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Grand Unified Timeline events from 1914 C.E. to 1929 C.E.

1914 C.E. - 1919 C.E.

1914

• January: Indiana Jones visits London. He discovers that a golden bowl, supposedly ancient Greek, on exhibit is actually a forgery and follows the trail of the thief to Greece. (Young Indiana Jones and the Journey to the Underworld)
• Spring: Indiana Jones, Lizzie Ravenall, and Minna Frobisher get involved in the search for a Norman Cross, created from a sword hilt. Henry Jones volunteers to become Lizzie's new legal guardian. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, novel: Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Ruby Cross)
• May: Indiana Jones and some friends search for a lost crown worn by Louis IX, and go up against a crime lord who intends to use it to restore the French monarchy. (Young Indiana Jones and the Gypsy Revenge)
• Before June 28: Aliens take a weapon against a Great Evil (based on five elements) off-planet for safekeeping. They leave information about the weapon and the future arrival of the Great Evil with a human priest. (The Fifth Element)
• June 28: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, which leads to the outbreak of World War I a month later. (Real Life)
  • The Archduke's son, Aleksandr, is forced to flee from Germans who want to kill him. He later joins the crew of the British airship Leviathan. (Leviathan)
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is shot, albeit unknowingly, by Alucard (not that one). He puts the blame on Gavrilo Princip. (Hellsing Ultimate Abridged)
  • Maryann somehow abuses the magic of her Fairy Godparents Cosmo and Wanda to take out Archduke Ferdinand and plunge the world into World War I. This results in her losing her fairies and them putting her portrait up in their castle’s Hall of Infamy. (The Fairly OddParents!)
  • Infamous author V. M. Straka is accused of having a hand in the assassination plot. (S.)
• June:
  • Henry Jones visits the Ottoman Empire to contact research on the Holy Grail. He brings along Indiana Jones and Herman Mueller, who get involved in a search for the knife that Cain used to murder Abel. The adventure is cut short by news of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. With talk of war in the air and the chance the Ottoman Empire would get involved, Henry decided it was best to stay away from Europe. (Young Indiana Jones and the Secret City)
  • Germany and the USA mobilize. In August, the United States launches invasions of the Confederate States and Canada. The world is plunged into war between the Quadruple Entente of France, Russia, Britain, and the CSA, and the German-American alliance. (Timeline-191)
• July 24: Robert Cath, fugitive, boards the Orient Express. (The Last Express)
• July 26: Serbian terrorists attempt to take over the Orient Express. (The Last Express)
• July 28:
  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. World War I begins. (Real Life)
  • Robert Cath and Anna Wolf arrive in Constantinople. (The Last Express)
• August 4: The Bellamy servants take a holiday to Herne Bay on the day that Britain declares war on Germany. (Upstairs Downstairs)
• August:
  • Everfair joins World War I on the side of the Germans by a 9-2 vote of the Grand Mote. (Everfair)
  • Germany invades Belgium, and quickly captures most of the country. (Real Life) Retired Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is one of seven refugees taken in by Cynthia Murdoch at Styles Court in England. (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)
• September:
  • Colonel Frederick Warner dies. (Roots: The Next Generations)
  • Bertha Palmer begins attending Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee. She is the first member of her family to go to college. While there, she meets her future husband Simon Haley. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• October:
  • Henry and Indiana Jones stop off in Hawaii, where they meet up with Lizzie Ravenall and her friend, Constanze Rademacher. They go up against German soldiers and a volcano. (Young Indiana Jones and the Mountain of Fire)
  • Someone hides a golden Chinese dragon statuette in the luggage of Indiana Jones. In China, Indy must run from Chinese, Japanese, and German agents searching for the statuette. (Young Indiana Jones and the Face of the Dragon)
  • The HMS Leviathan is sent to Constantinople to carry out a secret mission. There, the crew assists the Committee For Union And Progress in starting a revolution. (Leviathan)
  • Eccentric millionaire Preston B. Whitmore finances an expedition to find the lost city of Atlantis. (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)
• December 20: Nikola Tesla activates the Goliath Polyphase System For Peace, intending to use it to end the War. Germany launches a secret attack on his laboratory in New Jersey.^moreThey succeed in stopping him, but the Americans find out about it and join the War. (Leviathan)
• December: In India, Indiana Jones befriends Prince Kassim, and gets into trouble involving a tiger when he touches a cursed amulet. (Young Indiana Jones and the Eye of the Tiger)
• Jack Marston tracks down recently retired FBI agent Edgar Ross ^spoilerand kills him in revenge for the murder of his father John Marston. (Red Dead Redemption)
• Peabody and Sherman track down Mata Hari and recover the British war plans. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Tennyo Masaki born (Tenchi Muyo!)
• Eustace "Huckabone" Befufftlefumpter may or may not be responsible for World War I. (Gravity Falls)
• Dr. Christian Horn, Jr., an expert in childhood diseases, dies in Santa Barbara, California. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• In Eerie, Indiana, the first Harvest King is chosen to be sacrificed to the werewolf Mr. Chaney in order to ensure 13 years of good luck and low taxes. The town authorities claim that he moved to Spain. (Eerie, Indiana)
• Cinema actress Evelyn Harrow is the subject of six duels waged on three continents in the span of a week. Given the news on holiday in Greece, she makes her famous reply: "Mm. I thought you were getting me a mango." (The Explorers' Guild)
• Birth of Will Reeves ^more later known as Hooded Justice. (Watchmen (2019))
• Pollard State University is founded. (S.)

1915

• January: Indiana Jones investigates terrorist bombings in Venice. (Young Indiana Jones and the Specter of Venice)
• May 7:
  • The RMS Lusitania is sunk by the German U-boat U-20 11 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. 1,198 people are killed in the sinking. As 128 Americans are among the dead, it is one of the reasons behind the United States' entry into World War I on April 6, 1917. (Real Life)
  • Several hours before the sinking, the Lusitania finds a lifeboat from the RMS Titanic containing a survivor who has inexplicably managed to survive for three years. (Night Gallery)
  • Shortly before the ship is sunk by the U-20, the time traveler Paul Driscoll attempts to warn the Lusitania's captain William Thomas Turner but to no avail. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
  • The TARDIS materialises on a British merchant ship, which is sunk by the U-20. The U-boat picks up the Fifth Doctor in a lifeboat. In the process, an Alternate Timeline in which the Lusitania is never sunk is created. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• October 11: Leopold Kurtz is born. (Hellboy)
• German officer Karen Koenig travels to Domremy, where she encounters Yuri Hyuga. What follows is an adventure, where the two must stop individuals who have fused with powerful, demonic creatures. (Shadow Hearts: Covenant)
• Beginning of the Long War between China and Islam. (The Years of Rice and Salt)
• The Red Rebellion in the Confederate States, as blacks rise up in the name of racial justice and communism. (Timeline-191)
• On the Western front, Captain Hill of the British army and Professor Brightmeer of the Miskatonic University lead a team of investigators to prevent the insane German Docktor Kaul's plan of creating an army of undead and monsters raised from corpses of both sides. (Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land)
• [Alternate Timeline] Tyler Browning invents synthetic petroleum. (The 4400)
• John Ross "Jock" Ewing is born. (Dallas)
• Maggie Thorpe is born. (Tenko)
• Walter Bedeker is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• The silent film The Hunt for Dishonest Abe, depicting the capture of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (in blackface) and Harriet Tubman by Confederate troops in 1865, is released. The film, directed by D. W. Griffith, is based on the novel The Yankee by Thomas Dixon. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
• The Salvation Army Mission on Fourth Street in Manhattan opens. (Quantum Leap)
• Matilda Iredale dies. (Mirror, Mirror (1995))
• Birth of Phil Shortman. (Hey Arnold!)
• Nikola Tesla's experiments with wireless power accidentally cause the people of the town of Wardenclyffe Falls to be moved Just One Second Out of Sync with the universe. (The Librarians)

