Prologue

Moderator: Orin Thomas
Updated: October 2000
Version: 1.08

Introduction

This is ultimately an evolving document from which much discussion will be generated on alt.books.pratchett. There is the possibility, given the comments of Stephen Briggs on alt.books.pratchett in March 1999, that an official time line will be forthcoming sometime in the future. I imagine that the Briggs/Pratchett publication will be somewhat different from this timeline, probably better, and I heartily recommend that you buy it.

Haven't heard anything about this possible in over a year - but I continue to keep this document up to date.

I also remind you that Discworld is copyright of Terry and Lyn Pratchett; that The Discworld Companion is copyright Terry Pratchett, Lynn Pratchett & Stephen Briggs and the maps are copyright of those three and Stephen Player.

Submissions

Disagree with parts of this document? Have stuff to add?

Email the quoted reference, the page number, and the change you think it makes to orin@lspace.org.

You can also bring them up on ABP though I am not guaranteed to see them.

Putting years to the time spaces

The Discworld Companion has the Ankh-Morpork civil war occuring Grune 4 1688 (University Calendar). Let's draw a long bow and posit that this is, in fact, the civil war in which Stoneface Vimes cut off Lorenzo the King's head. This would make the 300th anniversary of the civil war, mentioned as a year from now in Feet of Clay, Grune 4 1988.

So lets assume that Feet of Clay takes place in Grune 1987

Now that we have a date to work from, we are really cooking with gas.

The events of Guards! Guards!, Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, Lords & Ladies, Men At Arms, Soul Music, Interesting Times, Maskerade and Feet Of Clay all occur between Grune 1985 (UC) and Grune 1987 (UC).

Also remember that the UC is different from the Great Year on which the city of AM dated during the empire.

So the University is founded in 1 (UC). This is equivalent to AM 1282, the time near the end of the Ankh-Morpork empire. The AM year is actually equivalent to 2 years by (UC), so the beginning of the AM Empire is 2564 (BUU - Before Unseen Uni)

• The Discworld Timeline
• Character Tracking (or how we worked all of this out)
  • The Small Gods Question
  • Vetinari
  • The Next Century?
• Credits

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