Tamriel:Mythical Era

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Mythical Era — First Era — Second Era — Third Era — Fourth Era

NOTE: The Mythical Era is also called the Merethic Era.
NOTE: Few dates are known for events in the Mythic Era but the order of events is known.

ME 0 - Time Begins: Anu and Padomay, The First Ones, enter the Void and begin Time.
ME ? - Nir Created: Anu and Padomay wander the Void and the combination of Light and Dark forms Nir.
ME ? - The First Battle: Nir falls in love with Anu and Padomay retreats bitterly. Nir becomes pregnant and Padomay returns and professes his love for her. Nir refuses him and he beats her in rage. Anu then casts Padomay outside of Time.
ME ? - Creation: Nir gives birth to Creation and then dies. In his grief Anu hides in the Sun.
ME ? - Discord: The Twelve Worlds of Creation flourish. Much times passes and Padomay returns to take revenge and knocks the planets out of alignment.
ME ? - The Second Battle: Anu and Padomay fight again, but Anu kills Padomay this time. He then attempts to save the Twelve Worlds by creating Nirn. Padomay stabs Anu in the chest and both are pulled from Time forever.
ME ? - The Daedra and the Stars: The blood of Padomay becomes the Daedra and Anu's blood becomes the Stars. Their mingled blood becomes the Aedra who are capable of both good and evil.
ME ? - Survivors: On Nirn chaos reigns supreme. In the madness only the Ehlnofey, the ancestors of Man and Mer, and the Hist, ancient Trees of Argonia, survive.
ME ? - War: The Ehlnofey fight among themselves and reshape the world into the lands that are still here today: Tamriel, Akavir, Atmora, Yokuda and Pyandonea.
ME ? - The Races: Much time passes and the Ehlnofey of Tamriel become the Mer (Elves): The Dwemer (Deep Ones), the Chimer (Changed Ones), the Bosmer (Green or Forest Ones), and the Altmer (Elder or High Ones). The other Ehlnofey became the Men of Nirn: the Nedes of Atmora, the Redguards of Yokuda, and the Tsaesci of Akavir.
ME ? - Return of Man: The men of Nirn return to Tamriel, the first being the Nedes led by Ysgramor.
ME 2500 - Direnni Tower Constructed: The latest archaeological study, using divination and sorcery, of the Direnni Tower on the Isle of Balfiera in High Rock has dated its construction at around ME 2500, making it the oldest known structure in Tamriel. The earliest known date in Aldmeri history.
ME >2500 - The end of the Mythic Era: The First King to appear in written history, King Harald, ends the Mythic Era.

[edit] Timeline Provided by The Imperial Library

Circa ME 2500: Supposed date of construction of the Adamantine Tower on Balfiera Island in High Rock, the oldest known structure of Tamriel. Earliest historical date in unpublished Elvish chronicles.
Early Merethic Era: Aboriginal beastpeoples (ancestors of the Khajiit, Argonian, and other beastfolk) live in preliterate communities throughout Tamriel.
Middle Merethic Era: The Aldmer (Elves) leave the doomed and now-lost continent of Aldmeris (also known as 'Old Ehlnofey') and settle in Tamriel. First colonies are distributed widely along the entire coast of Tamriel. Later inland settlements were founded primarily in fertile lowlands in southwest and central Tamriel. The sophisticated, literate, technologically advanced Aldmeri culture drove the primitive beastfolk into the jungles, marshes, mountains, and wastelands. The Adamantine Tower is rediscovered and captured by the Direnni, a prominent and powerful Aldmeri clan. Crystal Tower is built on Summerset Isle and, later, White Gold Tower in Cyrodiil. One of these Aldmeri Explorers, Torval the Pilot explores and charts Tamriel sea-lanes and River Niben, in the south of Tamriel. He sails deep into the central Cyrodiil, and acquires the Eight Islands, the site of White Gold Tower, from the beastfolk natives for the secret of literacy. Later, during the Middle Merethic Era, Aldmeri explorers map the coasts of Vvardenfel, building the First Era High Elven wizard towers at Ald Redaynia, Bal Fell, Tel Aruhn, and Tel Mora in Morrowind. The Ayleids (Wild Elves) flourish in the jungles surrounding White Gold Tower (present day Cyrodiil). Wild Elves, also known as the Heartland High Elves, preserved the Dawn Era magicks and language of the Ehlnofey. Ostensibly a tribute-land to the High King of Alinor, Cyrodiil was often so isolated from the Summerset Isles as to be its own sovereign nation.
Late Middle Merethic Era: The Dwemer (Dwarves), a free-thinking, reclusive Elven clan devoted to the secrets of science, engineering, and alchemy, established underground cities and communities in the mountain range (later the Velothi Mountains) separating modern Skyrim and Resdayn/Morrowind. The Late Middle Merethic Era is also the period of the High Velothi Culture. The Chimer (ancestors of the modern Dunmer, or Dark Elves), dynamic, ambitious, long-lived Elven clans devoted to fundamentalist ancestor worship, followed the Prophet Veloth out of ancestral Elven homelands to settle in the lands now known as Morrowind. Despising the secular culture and profane practices of the Dwemer, the Chimer also coveted the lands and resources of the Dwemer, and for centuries provoked them with minor raids and territorial disputes. Trinimac (strongest of the Altmeri ancestor spirits) and his people (Orsimer or the Pariah Folk) try to halt Velothi dissident movement. However, Daedric Prince Boethiah as one of the mastermind of the movement, eats Trinimac. Trinimac's body and spirit are corrupted, and he emerges as Daedric Prince Malacath. The rest of his people are changed as well. They are now known as Orcs.
Late Merethic Era: Velothi high culture disappears on Vvardenfell Island. The earliest Dwemer Freehold colonies date from this period. Degenerate Velothi devolves into tribal cultures, which, in time, evolves into the modern Great Houses of Morrowind, or persists as the barbarian Ashlander tribes. The only surviving traces of this tribal culture are scattered Velothi towers and Ashlander nomads on Vvardenfell Island. The original First Era High Elven wizard towers along the coasts of Tamriel are also abandoned about this time. Pre-literate humans, the so-called "Nedic Peoples", from the continent of Atmora (also 'Altmora' or 'the Elder Wood' in Aldmeris) migrate and settle in northern Tamriel. Nordic hero Ysgramor, leader of a great colonizing fleet to Tamriel, develops a runic transcription of Nordic speech based on Elvish principles, and is the first human historian. Ysgramor's fleet lands at Hsaarik Head at the extreme northern tip of Skyrim's Broken Cape. The Nords build there the legendary city of Saarthal. The Elves drive the Men away during the Night of Tears, but Ysgramor soon returns with his Five Hundred Companions.
Merethic Era - Circa 1E 660: An immortal hero, warrior, sorceror, and king variously known as Pelinal Whitestrake, Harrald Hairy Breeks, Ysmir, Wulfharth, Hans the Fox, etc., wanders Tamriel, gathering armies, conquering lands, ruling, then abandoning his kingdoms to wander again.