1916

• February: Indiana Jones attends high school in Princeton, New Jersey, and romances Nancy Stratemeyer, daughter of novelist Edward Stratemeyer. When the plans of Thomas Edison for a new electric car are stolen, Indy and Nancy team-up to work the case. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• March: Indiana Jones and his cousin Frank briefly join Pancho Villa's forces. They also meet Alberto Cardenás, George Patton, and Remy Baudouin. Indy and Remy travel to Britain to enlist in WWI. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• April 5: Indiana, the Jones' family dog, dies of old age. (Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide - 2008)
• April 10: Robert Benson, Sr. is born. (The Day the Earth Stood Still)
• April 24-30: Irish republicans rise up against Britain and take command of the Dublin General Post Office. All are imprisoned. While in Frongoch Internment Camp, a hard core of rebels forms around Michael Collins. (At War With the Empire and Real Life) Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin stop off in Dublin. While raising money to continue on to Belgium, they get caught up in the Easter Rising. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• May 15: David Filby is killed in a plane crash in France. His time traveling friend George tries to prevent his death. (Time Machine: The Journey Back)
• May: Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin arrive in London and volunteer for the Belgian Army. While waiting for their call up papers, they take in the city, where they meetup with Helen Seymour, Vicky Prentiss, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Winston Churchill. Indy proposes to Vicky but she turns him down. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• June 10: Sorcerer Roderick Burgess imprisons Dream of the Endless and steals his items of power. (DC Comics)
• June 13: Actress Evelyn Harrow fatefully meets Trent Sloane on the astral plane while attending a séance in New York. She is given a quest to "reunite the son with the father". (The Explorers' Guild)
• July: Sally Markham is born. (Tenko)
• August 17: Emily Inglethorpe is murdered by strychnine poisoning at Styles Court. (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)
• August 24: Mark Pendleton is born. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• August:
  • Indiana Jones serves as a corporal of the Belgian Army under the alias "Henri Defense", and winds up commanding his unit during the Battle of the Somme. He befriends Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, but a failed offensive results in Indy becoming a prisoner of war. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
  • Indiana Jones assumes the uniform and identity of Lieutenant Blanc, a French officer, and takes part in a couple of failed escape attempts with other prisoners. The Germans transfer him to Ingolstadt, where "incorrigible" prisoners are held. Here, he befriends Charles de Gaulle. The two work on new escape plans. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• September 15: Hercule Poirot solves the murder at Styles Court, starting his career in England as a private investigator. (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)
• September: With his original unit apparently dissolved, Indiana Jones serves as motorcycle courier for the French High Command at Verdun. He is exposed to the constant arguments between Generals Philippe Petain, Robert Nivelle, and Charles Mangin. Indy grows increasingly disillusioned with the War. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• Around October 10: Daisy Gray, who had been concieved out of wedlock, is born to Lola and Charles. (Quantum Leap (2022))
• October: While on leave in Paris, Indiana Jones has a brief sexual affair with Mata Hari. The French police start to suspect he is a spy. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• November 7:
  • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson is re-elected, defeating Charles Evans Hughes. (Real Life)
  • U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is re-elected, once again defeating Eugene Debs. (Timeline-191)
  • Thomas Marshall is elected U.S. President. (Bring the Jubilee)
  • U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is re-elected. (And Having Writ...)
• November: Indiana Jones is promoted to lieutenant and posted to Nairobi. He takes the wrong train and arrives at the front lines of the East African Campaign, accidentally volunteering himself for a mission within German East Africa. His first mission to help capture Colonel Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, the head of the local German forces. On the way, he has to face Margaret Trappe. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• December 16: Rasputin is poisoned, shot and dropped under the ice on the Neva River. He survives. The Serpent Ogdru-Jahad calls to him at that point, setting him on a course intended to destroy mankind. (Hellboy)
• December 22/23: Irish rebels released from Frongoch. Led by Michael Collins, they continue their rebellion against Britain. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• December: Indiana finally arrives at his correct unit, stationed near Lake Tanganyika, where he leads a unit of Askaris to a victory against the Germans at great personal risk, enraging his commanding officer, Major Bucher. Bucher's superiors are impressed with Indy and promote him to the rank of Captain. Bucher and Jones are next assigned to lead their unit across Africa to Cape Lopez. On the way, their unit starts losing men to yellow fever. With Bucher's own health deteriorating, Captain Jones finds himself in charge of the mission. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• In Russia, Grigori Rasputin, intent on revenge against the Romanov family, crashes a royal ball celebrating the 300th anniversary of their rule. While trying to kill Grand Duchess Anastasia, the Czar's youngest daughter, Rasputin drowns in a river. Anastasia attempts to flee to Paris with her grandmother, Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, but she falls trying to catch a moving train and contracts amnesia, causing her to forget her royal heritage. (Anastasia)
• English journalist Peter Jacob is dispatched to Amiens Cathedral, now serving as a front-line hospital. While there he discovers the cult running the cathedral, defeats the Black Guardian lurking below, and retrieves the artifact it was guarding. (Eternal Darkness)
• After a futile attack on Ant Hill, three French soldiers are court-martialed and unjustly executed for cowardice. (Paths of Glory)
• In an alternate timeline, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is mysteriously assassinated. This prevents the October Revolution of 1917 from taking place. Consequently, the Soviet Union does not exist in this world. World War II still happens but apparently has no Eastern Front. (Star Trek: Enterprise)
• Birth of Zampano. (House of Leaves)
• In the New York gubernatorial election, publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane runs against "Boss" Jim W. Gettys. After Gettys exposes Kane's affair with Susan Alexander, Kane's defeat is ensured. (Citizen Kane)
• Captain Jean Robur is killed when his airship Albatross is shot down during the Battle Of Somme. A.J Raffles joins the British Army as a soldier and dies in battle. The Second Murray League disbands. (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier)
• John "John-Boy" Walton, Jr. is born. (The Waltons)
• Stan and Lila Pierce are married. (Quantum Leap)
• H. G. Wells is abducted from this time by Tempus and brought to Metropolis in an alternate 1996. (Lois & Clark)
• Amy Jeffries is born. (St. Elsewhere)
• Teenagers Tanner Smith and Amy Hawkline use the I Ching to transport themselves to a younger world and inhabit the bodies of two wolves. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Tripp McConnell and Mary B. Carter are born. (Eerie, Indiana)
• Ameiko Kaijitsu takes her rightful place on Minkai's Jade Throne after the overthrow of the tyrannical Jade Regent and his oni allies. (Pathfinder)
• Bianca Rizzo is born in Naples, Italy. (Unimaa)

1917

• January 8: Kaiser Wilhelm II is persuaded by his commanders to not carry out unrestricted submarine warfare, but rather to act in accordance with law — Point of Divergence from our timeline. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• January: While transporting equipment to the front, Indiana Jones's life is saved by Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who teaches him to trust others once again. However, Schweitzer and his wife are arrested for being German nationals in French territory, and the mission Indy was on is aborted. Indy and Remy are assigned to transport the equipment back to Europe. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• February - March: Back in Europe, Indiana Jones sings up to the French intelligence service and is assigned to perform photographic reconnaissance for the Lafayette Escadrille. He gets to serve alongside figures such as Hobey Baker and Charles Nungesser, but a lost airfight results in Indiana being held prisoner by the Red Baron. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• March 5: Flight Lieutenant William Terrance Decker of the Royal Flying Corps travels forward in time to March 5, 1959 and lands his plane in an American airbase in Reims, France. He later returns to his own time in order to save his friend and flying partner Alexander Mackaye. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• March 8-16: The February Revolution^note Thanks, Julian Calendar! in Russia. Tsar Nicholas II is overthrown, the Russian Republic is founded. (Real Life)
• March: Indiana Jones is assigned to smuggle Princes Sixtus and Xavier to Austria-Hungary. This allows them to negotiate the terms of a peace treaty with their brother-in-law Karl. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• April 6: British Lance Corporals Blake and Schofield are sent on a dangerous mission to call off an attack by the Second Devonshire Regiment before it results in the deaths of the whole regiment. (1917)
• April 7: The Second Devonshire Regiment prepares its attack. ^moreLance Corporal Schofield successfully calls it off, but not before the first wave of soldiers is sent out. (1917)
• April: With the entry of the United States into the War, the entire Lafayette Escadrille is considered likely to be transferred to the Army Air Service of the Americans. Indiana's mission with the squadron is terminated. His next mission is to travel to Hanover and convince aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker to defect. Fokker is clearly not interested, so Indiana has to sabotage his newest designs while avoiding a reunion with Richthofen. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• May: Indiana Jones and three other spies work undercover to try and get Spain to join the war on the side of the Allies. As part of his cover, Indy's old friend, Pablo Picasso, gets him a job with as a ballet dancer. Indy finds out that fellow dancer Nadia is involved with the local head of German intelligence, and the allied spies start seeking ways to use the information to their advantage. ^moreThey forge evidence that Colonel Schmidt is romantically involved with the Contessa of Toledo, causing a furious Count of Toledo to challenge Schmidt to a duel. They learn a bit too late that Schmidt is an American double agent. ) (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• June: Rice graduates from the Rock Spring School for Boys. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• July 7: Johnny Thunder, the seventh son of a seventh son, is born at 7 am. (DC Comics)
• July 16-20: Indiana Jones gets involved in the July Day celebrations while trying to get the Bolsheviks to keep Russia in the war (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles^{note on dates}Russia still used the Julian Calendar, the protestations taking place in July 3-July 7 by Russian counting. This timeline uses Gregorian dates.)
• August:
  • Indiana Jones faces a bureaucratic nightmare while working undercover in Prague. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
  • Corporal James Buchan runs a message to a party of dragoons at Al-Shar led by Major James Ogden. The message is the exploration notes of his brother Arthur, and together, Buchan and the dragoons set out on a quest to find the city of Shambhala. (The Explorers' Guild)
• September 13: George makes his first stop on his journey into the future. He meets James Filby, the son of his close friend David Filby, who tells him that the British Empire has been at war with Germany since 1914 and that David was killed in the war in 1916. (The Time Machine (1960))
• September:
  • Edith Wharton, an American author, begins her tour of the French protectorate of Morocco. (In Morocco)
  • Everfair surrenders to the Entente and formally leaves the First World War. ^moreThe British intelligence agent sent to negotiate the surrender attempts to secretly assasinate the Everfairer general at the signing, but fails. (Everfair)
• October: Indiana Jones works with Maya, an Arab agent of questionable loyalties, to prevent the Ottomans from poisoning the water supply of Beersheeba before they retreat from the British advance. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• 7 November: The October Revolution^note Thanks, Julian Calendar! in Russia (see Red October). The Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin overthrow the Russian government, beginning of the Russian Civil War. (Real Life)
• ca. November: Indiana Jones serves in the French Foreign Legion under an assumed name, searching for a traitor in the ranks. He works alongside Edith Wharton and Lowell Thomas. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• Ozwell Spencer, James Marcus, and Edward Ashford born (Resident Evil)
• Captain Edmund Blackadder leads his men, among them Pvt. Baldrick, Lt. George and Captain Darling, "over the top" in yet another disastrous attack on the German lines. There are no survivors. (Blackadder Goes Forth)
• The elderly Union general George Custer has a rare flash of insight and deploys armored "barrels" en masse, breaking a two-year stalemate. Washington D.C. is recaptured from the Confederacy, Canada is occupied with the exception of a Québécois puppet state, and the Great War ends with America and Germany victorious. The Confederacy is forced to accept humiliating peace terms. (Timeline-191)
• Duncan MacLeod is in France, employed as a Red Cross ambulance driver. While a bit too close to the front lines, his partner and the entire local unit is killed in a gas attack courtesy of Xavier St. Cloud. However, St. Cloud does not have time to decapitate Duncan. (Highlander: The Series)
• Duncan MacLeod witnesses Sean Burns calm down Antoine, a psychotic French soldier. (Highlander: The Series)
• Peabody, Sherman, and Lawrence of Arabia go undercover in the Sahara Desert to steal Turkey's war plans. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Dorothy Singers becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Birth of Steve Rogers. (Captain America)
• In the western front of World War I, British Company Y find themselves in a mysterious German trench. (Deathwatch)
• The villagers of Ffynnon Garw conspire to artificially increase the height of their local hill by 15 feet so it will officially become a mountain. (The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain)
• Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Southworth (later Ewing Farlow) is born. (Dallas)
• Stan and Lila Pierce move to Elk Ridge, Indiana. (Quantum Leap)
• The time traveler Phineas Bogg helps Lawrence of Arabia escape from Turkish captivity. (Voyagers!)
• [Alternate Timeline] the Allies are losing World War I as the British Empire has been dragged into the Russian Revolution on account of Grand Duke Michael of Russia's marriage to Queen Victoria's granddaughter Princess Victoria. Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones travel back in time to 1887 to prevent the marriage and set history on its proper course. (Voyagers!)
• Rick Frost, who has been wrongly convicted of murder, is transported back in time to this year from 1986. He finds himself in Mickey Shaughnessy's Shamrock Club. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• James Wainwright is born. (Star Trek Novel 'Verse)

