From The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, Appendix B:

1050

- About this time a shadow falls on Greenwood, and men begin to call it Mirkwood.
- The Periannath are first mentioned in records, with the coming of the Harfoots to Eriador. These roamed over Eriador as far as Weathertop while the Fallohides and Stoors were still in Wilderland.
 

c. 1100

- The Wise (the Istari and the chief Eldar) discover that an evil power has made a stronghold at Dol Guldur. It is thought to be one of the Nazgul.

c. 1150

- The Fallohides enter Eriador.
- The Stoors come over the Redhorn Pass and move to the Angle, or to Dunland.
- Sometime after the Fallohides cross the mountains, the Harfoots, Fallohides and Stoors settle in ordered communities in the westlands of Eriador.

c. 1300

- According to The Atlas of Middle Earth, it was about this time that hobbits began to move further westwards, to the area of Bree. 

1601

- Marcho and Blanco of the Fallohides, followed by many hobbits, cross the Bridge of Stone Bows into the land granted them by the King of Arnor.