Timeline

A **timeline** showing the events that occur in *Ghosts* and its American adaptation, including key points in history.

## Prehistoric Era

### 400,000–4,000 years ago

* Robin is born, lives as a caveman, and then later dies of a lightning strike after being chased by a bear
* Humans migrate across the Bering Strait and into North America

### 10,000 years ago–3000 BCE

* Humans begin to farm and build civilizations

## Middle Ages

### 500s–999

* Various Germanic tribes, such as the Saxons, Danes, and Jutes, migrate to England and intermarry and settle with the Celtic Britons, forming the Anglo Saxons (English people)
* Alfred the Great wins a decisive victory in the Battle of Edington in 878 and makes an agreement with the Vikings, dividing England between Anglo-Saxon territory and the Viking-ruled Danelaw, composed of northern England, the north-east Midlands and East Anglia. Alfred also oversaw the conversion of Viking leader Guthrum to Christianity
* Ancestral Pueblans travel to the southwestern part of the United States and establish Pueblo culture
* Charlemagne is crowned king of the Carolingian Empire
* Wu Zetian rules as China's only empress regnant
* In 972 Thorfinn was born

### 999–1000 AD

* Thorfinn reaches the Americas and gets abandoned by his shipmates
* Chaco Canyon and Pueblo Bonito becomes major centers of culture for the Ancestral Puebloans

### 1001–1007

* Thorfinn befriends a squirrel, whom he names Oskar, but goes hungry one winter and ends up killing and eating him
* Thorfinn dies after getting struck by lightning

### 1066

* William the Conqueror defeats Harold Godwinson and becomes King of England

### 1300s

* Mick travels to London and supposedly meets the King of England
* Mick infects his entire village with the plague after traveling from London, killing them all

### 1337–1453

* The Hundred Years' War is fought between England and France, with the House of Valinois ultimately prevailing and retaining control of France

### 1455–1487

* Wars of the Roses is fought between the Houses of Lancaster and York, with the former claiming victory
* Sasappis is likely born

## The 1500s

### 1513

* Sasappis tries to become a storyteller, but dies before he can tell his first story

### 1524

* The first recorded European contact with the Lenape occurs

### 1534

* King Henry VIII creates the Church of England and makes himself head

### 1536–1539

* Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter and 2nd Earl of Devon, was gifted the real "Button House" in 1536

### 1540s

* King Henry VIII visits Button House and dines there
* Humphrey gets into an arranged marriage with Sophie from a French noble family

### 1558

* Queen Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England

### 1568–1587

* Sophie and her club plot against Queen Elizabeth I to place her Catholic cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, on the throne
* Humphrey allows his wife to escape Her Majesty's Guard and hides himself, but dies after getting decapitated by the swords hanging above his chimney
* Mary is born (1571)

## The 1600s

### 1603

* Queen Elizabeth I dies and James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England

### 1610s

* Mary gets married to an unnamed man who later dies in a farming accident while ploughing a field three years after their wedding
* Mary is accused and tried for witchcraft for unknown reasons after a crop failure where she was deemed to be guilty, then burnt at the stake somewhere on the grounds of Button House (1612)
* The first enslaved Africans arrive in Virginia

### 1642–1651

* The English Civil War occurs, where the Roundhead Soldier's pike gets impaled into his waist during battle

### 1653–1659

* Oliver Cromwell sets up a protectorate and names himself Lord Protector

### 1660

* Charles II gets reinstated to the throne

## The 1700s

### 1707

* The Acts of Unions unites England and Scotland as one country: Great Britain

### 1711

* Annie dies after choking on bread
* Annie teaches Mary to be more assertive

### 1720s–1730s

* Issac Higgintoot is born
* Nigel is born

### 1765–1784

* The American Revolution occurs
* Isaac surrenders to the British and dies of dysentery two weeks later
* Nigel gets shot accidentally by a sniper Issac used.
* The Other Redcoat ghosts die some point during the war
* Kitty gets manipulated and tricked by her sister, Eleanor, which prevents Kitty from going to a ball

### Late 1700s

* Kitty dies
* The Articles of Confederation get discarded and the United States Constitution gets ratified
* George Washington becomes the first president of the United States
* Lord Higham has ownership of Higham House
* Thomas is born

## The 1800s

### Early 1800s

* King George III goes mad and his son George IV takes over as Prince Regent
* The Louisiana Purchase occurs, with the United States owning large amounts of land from Napoleonic France
* Napoleon gets defeated and imprisoned in St. Helena

### 1824

* Thomas gets shot in a duel after being tricked by his cousin Francis Button

### 1837

* Queen Victoria becomes Queen of England after William IV dies

### Mid 1800s

* Francis marries Isabelle Higham and becomes the joint owner of Higham House, eventually changing its name to Button House
* Hetty Woodstone is born
* A group of people get infected by cholera, are locked in a pesthouse and die, becoming the cholera ghosts
* The American Civil War occurs
* Fanny is born

