Fourth Age Timeline

Here are a few important dates attributed to the Fourth Age; mostly happenings concerning members of the Fellowship of the Ring:

• 5, Sam becomes mayor of the Shire and Pippin gets married. "King Elessar issues an edict that Men are not to enter the Shire, and he makes it a Free Land under the protection of the Northern Sceptre" (p. 377, The Return of the King). 
• 8, "Faramir, son of Peregrin, born" (p. 377, The Return of the King)
• 9, "Goldilocks, daughter of Samwise, born"(p. 377, The Return of the King)
• 10, Merry becomes the Master of Buckland; Eomer and Eowyn send gifts
• 12, Pippin become Thain--head of the Took clan. "King Elessar makes the Thain, Master, and the Mayor Counsellors of the North-kingdom. Master Samwise is elected mayor for the second time" (p. 377, The Return of the King)
• 14, Aragorn visits the Shire but does not enter, of course. 
• 19, Sam elected Mayor again. 
• 26, Sam elected Mayor for the fourth time
• 30, Aragorn gifts Westmarch of the Far Downs to the Shire (Sam's daughter Elanor had married Fastred of that region)
• 33, Sam elected Mayor for the fifth time
• 40, Sam elected Mayor for the sixth time
• 41, "Faramir Took marries Goldilocks, daughter of Samwise" (p. 378, The Return of the King)
• 47, Sam elected Mayor for the final time being 96 years old at the end of his term
• 60, "Death of Mistress Rose, wife of Master Samwise, on Mid-year's Day. On September 22 Master Samwise rides out from Bag End. He comes to the Tower Hills, and is last seen by Elanor, to whom he gives the Red Book afterwords kept by the Fairbairns. Among them the tradition is handed down from Elanor that Samwise passed the Towers, and went to the Grey Havens, and passed over the Sea, last of the Ring-bearers" (p. 378, The Return of the King)
• 62, King Eomer became ill and called for Merry. He and Pippin left the Shire, never to return, and visited him before he died. They then went to Gondor and remained their until their deaths. 
• 120, "In this year on March 1st came at last the Passing of King Elessar. It is said that the beds of Meriadoc and Peregrin were set beside the bed of the great king. Then Legolas built a grey ship in Ithilien, and sailed down Anduin and so over the Sea; and with him, it is said, went Gimli the Dwarf. And when that ship passed an end was come in Middle-earth of the Fellowship of the Ring" (p. 378, The Return of the King)

Middle-earth timeline: Fourth Age, 5-120

Today's reading comes from: The Return of the King, pages 377-378