Year
|
Events
|
1 |
Beginning of the Fourth Age |
6 |
Samwise Gamgee is elected Mayor of
the Shire. Peregrin Took (Pippin) marries Diamond of Long Cleeve. King Elessar decrees the
Shire to be under his protection, and out of bounds to men. |
7 |
Samwise Gamgee’s father, hamfast
Gamgee, commonly known as “the Gaffer”, passes away |
9 |
Birth of Faramir Ist Took, son of
Peregrin (Pippin) |
10 |
Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry) becomes
Master of Buckland |
13 |
Peregrin Took (Pippin) becomes Thain
on the death of his father Paladin |
15 |
Death of Gloin, Father of Gimli and
companion of Bilbo in his Erebor quest. |
20 |
Samwsie Gamgee is reelected for the
third time. |
21 |
Sam, Rose, and Elanor Gamgee visit
Gondor. Tolman Cotton serves as interim Mayor for a year. |
27 |
Fourth Election of Samwise Gamgee to
the Office of Mayor. |
30 |
Elanor Gamgee and Fastred Fairbairn
of Greenholm wed. |
33 |
Birth of Elanor Gamgee’s
(Fairbairn by marriage) son Elfstan ( elfstone) Fairbairn. Probable year of death of
Prince Imrahil of Dol Amroth (Source HoME vol 12) |
41 |
The Shire administrative bounders
grow and from this year onwards include Buckland and Westmarch.. |
42 |
Faramir, son of Peregrin Took
(Pippin), weds Goldilocks, Daughter of Samwise Gamgee. |
48 |
Seventh and final election of Samwise
Gamgee to the Office of Mayor of the Shire. |
61 |
Death of Rose Gamgee, Sam's wife
(born Rose Cotton). Samwise Gamgee delivers the red book into the hands of Elanor, and
passes into the West. |
63 |
Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took
deliver their cares to their sons and depart the Shire, going South. Faramir 1st Took
becomes Thain of the Shire. |
82 |
Faramir, son of Denethor, steward of
King Elessar, dies. |
91 |
Death of the Dwarf Dwalin, one of
Bilbo’s twelve companions in the Quest of Erebor. . |
120 |
Death of Aragorn II Elessar
(Envinyatar, Telcontar), and Ascendance to the throne of the Reunited Kingdom of his son
Eldarion. |
121 |
Death of Arwen Undomiel, queen of the
Reunited Kingdom.. |
172 |
The Red Book of Gondor is copied in
Gondor by Findegil.. |
