Complete Timeline

## The Entire Timeline of TBLTB

This page holds the complete history of TBLTB. This includes the births, marriages, and deaths of characters, alongside major historical events.

For a timeline of Book 1 : Black Eyes, look here.

## 1300s

*1398 is considered somewhat as the official beginning of Fantoccinism for most of the practitioners, however, there is an honest debate between this date, 1425, and 1456. Nonetheless, each one holds immense significant value for the community.*

### 1390s

* **1398:** Flin Gussenhoven is born in Middelburg, Netherlands.

## 1400s

*This century, not only beholds the conceptualization and growth of Fantoccinism, but it also is the birth of the Eth crystal, and behaves as the dawn of the Eight Families and Dmitri's monarchic rule over the community from 1480 and onwards.*

### 1410s

* **1418:** Flin married Fantine, and was quick to start a family with her. He made first contact with the Connoisseuric Being.
* **1419:** Fantine passes away while giving birth to a stillborn.

### 1420s

* **1425:** Flin creates Kleine, the first Fant to ever be conceptualized.

### 1430s

* **1437:** Flin creates George Lambrecht, a second more successful attempt of a Fant.

### 1450s

* **1452:** Dmitri van Wyk is born in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
* **1456:** Flin Gussenhoven dies and is embedded in the Eth in Luxemborg.

### 1460s

* **1463:** Dmitri meets and befriends Hansen Dewitt.
* **1468:** Dmitri and Hansen start dating, resulting in them leaving home to live together in secret.

### 1480s

* **1480:** Hansen is killed by Dmitri; Dmitri encounters the Connoisseuric Being, and is persuaded to do its bidding.
* **1481:** Dmitri adopts Dorothy.
* **1483:** Athena Cohen is born.
* **1485:** Sven McCreedie is born.
* **1486:** Dmitri buys Athena from a poor family.

## 1500s

*The Eight Families begin to expand the influence of Fantoccinism, specifically through the routes of nepotism. With the inspiration of the Dutch Golden Age, the religion starts spreading to other territories away from the Netherlands, especially in Germany and Belgium. The expansion fueled by the Eight Families lead to Fantoccinism seeing a "Connoisseuric Bloom", with those who were initiated by the Eight Families being dubbed as the Connoisseuric Generation. The influence of the religion would start reaching Poland, France and Italy.*

### 1510s

* **1510:** Hakan Blackwood is born and taken in by Dorothy to be raised by Dmitri.
* **1512:** Dmitri adopts Annabelle and Selena after encountering them both having a dispute over food.

### 1520s

* **1523:** Selena marries ?
* **1528:** Selena marries ?

Dmitri is guided to The Parliament.

### 1590s

* **1597:** Bonafacious marries Annabelle, and begins to indoctrinate him into Fantoccinism.

## 1600s

*Following from the Eight Families, the Connoisseuric Generation begins to emerge and bolster the legacy of their ancestors. In turn, the community starts to duplicate even further. The influences of the families started to become prominent in different countries; for example, the Van Veldens and Cohens having a remarkable influence over German Fantoccinism, and Afremov over Polish, and later Russian Fantoccinism.*

### 1600s

* **1607:** Selena Afremov marries Lincoln Afremov and indoctrinates him into Fantoccinism; Anton Afremov is born.

### 1610s

* **The Second Fitzgarry Generation is born (1617 - 1618)**
	+ **1617:** Henry Fitzgarry is born in Culemborg, Netherlands.
	+ **1618:** Maxwell Fitzgarry is born in Culemborg, Netherlands.

### 1620s

* **1625:** Annabelle kills Selena; Lincoln initiates Anton and proceeds in hunting down Annabelle.
* **1627:** Annabelle flees from her family; Taylor Roosevelt is born in Komorów, Poland; Henry starts discreetly attending church.

### 1630s

* **1636:** Henry (de Witte) joins the Guild of St Luke.
* **1638:** Bonafacious is killed by Dutch lawmakers under the suspicions of wielding dark magic.

### 1640s

* **1649:** Maxwell (van Riebeeck) marries Maria de la Queillerie.
* **The Third Fitzgarry Generation (The Riebeeck Children) is born (1649 - 1653)**
	+ **1649:** Johan "Jan" Fitzgarry is born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
	+ **1650:** Alexandria Fitzgarry is born, Benjamin, Thaxter, Ainsworth Fitzgarry are born as triplets - all in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
	+ **1651:** Bonafacious Fitzgarry is born in Rotterdam, Netherlands; Another daughter is born on Maxwell's voyage, but dies at sea.
	+ **1653:** Abraham van Riebeeck is born in Cape Town, South Africa.

### 1650s

* **1651:** Henry (de Witte) marries Geerje Arents; Ingrid Arents is born in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
* **1655:** Geerje dies; Henry (de Witte) marries Lysbeth van der Plas.
* **1657:** Ingrid and Lysbeth are arrested, being sent out of the city.

