Timeline Part 5: The Renaissance(1501 C.E.-1750 C.E.).

## **1501 C.E-1550 C.E.**

### **1500**

**January 2:** Monteriggioni was besieged and destroyed by the Papal Army under orders of Cesare Borgia, who executed the captured Assassin leader Mario Auditore and took possession of the Assassins' Apple of Eden; Ezio Auditore was severely wounded during the siege, and Caterina Sforza was captured(*Assassin's Creed*).

**January:** Niccolò Machiavelli became the leader of the Italian Assassins and set up headquarters on Tiber Island in Rome to fight the Borgia. Ezio Auditore da Firenze joined him and later set up an underground network in the city led by his sister Claudia, La Volpe and Bartolomeo d'Alviano(*Assassin's Creed*).

**May:** Nicolaus Copernicus was saved from Borgia attacks by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, after Copernicus betrayed the Templar Order by making his scientific discoveries public(*Assassin's Creed*).

### **1501**

**June 30:** Caterina Sforza escaped her imprisonment by Lucrezia Borgia in the Castel Sant'Angelo with the help of the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze(*Assassin's Creed*).

### **1502**

Ezio Auditore da Firenze destroyed the war machines that Leonardo da Vinci designed on orders of Cesare Borgia, on Da Vinci's own request(*Assassin's Creed II*).

**August 28(August 18 in the Julian Calendar):** Arendellian nobleman Knut Alvsson is killed under terms of safe conduct in Oslo. His body is brought in to the great hall at the fortress of Akershus, where an assembly of other nobles swear revenge. A 15-year-old girl, Inger, daughter of Otte Römer, pushes her way trough the crowd and swears her own revenge alongside the grown men (*Lady Inger at Austraat*).

### **1503**

Remilia Scarlet born (*Touhou*).

Frustrated at every turn by Ezio Auditore's growing force of Assassins, and successful sabotage and takeover of Rome, Cesare Borgia assaults his sister/lover Lucrezia and murders his father, Master Templar Pope Alexander VI. Soon after, Ezio drives Cesare completely from Rome. In a failed attempt to reclaim the city, Cesare is promptly arrested and imprisoned by the papal forces of Pope Julius II (*Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood*).

### **1504**

Morgan Black is born in Edinburgh, Scotland in winter (*Age of Empires III*). Cesare Borgia escaped imprisonment from the Castel Sant'Angelo, but was captured by Ezio Auditore da Firenze near Ostia. Pope Julius II struck a deal with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabela of Spain to have Cesare imprisoned in the Castillo de la Mota in Valencia(*Assassin's Creed II).*

### **1505**

Time-traveling V.I.L.E. agent Sir Vile tries to steal Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, but is thwarted by ACME pursuers (*Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time*).The Doctor briefly stops by Leonardo da Vinci's house and leaves him a note as part of the former's attempts to stop the plans of the time-traveling alien Scaroth(*Doctor Who*). Micheletto Corella was taken captive in Zagarolo after Ezio Auditore da Firenze led a force of 100 Assassins and thieves on against Micheletto's army. Micheletto was imprisoned in the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence and interrogated(*Assassin's Creed II*).

### **1506**

Vito, in transition from female to male at this time, poses for the Mona Lisa for Leonardo da Vinci(*League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*). Peabody and Sherman cure Vito's toothache, making it possible for Leonardo da Vinci to paint her smile (*Rocky and Bullwinkle*). Around this time, Leonardo calls upon the Elite Beat Agents to help him win Vito's romantic affections(The implied use of time travel is left entirely to the Rules of Cool and Funny, though it is more plausible given the encounter with Peabody and Sherman) (*Elite Beat Agents*).

Ezio Auditore da Firenze locked his Apple of Eden in the First Civilization vault beneath the Colosseum, on the artifact's instructions(*Assassin's Creed II*)

**June 24:** Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci started their journey to Valencia to find Micheletto Corella, based on information from a courtesan named Camilla in Naples(*Assassin's Creed*).

### **1507**

Ezio Auditore tracks down Cesare Borgia to the Siege of Viana in Spain. In disgrace, Cesare is now a mercenary in employ of his brother-in-law, King John III of Navarre. After a fight on ramparts, Ezio gains the upper hand and goes to kill Cesare, who declares that he is not fated to "Die at the hands of man." Declaring that he will then leave Cesare "To the hands of Fate," Ezio throws him off the castle wall to his death (*Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood*).

Alleged revival of the High Priestess Tetaxa, aka Barbara Wright. One of the Doctor’s companions, seeking to end Aztec sacrifices(*Doctor Who*).

### **1509**

Approximate date that Meredoth is pulled from Mystara to Ravenloft (921 AC, 635 BC)(Warning, the following is extremely nerdy.) This date assumes that Meredoth was part of the first wave of colonists sent to Norwold by King Tylion IV of Alphatia, who assumed the throne in 919 AC. Meredoth entered the Land of Mists two years later, *Ravenloft* year 635 BC, so that year would match Mystara year 921 AC. The Earth connection assumes 1612=738 BC, as seen below. It should be noted that any date connections dependent on *Ravenloft's* mists, which are known to warp time, are questionable (*Dungeons & Dragons: Mystara & Ravenloft*).

AD1 is founded. (*St. Trinian's*)

### **1510**

Emperor Skantarios recaptures Jerusalem for the Eastern Roman Empire. The Dome of the Rock and other Islamic centers of worship are destroyed, and the surviving Muslims driven from the city (*I Am Skantarios*).

Birth of Cassia Marsilka in Greece (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

Birth of Nils to Lady Inger by Sten Sture (*Lady Inger at Austraat*).

**Winter:** The Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze left Italy and started his journey to Masyaf, after having found a letter in 1509 written by his father detailing Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's library(*Assassin's Creed*).

### **1510 to 20**

Vito, male once more, is in Africa at this time(*League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*).

### **1511**

**March:** Ezio Auditore da Firenze was captured and ambushed by Byzantine Templars under the command of Leandros in Masyaf, but escaped his execution by hanging. Ezio Auditore da Firenze killed Leandros in Atlas Village, after pursuing him through the Syrian countryside; Ezio retrieved The Secret Crusade by Niccolò Polo from Leandros.

**May:** Ezio Auditore da Firenze arrived in Constantinople and became familiarized with the Ottoman Assassins, led by Yusuf Tazim, and their struggle against the Byzantine Templars. Ezio Auditore da Firenze found four of the five Masyaf Keys over the course of various months with aid from bookkeeper Sofia Sartor in the Yerebatan Cistern, the Galata Tower, the Forum of the Ox and the Maiden's Tower. Prince Suleiman was rescued from abduction by the Byzantine Templars at a party in Topkapı Palace by the Ottoman Assassins. Suleiman and Ezio Auditore da Firenze formed an alliance. The Janissary captain Tarik Barleti was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze on incorrect suspicions of colluding with the Templars(*Assassin's Creed: Revelations*).

### **1512**

The Great Chain was destroyed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze with explosives. Ezio proceeded to set the docked Ottoman fleet ablaze using Greek Fire, and made his way to the Templars' hideout in Cappadociaalongside Piri Reis(*Assassin's Creed:Revelations*).

**March:** Shahkulu, a Turkmen Templar, was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in Derinkuyu with aid from the Ottoman spy Dilara. Ezio Auditore da Firenze destroyed the Byzantine Templars' ammunition storage inside Derinkuyu, causing the city to be filled with smoke, creating widespread panic.Manuel Palaiologos was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the outskirts of Derinkuyu. Ezio was confronted by Prince Ahmet, who revealed himself to be a Templar, and Ezio escaped Derinkuyu and made his way back to Constantinople(*Assassin's Creed: Revelations*).

**April:** The Ottoman Assassins, led by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, besieged the Templars' hideout at the Harbor of Theodosius. Ezio was forced to spare Prince Ahmet to save Sofia Sartor's life.Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Prince Ahmet met on the wall connected to Galata Tower, where Ezio handed Ahmet the keys. Ahmet tricked Ezio and ordered Sofia's execution, though Ezio saved her from strangulation(*Assassin's Creed: Revelations*).

**April 25:** Prince Ahmet was killed by Sultan Selim I outside Constantinople to prevent Ahmet from taking the throne, while Ahmet was being pursued by the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze.

**May:** Ezio Auditore da Firenze unlocked the library of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in Masyaf, though he decided to leave the Apple of Eden locked away. Alongside Desmond Miles, in 2012, Ezio witnessed a Precursor message about the Toba catastrophe(*Assassin's Creed: Revelations*).

**June:** Sofia Sartor sold her bookshop to the Ottoman Assassins, who hid the Masyaf Keys in the cistern beneath the bookshop. Ezio Auditore da Firenze became engaged to Sofia, and left for Italy(*Assassin's Creed: Revelations*).

### **1513**

Peabody and Sherman help Ponce de Leon deal with his baby soldiers (who were a little *too* thirsty when they found the Fountain of Youth) and repel an attack by the Seminole Indians (*Rocky and Bullwinkle*).

Peabody and Sherman lead Vasco de Balboa to the Pacific Ocean so he can discover it; when they get there, they discover that English explorer Sir Augustus Coney was ahead of them, so they have to buy him off with a map of a small island in New York Harbor that he can name after himself. (*Rocky and Bullwinkle*)**February:** Ezio Auditore da Firenze announced his impending retirement as Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins, and declared his favored successor to be Lodovico Ariosto(*Assassin's Creed*).

### **1514**

Bothan Spynet established (*Star Wars*).

Mecca sacked by the Byzantines. The Ka'aba is destroyed along with the rest of the city and its population is butchered. Emperor Skantarios decrees that only Orthodox Christians may henceforth enter the city (*I Am Skantarios*).

### **1515**

The Mentor Ezio Auditore da Firenze placed the English Assassin Hiram Stoddard in charge of a mission to take down a Templar plot, accompanied by Giovanni Borgia, based on intel delivered by Michelangelo. The Assassins Giovanni Borgia and Hiram Stoddard ambushed the Templar Dei Petrucci while the latter was transporting an Apple of Eden, but the Assassins were eventually held back and Petrucci escaped. In an act of jealousy, Giovanni Borgia revealed Hiram Stoddard's adultery to the latter's lover, Elena, resulting in a violent confrontation on a rooftop. After being hit in the head by Hiram, Giovanni became possessed by Consus. Elena died in the skirmish, angering Hiram and drastically altering his personality(*Assassin's Creed*).

### **1516**

birth of Kit Walker’s son, the first phantom(*The Phantom*). The rogue Assassin Hiram Stoddard attempted to steal an Apple of Eden from a remote Assassin hideout in Greece, before being stopped and overpowered by Giovanni Borgia(*Assassin's Creed*).

Thomas More visits the island of Utopia, a successful communistic society(*Utopia*).

### **1517**

Martin Luther’s 95 Theses are published, sparking the Protestant Reformation(Real Life).

### **1519**

Peabody and Sherman arrange for Magellan to win a bullfight, thereby allowing him to pay his butcher's bill and sail around the world (*Rocky and Bullwinkle*).

V.I.L.E. agent Buggs Zapper steals the headdress of Montezuma II. ACME pursuers correct the damage done to history and capture Buggs Zapper (*Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time*).

Two Spanish idiots arrive in Guatemala ahead of Hernán Cortés. They discover El Dorado, the City of Gold, and trick the natives into thinking they are gods. Hilarity Ensues, although the events following their arrival lead to the city becoming impossible to find for anyone after them (*The Road to El Dorado*).

**February:** Hernán Cortés and an army of Spanish soldiers – including the Assassin Giovanni Borgia, posing as "Botello", on a quest to find a Piece of Eden – landed on the Yucatán Peninsula to explore Mexico(*Assassin's Creed*), however, they fail to find it(*The Road to El Dorado*).

**May 2:** Leonardo da Vinci is assassinated by a time traveller, with his place in history being briefly taken by his descendant(*Family Guy*). Da Vinci is found to have survived and dies of his injuries in the Clos Lucé in Amboise, France, with his friend Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Niccolò Machiavelli at his side. King Francis I of France would spread stories about being at Leonardo's deathbed as propaganda(*Assassin's Creed*). Da Vinci is not only an alien, but is transformed into a vampire. He then continues to operate in secret for decades(*Marvel Comics*) before returning to his home planet(*Futurama*).

**November 8:** The Spanish expedition party led by Hernán Cortés was welcomed into Tenochtitlan by the Aztec ruler, Moctezuma II.

### **1520**

The Spanish sea captain Vasco de Bizarro makes a wrong turn while sailing his banana boat to India. He lands on Barf Rock, located (presumably) somewhere in North America, and stays just long enough to leave behind a shipload of rotten bananas. Centuries later, the citizens of Bizarroville honor their founder with their annual Have-a-Banana festival (*Reading Blaster Ages 9-12*).

**May 20:** The Aztecs in Tenochtitlan were massacred by the Spanish during the Toxcatl feast, in response to the gruesomeness of the feast and to plunder Aztec riches. In the chaos, Giovanni Borgia stole a Crystal Skull from an Aztec priest.

**June 29:** Moctezuma II, used as a puppet by the Spanish to calm the Aztec people, was killed after one of his subjects struck his head with a stone.

**June 30:** Hernán Cortés and his Spanish soldiers made a narrow escape from Tenochtitlan during the night, known as the Night of Sorrow, during which many Spanish soldiers were slaughtered by the pursuing Aztecs. Hernan Cortes returns and destroys the Aztec Empire.

### **1521**

**June 25 - August 29:** Siege of Belgrade by the Ottoman Turks. (Real Life)

**July:** The Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León died in Havana, Tropico, after having been shot with a poisoned arrow by the Assassins in Florida for failing to heed Miguel Ramon Carlo de Lugo's warning to give up his search for the Fountain of Youth. Which he had found (*Assassin's Creed*).

### **1522**

Pantagruel, son of the giant Gargantua, is born. The boy soon develops an intellectual appetite that equals his physical one (*Gargantua and Pantagruel*).

Birth of Maria Regina in France (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

In Polly Spark's altered version of history, Vasco da Robot straps a jetpack to Ferdinand Magellan so that he can fly into outer space and take a photograph of the round Earth(Yes, a year after Magellan's death, obviously Mafellan lived just one year longer)(*JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain*).

### **1523**

Fr. Esteban Negron, a Spanish missionary, reports zombification among natives in Mexico. He attributes it to devil worship (*The Zombie Survival Guide*).

### **1524**

On planet Zeist, there is a rebellion against the rule of General Katana. The rebellion is able to summon an immortal named Ramirez to the planet to assist them. Despite his efforts, the rebellion is quickly crushed, and the leaders sentenced to be killed on Zeist. They fail to kill Ramirez and instead exile him along with a handful of others. The leaders are exiled to Earth where they eventually die off with the exception of Ramirez. The Insane General Katana would later confuse the immortal Connor Macleod for Ramirez's second in command (*Highlander II: The Quickening,* 500 years before the main events of the film).

Ezio Auditore passes away quietly on a bench in Florence at the age of 65 (*Assassin's Creed: Embers*).

### **1526**

The Mughal Empire is founded in India. (Real Life)

### **1527**

Prospero born in the Duchy of Milan. Giovanni Borgia discovered the formulae for the philosopher's stone from the "True Magic" chapter of the Book of Abraham in the study of the Swiss scientist Bombastus, when Giovanni took his Crystal Skull to Bombastus for study.

### **1528**

Lady Inger at Austraat is tricked by Danish noble Niels Lykke to kill her own son, Nils Stensson, by default (*Lady Inger at Austraat*).

### **1529**

King Arthur(reincarnated as Brian Duffy) saves Vienna from the Turks with the help of some beer (*The Drawing of the Dark*).

### **1530s**

Vito studies the occult in Prague under Johannes Faust(*League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*).

Publication of the major works (*The Prince* and *Discourses on Livy*) of Niccolò Machiavelli. Only after this is it really fair to call anybody "Machiavellian".

### **1530**

After being warped from 250,000,000 BCE, the Turtles find themselves on board a pirate ship. After making their way aft, they find and fight Captain Rocksteady and First Mate Bebop. They are then warped to 1885(*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time*).

The Moorish general Othello kills his lover Desdemona after his friend Iago tells him she is having an affair with his comrade Cassio. Realizing his error, Othello commits suicide (*Othello*).

### **1531**

In Polly Spark's altered version of history, Cosmo-Bot somehow tricks Nicolaus Copernicus into thinking that the Earth revolves around Polly, who won't even be born for centuries. Time is restored (*JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain*).

### **1532**

Emperor Skantarios slays Pope Nicolaus IV the Missionary in single combat before capturing Rome for the Byzantine Empire (*I Am Skantarios*).

Peabody and Sherman help Francisco Pizzaro conquer the Incas (*Rocky and Bullwinkle*).

The Baldricks officially enter the service of the Blackadder noble family (*Blackadder II*).

