Earth-27 Timeline/1900 - 1949

### 1904

* Malcolm Curry finds out about Gerhardt Gestern and Barbara Blythe's immoral actions. He asks Barbara to leave her lifestyle.
* Malcolm proposes to Barbara.
* Gerhardt takes Malcolm's soul and puts it in a crystal. Barbara tries to release his body, but Malcolm's body attacks her. During the fight the body is destroyed, and she's caught in an explosion. Gerhardt saves her life, but her face and arms are scarred. He gives her Malcolm's soul and leaves her.
* **December 21st:** Sarah Dodds, Chester Heywood and Albert Elwood join the Society.

### 1905

* Grigori Rasputin is introduced to Tzar Nicholas II. In time, he's given a place in the Russian court.

### 1908

* **Late January:** Iroque is born.
* **May 17th:** Nelson Gardner is born.
* **October:** Ilsa Haupstein wins a golden medal at the 1908 Olympics.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ Gerhardt Gestern takes Karl Kroenen as his lab assistant.

### 1910s

* **Unknown Day and Month:** Nyssa regains her sanity and informs Ra's she has received a powerful vision of the future.

### 1912

* **Unknown Day and Month:** Edwin Paine moves to America.

### 1913

* Calaigne sets out on his pilgrimage. He quickly encounters a plane.

### 1914

* Ambrose Bierce disappears.
* Henry Grant wants to fire Ted's trainer and his promoter: Mr. Flint and Mr. Skinner.
* **March 19th:** Flint and Skinner beat Henry to death and frame Ted. Ted runs away.
* **November 28th:** World War I begins.
* Gremlins are used against planes of both sides of the war.
* Calaigne comes back to Nóatún and is given a room in Thrymheimr to set up his radio equipment.
* Rose and Drew Valentine become interested in joining the Great War (Subsidiary Reality D).

### 1915

* **August 6th:** Byron Lewis is born.
* Ilsa Haupstein injures herself when her skates are sabotaged.
* While in recovery Ilsa Haupstein is woken up by her uncle who slits his wrists and spills the blood across her face. A struggle ensues, and the uncle is killed. Azazel reveals himself to her. Ilsa agrees to serve him.
* Ilsa Haupstein murders her rival.
* Ilsa Haupsteinn seeks out Belphegor and becomes his witch.

### 1916

* **January 22nd:** Trevor Bruttenholm is born.
* **March 6th:** Eric Morden is born.
* **March 11th:** Hollis Mason is born.
* **October 21st:** Anthony Crawford is killed by a lynch mob. His spirit joins the Candyman hive.
* **November 25th:** A murder occurs on Cherry Hill in Gotham.
* **December 16th:** Russian nobility led by Prince Yusupov attempts to kill Grigori Rasputin. Grigori is poisoned, shot, stabbed and thrown in a river. He survives, and his body enters a state of torpor.
* Edwin Paine takes a red book from his teacher.
* **December 24th:** A mysterious figure kills the teacher and drowns Edwin in a fountain. When Death meets Edwin she notices he has a red book. She can't resurrect him, but she also doesn't take him to the Underworld.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ Richard Occult and Rose Psychic figure out the Cult of the Cold Flame is going to sacrifice them to awaken a Lord of Chaos. They stage a rebellion and escape.
	+ After some of them decide to go solo, Phantom Stranger appears and takes Richard, Rose, Anton and Tony to a gateway in Central City, to the Citadel of Gehenna.
	+ Rose Valentine is drawn into the main reality (and into the year 2006). Her brother Drew interprets this as her abandoning him, and he runs away to join the war.

### 1917

* **January 20th:** One month after his death, Edwin Paine manifests as a ghost.
* **July 4th:** William Brady is born.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ A person known as Max appears. His actions destabilize world politics.
	+ Ilsa Haupstein digs up Grigori Rasputin's body and leaves another in its place. She takes him to Germany.
	+ Grigori is revived in a weak body. He pledges himself to Belphegor. The demon orders Karl Kroenen to start working on a new body for Rasputin.
	+ Rose Valentine returns to her sub-reality. She smuggles herself to Europe to join her brother.
	+ Drew Valentine dies. The experience changes Rose. When she returns home, she becomes a cop and later a private detective.
	+ Possible year Rudolph was born.

### 1918

* Gerhardt Gestern, Regina Hayden and Karl Kroenen join the Thule Society.

