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* The Mayans in pre-Columbian Mexico discover a number of Huitzil/Phobos robots. They are sufficiently advanced to reprogram them into serving them. One such unit is tasked with protecting Central America from invaders. A major earthquake would eventually de-activate it. Upon revival it would become the primary unit of its kind. (''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'')
* Béowulf sets sail for Denmark, having heard of the Grendel atrocities. He effectively defeats Grendel and later Grendel`s mother, is greatly rewarded for his deeds, and returns to his own Geatish land. (''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'')

* June 20: Hank Morgan arrives in Camelot from 19th-century America and uses his knowledge of eclipses to avoid execution. (''Literature/AConnecticutYankeeInKingArthursCourt'')

* Hygelac, king of the Geats, falls in this timeslot. Béowulf takes the Geatish crown and rules for many years.(''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'')

* The Saiyans land on the Tuffles' planet, eventually renaming it Vegeta. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')

* Karim and Chandra die and become new guardians of the lost temple. (''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'')

* A Geatish servant robs a dragon`s den, and accidentally awakes it. The dragon wreaks havoc in Geatish lands, and Beowulf the king mounts up to fight it. After vowing to fight the dragon alone, Beowulf is severely wounded, and only his warrior Wiglaf is there to support him. With the help of Wiglaf, the dragon is defeated, but Beowulf dies, leaving the kingdom to Wiglaf.(''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'')

* Merlin conceals the Crown of All Things on the lowest level of the Twilight, leaving a riddle for the benefit of any who might come after him. (''Literature/NightWatch'')
* An Arab merchant named [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Mouamet]] converts to Christianity and gains fame for his sublime hymns. (''[[Creator/HarryTurtledove Departures]]'')
* Tuesday, April 6, 853[[note]]by the calendar on the wall, even though they set the Wayback Machine for "the 6th century"[[/note]] -- Peabody and Sherman go to Camelot and defeat a dragon via the clever use of bubblegum. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'')

* Queen Leene of Guardia is kidnapped by the Mystics, lead by Magus. Crono, Lucca and Marle arrive from the year 1000 and participate in the war against the Mystics. (''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'')

* Toyosatomimi no Miko, [[SheIsTheKing prince]] of Japan, a saint who spread Buddhism throughout the country, and secretly a power-hungry Taoist, enters a deathlike trance to attain immortality. Her plan to rule Japan as a divine being is foiled by Buddhists, who continually place seals on her mausoleum to prevent her awakening. (''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'')

* Peredur fab Ragnal/ Percival, guardian of the Holy Grail, becomes the founder of TheIlluminati. Peredur himself is immortal and several members would enjoy extended lifespans. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Helen and Julian kill a second Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* Kaguya Houraisan, a Lunarian princess, is banished from the moon for drinking the Hourai Elixir and attaining immortality. Exiled to Japan, her beauty inspires the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. (''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'')

During this time, Geatland falls under Swedish dominion and loses independence (''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'')

* The Council unleashes the genophage upon the Krogan race, ending the Krogan Rebellions and curbing their rampant population growth. (''Franchise/MassEffect'')
* Zombie outbreak in Frisia put down by a group of knights around this year. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')

* Fujiwara no Mokou, whose father was humiliated after failing to complete the Five Impossible Tasks of Lunarian princess Kaguya Houraisan, steals and drinks the Hourai Elixir, ensuring that her feud with Kaguya will be eternal. (''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'')

* Rediscovery of the planet Tatooine by the Galactic Republic; it had been lost for several thousand years. Beginning of the Republic Dark Age. (''Franchise/StarWars'')

* The war between the Saiyans and the Tuffles begin. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')

* Approximate date that Abdul Alhazred completes the ''Kitab al-Azif'' (''Necronomicon''). (Franchise/CthulhuMythos)
* After years of fighting the Tuffles, the Saiyans turn into giant apes as the full moon arises. The Tuffles are annihilated. The Saiyans relearn space travel from the Arcosians. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')

* The Saiyans start working for Lord Freeza and his planet trade. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')

* Charles Martel defeats the Muslim army at Tours; Islamic expansion is halted at the Pyrenees. (''Literature/TheSongOfRoland'')

* Son Goku and Broly are born. Planet Vegeta, the home planet of the Saiyans is destroyed [[labelnote:more]]by Freeza out of fear[[/labelnote]] with only a handful of off-world survivors, including Goku, Broly and Broly's father. The infant Goku is sent to Earth. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')

* After bumping his head, Goku forgets his vicious Saiyan nature. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')

* September 1 -- The young Goku and Bulma start their partnership in their search for the Dragon Balls. (''Manga/DragonBall'')
* September 10 -- Goku and Oolong thwart Emperor Pilaf's plans to take over the world with the Dragon Balls after Oolong wishes for girls' underwear. (''Manga/DragonBall'')
* September 14 -- Goku and Krillin start training under Roshi. (''Manga/DragonBall'')

* May 7 -- The 21st Tenkaichi Budokai. Jackie Chun wins against Goku. Goku starts his search for his adopted grandfather's Four-Star ball. (''Manga/DragonBall'')
* May 8 -- Goku storms Muscle Tower, rescuing Sno's father. (''Manga/DragonBall'')
* May 9 -- Mercenary Tao leaves Goku for dead and kills Bora at the foot of Korin's Tower. Goku starts climbing Korin Tower. (''Manga/DragonBall'')
* May 10 -- Goku starts training with Korin at the top of Korin Tower. (''Manga/DragonBall'')
* May 12 -- After retrieving the "Holy Water", Goku defeats Mercenary Tao along with the rest of the Red Ribbon Army singlehandedly. Shenron, the Eternal Dragon grants the first life-restoring wish. (''Manga/DragonBall'')

* May 7 -- The 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai. Tenshinhan defeats Goku and becomes a good guy. King Piccolo returns to power. (''Manga/DragonBall'')
* May 8 -- Goku kills King Piccolo and his henchmen. In his last breath Piccolo spawns a new offspring to kill Goku. Piccolo Jr. goes into training. Everyone killed by King Piccolo and his cronies (including Krillin) are restored by the Dragon Balls. (''Manga/DragonBall'')

* May 7 -- The 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai. Goku defeats Piccolo, but lets him live. (''Manga/DragonBall'')

* Before October 12 -- Garlic Jr. successfully wishes for immortality with the Dragon Balls. Gohan traps him in the Dead Zone. [[note]]Ostensibly NonSerialMovie, but canon to the anime series thanks to the FillerArc between Freeza and Cell.[[/note]] (''Manga/DragonBall'')
* October 12 -- Raditz tells Goku he is really a Saiyan. After Piccolo ends up killing both Raditz and Goku, Raditz reminds him that two more Saiyans will arrive within the year. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')

