Nintendo of America has updated the official English timeline for The Legend of Zelda series, moving the first Great Calamity to approximately one or two centuries before the main events of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This newly added time interval conflicts with related in-game narratives, leading some fans to suspect there may be labeling errors on the page.
According to previous lore, after Hyrule was rebuilt, Ganondorf launched an invasion and was sealed away during the Imprisoning War. After countless generations, Calamity Ganon first appeared and was repelled by Sheikah technology; another ten thousand years passed before the disaster that preceded The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild occurred.
The new timeline states that the first Great Calamity occurred 9,900 years after the end of the Imprisoning War. Approximately 100 years later, Ganon reappeared as the "Second Great Calamity," causing Link to fall into a century-long slumber. Under this labeling, events originally set ten thousand years before The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild have been moved to roughly one or two centuries before the game's main events.
This chronological arrangement directly contradicts the game's narrative: pre-Calamity civilization is already legend within the story, with characters still attempting to uncover ancient secrets. Nintendo has yet to provide an explanation for the new annotations, so it remains uncertain whether the page contains errors.
This update also reaffirms that the Kingdom of Hyrule depicted in the memories of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a realm rebuilt after the fall of the ancient Hyrule. The Japanese timeline had already clarified this point; current controversy focuses mainly on the newly added time intervals, not on the rebuilding of the kingdom itself.