| 1 | JustForFun/GrandUnifiedTimeline events from 1851 C.E. to 1913 C.E. |
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| 5 | [[folder:1851 C.E. - 1860 C.E.]] |
| 6 | [[AC: 1851]] |
| 7 | * July 28: The Crystal Palace exhibition, and associated scientific accomplishments, causes already-waning magic to cease existence entirely. (''Literature/TheRiseAndFallOfDODO'') |
| 8 | * Early December: The Cybermen fall through time and space into Victorian London from the Void. [[labelnote:more]]Jackson Lake finds an infostamp and takes on the identity of the Doctor[[/labelnote]] (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 9 | * December 24: The Tenth Doctor meets "The Next Doctor" and discovers a Cyberman plot. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 10 | * December 25: The Tenth Doctor and another Doctor [[labelnote:more]]actually a human with memories of the Doctor[[/labelnote]] defeat an attack by time- and dimension-travelling Cybermen. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 11 | * In Madrid, Duncan [=MacLeod=] studies swordsmanship under immortal Otavio Consone. The two compete for the attentions of local heiress Theresa del Gloria and end up duelling. Otavio wins, but Theresa agrees to marry him in exchange for sparing Duncan's life. She later commits suicide to escape her unhappy marriage. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 12 | * Around this time, Brand's father dies, and he is witness to his mother's callous robbery of the deathbed. Soon after this, Brand leaves, not to return for ten years. (''Theatre/{{Brand}}'') |
| 13 | * Esther Summerson leaves her school to take up residence and occupation at her guardian John Jarndyce's manor, called "Bleak House". She meets and befriends two young wards in the Jarndyce vs Jarndyce case, Richard Carstone and Ada Clare. The two wards quickly fall in love. (''Literature/BleakHouse'') |
| 14 | * Minetta Van Cleve is born. (''Film/HeavenCanWait1943'') |
| 15 | |
| 16 | [[AC: 1852]] |
| 17 | * [[UsefulNotes/LeapDay February 29]]: Frederick is born. He would grow up to become a pirate and pirate-hunter. (''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'') |
| 18 | * American treasure hunters interfere in the live burial of a solanum victim, prompting a zombie outbreak in Chiapas. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'') |
| 19 | * Death of Margaret Madden, the current Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 20 | * August Leffler's ancestors emigrate to America on a Dutch schooner. (''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'') |
| 21 | * Victoria Waterfield is born. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 22 | |
| 23 | [[AC: 1853]] |
| 24 | * Solomon Northup publishes his memoir about being kidnapped and enslaved. (RealLife and ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'') |
| 25 | * Birth of William "Spike" Pratt. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 26 | * The United States arrives in Japan with huge boats with guns (gunboats). They demand that Japan open the country and stop having it be closed. Japan agrees to sign a contract letting the US, Britain, and Russia visit whenever they want. (''WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan'') |
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| 28 | [[AC: 1854]] |
| 29 | * June 10: Dan Morgan is sentenced to 12 years hard labour for highway robbery. (RealLife and ''Film/MadDogMorgan'') |
| 30 | * In San Francisco, Duncan [=MacLeod=] reunites with Brian Cullen, who has lost his nerve in the meantime. They check into an opium den, where Cullen's drug addiction starts. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 31 | * Peabody and Sherman track down the Light Brigade from all over the world, and bring them back to the Crimean peninsula so they can charge as planned. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 32 | * Peabody and Sherman recover Florence Nightingale's lamp oil from the Russian army that stole it. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 33 | * Sherlock Holmes is born. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'') |
| 34 | * On Hoff in the Pegasus galaxy, a team led by Farrol Mylan attempts to perfect a drug which they hope can be used as a defense against the Wraith and save future generations from being fed upon. When the planet is culled by the Wraith, 10,000 soldiers give their lives so that the scientists can have additional time to work on the drug. Mylan and his team are killed but his journals and details of his experiments survive. This allows the Hoffans to perfect the drug with the help of Dr. Carson Beckett of the Atlantis expedition in 2004. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'') |
| 35 | * In the Pegasus galaxy, the Wraith enter an hibernation cycle from which they would be [[NiceJobBreakingItHero prematurely awakened by Major John Sheppard]] in 2004. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'') |
| 36 | * Matilda Iredale is born. (''Series/MirrorMirror1995'') |
| 37 | * Lady Stephanie Button is born. [[note]] Her year of birth is confirmed to happen in this year in the tie-in book The Button House Archives. [[/note]] (''Series/GhostsUK'') |
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| 39 | [[AC: 1855]] |
| 40 | * April 12: Virginia "Virgie" Cary is born. (''Film/TheLittlestRebel'') |
| 41 | * October 25: Clara Clayton is born in New Jersey to Daniel and Martha Clayton. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'') |
| 42 | * The American Civil War comes to an end when the Union defeats the Confederacy of North America. John Brown is hanged as a war criminal. (''Literature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 43 | * Aduke "Addy" Walker is born. She does not know her exact birth date, so she uses April 9th as a birthday. (''Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection'') |
| 44 | |
| 45 | [[AC: 1856]] |
| 46 | * November 4: |
| 47 | ** James Buchanan defeats John C. Frémont and Millard Fillmore in the U.S. presidential election. (RealLife) |
| 48 | ** Former U.S. President Millard Fillmore is elected to a term in his own right, defeating John C. Frémont, after James Buchanan dies of a stroke. (''Literature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 49 | * The Second Galactic Civil War emerges out of the Corellian Independence movement and the conversion of Jedi Jacen Solo into the Sith Lord Darth Caedus. Destruction of Centerpoint Station. (''Franchise/StarWars: Literature/LegacyOfTheForce'') |
| 50 | * Xiaoqin becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 51 | |
| 52 | [[AC: 1857]] |
| 53 | * Death of Darth Caedus at the hands of his twin sister. End of the Second Galactic Civil War. (''Franchise/StarWars: Literature/LegacyOfTheForce'') |
| 54 | |
| 55 | [[AC: 1858]] |
| 56 | * January 12: Horatio Hornblower dies. (''Literature/HoratioHornblower'') |
| 57 | * Summer: The Great Stink of London occurs when the River Thames turns toxic due to human effluence and industrial waste being dumped in it. Father Thames abandons London and moves his influence to the Upper Thames valley, leaving the river's tidal reaches without a guiding spirit until 1957. (''Literature/RiversOfLondon'') |
| 58 | * Birth of Catherine Callan in Ulster. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 59 | * After almost two years of U.S. President Millard Fillmore's brutal enforcement of the fugitive slave laws and suppression of riots in free states, the northern states form the New England Confederacy, with John C. Frémont as its President, and declare war on the Union. (''Literature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 60 | * P. T. Russell publishes the first and only edition of his ''Compendium of Birds''. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 61 | * Sylvie kills four hunters from the Time Variance Authority in Salina, Oklahoma after [[LuredIntoATrap luring them into a trap]]. (''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'') |
| 62 | * Birth of opera singer Irene Adler. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': "A Scandal in Bohemia") |
| 63 | |
| 64 | [[AC: 1859]] |
| 65 | * July 4: Revolutionary War veteran Anthony Sherman tells journalist Wesley Bradshaw that he had overheard George Washington receive a prophetic vision from an angel. ("Washington's Vision") |
| 66 | * A large portion of central London is "stolen by bats" and taken underground, where it becomes known as Fallen London. (''VideoGame/EchoBazaar'') |
| 67 | * Slave turned bounty hunter Django Freeman liberates his wife from the Candyland plantation in Mississippi. (''Film/DjangoUnchained'') |
| 68 | * While Charles Darwin is writing ''The Origin of Species'', he is visited by the Librarian of Unseen University, and also the Discworld's God of Evolution, temporarily creating a timeline where he instead wrote the "intelligent design" treatise ''Theology of Species''. A brief visit to Unseen University helps put things back on track. (''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld'', ''The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch'') |
| 69 | * The town of Morgue is founded in UsefulNotes/{{California}}. By 1963, it has become a GhostTown. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'') |
| 70 | * An alien scientist comes to the small town of Peaceful Valley, UsefulNotes/NewMexico. He provides the townspeople with numerous equations which allowed them to [[AppliedPhlebotinum create devices that could perform a variety of feats]] such as [[MatterReplicator replicate any object provided that they had its atomic structure]], [[{{Teleportation}} teleport objects]], [[BackFromTheDead revive the dead]] and erect [[InvisibleWall impenetrable barriers]]. He instructs them [[TheWorldIsNotReady not to share their technology with the outside world until mankind learns the ways of peace]]. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 71 | * William Van Cleve is born. (''Film/HeavenCanWait1943'') |
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| 73 | [[AC: 1860]] |
| 74 | * April 3: Peabody and Sherman are present at the founding of the Pony Express, and carry 1/51 of a message from Missouri to Sacramento. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 75 | * April 10: The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones help the 14-year-old Buffalo Bill Cody, a rider with the Pony Express, escape from bandits using a 1941 motorcycle. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 76 | * April 22: Mabel Simpson and her family's former slave Virgil escape along the Underground Railway to Canada. They later have a son named Abraham Simpson, the great-grandfather of the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII veteran of the same name. (''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'') |
| 77 | * June: Dan Morgan is released from prison for good behaviour, and promptly vanishes. (RealLife and ''Film/MadDogMorgan'') |
| 78 | * August 2: Jefferson Hope, John Ferrier, and his adopted daughter Lucy begin their flight from Salt Lake City, attempting to flee Utah entirely. (''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'') |
| 79 | * August 4: John and Lucy are accosted by the Danite Band. John is killed, and Lucy is forcibly taken back to Salt Lake City. Jefferson Hope, who had been away hunting, discovers this only hours too late. (''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'') |
| 80 | * August 9: Lucy Ferrier is married against her will to Enoch Drebber. (''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'') |
| 81 | * September: Lucy Ferrier dies. Drebber does not grieve. (''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'') |
| 82 | * November 6: |
| 83 | ** Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States. (RealLife) |
| 84 | ** Stephen Douglas is elected President of the United States, defeating Abraham Lincoln. (''Literature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 85 | ** On [[Franchise/TheDCU Earth-C]], Abraham Linkidd is elected President of the United Species of America. (''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'') |
| 86 | * Ronin Kuwabatake Sanjuro wanders into a small Japanese village in the middle of a gang war, and plays both sides into destroying each other. (''Film/{{Yojimbo}}''). |
| 87 | * Louis and Claudia try and fail to kill Lestat, and flee to Paris. There, they meet the Theater of the Vampires and Armand. [[labelnote:more]]Claudia is slain, the Theater burns down, and Louis and Armand leave Paris.[[/labelnote]] (''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'') |
| 88 | * Angelus drives Drusilla crazy, then turns her into a vampire. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 89 | * Birth of Oro in Japan. He would migrate to Brazil in his 50s and spend most of his life as a hermit, using that time to master Senjutsu. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'') |
| 90 | * Death of Xiaoqin. Agatha Primrose becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 91 | * William Channing Webb, professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, encounters a tribe of Eskimos who worship Cthulhu. (''Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu'') |
| 92 | * In Polly Spark's [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight altered version of history]], Dr. Bug-Bot persuades Florence Nightingale to feed cake and ice cream to her patients. (''VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain'') |
| 93 | * Cain falls in love with the human Colette around this time. Although she forgives him for the evil deeds he did prior to meeting her, she makes him promise not to kill anymore. He agrees and retires to live with Colette as a married couple. (''Series/{{Supernatural}}'') |
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| 95 | [[AC: 1850s]] |
| 96 | * Eliza Harris escapes to freedom by crossing the Ohio River on ice floes. Topsy grows like Topsy. Little Eva is stricken by [[VictorianNovelDisease tuberculosis]]. Uncle Tom is killed by the cruel slave master Simon Legree.[[labelnote:Justification]]The story has to take place between the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the Civil War, thus sometime in the 1850s.[[/labelnote]] (''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'') |
| 97 | * On Tegalus, the Stargate, known as the Great Ring of Avidan, is discovered in the Rand Protectorate. Many people in both that country and the Caledonian Federation come to believe that it was created by ancient worshippers to honor their gods, namely the Goa'uld, and that the glyphs on the Gate are the names of these gods. (''Series/StargateSG1'') |
| 98 | * Well-known Parisian courtesan Violetta Valéry abandons her life of meaningless parties after finding real romance in Alberto Germont. However, complications of Alberto's family and Violetta's VictorianNovelDisease mean their love is doomed to tragedy. (''Theatre/LaTraviata'') |
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| 100 | [[AC: Pre-1861 (Exact year uncertain)]] |
| 101 | |
| 102 | * The Vigilante, betrayed along with the rest of the Seven Soldiers of Victory by The Spider, is sent back in time to the antebellum Old West, where he has been captured by a hostile tribe of Native Americans. Johnny Thunder, Black Canary, and the Green Arrow of Earth-1 go back in time top save him. Later it would be ret-conned that Vig actually spent around two decades in this era rather than the relatively swift rescue he received (from his point of view) in the original version. (Creator/DCComics) |
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| 104 | [[/folder]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[folder:1861 C.E. - 1870 C.E.]] |
| 107 | |
| 108 | [[AC: 1861]] |
| 109 | * Before April 2: Kizzy Reynolds dies. (''Series/{{Roots|1977}}'') |
| 110 | * April 2: After 20 years in England, Chicken George Moore returns to the United States a free man, having bought his freedom from his former master (and father) Tom Moore. He is the first member of his family to be free since his grandfather Kunta Kinte was captured in the Gambia in 1767. (''Series/{{Roots|1977}}'') |
| 111 | * April 12: |
| 112 | ** American Civil War launches with Confederates bombing Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. (RealLife) |
| 113 | ** During a barbecue at Twelve Oaks plantation, Scarlett O'Hara confesses her love to Ashley Wilkes, but he is marrying his cousin Melanie Hamilton. The barbecue is disrupted by the announcement that war has broken out. (''Film/GoneWithTheWind'') |
| 114 | ** Virginia "Virgie" Cary's sixth birthday party is disrupted by the outbreak of war. (''Film/TheLittlestRebel'') |
| 115 | ** When he receives word that the war has begun, Evan Brent proudly boasts that the Confederacy will "whup them Yankees." (''Series/{{Roots|1977}}'') |
| 116 | ** Chicken George Moore is forced to leave North Carolina due to a state law which states that any freedman will become a slave again if he spends more than 60 days in the state. He eventually returns in 1870. (''Series/{{Roots|1977}}'') |
| 117 | * April 29: Maryland secedes from the USA and joins the Confederacy. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 118 | * Brand, an unemployed chaplain, returns to his hometown in western Norway and causes a stir with his controversial views and badass attitudes. He gains a girlfriend, Agnes, and has to face off his mother. The two of them does not part well. Brand eventually takes the calling and becomes a priest in the community. (''Theatre/{{Brand}}'') |
| 119 | * Sam is born. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'') |
| 120 | * Daniel Covington is killed in the American Civil War. (''Series/QuantumLeap'') |
| 121 | * Slavery comes to an end in the United States when President Stephen Douglas introduces the Civil Rights Act of 1861. (''Literature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 122 | * Hanten Shiranui and Najimi Ajimu, the only Not Equals in existence, meet and join forces. (''Manga/MedakaBox'') |
| 123 | * Death of Sarah Morriss ''nee'' Mitchell. (RealLife, ''[[http://www.unmuseum.org/bealepap.htm The Beale Papers]]'') |
| 124 | |
| 125 | [[AC: 1862]] |
| 126 | * January 15: George B. [=McClellan=] is visited in the night by the spirit of George Washington, who warns him that a traitor has leaked vital information to the Confederates. The following day [=McClellan=] wins a decisive battle, preventing the Confederacy from taking Washington, D.C. ("General [=McClellan=]'s Dream") |
| 127 | * April 12: |
| 128 | ** A group of Union soldiers volunteer to steal a Confederate train in Atlanta and take it north to Tennessee. (RealLife, ''The Great Locomotive Chase'') |
| 129 | ** Johnnie Gray pursues the Union soldiers who stole his locomotive, ''The General'', and kidnapped his fiancée, Annabelle Lee. (''Film/TheGeneral1926'') |
| 130 | * April 18-May 23: Dr. Fergusson and his companions fly a balloon across Africa. (''Literature/FiveWeeksInABalloon'') |
| 131 | * April 18: Confederate troops capture U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. The time travelers Jeffrey Jones and Phineas Bogg are later able to set history back on its proper course. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 132 | * August 28-30: The Confederacy defeats the Union in the Second Battle of Bull Run in Prince William County, Virginia. (RealLife) Douger fights in the battle and is [[WarIsHell haunted by the experience]]. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 133 | * September 10: |
| 134 | ** A Confederate soldier manages to recover Special Order 191, narrowly avoiding handing the enemy the CSA's battle plans. (''Literature/Timeline191'') |
| 135 | ** A group of time travelers (plus escaped slave Jim from a [[AlternateTimeline parallel timeline]]) steal Special Order 191, causing the South to lose the American Civil War. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 136 | * September 20: |
| 137 | ** Due to a genetic quirk, Sam Beckett leaps 91 years outside of his own lifetime and into his great-grandfather John Beckett, a captain in the Union Army. Sam saves his own family tree and that of [[labelnote:someone famous]]UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr[[/labelnote]] (''Series/QuantumLeap'') |
| 138 | ** With the Union unable to predict their bold manoeuvering, Confederate troops march into Pennsylvania, pursued by the Union Army. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 139 | * September: The Union army is crushed at the Battle of Camp Hill and Pennsylvania and Kentucky are occupied by the Confederacy. (''Literature/Timeline191'') |
| 140 | * November 4: British and French ambassadors formally recognize the Confederate States of America, and the War of Secession ends. (''Literature/Timeline191'') |
| 141 | * November: Arthur Denison and his son Will are both shipwrecked on the island of Dinotopia. (''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}'') |
| 142 | * Duncan [=MacLeod=] becomes an abolitionist and joined the Underground Railroad. He meets Sean Zale, a lad who became immortal at a young age, and entrusts him to a mortal woman. Sean is soon killed by another immortal. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 143 | * Death of Agatha Primrose. Pauline Francis Bernard becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 144 | * Col. Rhett Butler of Charleston, South Carolina becomes a highly successful and famous blockade runner. (''Film/GoneWithTheWind'') |
| 145 | * In northern Alabama, the slave owner Peyton Farquhar is hanged by Union soldiers. ("Literature/AnOccurrenceAtOwlCreekBridge") |
| 146 | * U.S. President Stephen Douglas attempts to reach a compromise over slavery by introducing the Manumission Act 1862, which is intended to free the slaves over ten years. However, the southern states reject it, form the Confederacy and declare war on the ill-prepared Union. Shortly afterwards, the Confederacy is recognized by the British Empire and the other European powers and begins to receive support from them. (''Literature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 147 | * Robert Morriss entrusts J. B. Ward with the papers and affects left to him by Thomas Beale. (''[[http://www.unmuseum.org/bealepap.htm The Beale Papers]]'') |
| 148 | * Aziraphale and Crowley meet at St. James Park in London, where Crowley asks for some holy water. Since holy water would destroy Crowley, Aziraphale objects, and the two have an argument. (''Series/GoodOmens2019'') |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[AC: Before 1863]] |
| 151 | * The Northwest family hires the lumberjacks of Gravity Falls to build their mansion. They promise to throw an annual party at which all will be welcome. (''Westernanimation/GravityFalls'') |
| 152 | |
| 153 | [[AC: 1863]] |
| 154 | * January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, making slavery illegal. Ending slavery now becomes a distinct goal of the Civil War. (RealLife) John Henry is one of millions of new freemen. (''WesternAnimation/JohnHenry'') |
| 155 | * June: |
| 156 | ** Professor Otto Lidenbrock leads an expedition towards the center of the earth. (''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'') |
| 157 | ** The Confederate cavalryman Sgt. Joseph Paradine meets a warlock named Teague who intends to use [[BlackMagic evil magic]] to defeat the Union. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 158 | * July 1-3: |
| 159 | ** The Battle of Gettysburg is fought in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It is a major turning point in the American Civil War. (RealLife) Casualties of the battle include Brent and Stuart Tarleton (''Film/GoneWithTheWind'') and Charlie Constable (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''). |
| 160 | ** Nicholas Prentice transports [[WarReEnactors Andy Larouche and Vince Chance]] back in time to experience the battle firsthand. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'') |
| 161 | ** Private [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Atticus Kent]], who possesses powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, single-handedly wins the Battle of Gettysburg and the war for the Union. (''Superman: A Nation Divided'') |
| 162 | ** The Confederacy wins the Battle of Gettysburg, paving the way for its victory in the War of Southron Independence one year later. (''Literature/BringTheJubilee'') |
| 163 | * July 11: In the preceding months Amsterdam Vallon resurrected the Dead Rabbits to challenge Bill the Butcher and The Natives for control over the Five Points once again. Their battle, however, is violently interrupted by the outbreak of the New York Draft Riots, leaving no real victor. (''Film/GangsOfNewYork'') |
| 164 | * Summer: Gravity Falls is founded [[labelnote:by]] Sir Lord Quentin Trembley III, Esq. However, since Trembley is removed from history, official records describe the town being founded by[[/labelnote]] Nathaniel Northwest. (''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''). |
| 165 | * July or August: The Northwest family mansion is completed. On the day of the inaugural party, Nathaniel Northwest excludes the common folk from attending. Many of the lumberjacks die in a musdlide; their patriarch, Archibald Corduroy, in his final breath vows to return in 150 years for revenge unless commoners are allowed into the mansion. (''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'') |
| 166 | * August: [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Atticus Kent]] prevents U.S. President Abraham Lincoln from being assassinated by the actor John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre. Booth is killed when he falls on his dagger. (''Superman: A Nation Divided'') |
