Honorverse timeline

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Dates are measured in P.D. (Post Diaspora) and A.D. (Anno Domini)

This article is for major events affecting star nations in the Honorverse or which could result in major paradigms to the ficitional population. For events which personally affect characters in the Honorverse (including Honor Harrington herself), refer to the characters' respective articles (see Category:Honorverse characters).

(in early versions of this article, dates may not be included)

• 2064 A.D.

Lunar Revolt against Earth in the Sol System.

• September 30th, 2103 A.D. (1 p.d.)

The Diaspora (Humanity's expansion throughout the galaxy) begins as Prometheus, the first manned (albeit generational) interstellar ship departs the Solar System. The era of sublight colonization begins.

• 1st Century p.d.

The first extrasolar colony, Beowulf, is founded in the Sigma Draconis system.

• circa 200 p.d.

Lao Than develops a vaccine against lung cancer.

• 252 p.d.

The Earth's economy is devastated by the so-called "Economic Winter of 252".

• 305 p.d.

Doctor Cadwaller Pineau of Tulane University bypasses the crystallization problem to provide practical, long-term cryogenic hibernation. The era of sublight cryogenic colonization begins.

• 4th Century p.d.

First starships equipped with practical cryogenics are used for colony missions.

• 314 p.d.

Reverend Austin Grayson, founder of the Church of Humanity Unchained, leads thousands of followers onboard a cryo-ship to settle a planet in the Yeltsin's Star System.

• 562 p.d.

The astronomer Sir Frederick Clarke confirms the existence of habitable planets orbiting the Manticore binary star system.

• 725 p.d.

The first hyperdrive is tested at Sol System, increasing exploration capabilities. Due to the enormous risks inherent in using hyperdrives, colonists continue to use cryogenic ships until the development of the Warshawski Sail.

• 731 p.d.

The development of the hyper log (HL) marks a major step in interstellar travel as it helps ships to navigate in hyperspace and reduce the risk of getting lost.

• 774 p.d.

The Manticore Colony, Ltd. corporation places the highest bid for colonization of the Manticore System, acquiring all the data collected by the firm of Franchot et Fils during their survey of the system.

• October 24, 775 p.d.

The sublight colony ship Jason leaves the Sol System with 38,000 adults and 13,000 children onboard for a 640-year sublight voyage to the Manticore System. The Manticore Colony Trust is established at Zurich to guard the colonists' interests and rights over Manticore on Earth.

• 925 p.d.

The Solarian League is founded. Within time, the League will grow to encompass almost every colony in a light-century radius of Earth.

• (before 943 p.d.)

The Final War begins on Earth. This war goes on to devastate the planet by the reckless use of bioweapons and genetically-engineered "super soldiers" (aka Skrags).

• 943 p.d.

The Final War officially ends. The reconstruction of Earth begins with assistance of the Solarian League.

• 988 p.d. (3045 A.D.)

Austin Grayson and his followers arrive at the single habitable planet of the Yeltsin System. The planet's extreme environmental conditions force the Church of Humanity Unchained to revise its doctrine on technology. This begins a dangerous rift between moderate and fundamentalist elements within the Grayson society.

• 998 p.d.

Austin Grayson dies. In his memory, his followers name their planet Grayson.

• 1246 p.d.

The first phased array gravity drive, or "impeller drive", is created by scientists on Beowulf, followed soon thereafter by sidewall generators.

• 1273 p.d.

Adrienne Warshawski develops the first grav scanners and "alpha nodes". The tests conducted by Warshawski onboard the experimental ship Fleetwing result in viable grav wave detectors and the so-called "Warshawski sails", revolutionizing hyper space travel by making higher hyper bands viable mediums of travel (by overcoming the dangers of grav shear).

• Sep 9, 1284 p.d. (3386 A.D.)

Captain Melissa Andropov leads Icarus, the first hyper capable colony ship, out of the Solar System. This is marked as the end of the era of sublight colonization.

• c. 1290 p.d.

Within fifty years of the creation of sidewalls, grav penetrators are developed for missiles, beginning a military cycle to break through sidewalls and defend against such breaks.

• June 1309 p.d. (3411 A.D.)

The first colonists arrive at the Haven System.

• circa 1350 p.d.

