| Year
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Event
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| 701.M41
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Corinth Crusade: the Liberation of Slaughterhouse III.[2i]
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| 703.M41
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Erasmus Haarlock vanishes after wiping out his entire family.[9j]
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| 704.M41
|
The Siege of Tulwa: Marneus Calgar leads infiltration force that destroy the Fortress of Pain (Iron Warriors). [Help]
|
| 710.M41
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A Mechanicus tribunal declares Magos Biologis Sar Resque heretek and Excommunicate for deliberately releasing a mutation-plague upon Outpost 1253.[36]
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| 712.M41
|
Magdelon Incursion[8b]
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| 718.M41
|
Roodmar Urussalin, last of his rogue trader line, is presumed slain by orks.[9j]
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| The Inquisition discovers that the Sinners' Plagues in the Drusus Marches are the work of heretek Magos Biologis Sar Resque.[36]
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| 721.M41
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Corsair Prince Nhilus the Ardent and his raiding Eldar Corsairs army are defeated by the Angels Sanguine Chapter[8b]
|
| 722.M41
|
The last group of heretek Magos Biologis Sar Resque's followers are destroyed along with the colony hive of Teruxyne. Resque remains at large.[36]
|
| 731.M41
|
Commander Puretide is crippled in battle while touring the Damocles Gulf colonies. He retires to Mount Kan'ji on Dal'yth, mentoring exceptional Fire Caste initiates. After his death, the Earth Caste creates an AI hologram so his wisdom can reach further generations.[29b]
|
| 733.M41
|
The decade-long Arkunasha War begins. Commander Farsight is active during the war.[29c]
|
| 737.M41
|
Valos reported stripped of life, later revealed to be the work of Hive Fleet Behemoth.[Help]
|
| 738.M41
|
26th Founding.[37]
|
| 739.M41
|
Wolf Lord Finn Goresson boards the gargantuan Ork warship Starkrusha, with a small force of Space Wolves. Six months later, he emerges from the ship with Warboss Godstompa's head hanging from his belt.[38a]
|
| 740.M41
|
The Exorcists Chapter save the planet of Stonekraal from a large Genestealer infestation.[13e]
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| 740-743.M41
|
The Balance Wars take place.[1]
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| 741.M41
|
Inquisitor Bastalek Grim attends the Great Feast of Wolf Lord Gerrod Redbeard, committing the sagas recounted there to his eidetic implants. From these he creates Imperial records later titled "The War of the Giants."[38a]
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| Sons of Khaine: Following a costly victory over Imperial Titan Legions on Malaxis, the Autarchs of the five largest eldar craftworlds convene. They decide that the lesser races must be shown their place; their message spreads across the craftworlds, resulting in the largest recruitment of eldar taking the Path of the Warrior in millennia. Many civilian paths are abandoned as a result.[39]
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| Thulean datavaults recovered from Dolorium's voids at this time describe star systems beyond the Koronus Expanse.[9e]
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| 742.M41
|
The Imperium of Man launches the Damocles Crusade against the Tau Empire. The Tau first deploy Onager Gauntlet technology against Imperial armour. A truce is agreed upon and Imperial forces are redeployed against the approaching Hive Fleet Behemoth. Due to a lack of transports, several regiments of the Imperial Guard are left behind. First Imperial contact with Kroot. The Tau Empire's Second Sphere of Expansion ends.[29c][29d][40a][41]
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| 744.M41
|
Taggarath, Seer of Corrinto, foresees the approach of the End Times, and prophesies a time of unprecedented upheaval, in which even the light of the Emperor is swallowed in darkness. Taggarath is immediately executed for heresy, but his prophecy still spreads in whispers.[14b][42a]
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| A string of murders and thefts at the Kellerman Scholam on Amarah are linked to a Cult Celestarii plot regarding xenos artefacts. A gun battle between cultists and Adeptus Arbites leaves the Scholam a smoking ruin. Witnesses report seeing a fire-shrouded figure retrieve several artefacts from the burning complex, untouched by the fire. Forensic examinations do not establish which of the Scholam's collection of xenos artefacts were stolen before the fire destroyed the rest.[32b]
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| The Silent King ends his self-imposed exile and returned to the galaxy after encountering the Tyranids within the intergalactic void and realising the threat they pose. He has begun a journey across the galaxy with a band of his loyal Triarch Praetorians to reawaken Tomb Worlds that still slumber so they may unite against the Tyranids.[43c]
|
| 745.M41
|
As the Great Devourer first arrives in ernest on the Eastern Fringe, Eldar prophets across the galaxy weep as the psychic magnitude of the threat becomes horribly clear.[39]
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| The Fall of Tyran, the battle that marked the first major encounter between the Human species and the alien Hive Fleets. Inquisitor Kryptman would eventually investigate the incident and designate the new threat as the Tyranids.[44a]
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| The First Tyrannic War. Hive Fleet Behemoth attacks the Ultramarines' homeworld of Macragge. At the Battle for Macragge, the Tyranids are defeated, but only at great cost - the entire First Company is wiped out, and the 3rd and 7th Companies suffer horrific casualties.[44b]
|
| Aun'Va makes the decision to place Commander Puretide's favoured pupils (including O'Shaserra) into stasis, allowing them to be recalled when needed in the future.[29c]
|
| 746.M41
|
The Sons of Guilliman purge Nova Terra of genestealers, executing the entire ruling class in the process. Sergeant Constantinus declares he will lead the sector into a better age, seceding it from the Imperium. The bloody unrest attracts the attention of the Ruinous Powers. The Officio Assassinorum has Constantinus killed to end the rebellion.[25a]
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| Rogue trader Wrath Umboldt discovers the Processional of the Damned and glimpses the Alenic Depths.[9j]
|
| 748.M41
|
The Blood Star Campaign.[26b]
|
| 749.M41
|
The 812th Feast of Blades is held, with all twelve of the competing Space Marine chapters in attendance. Hervald Strom of the Iron Knights is victorious.[3f]
|
| 750.M41
|
The Red Wolves Space Marines, unsupported, prevent the Night Lords Chaos Space Marines from acquiring the possessed cruiser Shadeblight.[3f]
|
| The Great Exodus. After mysterious activity in the Argos System involving six Eldar Craftworlds, every primary star within sixty light years is extinguished. Nearly 12% of the Imperial population and 32% of the heavy industry is successfully evacuated. The ring of dead planets becomes a salvager's paradise and is now known as the Deadhenge.[26b]
|
| 752-754.M41
|
The Khulan Wars take place.[1]
|
| 754.M41
|
The Harvest of Reavers: Aspyce Chorda has the surviving pirates of Iniquity lobotomized and used as slave-serfs.[9i]
|
| 754-756.M41
|
The Salamanders Chapter purge the Moons of Ymgarl of Genestealers. Captain Sokhar Bray'arth of the 4th Company is interred in the Iron Dragon Dreadnought chassis after suffering mortal wounds.[13a][13f][3f]
|
| 755.M41
|
The Sabbat Worlds Crusade, the largest Imperial offensive since the Macharian Crusade, begins.[45a]
|
| 757.M41
|
First recorded incidence of the Zombie Plague. Twenty-three billion healthy Imperial citizens of Hydra Minoris are quarantined.[25a][42a]
|
| 759.M41
|
Scouring of Quintarn: Marneus Calgar commands forces against Ork scavengers who captured the triple system of Quintarn, Tarentus and Masali (part of the Ultramar Coalition) in the aftermath of the Battle for Macragge.[Help]
|
| 760.M41
|
The Minotaurs Chapter breaks the Siege of Casaubon.[13c]
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| Commander Farsight recaptures much of the territory the Tau Empire lost in the Damocles Gulf Crusade but refuses the recall order. He establishes the fortified Farsight Enclaves.[29c]
|
| 762.M41
|
Marneus Calgar leads the Ultramarines against the Daemon-corrupted Forge World of Thrax. After retrieving crucial data-records from the manufactorums, banishing thousands of daemons in the process, Calgar withdraws his forces and pronounces Exterminatus on the planet.[3d]
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| The Catachan MXIV 'Unseen Lurkers', led by Colonel 'Steel Eye' Black engage Orks of the Death Skulls on the planet of Kato, a shadow world. The stalemate is only broken once Sentinels locate and destroy the Ork Stompa factory hidden in Widow Valley.[45a]
|
| Purging of Gladrinus VI[8b]
|
| 765.M41
|
Space Marine Chapter Losses to date: 13 lost in the Warp, 21 Irrecoverable battle losses, 9 Geneseed failure, 4 Inquisitorial purges, 16 Other circumstances.[46c]
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| Warmaster Slaydo killed on the planet Balhaut.[1]
|
| 766.M41
|
Prince Yriel's Eldar pirates attack several Imperial listening posts in the Catachan and Ryza systems. Without their early warning 'eys and ears', this leaves both systems vulnerable for decades to come.[42a]
|
| Twelfth Army is diverted from the Second Kholdas War to put down a rebellion on Danik's World.[47]
|
| The Chartist freighter Manticore Agirus suffers a failure of its Geller field during transit from Arcantis to Ribasu. The screams of its crew and three thousand passengers echo through the Capitoline sub-sector's Warp signature for decades.[32b]
|
| 769.M41
|
Defence of Vervunhive, planet Verghast.[33x]
|
| 771.M41
|
The Tanith First and Only defend the Shrinehold of Saint Sabbat on Hagia.[48]
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| The Tanith First and Only assist with the liberation of Phantine.[49]
|
| 772.M41
|
He'stan Vulkan, Forgefather of the Salamanders, recovers the Gauntlet of the Forge after defeating the Eldar pirate lord Iath Bloodweaver.[3f]
|
| The Tanith First and Only see action in the stalemated trench war on Aexe Cardinal.[50]
|
| 773.M41
|
Brazen Skulls are listed as extinct.[Help]
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| The Tanith First and Only aid the reincarnated Saint Sabbat on Herodor.[51]
|
| Air war rages on Enothis between Imperial and Chaos pilots.[52]
|
| 774.M41
|
Gereon Mission, Sabbat Worlds Crusade[53]
|
| 775-777.M41
|
Sulsalid Campaign, Fourth Quadrant rebellion.[2g]
|
| 776.M41
|
Step-cities campaign on Ancreon Sextus concludes.[54]
|
| 777.M41
|
Chaos Space Marines led by the Black Legion break out of the Cadian Gate, only to be slowed by the Cadians and are eventually driven back with the help of the Imperial Fists.[3f][45a]
|
| Gereon liberated by Sabbat Crusade forces.[55]
|
| 778.M41
|
General Andreas Carnhide, a veteran Imperial Guard commander, draws together feuding factions of Guard, Navy, and Adeptus Mechanicus to retake the hive world of Lyubov from the forces of Chaos, including warriors of the Blood Pact.[56]
|
| The Tanith First and Only fight on the fortress-world of Jago.[57]
|
| 780.M41
|
Lycanthos Drift Campaign, Fourth Quadrant rebellion.[21a][2e]
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| Blood Pact infiltrators attempt assassination of Mabbon Etogaur on Balhaut.[58]
|
| 781.M41
|
Wolf Lord Osric Three-Fists's fleet is ambushed in the Maelstrom by a larger Chaos fleet. When his flagship is crippled, Osric leads the remains of his Great Company in a boarding action of the Chaos flagship Storm of Hate. Only thirty Space Wolves board the ship, but manage to capture the ship and turn its firepower on the rest of the Chaos fleet.[38a]
|
| Tanith First and Only raid Salvation's Reach.[59]
|
| 783.M41
|
Battle of Maedrax. Eldrad Ulthran of Ulthwé foresees an Imperial explorer force would awaken the Necron tomb world. The Eldar destroy the explorer fleet and then the Necron complex. When leaving Maedrax, they have to fight their way through a relief force of Blood Angels Space Marines. Unfortunately, the Necron dynasty is much larger than Eldrad believed; tomb worlds across the system awaken.[39][60a]
|
| 784.M41
|
Synod of Segmentum Obscurus declares the Margin Crusade.[12b]
|
| 785.M41
|
Aspyce Chorda goes to war with Calligos Winterscale over resources.[9i]
|
| 786.M41
|
Eliac Zephyrblade of Saim-Hann delivers an ultimatum to the Imperial colony on Gnosis Prime: evacuate or die. The colonists refuse and Zephyrblade leads his warhost against them. Despite being outnumbered one hundred to one, the warhost destroys the colony's military and industrial infrastructure before leaving the colony to their Dark Eldar allies.[39][61]
|
| 790.M41
|
The Vostroyan IX under Graf Toshenko are wiped out defending the factory city of Polia on the planet of Nimbosa from the Tau Commander Brightsword, inspiring the populace to resist the Tau's culture of 'the Greater Good'.[45a]
|
| 791.M41
|
Imperial forces begin liberation of Urdesh.[62]
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| 792.M41
|
Urdesh liberated and Anakwanar Sek slain.[63]
|
| 794.M41
|
The Faceless Lord Karrad Vall braves the Maw to shell Footfall and battle Calligos Winterscale. His fleet tears through the defences and he leaves taunting messages before he disappears for a decade.[9g]
|
| 795.M41
|
The Cadian 23rd put down an uprising in the Krandor System.[42a]
|
| 796.M41
|
Adinbur Prime: Patrol group Tiryns assaulted by Necron escorts, but escape.[35b]
|
| 797.M41
|
The Siege of Zalathras: Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines holds the gate alone against an invasion of Orks for a night and a day.[3d]
|
| ca. 798.M41
|
The Siege of Somonor: Eldar Farseer Eldorath Starbane attacks Somonor. Necron Overlord Szaron of the Arrynmarok Dynasty swears allegiance to Imotekh, becoming a client of the Sautekh Dynasty. Imotekh repulses Starbane's attack, allowing him to flee back to Alaitoc after severing his right hand.[43a][43b]
|
| 799.M41
|
The Ultramarines begin to fortify the eastern bounds of Ultramar against the Tau Empire.[3d]
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| The San Leor Massacre. The Red Corsairs attack San Leor. Nine Orders Militant of the Adepta Sororitas launch a counter-attack to defend the Sisterhood's original homeworld and annihilate the attackers.
