequinas.
-97 to -94 EC	A battle wages between a branch of the Carsokians and Endlessly Rising Staircase Movement.
-96 EC	Irictus Ross coins the term "theoalchemy."
-95 EC	Birth of Rhajoon Quezlar II.
-95/10/2 EC	Birth of Rater Goldfish.
-93 EC	Daffid Grommie acquires Iganefta Recorder from Thoedore Aspic.
-93 EC	Gadsringer Clubberspear makes bet that eventually creates DasMineGold.
-92 EC	A small child dies near the Elminster Mire, and the Bethelanious Mist is there.
-92 EC	Gadsringer Clubberspear becomes president of DasMineGold.
-90 EC	An unknown traveler writes Modern Ghyllian in his journal about cactus forests.
-90 EC	Last recorded stargazing session at Baleman amphitheatre.
-88 EC	Arbuckle Hill Martyr Sign is declared a historic landmark.
-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.
early -80s EC	Founding of Paramount Queen ceremony in Folktown.
-80 EC	Birth of Rikkard Grommie.
-80 EC	Birth of Edlunch.
-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.
-76 EC	Birth of Rancticirchiretic.
-76 EC	The Council for Quezlarian Research publishes about the Endlessly Rising Staircase Movement.
-75 EC	Shepenor takes in an all-time high of 4200 lugyup of fish this year.
-75 EC	The Earthquake of Fluyr destroys the Baleman amphitheatre.
-75 EC	Because of the Earthquake of Fluyr, Keglacians migrate further south.
-75 EC	The Aerle race is discovered due to the Earthquake of Fluyr.
-75 EC	Chez Smallwood gets a renovation and restored scuttleway.
-75 EC	Founding of the Odlucian Library by Thoedore Aspic.
-75 EC	Birth of Iain Underholm Smallwood.
-75 EC	Birth of Zed Varren.
-75 EC	Molly Harding's occupation is listed as a "Hostess" in the Iganefta Census.
-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.
-73 EC	Rancticirchiretic finds the Djiknax Creation Manuscripts.
-72 EC	What would eventually become Yarding originates at Chez Smallwood.
-72 EC	Birth of Gregor Tobias Whostley.
-72/2/17 EC	Birth of James Jordan (Baron James Horkmanifester).
-71 EC	Izzimae Grommie becomes Supreme Omigod of the Order of Truth.
-71 EC	The first series of Boing lumics are written.
-70 EC	Two transcriptions of the Echecharion are known to exist.
-70 EC	Birth of Got Quezlar.
-70 EC	(Circa) Birth of Bysted Timperton.
-70 EC	(Circa) Yesticale worms children's rhyme is translated from Olkuull.
-70 EC	(Circa) A book is stolen from the Odlucian Library's Black Wing.
-69 EC	The Black Hall wing of the Odlucian Library is opened.
-69/4/12 EC	Birth of Bavarian Creame.
-68 EC	Competition in Mechanaut design becomes known as a "race".
-68 EC	Lumico, once the biggest lumics producer, goes out of business.
-67 EC	The first true Yarding occurs, from Smallwood to Bigwood.
-66 EC	Birth of Johan Ichabod Lightning, AKA "Johnny".
-66 EC	Horreld fencing is no longer an event in the Dagger games
-65 EC	Modern Standard Ghyllian is made extant.
-65 EC	Rater Goldfish makes his public debut for an audience of two.
-65 EC	A Po Mountain landslide kills a number of Evesque Valley residents.
-65 EC	Death of Mo Quezlar.
-65 EC	An ad for the Endlessly Rising Staircase Movement appears in the Folktown Records.
-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.
-63/3/6 EC	The Tarkherk Corps is first founded, with no fanfare.
-62/7/11 EC	Birth of Baron Claude Lloyd Albert Smallwood.
-62 EC	Construction and formation of the Cataract Road ends.
-62 EC	Fingest Arnia appointed Worshipful Master of the Paramount Queen Ceremony.
-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.
-60 EC	Quester and Phorrus, the "journal of the classics", begins publishing.
-50s EC	(Circa) Parts of Ghyll enter the age of religious tolerance.
-59 EC	Birth of Quiz Quezlar.
-58 EC	Birth of Windsor Creame.
-58 EC	Death of Rhajoon Quezlar II.
-58/7/2 EC	The Battle of Umbo Moor sees a field trial of Ball Lightning Liqueur.
-58/7/2 EC	The Bethelanious Mist makes an appearance at the Battle of Umbo Moor.
-58/7/2 EC	Mox Elder of the Tarkherk Corps sees the White Lady at Umbo Moor.
-57 EC	Birth of Blivingdel.
-56 EC	Rancticirchiretic becomes President of the Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge.
-56 EC	Meldersen becomes Master Librarian.
-56 EC	Mox Elder faces a court-martial for his abandonment of the Tarkherk Corps.
-55 EC	Birth of Umgumphornitz Rockett.
-55 EC	Bobby Shwarmph starts publishing the weekly Aliens Everywhere!
-55 EC	James Jordan (Baron James Horkmanifester) graduates from Glosfordshier Preparatory.