* April 29 -- Goku starts training under the art of Kaioken with King Kai in the afterlife. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')
* November 3 -- Elite Saiyans Vegeta and Nappa reach Earth. Nappa and the Saibamen kill several Earthling martial artists. Vegeta kills Nappa in disgust for not laying a single punch on Goku. Goku, Gohan, Krillin and Yajirobe help defeat Vegeta. Goku lets him escape. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')
* December 18 -- Vegeta, Bulma, Krillin and Gohan land on Namek to find the Namekian Dragon Balls to restore Earth's ones after Piccolo's demise. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')
* December 24 -- Goku lands on Namek. Vegeta, with the help of Goku, kills the Ginyu force. Piccolo, along with Earth's Dragon Balls, is restored with the Namekian Dragon Balls. Goku seemingly destroys Freeza after turning Super Saiyan after the death of his friend Krillin. Namek is destroyed and the surviving Namekians make refuge on Earth. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')

* May 3 -- Krillin and Yamcha are brought back to life by the Namekian Dragon Porunga. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')
* September 9 -- Tenshinhan and Chiaotzu are brought back to life by the Namekian Dragon Porunga. He also grants the refugee Namekians a new planet. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')
* October -- Garlic Jr. returns thanks to the power of the Makyo Star. He pours the Black Water mist over the world but Krillin, Piccolo, Kami and Mr. Popo end these plans. Gohan destroys the Makyo Star as Garlic Jr. reopens the Dead Zone, sapping his strength and imprisoning him once more. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')
* In Tang Dynasty China, Colin bypasses the corpses of several soldiers in his way to Marcus Octavius' chambers only to find his enemy had already left. (''Anime/HighlanderTheSearchForVengeance'')

* August -- Future Trunks finishes off Freeza and warns Goku and his friends of the oncoming Android threat. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')

* May 7 -- The 24th Tenkaichi Budokai. TGoku and his friends are too busy training and preparing for the Androids warned by Future Trunks to attend. Mr. Satan is the champion and his daughter Videl wins the junior division. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')
* May 12 -- The Androids appear, as does Cell. Future Trunks returns to help. Everyone is curbstomped by #17 and #18 as Goku suffers from his heart virus. Piccolo merges with Kami to fight Cell. Cell escapes. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')
* May 16 -- Cell reaches his perfect form after absorbing Android 17 and 18. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')
* May 17 -- Cell announces his Cell Games on global television. (''Manga/DragonBall'')
* May 19 -- Dende becomes the new guardian of Earth and master of the Dragon Balls, following the merger of Kami and Piccolo. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')
* May 26 -- The Cell Games. Gohan, becoming Super Saiyan 2, destroys Cell, (beforehand, Android 18 is retrieved and Goku gets killed trying to save everyone) but Mr. Satan takes the credit. Future Trunks goes back to his own timeline. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')

* April 7 -- Gohan takes costume as the Great Saiyaman to fight crime. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')
* May 7 -- The 25th Tenkaichi Budokai. Android 18 bows out, after agreeing to share the prize money with Mr. Satan. Kid Trunks defeats Goten in the junior division. Majin Buu is revived by Bibidi's son Babidi. Buu quickly turns on him. Vegeta, powered by Babidi's magic, fights the temporarily-resurrected Goku, but Buu's destruction of the Earth's population interrupts the fight. Vegeta dies trying to kill Buu. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')
* May 8 - Majin Buu, after several mergers and alterations, eventually becomes the monstrous Kid Buu, who blows up the Earth. Goku, revived after Old Kai gives Goku his lifespan, kills Majin Buu with his Spirit Bomb, after the Namekian Dragon Balls bring Earth and its people back. He asked for Buu to be reincarnated as a good guy because of the enjoyment of the fight. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')
* September 7 -- The memories of Majin Buu are erased by Shenron. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')

* May 7 - The 28th Tenkaichi Budokai. Result uncertain, possibly cancelled. Goku leaves with Uub, Majin Buu's reincarnation in order to train him after a high energy fight. (''Anime/DragonBallZ'')

* Goku becomes a kid thanks to a wish granted by the Black Star Dragon Balls. After retrieving them, Baby is handily killed by Goku after reaching Super Saiyan 4. Piccolo sacrifices himself so that the Balls become useless. (''Anime/DragonBallGT'')

* One year after the Black Star Dragon Balls are used, Goku and his friends destroy all those villains who escaped from Hell. Goku defeats Super Android 17. Due to overuse of Kami and Dende's Red Star Dragon Balls, the negative energy stored inside them takes the form of seven powerful dragons. Goku defeats all of them, and Goku departs along with Shenron to heal the negative energy, after one final wish to reset everything. (''Anime/DragonBallGT'')

* Max Bubba uses future technology to gain command of a group of Vikings. To get revenge on the future, he starts systematically killing every member of the Thoresen family, creating a time storm. (''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'')
* Johnny Alpha enlists the aid of a group of Vikings, led by Wulf Sternhammer, to stop Max Bubba. They eventually succeed, and Sternhammer returns with Alpha to the year 2170. (''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'')

* Approximate date that the Watchers Council institutes the Cruciamentum. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* King Halfdan of Vestfold manages to kick out the Danish overlords and gains independence for his territory (''Literature/{{Heimskringla}}'')

* January 28: Emperor Charlemagne assassinated by followers of Pious Augustus. (''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'')
* Battle of Ruusan. All Sith destroyed except for Darth Bane, who institutes the Rule of Two. End of the Republic Dark Age. The Galactic Senate passes the Ruusan Reformation, setting the year to zero, redistributing senatorial representation, and taking power from the Supreme Chancellor, giving it to the Senate. The Jedi dissolve their military, take a vow of chastity, and begin training padawans from a very young age at a central facility in the Coruscant Jedi Temple. (''Franchise/StarWars'')

* A succession crisis in Deverry leads to a three way civil war, which lasts for 105 years. (''Literature/{{Deverry}}'')

* Kenneth mac Alpin unites the various kingdoms of Scotland, and is crowned upon the Stone of Destiny at Scone. The Stone would later be used for the coronations of his successors. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Zombie outbreak in Saxony [[KillItWithFire put down by fire]]. Cause is attributed to Jews. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')

* Leo enters government service [[labelnote:more]]as a spy for the Flying Daggers[[/labelnote]]. (''Film/HouseOfFlyingDaggers'')

* Jin, an agent of the Tang Dynasty, attempts to track down the Flying Daggers. (''Film/HouseOfFlyingDaggers'')

* Birth of Aud in Sjornjost, in what is now Sweden. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* King Harald of Vestfold (and adjacent territories) begins his quest for unification of Norway (''Literature/{{Heimskringla}}'')

* Birth of the gargoyle Hudson to the Wyvern Clan of Scotland. He would grow up to become the leader of his clan. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Aud becomes Anyanka the vengeance demon. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* Birth of Prince Malcolm to Donald II, King of Scotland. He would grow up to become king. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Goku briefly reappears from wherever he's been chilling with Shenron for the past century to give one of his descendants a combined pep talk/lesson on the mechanics of the recently-restored Dragon Balls, vanishes again, then briefly reappears to watch that same descendant battle the descendant of Goku's rival in a martial arts tournament. Goku vanishes again, never to reappear. (''Anime/DragonBallGT'')

* ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' is committed to writing.
* Hieda no Aichi, the first Child of Miare, begins the ''Gensokyo Chronicles''. Every subsequent century another Child of Miare will reincarnate to update the histories. (''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'')
* Klingons united by Kahless the Unforgettable. (''Series/StarTrek'')

* Turians admitted to the Citadel Council. (''Franchise/MassEffect'')

* The entity currently known as Jones driven out of the village she was living in for being a demon. Disarms a knight in the process. (''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'')

* Birth of Indulf to Constantine II, King of Scotland, and an unnamed mother. He would grow up to become king. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Birth of Duff to Prince Malcolm I of Scotland, and an unnamed mother. He would grow up to become king. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Birth of the Archmage. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Birth of Yoda. (''Franchise/StarWars'')
* Birth of an unnamed male gargoyle in Scotland. He would serve as Demona's second-in-command during the 11th century. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Birth of Prince Culen to Prince Indulf of Scotland, and an unnamed mother. He would grow up to become King. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* King Arthur and his knights start a quest for the Holy Grail. (''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'')
* Birth of Prince Kenneth II to Malcolm I, King of Scotland, and an unnamed mother. He would grow up to become king. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Birth of Queen Katharine. She would become the last consort of Malcolm I of Scotland and mother of Prince Malcolm, ruler of Castle Wyvern. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* The gargoyles Goliath, Demona/ "Angel of the Night", Othello/ "Coldstone", Desdemona/ "Coldfire", Iago/ "Coldsteel", and Borrklyn's older brother are born in the Wyvern Clan of Scotland. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Birth of the future Norman Ambassador and founder of the Illuminati. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Constantine II, King of Scotland abdicates the throne in favour of his son, Malcolm I (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' and real life)
* Saxon warlord Heinrich I, along with his army of the undead, is defeated and sealed within the Earth by the warrior monk Simon the Wanderer. (''VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein'')

* Theodorus Philetas translates the ''Kitab al-Azif'' into Greek and renames it the ''Necronomicon''. (Franchise/CthulhuMythos)

* Birth of Prince Malcolm to Malcolm I, King of Scotland and Queen Katharine. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Death of King Malcolm I. He has his older sons, Duff and Kenneth II, swear an oath to protect the lives of their stepmother Queen Katharine and their infant half-brother Prince Malcolm. Indulf captures Katharine and Malcolm, holding them as hostages. He rises to the throne, with Duff and Kenneth exchanging their silence for the safety of the hostages. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Birth of Princess Elena to Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy, and an unnamed mother. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Birth of Hakon the Viking.(''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Birth of the gargoyles Broadway, Brooklyn, and Lexington to the Wyvern Clan of Scotland. Broadway seems to be a biological son of Hudson.(''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* King Arthur's dog Digalot discovers the Bone of Scone, which allows dogs and cats to communicate with humans. (''PoundPuppiesAndTheLegendOfBigPaw'')

* Robert rescues and Prince Malcolm II from the usurper Indulf, who abdicates when Queen Katharine threatens to commit suicide (which would leave him with no important hostages). Indulf goes into exile in Ireland along with his son, Culen. Duff, son of Malcolm I, becomes king of Scotland; Robert would go on to become captain of the guard. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Birth of Prince Malcolm II to Prince Kenneth II of Scotland and an unnamed mother. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Birth of the Magus in Scotland. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Birth of Mary, a peasant girl in Scotland. She was born within a short distance from Wyvern Hill. She would grow up to become a Keeper of the Grimorum Arcanorum.(''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* King Duff defeated by Culen's army. Princes Kenneth II, Malcolm II, and the infant Kenneth III go into exile in England.(''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Birth of Prince Constantine III to Culen, King of Scotland and an unnamed mother. Constantine would grow up to become King. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Prince Malcolm of Scotland allies himself to Hudson and the Wyvern Clan. Castle Wyvern starts being constructed, intended to become the new seat of both allies. The Archmage is hired to become the court sorcerer of Malcolm. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Culen, King of Scotland faces the forces of his cousin Kenneth. Among said forces is Prince Malcolm, younger brother of Kenneth, and the entire Wyvern Clan. Culen looses his life in battle. Kenneth rises to the throne as Kenneth II. He decides to spare the life of Constantine, the infant son of his predecessor. Constantine would be raised in court. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Birth of Lady Finella in Scotland. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* November -- Prince Malcolm, ruler of Castle Wyvern, marries Princess Elena of Normandy. Elena's dowry includes the Phoenix Gate, a magical talisman that allows whoever uses it to travel through time and space; Demona and the archmagus conspire to obtain it. Meanwhile, nobody notices that the Norman Ambassador accompanying Elena is a member of TheIlluminati.(''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Demona, Goliath, and others travel back to this era using the Phoenix Gate. They rescue Elena and ensure her marriage to Malcolm. [[labelnote:more]]Demona fails to change her destiny, but David Xanatos sends a coin to his future self that sets up his fortune.[[/labelnote]] (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Birth of Princess Katharine of Scotland to Malcolm II of Scotland and Richard I, Duke of Normandy. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* The people of the planet that will eventually be known as [=P7J-989=] retreat into virtual reality cocoons after pollution renders the planet uninhabitable; they will remain there for the next 1022 years. (''Series/StargateSG1'', "The Gamekeeper")

* Birth of the gargoyle Bronx in the Wyvern Clan of Scotland. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Current Slayer is sacrificed to a dragon by the vampire Migoto. Minomoto Kishi, a.k.a. Lady Shobu, becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* The Archmage takes a new apprentice. The boy would become known as the Magus. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Birth of Gillecomgain to Maíl Brigti and an unnamed mother. His father is a half-brother of Findlaech of Moray. Gillecomgain would grow up to become a ruler of Moray and the first Hunter. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* The Archmage poisons Prince Malcolm of Castle Wyvern; the Archmage falls to his death, but Hudson and company save the Prince.[[labelnote:more]]A time-traveling Archmage saves his past self and takes him to the future.[[/labelnote]] Hudson is blinded in one eye, and abdicates as clan leader in favor of Goliath. Demona becomes the new second-in-command of the Clan. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Birth of Bodhe to Prince Kenneth III of Scotland, and an unnamed mother. He would become the father of Gruoch, father-in-law of both Gillecomgain and Macbeth, and the maternal grandfather of Luach. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Birth of Tom/ "Guardian" to Mary, a Scottish peasant. He would grow up to become a loyal companion to Princess Katharine, and eventually her lover.(''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Hogwarts is founded. After disagreements about the admittance of Muggle-borns, one of the founders, Salazar Slytherin departs, but not before creating the Chamber of Secrets containing a Basilisk, so it can be reawoken by his heir. (''Literature/HarryPotter'')