| 167 | * November 19: |
| 168 | ** U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address. (RealLife) |
| 169 | ** The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones are in attendance. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 170 | ** The First Doctor and his companions Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki Pallister watch Lincoln delivering the address using the Time-Space Visualiser. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 171 | ** Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones discover that the Union is losing the American Civil War as President Lincoln was captured by the Confederacy on April 18, 1862. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 172 | * November 23: Edith Waterfield dies of pneumonia. (''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'') |
| 173 | * Confederate general Robert E. Lee is given a vast arsenal of AK-47s by time-traveling South Africans from 2015 who want a future ally in support of Apartheid. (''Literature/TheGunsOfTheSouth'') |
| 174 | * The Skagarans abduct several thousand humans as slaves on their home planet, but the humans, led by Cooper Smith, rebel and turn the Skagarans into the slaves. The colony world continues resembling the Old West at least to the 22nd century. (''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'') |
| 175 | * Duncan [=MacLeod=] is arrested while smuggling slaves out of Tennessee. He is hanged and buried, but rescued by the honourable Lucas Desiree, an immortal captain in the Confederate Army. The two part on friendly terms. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 176 | * Robert E.O. Speedwagon is born, and the hamon master Tonpetty takes William A. Zeppeli in as his apprentice. (''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'') |
| 177 | * Peabody and Sherman stop Alfred Nobel from blowing up himself, or the engineers who come to inspect his work. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 178 | * Bill and Ted abduct Abraham Lincoln with the help of Genghis Khan, bringing him to the year 1988 for their history report. (''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'') |
| 179 | * The Knights of Hell abduct Colette and attempt to persuade Cain to return to being their leader. This tactic proves fatal when Cain kills them instead. When he tracks Colette down, he finds her possessed by Abaddon, who tricks him into killing Colette. Cain honors Colette's dying wish for him not to kill anymore, and so Abaddon is spared his revenge, making her the only Knight of Hell who remains alive and active. (''Series/{{Supernatural}}'') |
| 180 | * Wee Willie Williams is born. (''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'') |
| 181 | * Satanist Bathsheba Sherman attempts to sacrifice her baby. Before killing herself to avoid arrest, she curses anybody who occupies her land to be subject to her torment. (''Film/TheConjuring'') |
| 182 | * General Abraham Lincoln of the 33rd Illinois Militia leads a charge which prevents the Confederacy from breaking the Illinois lines, buying the Union much needed time to regroup, but is killed in the process. (''Literature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 183 | * Dan Morgan's robbery spree begins. (RealLife and ''Film/MadDogMorgan'') |
| 184 | * Borgin and Burkes is founded in Knockturn Alley. (''Literature/HarryPotter'') |
| 185 | * Death of Robert Morriss. (RealLife, ''[[http://www.unmuseum.org/bealepap.htm The Beale Papers]]'') |
| 186 | |
| 187 | [[AC: 1864]] |
| 188 | * April 12: The Confederacy defeats the Union in the Battle of Fort Pillow in Lauderdale County, Tennessee. Confederate soldiers under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest massacre African-American soldiers and their white officers. (RealLife) Chicken George Moore is among the survivors. (''[[Series/Roots1977 Roots: The Next Generations]]'') |
| 189 | * May 11: |
| 190 | ** The Union defeats the Confederacy in the Battle of Yellow Tavern in Kentucky. Confederate General Jeb Stuart is mortally wounded and dies the next day. (RealLife) |
| 191 | ** Jud Godwin is killed in the Battle of Yellow Tavern. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 192 | * June: The Battle of Pine Mountain is fought in Georgia. Colonel Thaddius Riker, nicknamed "Old Iron Boots", serves as leader of the 102nd New York Infantry. Riker is wounded during the battle but saved by a member of the Q Continuum as Riker's descendant, William Thomas Riker, had been deemed significant by the Continuum. (''Series/StarTrekVoyager'') |
| 193 | * July 7: Eleven tonnes of flint aboard the narrowboat Silver Bird sink near Buckby Bridge. (''WesternAnimation/JoshuaJones'') |
| 194 | * July 22: The crew of the ''Duncan'', Lord Edward Glenarvan's yacht, find a message in a bottle from the shipwrecked captain Harry Grant. (''Literature/InSearchOfTheCastaways'') |
| 195 | * August 10: Peabody and Sherman foil a Confederate spy, allowing General William Tecumsah Sherman (no relation?) to get across a bridge on his march through Georgia. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 196 | * August 25: The ''Duncan'' sets out towards South America in hopes of rescuing captain Grant. (''Literature/InSearchOfTheCastaways'') |
| 197 | * September 1: With Atlanta about to fall to the Union, Confederate forces set fire to warehouses and freight cars loaded with war materials in order to prevent said war materials from falling into the hands of General Sherman's army. (RealLife) Scarlett O'Hara, Rhett Butler, Melanie Hamilton, an annoying black stereotype called "Prissy", and Melanie's newborn baby Beau make a daring escape through the conflagration. Scarlett's mother Ellen dies. (''Film/GoneWithTheWind'') |
| 198 | * September 11: A 2,000-year-old [[{{Immortality}} immortal man]], calling himself Major Hugh Skelton, participates in the [[ArtisticLicenseHistory Burning of Atlanta]] as a member of the 123rd Illinois Infantry. He does so reluctantly as he believes that General William Tecumseh Sherman's suppression of the Confederates is too brutal. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 199 | * November 8: |
| 200 | ** Abraham Lincoln is re-elected U.S. President, defeating George B. [=McClellan=]. (RealLife and ''[[Creator/GoreVidal Lincoln]]'') |
| 201 | ** Abraham Lincoln loses the U.S. presidential election to Horatio Seymour. (''Literature/TheGunsOfTheSouth'') |
| 202 | ** Abraham Lincoln wins the U.S. presidential election by just 2 votes as the Confederate Army begins to surround Washington. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 203 | ** Abraham Lincoln loses the U.S. presidential election as a result of the Confederate States' victory in the War of Secession. (''Literature/Timeline191'') |
| 204 | * November 12 - 15: The Burning of Atlanta by General Sherman's Union army. (RealLife) Contrary to popular belief, ''not'' depicted in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' (see above). |
| 205 | * Christmas: Agnes, the wife of the priest Brand, succumbs to a broken heart after giving away all of her dead son's clothes to a beggar woman's frozen child. (''Theatre/{{Brand}}'') |
| 206 | * Duncan [=MacLeod=] is arrested while smuggling slaves out of Georgia. He and his latest charge Jeffrey are transported to Camp Sumter, a Confederate Prisoner-of-war camp located at Andersonville. When Jeffrey contracts gangrene, Duncan has to mercy kill him; he then vows vengeance on the prison's commander, William Everett Culbraith, who happens to be a fellow immortal. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 207 | * Bra'tac is born, probably on the planet Chulak. (''Series/StargateSG1'') |
| 208 | * Death of Pauline Francis Bernard. Lucy Hanover becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 209 | * Kevin Corcoran returns to New York from the Civil War, finding that his daughter has died and his wife is missing. He then joins the New York Police Department as a detective. (''Series/{{Copper}}'') |
| 210 | * Peer Gynt returns to Norway after many years, survives a shipwreck barely, and comes to his home area on foot, penniless, and unknown. He finally reunites with Solveig who still waits for him in his old cabin, and she consoles him while he passes away, not quite sure what he actually made out of his life. (''Theatre/PeerGynt'') |
| 211 | * A series of temporal duplicates of FrankensteinsMonster are dropped in the middle of the American Civil War. (''Film/ArmyOfFrankensteins'') |
| 212 | * Elizabeth Harvey is born. (''[[Series/Roots1977 Roots: The Next Generations]]'') |
| 213 | * The Nexus crosses through the Milky Way Galaxy. (''Film/StarTrekGenerations'') |
| 214 | * The Demigod Civil War, between Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'') |
| 215 | * Birth of Jacob von Hogflume. He would go on to discover time travel. (A satirical [[https://openplaques.org/people/3922 blue plaque]]) |
| 216 | * At the Battle of Scarlett Meadows, Confederate General Quincy Harris successfully repels an attack by Union forces. (''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'') |
| 217 | * Valentina de la Cruz is born. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'') |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[AC: 1865]] |
| 220 | * March 8: Captain Harry Grant is rescued. (''Literature/InSearchOfTheCastaways'') |
| 221 | * March: After the Confederate deserter Jimmy Grant attempts to rape Irene Harvey, her husband Tom kills him and buries the body. Grant's elder brother Evan suspects that Tom is responsible and swears revenge. (''Series/{{Roots|1977}}'') |
| 222 | * April 8: Dan Morgan has his last stand against the Australian government, being mortally wounded by police the next morning. (RealLife and ''Film/MadDogMorgan'') |
| 223 | * April 9: Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union General UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant at Appomattox Court House in Appomattox County, Virginia. This effectively marks the end of the American Civil War. (RealLife) |
| 224 | ** When the news comes over the telegraph, Lewis Harvey rides to the Harvey plantation to tell his family that the war is over and they are free. (''Series/{{Roots|1977}}'') |
| 225 | ** Colonel Elias Openshaw retires from the Confederate army and returns to his plantation in Florida. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': "The Five Orange Pips") |
| 226 | * April 14: |
| 227 | ** Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre. The play ''Theatre/{{Our American Cousin}}'' [[NeverLiveItDown is forever associated with this event]]. (RealLife) |
| 228 | *** Booth was hypnotized by the fashion industry to kill Lincoln to prevent Lincoln from freeing the slaves, which would have driven up the price of powdered wigs and colored stockings tenfold. (''{{Film/Zoolander}}'') |
| 229 | ** ComicBook/{{Superboy}} travels back in time to this date to try to prevent Abraham Lincoln's assassination, but fails to do so. (''Creator/DCComics'') |
| 230 | ** Phil and Elsie Stoneman are in the audience of Ford's Theatre at the time of the assassination. (''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|1915}}'') |
| 231 | ** John Wilkes Booth, an agent of the Knights of the Golden Circle, assassinates Lincoln as part of a Confederate conspiracy to restart the Civil War. Shortly after the assassination, Thomas Gates foils the KGC's plans to find Cibola, the mythical {{city of gold}}, but he is killed in the process. (''Film/NationalTreasure: Book of Secrets'') |
| 232 | ** Garzooka travels back in time to this date to try to prevent Abraham Lincoln's assassination and fails to do so, but discovers the Green Chaos Emerald. (''[[Fanfic/GoJyuSentaiGigaranger GoJyu Sentai Gigaranger]]'') |
| 233 | ** "Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln" fires back at his assassin. (''Series/PoliceSquad'' intro sequence) |
| 234 | ** [AlternateUniverse] Abraham Lincoln is not assassinated as a psychic foresaw it and warned the President. Lincoln is so impressed that he creates a Cabinet position called the Prime Oracle. The Oracle is charged with warning the American people about natural and man-made disasters. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'') |
| 235 | ** On [[Franchise/TheDCU Earth-Three]], U.S. President John Wilkes Booth is assassinated by the actor Abraham Lincoln. (Creator/DCComics) |
| 236 | ** A showing of ''Our American Cousin'' at Ford's Theatre is marred by a failed attempt to kill U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 237 | ** Peter Corrigan, a time traveler from 1961, attempts to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent the assassination]] of Abraham Lincoln but he is unsuccessful. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 238 | ** Professor Russell Cromwell, a scientist from an [[AlternateTimeline alternate 1953]] in which Earth is a {{utopia}}n, [[OneWorldOrder unified republic]], travels back in time to get a glimpse of the Great Man Abraham Lincoln, whose teachings led to the creation of his world, while he is attending a play at Ford's Theatre. When he approaches Lincoln's box, Cromwell is arrested by Lincoln's bodyguard John Frederick Parker and his valet Charles Forbes, who believe that he is an assassin. The box is left unattended, allowing John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Lincoln. A new and more violent timeline is created as a result. (''Weird Fantasy'') |
| 239 | ** The Eternal Enemy hypnotizes John Wilkes Booth into assassinating Abraham Lincoln. (Creator/DCComics) |
| 240 | ** John Wilkes Booth allows himself to be possessed by a demon in order to assassinate Lincoln, who was protected by his wife Mary Todd's own good magic. In retaliation, she sealed him away, with the Lincoln Memorial being built as a focus and reinforcement for the spell. (Series/SleepyHollow) |
| 241 | * April 15: The news reaches the Harvey plantation that Abraham Lincoln has been assassinated. Tom Harvey vows to keep working so that Lincoln's death will not be in vain. (''Series/{{Roots|1977}}'') |
| 242 | * April: The Confederate town of Pleasant Valley is massacred by Union soldiers. (''Film/TwoThousandManiacs'') |
| 243 | * May 4: Alice visits Wonderland. (''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'') |
| 244 | * July 14: Peabody and Sherman help Lord Douglas climb the Matterhorn. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 245 | * October: The Baltimore Gun Club launches a capsule towards the Moon. (''Literature/FromTheEarthToTheMoon'') |
| 246 | * November 14: Gerald O'Hara dies. (''Film/GoneWithTheWind'') |
| 247 | * Five Union [=POWs=], led by Cyrus Smith (a.k.a. Cyrus Harding) escape by hot air balloon from the city of Richmond, Virginia, under siege by Union troops. After a storm blows them off course, they crash-land on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. (''Literature/TheMysteriousIsland'') |
| 248 | * Union victorious in the American Civil War. (''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'' and RealLife) |
| 249 | * A former member of Glaaki's cult leaks the ''Revelations of Glaaki''. (Franchise/CthulhuMythos) |
| 250 | * In Polly Spark's [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight altered version of history]], Roast-Bot shows Louis Pasteur how to heat cows, supposedly ensuring that the milk which comes out of them will be safe to drink. (''VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain'') |
| 251 | * Dr. Henry Morgan is reunited with his first wife Nora, who accidentally kills a nurse while trying to prove to others that Henry is immortal. (''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'') |
| 252 | * Zebulon Walton is born. (''Series/TheWaltons'') |
| 253 | * Lady Ellen is born. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'') |
| 254 | * After the Union is defeated in the War on Northern Aggression, former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln goes on the run with UsefulNotes/HarrietTubman. They are eventually captured by Confederate troops. Confederate President Jefferson Davis claims that it is symbolic that Lincoln was wearing {{blackface}} when captured. Lincoln is tried for war crimes against the Confederacy. Although he is never convicted, he is imprisoned for two years. His capture is later depicted in the 1915 [[SilentMovie silent film]] ''The Hunt for Dishonest Abe'' directed by Creator/DWGriffith. (''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'') |
| 255 | * The "seedy backwoods congressman" Abraham Lincoln, a "vulgar, incompetent man who amounted to little and accomplished less," is shot by John Wilkes Booth in a tavern brawl over theatre tickets. (''Literature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 256 | * Missouri farmer Josey Wales hunts down the Yankee soldiers who murdered his wife and son. (''Film/TheOutlawJoseyWales'') |
| 257 | * Vigilantes like Two-Gun Kid, Black Rider and Red Wolf are active around this time period. ("Franchise/MarvelUniverse") |
| 258 | |
| 259 | [[AC: 1866]] |
| 260 | * May 17: Creator/HGWells takes Tempus to Smallville, Kansas on this date instead of May 17, 1966 in an effort to prevent him from killing Franchise/{{Superman}} as a baby. He claims that it is an accident. While there, Tempus meets UsefulNotes/JesseJames and his elder brother Frank and proceeds to rob them. He then robs the Smallville Bank in order to obtain more gold to power the time machine. Clark Kent and ComicBook/LoisLane follow Wells and Tempus in another time machine. Tempus uses the opportunity to tell Lois that Clark is Superman. (''Series/LoisAndClark'') |
| 261 | * July 20: The steamer ''Governor Higginson'' encounters the ''Nautilus'' five miles off the eastern shores of Australia, which is believed to be some sort of aquatic mammal after it emits two waterspouts 150 feet tall. This would be the first of many such encounters with the "sea monster". (''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'') |
| 262 | * August 24: The Civil War ends with victory for the Confederacy when the US President surrenders to CSA troops, ending the Siege of Washington. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 263 | * November 23: Clara Oswin Oswald is born. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 264 | * John Carter is transported to Barsoom (Mars). (''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'') |
| 265 | * Duncan [=MacLeod=] shags a young woman named Bess, but they are interrupted by her fiancé, Ned, who accidentally kills Bess when she tries to stop the men fighting. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 266 | * Death of Lucy Hanover. Angela Martignetti becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 267 | * Brand, a local reverend, rebels at the ceremonial opening of a new church, delivers an [[RousingSpeech impassioned speech]], and urges his entire community to follow him on a desperate soul-saving crusade. The villagers are tricked down again by the other officials, leaving Brand utterly alone, except for the company of a half-crazed teenage girl, Gerd. After a trek through the mountain side, the two of then end up in the close proximity of a glacier. Gerd fires a shot, and the entire thing collapses, setting off an avalanche that drowns an entire Norwegian community in snow and ice. (''Theatre/{{Brand}}'') |
| 268 | * In Polly Spark's [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight altered version of history]], Robby Robot convinces Alfred Nobel (somehow) to use dynamite as an exploding cigar. (''VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain'') |
| 269 | * Eleven-year-old Clara Clayton is quarantined with diphtheria. Her father brings her a telescope, sparking a lifelong interest in astronomy and science. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' and ''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'') |
| 270 | * Esther Walton is born. (''Series/TheWaltons'') |
| 271 | * German anarchist and author Reinhold Feuerbach is born. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 272 | * John Openshaw is born. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': "The Five Orange Pips") |
| 273 | |
| 274 | [[AC: 1867]] |
| 275 | * March 5: The ''Moravian'' of the Montreal Ocean Company collides with the ''Nautilus'' en route from Canada. (''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'') |
| 276 | * March 30: The CSA's Secretary of State Robert E. Lee negotiates with Spain to purchase Cuba as a new southern territory. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 277 | * April 30: Dr Pierre Aronnax publishes an article concluding that the "sea monster" is most likely a hitherto unknown species of giant narwhal. (''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'') |
| 278 | * May 15 - June 21: Immortals Duncan [=MacLeod=] and Paul Karros fight on the Republican side during the last days of the Second Mexican Empire. Duncan befriends Elda Gutierrez, a young medic. When Elda dies in Duncan's arms, the Highlander leaves Mexico in disgust at "Just Wars" which leave everyone dead. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 279 | * July 3: The ''Abraham Lincoln'' sets off in search of the "sea monster", with Aronnax and his manservant Conseil being invited on board at the last minute. (''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'') |
| 280 | * July 31: Jeffrey Howell, medical doctor and passenger on the ''Lady Crithania'', is born. (''VideoGame/{{SOS}}'') |
| 281 | * November 4: The ''Abraham Lincoln'' is near the coast of Japan and about to leave the northern Pacific Ocean after numerous false alarms. That night, Ned Land sights the "sea monster" and the ''Abraham Lincoln'' begins its pursuit. (''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'') |
| 282 | * November 6, 11pm: Ned Land attempts to harpoon the "sea monster". In response, it rams the ''Abraham Lincoln'', causing Ned, Aronnax and Conseil to be knocked overboard. (''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'') |
| 283 | * November 7: Aronnax, Conseil and Ned Land are brought onto the ''Nautilus''. (''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'') |
| 284 | * The immortal Kronos, under the name Melvin Koren, leads a small group of Comancheros in a brutal campaign across Texas. Duncan [=MacLeod=] leads a group of rangers in pursuit. The two immortals find a secluded spot to duel, and Kronos almost kills Duncan, but it shot by a group of rangers. He is buried in a shallow grave, but soon revives and escapes. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 285 | * The ''Black Rock'' crashes on the island. [[labelnote:more]]A man by the name of Ricardo survives.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/{{Lost}}'') |
| 286 | * Dio Brando is born. (''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'') |
| 287 | * Birth of Scrooge [=McDuck=] in Glasgow. (''Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'') |
| 288 | * Peabody and Sherman find out how Buffalo Bill Cody got his name. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 289 | * Peabody and Sherman help the Marquess of Queensbury come up with his famous set of rules for boxing. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 290 | * Zombie outbreak in the ''RMS Rona'' brings zombies to Australia. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'') |
| 291 | * U.S. Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon are assigned to covert activity in the Western territories. (''Series/TheWildWildWest'') |
| 292 | * ''Daily Bugle'' founded. (Creator/MarvelComics) |
| 293 | * Hakon Werle and his forster Ekdahl is suspected for fraud on a forest purchase. Werle manages to get off the hook, while his companion Ekdahl gets a sentence - which nearly breaks him mentally. (''Theatre/TheWildDuck'') |
| 294 | * Adam Adamant is born. (''Series/AdamAdamantLives'') |
| 295 | * Former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is released from Confederate captivity and exiled to UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}. (''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'') |
| 296 | |
| 297 | [[AC: 1868]] |
| 298 | * February 24: |
| 299 | ** U.S. President UsefulNotes/AndrewJohnson is impeached, narrowly escaping removal from office by just one vote. (RealLife) |
| 300 | ** U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is impeached, narrowly escaping removal from office by just one vote. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 301 | * March 21: Captain Nemo and his party reach the South Pole, and he claims it in his own name. (''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'') |
| 302 | * June 1: The ''Nautilus'' visits the wreck of the ''Vengeur du Peuple''. (''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'') |
| 303 | * Between July and September: Captain Nemo pilots the ''Nautilus'' into the Maelstrom. Aronnax, Conseil and Ned Land somehow escape and reach land. (''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'') |
| 304 | * Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards goes after the Comanches who massacred his brother's family and kidnapped his niece. (''Film/TheSearchers'') |
| 305 | * At about this time, Duncan [=MacLeod=] meets fellow immortal Carl the Hermit. Carl teaches Duncan tracking skills and his knowledge of the fauna and flaura of the North American forests in exchange for swordsmanship. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 306 | * Duncan [=MacLeod=] saves the life of Chaske, a Native American slave boy, but he is shot the next day by distrusting townsfolk. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 307 | * Jonathan Joestar and Erina Pendleton are born. (''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'') |