-55 EC	James Jordan (Baron James Horkmanifester) starts expedition up Mount Yurch.
-54 EC	Ghyll Bindlet League, for Bindlet Ball, is founded.
-54 EC	The Ancient Academy of Aminfarances is disassembled.
-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.
-53/10/22 EC	James Jordan (Baron James Horkmanifester) returns to Iganefta.
-53/10/22 EC	Ylene Ylo of the Iganefta Advisory coins name Horkmanifester.
-52 EC	The Tarkherk Corps no longer confirm or deny conspiratorial rumors.
-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.
-50 EC	Baron James Horkmanifester founds TransAvian.
-50 EC	107 members, an all time high, exist in the Endlessly Rising Staircase Movement.
-47 EC	Godfroi Hasawithe returns to Folktown to start an investment partnership.
-47 EC	Godfroi Hasawithe makes his first deposit in the Harrabloon Bank.
-47 EC	Whostley renders the prevalent version of Affable Young Gentlemen.
-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 EC	Large deposit of oooite found in the Azura Mines.
-45 EC	Fingest Arnia sacked as Worshipful Master of the Paramount Queen Ceremony.
-45 EC	Baron James Horkmanifester purchases large share of the Azura Mines.
-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	Baron James Horkmanifester purchases land between Iganefta/on-the-Sea and retires.
-44 EC	Blivingdel enrolls into Bute University at the age of 13.
-44 EC	Bob Phanqué publishes a "fictional" account of Kebro-shepenor.
-44 EC	Godfroi Hasawithe and Tistar Wakami wed.
-43 EC	Lane Smallwood commits guerrilla warfare against the Endlessly Rising Staircase Movement.
-42 EC	A great wave crashes in Shepenor; thankfully, few are hurt.
-42 EC	Shepenor takes in an all-time low of 625 lugyup of fish this year.
-41/1/1 EC	Mack Himminfen becomes president of DasMineGold.
-41 EC	Death of Daffid Grommie.
-41 EC	Control of the Iganefta Recorder and family company go to Rikkard Grommie.
-40 EC	Rancticirchiretic discovers theoarcheology.
-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	Death of Bolma Knengsken-Drasselmeyer.
-37 EC	Battle occurs over petrified Aelfant dung-ball at the Plain of Brahang (thrown by the NeoAlezanians).
-37 EC	Blivingdel graduates from Bute University.
-37 EC	Bolma Knengsken-Drasselmeyer’s Hive-Lord disappears.
-37 EC	Alchemical Intelligence and the Spiritual become a focus of EUPHORIA.
-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.
-34 EC	The Zot develops to protest the Amphitheatre aristocracy.
-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.
-33 EC	Lufford Grommie retires from writing Boing; Naggard Grommie takes up the reins.
-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 to -9 EC	Blivingdel writes various articles on the Wadjidir for Quester and Phorrus
-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.
-24 EC	Blivingdel translates the Fylesgate Annals: Ternary Fragments 23-147.
-23 EC	The 4th Edition of Gala Rules and Traditions is released.
-23 EC	Blivingdel perfects his recipe for baked lemming pie.
-22 EC	Doc Rockett writes "Thinking About Thinking" essay.
-22 EC	Arbuckle Hill Martyr Sign moved to Odlucian Library and replaced with replica.
-22 EC	An EctoMechanaut joins the Brothers of the Lantern.
-22 EC	EctoMechanuat Brother disappears; event now known as the Darkened Lantern.
-22/7/3 EC	The Cadaver burns down (again).
-22/7/3 EC	Whostley is hired as The Cadaver's keys-man.
-21 EC	Birth of Vemish.
-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	Pelon Peak erupts cataclysmically, nearly destroying the town of Ellensworth.
-20 EC	Death of Edvard von Craghelm.
-20 EC	13 members exist in the Endlessly Rising Staircase Movement.
-20/7/7 EC	Parts of the Forbidden Tom truth were revealed at the Folktown Amphitheatre.
-19 EC	Bindlet Ball, Its Rules And History published (Aliens Press, 964 pages).
-19 EC	Blivingdel writes lyrics to "Across the Waves" in Naval Gazing Gazette.
-19 EC	Four unrelated cases of Zygotic Dermatosis were discovered and subsequently covered up.
-19 EC	Most recent cataclysmatology paper, The Last Great Event So Far, written.
-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.
-16 EC	Vemish gets hit in the head with a Bindlet Ball and is fixed up by a Twitch Doctor.
-15 EC	(Circa) The three largest laxitive companies fall into disrepute and bankruptcy.
-15 EC	Cudgie Bunkhargler is revealed to be the Stindersgrough Underpants Snatcher.
-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	"Ultimatum" is replaced with "Systematic Epistemological Action".
-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.
-13 EC	The Body Bank surfaces as an alternative to traditional medicine and physical therapy.
-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	Blivingdel publishes revolutionary reassessment of the foundations of theoarcheology.
-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	Value of the Quezlarian Ooo is spiralling downward.
-11 EC	Proliferation of the trundle cart becomes inevitable.
-11 EC	Doggerel plague sweeps parts of Ghyll.
