Lost Time

by Thaumas

Twilight Era

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Twilight Era:

(season 1) (year 1129) Celestia sends Twilight to Ponyville for the Summer Sun Celebration, where she meets the rest of the Mane 6. They find the Elements of Harmony and defeat Nightmare Moon, bringing back Luna. Celestia assigns Twilight to stay in Ponyville and learn about friendship.
Celestia sends the Mane 6 and Spike tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala.
Trixie comes to Ponyville, and Twilight defeats an Ursa Minor, humiliating her.
The Mane 6 befriends Zecora.
Applejack and Rainbow Dash compete in the Running of the Leaves.
Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo form the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
Rainbow Dash performs her second sonic rainboom and wins the Best Young Flier competition.
Rarity makes dresses for the Mane 6 to wear at the Grand Galloping Gala.
(year 1130) Twilight helps with Winter Wrap up.
Twilight adopts Owlowiscious.
The Mane 6 attend the Grand Galloping Gala.
(season 2) Discord is freed from stone and unleashes chaos on Equestria. He tries to defeat the Mane 6 by destroying their personalities, but they overcome him and use the Elements to turn Discord back to stone.
Luna participates in Nightmare Night.
Flim and Flam visit Ponyville and attempt to steal Sweet Apple Acres from the Apple family, but they lose the competition they set.
Cranky Doodle Donkey moves to Ponyville, and Pinkie reunites him with Matilda.
Rainbow Dash adopts a tortoise and names him Tank.
Spike has his first birthday since moving to Ponyville.
The Mane 6 star in the Hearth’s Warming Play in Canterlot.
Pound and Pumpkin Cake are born.
(year 1131) Cerberus briefly strays from Tartarus, and Tirek escapes before Cerberus is returned.
Queen Chrysalis infiltrates Canterlot as Princess Cadance, just after Shining Armor proposes to her. Twilight rescues the real Cadance from captivity in the caves under Canterlot. Cadance and Shining Armor defeat the changelings and have their real wedding.
(season 3) The Crystal Empire returns, and King Sombra with it. The Mane 6 go to help Cadance and Shining Armor protect the Empire. Twilight finds the Crystal Heart, but Sombra traps her, so Spike brings the Heart to Cadance, saving the Empire. The Crystal Heart destroys King Sombra and releases the Crystal Ponies from his control.
Trixie returns to Ponyville and takes over, but Twilight stops her, and she gets redeemed.
Rainbow Dash unofficially adopts Scootaloo as her little sister.
Rainbow Dash enrolls in the Wonderbolt Academy.
Celestia releases Discord from stone, and Fluttershy becomes friends with him, reforming him.
The Crystal Empire is selected as the location of the next Equestria Games.
(year 1132) Twilight completes a spell that Starswirl could never finish, creating new magic and becoming an alicorn princess.
(season 4) The plunderseed vines finally grow, invading Equestria, capturing Celestia and Luna, and slowly killing the Tree of Harmony. The Mane 6 return the Elements to the Tree, replenishing the Tree’s magic and driving the vines back , revealing a chest with six keyholes.
The Mane 6 start keeping a friendship journal.
The CMCs are chosen to carry Ponyville’s flag at the Equestria Games.
Rarity gets her key for the chest from Coco Pommel.
Rainbow gets her key for the chest by choosing Ponyville over the Wonderbolts at Rainbow Falls.
Pinkie Pie earns her key by choosing Rainbow Dash over her pride. She also meets Cheese Sandwich.
Fluttershy gets her key by helping the breezies.
Maud leaves for her rocktorate dissertation.
Maud finds Starlight in the process of constructing her village where everyone is “equal” without cutie marks.
Applejack gets her key when Flim and Flam come back, and she busts them for their lies.
Rainbow Dash passes her Wonderbolts reserves exam.
(year 1133) The Equestria Games takes place in the Crystal Empire.
Tirek starts draining ponies of their magic and recruits Discord to join him. Tirek destroys the Golden Oak Library, and Twilight gets her key from Discord. The Mane 6 open the chest and defeat Tirek, imprisoning him in Tartarus once more. The Castle of Friendship grows from the unlocked chest.
(season 5) The Cutie Map appears in the castle, and the Mane 6 follow it to Starlight Glimmer’s village, where nopony has cutie marks. Starlight steals the Mane 6’s cutie marks, but, with the help of the villagers, they get their and everyone else’s cutie marks back. But Starlight escapes.
Tank goes into hibernation.
