Tyranny of Dragons: What year?

[Rhaegar14]

The title is pretty self-explanatory. For those of you that know your Forgotten Realms lore, do you know what year Hoard of the Dragon Queen starts in? I've been looking up background of cities like Waterdeep and Baldur's Gate and I have no context for historical dates.

[Jeraa]

The title is pretty self-explanatory. For those of you that know your Forgotten Realms lore, do you know what year Hoard of the Dragon Queen starts in? I've been looking up background of cities like Waterdeep and Baldur's Gate and I have no context for historical dates.

I believe the Neverwinter online game is also dealing with the return of Tiamat in the latest expansion, so whatever year it is there I would assume. I believe that is 1479 DR.

Edit: I did find this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendars_in_the_Forgotten_Realms) on Wikipedia:


The current campaign date of the Forgotten Realms is 1489 DR—as of the real-world year of 2014 (Horde of the Dragon Queen).