659 Stork brings Jordan the Barbarian to Fen Village.

677 Jordan commences his adventure in medieval Xanth.

* Jordan has a tryst with Bluebell Elf.

* King Gromden dies; Castle Roogna deserted.

* Magician Yang assumes the throne.

* Jordan becomes a ghost.

* Threnody marries King Yang.

681 Threnody becomes a ghost.

682 King Yang remarries.

684 Stork brings Lord Bliss, son of Yang.

689 Stork holds nose and brings Evil Magician Muerte A. Fid.

698 Eighth Wave.

704 Lord Bliss marries Lady Ashley Rose.

705 Stork brings Rose of Roogna to Lord Bliss and Lady Rose. 719 King Yang assassinated by poisoning.

* Muerte A. Fid, Magician of Alchemy, assumes the throne. 721 Lord Bliss receives poison-pen letter.

725 Lord Bliss dies. Rose sent to Castle Roogna for safety.

753 Ninth Wave.

797 Tenth Wave.

866 Eleventh Wave.

883 Stork brings Magician Ebnez.

897 Mare Imbrium foaled as night mare.

909 Magician Ebnez takes the throne.

917 LastWave (Twelfth).

932 King Ebnez adapts the Deathstone into the Shieldstone to protect Xanth from Mundane Waves.

933 Stork brings Humfrey.

* Stork brings MareAnn.

949 Stork brings Storm Magician.

* Humfrey hired by King Ebnez to do a Xanth census of talents, as Royal Surveyor.

952 King Ebnez dies.

* Humfrey declared Magician and assumes throne.

* King Humfrey marries Dana Demoness: wife 1.

953 E. Timber Bram appointed Historian of Xanth.

954 Dafrey delivered to King Humfrey and Dana Demoness; Dana takes off.

* Humfrey marries Maiden Taiwan: wife 2.

955 Tics mutate.

971 Humfrey abdicates throne. Matron Taiwan abdicates their marriage.

* Storm Magician assumes the throne.

* Humfrey rediscovers Castle Roogna.

972 Humfrey achieves degree from University of Magic and becomes a true Magician of Information.

972 Magician Humfrey marries Rose of Roogna: wife 3.

973 Rosetta Bliss Humfrey—"Roy"—delivered to Magician Hum-frey and Princess Rose.

975 Storm King decrees that any resident without a magic talent will be exiled from Xanth.

994 Rosetta marries Stone.

* Cherie Centaur foaled south of North Village. 997Stork brings Magician Trent to North Village.

1000 Rose goes to Hell in a handbasket.

* Magician Humfrey takes eighty years' worth of Lethe elixir.

* Magician Humfrey marries Sofia Mundane: wife 4.

1001 Stork brings Sorceress Iris to an unwary family.

1002 Crombie the Soldier delivered to Magician Humfrey and Sofia. 1005Magician Humfrey trains Magician Trent.

1007 Magician Humfrey trains Sorceress Iris.

1017 (Magician) Bink delivered to North Village to Roland and Bi-anca.

1021 Magician Trent transforms the fish in Fish River into lightning bugs; also others, including a winged centaur filly who flees to Brain Coral's pool.

1022 Evil Magician Trent attempts a coup d'etat. Transforms Justin into a tree. Is betrayed and exiled to Mundania.

1025 Stork brings Gorgon and Siren, twin sisters.

1027 Bink loses the middle finger of his left hand in a nonmagical accident.

1033 Herman Centaur, exiled from the herd for having magic.

1035 Sofia (wife 4) returns to Mundania.

1036 Sea Hag takes over her last body.

1039 Grundy Golem animated by Good Magician Humfrey.

1040 Donald becomes a shade.

1042 Bink travels to the Good Magician to learn whether he has a magic talent. Encounters an aspect of Chameleon, Donald Shade, Sorceress Iris, Magician Humfrey, has missing finger restored by healing spring, and is exiled to drear Mudania.

* Bink, Chameleon, and Magician Trent return to Xanth and find Castle Roogna.