The Grand Galloping Gala is held, and Discord attends with the Smooze.
The Cutie Map calls Pinkie and Rainbow Dash to Griffonstone.
Matilda and Cranky Doodle are married. Bon Bon tells Lyra her secret identity as Agent Sweetie Drops.
The Grand Equestrian Pony Summit is held in Canterlot.
Equestria officially allies with Yakyakistan.
Rarity opens a boutique in Canterlot.
Wind Rider is discharged from the Wonderbolts.
The Cutie Map calls Applejack and Rarity to Manehattan.
Fluttershy participates in Nightmare Night.
The Pies and the Apples spend Hearth’s Warming together.
(year 1134) The Cutie Mark Crusaders get their cutie marks.
Shining Armor and Cadance announce they’re having a baby.
The Cutie Map calls Twilight and Fluttershy to the Smokey Mountains.
The Helping Hooves Music Festivalis held in Ponyville, headlining Countess Coloratura. Applejack helps Rara get rid of her controlling manager, Svengallop.
Starlight travels back in time to prevent Rainbow Dash’s sonic rainboom, causing several alternate timelines. Twilight and Spike stop and redeem her, and Starlight becomes Twilight’s pupil.
(season 6) Cadance gives birth to Flurry Heart, the first naturally born alicorn in over a thousand years. Starlight and Sunburst reunite. Flurry Heart accidentally shatters the Crystal Heart, but Sunburst helps restore it at Flurry Heart’s Crystalling.
The CMCs help Tender Taps get his cutie mark.
Ember wins the Gauntlet of Fire, becoming the new Dragon Lord.
Starlight and Trixie become friends.
Rainbow Dash becomes a full time Wonderbolt when Fire Streak retires.
Rarity opens “Rarity For You” in Manehattan.
Zephyr Breeze graduates from mane therapy school.
The Cutie Map sends Pinkie and Rarity to Canterlot.
Rainbow Dash goes to a Daring Do convention, meets Quibble Pants, and helps Daring Do obtain a treasure she’s after.
(year 1135) Ponyville holds the Applewood Derby.
Spike befriends a changeling named Thorax.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders help Gabby find her true purpose.
The Cutie Map summons Applejack and Fluttershy to Las Pegasus, where they help Flim and Flam rekindle their friendship.
The Cutie Map calls Twilight and Rainbow to the Wonderbolt Academy.
Changelings impersonate Celestia, Luna, Cadance, Flurry Heart, Shining Armor, Spike, and the Mane 6. Trixie, Starlight, Discord, and Thorax team up and go to the Changeling Kingdom to rescue them. They defeat Chrysalis and most of the changelings go through a metamorphasis. Thorax becomes their new leader.
(season 7) Starlight, Trixie, Discord, and Thorax are awarded Equestrian Pink Hearts of Courage, and Starlight graduates from being Twilight’s student.
The Mane 6 go on a friendship retreat in Manehattan.
Maud graduates from the Equestrian Institute of Rockology with a doctorate and moves to Ponyville adjacent.
Fluttershy establishes the Sweet Feather Sanctuary.
Scootaloo meets Rainbow Dash’s parents, who finally learn that their daughter is a Wonderbolt.
Big Mac and Sugar Belle start dating.
Grand Pear moves back to Ponyville and connects with the Apple family, meeting Big Mac, Applejack, and Apple Bloom for the first time.
The Cutie Map calls Starlight to Canterlot.
The Mane 6 publish their friendship journal in hopes they will inspire others with their lessons.
The Cutie Map calls Spike to Ponyville.
The CMCs, Rainbow, Rarity, and Applejack go on a camping trip and tell the legends of Rockhoof, Mistmane, and Flash Magnus when they get stuck in a cave.
Thorax’s brother, Pharynx, finally accepts the Changeling’s new ways of life and transforms.
Pinkie and Rainbow Dash convince Daring Do not to retire.
Fluttershy and Twilight travel to Hayseed Swamp to find a cure for Swamp Fever and save Zecora.
The CMCs start a Cutie Mark Day Camp.
Twilight and her family go on a zeppelin cruise.
Sunburst finds Starswirl’s last journal in a barrel he bought at an antique shop.
The Mane 6, Starlight, and Sunburst release the Pillars from limbo, also releasing the Pony of Shadows. The Pillars and the Mane 6 team up to defeat the Pony of Shadows. Starlight and Twilight help free Stygian from darkness, and the Shadows are banished to limbo.
