| 6 F.A. |
Will Whitfoot resigns as the mayor, and Samwise Gamgee is elected for this
position. Men are forbidden to enter the Shire by the order of King Elessar. |
| 11 F.A. |
Meriadoc Brandybuck the Magnificent becomes the Master of Buckland. |
| 13 F.A. |
Death Of Paladin Took II, the Thain of the Shire. His son, Peregrin Took,
becomes the Thain. Samwise Gamgee is elected the Mayor for the second time. King Elessar
makes the Mayor, the Thain and the Master Counsellor of the North-kingdom. |
| 15 F.A. |
Samwise Gamgee is awarded the Star of Dunedain by King Elessar. His
daughter, Elanor, is made a maid of honour to Queen Arwen. |
| 20 F.A. |
Master Samwise becomes Mayor for the third time. |
| 21 F.A. |
Mayor Samwise, his wife, and Elanor ride to Gondor and stay there for a
year. Master Tolman Cotton acts as deputy Mayor. |
| 27 F.A. |
Master Samwise is elected the Mayor for the fourth time. |
| 31 F.A. |
The Westmarch, from the Far Down to the Tower Hills, is added to the Shire
by the gift of King Elessar. |
| 34 F.A. |
Master Samwise becomes Mayor for the fifth time. At his request, the Thain
makes Fastred of Greenholm (husband of his daughter, Elanor) Warden of Westmarch. |
| 41 F.A. |
Master Samwise becomes Mayor for the sixth time. |
| 42 F.A. |
Buckland is officially incorporated into the Shire. |
| 48 F.A. |
Master Samwise becomes the Mayor for the seventh and last time, being 96
at the end of his office in 54 F.A. |
| 61 F.A. |
Mistress Rose, wife of Samwise Gamgee, dies on Mid-year's Day. On
September 22, Master Samwise rides out of Bag End. He comes to the Tower Hills and is last
seen by Elanor, to whom he gives the Red Book, which is afterwards kept by her
descendants, the Fairbairns. It is passed down from Elanor that Samwise passed the Towers,
and went to the Grey Havens and passed over Sea, last of the Ring-bearers. |
| 63 F.A. |
Meriadoc
Brandybuck receives an invitation from King Eomer to come to Rohan. Meriadoc(being 102
years old, but still hale) takes counsel with Peregrin Took and soon after they handed
over their goods and offices to their sons, they went South, never being seen in the Shire
again. It is told that Master Meriadoc came to Edoras and was with King Eomer before he
died that autumn. Then he and Peregrin Took went to Gondor, where they spent the
remainders of their lives. After they died, they were laid in Rath Dinen among the great
of Gondor.
Faramir
I succeeds his father Peregrin as the Thain. |
