timeline

[csarmi]

What I'm looking for is a good, reliable timeline with table form, if possible, including events in KoD as well. It would be great if cross-references were present as well, and explanations/proofs that some event really happened at a given time, etc. Where it isn't a sure thing, some guesses made and the bases of those guesses explained.

 

I'm yet to find one, actually. I've found some that aren't up-to-date. I also found one, that seems to include the whole series (WOT wikia) but I got no idea how reliable that is.

 

Can someone help me out?

 

If not, could someone sketch an outline of what happened and when in 1000NE at least? Or say start from the fixing of weather.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Nightstrike]

Go to "Online Sources of Knowledge" on the top of the board "General Wheel of Time Discussion". Look for "Steven Cooper's Timeline". That's a good one, I think. You should also check out "WoT Encyclopaedia". The characters often have a chronology at the bottom of the page. Lots of interesting stuff. The other links are also highly recommended, of course.

[Luckers]

Nah Cooper's timeline is down.

[Thorum]

it's back up

[Luckers]

Really? It's been down for ages. Awesome.

 

Edit: Oi, nah, i just checked and its still down--or is it at a new link?

[csarmi]

Thanks for the replies so far. I didn't mention it, but surely I've already done my search with google and such and checked out the 'Online Sources of Knowledge' thread too.

 

That contains some nice links, but some are down, including the one you're talking about.

 

What I've found so far:

 

http://wot.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline

 

Edit: actually, this one references Steven Cooper's timeline, it's probably just copypasted in or smth, I cant tell tho, as I havent read the original.

 

This one seems to contain all the books, and doesn't seem bad, however, I have some problems with it. First of all, the descriptions of events lack working links, and some of the descriptions are too vague or not really precise. My main concern is that there are no explanations included (as for why do we think that event happened right then and how sure we can be).

 

http://www.sevenspokes.com/

 

This one is too vague. I'm pretty sure most of it is precise information (didn't really check, to be honest), but there are just too many like 'late night', 'autumn morning' etc with not even guesses included, it's also quite hard to tell what happened when. I mean. No table form. Last book missing too.

Some very good information there, but it could be improved a lot. In this form it's not enough.

 

http://www.wotmud.org/directory/timelines.php

 

Some timelines listed, they either don't work, or not very useful, or mentioned here already.

 

http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~emma/jordan-timeline.html

 

Would be more to my taste, but bad formation, no cross-checks, tables, etc and of course abandoned at LoC or so...

 

That'a about all I've found.

Steve Cooper's one does not work for me, is the link bad?

 

As for WOT Encyclopedia, it contains a LOT of very useful information, but hard to put it together from that.

[kingoftonga86]

archive.org to the rescue:

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20071017041646/http://www.users.bigpond.com/steven_cooper/wotchron.htm

[csarmi]

That is great, thanks.

[mb]

Here is another timeline::

http://encyclopaedia-wot.org/history/timeline.html

It is similar to some of the already listed links.

 

archive.org to the rescue:

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20071017041646/http://www.users.bigpond.com/steven_cooper/wotchron.htm

This link does not work for me; this message is at the top:

Site is being blocked. Brandon is in control of the network URL whitelist. Only he can add sites for this networks whitelist.

 

[Dmitri]

Here is another timeline::

http://encyclopaedia-wot.org/history/timeline.html

It is similar to some of the already listed links.

 

But why do you post it then?  ???

 

[Bob T Dwarf]

Thanks for the replies so far. I didn't mention it, but surely I've already done my search with google and such and checked out the 'Online Sources of Knowledge' thread too.

 

That contains some nice links, but some are down, including the one you're talking about.

 

What I've found so far:

 

http://wot.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline

 

Edit: actually, this one references Steven Cooper's timeline, it's probably just copypasted in or smth, I cant tell tho, as I havent read the original.

 

This one seems to contain all the books, and doesn't seem bad, however, I have some problems with it. First of all, the descriptions of events lack working links, and some of the descriptions are too vague or not really precise. My main concern is that there are no explanations included (as for why do we think that event happened right then and how sure we can be).

 

http://www.sevenspokes.com/

 

This one is too vague. I'm pretty sure most of it is precise information (didn't really check, to be honest), but there are just too many like 'late night', 'autumn morning' etc with not even guesses included, it's also quite hard to tell what happened when. I mean. No table form. Last book missing too.

Some very good information there, but it could be improved a lot. In this form it's not enough.

 

http://www.wotmud.org/directory/timelines.php

 

Some timelines listed, they either don't work, or not very useful, or mentioned here already.

 

http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~emma/jordan-timeline.html

 

Would be more to my taste, but bad formation, no cross-checks, tables, etc and of course abandoned at LoC or so...

 

That'a about all I've found.

Steve Cooper's one does not work for me, is the link bad?

 

As for WOT Encyclopedia, it contains a LOT of very useful information, but hard to put it together from that.

 

Cooper and Seven Spokes are the ones I've used the most.  Both derive dates and times from things mentioned in the books.  Position of sun, or phase of the moon, etc.  Even so, both have been forced to guess about the chronology of some events.