Timeline of fictional historical events

Various storytellers have tried to create better backgrounds for their stories by linking them to real history. Protagonists could have witnessed a historical event or even participated in it (often fighting in various wars). In some stories they may even be originators of some event or try to prevent it (see secret history) but fail—history, as we know it, does not change. In other cases history does change, and an alternate history branches off from our own.

In other stories, writers have simply placed the story in some specific year or date.

Fictional countries may also include history of their own, even if the story itself is not concerned about them.

See also timeline of fictional future events for fictional events that were set in the future when they were first written, but which have now been overtaken by real history; and see timeline of fictional contemporary events for fictional events that were set in the present day, when they were written. However, all works where the date is referenced in the work should be listed here, like a book set in 1987 that was published in 1987, etc.

These dates are connected to either specific historical dates or real-world historical events. They are known to be fictitious — not claimed nonfiction of conspiracy theories.

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Contents

1 Before the Big Bang 2 Beginning of the Universe 3 Prehistoric 4 Ancient civilizations 5 5th millennium BC 6 4th millennium BC 7 4th millennium BC 8 2nd millennium BC 9 1st millennium BC 10 1st millennium 11 10th-century 12 11th century 13 12th century 14 13th century 15 14th century 16 15th century 17 16th century 18 17th century 19 18th century 20 19th century 20.1 1800s 20.2 1810s 20.3 1820s 20.4 1830s 20.5 1840s 20.6 1850s 20.7 1860s 20.8 1870s 20.9 1880s 20.10 1890s 21 20th century 21.1 1900s 21.2 1910s 21.3 1920s 21.4 1930s 21.5 1940s 21.6 1950s 21.7 1960s 21.8 1970s 21.9 1980s 21.10 1990s 22 21st Century 23 Notes 24 External links

Before the Big Bang

• The previous universe was collapsing. The last person left, Galan of Taa, was spared, as the universe spoke to him. Their sentiences became one, forming the all-powerful World Devourer, Galactus, who appeared at the Big Bang. (Fantastic Four, Marvel Universe)

• The Nibblonians begin their existence seventeen years before the Big Bang. (Futurama)

Beginning of the Universe

• The end of the "Reverse Dimension" universe (where effect precedes cause according to Avengers #16; Marvel comics).

• The Endless appear into existence. They appear in order: Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair and Delight. (The Sandman)

• The Big Bang Burger Bar is built. Here you can watch the beginning of the Universe. (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
• A jettisoned fuel tank from a timeship initiates the Big Bang (Doctor Who Terminus)

Prehistoric

• c. 65,000,000 YA
  • An out-of-control space freighter from the 26th century, displaced in time but not space, crashes onto the Earth, precipitating the extinction of the dinosaurs (Doctor Who - Earthshock).

• c. 59,960,000 BC
  • The Necrons enter their hibernation, waiting the call from the C'tan to awaken. (Warhammer 40,000)

• c. 56-34,000,000 YA
  • A civilization of intelligent reptilian humanoids flourishes, but the impending approach of the Moon threatens geological upheaval, forcing the race into suspended animation (Doctor Who - Doctor Who and the Silurians).

• 4,000,000 YA
  • Warring Transformers crash-land on Earth and are entombed until modern times.
• 3,500,000 BCE.
  • The Badoon evolve in planet Lotiara.
• Unknown date
  • Predacon and Maximal ships pass through a space warp and crash on the ancient Earth. Their fights will be known as the Beast Wars.

• Sometime during the Paleolithic era hominids discover the Monolith of 2001: A Space Odyssey. This makes them angry.

• 1,000,000 BC
  • A time machine containing Bill S. Preston, Ted (Theodore) Logan, and several other historical figures land in the area that will later become San Dimas, California, after the aerial on the machine is damaged. (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure)
  • A civilization of cavemen enjoy life in the "modern Stone Age", with a lifestyle reflecting that of the mid-to-late 20th century, achieved through the use of prehistoric technology (a combination of animals, wood, rocks, still-living dinosaurs, and human power) to duplicate 20th century gadgets such as automobiles, washing machines, etc. In the city of Bedrock, the Flintstone and Rubble families have various adventures. (The Flintstones and its various spinoffs; year taken from various episodes and the TV-movie The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones).
    • Futuro, a supervillain from the 20th century, travels back in time to the Flintstones' time era to commit a series of crimes, before being stopped by Captain Caveman, the "world's first superhero." (The Flintstone Comedy Show)
    • The Jetsons, traveling back in time via Elroy's time machine, spend a period of time stranded in the Flintstones' time era, where they befriend the family and become famous thanks to their futuristic technology. Eventually, the Jetsons return to their own time. (The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones)

Ancient civilizations

• "A Long Time Ago"
  • A technologically advanced civilization inhabiting a galaxy "far, far away" goes through periods of intense political turmoil involving the rise and fall of the Galactic Empire (Star Wars series, see Dates in Star Wars for more information.)
• c. 100,000 BC
  • The orbit of a giant comet briefly brings it in a short distance from Earth. A relatively small piece of the comet fragments and falls on a landmass inhabited by people known as Atlanteans. The fragment has undergone crystalisation. The Atlanteans soon discover the crystal to be a unique power source providing them with longevity. They were inspired in the further advancement of their technology. The Crystal eventually became their deity, known as the "Heart of Atlantis" - (Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD)
• 27,000 YA
  • Humans are transported off Earth by the Eidolons, and genetically altered into Sebaceans to serve as bodyguards. (Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars)
• 20,000 YA
  • The Guardians of the Universe accomplish mass genetic tampering with the Martian species, giving them a weakness to fire and making them shy away from being chaotic creatures. (JLA)
  • A spaceship crashes into Earth, bringing a Guardian of the Universe and a Burning Martian. The Martian kills a tribe of Cro-Magnons and later is killed by Vandal Savage. (JLA)
• c. 18,086 BC
  • Kashekim Nedakh is born. He will live to become King of Atlantis - Atlantis:The Lost Empire.
• 18,000 BC
  • King Kull rules Atlantis. (Robert E. Howard's Kull the Conqueror stories).
• 12,000 YA
  • Arnessk becomes uninhabitable. The Eidolons are forced to find different planets to settle in. Some enter suspended animation. (Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars)
• 10,000 BC
  • Conan the Barbarian is born in Cimmeria during the Hyborian Age. He eventually comes to rule Aquilonia. (Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian stories)
  • Red Sonja born in Hyrcania.
  • Earliest known activities of the immortal Selene
• 8,000 BC
  • The Ancients of Atlantis return to Earth from the Pegasus galaxy, cohabiting briefly with humans before ascending. A version of Dr. Elizabeth Weir from an alternate future timeline stays behind to set the failsafes that will cause the city to rise from beneath the ocean 10,000 years later (Stargate Atlantis- "Before I Sleep")
  • The people of Egypt rebel against the Supreme System Lord Ra and bury the 'Alpha' Stargate in present day Giza. They are aided by a Stargate SG-1 team from an alternate future timeline (Stargate SG-1 - "Moebius" ).
• c. 6586 BC
  • Princess Kidagakash "Kida" Nedakh of Atlantis born to King Kashekim Nedakh and his Queen consort - Atlantis:The Lost Empire.
• c. 66th century BC
  • A scholar named Aziz visits Atlantis for two years and writes extensive journals with notes in the Atlantean language. Most of Atlantis is soon lost. But a remnant remains alive deep withing the Earth. The Scrolls of Aziz provive the key for the rediscovery of Atlantis by outsiders. But its strange language puzzles scholars for the following 86 centuries - Atlantis:The Lost Empire.

