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Time

Chronology

Time, as measured in Corrum, began with the founding of Dar Fallas.

1 Dar Fallas founded at the joining of and named for the rivers Fallas and it tributary, the Dar.
53 Kerrig the Bald claims Dar Fallas by right of arms and makes it his permanent camp.  He provides protection to the farmers and traders who market their goods in the town from barbarian tribes and brigands. Rules for 27 years
80-233 Rule passes to the strongest war lord during this time, until Baren Axe Breaker begins the practice of hereditary rule.  Over the next 500 years this practice becomes more common. 
357 Sands Watch established, setting the southern border with no dispute
569 The Universitea Magica es Philoso is founded at No Kami Heights by the sorcerer-noble Philand Horrikssen.
641 Lav Berissen begins the Fourth Dynasty and extends Dar Fallas’ rule east to the Hollows.
678 Terial Lavissen extends his rule west to Mar Dellium.
694 Terial Lavissen claims all territories to the Eginal Mountains, starting the Reitvan War.
701 Terial Lavissen dies in battle.  His daughter, Revecah Terialsdan, assumes the throne and negotiates a peace through marriage with Reitvan by marrying off her youngest sister to the Reitvan heir.  The treaty sets their common border as the Eginal Mountains.
726 Revecah dies without issue.  She names Garrin Longsord as her heir, ending the Fourth Dynasty and beginning the Fifth and setting precedent for the practice of heredity through adoption.
862 Co Bergin (now Co Leurin) invades.
864 General Agrimon of Co Bergin takes Fort Lyddies, where his army is completely annihilated by the Corrum forces.  The fort was renamed Agrimon’s Folly in honor of it.
865 The Bergin family is publicly executed after a coup d’etat by Forsynthe Leurin.  Co Bergin becomes Co Leurin.
889 Salt is found in the Southern Desert.  Over the next century or so, the name changes to the Salt Seas.  The Longsord Dynasty views this as a most wonderful development and set out to make traders of previously troublesome desert tribesmen.
1143 Terial Brighter conducts an experiment on the coast almost directly due west of Dar Fallas and ends up creating the Watersdeep Bay.  He also managed to kill himself and destroy all of his notes, creating the mystery of just what he was trying to do. All the inhabitants of Vo Vight flee.  Most never return
1145 Vo Vight and Watersdeep are declared safe by the Universitea.  Quickly, Vo Vight becomes the primary shipping center in Corrum.
1387 Watersdeep City is founded by shipping companies frustrated with Vo Vight’s high import/export taxes.
1452 King Jarson is crowned.

Measuring Time

There are about 52 finger marks (roughly 15 minutes, the distance the sun travels in a fingers-width of the sky in the day time during the equinoxes) and that averages 26 hours in a day. 

There are seven days, Dark Day, Soul Day, Breathing Day, Firm Day, Burning Day, Flowing Day, and Mad Day, in a seven-day, a week.

There are 13 Moon cycles in a year: Dark Moon, Soul, Breathing, Firm, Burning, Flowing, Growing, Lowing, Learning, Somber, Crafting, Laughing, and Mad.

Holidays

Mid Winter
Marks the beginning of the year, reminding all that the Bright Lands were brought forth from the Primal Darkness.
Mid Spring
One of the Balanced Days, the equinox is a celebration of the growing strength of the Bright Lands and a break from the monotony of winter-dark days.  Unions formed at this time are considered especially fertile and most nobles will not pledge at any other time. The first planting of the season is usually finished by now and may also be celebrated.
Mid Summer
Marks the longest day and the shortest night.  Children of an age are named on this night, held aloft by their name-parent.  The first harvest of the season is usually also celebrated.
Mid Harvest
The second Balanced Day, this equinox is of great concern to the priests.  The Temples throw enormous revelries in the hopes of amusing Edar and staving off the Great Return, when the Bright Lands are swallowed back up by the Primal Darkness.  When it falls within the Somber Moon, many of the revelries are subdued in difference to the Time of Judgments, when the courts of the Law-Givers (in Corrum, the Monarch and the Magistrates) are placed under careful scrutiny by every pious person.  Any appeals made to a civil-matter trial must be made between the end of the last Time of Judgments and the end of the current Time of Judgments.  The general population, though, sees this as a time to celebrate the last harvest.
Monarch’s Day
A day celebrating the Monarch’s birth.
Consort’s Day
A celebration of the day the Monarch’s Consort made formal union with the Monarch.