* Ahmad ibn Fadlān and Vikings face marauding cannibals. (''Literature/TheThirteenthWarrior'')
* Queen Metalia attacks the Moon Kingdom, bringing an end to the Silver Millenium, Queen Serenity uses the last of her power to transport the souls of her daughter, her lover, and princesses/warriors from the other planets in the solar system to be reborn on Earth in the 20th century. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')

* An internal conflict breaks out among the gargoyles of Castle Wyvern when Iago tricks Othello into thinking that Desdemona has been cheating on him with Goliath. Desdemona prevents Othello and Goliath from coming to blows, but emotional damage is done. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* September 29 -- Castle Wyvern in Scotland is besieged by Hakon the Viking. The Vikings are driven back by the gargoyles, but Princess Katharine insults them, leading to dissenting feelings. Demona and Robert begin conspiring against Katharine. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* September 30 -- Demona and Robert attempt to send all the gargoyles away from Castle Wyvern to avoid the Viking attack, but only Goliath and Hudson leave. Before departure, Goliath orders Brooklyn, Bronx, and Broadway to spend the night in the dungeon. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* October 1 -- Hakon attacks Castle Wyvern during the day, smashing all the petrified gargoyles except for Goliath, Hudson (who were away), Brooklyn, Bronx, Broadway, Lexington (grounded), and Demona (who fled before the attack). The survivors (except Demona) are petrified "until the castle rises above the clouds". Katharine retrieves the remaining gargoyle eggs. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* October-December -- Demona finds herself the sole survivor of Clan Wyvern. She blames humans for betraying her. One day, while raiding for food, she scars the face of Gillecomgain, nephew of Findleach of Moray. Demona unites the clanless gargoyles of Scotland into a nomadic clan under her leadership. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Oberon, King of the Fairies, becomes enraged with the extreme arrogance of his people and banishes the entire race out of Avalon for one thousand years, leaving the Weird Sisters to guard the gate of Avalon. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* The elderly Kenneth II falls in love with Lady Finella, lover of Prince Constantine, who assassinates Kenneth and ascends the throne as Constantine II. Constantine forces Princess Katharine into marriage by threatening to destroy the gargoyle eggs. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* September 28 -- Finella drugs Constantine III and escapes with her companions and the gargoyle eggs to Avalon, at this time inhabited only by the Weird Sisters. Finella and Mary return to Scotland, tasked with guarding the ''Grimorum Arcanorum'', and the rest enter Avalon.(''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* September 29 -- Constantine III awakes to find his betrothed and Finella gone. He is enraged and plans to take it out by destroying every gargoyle in Scotland. He would find an enthusiastic volunteer for his campaign in Gillecomgain, his new squire. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Peabody and Sherman try a number of tactics to get rid of Leif Erickson's beard, as it's making it impossible for him to sail. When none of them work, they resort to making it longer instead. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'')

* October 18 -- Battle of Rathveramoen, fought between the forces of Constantine III and Kenneth III, who is aided by Demona's gargoyles at the urging of the time-travelling Brooklyn. Brother Valmont, the court sorcerer of Constantine, betrays his monarch and unleashes attacks on both sides. Numerous people are killed, notably Maíl Brigti, half-brother of Findlaech of Moray. He is survived by his son Gillecomgain, for whom this is his first real battle. Valmont looses a hand to Brooklyn and is forced to retreat. The battle ends with the death of Constantine at the hands of Kenneth. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* A South American rainforest is terrorized by a dragon-like monster named Mathra. The [[BenevolentPrecursors Ancient Numarians]] build the Mathra trap and imprison the beast underground. To ensure Mathra never escapes, the Numarians abandon their great city, hiding one of the keys in the Monkey Kingdom and the other in the Goo Lagoon. Thankfully, the keys are protected by [[AlphabetSoupCans educational third-grade puzzles]].[[labelnote:Justification]]These events are referred to as having took place "more than a thousand years ago" and the game was first released in 1998.[[/labelnote]] (''VideoGame/TheClueFinders 3rd Grade Adventures'')

* Kahless the Unforgettable unites Klingon society. (''Franchise/StarTrek'')
* Myouren Hijiri, a Buddhist monk in Japan, passes away. His sister Byakuren, frightened by the prospect of sharing his fate, begins to supplement her own Buddhist teachings with magical power gained from youkai. (''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'')
* Sigurd, an Icelander, arrives at the coast of northern Norway to make amends with the father of his wife Dagny, because he abducted her without consent. He discovers pretty soon this was not the best of ideas, as Dagny`s foster sister Hjørdis plots revenge, both on her foster father, who loses all of his sons, her husband Gunnar, who is almost forced into a CombatByChampion with Sigurd, and eventually on Sigurd himself, because he doesn`t love her. She kills him, and then herself, by summoning TheWildHunt before she throws herself off a cliff. Gunnar loses his farm to arson, and retreats to Iceland with Dagny and her father Ørnulf (''Theatre/TheWarriorsAtHelgeland'')

* A young man named Crono wakes up one morning, and attends the Millennial Fair where he meets a girl named Marle and his friend Lucca. An invention gone wrong sends the trio four hundred years into the past, where adventure awaits. (''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'')
* Battle of Svold, fought between the Norwegian king Olav Tryggvason, Swedish king Olof and Danish king Sweyn (supported by Norwegian earl Eirik, who actually wished revenge for the death of his father). Olav is defeated and leaps into the sea, never to be found again. The Danes take control over eastern and southern Norway (''Literature/{{Heimskringla}}'' and RealLife).

* The evil Org initially attack the Earth. (''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'')
* The demons Sammael and Lilith perform a dark ritual, enabling demons to invade the world. (''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'')

* Time-traveling V.I.L.E. agent Baron Grinnit steals Leif Erikson's ship, leaving Erikson and his crew marooned in Vinland. ACME agents arrive on the scene and help the Vikings to recapture their ship. ACME apprehends Baron Grinnit and takes him back to the present day. (''[[VideoGame/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego1997 Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time]]'')

* Pai Mei slaughters all sixty monks in a Shaolin monastery after he believes one of their number insulted him. (''Film/KillBill'')

* Macbeth is born in Scotland. His parents are Findlaech, High Steward of Moray and Princess Doada of Scotland. His maternal grandfather is Malcolm II of Scotland. Making the boy a potential heir to the throne. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Fall of the Kingdom of Guardia (''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'')

* A boy named Serge drowns/is rescued by a strange girl in El Nido. A timeline that already loops back on itself in several places is split into two dimensions. (''VideoGame/ChronoCross'')

* Heart of Mantorok sealed away in Ellia, a dancing girl at the court of King Suryavarman I. (''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'')

