TIMELINE

The following is the technology timeline I used in my own campaign world. Because this was a fantasy setting, the details are not always historically accurate with regard to our own world. For example, medical technology has lagged behind real world developments, because of the wider availability of healing magic to the rich and influential. Gunpowder also arrives later, because I didn't want it to have been widely available during the 'high fantasy' era which preceded that of the new setting. Other events occur at broadly the right time, although the precise events and dates will differ in most cases. Furthermore, this was a largely 'western' setting, so early discoveries of various things by the Chinese were ignored for this purpose.

The dating system on this world happened to be broadly in line with our own from about the tenth century onwards (so the 12th century there was comporable technologically to the 12th century AD). That wasn't particularly planned - it was just how it turned out when I sat down to work things out.

The original campaign was set in the period 1280 to 1305, and the later one began in 1510.

Date	Guild	Invention/event
939	Potters	Stoneware pottery
1024	Smiths	Draw-plate
1040	Magicians	Cubic equations first solved
1088	Carpenters	Post-mill
1102	Glassmakers	Stained glass
1177	Weavers	Horizontal loom
1233	Carpenters	Plane
1242	Armourers	Plate mail
1254	Weavers	Spinning wheel
1258	(Kardenasic religion)	New book on necromancy - most detailed anatomy text to date
1294	Glassmakers	Lenses
1296	Alchemists	Alum introduced
1317	Magicians	Magnetic Compass
1335	Smiths	Mechanical clock
1341	Glassmakers	Spectacles (convex)
1343	Magicians	First treatise on calculus
1350	Alchemists	Gunpowder
1355	Smiths	'Iron Pot' Cannon
1362	Weavers	Flax-breaker
1371	Smiths	Cannon
1384	Weaponmakers	Hand-cannon
1386	Alchemists	Fractional distillation
1389	Smiths	Pocket sundial
1394	Smiths	Clock with alarm
	Armourers	Full plate
1405	Weaponmakers	Hand-cannon (with pan)
1427	Carpenters	Bogie
1438	Alcehmists	Nitric acid
1446	Masons	Tower windmill
	Weaponmakers	Matchlock musket
1447	Magicians	First book on trignometry
1455	Smiths	Spring clock
1460	Armourers	Gothic plate
1463	Weaponmakers	Arquebus
1466	Smiths	Printing press
1472	Smiths	Stack-oven
1479	Magicians/Scribes	First printed book on mathematics
1483	Glassmakers	Spectacles (convex)
1494	(Dwarves)	Wheellock musket
1495	Magicians	Long division devised around this time
1502	Alchemists	Matches
1503	Armourers	Ribbed plate
1504	Scribes	First printed music book