[Conflicting sources] The Red Corsairs were not formed until after the Badab War, over one hundred years after 799.M41[64]
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| Year
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Event
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| 801.M41
|
Lugganath Eldar craftworld first detected by the Imperium.[65]
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| The Astronomican flickers, resulting in thousands of ships being lost in the Warp.[42b][60b]
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| Judgement of Hellenus[8c]
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| 012.801.M41
|
Hive Fleet Naga enters the galaxy from the Eastern Fringe. Three colony worlds of the Ulumeathic League fall, with the fourth only lasting long enough for a Genestealer infiltrated refugee ship to evacuate a fraction of the world's population.[44c]
|
| 210.801.M41
|
With rumours of a dark alien menace invading the galaxy, the Cult of Veiled Oblivion grows in membership and prominence across the Ybaric Cluster as Hive Fleet Naga proceeds nearer. Anarchy reigns on its coremost world, Silax.[44c]
|
| 640.801.M41
|
Naga consumes the Exodite World of Tar-Ethenil. The death throes of the planet's world spirit sent out a psychic shockwave crippling the worldspirits of several neighbouring Exodite planets, making them easy prey for Naga.[44c]
|
| 712.801.M41
|
Ulumethic League refugees arrive at the Varreyan space docks. Genestealers infest the complex and all contact is lost within 2 days. Varreyan home fleets destroy the vast facilities from orbit. Thus crippling region's ability to rearm and refit space craft.[44c]
|
| 909.801.M41
|
The first of the Ybaric Cluster worlds, Crimsonfall, is attacked by a tendril of Hive Fleet Naga. Imperial Guard regiments slow, but can't stop the alien's advance. Three of the planet's four main continents are overrun.[44c]
|
| 030.802.M41
|
Crimsonfall received reinforcements from the nearby Hive World of Tern. A company of Baneblades are delivered and rallies the Crimsonfall defenders only to be immediately routed by a Tyrannofex brood upon reducing the entire Baneblade company to scrap.[44c]
|
| 240.802.M41
|
Governor of Silax refuses to send aid to Crimsonfall or other neighbors embattled with Hive Fleet Naga.[44c]
|
| 701.802.M41
|
Crimsonfall is consumed by Hive Fleet Naga.[44c]
|
| 803.M41
|
The Ordo Xenos burns Amphian Deed for his role in the Halo of Darkness cult, ending the Deed lineage of rogue traders.[9j]
|
| 804.M41
|
Cardinal-Astral Borja dies and Cardinal Xaphan is named as his successor. Xaphan declares that he will make a pilgrimage through the Scarus Sector, which will take five years.[66a]
|
| 805.M41
|
Marneus Calgar leads three Ultramarines companies against Waaagh! Gutshredda in the Forgoil system. In only three weeks, the Ultramarines halt the Waaagh! by destroying the Orks' tellyporta ships and Stompa factories. Calgar personally leads a Terminator Squad in a boarding action of Gutshredda's flagship, Da Superdestructa.[3d]
|
| 806.M41
|
The Novum Deception: T'au forces launch a preemptive strike against Novum Prime.[67a]
|
| 807.M41
|
Purgation of Jhanna: Marneus Calgar leads two Ultramarines companies in the recapture of rebellious oceanic cities of Omon and Vorlencia against renegades and Chaos Space Marines.[46a]
|
| 131.809.M41
|
The Fury of Shai'naid: Hive Fleet Naga engages craftworld fleets of Malan'tai and Idhare. Naga splinters into two tendrils, the first heading towards Halathel, and the second spiraling back rimwards towards the maiden world Eth-aelas.[44c]
|
| 801.809.M41
|
The Fury of Shai'naid: Naga outstrips the crippled Malan'tai fleets and begins the planetside invasion of Halathel.[44c]
|
| 674.810.M41
|
After a failed assassination attempt on Cardinal-Astral Xaphan, civil unrest consumes Vraks Prime. The Departmento Munitorum receives an urgent request for relief.[66b]
|
| 742.810.M41
|
The Fury of Shai'naid: An Iyanden fleet under the command of Admiral Draech combat the Hive Ships orbitting Halathel. His flagship Auspicious Illumination of Eternity is destroyed early on and the young prince Yriel seizes command and destroys the Hive Ships.[44c]
|
| 811.M41
|
Dark Eldar raiders mount occasional but highly damaging raids on the main habitation area of Naxos, Colony One, until a force of Space Marines from the Iron Snakes chapter under the command of Captain Trokus turns up to resolve the situation.[56]
|
| Wayward Son, an escort vessel belonging to the flotilla of rogue trader Caleb Gilderoy, appears at the outer perimeter of an Adeptus Mechanicus outpost at Harrow Watch. Garbled communications claim that the ship suffered severe damage from hostile xenos and a warning of a force that destroyed Gilderoy's flotilla. The ship refuses to turn back and is destroyed when it enters Harrow Watch's exclusion zone.[32b]
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| The merchant brig Daughter of Regals is lost with all hands. The Rak'Gol are believed to be responsible.[9h]
|
| 812.M41
|
The Fury of Shai'naid: Fleets from the Malan'tai, Iyanden, and Idharae Craftworlds eliminate Hive Fleet Naga, but a single bioform infiltrates and consumes Malan'tai.[39][44c][44f][131]
|
| The Purging of Contqual: The Iron Hands drive the forces of Chaos from a dozen planets on the Contqual subsector.[3f]
|
| 195.812.M41
|
The isolated and wounded Hive Ship launches mycetic spores at Malan'tai, undetected by the Eldar fleets that destroy the lone bio-ship. The single bioform covertly infiltrates and consumes the infinity circuit.[44c]
|
| 199.812.M41
|
The first convoys of Imperial Guard men and materiel from Krieg arrive in the Vraks System.[66c]
|
| 459.812.M41
|
The Fury of Shai'naid: A psychic scream echoes though the webway. All contact with Malan'tai is lost.[44c]
|
| 860.812.M41
|
The Fury of Shai'naid: Yriel's forces arrive at Eth-aelas and join with Idharae forces combatting Tyranids planetside and defeat the last Hive Tyrant of Naga at the Battle of Sorrowforge Pinnacle. The remaining tyranids are left leaderless and in disarray, being fully destroyed in many following battles.[44c]
|
| 812-813.M41
|
The Luxor Uprising: The Novamarines, Ultramarines and Cadian 98th Armoured Regiment crushed an Alpha Legion-sponsored insurrection on Luxor.[8c][15b][2h]
|
| 813.M41
|
Unidentified robotic forces annihilate the Tau Empire colony of Cano'var.[29c]
|
| Inquisitor Vilane orders the eradication of Kulth's planetary defence force in response to their increasingly-violent displays of martial prowess. The ensuring 19 Hours War sees the near-total destruction of Kulth's southern continent.[19d]
|
| 166.813.M31[Help]
|
The 88th Imperial Guard (Krieg) heavy artillery opens fire on the outer defence lines of the Fortress of Vraks. The Siege of Vraks begins.[66d]
|
| 212.813.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: the first infantry battle begins in Sector 46-39. Three days of battle sees almost no gains on either side.[66e]
|
| 897.814.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: the Battle of Fort A-453. The 12th, 30th, and 34th line korps secure a breakthrough at Fort A-453 and push the defenders back across open ground.[66f]
|
| 815.M41
|
Contact is lost with Explorator Fleet 913. Three companies of the Ultramarines are sent to investigate, but find only empty vessels drifting in space.[3d]
|
| Dal'yth sept receives unexpected aid from Commander Farsight to repel an invasion by the Ork warboss Grog.[29c]
|
| 255.815.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: a renegade counter-attack in Sector 60-53 forces the collapse of the 1st line korps's left flank. The 19th regiment loses over eighty thousand men in the first two days. It will take six months to recover the lost ground.[66g][66h]
|
| 818.M41
|
Throth Half-Head of the Space Wolves defeats the giant Ur-Bolg wreaking havoc on Fenris.[38a]
|
| 649.818.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: a sneak assault on a defence laser emplacement in Sector 50-45 turns into an open fight and the attack is repulsed.[66h]
|
| 819.M41
|
A perceived insult provokes fighting between the Mortifactors and the Crimson Fists. Only an intercession by Ultramarines Chapter Master Marneus Calgar prevents open war, and the incident is kept secret from the Adeptus Terra.[3f]
|
| An outbreak of contagious madness and despair affects Ilsig Hive on Chemarium II, causing thousands to kill themselves. Civil order collapses. Ranker Nonesuch, the self-titled "Beggar King," arises to lead his followers to overthrow the planetary government and spread his malevolence to the rest of the system. An exclusion zone is established around the system.[32b][32c]
|
| 820.M41
|
The Flesh Tearers seal a Warp rift in the Adeonis Sector against an onslaught of Tzeentch's daemons. The Changeling tugs the strings of fate to move them toward damnation.[14b]
|
| Siege of Vraks: reports of Adeptus Astartes in the renegade forces comes to the attention of Lord Commander Zuehlke. Arkos's warband has joined the fight for Vraks.[66h]
|
| 821.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: the Dark Angels arrive in system consisting of the battle barge Angel of Retribution and the strike cruisers Sword of Caliban and Salvation. Azrael leads half of the Chapter's battle-brothers in response to the request for aid. They destroy the star port and both causeways across the Srna trench and then depart.[66i]
|
| 822.M41
|
Forces from Craftworld Alaitoc drive off a raid on Ildanira by Abaddon the Despoiler[42b]
|
| Wolf Lord Erik Morkai ambushes the pirates of the Kabal of the Shattered Hand over the Leutin Necropolis.[38b]
|
| 101.822.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: three siege regiments make an all-out attack on the defences of the Fortress of Vraks. After eight days, the 468th siege regiment cracks the Fortress of Vraks's second line of defence, forcing the renegades back to the inner defence line.[66j]
|
| 054.823.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: First Battle of Vraks. A Chaos fleet overwhelms the Imperial blockade and lands reinforcements on Vraks Prime. The 88th Army's supply line is now cut off.[68a]
|
| 077.823.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: Assault on Mortuary Ridge. Forces from the 468th regiment capture the first defences but find themselves under assault from Khornate Chaos Space Marine warbands and are forced back down the hill.[68a]
|
| 158.823.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: Disaster at 61-47. Unexpected renegade air and Titan support turns the 101st regiment's attack into a rout.[68b]
|
| 711-735.823.M41
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Siege of Vraks: Nurgle Chaos Space Marine warbands annihilate the trapped 19th regiment with chemical weapons, chiefly TP-III.[68c]
|
| 082.824.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: Second Battle of Vraks. The replenished Battlefleet Scarus leaves for Vraks Prime. The traitor battleship Anarchy's Heart and her escorts ambush the fleet, crippling Duke De Walle and destroying her escorts before retreating under fire from General Dyhane. The fleet resupplies the 88th army and deploys 22 Titans of the Legio Astorum.[68d]
|
| 249.825.M41
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Siege of Vraks: The Kagori Offensive. With air and Titan support, the 88th army reclaims the land it had ceded in the Assault on Mortuary Ridge.[68e]
|
| 803.825.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: The Attack on Armoury 55-46. Krieg engineers detonate mines tunneled beneath Armoury 55-46 and fight for four days, but make no gains against the renegades and Khorne Berzerkers.[68f]
|
| 2.059.826.M41
|
The Conclave of Scarus declares Deacon Mamon Extremis Diablous.[68g]
|
| 714.826.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: the Sector 57-44 mine is detonated, collapsing a section of the fortress's curtain wall and allowing Gorgon troop transports into the breach. Seven assaults through the breach fail to establish a beachhead.[68g]
|
| 989.826.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: Operation Execution Place. Red Scorpions strike force Ainea takes the gap at Sector 57-44 and holds it until Imperial forces consolidate on their position.[68h]
|
| 101.827.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: Grey Knights arrive in the Vraks system and Inquisitor Lord Hector Rex assumes overall command of the 88th siege army.[69a]
|
| 273.827.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: the 34th line korps is embroiled in a "green hell" when TP-III shells, plague mutants, plague zombies, and Plague Marine forces meet their offensive.[69b]
|
| 628.827.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: the 15th company of the 468th regiment captures point 202, "Hangman's Hill."[69c]
|
| 412.828.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: the Battle for Gate 579-459.[69d]
|
| 081.830.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: Inquisitor Lord Hector Rex leads the assault on the Lower Gate of the Citadel of Vraks.[69e]
|
| 159.830.M41
|
Siege of Vraks: the Red Scorpions battle barge Sword of Ordon arrives in the Vraks system with four hundred battle brothers to aid the 88th army by the request of Inquisitor Lord Hector Rex.[69f]
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| Siege of Vraks: Inquisitor Lord Hector Rex battles and banishes An'ggrath at the climax of the battle for the Cardinal Gate.[69g]
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| Siege of Vraks: Space Marine forces assault the Citadel. Interrogator-Chaplain Belphegor captures Arkos.[69h]
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| 288.830.M41
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Siege of Vraks: the Angels of Absolution battle barge Liberatorii Delictum and strike cruiser Repentant destroy Anarchy's Heart.[69i]
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| 411.830.M41
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Siege of Vraks: Ordo Malleus forces destroy a Warp portal in the Citadel undercroft and banish Uraka Az'baramael.[69j]
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| 414.830.M41
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The Siege of Vraks comes to an official end. Thirty-four Krieg regiments have fought for almost eighteen years and lost almost fourteen million men. Vraks Prime's original population of eight million souls has been wiped out, the numbers of enemy losses incalculable. In the end, Vraks Prime has been utterly destroyed in the fighting and is cordoned off by the Inquisition.[69j]
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| 832.M41
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The Deathwing deploys en masse to kill or capture every inhabitant of Minoria's moon in the Periliac System, ignoring requests for their presence to fight Waaagh! Drillakilla on Periliac Prime.[21a]
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| 833.M41