* V.I.L.E. agent Medeva arrives in this year and steals the first chapter of ''Literature/TheTaleOfGenji'', giving WritersBlock to Creator/MurasakiShikibu. ACME corrects the damage done to history and captures Medeva. (''[[VideoGame/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego1997 Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time]]'')

* Yoda granted the title of Jedi Master. (''Franchise/StarWars'')

* Serge stumbles into an alternate timeline, beginning an adventure to save all of history. (''VideoGame/ChronoCross'')
* Findlaech, High Steward of Moray is assassinated by the mysterious Hunter (secretly his nephew Gillecomgain), at the behest of Prince Duncan in order to secure his own claim to the throne. Gillecomgain was also supposed to assassinate Findlaech's heir, Macbeth, but Macbeth is rescued by Demona and the Weird Sisters. Duncan rewards Gillecomgain by appointing him High Steward of Moray. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Gillecomgain marries Gruoch. When he refuses to kill Macbeth at the behest of Duncan, Duncan reveals him to actually be the Hunter, and Gillecomgain is killed by Macbeth and Demona. Duncan claims the identity of the Hunter for himself. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Macbeth marries Gruoch. They have a son, Luach, later that year. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Birth of Malcolm Canmore to Prince Duncan and an unnamed mother. He would grow up to become a King of Scotland. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Duncan I rises to the throne of Scotland. But fears his cousin Macbeth has an equally strong claim to it. He continues to conspire against his cousin.(''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Before August 14 -- Macbeth and Demona are bound together as immortals in exchange for Demona's assistance fighting King Duncan. Demona is left rejuvenated, Macbeth now seems physically older than his actual age. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* The elderly King Duncan of Scotland is killed in his sleep by Macbeth, Thane of Cawdor. Upon the discovery of the body, Princes Malcolm and Donalbain flee Scotland in fear of their lives. This allows Macbeth to implicate them in the murder and claim the throne for himself. (''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'')
* Macbeth and Demona's forces defeat Duncan's forces in battle. Duncan is killed, and Macbeth becomes king of Scotland. Demona earns her new name by "fighting like a demon" in the last battle. She goes on to lead her own Clan of gargoyles to prosperity. Canmore, son of Duncan, is banished to England. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* The Byzantine historian, philosopher, and demonologist Michael Psellos compiles the ''Corpus Hermeticum''; he also produces an independent Greek version of ''al-’Azīf''/the ''Necronomicon'' from a Syriac translation. (HermeticMagic, Franchise/CthulhuMythos)

* Many copies of the ''Necronomicon'' burned at the order of Patriarch Michael. All Arabic manuscripts have been lost by this time. (Franchise/CthulhuMythos)

* Macbeth fights a duel to the death with Macduff, Thane of Fife. He looses and Malcolm Canmore succeeds him as King. (''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'')
* Demona, fearing treachery, betrays Macbeth to Duncan's son Canmore and the English. Canmore destroys all of Demona's gargoyles, except her. Macbeth and Demona learn that neither can die until one slays the other. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* Luach, King of Scotland, is slain in battle by Canmore, who ascends to the throne and becomes the third person to use the Hunter's identity. Gruoch, widow of Macbeth and mother of Luach, commits suicide shortly after. A line of Canmore's descendants would use "Canmore" as their last name and raise further generations of Hunters up to the 20th century. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* March 21 -- The gargoyles Angela, Gabriel, Ophelia and Boudicca are born in Avalon. Due to the nature of time in Avalon, the new Avalon Clan would age slowly and be still physically young in the late 20th Century. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* The First Doctor and companions prevent the Meddling Monk from preventing the Norman conquest of England. (''Series/DoctorWho'')

* Zombie outbreak in Jerusalem, put down by local militia using tactics described in surviving Roman texts. Dr. Ibrahim Obeidallah conducts a case study, beginning the science of zombology. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')

* Edward and Edmund Canmore, two princes of Scotland, arrive in Alexandria with an army of two thousand men. Though their expedition began after a night of heavy drinking some months ago, they declare war on the Fatimid Caliphate and conquer the city, beginning the rise of the Scottish Empire. (''Fanfic/AScotsmanInEgypt'')
* V.I.L.E. agent General Mayhem steals the Domesday Book, creating an ahistorical Saxon rebellion against William the Conqueror. ACME agents restore history and capture General Mayhem. (''[[VideoGame/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego1997 Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time]]'')

* Mathias Cronqvist renounces God and becomes the vampire that will later change its name to Dracula. Leon Belmont swears his clan to devote their lives to combatting him; Vampire Killer whip created via alchemy and the soul of Leon's lover. (''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLamentOfInnocence'')

* A man in the town of Alnwick terrorizes the town's citizens after his death, sucking their blood and smelling of death. This is essentially the birth of the modern vampire myth. (''Historia rerum Anglicarum or Historia de rebus anglicis''[[note]]History of English Affairs[[/note]], RealLife)

* Crusaders reach Jerusalem. (RealLife) Ibrahim Obeidallah is beheaded for the crime of devil worship, and much of his work is lost or destroyed. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')

* Yuyuko Saigyouji, frightened of her power to incite death in others, commits suicide. Her body is used to seal the Saigyou Ayakashi, a cursed cherry tree, while her spirit reigns over the shrine Hakugyokurou in the netherworld. (''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'')
* Hoping to face Marcus Octavius, Colin joins the [=MacLeod=] clan, where he romances Deborah [=MacLeod=]. Colin falls in battle and is buried as a hero, but then revives and scares off most of his old comrades, who think he is a demon. Deborah and Gregor help him to escape, and he decides to keep the name [=MacLeod=]. (''Anime/HighlanderTheSearchForVengeance'')

* The Minbari develop interstellar travel and discover the hyperspace gates network left behind by an unknown species. (''Series/BabylonFive'')

* A man named Jonathan summons the angel Raziel at Lake Lyn in Idris, requesting for himself the power to fight against the demonic invasion. Raziel renames him Jonathan Shadowhunter, first of the Nephilim, and grants him the Mortal Instruments: the Mortal Cup to make more Nephilim, the Mortal Sword to keep honesty, and the Mortal Glass to protect the lake and Idris from demons and mundanes. (''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'')

* The Battle of Trent: English forces are defeated by the fairy army of John Uskglass, who carves out a Northern English kingdom that would last three centuries. (''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'')

* The Kludden Tribe kills a Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* Eric Njorl, a Viking, rides around and does a whole bunch of stuff that in no way relates to the English town of North Malden. (''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'')

* An evil djinn is trapped within a jewel by a Persian sorcerer. (''Film/{{Wishmaster}}'')

* The Kludden Tribe kills another three Slayers in quick succession. The fourth Slayer activated this year manages to escape. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* Death of the Slayer who evaded the Kludden Tribe. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* Alchemists create medal-based homunculi known as Greeed. Using the power of the Greeed's medals, a power-hungry king betrays his Greeed ally Ankh and seals him and the other Greeed away. (''Series/KamenRiderOOO'')
* The English city of Nottinghame comes under martial law due to raids by the bandit chieftain Robbin of Locksley. (''RobinHood'')

