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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
Cleon I is crowned Emperor after the death of his father, Stanel VI.
  • 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)
  • 50 FE or 12116 GE
(Events of "The Encyclopedists" in Foundation)
  • 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)
  • 310 FE
(Events of "The Mule" in Foundation and Empire)
  • Circa 315 FE
(Events of "Search by the Mule" in Second Foundation)
  • Circa 320 FE
Death of the Mule.
  • 376-377 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)