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The Vinculus Crusade is fought by Black Templars and Sisters of Battle of the Order of the Bloody Rose under the command of Marshal Ludoldus and Canoness Jasmine against an assassin-cult on Peleregon IV. The Daemon-possessed Inquisitor Vinculus is slain.[70a]
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| 835.M41
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The War for Piety. Piety emerges from a Warp storm overrun by Daemons. Canoness Sariah leads a mission of her Order of the Sacred Rose to recover valuable artifacts from the Reliquary of Hope, one of the few untainted areas. Only the Canoness and two Celestians survive entering the Reliquary, but recover Saint Dolan's right thighbone and three pages of the Lexicon of Falsehoods. They leave just before a fleet of Grey Knights arrives and performs Exterminatus on the planet by cyclonic torpedoes.[64]
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| 837.M41
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Space Wolves and Flesh Tearers fight, brother against brother, in a dark moment for both Chapters at the battle of Honour's End.[38b]
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| 841.M41
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Ninety-four years after the Battle for Macragge, the Ultramarines First Company's operational strength exceeds fifty percent for the first time.[3d]
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| 844.M41
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Chinchare Hrud Infestation[8c]
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| 845.M41
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Dark Eldar pirates capture Warmaster Ingenus, commander of the Dimmamak War, escalating the situation. In response, all high ranking Imperial Guard officers are assigned bodyguards and another forty thousand regiments are raised.[45a]
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| The Blood Swords chapter purges the Inando system. More than one hundred billion Imperial citizens are slain in the resulting Exterminatus actions.[3f]
|
| 849.M41
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Cato Sicarius, Captain of the Ultramarines' Second Company, is appointed High Suzerain of Ultramar.[3d]
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| All contact is lost with Birmingham, the Black Planet. Subsequent investigations confirm a Dark Eldar massacre.[42b]
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| The 813th Feast of Blades. Hervald Strom of the Iron Knights is victorious yet again, despite suffering heavy wounds in the Vinculus Crusade. It is the first time in the history of the event that a single Chapter, let alone a single Champion, has won two successive victories.[3f]
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| 850.M41
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Inquisitor Solomon Lok leads an expedition to the Anphelion System. See also - Anphelion Project[42b]
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| 850-901.M41
|
Third Inter-Guild War. The Guild Fathers, Inca Sector of the Ultima Segmentum, fight a war against Eldar pirates, sponsored by business rivals. The Sons of Antaeus and Subjugators Space Marine chapters answer the call of the Guild Fathers.[71]
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| 852.M41
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The Invaders chapter assault the Eldar Craftworld Idharae. They succeed in destroying the planet, despite taking horrendous casualties.[3f]
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| 853.M41
|
Battle of the Steel Cross. Captain Cortez of the Crimson Fists slays an Ork Warlord and his bodyguard.[46b]
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| The Daemonbane War: The Great Company of Wolf Lord Sven Bloodhowl is saved on the world of Yaogeddon when the Radical Inquisitor Lord Querrian turns the rival hordes of Khorne and Slaanesh against each other. When the Ordo Malleus demands Querrian's execution, the Space Wolves fight against their forces until Querrian can escape.[38b]
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| The Second Krandor Rebellion.[26c]
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| 855.M41
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The Assault on Black Reach: The Ultramarines Second Company under Captain Cato Sicarius defeats Waaagh! Zanzag on Black Reach.[3d][3b]
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| 857.M41
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Saim-Hann Eldar launch a surprise assault on the Mortant VII 'Headhunters' during the Sacking of Colonia. A single squad of Catachan Devils, led by Gunnery Sergeant Harker drives back the xenos after emerging from cover and killing the Eldar's Autarch.[45a]
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| The fleet of the Silver Skulls chapter blockades the worlds of the Lazar system for three years. Since the worlds are dead, questions are asked, but no answers are ever given by the Silver Skulls.[3f]
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| 858.M41
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The Defence of Dimmamar: The birth world of Sebastian Thor is suddenly attacked by Farseer Kauerith leading elements of the Eldar Craftworld Ulthwé. Though no reason for the attack is evident, the Farseer is killed in the course of the battle by Seraphim Superior Amelda of the Order of the Bloody Rose and her squad.[64]
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| 861.M41
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Battle of Arconar. Marneus Calgar defeats a coalition of Eldar Raiders on the feral world of Arconar, scattering their forces and capturing their bases both on and off world.[46a]
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| The Ultramarines' chapter records indicate that they have finally replaced their losses from the Battle for Macragge.[3d]
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| 862.M41
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Waaagh! Skullkrak invades the Targus system. Kayvaan Shrike and the Raven Guard Third Company are among the forces that respond.[3f]
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| 863.M41
|
The Saint Cyllia Massacre: The Adamant Fury Titan Legion falls to Chaos and massacre the Saint Cyllia PDF before escaping.[42b] Leading the Cadian 423rd, Knight Commander Pask engages rearguard elements of the traitor Titan Legio.[45a]
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| 865.M41
|
The Purging of Modanna: Kor'sarro Khan, Master of the Hunt of the White Scars, drives the Daemon Prince Kernax Voldorius from his most important fortress.[3f]
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| 867.M41
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Craftworld Iyanden slaughter the corrupt planetary council of Hellabore. Unaware that the Eldar just prevented a great Heresy, the Crimson Fists arrive to battle the Eldar. Most of Iyanden's forces had already departed into the Webway by the time the Hellabore Assault began. Wraithlord Toralven Gravesong would hold the vengeful Space Marines at bay whilst the last living Eldar made their escape. Iyanden remembers Gravesong's sacrifice to this day.[131]
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| Captain Cortez of the Crimson Fists breaks through Eldar lines, despite suffering seventeen wounds, including a stab through one of his hearts and two heavy weapons hits.[46b]
|
| 870.M41
|
Mogul Kamir and Imperial Guard regiments of Attila deploy in force on the planet of Loxar IV to fight a three-year campaign against the Necrons. Victory is finally taken after the ill-fated charge of the Lumen Valley, the largest calvary charge to take place in records of the Imperium.[45a]
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| 871.M41
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The Liberation of Quintus: With the aid of Kayvaan Shrike and the Raven Guard Third Company, Kor'sarro Khan slays Kernax Voldorius in the streets of Mankarra, and returns with the Daemon Prince's head to the White Scars' fortress-monastery.[3f]
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| 876.M41
|
The Bloodtide returns under the command of the Bloodthirster Ka'jagga'nath. It rampages across the planet Van Horne until Ka'jagga'nath is banished by the 4th Brotherhood of the Grey Knights.[14b][26c]
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| 877.M41
|
An enormous Void whale emerges from the Warp, mutated by exposure to the Empyrean. The Space Wolves of Engir Krakendoom's Great Company board the entity before it can destroy the stronghold of Perillia, combating the entire hostile ecosystem in the whale's innards, before planting demolition charges on its vital organs and escaping seconds before the explosion. The Perillian Gas Belt is born from the whale's remains. The gas belt overtakes Rillith and Deith, bringing catastrophes. The Inquisition resorts to sorcery to disperse the gas belt.[14b][38b]
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| 878.M41
|
Chaos pirates, led by the Daemon Prince M'kar, claim several uninhabited planets on the borders of Ultramar; Ultramarines Captain Cato Sicarius destroys most of the pirate fleet in a battle in the Halamar Rift, though M'kar escapes into the Warp.[3d]
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| 879.M41
|
Battle of Knarts Landing. Marneus Calgar defeats a rebel army led by General Dornal in a thirty-day battle on the industrial world of Knarts Landing, taking less than 17% casualties.[46a]
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| 883.M41
|
The largest armoured assault since the Battle of Tallarn, spearheaded by the Cadian 423rd, attacks and nearly annihilates a renegade Titan Legion in a battle on the Planus Steppes. Imperial forces are to endure the loss of over eight thousand tank companies and thirty five super-heavy detachments.[45a]
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| Dark Eldar warriors of the Kabal of the Black Heart raid Imperial Munitions Relay Base 359, causing the western Imperial flank to collapse during the Irgax Offensive and threatening the stability of the Imperial presence on Kyobin and the entire subsector.[26g]
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| 886.M41
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A deputation from the Ecclesiarchy visits the Space Wolves' homeworld of Fenris, planning to investigate rumours of pagan worship. The Wolves open fire on the fleet, provoking a three-week war between the Wolves and three orders of the Adepta Sororitas, which ends when the Ecclesiarchy decides to retreat.[38b]
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| 888.M41
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The Battle for Orar's Sepulchre: The entire Ultramarines chapter goes to war for the first time since the Battle for Macragge to defend Orar's Sepulchre on planet Commrath from Eldar forces from Craftworlds Alaitoc and Iyanden. In the final battle, Marneus Calgar defeats the Alaitoc Avatar in single combat.[3d]
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| The Crusade of Wrath: Black Templars defeat the Word Bearers and reclaim many worlds near the Maelstrom.[42b]
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| 891.M41
|
The Persya sector undergoes the 'long midnight' as Eldar pirates prey on them for over half the year, until driven off by Imperial Patrol Praxion.[42b]
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| The Perfect War: On Yurk, grav-tank skimmers from craftworld Iyanden destroy the forces of ork warlord Killfist without a single loss, preventing a Waaagh! from forming and threatening a nearby eldar colony.[39]
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| 892.M41
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Captain Cortez defends the breach in Fortress Maladon's wall in twenty-one hours of constant fighting.[46b]
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| 894.M41
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Betalis Campaign on Betalis III[8c]
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| 895.M41
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Craftworld Alaitoc launches a devastating invasion of the Invaders' home world in retaliation for their destruction of Idharae. With the Invaders still under-strength, only three companies escape the disaster and their fortress-monastery is destroyed. The Invaders are thereafter a spacebound chapter.[3f]
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| The Space Wolves and a host of Eldar Aspect Warriors ally to destroy the Waaagh! of Grimtusk Bloodboila. The operation is a success, but a simple mistranslation at the victory celebration afterwards leads to a fight breaking out, followed by open war between the Wolves, Eldar, and Orks.[38b]
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| 897.M41
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Sisters of Battle fortress-convent Sanctuary 101 is completely destroyed. This raid is the first recorded Imperial contact with the Necrons.[42b][72]
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| Faze V is re-discovered by a Rogue Trader who has the support of the Dark Angels Fifth Company. The local human population is mind-linked with a huge artificial intelligence and the Dark Angels destroy it. Millions of locals rise up against the Imperium and the Dark Angels crush the rebellion and burn the planet to the ground. Bekenel, Grand Master of the Deathwing, retrieves some data from the machine complex.[73b][72]
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| Hive Fleet Colossus descends upon the Imperial world of Thressiax. Ignoring the orders of Imperial Command, Wolf Lord Bran Redmaw details two squads of Grey Hunters to protect the planet's spaceport from the Tyranids long enough for the civilian population to evacuate.[38b]
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| Battle of Centius Prime[8c]
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| 897-903.M41
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Hive Fleet Gorgon eats through the Tau Empire until a combined force of Tau and Imperium of Man fleets stops it at Kel'shan.[29c][44d]
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| 898.M41
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the Necron Arotepk Dynasty assaults the Eldar Maiden World of Silentia to steal a precious gem that was likely a Shard of the Void Dragon. In 912.M41 this shard escaped and despite being only a fraction of the creatures former glory it managed to lay waste to the Dynasty and gorge itself on a dozen worlds. Eventually however Arotepk Crypteks were able to force the beast back into its cage.[74]
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| 899.M41
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The Battle of Carrion Deep. One of the first confirmed and detailed conflicts between the Imperium and the rising Necron threat.[13b]
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| Year
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Event
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| 900.M41