| 308 | * Gregers Werle leaves his home town to work at his father`s business in the mountains. He breaks contact with his schoolmate Hjalmar Ekdal for a number of years. (''Theatre/TheWildDuck'') |
| 309 | * Twin assassins Jacob and Evie Frye rally together a gang called The Rooks to free London from Crawford Starrick and the Templars. (''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'') |
| 310 | * Swedish children's author Torsten Ekstrom is born. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 311 | * Choshu and Satsuma, with almost very little outside help (from Britain) overthrow the Shogunate because they hate Japan's contract with the US. They make the emperor the Emperor again, and move him to Edo, which they rename Tokyo ("eastern capital"). (''WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan'') |
| 312 | |
| 313 | [[AC: 1869]] |
| 314 | * December 24: The Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler meet Creator/CharlesDickens and the medium Gwyneth and prevent an invasion by the Gelth. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 315 | * Captain Jack Harkness gets stranded in Cardiff and remains stationed at the Cardiff Rift and later Series/{{Torchwood}} Three waiting for the Doctor. (''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'') |
| 316 | * Peabody and Sherman help Talbot Heffelfinger find a model for the first Indian head nickel. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 317 | * Peabody and Sherman help solve the very first case of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 318 | * The board game Jumanji is buried outside Brantford, New Hampshire. (''Literature/{{Jumanji}}'') |
| 319 | * Alexander Hartdegen is born. (''Film/TheTimeMachine2002'') |
| 320 | |
| 321 | [[AC: Late 1860s]] |
| 322 | * 1869 or 1870: Elias Openshaw emigrates from the United States to the United Kingdom due to his hatred of the extension of voting rights to black people. He settles down in the town of Horsham in Sussex. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': "The Five Orange Pips") |
| 323 | * A drifter known as Django wanders into a small Western town, where a gang of Confederate guerrillas are [[MobWar fighting]] Mexican bandits. After he plays the gangs against each other, he kills the leader of the former for killing his wife. (''Film/{{Django}}'') |
| 324 | * A half-Indian gunman liberates a town held hostage by ex-Confederate guerrillas, battling his racist half-brothers in the process. (''Film/{{Keoma}}'') |
| 325 | * Charlotte No-Haira's ancestors are shipwrecked on a "living island" in the Pacific Ocean. (''VideoGame/TheClueFinders5thGradeAdventuresTheSecretOfTheLivingVolcano'') |
| 326 | |
| 327 | [[AC: 1860s]] |
| 328 | * American gunslinger Matthew Quigley moves to Australia to kill some animals, only to learn that said "animals" are what [[{{Cattle Baron}} his employer]] [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain calls Australian aboriginals]]. (''Film/QuigleyDownUnder'') |
| 329 | |
| 330 | [[AC: 1870]] |
| 331 | * October 5 - 20: The 15-Day War is fought between Sordland and Rumberg. The war ends with a ''status quo ante bellum'' peace treaty. (''VideoGame/{{Suzerain}}'') |
| 332 | * December: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson uncanonically meet as schoolboys at Brompton Academy, where they solve a mystery involving an Egyptian death cult. (''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes'') |
| 333 | * At about this date, Vulcans had recovered from the disastrous civil wars of the 4th century. They discover or rediscover space flight. [[labelnote:more]]"...it took my people nearly 1,500 years to rebuild our world and travel to the stars."[[/labelnote]] (''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'') |
| 334 | * Peabody plays in the world's first golf match. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 335 | * A band of Texas Rangers is massacred by bandits in the New Mexico territory. The lone survivor, one John Reid, is never heard from again. (''Radio/TheLoneRanger'') |
| 336 | * Hedvig, the illegitimate daughter of businissman Hakon Werle and his housemaid Gina, is born. Werle has secured himself from slander by marrying Gina off to the young [[WideEyedIdealist Hjalmar Ekdal]]. Mrs Werle succumbs to alcoholism and dies soon afterwards. (''Theatre/TheWildDuck'') |
| 337 | * The time travelers Phineas Bogg, Jeffrey Jones and Isaac Wolfstein prevent Clara Barton from being killed in the UsefulNotes/FrancoPrussianWar. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 338 | * Having bought land in Henning, Lauderdale County, Tennessee using the prize money from his many years of cockfighting, Chicken George Moore leaves North Carolina with his wife Matilda and their extended family. When they arrive in Henning, Chicken George tells the spirit of his grandfather Kunta Kinte, who was enslaved in 1767, that the flesh of his flesh has come to freedom. (''Series/{{Roots|1977}}'') |
| 339 | [[/folder]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[folder:1871 C.E. - 1880 C.E.]] |
| 342 | [[AC: 1871]] |
| 343 | * October 8-10: The Great Chicago Fire burns down most of the city. (RealLife) |
| 344 | ** Among the dead is one Dr. O'Reilly, who would go on to save President UsefulNotes/JamesGarfield from assassination 10 years later. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 345 | ** Gary Hobson, mysteriously pulled back in time from 1998, fails to stop the fire, but saves the life of a boy named Jesse. (''Series/EarlyEdition'') |
| 346 | * Caleb, a ruthless gunslinger, meets Ophelia Price and both end up drawn into an evil cult. (''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'') |
| 347 | * Peabody and Sherman help P. T. Barnum recover full ownership of his circus from dastardly trapeze artists Hyde and Sick. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 348 | * Peabody and Sherman save Mr. Stanley and Dr. Livingston from a tribe of cannibals, incidentally failing to settle an argument between them about which one has the right to say "I presume". (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 349 | * Birth of Mollie Prater in Kentucky. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 350 | * The Time Traveller receives a material with strange temporal properties from a man known only as "Gottfried Plattner".[[labelnote:more]]This turns out to be the Time Traveller's future self, placed there by the Constructors.[[/labelnote]] (''Literature/TheTimeShips'') |
| 351 | * The approximate year that the Wizard of Oz, Oscar Zoroaster Diggs, came to Oz in his hot air balloon, taking over rule of the land from King Pastoria and commissioning the building of the Emerald City. (''Literature/LandOfOz'') |
| 352 | * Randolph and Bertha Van Cleve are married. (''Film/HeavenCanWait1943'') |
| 353 | * Charles Foster Kane's parents sign their custody away so he can get a good education. (''Film/CitizenKane'') |
| 354 | * Cynthia Harvey (later Palmer) is born. (''[[Series/Roots1977 Roots: The Next Generations]]'') |
| 355 | |
| 356 | [[AC: 1872]] |
| 357 | * March 13: Duncan [=MacLeod=] has finally settled down in a Lakota Sioux settlement. He has married Little Deer and adopted her son, Kahani, from a previous marriage. On this day, he leaves the camp for a short period to look for Connor and meets Kern, an immortal Cavalryman who seeks out Native American settlements for the Cavalry to exterminate. The two fight and Duncan returns to camp, only to find them wiped out by the Cavalry. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 358 | * March: Connor [=MacLeod=] finds Duncan still mourning over the corpses. He helps prepare the funeral pyres and tries to comfort Duncan. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 359 | * Autumn: Duncan goes on a rampage against Kern, the Cavalry, and white people in general. He ends up in a cell with Jim Coltec, a Lakota hayoka who absorbs Duncan's hate and rage into himself. With permission of the Lakota tribal elders, Duncan builds a cabin for himself on an island considered sacred to them to avoid having to fight any more immortals. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 360 | * October 2: Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout begin a trip around the world. (''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'') |
| 361 | * October 25: Henry Van Cleve is born in Manhattan. (''Film/HeavenCanWait1943'') |
| 362 | * November 5: |
| 363 | ** Ulysses S. Grant is re-elected U.S. President, defeating Horace Greeley. (RealLife) |
| 364 | ** After a constitutional amendment limiting Presidents to only one term, Victoria Woodhull is elected as the first female President. (''Literature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 365 | * November 5 - December 4: |
| 366 | ** The ''Mary Celeste'' is found mysteriously abandoned. (RealLife) |
| 367 | ** The ''Mary Celeste'' is abandoned by its crew after time-traveling Daleks arrive hunting for the First Doctor. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 368 | ** Benjamin Spooner Briggs, Captain of the ''Mary Celeste'', finds himself in Limbo where he has to aid Destiny in a war against Fate. (''VideoGame/LimboOfTheLost'') |
| 369 | * December 12: Birth of Henry Walton Jones in Scotland. He would grow up to become a professor of medieval literature. (''Franchise/IndianaJones: The Ultimate Guide'', 2008) |
| 370 | * December 21: Phileas Fogg and Passepartout arrive at the Reform Club in London just in time to win their wager. (''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'') |
| 371 | * The First Accords between the Nephilim (now called Shadowhunters) and Downworlders (vampires, werewolves, faeries, and warlocks) are signed. (''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'') |
| 372 | * Peabody and Sherman foil Jesse James's plan to rob a bank in St. Louis. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 373 | * Peabody and Sherman help James Whistler keep his mother still long enough to paint her. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 374 | * Birth of Elizabeth in White Chapel, London. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 375 | * Carmilla comes to live with the young English girl, Laura. Laura eventually falls ill. (''Literature/{{Carmilla}}'') |
| 376 | * An alien being arrives in UsefulNotes/{{Oregon}} and grants four outlaws, Jake Miller, Ben Miller, Frank Kelton and J.D. Kelton, powers in order to test whether humanity has the potential to become a threat to its species. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'') |
| 377 | * Will E. Palmer is born. (''[[Series/Roots1977 Roots: The Next Generations]]'') |
| 378 | * Edward Linfoot dies in Stockbridge. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'') |
| 379 | * William "Billy" Bailey is born. (''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'') |
| 380 | * Klaus Barry Heterodyne is born (1 year 42 days before the Other's attack on the Castle). (''Webcomic/GirlGenius'') |
| 381 | |
| 382 | [[AC: 1873]] |
| 383 | * March 1: Apprentice pirate Frederick completes his term of indenture. (''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'') |
| 384 | * July 18: Suicide of Augustus Mellmotte. (''Literature/TheWayWeLiveNow'') |
| 385 | * July: The Time Traveller and Nebogipfel arrive from 657,208 C.E. and visit the Time Traveller's past self. The Time Traveller attempts to convince his past self to stop his research into Plattnerite but is interrupted by the arrival of time travellers from 1938. (''Literature/TheTimeShips'') |
| 386 | * Martial artist Kwai Chang Caine begins his adventures in the American West. (''Series/KungFu1972'') |
| 387 | * Jonathan Joestar's dog, Danny, saves him from drowning, and they become best friends. (''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'') |
| 388 | * Peabody and Sherman prod Alexander Graham Bell into inventing the telephone. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 389 | * Death of Angela Martignetti. Catherine Callan becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 390 | * Scarlett O'Hara doesn't know where she'll go or what she'll do and Rhett Butler frankly doesn't give a damn. (''Film/GoneWithTheWind'') |
| 391 | * Klaatu is born. (''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951'') |
| 392 | * Alferd Packer and a bunch of other people go to Colorado Territory for supplies, getting stuck in the elements in the process. Packer is forced to kill all of his comrades to not starve. (RealLife) However, he did not actually do it, and killed the guy who did in self-defense. (''Film/CannibalTheMusical'') |
| 393 | * Eugene Victor Tooms is born in Baltimore, Maryland. (''Series/TheXFiles'') |
| 394 | |
| 395 | [[AC: 1873 - 1874]] |
| 396 | * Castle Heterodyne is attacked and destroyed by the Other. Klaus Barry Heterodyne dies 1 year and 42 days after birth. Lucrezia Mongfish disappears. The next day, Bill and Barry Heterodyne go to war, and the Other War begins. (''Webcomic/GirlGenius'') |
| 397 | * Agatha Heterodyne is born sometime after the attack on the Castle. (''Webcomic/GirlGenius'') |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[AC: 1874]] |
| 400 | * Peabody and Sherman cure Calamity Jane of her excessive good luck by tricking her into breaking a mirror. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 401 | * Peabody and Sherman help Creator/JulesVerne make it around the world in 80 days. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 402 | * A black railroad worker is made sheriff of a racist town as part of the [[CorruptPolitician mayor's]] real estate scam. With the help of a washed-up gunfighter, he ends up exposing the scheme, saving the day, and educating the townspeople on tolerance. (''Film/BlazingSaddles'') |
| 403 | * Thomas Campbell Brockless is born. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'') |
| 404 | * Mordechai Byreika is born in Lodz, Poland. (''Literature/MonsterHunterInternational'') |
| 405 | |
| 406 | [[AC:1875]] |
| 407 | * January: Lady Jocelyn "Joss" Holbrook is born. (''Series/{{Tenko}}'') |
| 408 | * August 24: Peabody and Sherman teach Matthew Clift to swim, so he can become the first person to swim across the English Channel. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 409 | * December 14: Birth of Ciel Phantomhive. (''Anime/{{Black Butler}}'') |
| 410 | * Stepney is built. (''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'') |
| 411 | * Peabody and Sherman help Wyatt Earp catch notorious outlaw "Aces" Wilde. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 412 | * In an unrelated trip, Peabody and Sherman save General Custer by baking pies. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 413 | * In yet another trip which has nothing to do with any of the others, Peabody and Sherman help Colonel Beauregard's horse Alert to win the first Kentucky Derby. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 414 | * U.S. Marshal Brisco County Sr. is murdered in California. (''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr'') |
| 415 | * Tyler Means and Pat Knight are born. (''Series/QuantumLeap'') |
| 416 | * The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones introduce Alexander Graham Bell to his future wife Mabel Hubbard. However, Mabel falls in love with Bogg. He rejects her to ensure that history is set on its proper course. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 417 | * Matilda Moore dies. (''[[Series/Roots1977 Roots: The Next Generations]]'') |
| 418 | * Hetty's father is outraged over the fact that she had a provocative portrait, which showed her ankle, of her done. Hetty protests that she loved the artist, so her father threatens to cut ties with her if she chooses to marry the artist. (''Series/GhostsUS'') |
| 419 | |
| 420 | [[AC: 1876]] |
| 421 | * March 10: Alexander Graham Bell makes the world's first telephone call, saying "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you" to his assistant Thomas Watson. (RealLife) The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones are present for the call. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 422 | * June 25: |
| 423 | ** The Battle of Little Bighorn is fought between the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the US Army and the forces of the Lakota, North Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes near the Little Bighorn River in Montana. The tribes emerge victorious. Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer, the commander of the 7th, is among the 268 US casualties. (RealLife) |
| 424 | ** General George Custer smokes the peace pipe with Chief Sitting Bull, ending the Indian Wars. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 425 | ** Sgt. William Connors, Corporal Richard Langsford and Private Michael [=McCluskey=], three US Army soldiers from 1964, are transported back in time to the Battle of Little Bighorn. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 426 | ** Jack Crabb witnesses and survives the Battle of Little Bighorn (''Film/LittleBigMan'') |
| 427 | * July 4: Daniel Faraday, otherwise known as Ezekiel, travels back in time to the day of the United States' centennial after setting off a cold fusion device in Washington in August 2076. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'') |
| 428 | * November 2: Upon graduating from Cambridge, the seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - agree to meet every year on November 2 [[DutyThatTranscendsDeath regardless of death]]. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 429 | * November 7: |
| 430 | ** UsefulNotes/RutherfordBHayes defeats Samuel J. Tilden in the U.S. presidential election. (RealLife) |
| 431 | ** Samuel J. Tilden is elected President of the United States. (''Literature/Timeline191'') |
| 432 | ** Samuel J. Tilden defeats UsefulNotes/RutherfordBHayes in the U.S. presidential election after winning the Electoral College vote. (''Liteature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 433 | ** Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler campaigns for Samuel J. Tilden. (''[[Creator/GoreVidal 1876]]'') |
| 434 | * Death of Catherine Callan in London. Princess Amirah becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 435 | * In Arizona, outlaw Jericho Cross robs a train belonging to the Darkwatch organization and unwittingly frees the vampire Lazarus Malkoth. Cross joins Darkwatch and kills Lazarus at the organization's Citadel. (''[[VideoGame/{{DarkWatch}} Darkwatch]]'') |
| 436 | |
| 437 | [[AC:1877]] |
| 438 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the first time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 439 | * Scrooge [=McDuck=] starts work as a shoe shine boy. His first customer pays him with an American dime; Scrooge is initially outraged, but comes to view the event as a sign that he should go to America to seek his fortune. He keeps the dime as the first money he ever owned, and a memento of his origin. (''Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'') |
| 440 | * Birth of Florence Gilbert in Virginia City, Wyoming. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 441 | * In Polly Spark's [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight altered version of history]], Slide the Heavy-Metal Robot appears in Thomas Edison's laboratory and plays an electric guitar solo, giving a shock to Edison and making it so heavy metal music is the world's first recorded sound. (''VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain'') |
| 442 | * Ray Dobson is born. His father dies of cholera shortly after his birth. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 443 | * Dr. Corey Fielding, seeking an Elixir of Life, gathers a group of over a thousand children from poor and disadvantaged families, which he uses as test subjects for the compound Ultra-X-Amine. The survivors of these experiments would use the powers they gained from this to escape; they would eventually become a team of magical adventurers known as the Mystic Six. (''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'') |
| 444 | |
| 445 | [[AC: 1878]] |
| 446 | * March 17: Birth of Anna Mary Jones in Virginia. She would become the wife of Henry Jones and mother of Indiana Jones. (''Franchise/IndianaJones: The Ultimate Guide'') |
| 447 | * April: UsefulNotes/NedKelly starts his robbery spree. (RealLife and ''Film/NedKelly1970'') |
| 448 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the second time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 449 | * Birth of Marcus Brody in the United Kingdom. He would grow up to become a historian, archaeologist and museum curator. (''Franchise/IndianaJones: The Ultimate Guide'') |
| 450 | * Kamiya Kaoru, head of the Kamiya Kasshin kendo school, meets former assassin Himura Kenshin, who is atoning for his past killings with pacifism. Shortly after, more of Kenshin's previous enemies come to kill him. (''Manga/RurouniKenshin'') |
| 451 | * Alice Kingsleigh is brought back to Wonderland to help revolt against the regime of the Red Queen. (''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'') |
| 452 | * After cattle rancher John Tunstall is murdered, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney and his other hired hands form the Regulators and seek revenge. The ensuing conflict would become known as the Lincoln County War. (''Film/YoungGuns'' and RealLife) |
| 453 | * John Watson receives a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of London. (''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'') |
| 454 | * John Openshaw moves in with his uncle Elias. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': "The Five Orange Pips") |
| 455 | |
| 456 | [[AC: 1879]] |
| 457 | * January: Professor Chronos arrives in this time ahead of Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern. He is robbed by Tobias Manning, who uses his chronosuit to acquire future technology and seize control of Elkhorn. (''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'') |
| 458 | * June 12: Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern arrive in this time in pursuit of Professor Chronos. (''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'') |
| 459 | * June 13: Batlash, Oahisha Smith, El Diablo, and Jonah Hex, in collaboration with time travelling Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern, oust Tobias Manning from Elkhorn and destroy his future technology. Professor Chronos flees to the future, pursued by the time-displaced heroes. (''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'') |
| 460 | * October 19-21: UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison perfects the light bulb in Menlo Park, UsefulNotes/NewJersey. (RealLife) The time traveler Jeffrey Jones assists him. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 461 | ** V.I.L.E. agent Dee Cryption steals the filament from UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison[='s=] new light bulb. ACME pursuers acquire cotton thread for a replacement filament and capture Dee Cryption. (''[[VideoGame/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego1997 Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time]]'') |
| 462 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the third time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 463 | * December 31: UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison demonstrates the light bulb in public for the first time in Menlo Park, UsefulNotes/NewJersey. (RealLife) The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones are in attendance. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 464 | * A mysterious figure named the Magister declares war on the London Institute, with a robot army for backup. (''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'') |
| 465 | * The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler save Queen Victoria from a werewolf. The Queen forms Series/{{Torchwood}} in the wake of this incident, and declares the Doctor a threat. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 466 | * Peabody and Sherman recruit the initial Texas Rangers. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 467 | * Bill and Ted travel to a small town in New Mexico with their time machine and pick up Billy the Kid after getting into a bar room brawl, bringing him to the year 1988 for their history report. (''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'') |
| 468 | * Hugh Crain builds a country house for his new family, but his young wife is killed in a carriage accident seconds before seeing it for the first time. (''Literature/TheHauntingOfHillHouse'') |
| 469 | * Clara Clayton's father Daniel dies. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'') |
| 470 | * Walter B. Ryder, Sr. is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 471 | * Abigail Sloan moves into Ma Chamberlain's boarding house in Homeville, Indiana. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 472 | * Blake Holsey Preparatory School is established. (''Series/BlackHoleHigh'') |
| 473 | * Ben Song leaps into Diego de la Cruz, an elderly gunslinger, in the Old West town of Salvation. He's there to stop a band of outlaws, led by the ruthless Josiah [=McDonough=], from terrorizing the townspeople.[[labelnote:Spoilers]]At the end of the leap, Ben has a run-in with another apparent time traveler.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'') |
