The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen timeline

This timeline contains all chronological informations within The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic series, based on direct references and observations.
For an expanded timeline including also non canonical informations see .
==Prehistory==
* Unknown– The Elohim make their presence known, ruling early humanity and, over time, weakening to become the Elder Gods.
* Unknown– The Great Old Ones, including Kutulu, A-Tza-Thoth, Shub-Niggurath, and N'Yala-Thoth-Ep arrive on Earth from the realm of Yuggoth. They battle the Elder Gods and are trapped in R'lyehand other prisons or are otherwise banished. The Elder Gods, further weakened by these battles, become lesser, more humanized gods such as Crom and later the Ancient Greek Pantheon.
==13th century BC==
* 1260 BC – Bio (later Orlando) born in Thebes, during the peaceful interwar period of the reign of King Creon, as the daughter of Tiresias and his wife, and sister of Manto.
* 1250 BC – Bio, having inherited her father's gender changing curse, placed upon him by Hera, becomes a boy at age 10. Bio's father, Tiresias, in his shame over being reminded of his curse, sells Bio as an "exotic novelty" to slaver pirates. The pirates, after a time, sell Bio to the Egyptian Pharaoh Ozymandias.
* 1241 BC – Aged 19, too old for Pharaoh's sexual tastes, Bio signs on for an expedition to Punt.
* 1240 BC – Upon reaching Punt, Bio again changes into a female, fleeing into the jungle from her male companions. Wandering for weeks in the jungle, she discovers the "Pool of Fire and Life," bathes in it and becomes immortal and locates a graven map to Abyssinia, where she discovers a community of other immortals, though they are degenerated into troglodytic state.
* 1236 BC – Having joined this community of immortals, Bio is shown one of their ancient secrets, the shards of a shattered black monolith.
==12th century BC==
* c. 1193 BC – Bio (later Orlando), leaves the immortal troglodyte community and, now as a male named Bion, is sent to Ilium by King Memnon to fight for the city against the Greeks.
* 1184 BC – Bion fights in the Trojan War, an effort by the Greek gods to cull their failed demigod hybrids from humanity, and possibly caused the fall of Troy (in 1910 he commented that "Oh look! What a wonderful horse!" may have been the stupidest thing he ever said). Bion escapes the city with Aeneas.
* c. 1190 BC – After six years of wandering, Bion, along with Aeneas and his family and followers, land in Carthage, where Aeneas has a brief but intense love affair with Dido, on their way to Italy.
* c. 1110 BC – Brutus, Aeneas's great-grandson, is banished from Italy after accidentally killing his father while out hunting. He is accompanied by Bion, faithful friend of the family for the last eighty years.
* 1101 BC – On the island of Leogetia, Brutus receives a vision from Diana that he is to found a mighty island nation; Bion alone of Brutus's crew accompanied him ashore. After several months they reach the island of Albion.
== 11th century BC ==
* 1100 BC – Bion accompanies Brutus and his followers to the island which Brutus claims as "Brutain", after himself. The island, however, is inhabited by savage giants.
* 1100 BC-c. 1090 BC – After some ten years of fighting the giants native to Brutain, they are driven almost to extinction. Corineus, Brutus's best wrestler and later founder of Cornwall, having previously taken the giant's chieftain, Gogmagog, prisoner at Totnes, throws him over a cliff during a wrestling match at a place which is thereafter known as Langoënagog (trans: "The Giants Leap") in modern-day Plymouth. Brutus then founds the city of Troy-Novatum (or "New Troy"); Bion and Andrew Norton are present.
* 1000s BC – At some point after Bion's arrival in 1100 BC, he leaves Troy-Novantum for other lands.
== 10th century BC ==
* 960 BC – Bion (later Orlando), is now female again and in Cathay (China), is again using her female name, Bio. Serving as handmaiden to King Mu, she travelled to Mount K'un Lun where they encounter Lu Wo the giant, human-headed tiger god who administrated the paradise of K'un Lun. Bio stays at K'un Lun as lover to Hsi Wang Mu for nearly 200 years.
== 8th century BC ==
* c. 780 BC – Bio (later Orlando) leaves Mount K'un Lun for Italy, now using the name Vita.
* c. 780 BC – After reigning sixty years, the aged King Leir divides his kingdom into two parts to give to his daughters. Orlando later implies he was present at the time.
* 774 BC – Vita arrives in Italy shortly after the founding of Rome. She becomes the lover of Romulus, co-founder of Rome, but accidentally sleeps with his twin brother Remus, spurring Romulus to kill his brother. Vita, becoming male soon thereafter, slips away unnoticed during the funerary precession. He is now calling himself Vito.
== 7th century BC ==
* 700 BC – Vito enlists in the armies of Assyria, helping Semuramis conquer Mahajanapadas (India).
== 5th century BC ==
* 490 BC – Vito (later Orlando) fights for the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
== 4th century BC ==
* 334 BC – Vito (later Orlando) meets Alexander in Macedonia. Over the next decade or so he will help Alexander conquer most of the known world.
* c. 329 BC – Alexander and Vito have a bathysphere created that they might observe and sketch the likenesses of the various types of sea monsters plaguing Alexandria, and thereby create larger than life iron replicas to scare the real sea monsters away from the shore. These iron monsters would later become tourist attractions.
* 326 BC – Alexander invades India but is obliged to turn back after his army mutinies. One of his generals, the Egyptian Rassen, continues on to cross the Himalayas. Ayesha kills and replaces the goddess Hsi Wang Mu. Orlando will not learn of the death of his former lover until centuries later.
* 323 BC – Alexander dies in Babylon. Vito, soon thereafter becoming a woman again and resuming her female name, Vita, spends the next two hundred and fifty years or so reading through the Library of Alexandria.
== 3rd century BC ==
* 200s BC – Vita (later Orlando) spends the entirety of this century reading through the Library of Alexandria.
== 2nd century BC ==
* 100s BC – Vita (later Orlando) spends the entirety of this century reading through the Library of Alexandria.
== 1st century BC ==
* 55 BC – Vito, now in the Roman army, accompanies Julius Caesar during his attempted invasion of Britain.
* 44 BC, March 14 – Vito present in Rome during the assassination of Julius Caesar.
* 44 BC, October – Vito leaves Rome under the command of Marc Antony.
* 31 BC, September 2 – Vito present at the Battle of Actium, fighting for Antony's forces, and retreating with him back to Alexandria.
* 30 BC, August 1 – Vito, guarding Cleopatra during or after Antony's suicide, and during Cleopatra's suicide, escapes from Augustus's men while himself becoming a woman again. She will remain female, and, presumably, under the name Vita, for the remainder of the century.
== 1st century ==
* 1 – Vita (later Orlando) is male again by this time, and, having resumed (assuming he called himself "Vita" during his previous thirty year stint as female) his male name Vito, is again fighting for Rome against the Teutonic uprising in the province of Germania, probably under the command of then General Tiberius Claudius Nero as part of the XXth Legion.
* 14, September 18 – Vito is present for the succession of his, ostensibly, former commanding officer, Tiberius, to the Empery of Rome. Of him, Orlando later writes that he was "slimy" and "child-molesting".
* 37, March 16 – Vito is present for the succession of Caligula as Emperor of Rome. Of him, Orlando later writes that he was "ruthless... although undeniably sane".
* 41, January 24 – Vito is still in the service of the Roman army, we assume, when Claudius becomes Emperor of Rome. Orlando later writes that he was "stuttering" and "skulking".
* 43 – Vito takes part in the Roman Conquest of Britain.
* 54-55 – Shortly after the succession of the Emperor Nero to the throne (54, October 15), Vito transfers to Naples.
