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None of these dates are "official". They are not confirmed by Nintendo in any way, it's just what it looks like from the eyes of a Zelda Role Player. This was originally HtLOZ's official theory on the Zelda timeline, now converted and updated to add all of the Zelda games that have come out since HtLOZ had shut down. Only a few sites have this nearly perfect timeline and are keeping it up to date, We are the only ones who are fully up to date on the timeline. Hyrule RP, by the way, takes place around the year 2300 h.c. So base your SL's around that please. This is the most known time in Hyrule.


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It has been confirmed by the man behind the Legend of Zelda series that for every time evil is at work in Hyrule, a hero name Link is destined to appear to protect the land. This confirms the multiple-Link theory that Suamere has supported for a long, long time. Still, there is no official order in which the games should be placed in, but this is Hyrule RP's theory none the less.

Special Dates from the Comics:
Day of the Triforce - A certain day in a year when all the pieces of the Triforce cease to work. A Day of the Triforce occurs once a decade (Occurs in Legend of Zelda Zelda Valiant Comic #5).

Evil Power Day - A day of the evil magic in Hyrule be harnessed by one wizard. Happens 'once in a lifetime'. Ganon tried to unsuccessfully blast Link with a spell containing all of the evil magic, but it backfired (Occurs in The Legend of Zelda Comic #2).

Timeline:
0 Hyrulian Chronology
The goddeses three Din (Power), Nayru (Wisdom), and Farore (Courage) descend from a distant nebula and create the land of Hyrule.

5 Hyrulian Chronology
The goddeses complete their work, leaving a mystical object called the Triforce. They hide it in a place called The Golden Land, or The Sacred Realm. Hyruleans are also created at this time.

524 Hyrulian Chronology
The search for the Triforce creates evil ambitions and deeds, and the War of Races begins, in which Hyruleans are split into the seven main races.

1099 Hyrulian Chronology
The most ancient of sages find where the door to the golden land lies, but none dare to enter before the powerful triforce, they remain to keep it safe until a proper door can be built to seal it shut.

1100 Hyrulian Chronology
The Hyleans rise as the most superior race, building great cities, buildings, The Temple of Time and Hyrule Castle.

1450 Hyrulian Chronology
The Book of Mudora is written - a collection of Hylean legends and lore.

1800 Hyrulian Chronology
The construction of Ambi's Tower, later known as the Black Tower, begins in Labrynna.

2004 Hyrulian Chronology
Hyleans and Shiekah begin to grow thin, and most ancient magick and knowledge is lost except in legend and lore. Commerce and business act up, and Hyleans become known as Hylians.

2250 Hyrulian Chronology
Ganondorf Dragmire is born as the only male in the tribe of the Gerudos, and thus becomes the leader of the powerful tribe.

2270 Hyrulian Chronology
Link I and Zelda I are born in Hyrule.

2280 Hyrulian Chronology
Link I is called by the Deku Tree to undertake a great quest. Link travels from the Kokiri Forest to Hyrule, where he meets Princess Zelda I. She asks him to retrieve 3 magical stones, which will open the gateway to the Secret Realm. Meanwhile, Ganondorf Dragmire plots to enter the Sacred Realm to take the Triforce for himself. He attempts to kidnap Zelda, but her nursemaid Impa hides her away. Link collects the 3 stones and places them in the Temple. The doors open, and he takes the Master Sword, but Ganondorf steps through the gateway to take the Triforce, and Link is frozen in time.

2287 Hyrulian Chronology
Link I is awakened, older and stronger. He finds a different Hyrule, bleak and desolate, due to Ganondorf's evil wishes. With the help of Zelda I, he finds six medallions of the six sages. Link, Zelda and the Sages use their power to overthrow Ganondorf. They manage to seal him in the Sacred Realm (Which would turn into the Evil Realm because of Ganondorf's coming), after a long, hard battle.(Remember that there are actually seven sages, because Zelda is the sage of Time, but Link didn't need her medallion since she was right there with him.)
2281 Hyrulian Chronology
After the Imprisoning War was over, Link was sent back to the year he was frozen in time (2280 Hyrulian Chronology). A few months later, Link was summoned to the land of Termina (Believed to be some sort of parallel world of Hyrule), where he had to awake the four gods and with their help defeat the Mask of Majora and prevent a the moon from crashing into the land of Termina.