The giant Gargantua, discharges the contents of his massive bladder on a city in France. The luckless citizens are washed away or drowned by the great flood of urine that poured steaming from the much-relieved colossus, who, when he viewed the destruction his emission had provoked, could not contain his mirth. At this, those who'd survived the deluge angrily cried, 'Look! He's drowned us par ris (for a laugh), with the unlucky city being known as Paris ever after(*Gargantua and Pentagruel*).

### **1533**

Birth of the half-faerie Gloriana Tudor(Real Life, The Faerie Queene, based on Queen Elizabeth).

Incan Emperor Kuzco uses the Incan Empire's dragon population to defeat the Spaniard Francisco Pizarro's attempts to conquer the Incas.

### **1534**

The Abby of Loire is founded by the giant Gargantua. There, the monks vow to grow rich and happy rather than vows of poverty and obedience, and go by the motto "Do what you will"(*Gargantua and Pentagruel*).

### **1535**

English sailor Christopher Walker, the son of the ship's captain, is the only survivor of an attack by the Singh Brotherhood pirates off the coast of Bengala. He is rescued by the native Bandar tribe, and nursed back to health, and soon after finds the body of his father's killer washed up on the beach. On the skull of his fathers murderer, Walker swears the solemn "Oath Of the Skull", vowing to eradicate injustice and piracy wherever he finds it, and dons the mask of the first Phantom. His descendants follow him for 20 generations. (*The Phantom*).

### **1536**

**January 1:** Birth of Cervantes de Leon in Valencia (*Soul Blade*).

Connor MacLeod is slain by the Kurgan, but revives. He is banished by the fearful people of his hometown (*Highlander*).Morgan Black fights alongside his commander, Alain Magnan in many battles such as the defense of Malta against the Ottomans. Morgan and the Knights of St. John soon battle in the New World against the Ottomans, pirates, Spanish, and finally, the Circle of Ossus (which were a branch of the Templars) and their Boneguard. After realizing that Alain Magnan betrayed the Knights of St. John by allying with the Circle, Morgan allies himself with Sahin The Falcon and Elisabet Ramsey to destroy the The Fountain of Youth, thus thwarting the Circle's plan (*Age of Empires III, Act I: Blood*).

### **1537**

**October 12:** Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VI) is born to Henry VIII and his third wife Jane Seymour in Hampton Court Palace. (Real Life)

Tom Canty is born in Offal Court, London (*The Prince and the Pauper*).

### **1538**

**March 31:** Birth of Seong Han Myeong in Jirisan (*Soul Blade*).

### **1539**

Connor MacLeod marries Heather MacDonald (*Highlander*).

Peabody and Sherman track down a jar of jelly for Henry VIII's kitchen, saving his cook from being beheaded (*Rocky and Bullwinkle*).

Death of Maria Regina, the current Slayer (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

The alchemist Paracelsus discovers a formula for immortality, due to its high cost. He does not destroy the formula, however, something which Mexicans later regret (*Rostro Infernal(1962)*).

### **1540**

Emperor Skantarios is killed while touring new conquests just south of Bern (*I Am Skantarios*).

Vito's tutor in the occult, Dr. Faust, becomes embroiled in contract disputes with his patron Mephistopheles, so Vito travels with the Doctor's newest would-be student, a thirteen year old Prospero, back to the younger man's home in Milan, ostensibly becoming the young nobleman's tutor(*League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*).

### **1541**

**June 28:** Mendoza is recruited by the Company(*The Company Novels*).

**August 25:** Birth of Voldo in Palermo (*Soul Blade*).

Connor MacLeod meets fellow Immortal Ramirez, who becomes his mentor (*Highlander*).

### **1542**

While Connor MacLeod is out hunting, the Kurgan slays Ramirez and assaults Heather (*Highlander*).

Ludvig Prinn, imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition, writes *De Vermis Mysteriis* in his cell; he somehow smuggles it out before his execution (*Cthulhu Mythos*).Goro kills the Great Kung Lao in Kortal Kombat(*Mortal Kombat*)(Kung Lao is not to be confused with his descendant of the same name).

### **1543 to 1553**

A young girl is transported back in time to Japan and meets and falls in love with the half demon Inuyasha (*Inuyasha*).

### **1546**

Prince Edward of England temporarily switches places with beggar boy Tom Canty (*The Prince and the Pauper*).

### **1547**

Death of Henry VIII, Gloriana’s father(Real Life, Based on Henry VIII passing).

Prince Edward of England and Tom Canty switch back after the death of his father, Henry VIII. Edward is crowned as King Edward VI (*The Prince and the Pauper*).

### **1549**

Solomon Kane is born to a puritan family in Devonshire, England. Governor John Ratcliffe is born.

**December 14:** Birth of Nathaniel "Rock" Adams in London (*Soul Blade*).

### **Early 16th century**

To escape the Italian Wars, Vercchi moves his fleet and his remaining possessions to an uninhabited island near Sicily (*Soul Blade*).

## **1551 C.E.-1600 C.E.**

### **1550s**

The island of Utopia, due to the incredibly poor leadership of Gargantua, which led to a number of wars with neighboring kingdoms, is already in decline(*Utopia*).

### **1552**

**August:** Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England after exploring South America.In a blatant display of spite, Lord Edmund Blackadder announces his forthcoming venture around the notorious Cape of Good Hope. He ends up discovering Australia and a tribe of Cannibals living there(*Blackadder II*)(Sir Walter Raleigh was actually born this year, and his voyage took place in 1595. Shakespeare is mentioned despite not being born yet, though it could be Shakespeare's father. Raleigh was born earlier).

### **1553**

**February:** Lord Blackadder's exploration venture 'successfully' arrives in Australia. None of the crew are enthused enough to take observations or try to win credit for the discovery. (*Blackadder II*)( the Australians have Iron at this time(and were unlikely to be Cannibals).

**July 19:** Rani Chandra, thrown through time to look for a piece of the rare metal chronostene, befriends Lady Jane Grey, Queen for only ten days, on the eve of Mary taking the English throne from her (*The Sarah Jane Adventures*).

### **1554**

Spanish explorers encounter zombies while searching for El Dorado(*The Zombie Survival Guide*).

### **1555**

The adventures of Monsieur Blackshirt. (*Graham Jefferies - Monsieur Blackshirt*).

English sailor and adventurer Amyas Leigh traveled across Mexico in search of his friend, Rose Salterne, who Leigh believes has been kidnapped (*Westward Ho!*).

Lord Blackadder's exploration party finally returns to England, just in time for Edmund to discover that the Queen has gone right off her love of exploration (*Blackadder II*).

**June 23:** Aeon Calcos, also known as Lizardman, is born in Sparta (*Soulcalibur*).

### **1557**

Vercchi hires Cervantes de Leon to obtain the Soul Edge (*Soul Blade*).

### **1558**

Cervantes de Leon obtains the Soul Edge, begins 20-year reign of terror. Rock Adams, who was a passenger on the ship carrying it, washes up on the shore of the New World and befriends Bangoo of the Apache nation (*Soul Blade*).

**November 17:** Queen Mary I of England is killed by the Assassins, to free the people of England from her oppression(*Assassin's Creed*).

**November 27:** Raphael Sorel is born in France (*Soul Calibur II*).

### **1559**

**January 15:** Coronation of Queen Gloriana I. Under her rule, 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 of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 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. A Sir Randolph Carter, ancestor of the man who will have the same name, studies magic during the reign of Queen Gloriana I.**June 8:** Arthur is born in South Hampton (*Soul Calibur*).

**August 8,:** Hwang Seong-gyeong is born in Hun Chiu(*Soul Calibur*).

**December 10:** Isabella Cervantes is born. her true father is Cervantes de Leon. She is adopted by the Valentine family, becoming Ivy Valentine(*Soul Calibur*).

### **1560**

**October 23:** Birth of Li Long in Peking (*Soul Blade*).

Birth of Elizabeth Bathory, the countess who, in legend, would go on popularize the notion of bathing in blood(Real Life).

Don Lope De Aguirre deserts the command of Gonzalo Pizarro and leads his men into the jungles of the Amazon in search of El Dorado. They find nothing except madness and death (*Aguirre, the Wrath of God*).

### **1561**

Samanosuke Akechi receives a letter from his cousin, Princess Yuki, telling him of the mysterious disappearances at her castle. Demons soon kidnap her, and he goes on a mission to rescue her (*Onimusha: Warlords*).

### **1562**

**June 8:** Birth of Heishiro Mitsurugi in Bizen (*Soul Blade*).

Birth of Taki in Fu-Ma no Sato. (*Soul Blade*)

The Tenth Doctor, assisted by Queen Gloriana I, the Eleventh Doctor and the War Doctor, combat a Zygon invasion. The Tenth Doctor also marries Gloriana at this time. The Zygons escape into stasis paintings where they remain until the 21st century. Gloriana orders the creation of a secret wing of the national gallery, to be placed under the care of her husband(*Doctor Who*).

### **1563**

Queen Gloriana I is assassinated at Richmond Palace by Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, as are the Lords Blackadder and Melchett as an act of revenge for Blackadder foiling Ludwig’s previous attempt to murder the Queen. Presumably,Prince Ludwig is able to conceal his crime and assume her identity for the remainder of "her" reign. Unsurprisingly, no marriages or offspring result(*Blackadder II*).**May 1:** Makishi (or Maxi) is born in the Ryūkyū(Shuri) Kingdom (*Soulcalibur*).

### **1564**

Queen Gloriana (Prince Ludwig in disguise) and Sir Jack Wilton visit Greyfriars School with the Intent of turning it into a school for spies(*League of Extraordianry Gentlemen*).

**April:** Birth of William Shakespeare, thanks to considerable effort by the wizards of Unseen University to undo all the possible timelines where he never existed. (*The Science of Discworld II: The Globe*)

A naked, one-legged man appears in the middle of a road in the village of Nagybörzsöny, Zubrowka, speaking gibberish in an unknown language(21st century American English). This kind of thing is why you don't aggravate witches. The locals fear he is some sort of warlock, and after a brief encounter with the Inquisition he is burnt alive (*The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.*).

**April 26:** William Shakespeare(actually pronounced as Shagspeare(*Equivocation*)), biographer of Macbeth, Prospero, Hamlet, among other figures, is born(Real Life).

### **1566**

Solomon Kane embarks on his "Peculiar Pilgrimage" (*Solomon Kane*) The first Phantom dies(*The Phantom*).

**March 12th:** Sophitia Alexandra is born in Athens, Greece (*Soul Edge*).

### **1567**

Arthur becomes an apprentice sailor. (*SoulCalibur*)

Setsuka is born (*SoulCalibur III*).

### **1568**

**February 6:** Birth of Siegfried Schtauffen in Ober-Getzenberg, Holy Roman Empire (*Soul Blade*).

**February 9:** Birth of Kilik in China (*SoulCalibur*).

**November 3:** Birth of Seong Mi-na in Jirisan, Hun Chiu (*Soul Blade*).

### **1569**

**November 27:** Birth of Raphael Sorel in Rouen (*SoulCalibur II*).

Arthur is adopted by a wealthy Japanese merchant (*SoulCalibur*).

### **1570**

Agatha Harkness is born (*Marvel Comics*).

**July 20:** Birth of Cassandra Alexandra in Athens (*SoulCalibur II*).

Count Dracula sends one of his soul clones to Spanish-ruled Mexico. This soul-clone terrorized the Spanish and the conquered remnants of the Mixtec and Mayan peoples, creating a tribe of Vampire Women from a group of Mixtec and transforming a British explorer and spy, Rex Rufus, into a werewolf (*Santo y Blue Demon vs. Drácula y el Hombre Lobo*)

### **1571**

**April 2:** Chai Xianghua is born in Beijing/Peking (*SoulCalibur*).**July 6:** Mōri Motonari, head of the Mōri clan, was assassinated by the Assassin Hattori Hanzō to allow Oda Nobunaga to conquer Chūgoku, paving the way for Torinaga Yoshi.

### **1572**

The wizard Cristaldi defeats the soul clone of Dracula, though not the Vampire Women (*Santo y Blue Demon vs. Drácula y el Hombre Lobo*).

Beginning of the adventures of the Chevalier de Pardaillan, and of Princess Fausta, a descendent of Lucrezia Borgia (*Michel Zevaco - Les Pardaillan*).

**August:** The First Doctor and Steven Taylor arrive in Paris, France, during the height of Protestant-Catholic tensions (*Doctor Who*).

### **1573**

**April 16:** Birth of Hong Yun-Seong in Jirisan, Hun Chiu (*SoulCalibur II*)

**May 13:** Takeda Shingen, head of the Takeda clan, was killed in his camp during an attack by Honda Tadakatsu and the Assassin Hattori Hanzō, to obtain Shingen's Sword of Eden.

**August 13:** Birth of Hilde von Krone in Wolfkrone Kingdom in Present day Germany (*SoulCalibur IV*).

Takeda Shingen is mortally wounded, and a thief is forced to impersonate him (*Kagemusha*).

### **1574**

Solomon Kane encounters Dracula. The count saves his life from werewolves and allows him to stay in his castle. Kane is attacked and battles Dracula. While he defeats Dracula he is honor bound not to kill him as his life was saved by the Count (*Castle of the Undead*)..The fearless Count Louis de Bussy d'Amboise, and Chicot the Jester and one of France's deadliest swordsmen, fight for the honor of Queen Margot. (*Alexandre Dumas - La Reine Margot*).

Tira is born, rumors say she might be the ancestor of the future Gotham criminal Harleen Quinzel or the descendant of the ancient Nohrian Empire warrior Peri (*Soulcalibur III*)

### **1575**

Solomon Kane comes to Castle Frankenstein, erected in 1250 and houses the local baronial family, led by Victor Frankenstein’s ancestor Baron Hans Von Frankenstein(*Solomon Kane*).

Robert Dudley, the first Earl of Leicester intends on marrying the commoner Amy Rosbart. While both love each other, The Earl also has a planned marriage to Gloriana I(Ludwig in disguise). Unfortunately Amy is murdered by another Noble who is seeking power. As a result the Earl never marries (*Kenilworth*).

**June 28:** Takeda Katsuyori's cavalry is obliterated by Oda Nobunaga's riflemen. Japanese warfare reaches a turning point (*Soul Blade* and Real Life).

### **1576**

**June 15:** Birth of Talim in the Village of the Wind Deity on the Visayan Islands (*SoulCalibur II*).

Soleiyu Belmont is born. Christopher Belmont goes on a quest to destroy the revived Dracula (*Castlevania: The Adventure*).

Death of Heishiro Mitsurugi's parents. Mitsurugi becomes a samurai of the Murakami clan (*Soul Blade*).

### **1578**

Death of Bussy following his love affair with Diane de Meridor, Countess of Monsoreau (*Alexandre Dumas - La Dame de Monsoreau*).

**April 19:** Uesugi Kenshin, head of the Uesugi clan and a member of the Templar Order, was killed by the Assassin Hattori Hanzō.

### **1579**

Francis Drake, while in a resupply stop, sights zombies on the island of Atuk (*The Zombie Survival Guide*).

### **1580**

The Eleventh Doctor takes Amy and Rory on a date in Venice, as a wedding present. They end up battling Vampires(well, sexy alien fish really) ensue (*Doctor Who*).

Peabody and Sherman save Sir Walter Raleigh's career (and head) by recovering his sunken cargo and then inventing saltwater taffy (*Rocky and Bullwinkle*).

The quaint town of Macondo is founded by Jose Arcadio Buendia.

### **1581**

**November 19:** Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia, son of Ivan the Terrible, died; the Assassins Guild were somehow involved in his death(*Assassin's Creed*).

### **1582**

The Golem is created by Rabbi Judah Loew to defend prosecuted Jews (*Jewish legend*).

Samanosuke destroys the Genma army and goes to Honnō-ji Temple for his final battle with Oda Nobunaga. Circumstances soon lead to him being sent to the year 2004(*Onimusha 3: Demon Siege*).**June 21:** Oda Nobunaga, head of the Oda clan, was attacked by his vassal Akechi Mitsuhide at Honnō-ji; he was subsequently assassinated the Assassin and monk Yamauchi Taka to obtain his Sword of Eden, which was then transported to China by Liu Yan(*Assassin's Creed*).

**October:** Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar, replacing the Julian calendar which is eleven days slower. October 4 is immediately followed by October 15 (Real Life). However, the Pope does not realize that he miscalculated by one hour. The lost hour slips free and bounces through eternity. A paladin of the lost hour is appointed to ensure that it does not run out and cause the entire universe to be engulfed in darkness (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

The Jedi notice that the Force has begun to "flux", and fear that the dark side is growing again (*Star Wars*).

### **1583**

Cossacks encounter zombies near a remote Siberian village (*The Zombie Survival Guide*).

