M39

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M39 or the 39th Millennium is a millennium within the Imperial Dating System.

Undated M39

Year Event
Attempts are made to augment Conqueror Shells, creating Augur Shells, but are considered a failure.[1]
mid M39 The Eldar destroy Alpha Shalish after the human inhabitants refuse to meet their ambassadors.[2]

0 - 99.M39

Year Event
001.M39 Abaddon's 10th Black Crusade. The Conflict of Helica. Iron Warriors fight Iron Hands at Medusa.[3][4]
018.M39 The Tau Empire begins its Second Sphere of Expansion.[5]
circa. 019.M39 Inquisitor Jaq Draco visits Stalinvast, which is subsequently destroyed.[6]
022.M39 The Ordo Malleus finds the Liber Secretorum, Jaq Draco's account of his escapades; conflict between Ordo Malleus and journeyman Inquisitors begins.[6]
053.M39 The Vespid join the Tau Empire. When the Water Caste could broker no better treaties than crystal trade, the Ethereals managed to wholeheartedly convert Strain leaders to the Greater Good in a matter of days.[5]
4.655.082.M39 A labour uprising on Vraks Prime is suppressed.[7]

100 - 199.M39

Year Event
160.M39 The Battle of the Gorgon Deeps. Battlefleet Orpheus and the Revilers and Red Seraphs Space Marine Chapters defeat a major ork invasion force in a nineteen-week battle before it can fully penetrate the Orpheus Sector. Space Marine Terminators spearhead the boarding action of the ork flagship Mega-Kroozer. The fleeing survivors will continue to plague the sector for centuries as pirates and raiders operating on the edges of the Deluvian sub-sector.[8a]
198.M39 The Wystengradt Raid. After the Night Lords ambush a Dark Eldar fleet, killing several Haemonculi, their remains are regrown and the killed Drukhari seek vengeance for the insult. Before the year is out, the Coven of the Altered ambush the Night Lords during the renegades' raid of Wystengradt. The Druhkari turn the Night Lords' darkness and terror doctrine against them. The world is plunged into a darkness that even the Night Lords' senses cannot overcome, paranoia is sewn amongst the Chaos Space Marines as Mandrakes and other horrors slowly pick them apart.[25]

300 - 399.M39

Year Event
301.M39 Abaddon's 11th Black Crusade.[4]
322-384.M39 The Angevin Crusade began to liberate the areas around the Calyx Expanse. It initially stalled under Lord Militant Golgenna Angevin, but after his death Lord General Militant Drusus reinvigerated the crusade and succeeded in claiming The Calyx Expanse for the Imperium.[9]
330.M39 The Mantis Warriors capture renegade Cardinal Kharfra and take him in chains to the Inquisition watch-world of Valsingham.[10a]
The heretically progressive population of Thruscas Sine eradicates all natural illness from its world in a single generation. Offended, Nurgle sends his forces to infest the planet.[11]
7.335.332.M39 Inquisitor Bastalek Grim submits a report concerning the actions of the White Panthers Space Marine Chapter during the suppression of heresy on Kethra.[12]
339-370.M39 The Sancta Angelis Campaign. Cut off from the wider Imperium by warp storms, a contingent from the Raptors Chapter pick apart Waaagh! Irongol before it can become a major threat.[13c]
364.M39 Assault on Moros[14a]
383.M39 The Ethereal Council chooses N'dras as the prime world of a new sept over Earth Caste reservations.[5]
384.M39 Battlefleet Calixis is established, consisting of the grand cruisers Loci Veritas Lux, Loci Veritas Lumen, and Fire of Heaven, the battleship Fist of Adamant, and the battlecruisers Chariot of Wrath and Bellicose.[15a]

400 - 499.M39

Year Event
407.M39 The thousand-year war on Midian finally ends with the Pax Veritas. Under the night's red moon, an invisible blade decapitates every celebrating soldier.[11]
467.M39 Sinophian War of Hubris sieges Civilised World Valon Urr. Both besieging vessels and Ork Freebooters joining the conflict are defeated by Admiral Lightman-Kapes. The planet is heavily damaged.[15b]
482.M39 The Retributors hunt the leaders of the Argosa Uprisings.[16]
487.M39 Imperial forces of the Angevin Crusade capture an Iconoclast Destroyer. It is given to the Inquisition, which has it refitted as a prison barge named Chains of Judgement.[17]
487-492.M39 The Slaaneshi daemon prince Lilesh Snarelust masterminds a massive daemonic incursion across dozens of Imperial worlds around the Moon of Nightmares. The eldar of Saim-Hann respond with massive force to protect their craftworld. The war lasts five years before high chieftain Nuadhu banishes Snarelust back to the Warp.[18]

500 - 599.M39

Year Event
519.M39 The Dark Angels come into contact with the mad priest Alldric the Subverter while hunting for Cypher. Alldric has led a hundred planets to secede from the Imperium in the Veiled Region. The Dark Angels and several successor chapters crush the uprising in less than a decade.[19]
533.M39 The Salamanders Chapter defend the Cardinal world of Phaistos Osiris from Waaagh! Rukrippa.[10b]
569.M39 The event known as A Hideous Beauty occurs, regarding the Haemonculi Covens.[25]
576.M39 The Fire Caste uses improved anti-gravity motors and battlesuit technology in their annexation of Tash'var sept.[5]

