The winter was cruel and long, lasting six years. Winter began during the middle of the Dance of the Dragons, and was announced by the Citadel on Maiden's Day of the year 130 AC. Autumn ended with the announcement of winter on Maiden's Day in 130 AC.

By the time Jacaerys arrived at Winterfell, autumn was 'well advanced'. When Jacaerys and Lucerys Velaryon traveled as envoys for their mother in 129 AC, it was already autumn. Princess Gael Targaryen dies, supposedly of summer fever.ġ20 AC is known as the Year of the Red Spring, due to the sudden deaths of several nobles of note. Princess Gael Targaryen is born during winter, and named the Winter Child. As a result, not enough food stockpiles had been set aside from the harvests, and famine conditions set in across much of Westeros - followed by the devastating plague known as the Shivers. For that matter, spring and summer had been relatively short, as the last winter ended at most only two years before. Autumn was apparently very short, as it had been summer the year before in 58 AC. The winter of 59 to 60 AC was especially hard and cruel. Īutumn had begun before the tourney at King's Landing on the anniversary of the king's coronation. When Alysanne Targaryen visited the north in 58 AC, it was summer. Two days after his birth, the Citadel announced the arrival of spring, and Baelon was subsequently dubbed the 'Spring Prince'. Prince Baelon Targaryen was born in 57 AC. Elissa Farman brought the Sun Chaser to Oldtown in the last days of autumn during 56 AC, and departed again by the fourth moon of that same year.

Īutumn began in 54 AC, lasted through 55 AC, and ended with the start of winter in 56 AC. Īlthough the people of the Seven Kingdoms greatly disliked the taxes of Rego Draz, put into place in 52 AC, 'a long summer' helped 'blunt the edge of discontent'. King Maegor I Targaryen married his three 'Black Brides' on a 'warm spring day' in 47 AC. Winter was believed to be 'close at hand'. The First Dornish War began in 4 AC, during the second year of autumn. Martin has stated that the explanation for the world's unusual seasons is not scientific in nature and would be revealed by the end of the series. Food can be grown in a glass garden in winter. Days are longest in summer, shorter in other seasons, and shorter in the far north.

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