2282 Hyrulian Chronology
The Book of Mudora begins recordings of unplanned events in Hyrule including stories from such famous beings like Suamere Scalar and James McKnight. These are the chronicles kept within the vaults of Hyrule Role Playing.

3000 Hyrulian Chronology
Link II and Zelda II are born in Hyrule.

3014 Hyrulian Chronology
The Wizard Agahnim appears in Hyrule and solves current disasters of the time. He is declared the people's hero and made Chief Advisor but then secretly overthrows the King and destroys the seal that imprisons Ganondorf in the Dark World. Princess Zelda contacts Link telepathically, pleading for him to help. Link manages to defeat Agahnim and Ganondorf, using the power of the Master Sword, and brings the Triforce to Hyrule.

3016 Hyrulian Chronology
Ganon is trying to expand his powers by taking over the lands of Labrynna and Holodrum. The Triforce calls for Link, who has to save both lands and the Oracles of Season and Ages, Din and Nayru. It is believed that these two were named after the godesses, but there was no further connection between them. While saving Labrynna, Link travels many thousand years back in time as well. After Link completes his quest, he goes back to Hyrule.
3016 Hyrulian Chronology
On his way back to Hyrule, Link gets shipwrecked on the mysterious Koholint Island. To get off, he has to awaken the Windfish. He eventually does, but the Island is destroyed in the process. Others say it was simply a dream...

3256 Hyrulian Chronology
Hyrule Castle and Kakariko Village are attacked by an army from a neighbouring land. They are left in ruins and the villagers and the Royal Family flee to the North. However, the invaders fail to invade further. The land becomes a wasteland, left to the monsters, who destroy any remaining buildings. The Master Sword, which was housed in the Lost Woods in this area, goes missing, persumably stolen by monsters.

3258 Hyrulian Chronology
North Castle is built on the Great Northwestern Plains. It is bigger, and far more magnificant than Hyrule Castle.

3937 Hyrulian Chronology
One of the Hyrulian Kings hides the Triforce of Courage. His son cannot find it, but a wizard tells him that the Prince's younger sister, Zelda III knows of it's whereabouts. When Zelda refuses to tell, the wizard puts her in a deep sleep from which she may never awaken. In his grief the Prince kills the Wizard and places Zelda on an alter in North Castle and demands that every female child born in the castle from then on, must be named Zelda.

4402 Hyrulian Chronology
King Harkinian is born in Hyrule.

4520 Hyrulian Chronology
The evil wizard Ganon appears, and steals the Triforce of Power from North Castle. He makes the Underworld his domain and uses Death Mountain as his main base, where monsters already run riot on the waste wasteland of Southwest Hyrule.

4525 Hyrulian Chronology
Link III is born in Catalia. Zelda IV is born in Hyrule.

4540 Hyrulian Chronology
Zelda inherits the Triforce of Wisdom. However, she fears Ganon will steal it and so she shatters it into pieces and sends Impa to look for a hero. Ganon captures Zelda and imprisons her in Death Mountain. Impa meets up with Link and asks him to rescue Zelda. Link recovers the Triforce of Wisdom, defeats Ganon, recovers the Triforce of Power, and saves Zelda.

4541 Hyrulian Chronology
Link discovers a strange mark on his hand. Impa tells him it means he is the one chosen to recover the Triforce of Courage and awaken Zelda III from a sleeping spell. Link successfully completes the quest.

4550 Hyrulian Chronology
Ganon is somehow resurrected and again steals the Triforce of Power. Link and Zelda go on many adventures to recover it. Day of Evil Power occurs, as well as a Day of the Triforce.