Editing Distant past

{{Status|Canon}}
The distant past is a period before the 1st millenium.

==Billions of years ago==
===Hundred billion years ago===
*In [[97,445 BCE]]; [[Forthencho]], acting as a messenger for the Gravemind, stated that the [[Domain]] had around hundred billion years of "life-patterns and living wisdom".{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS37|Sil|Chapter=String 37}}

===Before life===
*[[The great Glow]] occurs in the galaxy.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS4|Sil|Chapter=String 4}}

==Millions of years ago==
===Over half a billion years ago===
*In 97,445 BCE, during a debate with [[Mendicant Bias]], the [[Precursor]]s were hinted by the [[Gravemind]] to have accumulating a vast reserve of rules based on experiences and disputes.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS24|Sil|Chapter=String 24}}

===Around 15 million years BCE===
*The [[Precursor]]s seeded the species that would come to be known as [[Forerunner]]s on the planet [[Ghibalb]].{{Ref/Site|Id=HWUSForerunners|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/species/forerunners|Site=Halo Waypoint|Section=Universe, Species|Page=Forerunner|D=12|M=11|Y=2020|LocalArchive=https://archives.halopedia.org/waypoint/www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/species/forerunners.html}}

===Around 10.1 million years BCE===
*The [[Forerunner]] [[Warrior-Servant|Warriors]] were considered the highest rate.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS1|Sil|Chapter=String 1}}
*Star roads were placed around [[Charum Hakkor]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS3|Sil|Chapter=String 3}}
*The [[Precursor]]s choose early [[human]]s to be the next species to carry the [[Mantle]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS13|Sil|Chapter=String 13}} Desiring to seize the Mantle for themselves, the early [[Forerunner]]s [[Forerunner-Precursor war|rebel against the Precursors]] and wipe them out almost entirely.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS15|Sil|Chapter=String 15}}
*After the Forerunners hunt down all of the Precursors in the [[Milky Way]] galaxy. The remains of the Precursors retreat into the [[Large Magellanic Cloud]]; the Forerunners' [[Warrior-Servant|Warrior]] fleets pursue them via [[probability mirror]]-reconciled [[slipspace portal]]s and proceed to finish their work.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS15}}
*A number of Forerunners who conscientiously object to the complete destruction of the Precursors in the Large Magellanic Cloud are exiled{{Ref/Reuse|HSS15}} on a barren planet within the [[Tarantula Nebula]]; these Forerunners later remain as the [[Path Kethona Forerunner|only surviving population]] of the expedition.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS10|Sil|Chapter=String 10}}
*In the face of extinction, most of the Precursors reduce themselves to inert powder, intending to regenerate their forms later.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS13}} However, [[Primordial|one intact specimen]] remained in deep stasis and is buried within a remote [[asteroid]] a million years afterward.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS15}}
*In the Large Magellanic Cloud; two Precursors escaped the genocide, where some Forerunners hide them; but they die and become flowers containing their genetic code.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HPOLC44|PoL|Chapter=44}}
*Following the battle in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the remaining Forerunners on the ships sacrificed themselves than return with what they did;{{Ref/Reuse|HSS15}} leaving the abandoned Forerunner ships in the Large Magellanic Cloud to slowly decay.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS10}}

===Around 9.1 million years BCE===
*In the Large Magellanic Cloud; two Precursor seeds germinate.{{Ref/Reuse|HPOLC44}}
*The [[Primordial]], a dormant [[Precursor]], is said to have arrived on the edges of [[Milky Way|the galaxy]].{{Ref/Reuse|HSS13}}

===Around 1.1 million years BCE===
*The [[Forerunner]] [[Rate#Theoretical|Theoretical]] known as [[Boundless]] begins to study a particular star within the [[Path Kethona]] galaxy. When she continues her work in defiance of [[Warrior-Servant|Warrior]] orders to the contrary, she is eventually prosecuted, her studies are suppressed, and she is forced to enter a [[Cryptum]].{{Ref/Reuse|HSS4}}
**A thousand years later, Boundless' Cryptum is opened and it is discovered that she has died inside due to a malfunction in the Cryptum, supposedly resulting from sabotage. Her former students discreetly dispose of her body. After Boundless' death, the entire Theoretical [[rate]] is absorbed into the [[Builder]]s.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS4}}

===Around 1 million years BCE===
*In the Large Magellanic Cloud; two Precursor seeds bloom.{{Ref/Reuse|HPOLC44}}

==Hundreds of thousands of years ago==
===Around 600,000 years ago===
*A Forerunner civil war takes place, where [[Jat-Krula]] was used as a strategy, where it was bypassed by a [[Legion]] of [[Warrior-Servant|Warrior]] commanders.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS7|Sil|Chapter=String 7}}

===Around 150,000 years ago===
*The [[Forerunner]]s are claimed by some records to have risen as the preeminent species in the [[Milky Way Galaxy]] by advancing technological discoveries gathered from the remnants left by prior ancient races. Believing themselves responsible for the lives of all those less advanced then they, the Forerunners initiate the [[Mantle]].<ref>'''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]''', ''page 26''</ref>{{Ref/Note|This entry, originating from the ''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]'', is of dubious accuracy in light of information from ''[[The Forerunner Saga]]'', in which the Forerunners are stated to have been spacefaring for millions of years (albeit having experienced a number of technological dark ages and large-scale record loss events over the course of this period) and that they held the Mantle since [[10,000,000 BCE]], having forcibly seized it from the [[Precursor]]s. However, the ''Encyclopedia'' notes that ''"all Forerunner era dates are approximate, based on available translation and scattered historical data"'', which provides a canonical explanation for the possible inaccuracies of this entry.}}
*According to Forerunner research, the [[Ancestors]], were believed to have "moved their interstellar civilization outward along the galactic arm" around this time, possibly to escape Forerunner control.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HCC1|Cry|Chapter=1}}

===122,000 years ago===
*[[122,990 BCE]]

===110,000 years ago===
*[[110,962 BCE]]
*[[110,255 BCE]]

===107,000 years ago===
*[[107,564 BCE]]
*[[107,472 BCE]]
*[[107,445 BCE]]

===106,000 years ago===
*[[106,538 BCE]]
*[[106,498 BCE]]
*[[106,445 BCE]]

===100,000 years ago===
*[[100,040 BCE]]

===98,000 years ago===
*[[98,445 BCE]]
*[[98,395 BCE]]

===97,000 years ago===
*[[97,764 BCE]]
*[[97,745 BCE]]
*[[97,645 BCE]]
*[[97,495 BCE]]
*[[97,445 BCE]] (Halo Array fired)
*[[97,421 BCE]]

===57,000 years ago===
*[[57,448 BCE]]

===40,000 years ago===
*[[40,000 BCE]]

===29,000 years ago===
*[[29,823 BCE]]

==3rd millennium BCE==
===22nd century BCE===
====2200s BCE====
*[[2200 BCE]]

===21st century BCE===
====2100s BCE====
*[[2100 BCE]]

==1st millennium BCE==
===10th century BCE===
====930s BCE====
*[[938 BCE]]

===9th century BCE===
====870s BCE====
*[[876 BCE]]

====860s BCE====
*[[860 BCE]]

====850s BCE====
*[[852 BCE]]
*[[851 BCE]]
*[[850 BCE]]

===8th century BCE===
====790s BCE====
*[[791 BCE]]

====780s BCE====
*[[789 BCE]]
*[[784 BCE]]

===7th century BCE===
====640s BCE====
*[[648 BCE]]

===5th century BCE===
====480s BCE====
*[[480 BCE]]

==Notes==
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==Sources==
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