5th millennium BC

• 5th millennium BC
  • End of the Third Age of the history of Arda. Beginning of the Fourth Age. (Estimation by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien).
• 4000 BC
  • The year a new game starts in Civilization (as well as Civilization II and Civilization III).

4th millennium BC

• 3,400 BC
  • The Scorpion King comes to power. (The Scorpion King)

4th millennium BC

• 30th century BC.
  • En Sabah Nur born in ancient Egypt under its the First Dynasty. He is an immortal mutant.

2nd millennium BC

• 1290 BC
  • Pharaoh Seti I is murdered by his mistress Anck Su Namun and his high priest Imhotep. Anck Su Namun, with the knowledge that Imhotep has the ability to resurrect her, commits suicide moments later. Imhotep and his priests steal her corpse and attempt to resurrect her, but Pharaoh's bodyguards interrupt Imhotep and mummify him alive, under a nasty curse. (The Mummy)
• 1278 BC
  • Major Arcana founded (Nephilim - roleplaying game)
• 1260s BC
  • One of the sons of Rameses the Great is Prince Khufu Maat Kha-Tar who, with his beloved Chay-Ara, discovers a Thangarian spaceship containing Nth metal. Kha-Tar is advised by the wizard Nabu (actually a Lord of Order) and his half-brother, the warrior prince Mighty Adam of Khandaq, blessed with the power of Shazam. Together they fight various threats to Egypt, including Vandal Savage and the original Metamorph. Kha-Tar and Chay-Ara are eventually murdered by a mad priest of Set, creating a cycle of reincarnation that eventually leads to them becoming the original Hawkman and Hawkgirl. Nabu, realising his mortal form is growing weak, places his spirit in the Talismans of Fate. Mighty Adam returns to Khandaq, where his hard definition of justice (perhaps influenced by the demoness Blaze) leads to his being known as Black Adam, and to Shazam removing his powers and entombing him. (JSA and other DC Universe titles)
• 1250 BC
  • Nantucket Island is sent back to this year from 1998 (Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Stirling)

1st millennium BC

• 380 BC
  • Birth of Ayesha. (H. Rider Haggard: Wisdom's Daughter)
• 2nd century BC
  • The Scrolls of Aziz containing the location of Atlantis are transported to Rome by scholars - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 50 BC
  • Julius Caesar conquers all of Gaul except for a small village of rebellious Gauls who continue to resist the occupation (Asterix)
• approx. 6 BC
  • The events in The Little Drummer Boy television special--Aaron's parents murdered by scavengers, releases his anger on drum which he received for Christmas, eventually plays key part in the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem

1st millennium

• c. 65 AD
  • In ancient Rome, architect Gus Holiday and his family have various adventures. (The Roman Holidays)
  • The Flintstones and Rubbles, traveling through time via a time machine at the Bedrock World's Fair, have an adventure in ancient Rome before departing that era. (The Flintstones)
• 206-210
  • Adventures of the Pict Bran Mak Morn, by Robert E. Howard
• 306 - 312
  • Reign of Western Roman Emperor Maxentius. The Scrolls of Aziz containing the location of Atlantis come into his personal possession - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 312
  • October 28 - Maxentius perishes in the Battle of Milvian Bridge against his co-emperor Constantine the Great. The Scrolls of Aziz come into the possession of Constantine who assigns the best scholards available to him in studying and translating the scrolls - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 330
  • Constantine the Great moves the capital from Rome to Constantinople. The Scrolls of Aziz are transported to the new capital - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• c. 635
  • The Scrolls of Aziz containing the location of Atlantis are stolen from Constantinople by a treasure hunter originating from Turkic peoples. He heads west to locate Atlantis but only manages to reach Lindisfarne before growing sick and dying. The Scrolls come into the custody of the monastery recently founded by Aidan of Lindisfarne. The Scrolls are transcribed to the Shepherd's Journal - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 665-681
  • Career of Chinese magistrate Judge Dee (by Robert Van Gulik)
• 730
  • Forerunner of Necronomicon, Kitab Al-Azif, written by Abdul Alhazred.
• 767
  • Brotherhood of Hermes founded (according to Ars Magica roleplaying game)
• 793
  • Vikings sack the monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria. First reported Viking raid. The Shepherd's Journal is stolen and lost for the following century - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• c. 893
  • The Shepherd's Journal is located in Iceland by Thorfinn and interest in it revives.
• c. 900
  • Thorfinn founds the Keepers of the Journal, an organization determined to keep the Shepherd's Journal in Iceland - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• (Exact date uncertain)
  • The Flintstones and Rubbles, traveling through time via a time machine at the Bedrock World's Fair, have an adventure in Camelot, before departing that era. (The Flintstones)

10th-century

• 982-983
  • The events of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• 987
  • Seven Mages converge in Darkmoor, Northern England. They are contacted by Mephisto and exchange their souls for immortality. The seven would form the Mys-Tech organization.
• c. 993 Hogwarts school is founded by Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin (Harry Potter series.)
• 994 Castle Wyvern falls to the Vikings, its protective clan of gargoyles are decimated and the survivors are frozen in stone by magic not to be revived until 1994.
• 997
  • A Viking expedition, presumably led by Snorri Karlsefini, uses the Shepherd's Journal to locate Atlantis. A ship perishes to a Leviathan. Others reach the New World instead. Snorri Karlsefini returns to Europe empty-handed. The Journal comes into the possession of the Maya civilization. The Mayas take inspiration for the design of Chichen Itza - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.

11th century

• 1094
  • The Belmont family first encounters the man who becomes Dracula (Castlevania: Lament of Innocence)

12th century

• 1127
  • Chief Hveghi drives away Turkish conquerors and founds Syldavia
• 1135-1155
  • Machinations around the building of a Cathedral in England (Ken Follett: The Pillars of the Earth)
• 1137-1145
  • Brother Cadfael's investigations during the civil war between Stephen I of England and Empress Maud
• 1195
  • Borduria conquers Syldavia
• 1200
  • The Shepherd's Journal containing the location of Atlantis has been in the possession of the Maya civilization since the 10th century. However it is stolen by a separatist faction and is taken to Guiana - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.

13th century

• 1204
  • Baudolino saves Byzantine historian Nicetas Choniates when the knights of the Fourth Crusade sack Constantinople (as per Umberto Eco's Baudolino)
• 1228
  • Olaus Wormius translates Necronomicon into Latin
  • Nicolas de Brabant becomes a vampire (Forever Knight)
• 1275
  • Syldavians drive away Bordurians

14th century

• 1300s
  • About this time, the Black Plague sweeps through Europe killing 99% of the population. Alternate timeline begins, as chronicled in The Years of Rice and Salt.
• 1327
  • William Baskerville and his aide visit an unnamed abbey and investigate a series of strange murders (Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose).
• 1345
  • A scouting starship of the Wersgorix Empire lands in the English town of Ansby, where it is captured by Sir Roger, Baron de Tourneville and his knights. They go on to topple the entire Empire (The High Crusade).
• 1389
  • Robert Gadling begins to meet The Sandman every 100 years.