Sir Philip Sidney stems the tide of Spanish porn and returns to London in triumph. (*Monty Python's Flying Circus*).

### **1584**

**September 3:** Astaroth is created at the Grand Shrine of Palgaea (*SoulCalibur*).

Cervantes de Leon is killed by Sophitia Alexandra, and Inferno defeated by Taki. Siegfried Schtauffen claims the remains of one of the blades, becoming Nightmare. Fragments of the Soul Edge are scattered across the world. Cervantes is returned to life as an undead, the blade’s power infected his body, and was thus able to live again. He begins hunting for souls to resurrect Soul Edge(*Soul Blade*).

Emily St. Aubert, the only child of a landed rural family whose fortunes are now in decline, is orphaned. After a harrowing series of adventures, including an attempt at forced marriage by an ignoble count and imprisonment in the remote castle of Udolpho, she is able to return to her estate where she takes control of the property and is reunited with her beloved Valancourt.

### **1585**

Chicot fights for Henry IV(of France) in the affair of the Forty-Five (*Alexandre Dumas - Les Quarante-Cinq*).Lord Hidetora Ichimonji abdicates and leaves his territory to his three sons, two of which insist on fighting each other (*Ran*).Shakespeare's son Hamnet is born(*Real Life, The Sandman*).

### **1586**

A "John Dee"(Prospero in disguise) translates the Necronomicon into English(*Cthulhu Mythos*). Elsewhere in England, Phra is awakened by two graverobbers. Traveling to London, he meets an old scholar named Adam Faulkner and becomes a guest at his home. Falling in love with the old man's daughter, Elizabeth Phra aids her father in his great work, building a steam-driven mechanical marvel, a task that ends in tragedy. Phra and Elizabeth marry but then drink poisoned wine. Elizabeth perishes but Phra is able survive long enough to avenge her death. Then, in the recesses of Faulkner's dilapidated mansion, Phra dies a final death, slipping into the spirit world -- to be finally reunited with Blodwin(*Phra the Phoenician*).

**Late summer:** A small Japanese village hires seven samurai to protect its barley crop from bandits( Kikuchiyo's fake family tree claims he was born in the second month of 1574, and the other samurai mock him because he "doesn't look like a thirteen-year-old"; convention at that time was to count age by the number of calendar years one has lived in. In temperate climates, barley is a summer crop (*Seven Samurai*).

**October 26:** English alchemist Edward Face(Replacing Edward Kelley) moved with his family to Třeboň from Prague, where he worked with "John Dee"(Prospero) for Count Vilem Rožmberk; using a Crystal Ball, Face communicated with the First Civilization(*Assassin's Creed*).

Brit-Cit Psi-Judge James Dee is accidentally sent back in time and recruits Celibacy Steel, Jack Harkness(from *Doctor Who*), Tom Locke and William Shakespeare into a Watch patrol which he models on the Judges of his time(*Deathwatch*, *Judge Dredd Megazine*).

### **Between 1584 and 1587**

Aeon Calcos becomes Lizardman (*SoulCalibur*).

### **1587**

English settlers on Roanoke Island flee from a zombie incursion (*The Zombie Survival Guide*).

Kilik and Chai Xianghua defeat Nightmare and partially release him from the control of the Soul Edge. Soul Calibur is infected with Soul Edge's evil at this time (*SoulCalibur*).Solomon Kane has another encounter with Dracula(*Solomon Kane*).

End of the adventures of the Chevalier de Pardaillan. (*Michel Zevaco - Les Pardaillan*).

### **Between** **1587 and 1590**

An unknown calamity befalls the colony on Roanoke Island and the settlers disappear without a trace(Real Life). Here's what actually happened.

The Roanoke settlers are visited by the dethroned king of the Sheeda, the descendants of humanity from the distant future. He interbreeds with them, and convinces most of them to relocate to a mystical underground realm where they found a new society heavily based on magic (DC Comics). Those that remained behind moved inland to avoid a harsh winter. Tomasyn White became possessed by a pagan witch and sacrificed the rest of the settlers, summoning Demons and spirits, including Andre Linoge, who forces settlers to drown themselves when they refuse to hand over a child for him to raise as his successor (*Storm of the Century*). The Horseman Pestilence unleashed a plague. The survivors of Roanoke is sealed inside a timeless pocket dimension by Virginia Dare protect them(*The Legend of Sleepy Hollow*). The land the settlers died on becomes cursed and haunted by their spirits. (*American Horror Story: Roanoke*). The Assassin's Guild and Templars both had some involvement in these, likely seeking to prevent White's actions(*Assassin's Creed*).

In an alternate reality, a time displaced Steve Rogers, who was found by a native American tribe, arrive and do battle with the demonic forces threatening Roanoke, helping Virginia Dare to defeat the demons and spirits(*Marvel 1602*).

### **1588**

King Philip of Spain sends a massive armada to conquer England. The Spanish Armada conquers England. Queen Gloriana I is deposed and imprisoned in the Tower of London. England is forcibly converted to Catholicism by its new queen Isabella, the daughter of King Philip II of Spain. The country remains under Spanish occupation until a successful uprising in 1598 (*Ruled Britannia*).

In an Alternate Universe, the Spanish Armada keeps control of England. By the 2090s, the Spanish Empire stretches to the borders of Russia (*Crosstime Traffic*).A retired Cornish seafaring gentleman, Sir Oliver Tressilian, is villainously betrayed by a jealous half-brother. After being forced to serve as a slave on a galley, Sir Oliver is liberated by Barbary pirates. He joins the pirates, gaining the name "Sakr-el-Bahr" (the hawk of the sea), and swears vengeance against his brother.

**October 24:** Pyrrha Alexandra, daughter of Sophitia Alexander, is born in Greece *(Soulcalibur V).*

### **1589**

**May:** John Dee(Prospero) left Třeboň and returned to England after an argument with Edward Face over the use of the Book of Abraham; Face started working at the court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.

**September 13:** Birth of Patroklos to Sophitia and Rothion Alexander in Athens (*Soul Calibur V*).Arthur, under the influence of a fragment of Soul Edge, kills his wife and young son. He vows to destroy the evil sword (*Soul Calibur III*).Archibald Fritton, a pirate woman disguised as a man, steals a shipment of treasure from Lord Pomfrey, who had intended to use it to bring down Queen Isabella I. Miss Fritton founds the Globe Theatre and takes to writing plays while impersonating William Shakespeare, with the actual Shakespeare's blessing. This is part of a scheme developed between the two (*St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold*).

William Shakespeare strikes a deal with Morpheus, giving to him his only son Hamnet, while in an English pub. The result will make him one of the most celebrated writers in history (*Sandman*).

**September 13:** Patroklos Alexander, son of Sophitia Alexander, is born in Greece (*Soulcalibur V*).

### **1590**

José da Silvestra discovers King Solomon's Mines. Prospero, now the Duke of Milano, becomes shipwrecked with his daughter Miranda on a mysterious island in the Adriatic Sea (*The Tempest*).Heather dies of old age; Connor MacLeod decides to travel the world (*Highlander*).

John White finally returns to Roanoke Island after three years, only to discover it completely abandoned, with the only clue being the word "Croatan" carved into a tree. The settlers are never seen again (*Real Life*).

### **1591**

**March 9:** Two priests create a soulless soldier named Ashlotte*(Soulcalibur V).***August 3:** Birth of Natsu in Izumo (*SoulCalibur V*).

**Summer:** Once again, various warriors seek the Soul Edge. Nightmare defeats Raphael Sorel in a duel, but the Soul Edge is damaged, allowing Siegfried to separate from Nightmare. Several heroes are brought out through time and space to partake in the conflict, including the hero of Hyrule Link, Heihachi Mishima, and the Hellspawn Al Simmons. Siegfried claims the Soul Calibur (*SoulCalibur II*).

**Autumn:** Battles for the Soul swords heat up again. Soul Edge and Soul Calibur clash once more, causing a huge explosion. Zasalamel does not gain the death he sought, and instead decides to try and improve the world (*SoulCalibur III*).

**Winter:** Yet more battles over the Soul swords. Soul Edge and Soul Calibur are (apparently) destroyed at this time (*SoulCalibur IV*).

Sultan Murad III's court miniaturists are working on a book the Sultan intends to gift to European emissaries. One of the miniaturists is murdered (*My Name Is Red*).

Dracula attempts to claim the body of Christopher Belmont’s son, presumably as a new Soul Clone, but is foiled(*Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge*).

The last battles over Soul Edge are fought, culminating in the blade’s destruction. Many strange individuals, possibly from other worlds or times, are seen during these battles, including a man claiming to be Kratos of Sparta, an elven warrior, a demon from Hell, a boy named Lloyd Irving, and a cyborg sorcerer, small green creature and apprentice from another galaxy (*Soul Calibur series*).

The respected nobleman Count Frankenhausen, who has been preying on the villagers around the “Lagoon of Death” on the coast of Mexico, is revealed to be a vampire by the local vampire-hunter Doctor Alvaran. Alvaran kills Frankenhausen, only to have all of Frankenhausen’s victims rise from the grave and attack Alvaran (*La Invasión de los Vampiros (1963)*).

### **1592**

**April 20:** Birth of Xiba in the Ming Empire, China (*SoulCalibur V*).

**December 21/22:** Birth of Duncan MacLeod in Glenfinnan, Scotland. He is a foundling child, born on the winter solstice. Fortunately for him, Ian and Mary MacLeod have a stillborn son at about the same time. The midwife replaces the dead baby with the living one. Ian knows his son is adopted but keeps it secret for the time being (*Highlander: The Series*).

Sherman helps Galileo get into the Tower of Pisa, incidentally setting off a gas explosion that makes it lean. (Peabody, being in bed with distemper, remains in the present day) (*Rocky and Bullwinkle*).

### **1593**

**May 30: 1593, May 30-** In London, after a day of heavy drinking at the establishment of Ma Bull, Christopher Marlowe, and his entourage, are working on a scene in the garden which degenerates into a fracas in which Marlowe is accidentally stabbed in the eye by Andrew Norton, the time travelling "Prisoner of London," with a sharp stick. The contemporary historical record of the Glorianian Era remembers Mr. Norton as "a strangely attired... Master Nortonne"(*Slow Chocolate Autopsy*). He allegedly dies(Real Life) but actually fakes his death to avoid being prosecuted for atheism and to keep up his work as a spy. (*The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.*). He is also a Vampire, who wrote many of Shakespeare's plays(*Only Lovers left Alive*).

**June 23:** William Shakespeare, along with his troupe, repay his debt to Dream by performing *A Midsummer Night's Dream* to an audience of fairies before their departure from mortal realm. The play is a huge success among the Fairie realm inhabitants, even convincing the sadistic Puck to act more like the version of him in the play, a merry troublemaker, though he still enjoys antagonizing Gargoyles(*The Sandman*).

**July 7:** Birth of Yan Leixia to Chai Xianghua and Yan Wujin in Luoyang in the Ming Empire, China (*SoulCalibur V*).

### **1594**

A battle between ninjas and Youkai ends with the Youkai being sealed away (*Ninja Sentai Kakuranger*).

### **1596**

**December 23:** The Assassin Hattori Hanzō was killed by his longtime rival and fellow ninja, Fūma Kotarō, in Edo.

### **1597**

James VI of Scotland publishes a treatise on demonology.**November 1:** Edward Face fakes his death by jumping off the roof of Hněvín Castle, where he was imprisoned by Emperor Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire, for failing to create gold(Based on Edward Kelley's suicide in real life. Here Face survives.

Death of Markus Fugger, last known person to have central authority over the historical Fugger bank. Regardless, the brand survives and holds financial sway into the 21st century (*The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.*).

### **1597 to 1598**

William Shakespeare is commissioned both by the English resistance and Spanish Inquisition to write plays for them, *Boudicca* and *King Phillip. Boudicca* is played and inspires a rebellion which is successful. Queen Gloriana(Ludwig) is reinstated. Shakespeare divorces his wife Anne Hathaway in favor of his mistress Viola de Lesseps(*Shakespeare in Love*). He also requests that performer Lupe de Vega be spared and for his play *King* *Phillip* to be performed as he considers it one of his best works(*Ruled Brittania*).

### **1598**

Three Carrionites break through into Glorianian(Ludwigian?) England from their realm. They kill Archibald Fritton and burn down the globe Theatre as part of their plan. William Shakespeare inherits the property of the Globe Theatre from Fritton and commissions the Globe be rebuilt, planning to use it as a venue for his own plays. The Carrionites manipulate the architect tasked with rebuilding the Globe, Peter Streete, into making it to their specified shape. They then break the architect's mind, resulting in Streete being placed in an asylum(*Doctor Who*).**September 18:** Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the unifier of Japan after Nobunaga's death, was killed by the Assassin Yamauchi Taka in Fushimi Castle(*Assassin's Creed*).

### **1599**

V.I.L.E. agent Medeva time-travels to this year to steal Shakespeare's plays. ACME agents successfully restore history and capture Medeva (*Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time*)(This is placed before the Doctor Who episode because Shakespeare in that episode seems to casually admit that he knows The Doctor is a time traveller and Martha is from the Future. His previous interaction with time travellers here, James Dee and dealings with Morpheus, make him more used to paranormal phenomenon.

The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones meet William Shakespeare in Southwark and prevent a Carrionite invasion using the Globe Theatre's layout as part of a summoning ritual.Which Shakespeare helped begin. Whoops. Shakespeare performs his now lost play Love Labours Won. The Carrionites tamper with the script as part of a ritual to summon the other Carrionites. After banishing the Carrionites on stage, the play is a success. Queen Gloriana arrives to congratulate Shakespeare. However, when she sees the Doctor she demands his head, forcing him and Martha to flee. The reason appears to be the Doctor marrying and then abandoning her, which had not happened in the Doctor's timeline, it was actually because Ludwig knew the Doctor was dangerous and wanted him to be killed (*Doctor Who*).Birth of Percy Blake(*The Laughing Cavalier*) ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel.

### **1600**

Approximate date that a meteor containing Glaaki crashes into the Severn Valley (Cthulhu Mythos).

Approximate date that Diane de Moriamis leaves Averoigne on Earth for Nouvelle Averoigne in Mystara (local year 1012 AC)(The document "Chronomancy and the Multiverse", originally from Wizards of the Coast's Web site, says that Moriamis is from a magical Europe around the year 1600(This universe's version of England with Witches, Faeries and the like certainly qualifies)(Dungeons & Dragons: Mystara).

Orlando and Queen Gloriana(Ludwig) become lovers for a short while at about this time, and Orlando becomes engrossed in poetry and the arts.

Dr. Ava founds the agrarian republic of Calejava, that can be best described as scrupulously fair, if screamingly dull.

In Iceland, the alchemist Arne Saknussemm discovers an entry into the hollow Earth via the extinct volcano Snaefells Jokull(*Journey to the Center of the Earth*).
A poet named Ramon takes on the identity of a masked adventurer, “Zorro,” and encounters the heroic and possibly immortal strongman Maciste in a plot from from Princess Malva to eliminate her sister Isabel and take her part of her inheritance. After being foiled, Ramon weds a Isabel and becomes the Count of Seville (*Zorro contra Maciste/Samson and the Slave Queen*).

### **16th Century**

In the Alternate Universe of Earth 6, Queen Gloriana I of Britannia(never assassinated by Ludwig in this Universe) bears a child, Henry IX, out of wedlock, with the father being either Sir Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester; Sir Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; or Sir Carl, Duke of Britannia. (*Code Geass*)(Mid 15th Century in Common Era)

Marcus Octavius and Colin MacLeod take part in a series of conflicts raging across Japan, but their only recorded duel is inconclusive(*Highlander: The Search for Vengeance*).

On a battlefield in Japan, Marcus Octavius discovers Kyala, a new immortal. He decides not to decapitate her, and she becomes his student and lover for centuries (*Highlander: The Search for Vengeance*).

On Earth C, Jizonobu, a Buddhist monk in Japan, makes a desperate bargain with the *Kami* of darkness to cure the daughter of a local nobleman. The child is cured, but in return, Jizonobu becomes possessed by a demonic entity calling itself Jei that slaughters almost all the monks of Jizonobu's temple along with the nobleman, sparing only the child because he deems her an "innocent". Dubbing himself "The Sword Of the Gods", Jei carves a swathe of atrocities across Japan, claiming he is eradicating evil, despite his killings being almost indiscriminate. Miyamoto Usagi becomes the student of reclusive hermit and master swordsman Katsuichi. Over the next decade, Katsuichi molds Usagi into one of the greatest swordsmen of his generation. Upon reaching adulthood, Usagi becomes a samurai under the benevolent Lord Mifune. (*Usagi Yojimbo*).

## **1601 C.E.-1650 C.E.**

### **Early 17th century**

Chris and Martin Kratt, plus Koki, time-travel to Mauritius during this era, where they meet the now-extinct dodo. They also observe (without being seen) the explorer ancestor of their villain Gourmand (*Wild Kratts*).