### 1919

* **December 21st:** Olive Holloway and Theodore Grant join the Society.

### 1920

* **January:** Iroque reaches adulthood and goes to explore the galaxy.
* **April 6th:** Dru-Zod is born.
* **May 19th:** Ursula Zandt is born.
* **May 26th:** Matt Hagen is born.
* **June 9th:** Sarah Juspeczyk is born.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ Maxwell Griffith dies.

### 1923

* Sarah Griffith dies. Warren tries to keep the farm going.
* **June 5th:** Zor-El is born.

### 1924

* **May 9th:** Zinda and Edward Blake are born.
* Ambrose Bierce is declared legally dead.

### 1925

* **January 1st:** Edwin Paine learns how to leave the Brentwood Academy.
* Phantom Stranger and Gentlemen of Gehenna put children to a challenge. Richard and Rose pass the test and join the Sentinels of Magic. Anton and Tony are cast out.

### 1927

* **Unknown Day and Month:** Warren Griffith tries to sell his farm. Kyla Willowbrook seduces and turns Warren into a werewolf, and her pack turn the farm into their den.

### 1928

* Mason family divorces. Hollis Mason moves with his father to New York City.
* **December 15th:** Non is born.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ Simon Bruttenholm inducts Trevor into the Order of Ancient Mysteries.

### 1929

* **January 24th:** Order of Ancient Mysteries tries to summon Gozer, but they summon a gluttonous ghost. The Order seals him on the twelfth floor.
* **August 14th:** Jon Osterman is born in Germany.

### 1930s

* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ Emp is captured by Daemonites. Zannah accidentally rescues him when killing Daemonites to blow off steam. She uses Coda techniques to help Emp with his amnesia and creates an identity as Saul Baxter.
	+ Saul Baxter (Emp) starts to gather Kherans and resources. He finds Yon Kohl.

### 1930

* **Unknown Day and Month:** Byron Lewis drops out of school to pursue his passion of flight.

### 1931

* **Unknown Day and Month:** Adam Frankenstein protects a village from the Sheeda. He's decapitated by Melmoth and his head is tossed into a well.

### 1932

* Trevor Bruttenholm becomes afraid of what the Order of Ancient Mysteries is doing. His uncle sends him to a boarding school. Trevor furthers his occult knowledge.

### 1933

* **March 5th:** Nazis gain power in Germany.
* Psycho-Pirate discovers a document about Vylaela the Succubus. She summons Vylaela and the two form a partnership.
* **October 31st:** Boston and Cleveland Brand are born.

### 1934

* Barbara Blythe builds an apparatus which allows Malcolm Curry to talk.

### 1935

* Adam Frankenstein's head and body are recovered by Nazi scientists.
* **April 20th:** "Bride of the Frankenstein" is released in cinemas. Eve Frankenstein resurrects. She comes to our world.
* Eve Frankenstein is captured by Nazis. Eve receives another pair of arms and is turned into an assassin.

### 1936

* **Summer:**
	+ Hollis Mason starts working at Moe Vernon's shop.
	+ Hollis walks in on Moe and another man in an embrace. Hollis tells this to his father, who beats Moe. Moe tells Hollis to go home and hangs himself.
	+ The next day Hollis finds Moe's body. His father tries to comfort him, but Hollis pushes him away.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ Edward Blake and his brother are sent to the East Coast to help their family.
	+ Willowbrook's pack kills a bartender. Warren Griffith tries to punish them, but they beat him because Warren lacks killer instinct.
	+ One month later, Richard Occult and Rose Psychic investigate the bartender's murder. Warren talks to them. Kyla sends two werewolves to kill all of them, but Warren defends Richard and Rose. The hunters agree to spare him and Kyla, but Kyla runs away.
	+ Nelson Gardner is discharged from the Marines as a lieutenant and begins a career as a security consultant and military contractor.
	+ Sarah Juspeczyk runs away from home. She starts working as a waitress and a burlesque dancer. She meets Laurence Schexnayder who becomes her agent.
	+ Gremlins destroy the city of Vansk.

### 1937

* **May 6th:** Gremlins bring down the Hindenburg.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ Edward Blake runs away from his family after suffering multiple traumatizing events.
	+ Sightings of the "Green Ghost" in the Bering Arms Hotel become less frequent.

