| abstract | - The following is a timeline outlining all the main events that have taken place in the world of Shannara. The beginning of the timeline uses actual dates and covers the events of the Word/Void books, leading up to Year 0. In this timeline, Year 0 is when the apocalypse that shaped the world into the Four Lands takes place. After the apocalypse, events are dated by the number of years after Year 0. A note on the placement of the Word/Void books and Armageddon's Children: Nest Freemark's birthday is revealed in Armageddon's Children, providing a way to date her encounters with John Ross. Also, it is articulated that Armageddon's Children takes place eighty years after Angel Fire East. However, there is room for differing interpretations because the world had been falling apart for thirty years prior to the start of the Great Wars in Armageddon's Children. Instead of assuming that Galaphile formed the first Druid Council a thousand years after the beginning of the Great Wars, the timeline below assumes that he did so a thousand years after the events that take place in the Genesis of Shannara trilogy, since the world had yet to reshape into the Four Lands and the true armageddon was yet to come. A note on the second Druid Council: The World of Shannara places it at roughly sixty years after the Second War of the Races and says that it was led by Allanon. The timeline below is written to conform to The World of Shannara. However, the second Druid Council was actually formed well before the events of First King of Shannara.
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