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The Tau's listening post on Morix Prime is eliminated by the Ultramarines' 4th Company.[3d]
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| 901.M41
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Battle of Kornovin. Mortarion kills Grey Knights Supreme Grand Master Linus Geronitan. The Grey Knights choose Kaldor Draigo as his successor to finish the ritual battle and banish Mortarion back to the Warp.[75][76b][77]
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| 901-912.M41
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Lugft Huron, Chapter Master of the Astral Claws, revolts. An Imperial investigation fleet is destroyed in orbit of Badab, killing 23,000 agents of the Imperium. Huron declares himself Tyrant of Badab and secedes from the Imperium. The Badab War follows.[25a][42b][78]
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| 902.M41
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The Thirteenth Castigation of Golgotha is carried out by the Fire Hawks Chapter.[2c]
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| 903.M41
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Badab War: the Lamenters, Mantis Warriors and Executioners join Huron's revolt.[78]
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| Captain Cortez fights through the entire six-week Kardian campaign without supplies after they had been lost to enemy fire during deployment.[46b]
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| Hive Fleet Gorgon is destroyed by the combined forces of the Tau and the Imperial Guard.[44d]
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| 904.M41
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Badab War: the Fire Hawks retaliate when their supply ship is captured by the Mantis Warriors.[78]
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| A Chaos incursion on Paraghast turns Patrihive into a nightmarish twisted prison. Billions of souls fight daemons of Nurgle and Slaanesh as their home hive turns against them.[14b]
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| 905.M41
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Badab War: the Marines Errant are recalled from Eastern Fringe but find themselves protecting convoys more than actively attacking the rebels.[78]
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| Siege of Castellax: The Iron Warriors Fortress World of Castellax is invaded and overrun by Waaagh! Biglug[67b]
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| 906.M41
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Badab War: the Red Scorpions and Minotaurs are called in to suppress the revolt.[Help]
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| Badab War: The Betrayal at Grief - Lord High Commander Verant Ortys of the Red Scorpions is killed under an attack by unknown forces during a meet between the Loyalist and Secessionist forces. The Chapter Master of the Mantis Warriors Sartaq is also killed. Lugft Huron is later blamed for this incident.[2a]
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| 907.M41 (913?)[Help]
|
Badab War: Several chapters are redeployed in response to Ork expansions in the Ultima Segmentum and the Imperial Navy assumes their responsibilities. Badab is blockaded, while more chapters are brought in to investigate the Executioners and Mantis Warriors' worlds.[78]
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| 908.M41
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Badab War: The bulk of the Lamenters are caught in an ambush and surrender to loyalist forces.[78]
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| 908-912.M41
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Badab War: A series of sieges see the fortresses of Huron crumble to the loyalists. Badab is eventually surrounded and cut off.[78]
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| 912.M41
|
The Badab War ends with the fall of Badab and final defeat of the Astral Claws. Heavy fighting in the Palace of Thorns sees Huron badly wounded but two hundred Astral Claws escape with him to the Maelstrom.[78]
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| Svengar the Red of the Space Wolves and his men disappear forever after sailing through a wyrmhole in search of Leman Russ.[38c]
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| The Death Korps of Krieg are sent to the world of Derondii in punishement for withheld tithes. The Death Korps spend the next ten years bombarding the world's cities to rubble, five years after recieving an unconditional surrender and two years after the last sign of life is spotted.[67c]
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| 912.M41-Present
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In the aftermath of the Badab War, the Lamenters, Mantis Warriors and Executioners are sent on century-long penitence crusades.[78]
|
| 913.M41
|
Disciples of Ahriman sack the Jollana Librarium.[42b]
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| Molov Massacre. All details purged by Inquisition[8c]
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| 915.M41
|
Starting of The Red Hunt - The Red Hunters Chapter were ordered to shadow the Mantis Warriors, Lamenters and Executioners in their penitent crusades after the Badab War.[8d]
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| 917.M41
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Battle of Amion. Red Talons and Armageddon Steel Legion vs. rebel Imperial forces.[130]
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| Azrael is named Grand Master of the Deathwing.[21c]
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| 919.M41
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Commissar Ciaphas Cain is attached to the Valhallan 12th Field Artillery regiment in the hopes of enjoying a career in a backwater post as far from combat as possible. He ends up facing down a Tyranid Hive Tyrant on Desolatia IV completely by accident with nothing but a laspistol and chainsword. This event, and others following it, eventually snowball his reputation to ridiculous levels. He is also assigned a permanent adjutant, Gunner Ferik Jurgen.[79]
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| The Eagle Warriors tried to repel Feral Orks from the central lowlands of the primal continent on Balur Secundus but receive a grievous defeat when the Orks ambushed them and kill all except Veteran Sergeant Nzahan who managed to survive.[8d]
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| 920.M41
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Loss of the troopship Emperor's Faithful to Eldar pirates. Over five million Guardsmen and 200,000 Naval personnel are listed as missing.[42b]
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| The Tau Empire claims Ur-Clemait until the Word Bearers return to claim their Blood Tithe.[25c]
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| 921.M41
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Marneus Calgar, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines, is ambushed by the Night Lords while en route to the Darkhold battlezone, and his ship crash-lands on the feudal world of Barathred. Several hundred Chaos Space Marines of the Night Lords make planetfall, but under Calgar's leadership, the planet's feudal population rises up and defeats them.[3d]
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| 922.M41
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The first four companies of the Dark Angels put down a rebellion on Sephlagm.[21a]
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| 925.M41
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Contact lost with eighteen planets in the Vidar sector, including the forge world Lentrel Prime.[42c]
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| Waaagh! Grax invades the Ryza system. Regiments are raised from planets within ten light years, including the worlds of Barac, Ulani, Dulma'lin and Catachan. To meet demand, four-fifths of Dulma'lin's populace is drafted. The Orks would eventually be broken decades later at the Battle of Desolation Valley by Commander Mordrid van Hordric.[45a]
|
| 926.M41
|
The Vaxhallian Genocides: The Purge slaughter over fourteen billion Imperial citizens in a single month.[25b][42c]
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| The Dulma'lin Cleansing: The Catachan II, led by Colonel "Iron Hand" Straken, the only regiment to survive planetfall on Dulma'lin, fights a year-long guerrilla war against the Ork invaders, destroying the Orks' main settlement two days ahead of the arriving Imperial reinforcement.[45b]
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| The Necron World Engine is destroyed on the edge of the Doranno System, thanks to the heroic sacrifice of the Astral Knights chapter.[3f]
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| 927.M41
|
Green Skins and Black Hearts: The Ork Invasion of Perlia by Hismyonie Kallis is published. It is later used by Inquisitor Amberley Vail when she is organising the Cain Archive.[80]
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| An army of daemons wipes out the famous armoured siege regiment of Hammeront IV under the command of Grand Marshal Lourgant during the Fallaxian Scourging.[45b]
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| 928.M41
|
Two opposing Eldar Phoenix Lords of the Striking Scorpions Aspect, Arha and Karandras, duel for seventeen days in the ruins of ancient Zandros.[42c]
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| The Catachan II, with the help of Planetary Defence Forces engage in search and destroy missions against Ork Kommandos in the polar ranges of the planet Ulani.[45b]
|
| 929.M41
|
Due to the slow-moving machinations of the Administratum, the news of the destruction of the Hammeront IV regiment fails to be passed onto the Departmento Munitorum, which charges the regiment to lead the liberation of the Abraxis Citadel on Prassium.[45b]
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| The Trenor Uprising. Three dozen Ultramarines Scouts, under the directions of veteran Sergeant Torias Telion, put down a rebellion on Trenor in less than a day.[3d]
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| 930.M41
|
The Orks under Krakskull are destroyed in a trap in a ravine on Arandra V by the Catachan XXIV 'Waiting Death'.[45b]
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| Verdan Wars[8d]
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| 931.M41
|
The Gravalax Incident: an Imperial taskforce primarily made up of Valhallan Ice Warriors successfully prevents the Tau Empire from annexing the Imperial world of Gravalax. The Imperial Guard and the Tau make a rare alliance to eliminate a fifth column of genestealers among the population.[81x]
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| The Hammeront IV are charged with desertion by the Departmento Munitorum and their commander, Lord General Lourgant, is posthumously sentenced to death.[45b]
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| 932.M41
|
Techno Magus Stannum Vir discovers a priceless STC relic on the Agri world of Jollov. Combined elements from Catachan, Mordian, Kanak, Molov, and Agathon regiments sacrifice themselves defending the spaceport from Hive Fleet Moloch, buying Vir enough time to recover the artifact and escape.[45b]
|
| 933.M41
|
Insurgents, Chaos Cultists, Genestealers and a Tyranid Hive fleet splinter all threaten the world of Periremunda at the same time. They are narrowly defeated by a joint taskforce of the Imperial Guard and Navy.[82a][82b]
|
| The Ravagers, a Khorneate warband, began their raids on isolated shipping lines and colonies. The warband is too fast for the Imperial Navy to catch up.[83a]
|
| Craftworld Iyanden's war against the Chaos pirate Kallorax and his horde begins.[131]
|
| 934.M41
|
Ardaric Vaanes, Shadow Captain of the Raven Guard's 4th Company, is declared Excommunicate Mortis.[84c]
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| Elysian Drop Troops of the Imperial Guard end a decade-long blockade of the Stranthium Orbital Space Docks, driving off Ork Kaptin Blacklaw and his Freebooterz.[45b]
|
| The Toran VI Massacres: The Crimson Fists defeat the warband of Chaos Lord Sathash the Golden.[3f]
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| 935.M41
|
M'kar returns from the Warp and seizes control of the star fort Indomitable with a horde of Daemons, in the outer orbit of Calth. Marneus Calgar leads Terminators from the Ultramarines First Company aboard the fort and defeats the Daemon Prince. M'kar is officially listed as destroyed, but Calgar later confesses that he was forced to imprison the Daemon within the star fort's warp core and set it adrift. Half of the Ultramarines' 5th Company is stationed aboard the fort to guard the daemon's prison.[3d][84b]
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| An Imperial Guard offensive on Bren's World is stalled when it fails to overcome the defences of Haven's Spire. Elite Storm Trooper units break the deadlock by destroying several void-shield generators.[45b]
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| 936.M41
|
Hive World Derondii withholds its annual tithes. The Death Korps of Krieg are deployed as an honour guard for the Departmento Munitorum investigation team. After locals lynch the team, the Death Korps levels the primary hive city with a ten-year artillery barrage.[45b]
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| 937.M41
|
Inquisitor Pranix leads a strikeforce of Space Wolves, Cadian and Tallarn Imperial Guard in an attempt to wrest the Hollow Worlds from the control of the Red Corsairs. Huron Blackheart has preselected sections of tunnel collapsed, isolating and destroying portions of the Imperial army. The Imperial army is forced to withdraw.[25b][42c]
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| The Imperial Navy finally catches up with the Ravagers over the Tau colony of Salomine, resulting in the destruction of most of the warband. Salomine then possibly falls to the Imperium.[83a]
|
| Surviving remnants of the Ravagers make their way to Adumbria to stop cultists from transforming the planet into a Daemon World of Slaanesh, but also encounter five Imperial Guard regiments and several Navy ships. By the end of the battle, both Chaos factions are utterly annihilated, and the planet is prevented from falling to Chaos.[83a][83b][83c]
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| The Cadian 9th devastates Hive Fleet Scarabus at the walls of Fortress Carcasson without losing a single company.[45b]
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| 938.M41
|
The Battle for Moden's Ridge: On Yaquit 27 Colonel Straken leads the Catachan II in a charge that exterminates the L'Huraxi invaders, who outnumber the Imperial Guardsmen more than ten to one.[45b]
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| 939.M41
|
While serving with the 70th Luther McIntyre regiment on V'run, responding to Ork attacks occurring throughout the Segmentum Solar, Commissar Yarrick learns the Ork language from a captured greenskin.[45b]