(year 1136) (MLP: The Movie) Tempest leads the Storm King’s attack on Canterlot, capturing Luna, Cadance, and Celestia. The Mane 6 and Spike go south to seek help from the hippogriffs/seaponies, who refuse. Twilight is captured by Tempest. Her friends come to free her, and they and Tempest turn the Storm King to stone, and then he shatters.
(season 8) Twilight opens the School of Friendship, with the Mane 6 as teachers. Rainbow, Applejack, and Rarity teach classes two days a week, due to their other jobs. Pinkie and Fluttershy teach three days a week.
Twilight works full time as the headmare, giving lectures twice a week. Starlight is the guidance counselor, but she also teaches classes four days a week. Twilight recruits many guest speakers, and holds student bonding events often.
The school is temporarily shut down by Chancellor Neighsay, but Twilight quickly reopens it.
Maud starts dating Mudbriar.
Rainbow Dash and the Golden Horseshoe Gals go to Las Pegasus.
The Cutie Map calls the Cutie Mark Crusaders to Mount Aris.
The Cutie Map calls Starlight and Sunburst to Sire’s Hollow to reconnect with their parents.
Spike molts and grows wings.
Cozy Glow enrolls in the School of Friendship. The CMCs are appointed as official friendship tutors at the school.
Chrysalis creates Mane 6 clones to try to control the Elements, but the Tree of Harmony destroys them.
Gallus pulls a prank on Hearth’s Warming Eve so he doesn’t have to go back to Griffonstone, where he has no family or friends.
Trixie and Starlight go on a road trip together.
(year 1137) Scootaloo briefly joins the Washouts.
Twilight appoints Rockhoof as Equestria’s “Keeper of Tales.”
The Tree of Harmony tests the Student 6’s friendship by making them confront their biggest fears.
The Cutie Map calls Applejack and Fluttershy to the Peaks of Peril to help the kiren.
A dragon named Sludge comes to Ponyville and pretends to be Spike’s biological father.
Cozy Glow tries to erase all magic from Equestria, but the Student 6 stop her, and she is imprisoned in Tartarus.
(season 9) Grogar assembles a legion of villains (Cozy Glow, Chrysalis, Sombra, Tirek) to attempt to take down the Mane 6 once and for all. Sombra defects and takes over the Crystal Empire and destroys the Tree of Harmony and the Elements. The Mane 6 defeat Sombra, but the rest of the legion is still out there.
The Student 6 come back from summer break to find the Tree of Harmony destroyed, and they turn the remains into a clubhouse.
Twilight and Shining Armor compete for Sibling Supreme status, but Spike ends up winning.
The Amity Ball is held at the School of Friendship.
Tirek, Cozy, and Chrysalis retrieve Grogar’s bewitching bell from Mount Everhoof and hide it from Grogar in a plan to overthrow him.
The Confluence occurs at Sweet Apple Acres. Apple Bloom tries to catch the Great Seedling.
(Best Gift Ever) The Mane 6, Spike, Discord, Cadance, Shining Armor, and Flurry Heart spend Hearth’s Warming together in Twilight’s castle, and Pinkie meets the Gift Givers of the Grove. Rarity meets a young teen named Pistachio who loves fashion. The Student 6 travel home for the holidays, and Gallus goes to Mount Aris with Silverstream.
(year 1138) Scootaloo’s aunts, Holiday and Lofty, move to Ponyville, and Scootaloo moves in with them.
Celestia and Luna take a vacation together to do some sisterly bonding.
Twilight establishes a buckball team and a cheer squad at the School of Friendship.
The last Summer Sun Celebration is held, and Twilight creates the Festival of the Two Sisters to replace it. Cozy, Tirek, and Chrysalis sneak into Canterlot and steal a book about the bewitching bell.
Starlight takes over as headmare of the School of Friendship after summer break. Sunburst becomes the vice headmaster, and Trixie becomes the new guidance counselor. Sunburst and Trixie both start teaching a few classes as well.
Twilight cuts her School of Friendship work down to lectures once a week. Moon Dancer and Tempest are hired as full time teachers at the school. Applejack, Rainbow, and Rarity all cut their teaching down to one day a week each.
Daring Do and Caballeron write the next Daring Do book together.
Lyra and Bon Bon get engaged.
Big Mac and Sugar Belle get engaged and are married a couple months later.