On Earth C, Miyamoto Usagi is one of the few survivors of the Battle of Adachi Plain between the scheming Lord Hikiji and Usagi's master Lord Mifune. Mifune is betrayed by one of his commanders, Buchi Toda, and is killed in the battle. Usagi cuts off his masters head and flees the field, later burying it in the mountains to keep Hikiji from displaying it as a trophy. Now masterless, Usagi begins to wander the land as a *ronin*(Masterless Samurai) (*Usagi Yojimbo*).

### **1601**

A Manx adventurer(Actually a time traveller)arrives at the Old Tearsheet Brewery in Southwark, London, England. He attempts to subtly persuade Sir Edward Greylock to invest in the East India Trading Company. In one crucial version of events, Sir Edward, the Tearsheet Brewery and the not-as-dead-as-expected Christopher Marlowe are obliterated in a Diachronic Shear event(*The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.*). Though Marlowe survives and regenerates.

Englishman Lord John Blackthorne is stranded in Japan, where he befriends and ends up helping Lord Yoshi Toranaga seize power in the country, forming the Toranaga Shogunate (*James Clavell's Shogun*).**March 29:** Domingo Gonsales, having fled his native Spain after killing a man in a duel, is returning having made his fortune in the East Indies. But on his voyage home he becomes seriously ill, and puts ashore on St Helena. There, taking notice of the island's large bird population, he creates a flying machine he calls his Engine, which he uses in his bid to fly to the moon.

### **1602**

In An Alternate timeline, the Age of Marvels begins centuries ahead of schedule. Queen Gloriana I(actually Ludwig) is assassinated by Latverian Count Otto Von Doom. King James I ascends to the throne and begins a persecution of Witchbreed and other superhuman beings, resulting in them fleeing to the New World(*Marvel 1602*).

### **1603**

**March 24:** Queen Gloriana I(Prince Ludwig) dies of old age. King James I ascends to the throne. He orders that all of the faerie race be purged from England.

On Earth 6,Queen Gloriana I dies of old age. King Henry IX ascends to the throne (*Code Geass* 1548 CE).

Sophitia Alexandra is murdered and becomes Elysium around this time (*SoulCalibur V*).

Toranaga Yoshi becomes the first Shogun of Japan, and establishes the Toranaga shogunate(*Shogun,* Based on Real Life rise of the Tokugawa Shogunate) This is accomplished with the use of Mons(*Pokemon Conquest*).

On Earth C, The Conspiracy of Eight forms, planning to return the throne to the Emperor by finding the long-lost Grasscutter sword (*Usagi Yojimbo*).

Santo, a Spanish Don in Mexico, wins the love of Isabel de Arango, a beautiful noblewoman. Santo’s rival, embittered, sells his soul to a supernatural being calling itself “the Devil.” The rival, now become the supernaturally-empowered Black Hood, threatens Isabel de Arango with sacrifice to “the Devil,” but Santo, with the help of a friendly monk, undergoes a transformation of his own and is given a supernaturally-empowered costume which uses to defeat the Black Hood. The Hood escapes final justice, but Santo, now calling himself “El Santo,” swears eternal vigilance against the Black Hood and vows that in every generation, one of the family of Santo will put on the costume of “El Santo” and fight evil (*El Hacha Diabolica*).

### **1604**

Patroklos Alexander wins his first sword tournament. Rothion falls ill at this time and tells Patroklos the truth about the Soul Edge (*SoulCalibur V*).Rothion Alexander passes away due to illness*(SoulCalibur V).*

### **1605**

**November 5:** An attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up Parliament is prevented(*V for Vendetta,* and Real Life). William Shakepeare is commissioned to write a play about the event(*Equivocation*), instead writing a play about the Scottish King Macbeth, even consulting the original three Witches, who curse the play when they are not credited.(*Equivocation*)

### **1605 to 1615**

A noble (hidalgo) named Alonso Quixano reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to become a knight-errant (*caballero andante*), reviving chivalry and serving his country, under the name *Don Quixote de la Mancha*. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. The two have many adventures, often the result of Quixote mistaking mundane objects for fantastical elements, such as a windmill and a giant (*Don Quixote*).

### **1606**

Duncan MacLeod enters the supposedly haunted Donan Woods on a dare. He is confronted by a wolf but rescued by the legendary "Witch of Donan Woods", who turns out to be Cassandra, an immortal. Fortunately, she is interested in his well-being (*Highlander: The Series*).

Dracula comes across "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Bathory, whom he strikes an alliance with (*Dracula Lives!* #4).

### **1607**

A ship carrying British settlers from the Virginia Company sail to North America to find gold. Jamestown, the first English settlement in the Americas, is established. While in Jamestown, Captain John Smith's life is saved by the Powhatan girl Matoaka, also known as Pocahontas. A war between the settlers and the Powhatan tribe is averted thanks to the efforts of Pocahontas( *Pocahontas, American legend*).

Nightmare is reborn as Graf Dumas, who gains control of Zubrowka and manipulates various people, notably Patroklos and Pyrrha Alexandra, into reiving Soul Edge (*SoulCalibur V*).

Richard Maynarde is born (*Doctor Who*).

### **1608**

Restored Soul Edge and Soul Calibur clash for the fifth time (*SoulCalibur V*).

### **1609**

The Master turns a dying prostitute in the Colony of Virginia into a vampire. She later becomes known as Darla (*Angel*).

### **1610**

Prospero manipulates a tempest to trap a group of those who wronged him on his island and punish them. Prospero then returns to England to form Gloriana's "League". The earliest members consist of Prospero, Caliban, Ariel and Orlando. It is possible that their handler is Sir Basildon Bond.

**Jaunuary 23:** A group of English colonists from Jamestown, searching for food, find a mysterious staircase. (*House of Leaves*)

Countess Elizabeth Bathory is discovered to have been murdering young women. Her servants are killed as accomplices to her atrocities, and she is imprisoned

Cure Ange arrives on Earth, establishes the Precure Palace, enabling the creation of Pretty Cure on Earth (*HeartCatch Pretty Cure!*).

Solomon Kane is abducted from Devon by magical riders from Negari and taken to that city, now a part of Africa. He is transported to the distant past when Negari was a city of Atlantis, where he teams up with Conan, who has also been transported to the past. The two are able to return to their respective times(*Solomon Kane*).

### **1611**

Peabody and Sherman convince William Shakespeare that *Romeo and Juliet* is a better play name than *Romeo and Zelda* while he is committing the play to writing, and prevent Shakespeare and Francis Bacon from killing each other in a duel (*Rocky and Bullwinkle*).

### **1612**

Approximate date that the town of Odiare is pulled from Italy on Gothic Earth to the Land of Mists (local year 738 BC) (Based on its Renaissance tech level in-game and Mystara's connection to Earth and Ravenloft history, it's probably around 1612 (but no later than 1700). It should be noted that any date connections dependent on *Ravenloft's mists*, which are known to warp time, are questionable. (*Dungeons & Dragons: Masque of the Red Death & Ravenloft*)

### **1614**

Death of Countess Elizabeth Bathory(Real Life).

### **circa 1614**

Birth of Chewbacca (*Star Wars*).

The Jedi Order feels the Dark Side of the Force growing stronger again. (*Star Wars*)

Memory wipes become common droid maintenance following a personality virus unleashed by a member of the Baobab Merchant Fleet (*Star Wars*).

### **1615**

**May–June:** The second Siege of Osaka was fought between the Toranaga shogunate and the Toyotomi clan; the Toyotomi clan was defeated, and thus the last threat to the shogunate. Many samurai, including the Assassin Hattori Masanari, perished in the conflict.

### **1616**

**April 23:** The "noted biographers" William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes both die on this day, Shakespeare leaving his *Fairy's Fortunes Founded* folio unfinished. A Time Traveler replaces the corpse of William Shakespeare with a replica and restores his health with 23rd century medical technology (*Chrononauts*).

Pocahontas travels to England as a diplomat(*Pocahontas II* and Real Life).

Following King James'a purge, Fairyland withdraws entirely from England at some time during this year. Most faeries relocate to the Blazing World, just north of the British Isles. Most of fair folk supporters (few nobility members and some sorcerers included) travel to various pocket dimensions and establish kingdoms, such as Enchancia, Mewni and Oz(*League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*).

### **1618**

In Germany, a young man is separated from his home by foraging dragoons and is adopted by a hermit living in the forest, who teaches him to read and introduces him to religion. The hermit names him Simplicius because he is so simple that he did not know his own name. After the death of the hermit, Simplicius is conscripted, and from there embarks on years of foraging, military triumph, wealth, prostitution, disease, bourgeois domestic life, and travels to Russia, France, and to an alternate world inhabited by mermen.

In Glenfinnan, Duncan MacLeod kills his cousin, Robert, for the affections of Debra Campbell, but she dies in a fall the same day (*Highlander: The Series*).

### **1618-1648**

The Thirty Years War breaks out between the Catholic Osterlich and the Lutheran parts of the Holy Roman Empire.

### **1619**

The statesman John of Barneveld is falsely accused of treason and sent to the gallows by the Stadtholder, Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange

### **1620s**

The Duke Prospero encounters Don Quixote at about this time, who he falsely believes to be a true knight. Don Quixote joins Prospero's Men(*League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*).

1620

November 21: The Pilgrims arrive in New England aboard their ship, the *Mayflower* (Real Life). Onboard are Nettie Albright, an ancestor of Mary Albright(*3rd Rock from the Sun*), and Shaggy Rogers and Scooby-Doo's ancestors, McBaggy Rogers and his pet dog Yankee Doodle Doo (*Scooby-Doo*) Cooder's ancestors arrive in New England after "clangin' to the side of the *Mayflower "*(*The Simpsons*).

On Earth C, The final battle between the forces of Lord Hikiji and Lord Noryuki is interrupted by technologically advanced invaders from another world, possibly Mars. Lord Hikiji, originally believed dead in the initial attack, betrays Earth with the intention of allying himself with the alien beings to rule the entire world, but is killed by his magistrate Lord Hebi in revenge. The Japanese suffer massive losses but are eventually able to defeat the limited number of invaders through the use of prototype weapons created by a local inventor. Myamoto Usagi is killed in the final battle and lives long enough to pass his swords to his son Jotaro. (*Usagi Yojimbo: Senso*)

### **1622**

**October 2:** The MacLeod clan is involved in an armed conflict with a rival clan. Duncan MacLeod is killed in battle and hailed a hero, but revives as an immortal and is driven out by his fearful and superstitious clan (*Highlander: The Series*).

### **1623**

**January:**The first adventure of the Laughing Cavalier AKA Percy Blake(*The Laughing Cavalier*).

**March to January 1624:** Gilda Beresteyn attempts to clear the name of her old flame Dutch nobleman Willem van Oldenbarnevelt, Lord of Stoutenburg, who wants to get revenge after his father and brother were arrested under false charges. She meets and recruits a group of mercenaries who call themselves after famous philosophers: "Diogenes," "Socrates," and "Pythagoras" in the plot to aid Stoutenburg in getting revenge. Gilda becomes attracted to "Diogenes" (really Percy Blake, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman and a Dutch woman). Diogenes poses for the famous "Laughing Cavalier" painting(*Sir Percy Blake*)

### **1624**

Glenfinnan is attacked by the immortal Viking Kanwulf and his raiders, who fatally wound Ian MacLeod. Duncan MacLeon takes up his father's sword and manages to defeat Kanwulf, but fails to fully kill him (*Highlander: The Series*).**March:** Percy Blake AKA Diogenes finally meets his real father, an English nobleman, and realizes his true identity as Sir Percy Blake of Blakeney, heir to a large estate in Sussex. He also gets married to Gilda Beresteyn, before they learn about Stoutenburg's plan to assassinate the Stadtholder. When they run afoul of Stoutenburg, a conflict begins between the couple and the fugitive (*The First Sir Percy).*

### **1625**

The Three Musketeers and D'Artagnan battle the schemes of Cardinal Richelieu (*The Three Musketeers*).

Duncan MacLeod receives his first Quickening after Timothy of Gilliam, the Hermit of Loch Bannoch, warns him of an evil that enters the world every thousand years and then commits suicide (*Highlander: The Series*).

Connor MacLeod meets Duncan MacLeod and becomes his mentor (*Highlander: The Series*).

On Earth-C, the Three Mouseketeers (Porterhouse, Aramouse, and Amouse) defend King Looey of France against various threats. They're also briefly visited by a time-traveling Yankee Poodle and Rubberduck of the Zoo Crew (*Funny Stuff*, *Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!*).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.

In Italy, near Spolete, François Vitelli, designated heir of the Prince of Monteleone, is murdered by his cousin Ercole Vitelli under the eyes of his son, Andrea Vitelli (*Paul Féval- Bel Demonio).*

### **1627**

A trio of Imperial Assassins are tasked by the Emperor of China with assassinating a powerful eunuch plotting a coup (*Brotherhood of Blades*).

The Magical School Ilvermorny is founded in the Colonies(*Harry Potter*).

### **1629**

the Count of Seville, the son of the first Zorro, travels to France to rescue Isabella, the cousin of the King of Spain. While in France he poses as Zorro and adventures with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis (*Zorro e i Tre Moschiettieri*),

Approximate date of the Faction War in Sigil (130th year of Factol Hashkar's Reign) (Assumes 1629=130th year); see *Die Vecna Die!* events in 1629. (*Dungeons & Dragons: Planescape*)

Approximate date that Azalin Rex returns and reclaims most of Darkon (local year 755 BC).(Assumes 1629=755 BC; see *Die Vecna Die!* events in 1629) (*Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft*)

Approximate date that the demigod Vecna becomes a full god, escapes Ravenloft, visits Sigil, and returns to Oerth. Specifically, he lures Iuz the Evil from Oerth into the Land of Mists and absorbs Iuz's power to ascend to greater godhood; uses his new power to escape from the Dark Powers into Sigil; sets up shop and starts disrupting the multiverse by his presence; and is expelled by adventurers armed with his old body parts. Vecna falls back to Oerth, loses Iuz's essence, and is reduced to a lesser god. (591 CY, 755 BC, 130th year of Factol Hashkar's Reign)(*Living Greyhawk Gazetteer* pegs this as 591 CY; the third edition *Ravenloft Campaign Setting* pegs this as 755 BC; and the events in Sigil take place shortly after the *Faction War* adventure, set in the 130th year. The link to 1629 C.E. is via the 1612 events with Odiare (738 BC). Note this causes some hiccups with other transfers between other *D&D* settings and *Ravenloft*, but those connected dates rely solely on *Ravenloft's* mists, which are notorious for warping time) (*Dungeons & Dragons: Die Vecna Die!*).

### **1630s**

A family exiled from New England due to religious differences is tormented by witches (*The VVitch*).

### **1630**

Approximate date that a mysterious patron Azalin Rex sends the noted scholar "S" to explore the domains of *Ravenloft*. (local year 756 BC) (*Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft*).

Duncan MacLeod has his first encounter with Martin Hyde, the Hunter, who was at the time seeking a confrontation with Connor MacLeod (*Highlander: The Series*).

Around this time the entity currently known as Jones arrives in Jamestown. She goes missing shortly thereafter (*Gunnerkrigg Court*).

Ronin Tsugumo Hanshiro enters the stronghold of the Ii clan via pretending to want a place to commit seppuku, secretly plotting his final revenge on the clan's heads for slowly killing his ward (*Harakiri*)..

Princess Asa Vadja is executed for witchcraft (*Black Sunday*).

### **1631**

A Catholic monk from Luxembourg named Perrault travels to Tibet and rebuilds the Lamasery of Shangri-La in its current form. There, his aging slows and he is able to meditate on the meaning of all things(*Lost Horizon*).

### **1632**

The town of Grantville, West Virginia circa 2000 C.E. arrives in Thuringia, Germany. Massive social, political, and technological upheaval follows (*1632*).

### **1634**

Devon Marek, son and heir of the Duke of Willoughby, revives as an immortal. Due to the circumstances, he blames Duncan MacLeod for cheating him out of his inheritance (*Highlander: The Series*).

At about this year, Duncan rescues fellow immortal Ursa from a mob armed with pitchforks]] and scythes. Ursa finds sanctuary in a monstery (*Highlander: The Series*).

### **1635**

Andrea Vitelli returns as Bel Demonio, leader of a gang of thieves and murderers, founder of the secret conspiracy of the Brothers of Mercy, ready to avenge his father's death (*Paul Féval-Bel Demonio*).

**September 11:** In Verona, Duncan MacLeod meets Rebecca Horne and her student Amanda, with the latter of whom he would have an on-off relationship for about the next four or five centuries (*Highlander: The Series*).