600 - 699.M39

Year Event
601.M39 Valon Urr's planet designation changed from Civilised World to Shrine World in honour of civilian sacrifice during War of Hubris.[15b]
633-635.M39 Second Aegisine Crusade.[13a]
639.M39 The Baneblade Mars Triumphant finishes construction on Mars.[20]
645.M39 High Marshal Ludoldus of the Black Templars leads a crusade to conquer the Jerulas system. Marine Artificer Simagus discovers the means (STC?) to produce the Land Raider Crusader. Many Space Marine chapters adopt this pattern as tales of its effectiveness spread.[21]
657.M39 Battle of the Phantom Gate, during the Third Aegisine Crusade.[24]
670.M39 Dark Eldar used the psycho-active poisons to sow anarchy and madness in the population of Hive World Vaust. Blood Drinkers fought throw the maniacal mobs and destroy the evil Dark Eldars.[14a]

700 - 799.M39

Year Event
702.M39 The Templum of the Sacred Lights on Cryptus explodes during an attack by the Light-burners cult. The fire sweeps out for a mile and burns for a month before dying out.[22]
718.M39 The Massacre of Kormarg. The Star Phantoms break the siege of Kormarg II by Khrave marauders, but then exterminate the human defenders when their genetic and spiritual corruption is discovered.[10d]
760.M39 The start of the Fenright Tithe Wars. The civil wars in the Cal-Sek, Nephthis and Sadusyne Sectors will last well into M40.[13b]
763.M39 The Techpriests of Mars formally recognize the Land Raider Crusader. It is a mere formality, as by this time hundreds of Chapters are already using it.[21]

800 - 899.M39

Year Event
814.M39 Relief of Rael's World[14b]
860-903.M39 The House of Laan succeeds House Orpheus as the rulers of the Orpheus Sector. The tense web of politics turns into civil war when the honour-clans of the Drucillan Cluster declare their secession from the sector. The Amraphel parliament hires xenos mercenaries to fight its enemies, only to be attacked by the Khrave. The forces of Chaos are revealed as the architects of the revolt.[8a]
876.M39 Tau forces accidentally destroy the Eldar Maiden World Lilarsus in pursuit of the raiders that attacked Ke'lshan.[5]
887.M39 Almost two hundred Terminators from the Novamarines and Blood Drinkers purge the Space Hulk Death of Integrity of Genestealers. Priceless STC materials are discovered, earning the Chapters the favour of the Adeptus Mechanicus and a new Strike Cruiser each.[13d]
891.M39 The Dark Angels investigate a recently-discovered space hulk and discover elements of the Cleaved. Dark Angels Assault Squads, advancing behind cover from a trio of dreadnoughts, deploy cyclonic charges in the hulk's engine rooms and destroy the vessel.[19]

900 - 999.M39

Year Event
903-922.M39 Arch-Confessor Marduk of Helvamon declares a War of Faith for the souls of the Orpheus Sector. The Angels Revenant Space marine Chapter, the Adeptus Sororitas Orders of the Valorous Heart and Black Sepulchre, and an Ordo Malleus task force join the countless volunteers to purge the taints of Chaos and heresy from the sector. By the war's end, a fifth of the sector's population is dead and billions more are injured or displaced.[8a][8b]
921.M39 The only traitor holdout against Marduk's War of Faith in the Orpheus Sector is the hive world Colkasth. Marduk wishes to claim the glory for himself and orders his Angels Revenant and Adeptus Sororitas allies to harry fleeing traitor forces. When Marduk's communications abruptly cease, the Angels Revenant strike cruiser Intercessor investigates. Damaged by two small but powerful void craft of unknown xenos origin, Intercessor finds Colkasth a smoking ruin. The planet is renamed Saint Marduk's Bane.[8b]
932.M39 Jotun Repression[14b]
978.M39 Thule Intervention[14b]
985.M39 Squat civil war. League Thor fights League Grindel over exploration of the lost Stronghold of Dargon. Cyclops invented.[23]
The Donian Crusade. Black Templars clear the Donian sector of Orks.text-middle[Help]
998.M39 The Space Hulk Unholy Harbinger breaks from warp near Cloras jump point.text-middle[Help]
"closing decades" of M39 The Executioners Chapter is almost wiped out by a previously unknown xenos race. The Astral Claws arrive just in time to break the Siege of Darkenvault and save the Chapter. The Executioners owe a blood debt to the Astral Claws that will be fulfilled at the outbreak of the Badab War in 904.M41.[10c]

Notes

There is a lack of clarity over whether 000.M39 or 001.M39 is the first year of the millennium, and whether 999.M39 or 000.M39 is the last year of the millennium. Most sources state that 001.M39 is the first year and 000.M39 the last year. Since the creation of these articles Lexicanum has worked off of what is stated in the 5th Edition Rulebook, that being that 000.M39 is the first year, and 999.M39 is the last. Events in 000.M39 thus may have been either at the start or end of the millennium. For more information see here.


M38 Timeline M40

Sources

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