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| A Chaos Space Marine ambush kills Dark Angels Supreme Grand Master Naberius. Azrael leads the Deathwing to recover his body and is named his successor.[21a]
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| Chaplain Cassius onboard the Ultramarines Strike Cruiser Vengeance of Macragge leads Battle Barges from the Howling Griffons and Aurora Chapter to track a tendril of Hive Fleet Leviathan. As the tendril passes an asteroid belt near the Jomm System, they destroy the moon of Vendorak. The resulting shockwave causes asteroids to crash into the planet, depleting the hive fleet so it can't reach the planets of Jomm.[5]
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| 940.M41
|
Tzeentch cultists revolt on the Imperial planet Chicano. World lost.[85]
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| The conquest of Atria IV grinds to a halt outside the Palace of Hate, impregnable to the Imperial forces.[45b]
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| 941.M41
|
The Second War for Armageddon: A massive Ork Waaagh! led by Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka assaults the hive world Armageddon Secundus. Overlord Herman von Strab's forces are saved by Commissar Yarrick's leadership, buying enough time for elements from the Blood Angels, Ultramarines and Salamanders Space Marine Chapters to arrive and push the Orks off-world.[42c][45b]
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| The Battle of Agrion: Prince Yriel wins a major victory over Kallorax's pirate fleet and destroys his flagship the Deathless Reaver.[131]
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| 942.M41
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The Battle of the Burning Moon: Kallorax plans to strike directly at Iyanden, but Yriel leads the craftworld's fleet in a pre-emptive strike. Kallox's new flagship is stormed by Yriel and the pirate lord is slain by the Eldar in single combat. Iyanden is ravaged by the Chaos fleet. The Council of Iyanden calls Yriel to account for his actions, but the prince refuses to justify himself and vanishes into exile.[131]
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| 944.M41
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Commissar Yarrick comes out of retirement and devotes the rest of his life to hunting down Ghazghkull Thraka.[42c][45c]
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| Balur Crusade: Marneus Calgar is elected leader of the Space Marine Crusade force operating against worlds along the Eastern Fringes. Operations began with scouring of Ork-held Balur and ending with devastation of Boros.[46a]
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| 945.M41
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On Atria IV sappers from the Catachan XXIII breach the walls of the Palace of Hate within a week of their arrival.[45b]
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| 945-959.M41
|
Ghazghkull Thraka mounts raids on various planets.[86]
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| 946.M41
|
Dante, Yarrick and Mannheim monitoring stations are established in the outermost orbit of the Armageddon system.[Help]
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| 949.M41
|
The 814th Feast of Blades is held. Only eight of the twelve competing Space Marine chapters are able to attend. The championship is tied between the Imperial Fists and the Crimson Fists.[3f]
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| Dark Angels Librarian Ezekiel kills Ork Warlord Groblinik in the Battle of the Sularian Gate, ending his Waaagh![21a]
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| 951.M41
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The Amar secession is brought to a swift end by the rapid strikes of the Howling Griffons chapter.[3f]
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| Doom Warriors managed to destroy the Psyker-cult on the planet Truan IX[8d]
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| 952.M41
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Waaagh! Garaghak invades the Kastorel-Novem Sector and transforms its capital, Kastorel-Novem, into the Ork base of operations and manufacturing world by enslaving the local population.[87]
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| 954.M41
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The Fall of Rogue's Spire: Waaagh! Dethrekka attacks the sparsely defended planet, and only the fighting retreat by the Sable Swords allows the Explorator and Mechanicus research teams to escape.[3f]
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| On the planet Cyriax, something huge and terrible awakens beneath Hive Necros, killing hundreds of the city's inhabitants. Great Wolf Logan Grimnar sends his elite Thunderwolf Cavalry to hunt down the Abomination of Cyriax.[38c]
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| 955.M41
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A daemon invasion of the agri-world Gheistos ends with exterminatus.[14b]
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| Daemons overrun Talus IV, the homeworld of the Brazen Claws Space Marine Chapter.[3a]
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| The Imperial Fists committed to the Siege of Fort Mork are nearly overwhelmed when thousands of Orks pour from the gates in a counter-attack.[67c]
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| Dark Eldar of the Kabal of the Poisoned Heart destroy the Black Templars Chapter Keep on the Jungle World of Delleront. This begins the Crusade of Sorrow.[88c]
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| The Gehenna Campaign is fought between the Blood Angels Chapter and the Necrons.[89]
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| The Killeneth Rebellion is defeated by the Salamanders[88d]
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| 956.M41
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The Kieldar Rebellion is crushed by a combined force of the Imperial Guard.[45c]
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| Task force of Red Hunters and Inquisition were lost near moons of Lomea following the penitent crusade of the Mantis Warriors during The Red Hunt[8d]
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| Soulmaw assault the Silver Skulls homeworld, but are unsuccessful.[88a]
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| 958.M41
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The Virus of Betrayal: The Cleansing of Viridia and its Aftermath is written by Lady Ottaline Melmoth[90]
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| 959.M41
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Purging of Ganymede - all information deleted by Inquisition[8d]
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| The Hellfire Stone appears on the death world of Pythos before promptly disappearing as it does roughly every 40 years.[91a]
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| 959-961.M41
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The Pandorax Campaign.[91x][92]
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| 962.M41
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The Imperial base on Buca III is annihilated by an Ork asteroid base. The action is ascribed to Ghazghkull Thraka.[93]
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| The War of Infamy begins when the Tau raid Imperial Navy ship yards at Ethron’s Harbour.[94]
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| Scythe Class Harvest Ships were sighted around Bora Culpa, the population of which had vanished when the Space Wolves performed a reconnaissance mission.[95]
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| Space Hulk Mork’s Mangla emerged out from the Warp, full with a horde of Orks and invaded the Necron world of Ankhabyr.[96]
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| 963.M41
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The Fire Hawks mobile chapter fleet is sent to Crow's World sector to retaliate against Eldar pirates. En route, the entire chapter is Lost in the Warp.[97][98]
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| The Ultramarines clash with Tau colonisation forces in the Battle of Malbede; both armies later unite against Necron awakening. The Tau escape the planet, which is destroyed in an exterminatus ordered by Marneus Calgar shortly afterwards.[42c][3d]
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| Space Wolf Thorgir Redhand is the lone survivor when his Thunderhawk crash-lands on Isoulde, shot down by an enormous dragon. Thorgir slays the dragon, collapsing one of the planet's cathedrals down on both of them. He is dug out, still alive, by the grateful populace.[38c]
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| The Grey Knights Second Brotherhood successfully defend against Ork forces in the Assault on Beroghast and kill their leader Warboss Snappaklaw.[76a]
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| Dark Eldar raiders over the Macharian Sector world Illisear were fought by a Naval force including support from Rogue Trader House Iaysus.[99]
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| 964.M41
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Darnath Lysander of the Imperial Fists escapes from the Iron Warriors' stronghold on Malodrax and returns to his chapter, though it will be almost a year before he is pronounced free of chaotic taint and fit to return to duty.[3f]
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| The Subjugators Chapter and the Deathwatch destroyed the unnamed xenos race in the Tyrama Secundus Campaign[8d]
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| 965.M41
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Forgeworld Palatine III is invaded by Orks. It has been a War World ever since.[100]
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| 965-985.M41
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A Crusade is raised to put down a rebellion on Salinas as part of a sub-sector-wide conflict. As part of the Crusade, the Falcatas led by Achaman Falcatas are designated an army of conquest given the Right of Settlement on the planet.[101]
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| 966.M41
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Lysander leads the Imperial Fists to Malodrax and scours the Iron Warriors from the planet.[3f]
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| Wolf Lord Gunnar Red Moon takes battle to the Tau's hidden underwater cities on the Ocean World Kvariam Alpha, driving Land Raiders straight across the seabed. The Tau flee when the Wolves crack the domes of their cities.[38c]
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| During an attack on the Imperial city of Chalior, the Eldar Phantom Titan Heart of Eldanesh is destroyed by a Vortex Missile launched from the Grand Redoubt protecting the city.[67c]
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| Xenos raiders capture the Shadow Wolves strike cruiser Purest Intent with all hands.[102]
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| The Protean Incident: The Salamanders' Firedrakes are ambushed by Night Lords while investigating a Genestealer-infested Space Hulk. The Firedrakes defeat both threats.[88d]
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| 967.M41
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Dark Eldar of the Kabal of the Lethal Guile raid Vallenin and are defeated by Ultramarines.[88b]
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| Battle of Thersuis: Fought between the Dark Eldar and Black Templars[103]
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| 968.M41
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The Khai-Zhan Uprising: Rebels capture every major population centre in one night. An Imperial Guard counter attack takes the capital city of Vogen after a series of brutal street battles. The entire planet is recaptured within a month, but at the cost of nine-tenths of the regiments despatched to Khai-Zhan.[45c]
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| 969.M41
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The Death Guard battleship Terminus Est, the flagship of Typhus, is spotted in the Cando system. The Zombie Plague sweeps across the system in the following months.[42c]
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| Invasion of Taladorn: Taladorn is invaded by Iron Warriors. The Imperial Fists with some support from the Ultramarine and Blood Angels defeat the assault.[104a]
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| 970.M41
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A Necron Tomb awakens on Bellicas, the home world of the Emperor's Swords chapter. Not one Space Marine survives.[3f]
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| Drashin was invaded by Tyranids who emerged from the Warp in a Space Hulk. Though the Imperial forces led by the Imperial Fists were eventually victorious, millions of its citizens perished.[104b]
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| Helmabad erupts into civil war. The Third Company of the Avenging Sons chooses to forsake the Imperium and the system falls to a Chaos rift.[105]
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| 971.M41
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The Ork Wazdakka Gutsmek begins his plan to create an interstellar "supa'eyeway" through the Warp.[42c]
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| The Crusade of Thunder ends with the Fall of Malodrax when the planet becomes subject to Exterminatus.[104c]
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| 972.M41
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Imperial agri-world Chigon 17 is overrun by Orks under Ghazghkull Thraka using guerrilla tactics.[Help]
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| Cleansing of Opridia[8d]
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| 973.M41
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Thousands of daemonic incursions cause huge amounts of damage and sow many seeds of future corruption.[26d]
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| 974.M41
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The Damnos Incident: The Ultramarines Second Company, led by Captain Cato Sicarius, rescues survivors from the doomed world of Damnos as the Necrons on the planet awaken.[3c][3d]
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| 975.M41
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The Cadian fortress-world Lutoris Epsilon is lost to Khorneate temptation initiated by Skarbrand the Bloodthirster.[42c]
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| A squad of Cadian Whiteshields, led by the young Ursarkar Creed, are hurled into the five-year Drussite Crusade. By the end of the campaign, Creed has been promoted to Captain.[45c]
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| Eldar craftworld Lugganath falls to the Brittle Coma. Its seers project themselves into the Garden of Nurgle in search of Isha and are lost.[14a][14b]
