Years of the Trees
- 1050 - 1300 - Khazad-dûm founded
Second Age
- 40 - The Firebeards and Broadbeams m igrate from the Blue Mountains to Khazad-dûm
- 1500 - the forging & gifting of the Rings of Power
- 1697 - The fall of Mount Gundabad; the gates of Khazad-dûm are closed to outsiders.
Third Age
- 1300 - Orcs settle & expand in the Misty Mountains
- 1980 - the Balrog awakes; Dwarves flee for the Grey Mountains or Erebor
- 2480 - Orcs begin setting up strongholds in Moria
- 2790 - King Thrór killed by the Goblin king Azog.
- 2793 - 2799 - The War of Dwarves and Orcs, ending with the Battle of Azanulbizar
- 2845 - 2850 - Gandalf explores Moria, seeking King Thráin II
- 2941 - Quest of Erebor & Battle of the Five Armies
- 2989 - Moria reclaimed by Balin & the Longbeards
- 2994 - Balin's colony destroyed
- 3018 - 3019 - War of the Ring
Fourth Age
- After 141 - Colony refounded