| 474 | ** Ben and Martinez leap back into their leapees in Salvation while leaping back through their previous encounters, and a struggle ensues for Martinez's leapee's six-shooter.[[labelnote:Spoilers]]Martinez is shot in the back by Frankie and dies; Ben is sent back to the beginning of his leap in 2018 after two versions of Ian press the ResetButton.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'') |
| 475 | |
| 476 | [[AC: 1880]] |
| 477 | * April 21: A clipper moving a leper colony sinks near Antonio Bay. There are no survivors. (''Film/TheFog'') |
| 478 | * June 28: UsefulNotes/NedKelly is captured after a shootout with police. (RealLife and ''Film/NedKelly'') |
| 479 | * July 27: Dr. John Watson, serving with the Berkshires in Afghanistan, is struck in the sholder by a bullet during the Battle of Maiwand. The injury pulls him out of the war. (''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'') |
| 480 | * November 2: |
| 481 | ** UsefulNotes/JamesGarfield defeats Winfield Scott Hancock in the U.S. presidential election. (RealLife) |
| 482 | ** James G. Blaine defeats Samuel J. Tilden in the U.S. presidential election. Blaine is the last member of the Republican Party to hold the office. (''Literature/Timeline191'') |
| 483 | ** The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the fourth time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 484 | ** Samuel J. Tilden is re-elected President of the United States. (''Literature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 485 | ** Samuel J. Tilden defeats UsefulNotes/JamesGarfield in the U.S. presidential election. (''AlternatePresidents'') |
| 486 | * November 11: UsefulNotes/NedKelly is hanged. (RealLife and ''Film/NedKelly1970'') |
| 487 | * November 14: As he is about to be hanged for murder, Joe Caswell is transported forward in time to 1960 by Professor Manion. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 488 | * Drusilla turns William into a vampire. He takes the name Spike. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 489 | * Infamous gunfighter and bounty hunter Will Munny comes back from retirement for one last job. (''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'') |
| 490 | * Baron Sardonicus' wife Maude contacts Sir Robert Cargrave in London in hopes that he could come to Gorslava and cure the Baron's permanent rictus grin. (''Film/MrSardonicus'') |
| 491 | * Dario Brando is on his deathbed, and sends his son, Dio, to live with the Joestar family, of whom the patriarch, George Joestar I, believes he is deeply indebted to Dario. Jonathan Joestar meets and falls in love with Erina Pendleton, but Dio steals her from him, and kills his pet dog, Danny. (''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'') |
| 492 | * Scrooge [=McDuck=] emigrates to America and meets the Beagle Boys. (''Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'') |
| 493 | * Lord Henry Mystic establishes his home at Mystic Point, Papua New Guinea and rescues and befriends a monkey he names Albert after a favorite uncle. (''[[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Mystic Manor]]'') |
| 494 | * Peabody and Sherman help Scotland Yard recover the stolen Crown Jewels (and the Tower of London, which was apparently stolen along with them) by noticing that they were never stolen in the first place. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 495 | * Numerous people are abducted from Earth and brought to UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'') |
| 496 | * Ada Burn Quigley is born. (''Series/NightGallery'') |
| 497 | * The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones prevent UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt from being killed by UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 498 | * Railroad tycoon and former Confederate major Thomas Magruder resumes his reign of terror over the American southwest with the help of his henchmen Reverend Josiah Reed and Mayor Hodoo Brown, in his quest to find the lost golden city of Quivira. He's opposed by an alliance of resistance fighters and Indian warriors led by Clay Allison and Colton White. (''VideoGame/{{GUN}}'') |
| 499 | * American pulp novelist and screenwriter Victor Martin Summersby is born. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 500 | * Amelia Folch is recruited by The Ministry of Time while studying at the University of Barcelona. (''Series/TheMinistryOfTime'') |
| 501 | |
| 502 | [[AC: 1870s]] |
| 503 | * 14-year-old Mattie Ross teams up with US Marshall "Rooster" Cogburn and Texas Ranger [=LaBoeuf=] to avenge her father's murder. (''Film/TrueGrit'') |
| 504 | * Embittered ex-Confederate Colonel Lloyd disowns his daughter Elizabeth for marrying Jack Sherman, a Yankee. Six years later, the couple's young daughter, named Lloyd Sherman, reunites the family. (''Film/TheLittleColonel'') |
| 505 | * Railroad worker John Henry challenges a company steam drill to a construction race. John wins, even digging a mountain tunnel with just a sledgehammer, but the exertion kills him. (''WesternAnimation/JohnHenry'') |
| 506 | * Tsar Alexander II sends a small party of adventurers, led by General Grigor Selescu, in search of a hidden city called "Shambhala". They go to the suspected location, but only find a strange figure-eight depression of prodigious size on the ground. (''[[Creator/KevinCostner The Explorers' Guild]]'') |
| 507 | [[/folder]] |
| 508 | |
| 509 | [[folder:1881 C.E. - 1890 C.E.]] |
| 510 | [[AC: 1881]] |
| 511 | * July 1: The time traveler Paul Driscoll arrives in Homeville, Indiana, intending to settle down in a more peaceful time than 1963. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 512 | * July 2: President UsefulNotes/JamesGarfield is shot by Charles J. Guiteau, dying of his wounds on September 19. (RealLife) A doctor named O'Reilly saves the president by removing the bullet and sanitizing the wound with antiseptics. Too bad he had died 10 years before... (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 513 | * July 3: The Homeville County School burns down. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 514 | * October 26: |
| 515 | ** Nine gunslingers fight the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. Vendettas ensue. (RealLife) |
| 516 | ** Lawmen Morgan and Virgil Earp insist on confronting the illegally-armed cowboys, leading to a complex tragedy. (''Film/{{Tombstone}}'') |
| 517 | ** The First Doctor and his companions Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet become involved in the gunfight at the OK Corral. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 518 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the fifth time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 519 | * Sherlock Holmes meets John Watson. (''[[Literature/SherlockHolmes A Study in Scarlet]]'') |
| 520 | * The Confederate States purchases the Mexican provinces of Sonora and Chihuahua. The United States invades, beginning the Second Mexican War. (''Literature/Timeline191'') |
| 521 | * Zombie outbreak in Piedmont, Oregon. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'') |
| 522 | * Oswald Alving succumbs to Syphilis after his return from Paris. The "memorial home" in remembrance of his father, Captain/Chamberlain Alving, burns to the ground. (''Theatre/{{Ghosts}}''). |
| 523 | * We saw the past and it looked like fun... (''Music/AbneyPark'') |
| 524 | * The construct Geras is shot by Wyatt Earp under unknown circumstances. (''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'') |
| 525 | |
| 526 | [[AC: 1882]] |
| 527 | * January 19: Redwin Gardner, counselor and passenger on the ''Lady Crithania'', is born. (''VideoGame/{{SOS}}'') |
| 528 | * April 3: UsefulNotes/JesseJames is assassinated by the coward Robert Ford. (RealLife, ''Film/TheAssassinationOfJesseJamesByTheCowardRobertFord'') |
| 529 | * April 22: The Second Mexican War ends in a Confederate victory thanks to its alliance with France and Great Britain. A humiliated United States begins building closer ties to Germany. Slavery begins to phase out in the [=CSA=], though racism is still very much institutionalized. Former president Abraham Lincoln splits from the Republicans and founds the Socialist Party. (''Literature/Timeline191'') |
| 530 | * April: |
| 531 | ** Chicken George Moore moves in with his son Tom Harvey, daughter-in-law Irene and granddaughters Elizabeth and Cynthia. (''[[Series/Roots1977 Roots: The Next Generations]]'') |
| 532 | ** Carrie Barden is hired to teach the black children of Henning, Tennessee. She meets Jim Warner, the son of the town's white leader Colonel Frederick Warner, and the two soon fall in love. (''[[Series/Roots1977 Roots: The Next Generations]]'') |
| 533 | ** The railroad arrives in Henning. (''[[Series/Roots1977 Roots: The Next Generations]]'') |
| 534 | * July 4: Duncan [=MacLeod=] tries to propose to his girlfriend, Sarah Carter, but is prevented by the arrival of her estranged husband, Henry. The men fight, and Sarah decides to reconcile with Henry. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 535 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the sixth time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 536 | * Tim Ramsey, a friend of Duncan [=MacLeod=], is killed in a duel by a US marshall for a murder he didn't commit. The marshall, Charles Mako, is immortal. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 537 | * Angus "Pothole" [=McDuck=] retires and leaves his riverboat, the ''Dirty Dollar'', to Scrooge. The boat is destroyed by the Beagle Boys, and so Scrooge seeks a career as a ranch worker under Murdo [=MacKenzie=]. (''Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'') |
| 538 | * Investigation party finds Piedmont destroyed. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'') |
| 539 | * Evita Corcovado wins this year's world badminton championship. She saves a special birdie, which becomes a family heirloom eventually passed down to her great-great-granddaughter Aviva. (''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'') |
| 540 | * A meteor crashes on Nahum Gardner's farm outside Arkham. A strange blight affects his land over the next year. (''Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace'') |
| 541 | * Francis Sullivan (later Jack Kelly) is born. (''Film/{{Newsies}}'') |
| 542 | |
| 543 | [[AC: 1883]] |
| 544 | * January 20: A time-traveling Blendin Blandin inadvertently causes the Tehachapi train wreck via distracting a train conductor with his time machine. (''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'') |
| 545 | * March 10: Elias Openshaw receives a letter from Pondicherry, India bearing the initials K. K. K. and containing five orange pips. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': "The Five Orange Pips") |
| 546 | * May 2: Elias Openshaw dies of drowning. His death is ruled a suicide. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': "The Five Orange Pips") |
| 547 | * c. May: Late spring snowstorms combined with snowmelt cause flooding in rivers downstream of the Grizzly Mountains. (''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'') |
| 548 | * August 26-27: |
| 549 | ** The volcano at Krakatoa explodes in one of the most violent and continuous volcanic eruptions ever recorded. The island is almost completely destroyed. (RealLife) |
| 550 | ** A sketch of the Ninth Doctor at Krakatoa is discovered in Sumatra. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 551 | ** A piece of the Xylok, later dubbed Mr. Smith, emerges from the Krakatoa eruption. (''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'') |
| 552 | ** Walter Wisdom, who has stolen the [=DeLorean=] and is on the run from Doc Brown, attempts to use the eruption's heat to fry the Time Train and its occupants to a crisp. The train's passengers survive thanks to special suits fashioned out of oven mitts. (''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture'') |
| 553 | ** The eruption is witnessed by Scrooge [=McDuck=] aboard the legendary skipper ship ''Cutty Sark''. Scrooge and the crew barely manages to avoid the ensuing blastwave by hiding under wettened sails. A nearby ship belonging to a local corrupt noble is less lucky. (''Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'': ''The Cowboy Captain Of the Cutty Sark'') |
| 554 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the seventh time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 555 | * The Seventh Doctor and Ace confront a bizarre plot to assassinate Queen Victoria and an attempt to halt Earth's evolution. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 556 | * The Geth revolt against their Quarian creators, forcing the evacuation of the Quarian homeworld and its colony planets over the following two decades. (''Franchise/MassEffect'') |
| 557 | * Immortal doctor Gregor Powers tries to treat a cholera epidemic. The father of a deceased patient blames Gregor for his son's death, and shoots him. Gregor revives and flees, having lost his last traces of idealism. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 558 | * Scrooge [=McDuck=] becomes a miner. (''Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'') |
| 559 | * Alferd Packer becomes the first American convicted of cannibalism. (RealLife) However, he is granted clemency with the help of Polly Boy at the last minute. (''Film/CannibalTheMusical'') |
| 560 | * Chicken George Moore dies. (''[[Series/Roots1977 Roots: The Next Generations]]'') |
| 561 | * Jim Warner and Carrie Barden are married. Jim's father Colonel Frederick Warner disowns and disinherits him for marrying a black woman. However, he promises that he will ensure that the racist elements of the town will not attack them. (''[[Series/Roots1977 Roots: The Next Generations]]'') |
| 562 | * In Warsaw, the King of Bohemia meets and begins an affair with American opera singer Irene Adler. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': "A Scandal in Bohemia") |
| 563 | |
| 564 | [[AC: 1884]] |
| 565 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the eighth time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 566 | * November 4: |
| 567 | ** UsefulNotes/GroverCleveland defeats James G. Blaine in the U.S. presidential election. (RealLife) |
| 568 | ** Winfield Scott Hancock is elected President of the United States. (''Literature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 569 | * Sherlock Holmes investigates the case of the Hound of the Baskervilles. Account published by Watson/Doyle during the Hiatus. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'') |
| 570 | * Businessman Hakon Werle throws a party for his son Gregers, who has returned to town. Gregers moves in with Hjalmar Ekdahl and encounters his half sister Hedvig. His wish to bring his father`s actions out in the open backfires when Hedvig is denounced by Hjalmar and takes her own life. (''Theatre/TheWildDuck'') |
| 571 | * Clara Clayton's mother Martha passes away, leaving the family's money and New Jersey home to Clara. Not long after, Clara bemoans a life bereft of adventure, so decides to apply for a teaching job in a little town out west called Hill Valley. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'') |
| 572 | * The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Olivia Dunn bring Jeffrey Jones to Louis Pasteur in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} after he is bitten by a rabid dog. Pasteur is able to cure Jeffrey, who makes a complete recovery. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 573 | * Thomas Bruce Wayne is born. (''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'') |
| 574 | * Princess Isabeau Katharina Zinsmeister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg disappears from a hunting lodge while on a private family visit to the United States. (''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'') |
| 575 | |
| 576 | [[AC: 1885]] |
| 577 | * January 1: |
| 578 | ** Due to a lightning strike and a time circuit glitch in 1955, Doc Brown ends up here by accident. He sets himself up as a blacksmith. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'') |
| 579 | ** Batman, Gandalf, and Wyldstyle encounter Lord Vortech in Hill Valley. (''VideoGame/LEGODimensions'') |
| 580 | * January 4: Joseph Openshaw receives a letter from Dundee, Ireland bearing the initials K. K. K. and containing five orange pips. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': "The Five Orange Pips") |
| 581 | * January 7: Joseph Openshaw dies of a cracked skull after a fall. His death is ruled an accident. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': "The Five Orange Pips") |
| 582 | * May 3: Jonathan Harker arrives at Castle Dracula to slay Count Dracula. However, the vampire lord turns him. (''Film/HorrorOfDracula'') |
| 583 | * June 10: While retrieving his family for dinner in 1991, Doc picks up Clara, who has just had a run-in with Buford Tannen. (''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture'') |
| 584 | * July 4: Doc Brown faints after drinking a little alcohol during Independence Day celebrations. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'') |
| 585 | * August 29: Hill Valley has a town meeting. In the original timeline, no one volunteers to meet the new schoolteacher at the train station; in the timeline with Doc Brown, he volunteers. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'') |
| 586 | * September 1: Doc Brown drops off a letter with Western Union, with instructions to deliver it to a specific location in seventy years' time. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'') |
| 587 | * September 2: Marty [=McFly=] arrives in Hill Valley, California, to rescue Doc Brown from his future death. He is chased by a bear and stays overnight with his ancestors, Seamus and Maggie. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'') |
| 588 | * September 3: Marty walks to town, has a run-in with Buford Tannen, and makes contact with Doc Brown. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'') |
| 589 | * September 4: |
| 590 | ** In the unaltered timeline, no one is around to meet schoolteacher Clara Clayton at the train station, so she rents a buckboard. On her way to her cottage, she loses control of the buckboard and it plunges into Shonash Ravine, killing her. In a hundred years' time, all kids at Hill Valley High School will know the story, because they will all have teachers they want to see fall into the ravine. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'') |
| 591 | ** In the timeline with Doc but no Marty, Doc meets Clara Clayton at the train station, and it's love at first sight. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'') |
| 592 | ** Doc and Marty try to repair the time machine but have no luck, and come up with a new plan. While doing so, no one is around to meet Clara Clayton at the train station, so she rents a buckboard. Doc rescues Clara from her runaway buckboard; it's love at first sight. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'') |
| 593 | * September 5: |
| 594 | ** In the timeline without Marty's interference, Doc is shot by Buford Tannen at the Hill Valley Town Festival, over a matter of $80. Doc spends the next two days dying. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'') |
| 595 | ** Marty saves Doc from getting shot by Buford Tannen during the Hill Valley Town Festival. Doc spends the night with Clara Clayton. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'') |
| 596 | * September 6: Doc and Marty make preparations to jump back to 1985. Doc says goodbye to Clara, but it doesn't go well. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'') |
| 597 | * September 7: |
| 598 | ** In the timeline without Marty's interference, Doc dies of internal bleeding caused by his gunshot wound. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'') |
| 599 | ** After Marty's interference, Marty faces off against Buford. Marty and Doc "borrow" the locomotive. Marty and the [=DeLorean=] jump back to 1985 and the locomotive crashes into the ravine.[[note]]Doc is left behind.[[/note]] (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'') |
| 600 | * September 8: In the original timeline without Marty and Doc's interference, Clara Clayton's funeral is held, and Shonash Ravine is renamed Clayton Ravine after her. In the altered timeline, "Clint Eastwood" is mourned for having died in the locomotive crash, and the ravine is named after him instead. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'') |
| 601 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the ninth time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 602 | * November 11: Birth of Elise [=McKenna=] in Salt Lake City, Utah. She would grow up to become a famous stage actress. (''Film/SomewhereInTime'') |
| 603 | * December 14: Ciel Phantomhive's tenth birthday, his parents are murdered and he is kidnapped by an unknown occult group. They attempt to use him as a sacrifice to summon a demon, which is only partially successful; the demon arrives and makes a contract not with the occult group, but with Ciel Phantomhive. He takes on the name "Sebastian Michaelis", and vows to stay by his side until Ciel brings those who responsible for his parents' death to justice. (''Manga/BlackButler'') |
| 604 | * December: |
| 605 | ** The Mousekewitzes, a Jewish family of mice from Shostka, Russia, flee to the United States after a pogrom. (''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'') |
| 606 | ** Abraham van Helming battles Dracula as he terrorizes the Hollywood family. (''Film/HorrorOfDracula'') |
| 607 | * The Great Hakurei Barrier is formed, sealing off Gensokyo from the rest of the world (''Franchise/TouhouProject'') |
| 608 | * Creator/HGWells meets the Sixth Doctor, and is inspired. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 609 | * The Turtles go from pirate ship in the Age of Sail to iron horse in the Old West, hopping from flatbed to flatbed while menaced by Foot Soldiers. They eventually face off against Leatherhead, after which they're sent to 2020. (''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime'') |
| 610 | * Scrooge [=McDuck=] meets Howard Rockerduck and his son, John. (''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'') |
| 611 | * Peabody and Sherman recover Annie Oakley's stolen gun and help her win a marksmanship competition. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 612 | * Disappearance (and suspected murder) of Dr. Henry Jekyll of Strand St., London. (''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'') |
| 613 | * Matthew Crawley is born. (''Series/DowntonAbbey'') |
| 614 | * In an effort to hide a dark secret, Gregory Anton [[{{Gaslighting}} deliberately drives his wife Paula mad]]. (''Film/{{Gaslight}}'') |
| 615 | * Alana Mareva is transported back in time to this year. An artist named Claude Pierrot paints a portrait of her called ''Alana in Repose''. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'') |
| 616 | * Jesse Tyler is born. (''Series/QuantumLeap'') |
| 617 | * Mary E. Ryder is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 618 | * Martha Taylor (later Wayne) is born. (''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'') |
| 619 | * German archaeologists discover a wall painting in Egypt depicting a ZPM in Ra's possession. (''Series/StargateSG1'') |
| 620 | * Joshua Arthur Iredale is born. (''Series/MirrorMirror1995'') |
| 621 | * J. B. Ward, after having cracked only one of Thomas Beale's three ciphers, reveals their existence in a pamphlet in the hope that readers can eventually crack the other two. Nobody ever succeeds. (''[[http://www.unmuseum.org/bealepap.htm The Beale Papers]]'') |
| 622 | |
| 623 | [[AC: 1886]] |
| 624 | * March: |
| 625 | ** In Burkittsville, Maryland, an eight-year-old girl named Robin Weaver is reported missing. However, while a search party goes looking for her, Robin returns to town unharmed, claiming a floating woman took her to her house and left her in the basement. The first search party that went to find her were later found dismembered and mutilated in the woods on Coffin Rock. When the second search party leaves to get help, they find that the bodies have disappeared on their return. (''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'') |
| 626 | ** Much of the Petrie Collection at the British Museum of Natural History goes missing after being stolen by Librarian Teddy Chislington. Among the artefacts stolen is the Eye of Ra. (''[[Series/TheLibrarians2014 The Librarians]]'') |
| 627 | * May 4: A labour demonstration is bombed at Haymarket Square in Chicago. The ensuing police gunfire kills several more. (RealLife) |
| 628 | ** Candidates for the unknown bomber include recently-immigrated German anarchist Reinhold Feuerbach and elusive author V. M. Straka. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 629 | * May 20: The ''Tibbar'' sets sail from Southampton, bound for New York. Aboard the ship is Librarian Teddy Chislington, carrying stolen artefacts from the Petrie Collection. (''[[Series/TheLibrarians2014 The Librarians]]'') |
| 630 | * June 4: A freak confluence of three hurricanes blows the ''Tibbar'' off course to the centre of the Bermuda Triangle. Chislington, among 88 other passengers, are never seen again, and neither are the artefacts. (''[[Series/TheLibrarians2014 The Librarians]]'') |
| 631 | * July 10: The Statue of Freedom, combining American and Dutch symbols of liberty, is constructed in New York Harbour. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 632 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the tenth time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 633 | * Genevieve Hill is killed by immortal erotic artist Gerard Kragen to prevent anyone else from having her. Her current lover, Alec Hill, vows to avenge her, and makes Duncan [=MacLeod=] promise to carry on the fight if he himself fails. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 634 | * Scrooge [=McDuck=] begins prospecting for gold in South Africa, with little success. (''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'') |