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| The Great War of Confederation. The Tau battle for survival against a major Ork incursion. Commander Shadowsun leads the Tau to victory.[Help]
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| Commander Shadowsun earns her name when Vior'la sept leads the defence against the largest Ork Waaagh! to attack the Tau Empire.[29c]
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| 976.M41
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Hive Fleet Perseus is detected by the Ultramarines. Marneus Calgar is severely mauled in a skirmish against Tyranids.[106]
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| The Liberation of Amadis: Regan Antigone, the sole survivor of the Procell 1st Irregulars, is hailed as the man who rallied and organised the defences that held off the final wave of the rebel attack before the Dark Angels arrive. He swears to never reveal the role or even the existence of the robed figure who truly won the battle.[107][108]
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| 977.M41
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Orask Wars[8d]
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| Hive Fleet Pythos invades the Fortress World of Orask in the Ghoul Stars. The Red Talons Space Marines combat the hive fleet.[132]
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| 978.M41
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Commissar Yarrick is captured at Golgotha and his personal Baneblade, the Fortress of Arrogance, is destroyed. Yarrick escapes a few weeks later under mysterious circumstances, but the planet is completely overrun by the Orks.[45c]
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| Bhorc Prime, was a site of constant struggle between Orks and the Imperium. It went on until the Ork Klawjaw united all Ork factions on the planet and started a massive Waaagh!. Despite their victories, Imperium's forces faced defeat on Bhorc Prime. The whole planet was soon under Ork control and Warboss Klawjaw began his Waaagh! against the Imperium. It would later lead to the creation of one of the biggest Ork domains - the Ork Empire of Bork.[4]
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| 979-988.M41
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The Damocles Gulf Crusade. Several Imperial worlds defect to the Tau Empire, initiating the prolonged crusade, which is abandoned when Hive Fleet Kraken emerges in the Eastern Fringe.[45c]
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| 980.M41
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Chaos Lord Brule and his Chaos Space Marines are destroyed on Treconodal by a combined force of the Cadian 8th and the Terrax Guard.[45c]
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| The Promethean War. The Salamanders fight an urban war against the Black Legion on Heletine. The Order of the Ebon Chalice arrives to reinforce the Space Marines and together push forward, but their advance is stopped by Daemon Prince Lord Gralastyx and his Chaos Space Marines and the Imperium forces are nearly defeated. Saint Celestine appears suddenly and fights through the hordes and eventually kills Gralastyx and turns the tide of the battle. She disappears again just as suddenly.[64]
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| 981.M41
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Durlan Ocellati discovers warp route into Wheel of Fire[109]
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| Taelos of the Imperial Fists takes a warrior pilgrimage through the Maelstrom, Choria, Fell Heart, and Golgotha[40b]
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| The Battle of Parenxes. Red Corsairs lure the Space Wolves cruiser Wolf of Fenris into a trap, where they board the ship and Huron Blackheart kills Gnyrll Bluetooth. As their situation becomes clear, the few surviving Wolves turn to the enemy side, and the Wolf is captured.[38c]
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| 982.M41
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Last encounter with Hive Fleet Perseus, which drifts outsystem.[Help]
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| 983.M41
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The Fire Hawks are declared lost in the warp.[Help]
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| Ragnar Blackmane avenges the death of his Wolf Lord, Berek Thunderfist, by slaying the Chaos Champion Ghorox Bloodfist in single combat. Ragnar and his handpicked force later defeat Ghorox's allies from the Word Bearers during the Gravespite Massacre. Ragnar is acclaimed Berek's successor.[38c]
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| 983-985.M41
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A Hrud migration is halted, due in no small part to the actions of the Cadian 8th and the tactical brilliance of Ursarkar Creed.[45c][110]
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| 984.M41
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Battle of Hell Town: Pyran Dragoons assigned to an Armageddon jungle base desert their posts, leaving the Armageddon Ork Hunters to defend against Ork invasion.[Help]
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| A single Silver Sabres Space Marine survives the drop onto the feudal world of Vhospis and rallies the defenders against a daemon invasion.[14c]
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| 985.M41
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Eldar predations in the Underhives of Cathoria II.[42c]
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| 986.M41
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Imperial Battlecruiser Radiant Way wiped out by Ork pirates led by Ghazghkull Thraka.[111]
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| 987.M41
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Space Wolves attack the Ork-held planet of Xit; 519th crusade ends in the Wheel of Fire.[109]
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| A Tyranid invasion destroys the Shadow Wolves Space Marine Chapter on their home world of Varadon.[105]
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| Lammas Campaign underway, Valstadt 13th Armoured Regiment fighting.[15b]
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| 989.M41
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Orks of the Charadon empire invade Rynn's World. During the initial invasion the Crimson Fists are nearly wiped out by their own defence missile. . Later Rynn's World was reclaimed by Pedro Kantor of the Crimson Fists and relief army of the Imperium[8d]
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| Helbrecht is elected as High Marshal of the Black Templars and declares a Crusade against the Cythor Fiends of the Ghoul Stars.[70b]
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| Waaagh! Snagrod barrels through the Loki sector, devastating Rynn's World and the Crimson Fists. The Dark Angels reinforce the Crimson Fists to purge the Orks from the sector.[21a][42c][3f]
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| The Ultramarines Third Company liberates the Lagan system from the Tau Empire.[29c][3d]
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| 990.M41
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The ancient ruling class of nobility on Rophanon have their lands and power taken away from them when the Adeptus Terra decides to turn the planet into a retirement community for high-ranking clerks and a massive records storage facility. The council of Rophanon instigates a rebellion but Lord General Artemis Blythe just happens to be on the planet recovering from wounds suffered during a space battle. He leads the fight back, when eventually becomes mired in a war of attrition. When Hive Fleet Leviathan emerges near Rophanon the Imperials withdraw and let the Tyranids destroy the planet before letting the Deathwatch deliver the Exterminatus.[56]
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| The Fire Lords chapter descends on Bellicas and exterminates the Necrons there, avenging the destruction of the Emperor's Swords.[3f]
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| The Dark Eldar noble Zorothriel captures Karanak on a hunt on the Daemon world Khornax. Karanak breaks free and kills everyone onboard Zorothriel's warship.[14c]
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| 991.M41
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The Martyrdom of Praxedes. Canoness Praxedes of the Order of Our Martyred Lady assists the Imperial Guard on the cardinal world of Okassis against Hive Fleet Kraken. They defeat the first wave only to have the second wave breach the walls of the Ecclesiarchal Cathedral. Praxedes buys precious time for evacuation by slaying a Hive Tyrant, but shortly afterward succumbs to a mortal wound. The disruption caused by the Hive Tyrant's death makes successful the evacuation of the Ecclesiarchy's priests as well as civilians at the space port.[64]
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| Kysaduras the Anchorite foresees the rise of Ynnead.[131] He proclaims the End Times have begun. After lengthy meditations alongside Eldrad Ulthran, he preaches to the high seers that the Eldar's only hope of survival lies with Ynnead.[39]
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| 991.M41-Present
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Orphean War against Necron Maynarkh Dynasty[8e]
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| 992.M41
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The Second Tyrannic War. Iyanden craftworld nearly destroyed by Hive Fleet Kraken. Lamenters and Scythes of the Emperor chapters virtually destroyed.[112] In the aftermath, many of Iyanden's awoken ghost warriors refuse to return to their slumbers.[131]
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| Ursarkar E. Creed annihilates Ulthwé raid on Aurent.[42c][45c][110]
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| Necron Shroud class Light Cruiser encountered in Segmentum Pacificus.[35b]
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| After an eruption on the burial plains of Rhea's World, plaguebearers assault the planet's hives.[14c]
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| Roghrax Bloodhand swears to Khorne that he will take a skull from every warrior species in the galaxy. He directs his fleet to the Eastern Fringe so he can take skulls from the encroaching Tyranid forces.[25c]
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| Raid on Kastorel-Novem. Raven Guard and Elysian Drop Troops attacked Orks forces but were defeated.[8e]
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| 993.M41
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Commissar Ciaphas Cain retires from active duty and is appointed an instructor at the Schola Progenium on Perlia.[81a][113a]
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| Kraken devastates hundreds of worlds before it is halted. The Eldar Craftworld Iyanden is ravaged, and two Space Marine Chapters are all but wiped out, the Scythes of the Emperor and the Lamenters.[3d]
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| Defence of Ichar IV. Marneus Calgar acts as supreme commander in defence of Ichar IV, a vital industrial world on the Eastern Fringe. Tyranid invaders from Hive Fleet Kraken are held in check by the combined efforts of Space Marines, Imperial Guard and alien Eldar forces.[42c][3d]
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| Iron Warriors Warsmith Vhostok Pistonhand takes control of Diesos and manufactures countless daemon engines. The Ruinous Powers send massive Daemonic legions to free their servants. The war for Diesos ends within a month and then starts anew as the legions fight amongst themselves.[14c]
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| The Tau Empire and Imperium of Man fight over Nimbosa. Commander Brightsword is censured for the Koloth Gorge Massacre.[29c]
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| Battle on Miral Prime against Tyranids. The Scythes of the Emperor suffered great losses.[8e]
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| 087.993.M41
|
Fury's Fall: The Novamarines battle barge Inexorable Fury emerges from the Warp less than a light year away from the wounded craft Iyanden. Not wishing to risk this possible prelude to another attack, ghost warriors of House Ulthanash board and destroy the vessel.[131]
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| 778.993.M41
|
Battle for Teleth-al: With Iyanden desperately needing repair and resupply after battling Hive Fleet Kraken in 992.M41, the Council of Iyanden seeks aid from the Exodite world of Teleth-ai, whom willingly give what assistance they can. Iyanden's Webway gate is repaired. Only a fraction of the craftworld is restored to functionality before Teleth-ai is invaded by a vast army of Cadian Imperial Guard. With few other options, Iyanden's Autarchs unleash their Hemlock Wraithfighters on the innumerable and ignorant guardsmen, routing their forces to be picked apart.[131]
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| 994.M41
|
Craftworld Iyanden attempts to speed its repairs. Taec Silvereye sends an expedition to what remains of craftworld Malan'tai to salvage anything that can be used for Iyanden's repairs. The abandoned craftowlrd is swarming with orks that have stolen or destroyed anything of use. With heavy hearts, they alter the ruined craftworld's course towards the nearest sun and depart.[131]
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| 995.M41
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Iyanden is forced to engage Waaagh! Rekkfist on Antellas Prime. The craftworld is vistorious through the implacable determination of their ghost warriors, and unexpected aid from the Wraithkind Kabal and the Cult of the Flayed Hand.[131]
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| Battle of Korsk II: Space Marines crush Lord Varlak's rebellion in a major tank battle on the plains of Korsk II.[Help]
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| Tau fleet action at the shrineworld Ghola's Hope.[42c]
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| Hive Fleet Jormungandr invades the north-eastern boundaries of the Imperium. Space Marines of the Death Spectres and Honoured Sons chapters lead the counterattack.[3f]
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| A Warp-time dilation manifests over Thridia, spawning daemons from the very air. The defenders fall back toward Hive Vertes and right into awakening Necron Warriors. The Necrons attack the daemons, allowing the Imperial Guard to reach the hive. The men are mind-wiped and the battlefields bombarded.[14c]
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| Every volcano on Abheilung erupts at once, killing millions of settlers and spilling forth Daemon engines crafted in the Dark Mechanicum forges under the surface. The planet is scoured of life in less than a month.[25c]
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| Huron Blackheart attacks Parenxes. During the fight, Red Corsairs strike forces manage to board and capture the Space Wolves strike cruiser Wolf of Fenris.[25c][42c]