### Late 1800s

* Elias Woodstone gets locked in the hidden vault in Woodstone Mansion and dies
* Hetty Woodstone dies, leaving their child heir to Woodstone Mansion
* Isabelle and/or Francis possibly die of natural causes, leaving their child heir to Button House
* Fanny marries George Button
* Annie moves on
* The Universal Expositions in Paris occur
* The Columbian Exposition in Chicago takes place to celebrate the the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival
* Electricity becomes popular
* Carl Bentz invents the modern car
* Alberta is born

## 20th Century

### Early 1900s

* The Captain is born (1900)
* Queen Victoria dies, leaving her son Albert King, making him Edward VII, who then dies and leaves George V King
* The Progressive Era occurs in the United States
* World War I takes place
* Women get the right to vote
* After finding out her husband has been cheating on her, Lady Fanny Button gets pushed out of a window at Button House by her husband and dies

### 1920s–1930s

* Alberta dies, recording only one album before her death
* Alcohol is prohibited in the United States but becomes legal again
* Ireland frees itself from Britain
* The Great Depression occurs
* President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the New Deal
* Germany invades Poland in 1939, starting World War II
* Flower is born
* Sophia Woodstone is born
* Heather Button is born

### 1939–1945 (World War II)

* The Captain serves as an army captain
* Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, launching the United States into World War II
* Crash is born
* D-Day occurs with the storming of Normandy
* The United States drops two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II
* The Captain dies

### Late 1940s–1950s

* Crash is beheaded in an accident and dies
* Julian is born
* The Korean War occurs
* Pat Butcher is born
* The Vietnam War begins
* Pete is born
* The Red Scare occurs, with the United States government prosecuting anyone suspected of being a communist
* King George VI dies and Elizabeth II becomes Queen of England

### 1968

* Flower is a member of a commune that robs a bank in order to give the stolen money to charity; she and her boyfriend Ira later steal the money for themselves
* Martin Luther King, Jr is assassinated, prompting riots throughout the United States
* Robert F. Kennedy runs for president but gets killed, making Hubert Humphrey the Democratic nominee
* Republican nominee Richard Nixon beats Humphrey and gets elected President of the United States

### 1969

* The Woodstock Festival takes place, featuring artists such as Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix, and The Who
* Flower dies while stoned after trying to befriend a bear, who mauls her to death
* The Beatles give their last public performance
* Yasser Arafat is elected Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
* Julian studies at the University of Cambridge and experiences his first threesome
* Pete and Carol get married
* Trevor is born
* Stephanie is born

### 1970s

* Flower's boyfriend Ira uses the money he and Flower stole to open a coffee shop named in her honor which later becomes a franchise.
* A young female hitchhiker gets murdered on the side of the road
* The Vietnam War ends
* Julian graduates from Cambridge and enters into law and politics
* The Post World War II economic boom comes to an end, and the world experiences a recession and inflation
* Richard Nixon quits after the Water Gate scandal
* Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
* The Iranian Revolution occurs, leaving several Americans held hostage

### 1980

* Ronald Reagan is elected President of the United States

### 1984

* Pat Butcher dies after getting shot in the neck with an arrow by Keith Darren Dean
* Ronald Reagan wins the 1984 election and is re-elected

### 1985

* Pete dies after getting shot in the neck with an arrow

### 1987

* Stephanie gets murdered by an escaped chainsaw killer on her way to prom with her boyfriend
* Jessica McClure falls down a well in Midland, Texas, and is later rescued.
* The Max Headroom Incident: An unidentified person hijacks two television stations in Chicago, Illinois, and broadcasts video of them wearing a mask in the likeness of the character Max Headroom.

### Late 1980s–early 1990s

* Alison is born
* Mike is born
* Sam is born
* Jay is born
* Sam meets her great aunt Sophia when she is a child

### 1993

* Julian dies of a heart attack during sex
* Bill Clinton becomes President of the United States

## 21st Century

### 2000

* Trevor dies of a heart attack two hours after consuming pills and alcohol
* George W. Bush becomes President of the United States

### 2001

* The September 11 attacks occur at the Twin Towers and the Pentagon
* Bush launches a "War on Terror," entering the United States into war with Afghanistan

### Mid 2000s–2010s

* Alison's parents die
* Samantha's mother, Sheryl, dies from a severe allergic reaction to shellfish
* Jay and Samantha get married
* Alison and Mike get married
* Heather Button dies peacefully in her sleep, leaving Button House to Alison
* Alison gets pushed out of a window, allowing her to see ghosts

### Early 2020s

* Sophia Woodstone dies peacefully, leaving Woodstone Mansion to Sam
* Sam falls down the stairs, allowing her to see ghosts

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Humphrey's life and death bears a similarity to Courtenay's in that Courtenay and his wife were implicated in the Exeter Conspiracy to overthrow the monarch. Courtenay was subsequently beheaded in 1539.