Timeline of Asimov's Foundation Series
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Below is a summarized timeline for events detailed in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series.
All dates are quoted in Galactic Era (GE) or Foundation Era (FE) which starts in 12,067 GE.
11,988 GE
- Hari Seldon and Cleon I are born on Helicon and Trantor, respectively.
12,010 GE
12,020 GE
- Hari Seldon arrives on Trantor to deliver his paper outlining his theory of psychohistory, a method of predicting the future along mass social change in humanity. (Events of Prelude to Foundation).
12,028 GE
- (Events of "Eto Demerzel" in Forward the Foundation)
12,038 GE
- Death of Emperor Cleon I. (Events of "Cleon I" in Forward the Foundation)
12,048 GE
- Dors Venabili dies. (Events of "Dors Venabili" in Forward the Foundation)
12,058 GE
- (Events of "Wanda Seldon" in Forward the Foundation)
12,067 GE or 1 FE
- Hari Seldon goes on trial by the Commission of Public Safety and the Encyclopedia Galactica Foundation is exiled/established on Terminus. (Events of "The Psychohistorians" in Foundation)
Circa 50 FE or 12116 GE
- (Events of "The Encyclopedists" in Foundation)
Circa 80 FE or 12146 GE
- (Events of "The Mayors" in Foundation)
Circa 80-155 FE
- (Events of "The Traders" in Foundation)
Circa 155-195 FE
- (Events of "The Merchant Princes" in Foundation)
Circa 195 FE
- General Bel Riose embarks on his quest to claim the Foundation in the name of the Empire and the Emperor, Cleon II. (Events of "The General" in Foundation and Empire)
300-310 FE
- (Events of "The Mule" in Foundation and Empire and "Search by the Mule" in Second Foundation)
Circa 310 FE
- Death of the Mule. (Events of "Search by the Mule" in Second Foundation)
376 FE
- (Events of "Search by the Foundation" in Second Foundation)
498 FE
- Golan Trevize chooses the Gaia overmind and Galaxia in preference to a Second Empire founded militarily by the First Foundation and ruled by the Second Foundation. (Events of Foundation's Edge)
499 FE
- Golan Trevize searches for Earth with the hopes that his finding will validate his choosing of Galaxia. (Events of Foundation and Earth)