### **1637**

Duncan MacLeod is hired to kill the immortal Hugh Fitzcairn, who a local aristocrat thinks has stolen his daughter, Arianna's, virtue. Duncan and Hugh become good friend when Duncan discovers that Arianna's virtue had gone long before she met Hugh (*Highlander: The Series*).

### **1638**

**June:** in Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, a young woman named Hester Prynne gives birth to a child of unknown parentage and is punished by being forced to wear a Scarlet Letter A on her dress as proof of her sin(*The Scarlet Letter*).

**After November 23:** Lady Peinforte and her servant Richard Maynarde travel forward in time to November 23, 1988 (*Doctor Who*).

### **1639**

Kingsport founded in Massachusetts (*Cthulhu Mythos*).

### **1640**

In France, Duncan MacLeod meets Kyra, a fellow Immortal and bodyguard to Anne of Osterlich, Queen consort of Louis XIII. (*Highlander: The Series*)

A young woman arrives in Cambridge, Boston and steals a freshly-printed copy of the Bay Psalm Book, which she buries within the village (*The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.*).

Reports reach England of the very prosperous kingdom of Macaria, wherein taxes are low because the King does his up-most to avoid entering into costly wars, there is no state religion so no inter-communal religious conflicts, and the utilization of knowledge and the sciences have all but eliminated unemployment. This only serves to add fuel to the fury of the mobs during the ensuing revolution.Hanshichi, a policeman in Edo, Japan, is influenced by the writings of Brother William of Baskerville's apprentice and models himself after Brother William, becoming a very successful detective (From the "Hanshichi" stories by Okamoto Kido).

### **1641**

The beginning of the English Civil War. (Real Life)

Birth of the English Behemoth.

### **1642**

Duncan MacLeod turns 50 and decides to seek some education. He and Hugh Fitzcairn finally learn how to read and write. During their studies, the duo first meet Mako, another immortal (*Highlander: The Series*).

### **1642 to 1649**

As Hester Prynne struggles to raise her rambunctious daughter, Pearl, on her own, the father of her child is revealed and is shown to be experiencing severe guilt. Through the scorn and judgment of the citizens and Roger Chillingworth, Hester's husband, the two decide to remain together.

### **1643**

the town of Innsmouth is founded in Massachusetts. (Cthulhu Mythos)

### **1644**

A Mixtec woman has her infant taken from her by a Catholic priest. This drives her mad and leads to her suicide, but after her death her spirit becomes the phantom “La Llorona.”

### **1647**

Apparent birth of Ronin in Glasgow. Ronin bonds initially to Jessel Howard, and in subsequent years to female descendants of Jessel up to Dr. Beverly Crusher in 2370 (*Star Trek: The Next Generation*).

**Late:** In Germany, a young assistant forester Max is in love with Agathe and is to become the new head forester for the prince, but a test of skill in marksmanship is required. After ill luck during practice, Caspar convinces Max to cast seven magic bullets to be used in the contest. In reality, Caspar, who had sold his soul to the devil, hopes to buy himself more time by substituting Max in his place. At the trial, the devil causes Max to fire at Agathe, but her bridal wreath deflects the bullet, killing Caspar. Max is almost banished, but a hermit intercedes on his behalf, suggesting a years probation instead, after which Max may marry Agatha. The Prince agrees and saying that he himself will marry the two at the end of the year.

### **1648**

Completion of the Taj Mahal in India. (Real Life)

D’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers fight Milady’s son, Mordaunt, and the nefarious plots of Cardinal de Mazarin. (*Twenty Years After)*

After years of adventures, Simplicius becomes a hermit, denouncing the world as corrupt.

### **1649**

King Charles I is beheaded by parliament. Beginning of the English Commonwealth.

### **c.1649 to 1740**

Era of expansion for the Bomburst dynasty. Florin, Guilder, Moronika, Ruritania, and Syldavia are among the countries absorbed during this period. Officially, Transylvania is among these conquests, though in actuality, it remains under the yoke of the immortal vampire Count Dracula.

### **1650**

Immortal wizard Ombric Shalaza and Santa Claus found the village of Santoff Clausen in eastern Siberia as a haven for philosophers, artists, and visionaries (*The Guardians of Childhood*).

## **1651-1700 C.E.**

### **1651**

In England, the highwayman known as the Nightmare terrorizes the countryside.

**September 3:**  The Battle of Worcester was fought between the English Royalists and Parliamentarians, resulting in a victory for Parliament and the end of the English Civil War. Prince Charles II fled England and lived in exile in mainland Europe

### **1653**

**May:** Clarence Oddbody is born (*It's a Wonderful Life*).

Duncan MacLeod captured by pirates and sold into slavery to Hamza el Kahir, a fellow immortal. Hamza becomes his new mentor, teaching him the use of the scimitar as well as the Arabian language, culture and customs. His studies are cut short when Hamza loses his head to Xavier St. Cloud (*Highlander: The Series*, novel: *Scimitar*).

Seamus McBundy insults Poxilda (a fat, ugly witch) and gets himself cursed. Seamus and male Bundys are cursed with eternal bad luck. Furthermore, his home village of Lower Uncton, England is going to have eternal night. It will only end when the last male Bundy is dead. In the 20th century, the people of Lower Uncton would try to dispose of Seamus' last known male descendants: Al and Bud Bundy. (*Married... with Children*)

End of the English Commonwealth, beginning of the English Protectorate.

### **1655**

Presumed death of Andrea Vitelli *(Paul Féval- Bel Demonio).*

Discovery of Saturn's rings. (Real Life)

### **1657**

**November 2:** Richard Maynarde dies (*Doctor Who*).

Duncan MacLeod receives training in swordsmanship from Graham Ashe, a former mentor to Ramirez, but Ashe is soon killed by the immortal Graham Clay (*Highlander: The Series*).

Cyrano de Bergerac uses an inginiously devised system of firecrackers situated around a wooden box to propel himself to the moon where he encounters beings who have four legs, musical voices, and amazing weapons that cook game for a meal while it's being shot.*(Cyrano de Bergerac - Autres Mondes & Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac)*

### **1658**

Duncan MacLeod enters a monastery, founded centuries ago by the pacifistic Brother Paul. Duncan improves his literacy under Brother Timon, but Timon is later killed by the treacherous Brother Kalas. Duncan exposes Kalas and gets him expelled from the monastery (*Highlander: The Series*).James Woodville of Suffolk exchanges minds with a Yithian. After he is restored to his rightful body, Woodville writes a book called Wondrous Intelligences, which details his unusual sex life and the Great Race of Yith(*Cthulhu Mythos*).

Pitch Black escapes from his prison. In response, Ombric Shalazar recruits Nicholas St. North to help him fight Pitch. (*The Guardians of Childhood*)

### **1659**

**September 30:** Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked on a tropical island near Venezuela. He befriends an escaped prisoner from a tribe of cannibals who he names "Friday", as well as a group of several talking animals (*Robinson Crusoe, The Wild Life*).

In Normandy, the horse-driven carriage of wealthy immortal Kristin Gilles is attacked by highwaymen. Duncan MacLeod intervenes and rescues her (*Highlander: The Series*).

### **1660**

Duncan has settled in Kristin's mansion in Normandy but for some reason decides to leave her for Louise Barton, a mortal painter. Kristin kills Louise and attempts to decapitate Duncan. She fails but Duncan can't bring himself to kill her (*Highlander: The Series*).

While travelling around Normandy, Duncan MacLeod meets Grace Chandel, an immortal healer (*Highlander: The Series*).**May 29:** Prince Charles II returned to London after years of exile in France, the United Provinces and Spanish Netherlands.

Restoration of the English Monarchy under Charles II of England. (Real Life)

The 16 year old Amber St. Clair arrives in London at about this time. (*Forever Amber*)

### **1661**

**May 29:** King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland was crowned at Westminster Abbey; a man wielding a Piece of Eden was present at the coronation(*Assassin's Creed*).

Lemuel Gulliver is born in Nottinghamshire, England(*Gulliver's Travels*).

In the West Indies, an African prince named Caesar leads a failed slave revolt. Upon realizing all is lost, he kills his lover Clemene to protect her from violation and subjugation after his death. For his crime he is dismembered while calmly smoking a pip, never once crying out in pain.

The Vampire Women attack the Spanish Baron Brachial and transform him into a vampire, Barón Brákola, who becomes their leader*(El Barón Brákola*). Perhaps in response to this, the Inquisition in Mexico go in search of wrongdoers. The Inquisition captures the vampire Baron Vitelius and burns him alive for witchcraft and necromancy. As he burns he swears vengeance against those who killed him *(El Barón del Terror).*

 **November 29:** John Ridd is born

### **1662**

The three Musketeers conspire to depose Louis XIV and replace him with his twin brother Philippe. Although successful, Porthos dies soon after, followed by Anthos (*The Vicomte of Bragelonne/The Man in the Iron Mask).*

### **1663**

Duncan MacLeod is in England, having been hired by a Shakespearean company. His boss is Walter Graham, an Immortal actor. Duncan is not too pleased with his role, cast as Kate in *The Taming of the Shrew*. He would like to play her "nicer". Graham doesn't want to even consider Duncan's suggestions (*Highlander: The Series*).

The 6th Phantom establishes the Jungle Patrol (*The Phantom*).

### **1664**

A penniless Arendellian student finds himself in the hollow Earth, and encounters a number of strange beings including sentient trees, intelligent apes preoccupied with fashion and change, and a land where string basses talk musically to one another.

Birth of Micah Clarke(*Micah Clarke*).

### **1665**

Duncan MacLeod fails to rescue John Garrick, an immortal, from being burned at the stake. Garrick survives, and is not pleased (*Highlander: The Series*).

At Ashen Hill Manor, after his family's lifespans get absorbed into a transdimensional device by alien scientist and faux Magician Erasmus Darknening, Lord Marchwood breaks the device, trapping the two in limbo (*The Sarah Jane Adventures*).

### **1666**

The Year of Wonders. Amber St. Clair, mistress to King Charles II, may have joined Prospero's Men at about this time(*League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*).

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, sole survivor of an expedition to the Arctic Ocean, finds herself in a demiplane known as the Blazing World. She chooses to stay there and eventually marries the Emperor. She explores and publishes a record of the Blazing World for the first time (*The Blazing World*).

**September 2 - September 5:** A meteorite crashes through the Earth's atmosphere and zombies subsequently rise from the ashes (*Defoe*). The Fifth Doctor and his companions Adric, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka arrive in this time and quickly discover the Zombies are being controlled by an alien race called the Terileptils(*Doctor Who*), who's leader is the alien a child of Hepheasteus with the power of fire (*Percy Jackson*). During the conflict a Terileptils weapon overheats and explodes, causing the Great Fire of London.

A mysterious countess attempts to resurrect Dracula by bringing him through a portal. Since there is no Belmont available to fight them, the Powers That Be pull two Belmonts from different time periods into the year 1666 to fight the forces of evil. These two are Sonia Belmont from the year 1450, and Victor Belmont from the late 1800s, who had tried to break from his family's lineage of vampire hunters. The details of this story have been mostly lost in generations (*Castlevania: Resurrection - Cancelled game*).

### **1668**

Female Pirate Morgan Adams hunts for the treasure of Cutthroat Island(*Cutthroat Island*). She eventually goes on a search for Aztec gold and is cursed along with her pet monkey into becoming undead. She does however have a child in Jack Sparrow.

### **1669**

Simon Belmont is born (*Castlevania*).

The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones help Isaac Newton to determine how gravity works. (*Voyagers!*).

### **1670**

**Early**: Captain Robert Owemuch, president of the Insolvency Society, probably for reasons of avoiding his creditors, makes many long, far-flung voyages with his three ships, *the Excuse*, *the Pay-Naught*, and the *Least-in-Sight*, including a survey of islands off North America's east coast. The pirate Firebrand Frobisher becomes known as having the "finest skipper that ever sailed a three-master on a port tack".

Duncan MacLeod works as a tutor and weapons master to the heir of a Scottish clan. He tries to teach the young man the importance of strategy and the ways of war. When fellow immortal Michel de Burgoyne challenges Duncan to a duel, the boy insists on intervening but Duncan knocks his own student out (*Highlander: The Series*).

Wealthy, xenophobic Dutch merchant Gerrit Martense constructs the Martense mansion in the remote Catskill Mountains, intending to isolate himself and his family from the hated British colonists (*The Lurking Fear*).

### **1670 to 1678**

The Pilgrim Christian undergoes adventures in his own Universe, which is filled with the manifestation of concepts into physical form(*The Pilgrim's Progress*).

### **1671**

A time-traveling Hiro Nakamura arrives in Feudal Japan and meets his hero, legendary samurai Takezo Kensei, and discovers him to be a fraud. He discovers that Kensei is an englishman with regenerative abilities and helps him perform the feats he is known for in legend. However Hiro falls in love with Kensei's crush and he attempts to kill him. Nakamura defeats Kensei and believes he is killed in an explosion. Hiro returns to his own time. Kensei secretly survives and takes the name Adam Monroe.

### **1672**

Adam Monroe AKA Takes Kensei marries Helene.

The Laughing Cavalier dies.

### **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(*The Floating Islands*). 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(*League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*).

In another world The Pilgrim Christian travels across his world where many concepts are literal(*The Pilgrim's Progess*).

Birth of the samurai Oboro Bishamon in Japan. He would grow up to be possessed by the demonic armor Hannya and the cursed sword Kien, turning him into a Blood Knight (*Darkstalkers*)/

The last Musketeer, D'Artagnan, dies.*(Alexandre Dumas - Le Vicomte de Bragelonne)*

### **1674**

Lemuel Gulliver enters Emanuel College, where he will study for three years(*Gulliver's Travels*).

The Fey officially leave Earth, leaving a sole warrior, Elphin, behind to complete an unknown quest (*Soon I Will Be Invincible*).

In Polly Spark's altered version of history, a miniaturized Slobot sneaks under the lens of the world's first microscope and takes a bath there, giving Antonie van Leeuwenhoek the impression of having caught a tiny creature in the bath (*JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain*).

### **1675**

On the planet Bajor, the "Book of the Kosst Amojan" is placed into the Bajoran Central Archives and then forgotten about until 2375. The Book is a mystical text, its content only revealed when blood is spattered across its surface. Said content details the existence of Pah-wraiths (evil spirits) and offers instructions on how to release them (*Star Trek: Deep Space Nine*).

### **1675 to 1685**

John Ridd helps to hide Lorna Doone from Carver Doone, who hopes to force her into marrying him. The Doone clan is hated in the area and Lorna has a difficult time, until it is discovered she is not a Doone at all. John and Lorna begin to fall in love(*Lorna Doone*).

### **1676**

Jacques dor, during one of his many sea voyages, discovers a Utopian island populated by hermaphrodites who live in peace with one exception: they hate sexual beings which they call incomplete. Dor is spared death because he himself is hermaphrodite. He lives there for 35 years before being exiled.
The Spanish Inquisition in Mexico burns at the stake four members of a cult of devil-worshipers. Their leader, the high-priestess Damiana, calls on Satan for help, and is answered with the appearance of the demonic Caballero Azul. The "Caballero Enmascarado de Plata," as the current El Santo is known, defeats Damiana and the Caballero Azul, though not before losing his lover Aurora *(El Mundo do los Muertos (1969)).*Arkham is founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by freethinkers opposed to the intolerance of their neighbors (*Cthulhu Mythos*).

### **1677**

Lemuel Gulliver bound in apprenticeship to Mr. James Bates, whom he shall study under for four years in London(*Gulliver's Travels*).

### **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(*League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*).

Birth of the succubus Morrigan Aensland in Scotland (*Darkstalkers*).

**1679-** Construction of Montagu House in Bloomsbury, London by the Montague family, future headquarters (in its various architectural incarnations) of the League in its incarnations as "Gulliver's Fellowship" and the first and second "Harker Groups," is completed(*League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*).

### **1680's to 1690's**

Ebenezer Cooke is given the title "Poet Laureate of Maryland" by Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and commissioned to write a *Marylandiad* to sing the praises of the colony. He undergoes adventures on his journey to and within Maryland while striving to preserve his virginity.

### **1680**

Duncan MacLeod meets Kiem Sun in Qing-dynasty China. Kiem Sun begins researching the use of the kwanlo root to enhance humans (*Highlander: The Series*).

### **1681**

Lemuel Gulliver studies medicine in Leyden, Netherlands(*Gulliver's Travels*).

### **1682**

In Northumberland, upon the North Sea coast, Prospero's Men on their expedition to the Blazing World visit Joyeusegarde to see the Tomb of Launcelot where Prospero notes the dilapidated condition of the monument(*League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*).

### **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."(*League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*).

**Mid to Late January:** Prospero's Men reach The Blazing World whereupon Christian departs into The Blazing World(*League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*).

### **1684**

Lemuel Gulliver becomes ship’s surgeon aboard the Swallow, under a Captain Abraham Pannel, for three and a half years, making two voyages to the Levant and "and some other parts" (*League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*).