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| The "Voice of the Emperor" makes himself known in the Agripinaa Sector, exhorting its inhabitants to rise up against the authority of the Administratum.[108]
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| 996.M41
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The Valhallan 18th "Tundra Wolves" wipe out the vanguard of Hive Fleet Jormungandr at Goyan Valley, under the command of Kubrik Chenkov.[45c]
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| Bora Culpa incident. Population found vanished after a recon by the Space Wolves.[35a]
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| A distress signal lures the Dark Angels into a genestealer ambush in the hives of Durganion XIII. The Ravenwing kills the broodlord and the rest of the Dark Angels exterminate the xenos. The entire planet is marked for corruption testing.[21a]
|
| 997.M41
|
Inquisitors Alexio, Credo, and Fortez report having destroyed Temple of the Star Child on Levilnor IV[114]
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| Hive Fleet Medusa invades the galaxy through the Ghoul Stars.[44e]
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| A hundred thousand daemonettes take up a joking invitation to a party held by the ruler of Ferrite Mons. Even the Vostroyan Firstborn regiment falls to the daemonettes.[14c]
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| The Tau Empire's Third Sphere of Expansion begins.[29c]
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| The Iron Warriors' Fortress World of Forgefane is besieged by a tendril of Hive Fleet Leviathan. The Iron Warriors welcome the challenge, but are over-matched and within weeks, the last of the world's fortresses, the Ironblood Citadel, falls to the swarms of Raveners.[67c]
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| The Imperium sends operatives from the Officio Assassinorum to kill the Voice of the Emperor. None return, though one is able to relay a communication describing the target.[108]
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| Defence of Valedor[8e]
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| Craftworld Iyanden gets word that Hive Fleet Leviathan entering the galaxy. Although not directly threatened, all board Iyanden agree they must act and send emissaries to the craftworlds closest to the Hive Fleet, sharing their hard-won knowledge learned from Kraken.[131]
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| 138.997.M41
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Hive Fleet Leviathan contacts the galactic base of the Imperium, causing destruction in Segmentums Tempestus, Ultima, and Solar.[42c][132]
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| 221.997.M41
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The Ork Warlords Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka and Nazdreg launch an attack upon the power plant of Kadillus Harbour, the capital-city of Piscina IV. The Dark Angels, under the command of Third Company Master Belial manage to disrupt his plans until further Dark Angels reinforcements manage to arrive. The Ork horde is driven off.[21a][21d][42d][73a]
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| 250.997.M41
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Slaughter of St Caspalen: The Shrine World is invaded by Leviathan. A Deathleaper terrorizes the panicked populace, executing leaders. The Sisters of Battle hold out in their cloister for weeks, but are ultimately destroyed by a tunnelled ambush from below. This was a major blow to the faith of the Imperium. Showing faith alone is no defence against the Tyranids.[132]
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| 302.997.M41
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The Leviathan Swarmlord earns its swiftest victories along the spine of worlds making up the Hodur Sector over the span of a single year. Dozens of worlds are absorbed, including the Storm Falcons homeworld, Talon.[132]
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| 310.997.M41
|
Ksi'm'yen sept is established and used as a staging ground for the Third Sphere of Expansion.[29c]
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| 360.997.M41
|
The supposedly impenetrable Iron Warriors fortress world of Forgefane falls to Leviathan in less than a week.[132]
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| 400.997.M41
|
Battle of Bloodstar: Battlefleet Ultima concludes a distastrous campaign against Leviathan. Pincered by two seperate Hive Fleets, the Battlefleet is ambushed in the Bloodstar Sector and the flagship Imperial Glory destroyed.[132]
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| 498.997.M41
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The Mechanicus weapons testing facility of Tesla Prime is abandoned in order to use its military might bolster the defences of Gryphonne IV against the oncoming Hive Fleet Leviathan.[132]
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| 509.997.M41
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Leviathan invades Tarsis Ultra. A combined Mortifactors and Ultramarines strikeforce defeat a tendril of Hive Fleet Leviathan at Tarsis Ultra.[42d][3d] Defence succeeds due to a biological plague created by Magos Locard delivered into the heart of the fleet by Uriel Ventris.[132] The remainder of the Hive Fleet rampages on, completely unaffected.[42d][3d] Any attempts to replicate a similar contagion have resulted in failure.[132]
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| 525.997.M41
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Commander Farsight leads the defence of the Farsight Enclaves against Hive Fleet Kraken.[29c]
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| 601.997.M41
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Sebastian Yarrick and Ghazghkull come face to face again on the world of Golgotha. Yarrick is captured and tortured but ultimately released - Ghazghkull is planning to invade Armageddon again, and wants a good fight.[42d]
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| 622.997.M41
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Golgothan refugees are slaughtered en masse by Dark Eldar raiders on the moon of Jagdor.[42d]
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| 899.997.M41
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Inquisitor Krpytman orders the mass Exterminatus of hundreds of worlds to create a cordon to slow the advance of Hive Fleet Leviathan.[132]
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| 977.997.M41
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The Tau Empire resumes the Third Phase Expansion under Commander Shadowsun. They capture several worlds on the Eastern Fringe.[4x][115]
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| 998.M41
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The Taros invasion fleet arrives, carrying the 4621st Imperial army to prosecute the Taros Campaign against the Tau. The invasion fails and the Tau annex the world, renaming it T'ros.[29c]
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| Five Necron Shroud-class Light Cruisers attempt to run the Solar Blockade. Two make it to Martian orbit, and one successfully lands in the Noctus Labyrinth before being destroyed. No wreckage is recovered.[35b]
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| Historicus Coran Celecius is tried for heresy after his work links the Aphis hermitage massacre to the Necrontyr and other mysterious past encounters.[Help]
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| Inquisitor Lichtenstein is declared Excommunicate Traitoris.[Help]
|
| Hive Fleet Moloch attacks the galaxy through the Ghoul Stars.[44e]
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| Operation Thunderstorm. A Cadian Army Group lands on the Ork-held world of Golgotha to retrieve the remains of Commissar Yarrick's command tank, the Fortress of Arrogance. Although the Army Group takes horrific casualties, the tank is retrieved and repaired in time to serve as Yarrick's mount during the Third War for Armageddon.[45c][116]
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| A Tyranid splinter fleet invades the Ice World of Shadrac. A company of Space Wolves appears unexpectedly to reinforce the small Imperial Guard force there. Only a handful of warriors escape, and Shadrac is lost, but the casualties inflicted on the Tyranids is enough to give the Hive Mind pause.[38d]
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| The Dark Angels and Black Templars come to blows over the handling of a prisoner. Inquisitor Archibald is assigned to lead an inquiry.[21a]
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| The Cryptus System is invaded by Hive Fleet Leviathan.[Help]
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| Ahriman and the Thousand Sons fight their way through the Webway nearly reaching the entrance of the Black Library. The Chaos Space Marine Sorcerer is thwarted by a powerful combined force of Eldar Harlequins and allies from both Craftworlds Ulthwe and Lugganath. The breach in the webway caused by the Chaos forces are runically sealed, but as a result, a section of the webway is lost forever.[39]
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| 433.998.M41
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The Red Waaagh![Help]
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| 066.998.M41
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Hive Fleet Leviathan invades Gryphonne IV. The world falls within days despite its military power being second only to Mars itself. This is a calamity of unprecedented scale for the Imperium.[132]
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| 755.998.M41
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A lone bio-ship launches an invasion of the planet Stormvald. The Phoenix Lord Maugan Ra stands alone against the swarm, and triumphs.[132]
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| 757.998.M41
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The Third War for Armageddon begins. Having learnt from past mistakes, Imperial Commanders commit a ridiculous amount of forces to hold the world, including elements from more than twenty Space Marine chapters. It drags on for months in a bloody stalemate, and soon Ghazghkull grows bored and leaves his generals to finish the fight while he goes looking for other worlds to conquer. Sebastian Yarrick joins the Black Templars' Crusade and gives chase.[42d][3f][45c][86]
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| 854.998.M41
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Leviathan invades Shadowbrink, annihilating all defenders and unwittingly triggering a daemonic incursion.[132]
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| 871.998.M41
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Galdemor is host to a three-way war between daemonic legions of Slaanesh, Khorne, and Nurgle. Not a single soul survives.[14c]
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| 932.998.M41
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Catachan Jungle Fighters combat Leviathan on the Death World of Jorn V. The outnumbered guardsmen prove rescourcesful and hold out long enough for additional Imperial Guard and Space Marine reinforcements to arrive planetside and strike a vital blow to the hive fleet.[132]
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| 990.998.M41
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Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka begins his Great Waaagh![117]
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| 999.M41
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The Zeist Campaign sees the Imperium take back the worlds they lost in the Tau Third Sphere Expansion. The highly successful Campaign is led by Captain Cato Sicarius of the Ultramarines' 2nd Company, along with elements from at least nine other Chapters and Imperial Guard Regiments. A thrust into the Tau Empire could not be sanctioned however, as the forces were recalled to their other duties.[3e]
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| Justicar Alaric of the Grey Knights accompanies Inquisitor Ligeia on a quest to prevent the Daemon Prince Ghargatuloth from returning to the Materium. The Grey Knights are unable to spare more men while deploying their forces to the Cadian Gate to combat the 13th Black Crusade.[118]
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| The Second Siege of Perlia. A splinter fleet breaks off from the main Chaos force spilling from the Eye of Terror under the command of Warmaster Varan and attacks the Perlian subsector, seeking to recover the Shadowlight, an immensely powerful xenos artifact. They are held off by an impromptu force of PDF, skitarii, and Inquisition soldiery, led by retired Commissar Ciaphas Cain and the faculty of the planet's Schola Progenium. The Siege ends when a Necron scouting party appears and annihilates the Chaos forces and recovers the Shadowlight, though the Imperial forces are able to reach safety.[113x]
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| During the 13th Black Crusade, A Cadian battlegroup, "Creed's Blade," volunteers for a suicidal counterattack on the Daemon World of Voidsoul inside the Eye of Terror. The battlegroup is all but wiped out by the Daemonic hosts, until a pack of mysterious wolf-creatures appear and tear into the Daemons. The few surviving Cadians return to the Gate, and their mysterious rescuers are speculated to be brothers of the Space Wolves' lost 13th Great Company.[38d]
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| Exiled to the Elixir system for a practical joke, Lukas the Trickster and his Blood Claws confront the immense vehicle armoury of Waaagh! Megamek. With a little research, Lukas and his pack infiltrate a Climatrope at the planet's pole with a Jump Pack assault and lower the planet's temperature, crippling the Orks' war machines before the Wolves arrive in the system in force.[38d]
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| The Dark Angels trace the Voice of the Emperor to the Agripinaa Sector. They find and destroy a radio beacon in the approximate former location of Caliban.[108]
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| Executioners Chapter arrived to the Orpheus Sector and swear an oath of revenge for the Imperium losses here.[8e]
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| 010.999.M41
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On Thracia, Idaeus, Captain of the Ultramarines' Fourth Company, passes his captaincy to Uriel Ventris before sacrificing himself in the Taking of Bridge Two-Four, denying a flanking route to the Night Lords before the final Imperial offensive.[3d]
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| 103.999.M41
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Shas'O'Kais leads the victories that establish the Fi'rios sept.[29c]
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| 4.105.999.M41
