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* [[YOTT 1000|1000]] [[Varda]] creates the stars<br>
'''Dates given in [[Valian Years]] (9.582 Sun Years)'''
* [[YOTT 1050|1050]] [[Elves]] awake in [[Cuiviénen]]. [[Melian]] travels to [[Beleriand]]<br>
* Pre-[[Years of the Trees 1000|1000]] [[Melkor]] sleeps in [[Utumno]].  [[Oromë]] hunts throughout [[Middle-earth]].
* [[YOTT 1080|1080]] [[Morgoth]] discovers the [[Elves]]<br>
* [[Years of the Trees 1000|1000]] The [[Valar]] hold council, for [[Yavanna]] and [[Oromë]] report that Melkor might rise once more in power.  They discuss the [[Children of Ilúvatar]].  [[Varda]] begins to fashion new stars, and organize them and those already wrought into [[:Category:Constellations|constellations]], over the next fifty years.
* [[YOTT 1085|1085]] [[Oromë]] discovers the [[Elves]]<br>
* [[Years of the Trees 1050|1050]] [[Varda]] forms the [[Valacirca]].  The [[Elves]] awake in [[Cuiviénen]]. [[Melian]] travels to [[Beleriand]] after ascending [[Taniquetil]] to see the stars.
* [[YOTT 1086|1086]] [[Oromë]] returns to [[Valinor]]<br>
* [[Years of the Trees 1085|1085]] [[Oromë]] discovers the [[Elves]], and calls them [[Eldar]].  The Eldar are afraid of Oromë, and blame him for [[Melkor]]'s work.  Possibly [[Orcs]] first created.
* [[YOTT 1090|1090]] [[Valar]] make war on [[Morgoth]]<br>
* [[Years of the Trees 1086|1086]] [[Oromë]] returns to [[Valinor]], and witnesses to his peers about the Children of Ilúvatar.  Oromë returns to the [[Elves]] while the Valar consider his message.
* [[YOTT 1092|1092]] Siege of [[Utumno]] begins<br>
* [[Years of the Trees 1090|1090]] [[Valar]] make war on [[Melkor]] for the sake of the [[Elves]].  Over the next two years Melkor is defeated, and retreats into [[Utumno]].
* [[YOTT 1099|1099]] Siege of [[Utumno]] ends<br>
* [[Years of the Trees 1092|1092]] The Siege of [[Utumno]] begins.
* [[Years of the Trees 1099|1099]] The Siege of [[Utumno]] ends, as the Valar storm the final defenses.  [[Tulkas]] captures [[Melkor]], binding him with [[Angainor]].
* [[YOTT 1100|1100]] [[Morgoth]] chained with [[Angainor]]<br>
* [[YOTT 1100|1100]] [[Morgoth]] chained with [[Angainor]]<br>
* [[YOTT 1101|1101]] [[Elves]] summoned to [[Valinor]]<br>
* [[YOTT 1101|1101]] [[Elves]] summoned to [[Valinor]]<br>

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Sources

Years of the Lamps

"After ages of labour beyond knowledge or reckoning in the great halls of the Valar descended into Arda in the beginning of its being, and they began there their labour fore-ordained for the shaping of its lands and its waters, even from the foundations to the highest towers of the Air."
The Annals of Aman

Years of the Trees Begin

(i) According to the reckoning by the Trees

12 hours (a full flowering of both Trees) = 1 day
1000 days (12,000 hours) = 1 year
100 years = 1 age of the Valar

(ii) Relation of the reckoning by the Trees to the reckoning by the Sun

1 hour of the Trees = 7 hours of our time
1 day of the Trees = (7 x 12) 84 hours of our time
1 year of the Trees = (7 x 12,000) 84,000 hours of our time

There are (365.25 x 24) 8766 hours in a Sun Year, and thus:

1 year of the Trees = (84,000 / 8766) 9.5824777549623545516769336071184 Sun Years

(iii) Original intention of the Valar for the new reckoning by the Sun and Moon

12 hours of moonlight + 12 hours of sunlight = 24 hours = 1 full day
700 times of sunlight and moonlight = 350 full days = 1 Sun Year
1 hour = 1/7 of 1 hour of the Trees

Therefore:

1 Sun Year would have (24 x 350) 8400 hours = (8400 / 7) 1200 hours of the Trees = 1/10 of a Valian Year (see (i) above); thus 1 Valian Year would = 10 Sun Years

The matter can be expressed more concisely thus:

1 year of the Trees = (7 x 12,000) 84,000 hours of our time
84,000 / (350 x 24) 8400 = 10

but

84,000 / (365.25 x 24) 8766 = 9.582

(iv) The dates of the first flowering of the Trees and the first rising of the Moon

The Trees first flowered after 3500 Valian Years had passed, or 33,530 Sun Years. The Moon first rose after 5000 Valian Years had passed, or 47,901 Sun Years. The Trees shone for 1495 Valian Years, or 14,322 Sun Years.

-- The Annals of Aman, Notes

Dates given in Valian Years (9.582 Sun Years)

The First Age

The Second Age

The Third Age

The Fourth Age