15th century

• 1460
  • Prince Edmund is born to Gertrude of Flanders who was married to Richard, Duke of York but was also carrying an affair with Donald McAngus, Third Duke of Argyll. Which of the two men was his father remains uncertain. The Black Adder

• 1482
  • Sonia Belmont becomes the first vampire hunter to battle Dracula (Castlevania Legends)
• 1482
  • Events of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• 1485
  • Richard, Duke of York is crowned King Richard IV. His son, Prince Edmund plots to take the throne. The Black Adder
• 1492
  • October - The Flintstones and Rubbles, traveling through time via a time machine at the Bedrock World's Fair, assist Christopher Columbus in discovering the North American continent, before departing that era. (The Flintstones)
  • 31 October - Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington is sent to be executed. He is hit 45 times with a blunt axe. He becomes the ghost Nearly Headless Nick. (Harry Potter)
  • The year a new game starts in the game Colonization
  • In the Duchy of San Martino in Italy, the living energy structure known as the Mandragora Helix makes a bit to dominate the human race but is sent back to the stars by the Fourth Doctor (Doctor Who - The Masque of Mandragora).
• 1498
  • Death of Richard IV of England. His second son Prince Edmund, reigns very briefly as King Edmund III. The Black Adder
• 1499
  • Amerigo Vespucci acquires the Shepherd's Journal from descedants of the Maya civilization. He starts attempting to translate it - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1500
  • Amerigo Vespucci is unable to translate the Shepherd's Journal containing the location of Atlantis. He assigns the translation to Leonardo da Vinci - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.

16th century

• 1502
  • The Shepherd's Journal passes from Leonardo da Vinci to Cesare Borgia and then to Ferdinand II of Aragon. The later has little use for it. The Journal would be forgotten until the rise of his great-grandson Philip II of Spain to the throne in 1556 - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1518
  • January 1 – Connor MacLeod, the Highlander, is born in Glenfinnan, Scotland.
• 1535
  • The first man to the called The Phantom begins adventuring. (The Phantom comic strips and comic books.)
• 1536
  • Connor MacLeod is mortally wounded at the battle of Loch Shiel, but instead of dying, becomes immortal.
• 1541
  • Pánfilo de Zamacona y Nuñez spends four years in the subterranean city of Tsath, in the realm of K'n-yan. (H.P. Lovecraft: "The Mound")
• 1547
  • Prince Edward and a beggar boy Tom Conty switch places. (Mark Twain: The Prince and the Pauper)
• 1549
  • Solomon Kane is born.
• 1553
  • Rabbi Loew builds a Golem in Prague.
• 1558-1603
  • Lord Edmund Blackadder in the court of Queen Elizabeth I. (Blackadder II)
• 1562
  • Philip II of Spain is inspired by images of Atlantis from the Shepherd's Journal and decides the construction of El Escorial - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1569
  • The Shepherd's Journal receives its official name by Pope Sixtus V. (This is an anachronism. The reign of Sixtus V lasted from 1585 to 1590. He was probably mistaken for Pope Pius V (term 1566 - 1572) - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1577 - 1580
  • Bloodscream serves as a sailor under Francis Drake. He begins his career as a vampire during this period.
• 1579
  • June 17: Francis Drake and Malcolm McDuck found Fort Drake Borough, which later becomes Duckburg. Drake hides copies from books from the Library of Alexandria there.
• 1581
  • The Uffizi palace in Florence is completed under the orders of the powerful Medici family. Placed among their art collection is the Shepherd's Journal containing the location of Atlantis - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1588
  • Orlando (of Virginia Woolf) begins.
  • Don Quixote tilts at windmills.
• 1592
  • Duncan MacLeod is born. (Highlander)
• 1596
  • Fort Drake Borough is attacked by Indians. Fenton Penworthy is the only Briton that survives the attack. The Fort would return to British hands however and remain under that authority until the 19th century.

17th century

• 1600s
  • Shogun by James Clavell.
• 1602
  • Events of Marvel Comics' 1602
• 1618 - 1648
  • The Thirty Years' War. Ulrich von Bek, working for Lucifer, discovers the Holy Grail (The War Hound and the World's Pain, Michael Moorcock)
• 1620
  • Norville "Shaggy" Rogers' and Scooby-Doo's ancestors, McBaggy Rogers and Yankee Doodle Doo, arrive in Plymouth, Massachusetts aboard the Mayflower.
• 1622
  • Duncan MacLeod revealed to be an immortal (Highlander)
• 1626
  • D'Artagnan arrives in Paris and meets The Three Musketeers (according to Alexandre Dumas)
• 1628
  • D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers at the Siege of La Rochelle
• 1635
  • Gotham City is founded as part of the Swedish colonization of the Americas.
• 1643
  • Innsmouth, Massachusetts (of the Cthulhu Mythos) founded
• 1649
  • D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers fail to rescue Charles I of England and return to Paris to witness the Fronde rebellion (Twenty Years After)
• 1659
  • Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked
• 1685
  • John Ridd and Lorna Doone find themselves caught up in events surrounding the Monmouth Rebellion (from Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore).
  • Peter Blood is convicted of helping a nobleman during the rebellion against King James II and transported to Barbados (according to Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood)
• 1687
  • Robinson Crusoe rescued
• 1691
  • Simon Belmont, the greatest vampire hunter of the Belmont clan, battles Dracula for the first time. (Castlevania)

18th century

• 1701
  • Christopher Wren negotiates the loan of the Shepherd's Journal from the Uffizi to the University of Cambridge. The Journal was actually never returned - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1703
  • Lemuel Gulliver finds Brobdingnag (Gulliver's Travels)
• 1711
  • Mutinous crew maroons Lemuel Gulliver in Houyhnhnm land (Gulliver's Travels)
• 1736
  • September 7 - Young girl accused of infanticide refuses to be released in the middle of the Porteous Riots in Edinburgh (Walter Scott: The Heart of Midlothian)
• 1740
  • Natty Bumppo begins adventuring. (by James Fenimore Cooper)
• 1749
  • Events of Fanny Hill by John Cleland.
• 1751
  • Events of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped.
• 1752
  • April - The Flintstones and Rubbles, traveling through time via a time machine at the Bedrock World's Fair, witness Benjamin Franklin's kite-flying experiment with electricity, before departing that era. (The Flintstones)
• 1754
  • The clergyman Doctor Syn assumes the identity of pirate Captain Clegg. (Russel Thorndike: Doctor Syn on the High Seas)
• 1757
  • Natty Bumppo and his Amerindian friends Uncas and Chingachgook, The Last of the Mohicans, try to save Cora and Alice Munro from Hurons during the French and Indian War.
• 1760
  • Lestat's mortal birth
  • Mr. Earnshaw takes an orphan boy to his estate in Wuthering Heights and names him Heathcliff.
  • The events of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
• 1762-1815
  • Edmund Blackadder serves as butler to George, Prince of Wales, later Prince Regent.
• 1776
  • July 4 - Horatio Hornblower is born.
  • George III of Great Britain sents the Shepherd's Journal to Louis XVI of France and his Queen consort Marie Antoinette in a failed attempt to gain their support during the American Revolutionary War - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1780
  • Lestat becomes a Vampire (according to the Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice)
• 1785
  • Blair Witch legend begins
• 1787
  • The Headless Horseman appears in Sleepy Hollow. (Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
• 1788
  • Dr. Benjamin Franklin studies the Shepherd's Journal during his stay in Versailles - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1789
  • The Shepherd's Journal containing the location of Atlantis was lost during the events of the French Revolution - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1790s
  • Victor Frankenstein creates a Creature. (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
  • The events of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
• 1793
  • Percy Blakeney takes the mantle of The Scarlet Pimpernel and helps French aristocrats to flee the terror during the French Revolution
  • Sydney Carton goes to guillotine in place of Charles Darnay (Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities)
• 1794
  • The events of the first Horatio Hornblower story by C. S. Forester.
• 1795
  • December 13 - A radioactive meteorite lands in Wold Newton, England, mutating a group of travelers (per Philip José Farmer's fictional genealogies of the Wold Newton family) (NOTE: There was a genuine meteor strike in Wold Newton at that time. The fiction is the "ionising radiation" and, of course, the characters present.)
• 1799
  • August - The Shepherd's Journal is located in Egypt by the forces of General Napoléon Bonaparte. The Journal is sent to Institut de l'Egypte in Cairo along with the Rosetta Stone - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1800
  • Jack Aubrey meets Stephen Maturin and gains his first command - a brig Sophie (Patrick O'Brian: Master and Commander)

19th century

1800s

• 1801
  • Tenant Mr Lockwood begins to visit his landlord Heathcliff and gradually begins to discover the story of the Wuthering Heights.
  • The combined forces of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson and Ralph Abercromby capture Egypt from the occupation of the French Consulate. Among their spoils is the Shepherd's Journal containing the location of Atlantis. The Journal is sent to the British Museum. (Historically only Abercromby was involved in the event. Nelson was assigned to the Baltic Sea - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1805
  • San Theodoros gains independence
  • Count Cyril Bezukhov dies, leaving his wealth to his illegitimate son, Pierre (War and Peace).
• 1806
  • Don Diego de la Vega dons The Mask of Zorro.