1918

• January/September (date inconsistent): Indiana Jones faces Matthias Targo, a Romanian general who thinks he's Dracula. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• Before May 3: Inspired by the words of W.E.B. Du Bois, Simon Haley enlists in the US Army without telling his girlfriend Bertha Palmer. He joins the 92nd Infantry Division. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• June - July: Indiana Jones and Ernest Hemingway compete for the attention of Guilietta, a local girl in Italy. They later mend their friendship. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• June: The 92nd Infantry Division is shipped out to France. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• Before July 17: In Yekaterinburg, Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II, is awakened in the middle of the night by one of the Bolsheviks guarding him and his family. He is disguised as a peasant and put in the back of a cart with several animals. They ride through the night. Alexei is forced to run for his life to evade the dogs hunting him. He is found by a British aristocrat named Sir Ivor Creevey-Thorne, who takes him to safety. Sir Ivor claims to be working for his government but he is actually using the Tsarevich as a political prisoner, one that he plans to sell to the highest bidder. Sir Ivor brings Alexei to New Zealand, where he adopts the name Nicholas in honor of his father. (Mirror, Mirror (1995))
• July 17:
  • Bolshevik forces execute the abdicated Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family. (Real Life)
  • Rasputin the Monk curses the royal family, leading to the Russian peasants massacring the Tsar and his family. The 8-year-old princess Anastasia barely escapes with her life, but is left amnesiac on the streets of St. Petersburg. (Anastasia)
  • Bolshevik forces execute the abdicated Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family except for his son Tsarevich Alexei, who escaped with the help of one of the guards some time earlier. Alexei, by then calling himself Nicholas, does not discover that his parents and elder sisters are dead until April 1919. (Mirror, Mirror (1995))
  • Infamous author V. M. Straka is accused of kidnapping Grand Duchess Olga and inadvertently saving her life. (S.)
• July 18: France and the United States defeat Germany in the Battle of Château-Thierry. (Real Life) Rice is killed in the battle. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• July: Alec Haley dies. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• August: The German forces (assisted by time travelers) bomb Paris, killing most of the French military leadership. This is followed by the Kaiser's Battle in which the Germans break through the Western Front. (The Time Ships)
• September 1: Vladimir Lenin is assasinated in Moscow. Bolsheviks start to lose the Civil War. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• September:
  • Indiana Jones tries to convince Mustafa Kemal Ataturk to persuade the Sultan of Turkey to agree to a peace treaty with France. He fails. Also, Indy's girlfriend du jour is accidentally killed by a French double agent. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
  • Martin Morgenstern is born. (Rhoda)
• October 14: Kolchak's coup in Russia. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• October 18: Max Staefel is killed in action. (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
• October:
  • German soldier Paul Bäumer is killed in action. (All Quiet on the Western Front)
  • Queen Elvanna of Irrisen is slated to be replaced by her mother Baba Yaga, but she conspires with her half-brother Rasputin to imprison Baba Yaga and prolong her reign. Ultimately, Elvanna is beaten, and Baba Yaga places her granddaughter Anastasia on Irrisen's throne. (Pathfinder)
• November 4: Helen Margaret Seymour, the former tutor of both Henry Walton Jones and Indiana Jones, dies of influenza. (Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide -2008)
• November 6: Peter Colley III and Perkins are killed in action. (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
• Early November, before the 11th: The god of war Ares is defeated by Wonder Woman, making an end to World War I possible. (Wonder Woman)
• November 11:
  • Armistice of Compiègne Forest concluded between the German Empire and the Allies of World War I, ending the Great War. (Real Life)
  • Immortal Simon Killian, a colonel in the British army, refuses to acknowledge the ceasefire and leads 300 men in a suicidal charge. (Highlander: The Series)
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is found alive, having been on vacation the past few years and utterly unaware of the debacle his disappearance caused. Everyone sheepishly goes home, the cause for the war proven a hilarious misunderstanding. (The Onion Our Dumb Century)
  • Benjamin Button is born. Despite being a newborn, Button has the body of an elderly man and will age in reverse for the rest of his life, dying as an 84-year-old infant in 2003. (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
  • November - December: In the final days of World War I, Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin begin a hunt for the Peacock's Eye, a famous diamond once owned by Alexander the Great. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
  • As the war ends, Hazel Bellamy succumbs to the worldwide flu pandemic. Her husband Richard later marries Virginia Hamilton. (Upstairs Downstairs)
  • The mythical city of Shambhala is found and that which was stolen is returned. This action ends the war. ^moreMr. Sloane returns Bertram Barnes to Shambhala, which is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Ogden and the dragoons have found themselves at the exact antipode.(The Explorers' Guild)
  • Roberta Stevens resumes her modeling career after serving in the US Army in France during the war. (Love Nest)
• December: Kurt Haldweim is born in Austria. (In the Presence of Mine Enemies)
• Colonel Simon Killian is court-martialled in London, with Duncan MacLeod among the witnesses. He is sentenced to death by firing squad. Knowing he will revive soon after, Duncan manages to get his sentence reduced to spending time in an asylum on the grounds of temporary insanity, thus trapping him. Killian would bear Duncan a grudge. (Highlander: The Series)
• John Legrasse becomes a recluse. (Cthulhu Mythos)
• Birth of the gargoyles Zafiro and Obsidiana to the Mayan Clan of Guatemala. (Gargoyles)
• Caesar A. Zeppeli is born. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Sunset Sarsparilla is created and enters production, though the exact circumstances are unknown and are heavily mythologized by the Sunset Sarsparilla Corporation over the next century. (Fallout: New Vegas)
• Jason Walton is born. (The Waltons)
• After Phineas Bogg saves Jeffrey Jones from falling out a window in 1982 by transporting him through time, they arrive in France in this year to discover that the Allies are losing World War I as airplanes do not exist. They then travel back in time to 1903 to help the Wright brothers perfect the Wright Flyer and set history on its proper course. (Voyagers!)
• John Kinsella, returning from France at the end of the war, sees a big city for the first time. He settles in Chicago and becomes a White Sox fan. (Field of Dreams)
• Freedom's Five prevent an invasion of Martians. (Marvel Universe)