| 635 | * Peabody and Sherman convince Geronimo to sign a peace treaty. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 636 | * Young Fievel Mousekewitz is separated from his family on their voyage to America (''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'') |
| 637 | * Mollie Prater becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 638 | * Mycroft Holmes of Yorkshire is appointed head of the British Secret Service, and receives the code name "M" (future Secret Service heads will retain this appellation). (''Franchise/SherlockHolmes, ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen, Literature/JamesBond'') |
| 639 | * ''Le Cirque des Rêves'' begins its tour in London. (''Literature/TheNightCircus'') |
| 640 | * "The Autumn of Death" occurs in London, named so for the sightings of undead walking on the streets. Whole debacle is chalked up by authorities to be mass hallucinations caused by diseases. (''VideoGame/MediEvil2'') |
| 641 | * Colonel Otto Riebling, aerialist of the ''Schutztruppe'', falls from his reconnaissance balloon after spotting a strange symbol on the floor of the Kalahari Desert. He vanishes mid-air and reappears on the Micronesian isle of Fo'a-Fo'a, then retires into the forest. (''[[Creator/KevinCostner The Explorers' Guild]]'') |
| 642 | * In the original history, Diego de la Cruz dies of liver failure. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'') |
| 643 | |
| 644 | [[AC: 1887]] |
| 645 | * September: John Openshaw receives a letter from East London bearing the initials K. K. K. and containing five orange pips. [[labelnote:more]]He dies two days later. His killers all die aboard a sinking ship before they can be brought to justice. [[/labelnote]] (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': "The Five Orange Pips") |
| 646 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the eleventh time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 647 | * End of the Golden Age of Muttonchops. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'') |
| 648 | * George Joestar I's health deteriorates, and he eventually passes away. [[labelnote:more]]He was slowly poisoned by his adopted son, Dio Brando, who had then used an ancient stone mask to become a vampire.[[/labelnote]] (''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'') |
| 649 | * Death of Mollie Prater. Belle Malone becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 650 | * Maxwell Stoddard is born. (''Series/QuantumLeap'') |
| 651 | * The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones prevent UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria's granddaughter Princess Victoria from marrying Grand Duke Michael of Russia. They also help Annie Oakley to defeat the Grand Duke in a shooting match. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 652 | * Carl Jasperson and Sam Forstmann are born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 653 | * Spanish essayist and poet Tiago García Ferrara is born. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 654 | * Eino Jokinen is born. (''Literature/{{Unimaa}}'') |
| 655 | |
| 656 | [[AC: 1888]] |
| 657 | * March 20: Sherlock Holmes is called upon by [[labelnote:a disguised Bohemian noble]]the King of Bohemia himself[[/labelnote]] regarding a significant scandal that could impact the royal family immensely. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': "A Scandal in Bohemia") |
| 658 | * March 21: Sherlock Holmes matches wits with Irene Adler in a game of deception. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': "A Scandal in Bohemia") |
| 659 | * March 22: The matter of the Scandal in Bohemia is resolved. [[labelnote:more]]Irene Adler departs England victorious, leaving behind a note for Sherlock Holmes and the King of Bohemia.[[/labelnote]] (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': "A Scandal in Bohemia") |
| 660 | * April 12-18: Anthropophagi infestation discovered and destroyed by Dr. Pellinore Warthrop, Will Henry, ans John Kearns. (''Monstrumologist'') |
| 661 | * July 8: Peabody and Sherman help John L. Sullivan overcome his enormous mustache to become the new boxing champion. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 662 | * Summer: Belle Malone ends a series of murders in Dodge City, but dies soon after. Elizabeth becomes the new Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 663 | * August 31 - November 9: |
| 664 | ** The UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper murders take place in London. (RealLife) |
| 665 | ** Angelina Durless, an abortion doctor whose uterus was damaged in an accident, preventing her from having kids, kills Mary Ann Nichols, which sparks the attention of Grell Sutcliffe, a shinigami. The two of them team up to become Jack the Ripper. (''Manga/BlackButler'') |
| 666 | ** The Redjac, a parasitic lifeform that feeds on pain and fear, arrives on Earth and takes Jack the Ripper as its host. It would continue to change identities and feeding grounds until the 23rd century. (''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'') |
| 667 | ** A serial killer named Sebastian (Jack the Ripper) roams London's streets. He is eventually abducted by the Vorlons. (''Series/BabylonFive'') |
| 668 | ** Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale fathers an illegitimate daughter. The Jack the Ripper murders are an attempt to eliminate any witnesses to his indiscretion. (''Film/FromHell'') |
| 669 | ** Elizabeth, the current Slayer, forms an uneasy alliance with the vampires Darla, Angelus, Spike, and Drusilla to hunt down Jack the Ripper, a notorious vampire. They fail. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 670 | ** Dr. Henry Morgan consults on the murder of Jack the Ripper victim Mary Kelly, possibly making Morgan the world's first medical examiner. (''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'') |
| 671 | ** The Shadowhunters of London Institute neutralize Jack the Ripper, a childlike demon. (''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'') |
| 672 | ** A malevolent EnergyBeing who is stranded on Earth possesses people's bodies, becoming known as Jack the Ripper. Every time that it vacates one of its hosts, they are killed and their bodies are mutilated. The creature then takes possession of the nearest available body. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'') |
| 673 | ** Forced to work as a prostitute in London due to a series of scandals (pretty much all which were her fault), Lulu is murdered by Jack the Ripper. (''Lulu'') |
| 674 | ** The killings were caused by unknown person in possession of a Byzantine Parang, which had the power to turn its wielder into a serial killer. (''Series/SleepyHollow'') |
| 675 | * October 29: Verne Brown is born to Emmett and Clara. (''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture'') |
| 676 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the twelfth time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 677 | * November 6: |
| 678 | ** UsefulNotes/BenjaminHarrison is elected President of the United States, defeating UsefulNotes/GroverCleveland. (RealLife, ''Film/TheOneAndOnlyGenuineOriginalFamilyBand'') |
| 679 | ** U.S. President Winfield Scott Hancock is elected to a second term. (''Literature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 680 | ** Belva Ann Lockwood is elected President of the United States, defeating UsefulNotes/GroverCleveland and UsefulNotes/BenjaminHarrison. She is the first woman to hold the office. (''Literature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 681 | * After November 9: After eating Jack the Ripper, the Silurian Madame Vastra, along with her human accomplice Jenny, are called to the asteroid Demons Run to repay a debt to the Eleventh Doctor. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 682 | * November 22: John Clayton, 8th Duke of Greystoke, is born on the Gabonese coast under extraordinary circumstances. (''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'') |
| 683 | * December: Elizabeth is killed by Jack the Ripper. Jack himself is subsequently staked by James Whitcomb, secretly a vampire himself, to prevent vampires from becoming public knowledge. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 684 | * John Watson meets and marries his first wife, Mary Morstan. (''[[Literature/SherlockHolmes The Sign of Four]]'') |
| 685 | * Gabriel Van Helsing battles {{Dracula}} and his minions. (''Film/VanHelsing'') |
| 686 | * Immortal [[ProfessionalGambler gambler]] Kit O'Brady loses his entire fortune, his casino, and his lucky coin to Amanda in a high-stake game of TabletopGame/{{poker}}. Kit would go on to experience over a century of bad luck and blamed Amanda for it. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 687 | * The next night, Duncan [=MacLeod=] meets Alec Hill again, and finds his friend has sunk into depression and insanity in grief over Genevieve. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 688 | * Later that year, Amanda's casino burns down. She blames Kit O'Brady; Kit, meanwhile, was innocent, and at that time was on a cruise ship. The ship sinks, and Kit is lost at sea. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 689 | * Birth of the twins Fiona and Jackson Canmore. They would both grow up to become Hunters. (WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}) |
| 690 | * Jonathan Joestar fights and defeats his vampiric stepbrother, Dio Brando. [[labelnote:more]]Dio cuts off his own head, which is later found by his underling, Wang Chen.[[/labelnote]] During this year, Lisa Lisa is also born. (''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'') |
| 691 | * Peabody and Sherman help Louis Pasteur convince his cow Fifi that she's not a rooster, thereby allowing him to invent pasteurization. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 692 | * Zombie outbreak in Hayward, Washington, put down by the efforts of Elija Black. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'') |
| 693 | * Scientists begin creating {{super soldier}}s who can [[DoubleJump jump in midair]] and survive without food and light for a long time. (''VideoGame/{{Jumper}}'') |
| 694 | * William J. Feathersmith is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 695 | * Fluttering lights are reported in the skies over Rondonia, Brazil, in the Amazon Rainforest. Wilhelmina van Doessler, photographer and botanist from Leipzig, backs along a kapok borough to photograph a strange symbol burned or etched in the tree canopy, some half a mile over the forest floor. She falls, her camera coming crashing after her, making her lame and exposing the photographs. She is the only one of her party to reach the forest floor again. (''[[Creator/KevinCostner The Explorers' Guild]]'') |
| 696 | * Sally Dexter is born. (''Phyllis'') |
| 697 | |
| 698 | [[AC:Before 1889]] |
| 699 | * Scrooge [=McDuck=] meets Flintheart Glomgold, who betrays and robs him. After publicly humiliating Glomgold, Scrooge is forced to save him from a lion, before handing him over to the police. Glomgold swears revenge for the humiliation he suffered at Scrooge's hands. (''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'') |
| 700 | |
| 701 | [[AC: 1889]] |
| 702 | * January 30: Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Maria are found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in Mayerling, Austria. (RealLife) Future speculation would suggest that this was instead an assassination by TheDragon of the Black Hand known only as "Apis' Amanuensis". (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 703 | * February 7: Jonathan Joestar and Erina Pendleton marry, boarding a ship to America for their honeymoon. [[labelnote:more]]Wang Chen managed to sneak Dio's severed head onto the ship, where the latter confronts Jonathan once again. Jonathan is not successful in defeating Dio this time and loses his life, but Dio falls into a deep slumber for 100 years.[[/labelnote]] (''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'') |
| 704 | * April 28: Andrea Collins travels back in time to kill UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler as a baby. (''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'') |
| 705 | * September 23: Nintendo Co., Ltd is founded. (RealLife) |
| 706 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the thirteenth time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 707 | * November 19: In UsefulNotes/{{London}}, the time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones save the journalist Nellie Bly from an evil Voyager named Drake, who is posing as UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, with the help of Creator/ArthurConanDoyle. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 708 | * Sarah Jane Smith is sent back through time to search for the rare metal chronostene, and discovers a house with timelines collapsing on one another. (''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'') |
| 709 | * Birth of Lord Raptor/Zabel Zarock in Australia. Through unknown means, the man would still appear youthful until the late 20th century. (''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'') |
| 710 | * Scrooge [=McDuck=] returns to America to search for gold. (''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'') |
| 711 | * Peabody and Sherman settle a dispute between Sitting Bull and a hotel manager. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 712 | * E Corp, or its predecessor, is founded. (''Series/MrRobot'') |
| 713 | * Samuel Kittridge is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 714 | * Les Jacobs is born. (''Film/{{Newsies}}'') |
| 715 | * The Terror is born. (''Series/TheTick2001'') |
| 716 | * Alfred Pennyworth is born. (''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'') |
| 717 | * ''The Eye of the Sun'', which details the customs and rituals followed by Ra's worshippers, is published. (''Series/StargateSG1'') |
| 718 | * Undersecretary Salvador Marti saves a young Emilio Herrera from a pot falling on his head. (Series/TheMinistryOfTime) |
| 719 | |
| 720 | [[AC: 1880s]] |
| 721 | * Chris and Martin Kratt, plus Aviva, time travel to Tasmania during the 1880s, where they encounter the now-extinct Tasmanian tiger. They also observe (without being seen) the Australian or British ancestors of villains Donita Donata and Dabio. (''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'') |
| 722 | * [[GentleGiant Paul Bunyan]] has many adventures across the American frontier with his giant blue ox Babe, and occasionally with a motley crew of fellow lumberjacks. He's also responsible for literally shaping the country as he accidentally creates landmarks, lakes and rivers on his journeys. (''Myth/PaulBunyan'') |
| 723 | * Bounty hunter Red Barlow befriends British trick shooter Jack Swift and rancher Annie Stoakes. The three have several adventures across the West, and face dozens of dangerous outlaws such as The Ugly Gang, Pig Josh, Mr Black, Jesse Lynch, Professor Perry, and several others. These events have been heavily embelished over the years, and it's unknown how accurate the accounts are, nor even the exact year they supposedly took place. (''VideoGame/RedDeadRevolver'') |
| 724 | |
| 725 | [[AC: 1890]] |
| 726 | * March 10: A janitor named Woodrow Mulligan travels to 1962 using a time helmet invented by Professor Gilbert. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 727 | * April 27: An advertisement appears in the ''Morning Chronicle'' calling for applicants to fill a vacancy in an organisation called the Red-Headed League. After it is brought to his attention by his assistant, red-headed pawnbroker Jabez Wilson decides to apply. Upon receiving the position, he is informed that his duties will include copying the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica by hand. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'', "The Red-Headed League") |
| 728 | * June 1-2: Struggling artist Vincent van Gogh meets the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond. They battle a hostile alien prowling around that only Vincent can see. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 729 | * Before July 29: Vincent van Gogh paints ''The Pandorica Opens'' in his madness. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 730 | * July 29: Vincent van Gogh commits suicide out of depression. (RealLife) |
| 731 | * September 25, 10:00: The Steel Ball Run cross-country race across the United States begins. (''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'') |
| 732 | * September: Louis J. Bookman is born to Jacob and Flora Bookman. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 733 | * October 9: The Red-Headed League is suddenly dissolved, with no trace of the man who was administering it. Confused, Jabez Wilson seeks the advice of Sherlock Holmes, who quickly uncovers a more sinister purpose behind the seemingly innocuous affair. (''Literature/SherlockHolmes'', "The Red-Headed League") |
| 734 | * October 14: |
| 735 | ** UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower is born in Denison, Texas. (RealLife) |
| 736 | ** In an AlternateTimeline, UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower's mother Ida [[DeathByChildbirth dies in childbirth]] along with her baby as the telephone was never invented and no doctor could be reached in time. Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones travel back in time to 1875 to ensure that Alexander Graham Bell is successful in inventing the telephone. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 737 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the fourteenth time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 738 | * December 28: The territory north of the new US state of Dakota is internationally recognised as an independent nation of the Nine Civilized Tribes. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 739 | * December 29: The Wounded Knee massacre takes place. Hundreds of Lakota men, women and children are gunned down by the 7th US Cavalry. (RealLife) A sixteen-year-old Booker De[=Witt=] participates in the atrocity, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Zachary Hale Comstock will later claim to have been present at the event, which he will portray as a heroic victory over murderous savages. (''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'') |
| 740 | * Blutarch Mann asks Radigan Conagher to create a life extender machine so he can outlive his brother Redmond and take his land. Later, he is bribed to do the same for Redmond. (''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'') |
| 741 | * George Joestar II, named after his paternal grandfather, is born. (''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'') |
| 742 | * Guglielmo Marconi invents the radio, marking [[OlderThanRadio a new era in trope history]]. (RealLife) Cecil Gershwin Palmer is reportedly present for the event [[RiddleForTheAges despite]] having presented Night Vale Community Radio for some years by this point (and that he will continue to do so into the 21st Century). (''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'') |
| 743 | * A peddler named Jared Garrity comes to the small town of Happiness, UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}} claiming that he can [[BackFromTheDead raise the dead]]. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 744 | * French archaeologist and suffragist Armante Durand is born. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 745 | [[/folder]] |
| 746 | |
| 747 | [[folder:1891 C.E. - 1900 C.E.]] |
| 748 | [[AC: 1891]] |
| 749 | * Summer: While trying to deliver a letter to the now deceased Theo van Gogh, Armand Roulin learns about the life and death of Creator/VincentVanGogh. (''WesternAnimation/LovingVincent'') |
| 750 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the fifteenth time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 751 | * Publication date of the Thomas Common English translation of Nietzsche's ''Also sprach Zarathustra'', which would eventually inspire the creation of the Nietzscheans. (6811 CY) (''Thus Spake Zarathustra'', ''Series/{{Andromeda}}''). |
| 752 | * Sherlock Holmes thwarts the plans of Lord Henry Blackwood. (''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'') |
| 753 | * Sherlock Holmes confronts Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls; both are believed dead. (''[[Literature/SherlockHolmes The Final Problem]]'') |
| 754 | * Immortals Thomas "Sully" Sullivan and Duncan [=MacLeod=] manage to share a $1,000 prize from an illegal bare-knuckle boxing match. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 755 | * In Polly Spark's [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight altered version of history]], Danny Defrost-Bot brings snowmen indoors so that they can be the first to "play" James Naismith's new game of basketball. (''VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain'') |
| 756 | * Eliza Doolittle is born, possibly on the twentieth of May. (''Theatre/MyFairLady'', ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'') |
| 757 | * The Time Traveller and Nebogipfel arrive from the prehistoric era. Due to the changes to the timeline Earth has become a Snowball Earth, while the galaxy is now populated by the Constructors. (''Literature/TheTimeShips'') |
| 758 | * A mystic of Nepal, "Mr. Devang", makes a sensational tour of Europe, with wild stories of hidden mountains and a pathway to the 'Pure Land' in the Himalayas. 6 months later, he leads the alpinists from Alcase in search of this mountain, but the expedition comes to some kind of grief in the foothills. A traveler's log notes, among other things, a "bridge of viscid light". (''[[Creator/KevinCostner The Explorers' Guild]]'') |
| 759 | * Death of Phil Shortman's great-grandfather. (''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'') |
| 760 | * Birth of Nick Charles. (''Literature/TheThinMan'') |
| 761 | * The Hill Valley Police Department is founded. (''VideoGame/BackToTheFutureTheGame'') |
| 762 | * Czech factory worker Vaclav A. Straka is born. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 763 | |
| 764 | [[AC:1892]] |
| 765 | * August 4: UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden (allegedly) took an axe. You know the rest. (RealLife and various works of fiction) |
| 766 | * October 5: The Dalton Gang attempts to rob the First National Bank and the Condon & Company Bank in Coffeyville, Kansas. A posse of townspeople and bank guards quickly form, and in the ensuing shootout, Bob and Grat Dalton are killed, alongside gang members Dick Broadwell and Bill Powers. Emmett Dalton survives and is taken into custody. Bill Dalton flees the scene alongside Bill Doolin. (Real Life) |
| 767 | ** The Dalton Brothers, Bob, Grat, Emmett and Bill, arrive in Coffeyville, and encounter Lucky Luke, who defeats and arrests them. The brothers are sentenced to death and hanged. Shortly afterwards, their cousins Joe, Jack, William and Averell Dalton swear revenge and embark on their own life of crime. (''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'') |
| 768 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the sixteenth time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 769 | * November 8: |
| 770 | ** Grover Cleveland is elected to a second non-consecutive term as U.S. President, defeating Benjamin Harrison. (RealLife) |
| 771 | ** U.S. President Belva Ann Lockwood is defeated in her bid for re-election by former President Grover Cleveland. (''Literature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 772 | * December 23-24: The Eleventh Doctor's self-imposed exile and consequent brooding is interrupted by Clara Oswin Oswald, a mysterious barmaid/governess, and a malevolent sentience controlling carnivorous snow. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 773 | * December 24-25: The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones spend Christmas with Jeffrey's great-grandparents Stephen and Amy Jones in UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 774 | * After a fight in Ellis Island, Captain Jack Harkness discovers he cannot die. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 775 | * Michigan J. Frog is buried in the cornerstone of a sky scraper to be found in 1955 when the building is demolished. (''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'') |
| 776 | * Twins August Lupa (a.k.a. Nero Wolfe) and Marko Vukčić are born to Irene Adler in Montenegro. (Literature/NeroWolfe fanon) |
| 777 | * Lady Edith Crawley is born. (''Series/DowntonAbbey'') |
| 778 | * Moe Stein is born. (''Series/QuantumLeap'') |
| 779 | * The public library in Eerie, Indiana is founded. (''Series/EerieIndiana'') |
| 780 | |
| 781 | [[AC: 1893]] |
| 782 | * May 1: Jonathan Harker sets out from England to Romania to meet Count Dracula. (''Literature/{{Dracula}}'') |
| 783 | * May 3: Jonathan Harker arrives in Bistritz. (''Literature/{{Dracula}}'') |
| 784 | * |
| 785 | May 4: Jonathan Harker has an eventful journey from Bistritz to Castle Dracula. (Literature/{{Dracula}}) |
| 786 | * May 5: Jonathan Harker arrives at the castle of Count Dracula in the early hours of the morning, where he will find himself unable to leave for two months. (''Literature/{{Dracula}}'') |