1810s

• 1813
  • Shirley Keeldar arrives at Fieldhead.
• 1815
  • February 14 - Edmond Dantes returns to France - and is soon imprisoned suspected of Bonapartist sympathies (The Count of Monte Cristo)
  • The events of John William Polidori's The Vampyre.
• 1818
  • Fort Drake Borough is attacked by a Spanish army. The British commander hands the fort over to Cornelius Coot, who manages to repel the Spanish. He renames it Duckburg.

1820s

• 1820s
  • Doctor Dolittle begins his veterinarian practices. (Hugh Lofting's The Story of Doctor Dolittle)
• 1821
  • As a result of Mexican independence, Duckburg becomes part of Mexico.
• 1822
  • Harry Paget Flashman is born
• 1827
  • The events of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe.
• 1829
  • February 27 - Edmond Dantes escapes from the Chateau d'If
  • Angus McDuck is born to Dingus McDuck and Molly Mallard.

1830s

• 1835
  • Fergus McDuck is born.
• 1838
  • The Count of Monte Cristo arrives in Paris

1840s

• 1840s
  • Santa Claus born and abandoned as a baby; adopted by the Kringles as Kris Kringle (Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town television special)
• 1840
  • Downy O'Drake born in Ireland.
• 1841
  • The sailor Ishmael joins the crew of the Pequod. (Herman Melville's Moby Dick)
  • Tom Sawyer has a series of adventures.
• 1842
  • Jess Hurch born. (The Muller-Fokker Effect)
  • Jebidiah Allardice "Cookie" Farnsworth is born to Forsthye Ezekial Farnsworth and his wife Marina Sweetwater in Tulsa, Oklahoma - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1844
  • Preston B. Whitmore is born - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1848
  • Duckburg becomes part of the United States.
  • June 20 - Himura Kenshin is born. Rurouni Kenshin

1850s

• 1850
  • Calisota becomes a U.S. state.
• 1853
  • Wilhelmina Bertha Cudot born to Lionel and Claudette Cudot in Whippany, New Jersey - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1854
  • Birth of Sherlock Holmes.
• 1856
  • Fenton Q. Harcourt bort - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1859
  • Alice travels to Wonderland and later to Looking-Glass Land. (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll -- date is not given in the story, but can be calculated from Alice's age of "seven and six months".)

1860s

• 1860
  • Lyle Tiberius Rourke born to Lieutenant colonel Jackson Rourke and his wife Rachel Lee - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1861
  • Mike Steve Donovan flees to North during the American Civil War and joins the Union army with the name Mike Blueberry.
  • Texan-born Tex Willer defects to the North and joins the Union army in order to fight against slavery.
  • Jebidiah Farnsworth joins the 7th Michigan Cavalry Brigade of Major General George McClellan - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1862
  • The Shepherd's Journal containing the location of Atlantis is stolen from Ignatius Donnelly and returned to Iceland - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1864
  • May 8 - May 21: Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. Lieutenant colonel Jackson Rourke of the Union faction is killed. He leaves behind his four-year-old son Lyle Tiberius Rourke - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
  • July 14 - Jebidiah Farnsworth shoots Brigadier General James Johnston Pettigrew of the Confederate States of America at Falling Waters, Maryland (Historically the General was mortaly wounded there and died from his wounds on July 17) - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
  • Hercule Poirot is born
  • The United States of America signs a peace treaty with the Confederate States of America, according to Harry Turtledove
• 1866
  • March 4 - John Carter is astrally projected to Barsoom.
  • First reports of Captain Nemo's submarine.
  • Jebidiah Farnsworth is assigned to the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment in Fort Laramie, Wyoming - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1867
  • Captain Nemo saves professor Arronax and his entourage (according to Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea)
  • Charles Darwin, aged 58, begins attempting to convince a colony of follicle mites in his left eyebrow that he is not God. - The Sandwalk Adventures.
  • Scrooge McDuck is born in Glasgow, Scotland to Fergus McDuck and Downy O'Drake.
  • Jebidiah Farnsworth serves under Lieutenant colonel George Armstrong Custer of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment during the expeditions against the Cheyenne and the Lakota - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1868
  • June 2 - Professor Arronax and his friends escape Captain Nemo's Nautilus
  • Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon are assigned to the Wild Wild West
• 1869
  • The events of Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • Charles Dickens helps the time traveller known as the Doctor against the alien Gelth - Doctor Who - The Unquiet Dead (2005)

1870s

• 1870s
  • Reindeer start to fly; Kris Kringle called an outlaw by the Meisterburgers; readopts the name Santa Claus (Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town television special)
• 1870
  • The events of the film Young Sherlock Holmes
  • Events of The Phantom of the Opera (2004 movie)
• 1871
  • The death of vampire Carmilla.
  • Matilda McDuck is born in Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1872
  • Joshua Strongbear Sweet is born to Corporal Moses and Jerika Sweet in Bigelowe, Kansas - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
  • Phileas Fogg goes Around the World in 80 Days
• 1873
  • Captain Nemo rescues a group of castaways from The Mysterious Island
• 1874
  • Arsene Lupin is born
• 1875
  • July: Lyle Tiberius Rourke joins the United States Army - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
  • Gaetan "Mole" Moliere born to Christof and Gabrielle Moliere in Paris, France during the term of President of France Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1876
  • Hortense McDuck is born in Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Wilhelmina Cudot serves as the personal assistant of Alexander Graham Bell - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
  • Vincenzo Santorini is born to Humberto and Fabiola Santorini in Palermo, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy during the reign of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1877
  • Scrooge McDuck earns his Number One Dime as a shoe polish. His most notable customer would be Elias Lönnrot.
• 1878
  • The events of Rurouni Kenshin

1880s

• 1880
  • Scrooge McDuck emigrates to the United States.
  • Around this year Seamus McFly and his wife Maggie McFly emigrate from Ireland to the United States. (Back to the Future III)