### **1685**

The convicted English traitor Peter Blood escapes from enforced servitude on a Barbados plantation and become a Pirate(*Captain Blood*).

King Charles II dies, and the Duke of Monmouth (the late king's illegitimate son) challenges Charles's brother James for the throne. The Doones, abandoning their plan to marry Lorna to Carver and claim her wealth, side with Monmouth in the hope of reclaiming their ancestral lands. However, Monmouth is defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor, and his associates are sought for treason. John Ridd is captured during the revolution. Innocent of all charges, he is taken to London by an old friend to clear his name. There, he is reunited with Lorna (now Lorna Dugal), whose love for him has not diminished. When he thwarts an attack on Lorna's great-uncle and legal guardian Earl Brandir, John is granted a pardon, a title, and a coat of arms by the king and returns a free man to Exmoor (*Lorna Doone).*

### **Late 1680's**

The Phantom battles Pirate Captain Peter Blood. It was likely the 7th or 8th Phantom(*The Phantom*).

### **1686**

**July 15:** Peabody and Sherman take advantage of a handy earthquake to split Juan Fernandez Island in half, letting Robinson Crusoe have some privacy from the hordes of real-estate developers he was sharing it with (*Rocky and Bullwinkle*).

Peabody and Sherman find an apple for Isaac Newton, allowing him to discover the law of universal gravitation. (*Rocky and Bullwinkle*).

### **1688**

Lemuel Gulliver, MD, sets up medical practice in London and marries Mary Burton, second daughter to a Mr. Edmund Burton. Orion is born(*Gulliver's Travels*).

### **1689**

Following the King James Purge, Withdrawal of magical creatures and other conflicts, The world’s wizards and witches sign the International Institute of Secrecy, segregating the magical community away from the “Muggles” or non magical individuals.

### **1690**

Arkham has been founded by this time in Massachusetts. The school later known as Miskatonic University founded (*Cthulhu Mythos*).

The Galactic Senate declares the Outer Rim to be a free trade zone (*Star Wars*).

Zombie outbreak on the Portuguese slave ship *Marialva* (*The Zombie Survival Guide*).Master Bates, Lemuel Gulliver's former tutor, dies. Gulliver sets to sea again( *Gulliver's Travels*).

Jack Sparrow is born to Edward Teague and Morgan Adams aboard a pirate ship in the middle of a hurricane(*Pirates of the Caribbean*)(Jack Sparrow's mother is unnamed. Morgan Adams being Jack Sparrow's mother is a nod to Cutthroat Island killing the Pirate genre which *Pirates of the Caribbean* revived).

### **1691**

Simon Belmont takes up a whip to destroy Dracula. A famous battle between Simon Belmont and Dracula is fought, naturally with Dracula being defeated, but not without getting inflicted by a curse (*Castlevania I*).

### **1692**

**February 29:** The Salem witch trials begin in the Province of Massachusetts Bay (Real Life, *The Crucible*). The magic-using Megans evacuate the planet Earth out of fear for their safety(*Star Trek: The Animated Series*). The witch panic that began in Salem has spread to Arkham. As a result, they send one witch, Keziah Mason, to Salem for trial. However, Mason disappears from her cell before she can be executed(*Cthulhu Mythos*).

**April 10:** After taking the Mega Corporation's time machine for a test drive on September 15, 1978, Dr. Neil Perry arrives in Salem, Massachusetts on this date. The time machine is taken as a sign that he is in league with Satan. Neil is found guilty of witchcraft and sentenced to burn at the stake with his machine. However, he manages to free himself and escapes to California on June 30, 1871 (*The Time Machine (1978)*).

**July-September:** Reconquest of Santa Fe and the wider New Mexico area by the Spanish Empire (Real Life). Javier Maribona-Picard serves under Vargas during the brutal suppression of the revolt. His distant descendant Jean-Luc Picard would consequently have trouble gaining the trust of a Native American leader who happened to recognize the name "Picard"(*Star Trek: The Next Generation*).

**November 13-14:** The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones prevent Benjamin Franklin's mother Abiah Folger from being hanged during the Salem witch trials. (*Voyagers!*)

Dunwich founded in Massachusetts. (Cthulhu Mythos)

Adam Monroe realizes that, in addition to his ability to regenerate, he does not age, leading Helene to flee him into the woods of Diedenshausen, Germany(*Heroes*).

The International Confederation of Wizards passes the International Statute of Secrecy as a way of avoiding persecution (*Harry Potter*).

### **1693**

**May 1:** Billy Butcherson dies (*Hocus Pocus*).

**October 31:** In Salem, Massachusetts, the Sanderson sisters (Mary, Sarah, and Winifred) steal the lifeforce of young Emily Binx. Thackery Binx, older brother of the girl, attempts to rescue her and gets transformed to an immortal black cat. Shortly after, the Sanderson sisters are hanged by a lynch mob of locals after being accused of witchcraft (*Hocus Pocus*).

### **1694**

Ebenezer Cooke is appointed Poet Laureate of Maryland by Lord Baltimore (*The Sot-Weed Factor*).

### **1695**

**September:** A fleet of pirate ships led by Captain Henry Avery and Thomas Tew attack a Mughal treasure convoy in the Red Sea(Real Life). Henry Avery and Thomas Tew both survive the battle and use their newfound wealth to found the pirate settlement of Libertalia with the help of other famous pirates of the era such as Edward England and Anne Bonney. Faking his death, Avery creates an elaborate series of trials for anyone searching for the location of Libertalia (*Uncharted 4: A Thief's End*).

### **1695 to 1696**

**Winter of:** Prospero, Caliban, and Ariel disappear. Captain Owemuch claims it was during a return trip to the Blazing World, though English (later British) Intelligence is unsure if he in fact did not simply drown at sea. Orlando later claims Prospero and his familiars did in fact reach the blazing world, and that Prospero's last words as he did so were "Follow me." It would appear that Amber St. Clair was also present on this mission. Prospero's Men disband shortly thereafter(*League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*).

### **1696**

Robert de Valicourt, an immortal pirate, has had great success. Having spend decades robbing the European overseas colonies and amassing a vast fortune, Robert joins the French aristocracy by gaining the title of "Baron". He settles in a château outside Paris (*Highlander: The Series*).

Angelina "Gina" di Bergamo, a lady immortal, hires Duncan MacLeod and Hugh Fitzcairn to help her retrieve a shipment of gold she has lost to the Baron de Valicourt. Things go awry, resulting in Gina and Robert falling in love and marrying a few months later (*Highlander: The Series*).

### **1697**

A French nobleman with a blue beard is murdered after his newest wife discovers the mutilated bodies of Bluebeard's past wives hanging from hooks on the wall. With no heirs, his widow uses part of his fortune for a dowry to marry off her sister, another part for her brothers' captains' commissions, and the rest to marry a worthy gentleman who makes her forget her horrible encounter with Bluebeard(*Bluebeard*).

Elsewhere in France, an ogre who had taken up residence in Carabas Castle is tricked into transforming into a mouse and promptly eaten by a talking feline dressed in "striking footwear."(*Puss in Boots*).

Mr.Miracle is born(*DC Comics*).

Peabody and Sherman recover a stolen slot machine from Captain Kidd before he can hit the jackpot, saving the British government from bankruptcy (*Rocky and Bullwinkle*).

### **1698**

A curse placed by Dracula slowly kills the land of Transylvania, it affecting Simon Belmont as well. A mysterious woman appears to Simon while visiting his family's graveyard, and is told that Dracula will be revived when the curse kills him. The only way to lift the curse is for Simon to gather the scattered body parts of Dracula and burn them where his castle once stood. Simon successfully gathers and burns all of the five pieces. However, Dracula manifests as a ghost from a sixth piece. Simon fights valiantly and prevents Dracula's resurrection from taking place, via doing this, he manages to break the curse. (*Castlevania II: Simon's Quest*),

### **1699**

**April 1:** The Eleventh Doctor finds himself on Captain Henry Avery's ship. Were injured crewmen receive a black spot and are taken away by what appears to be a Mermaid. It is soon discovered the culprit is a hidden alien Artificial Intelligence which takes the injured to heal them(*Doctor Who*). Captain Avery takes the ship for himself. explaining his historical disappearance.**May 4:** Lemuel Gulliver, MD, departs Bristol, England, aboard the Antelope for an excursion to the South Seas led by Captain William Pritchard (One Survivor)(*Gulliver's Travels*).

**December 31:** On Earth C, The swashbuckling feline adventurer Phillipe L'Entrique Elan de Chanel, Count Givenchy and Duke of Fantom is trapped within a painting by his archenemy Baron Hugo von Skelter (*Fantomcat*).

J'onn J'onzz was born on Mars (*Supergirl (2015)*).

Faith Tanner is accused of being a witch in Annes Town, Massachusetts. Under the pretense of checking her body for the Devil's mark, Squire Jonas Hacker has her strip and rapes her (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

### **1700**

Duncan MacLeod is still in Paris and feeling very old. He has just buried a mortal friend who died of old age. But Duncan remembers that he held this man in his arms when the guy was a newborn. He turns to senior immortal Pierre Segur for advise. Segur soon loses a duel with Martin Hyde. Leaving Duncan feeling both depressed and lonely (*Highlander: The Series*).

Charity Payne, a Puritan girl living in the colonial Massachusetts village of Annes Town in 1700, and Peter Wood, a teenage boy living in the Massachusetts town of Anniston in 1985, gain the ability to communicate with each other across time and see through each other's eyes after they both contract cholera (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

The French writer and wit Mademoiselle de Scudéry, as well-known for her devotion and goodness as for her novels, solves a series of crimes plaguing Paris and helps an innocent man avoid execution. *(E.T.A. Hoffmann's “Das Fräulein von Scuderi,” 1819*).

### **17th Century**

Estimated date(roughly nine generations before 20-year-old Ramón Salazar in 2004) that Las Plagas discovered in a remote region of Europe by Los Illuminados, who use them to recruit new members. Las Plagas are eventually sealed away by the first castellan of Castle Salazar. Los Illuminados stripped of their lands and possessions, and continue as an underground society (*Resident Evil 4*).

The Goa'uld System Lord Shak'ran is killed in battle by his enemy Apophis (*Stargate SG-1*).

Heru'ur abandons the planet Tagrea as its resources are depleted. In defiance of their former god, the Tagreans destroy almost all evidence of Goa'uld occupation and bury the Stargate in the Wastelands of Anhur. The Gate remains buried until 2003 (*Stargate SG-1*).

## **1701-1750 C.E.**

### **1701**

**Early November:** Sailing aboard the Antelope, Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked on the islands of Lilliput and Blefuscu, and becomes entangled in their political affairs and war with each other(*Gulliver's Travels*).

**Before September 24:** Lemuel Gulliver discovers a wrecked ship off the coast of Blefuscu, and the King of Blefuscu employs many men to repair it (*Gulliver's Travels*).**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(*Gulliver's Travels*).

**September 26:** Gulliver moves his ship alongside that of Captain John Biddel and is allowed onto the ship after a few good words from a friend of his on the ship, Peter Williams (*Gulliver's Travels*).

Asano Naganori assaults Kira Yoshinaka in the shogun's palace when Yoshinaka insults him enough to provoke the attack and is ordered to commit sepukku. His lands are confiscated, and 47 of his samurai become ronin (*Tales of Old Japan*).

Agatha Penderghast is born (*ParaNorman*).

### **1702**

Captain Peter Blood dies(*Captain Blood*).**April 13:** Gulliver returns to England on the merchantman(*Gulliver's Travels*).

**June 20:** Gulliver again departs England on the Adventure commanded by Captain John Nicholas, bound for Surat, India(*Gulliver's Travels*).

**August 17:** Gulliver is taken to Capital City of Brobdingnag, arriving on October 26(*Gulliver's Travels*).

The 3PO-series protocol droid line begins production by Cybot Galactica (*Star Wars*).

### **1703**

**January 30:** The 47 ronin kill Kira Yoshinaka in revenge for their master's death (*Tales of Old Japan*).

**March 20:** 46 of the 47 ronin are apprehended and made to commit seppukku (*Tales of Old Japan*).

**April 19:** A storm picks up intensity in the Indian Ocean, affecting the course of the *Adventure* (*Gulliver's Travels*).

**May 2:** The storm pauses. Captain John Nicholas of the *Adventure* takes its position, finding it to have drifted just east of the Moluccas. (*Gulliver's Travels*)

**June 16:** A boy on the top-mast of the *Adventure* spots land (*Gulliver's Travels*).

**June 17:** Gulliver, sailing aboard the Adventure, is marooned on the peninsula of Brobdingnag, sighted June 16, for water. Gulliver left ashore when the island was found to contain a civilization of giants– one such giant shortly thereafter captures him(*Gulliver's Travels*).

### **1704**

Squire Jonas Hacker dies. The bodies of two sailors are found in his root cellar. Hacker is posthumously tried and convicted of murder. He is sentenced to death. Since the sentence cannot be imposed, it is commuted to the forfeiture of Hacker's sizeable estate to the Crown (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

### **1705**

**September:** Gulliver escapes, via a large bird, sometime around October, from Brobdingnag and luckily encounters Captain Thomas Wilcocks in his ship not long after drifting away in a box (*Gulliver's Travels*).

### **1706**

**June 3:** Lemuel Gulliver returns home for the second time (*Gulliver's Travels*).

**June 13:** Gulliver is approached by a friend of his, Captain William Robinson of the *Hope-well*, with an offer to join his crew. Gulliver agrees (*Gulliver's Travels*).

**August 5:** The *Hope-well* sets off on its journey to the East Indies (*Gulliver's Travels*).

### **1707**

**April 11:** Gulliver on the *Hope-well* stops in Fort St. George in India to resupply and heal sick crewmates. (*Gulliver's Travels*).

**May 2:** The *Hope-well* departs from Fort St. George three weeks after it had arrived (*Gulliver's Travels*).

**May:** Lemuel Gulliver arrives at the floating island of Laputa after his sloop is commandeered by pirates and he is marooned (*Gulliver's Travels*). The people of Laputa grew fond of Gulliver's tales of the rest of the world and eventually choose to abandon their city(*Castle in the Sky*).

### **1708**

The Spanish Royal Navy pirate hunter Armando Salazar attempts to destroy piracy in the Caribbean. Jack Sparrow tricks him into sailing into the Devil's Triangle where his ship sinks with the entire crew. The dark forces within the Triangle resurrect the Spaniards as vengeful ghosts (*Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales).*

Nyo Boto is born in the village of Jufureh in the Gambia (*Roots*).Will Turner is born to William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner in Scotland, meanwhile Elizabeth Swann is born to Weatherby Swann in England(*Pirates of the Caribbean*).

### **1709**

**April 21:** Lemuel Gulliver arrives in Luggnagg (*Gulliver's Travels*).

**May 6:** Lemuel Gulliver takes leave of the King of Luggnagg (*Gulliver's Travels*).

**May 12:** Gulliver arrives at the Royal Port of Glanguenstald and prepares to leave Luggnagg (*Gulliver's Travels*)

May 27: Gulliver finds a ship to take him to the Japanese port of Xamoschi (*Gulliver's Travels*).

June 9: Gulliver arrives in the city of "Nangasac" (Nagasaki) (*Gulliver's Travels*).

The Zulu clan is formed.

### **1710**

**April:** (The arrival in Amsterdam is noted as April 14, and the arrival in the UK is April 10. This appears to be a mistake on the part of Gulliver.: Lemuel Gulliver arrives in Amsterdam, then returns home (*Gulliver's Travels*).

**August 2**: Gulliver sets out again, this time as Captain of his own ship (*Gulliver's Travels*).

**August 14:** Gulliver meets with Captain Pocock from Bristol in Tenerife. (*Gulliver's Travels*)

**August 16:** A storm parts Captains Gulliver and Pocock. Capt. Pocock's ship later is run aground, and only one cabin-boy survives. (*Gulliver's Travels*)

Jerusalem's Lot, a religious community, is founded on the coast of Massachusetts. The people are members of a splinter Puritan group led by the charismatic James Boon. They follow Boon's unorthodox doctrines, and the town's inhabitants are soon quite decadent and deranged(*Cthulhu Mythos*).

Jacques Massé, while traveling in South Africa, discovers the land of Bustrol, where living fossils including giant birds and strange flora from prehistoric era still exist *(Simon Tyssot de Patot - Voyages et Aventures de Jacques Massé).*

The Chevalier de Lagardere saves Aurore of Nevers from the sinister machinations of the Prince of Gonzague who had her father killed. *(Paul Féval - Le Bossu).*

### **1711**

**May 9:** Lemuel Gulliver is marooned in the land of the Houyhnhnms, intelilgent Horses after pirates take over his ship. You'd think he'd have figured out by now that sea voyages were unlucky for him (*Gulliver's Travels*).