* 61 – Queen Boadicea makes her last stand at the Battle of Bridge Road, a location known in modern times as King's Cross Station. Mr. Andrew Norton, the time travelling "Prisoner of London" is present at the battle, at least briefly. Later, in 1910, Norton makes vague references to Boadicea being buried under platform 10 of King's Cross Station.
* 79, August 24 – During the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Vito, stationed at Naples, accompanies Pliny the Elder on his rescue mission to Pompeii. Vito stays aboard the ship, thereby surviving.
* 100 – Vito becomes apprentice to the Neopythagoreanist philosopher Appolonius of Tyana.
== 2nd century ==
* 100s, Early to Mid – Vito (later Orlando) has become apprenticed to Alexander of Abonoteichus, the snake cultist. Orlando later claims Alexander was a "charlatan".
* 150 – By this point Vito has become female again, resuming her female name "Vita," and is unfavourably propositioned by her teacher Alexander of Abonoteichus, who at this time has nearly reached the height of his fame. In spite, Vita defects to Alexander's rival, the philosopher and satirist Lucian of Samosata, becoming his student instead. Some time after this, on an expedition through the Pillars of Hercules, their ship, being lifted into the sky by a large waterspout, carries Vita and Lucian to the moon. Presumably, Vita returns to Earth with the rest of the expedition which then encounters a large leviathan.
== 3rd century ==
* 218-222 – Vita (later Orlando) endures the reign of the mad Roman Emperor Heliogabalus.
== 4th century ==
* 363 – During the short reign of the Emperor Julian the Empire began to reassert its Pagan heritage from christianity. By 363, the year of Julian's death, Britain is declared, officially, a Pagan nation. Orlando, having studied under such tutors as Alexander of Abonoteichus and Lucian of Samosata, under the name Vita, both strong critics of (and strongly criticized by) Christianity, later recalls that this "greatly cheered" her. It is also at this time that Merlin, presumably, is born.
* After 363 - Vita returns to Britain, claiming it greatly improved since both the Roman Invasion and Julian's religious reforms.
* 376 – At this time in Britain, Vita (later Orlando), is seduced by thirteen-year-old Merlin, whom she refers to as Ambrosius Merlinus.
== 5th century ==
* 410 – Rome rapidly begins to collapse, and in 410 pulls out of Britain.
* 420s-430s – Uther Pendragon, in this power vacuum left by the withdraw of Rome, becomes King of Britain, his power centred in Cornwall. Orlando later refers to it as "Uther's Cornish kingdom".
* 449 – Vita and Merlin take part in "certain marvellous events" that leads to Arturus, son of Uther, becomes King of Britain.
* 449-468 – The Arthurian Era, or Camelot period, of Britain, during which, at some point, Vita becomes male again, resuming his male name of Vito. As Orlando, he later recalls Camelot was "quite as wonderful as is supposed". A man from the 19th century by the name of Hank Morgan arrives in this time period.
* 468 – Vito is present at the Battle of Camlann on Salisbury Plain, where Arturus is mortally wounded by Mordred. Vito fights the Lady of the Lake, whom he later claims (as Orlando) was "a terrifying undine", in order to steal the sword back for himself, renaming it "Durendal". Vito flees Britain, Camelot having been overthrown by Morgana.
* 490 – A sword for hire in Denmark, Vito takes a contract from King Hrothgar to resolve his monster problem. Later, as Orlando, he would imply that he faced the monster. In reality however, Grendel, and later Grendel's mother, were killed by Beowulf.
== 6th century ==
* 500 – Vito becomes companion to the dragon slayer Siegfried, and has his first encounters with ethereal realms.
* 568 – In Asgard, presumably, or some other ethereal realm, Vito (later Orlando) witnesses Ragnarok, the end of the Teutonic gods.
* 568-571 – Ragnarok is mirrored in the Earthly realm by a large meteorite impact that causes a three year period of cold and darkness, prophesied to accompany Ragnarok, and called Fimbul Winter. At this time, Vito makes for France.
== 8th century ==
* 764 – Vito (later Orlando), under the more modern name "Roland," joins the knights of Charlemagne.
* 779 – Roland, having his name mispronounced by the Saracens as "Orlando," becomes the lover of Sindbad the Sailor. Orlando later will claim Sindbad's name was pronounced "Sinned-Bad", that he was very well endowed and that he was "the most ingenious thief of the eighth century."
* 794 or 795 – Orlando meets Caliph Haroun Al Raschid and his queen-consort Scheharezade.
== 9th century ==
* 808 – Orlando and Sindbad, having spent nearly thirty years together as lovers and partners, are separated when Sindbad leaves on his 8th Legendary Voyage, upon which, for some reason, Orlando does not accompany Sindbad and from which Sindbad never returns. Orlando sulks, miserable, in Bagdad for decades.
* 842 – Upon the ascension of Al-Wathik Be’Ilah to the Caliphate, Orlando takes up travelling with the, now styled, Caliph Vathek.
* 847 – Orlando accompanies Caliph Vathek to the catacombs beneath Ishtakar, in the valley of Fakreddin, where the Caliph makes a deal with Eblis and is beset by demons who set his heart ablaze, perpetually, with hellfire for being allowed to view hell’s treasure. Orlando later comments that the treasure was less than impressive.
== 10th century ==
* 900 – Orlando wanders the Holy Land.
== 11th century ==
* c. 1099 – Orlando joins the Crusaders upon their arrival in the Holy Land, joining their side out of admiration of their outfits - these outfits are ostensibly those of the Knights Templar, which he may have joined at this time.
== 12th century ==
* 1147-1149 – Orlando, very likely, takes part in the Second Crusade, fighting on the side of the crusaders. This may be the time when Orlando meets Prester John.
* 1189-1192 – Orlando takes part in the Third Crusade.
* 1192 – Orlando joins Blondel de Nesle and his "minstrel underground" in order to save Richard the Lionheart, who had been taken prisoner for ransom by Leopold V, Duke of Austria. At around this time Orlando swears to go by Orlando for the rest of his days (male or female).
* 1197 – Orlando returns to Britain following the Crusades, becoming a part of the Merry Men.
== 13th century ==
* 1240 – Around this time Orlando learns of Hsi Wang Mu's death at the hands of Ayesha.
== 14th century ==
* 1307 – Orlando, female again at this point, travels in mainland Europe as the assistant to William Tell.
== 15th century ==
* 1415, October 25 – The Battle of Agincourt. Orlando is probably not present for the battle, but later (1914) the ghost of one of the English bowmen claims to recognize Orlando.
* 1450 – Orlando settles in Constantinople, seat or learning, studying by day and working as a dancer by night.
* 1453 – Orlando escapes the fall of Constantinople with other scholars, and heads for Italy.
== 16th century ==
* 1506 – Orlando, in transition from female to male at this time, poses for the Mona Lisa for Leonardo da Vinci.
* 1510-20 – Orlando, male once more, is in Africa at this time.
* 1530s – Orlando studies the occult in Prague under Johannes Faust.
* 1558 – Under the rule of Queen Gloriana I, Sir Jack Wilton establishes English (later British) Intelligence. Queen Gloriana makes Prospero court astrologer, and charges him to, after her death, form the first League, hereafter referred to as Prospero's Men, and bids that both he and Orlando stay in England until such a time. Prospero, under the name John Suttle, takes a wife, Doll Common, and resides in Mortlake. Orlando idles, bored, in London.ù
* 1564 – Queen Gloriana and Sir Jack Wilton visit Greyfriars School.
* 1593, May 30 - The contemporary historical record of the Glorianian Era remembers Mr. Norton as "a strangely attired... Master Nortonne".
* 1596 – Raleigh publishes his account of The Discovery of Guiana, including claims later regarded with scepticism by the editors of The New Traveller's Almanac.