* Peabody and Sherman sabotage an archery tournament between Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham, thereby securing England's supply of kippers. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'')

** Minamoto Yoshitsune fights a GiantEnemyCrab, a famous battle that [[BlatantLies actually took place in ancient Japan]]. (''VideoGame/{{Genji}}'')

* Altaïr ibn La-Ahad, a disgraced assassin, works to redeem himself by killing nine men in various cities who are prolonging the Third Crusade. (''VideoGame/{{Assassins Creed|I}}'')
* Peabody and Sherman help Richard the Lionheart overcome his fear of everything and win a single combat against Saladin. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'')

* Siege of Torquilstone; Baron Reginald Front-de-Bœuf is killed in the castle’s fall. Death of the Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert and seizure of the Preceptory of Templestowe by the Crown. (''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}'')

* A sorceror in a village in the Koskov Valley becomes the embodiment of the demon Lohesh. Only three people survive his rampage. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* An extraterrestrial probe arrives on the planet labeled Tosev 3. The Race is not impressed by the images of a shaggy, poorly-equipped knight, and launch their invasion fleet. It will arrive in eight hundred years, but it's not like much technological progress can happen in just a few centuries... (''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'')

* During the siege of Constantinople, historian Niketas Choniates is rescued by a mysterious man called Baudolino, who in the following days proceeds to tell Niketas the story of his life. (''Literature/{{Baudolino}}'')

* Bill and Ted land their time traveling phone booth somewhere in Outer Mongolia, where they meet Genghis Khan and entice him into their time machine with a Twinkie so that they can bring him back to the year 1988. (''[[Film/BillAndTed Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure]]'')

* Birth of Jabba Desilijic Tiure, aka Jabba the Hutt. (''Franchise/StarWars'')

* The Fifth Doctor and companions prevent the Master from preventing the creation of Magna Carta. (''Series/DoctorWho'')

* Altaïr Ibn-la Ahad, along with his wife Maria and son Darim travel to Mongolia to assassinate Genghis Khan. (''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'')

* Lucian [=LaCroix=] turns a man named Nicholas into a vampire. (''Series/ForeverKnight'')

* Birth of Dark of the Moon, a future Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* Pope Gregory IX bans the Greek and Latin ''Necronomicons''. (Franchise/CthulhuMythos)

* End of the Norwegian CivilWar. Skule, the last pretender to the crown, is killed alongside his son Peter at the monastery of Nonnesæter. Hakon IV consolidates his power (''Theatre/ThePretenders'' and RealLife)

* Gunnbjorn Lundergaart establishes a colony at Fiskurhofn. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')

* Yet another cycle in the Vorlon-Shadow-war begins, lasting until 1260. The alliance between Vorlons and Minbari is forged. The Shadows form a military base of operations on Narn, but eventually abandon it. G'quon becomes a religious leader on Narn. Babylon 4 is brought back in time by Valen and the Vorlons to serve as a military base of operations. The Shadows are defeated, and leave Z'ha'dum for 1000 years, but hide their ships and forces all through the galaxy, including the Sol system. Valen re-structures the Minbari caste society and writes the prophecy. (''Series/BabylonFive'')
* Death of Dark of the Moon. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* Norman of Torn (né Richard Plantagenet, a.k.a. Roger de Conde) launches numerous raids on the city of London. (''[[Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs The Outlaw of Torn]]'')

* Gunnbjorn Lundergaart returns to find his colony wiped out by zombies. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')

* The Assassin stronghold of Masyaf is attacked by Mongol forces. The assassins' leader, Altaïr Ibn-la Ahad, orders all but a few assassins to abandon the fortress. Also sending away visiting guests and newly inducted assassins, brothers Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, he tasks them with spreading the order throughout the world, as well as hiding the five Memory Seals imprinted with his wisdom. After a final goodbye to his son, Darim, Altair seals himself, The Apple of Eden and final memory seal within the secret library beneath the fortress. (''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'')
* Mongols attack the Assassin stronghold of Masyaf. Genghis Khan personally kills the Old Man of the Mountain. (''Literature/{{Conquoror}}'')

* Marco Polo and his uncles are robbed on the Silk Road by time-traveling V.I.L.E. agent Jacqueline Hyde. ACME pursuers correct the damage done to history and capture Jacqueline Hyde. (''[[VideoGame/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego1997 Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time]]'')

* Marco Polo claims to have seen a zombified head in the palace of Kublai Khan. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')

* A meteorite from the Jeggorabax Cluster that feeds on fear lands in Lower Saxony. An entity is released from it. (''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'')

* The Pied Piper [[note]]really an alien made of energy that feeds on fear[[/note]] steals children from the town of Hamlin to feed on parents' fears. (''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'')

* The First Doctor and companions meet Marco Polo. (''Series/DoctorWho'')

* (Approximate) Ryoko attacks the planet Jurai. Prince Yosho chases after her to Earth. Sasami is gravely wounded in the attack, only surviving due to Tsunami bonding with her (''Anime/TenchiMuyo'')

* (Approximate) Ayeka decides to chase after Yosho. Tsunami urges Sasami to tag along. (''Anime/TenchiMuyo'')

* The ancestors of Mario and Luigi, who accompanied Marco Polo on his trip to Asia, bring back the secret of plumbing from Asia. (''[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresofSuperMarioBros3 The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]'')

* Peabody and Sherman rescue Marco Polo from the cell where Kubla Khan is forcing him to make polo shirts for everyone in China. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'')

* March 25 -- Dante Alighieri begins his journey through Hell. (''Literature/TheDivineComedy'')
* Current Slayer is killed by Tatoul. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* Birth of Eliane Ward de Shaunde in Brittany. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* The only recorded mention of a ''Necronomicon'' copy in pre-Renaissance England--a text of dubious fidelity (allegedly from the Sumerian) and since lost. (''Franchise/EvilDead'')

* Norwegian chancellor Audun Hugleiksson is arrested for treason (RealLife). Gudmund, a nobleman who has been forced into hiding for years, is freed of all charges, and eventually marries Signe, a girl who has loved him for just as long. Margit, her older sister, becomes a widow overnight, as her husband is hewn down with an axe, and takes the veil. (Theatre/''TheFeastAtSolhaug'')

* November 18: Peabody and Sherman get William Tell to shoot an apple off his son's head, even though he's lost his glasses, by using an apple with a powerful magnet embedded in it. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'')

* Another Slayer is killed by Tatoul. Eliane Ward de Shaunde becomes the Slayer, but is soon killed following a battle with Tatoul. The infant Isabeau de Shaunde then becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* The Corporate Sector Authority, a free-enterprise fiefdom of the galaxy, is founded to free the Galactic Senate and corporate moneymakers from each other. (''Franchise/StarWars'')
* Time-traveling V.I.L.E. agent Buggs Zapper steals the block of salt which Mansa Musa needs for his pilgrimage to Mecca. ACME restores history and captures Buggs. (''[[VideoGame/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego1997 Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time]]'')