1919

• January 21: The first strike in the Irish War of Independence is struck when Seán Treacy, Dan Breen, Seán Hogan, and Séamus Robinson steal a delivery of gelignite at Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary, killing two Catholic police officers in the process. This act is condemned as murder by the clergy. Dáil Éireann holds its first official meeting. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• January: Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin pursue the Peacock's Eye to Java, and then to Singapore. En route, they run into trouble with pirates, and Indy decides to stop chasing the gem on the advice of Bronislaw Malinkowski. Remy keeps on after it. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• February: Michael Collins and Harry Boland break Éamon de Valera and 25 others out of Lincoln Gaol. Collins attempts to hand over command of the rebellion to de Valera, but de Valera declines, instead travelling to America to raise recognition of the Irish Republic as well as money from Washington, D.C.. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• March 2: The Germans launch the Great Spring Offensive starting on the 2nd; attacks on Nancy and Reims cause allied forces to split in two by the 26th. At the same time, the Austrians launch their offenseive against the Italians starting on the 11th, capturing Vicenza and Verona by the 24th. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• April 10: In a Dáil speech, Éamon de Valera denounces the Royal Irish Constabulary and calls on all Republicans to boycott them. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• April 14-19: Louisa Iredale, a 14-year-old girl living in Wellington, New Zealand, sees the reflection of another girl her own age named Jo Tiegan in her mirror. She soon discovers that Jo lives in the same house in 1995 and the mirror allows people to travel back and forth between their two times. After her friends Mia Rowlands and Jesse Handon are splashed with a toxic chemical in a drum dated 1919 found in an old well, Jo embarks on a mission to change history so that the drum is never placed in the well. The two girls also learn that Louisa's neighbor Sir Ivor Creevey-Thorne is holding his young ward Nicholas, who is secretly Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, prisoner and plans to sell him to the highest bidder. (Mirror, Mirror (1995))
• April 17: Ned Broy smuggles Michael Collins and Seán Numan into the detective HQ of G Division in Dublin Castle, where they acquire a complete list of anti-IRA informers. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• May 11: Seán Hogan attends a dance; while slipping out with his girlfriend, Bridie O'Keefe, he is abducted by the RIC. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• May 12: Seán Hogan is tortured by RIC officers, but refuses to divulge the names of IRA members. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• May 13: Four Irish Republicans rescue Seán Hogan at Emly train station. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• May: Indiana Jones works as a translator at the American delegation of the postwar peace conference. His experiences sour him on diplomacy. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• June 7: Ilsa Haupstein born. (Hellboy)
• June 11: In Liverpool, Éamon de Valera boards a ship bound for New York disguised as a crew member. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• June 23:
  • Éamon de Valera's arrival in America is officially announced, and he embarks on a whirlwind speaking tour to drum up support and recognition for the Irish Republic. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
  • Francis Stone is accidentally killed by her mother Elizabeth in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• June 24: Inspector Hunt of the RIC is shot in front of a large crowd in Thurles. Nobody comes to his aid. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• June 28:
  • Treaty of Versailles. World War I formally ends.
  • French general strike, led by the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT). The seeds of the French Civil War are sowed. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• June - August: Indiana Jones returns to Princeton, to find things have changed for the worse in his absence. Against his father's wishes, he goes on to attend the University of Chicago instead of Princeton.(The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• August 5-7: Armistice of Venice takes place, ending the war between Italy and Austria-Hungary. This leads to a massive revolution against the treaty and the later Italian Civil War. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• August 12: Armistice of Chantilly concludes the war between the Germans and Entente Powers on the Western Front. De facto end of the Weltkrieg. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• August 30-31: In a black neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, a race riot instigated by a lynch mob results in at least two deaths and dozens of injuries. (Real Life) Sgt. Bubba Heywood is murdered by Earl Crowther, an aide of Congressman Andrew Warner and the leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Henning, Tennessee. In revenge, Heywood's friend and fellow soldier Doxey Walker kills Crowther, cutting his throat from ear to ear. He buries his body under a porch. It is found one month later. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• Summer: Luke Bettiger dies of The Spanish Flu. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• September 7: 18 members of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry are ambushed by the IRA and have their weapons stolen. That night, some other troops smash up the town centre as payback. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• September 10: Jane Lindhurst is born. (Quantum Leap)
• September 19: Michael Collins addresses a select group of IRA commanders. He gives them each a list of men to assassinate, and orders absolutely no killing beyond them. They are also ordered to report only to him, and not to discuss their assignments with each other. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• September: Simon Haley and Bertha Palmer are married. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• October 1-9: The Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds meet in the 1919 World Series. Eight members of the White Sox intentionally throw the Series in exchange for a large sum of money from a gambling syndicate led by Arnold Rothstein. (Real Life, Eight Men Out, Boardwalk Empire) They are helped by Meyer Wolfsheim. (The Great Gatsby) The scandal cements Hyman Roth's love for baseball (The Godfather Part II), and breaks John Kinsella's heart. (Field of Dreams)
• October 4: The Treaty of Wartholz ends the war on the Balkans; Austro-Hungarian victory. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• October: The White Army begins the March on Petrograd, securing a decicive victory over the Bolsheviks. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• October 20: Birth of Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp Randall Fraser. (Outlander)
• November 5: "Red" and "White" split among Italian republicans. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• November 16: The Treaty of Versailles. The Weltkrieg ends formally, and the Central Powers are triumphant. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• November 20: The French Civil War begins between socialist revolutionaries and the French government, Paris being the center of the socialist revolution and several cities following suit. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• December:
  • Following a spate of unpunished IRA killings, Det. Redmond is brought in from Belfast to head up RIC operations in Dublin. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
  • Randolph Carter is arrested for the disappearance of occultist Harley Warren. Carter's claims make little sense, but he is eventually released. (The Statement of Randolph Carter)
• In Civil War-era Russia, Duncan MacLeod persuades immortal Artur Drakov to spare the lives of countess Katarina Abernova and her family. In return, Duncan promises not to threaten Drakov or interfere in any of his activities unless they are the last two immortals left on alive. (Highlander: The Series)
• Duncan MacLeod briefly joins the IRA under the influence of the immortal Annie Devlin, but soon leaves in disgust at their methods. (Highlander: The Series)
• Birth of Jack Dane to noted silent film star Flo Dane. Following a remarriage of his mother, Dane would become the stepson of gangster Mace Malone. Jack would grow up to become a notable figure in organized crime. (Gargoyles)
• Andrei Rianofski leaves Russia after becoming disgusted with the Bolsheviks. He changes his name to Andrew Ryan and immigrates to America. (BioShock)
• Death of Dorothy Singers. Ardita O'Reilly becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Harry Bailey falls through some ice while playing with his friends. His older brother George jumps in and saves his life, but loses all hearing in his left ear in the process. After several months of recovery, George Bailey returns to work at his after-school job at a drugstore. He notices his boss Emil Gower mixing up a set of pills for a child's prescription with poison, and stops him before the pills get to the boy and inevitably kill him. (It's a Wonderful Life)
• Birth of Henry Morgan's future wife Abigail. (Forever)
• Hanzo Academy established in Japan to train shinobi. (Senran Kagura)
• The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones convince Babe Ruth not to retire from baseball. (Voyagers!)
• After dabbling in radical politics, Adolf Hitler emigrates to the United States and becomes a science fiction illustrator. (The Iron Dream)
• James Embry is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Jimmy Olsen is born. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• Manhattan Madness, the first cartoon starring Itchy The Mouse, is released. (The Simpsons)