An attempted coup by a fundamentalist faction results in the near elimination of the Grayson government. The Grayson Civil War between the "Faithful" led by Steadholders Bancroft, Oswald and Simonds and the "Moderates" led by Benjamin Mayhew begins . The war ends thanks to the efforts of Barbara Bancroft, wife of Steadholder Bancroft. Under the terms of the peace treaty, 47,000 members of the "Faithful" are exiled to the nearby Endicott System, where they would establish the colony of Masada. This begins a 600-year long cycle of cold and hot wars between Grayson and Masada.

• 1384 p.d.

Physicist Shigematsu Radhakrishnan invents the inertial compensator , which allows a ship to accelerate to near 550 g under impeller or up to 5,000 g under sail without risk to the crew.

• 1410 p.d.

The "Epsilon Eridani Massacre"; a planetary bombardment which results in the death of seven billion inhabitants of Epsilon Eridani, leads to the adoption and enactment of the Eridani Edict by the Solarian League. The Eridani Edict prohibits mass planetary bombardments with nuclear or kinetic weapons under penalty of loss of sovereignty.

• March 21, 1416 p.d.

The Jason arrives at the Manticore System and is greeted by four frigates of the Manticore Colony Trust which guard the system from claim-jumpers. The colonists find a minimal settlement established by the Manticore Colony Trust on Manticore A-III (henceforth known as the planet Manticore) in preparation for the colonists' arrival. MCT personnel begins to train the colonists in the technological developments of the last six centuries. 1416 p.d. becomes the Year 1 After Landing (A.L.) in Manticoran time reckoning.

• 1447 p.d.

The first wormhole junction discovered, thanks to mathematical formulae developed by Shigematsu Radhakrishnan a century earlier.

• 1454 p.d.

First cases reported of what would be known as the "Plague of 22 A.L." on Manticore.

• 1465 p.d

The plague is finally stopped but not before wiping out 60 percent of the original colonists. The MCT's solid financial assets on Earth allows the Trust to recruit new colonists to replace the losses.

• August 1, 1471 p.d.

Roger Winton, Manticore's Planetary Administrator since the first landing, is crowned King Roger I of Manticore as part of a vast constitutional and government reform aimed at protecting Manticore (and its surviving colonists' prerogatives) as it opened its doors to immigrants. The Star Kingdom of Manticore is thus born.

• 1474 p.d.

King Roger I dies, and is succeeded by his daughter, Queen Elizabeth I. She is credited with giving the Manticoran monarchy real power and preventing aristocratic control over the Star Kingdom.

• 1502 p.d.

The first practical countergravity generator is developed by the Anderson Shipbuilding Corporation in New Glasgow, rendering older forms of on-planet transportation obsolete overnight.

• 1507 p.d.

Michael I is crowned as King of Manticore after the death of Queen Elizabeth I.

• 1509 p.d.

The Royal Manticoran Naval Academy graduates its first senior class.

• 1538 p.d. (3640 A.D.)

Edward I is crowned King of Manticore.

• 1543 p.d.

The last attack registered upon Manticoran territory before the First Havenite War.

• 1544 p.d.

Elizabeth II is crowned Queen of Manticore.

• 1557 p.d.

Commodore Edward Saganami dies defending a convoy against Silesian pirates.

• 1581 p.d.

Dr. Ignatius Peterson develops rotationless artificial gravity for starships. Also, interstellar bulk cargo shipping becomes practical, owing to declining energy costs for various ship systems.

• 1585 p.d.

The Manticore Wormhole Junction is discovered.

• 1601 p.d.

David I is crowned King of Manticore.

• 1642 p.d.

Roger II is crowned King of Manticore.

• 1669 p.d.

Adrienne I is crowned Queen of Manticore.

• 1721 p.d.

The Gryphon Uprising; a violent civil conflict between Gryphon's local nobility and small farmers which challenges the Manticoran monarchy.

• c. 1750

Warshawski sail technology had improved to the point that hyper ships could sail 'against the wind' on grav waves by producing a negative 'grab factor'.

• 1790 pd (3892 A.D.)

Warshawski grav wave detector ranges have reached 20 light seconds. This jumps to 8 light minutes over the next hundred years, which will allow theta band hyperspace travel at the time of the book series.

• between 1471 and 1800pd

Stephanie Harrington forms the first human-treecat bond with Climbs Quickly.

• 1901 PD (4003 A.D.)

Basilisk Station conflict marks hostile intentions of the PRH against the SKM.

• First Battle of Yeltsin
• First female steadholder on Grayson
• Harris assassination
• First CLACs commissioned
• Mass breakout from Hades planetary prison marking the largest prison break in human history.