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Years After Aegon's Conquest (anchored)
Years are counted After Aegon’s Conquest (AC), but the seasons are the famous mystery — running for years at unguessable length, which is why no offset could ever align them with ours. Westeros is a world apart, not our past or future, so nothing in the text dates it against Earth. This count borrows the convention used for Star Wars: 1996, when A Game of Thrones was published, is taken as 298 AC, the year the story opens, and time runs on from there.
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In UTC at 02:02 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read ≈328 AC. The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- Solar — years After Aegon’s Conquest
- Origin
- George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire
- Year
- Of our length, though its seasons last for years
- Months
- No fixed months — time is told in moons
- Counts from
- Aegon’s Conquest (AC)
- Where it’s used
- The Seven Kingdoms, in the books and the television series
- How it’s worked out here
- Anchored by publication: 1996, when A Game of Thrones appeared, is 298 AC, the year it opens
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