* November - Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and his novice Adso of Melk arrive to a Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy to find out the truth about the mysterious death of a monk. (''Literature/TheNameOfTheRose'')

* Sir Daniel Fortesque rises from the dead to save Gallowmere from Zarok the Sorcerer. (''VideoGame/MediEvil'')

* The inhabitants of the English village of Ansby commence their conquest of the Wersgor Empire. (''The Last Crusade'')

* An Italian woman with a remarkable resemblance to Buffy Summers becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* Spring - Ten nobles from Florence go to the countryside to escape The Black Death. (''Literature/{{Decameron}}'')
* August - An alien spaceship lands near the village of Oberhochwald (later known as Eifelheim) in Germany. (''Literature/{{Eifelheim}}'')
* December - Kivrin Engle, a time-traveling historian from 2054, arrives at an English village and witnesses The Black Death. (''Literature/DoomsdayBook'')

* The Black Death kills 99.9 percent of the population of Europe. (''Literature/TheYearsOfRiceAndSalt'')
* An apprentice monk guides a group of knights to a village that is suspiciously free of the Black Death. (''Film/BlackDeath'')

* October 25 -- An English army defeats a French army at the Battle of Agincourt. (''HenryV'' and RealLife)

* August 16 -- The Jupiter Mining Corporation vessel ''Starbug'' appears briefly in deep space while testing a time machine. Nobody notices. (''Series/RedDwarf'')

* In the timeline created by Minax's manipulations, human civilisation is restricted to Britain and Italy, ruled over by Lord British, and Le Jester, a small settlement in northern Africa. (''Videogame/UltimaII'')

* Joan of Arc becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* Bill and Ted land their time machine in Orleans, France, as Joan of Arc is kneeling and praying. They take her to the year 1988 for their history report. If she'd mentioned her being a Slayer, the duo would probably have figured she was talking about the rock band. (''[[Film/BillAndTed Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure]]'')

** Joan of Arc is captured by her political enemies and, after a KangarooCourt trial, is burned at the stake for heresy. Twenty-five years later, a Vatican court declared her innocent. (''RealLife'')
** The English honestly believe that Joan la Pucelle is a witch, so they burn her at the stake. (''Theatre/HenryVIPart1'')
** Joan of Arc, a Slayer, is burned at the stake. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
** Joan of Arc, a mildly powerful Dark Other, is burned at the stake for using her magic to help France during the Hundred Years' War, in violation of the Treaty. (''Literature/NightWatch'')
** Her enemies attempt to burn Joan of Arc, a MagicalGirl, at the stake. [[labelnote:more]]Before Joan can be executed, or turn into a witch, she is redeemed by Madoka's wish.[[/labelnote]] (''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'')
* Vlad Dracula is born Sighișoara, Transylvania. (RealLife, ''{{Dracula}}'')

* Birth of the vampire Demitri Maximoff in Romania. (''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'')

* October 26: Gilles de Rais executed for murdering hundreds of children in an attempt to become an Other. (''Literature/NightWatch'')

* Prince Skantarios begins his reconquest of the Eastern Roman Empire. (''Fanfic/IAmSkantarios'')

* Dracula is mortally wounded in a battle against the Turks, and is turned into a vampire by the Gypsy woman Lianda as a revenge for the deaths of other Gypsies he has caused. He is later confronted by Nimrod, whom he duels fo the title of the Lord of Vampires. (''Comicbook/DraculaLives'' #2-3)

* V.I.L.E. agent Jane Reaction steals UsefulNotes/JohannesGutenberg[='s=] Bible. ACME captures Jane Reaction and restores history. (''[[VideoGame/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego1997 Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time]]'')

* Peabody and Sherman help Johannes Gutenberg meet the 5 o'clock deadline of his newspaper. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'')

* Ezio Auditore born in Florence, to Giovanni and Maria Auditore. (''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'')

* The Pillar of Flesh designed by Roberto Bianchi for Abu Sa'id ibn Muhammad. Bianchi is sacrificed shortly after completing his survey of the foundations. (''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'')
* After Carmen Sandiego commits a jailbreak in present-day San Francisco, Jane Reaction arrives in this year and steals the royal quipus from the Inca Empire. ACME agents correct the damage done to history and once again capture Jane Reaction. (''[[VideoGame/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego1997 Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time]]'')

* Founding of the Trade Federation. (''Franchise/StarWars'')

* A little girl called Agnes is abducted by a Gypsy tribe. The gypsies replace the girl with a deformed little boy. The mother of Agnes manages to place this child on the steps of the Notre Dame Cathedral, but eventually goes insane. Claude Frollo, the Archdeacon of Notre Dame, finds the deformed child and adopts him, giving him the name Quasimodo. (''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'')
* A teenaged Leonardo Da Vinci has his notebook stolen by Piero de' Medici, who plots to overthrow the Duke of Florence. With the help of his friends Lisa, "Mac" Machiavelli, and Lorenzo de' Medici, he regains it and eventually foils Piero's conspiracy. (''Series/{{Leonardo}}'')

* At the first ever Quidditch World Cup, all 700 Quidditch fouls are committed.[[labelnote:more]]The fouls committed include [[ObviousRulePatch "setting fire to an opponent's broom tail"," "attacking an opponent's broom with a club", and "attacking an opponent with an axe"]].[[/labelnote]] (''Literature/HarryPotter'')

* Basileus Theodoros is killed by an Egyptian assassin after defending Constantinople from Turkish invaders. Skantarios becomes Emperor of Byzantium. (''Fanfic/IAmSkantarios'')

* The date of Vlad Dracula's death in battle. He may or may not have been a vampire at this time. (RealLife)
** Trevor Belmont teams up with Grant [=DaNasty=], Sypha Belnades and Alucard to defeat Dracula. (''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse'')
* Ezio Auditore's father and brothers are executed before his very eyes, accused of treason against Italy. Ezio vows revenge against the men who killed them, becoming an assassin in the process. (''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'')

* Esperanza de la Vega becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* Death of Esperanza de la Vega. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* In Paris, the archdeacon of the Notre Dame Cathedral manages to frame a young gypsy girl for witchcraft, but his bellringer comes in his way and secures sanctuary for the girl. The local beggar`s guild tries to free her out, but the bellringer, Quasimodo, defends her fiercely. The girl, Esmeralda, is eventually tricked out of the church, and hanged in the square outside the cathedral. Quasimodo takes revenge by throwing his former master off the bell tower. (''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotredame'')

* In Polly Spark's [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight altered version of history]], Amelia Air-Bot appears in Leonardo da Vinci's workshop and pours spaghetti sauce over his design for a helicopter, providing an unneeded "explanation" for why he didn't build one. (''VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain'')

