"If we accept the worldview of the Narti immigrants [which is to say, the Iskandrans and the Cilanese]--and there seems to be wisdom in doing so, if for no other reason than to establish a base line from which we can examine the development of the region, as long as we acknowledge the historical instability of that tradition--then the first immigrants to Isumbras came more than a thousand years before the Sacrilege and the First Crusade, which is to say more than two thousand years prior [to the inception of the merchant's reckoning of time, or Merchant Reckoning, MR]."

The Migrations--2200-2000 prior
The "Sacrilege"--944 prior
The First Crusade--926 prior
The Second Crusade--903 prior
The Third Crusade--795 prior