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|Beginning of the [[Horus Heresy]]. [[Leman Russ]] and his [[Space Wolves]] are ordered  the Emperor to capture [[Magnus the Red]], leader of the [[Thousand Sons]]. Warmaster [[Horus]] tricks Russ into destroying [[Prospero]] (Magnus' homebase). Horus also manages to deploy several loyal legions far away from Terra. Ordered to supress the rebellion of the Imperial governor of the ''Istvaan system'', Horus purges the Legions under his command from all suspected loyalists. Deployed at the planet of [[Istvaan III]] they are bombed from high orbit. A few manage to survive inside bunkers, forcing the traitors to land and to fight. The Imperial Cruiser [[Eisenstein]] manages to flee with news of Horus' rebellion, warning the Emperor.  
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|Beginning of the [[Horus Heresy]]. [[Leman Russ]] and his [[Space Wolves]] are ordered  the Emperor to capture [[Magnus the Red]], leader of the [[Thousand Sons]]. Warmaster [[Horus]] tricks Russ into destroying [[Prospero]] (Magnus' homebase). Horus also manages to deploy several loyal legions far away from Terra. Ordered to supress the rebellion of the Imperial governor of the ''Isstvan system'', Horus purges the Legions under his command from all suspected loyalists. Deployed at the planet of [[Isstvan III]] they are bombed from high orbit. A few manage to survive inside bunkers, forcing the traitors to land and to fight. The Imperial Cruiser [[Eisenstein]] manages to flee with news of Horus' rebellion, warning the Emperor.  
 
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|7 legions are sent against Horus, but 4 of these Legions are part of a  ''Fifth column'' defecting to his side, while the 3 loyal ones are nearly destroyed at the infamous [[Istvaan V|Drop Site Massacre]] in Istvaan V. About half of the Imperial military defects to Horus' side.  
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|7 legions are sent against Horus, but 4 of these Legions defect to his side, while the 3 loyal ones are nearly destroyed at the infamous [[Isstvan V|Drop Site Massacre]] in Isstvan V. About half of the Imperial military defects to Horus' side.  
 
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Revision as of 08:45, 14 March 2007

Year Event Source
012.M31 Beginning of the Horus Heresy. Leman Russ and his Space Wolves are ordered the Emperor to capture Magnus the Red, leader of the Thousand Sons. Warmaster Horus tricks Russ into destroying Prospero (Magnus' homebase). Horus also manages to deploy several loyal legions far away from Terra. Ordered to supress the rebellion of the Imperial governor of the Isstvan system, Horus purges the Legions under his command from all suspected loyalists. Deployed at the planet of Isstvan III they are bombed from high orbit. A few manage to survive inside bunkers, forcing the traitors to land and to fight. The Imperial Cruiser Eisenstein manages to flee with news of Horus' rebellion, warning the Emperor.
013.M31 7 legions are sent against Horus, but 4 of these Legions defect to his side, while the 3 loyal ones are nearly destroyed at the infamous Drop Site Massacre in Isstvan V. About half of the Imperial military defects to Horus' side. Codex: Space Marines (3rd Edition)
014.M31 Siege of Terra. Horus lays siege to the Emperor's Palace. The Emperor teleports onboard Horus' Battle Barge. Sanguinius killed by Horus, who is utterly obliterated by the Emperor. Rogal Dorn carries the mortally wounded Emperor and builds the Golden Throne to keep him alive. WD161
014-021.M31 Great Scouring. Loyalists gradually re-conquer the Imperium. Chaos forces retreat into the Eye of Terror.
Lion El'Jonson, returning to his homeorld of Caliban, is betrayed by Luther. In the ensuing fight, Caliban is split apart, and El'Jonson vanishes, while Luther is captured. He is kept in a stasis field inside The Rock, biggest remaing piece of Caliban and the new homebase of the Dark Angels. Roboute Guilliman compiles the Codex Astartes, which lays down the new organizational doctrine for Space Marine chapters. Grey Knights secretly created.
021.M31 Second Founding. The Space Marine Legions are broken into chapters. The 8 loyalist legions are split up to create 40 new chapters (8 chapters retain the original names and homebases).
084.M31 Jaghatai Khan disappears while fighting Dark Eldar on Corusil V, near the Maelstrom. Presumably he pursued a Dark Eldar Lord through an alien portal that led into the dimension occupied by the Dark Eldar (Commoragh?).
356-372.M31 Vindicator created during third Rothern I pacification of the Great Heresy. WD231
ca. 781.M31 The 1st Black Crusade. The First Battle of Cadia. Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition)
893.M31 Scribe First Order Wendel Voss records the Cleansing of Laeran in which the alien Laer are wiped out by the Emperor's Children led by Fulgrim. WD255


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