• 1881
  • January - Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet and move into 221b Baker Street and soon become partners in Holmes' private investigations business. (from A Study in Scarlet).
  • A mysterious figure begins terrorizing the Paris Opera Company for the unwanted benefit of a young singer - Phantom of the Opera
  • Second war between the United States and the Confederate States begins over Confederate plans to expand into Mexico. (How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove)
  • Sergeant Lyle Tiberius Rourke of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment participates in the Wounded Knee Massacre of the Great Sioux Nation. (This is an anachronism as the historical massacre occurred on December 29, 1890) - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1882
  • Raffles the Thief begins his criminal career.
  • Milo James Thatch is born to Augustus and Lucille Rose Thatch in Fishkill, New York - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1884
  • Outlaw Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen has shot twelve men ,not including Indians or Chinamen, before the end of this year according to a newspaper article. The article had no sequels because Tannen shot its editor dead. (Back to the Future III)
  • Jebidiah Farnsworth graduates from studies as a chef in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. He opens the Three Chestnut Restaurant in New York City - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
  • Helga Sinclair is born to Major Alexander Sinclair and his wife Frieda Jane Bowie in Frankfurt, Hesse-Nassau, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire during the reign of Wilhelm I of Germany - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1885
  • January 1 - Doctor Emmett L. "Doc" Brown is accidentally sent back to this past from the year 1955. (Back to the Future III)
  • Scrooge McDuck becomes owner of the Anaconda Copper Mine for a short time. He has to sell it again to Marcus Daly to pay taxes for Dismal Downs, the McDuck castle.
  • Augustus and Lucille Rose Thatch are killed in a railway accident. Their son Milo James Thatch enters the custody of his paternal grandfather Thaddeus Thatch - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
  • December 15 - Doc Brown marries Clara Clayton.
• 1886.
  • John Carter is transferred back to Earth for a short time
  • Nick Carter begins his detective career
  • Jebidiah Farnsworth faces financial trouble and is forced to sell his restaurant. He is hired by William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor to serve as chef of his new Waldorf=Astoria Hotel. He is fired for entering a fight with a customer and shooting him in the leg. (This is an anachronism. The Waldorf=Astoria Hotel was only established in 1893) - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
  • Lyle Tiberius Rourke graduates from the United States Military Academy - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
  • Jules Brown is probably born to Doc Brown and his wife Clara Clayton before the end of the year.
• 1887
  • June: Lyle Tiberius Rourke is married - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
  • July 10: Corto Maltese is born.
  • October : Lyle Tiberius Rourke is abandoned by his wife - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
  • The events of The Prisoner of Zenda.
  • The events of The Island of Dr. Moreau.
  • Jess Hurch dies (The Muller-Fokker Effect).
  • Helga Sinclair and her family settle in Mannheim, Rhenish Palatinate, German Empire - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1888
  • October 29: birth of Verne Brown to Doc Brown and his wife Clara Clayton.
  • November 22: birth of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (better known as Tarzan). After his parents are killed female ape Kala adopts him
  • Georges-Antoine Kurtz is sent to the Congo Free State to gather ivory (Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness).
  • Wilhelmina Cudot is hired as a research assistant by Dr. Nathan Stubblefield. She eventually becomes his full partner. - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
  • Lyle Tiberius Rourke begins a thirteen-year service with the Rough Riders. He is wounded seven times while in service. He is commended for saving the life of a superior officer and for taking command while under fire. He is also however reported responsible for the summary execution of prisoners. (This is an anachronism. The Rough Riders were formed in 1898 in response to the Spanish-American War) - Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1889
  • Helga Sinclair and her family settle in Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire- Atlantis:The Lost Empire DVD.

1890s

• 1890
  • Count Dracula arrives in London and begins hunting which attracts the attention of the professor/vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing
  • The events of Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles.
• 1891
  • Wilhelmina Cudot marries Dr. Nathan Stubblefield - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1892
  • Arsene Lupin begins his criminal career
  • The Time Traveler constructs The Time Machine and departs for the year 802701, according to H.G. Wells
  • Helga Sinclair and her family settle in Vicenza, Province of Vicenza, Veneto, Kingdom of Italy - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1893
  • Brisco County, Sr. is killed – his son Brisco County, Jr. begins pursuit of the culprits
  • Wilhelmina Cudot divorces Dr. Nathan Stubblefield - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
  • Helga Sinclair and her family settle in Camp Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kanto region, Honshu, Japan during the Meiji period - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1894
  • Sherlock Holmes reappears in London, three years after his "death" at Reichenbach Falls.
  • Catherine Ballou turns outlaw and teams up with Kid Sheleen - Cat Ballou
  • Helga Sinclair and her family settle in the Yongsan district of Seoul, Korea. From there the Sinclairs witness the turmoil caused by the assassination of Queen Min of Joseon in 1895 - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1895
  • Martians land in England (H.G. Wells: The War of the Worlds)
  • The first Martian invasion of Earth is thwarted when the Martians' immune systems fail to protect them against the microorganisms of Earth. (The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells)
• 1896
  • Milo James Thatch enters the University of Oxford. He would eventually graduate with a doctorate in Linguistics - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
  • Audrey Rocio Ramirez born to Manuel and Ana Ramirez in Dearborn, Michigan - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1897
  • Dr. Joshua Sweet becomes the first colored person to lecture in Harvard Medical School - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
  • Helga Sinclair and her family settle in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. (This is an anachronism since the proving ground was historically established on October 20, 1917) - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1898
  • "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" - Allan Quatermain, Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, Captain Nemo, The Invisible Man and Mina Murray (nee. Mina Harker), fight Fu Manchu who controls London's Limehouse
  • Scrooge McDuck finds the "Goose egg nugget" and becomes rich.
  • Wilhelmina Cudot starts her three-year employement by Guglielmo Marconi - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1899
  • Indiana Jones born as Henry Jones, Jr. (according to internal evidence in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
  • Scrooge McDuck becomes a millionaire. He buys fort Duckburg from Casey Coot.
  • The Woodchuck Militia assists Theodore Roosevelt at the Battle of San Juan.
  • The events of the film Newsies, featuring a New York City newsboys strike action against their employers William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.

20th century

1900s

• 1900s
  • Santa Claus ages to peak of maturity (with white hair and long beard); declares Christmas Eve as his annual day to deliver presents (Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town television special)
  • Some time in this decade, a Rutan spacecraft lands near Worthing. (Doctor Who - Horror of Fang Rock).
• 1900
  • Date of departure of Time Traveler in The Time Machine, according to George Pal.
  • Birth of several major characters in the comic book series Planetary.
• 1901
  • November 12: birth of Clark Savage Jr. (later called "Doc Savage")
  • The Woodchuck Militia is replaced by the Junior Woodchucks.
  • Lyle Tiberius Rurke and Dr. Joshua Sweet retire from their service in the Rough Riders. The later had also served as personal phycisian to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1902
  • Charles Dexter Ward is born. (according to H. P. Lovecraft)
  • March - Maurice Leblanc meets Arsene Lupin for the first time and becomes his biographer in June.
  • Fergus McDuck dies in his ancestral castle of Dismal Downs .
  • Scrooge McDuck arrives in Duckburg with his sisters. Battle of Killmotor Hill between Scrooge and Theodore Roosevelt. Scrooge builds his money bin.
• 1903
  • Sherlock Holmes retires to keep bees in Fulworth, Sussex.
  • Professor Challenger discovers The Lost World -- the year is not given in story, but Chapter 8 has August 18 on a Tuesday, meaning either 1903 or 1908.
  • Pellucidar is discovered. (Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the World's Core)
  • Lyle Tiberius Rourke becomes a freelance employee of the British Museum. He is first assigned to lead an expedition to the Valley of the Kings in Egypt - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1904
  • Hercule Poirot resigns from Belgian police.
  • June 16 - Leopold Bloom has an unusually active day. (James Joyce - Ulysses)
  • The gunslinger Jonah Hex is killed; his body is stuffed and mounted.
  • Helga Sinclair begins her training in Aikido under Morihei Ueshiba in the Philippines - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1905
  • Mechanic Audrey Rocio Ramirez settles in Detroit, Michigan. There she enters employement by the Ford Motor Company of Henry Ford - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1906
  • Scrooge McDuck and Theodore Roosevelt discover a fabulous precolumbian treasure in Panama. Esteban Huertas tries to steal the treasure and seize power, but he fails.
• 1907
  • Wilhelmina Bertha Cudot marries Curtis Packard,last in a long series of husbands - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
  • Helga Sinclair completes her study of Aikido under Morihei Ueshiba and leaves the Philippines - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1908
  • In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Tunguska event is explained as an attempt to save Earth. Apparently, an alien race saves humanity by deflecting an incoming meteor that would have hit Europe. The remnants of the meteor fall down to Siberia.
  • Scrooge McDuck leaves Duckburg for 22 years. He will travel the world in an effort to create a world-wide financial empire.
  • The Von Braun family settles in Hill Valley, California. They were persumably from either the German Empire or Austria-Hungary. They would change their last name to Brown during World War I (Back to the Future)
• 1909
  • April 6, Scrooge McDuck is the first person on the North Pole, he arrives shortly before Robert Peary. He is in a hurry to reach Saint Petersburg in time for a meeting with Nicholas II of Russia. Scrooge is preparing an offer for the purchase of the Fabergé eggs. He will purchase his first cane and top-hat while staying in Saint Petersburg.
  • 10-year-old Indiana Jones in Africa with Theodore Roosevelt's safari.
  • The events of Tarzan of the Apes.
  • Kilgore Trout born - Breakfast of Champions.
  • Lyle Tiberius Rourke is employed by the Smithsonian Institution to lead an expedition to Antarctica. The expedition discovers the lost city of Shub Nigruth but destroys it for uncertain reasons. (The city was presumably named after Shub-Niggurath of the Cthulhu mythos) - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.