| 787 | * June 12: The Brown family piles into the newly completed time train to travel forward to the future.[[note]]However, the temporary train tracks that Doc put down don't extend far enough for the train to reach 88 mph, and the train doesn't achieve temporal displacement on its first try.[[/note]] (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'') |
| 788 | * June 24: Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen embarks on a North Pole expedition. (RealLife) |
| 789 | ** Torsten Ekstrom is invited, but shatters his leg before he can go, forcing him to return and discover that his wife and children had left him. This drives him to write children's fiction. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 790 | * June 30: Dracula leaves for London, and Harker is able to escape the castle. (''Literature/{{Dracula}}'') |
| 791 | * August: The crew of the ''Enterprise''-D arrives in San Francisco from 2368. They encounter a younger version of Guinan, reportedly hiding from her father. Data's head gets buried. (''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'') |
| 792 | * September 7: Van Helsing arrives in London to help save Lucy Westenra. (''Literature/{{Dracula}}'') |
| 793 | * September 12: James Edward Whitaker is born. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'') |
| 794 | * September 20: Lucy Westenra dies. (''Literature/{{Dracula}}'') |
| 795 | * October: The flying city of Columbia, funded by the US Congress and masterminded by preacher Zachary Comstock and physicist Rosalind Lutece, is unveiled at the first World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The "miracle child" Elizabeth is introduced to the people of Columbia as the prophet Comstock's future successor. (''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'') |
| 796 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the seventeenth time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 797 | * November 5: UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper uses Creator/HGWells' {{time machine}} to escape into the future, traveling to UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco in 1979; Wells follows in pursuit. (''Film/TimeAfterTime'') |
| 798 | * November 6: Count Dracula dies. (''Literature/{{Dracula}}'') |
| 799 | * Having failed to find gold in America, Scrooge [=McDuck=] decides to try his luck in Australia. (''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'') |
| 800 | * Zombies lay siege to Fort Louis Philippe. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'') |
| 801 | * The current Slayer defeats a series of demonic murders in Oklahoma. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 802 | * Birth of Millicent Rose Gresham in Duluth, Minnesota. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 803 | * The crew of the ship carrying the Damascus expedition is found mostly dead on arrival near Texas. (''Film/TheOuting'') |
| 804 | * Tyler Browning is transported back in time to this year. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'') |
| 805 | * John Preston is born. (''Series/{{Colditz}}'') |
| 806 | * Sally Clarke's grandmother moves to Texas. (''Series/{{Taken}}'') |
| 807 | * Viola Draper is born. Her mother is an immortal woman who is more than 2,000 years old. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 808 | * Jeffrey Jones' grandfather is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 809 | * Affection is made illegal in England, and remains so to this day. Everyone is quite glad about it. (''WebVideo/Exurb1a, England: A Beginner's Guide'') |
| 810 | |
| 811 | [[AC: 1894]] |
| 812 | * February 7: Tommy Brockless is born. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'') |
| 813 | * July 17: Radigan Conagher finishes construction of a life extender machine for Blutarch Mann so he can outlive his brother Redmond. (''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'') |
| 814 | * July 28: During the opposition of Mars, a great light is seen on the illuminated part of the Martian disk. [[note]]The report exists in real life, in the 2 August 1894 issue of ''Nature''; however, the actual opposition that year was on 20 October.[[/note]] (''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'') |
| 815 | * August 3: Radigan Conagher finishes construction of a life extender machine for Redmond Mann so he can outlive his brother Blutarch. (''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'') |
| 816 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the eighteenth time since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 817 | * Sherlock Holmes returns from three years of travels (the "Great Hiatus"). (''[[Literature/SherlockHolmes The Adventure of the Empty House]]'') |
| 818 | * Outlaw Catherine "Cat" Ballou is sentenced to death by hanging for murder in Wolf City, Wyoming. (''Film/CatBallou'') |
| 819 | * In Polly Spark's [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight altered version of history]], Chef Boy Robot replaces William Kellogg's first batch of toasted corn flakes with a bowl containing ice cream, cold-water salmon, and frozen worms. Years later in this timeline, frosted octopus oats with jellyfish bits is a popular breakfast cereal. (''VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain'') |
| 820 | * Japan conquers Korea, taking it from its previous owner, China. (''WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan'') |
| 821 | |
| 822 | [[AC: 1892-1894]] |
| 823 | * Agatha Heterodyne is kicked out of TPU; she is taken aboard the Castle Wulfenbach, later escapes; she is hooked up to the Summoning Engine in Sturmhalten, battling Baron Wulfenbach; she fixes the Castle Heterodyne, becomes the Lady Heterodyne, and battles the Wulfenbach armies in the Siege of Mechanicsburg; the town of Mechanicsburg is frozen in time. (''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' -- events of Act 1) |
| 824 | |
| 825 | [[AC: 1895]] |
| 826 | * May 26: Samantha Parkington is born in New Bedford, New York. (''Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection'') |
| 827 | * November 2: The seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant - reunite for the nineteenth time since their graduation from Cambridge. This is the last meeting at which all seven members are alive. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 828 | * December: Raymond 'Bubba' Shackleford I forms a company of monster hunters he calls Bubba Shackleford's Professional Monster Killers. (''Literature/MonsterHunterInternational'') |
| 829 | * ''The King in Yellow'' is published and promptly denounced across Europe. (''Literature/TheKingInYellow'') |
| 830 | * Birth of Mason E. "Mace" Malone. He would grow up to become a leading gangster and a member of TheIlluminati. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'') |
| 831 | * The current Slayer is killed by Lothos. Angelique Hawthorne becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 832 | * James Moriarty III co-founds a criminal league/terrorist cult called the "Circle of Life." This organization will later be renamed Krafthaus, and still later, THRUSH. (''Series/TheManFromUncle'') |
| 833 | * The housemaid Daisy Fitzroy is implicated in the murder of the Lady Comstock. She escapes and goes underground, forming a resistance movement called the Vox Populi dedicated to overthrowing Comstock and the ruling Founders of Columbia. (''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'') |
| 834 | * The bar Cheers is opened in UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}. (''Series/{{Cheers}}'') |
| 835 | * The wall painting depicting a ZPM in Ra's possession is destroyed in a museum fire. (''Series/StargateSG1'') |
| 836 | * Hetty commits suicide to avoid her house and money getting confiscated by the authorities for her husband's crimes. (''Series/GhostsUS'') |
| 837 | |
| 838 | [[AC: 1896]] |
| 839 | * January 1: Society of Explorers and Adventurers member Lord Henry Mystic opens his home at Mystic Point as an art museum for the public. ([[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Mystic Manor]]) |
| 840 | * January: An expedition led by Robert Walton IV discovers the FrankensteinsMonster encased in ice in Antarctica. (''[[ComicBook/TheFrankensteinMonster The Monster of Frankenstein]]'' #1) |
| 841 | * March: Edward George Pryor is born. (''Series/AmericanDreams'') |
| 842 | * October: Deaver [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide by shooting himself]] after losing everything that he owns in a card game. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 843 | * November 2: The six surviving members of the Devil's Alphabet Society - Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Eli, Frederick and Grant - are visited by the ghost of their departed friend Deaver at their 20th meeting since their graduation from Cambridge. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 844 | * November 3: |
| 845 | ** UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley is elected U.S. President, defeating William Jennings Bryan. (RealLife) |
| 846 | ** William Jennings Bryan is elected U.S. President, defeating UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley. (''Literature/BringTheJubilee'', ''Literature/AlternatePresidents'', ''Literature/JobAComedyOfJustice'') |
| 847 | * Duncan [=MacLeod=] encounters immortals Sharon Collins and Axel Whittaker, who run an operation where Sharon seduces other immortals and Axel kills them when they are defenceless. Duncan manages to escape the trap and offers to send Sharon to London to get a real mentor, but she is killed by Axel before he can leave. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'') |
| 848 | * Edward is built. (''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'') |
| 849 | * Having failed to find gold in Australia, Scrooge [=McDuck=] decides to try Canada. This time, he succeeds. (''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'') |
| 850 | * Peabody and Sherman arrange to drain the Venetian canals in order to let Marconi invent the radio. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 851 | * Garrison at Fort Louis Philippe, running low on supplies, gather what they can and escape, managing to trap the zombies within the fort. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'') |
| 852 | * Sam is abducted from Earth and brought to UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'') |
| 853 | * Joseph [=McCabe=] is born. (''Series/StElsewhere'') |
| 854 | * John Walton, Sr. is born. (''Series/TheWaltons'') |
| 855 | * In an AlternateTimeline, the Great Man Abraham Lincoln, the founder of the Republic of Earth, dies at the age of 87 and he is buried in the world capital UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}. This timeline is accidentally negated by the time traveler Professor Russell Cromwell, who inadvertently allowed John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Lincoln at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. (''Weird Fantasy'') |
| 856 | * Emil Løgner, engineer and lecturer at the University of Aarhus, tests an experimental diving bell in the Kattegat Strait. Unfortunately, a yacht snares the submersible due to drunkenness on Løgner's assistant's part. Some time later, him and the bodies of two marine biologists are pulled up from beneath the ''Hohenzollern''. His ravings about a 'bright undersea manifestation (''undervandsstøj lyser'')' are attributed to decompression sickness. (''[[Creator/KevinCostner The Explorers' Guild]]'') |
| 857 | * Cynthia Harvey and Will E. Palmer are married. (''[[Series/Roots1977 Roots: The Next Generations]]'') |
| 858 | * Hamilton Ten Eyck is born. (''[[Series/Roots1977 Roots: The Next Generations]]'') |
| 859 | * John Kinsella is born in North Dakota. (''Film/FieldOfDreams'') |
| 860 | * Winston Pennington is born in the Home Counties of England. (''Literature/{{Unimaa}}'') |
| 861 | |
| 862 | [[AC: 1894 - 1896]] |
| 863 | * Agatha Heterodyne, Martellus von Blitzengaard, Violetta Mondarev, Krosp, and a wasp eater weasel show up again; Agatha travels to Paris, England, and more. (''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' -- events of Act 2) |
| 864 | |
| 865 | [[AC: 1897]] |
| 866 | * Summer: Vampire lord Count Vlad Dracula comes to England in pursuit of Mina Harker, who looks identical to his long-dead wife. (''Film/BramStokersDracula'') |
| 867 | * June 3: Enoch Soames makes a [[DealWithTheDevil pact with Satan]]. He is transported exactly 100 years forward in time to 1997 so that he can spend an afternoon in the Reading Room of the British Museum and see how he will be remembered. ("Literature/EnochSoames") |
| 868 | * June 20: In London, the father of young Olivia Flaversham is abducted. She manages to convince detective Basil of Baker Street to take the case. They are soon facing Professor Ratigan and his plot to depose Queen Mousetoria. Meanwhile the Diamond Jubilee is taking place. (''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'') |
| 869 | * November 2: Andrew commits suicide by hanging himself, though he [[PsychicAssistedSuicide may have received otherworldly help]]. That night, his ghost attends the 21st meeting of the Devil's Alphabet Society since their graduation from Cambridge and frightens Grant so much that he also hangs himself. After the meeting, the horse pulling Brian and Eli's carriage goes out of control. The carriage then spontaneously catches fire and crashes, killing them both. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 870 | * Death of Angelique Hawthorne. Florence Gilbert becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 871 | * Florence Gilbert ends a series of vampiric murders, but she herself dies soon after. Grace becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 872 | * Grace is killed by vampires Helen and Angelus. Xin Rong becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 873 | * Ben Wainwright is born. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 874 | * Bertha George Palmer (later Haley) is born. (''[[Series/Roots1977 Roots: The Next Generations]]'') |
| 875 | |
| 876 | [[AC: 1898]] |
| 877 | * January 12: Florence Sundvik dies. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 878 | * February 15: The sinking of the US battleship ''Maine'' is blamed on Southern saboteurs, sparking the Second War Between the States. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 879 | * March 4: Mary Eliza Millington is born. She lives for only thirteen days. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 880 | * April 8: Capris Wisher, architect and passenger on the ''Lady Crithania'', is born. (''VideoGame/{{SOS}}'') |
| 881 | * July 1: |
| 882 | ** The United States is victorious in the Battle of San Juan Hill in Santiago de Cuba, UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}}, a major battle in the Spanish-American War. UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt leads the Rough Riders into battle. (RealLife) |
| 883 | ** In an AlternateTimeline, the United States is defeated in the Battle of San Juan Hill as UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt was killed by UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid in 1880. The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones travel back in time to save Roosevelt's life and set history on its proper course. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 884 | * August: "Martians" (actually organisms from elsewhere, known to the Martian natives as "Molluscs") invade, and are killed by germs. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen play a key role in this defeat. (''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'') |
| 885 | * September 10: Empress Elizabeth of Austria is fatally stabbed while walking to a ferry. (RealLife) Future speculation would suggest that this was orchestrated by TheDragon of the Black Hand known only as "Apis' Amanuensis". (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 886 | * October 26: Henry Van Cleve and Martha Strable are married. (''Film/HeavenCanWait1943'') |
| 887 | * November 2: Cornelius [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide by shooting himself]]. This leaves Frederick as the [[SoleSurvivor last surviving]] member of the Devil's Alphabet Society. That night, the ghosts of Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli and Grant are in attendance at the society's 22nd meeting since their graduation from Cambridge. Frederick proposes to dissolve the society so that the dead may rest. Although Grant initially objects, the motion is passed unanimously. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 888 | * November 13: Fritz Spitzwerg is born. (''Series/SecretArmy'') |
| 889 | * November 24: The Lone Prospector and Big Jim [=McKay=] eat a delicious shoe for Thanksgiving dinner. (''Film/TheGoldRush'') |
| 890 | * December 31, at 8 PM: The Lone Prospector is stood up by Georgia and her friends. Georgia regrets the prank. (''Film/TheGoldRush'') |
| 891 | * League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ([[Literature/{{Dracula}} Mina Harker]], [[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea Captain Nemo]], [[Literature/KingSolomonsMines Allan Quatermain]], [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]], the [[Literature/TheInvisibleMan Invisible Man]]) formed by British Intelligence to retrieve stolen cavorite from the "[[Literature/FuManchu Devil Doctor]]". (''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'') |
| 892 | * A Gypsy witch curses Angelus by giving him a soul. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 893 | * Birth of the gargoyles Una, Leo and Griff in the London Clan. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'') |
| 894 | * Birth of the gargoyle Kai in the Ishimura Clan of Japan. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'') |
| 895 | * FrankensteinsMonster is tricked to revive Dracula, and fights him to return him to the dead. (''ComicBook/TheFrankensteinMonster'' #7-9) |
| 896 | * In Polly Spark's [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight altered version of history]], Miss Battery-Bot convinces Marie Curie (somehow) that radium runs on AA batteries. (''VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain'') |
| 897 | * Ilyena Sirotskaya (later cinema actress Evelyn Harrow) is born to a family of modest means in Eastern Europe. (''[[Creator/KevinCostner The Explorers' Guild]]'') |
| 898 | * Four brothers team up to get the family farm back from the man who killed their mother. (''Film/TheSonsOfKatieElder'') |
| 899 | |
| 900 | [[AC: 1899]] |
| 901 | * January: The Lone Prospector and Big Jim [=McKay=] escape from a tilting cabin on the edge of a cliff and find Klondike gold. Sometime later, the Lone Prospector and Georgia end up together. (''Film/TheGoldRush'') |
| 902 | * May: Following a disastrous failed robbery on a riverboat near the town of Blackwater, the notorious Van der Linde gang flee law enforcement east into the mountains, triggering a series of events that will eventually lead to the dissolution of the gang and the deaths of many of the members. (''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'') |
| 903 | * June: Some members of the Van der Linde gang flee the city of Sant-Denis[[labelnote:more]]after the deaths of three members and the arrest of John Marston[[/labelnote]], and are shipwrecked on the island of Guarma. (''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'') |
| 904 | * July 1: Birth of Henry Walton Jones Jr., a.k.a. Indiana, to Henry and Anna Jones. He would grow up to become an [[AdventurerArchaeologist archaeologist]]. (''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'') |
| 905 | * ca. July: Birth of Indiana, an Alaskan Malamute. He becomes the Jones family dog. Henry, Jr is raised alongside the dog. He would eventually name himself after his "best friend". (''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'') |
| 906 | * July: Newsboys Strike in New York City, New York. (''Film/{{Newsies}}'' and real life) |
| 907 | * October: Dorothy Gale returns to Kansas and is locked in a psychiatric clinic. She manages to return to Oz, but finds it much darker than she remembers. (''Film/ReturnToOz'') |
| 908 | * Autumn: Eino Jokinen gets knocked out by a falling apple while out harvesting crops his older brothers should have been harvesting and finds his consciousness in the realm of Unimaa, where he befriends Princess Frida who gives him the opportunity to rule alongside her at the cost of his ability to wake up, which kills him in the real world a few days later. (''Literature/{{Unimaa}}'') |
| 909 | * November 24: Ena Schofield (later Sharples) is born. (''Series/CoronationStreet'') |
| 910 | * Before December 31: James Filby is born. (''Film/TheTimeMachine1960'') |
| 911 | * December 31: |
| 912 | ** Harrison Hightower disappears after [[TemptingFate openly disbelieving and disrespecting]] the trickster idol Shiriki Utundu, a recent acquisition of his. Has his last meeting with the Society of Explorers and Adventurers, Henry Mystic being among the attendees. At the stroke of midnight the idol unleashes its fury and the Hightower Hotel is shut down. ([[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Tower of Terror (Tokyo Disney Sea) and Mystic Manor]]) |
| 913 | ** George uses his {{time machine}} to travel forward to the year 802,701. (''Film/TheTimeMachine1960'') |
| 914 | * Richard Wilkins founds Sunnydale, California. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 915 | * Alexander Hartdegen's sweetheart Emma is killed by a robber. He becomes obsessed with [[TimeTravel traveling back in time]] and averting her death.[[labelnote:more]]He does travel back to save her, [[YouCantFightFate but only succeeds in changing how she dies]].[[/labelnote]] (''Film/TheTimeMachine2002'') |
| 916 | * The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen thwarts the Fantom's plans for world war. (''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'') |
| 917 | * Elise [=McKenna=] starts her acting career. She is only 14 years old. (''Film/SomewhereInTime'') |
| 918 | * In Paris, earnest young poet Christian visits Moulin Rouge, the hottest nightclub-slash-brothel. He meets and falls in love with Satine, the leading performer. (''Film/MoulinRouge'') |
| 919 | * Scrooge [=McDuck=] becomes a millionaire and enters the banking sector. (''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'') |
| 920 | * Thomas and Anna Sheridan are killed by Abhartach. Their daughter, Róisín, is given power to kill demons. (''Róisín Dubh'') |
| 921 | * Dorothy Gale visits Oz. In the process of trying to get home she accidentally ends up killing both Wicked Witches and exposing the Wizard as a humbug. After returning home, the Scarecrow takes the throne as King of Oz. (''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'') |
| 922 | * Alex Stottel is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 923 | * Jack Van Cleve is born. (''Film/HeavenCanWait1943'') |
| 924 | * Olivia Walton is born. (''Series/TheWaltons'') |
| 925 | * Teal'c is born. (''Series/StargateSG1'') |
| 926 | * After inventing a time machine, Creator/HGWells uses it to travel to the 22nd Century, where he finds that the world is a {{utopia}} created by Franchise/{{Superman}}'s descendants. He then brings Tempus, a native of that century, to Metropolis in 1995. (''Series/LoisAndClark'') |
| 927 | * Somerset Frisby and Agatha Cook are born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 928 | * Rick Frost, [[MiscarriageOfJustice who has been wrongly convicted of murder]], is transported back in time to 1899 from 1986. He finds himself in a park bandstand. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 929 | * A mysterious group called "The Seven" rescues from human sacrifice a nameless infant who will become known as Doctor Occult. (Creator/DCComics) |
| 930 | * Late 1899: Silent film actress Norma Desmond is born. (''Film/SunsetBoulevard'') |
| 931 | * Russia builds a railroad to get some warm water, supervised by a shit-ton of soldiers. When they're done, they downgrade to a fuck-ton of soliders. (''WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan'') |
| 932 | |
| 933 | [[AC: 1890s]] |
| 934 | * The Cutler Mine near Starlight, New Mexico goes bust. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'') |
| 935 | |
| 936 | [[AC: 1900]] |
| 937 | * January 5: George returns to his own time and tells his friends David Filby, Dr. Philip Hillyer, Walter Kemp and Anthony Bridewell and his housekeeper Mrs. Watchett about his journey into the future. He then travels forward to 802,701 once again so that he can be reunited with Weena and rebuild civilization. (''Film/TheTimeMachine1960'') |
| 938 | * February 14: In Australia, three students and a teacher disappear during a field trip to a rock formation. (''Film/PicnicAtHangingRock'') |
| 939 | * June 18: Amidst the chaos of the Boxer Rebellion, current Slayer Xin Rong is killed by Spike. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 940 | * July and August: Leo Colston stays with the Maudsley family at Brandham Hall, Norfolk (''Literature/TheGoBetween'') |
| 941 | * October 27: Luke Haines, sailor on the ''Lady Crithania'', is born. (''VideoGame/{{SOS}}'') |
| 942 | * November 6: |
| 943 | ** UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley is re-elected U.S. President, once again defeating William Jennings Bryan. (RealLife) |
| 944 | ** William Jennings Bryan is elected to a second term as U.S. President. (''Literature/BringTheJubilee'') |
| 945 | * Before November 13: Lord Henry Mystic's Magneto-Electric Carriage takes first prize in an invention competition at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. (''[[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Mystic Manor]]'')[[labelnote:Justification]] Date taken from RealLife. [[/labelnote]] |
