Timeline of 1900 - 1949

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

	+ Donna Troy & her parents go on a voyage. Their ship is attacked by pirates, who then destroy their ship. Only the captain & Donna survive. He swims her to the shores of Themyscira but suffers a fatal heart attack & dies on the beach. Hippolyta buries the captain then adopts Donna. She is given Amazonian powers & declared an honorary Amazon.

### **1902**

* Amadeus Arkham is born.
* Ezekiel Arkham dies from influenza.
* Princess Tara of Shamballah is born.

### **1916**

* **January 26:** Byron Lewis is born.
* **April 8:** Hollis Mason is born.
* **November 8:** Travis Morgan is born.

### **1917**

* **July 4:** William Brady is born.
* **September 12:** Ted Grant is born.

### **1920**

* **January 2:** Silas Wayne is born.
* **March 19:** Salmea Juspeczyk is born.

### **1924**

* **May 2:** Edward Blake is born.
* **August 6:** Amadeus & Constance Arkham get married.

### **1928**

* **May 12:** Hollis Mason's family leaves Montana & moves to New York.
* Hollis gets a part-time job running errands for the auto repair shop's owner, Moe Vernon.

### **1929**

* **May 20:** Daniel Knight is born.
* **October 25:** Amadeus Arkham opens Arkham Asylum.

### **1930**

* **February 14:** Ezekiel & Temperance Silverlock get married.
* **September 5:** Henry Knight is born.
* **November 29:** William Arkham is born

### **1932**

* **Unknown date**
	+ T.O. Morrow is born.

### **1933**

* **December 1:** Judas Silverlock is born.

### **1934**

* **Unknown date**
	+ Ursa Hu-Ul is born.

### **1935**

* **October 9:** Joar Mahkent is born.
* **Unknown date**
	+ Salmea Juspeczyk begins going by Sally Jupiter.
	+ Dru-Zod is born.

### **1937**

* Moe Vernon's wife leaves him.
* **August 14:** Patrick & Elissa Wayne get married.
* **August**
	+ Hollis finds Vernon in embrace with another man. He tells his father, who tells the co-workers & they laugh at Vernon. They all apologize & Vernon forgives him them then later commits suicide.

### **1938**

* **March 26:** Hollis Mason graduates from the New York Police Academy.
* **August**
* **November**
	+ During the final game, an opponent falls on William Brady, pulling out his knee. The injury ends his sports career before it even began.
	+ Hollis catches a kid stealing a comic book. He becomes fascinated with the book & superheroes.
	+ Hollis hears of the exploits of the vigilante Hooded Justice.
* **December**
	+ Hooded Justice corners a group of notorious murderers in the building. The police rush in but Mason sees Hooded Justice fleeing the scene & looks the other way rather than apprehend him.

### **1939**

* **February**
	+ Hollis Mason makes his debut as Nite Owl.
* **May**
	+ William Brady graduates college.
* William moves to the Bellview building in Manhattan, hoping to utilize his good looks.
* **July 6:** Agatha Wayne is born.
* William is hired by the National Bank to become the superhero, Dollar BIll.
* Captain Metropolis & Silk Spectre put out ads in the newspaper to join the crimefighters.
* William's employers force him to answer the ad.
* Formation of the Minutemen; consisting of Captain Metropolis, Silk Spectre, Mothman, Silhouette, Dollar Bill, Nite Owl, The Comedian & Hooded Justice.
* **September 1:** World War II begins.
* William Brady does not enlist in the war due to a fancy deferment by the bureaucrats.
* The Minutemen's first public mission is to stop the National Bank from being robbed. They're hailed as heroes.
* Augustus Freeman enlists in World War II.

### **1940**

* Silhouette, Nite Owl & Mothman team up & start looking for missing kids.
* **February 27:** Lionel Luthor is born.
* **March 21:** Walter Kovacs is born.
* **October 2**
	+ First photo shoot of the Minutemen.
	+ Edward Blake sexually assaults Sally Jupiter. Hooded Justice intervenes & severely beats Blake.
	+ Blake is expelled from the Minutemen.
* **Unknown date**
	+ Maria, Bianca & Nico move from Venice to Split, Croatia.

### **1941**

* **October 2:** Michael Kosmatos Sr. is killed by Italian fascists.
* **December 7:** Attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States enters World War II.
* Silhouette & Silk Spectre do pin-up shots to inspire American soldiers. The two get in an argument that leads to lasting tension between the two.
* The Comedian is stabbed in the chest by a robber. He changed his green & purple costume to an armored one. The Minutemen follow suit.
* **Unknown date**
	+ Travis Morgan crash lands in Skartaris.

### **1942**

* **September 10:** Thomas Wayne is born.

### **1944**

* **June**
	+ Macaria places Bianca & Nico in the Lotus Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
* **July 23:** Nathan Kane is born.
* **September 1:** Jonathon Kent is born.
* **September 18:** Dan Dreiberg is born.
* **November 6:** Nathan Kane is born.
* **November 7:** Martha Clark is born.

### **1945**

* **June 17**
	+ Alexa Kosmatos confronts her son about working with the Nazis. He admits to it but before she can tell anyone, he kills her.
	+ Helena witnesses her mother death. In her last breath, her mother tells her to find her journal.
* **June 18:** Helena follows the map in her mother's journal & is taken to the Hills of Ares. There she becomes the vessel of Tisiphone, the Blood Avenger.
* **June 19:** Helena begins fighting the war behind the scenes.
* **July 2:** Helena kills her brother.
* **July 5:** Helena ventures to Themyscira.
* **July 7:** Helena's ship is shipwrecked along the way to Themyscira.
* **July 8:** Helena washes upon the shore of Themyscira. After explaining who she is, the Amazons take her in & she is adopted by Hippolyta.
* **July 18:** Robert Queen is born.
* **August 6:** The United States drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
* **August 8:** The United States drops the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
* **September 2:** World War II ends.

### 1946

* William to an upscale apartment in Manhattan using his earnings as Dollar Bill.
* Silhouette is outed as a lesbian in a relationship with her personal doctor, Gretchen.
* The Minutemen expel Ursula from the team though Nite Owl & Mothman voted against.
* Silhouette still continued to work with Nite-Owl on a case involving murdered children.
* Ursula & Gretchen are killed by the Liquidator, who was seeking revenge on Silhouette.
* Silk Spectre & The Comedian work together to find the Liquidator. They also begin an affair.
* Captain Metropolis & Hooded Justice start investigating local gay clubs.
* Nite Owl & Dollar Bill continue patrolling the streets.
* **Unknown date**
	+ Mary Turner is born.

### **1947**

* **March**
	+ Silk Spectre & The Comedian kill the Liquidator.
	+ Captain Metropolis & Hooded Justice find the Liquidator's dead body.
	+ Silk Spectre retires from crimefighting.
	+ The Cold War begins.
* **March 29:** Princess Jennifer of Shamballah is born.
* **June 13:** While attempting to stop a raid upon one of his employer's banks, Dollar Bill's cloak became entangled in the bank's revolving door. He's shot at point-blank range before he could free it.
* **June 22:** The funeral of Dollar Bill. Captain Metropolis gives the eulogy.
* **July 29:** Martha Kane is born.
* Laurence Schexnayder & Sally Jupiter get married.

### **1949**

* **April 6:** Laurie Juspeczyk is born.
* Captain Metropolis disbands the Minutemen.

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