1910s

• 1911
  • Adele Blanc-Sec faces a rampaging pterodactyl in Paris - her first adventure. (Jacques Tardi: Adele and The Beast)
  • Denis Nayland Smith first encounters Fu Manchu.
• 1912
  • Scrooge McDuck has completed a three-year stay in Mongolia. He heads west to Europe. His intention is to cross the Atlantic Ocean and join his sisters in the United States.
  • April 10 - Scrooge McDuck boards the RMS Titanic from Southampton, England.
  • April 14 - Innumerable characters with time machines attempt to stop the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Every one of them fails.
  • Curtis Packard dies. His wife Wilhelmina Packard remains a widow but retains her employement by Preston B. Whitmore - Atlantis: The Lost Empire DVD.
• 1913
  • November 1 - Corto Maltese works for mysterious man called Monk (Hugo Pratt's Ballad of Salty Sea – first story about Corto Maltese).
  • Richard Hannay defeats an assassination plot by a gang of German secret agents in John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps.
• 1914
  • The events of Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
  • Three men wander into an Amazonian country at the onset of The Great War. Events of Herland.
• 1915
  • Harry Paget Flashman dies.
  • Herbert West joins the army medical service in World War I to obtain access to dead bodies for his reanimation research - H. P. Lovecraft.
• 1916
  • James "Biggles" Bigglesworth lies about his age to enter Royal Flying Corps.
  • Roderick Burgess imprisons The Sandman – Sleeping Sickness begins.
  • Indiana Jones volunteers to join Belgian army under the alias Henri Defense..
  • Hercule Poirot flees Belgium under German occupation and becomes a refugee in England.
  • Richard Hannay goes undercover in the German Empire and the Ottoman Empire to defeat a Central Powers plot to ferment an Islamic uprising against the British Empire. (John Buchan: Greenmantle).
• 1917
  • Lord Clifford Chateley marries Constance but afterwards he is seriously wounded in the front during the First World War and permanently paralysed below the waist. (Lady Chatterley's Lover)
  • Captain Edmund Blackadder in the First World War. (Blackadder Goes Forth)
  • Birth of Steve Rogers, who would later become Captain America.
• 1918.
  • October - unspecified death of Paul Baumer (All Quiet on the Western Front).
• 1919
  • "Ace" Mifflin and others are fired after they have taken part of the Boston police strike (Jazz Age Chronicles).
  • The stoor worm wakes up from the shelling in the First World War. Events of The Stones Are Hatching.

1920s

• 1920
  • Ellery Queen begins his detective career.
  • November 11- James Bond born to Andrew Bond and his wife Monique Delacroix according to John Pearson.
  • Namor the Sub-Mariner is born to Leonard McKenzie and Princess Fen of Atlantis.
  • (about 1920) Donald and Della Thelma Duck are born to Quackmore Duck and Hortense McDuck.
  • Doctor Emmett L. "Doc" Brown born in Hill Valley, California, United States (Back to the Future.
• 1921
  • Arkham Asylum opened.
• 1922
  • Jimgrim first encounters the Nine Unknown.
  • Lin Carter's Anton Zarnak begins work as a detective of the occult.
  • Birth of Carl Kolchak.
• 1923
  • Palombia gains independence. (according to Marsupilami stories)
• 1924
  • Young Walt Rawley becomes an apprentice of magician Master Yehudi. (Paul Auster: Mister Vertigo)
  • James Bond is born according to Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice.
• 1926
  • Events of the run of Jazz Age Chronicles comic book by Ted Slampyak.
  • The main events of the 1999 film The Mummy.
• 1926/1927
  • Tom Riddle Jr. (later Lord Voldemort) born in Little Hangleton, Yorkshire, England. (Harry Potter series)
• 1927
  • Parisian inspector Maigret meets (his) writer Georges Simenon for the first time. (according to Maigret's memoirs)
• 1928
  • An expedition searching for ancient Egyptian relics discovers a Stargate buried near the city of Giza, which is confiscated by the United States military for study.
• 1929
  • February 14 - Two male musicians witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and escape dressed as women. (Some Like It Hot)
  • James Watson dies for reasons unknown.

1930s

• 1930
  • Nancy Drew has her first adventure.
  • Nero Wolfe hires Archie Goodwin and begins his job as a private eye.
  • Scrooge McDuck has held residence in Wall Street, Manhattan, New York City for a year in an attempt to gain profit from the effects of the Black Thursday by purchasing business shares at low prices. He returns to Duckburg and appears distrustful and hostile to his environment. Matilda and Hortense decide to retire from business and severe relations with their brother. A ten-year-old Donald Fauntleroy Duck rewards his maternal uncle with a kick. Scrooge has just become the richest person in the world, surpassing the maharaja of Howdoyoustan.
• 1931
  • A giant ape is brought to New York City. (King Kong)
  • Birth of Kilgore Trout. (per Kurt Vonnegut's Timequake)
  • Eleven-year-old Doctor Emmett L. "Doc" Brown discovers the works of his favorite author Jules Verne.
• 1932
  • Willie Garvin is born in Whitechapel.
  • Accidental founding of town of Cicely, Alaska. (Northern Exposure)
  • Twelve-year-old Doctor Emmett L. "Doc" Brown attempts to dig to the centre of the Earth, inspired by the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth.
  • December 25 - On Christmas day, the golem known as the Monolith is created to avenge the death of an innocent man (DC Comics).
• 1933
  • The events of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
• 1934
  • Having become too dangerous, The Monolith is sealed up inside of a tunnel.
• 1936
  • Modesty Blaise's assumption of her birth year.
  • The events of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• 1937
  • Corto Maltese disappears in the Spanish Civil War.
  • March 26 - Biff Tannen born in Hill Valley, California.
  • November 7 - End of the Battle of Shanghai in the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Republic of China looses Shanghai to the Empire of Japan. Ogun serves as a captain in the forces of the Imperial Japanese Army which hold the city.
• 1938
  • The events of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • Doctor Emilio Lizardo is possessed by Lord John Whorfin (the Red Lectroid war criminal) when his dimensional experiment goes awry at Princeton.
  • April 1 - George McFly is born to Arthur and Sylvia McFly (Back to the Future).
  • Lorraine Baines McFly is born to Sam and Stella Baines (Back to the Future)
  • October 30 - Grover's Mill, New Jersey is attacked by an unknown number of unshieled war machines (presumably no more than three) as part of an alien recon, and are taken down by a militia of 38. The government then hires Orson Welles to perform a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds to cover up the events. (As revealed in the War of the Worlds episode "Eye for an Eye".)
  • November 1 - Forty-six people apply for Social Security cards in Grover's Mill, New Jersey, all named "John." (Actually Red Lectroids, as revealed in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)
  • Hannibal Lecter is born in Lithuania.
  • Tom Riddle Jr. (later Lord Voldemort) enters Hogwarts. (Harry Potter series)