1920 C.E. - 1924 C.E.

1920

• January 20: Toshiko Sato's grandfather is born. (Torchwood)
• January 21: Det. Redmond is killed by IRA agents. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• January 22: Red Army forces surrender to the White Army in Moscow. The Russian Civil War is over, the Bolshevik Revolution snuffed out early. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• February - March: A further spate of IRA killings, and the British government's inability to quell them, leads to mass RIC resignations. The IRA becomes the de facto law enforcement body in Ireland. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• March 25: To restore order, the British government fills the ranks of the RIC with veterans of the Great War; their makeshift uniforms earns them the nickname 'Black and Tans'. They quickly prove themselves to be right arseholes. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• April 11: With the socialist revolutionaries overwhelming France, the French government and high command temporarially flee to Algiers to reorganize. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• April: Indiana Jones attends the University of Chicago while working as a waiter and developing an interest in jazz. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• May 11:
  • Giacomo "Big Jim" Colosimo, Indiana Jones's boss, is assassinated. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
  • Treaty of Minsk; the Russians give into German demands, losing much of their western territory. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• May: Indiana Jones, Ernest Hemingway and Eliot Ness team up to investigate the murder of Colosimo. They present evidence to the police, but since the cops are in the gangsters' pockets, this evidence is destroyed. Indiana quits his job and is left brooding. Sidney Bechet finds that Indy is in the proper mood to learn about the blues. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• June 21: The Ottoman Turks put down the Arab Revolt. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
• June: Indiana Jones gets a summer job at a theatre in New York, and manages to get three different girlfriends. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• July 1:
  • Indiana Jones celebrates his 21st birthday and tries to put on a show. His three girlfriends find out he has been fooling around each of them and simultaneously break up with him. Indy loses his job. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
  • Prohibition begins in St. Louis. A while later, Atlas May, the owner of the Little Daisy Cafe, opens the Lackadaisy Speakeasy in the limestone caves under the cafe. (Lackadaisy)
• July 4: Birth of Steve Rogers. (Marvel Comics)
• July 23: With large parts of Ireland still outside British control, Sir James Craig and Lloyd George officially recognise the UVF and arrange for the army to work with them directly, leaving the RIC out of the equation entirely. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• August 11: Terence MacSwiney goes on hunger strike. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• August:
  • Indiana Jones manages to get a job with Universal, getting Erich von Stroheim to get on with making Foolish Wives. He also romances scriptwriter Claire Lieberman. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
  • Indiana Jones gets a job as assistant to director John Ford. He earns good money as an actor and stuntman, but breaks his leg and has to break up with Claire Lieberman. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
  • In response to an IRA attack, the Black and Tans run riot throughout Ireland, killing nine and forcing numerous people from their homes. The government looks the other way. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• August - September: Winston Churchill authorizes the formation of the Auxiliaries, a heavily-armed and highly mobile anti-IRA force administered directly by the War Office. In response, the IRA forms the Flying Columns, groups of men who know the country and can travel quickly on foot, melting into the countryside when necessary. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• September 8: Birth of Jacques Clouseau. (The Pink Panther)
• September 16: A bomb in a horse-drawn cart goes off in the Wall Street area of New York, killing forty people and injuring hundreds. (Real Life) Nick Charles is one of the detectives assigned to investigate the case. (The Thin Man)
• September 20: An IRA squad ambushes an Auxiliary supply cart, but is met with overwhelming resistance and has to flee. One of them, Kevin Barry, is apprehended and sentenced to death. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• September 27: Joseph Joestar is born. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• October 25: Death of Terence MacSwiney. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• October 31: RIC officers Kelleher and Cooney are killed by the IRA. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• November 1: Kevin Barry is hanged. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• November 2:
  • Tadhg Kennedy's Flying Column kills 26 RIC officers in revenge for Kevin Barry's death. The Black and Tans retaliate with such ferocity and viciousness that the matter is debated in the House of Commons. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
  • Warren G. Harding defeats James M. Cox in the U.S. presidential election. (Real Life)
  • U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is defeated in his bid for an unprecedented third term by Upton Sinclair, the first member of the Socialist Party to hold the office. (Timeline-191)
  • Secretary of the Treasury William McAdoo is elected President of the United States. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
  • U.S. President Thomas Marshall is defeated in his bid for re-election by William Hale Thompson. (Bring the Jubilee)
  • James M. Cox is elected U.S. President after Warren G. Harding dies of a stroke. (Alternate Presidents)
• November 11: Prof. Calloran's house is raided by the Auxiliaries. Dan Breen and Seán Treacy manage to escape, but Carolan is shot for his part. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• November 12: Seán Treacy is killed in a shootout with the Auxiliaries. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• Mid-November:
  • The Black and Tans assault Granard in revenge for the deaths of Kelleher and Cooney. The people are warned and have time to evacuate, leaving the Black and Tans to fight Seán MacEoin's waiting Flying Column. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
  • A British journalist is threatened by the Black and Tans. This makes the front page of the New York Times. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
  • Michael Collins intercepts the mail of the Cairo Gang, a group of British intelligence officers infiltrating the IRA. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
  • Winston Churchill attempts to bring the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries under control; Lloyd George insists he has the IRA nearly defeated. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• November 20: Michael Collins, Cathal Brugha, Dick Mulcahy, Dick McKee, Peadar Clancy, and Seán Russell meet at 35 Lower Gardiner Street and plan to kill the Cairo Gang. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• November 21: In the early morning, the 15 British Secret Service agents are executed by the IRA. Two of them, King and Hardy, escape; they manage to capture McKee, Clancy, and Clune, and torture them to death. That afternoon, two Auxiliary armoured cars are ambushed by Tom Barry's Flying Column. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• November 25: The Black and Tans massacre 15 innocent people at a Gaelic football match in Croke Park. It becomes known as Bloody Sunday. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• December 5: Sally Sparrow's friend Kathy Nightingale is sent here by the Weeping Angels from 2007. As soon as she arrives, she meets her future husband Ben Wainwright. (Doctor Who)
• Mid-December: The IRA carries out a series of bombings in Liverpool. British government responds with all-out war. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• Late December: Éamon de Valera returns to Ireland with $5 million, but no international recognition for the Irish Republic. Michael Collins distrusts him. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• In Paris, Duncan MacLeod serves as chaperon to Maria Campolo, a young socialite with aspirations of starting a singing career. Kalas, using the name Antonio Neri, attempts to strangle her to take revenge on Duncan, but fails. Duncan gives Kalas a slashed throat, leaving him with a permanent scar and no singing voice. (Highlander: The Series)
• Jesse Collins, son of a business magnate and a Princeton University student, takes a stand for workers' rights and dies alongside them when his father sends in strikebreakers. (Highlander: The Series)
• Mary-Ellen Walton is born. (The Waltons)
• Stuart is built in Stoke-on-Trent, England, and is later sent to Sodor, arriving on the Mid Sodor Railway and becoming its number 4 engine. He gains an older brother figure in the railway’s number 3 engine, Falcon. Duke, the MSR’s oldest engine and number 1, takes Stuart under his wing, just like he had done with Falcon. (The Railway Series/Thomas & Friends)
• Jonathan "Jono" Quick is born. (Amazing Stories)
• Sally Jupiter nee Juspecyzk (Silk Spectre I) is born. (Watchmen)

1921

• January 1-14: Ormond Winter takes command of the intelligence service in Ireland. He uncovers the activities of Eileen McGrane, Ned Broy, and Jim McNamara and in response ceases passing information through the DMP, cutting off Michael Collins's information network. Martial law is imposed in Munster; violent official reprisals against IRA sympathizers are met with burning of loyalist homes and execution of the inhabitants therein. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• January: Ben Walton is born. (The Waltons)
• February: With unionist informers hampering IRA activities, the IRA executes 12 of them and the rest flee to Britain. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• March: Facing increasing criticism of their tactics against the IRA, the British government negotiates a ceasefire with the Irish Republicans. The IRA continues to carry out terrorist activities right up until the ceasefire officially begins. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• May 31-June 1: The African-American community in Greenwood, a district of Tulsa, OK known as "Black Wall Street" because it was the most prosperous African-American neighborhood at the time, is attacked by ground and air by a white mob that loots and burns the entire neighborhood and kills 100-300 African-Americans and injures hundreds more. (Real Life) Among the survivors are Will and June Reeves. (Watchmen (2019))
• July 11: Ceasefire between IRA and Britain comes into force. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• July 14: Lloyd George, Éamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith, Count Plunkett, Austin Stack, Robert Barton, and Erskine Childers meet at 10 Downing Street to negotiate a peace settlement for Ireland. It fails due to George refusing to recognise Irish sovereignty. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• August 3: Despite their aquittal in court, eight members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox are permanently banned from professional baseball by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis due to their role in the Black Sox scandal. (Real Life, Field of Dreams, Eight Men Out)
• September 13: At 7:11 PM, a luxurious ocean liner, the Lady Crithania, is tossed around during a violent storm and capsized by a tidal wave off the coast of Humbleton, England, killing about 2,300 passengers and crew members. Within six hours, she sinks to the bottom of the ocean floor. Whether or not a few passengers escape and survive, or how many there are, is totally up to chance. (SOS)
• Mid-October: Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins head up a second delegation to 10 Downing Street, Éamon de Valera refusing to attend. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• October 17: Lisl Schumann is born in Hamburg, Germany. (Lois & Clark)
• October 30: Arthur Griffith meets with Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, and agrees that the Irish will recognise the Crown as head of state in exchange for a united Ireland. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• October 31: At a Parliamentary debate on Ireland, William Craig steadfastly refuses to allow Northern Ireland to be ruled from Dublin, and wins the support of the conservatives. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• November 9: Simon and Bertha Haley bring their newborn son Alexander Murray Palmer "Alex" Haley to her parents Will and Cynthia Palmer's house in Henning, Tennessee. Will holds Alex up to the sky and shows him to the Moon, a family tradition dating back to before Kunta Kinte's enslavement in 1767. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• November 28: Irish delegates meet Cabinet colleagues at Dublin and hammer out a new proposal. Lloyd George throws it out. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• November 30: Lloyd George makes the Irish delegates his final offer - to make Ireland a dominion of the British Empire, with a status equal to that of Canada. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• December 3: Irish delegates discuss George's proposal. Some argue that they should reject it as they can do better, while another faction, led by Michael Collins, feels they should accept it and work towards further independence. Éamon de Valera insists that the Oath of Allegiance be reworded before doing anything else. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• December 4: Irish delegates present the revised Oath of Allegiance to Lloyd George. He insists they sign the existing oath or incur the British government formally declaring war on the Irish. The delegates reluctantly sign. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• December: Erin Walton is born. (The Waltons)
• Herbert West disappears. (Herbert West - Reanimator)
• Dr. Michael Moore, an immortal psychiatrist, witnesses his nurse, Jeanette Colbert, being murdered by fellow immortal Quentin Barnes^morewho is actually Michael's alternate personality . Michael goes off to kill Quentin, and makes Duncan promise to carry on the quest if he fails. (Highlander: The Series)
• Mummified corpse of the high priest Imhotep comes back to life when the Scroll of Toth is read aloud. (The Mummy (1932))
• Birth of Elizabeth Winters in Chicago. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Jennifer Chevalier investigates her father's death, accompanied by the ghost of Oscar Wilde. (Jennifer Wilde)
• Anne Marie Henderson (later Mitchell) is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Leif Erickson High School is founded in Roseberg, Minnesota. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• Rhoda Nessel (later Morgenstern) is born. (Rhoda)
• Death of Phil Shortman’s grandfather. (Hey Arnold!)
• The construction of Malgrave Manor is completed on Malgrave Island. (Mystery Case Files: The Malgrave Incident)
• Hans-Dieter Mundt is born. (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)

