This is the time period in which the perspectives of the Imperium of Man and the Aeldari are particularly relevant and it represents the present time. Throughout, comparative references to present dates will be made with respect to the approximate decade 110-120.M42 of the original Imperial Calendar used before the birth of the Great Rift. This article briefly summarises the known historical events of the Milky Way Galaxy from human prehistory up to the end of the 41st Millennium in the Warhammer 40,000 setting.
' Peace? There cannot be peace in these times.'Ī Historitor-Investigatus of the Logos Historica Verita seeks to piece together the true and objective history of Mankind.