== 17th century ==
==== 1600s ====
* 1600 – Doll Common having recently died, Prospero, in mourning, takes his daughter, Miranda, and his immediate retinue to an enchanted island. Orlando and Queen Gloriana (if Orlando's later biographer, Virginia Woolf, writing of the immortal nearly 320 years later, is to be believed) become lovers for a short while at about this time, and Orlando becomes engrossed in poetry and the arts.
* 1603 – Gloriana dies, leaving the throne to the puritanical King Jacob who orders that all the faerie race be purged from England.
==== 1610s ====
* 1610 – Prospero returns to England to form Gloriana's "League." Who the earliest members consist of (besides Prospero, Caliban, Ariel, and, possibly, Orlando) is unclear. It is possible that their handler is Sir Basildon Bond.
* 1616, 23 April – The "noted biographers" William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes both die on this day, Shakespeare leaving his Fairy's Fortunes Founded folio unfinished.
* 1616 – Fairyland withdraws entirely from England at some time during this year. Most faeries relocate to the Blazing World, just north of the British Isles.
==== 1620s ====
* 1620s, Early – The Duke Prospero encounters Don Quixote at about this time. Don Quixote joins Prospero's Men at some point.
* 1625 – Prospero, Duke of Milan, in the Mediterranean Sea on his way to the Strait of Gibraltar, visits many islands east and, having reached and sailed through the strait, south of Spain.
==== 1650s ====
* Orlando meets Andrew Norton, the prisoner of London, who calls him anti-Semitic.
* 1659 - Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked.
==== 1660s ====
* 1666 – The Year of Wonders. Amber St. Clair, mistress to King Charles II, may have joined Prospero's Men at about this time. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, explores and publishes a record of the Blazing World for the first time.
==== 1670s ====
* 1673 – Captain Robert Owemuch discovers "the great national embarrassment" of Scoti Moria, also called Summer Island or the Floating Island, in the English Channel (sometimes to be found in the Thames-Isis Gulf, other times near France), inhabited by the lazy, chain-smoking, perpetually ninepins playing race called Naiads. One such Naiad, named Lebowski, joins Owemuch's crew, later settling in California on one of Owemuch's American journeys. Captain Owemuch may have joined Prospero's Men at about this time.
* 1678 – Travelling from the "City of Destruction," a location in an apparently ethereal, "symbolic realm," Christian, the Everyman Journeyman, arrives in the town of "Vanity Fair" in which he turns down an alleyway and "steps into the streets of London." Seemingly trapped in our more material, unfamiliar realm, he is confined to a madhouse, possibly Bedlam, from which he is later rescued by Prospero and Orlando. Unable to return to his realm, or his quest for that realm's "Shining City," he joins Prospero's Men in the hopes that Prospero, seemingly "diabolic" to Christian, may be his only hope of again crossing the dimensional gulf.
==== 1680s ====
* 1682 – In Northumberland, upon the North Sea coast, Prospero's Men on their expedition to the Blazing World visit Joyeusegarde[1] to see the Tomb of Launcelot where Prospero notes the dilapidated condition of the monument.
* 1683, Early January – Prospero's Men, including Captain Robert Owemuch, briefly stop at Ransom Island just before reaching the Blazing World. Whether or not they reached the island via one of the three ships of Captain Owemuch is unclear, their ship is only referred to as a "hired trawler."
* 1683, Mid to Late January – They reach The Blazing World whereupon Christian departs into The Blazing World.
==== 1690s ====
* Winter of 1695–1696 – Prospero, Caliban, and Ariel disappear. Captain Owemuch claims it was during a return trip to the Blazing World, though in 1931 British Intelligence was unsure whether Prospero simply drowned at sea. In his 1943 Life, Orlando later confirmed that Prospero and his familiars did in fact reach the Blazing World, and that Prospero's last words as he did so were "Follow me". In 2010 James Bond reads in the League archives that Don Quixote and Amber St. Clair were also present on this mission.
* 1696 – Prospero's Men disband and Orlando roams the world for the next forty-odd years, including a revisit to Kôr.
== 18th century ==
==== 1700s ====
* 1701, September 24 – Gulliver departs Blefescu, using one of their largest warships as a dingy, and is picked up two days later by an English merchantman. Gulliver takes some Lilliputian livestock and people with him back to England.
==== 1720s ====
* 1721 – Lemuel Gulliver would later claim that he discovered Vichenbok Land in 1721.
* 1728 – Frances "Fanny" Hill is born.
==== 1740s ====
* 1740 – Orlando returns to Britain.
* 1749 – John Cleland, in debtor's prison, corresponds with Miss Fanny Hill, and publishes a confessional-autobiography of her life in order to pay for his freedom.
==== 1750s ====
* 1754 – Fanny Hill, at this point 26 years old, encounters, in Bristol while staying at the Admiral Benbow Inn, Lemuel Gulliver for the first time, and shares a brief romantic liaison with him. Soon after, she also encounters future League member Captain Clegg.
==== 1770s ====
* 1770 – The Pirates' conference is held. In attendance are Captain Clegg (aka Dr. Syn), Captain Blood, Captain Slaughterboard, Captain Pugwash, Captain Hook, Long John Silver, Captain Pysse-Gummes, and an unnamed pirate thought by some to be Guybrush Threepwood, a strange pirate who would often ramble about "shoddy, 17th century electrical wiring" and a treasure known as "big whoop".
==== 1780s ====
* 1787 – Lemuel Gulliver, the Reverend Dr. Christopher Syn, and Natty Bumppo (and possibly Baron Münchhausen and Orlando as well) gather in Montague House, London, in order to reform the League of singular individuals (previously known as Prospero's Men) in the employ of English Intelligence. This second group under Captain Gulliver has been called many things in official and unofficial documents.
==== 1790s ====
* 1793 – Monsieur L'Epouvantail, alias Doctor Syn, alias The Scarecrow, alias Captain Clegg, and the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel both are active in rescuing innocent French nobles from the Reign of Terror, smuggling them to England. These activities are probably what bring the Blakeneys and Doctor Syn into each other's acquaintance. Imposing themselves upon Queen Venus of Horselberg, Gulliver's Fellowship meet the young, comely Miss Fanny Hill, a resident of timeless Horselberg since 1754. Miss Hill leaves with the the Fellowship, at this time consisting of Captain Lemuel Gulliver, the Reverend Dr. Christopher Syn (in the guise of Captain Clegg), Nathaniel Bumppo, and the young married couple Sir Percy and Lady (Marguerite) Blakeney, when they depart Horselberg.
* 1794 - The Fellowship, now with its new member, the immortal Orlando, take part in the Giant War upon the peninsula of Brobdingnag, on the coast of California. The political satirist "Humphreys" publishes his "Gulliver's Travails," criticizing the King for lavishing the treasury of the kingdom on his "mad fancies" such as Gulliver's Fellowship.
* 1796 – In north-east England, the Fellowship clash with the legionaries of the subterranean Roman State near Newcastle, and encounter the Vril-ya. At about this time, a portrait is drawn of the Fellowship, backdated to 1787, the probable year of the Fellowship's founding, though the membership was not the same at that time.
* 1799 – Lemuel Gulliver dies in bed with Orlando. The remaining members of the Fellowship—Orlando, Fanny Hill and the Blakeneys—according to Captain Gulliver's last wishes, bury him on Lilliput.
== 19th century ==
==== 1800s ====
* c. 1802 – After revisiting favourite haunts such as Tryphême and Cockaigne with Orlando and the Blakeneys, Fanny Hill returns alone to Venusberg, where Venus introduces her to Tannhäuser. Orlando becomes male again around this time.
==== 1810s ====
* 1 August 1817 – Richard Dadd is born in Kent.
==== 1840s ====
* 1841 – The Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin solves the Murders in the Rue Morgue.