* The Bio Robo delivers Bio Particles to Earth. (''Series/ChoudenshiBioman'')

* August 22 -- ''A Horse! A Horse! My Kingdom for a horse!'' -- King Richard III of England and Henry Tudor have their final showdown at the Battle of Bosworth Field. (''Theatre/RichardIII'' and RealLife)
* 22 August -- Victorious at Bosworth Field, King Richard III is slain in error by his misbegotten great-nephew Edmund[[note]]who would go on to style himself as 'The Black Adder'[[/note]]. His favourite nephew, Crown Prince Richard, Duke of York, is crowned Richard IV that same day. (''[[{{Blackadder}} The Black Adder]]'')
* Paul Luther investigates strange occurences at Amiens Cathedral and is killed. (''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'')
* Torquemada's secretary, the Dominican Olaus Wormius, translates a surviving ''Necronomicon'' manuscript into Latin. Wormius is burned at the stake, along with most of his copies. (Franchise/CthulhuMythos)
* An excavation in Paris opens up a tomb to find two skeletons, one male and one female. The male skeleton has a misshapen back spine, and lies in a protective position towards the woman, who still has a remnant of a gallows rope around her neck (''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotredame'')

* Foundation of Brookfields School. (''Film/GoodbyeMrChips'')
* Peabody and Sherman go along with Christopher Columbus on his first voyage of discovery. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'')
* October 12 - WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones and Rubbles, traveling through time via a time machine at the Bedrock World's Fair, land on the Santa Maria and help Christopher Columbus discover America, then depart this era. (''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'')

* Peabody and Sherman help Lucrezia Borgia's second husband develop an immunity to every poison known to man (or Lucrezia). (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'')
* Time-traveling V.I.L.E. agent Dr. Belljar steals Columbus's charts and commandeers the Pinta, setting off for Europe. ACME pursuers arrive in this time period, landing in Spain. The ACME agents take a ship across the Atlantic, rescuing Columbus from the New World and bringing him back to Spain. Afterwards, ACME apprehends Dr. Belljar in Spain. (''[[VideoGame/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego1997 Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time]]'')

* In Florence, Italy, Demona acquires the Medici Tablet and evades a Hunter. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')

* King Richard IV is poisoned along with his entire court. This leaves Henry Tudor free to take the crown and write his predecessor out of history. (''[[{{Blackadder}} The Black Adder]]'')

* Ezio Auditore, an assassin, travels to Rome to kill the leader of The Knights Templar. [[labelnote:more]]Said leader is Rodrigo Borgia, also known as Pope Alexander VI. Ezio defeats him, but lets him live.[[/labelnote]] (''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'')

* Emperor Skantarios of the Eastern Roman Empire leads a campaign of destruction into the Egyptian heartland. Over the next three years Alexandria, Damietta, and Cairo are mercilessly sacked and their populations exterminated. The Byzantines depart laden with treasure, leaving behind empty shells of cities. (''Fanfic/IAmSkantarios'')
* Ezio Auditore travels to Rome once again to defeat Cesare Borgia, son of Rodrigo and to liberate Rome from the corrupt influence of the Borgia. (''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'')
* Chaos gods Nurgle, Khorne, and Tzeentch awaken to full consciousness. (''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'')

* A South American rainforest is terrorized by a dragon-like monster named Mathra. The Ancient Numarians build the Mathra trap and imprison the beast underground. To ensure Mathra never escapes, the Numarians abandon their great city, hiding one of the keys in the Monkey Kingdom and the other in the Goo Lagoon. Thankfully, the keys are protected by [[AlphabetSoupCans educational third-grade puzzles]].[[labelnote:Justification]]These events are referred to as having took place "more than a thousand years ago" and the game was first released in 1998.[[/labelnote]] (''VideoGame/TheClueFinders 3rd Grade Adventures'')

* A South American rainforest is terrorized by a dragon-like monster named Mathra. The Ancient Numarians build the Mathra trap and imprison the beast underground. To ensure Mathra never escapes, the Numarians abandon their great city, hiding one of the keys in the Monkey Kingdom and the other in the Goo Lagoon. Thankfully, the keys are protected by [[AlphabetSoupCans educational third-grade puzzles]]. (''VideoGame/TheClueFinders 3rd Grade Adventures'')

* In Polly Spark's [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight altered version of history]], Amelia Air-Bot appears in Leonardo da Vinci's workshop and pours spaghetti sauce over his design for a helicopter, providing an unneeded explanation for why he didn't build one. (''VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain'')

* In Polly Spark's [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight altered version of history]], Amelia Air-Bot appears in Leonardo da Vinci's workshop and pours spaghetti sauce over his design for a helicopter. (''VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain'')

[[AC: 1482]]

* At the first ever Quidditch World Cup, all 700 Quidditch fouls are committed. (''Literature/HarryPotter'')

* Myouren Hijiri, a Buddhist monk in Japan, passes away. His sister Byakuren, frightened by the prospect of sharing his fate, begins to supplement her own Buddhist teachings with magical power gained from youkai.
(''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'')

* Claude Frollo, the Archdeacon of Notre Dame, finds a deformed child and adopts him, giving him the name Quasimodo. (''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'')

* An excavation in Paris opens up a tomb to find to skeletons, one male and one female. The male skeleton has a misshapen back spine, and lies in a protective position towards the woman, who still has a remnant of a gallows rope around her neck (''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotredame'')

[[AC; 1240]]

* Norwegian chancellor Audun Hugleiksson is arrested for treason (RealLife). Gudmund, a nobleman who has been forced into hiding for years, is freed of all charges, and eventually marries Signe, a girl who has loved him for just as long. Margit, her older sister, becomes a widow overnight, as her husband is hewn down with an axe, and takes the veil. (Theatre/''TheFeastAtSouhaug'')

* Battle of Svold, fought between the Norwegian king Olav Tryggvason, Swedish king Olof and Danish king Sweyn (supported by Norwegian earl Eirik, who actually wished revenge for the death of his father). Olav is defeated and leaps into the sea, never to be found again. The Danes take control over eastern and southern Norway (''Literature/Heimskringla'' and RealLife).

* Myouren Hijiri, a Buddhist monk in Japan, passes away. His sister Byakuren, frightened by the prospect of sharing his fate, begins to supplement her own Buddhist teachings with magical power gained from youkai. (''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'')

* King Harald of Vestfold (and adjacent territories) begins his quest for unification of Norway (''Literature/{{Heimskringla'')

During this time, Geatland falls under Swedish dominion and loses independence (''[[Literature/Beowulf'']]

During this time, Geatland falls under Swedish dominion and loses independence (''Literature/Beowulf'']]

Hygelac, king of the Geats, falls in this timeslot. Béowulf takes the Geatish crown and rules for many years.(''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'')