(year 1139) Chrysalis, Cozy Glow, and Tirek finally strike. Grogar is revealed to be Discord in disguise, and they drain him of his chaos magic with the bewitching bell. The Mane 6, Pillars, and Student 6 defeat the 3 villains with the magic of friendship. Discord, Celestia, and Luna turn Chrysalis, Cozy, and Tirek to stone.
Starlight and Spike collect memories from Twilight’s friends to put together in a magic scrapbook.
Lyra and Bon Bon get married.
Twilight is crowned ruler of Equestria, and Celestia and Luna retire, though Luna still dreamwalks (and continues to for the rest of her life), and Celestia still teaches at the School of Magic.
The Mane 6 establishes the Council of Friendship.
(year 1142) Granny Smith dies of old age.
Rainbow Dash stops teaching at the School of Friendship, but still pops in as a guest sometimes.
(year 1144) Twilight cuts her lectures at the School of Friendship down to twice a month.
Rarity opens her fourth boutique, in Whinnyapolis, and stops teaching at the School of Friendship. She still pops in as a guest when she can, though.
Chipper, an earth pony from Starlight’s old village, becomes a teacher at the School of Friendship.
(year 1147) Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich get married.
Diamond Tiara and Stygian are hired as teachers at the School of Friendship.
Rarity opens a boutique in Yakyakistan.
Rainbow Dash becomes captain of the Wonderbolts.
Minuette is hired as a teacher at the School of Friendship.
(year 1152) The CMCs become teachers at the School of Friendship.
Yona and Sandbar take over Carousel Boutique.
Smolder becomes a teacher at the School of Friendship.
Big Mac and Sugar Belle’s son is born.
(year 1153) Fluttershy and Pinkie start teaching only two days a week at the school.
(year 1154) Pinkie and Cheese’s son, Lil Cheese, is born.
(year 1157) Rainbow Dash retires from the Wonderbolts and moves in with Applejack. She works part time for the Ponyville Weather Team.
(year 1158) Silverstream starts teaching at the School of Friendship.
Gallus joins the Royal Guard.
Party Favor starts teaching at the School of Friendship.
(year 1164) Luster Dawn moves to Ponyville.
(year 1166) Rarity opens her sixth and final boutique, in Mt. Aris.
(year 1187) Rarity dies of cancer, the first of the Mane 6 to go.
(year 1194) Fluttershy dies of old age (she’s not a very powerful pegasus, and that cuts down her time more than ponies like RD or AJ).
(year 1196) Sunburst dies of old age.
(year 1201) Rainbow Dash dies of old age.
(year 1207) Starlight dies in a magical accident.
(year 1212) Pinkie Pie dies (of old age? mysterious causes? she just decided to? we’ll never know, it’s Pinkie).
(year 1218) Applejack dies of old age.
(year 1288) Celestia and Luna both die in a ritual created to let them become part of the sun and moon, meaning the sun and moon rise and set on their own with no need for magical assistance.
(year 1331) The Umbrum attack the Crystal Empire, and war is declared on both sides.
(year 1333) Cadance dies in a battle with the Umbrum, and Flurry Heart takes over the Crystal Empire.
(year 1334) The Crystal Empire finally wins the war with the Umbrum, after recruiting Equestrian assistance. The Umbrum are driven back into their caves in the frozen north.
(year 1352) Flurry Heart’s daughter Aurora is born. Aurora is also a natural born alicorn.
(year 1360) Flurry Heart’s son Orpheus is born, a unicorn. (He’s not the crown prince, but they might have turned him into an alicorn anyway, but he refused. He didn’t want the longer lifespan.)
(year 1448) Twilight retires, and Flurry Heart becomes the new ruler of Equestria. She officially makes the Crystal Empire a part of Equestria.
(year 1487) Orpheus dies of old age. They are powerful and born of an alicorn, so he lives longer than normal, but his lifespan is still much closer to the average pony’s than an alicorn’s.
(year 1533) Twilight dies of old age.
(year 1555) Flurry Heart retires, and Aurora takes her place.
(year 1707) Scarlett Sunrise, a pegasus from the Luna Bay Area, is born.
(year 1725) Aurora takes Scarlett on as her student and to train her as the next ruler.
(year 1737) Scarlett is turned into an alicorn by Aurora, and starts learning to use alicorn magic.
(year 1750) Aurora retires and Scarlett Sunrise takes over as the next ruler.
(year 1884) Scarlett’s son, Periwinkle, a natural alicorn, is born.
(year 1889) Scarlett’s daughter, Mayleigh (an alicorn), is born.
(year 1892) Scarlett’s daughter, Calliope (a pegasus), is born.

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