* December 1842 – Travelling on the Nile with Sir Thomas Phillips, artist Richard Dadd believes himself to become possessed by the god Osiris in the form of a fly.
* August 1843 – Richard Dadd kills his father, then is arrested when he attempts to kill a fellow-passenger en route to Paris. He is committed to the asylum at Bedlam.
==== 1850s ====
* 1851 – Henry Edward Jekyll is born.
* Late 1851 – Construction begins on King's Cross station, observed by Andrew Norton.
* 1855 – In Bedlam, Richard Dadd begins work on his masterpiece The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke.
* 1857-1858 – Prince Dakkar (later known as Captain Nemo) takes part in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. Nemo later relates to Wilhelmina Murray that he considers himself never to have surrendered as the Indian rebels did in 1858.
==== 1860s ====
* 1863 – Richard Dadd is transferred from Bedlam to the new hospital at Broadmoor.
* 1864 – Prince Dakkar by this point, at the very latest, has begun construction of the submersible boat Nautilus (later termed the Nautilus I), which he has been designing for about seven years. Richard Dadd completes The Fairy-Feller's Master-Stroke.
* 1865 – Prince Dakkar, now styling himself "Captain Nemo", launches the submersible boat Nautilus, severing ties with any and all land-based governments and becomes a free-roaming science-pirate.
* 1866 – Captain Nemo’s Nautilus first sighted. Captain John Carter, of the Confederate Army, travels to Mars via astral projection. On his way between the planets, however, his astral form is temporarily intercepted by a mysterious Time Traveller.
==== 1870s ====
* 1870 – Sergeant James Winston Pepper, of the British Navy, is lost at sea off the coast of South America.
* 1871 – Six years after her presumed abduction, Miss A. L., during a family visit to the Deanery of Christ Church, Oxford, passes through a looking glass in the Deanery and into the same "contra-rational" world she spoke of six years ago. Upon returning, a mere seven minutes later, she became ill. The disorder apparently prevented her from eating and weakened her until death in late November.
* 1874 - Wilhelmina Murray is born. Basil Hallward paints a sweeping naval scene to commemorate the battle between the Abraham Lincoln and the Nautilus I seven years prior. Some time after 1878 the painting, as oft does with Hallward paintings, magically changes to depict the more up-to-date state of the Nautilus (the Nautilus II) attacking a vessel at sea.
* 1876 – Dr. Eric Bellman leads the "Bellman Expedition" to the "peculiar hole" located "perhaps a mile from Godstow." On April 23 the group ventured into the "well-like space" whereupon the expedition members vanished along with the hole. Their party reappeared in October, completely insane, minus one member and one member strangely, and fatally, transmogrified.
* 1878 – On Lincoln Island Captain Nemo and his crew launch the Nautilus II, a much more advanced craft.
==== 1880s ====
* 1880's – Captain Nemo purchases the Arabic log of the Iraqi adventurer Sinbad.
* 1880 to 1930 – William Sampson Sr. and William Sampson Jr. record/report sites around Ardistan, which shares borders with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Persia.
* 1881 – The infamous "Phantom Incident" occurs beneath the Opéra Garnier.
* 1883 – The Lincoln Island incident which the French authorities believe saw the end of Captain Nemo. In actuality, he has faked his death with the assistance of the Lincoln Island colonists.
* 1885, January to June 21 – William Sampson Senior participates in the fight against the "Mad Mahdi".
* September 1885 – publication of King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, described by Allan Quatermain as "Mr Haggard's somewhat overblown and generous accounts of my adventures". The tale of Allan's exploits is avidly read by the young Mina Murray.
* 7 January 1886 – Richard Dadd dies of lung disease in Broadmoor, and finds himself in the Blazing World, a gnome trapped in his own painting until Faerie brings about the fall of humanity in 2010.
* 1886 - Allan Quatermain fakes his own death in order to escape the world, and Sir Henry Curtis's brother George writes to Lady Ragnall to inform her. The murderous events surrounding the activities of Doctor Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde necessitate the pair's flight from England to France, where they will stay for the next dozen years or so.
* 1888 – Campion Bond possibly recruited into British Intelligence while in school.
* Early December 1888 – Jack Macheath absconds to Argentina.
* December 26, 1888 – A prostitute named Grace is disembowelled by the insane 14th Earl of Gurney.
* 1889 – Allan Quatermain returns to England to seek Lady Ragnall and her supply of the taduki drug which has the power to send you to another life in another time, to which he has become addicted. This leaves him with vague prognosticative visions of the future.
==== 1890s ====
* 1890 – Hugo Coghlan, under contract by Doctor Nikola, travels to Lincoln Island to kill Captain Nemo, only to discover that he is interrupting the Captain's honeymoon. Deciding that killing Nemo on his honeymoon is against his principles (and Nemo's offer of a better deal), Coghlan becomes a retainer of the Nemo family.
* 1890, July – Captain Nemo and his crew travel to the Cape of Good Hope in the Nautilus submersible and encounter several strange islands along the way, including Nacumera.
* 1891, May 4 – The disappearance of Sherlock Holmes and Professor James Moriarty in Switzerland. Both presumed dead.
* 1894 – The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes returns to England. Captain Nemo makes extensive explorations of Antarctica, circumnavigating the continent and making extensive explorations of the interior.
* 1895 - Selwyn Cavor writes to the British Minister of Scientific Progress on the imperative of beating the French to the moon.
* 1896 – The haemovoric (or blood eating) Molluscs, having conquered a community of Sorns on Mars and used them for livestock and foodstuffs, send a Crystal Egg to Earth. It ends up in the shop window of a Mr C. Cave. In the lighter gravity of Mars, the Molluscs stand upright on, and hop about upon, their tentacles and graft wings onto their backs using "flesh mechanics." They used the Crystal Egg to spy on Earth. On Noble Island, off Ecuador, Dr. Alphonse Moreau and his research base are beset by unfortunate incidents which necessitate his relocation to Wild Wood in England's South Downs.
* 1897 – Hawley Griffin disappears from public view when he becomes the Invisible Man. Ishmael, first officer aboard the Nautilus, reports a sighting of the "ghost submersible" around Drakes Passage, later known as the Yellow Submarine, as recorded in the Nautilus’s logbook by Captain Nemo.
* 1897, August 8 – Dracula arrives in England.
* 1897, c. December – Jonathan and Wilhelmina Harker divorce after their return to London. In some financial hardship, Mina Murray takes employment with British Intelligence.
* 1898, April – Parisian prostitute Anna Coupeau is found with her neck broken, the first in a series of similar murders attributed to a mysterious ape-like figure.
* 1898, May – Wilhelmina Murray and Captain Nemo set out from the cliffs of Dover in the Nautilus to travel to Egypt to recruit Allan Quatermain into their League.
* 1898, Early-Mid June – Wilhelmina Murray and Captain Nemo arrive in Cairo, Egypt, where they, with some minor difficulty, recruit and detoxify Allan Quatermain, who has become a pathetic opium addict in his later years.
* 1898, June 27-28 – The three of them (Mina, Allan, Nemo) arrive in Paris, France, where they, with the help of the aged C. Auguste Dupin, capture Edward Hyde (as well as his alter-ego Dr. Henry Jekyll), and return to England.
* 1898, Early July – A unified coalition of Martian armies under the command of John Carter, of Virginia, and Gullivar Jones, of the United States Navy, make one final attack on the last stronghold of the alien creatures which have plagued Mars for some time, creatures they call the Molluscs. The siege is successful only by using the combined strength of all the significant armies of Mars, including the giantish Sorns. Unfortunately, the Molluscs manage to escape in several cylinder shaped refugee ships bound for Earth. Carter and Jones find the twin of the Crystal Egg in the Molluscs’ abandoned stronghold, and through it can see the interior of Sherlock Holmes' flat, the bust he keeps by the window and the street opposite. The launch of these craft are seen on Earth, and believed to be volcanic eruptions, and are reported as such in the London papers.