### 1938

* **March 12th:** Anschluss - German annexation of Austria.
* **April 19th:** Noah and Sarah Zandt are killed in a riot. Ursula and Blanche Zandt are put up in an orphanage.
* **May 19th:** Ursula leaves the orphanage, but with help of Gretchen Gruber she comes back in a disguise as a nurse to take care of her sister.
* Blanche Zandt is murdered by the director of the orphanage. Ursula shoots him in the knee and Gretchen kills him. They escape and run away to the United States.
* Ursula Zandt starts working in a New York City women's magazine.
* William Brady moves to New York.
* **June 1st:** John Mandracchia is born.
* Hollis Mason graduates from the police academy.
* **August 14th:** Jon Osterman gets a clock as a birthday present from his father.
* Sarah Juspeczyk starts going by the stage name Sally Jupiter. She and Laurence move to America.
* **October 6th:** A masked vigilante known as Hooded Justice stops a gang who attempted to rob and abuse a couple.
* **October 13th:** Hooded Justice stops a supermarket robbery and inspires Hollis Mason to become Nite-Owl.
* Nelson Gardner is hired as a consultant after Hooded Justice's exploits. He advises to give masked heroes a chance. He decides to become Captain Metropolis to guide the movement.
* Edward Blake becomes a costumed adventurer and starts beating people.
* The Bloody Ear beating. Edward Blake beats people.
* National Bank decides to sponsor a masked hero to gain good publicity. William Brady becomes Dollar Bill.
* Hollis Mason debuts as Nite-Owl.
* Byron Lewis debuts as "Flying Man" He also starts experimenting with drugs.
* Laurence Schexnayder starts staging crimes for Sally as Silk Spectre to bust.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ Richard Occult and Rose Psychic are married in a occult wedding ritual.
	+ Phantom Stranger puts Richard and Rose in charge of the Sentinels of Magic. He gives Richard the Sign of the Seven. Phantom Stranger explores the cosmos again.
	+ Nelson Gardner starts investing in the city of Metropolis.
	+ A vigilante (The Lobster) appears.

### 1939

* Trevor Bruttenholm is recruited by the Men of Letters.
* **September 1st:** World War II begins.
* Trevor Bruttenholm becomes a consultant to the British Intelligence and joins Team Six.
* Gideon is arrested by the Nazis. When he's sent to a concentration camp he frees some Jews and run away to England.
* Josef Osterman leaves Germany with his family to protect his Jewish wife, Inge. Inge sacrifices herself to save their son, Jon.
* Ursula Zandt receives a letter alerting her to a child trafficking ring. After unsuccessfully taking it to the police and inspired by the masked heroes she takes matter into her own hands and becomes an adventurer called Silhouette.
* Silk Spectre debuts.
* The Comedian debuts.
* Nelson Gardner and Laurence Schexnayder put an advertisement for costumed adventurers in the newspaper.
* The Minutemen superhero group is formed.
* After Silhouette's suggestion Byron Lewis changes his alias to Mothman.
* Greg Saunders takes the alias Greg Sanders and joins the US Army.
* Gremlins are released in Germany.
* Ilsa Haupstein uses her influence in German society to get her husband a position as an overseer of a prison.
* **October 7th:** Adrian Veidt is born.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ Yon Kohl disappears during World War II. Cordelia and Mabel mourn their loss and move to the Far East.

### 1940

* **April 8th:** Jonathan Kent is born.
* **March:** Walter Kovacs' father leaves his mother.
* **May 21st:** Walter Kovacs is born.
* **September 7th:** Emma Brand dies during the Blitz. Cleveland Brand watches her bleed to death.
* **September 13th:** Martha Clark is born.
* **October 2nd:** The Minutemen photoshoot. Edward Blake tries to rape Sally Jupiter.
* The Comedian is expelled from the Minutemen.
* **December 2nd:** William Wintergreen is born.
* **December 21st:** J. Lincoln Thunder joins the Society.
* Santa's sleigh is hit by a indirect shrapnel from a German bomb while flying over Manchester. Panacea is thrown off the sleigh and loses her leg. Krampus disappears.
* Panacea is caught by the Men of Letters.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ Nimue loses her sight again.
	+ Greg Saunders forms a group of seven warriors and start to aid Allies in the war. Among them are Ystina, John Colt, Zannah, Matthew Shrieve, Eve Frankenstein, Eric Morden, Malcolm Merlyn, and Bigby Wolf.
	+ Greg Saunders helps Ystina recover the Holy Grail from a man claiming to be Merlin. Greg is wounded and Ystina gives him a sip of the waters of Avalon.
	+ Silk Spectre starts a fake relationship with Hooded Justice.

