Below is a timeline of major events in Dalaya's history. This timeline was written in 44 AF, with the year of the Fall being year 0. All dates are marked in the standard format of the new calendar.
~8000 - 7200 B.F:
Age of the Iksar begins.
Foundation of the Old Iksar Empire and the Rule of the Warlords. The Iksar race spreads across the jungles of Ikisith, conquering and enslaving lesser races in its process.
The great city of Ikild is founded.
~7200 - 5400 B.F:Rule of the Elder Council.
The Ikisith Empire changes into a theocracy with the discovery of sorcery.
Highpoint of the Iksisith Empire with unrelenting expansion and growth.
Iksar discover sailing, making cursory expeditions to many of the major landmasses.
~5900 B.F:Iksar expeditionary force makes first known contact with Human Ancestor Tribes.
Humans, along with many other races, are brought back to Ikisith as slaves.
~5420 B.F:Several Iksar colonies on the Old World are destroyed by an alliance of Human tribes.
The Ikisith Empire, torn by internal strife, abandons all further attempts to colonize the Old World.
~5400 - 5000 B.F:Rule of the Mage-Kings.
The Elder Council of Ikisith is overthrown in a bloody coup, leaving the newly created Order of Thought Mages in control of the Iksar race.
The Ikisith Empire begins to a steady decline as its new rulers turn ever more inwards towards their pursuit of knowledge and power.
~5370 B.F:Founding of Freeport.
Freeport (name at the time loosely translates to "Safe Trade") takes shape as a neutral trading and meeting ground between the Human Ancestor Tribes.
~5000 - 4940 B.F:End of Old Ikisith.
A series of natural disasters triggers a slave revolt that carves a bloody path across Ikisith for decades.
After a desperate, outnumbered struggle, Orc slaves raze Ikild, ending Iksar rule of the continent.
Some Iksar flee across the sea, while others form small, hunted societies. Orc Clans rule Ikisith for centuries.
~4600 B.F:Orc tribes migrate from Ikisith en masse for unknown reasons, settling in the lush regions of the Faydark, on the continent now known as the New World.
Age of Turmoil begins.
~3100 B.F:Start of the Old Calendar.
The first King of Freeport is chosen by Human Tribal Chiefs, becoming the ruler of the Old Kingdom and effectively all of the Human race.
~3100 - 1700 B.F:Time of the Old Kingdom.
Records scarce.
Human society changes entirely from tribal into city-centric, with nearly all humans living in major cities.
Pursuit of magic common, and spells are used greatly in day-to-day life.
~2300 B.F:A coup instigated by human sorcerers to overthrow the monarchy fails.
Most of the instigating cabal are executed, but a few escape to found their own society; they name themselves the Erudites.
~1700 - 1100 B.F:The Scattering.
Changed by prolonged, constant exposure to magic, many children of the Human race are born with features and bodies not human at all.
A civil war ensues, in which the demi-humans and their supporters are driven away from the cities, into the magically saturated southern lands.
They eventually evolve into all the Younger Races - the Elves, the Greatkin and the Halfkin.
The Young Races war between themselves for a while.
In the end, they disperse all over the world.
Each race finds a home for itself and many travel across the seas to settle the New World, driving the Orcs before them.
~1500 B.F:Political strife ends the rule of Freeport.
Human society once again breaks up into tribes and independent city-states that make war with each other and the Young Races.
~1100 - 94 B.F:Erandus Elthannar, the Conqueror, becomes the first High King of the Races.
Subuding first the Human tribes, he eventually expands his rule to encompass all the races still living on the Old World.
Highkeep is founded, becoming the new seat of power on the continent.
Peace and stability settles over the Old World.
966 B.F:First reliable date, established through yearly records from the Court of the High King.
597 B.F:Elven explorers discover the Iksar, at the time a primitive society carving a living out of the ruins of Ikisith.
94 B.F:Age of Kaezul begins.
Iskar raiders, the soldiers of a new Iksar Empire founded by the Necromancer Kaezul, strike against isolated Elven settlements around the New World.
The High King dies suddenly in a mysterious accident, leaving no heirs and throwing the Old World into a squabble for power.
92 B.F:A combined fleet of Elven and Dwarven ships is crushed at the Battle of Goblin Coast by Iksar invaders.
Defenders of the New World consolidate to their forts and cities and begin a drawn-out defensive campaign as they plead for aid from the Old World.
90 B.F:Kaladim falls to Iksar armies.
71 B.F:The Elven Cities fall to Iksar armies.
70 B.F:Baldakos the Betrayer unleashes a magical weapon on his own city of Nagthilian, wiping out most of the Dark Elven race.
Of the remaining Dark Elves, more than half choose to follow him into service of Kaezul.
A new High King is elected by an alliance of Humans, Halflings and Dark Elves.
Freeport and the Greatkin refuse to join the alliance.
69 B.F:Rivervale is wiped out by the same weapon used on Nagthilian.
Baldakos' Dark Elven army besieges King's Pass.
58 B.F: Battle of Underhill.
Underhill, the last bastion of the New World, falls to Iksar armies.
53 B.F:Iksar troops land in Freeport with the sanction of its Ruling Council, believing themselves to be allied with Kaezul.
Freeport is razed to the ground on the day of its Anniversary Celebration.
Inhabitants are sacrificed or carried away in slave ships.
50 B.F:Oggok, home of the Greatkin, falls to the Iksar armies.
49 B.F:Iksar armies arrive to reinforce the Siege of King's Pass.
47 B.F:King's Pass and Highkeep fall to Iksar and Dark Elven armies.
The High King, Eldenal Elthannar, is caught and murdered along with his entire family as he attempts to escape through magical means.
All inhabitants are sacrificed.
47 B.F. - 0 A.F:Kaezul's armies consolidate their hold on the Old World as a handful of remaining bastions stoically refuse to surrender.
Many flee across the seas or into the northern mountains.
0 A.F:The Fall.
A series of aggressive campaigns overthrow the last pockets of resistance in the Old World.
A handful of survivors escape, finding safe havens with earlier refugees in the isolated city of Erudin, and the inaccessible Great North.
No further records from the Old World for 39 years.
39 A.F:The Return.
Refugees begin returning to the Old World as Kaezulain forces withdraw from their campaigns, returning to Ikisith for unknown reasons.
They find their homelands shattered and ruined, a place where undead creatures roam and the very earth itself is corrupted by twisted magic.
40 A.F:Founding of Newport.
Indepedent groups of soldiers and merchants among the refugees build a new city on the southern edge of the Great Plains (The Badlands).
The city is proclaimed to be 'A new Freeport, for all the races.' and is named Newport.
44 A.F:Writing of this Timeline.
47 A.F:Present Day [during transcript of this timeline].
53 A.F:Current year in SoD as of 3 Sept 2008
All information was taken from https://www.shardsofdalaya.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4931, a post by iaeolan on the Shards of Dalaya forums.