A Short(ened) History of Known Space

I always thought that the 'canonical' history of the Official Traveller Universe (OTU) is way, way too long. Everything took millenia; everything changed so slowly; the vast scale of both time and space made attachment to the setting difficult.

As I'm using a smaller Imperium in this campaign (a few sectors in size and about 1,100 worlds at most rather than 11,000 worlds), I've also decided to use a shorter version of Imperial history, "shrinking" everything by a factor of 5.

So, here's what we're looking at:

• Ancients (circa -60000; 57,370 BC)
• Long Silence (-60000 to -2000; 57,370 BC to 630 AD)
• Rise of the Vilani (-2,000 to -809; 630-1821 AD)
• First Imperium (-809 to -486; 1821-2144 AD)
• Interstellar Wars (-486 to -441; 2144-2189 AD)
• Rule of Man (-441 to -355; 2189-2230 AD)
• Long Night (-355 to 0; 2230-2585 AD)
• Imperium Established (0 Imperial; 2585 AD)
• Spinward Marches first surveyed by the Third Imperium (20 Imperial; 2605 AD)
• Pacification Campaigns (15-24 Imperial; 2600-209 AD)
• Solomani Hypothesis proposed (20 Imperial; 2605 AD)
• Vargr Campaigns in Corridor (42-70 Imperial; 2627-2655 AD)
• Imperial-Aslan Border Established (76 Imperial; 2661 AD)
• First Imperial Survey completed (84 Imperial; 2669 AD)
• Easter Concord absorbed by the Third Imperium (85 Imperial; 2670 AD)
• Terra absorbed by the Third Imperium (118 Imperial; 2703 AD)
• First Frontier War (119-121 Imperial; 2704-2706 AD)
• Civil War (121-124 Imperial; 2706-2709 AD)
• Second Frontier War (123-124 Imperial; 2708-2709 AD)
• X-Boat Network established (124 Imperial; 2710 AD)
• Zhakirov marries Antiama; Solomani fall out of favor in the court (136 Imperial; 2721 AD)
• Solomani Autonomous Zone established (140 Imperial; 2725 AD)
• X-Boat Network covers the entire Imperium (144 Imperial; 2729 AD)
• Psionic Suppressions (160-165 Imperial; 2745-2750 AD)
• Solomani Confederation established (174 Imperial; 2759 AD)
• Solomani Autonomous Zone dissolved (188 Imperial; 2773 AD)
• Third Frontier War (196-197 Imperial; 2781-2782 AD)
• Solomani Rim War (198-200 Imperial; 2783-2785 AD)
• Second Imperial Survey completed (213 Imperial; 2798 AD)
• Fourth (False) Frontier War (216-217 Imperial; 2801-2802 AD)
• Fifth Frontier War (221-222 Imperial; 2806-2807 AD)
• Present - 222 Imperial/2807 AD