### 1660s

* **1662:** Johan, Alexandria, Benjamin, Thaxter, Ainsworth and Bonafacious Fitzgarry are initiated by Dorothy van Velden.
* **1663:** Lysbeth passes away.

### 1690s

* **1692:** Henry (de Witte) feigned suicide to depart from the life he wasn't enjoying.

## 1700s

*With the growth of such an unrestrained religion, the first conflict started to arise - a revolution that arose with Fants turning against their masters via committing suicide or sometimes attacking puppeteers to protest for civil treatment. It is, by this point, that Poppenspelers also start finding it difficult to obtain dragon-blood due to their broad dispersal, and puppeteers started adapting with Arachnid blood, which was found to have strangely similar properties.*

### 1700s

* **1709:** The Suicide Revolution begins.

### 1710s

* **1710:** Henry boards a ship to America after not being able to find Maxwell, who traveled to Twente, Netherlands.
* **1713:** Abraham van Riebeeck contracts dysentery and dies.
* **1714:** Valkyrie Nguyen is born.
* **1719:** The Suicide Revolution ends after 10 years with the establishment of rights and rules on Fant ownership.

### 1720s

* **1724:** Valkyrie Nguyen becomes the first Arachnospeler in the community.

### 1760s

* **1760:** The First Industrial Revolution begins.

### 1780s

* **1784:** Claud Lacktern is born.
* **1787:** The French Revolution begins.

### 1790s

* **1792:** Martin Dawn is born in Pennsylvania, America.
* **1799:** The French Revolution ends.

## 1800s

*While it appeared that Fant creations had rights and rules established, there was continual, explicit racism being expressed between the Dragon and Arachnid Poppenspelers. Discrimination started making itself apparent between Arachnospelers and Dracospelers, until a militaristic revolt that would become known as the Muiterij war dominated the community.*

### 1800s

* **1802:** Benedict Voorhees is born on a slaveship crossing the Atlantic towards America.

### 1830s

* **1830:** The First Industrial Revolution ends.
* **The Third Blackwood Generation is born (1833 - 1842)**
	+ **1833:** Joshua Blackwood is born.
	+ **1840:** Nathan Blackwood is born.
	+ **1839:** Phineas Blackwood is born.
	+ **1841:** Yusuf Blackwood is born.
	+ **1842:** Adah Blackwood is born.

### 1850s

* **1854:** The Muiterij War begins; The Mörder takes Maxwell to Mannekinnom.

### 1860s

* **1862:** Mordecai is initiated with arachnid blood as a form of protest, as are many other puppeteers, resulting in an expansion of arachnid puppeteers.

### 1870s

* **1870:** The second Industrial Revolution begins.

### 1890s

* **1896:** The Muiterij War ends after 50 years when Severine seizes Dmitri and forces a conference to negotiate.

## 1900s

*The most devastating world wars of humanity happening a few mere decades after the Muiterij war had a impact Fantoccinism, causing a decline in economic growth and encouraging the community to make difficult decisions and decree thoughtless, desperate laws. This resulted in their own war a few decades later; the Vervanging War, which almost snuffed the entire religion with its brutality.*

### 1910s

* **1914:** The Second Industrial Revolution ends; World War I begins.
* **1916:** Reid abducts Kennedy from her home and initiates her into a puppeteer.
* **1918:** World War I ends.

### 1920s

* **1921:** Sebastianos Dawn is born.
* **1927:** The first Television is created.

### 1940s

* **1945:** World War II ends.
* **1949:** Since the invention of Television, Fantoccinism witnesses the Digital Crisis.

### 1980s

* **1985:** The Vervanging War begins.
* **1987:** Maxwell Fitzgarry contributes to the war, quickly rising to be one of the most devastating warlords of all time.

### 1990s

* **1998:** Penelope McCreedie contributes to the war, also becoming a renown warlord.

## 2000s

*Most of the community is left in bewilderment and a perpetual struggle to survive after the suffering from the past centuries. There is a gradual decline in Fantoccinism, the community forcing themselves to become tight-knit for protection - especially when they are, at last, discovered by humanity.*

### 2000s

* **2001:** Petra Campbell is born; Isabel Monoiliths is born.
* **2003:** Isabel Monoiliths's parents are murdered; The Vervanging War is declared to have ended officially upon the capturing of Maxwell Fitzgarry. Johan Fitzgarry is murdered in protest as Maxwell is given freedom.
* **2004:** Maxwell escapes to South Africa, where he meets Jade Du Plessis.
* **2007:** Maxwell and Jade get married.
* **2008:** Mary Du Plessis is born in Kommetjie, South Africa.

### 2010s

* **2011:** Maxwell kills Jade when she discovers that he isn't a human. He takes Mary back to Mannekinnom.
* **2015:** Mary, Quentin, Horatio and Maxwell encounter Mordecai.

## 2100s

*The Fantoccinism community is snuffed. Life goes on for mankind.*