1922

• January 1: Armante Durand, on a dig in Alexandria, meets with ^{several people}the other members of "The S": Torsten Ekstrom, Reinhold Feuerbach, Tiago García Ferrara, Sindu Singh, Lewis Looper, Guthrie MacInnes, and Victor Martin Summersby, who are listed in her journal as various species of birds. (S.)
• January 5: Heated discussion ensues in the Dáil as to whether to accept the British treaty. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• January 7: After three days of discussion, Irish TDs vote to accept Lloyd George's terms, leading to the formation of the Irish Free State on December 6. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• January 9: Éamon de Valera resigns as president of Ireland in protest of the terms of the treaty with Britain. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• January: A general election is called in Ireland. Éamon de Valera leads the faction that seeks to undo the treaty, and Michael Collins leads the pro-Treaty faction. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• June 16: Michael Collins' faction wins the Irish general election in a landslide victory. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• June 27: Dick Mulcahey and Liam Lynch attempt to fold the IRA into the Irish Army. However, the IRA is strongly anti-Treaty, and half the delegates, led by Rory O'Connor, walk out of the discussion and repair to the Four Courts. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• June 28: Rory O'Connor's faction refuses to leave the Four Courts. The Irish Army opens fire on them, beginning the Irish Civil War. (At War With the Empire and Real Life)
• June: Hudson graduates from the Rock Spring School for Boys. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• July 14: Michael Blakowski (later Blake) is born. (Quantum Leap)
• August 8: Alberto "Mial" Granado is born. (The Motorcycle Diaries and Real Life)
• October 28: Annie is born. Shortly thereafter, she is left at Miss Hannigan's orphanage. (Annie)
• November 4: The water carrier employed by Howard Carter stumbles upon the steps leading to Tutankhamun's tomb (subsequently designated KV62). Consequently, Carter discovers the best preserved and most intact pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings. (Mysteries of Egypt and real life).
• November 26: Carter and his patron George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon become the first people to enter Tutankhamun's tomb in over 3000 years. (Mysteries of Egypt and real life).
• December: Richard Tyler is born in Missouri. (The 4400)
• You had plenty of money in this year. ("Why Don't You Do Right?" song)
• Gart Williams and Patrick Thomas McNulty are born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Fred Loomis is born. (Matinee)
• Birth of Genjiro Kaneda. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Rufus Jones is born in Jacksonville, Florida. (Unimaa)
• Kaiser Wilhelm somehow steals the English word "twenty", forcing English-speakers to subtitute it with the word "dickety". Abraham Simpsons tries to chase after the Kaiser, but gives up after dickety-six miles. (The Simpsons)

1923

• January: Gladys Gregory stars in a play in the Wells Theatre in Chicago opposite Kester Roberts. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• March 9: Salvador Marti saves Albert Einstein from being assassinated. (The Ministry of Time)
• March 10: Albert Einstein is assassinated, which attracts the attention of the Ministry of Time, traveling to the previous day to avoid it. (The Ministry of Time)
• April 5: George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon dies. He had been bitten by a mosquito, and later slashed the bite accidentally while shaving. It became infected and blood poisoning resulted. His early death spreads rumors of the "Curse of Tutankhamun", or the "Mummy's Curse". (Mysteries of Egypt and real life).
• April 21: Grandpa Harley and Halley leave Nanna Egbert for a life of adventure. Nanna is left to grow up under the tender mercies of Betty Crocker. At some point during this period, she discovers the batterwitch's greatest secret: that she isn't human at all, but is in fact formerly Her Imperious Condescension the Empress of the Alternian Empire, now in the service of Lord English. It is also on this day that an ectobiological sample of Halley is taken. (Homestuck)
• May 19: Margaret "Kit" Kittredge is born. (American Girls Collection)
• July 16: Delapore moves from Massachusetts to Exham Priory, his ancestral estate in England. (The Rats in the Walls)
• August 31: Birth of Sophie Cartensen in Denmark. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• September 9: Artor S. Wisci leads the democratic revolutionary movement to victory in Sordland, becomes its first president, and abolishes the monarchy. (Suzerain)
• November 8: Britta Kessler and her Watcher attend a movie premiere being screened by vampires. Everybody dies. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• December 31: At a New Year's Eve party, a young woman by the name of Nora Fontaine asks Duncan MacLeod to marry her so she can have his children. Duncan kills the mood by explaining that he is infertile.(Highlander: The Series)
• In Paris, Richard Tarsis raises Lucas Kagan as an immortal. They go on to commit crimes across the world. (Highlander: The Series)
• Atomic Robo, a highly-advanced, sentient android, is created by Nikola Tesla. (Atomic Robo)
• Aviator Kent Allard (a.k.a. Allard Kent Rassendyll, the Black Eagle, G-8, Colonel Alexei Kentov, Jules Blanton, the Shadow, Lamont Cranston, Lamont Cranston Jr., Lamont Cranston III, "Deep Throat") crash-lands near the secret Tibetan city of Shambala. (The Shadow)
• Roy Hobbs strikes out star slugger "The Whammer" in an exhibition. However, before Hobbs can join the major leagues, he's shot by Loony Fan Harriet Bird. Hobbs will spend the better part of the next sixteen years playing amateur and semi-pro ball. (The Natural)
• Projected date for a Dominion of the Black invasion of Golarion. (Pathfinder)
• Lily Bonham is born. (The 4400)
• Martin Sloan, Ed Harrington, Fred Renard, Arch Hammer and Henry Francis "Rocky" Valentine are born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Peter Clement, TV producer and later co-founder of Advance, is born. (Not for Broadcast)

1923 or 1924

• Studsy Burke is sent up the river. By late 1932, however, he'd be operating a speakeasy on West 49th in New York City. (The Thin Man)

1924

• February 29: Torchwood India is shut down. Almost its entire collection of alien artifacts is taken back to Britain. The Duchess uses a time store to gather energy to continue reliving that day. (Torchwood [radio dramas])
• March 21: Mason E "Mace" Malone, a leading New York gangster, disappears without a trace. With him disappears a fortune in stolen jewels which Mace was supposed to share with his partner Dominic Dracon. He leaves behind a message that leads Dracon on a Wild Goose Chase for the Silver Falcon. Mace actually becomes a full-time operative of The Illuminati. (Gargoyles)
• June 13: James Robert "Jim-Bob" Walton and Joseph Walton are born. Joseph dies shortly afterwards. (The Waltons)
• July 6: Jake Barnes and his friends are in Pamplona for the opening of the Fiesta. (The Sun Also Rises)
• Summer: Someone disappears in Hawkins, Indiana. This is the last missing person case in the town until Will Byers is taken into the Upside Down by the Demogorgon on November 6, 1983. (Stranger Things)
• September: In Louisiana, Edward Carnby (or Emily Hartwood) investigates the mansion Derceto and destroys occultist Ezechiel Pregzt. (Alone in the Dark)
• October 5: Jennie Appleton dies. (Portrait of Jennie)
• November 4:
  • U.S. President Calvin Coolidge is elected to a full term in his own right, defeating James W. Davis. (Real Life)
  • U.S. President Upton Sinclair is elected to a second term. (Timeline-191)
  • U.S. President William McAdoo is re-elected. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
  • U.S. President William Hale Thompson is elected to a second term, defeating Al Smith. (Bring the Jubilee)
  • Robert M. LaFolette is elected U.S. President, defeating Calvin Coolidge and James W. Davis. (Alternate Presidents)
  • U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a term in his own right. (Alternate Presidents)
• November 9: Birth of Anni Sonnenblume in Germany. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• December 17: Hazel Levesque is born to Marie Levesque and the god Pluto. (The Camp Half-Blood Series)
• December 20: Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison following his role in the Beer Hall Putsch. (Real Life) He is greeted by an old man named Albert Einstein. No records remain of Hitler after this date, and for all intents and purposes he vanishes from history. (Command & Conquer: Red Alert)
• December: Edward Carnby investigates a kidnapping and battles mobsters who are actually immortal pirates. (Alone in the Dark 2)
• While studying for his finals, Atomic Robo is attacked by the ghost of Rasputin, conjured up by Thomas Edison. (Atomic Robo)
• Birth of Eleanor Boudreau in Lafayette, Louisiana. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Birth of Catherine Langford. (Stargate SG-1)
• James Edward Whitaker is abducted from London and brought to Mars. (Journey into Space)
• Trevor McPhee is born. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• Eddie Blake (The Comedian) is born. (Watchmen)
• Martha Van Cleve dies. (Heaven Can Wait (1943))
• The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones help Harry Houdini expose a fraudulent medium named Margaret in Boston. (Voyagers!)
• Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones convince Franklin D. Roosevelt to enter politics instead of pursuing a career as a film director. (Voyagers!)
• In the absence of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party collapses. (The Iron Dream)
• Josef Stalin loses his power struggle with Nikolai Bukharin for control of the USSR — Point of Divergence from our timeline. (The New Order Last Days Of Europe)
• Archie Bunker is born. (All in the Family, Archie Bunker's Place)
• Alberta attends an audition but she is rejected due to her body size. Clara Brown is chosen instead. (Ghosts (US))

