Timeline

c. 60,000,000 BCE: War In Heaven between the Old Ones and the C'Tan; the ancestors of House Ke'airden forge the great sword *Margaithann* and use it in battle against C'Tan forces. Also, some Eldar might have visited Earth and collected dinosaur DNA (or might have even have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs) and later bred these dinosaurs for use as beasts of burden on Exodite "Maiden Worlds". \*(And yes, I am well aware that according to the paleontological record, the KT Extinction Event actually occurred closer to 66M BCE, but seeing as this is a 40k-based TL, so I think we can justifiably fudge the timeline a bit and say that the extinction of the dinosaurs coincided with the War In Heaven).

c. 60,000,000 BCE - present: Eldar Empire dominates the galaxy; they *may* have also visited Earth during this time, judging by the existence of a Webway portal on Earth.

c. 1,500,000 BCE: *Homo erectus* first masters fire, probably thanks to some help from Prometheus.

c. 200,000 BCE: *Homo sapiens* first appears.

c. 19,000 BCE: first Human inhabitants of the Himalayan Mountains.

c. 14,000 BCE: earliest known pottery shards, predating GEOM by 6,000yr.

c. 11,000 BCE: Bering Sea land bridge goes underwater, isolating peoples in the Americas from the Old World.

c. 10,000 BCE: Hyborian Age, according to Robert E. Howard. Maybe this is where all the shamans who sacrificed themselves to create GEOM came from. (And who knows, maybe it was the Birth Of GEOM that caused the downfall of this civilization, kind of like a smaller scale Birth Of Slaanesh meets the Doom Of Old Valyria! I find it unlikely that the creation of such a psychically powerful entity as the GEOM did not yield some major disruption on whatever peoples were alive at this time).

c. 8000 BCE: birth of the GEOM in Anatolia.

c. 5000 BCE: according to legend, Rama rescues his wife Sita from the demon Ravana, raising a land bridge connecting India and Sri Lanka in the process.

c. 3000 BCE: writing invented in Sumeria, thus the first civilization (that we know of, but see entry for 10,000 BCE above for the possible existence of an even earlier civilization).

c. 3000 BCE: Stonehenge built.

c. 2700 BCE: Imhotep active.

c. 2600 BCE: height of the Indus Valley Civilization.

c. 2580 - 2560 BCE: Great Pyramid Of Giza built.

c. 1500 BCE: Battle of Jericho, Rahab active.

c. 1300 BCE: height of the Hittite Empire.

c. 1194 - 1184 BCE: Trojan War.

c. 1184 - 1174 BCE: Odysseus spends 10yr trying to return to Ithaca.

c. 1100 - 900 BCE: Bronze Age Collapse. Mysterious circumstances lead to the collapse of Bronze Age civilization like Mycenae, Egypt, Assyria, and the Hittites, including earthquakes, plague, famine, and an invasion by the enigmatic "Sea People".

c. 1000 BCE: Zoroaster active.

753 BCE: Rome founded by Romulus & Remus.

c. 660 BCE: Japan founded by the mythical Emperor Jimmu who, according to legend, lives for 126yr.

600 - 530 BCE: life of Cyrus The Great.

563 - 480 BCE: life of Siddartha Gautama aka "Buddha".

518 - 465 BCE: life of Xerxes.

356 - 323 BCE: life of Alexander The Great.

340 - 278 BCE: life of Qu Yuan.

268 - 232 BCE: reign of Ashoka Maurya (birth date unknown).

241 - 180 BCE: life of Empress Dowager Lü Zhi of the Han Dynasty.

207 BCE: Rome decisively defeats Carthage at the Battle Of Metaurus, *finally* turning the war in Rome's favor after a decade of Hannibal constantly kicking Rome's ass.

87 BCE: Antikythera Mechanism built.

c. 58 - 50 BCE: Gallic Wars; Lucius Vorenus & Titus Pullo active.

1 BCE - 33 CE: life of Jesus Christ.

12 CE - 41 CE: life of Caligula.

117 CE: Height of the Roman Empire under Emperor Adrian.

181 - 234 CE: life of Zhuge Liang.

216 - 274 CE: life of the Prophet Mani.

303 CE: death of Saint George. However, see my previous post on why I am considering splitting this George (let's call him "Historical!George" even though he may not have actually existed) from "Dragonslayer!George".

c. 5th century: Ildico active.

c. 6th century: alternative date for "Saint George". I think I might split "Historical!George" from "Dragonslayer!George" and have the latter alive / active during this time period.

570 - 632 CE: life of Muhammad.

c. 9th century: Mayan civilization in Mexico collapses for reasons unknown.

c. 10th century: Bjarni Herjolfsson and the Birka Viking warrior active.

c. 11th century: either due to a transcription error, or a deliberate mix-up, or both, a scribe living in the Kingdom Of Georgia fuses "Historical!George" and "Dragonslayer!George" into the same person, thus leading to the myth of "George And The Dragon" as we know it today.

c. 12th century: construction of Angkor Wat under the Khmer Dynasty.