* 1898, July 3 – Wilhelmina Murray, Allan Quatermain, and Nemo arrive in Edmonton, London, at Miss Rosa Coote's Correctional Academy for Wayward Gentlewomen, where they capture Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man, who has been raping the schoolgirls of the academy and produced at least three illegitimate children.
* 1898, July 5 – The three official League members arrive at what will become their base of operation, the Secret Annexe of the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London, where they officially induct Hyde, Jekyll, and Hawley Griffin into their League.
* 1898, c. July 6-August 4 – The League make inquiries as to the location of the Devil Doctor, the "Lord of Limehouse" in London, reconnoitring back at the Nautilus (which has dropped anchor in the Thames River in Wapping) that evening, which has become their lodging in London. Through infiltration, sabotage, subterfuge, suspicion, quick thinking, and violence the League manage to survive the first London "Air War", which is waged between London's leading criminal factions: Professor James Moriarty controlling London’s West End and the Devil Doctor controlling London's East End. Both faction leaders are presumed dead. Mycroft Holmes assumes control of British Intelligence.
* 1898, August 5 – The Molluscs, falsely called Martians by the public of Earth, land in Horsell, in the South of England, in the early morning. The League, under Wilhelmina Murray, is dispatched to investigate, and witness the onset of "Martian" aggression.
* 1898, Saturday, August 6 – British artillery and infantry regiments guarding the Horsell Commons crater are vaporized by "Martian" heat rays. Murray Group pull back to London and their British Museum base. Map with British Artillery positions stolen.
* 1898, Sunday, August 7 – The "Martians" has reached just south of London, where Captain Nemo and Mr. Hyde, in the Nautilus take part in fighting along the locks connecting to the River Thames, defending London from its inevitable siege. Meanwhile Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain arrive in Wildwood, in England's South Downs, to seek out a secret British research installation run by the eccentric scientist Dr. Alphonse Moreau.
* 1898, Monday, August 8 - "Martians" clog the Thames with red weed. Allan Quatermain and Wilhelmina Murray found copulating in the woods by H-9. Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man, answers for his crimes against England and Humanity with his life. Murray and Quatermain have meeting with Dr. Alphonse Moreau and his Animen.
* 1898, August 9 – Final victory over the "Martians" in South London. Citing moral issues, Captain Nemo resigns from the League and returns to his family on Lincoln Island. Edward Hyde turns the tide of the battle, but does not survive to see final victory. Martians die of the "common cold."
* 1898, August 12 – Aeronaut Jean Robur writes a letter to Luftkapitan Mors, describing the events of the last two weeks.
* 1898, September 30 – Wilhelmina Murray’s League officially dissolved.
* 1898, c. October 2 through 1899, July – Wilhelmina Murray spends some months in the matriarchal settlement of Coradine, in Scotland, in order to recuperate from the "Martian" invasion.
* 1899, July 7 - Wilhelmina Murray, in response to a letter from Allan Quatermain, writes that a visit from him to Coradine would not only be permissible, but, to Mina, very welcome, as she has become quite bored with the women of the all female community.
* 1899, c. July-September 7 – Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain, once again in the employ of British Intelligence, are sent to Massachusetts to investigate the bizarre and dreamlike apparitions reportedly seen there. The two of them make acquaintance with Randolph Carter, who has been researching the realm of dreams, and has been investigating along similar lines.
* 1899, September 8 – Allan Quatermain writes to Campion Bond that they are returning to England from Massachusetts.
* 1899, Late – Serpentine Park is renamed Hyde Park after the events of 1898 and a statue of Edward Hyde by Jacob Epstein is erected in his honour. Allan Quatermain and Wilhelmina Murray return to England from America and begin the investigation of the United Avondale Phalanstery. The investigation occupies them until mid-August of 1900.
== 20th century ==
==== 1900s ====
* 1900, Mid-August–Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain go on assignment to Africa in search of the City of Kôr and the Pool of Fire and Life, which grants youth and immortality. On the sea trip to Africa, Wilhelmina records several interesting, though previously explored, islands that the ship passes.
* 1900, December 24– Wilhelmina Murray writes that they've located Kôr in the British Protectorate of Uganda on the Fantippoan Postmaster General's "detailed map of Africa".
* 1901, January 8 – Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain trek southeast from the Kingdom of Fantippo, in Africa, to Uganda and the hidden city of Kôr, passing several interesting kingdoms and lands as they go, and finding the Fire of Life as well as a "stone etched map of Abyssinia... by the crater pool."
* 1901 – The difficulties encountered in the effort to rebuild London after the Martian Invasion of 1898, and also the strain of returning to full military strength, is cited as one of the primary reasons England loses the Boer War. The Airship Wars break out. The English lunar expedition, succeeds travelling to and annexing the Moon. Selwyn Cavor does not survive the journey, and a monument is dedicated to him in St. James's Park. Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain find Kôr in Africa and bathe in the Pool of Fire and Life, making both of them immortal and rejuvenating Allan to a younger age. To conceal his mystical age change and prevent British Intelligence from finding out about the fire's regenerative abilities, they claim nothing had happened and Allan died of exposure later on, claiming the rejuvenated hunter to be his son, Allan Quatermain, Jr. Rumours of Sherlock Holmes's continued existence circulate, though nothing is at this time substantiated.
* 1901, July – Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain, Junior, return to England.
* 1901, Late – Mina visits the Reverend Dr Eric Bellman, the last survivor of the Bellman Expedition, and obtains a map to Snark Island for British Intelligence. Wilhelmina also makes inquiries regarding Winton Pond and its small island of East Anglia.
* 1902 – Sherlock Holmes publicly announces his survival of the events of 1894. Allan Quatermain Junior, and Wilhelmina Murray travel to Ireland as part of their two-year investigation of dimensional weak points throughout the British Islands.
* 1902, February - In May 1898 this was the projected completion date of the Channel Causeway, stretching from the Cliffs of Dover to France.
* 1904 – Whilst honeymooning in Cairo, Oliver Haddo comes into contact with the demon-goddess Smarra, who bids him write down the Liber Logos (or Book of the Word) over a period of three days. Shortly thereafter, he leaves the Order of the Golden Twilight or 'Geltische Dammerung,' and forms his own 'Ordo Templi Terra,' or Order of the Temple of Earth.
* 1904, Early May – Wilhelmina Murray travels to Sussex to investigate the mysterious "Wish House" and the strange case of the Starkadder Apparition near Smalldene. Also, Mina meets an elderly man who keeps bees in Fulworth, Sussex, a retired Sherlock Holmes.
* 1905 - Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain Jr.'s investigation of strange phenomenon around the British Isles comes to a close.
* 1906, March-September – Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain, Junior, are deployed to Asia, with primary emphasis on strengthening diplomatic relations between Russia and England for the upcoming Anglo-Russian Convention. The two research many interesting lands throughout China, Persia and Russia. Notably, the city of Shangri-La in Tibet.
* 1906, September 5 – Wilhelmina Murray writes a letter to London from Shangri-La reporting that she and Allan Jr. have met Orlando and that the three of them are heading toward Moscow, and that they should arrive there before the end of the year.
* 1906, November – Second Murray League is ordered to leave Moscow for the port of Tiksi, and thereby return to England via a trans-polar investigation through the Arctic Ocean.
* 1906, December 25 – Second Murray League are still travelling by coach to Tiksi at this time.
* 1906, December 27 – Second Murray League depart Tiksi aboard the rented ice-breaker Joseph, under the captainship of Rudolf Svejk, bound for the Chukchi Sea.