A group of alchemists aboard the Advena Avis successfully summon a demon who grants one of them the knowledge of how to create an elixir of eternal life (*Baccano!*).

### **1712**

Duncan MacLeod works as a bodyguard for the outspoken politician Lord Dennis Keating. Keating is killed by the immortal assassin Paul Kinman at the behest of one of Keating's opponents, but Queen Anne forbids MacLeod and Kinman to duel. MacLeod vows not to fight Kinman as long as the queen reigns (*Highlander: The Series*).

In Kildare, Ireland, Connor and Duncan MacLeod handily defeat a group of bandits disguised as tax collectors. In the process, Duncan shows off for local girl, the pre-immortal Catherine Mary "Kate" Devaney (*Highlander: Endgame*).

Agatha Penderghast is executed for witchcraft. In her rage, she curses the men who convicted her to rise from their graves on the anniversary of her death (*ParaNorman*).

### **1715**

**February 15, 9:00 AM:** Lemuel Gulliver departs from the land of the Houyhnhnms and departs for Europe (*Gulliver's Travels*)

**June:** The Assassin Duncan Walpole was killed by the pirate Edward Kenway, after Walpole had killed Edward's captain Abel Bramah and both ships had been destroyed near Cape Bonavista. Stealing Walpole's identity, Edward saved Stede Bonnet from British soldiers and left with him for Havana.

**July:** Woodes Rogers, Julien du Casse and Edward Kenway, posing as the Assassin Duncan Walpole, were inducted into the Templar Order by Grand Master Laureano de Torres y Ayala. The Templars killed several Assassins in Havana while protecting the Sage Bartholomew Robertsfrom falling into their hands. That evening, Edward Kenway was caught on suspicions of freeing the Sage, and was to be sent to the British Templars with the Spanish Treasure Fleet(*Assassin's Creed*)**July 30:** The Treasure Fleet lost eleven of its twelve vessels in a hurricane off the coast of Florida. The remaining ship, later rechristened Jackdaw, was stolen by pirate captives led by Edward Kenway and Adéwalé, and managed to escape the storm(*Assassin's Creed).*

**September:** Julien du Casse was killed by the pirate Edward Kenway in du Casse's stronghold in Great Inagua, out of fear that du Casse had recognized the Jackdaw while sailing.

The son of a squire and a chambermaid, Gil Blas of Santillane, leaves home and embarks on a series of picaresque exploits*(Le Sage - Gil Blas de Santillane).*

**November 5:** Gulliver arrives in Lisbon, Neutralia (*Gulliver's Travels*).

**December 5:** Gulliver returns home, finally. (*Gulliver's Travels*)

Duncan MacLeod and Kate Devaney get married. Duncan attempts to make Kate into a full immortal by killing her violently without warning her; surprisingly, she is not pleased (*Highlander: Endgame*).

### **1718**

East India Trading Company employee Jack Sparrow refuses to transport a cargo of slaves for Cutler Beckett, so he sets them all free. In response, Beckett had Jack branded as a pirate and Jack's ship, the Wicked Wench, burned and sunk. Jack makes a deal with Davy Jones to raise the ship from the depths, allowing him thirteen years to sail it before he must serve for a century aboard the Flying Dutchman. Jack renames his ship the Black Pearl, and becomes Pirate Lord of the Caribbean Seas(*Pirates of the Caribbean*).**March:** Mary Read invited Edward Kenway to the Assassins' headquarters in Tulum, on the Yucatán Peninsula; there, they explored the Mayan ruins and Kenway identified a statue of the Sage. The Mentor Ah Tabai, Mary Read and Edward Kenway defended Tulum from an attack by the slaver Laurens Prins(*Assassin's Creed*).

### **1717**

**January:** Edward Kenway attacked the fort at Punta Guarico to steal Laureano de Torres y Ayala's gold, but instead devised a plan to use Torres and his gold to acquire Bartholomew Roberts from Laurens Prins, who had the Sage in his employ(*Assassin's Creed*).

**April 27:** Laurens Prins was assassinated in Kingston by Edward Kenway, aiding his friend Mary Read in finishing her assassination contract after Prins refused to sell Bartholomew Roberts. Roberts managed to escape Kingston(*Assassin's Creed*).

### **1718**

**January:** The pirates Edward Kenway and Edward Thatch, commonly known as Blackbeard, traveled to a shipwreck of the Spanish Treasure Fleet to find medicine for the people of Nassau, without success. Blackbeard sails the high seas(*Assassin's Creed*), among his pirate crew is Casca(*Casca the Immortal Mercenary*), Assassin Edward Kenway, and a young James T.Hook( *Peter Pan*, Hook is mentioned as having been "Boatswain to Blackbeard). The 8th phantom battled Blackbeard(*The Phantom*).

### **1718**

**March 3/4, 12:00 AM:** Tristram Shandy is conceived. His mother asks his father if he'd remembered to wind the clock (*Tristram Shandy*).**April:** Edward Thatch was overrun by a British Man O' War. After being saved by Edward Kenway, Thatch's men discovered a shipment of medicine from Charles-Towne aboard the Man O' War(*Assassin's Creed*).**May:** Edward Thatch laid siege to Charles-Towne, South Carolina for a week, holding men hostage in exchange for medicine. Edward Kenway infiltrated the town, stealing the town's medicine instead(*Assassin's Creed*).

**November 22:** Edward Thatch was killed off the coast of Ocracoke, during a British Navy assault led by Robert Maynard(*Assassin's Creed* and Real Life*)*. Edward Kenway and the Jackdaw managed to escape. A dark sorcerer resurrects Blackbeard and he becomes bloodthirsty and murderous while before his cruelty had been an act to induce fear(*On Strange Tides*) during this time he began to learn of the dark arts.

**November 23-** Charles Vane and Edward Kenway were marooned on Isla Providencia, after Jack Rackham deposed Vane as captain and captured the Jackdaw(*Assassin's Creed*). James T.Hook eventually discovers Neverland which can be reached on earth near Florida, the water from the fountain of youth altering the landscape.

Jack Sparrow, captain of the Black Pearl, shows up in Tortuga to recruit a crew to go after the Treasure of Cortés. Jack's First Mate, Hector Barbossa, leads a mutiny after Jack gives up the bearings to Isla de Muerta, and maroons Jack on a desert island with only crew mate Bootstrap Bill Turner protesting in suppor tof Jack. Three days after his arrival, Jack barters passage off the island with a group of rumrunners(*Pirates of the Caribbean*).

Captain Barbossa and the crew sail the Black Pearl to Isla de Muerta, where they find the Aztec treasure. After spending all the treasure, Barbossa's crew became cursed and set about returning all 882 pieces of the treasure chest (*Pìrates of Caribbean, Curse of Black Pearl*).Bootstrap Bill Turner sends off his gold coin to his son, saying the crew deserved to remain cursed. Upon learning of Bootstrap Bill's actions, Barbossa has Turner strapped to a cannon, and sent to the bottom of the ocean. It is only after this point the crew learn they needed Turner's blood to lift the curse. Bootstrap Bill began living out a tortured existence on the seabed, unable to die; until he eventually makes a bargain with Davy Jones, at an unknown time, agreeing to serve one hundred years aboard the Flying Dutchman (*Pirates of Caribbean: Dead Man´s Chest*).

The Chevalier d'Harmental takes part in a daring plot against Philippe d'Orleans, the Regent (*Alexandre Dumas - Le Chevalier d'Harmental*).

**1719**

Nathaniel "Natty" Bumpo born in America(*The Leatherstocking Tales*).

**February:** Edward Kenway was saved from Isla Providencia by an arriving ship, after having fought Charles Vane, who had lost his sanity on the island(*Assassin's Creed*).

**May:** The pirate Benjamin Hornigold joined the Templar Order in Kingston after accepting Governor Woodes Rogers' pardon. Edward Kenway sailed to Príncipe to save the Sage from the Templars(*Assassin's Creed*).

**June 19"** The pirate hunters John Cockram and Josiah Burgess were killed by Edward Kenway, after Kenway had saved Bartholomew Roberts from the Templars' attack. Roberts was elected as the replacement of pirate captain Howell Davis(*Assassins Creed*).

**September:** Edward Kenway and Bartholomew Roberts captured the Portuguese ship Nosso Senhor da Compreensão and secured the Templars' blood vials on board. Roberts renamed the ship Royal Fortune and made it his flagship. Benjamin Hornigold was killed by his former friend Edward Kenway on Santanillas for betraying the Pirate Republic. Edward Kenway was betrayed by Bartholomew Roberts and turned in to the British authorities in Kingston, after Kenway and Roberts visited the Observatory; there, Roberts took possession of the complex' Crystal Skull(*Assassin's Creed*).

### **1720**

A peculiar house is built in Virginia(*House of Leaves*).

Arkham College, later renamed Miskatonic University, is founded (*Cthulhu Mythos*).

Duncan MacLeod attempts to steal the Stone of Scone and return it to Scotland in order to undermine the authority of King George I. On the same night, Hugh Fitzcairn attempts to blow up the Abbey as part of a plan to put a fellow Catholic on the throne. Their encounter alerts the tower guards, and so they flee. They then try to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London using information provided by Bernie Crimmins, jailer at the Tower and a fellow immortal and friend of Hugh (*Highlander: The Series*).

Lemuel Gulliver writes a book of his travels but does not yet publish it (*Gulliver's Travels*).

**May 11:** Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchhausen born in Bodenwerder(*Baron Munchausen*).

The Rev Father Pierre de Mesange discovers an opening leading to a vast subterranean empire known as Pellucidar *(Simon Tyssot de Patot - La Vie, les Aventures et le Voyage de Groenland du Révérend Père Cordelier Pierre de Mésange).*

Disguised as the White Wolf, Jean Blanc fights for justice in the forest of Rennes*(Paul Féval - Le Loup Blanc).*

**1721-** Lemuel Gulliver would later claim that he discovered Vichenbok Land in 1721.

**April:** Edward Kenway and Anne Bonny escaped imprisonment in Port Royal, Jamaica, with the aid of the Mentor Ah Tabai; Mary Read died in prison, due to complications from childbirth. Kenway decided to join the Assassins, out of respect for Read(*Assassin's Creed*).

**May:** Governor Woodes Rogers of the Bahamas was severely wounded by the pirate Edward Kenway during a party in Kingston. Rogers survived his wounds, and later returned to England(*Assassin's Creed*).

### **c. 1722**

A cult worshiping the Ancient Egyptian god Set(as Seth), in actuality a Goa'uld who has been hiding on Earth for several thousand years, arises in Wiltshire, England near Stonehenge. They are persecuted by the Christians in the area. The members of the cult are later found dead, having slit their own throats, but Seth's body is never recovered. He eventually sets up a new cult, the Children of Seth, outside of Seattle in or before 1999 (*Stargate SG-1*).

### **1722**

**February 10:** Bartholomew Roberts was killed by the pirate Edward Kenway near Príncipe on orders of Ah Tabai, taking possession of the Crystal Skull and the blood vials. Upon Roberts' request, Edward destroyed his body to prevent it from falling into Templar hands. El Tiburón, Laureano de Torres y Ayala's right hand man, was killed by the pirate Edward Kenway in Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta in Havana(*Assassin's Creed*).**September 1:** Laureano de Torres y Ayala, Grand Master of the Caribbean Templars, was killed inside the Observatory in Jamaica by the pirate Edward Kenway on orders of Ah Tabai(*Assassin's Creed*).**October:** Edward Kenway returned to England with his daughter Jennifer Scott, who had just arrived in Great Inagua, after Kenway heard news that his wife Caroline Scott had died two years earlier.

### **1723**

In a forest near Danzig, young baron Philippe de Nossac meets the masked Veneur Noir *(Dark Hunter).*

A powerful crime lord, who may have resurrected his dead fiance, Lily*(Ponson du Terrail - La Baronne Trépassée).*

Edward Kenway killed the Templars Emmett Scott, father of Caroline Scott, and Wilson in a warehouse in Bristol for the pain they caused his wife and parents. Robert Walpole, the future Prime Minister of Great Britain, pardoned Edward Kenway and his pirate crew. Walpole purchased a house in London for Kenway, introduced him to the Stephensen-Oakley family and employed his new assistant, Reginald Birch. Edward Kenway joined the British Brotherhood of Assassins and became their co-leader alongside Miko. He started travelling to find out more about the First Civilization, exploring the temples in Rome and Alamut, and found a Shroud of Eden, which he kept hidden from the world(*Assassin's Creed*).Former farmboy Westley, under the guise of Dread Pirate Roberts, rescues Buttercup, bride of Prince Humperdinck of Florin from a band of outlaws (*The Princess Bride*).

**May 26:** The town of Sharpesville is completely destroyed by an Ascension. The journal of the town's pastor, Desmond Kane, survives (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

### **1724**

Jamie McCrimmon is born in Scotland(*Doctor Who*)

### **1725**

The Potentium Heresy, a group of Jedi, theorize that the Force has no Dark side, only its users do. The Heretics exile and settle on the planet Zonama-Sekot (*Star Wars*).

Peter Plogojowitz dies in the Servian(not a typo, replaces serbia) village of Kisilova. Several weeks later, other villagers die of an unknown illness after claiming Plogojowitz visited them during the night. In order to end this epidemic, Plogojowitz's body was dug up, staked, and burned. This is the first official account of the vampire myth, although famous vampires (Carmilla, Dracula) existed long before then, and the actual myth (Plogojowitz was called a vampire in his time) already existed (Real Life).

### **1726**

Christopher Syn born in Kent(*Dr.Syn*).Ptolemy Horoscope works in London as an astrologer. He lives in Little Britain, the “bibliopolitical part of London,” where all the booksellers and publishers live. His landlady says that Horoscope “tauld the fortunes o' a' the warld, for the people wad be coming in the morn, and in the day-time, and in the dark night when naebody could see them.” Horoscope does serve the public, but because his readings are so accurate he is consulted by the highest in the land, even the nobility. The stories hint that Horoscope has been a consultant to not just the loftiest members of Parliament and the British royalty but also to foreign dignitaries. But Horoscope serves all who come to him, down to the meanest members of society. This includes Dick Turpin, who comes to Horoscope in 1726 (early in Turpin's criminal career) to find out what his fate will be. But Horoscope is not home when Turpin comes to him for advice, so Horoscope's assistant, Titus Parable, poses as Horoscope. Parable is greedy for lucre and hopes for a reward from Turpin, but while Parable is giving Turpin a false prediction, a mysterious, hollow voice speaks, predicting Turpin's future. It is a true prediction, and it becomes clear that it was God who spoke, and who Horoscope gets his predictions from (*Richard Thomson's Tales of an Antiquary, 1828*).

An account of the travels and discoveries made by Lemuel Gulliver entitled *Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, Vol. 1* is published, who did so under the urging of his cousin Sympson(*Gulliver's Travels*).

### **1727**

Liam, later known as Angelus and Angel, is born in County Galway, Ireland (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

The Tenth Doctor meets a young Madame de Pompadour for the first time and fights off a clockwork android stalking her. (*Doctor Who*)

In the Servian village of Medvegia, villager Arnod Paole dies from falling off a hay wagon, but villagers continue to claim they saw him at night long after his death. Four villagers who have mentioned him fall suddenly ill and die. His body is dug up and found to be oozing fresh blood and deemed vampiric. (Austrian medical officer Johannes Fluckinger's report, published 1732).

### **1728**

On a lonely road, 25 miles from Dover, Duncan MacLeod has his first encounter with Walter Reinhardt of Salzburg, an immortal highwayman (*Highlander: The Series*).

Frances "Fanny" Hill is born(*Fanny Hill*).