### 1941

* The Comedian is stabbed by a small-time hoodlum, causing him and many other crimefighters to ditch tights and start wearing armored suits.
* **December 7th:** Attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States enters World War II.
* Byron Lewis and Hollis Mason try to enlist but they are classified 4F.
* Matt Hagen becomes a spy and is sent to Germany.
* Zinda Blake runs away from home and joins the military.
* Warren Griffith tries to enlist but is turned down due to his age on documents. He sells his farm, goes to Spain, and through France to Germany.
* Possible establishment of Supernatural Handlers of Arcane Defense Executive (S.H.A.D.E.).
* **December 21st:** Theodore Knight joins the Society.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ A vigilante stops a group of Nazi spies from discovering the Citadel of Gehenna. The Gentlemen thank him for his help. The vigilante asks for some answers.
	+ The vigilante fashions himself a glove with a branding iron built in. He joins the war effort and tries to be known as the Leviathan, but Ystina tells him to change the name to the Lobster. The two argue, but the Lobster joins Ystina and her companions.

### 1942

* Adam Frankenstein's body and head are recovered by Nazi occultists. The head is reattached and Adam's body is subjected to necromantic experimentation. Karl Kroenen is inspired to create a series of bodies for Rasputin.
* **July 3rd:** Karl Kroenen creates thirteen bodies. Grigori Rasputin's soul is transferred into another body. Ilsa Haupstein kills her husband to power the ritual. Rasputin promises the Nazis a way to win the war. A homunculus body prepared as a back up stays on a slab.
* Greg Saunders and his group defeat Eve Frankenstein. Eve defects to the Allies.
* **July 27th:** Seven soldiers of Victory storm Fortress Regensdorf. The vats with homunculusbodies are destroyed. The Lobster tries to stop Thule agents. Rasputin, Ilsa and Kronene escape and detonate explosives and the vigilante dies. Castle collapse seals off the lab with a homunculus.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ Shoji Washida starts fighting in the war.
	+ The Comedian begins working for the US Government and is sent to South Pacific during the war.
	+ The Comedian's team dies during a mission and Eddie is wounded. He is saved by a woman with a child.
	+ A battalion commander orders an artillery bombardment of the caves. The child dies and woman is wounded. The Comedian shoots her dead.
	+ The Comedian slits the throat of the commander.
	+ The Comedian becomes friends with Lt. John F. Kennedy.
	+ John Colt is found by Saul Baxter.
	+ Mothman stops appearing at Dollar Bills publicity events after National Bank raises concerns about his drunkenness.
	+ The first Max stops operating.
	+ Thule Society captures Belsnickel and Qemara.
	+ Qemara is forced to pair up with Belsnickel.
	+ Belsnickel escapes and returns to Bjorland.
	+ Belsnickel and his family move to Nóatún. They are denied entrance and begin squatting outside.

### 1943

* **February 13th:** Wydd is born.
* **February 16th:** Bleisnickel is born.
* Halida is chosen to be the next Chief Warden. Qemara reappears with a son Bleisnickel and asks to join the Wardens. Halid and Qemara marry.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ The team frees Adam Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein and Regina Hayden run away to the Caribbean.
	+ Frankenstein join SHADE.
	+ The second Max starts operating.

### 1944

* **March 24th:** Preceptor Ermi dies.
* **April 10th:** Kilowog becomes Preceptor Prime.
* June 16th: George Stinney is executed. His spirit joins the Candyman hive.
* **July 3rd:** Slade Wilson is born.
* Belphegor attacks Melothm with his forces and Azazel's.
* Anung Un Rama is found. Belphegor uses telepathy to allow the child to be summonedand contacts Grigori Rasputin.
* **December 23rd:** Nazi occultists led by Grigori Rasputin try to summon Anung Un Rama on Tarmagant Island, off the coast of Scotland as a last ditch effort to change the tide of a war being lost to the Allies. Due to wrong research and miscalculations the demon appears in the ruins of Bromwich Church. He's taken by Professor Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm and Team Six. The demon is named Hellboy.
* Hellboy is taken to the United States where he will be raised. Trevor Bruttenholm adopts him.