* 1906, December 28 – Second Murray League, Wilhelmina Murray, Allan Junior and Orlando, arrive in the Chukchi Sea and pass by Elisee Reclus Island.
* 1906, December c. 30 – Second Murray League turn northwest and pass by Vichenbolk Land.
* 1907, January 1 – Second Murray League have encounter with two giant, cultured, dinosaurian inhabitants from the subterranean North Pole Kingdom.
* 1907, January 2-3 – Second Murray League discovers the Polar Bear Kingdom. After spending some time with these talking Bears, they head east toward Norway’s Svalbard islands.
* 1907, January 4-6 – Second Murray League sails past Gaster's Island, enters the Sea of Frozen Words, and sails past Queen Island, Thule, and Hyperborea.
* 1907, January 7 – Second Murray League's ice breaker Joseph finds itself unable to sail farther north, due to heavy ice.
* 1907, January 8 to March 19, or thereabouts – Second Murray League heads out on foot into the Back of the North Wind, freakishly warm for being so far north. This group spends what, subjectively, seems like three days, but is actually closer to three months, in the Back of the North Wind, and encounter such peoples and places as Frankenstein's Creature, Olympia, Toyland, a "forlorn and sorry chap" who lacks identification, and Noddy, and are made aware of a "bold, fearless black balloonist," before leaving.
* 1907, March 10 – Wilhelmina posts a letter to England reporting that they are the guests of Queen Olympia in Toyland.
* 1907, March 25 – The Second Murray League arrives in the Blazing World archipelago on their way back to the British Isles.
* 1907, April – Murray, Quatermain and Orlando return to Great Britain.
* 1907 – In the Rhine valley, a violet-eyed young derelict turns up out of nowhere. He claims to be the heir to Castle Gormenghast, which is never found.
* 1908 – Campion Bond publishes his Memoirs of an English Intelligencer.
* 1908, April – The Channel Causeway, a bridge between the Dover Cliffs and France, is completed.
* Summer 1908 - The world believes Haddo dead, but in fact he narrowly escapes the fire and lives on under the name "Dr. Karswell Trelawney".
* c. 1909 – It is sometime this year, British Intelligence speculates, that the League clone "Die Zwielichthelden" was formed. Its members, based in Berlin's Metropolis include the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse, the homicidal mesmerist Dr. Caligari, engineer Dr. Rotwang and his female automaton, the Maschinenmensch. The Second Murray Group is completed with the additions of Thomas Carnacki and Arthur James Raffles.
==== 1910s ====
* Early 1910– Doctors Caligari and Mabuse, members of the German counterpart League, "Die Zweilicht-Helden," begin their campaign of misinformation against the English and French intelligence communities. Their goal is to embroil the two in conflict, leaving themselves (and Germany) free to further their ambitions without outside interference. This sets the stage for a future confrontation between the English and French leagues.
* 1910, February 24 – The daughter of Captain Nemo, Janni, stows away aboard a passing ship, running away from her father and her home on Lincoln Island in defiance of her dying father's wish that she become his successor.
* 1910, c. April 2 – The Second Murray Group, acting on the visionary dreams of its member Thomas Carnacki, begin investigations into a secret doomsday cult somewhere in London. Janni, now styling herself Jenny Diver, arrives in London. Jack MacHeath returns to London after a near twenty-two year absence. In his bed on Lincoln Island, Captain Nemo (Prince Dakkar) dies.
* 1910, April 20-21 – Andrew Norton, the time travelling "Prisoner of London", is encountered by Mina Murray and Raffles at King's Cross. Allan Quatermain Junior, Orlando and Carnacki break into Oliver Haddo's "Profess-House." The pirates of the Nautilus raid the London docks and "Pirate Jenny" leaves with them as their captain.
* 1910, Late– Jenny Diver starts adding to the Nautilus's logbook. Professor George Edward Challenger makes an expedition to Peru, where he discovers something amazing.
* 1911 – The Caswell family fights the ancient entity the "White Worm," existent beneath their ancestral home of Castra Regis in Staffordshire.
* 1912 – Professor George Edward Challenger, sometime consultant to the League, makes a return expedition to South America, where he explores Maple White Land, where there be dinosaurs. The Second Murray League visits Launcelot's tomb in Northumberland, for reasons that remain unexplained, before returning to London. Thereafter, Allan Junior and Mina travel across Europe on holiday, briefly investigating the Castle Dracula and Selene before arriving at the destination, Evarchia, on the coast of the Black Sea. Meanwhile, in London, Thomas Carnacki encounters a spirit that gives him precognitive visions, portending the League's clash with Les Hommes Mysterieux in Paris and the onset of World War I. British Intelligence, swayed by artful propaganda disseminated by Die Zwielichthelden, supposes that France plans to provoke a world war with their Hommes Mysterieux.
* Late 1912- The sinking of the Titan. Janni Dakkar and the crew of the Nautilus ruthlessly plunder the wrecked ship.
* 1913 – Birth of William King, later known as "King of the Jungle".
* 1913, Early – The Second Murray League, consisting of Wilhelmina Murray, Allan Quatermain, Junior, Orlando, and A. J. Raffles travel to France, possibly via the agrarian republic of Calejava on the Bay of Biscay. They intend to confront Les Hommes Mysterieux and thus prevent the horrific visions of world war seen by Carnacki, who remains in Britain, laid low by fever.
* 1913, February 23 – The Second Murray Group's first attempt to confront Les Hommes Mysterieux ends in disaster when their balloon assault on Jean Robur's airship is halted more than a half-mile distant by his airborne artillery.
* 1913, March 14 – Murray's League, having made their way to Paris after surviving their crash-landing in rural France, are lured to the Paris Opera by Les Hommes Mysterieux. The league's skirmish ends indecisively when the terrorist mastermind Fantômas remotely detonates a large cache of explosives sequestered in the former lair of the Phantom of the Opera, collapsing a portion of the above opera house. Though the explosion and subsequent collapse cause some 200 casualties, Orlando and Allan Junior survive and begin assisting digging out bodies; Raffles and Mina, who were under the Opera House at the time, remain missing. Most of the French League's whereabouts remains unclear.
* 1913, March 15-17 – Wilhelmina Murray and Arthur Raffles are lost in the caverns below Paris, encountering the Graveyard of Unwritten Books and the Land of the Fattipuffs, before returning to the surface on the 17th.
* 1913, August 11 – Orlando posts a letter to Carnacki that they are returning home after the events at the Paris Opera.
* 1914, May – Richard Hannay, a British Military intelligence agent and associate of Allan and Mina's, returns to London from Rhodesia and is, via a call for help from a fellow spy, pulled inexorably into the "terribly cryptic" Case of The Thirty Nine Steps.
* 1914, August 23-24 – At the Battle of Mons, Orlando, along with Edmund Blackadder, Private S. Baldric and Old Bill, witnesses Agincourt’s phantom bowmen aiding the English soldiers.
* 1915 – Release of D. W. Griffiths' epic drama The Birth of a Nation, later identified as the first masked-avenger film. Arthur Raffles is killed in the Second Battle of Ypres. Rival inventors Jack Wright and Frank Reade Jr. collaborate on the construction of Charles Foster Kane's artificial mountain.
* 1916, c. September – Jean Robur's airship shot down at the Battle of Somme, the Germans retaking air supremacy at this time in the battle.
* 1918, 17 July – Czar Nicholas II and his family are murdered by the Bolsheviks. The Czar's eldest daughter Grand Duchess Olga escapes and is later given the palace at Ici on the Red Sea Coast by King Fuad of Egypt.
* 1919 – In the ruins of Utopia, Hugo Danner is killed by Hugo Coghlan, under contract by Clark Savage, Sr.