-11 EC	Baron James Horkmanifester sells TransAvian to Godfroi Hasawithe's holding company Gweddill Fluffett.
-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 EC	The Bethelanious Mist: responsible for the totem over the unnamed field?
-10 EC	The Djiknax Creation Manuscripts are discovered and decoded.
-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.
-9 EC	Two Brothers of the Lantern EctoMechanauts researchers check in to the Zyrgian Asylum.
-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 Speedish Chef storms out of the Author Laureate banquet because an honoree wore yellow.
-7 EC	First Xuriental Paramount Queen crowned, but has to resign after scandal.
-7 EC	Sir Rumsfeld Tiggerwort finds Ziggurat Scrolls.
-7 EC	First recorded resurgence of Aurophylaxis.
-7/1/25 EC	The longest Bindlet Ball game, Bindlet Banality, starts.
-7/2/25 EC	Bindlet Banality sees the first homes being built on field.
-7/5 EC	Bindlet Banality homes are being rebuilt, only to be taken down again.
-7/7 EC	The "guy from the third row" sighs at the Bindlet Banality game.
-7/7 EC	Two Bindlet Banality players are taken in for injuries.
-7/8 EC	The third Meditation allows houses on the Bindlet Banality field.
-7/10/12 EC	Iain Underholm Smallwood is assassinated at the Day of Champions.
-6 EC	Sir Rumsfeld Tiggerwort finishes first interpretation of Ziggurat Scrolls.
-6 EC	Banter Scarves are discovered in the Eirbrivian Sectors of the Azura Mines.
-6 EC	GMG files a lawsuit against EUPHORIA; EUPHORIA countersues.
-6 EC	Gadsringer Clubberspear disappears.
-6/1/1 EC	Jack Marksfields becomes president of DasMineGold.
-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	Wilhelmina Corinne Bardway discovers another secret of Alezan Script.
-5 EC	FMC files a lawsuit against EUPHORIA; EUPHORIA countersues.
-5/7/8 EC	Garth Haversham accidentally Answers a Hive-Lord Question and is immediately banished.
-5/1 EC	The Bindlet Banality arena is slowly turning into a makeshift village.
-4 EC	Acineen: A History and Recipe Collection of the Green And Orange Fruit is published.
-4 EC	Blivingdel finishes revised interpretation of Ziggurat Scrolls.
-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 EC	Death of Got Quezlar.
-4/4/6 EC	Death of Doc Rockett.
-4/7/22 EC	Last known appearance of Bobby Shwarmph.
-4/8 EC	The "Sufferin' Succotashes" return to the Bindlet Banality field.
-3 EC	Vemish almost gets infected by doggerel plague victims while visiting Egron.
-3 EC	Baron Claude Lloyd Albert Smallwood breaks his leg during the rescue of Vemish.
-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.
-3 EC	General Lude'crus undergoes golemic surgery at the hands of the Body Bank.
-3/7 EC	Bindlet Banality players are discovered having families.
-2 EC	Shepenor takes in 2000 lugyup of fish this year.
-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.
-2 EC	Yetta Terbium is crowned Paramount Queen.
-2 EC	Near mass protest at the Littered Carapace.
-1 EC	Mork Wasterson, 87 years old, wins the Author Laureate at the Calends Gala.
-1 EC	The Folktown Flergit Beasts are this year's Hoopkah leaders.
-1 EC	Casual-wear competition for Paramount Queenship is instituted.
-1 EC	The Regurgitation Revels festival is started by some focused farmers.
-1/10/8 EC	Third recorded instance of Articulary Motion, by Ralph Neocronin.
0 EC	Bute University completes its new science buildings.
0 EC	Death of Daniel Mboya; Folktown brownie market crashes.
0 EC	Vemish begins second trip through the Azura Mines.
0 EC	Ghyll Encyclopedia founded.
0 EC	The Cranee Deathbugs are the Hoopkah leaders this year.
0 EC	Layout and proofing copy of Folktown Records 396 is discovered.
0 EC	(Fall) Iain Lowe recovers more of the history regarding Grephthosthenes.
0/9/15 EC	Grommie publishing facility (of the Iganefta Recorder) moves to Folktown.
0/12/17 EC	Death of Baron James Horkmanifester.
1/1/25 EC	The longest Bindlet Ball game, Bindlet Banality, ends.
1/1/25 EC	A stein handle and crypt are found just north of Iganefta-on-the-Sea.
1/2/6 EC	Iain Lowe receives a letter regarding Grephthosthenes' life.
2 EC	M'Kev D'wal plans to officially retire this year.
3/5/20 EC	Estimated date of EUPHORIA legal battles.
10 EC	Rattallan predicted Aelfants will take over the world this year.
15 EC	The lagging Barnum Stones will be moved to Stindersgrough again.
70 EC	Stindersgrough is expected to merge with Glossfordshire.
100 EC	Pziqq trees ecology in the Sarfelogian Mountains 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.
-7/9/15 EC	Gibbous Saunders writes to FR396 (Managing Editor Garth Haversham).
-5/7/8 EC	Garth Haversham is banished for Answering a Question (FR399).
-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.