### 1945

* **Janury 19th:**
	+ Panacea is flown to Roswell Army Air Field.
	+ Trevor Bruttenholm argues with General Ricker.
	+ Panacea is brought to Trevor.
	+ Panacea makes Hellboy pancakes. Despite hesitation Hellboy quickly finds it delectable.
	+ Azazel feels his son's love for pancakes.
* **February 23rd:** The Comedian lands at Iwo Jima and plants the American flag.
* **April 8th:** Alfred Pennyworth is born.
* **August 6th:** The Hiroshima bombing.
* Josef Osterman throws away his sons watchmaking tools and urges him to pursue a career studying atomic science instead.
* **August 21st:** Philip Kane is born.
* The Comedian captures Yumiko Daimio, aka: Crimson Lotus.
* Yumiko gives birth to Mazaru. The child is taken by Yumiko's sister and raised as Max Hasigawa.
* **September 2nd:** World War II ends.
* The Comedian in court-martialed for killing 7 Japanese POW, but the charges are dismissed.
* Warren Griffith settles down in Greece with a war widow.
* US and UK form the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense.
* **September 18th:** Dan Dreiberg is born.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ Chuck Constantine comes to the United States. He changes his name to Charles Lane.

### 1946

* **March 19th:** M'gann M'orzz is born.
* Ursula Zandt is outed as a lesbian. Laurence Schexnayder convinces the Minutemen to expel her.
* Hollis Mason reveals his identity to Ursula.
* **August 1st:** Thomas Wayne is born.
* Ursula Zandt gives Nite-Owl a file containing the names of missing children.
* **October 12th:** Ursula Zandt and Gretchen Gruber are killed by the Liquidator. Nite-Owl finds their bodies.
* Edward Blake meets Sally Jupiter at the graveyard after Zandt's death and they reconcile.
* **October 26th:** Johann Kraus is born.
* **December 21st:** Henry "Hank" Heywood V and Lucas Dodds join the Society.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ Cleveland Brand is recruited into the League of Assassins and disappears while traveling post-war Europe.
	+ War between the Colonial and Insular factions of Mars comes to an end. M'yri'ah Thought-Mage convinces J'onn J'onzz to come back to Mars.

### 1947

* **February 8th:** Aristotle Rodor is born.
* **March 13th:** Nathan Kane is born.
* **April 7th:** Jian Chau is born.
* **July 8th:** Roswell incident - a spaceship with M'gann M'orzz and her parents crash-lands in Roswell, New Mexico. They are soon rescued.
* **September:**
	+ The Comedian and Silk Spectre kill the Liquidator.
	+ Captain Metropolis and Hooded Justice find Liquidator's dead body.
	+ Silk Spectre retires from crimefighting. She marries Laurence Schexnayder.
* **September 17th:** While attempting to stop a raid upon a National Bank, Dollar Bill's cape becomes entangled in the bank's revolving door and he is shot at by the fleeing robbers before he could free it.
* Panacea is brought back to Noatun by trevor Bruttenholm.
* **December 25th:** Panacea is grounded by Santa. Fusquod takes her to his workshop and begin designing a prosthetic leg for her.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ Walter Kovacs' mother becomes a prostitute.
	+ Japanese saboteurs try to destroy the statue of Liberty. Mothman is wounded.

### 1948

* **June 11th:** Alec Holland is born.
* **July 17th:** Adeline Kane is born.
* **September:**
	+ Edward Blake and Sally Jupiter meet for drinks.
	+ Jon Osterman starts attending Princeton University.
* **December 25th:** Panacea rides with Santa again.
* Fusquod starts to visit Panacea regularly and eventually they marry.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ Shoji Washida moves to America.
	+ M'yri'ah and J'onn J'onzz marry.
	+ K'hym J'onzz is born.

### 1949

* **May 12th:** Laurie Juspeczyk is born.
* **June 2nd:**
	+ Martha Kane is born.
	+ Zinda Blake disappears over the Bermuda Triangle.
* The Comedian becomes an American hero.
* **Unknown Day and Month:**
	+ The Minutemen disband.
	+ Byron Lewis is released from hospital.
	+ A plague hits Apokalyptan Breeding Pits which depletes the fertility of Termagant incubators. Barda and Kaye Ou are forced to fight. Kaye loses and becomes an incubator.

**← Early Modern Period - Homelands | 1900 - 1949 | 1950 - 1999 →**

## Links and References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Network Files: Edwin Paine
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 NFX: Hollis Mason
3. ↑ Network Files: Death of the Endless