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Catachan Guardsman Marbo is credited with single-handedly destroying the Ork Gargant Gorkanought, though these reports are dismissed as farfetched by Segmentum Command.[45d]
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| 200.999.M41
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Kryptman leads a dangerous mission to the Labyrinth World of Carpathia. With the aid of several specially equipped Deathwatch teams, Kryptman successfully captures a live Genestealer brood in a stasis field. Many Space Marines die during Kryptman's gambit.[132]
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| 303.999.M41
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Ultramarines Captain Cato Sicarius leads a Crusade with elements from thirty Space Marine Chapters to halt the expansion of the Tau Empire. The Tau are driven off dozens of Imperial worlds in the Zeist sector, but the Crusade is halted before it can be completed.[29c][3d]
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| 3.350.999.M41
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Colonel Schaeffer leads the 13th Penal Legion into the Daemon World of Fool's Paradise to hunt down the Daemon Prince Mk'lrathirix. Only two survivors return.[45d]
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| 550.999.M41
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High Marshall Helbrecht of the Black Templars leads a fleet of 15 Space Marine Chapters in pursuit of Ghazghkull Thraka and combats a splinter tendril of Leviathan barring his path. He exhausts every strategy he knows of, but his fleet is continually thwarted and pushed back. His mounting ire matches the rising number of Space Marines lost to Leviathan.[132]
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| 561.999.M41
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Cypher eludes Belial for the third time on Piscina IV.[108]
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| 650.999.M41
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Kryptman and his allies board the space hulk Perdition's Flame and lodge his captured clutch of Genestealers aboard. He then order the destruction of the moon of Gheist in order to divert the space hulk's path into the system-wide Ork empire of Octarius.[132]
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| 718.999.M41
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Hive Fleet Leviathan invades the Ork Empire in the Octarius system, and war rages with neither side showing any signs of stopping.[42d][132]
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| 757.999.M41
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Commander Shadowsun leads the Tau Empire forces in the Battle of Mu'gulath Bay. Twelve advanced weapon prototypes are deployed, with the only failure being a fusion reactor detonation that destroys the moon.[29c]
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| 786.999.M41
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The Deathwing and Ravenwing kill Inquisitor Rasputin while pursuing Cypher.[108]
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| 778.999.M41
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Battle of Duriel: Iyanden, Biel-Tan, and Dark Eldar combine forces to prevent the biological union of Hive Fleet Kraken and Leviathan on the Maiden World of Dûriel.[131]
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| 3.789.999.M41
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Lord Marshal Graf Harazahn of Vostroya assumes control over a scattered Imperial Guard army ground and defeats the Eldar at the Gates of Balcarhsa.[45d]
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| 811.999.M41
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Encouraged by their success on Dûriel, craftworlds Iyanden and Biel-Tan use Fireheart in a bio-purge campaign to deny the tyranids bio-mass and destroy massed Tyranids while they are planetside. The Eldar's ruthless purge countless worlds, many were uninhabited, but scores of peaceful civilisations were also erased.[131] A cordon of dead worlds is created around the Octarius system.[39]
Forty Space Marine Chapters are sent to investigate the mysterious destruction beyond the scope of the Tyranids, many are caught in conflict with orks dissplaced by the Eldar's purge. The Crimson Castellans and Invaders Chapters, ignorant of the Eldar motives, assail Iyanden as they move to destroy the agri worlds of the Verdox System. While at Verdox II, Autarch Sunspear flawlessly draws the pursuing Astartes Chapters into conflict with the descending forces of Leviathan. Sunspear warns the Chapters of the worlds impending collapse and departs into the webway less than an hour before the world collapses into atomic fire.[131]
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| 827.999.M41
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Iyanden's Farseers become aware of two possible futures where the craftworld is destroyed by the daemon hordes of M'kar the Reborn or the Ultramarines of Macragge. The craftworld begins a series of campaigns to lure M'kar's forces ever closer to Ultramar, where the Daemon Prince's loathing of the Ultramarines draws the two forces into conflict instead.[131]
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| 854.999.M41
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Ultramar is invaded by the Chaos horde known as the Bloodborn, led by Warsmith Honsou and M'kar the Thrice Born. The entire Ultramarines chapter is mobilized to repel the invaders. Marneus Calgar confronts the Daemon Prince on Talassar, sending him back to the Warp, though Honsou apparently escapes.[3d][84a][84b][84d]
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| 884.999.M41
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The Nephilim sector trembles as the 5th Company of the Dark Angels and the renegade Crimson Slaughter battle over the Hellfire Stone.[21a][26e][119]
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| 4.912.999.M41
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Battlefleet Gothic responds to the invasion of Taneloth in the Gothic Sector by the forces of Chaos.[127]
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| 975.999.M41
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The light of the Astronomican grows dim; contact is lost with Ultima Macharia and becomes intermittent with both Macragge and Cypra Mundi.[42d]
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| 2.975.999.M41
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The Battle for Tyrok Fields: at the outset of the 13th Black Crusade, a murderous plot kills several members of the Cadian High Command, including the Governor Primus. Ursarkar E. Creed takes command of the confused Imperial forces and routes the traitors, turning a Chaos victory into a Cadian triumph. Creed is appointed Lord Castellan of Cadia.[45d][110]
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| 978.999.M41
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Dark Eldar raiders cripple the Imperial Navy's port at Bakka.[42d]
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| 3.978.999.M41
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The Armageddon 45th Heavy Artillery decimate the Ork hordes of Minerva. Each shell is inscribed with the name of a soldier or civilian killed at Hades Hive during the Third War for Armageddon.[45d]
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| 980.999.M41
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The Red Corsairs emerge from the Maelstrom in force and lay siege to several systems, notably the Chogoris, Kaelas, and Sessec systems. The White Scars withdraw from the Armageddon theatre to meet the threat.[25b][42d][3f]
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| 982.999.M41
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The Great Awakening: a ripple of psychic power flows through the Warp and activates the latent abilities of millions of psykers. Innumerable warp rifts are created and several worlds are lost to daemonic infestation. The Thousand Sons are seen in unprecedented numbers.[14c][25b][42d]
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| 3.982.999.M41
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The 56th regiment of the Mordian Iron Guard put down the Komarl Revolt, and, to ensure future compliance, executes ten percent of the remaining population for forgetting their duty to the Emperor.[45d]
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| 5.985.999.M41
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The Imperial World of Cytheria defects to the Tau Empire; a guerilla campaign by several Catachan regiments critically undermines the Tau's morale.[45d]
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| 986.999.M41
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Tech Priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus discover failures in the mechanisms of the Golden Throne that are far beyond their ability to repair.[42d][60b] Due to these irrevocable failure, a dozen contingencies are immedately launched. One of which being a Xanthite war procession sent through the Exhubris Portal. Inquisition forces battle through Harlequins and Daemons alike before reaching their destination, Commorragh. There, a dark bargain is struck.[123]
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| 987.999.M41
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Necron activity detected within 2,000 light years of Terra.[42d]
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| 989.999.M41
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The Ultramarines 3rd Company liberate the Lagan System from the Tau Empire.[42d]
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| 990.999.M41
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Eldar forces from the Biel-Tan and Saim Hann Craftworlds destroy both Imperial and Ork worlds surrounding the Octarius system with the intent of denying bio-resources to Hive Fleet Leviathan and halting the spread of Leviathan.[42d][3f][132]
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| 6.990.999.M41
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The Knights of Blood Chaos Space Marines attacks Ornsworld. Imperial Guard reinforcements do not arrive before ninety percent of the planet's population is killed, a cruel repeat of the events of the Gothic War.[45d]
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| 992.999.M41
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The Night of a Thousand Rebellions. Countless worlds across the Imperium fall into unrest and rebellion. Even worlds once thought secure, such as Enceladus, Darkhold and Minisotira, are affected. The homeworld of the Lions Defiant Chapter is lost to anarchy. Communication is lost with large swathes of Segmentum Pacificus.[25b][26f][42d]
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| 993.999.M41
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A flood of distress signals and cries for help flood through the Imperium. Entire Astropathic choirs are overloaded and collapse. Anarchy and panic spread as the Imperium's communication systems fail. From Segmentum Pacificus there is only eerie silence...[26f]
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| 994.999.M41
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Huron Blackheart crushes the Marines Errant. After drawing away most of their fortress-monastery's garrison, Blackheart's Night Lords allies infiltrate and bring down its static defenses. The Red Corsairs withdraw with nearly all of the chapter's gene-seed and relics, dooming the Marines Errant to a slow demise.[25b][42e]
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| 995.999.M41
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Warmaster Abaddon launches the 13th Black Crusade. The armies of Chaos Undivided lay siege primarily to Cadia but attack many of the surrounding worlds as well. Imperial Forces launch a massive counterattack, and eventually push back the tides of Chaos, but only just barely, and at great cost. The Space Wolves' 13th Great Company are amongst the forces seen fighting against the forces of chaos. Major side battles include the Diamor Campaign[25b][42d]
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| In Commorragh, Khaine's Gate begins to fail.[120]
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| 998.999.M41
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Spiritseer Iyanna Arienal becomes the pre-eminent voice on Iyanden. The spiritseer begins preparation that she believes will cast the souls of Iyanden into the infinity circuit, and thus hasten Ynnead's awakening.[131]
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| 999.999.M41
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What is thought to have been a comet hits and destroys the Hive World of Gomorrah, leaving only one survivor. Decades later it was discovered that an Ork/Genestealer Hybrid controlled Space Hulk crashed into Gomorrah as a precursor to a full-scale invasion of the Spetzghasf system.[121a][121b][121c]
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| The Battle of the Phalanx. The mobile Fortress-Monastery of the Imperial Fists is assaulted by forces of Warsmith Shon'tu and the Daemon Prince Be'lakor.[122]
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| ~999.999.M41
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The Prefectia Campaign and the Second Agrellan Campaign are waged against the Tau[Help]
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| The Ynnari form to reawaken the Eldar god Ynnead as a major Dysjunction rocks Commorragh from the birth of Yvraine.[Help]
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| The Hunt for the Wulfen and the Siege of the Fenris System. The Space Wolves fall into a plot by Magnus the Red as the Wulfen return.[Help]
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| The Fracture of Biel-Tan sees a Slaaneshi invasion of Biel-Tan defeated and the Yncarne created by the Ynnari, but the Craftworld is forever broken.[124]
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| The War in the Labyrinth between the Ynnari and Thousand Sons[125]
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| Fulgrim reappears to orchestrate The Cacophony of Extremis Six[Help]
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| Cadia is destroyed at the climax of the Thirteenth Black Crusade. The survivors are led by Eldar allies into the Webway[Help]
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| Roboute Guilliman returns to lead the Imperium at the climax of the Ultramar Campaign and takes command on Terra after the Terran Crusade[Help]
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| The Battle of Khaine's Gate sees Asdrubael Vect temporarily secure Commorragh from Daemonic invasion.[126]
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| The Battle of Iyanden sees Iyanden defeat a Chaos invasion.[Help]
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| The Blood Crusade[Help]
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