Jack Sparrow arrives in Port Royal prior to the Black Pearl's attack. Elizabeth Swann is kidnapped, and Will Turner recruits Jack to help save her. Jack assembles a crew at Tortuga, who set sail in the commandeered HMS Interceptor. Jack ultimately confronts Barbossa at Isla de Muerta. Turner lifts the curse, allowing Jack to kill Barbossa and his crew to be killed or captured by Norrington's men. Jack escapes a hanging with Will's help, and rejoins his crew. Will and Elizabeth pledge their love to one another. Jack the monkey takes a coin from the chest and becomes cursed once more *(Pirates of the Caribbean:Curse of the Black Pearl).*

The highwayman Macheath falls victim to the wiles of the Peachums, receivers of stolen goods as well as willing collaborators with a sinister thief-taker, Mr. Lockit. Lucy Lockit is Macheath's sometime-lover; Polly Peachum is also in love with Macheath. His identically named descendant would later be part of Moriarty´s crime syndicate and rumored to be Jack the Ripper (*John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera, 1728).*

### **1729**

One year after the battle of Isla de Muerta, the marriage of Will and Elizabeth is interrupted by Lord Cutler Beckett, who arrests them both and takes control of Port Royal. Jack Sparrow escapes from the Turkish prison with a drawing of the key. Will sets off to obtain Jack's compass for Beckett, and Elizabeth later escapes prison to track him down. Ragetti and Pintel escape from Port Royal prison. Jack, Will and the rest of the crew seek Tia Dalma who tells them the history of Davy Jones and Calypso. Will is press-ganged aboard the Flying Dutchman, but escapes with the key. Jack arrives at Isla Cruces and unlocks the Dead Man's Chest, though Norrington later steals the heart. Jack and the Black Pearl are dragged down to Davy Jones' Locker by the Kraken. Norrington presents Beckett with the heart, and is reinstated as admiral. Davy Jones falls under Beckett's command *(Pirates of the Caribbean:Dead Man’s Chest).*After about two months, the East India Trading Company calls a state of emergency, and carries out mass hangings at Fort Charles. While the Flying Dutchman, sailing under the Company, becomes the scourge of pirates in the Caribbean. Meanwhile, Jack Sparrow's crew, now under Barbossa's command, sail to reach World's End and rescue Jack Sparrow in Davy Jones' Locker. Sao Feng is killed onboard the Empress, and names Elizabeth Swann as Pirate Lord in his stead. James Norrington dies protecting Elizabeth as she escapes from the Flying Dutchman. The Fourth Brethren Court was called by Barbossa, convening as the EITC were advancing with an armada to destroy the world of pirates. Barbossa was eager to release Calypso, while Jack was eager to declare an act of war against the EITC, after which Elizabeth Swann was elected as the new Pirate King. Calypso is released from her human form and forms a maelstrom, where a battle raged at the center of it. During the battle, Will Turner and Elizabeth are wed by Barbossa, while Jack fights Davy Jones for the Dead Man's Chest. Jones is killed by a dying Will Turner, who replaces him as captain of the Dutchman, and Cutler Beckett dies aboard the Endeavour. After the battle with Beckett and the EITC, Will and Elizabeth spend their one day together before Will begins his duty aboard the Dutchman, and conceive a child. Barbossa steals the Black Pearl, Gibbs stays in Tortuga, and Jack Sparrow steals the navigational charts and begins the search for the Fountain of Youth *(Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End).* **May 23:** The mysterious man known only as Shiro attempts to disrupt the balance between the worlds of the living and the dead, hoping to bring his deceased lover Sora back to life. He is defeated by Den-O and his allies (*Farewell Kamen Rider Den-O: The Final Countdown*).

Jesuit scholar László Turóczi’s *Tragica Historia* includes the first written account of Countess Elizabeth Bathory that mentions bathing in blood, linking the two together ever since.

Mos Eisley founded on Tatooine around the wreckage of the ship *Dowager Queen* (*Star Wars*).

### **1730**

Juste Belmont, grandson of Simon Belmont, is born *(Castlevania).*

Prince Adam, son of the deceased King and Queen of France and next in line for the throne, was cursed by an Enchantress, who gave him a monstrous appearance, causing him to be known as "the Beast" (*Beauty and the Beast*).

In England, Duncan MacLeod is arrested for poaching. He almost loses his head to an executioner's axe. He is rescued by Charles Browning, a fellow immortal. The duo celebrates their friendship with a night of drinking, which doesn't end well. (*Highlander: The Series*)

Birth of the twins Hsien Ko/Lei-Lei and Mei Ling/Lin-Lin in China (*Darkstalkers*).

### **1731**

Puppeteers introduce Superconductor Plague to the Ringworld, destroying the basis of the technology used by the dominant hominid species there, the City Builders (*The Ringworld Engineers*).

Mos Espa founded on Tatooine (*Star Wars*).

Seventeen villagers from Medvegia die within a few weeks. The bodies are dug up and resemble the case of Paole four years prior. Their heads are cut off and the corpses burned to prevent any vampire attacks (Austrian medical officer Johannes Fluckinger's report, published 1732).

### **1731 to 1736**

Joe Blake is a retired thief who works for the notorious thief-taker and crime lord Jonathan Wild. Blake is known as “Blueskin” because earlier in his life, during a crime, a gunpowder bomb had exploded too near his head, coating half his face with a half blue, half purple tint. A young Jack Sheppard(descendant of the Oceanic 815 survivor), not yet entered into his life of crime, approaches Blake for help; Blake was a friend of Tom Sheppard, Jack’s father, and Blake knew Jack when he was young. Blake helps Jack enter Wild’s service, and the pair hunt out Jacobite plotters while enriching themselves. Plot complications ensue and Sheppard and Blake are forced to flee from Wild. A long duel follows between them, with the usual hair’s-breadth escapes and picaresque roguery. Wild’s villainy is eventually discovered and he is hanged, and Sheppard and Blake escape to France and live on the wealth of a friendly heiress. *(Edward Viles’ Blueskin, 1866-7).*

### **1732**

The highwayman Red Ralph carries on a successful career as a highwayman. Among his friends and companions are Lucy Lockit and Polly Peachum, intimates of Macheath; Elizabeth “Edgeworth Bess” Lyon and Poll Maggot, friends of Jack Sheppard; and the highwaymen Dick Turpin, Sixteen String Jack Rann, Tom King, and Blueskin*(Percival Wolfe’s Red Ralph, 1866).*

End of the adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, now secretary of the Spanish Prime Minister *(Le Sage - Gil Blas de Santillane).*

Disguised as the Hunchback, Lagardere exposes and defeats the villainous Prince of Gonzague *(Paul Féval - Le Bossu).*Sapathwa, “the Blue Dwarf,” discovers that his underage cousin, Shelton Seymour (who would be the rightful heir to the Seymour estates if Sapathwa did not exist) is threatened by his evil brother, Brian Seymour. Sapathwa then devotes himself to protecting Shelton from Brian. Toward this end Sapathwa makes use of a number of agents, including Dick Turpin and Tom King, who Sapathwa rescues from the Bow Street Runners and aids in various ways. *(Percy B. St. John’s The Blue Dwarf, 1874-1875).*

**December 3:** The Assassin Edward Kenway was killed in his family's house in London by masked men employed by Reginald Birch, Kenway's property manager and a Templar. The masked men proceeded to steal Kenway's journal, and kidnapped his daughter Jennifer(*Assassin's Creed*).**December 12:** Haytham Kenway, son of Edward Kenway, started his tutelage under Reginald Birch on his mother Tessa's request, and left with Birch for Europe to find Jennifer(*Assassin's Creed*).

Liska Mitsel-eman is born in the Lowlands of the planet Katmandu (*Katmandu*).

### **1733**

Fall of the Cities; floating cities begin crashing to the ground as damage caused by loss of superconductors reaches breaking point (*The Ringworld Engineers*).

### **1736**

Fortunato follows his good friend Montresor, who had promised him a cask of Amontillado, into the catacombs. He is never seen again(*The Cask of Amontillado*).

While Jack Sheppard and Blueskin are working for Jonathan Wild, Dick Turpin helps the highwayman Captain Heron to reform, marry the lovely Edith Tarleton, and become the new Earl of Whitcombe *(James Malcolm Rymer’s Edith the Captive, 1860)*.

### **1737 to 1739**

Dick Turpin's long and successful career as a highwayman comes to an end *(Edward Viles’ Black Bess #1-254, 1863-1868).*

### **1738**

Tom King dies when he is accidentally shot during a robbery by Dick Turpin *(Edward Viles’ Black Bess).*

**July 17:** Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a man with a superhuman sense of smell, is born in Paris (*Perfume*).

### **1739**

Dick Turpin can no longer evade his fate and is hanged for his crimes *(Edward Viles’ Black Bess).* Following his death Turpin is buried, but within a short time some body snatchers attempt to steal his body. Captain Hawk rescues the body and gives it a proper burial. After the burial Hawk and his wonderfully talented horse Satan embark on the usual adventures of a highwayman. Hawk repeatedly duels with a mysterious enemy who is eventually revealed to be Frederick, the Prince of Wales. After numerous exploits Hawk and Frederick have been reconciled, both win their lady-loves (Beatrice and Blanche), and Hawk is pardoned for his crimes by Frederick. *(Edward Viles’ The Black Highwayman, 1868-1869).*

### **1740's**

The mother of Hsien Ko/Lei-Lei and Mei-Ling/Lin-Lin gives her life to defend their village from an attack by ghosts. The twins proceed to use a forbidden technique in an attempt to reclaim her soul from the dark, which transorms Hsien-Ko to a Jiang Shi and Mei-Ling into a disembodied soul, inhabiting the sealing ward which prevents her sister from going berserk. Together they would become the Dark Hunter of supernatural beings (*Darkstalkers*).

Natty Bumpo makes his name as one of the finest trackers, hunters, and sharpshooters in the New World as "Hawk-ye" (*The Deerslayer*).

### **1740**

**November 22:** Lt. Col. Thomas Knowlton is born (*The Dreamer*).

Luc-Esprit Gillenormand is born in Vernon. Charles Francois Myriel is born (*Les Misérables*).

Associate of Lemuel Gulliver, Sir Charles Smith, shipwrecked on an island off the coast of South Africa he dubs New Britain. Meanwhile in France, the daughter of a ruined merchant is married to a hideous beast in exchange for the forgiveness of his debts. Upon returning to the castle, the girl finds the beast near-death. Weeping, she kisses him one last time only for her husband to change into a handsome prince, and the two live happily togethe (*Beauty and the Beast*).

### **1740 to 1748**

The War of Vulgarian Succession. At the end of the war, Osterlich, and by extension, the Bomburst family, loses much of its influence and reputation.

### **1742**

The young Baron Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen joins the Russian army to fight against the Turks (*The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen*)

### **1743**

It is around this time, when she is 15, that Fanny Hill’s parents die, and she is brought to London to begins her life in brothels(*Fanny Hill*).Claire Beauchamp Randall is transported to this year from 1946, whilst on honeymoon in Scotland. (*Outlander*)

**June 2:** Birth of Joseph Balsamo, later known as Count Cagliostro

Natty "Hawkeye" Bumppo and the Mohicans Chingachgook and Uncas fight for the British and against the French in King George's War. Chingachgook is the son of Unamis, the "Turtle," and the grandson of Assawomset *(From Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper).*

### **1744**

The tenth Doctor again encounters Madame de Pompadour, to discover she's grown up(*Doctor Who*).In America, Natty Bumpo prevents Henry "Hurry Harry" March, who later turns out to have been a notorious pirate, and Tom Hutter from attacking and scalping the besieging members of the Huron tribe. Later, he assists his lifelong friend Chingachgook to rescue his kidnapped betrothed Wah-ta-Wah from the Hurons*(Deerslayer).*

**April 19:** Haytham Kenway was formally inducted into the Templar Order. His first mission was to kill a greedy merchant in Liverpool(Assassin's Creed).

Deimos is born on Mars (*The Outer Limits (1963)*).

### **1745**

**July 23 - August 19:** The immortals Duncan MacLeod and Warren Cochrane fight for the forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in the Jacobite Rising at Eriskay. Before long, the duo find themselves fighting at the front lines (*Highlander: The Series*).

Fall of D'ni (*Myst*), which had fled to another universe following their downfall on Earth.

Peabody and Sherman smuggle the nine-foot-tall Bonnie Prince Charlie out of Aberdeen and onto a boat to France (*Rocky and Bullwinkle*).

Dr. Livesey served as a soldier at the Battle of Fontenoy(*Treasure Island*).

### **1745 to 1755**

Inspired by the examples of Claude Duval and Cartouche, Louis Mandrin begins a decade-long career as a highwayman. Unknown to the French public at large, Mandrin also travelled to England and adventured there *(Mandrin, Roi des Voleurs #1-16, 1925)*.

### **1746**

**April 16:** The Battle of Culloden serves as the final battle of the Jacobite rising as well as the final pitched battle fought in Britain(Real Life). Warren Cochrane is killed while fighting a small advance force of Hanoverians. With the help of Duncan MacLeod, he revives and must flee. Duncan fights on. (*Highlander: The Series*). The TARDIS lands after the battle. The Second Doctor, Ben and Polly meet Jamie McCrimmon. (*Doctor Who*). Christopher Syn’s father was killed in the battle(*Dr.Syn*).

**June:** The immortals Duncan MacLeod and Ceirdwyn help Bonnie Prince Charlie flee Scotland. Duncan refuses to go with them, instead taking revenge on the Hanoverians (*Highlander: The Series*).

Duncan kills Richard Dunbar, Earl of Rosemont and adviser to the Earl of Cumberland, who gave the order to execute all the Jacobites. Ceirdwyn eventually calms him down and helps him flee England, but they are pursued by the immortal Steven Keane, a supporter of Dunbar (*Highlander: The Series*).

The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones prevent the 14-year-old George Washington from joining the Royal Navy so that the American colonists can win The American Revolution. (*Voyagers!*)

### **1747**

Death of Terasaka Kichiemon, last of the 47 ronin. He is buried alongside his comrades (*Tales of Old Japan*).

While studying at Oxford, Syn falls in love with the Spanish beauty Imogene Almago and rescues her from "Bully" Tappitt, whom he kills in a duel. The two marry and then return to Dymchurch-Under-the-Wall where Christopher is installed as Vicar(*Dr.Syn*).

In Milan, Adam Munroe marries his second wife Maria(*Heroes*).**June 11:** Juan Vedomir, a Templar assigned to decode Edward Kenway's journal, was killed by Haytham Kenway for working with the Assassins. Haytham took the journal with him, and later brought it to Reginald Birch in the Templar headquarters in Prague(*Assassin's Creed*).

### **1748**

Imogene is seduced away by Syn's supposed friend, Nicholas Tappitt, and Syn nearly loses his sanity out of rage and grief. Once recovered, he sets out in pursuit of Tappitt and Imogene, who had been hiding in Spain, but upon learning that Syn is following them, they flee to America. When he follows, Syn's ship is taken by the pirate known as "Black Satan". Syn kills the pirate in a duel and becomes the new pirate captain of the ship "Sulphur Pit". He is aided in this by his old friend Mipps, who had been one of Black Satan's crew(*Dr.Syn*).

Big Barda is born(*DC Comics*).

Dooku and Qui-Gon Jinn embark on their last mission as Master and Padawan (*Star Wars*)

Shmi Skywalker is sold into slavery (*Star Wars*).

A phantom version of Dracula's castle appears in the woods of Eastern Europe. (*Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance*)

### **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(*Fanny Hill*).In the Congo, Sultan Mangogul comes into possession of a magic ring that makes women's genitals talk, which causes a great scandal.The Hutts take control of Tatooine (*Star Wars*).

Alan Warren is born (*The Dreamer*).

Liska Mitsel-eman is kidnapped by Rial Hada-ro-seg and his cousin-brother Pyndan Kota-te-mar and became the slave of the former later on (*Katmandu*)

**Late:** Syn abandons his ship and crew to go searching for Tappitt and Imogene in the American wilderness and Mipps comes with him.  Without Syn's knowledge Mipps has arranged a convenient accident which ignites the powder-hold of the Sulphur Pit, eliminating all witnesses who could tell of Syn's piratic acts(*Dr.Syn*).

### **1750**

While travelling in Russia, Duncan MacLeod joins up with the Cossacks for a short while, but leaves in disgust when he learns they intend to attack a defenceless farming village just because the inhabitants are different (*Highlander: The Series*).

Kunta Kinte is born in the village of Jufureh in the Gambia (*Roots*).

Harman Deltahead is born in New Southhampton, Wineport (*killer7*)

Kun Lan is born full-grown in Lhasa, Tibet (*killer7*).

A group of Hoplite raiders attacked the Highland tribe; Liska Mitsel-eman, who was a slave at that point, earned her freedom and warrior status by killing three of them. During the raid, one inhabitant of the tribe, Kayce, was killed (*Katmandu*).In America, Syn emerges from the wilderness and learns that Tappitt has become a whaler and has taken Imogene and the boy on a voyage with him.  Syn becomes a ship's harpooner and adopts the alias "Clegg "(*Dr.Syn*).

New information emerges concerning the earlier discovery of the Fountain of Youth. The quest for the Fountain of Youth is underway. After being forced aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, Jack Sparrow leads Blackbeard and his daughter Angelica to reach the Fountain. Privateer Hector Barbossa searches for the Fountain under King George II. The Fountain of Youth would end up being destroyed by the Spaniard's crew, who searched for the Fountain under King Ferdinand *(Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides).*

The Neapolitan Count Rosalvo takes on himself the onerous task of ridding Venice of conspirators, thugs, and assassins. He does so by using two assumed identities: one is Flodoardo, a handsome, virtuous man who labors unceasingly to improve Venice; the other identity is Abällino, a huge, monstrous and ugly outlaw. After some effort and difficulty he is successful *(Heinrich Zschokke's Abällino der Große Bandit, 1794).*