1925 C.E. - 1929 C.E.

1925

• February 20: SS Emma sets sail from Auckland to Callao. (The Call of Cthulhu)
• February 28: R'lyeh rises from the waves, causing madness worldwide. (The Call of Cthulhu)
• March 1: Henry A Wilcox presents to George Gammell Angell a bas-relief carving of Cthulhu he made after a nightmare. SS Emma is blown several off course by a storm. Alert leaves Dunedin in great haste. (The Call of Cthulhu)
• March 22: Henry Wilcox is stricken with fever, starts mumbling about Cthulhu. SS Emma encounters the Alert, a pirate ship manned by Cthulhu worshippers. (The Call of Cthulhu)
• March 23: Survivors of the SS Emma discover an unknown island they are subsequently reluctant to speak of^moreIt's R'lyeh. Six die. (The Call of Cthulhu)
• March 25: Vigilant sets sail from Valparaiso. (The Call of Cthulhu)
• April 2: R'lyeh sinks once again. (The Call of Cthulhu)
• April 5: Henry Wilcox returns home, stops dreaming of Cthulhu. (The Call of Cthulhu)
• April 12: Gustaf Johansen, last survivor of the SS Emma, is rescued by the crew of the Vigilant. (The Call of Cthulhu)
• April 18: Vigilant brings the Alert, with Gustaf Johansen on board, to shore in Dundee Harbour, Australia. (The Call of Cthulhu)
• June 11: The Fifth Doctor and his companions Adric, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka become involved in strange goings-on at Cranleigh Hall. (Doctor Who)
• June: Horace Maxwell Ford is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• September: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler forge an alliance in order to maintain world peace. (Alternate Presidents)
• December 31: Lady Edith Crawley marries Herbert "Bertie" Pelham, the Marquess of Hexham. Anna Bates gives birth to a son. Charles Carson is forced to resign for medical reasons and Thomas Barrow becomes the new butler. (Downton Abbey)
• Elijah Snow begins publishing his Planetary journal. (Planetary)
• In Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, Duncan MacLeod duels and kills insane immortal Marcus Korolus. (Highlander: The Series)
• By this year, the Germans have established their Mitteleuropa stretching from France in the west to Russian Poland in the east. (The Time Ships)
• Janni Dakkar leads an expedition to the Antarctic in search of the fabled Mountains Of Madness her father briefly visited 30 years before. She is pursued by teen genius Tom Swyfte and his team at the behest of Charles Foster Kane. The expedition is a disaster and leads to the death of everyone except Janni, Broad Arrow Jack and Swyfte. Swyfte is driven completely insane by the experience and is institutionalized for the rest of his life. Janni and Jack escape but can remember little of what they encountered in the mountains. (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo - Heart Of Ice)
• George Francisco is born. (Alien Nation)
• Edward Hall is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Lou Grant is born. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• An immortal woman calling herself Pamela Morris claims to have been born in this year. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Michael Blakowski's father leaves his family. (Quantum Leap)
• The Trans-American Detective Agency, which Nick Charles works for, investigates Clyde Wynant's business partner Victor Rosewater. Charles meets Wynant's family for the first time, but apparently doesn't meet Rosewater, who flees to Europe. (The Thin Man)
• Birth of the future Dr. Kumade in Myoujin Village. (Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir)
• Bianca Rizzo, now living under the rule of Benito Mussolini, gives up her real life to join Frida's Friends Club. (Unimaa)

1926

• Around and during February 17 (Mardi Gras): Voodoo sorcerer Dr. Facilier turns Prince Naveen of Maldonia into a frog as part of an evil plot to take over New Orleans. A local waitress named Tiana is turned into a frog as well and she has a series of adventures with Naveen. (The Princess and the Frog)
• Summer: An author of short stories for the boys' magazine The Ensign becomes "Master of the Land of Fiction." (Doctor Who)
• September: Macabre artist Richard Pickman mysteriously disappears around this time. A close friend named Thurber reveals to an aquintance that Pickman's horrifying paintings were not drawn from a sick and twisted imagination, but are in fact portraits of real creatures Pickman had found. (Pickman's Model)
• December 11: The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble end up in the middle of a murder mystery with Agatha Christie. Christie goes missing that night. (Doctor Who)
• December 31: Destitute teenage witch Merope Riddle, née Gaunt, staggers into a Muggle orphanage and dies giving birth to her son. She lives just long enough to name him Tom Marvolo Riddle, after her absentee Muggle husband and her wizard father. Her son will later be known as Lord Voldemort. (Harry Potter)
• Two con men trick a young woman with little memory of her early life into helping them gain money by passing her off as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, the long-lost granddaughter of the exiled Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna while trying to avoid the reanimated corpse of Rasputin. (Anastasia)
• Rick O'Connell and allies battle the mummy Imhotep. (The Mummy)
• Duncan MacLeod and Amanda work at the Barnum & Bailey Circus for a short while, but leave because Amanda gets second billing to another tightrope walker. (Highlander: The Series)
• Shortly after quitting the Circus, Duncan and Amanda team up with fellow immortal Cory Raines, who sees himself as a modern-day Robin Hood. Duncan is uneasy, and when he tells Amanda and Cory he plans to quite the gang, they commit one last robbery and leave Duncan with the bag in South Dakota, pursued by federal Marshals. (Highlander: The Series)
• Carl Robinson, an African-American immortal, visits Louisiana to check up on some mortal acquaintances and is saved from a lynching by Duncan MacLeod. They discuss race relations, and Carl heads to the northern US, hoping to play Negro league baseball. (Highlander: The Series)
• While studying for his finals, Atomic Robo is visited by Charles Fort and H.P. Lovecraft, then has to deal with a monster. (Atomic Robo)
• Death of George Gammell Angell. His nephew begins investigating Cthulhu cults. (The Call of Cthulhu)
• Monsters start appearing in Arkham, Massachusetts. A group of Investigators fights desperately to prevent the Ancient One from arriving and destroying the world. (Arkham Horror)
• The Allies (Britain and America) invade Europe in order to liberate the countries captured by Germany. (The Time Ships)
• Josef Stalin dies. (The New Order Last Days Of Europe)
• Gwen Walker is born. (American Dreams)
• Lester "Doc" Fuller and Dylan Powell are born. (Quantum Leap)
• John "Jackie" Rhoades and Robert Wilson are born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Atlas May, the owner and operator of the Little Daisy Cafe and Lackadaisy Speakeasy, is murdered violently. His wife, Mitzi May, takes over both businesses. Mordecai Heller leaves the Lackadaisy and starts working for the Marigold Room, Lackadaisy's chief competitor, after kneecapping Viktor Vasko. (Lackadaisy)
• Alberta rises to fame after taking Clara Brown’s place as she was absent. It was because she in jail after Alberta ratted her out for bootlegging. (Ghosts (US))
• The FlimFlam Brothers borrow 10 dollars from GrandPat, then skip town. (The Patrick Star Show)

1927

• April 3: Matt Bryan is born. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• April 10: Sarah and Eben Kent find a baby in a rocket ship. They adopt him and name him Clark. (The Adventures of Superman)
• April 17 (Good Friday): Unusual phenomena at the Ward residence in Providence, Rhode Island. The family's son is institutionalized soon after, but escapes and vanishes. (The Case of Charles Dexter Ward)
• May 19-20: The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones help Charles Lindbergh prepare the Spirit of St. Louis for its historic flight. (Voyagers!)
• May 21:
  • Charles Lindbergh lands the Spirit of St. Louis in Paris, becoming the first person to make a solo transatlantic flight. (Real Life)
  • The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones watch the landing from a distance to avoid having to explain to Lindbergh how they reached Paris before him. (Voyagers!)
  • Lindbergh throws Montgomery Burns' teddy bear Bobo from the plane as he lands. It is caught by Adolf Hitler. (The Simpsons)
  • Younger versions of Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones arrive in New York with Cleopatra VII, whom they had intended to bring to Egypt in 44 B.C.E. They soon discover that Yankee Stadium does not exist because Babe Ruth quit baseball in 1919. (Voyagers!)
• May: 41 people are murdered around Union Station over a period of two weeks. The killings are ended by the current Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• July 15: Robert Olmstead has a terrifying experience in Innsmouth. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth)
• September 29: The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones prevent Cleopatra VII and Babe Ruth from being murdered by the gangster Lucky Luciano. (Voyagers!)
• September 30: Babe Ruth makes his 60th home run of the season, establishing a new record. (Real Life) The time travelers Phineas Bogg, Jeffrey Jones and Cleopatra VII witness him doing so. (Voyagers!)
• October:
  • Elizabeth Walton is born. (The Waltons)
  • Una Percival, who is suffering from viral encephalitis, is misdiagnosed as being mentally ill. (St. Elsewhere)
• Anthony Rogers, mining engineer for the American Radioactive Gas Corporation, falls into suspended animation after a mine cave-in in Pennsylvania. (Buck Rogers)
• Albert Einstein is removed from history by time-traveling Soviet agents. (Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3)
• Walt Disney creates Oswald the Rabbit for Universal Animation (Real Life and Epic Mickey)
• Frank and Joe Hardy of Bayport, New York, solve a jewel robbery at the Hurd Applegate mansion. (The Hardy Boys)
• New York City Morgue is established. (Tru Calling)
• Susan Francisco is born. (Alien Nation)
• Sherilyn Stanton is born. (Quantum Leap)
• Booth and Laura Templeton star in the Broadway play The Great Seed, written and directed by Barney Flueger, at the Savoy Theatre. It is critically and popularly acclaimed and is considered 1927's big hit. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• David Andrew Gurney is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Nick Charles retires from detective work. (The Thin Man)
• Birth of Tetsuji Komada. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Robert Stoney falls in love with Chris, his upperclassman at Sherborne public school. ("Oracle")
• December 7: Cotton Hill is born. (King of the Hill)
• Ethel Potter and Fred Mertz marry. (I Love Lucy^{justification}In "The Courtroom," which aired in 1952, the Mertzes are stated to have been married for 25 years.)
• GrandPat, Mr. Krabs, Granny Tentacles, Old Man Walker, Mrs. Puff, and Patrick sneak into Old Man Jenkins' house to get their stolen can back. (The Patrick Star Show)
• Ahead of the first free Sordish elections, fascist General Luderin launches a coup d'etat, ending the First Republic of Sordland. (Suzerain)

1927 or 1928

• Chris Jorgensen, living in Milan, sees in the papers that Clyde Wynant's recently divorced ex-wife Mimi is in Paris. He travels to Paris, they strike up a whirlwind romance, and get married by a Spanish priest on French soil.^note Jorgensen is actually Victor Rosewater, Wynant's former business partner, who is only interested in the considerable money that Wynant gave Mimi for the divorce. (The Thin Man)