• 1939
  • Estimated date for the events of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

1940s

• 1940
  • Monique D'Aubainne takes over in Al Amarja and becomes its president-for-life.
  • Scorpions of the Desert, including escaped Polish Jew Koinsky, begin their fight against Axis in North Africa.
  • (c. 1940) Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck are born to Della Thelma Duck and a brother of Daisy Duck.
  • November - The Justice Society of America is founded.
• 1941
  • May 21 - The Blackbury Blitz destroys Paradise Street and the Blackbury Pickle Factory. In one timeline the siren is sounded and the street is evacuated in time, in another it isn't. (Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Bomb)
  • Parisian private eye Nestor Burma is released from a prisoner of war-camp and resumes his job during the German occupation of Paris (according to Leo Malet's books)
  • Harald Olufsen tries to use old Hornet Moth plane to warn British about a German installation in Denmark (Ken Follett: Hornet Flight)
  • The All-Star Squadron is formed when the Justice Society goes missing, just after the Pearl Harbor Attack.

• 1942
  • Scrooge McDuck retires from business.
  • Reptilian aliens invade Earth, forcing an alliance between the Axis and Allies, and creating an alternate history. Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series.
  • The Chamber of Secrets is opened by Tom Riddle. The monster inside the chamber kills a girl. Riddle successfully frames Rubeus Hagrid for the crime (Harry Potter series)
• 1943
  • September 24 - The Guns of Navarone explode.
  • A wormhole in time is opened from this year to 1984 - The Philadelphia Experiment (movie).
• 1944
  • German spy dashes through England to reveal the Allies plans for the invasion of Normandy (Ken Follett: Eye of the Needle).
  • Nazis retreat from the Russian SFSR into the Lithuanian SSR. They kill most of the adults and destroy the Lecter estate. They cannibalise the children. One of the victims was Mischa Lecter, younger sister of Hannibal. Hannibal escapes.
  • Battle of Normandy (June 6 - August 25, 1944). Wolverine was serving as a corporal of the Canadian Armed Forces. Bloodscream was serving as a soldier of Wehrmacht.
• 1945
  • Young amnesiac girl (future Modesty Blaise) escapes from a prison camp in Greece.
  • Billy Pilgrim survives the Bombing of Dresden in World War II(Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five).
  • Albus Dumbledore defeats the dark wizard Grindelwald. Tom Riddle Jr. murders his family in their house in Little Hangleton. (Harry Potter series)
• 1946
  • Albert Einstein travels back in time and kills Adolf Hitler, causing Joseph Stalin to lead the Soviet Union in invading Europe .(Command & Conquer: Red Alert)
• 1947
  • July - Alien technology is recovered from the Roswell UFO crash that can allow one person to go back in time 7 days.
  • August 14 - Midnight's Children are born the night India gains independence (by Salman Rushdie).
• 1948
  • Planet Krypton explodes after being drawn closer to the planet's red sun (Superman: The Movie)

1950s

• 1950s
  • In the Zodiacian star system (the Twelve Colonies of Man), a robot race of Cylons attack four Battlestars and the twelve planets (and its inhabitants); the Battlestar Galactica escapes and heads for a "lost" planet called Earth (Battlestar Galactica movie and TV series)
  • The events of M*A*S*H take place (1950-1953)
• 1950
  • Buckaroo Banzai is born.
• 1951
  • Blackford Oakes joins the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • A futuristic space ship carrying Baby Kal-El (one of four known survivors of Krypton) lands in a field near Smallville, Kansas and is discovered by an elderly couple (Superman: The Movie)
  • The Justice Society of America disbands, after being subject to McCarthyism. (Adventure Comics #466)
• 1953
  • Hank Hill is born. (King of the Hill)
• 1955
  • Doctor Emmett L. "Doc" Brown comes up with the idea for the flux capacitor that makes time travel possible. (Back to the Future)
  • August 31 - Buckaroo Banzai's parents are killed when an experimental vehicle explodes, due to sabotage by Hanoi Xan.
  • November 5 - Marty McFly from 1985 stumbles in, meets his would-be-parents and tries to get Back to the Future.
  • November 12, 10:04pm - Lightning strikes the Hill Valley clock tower, Marty McFly returns to the year 1985. (Back to the Future)
• 1956
  • August 17 - Gilbert Arthur Grissom born (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation).
• 1957
  • Michael Myers, future murderer in the Halloween movies, is born.

1960s

• 1960
  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer born in the North Pole (Rudolph television special)
  • April 4 - John Doggett born (The X-Files).
• 1961
  • Modesty Blaise retires from the lead of her Network.
  • October 13 - Fox William Mulder born to William and Tina Mulder. The Cigarette Smoking Man was his actual biological father (The X-Files).
• 1962
  • A huge snowstorm engulfs the world and threatens to cancel Christmas; Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer "goes down in history" and saves Christmas Eve. (Rudolph television special).
  • Kip Dynamite born; aged 32 in Napoleon Dynamite.
• 1963
  • The Red Dwarf crew travel to John F. Kennedy's assassination in a botched attempt to get curry supplies. Kennedy survives. The crew travel three years and persuades Kennedy (now in prison) to go back to 1963 and shoot himself. He agrees and the timeline is restored.
  • Michael Myers murders his 17-year-old sister, Judith, and is committed to a sanitarium for the next fifteen years (Halloween movie)
  • The First Doctor leaves London to begin his adventures, leaving behind the Hand of Omega. Later that year two Dalek factions fight over the Hand, until the Seventh Doctor arrives, and tricks them into turning their homeworld's sun into a supernova. (Doctor Who)
• 1964
  • February 23 - Dana Katherine Scully born to William and Maggie Scully (The X-Files).
  • Naked Snake (the future Big Boss) enters Tselinoyarsk in the Soviet Union on a top-secret mission known as Operation: Snake Eater. Within a week he cripples the Shagohod program, maintaining the balance of the Cold War. (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater)
  • The Flintstones and Rubbles, traveling through time via a time machine at the Bedrock World's Fair, visit the 1964 New York World's Fair, before returning to their own era. (The Flintstones)
• 1967
  • Scrooge McDuck dies (according to Keno Don Rosa).
• 1968
  • Marty McFly is born to George McFly and his wife Lorraine Baines McFly. (Back to the Future)
  • Jennifer Parker born in Hill Valley, California (Back to the Future)
  • March 13 - Monica Reyes born in Austin, Texas (The X-Files).
• 1969
  • Ka D'Argo is born. (Farscape)
  • Serge A. Storms is born.