1162 - 1227: life of Genghis Khan.

1204: Constantinople sacked by the Crusaders, severely breaking Byzantine power and exposing them to Ottoman conquest much later. The largest and most glorious city in all of Christendom was wrecked... by Christians. I think the symbolism here is rather poignant.

1336 - 1405: life of Timur / Tamerlane.

1337 - 1453: Hundred Years' War.

1346 - 1353: Black Death sweeps Europe, killing over 80 million people (Nurgle's work?).

1412 - 1431: life of Joan Of Arc.

1428 - 1477: life of Vlad The Impaler.

1440: Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press.

1469 - 1527: life of Niccolo Machiavelli.

1485 - 1547: life of Hernan Cortez.

1491 - 1547: life of Henry VIII.

1502 - 1558: life of Hurrem Sultan aka "Roxelana".

1480 - 1520: life of "Grutte" Pier Gerlofs Donia.

1530 - 1584: life of Ivan The Terrible.

1533 - 1577: life of Eric XIV Of Sweden.

1542 - 1596: life of Hattori Hanzo.

1543 - 1616: life of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

1560 - 1614: life of Elizabeth Bathory.

1563 - 1620: life of the Wanli Emperor.

1590: Roanoke Colony in Virginia found mysteriously abandoned for reasons unknown.

1618 - 1648: Thirty Years' War.

1632 - 1653: Shah Jahan builds the Taj Mahal as the final resting place of his beloved wife.

1700 - 1721: Great Northern War leads to fall of Sweden and rise of Russia.

1754 - 1782: life of John Laurens.

1756 - 1763: Seven Years' War.

1763 - 1794: life of Stanislas-Marie Maillard.

1775 - 1783: U.S. Revolutionary War.

1787 - 1828: life of Shaka Zulu.

1789 - 1799: French Revolution.

1799: Oak Island Mystery begins when a local farmer first discovers a pit containing something buried long ago.

1803 - 1815: Napoleonic Wars rage across Europe, taking the combined strengths of Britain, Austria, Russia, the Netherlands, and Prussia to finally put just one short man down.

1816: "Year Without Summer" - volcanic eruption in Indonesia leads to climate abnormalities and global famine.

1816 - 1868: life of Barton W. Mitchell.

1821 - 1877: life of Nathan Bedford Forrest.

1835 - 1909: life of Leopold II.

1847: Donner Party found horrifically mutilated, dismembered, and cannibalized.

1861 - 1865: U.S. Civil War.

1870 - 1871: Franco-Prussian War.

1879: a rare and unexpected solar eclipse helps the Zulus triumph over the British at Isandlwana.

1899: Nikola Tesla moves to Colorado Springs, Colorado to conduct scientific experiments; years later, Dr. Yuri Geller attends a convention there held in honor of Tesla.

1899 - 1902: Boer War.

1914 - 1918: WW1. Most destructive conflict in history (up to that point) with 27 million killed.

1916: "Angel Of Verdun" appears during Battle Of Verdun. Verdun and the concurrent Battle Of The Somme sees unspeakable slaughter on a level never before seen in history. Later that year, enigmatic Russian psyker Grigori Rasputin murdered. Influential politicians in Britain and France engineer the Sykes-Picot Agreement (possibly influenced by Tzeentch with the intent of sowing hundreds of years of *Chaos* in the Middle East).

1917: Russian Revolution leads to end of the Tsars and start of the USSR.

1918: Influenza Pandemic kills as many as 100 million people (Nurgle's work?); spread of the flu exacerbated by the conditions created by the war (so maybe Khorne and Nurgle working together?).

1922: Howard Carter discovers an ancient ~~Necron(?)~~ ~~Tzeechian cultist(?)~~ *Egyptian* tomb, unleashing a curse on the excavation team in the process.

1925 - 1971: life of Audie Murphy (conflict with life of Karl).

1930's: Holodomor in the Ukraine + Great Purges make Stalin, alongside Hitler, an equal candidate for "Chaos Undivided in the form of a man".

1936: "Artifact 9906753" obtained by US Govt. from Egypt; later stored in "Vault 101".

1939: Nazis send "Ahnenerbe" expedition to the Himalayas, looking for something.

1939 - 1945: WW2. Most violent conflict in history, perpetrated by a being said to be "Chaos Undivided manifested in the form of an otherwise ordinary man". In terms of death toll, surpasses even precedent set by WW1. The Nazis perform cruel scientific experiments into unlocking Human psychic potential, often using Jewish test subjects. Dr. Geller's father survives the Holocaust and later emigrates to America after the war. Towards the end of the war, young Dok von Braun witnesses the Soviets commit atrocities against civilians in Berlin, is rendered paraplegic, and then later gets kidnapped / rescued out of Berlin by American agents.