| 946 | * Two rural Amestrian brothers crack open an alchemy book for the first time. (''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'') |
| 947 | * Percy is built. (''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'') |
| 948 | * Peabody and Sherman stop John Holland's submarine from behaving like a helicopter, then extricate it from underneath a giant octopus. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 949 | * Birth of (future DCI) Thomas Nightingale, immortal guardian of London. (''Literature/RiversOfLondon''). |
| 950 | * The flying city of Columbia is sent on a global tour to showcase American exceptionalism. (''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'') |
| 951 | * Parisian playboy Gaston Lachaille falls in love in with Gigi, a young courtesan-in-training. (''Film/{{Gigi}}'') |
| 952 | * Virgil Harvey dies. (''[[Series/Roots1977 Roots: The Next Generations]]'') |
| 953 | * Indian poet and humanitarian Sindu Singh is born. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 954 | * Anya Petrova is born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (''Literature/{{Unimaa}}'') |
| 955 | * Captain James is born. [[note]] His year of birth is confirmed to happen in this year in the tie-in book The Button House Archives. [[/note]] (''Series/GhostsUK'') |
| 956 | |
| 957 | [[AC: Mid to late 19th Century]] |
| 958 | * A ship travelling to San Francisco catches fire and is evacuated. Three survivors - eight-year-old cousins Richard and Emmeline Lestrange, and galley cook Paddy Button - are stranded on a South Pacific island. Paddy dies in a drunken misadventure some time later, but Dick and Emmy live there until early adulthood, eventually [[KissingCousins falling in love with each other and mating]]. (''Literature/TheBlueLagoon'' (1908) and its adaptations[[note]] The novel explicitly states that the Northumberland "was in the days before double topsail yards had reduced ships' crews", a development which took place in the second half of the 19th century. [[/note]]) |
| 959 | * Between 1886-1890: Fievel Mousekewitz's other adventures take place; one where he helped discover a tribe of Lenape Indian mice living beneath New York, another where he helped solve the mystery of a "night monster" attacking New York mice. And a third adventure in which he moved out west, [[CanonDiscontinuity though that may or may not have been a dream]]. (''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' series) |
| 960 | * Sometime between 1881-1886: A mysterious series of crimes take place at the Paris Opera, including sabotage, extortion, murder, kidnappings and one Falling Chandelier Of Doom. Company members attribute the disasters to a ghost, though later evidence reveals they were caused by a brilliant but disfigured and insane musician who had taken up residence in the building's cellars. (''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' [[note]]Dates extrapolated from the Leroux novel, which was written in 1911 and claimed the story dates "not more than thirty years back." One source places the events as far back as 1870, although this [[ArtisticLicenseHistory does not coincide with the construction of the Opera or the Siege of Paris]], and any theories about [[Theatre/LoveNeverDies later incidents involving the parties in question]] are highly controversial [[FanonDiscontinuity at best]].[[/note]]) |
| 961 | * Between 1889-1899: Scottish philosopher and novelist Guthrie [=MacInnes=] is born. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 962 | * The entity currently known as Jones, at this time known as Elizabeth, assumes the identity of Elizabeth Langdon, illegitimate daughter of Samuel Langdon, at the latter's request. Is named the heir to his estates. (''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'') |
| 963 | * "Big" George Jetwest, George Jetson's great-great-great-grandfather, has a showdown against the notorious Bad Bart. (''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' episode "High Moon") |
| 964 | * Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity. (''Film/TheLighthouse'') |
| 965 | * Sir Lionel Frost, British explorer and investigator of cryptids, goes on an expedition into rural America in pursuit of a potential Sasquatch sighting, hoping it will prove him worthy of joining an esteemed London club of great men. He finds the sasquatch, and then agrees to help it reunite with its distant relatives - the yeti - in the Himalayas. (''WesternAnimation/MissingLink'') |
| 966 | |
| 967 | [[AC: 19th Century]] |
| 968 | * Formation of the Cardassian Union on the planet Cardassia Prime. The Union is formed under a treaty that establishes a power-sharing agreement between the Cardassian Central Command and the Obsidian Order. The civilian Detapa Council is established to serve as the chief governing body between the two branches, however, in practice, the Council is virtually powerless. (''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'') |
| 969 | * Latest possible date for the development of the Satsui no Hadou ("Surge of Murderous Intent"), a martial arts technique/mystical force which enhances the user to superhuman levels at the cost of whatever makes them human. Its most famous practitioner would be Akuma. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'') |
| 970 | * Latest possible date for the "birth" of the demon Garuda, a combination of all the souls driven mad by the Satsui no Hadou. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[labelnote:more]]He wears samurai armor. The samurai class and its armor were abolished in the late 19th century. He is arguably older than the 20th century.[[/labelnote]]) |
| 971 | * Explorers discover an enormous, evil, time-devouring baby from another dimension frozen in an Antarctic glacier. They reason there is nothing to worry about, since glaciers never melt. (''Westernanimation/GravityFalls'') |
| 972 | * Two professors named Cavor and Bedford set out on an undocumented expedition to the Moon. There, they get into a conflict with a race of lunar aliens called the Selenites, and mine an important mineral found on the Moon called [[AppliedPhlebotinum cavorite]], which has {{antigravity}} properties. (''Literature/TheFirstMenInTheMoon'') The cavorite mined from their expedition eventually found its way to the mighty Albion kingdom, transforming the nation into a dominant world power. This didn't last however, as civil tensions caused the kingdom to be split into two competing nations; The Commonwealth of Albion, and the Old Kingdom. Team White Pigeon formed around this time, consisting of five spies named Ange le Carré, Dorothy [=MacBean=], Beatrice, Chise, and the kingdom's princess; Charlotte herself. (''Anime/PrincessPrincipal'') |
| 973 | * Annes Town, Massachusetts is [[PleaseSelectNewCityName renamed]] Anniston. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 974 | [[/folder]] |
| 975 | |
| 976 | [[folder:1901 C.E. - 1910 C.E.]] |
| 977 | |
| 978 | [[AC:Early 20th Century]] |
| 979 | * The Fourth Doctor defeats a Rutan invasion fleet at the Fang Rock lighthouse. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 980 | * A dark shadow appears over a town in rural America. A couple, George and Maria, mysteriously disappear. George returns two years later, without Maria. [[note]]They raise a baby alien named Giygas.[[/note]](''VideoGame/EarthboundBeginnings'') |
| 981 | * Mr. X's cloning experiment goes horrifically wrong, transforming him, driving him insane and sending out a 'genetic shockwave' across the world. (''FanFic/{{Pokeumans}}'') |
| 982 | * The Goa'uld System Lord Ba'al abandons [=P4S-237=] as its naquadah deposits have been largely depleted. His underlord Mot secretly maintains the mining operation and keeps the naquadah for himself. He plans to overthrow Ba'al and take his place as System Lord. (''Series/StargateSG1'') |
| 983 | * Lord Haikon becomes the leader of the Sodan. He would retain that position until his people's destruction in 2006. (''Series/StargateSG1'') |
| 984 | |
| 985 | [[AC:1901]] |
| 986 | * At the stroke of midnight on January 1, the Century Babies are born. Among others, this includes Jenny Sparks and Elijah Snow. (''ComicBook/TheAuthority'', ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'') |
| 987 | * June: Martians land on Earth and attack in strange tripod machines. Red weed has started eating at the Earth's ecology. Both are wiped out by the lowliest of lowliests: bacteria. (''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'') Franchise/SherlockHolmes gets involved. The discrepancy between Creator/HGWells' account of the invasion and Dr. John Watson's causes hostility between the two men and a war of words in the newspaper letters pages. (''Sherlock Holmes' War of the Worlds'') |
| 988 | * June 30: Birth of Dorothy Singers in Chicago. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 989 | * September 24: Ike Godsey is born. (''Series/TheWaltons'') |
| 990 | * November 12: James Clark Savage, Jr. is born on a schooner near the Bahamas. From the age of six, the boy is trained to become a physical, mental, and moral superman. (''Literature/DocSavage'') |
| 991 | * November 22: Ryunosuke Naruhodo makes his courtroom debut, defending himself for the murder of Dr. John H. Wilson. (''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'') |
| 992 | * Ten-year-old Vito Andolini escapes from Corleone, Sicily to the U.S., after his father is killed by a local Mafia chief. At Ellis Island, he is mistakenly registered as Vito Corleone. (''Film/TheGodfatherPartII'') |
| 993 | * Zombie outbreak in Lu Shan. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'') |
| 994 | * Simon Templar is born in Indochina. (''Literature/TheSaint'') |
| 995 | * In Austria, Bill and Ted abduct Sigmund Freud for their history report, taking him to 1988. (''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'') |
| 996 | * The floating city of Columbia ends the Boxer Rebellion by razing Peking to the ground. (''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'') |
| 997 | * General Jinjur's forces overthrow the Scarecrow and take rule of Oz; after a standoff with Glinda the Good, Princess Ozma is discovered and takes her rightful place on the throne. (''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz'') |
| 998 | * Clyde Globe is born. (''Series/AmazingStories'') |
| 999 | * Verna Johnson is born. (''Series/{{Tenko}}'') |
| 1000 | * Rubber collectors go missing in the Congo Free State. Local militia are sent by the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company to find them in tunnels underneath the extinct volcano Mahali-pa-siri. The party is lost for 13 days underneath the volcano. Doctor Lodewijk Geerts, the only person to be heard from again, records signs of a 'vast and populous and many-steepled city with outer gardens'. (''[[Creator/KevinCostner The Explorers' Guild]]'') |
| 1001 | * Birth of Genshin, a future monk, in Myoujin Village. (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Missing Heir'') |
| 1002 | * President UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt establishes the Perpetual Unearthly Forces Fund, an official government bounty system for the killing of dangerous monsters. (''Literature/MonsterHunterInternational'') |
| 1003 | |
| 1004 | [[AC:1902]] |
| 1005 | * July 6: The US government formally disavows Columbia's involvement in the Boxer Rebellion and recalls the city. Comstock declares his secession from the United States, and Columbia disappears into the clouds. (''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'') |
| 1006 | * October 5: Nora Charles was just a gleam in her father's eye. (''Film/TheThinMan'') |
| 1007 | * October 14: Elwood City is founded. (''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'') |
| 1008 | * November 4: Thanks to the efforts of Ryunosuke Naruhodo and Herlock Sholmes, the truth behind the Professor Killings is revealed and a grand conspiracy in the British judiciary is unmasked. (''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'') |
| 1009 | * During a trip to Australia, Dorothy is swept overboard and ends up in the land of Ev. She meets and helps the new ruler of Oz, Ozma, rescue the royal family of Ev from the Nome King. (''Literature/OzmaOfOz'') |
| 1010 | * A few weeks after her previous trip to Oz, Dorothy stops in San Francisco on her way back to Kansas, and an earthquake swallows her along with her cousin Zeb, his horse Jim, and Dorothy's kitten Eureka. They are eventually joined by the Wizard, and together they escape several hostile races and other obstacles beneath the Earth before Ozma teleports them back to Oz. (''Literature/DorothyAndTheWizardInOz'') |
| 1011 | * Birth of Dominic Dracon. He would grow up to be a leading figure in the organized crime of New York. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'') |
| 1012 | * Scrooge [=McDuck=] becomes a billionaire. He settles in the town of Duckburg and assigns his sisters, Matilda and Hortense, to oversee his financial empire while he travels the world. (''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'') |
| 1013 | * Adam Adamant is [[HumanPopsicle frozen in a block of ice]] by his nemesis, the Face. He is eventually revived in 1966. (''Series/AdamAdamantLives'') |
| 1014 | * Sean Aloysius O'Brien dies. (''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'') |
| 1015 | * 2-5 tycoons compete to build the best-connected rail network throughout Germany (''TabletopGame/TicketToRide: Deutschland 1902'') |
| 1016 | * Japan and Great Britain form an alliance to be a little less scared of Russia. (''WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan'') |
| 1017 | |
| 1018 | [[AC:1903]] |
| 1019 | * February 3: Alexander Hartdegen completes his TimeMachine and travels forward in time to 802,701. (''Film/TheTimeMachine2002'') |
| 1020 | * June 11: King Alexander I of Serbia is assassinated by a group led by Captain Dragutin Dimitrijević, also the leader of the Black Hand. (RealLife) |
| 1021 | ** Candidates for the assassins include elusive author V. M. Straka. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 1022 | * August: Dorothy embarks on her fourth trip to Oz, accompanied by a hobo named Shaggy Man, and other friends she meets on the way, making it to Oz in time to attend Ozma's birthday party on August 21. (''Literature/TheRoadToOz'') |
| 1023 | * November: A young woman called Sarah comes to works as a parlormaid at 165 Eaton Place. (''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'') |
| 1024 | * Before December 17: The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones help Wilbur and Orville Wright [[SiblingTriangle reconcile their differences over their mutual love for Agnes Spence]] so they can perfect the ''Wright Flyer'' and the Allies can win UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 1025 | * December 17: The Wright brothers conduct the first powered flight with a heavier-than-air machine, the ''Wright Flyer''. (RealLife) |
| 1026 | ** Peabody and Sherman help the Wright brothers retrieve their airplane from Kitty Hawk, who's fallen in love with it. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 1027 | ** Doc Brown is present for the first flight. ([[Ride/BackToTheFutureTheRide "Doc on the March"]]) |
| 1028 | * December 24: Alonzo Smith, patriarch of the Smith family of St. Louis, decides he will not be moving his family to New York after all. (''Film/MeetMeInStLouis'') |
| 1029 | * The Terror makes his debut battling President Teddy Roosevelt. (''ComicBook/TheTick'') |
| 1030 | * Sherlock Holmes retires to Sussex and takes up beekeeping. (''[[Literature/SherlockHolmes His Last Bow]]'') |
| 1031 | * Birth of Sasquatch in Canada. He belongs to a Bigfoot tribe but resembles a Yeti. (''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'') |
| 1032 | * A German girl becomes the Slayer. Creighton Faust serves as her Watcher. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 1033 | * Professor George Challenger and Lord John Roxton launch an expedition to a hidden mini-ecosystem of primaeval flora and fauna. (''Literature/{{The Lost World|1912}}'') |
| 1034 | * [[TheGrimReaper Carlos Muerto]] fails to kill Dracula permanently. (''ComicBook/DraculaLives'' #9) |
| 1035 | * The Nexus crosses through the Milky Way Galaxy. (''Film/StarTrekGenerations'') |
| 1036 | |
| 1037 | [[AC:1904]] |
| 1038 | * June: Sugar Kowalczyk, later known as "Sugar Kane," is born in Sandusky, Ohio. (''Film/SomeLikeItHot'') |
| 1039 | * June 16: Mr. Leopold Bloom of Dublin has an extremely long day. (''Literature/{{Ulysses}}'') |
| 1040 | * July 4: The Confederate States of America, after functioning as a separate nation for many years and itself abolishing slavery, again becomes part of the USA. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 1041 | * November 8: |
| 1042 | ** U.S. President UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt is elected to a full term in his own right, defeating Alton B. Parker. (RealLife) |
| 1043 | ** William Jennings Bryan is elected to a third term as U.S. President. (''Literature/BringTheJubilee'') |
| 1044 | * Death of ComicBook/JonahHex. (Creator/DCComics) |
| 1045 | * Root submachine built. (''VideoGame/{{Submachine}}'') |
| 1046 | * Peter and Billy Bailey found the Bailey Bros. Building & Loan Association in Bedford Falls, New York. (''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'') |
| 1047 | * Joshua and Primrose Iredale are married. (''Series/MirrorMirror1995'') |
| 1048 | * Japan goes to war against Russia. They soon get tired and stop. (''WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan'') |
| 1049 | |
| 1050 | [[AC:1905]] |
| 1051 | * January 22: A wish granted by Anyanka causes a revolution in St. Petersburg. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 1052 | * April 4: Rebecca Rubin is born. (''Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection'') |
| 1053 | * April: Sophia Petrillo is born. (''Series/TheGoldenGirls'') |
| 1054 | * June 27: Russian sailors mutiny on the battleship ''Potemkin''. (RealLife) On the Odessa steps, Cossacks massacre civilians who have sided with the mutineers. (''Film/TheBattleshipPotemkin'') |
| 1055 | * June: Shortly before his death, the 96-year-old former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, living in exile in UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}, is interviewed about the Union's failure to defeat the Confederacy in the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar War on Northern Aggression]]. (''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'') |
| 1056 | * October 11: Victor Rutledge is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'') |
| 1057 | * October 15: Nemo begins having strange recurring dreams every night about a fantasy world called Slumberland. (''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'') |
| 1058 | * Herbert West has begun his experiments in reviving the dead by this time. (''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Herbert West - Reanimator]]'') |
| 1059 | * Creighton Faust becomes a vampire. His Slayer goes insane and commits suicide. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 1060 | * Birth of Britta Kessler in Munich. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 1061 | * Birth of Greg Mallory.[[labelnote:Justification]]91 years old in 2006[[/labelnote]] (''ComicBook/TheBoys'') |
| 1062 | * Circus magician and air balloonist Oscar Diggs is swept away by a tornado to the Land of Oz. (''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'') |
| 1063 | * Dorothy and her family move to Oz permanently; meanwhile the Nome King gathers other evil races and tries to invade Oz. (''Literature/TheEmeraldCityOfOz'') |
| 1064 | * Arthur Biehl is born. (''Film/SomewhereInTime'') |
| 1065 | * Brian Douglas is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 1066 | * Mrs. Dempsey is born. (''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'') |
| 1067 | * Louisa Iredale is born. (''Series/MirrorMirror1995'') |
| 1068 | |
| 1069 | [[AC:1906]] |
| 1070 | * April 17: Jack Burley orders the Paradise Club shut down, and the police padlock its doors. The club belongs to Burley's romantic rival, "Blackie" Norton. (''Film/{{San Francisco|1936}}'') |
| 1071 | * April 18, 5:12 am PST: |
| 1072 | ** An earthquake destroys 80% of UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco. (RealLife) |
| 1073 | ** As a result of the earthquake, saloon owner "Blackie" Norton is traumatized and reforms his ways. He reunites with his lady love Mary. (''Film/{{San Francisco|1936}}'') |
| 1074 | ** Jenny Sandolvar loses her lover in the earthquake, and is left alone and pregnant. (''Film/FriscoJenny'') |
| 1075 | * June 24: Edward Grainger is born to Lawrence and Mary Grainger. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'') |
| 1076 | * Birth of Britt Reid. (''Radio/TheGreenHornet'') |
| 1077 | * Romantic hijinks ensue in the Oklahoma Territory shortly before it becomes a state. (''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}'') |
| 1078 | * A magical mishap turns Ojo the Unlucky's uncle and a magician's wife into stone; he embarks on a quest with the newly incarnated Patchwork Girl and a living Glass Cat across Oz to find the ingredients to a magical cure. (''Literature/ThePatchworkGirlOfOz'') |
| 1079 | * The Queen of the small kingdom of Oogaboo in Oz embarks on an unsuccessful campaign of world conquest; Betsy Bobbin washes ashore on Ev and meets the Shaggy Man and Tik-Tok, and together they confront the Nome King. (''Literature/TikTokOfOz'') |
| 1080 | * The first annual Tornado Day celebration is held in Eerie, Indiana in order to appease the tornado Old Bob. (''Series/EerieIndiana'') |
| 1081 | * A German archaeological expedition discovers the DHD of the Giza Stargate in UsefulNotes/{{Egypt}}. (''Series/StargateSG1'') |
| 1082 | * Nora, future wife of Nick Charles, is born. (''Literature/TheThinMan'') |
| 1083 | * Cassandra Ruth Winston, mother of protagonist Alex Winston, mother-in-law of Sam Winston and Chris Wells, and grandmother of Charlie and Suzie Winston, is born. (''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'') |
| 1084 | * Birth of Frank Randall. (''Literature/{{Outlander}}'') |
| 1085 | |
| 1086 | [[AC:1907]] |
| 1087 | * Spring: An Irish servant named Emily falls for a footman named William; He rejects her, which leads to her suicide (''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'') |
| 1088 | * November 1: Inspector John Legrasse breaks up a Cthulhu cult. (''Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu'') |
| 1089 | * Mrs. Bridges, the Eaton Place cook, steals a baby. (''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'') |
| 1090 | * First recorded appearance of Baron Ether, first super-villain. (''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible'') |
| 1091 | * George Bailey is born. (''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'') |
| 1092 | * In Colorado, construction of the Overlook Hotel begins. (''Literature/TheShining'') |
| 1093 | * Bobby Cabe is born. (''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'') |
| 1094 | * Trot and Cap'n Bill end up in Oz after a series of adventures, and help free the small kingdom of Jinxland from its wicked king. (''Literature/TheScarecrowOfOz'') |
| 1095 | * Ray and Sarah Dobson are married. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 1096 | * John, Abigail and Jack Marston return to West Elizabeth 8 years after the death of Arthur Morgan and the dissolution of the Van der Linde gang, hoping to build a peaceful life for themselves. John reunites with a few survivors of the gang, and confronts the traitorous Micah Bell for the last time. (''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'') |
| 1097 | * Knuckles the Echidna graduates from Princeton University, having learned Braille and that he's a really handsome guy. (''WebVideo/RealTimeFandub'') |
| 1098 | * Shadow the Hedgehog runs for president in the election. (''WebVideo/RealTimeFandub'') |
| 1099 | * Winston Pennington, tormented in boarding school, gives up his real life to become the first member of Frida's Friends Club besides Eino. (''Literature/{{Unimaa}}'') |
| 1100 | * The Great Gulp of aught-seven sinks a ship carrying numerous treasures that the Squidfather will pilfer for himself. This sunken ship will later be the location of Fineas [=McFinn=], and the hiding spot of Grandma Grouper's kelp treasure when Boss and Spongehead steal it on the Squidfather's orders. (''VideoGame/FreddiFishAndTheCaseOfTheMissingKelpSeeds'') |
| 1101 | |
| 1102 | [[AC:1908]] |
| 1103 | * January 8: [AlternateUniverse] Marcus Americanius Scriptor is born. (''Franchise/FactionParadox'') |
| 1104 | * May: |
| 1105 | ** Henry Jones, professor of Medieval Studies at Princeton, begins a world tour with his wife, Anna; his son, Henry Jr. (AKA Indiana); and Indiana's teacher, Helen Seymour. In Egypt, Indy meets Howard Carter and Thomas Edward "Ned" Lawrence, for the first time. (''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'') |
| 1106 | ** In Florence, Anna Jones is romanced by Giacomo Puccini, but decides to remain loyal to her husband. (''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'') |
| 1107 | * June 21: Laurent and Bertille are brought back in time to this era, from their present in 1996. (''ComicBook/{{Sasmira}}'') |
| 1108 | * June 30: The Tunguska Event. |
| 1109 | ** An alien, or angel, or something crashes to Earth near the Tunguska river. (Website/SCPFoundation) |
| 1110 | ** Nikola Tesla, Charles Fort, and Creator/HPLovecraft defeat an extradimensional horror in Siberia. (''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'') |
| 1111 | ** Nikola Tesla successfully test-fires his prototype superweapon, Goliath.[[labelnote:more]]Or so he thinks.[[/labelnote]] (''Literature/{{Leviathan}}'') |
| 1112 | ** Aliens known as the Chimera crash-land on Earth. (''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}'') |
| 1113 | ** An alien explorer later known as Ned is transported to Earth through a tachyon portal. (''Series/EerieIndiana'') |
| 1114 | * September: In Paris, Indiana Jones meets Creator/NormanRockwell, Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, and Henri Rousseau. (''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'') |
| 1115 | * November 3: |
| 1116 | ** William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential election. (RealLife) |
| 1117 | ** Thomas Edison defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential election. (''And Having Writ...'') |
| 1118 | * November 6: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are gunned down in Bolivia. (''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' and probably real life. The identification of the corpses was questionable) |
| 1119 | * November: Elizabeth Bellamy meets Lawrence Kirbridge. (''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'') |
| 1120 | * Henry Jones and his family visit Vienna, where they meet Sigmund Freud, Aldred Adler, and Carl Jung. Indy has a brief affair with princess Sophie von Hohenburg. (''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'') |
| 1121 | * A car race around the world is won by Professor Fate. (''Film/TheGreatRace'') |
| 1122 | * The Ishvalan War of Extermination begins in Amestris. (''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'') |
| 1123 | * Birth of Aron Canmore to Jackson Canmore and an unnamed mother. He would grow up to become a Hunter. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'') |
| 1124 | * At a meeting of the American Archaeological Society in St. Louis, Inspector John Raymond Legrasse of the New Orleans Police Department asks for the aid of George Gammell Angell, Professor of Semitic Languages in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in investigating a suspected voodoo cult. He meets William Webb, and the two compare notes. (''Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu'') |
| 1125 | * At Miskatonic University, economics professor Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee suffers a mid-lecture fainting spell. Upon awakening, Peaslee's strangely altered behavior alienates most of his family; the professor abandons his field and embarks on years of bizarrely diverse research. ("Literature/TheShadowOutOfTime") |
| 1126 | * Chloe Williams is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 1127 | * Jeffrey Carlson is born. (''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'') |
| 1128 | * Princess Ozma is kidnapped by Ugu the Shoemaker, who also steals numerous magical artifacts. Glinda the Good organizes search parties to scour Oz for Ozma. (''Literature/TheLostPrincessOfOz'') |
| 1129 | * Nola Granville is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 1130 | * Nelson Gardner (Captain Metropolis) is born. (''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'') |
| 1131 | * Birth of future President of Sordland Anton Rayne. (''VideoGame/{{Suzerain}}'') |
| 1132 | |
| 1133 | [[AC:1909]] |
| 1134 | * January 14: Gold rush in Icefinger mountains (''Literature/FightingFantasy'') |
| 1135 | * Early in the year: King Edward VII comes to Eaton Place for dinner. (''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'') |
| 1136 | * July: A month before Ozma's birthday, Kiki Aru and Ruggedo try to use a magic word that transforms anyone into anything the speaker wants to conquer Oz. (''Literature/TheMagicOfOz'') |
| 1137 | * September 4: Dick Tracy is born. (''ComicStrip/DickTracy'') |
| 1138 | * September: Henry Jones and his family visit British East Africa (modern Kenya). Indy meets Frederick Selous and Theodore Roosevelt, and takes part in the search for the rare East African Oryx. (''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'') |
| 1139 | * Superior English translation of ''Unaussprechlichen Kulten'' (also titled ''Nameless Cults'') published. (Franchise/CthulhuMythos) |
| 1140 | * Ernest Grainger is born. (''Series/AreYouBeingServed'') |
| 1141 | * Edward and Alphonse Elric attempt to resurrect their dead mother and fail, resulting in an incident that leaves Edward Elric without an arm and a leg and Alphonse Elric as a soul existing in a suit of armor. The colonel Roy Mustang invites the boys to apply for the State Alchemist Program and Edward Elric is equipped with automail. (''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'') |
| 1142 | * Peabody and Sherman are captured by Eskimos. They escape and lead Commodore Perry to the north pole. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 1143 | * Big Jake [=McCandles=] rescues his grandson, Little Jake from a group of outlaws. (''Film/BigJake'') |
| 1144 | * Lord Henry Mystic acquires an ancient Balinese Music Box said to hold a magic power to bring inanimate objects to life with its music. His pet monkey Albert unleashes the power and has to evade the whole collection inside Mystic Manor including Tiki statues, suits of armor and a statue of Sun Wukong to close it before Henry finds out. (''[[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Mystic Manor]]'') |
| 1145 | * The Overlook Hotel opens in Colorado. (''Literature/TheShining'') |
| 1146 | * Rosalind and Robert Lutece suffer a peculiar laboratory mishap in the floating city of Columbia. (''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'') |
| 1147 | * Alfredo Pedillo Jose is born. (''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'') |
| 1148 | * A traveling nomad named Woot the Wanderer convinces the Tin Woodman to search for the lover he left behind after becoming tin and rusting for a year. (''Literature/TheTinWoodmanOfOz'') |
| 1149 | * Ozma and Dorothy try to put an end to a war between the Flatheads and the Skeezers in northern Oz, only to end up trapped in an underwater domed city. (''Literature/GlindaOfOz'') |
| 1150 | * Constance Clarke is born. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'') |
| 1151 | * Death of Jacob von Hogflume, the discoverer of time travel. (A satirical [[https://openplaques.org/people/3922 blue plaque]]) |
| 1152 | * Armanments manufacturer Hermès Bouchard establishes the Prix Bouchard for the year's best work of fiction by a European author. Winners receive a cash prize of 50,000 francs and are fêted throughout the year at private events hosted by influential families throughout Europe. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 1153 | |
| 1154 | [[AC:1910]] |
| 1155 | * January: Henry Jones and his family meet Annie Besant in India. (''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'') |
| 1156 | * March: In China, Indiana Jones learns a little Mandarin and has his first brush with death when he contracts typhoid fever. (''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'') |
| 1157 | * April 13: A meteor impacts Redding, Connecticut, destroying a bakery owned by the abominable batterwitch and bakery baroness Betty Crocker, but leaving the female human infant and fedora hat riding it down miraculously unharmed. The girl, who would eventually be known as Nanna Egbert, is taken in by the batterwitch's husband, aristocratic southern colonel and renowned humorist Colonel Sassacre. (''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'') |
| 1158 | * April 20: |
| 1159 | ** Halley's Comet passes Earth. Due to the recent discovery that comet tails contain poison, there is a panic that deadly comet gas will kill all life on Earth, but of course nothing happens. (RealLife) |
| 1160 | ** Creator/MarkTwain, [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher]] chase after Halley's Comet in a {{steampunk}} airship. (''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfMarkTwain'') |
| 1161 | ** Tony Newman and Doug Phillips, two time travelers from 1968, convince panicked townspeople that the appearance of Halley's Comet is not the end of the world. (''Series/TheTimeTunnel'') |
| 1162 | ** Reporter John Parker visits the small New England town of Illsmouth, where he foils the sorceror Narachmus and his cult in their attempt at using the comet's passage to summon the Great Old Ones to Earth and bring about the end of the world. (''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheComet'') |
| 1163 | * April 21: A second meteor impacts Redding, Connecticut, destroying the doghouse of Colonel Sassacre's faithful canine companion, Halley, but leaving the human male infant and dual flintlock pistols riding it down miraculously unharmed. Halley is also unharmed, but this is not quite as miraculous, given that he was not in the doghouse at time of its destruction. The boy, who would one day be known as Grandpa Harley, accidentally fires the pistols, killing an investigating Sassacre. Both he and Nanna Egbert are taken in by Sassacre's wife, the abominable batterwitch Betty Crocker. (''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'') |
| 1164 | * Summer: Indiana Jones temporarily runs away from his father Henry and meets Leo Tolstoy. (''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'') |
| 1165 | * Autumn: Henry and Indiana Jones visit the Meteora, where they get in trouble with the locals and later meet Nikos Kazantzakis. (''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'') |
| 1166 | * October 30: Czech factory worker Vaclav A. Straka attempts suicide by jumping off the Charles Bridge. He is presumed dead. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 1167 | * October 31: The names Stenfalk, Corbeau, Pfeifer, Ostrero, and a guest appear on the register at the Hotel Voliéry in Prague.[[labelnote:more]]These are presumed to be aliases for Torsten Ekstrom, Armante Durand, Reinhold Feuerbach, and Tiago García Ferrara, plus Vaclav A. Straka as the guest. They together form a group known only as "The S".[[/labelnote]] (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 1168 | * December: MrsClaus crash-lands in New York's Lower East Side, where she improves the lives of those she meets and participates in several musical numbers. (''Film/MrsSantaClaus'') |
| 1169 | * Four pampered cats are kidnapped and thrown out into the French countryside by the evil butler Edgar who wants to steal their inheritance from Madame Bonfamille. The cats take a long journey back to Paris. (''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'') |
| 1170 | * Mr. George Banks hires the perfect nanny, Mary Poppins, for his children Jane and Michael. (''Film/MaryPoppins'') |
| 1171 | * Birth of William Brown (''Literature/JustWilliam'') |
| 1172 | * Peabody and Sherman use a truly dreadful pun to stop Pancho Villa from destroying the town of El Famino, which doesn't have anything for him to steal. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 1173 | * Peabody and Sherman help Barnaby Victor win the first Indy 500 against the fiendish Carmen Dioxide. (''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'') |
| 1174 | * Master Thomas Swift of Shopton, N.Y. invents an ingenious motor-cycle prototype. (''Literature/TomSwift'') |
| 1175 | * Bill Webster is abducted from UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica and brought to UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'') |
| 1176 | * Daniel Auschlander is born. (''Series/StElsewhere'') |
| 1177 | * The Highball Express crashes. (''Series/AmazingStories'') |
| 1178 | * William J. Feathersmith makes a [[DealWithTheDevil pact with Satan]] in 1963 and is transported back in time to his home town of Cliffordville, Indiana in this year. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 1179 | * Ed Hamner, an injured baseball player from 1988, is given a 1910 baseball card by his young neighbor Paula featuring a player named Monty Hanks. The card allows Ed to travel back in time to this year and assume Hanks' identity. There is no trace of his injury. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 1180 | * Ward Cleaver is born. (''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'') |
| 1181 | * Fay Truscott-Sade is born. (''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'') |
| 1182 | * Toby and Millie [=McKenzie=] are married. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 1183 | * Mary Hatch (later Bailey) is born. (''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'') |
| 1184 | * Birth of Kiku Ayashiro (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Missing Heir'') |
| 1185 | * 2-5 tycoons compete to build the best-connected rail network throughout the United States. (''TabletopGame/TicketToRide: USA 1910'') |
| 1186 | |
| 1187 | [[AC:1900s]] |
| 1188 | * President Theodore Roosevelt closes off access to the "Devil's Forest", convinced that the woods were a repository for dark magic. (''[[Series/TheLibrarians2014 The Librarians]]'') |
| 1189 | [[/folder]] |
| 1190 | |
| 1191 | [[folder:1911 C.E. - 1913 C.E.]] |
| 1192 | [[AC:1911]] |
| 1193 | * The Fourth Doctor prevents the return of Sutekh. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 1194 | * Former criminal John Marston is coerced by the US government (which holds his wife and son hostage) into hunting down the members of his old gang: Bill Williamson, Javier Escuella, and gang leader Dutch van der Linde. Along his journey he helps a group of Mexican rebels overthrow the government and lead the charismatic (but equally corrupt) Abraham Reyes to power. [[labelnote:more]]Shortly after accomplishing his task, Marston is killed by the US Army.[[/labelnote]] (''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'') |
| 1195 | * Zombie outbreak in Vitre, Louisiana. Zombies are destroyed by fire, but the town is burned down as a result. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'') |
| 1196 | * Death of Millicent Rose Gresham. Arabella Gish becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 1197 | * Denis Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard begins investigating coordinated criminal activity among the Asian gangs of London. (''Literature/FuManchu'') |
| 1198 | * Birth of Eustace "Huckabone" Befufftlefumpter [[labelnote:Justification]]Stated to be 102 in "Northwest Mansion Mystery"[[/labelnote]] (''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'') |
| 1199 | * Dorothy Livingston is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 1200 | * Professor Ellis Fowler begins his 51 year teaching career at the Rock Spring School for Boys in Vermont. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 1201 | * Ilyena Sirotskaya is touring with the Duke of Wapping when he is killed at a sports car race in Le Mans. Her image on a newsreel captivates film director Basil Sprague; she, under the alias "Evelyn Harrow", quickly becomes a star of the young cinema. (''[[Creator/KevinCostner The Explorers' Guild]]'') |
| 1202 | * [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] is born. (''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'') |
| 1203 | * Harry Bailey is born. (''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'') |
| 1204 | * Birth of Zenzou Tanabe (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Missing Heir'') |
| 1205 | * Several management staff at Hermès Bouchard's arms factory in Calais are murdered. They are attributed to V. M. Straka, who has just begun his authorial career with the best-seller ''Miracle at Braxenholm''. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 1206 | * Anya Petrova, having been forced by her family into a life as a ballerina at a young age against her will, gives up her real life to join Frida's Friends Club. (''Literature/{{Unimaa}}'') |
| 1207 | |
| 1208 | [[AC:1912]] |
| 1209 | * February: A violent uprising of striking workers occurs at a Calais ammunition factory owned by Hermès Bouchard. It results in the deaths of four factory managers and fifteen employees of the Lessard detective agency, which had been hired for security. Fifty-seven strikers are arrested and jailed. Many of the workers would later confess that they had no specific grievances, but instead had been drunk and provoked to violence by an anarchist agitator (presumed to be V. M. Straka or even one of Bouchard's men) among them. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 1210 | * April 9: The Ninth Doctor prevents a family from boarding the ''Titanic''. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 1211 | * April 10: The RMS ''Titanic'' leaves Southampton for New York in its sole voyage. (RealLife) |
| 1212 | ** Indiana Jones and Helen Seymour take a trip on the Titanic. Indy befriends stowaway Molly Kincaid, and the two investigate a German sabotage mission. (''[[Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles Young Indiana Jones and the Titanic Adventure]]'' ) |
| 1213 | ** Lady Stephanie Button arrives in Southampton, but is denied boarding because there is already a "Lady Button" aboard the ship. She also dies in the same year when her husband George pushes her out of the window, after she finds him having an affair with two other men. (''Series/GhostsUK'') |
| 1214 | * April 14: |
| 1215 | ** The RMS ''Titanic'' hits an iceberg and begins to sink, killing over 2000 people in the process. (RealLife) |
| 1216 | ** The sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'' causes a break in the romance of Jack Dawson and Rose [=DeWitt=] Bukater. (''Film/Titanic1997'') |
| 1217 | ** The ''Titanic'' sinks - the saboteurs failed to damage it, but the iceberg had no such problems. Helen Seymour goes broke, as she had invested most of her money in the White Star Line. (''[[Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles Young Indiana Jones and the Titanic Adventure]]'') |
| 1218 | ** The RMS ''Titanic'' sinks, but the blandest couple ever survive so it's party time, everyone! (''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'') |
| 1219 | ** The RMS ''Titanic'' is saved from capsizing by a giant squid. Everybody lives. (''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic'') |
| 1220 | ** An unknown incarnation of the Doctor "clings to an iceberg" in the midst of the ''Titanic'' disaster. The Fourth Doctor denied responsibility for its sinking. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 1221 | ** Amanda claims she was on board the ''Titanic'' during its maiden voyage. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Raven'') |
| 1222 | ** Lady Marjorie Bellamy, her brother and his wife die in the ''Titanic'' sinking. (''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'') |
| 1223 | ** Lord Grantham's only remaining male heirs die on the ''Titanic''. (''Series/DowntonAbbey'') |
| 1224 | ** Dr. Tony Newman and Dr. Doug Phillips, a pair of time travelers from 1968, fail to prevent the sinking of the ''Titanic''. (''Series/TheTimeTunnel'') |
| 1225 | ** The Seventh Doctor, Ace and Benny are briefly on board the ''Titanic'' while pursuing the psychic villain Huitzilin. The Doctor says preventing the sinking would condemn future travellers saved by the safety systems added to other liners in the wake of the tragedy. (''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'') |
| 1226 | ** The RMS ''Titanic'' hits an iceberg but the hull remains intact, being made from high-quality Martian-grade aluminium. This would give it a reputation as a "cursed ship". (''Literature/TheMassacreOfMankind'') |
| 1227 | ** The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones meet another Voyager, Olivia Dunn, aboard the ''Titanic''. She is there to get the ''Mona Lisa'' off the ship. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'') |
| 1228 | ** Charlotte Elspeth "Charley" Pollard is born. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'') |
| 1229 | ** WWII-era ex-secret agent Frank Carlson is given a second chance to complete his mission on the RMS Titanic before it sinks. (''VideoGame/TitanicAdventureOutOfTime'') |
| 1230 | ** While using the time pad to study for his history exam, Chris kills a crew member on the ''Titanic''. Since this man is the ancestor of his history teacher, Chris gets a new teacher who doesn't believe in tests. (''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'') |
| 1231 | * April 15: In the early hours of the morning, the RMS ''Titanic'' finally sinks completely. (RealLife) |
| 1232 | ** 2:11 AM: A time travelling historian named Renée goes back to see what really happened on the night of the ''Titanic'''s sinking; unfortunately, the ship sinks 9 minutes earlier than recorded, claiming another victim. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'') |
| 1233 | * May 16: Anna Mary Jones dies. She succumbed to a combination of scarlet fever and influenza. (''The World of Franchise/IndianaJones'' -1994, ''Franchise/IndianaJones: The Ultimate Guide'') |
| 1234 | * June 5: Beatrice Rose Endicott and the New York Preservation Society re-opens Hotel Hightower for tours so that Harrison Hightower's collection of artifacts from around the world can be appreciated once more. Shiriki Utundu's magic still runs throughout the building, making things very dangerous for any trips going up to Hightower's penthouse. (''[[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Tower of Terror (Tokyo Disney Sea)]]'') |
| 1235 | * June 23: Birth of Robert Stoney. ("Literature/{{Oracle}}")[[labelnote:Justification]]Alan Turing was born on this date, and Stoney is a stand-in for him.[[/labelnote]] |
| 1236 | * June 27: Elise [=McKenna=], a famous stage actress, meets and falls in love with a playwright named Richard Collier. He is actually a time traveler from 1980, who fell in love with images of her. (''Film/SomewhereInTime'') |
| 1237 | * June: Indiana Jones engages in his first treasure hunt, searching for pirate gold along the New England coast. (''[[Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles Young Indiana Jones and the Pirates' Loot]]'') |
| 1238 | * Summer: In Utah, Indiana Jones and his boyscout troop cross paths with a group of treasure hunters. The leader of the hunters lets Indy keep his fedora. (''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'') |
| 1239 | * July 6: Booker [=DeWitt=], a former cavalryman and Pinkerton detective turned private investigator, is dispatched to locate and retrieve a girl named Elizabeth from the floating city of Columbia. (''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'') |
| 1240 | * July: Indiana Jones visits Klondike, years after the end of the Gold Rush. He engages in another treasure hunt and gets to meet author Jack London. (''[[Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom of the Klondike]]'') |
| 1241 | * August: Indiana Jones goes treasure hunting in Mesa Verde, Colorado. In the process, Indy meets an old man who claims to be Billy the Kid. (''[[Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles Young Indiana Jones and the Lost Gold of Durango]]''[[labelnote:more]]Alternatively dated to 1913.[[/labelnote]]) |
| 1242 | * September 16: Ray Dobson becomes trapped in a mine and meets John Parker, another miner who has travelled back in time from 1986. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 1243 | * October 18: Explorer Arthur Ogden arrives at Fort Defiance, [[UsefulNotes/CanadianProvincesAndTerritories Yukon Territory]] with his party. He plans to explore as far as he can and then make up some fanciful story to tell back home. (''[[Creator/KevinCostner The Explorers' Guild]]'') |
| 1244 | * November 5: |
| 1245 | ** UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson is elected President of the United States, defeating UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt and UsefulNotes/WilliamHowardTaft. (RealLife) |
| 1246 | ** UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt defeats UsefulNotes/EugeneDebs in the U.S. presidential election. (''Literature/Timeline191'') |
| 1247 | ** UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt is elected President of the United States, defeating UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson and UsefulNotes/WilliamHowardTaft. (''Literature/BackInTheUSSA'', ''Literature/AlternatePresidents'') |
| 1248 | * November 16-26: Arthur Ogden's Inuit guides begin to suspect that the party is being followed. The party comes to a standstill over this. (''[[Creator/KevinCostner The Explorers' Guild]]'') |
| 1249 | * November: A flask full of radium is stolen from the Institute of Marie Curie, Paris. Indiana Jones investigates. (''[[Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles Young Indiana Jones and the Radioactive Flask]]'') |
| 1250 | * December 19: U.S. President-elect UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt is assassinated in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} by Annie Oakley. (''Literature/BackInTheUSSA'') |
| 1251 | * December: Somewhere by the North Pole, shifting lights and humanoid figures call Ogden's expedition off course. He appears to fall through the pack-ice into something other than the polar sea and what he sees begins a most peculiar chain of events. [[labelnote:more]]He found - and stole a piece of jade from - the mythical city of Shambhala.[[/labelnote]] (''[[Creator/KevinCostner The Explorers' Guild]]'') |
| 1252 | * Tarzan meets Jane. (''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'') |
| 1253 | * Woodrow Wilson Smith, later known as Lazarus Long, is born. (''Literature/MethuselahsChildren'') |
| 1254 | * A series of murders at a Brooklyn Boarding House end when Arabella Gish, a student nurse and current Slayer, checks in to room #6. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'') |
| 1255 | * Birth of Franchise/NancyDrew. |
| 1256 | * