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4 | 2114 CE | Formic Invasion of Earth | SiF, p 120 | Explicit | Prior to 2129 | ||
5 | ~2122 CE | Mazer defeats Second Invasion | EG, Ch14 | 70 years before Mazer returns to teach Ender - 2129 CE at the latest | |||
6 | ~2136 CE | Mazer leaves on relativistic flight | EG, Ch14 | 20 years after winning the war, 50 years before returning | |||
7 | 2160 CE | Graff, 16, accepts I.F. offer at Pre-command training school | AEC, History of H. G. | ~30 years since Second Invasion | |||
8 | 2189 CE | 0 | 0 | Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin Born | 11 years before the Third Invasion is victorious | ||
9 | 2194 CE | 5 | 5 | Bean is 'Born' | Mathed | 16 years before he leaves Earth in SotG, 4 years before ES | |
10 | 2195 CE | 6 | 6 | Canon | Ender age 6 | ||
11 | 2198 CE | 9 | 9 | [Ender's Shadow begins] | ES, Ch1 | Mathed | Bean is 16 when he leaves Earth in SotG, 4 at the start of ES |
12 | Mazer returns | EG, Ch14 | After 50 years in flight, 70 years after his victory | ||||
13 | 2199 CE | 10 | 10 | Ender returns to Earth | EG, Ch13 | Mathed | Peter is 14, Valentine is 12, Ender is 10 |
14 | Ender meets Mazer | EG, Ch14 | How long after he returned from relativistic flight? | ||||
15 | 2201 CE | 12 | 12 | Formic Homeworld Destroyed | ES, Ch22 | Mathed | Graff refers to Bean as a 7 year old on Eros in ES, says Ender is 12 at the end of the war in EiE |
16 | 2201 CE | 12 | [Ender in Exile begins] | ||||
17 | 2202 CE | 13 | 13 | Ender leaves Eros | EiE | EiE Ch4, says he'll leave 13, get there 15 years old, voyage will last 40 years | |
18 | [Shadow of the Hegemon begins] | ||||||
19 | [Shadow Puppets begins] | ||||||
20 | [Shadow of the Giant begins] | ||||||
21 | 2209 CE | 20 | 13 | Children of the Giant born | SiF, Ch1 | Mathed | The children are 13 months old when they leave earth on the Herodotus. |
22 | 2210 CE | 21 | 13 | Herodotus leaves Earth | SiF, Ch1 | Canon | Base date for mathed dates |
23 | 2243 CE | 54 | 15 | Ender arrives on Shakespeare | EiE, Ch17 | "These people survived for forty-one years completely on their own." | |
24 | Writing of The Hegemon | ||||||
25 | 2245 CE | 56 | 17 | Ender leaves Shakespeare | EiE | Governor for two years | |
26 | Peter dies | ||||||
27 | 2263 CE | 74 | 17 | Ender arrives on Ganges | EiE | 18 year voyage, 14 months relative | |
28 | 2263 CE | 74 | 17 | Ender leaves Ganges | EiE | 4 months subjective, 6 years realtime | |
29 | 2269 CE | 80 | 17 | Ender arrives on ??? | |||
30 | ~2310 CE | 121 | 18 | IC | Ender and Val age only 2 years during the 300 years before IC | ||
31 | before 2630 (ca 2625) | before 450 (abt. 435) | Starways Congress/Code Established | Sif, IC | Investment Counselor and Shadows in Flight take place following the establishment of the SC - significantly earlier. | ||
32 | abt 2640 | abt 451 | 20 | Ender on Sorelledolce | IC | ||
33 | abt 2640 | 20 | [Investment Counselor] | IC | "400 and some odd years" since Ender's birth -- later than 2590 CE, less than 2640 - probably at least about 10 earth years since IC, because Bean knows Ender as an itinerant speaker (meaning he probably needed time to go to at least one more world following Sorreledolce) | ||
34 | 2651 CE | 462 | [Shadows in Flight begins] | SiF, Ch1 | Mathed | 421 years after Herodotus launched | |
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