| Year |
Event |
| SR
1422 (3022) |
"With the beginning of this year
the Fourth Age began in the count of years in the Shire;
but the numbers of the years of Shire Reckoning were continued." |
| SR
1427 |
"Will
Whitfoot resigns. "Samwise
is elected Mayor of the Shire." "Peregrin Took marries Diamond of Long Cleeve." "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." |
| SR
1430 |
"Faramir,
son of Peregrin, born." |
| SR
1431 |
"Goldilocks, daughter of
Samwise, born." |
| SR
1432 |
"Meriadoc,
called the Magnificent, becomes Master of Buckland. Great gifts are
sent to him by King Éomer
{of Rohan} and the Lady Éowyn
of Ithilien." |
| SR
1434 |
"Peregrin becomes the Took and
Thain." "King Elessar makes the Thain, the Master, and the Mayor Counsellors of the North-kingdom." "Master Samwise is elected Mayor for the second time." |
| SR
1436 |
"King Elessar rides north, and
dwells for a while by Lake Evendim. He comes to the Brandywine Bridge,
and there greets his friends. He gives the Star of the Dúnedain
to Master Samwise, and Elanor is made a maid of honor to Queen Arwen." |
| SR
1441 |
"Master Samwise becomes Mayor
for the third time." |
| SR
1442 |
"Master Samwise and his wife
{Rosie} and {daughter} Elanor ride to Gondor and and stay there for a
year. Master Tolman Cotton acts as deputy Mayor." |
| SR 1448 |
"Master Samwise becomes Mayor
for the fourth time." |
| SR 1451 |
"Elanor the Fair marries Fastred
of Greenholm on the Far Downs." |
| SR 1452 |
"The Westmarch, from the Far
Downs to the Tower Hills (Emyn Beraid),
is added to the Shire by the gift of the King. Many hobbits remove to
it." |
| SR 1454 |
"Elfstan Fairbairn, son of
Fastred and Elanor, is born." |
| SR 1455 |
"Master Samwise becomes Mayor
for the fifth time. At his request, the Thain makes Fastred Warden of
Westmarch." "Fastred and Elanor make their dwelling at Undertowers on the Tower Hills, where their descendents, the Fairbairns of the Towers, dwelt for many generations." |
| SR 1462 |
"Master Samwise becomes Mayor
for the sixth time." |
| SR 1463 |
"Faramir Took {son of Peregrin}
marries Goldilocks, daughter of Samwise." |
| SR 1469 |
"Master Samwise becomes Mayor
for the seventh and last time, being in 1476, at the end of his office,
ninety-six years old." |
| SR 1476 |
Master Samwise's last year as
Mayor, his ninety-sixth birthday. |
| SR 1482 |
"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 afterwards 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 Sea, last of the Ring-bearers." |
| SR 1484 |
"In the spring of the year a
message came from Rohan to Buckland that King Éomer wished to
see Master Holdwine once again. Meriadoc was then old (102) but still
hale. He took counsel with his friend the Thain, and soon after they
handed over their goods and offices to their sons and rode away over
the Sarn Ford, and they were not seen again in the Shire." "It was heard after that Master Meriadoc came to Edoras and was with King Éomer before he died in that autumn." "Then he and Thain Peregrin went to Gondor and passed what short years were left to them in that realm, until they died and were laid in Rath Dinen among the great of Gondor." |
| SR 1541 |
"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 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." |