==== 1920s ====
* 1920 – In Smallville, Kansas, film director Nevada Smith fakes footage of the discovery by Eben and Sarah Kent of a rocket with a baby inside it. This is U.S. propaganda in response to the existence of the British, French and German special teams, America's only genuine superhuman Hugo Danner having recently disappeared while on an archaeological expedition.
* 1922, Summer – Orlando attends the wild parties of Jay Gatsby.
* 1925 - Janni Dakkar and the crew of the Nautilus steal the treasure of Queen Ayesha from Charles Foster Kane in New York. Kane employs several American scientists to pursue the Nautilus. Janni and her crew sail to the Antarctic in order to recreate her father's ill-fated journey to the Mountains of Madness and bury his legacy. Ishmael is killed, and Janni and Broad Arrow Jack become lovers.
* Late 1925 – Orlando becomes one of the Bright Young People set, and consorts and parties with, among others, the set's leader Agatha Runcible, Lord and Lady Greystoke and Bertie Wooster.
* 1926 – R'lyeh is discovered by British authorities. The workers' riots in the Berlin Metropolis take place, Professor C.A. Rotwang and his Maschinenmensch are the believed instigators, both possibly dying in the conflagration. Janni Dakkar's daughter Hira is born.
* 1928 – Young Swiss-German millionaire Auric Goldfinger mounts an unsuccessful expedition in search of El Dorado. Richard Seymour, future Jungle Lord, is born.
* 1929 – Birth of Carol Flane, the future Electro Girl.
==== 1930s ====
* 1930 – Mina Murray, Allan Quatermain, Orlando, and Thomas Carnacki travel to Brinkley Court, Worcestershire, to put down a dangerous reformed cult. They are summoned by Jeeves, who was present with his master, Bertie Wooster. Jeeves was alerted to the presence of the cult when his master informed him the groundskeeper, Peabody, spoke at great lengths regarding the great "Cool Lulu", the reservation of "Riley", and the city of Yuggoth, which Wooster supposed was in Massachusetts. A body of an Elder Thing is later recovered from the scene, buried in the garden. Scientific Expedition to the Black Lagoon (no survivors).
* 1930, May – New Traveller's Almanac completed and is published by HM Stationery Office.
* 1933 - An ill thought out exhibition of a giant ape, dubbed the eighth wonder of the world, ends abruptly with the ape's escape. During the subsequent rampage, the ape kidnaps a young woman and climbs the Empire State Building before being brought down. Its body is eventually stolen by Janni Dakkar and returned to its native island.
* 1934-1935 – Vull the Invisible has his most celebrated adventures. Some time after this, he is tracked down and fatally shot by Mina Murray, who steals his invisibility helmet and identity.
* 1937 – The first "Jungle Robot," predecessor to the Robot Archie, is taken, by two young explorers, on an expedition to Africa (no survivors). The Robot, or what is left of it, is later seen in the British Museum's Secret Annexe.
* 1937, Spring – Wilhelmina Murray, Allan Quatermain, Jr., and Orlando travel via submarine to the Blazing World Archipelago. It is around this time that Hugo "Bulldog" Drummond begins working for his friend John "Johnny Bull" Night breaking strikes and thwarting other acts of social activism. Birth of Emma Night, daughter of Sir John Night; Drummond is made Emma's godfather.
* 1937, Winter – Wilhelmina Murray and co. return to England, handing in a possibly fabricated report regarding subterranean exploits in the North of England, known for subterranean sites of interest to British Intelligence.
* 1938 - Nemo's granddaughter Hira is married to Armand Robur, the son of Jean Robur, on Lincoln Island.
* September 1939 – Dictator Adenoid Hynkel starts World War II when German-Tomanian forces invade Poland, deposing King Stanislaw Ubu III.
* Late 1939 - Oliver Haddo was calling himself "Dr Karswell Trelawney" in 1910 and later states that "Trelawney" is one of the many names under which he has faked his death.
* Early 1941 – Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain, Junior, return to London after dynamiting a half-mile section of the Channel Causeway. The two are sent on a mission to the United States in order to convince them to enter the war on England's behalf.
* Late 1941 - Janni Dakkar and Broad Arrow Jack travel to the Berlin Metropolis in order to rescue her loved ones from the clutches of Adenoid Hynkel, where they encounter the last vestiges of the Twilight Heroes. During the ensuing conflict, Broad Arrow Jack is killed by Dr. Rotwang's female automaton, the Maschinenmensch. The Metropolis is destroyed by Robur's Terror in revenge.
* 1942 – Emma Night meets her godfather Hugo Drummond for the first time.
* 1943 - Orlando, having joined the RAF, is shot down over France, but manages to escape back to London to find the League's Museum base deserted. He takes the time on leave from the RAF to compose a brief memoir, later adapted as "The Life of ORLANDO." At this point both Dr. C.A. Rotwang and Vull the Invisible are probably confirmed dead, their effects being kept in the Secret Annexe of the British Museum.
* 1944 – Orlando slips from view of British authorities, some say because he has been turned into an orange cat.
* 1946 – Robert Cherry, now using the pseudonym of Harry Lime, fakes his death in the sewers of Vienna, sometime afterward becoming the new M. The Ministry of Love assembles the "surrogate League" under Capt. Joan Warralson. Their membership included Professor James Grey, new invisible man Dr. Peter Bradey, Wolf of Kabul William Samson Junior, and the Iron Warrior.
* c. 1946 – Birth of the first of the clones of Ayesha engineered by Josef Mengele.
* 1947 – The Warralson Team fight a cabal of the Famous Five's most powerful adversaries, led by criminal mastermind and former agent of Fascist Italy, Count Zero, and the slaver/pirate James Soames. The mission is an apparent failure and the Warralson Team is disbanded. After fiddling with the machine that caused the inadvertent incineration of bio-electrician Dr Florian Flane, his daughter Carol Flane is imbued with electrical powers and becomes Electro Girl.
* December 1, 1947 - At his Netherwood estate in Hastings, Oliver Haddo fakes his death, abandoning his dying body and possessing that of Kosmo Gallion.
* 1948 – The INGSOC Party purges Limehouse. Martian intelligence agent Garath Ganzz arrives at the Birmingham Spaceport. The Big Brother regime is rounding up extraterrestrials, but the Marsman's psi-skills allow him to avoid arrest and he eventually relocates to Bigburg, Texas. Horoscope compiler Eusebius Zom is murdered by his editor. His spirit is granted powers by the astrological deities and becomes Zom… of the Zodiac! Richard Seymour, Jungle Lord, dies and is buried at Zuvendis.
* 2 November, 1948 – Mike Thingmaker is elected President of the United States, ushering in a brief period of communist rule, changing the flag to red-white-and red and initiating purges on Capitol Hill.
==== 1950s ====
* 1950 - Raboo the Lion Boy dies and is buried at Zuvendis.
* c. 1951 – At Cliff House School, Emma Night and her friends Tarsy and Patsy expose the gym mistress Miss Klebb as a Eurasian agent. Their friend Cathy's delight is somewhat muted.
* 1951 – David Gaunt adopts the identity of the Flash Avenger.
* 1952 – The Life of Orlando is intended to be republished as a facsimile in the August-October 1953 editions of TRUMP, but is suppressed beforehand. General Sir Harold Wharton, known as "Big Brother", dies on the 27th and is replaced as Party leader by Gerald O'Brien. Toby the Fat Schoolboy is born.
* 1953 – Another attempted invasion of Earth from Mars is thwarted after extraterrestrials land near Linda Rosa, California.
* 1954 – James Logan, brother of Jet-Ace Logan and researcher at the U. N. Interplanetary Division, is granted powers by the deities of reason Galileo, Archimedes, Leonardo, Aristotle and Pythagoras to become Captain Universe, Super-Marvel King of the Spaceways.