1928

• Before Mid-February: John Legrasse comes out of seclusion. (Cthulhu Mythos)
• Mid-February: Federal authorities raid Innsmouth, Massachusetts. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth)
• March 19, 3:15 A.M.: The man who will eventually become the Prisoner is born. (The Prisoner)
• May 5: Albert Wilmarth begins a correspondence with Henry Akeley about extraterrestrial beings. (The Whisperer in Darkness)
• June 14: Ernesto "Fuser" (later Che) Guevara is born. (The Motorcycle Diaries and Real Life)
• June:
  • Bartlett graduates from the Rock Spring School for Boys. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
  • Harry Bailey graduates from Bedford Falls High School and drags his older brother, George,^note who has been waiting for Harry to graduate so he can take a trip through Europe, to a graduation party, where George is reacquainted with Mary Hatch. Their moment is interrupted by the news that George's father Peter has had a stroke, from which he later dies. (It's a Wonderful Life)
• July 1: Alice Courtenay is born. (Tenko)
• September:
  • The "Dunwich Horror" occurs. (The Dunwich Horror)
  • Henry Potter recommends selling Bailey Bros. Building and Loan to him. George Bailey makes a Rousing Speech, and the board of directors agrees to keep the company open on the condition that George Bailey takes over as boss. George reluctantly agrees, hoping to pass the business on to his brother when he returns from college. (It's a Wonderful Life)
• August 17: V. M. Straka writes a scathing letter to a filmmaker who adapted his novel The Santana March. (S.)
• October 7: Randolph Carter disappears. (Cthulhu Mythos)
• November 6:
  • Herbert Hoover defeats Al Smith in the U.S. presidential election. (Real Life)
  • Hosea Blackford defeats Calvin Coolidge in the U.S. presidential election. (Timeline-191)
  • Herbert Hoover defeats Governor of New York Al Smith. Norman Thomas runs for the Socialist Party, and wins several Midwestern states. (Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg)
  • Al Smith is elected U.S. President.(Bring the Jubilee)
• December 31: Alberta dies by drinking a poisoned bottle of moonshine left outside her room by Thomas Woodstone. ^note Thomas killed her out of jealousy as he was secretly in love with her boyfriend, Earl. The moonshine was given to him by her sister Theresa (she got it from Al Capone who wanted to commit suicide with it) to be disposed.(Ghosts (US))
• The Stargate is unearthed at Giza by a team led by Professor Paul Langford. His daughter Catherine takes an Eye of Ra medallion, also discovered at the site. She wears it for the rest of her life. (Stargate)
• Birth of Halcyon Renard. He would grow up to become a scientist and a businessman. (Gargoyles)
• Caleb awakens in a graveyard and proceeds to kill and destroy anything related to the Cabal, the cult of his former master. (Blood)
• Walt Disney abandons Oswald the Rabbit after he leaves Universal Animation. He creates Mickey Mouse, who becomes one of the most famous and recognized animated characters in history. (Real Life and Epic Mickey)
• Ben Jefferson is born. (Tenko)
• Flash Harry Edwards is born. (St. Trinian's)
• Angelita Carmen Guadalupe Cecelia Jimenez dies. (Quantum Leap)
• [Alternate Timeline] Franklin D. Roosevelt is a successful Hollywood film director. He is directing Dealer's Choice, which is the first talkie in this timeline as opposed to The Jazz Singer. Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones travel back in time to 1924 to convince Roosevelt to enter politics instead of the film industry. (Voyagers!)
• Alex Walker is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Rick Frost, who has been wrongly convicted of murder, is transported back in time to this year from 1986. He decides to stay in 1928 rather than return to his own time. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Edie Grant is born. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• In Eerie, Indiana, the second Harvest King is chosen to be sacrificed to the werewolf Mr. Chaney in order to ensure 13 years of good luck and low taxes. The town authorities claim that he moved to Spain. (Eerie, Indiana)
• Joshua Arthur Iredale is killed in a train accident in Waikato, New Zealand. (Mirror, Mirror (1995))
• That Happy Cat, the first cartoon starring Scratchy, is released. (The Simpsons)
• The Sordish Civil War begins, with communist General Rikard attempting to wrest control of the country from General Luderin. (Suzerain)

1929

• January 8: Tess Doerner is born. (The 4400)
• January 17: At the docks of Sweethaven, young Harold Hamgravy and Castor Oyl retain the services of a mysterious, slightly incoherent sailor man. (Popeye)
• February 30: The Warner siblings (Yakko, Wakko, and Dot) are created by Warner Bros. Studios. (Animaniacs).
• The Warner Bros. Animation studio produces its first short with its first star, Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid. (Date from Real Life)
• April 3: Alexander James Quentin Duggan is born. (The Day of the Jackal)
• April 6: Lucy Ellen Thompson is born. (Joan of Arcadia)
• April 14: The RMS Titanic sinks and explodes after striking a derelict mine. (Chrononauts)
• Johnny "K" Kelly tries to make money by selling his silence to gangster Mr. Luca after he witnesses Luca's gang carrying out a drive-by shooting. Luca shoots Kelly, who revives as an immortal. Duncan MacLeod teaches him the rules of The Game, but Kelly decides to ignore them. (Highlander: The Series)
• Before October 29: Hugh Fitzcairn, now a very wealthy man, is poisoned for his fortune. Being immortal, he survives, but soon loses it all in the Wall Street Crash. (Highlander: The Series)
• October 29: Black Tuesday. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 begins in earnest. Start of the Great Depression. (Real Life, Highlander: The Series)
• November 9: As he is too shy to tell her that he loves her in person, Tripp McConnell writes a letter to Mary B. Carter telling her how he feels. However, as he is crossing the street to her house to deliver it, he is hit by a milk truck and killed. Mary never receives the letter, which was in a library book. Marshall Teller eventually finds it on November 10, 1991, causing Tripp's ghost to appear. (Eerie, Indiana)
• December 25: Violet Polley is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• December 31: The first leg of Will Smith's time travel escapades, with his party ending up at a jazz club. The police break up the concert, and Will and his friends escape by time traveling. ("Will 2K" music video)
• December: Robert Stoney and Chris both sit their exams for Trinity College, Cambridge. Chris passes and Robert doesn't, so he accepts that they won't meet again for another year. ("Oracle")
• Steamboat Itchy, the first Itchy & Scratchy cartoon, is released. This is widely (though incorrectly) believed to be Itchy's debut. ^noteDate taken from "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie". In "The Day the Violence Died", it is dated 1928. This discrepancy may be because the short was finished in 1928 but not released until 1929.(The Simpsons)
• Private detective Johnny Garland meets Shania and teams up with her to investigate the sudden appearance of monsters. Elsewhere, a criminal who goes by "Killer" begins to follow a woman with mysterious powers, who he only calls "Lady." (Shadow Hearts: From The New World)
• First adventures of Tintin. (Tintin)
• The Shadow makes his first recorded appearance. (The Shadow)
• After accidentally witnessing a Mafia showdown, two musicians called Joe and Jerry go into hiding, disguising themselves as women and joining an all-girl jazz band. (Some Like It Hot)
• Groups of gangs, one side backed by vampires and the other by aliens, battle for control of New York. (Turf)
• Private detective Miles Archer of San Francisco is shot and killed while following Floyd Thursby. Archer's partner, Sam Spade, gets caught up in the mystery surrounding the search for the Maltese Falcon. (The Maltese Falcon)
• While in Paris, Henry Morgan discovers that a sculptor friend has been abusing heroin. He later finds her overdosed. (Forever)
• Karl Martin Baardsen, a teenage high school graduate living in a small Norwegian town, has to quit school because of his father´s shortcomings. He takes up work at a brick factory and stays there for almost a year. He joins the local union and begins to study socialist theory. (Borderland)
• Donald Westphall is born. (St. Elsewhere)
• Veronica Bliss becomes a Hollywood caterer. (Voyagers!)
• Daisy Robertson is born. (Tenko)
• Walter B. Ryder, Sr. dies. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• The six-year-old Henry Francis "Rocky" Valentine slaughters a dog who bit him. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Inventor Clyde Wynant is put into a sanitorium. He spends about a year there. (The Thin Man)
• Birth of Tadashi Urabe. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Birth of Teruhiko Uchida. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Colonel Tarquin Soll ends the Sordish Civil War by defeting the forces of both Generals Luderin and Rikard, re-establishing democracy and becoming the second President of Sordland. (Suzerain)

1920s

• Sister Rosette Christopher and her demon partner Chrono work to fight off demons in New York City, while also looking for Rosette's long-lost brother Joshua. (Chrono Crusade)
• Estimated birth of Gen in China. He would grow up to become a master assassin and martial arts master, but ultimately seek to die valiantly. (Street Fighter Alpha^moreSaid to be at least 70-years-old in a game which takes place in 1996. 1926 is the latest possible date for his birth.)
• Estimated birth of George Taylor in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He would graduate West Point in 1941, serving as a pilot in both World War II and the Korean War, and later become an astronaut and a cynic. (Planet of the Apes (1968) and adaptations)
• Jeff Myrtlebank comes back from the dead at his funeral. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• While on a walking tour through Central Europe, David Ellington seeks refuge in Wolfring Castle, which is occupied by the Brotherhood of Truth, in the midst of a storm. He soon discovers that a man is being held prisoner in the castle. When Ellington threatens to inform the police, the order's leader Brother Jerome tells him that the prisoner is not a man but the Devil. Ellington does not believe Brother Jerome and releases the prisoner. Unfortunately, it turns out that he was telling the truth. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Richard "Dick" Whitman ^spoilersAKA Donald Draper is born. (Mad Men)
• The silent film Queen of the Nile, starring Constance Taylor as Cleopatra VII, is released. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Cornelius Hathaway is born. (Dimension X)
• Papa Jupiter is born. (The Hills Have Eyes (1977))
• The oldest living lycanthrope ^AKAEarl Shackleford is bitten. (Monster Hunter International)

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