1970s

• c. 30 Years Ago
  • Kal-El's spacecraft lands outside of Smallville, where he is found and adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent. (Flashback in various Superman comics)
• 1970s
  • Soviet Union invades the United States. (Command & Conquer: Red Alert)
• 1970
  • Dr Hannibal Lecter sets up a psychiatric practice in Baltimore, Maryland. Lecter treats a male bowhunter for an arrow wound. Five years later, this man will become the sixth victim of The Chesapeake Ripper.
• 1971
  • Haruka Urashima is born. Aged 27 at start of Love Hina.
  • "The Marauders" (Sirius Black, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew), Lily Evans, and Severus Snape begin their first year at Hogwarts. (Harry Potter)
• 1972
  • The A-Team is framed.
  • Kip Dynamite born; aged 32 in Napoleon Dynamite.
• 1974
  • The Chesapeak Ripper starts his reign of terror in Baltimore Red Dragon
• 1975
  • Sophie Amudson born. Aged 15 in 1990.
  • Between March 12 and March 25, four people are brutally murdered by the Chesapeake Ripper. FBI Agent Will Graham interviews Dr Hannibal Lecter about the sixth victim. Graham realises that Lecter is the serial killer he is hunting and is nearly murdered. Lecter is arrested for the Chesapeak Ripper murders. He is imprisoned for nine counts of first degree murder. Graham retires. (Red Dragon)
• 1976
  • Coup in San Theodoros reinstates General Alcazar.
  • April 28 - Michael Patterson is born. (For Better or For Worse).
  • July 8, Dr Hannibal Lecter is examined after complaining of chest pains. A nurse attempts to give him an ECG and is savaged by Lecter. (Red Dragon)
• 1978
  • G.I. Joe team reformed.
  • FBI Agent Will Graham comes out of retirement to capture The Tooth Fairy, who has murdered two families within a month. He goes to Dr Hannibal Lecter, now imprisoned, for help. (The events of Red Dragon)
  • James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Lily Evans, Severus Snape, and others graduate from Hogwarts. (Harry Potter books)
• 1979
  • Keitaro Urashima born. Mutsumi Otohime born. Mitsuni Konno born. (All aged 19 at the beginning of Love Hina.)

1980s

• c. 20 Years Ago
  • A young Clark Kent starts his superhero career as Superboy. (More Fun Comics #101, 1944)
  • Bruce Wayne's parents are murdered by Joe Chill in what will someday be known as "Crime Alley." (Flashback in Detective Comics #33 and in various other issues)
• 1980
  • Harry Potter is born to Lily and James Potter on July 31 (Harry Potter series.)
• 1981
  • April 26 - Elizabeth Patterson is born. (For Better or For Worse)
  • Futuro, a supervillain, travels back in time to the Stone Age and commits a series of crimes in Bedrock, drawing the attention of Captain Caveman, Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble; all three briefly visit the 20th century in pursuit of Futuro. (The Flintstone Comedy Show)
  • Lesbians Mo, Clarice, Lois, Sparrow and Toni meet each other in the Second Women's Pentagon Action demonstration. (Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For).
  • Naru Narusegawa born. Aged 17 at the beginning of Love Hina.
  • Birth of Buffy Ann Summers.
  • Lord Voldemort murders James and Lily Potter on Halloween after a tip off. Voldemort's killing curse backfires when trying to kill Harry and his disembodied spirit flees. Harry is later retrieved from the ruins of the house by Rubeus Hagrid, and his godfather, Sirius Black, is sent to Azkaban fortress for 13 counts of murder.
• 1983
  • Dr Hannibal Lecter escapes from Memphis, killing five men in the process The Silence of the Lambs.
• 1984
  • Keitaro Urashima, aged five, makes a promise to marry a girl he meets (Love Hina).
  • Motoko Aoyama born. Aged 15 at start of Love Hina.
• 1985
  • The events of the movie The Wedding Singer.
• 1986
  • Events of Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos.
  • A time-stranded crew of Moya seek to prevent John's father from entering the Challenger. A young John loses his virginity to Chiana, and the crew manages to return to their proper time. (Farscape)
  • Criminal Tommy Vercetti is released from prison in Liberty City, and is sent to Vice City by his boss Sonny Forelli. (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City)
• 1987
  • Kaolla Su born. Aged 13 at the start of Love Hina.
• 1988
  • Shinobu Maehara born. Aged 12 at start of Love Hina.
  • The events of the movie Donnie Darko

1990s

• c. 10 Years Ago
  • Clark Kent starts his adult superhero career as Superman in Metropolis. (Action Comics #1 and various retellings)
  • Bruce Wayne begins his career as the Batman. (Detective Comics #27 and various retellings)
• 1990
  • Events of Sophie's World.
• 1991
  • The timequake thrusts citizens of the year 2001 back to this point (Timequake).
  • Harry Potter starts Hogwarts (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.)
• 1992
  • The events of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
  • The Chamber of Secrets is re-opened by Ginny Weasley under the influence of Tom Riddle's diary. The basilisk within it attacks Nearly Headless Nick, Mrs. Norris and four students. Ginny and the school are saved the following year by Harry Potter(Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.)
• 1993
  • August - Sirius Black becomes the first known prisoner to escape from Azkaban. His escape causes panic throughout the wizarding world. In June 1994, Black and former best friend Remus Lupin expose Peter Pettigrew as a traitor in front of Harry, Ron, and Hermione (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.)
• 1994
  • Multibillionaire David Xanatos has Castle Wyvern relocated to the top of his corporate headquarters in Manhattan. The survivors of the Gargoyle Clan living there finally awaken, starting the events of Gargoyles.
• 1995
  • On June 24, Voldemort regains his corporeal form after snatching Harry Potter from the final task of the Triwizard Tournament. Albus Dumbledore, however, is able to reform the Order of the Phoenix just moments after Voldemort summons his remaining Death Eaters back to him. Harry survives; Cedric Diggory is the first of the many casualties to come. (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.)
  • Solid Snake disbands Outer Heaven and defeats his commander, Big Boss. (Metal Gear)
• 1996
  • Sirius Black is killed in the Department of Mysteries by Bellatrix Lestrange. Cornelius Fudge acknowledges that Lord Voldemort has returned (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.)
• 1997
  • Events of the Tim Dorsey novels Triggerfish Twist, Florida Roadkill and Hammerhead Ranch Motel. Serge Storms chases a suitcase with $5 million around Florida.

• 1998
  • Keitaro Urashima takes control of Hinata House (Love Hina).
  • Serge Storms catches up with his suitcase (The Stingray Shuffle)
• 1999
  • December 24th. Solid Snake infiltrates Zanzibar Land and kills Big Boss. (Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake)

21st Century

• 2001
  • September 11 - Michael Hundred, known as the world's only 'superhero', The Great Machine, stops the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 Attacks, leading to only one tower collapsing. (Ex Machina)
  • December 19 - The Something Positive webcomic begins, documenting the lives of Davan and his friends in real time.

• 2002
  • Events of Orange Crush.

• 2003
  • The beginning of the events in Fever Pitch.

• 2004
  • The events of Napoleon Dynamite (based on the assumption that the movie takes place in the 2004 half of Napoleon's '04 - '05 school year, which is when the movie was made).

• 2005
  • October 27 - The end of the events of Fever Pitch when the Red Sox win the World Series.
  • FOXHOUND revolts a week prior to the Iditarod, seizing the Nuclear Disposal Facility on Shadow Moses Island. (Metal Gear Solid)

Notes

• Kilgore Trout has two birthdates in the two different novels in which he stars; 1909 in Breakfast of Champions; 1931 in Timequake. He also has two deathdates, 1981 and 2001. No explanation is offered.

External links

• Historian of Things That Never Were (http://www.mts.net/~arphaxad/history.html) - timelines from across the web
• Fictional encyclopedia wiki (http://moa.dracandros.com/) with a section for fictional history
• Wold Newton Universe Crossover Chronology (http://www.pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/Chron.htm) - several entries on the Wikipedia fictional timeline are taken from the WNU Chronology
• Forgotten Futures (http://www.forgottenfutures.com/) - role playing game based on classic Victorian/Edwardian science fiction, contains many timelines.