1947: Eldar spaceship crashes near Roswell, New Mexico with only one known survivor. Wreckage, bodies of the crew, and other artifacts recovered and studied by the U.S. Govt. India and Pakistan declare independence from Britain, but violence erupts between Hindus and Muslims.

1950 - 1953: Korean War; indecisive attempt to forcibly reunify Korea results in current division along the DMZ.

c. 1954 - present: life of Karl [last name unknown].

1955 - 1975: Vietnam War; escalation of US involvement in this conflict from 1964 onwards proves unpopular at home and prompts numerous anti-war protests.

1960's: Civil Rights Movement in the USA leads observing Eldar "Adrienne Kovacs" to conclude that Humans are idealistic but naive.

1969: Neil Armstrong lands on the Moon, prompting "Adrienne Kovacs" to admit that this is pretty good for a race that was still relying on slaves just one hundred years earlier, but they're still primitive as hell. Meanwhile, Chaos cultist Anton LaVay publishes the Satanic Bible while another cultist, Charlie Manson, attracts a loyal following and goes on a rampage.

1972: Chaos cultists massacre Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. The British Army massacres unarmed Irish civilians, and the IRA massacre even more unarmed civilians in retaliation. Indian and Pakistani massacre each other and draw the current borders in Kashmir. Richard Nixon massacres George McGovern in a landslide election victory (making Watergate completely unnecessary, and thus all the more jarring that it still happened).

1973: although the US and North Vietnam sign a peace agreement early in the year, anti-war protests continue throughout the year, including one observed by "Adrienne Kovacs". Nixon emphatically insists that "I'm not a crook!". MK Ultra officially ended by the US Govt., but instead Dr. Brinner begins working on the Arrowhead Project. Oil shortages grip the world. US backs a coup in Chile. "Adrienne Kovacs" overhears a guy remark "you'll never see a more screwed up time than this!" Oh, if only he was right...

1977: *Star Wars*, the GEOM's favorite movie ever, hits theaters.

1978: "Jonestown", a commune of religious cultists, is found killed off en masse for mysterious reasons (*officially* believed to be a ritualistic mass suicide). Israel intervenes in the civil war in Lebanon.

1979: USSR experiences its own version of Vietnam with the invasion of Afghanistan. Popular revolution in Iran overthrows the Shah and leads to formation of the Islamic Republic; a failed Delta Force operation to rescue American hostages in Tehran leads to the political downfall of Jimmy Carter. Three Mile Island disaster causes public outcry in US against nuclear power; forces the Arrowhead Project to shift their operations from the DoE to the DoD.

1980: Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent Jimmy "The Peanut Farmer" Carter on promises to deregulate the economy, cut taxes, increase defense spending, and adopt a more aggressive foreign policy. Disco dies and Darth Vader is revealed to be Luke Skywalker's father. Iraqi forces, under the command of Saddam "The Mad Arab" Hussein and the Baathist Party, invade Iran, using chemical weapons against Iranians and Iraq's own ethnic Kurds. Disgruntled Polish shipyard workers show solidarity in opposing Soviet rule.

1981: a deranged John Hinckley Jr. attempts to assassinate Ronald Reagan in hopes of wooing teenage actress Jodie Foster. Reagan's survival ensures his popularity and gives him the political capital needed to pass tax cuts and union busting. An elderly, ailing, and paranoid Leonid Brezhnev initiates "Operation RYaN" to look for evidence of an imminent US attack on the USSR. A new disease, AIDS, rears its ugly head (Nurgle's work?), infecting millions.

1983: Ronald Reagan proposes "Strategic Defense Initiative" aka "Star Wars", and deploys Pershing-2 missiles in Europe; paranoid Soviets shoot down Korean Airlines Flight 007 in response. Escalating tensions between US and USSR end up nearly causing WW3. *Twice*. Karl, still a young man, despairs and loses faith in mankind. Meanwhile, "Adrienne Kovacs" encounters, captures, and tortures an Imperial Ordo Chronos agent and learns about M40. US makes some money on the side selling weapons to Iran and to the Afghan Mujahaideen. Civil war and human rights abuses mixed with climate triggers famine in Ethiopia; Typhoon Ellen rumbles through Hong Kong; while a monstrous entity known as "E.T. The Extraterrestrial" causes the video game industry to crash.

1984: the present. Yuri Andropov dies, succeeded by an equally elderly and sickly Konstantin Chernenko. Tensions between Sikhs and Hindus reach boiling point after the Indian Army storms the Golden Palace in Amritsar to expunge Sikh separatists. A possible Khornate cultist guns down dozens of people at a McDonald's in San Ysidro, California. The Democrats run Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro against incumbents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush for the White House. And then on Oct. 11 (or 12, depending on timezone), Zero Hour marks the beginning of WW3, with millions killed on first day alone.