* 1955 – Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain are in San Francisco, and help Sal Paradyse and Dean Moriarty defeat Dr. Sachs and the Nova Mob. They also meet telepath Brain Boy (Matt Price), who is aware of Mina's secret identity as Vull the Invisible.
*1956 – David Gaunt marries Gail Garrity. They later have a son, named Henry after David's father.
*1956, September 7 – Robert Cherry writes his director's summary of the Murray group's later activities for Gerald O'Brien.
*1958 – Marsman returns to Britain. Satin Astro, arriving from the year 2996 in a stolen Time Bubble, crash-lands ten miles from Bigville in the American Midwest. She is unable to remember the purpose of her mission due to Chrononaut Amnesia Syndrome, and over the next few years finds acting roles as a space villainess (including Star Sapphire) in America's superhero industry.
*1958, May – James Bond, under secret contract from the C.I.A., assassinates industrialist Sir John Night. As an alibi for Bond, the C.I.A. fabricates the events of Dr. No (this is a subtle joke on their part as there was "no doctor").
==== 1960s ====
*1963 – The Marvelman Family (Marvelman, Young Marvelman and Kid Marvelman) is apparently destroyed by Dr Gargunza, leaving Ace Hart as the pre-eminent British superhero. Tarna the Jungle Boy dies and is buried at Zuvendis.
* 1964 - The Rutles visits Pepper's Land.
*1965 – Jack Dakkar is born. Hildy Johnson travels again to Lincoln Island for Janni Nemo's seventieth birthday, and informs her of the current pretender to the throne of Kôr who claims to be the deceased Ayesha.
*1966 – Zom of the Zodiac is "discorporated" by the Duke de Richleau. In Dundee, Marsman and Satin Astro arrive at Jack Flash's hideout for redundant British superheroes. Appalled at the squalor, they agree to leave for Bigburg the next day. In New York City, a woman by the name of Rosemary gives birth to the Anti-Christ, but the baby dies shortly after birth.
*1968 - In Paris, Mina Murray drunkenly relates the tale of her lunar adventures to James Colvin of Lewd Worlds, altering some details. David Gaunt, the Flash Avenger, dies of lung cancer and is buried in Highgate Cemetery. Saber, King of the Jungle, dies and is buried at Zuvendis.
*1968, November 5 - Rock star Max Foster becomes the youngest person to be elected as President of the United States. Once in office, he institutes "hippie fascism", in which those over 35 are rounded up, sent to "re-education camps", and permanently dosed on LSD.
*1969 - Minions of the Moon by John Thomas is serialised in Nos 183-185 of Lewd Worlds Science Fiction (ed. James Colvin). After years of terrorizing London, The infamous Piranha Brothers Doug and Dinsdale are captured by Superintendent Harry "Snapper" Organs. Former Mercurian space-policeman Jack Flash commits suicide by jumping from a tower block in Dundee. Basil Thomas, the leader of the popular Purple Orchestra, is murdered by occultists as a human sacrifice for the body transfer of their leader, Oliver Haddo. Basil's friend, gang boss Vince Dakin, hires hitman Jack Carter to avenge him. Mina Murray, Allan Quatermain and Orlando return to England on the Nautilus and meet Andrew Norton, who gives them clues to Haddo's plan. Haddo attempts to take over the body of Turner at a concert in Hyde Park, but the ritual is interrupted by Mina. When Haddo's human form, Kosmo Gallion, is killed by Jack Carter, Haddo's spirit is forced to hastily possess the body of Tom Riddle, after which he departs for King's Cross. Mina is sent to a lunatic asylum when a drug causes her to see visions of Dracula. Carter then travels north to investigate the death of his brother.
==== 1970s ====
* 1975 - Janni Dakkar, now aged and suffering from a tenuous grip on reality, travels with her retainer Hugo Coghlan down the Amazon river to confront a seemingly resurrected Ayesha. There, they discover that surviving Nazis, including Martin Bormann and Doctor Josef Mengele, along with their ally Heinz Goldfoot, have built a large factory built into an ancient temple complex, and have created multiple clones of Ayesha and Adenoid Hynkel as well as an army of buxom female Bikinitrons. With her allies, Janni destroys the clones and their factory, but having exhausted herself and in failing health, choses to stay behind, resting on a throne made from the bodies of her enemies as the factory explodes around her.
* mid-1970s - after Ayesha's death, Kôr is devastated by the troops of Idi Amin.
* 1977: Orlando and Allan, having lost their only connection to the Blazing World now that Mina is gone, part ways.
==== 1980s ====
* 1981 - Detective Alexandra "Alex" Drake wakes up and is shocked to discover that Gene Hunt, Ray Carling, and Chris Skelton, of whom she had been told by another time traveler, Sam Tyler, actually exist. Andrew Norton observes them chasing The Clown.
* 1982 – Pepper's Land is destroyed during the Falklands War between Britain and Argentina.
* 1987 - Twelve years after his grandmother's death, Jack Dakkar takes over as captain of the Nautilus.
==== 1990s ====
* Jack Nemo uploads the punch-cards left by Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen on his death in 1925 to create a literal thinking machine.
* Late 1995 - Emma Night is appointed the new M.
* 1999 - Oliver Haddo, in the guise of wizarding school administrator Tom Riddle, attempts to cultivate the Antichrist. The plan backfires terribly, as the boy chosen for the task rebels and destroys the school before beheading Haddo and going into hiding.
== 21st Century ==
==== 2000s ====
* April 2005 – On Mars, William Stendhal's second House of Usher is completed, then destroyed.
* 7 July 2005 – Andrew Norton, the prisoner of London, observes the aftermath of the 7 July bombings.
* September 2006–February 2007 – Orlando, serving with the British Army, takes part in Operation Sinbad.
* Autumn 2009 – In a desperate bid to find Mina in order to prevent the apocalypse, Orlando gives the new M the location of the Pool of Fire and Life. After rescuing Mina from a lunatic asylum, the two travel to the ruins of Hogwarts to find information on how to defeat the Antichrist. Eventually, the two, along with Alan Quartermain, confront the Antichrist. During the battle Allan Quartermain is killed, although the Antichrist is eventually defeated by Mary Poppins. The ominous lights in the sky cause Captain Nemo to withdraw to Lincoln Island and Satin Astro to recover her memories of the future. In the aftermath, Emma Night (newly resigned from MI6) arrives with Tara King and Patsy Stone; they drive off with Mina, Orlando and Allan's body. Cathy Gale flies them to Zuvendis, where Allan is buried, and then on to Kampala in Uganda.
* Late 2009 - From there Mina, Emma and Orlando proceed to Kôr, where they bathe in the Fire of Life and decide to make for Lincoln Island. In Emma's absence, the elderly Sir James Bond assumes the role of M.
== 22nd century ==
* 2164 - By this time, Jack Dakkar had established the space pirate colony of New Lincoln in the Oort Cloud and is happily married to Mina. Earth is invaded by Daleks.
== 30th century ==
* The Oort Cloud has become a legendary space-pirate sanctuary and Orlando (now male again) is the century's most-hunted space-pirate.
* 2996 – Bio-engineered soldier Satin Astro defects and becomes a space-pirate adversary of the Lord of Mars, along with her lover Burt Steele. After many adventures, the rebels contrive a desperate plan to go back in time and prevent the fall of humanity. They infiltrate the Legion of Superheroes' base in the domed citadel of We, but are attacked by Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl. Burt is injured and possibly killed, but Satin makes it to the Legion's "aeonosphere" and is thrown back in time to 1958.
* 2997 – Arda Moore becomes the first female President of the United States.
== Distant future ==
* 802,701 - When first testing his Time Machine, the Time Traveller ends up in this distant future. He finds the Eloi and the Morlocks, whose Sphinx statue he takes over as his own headquarters.
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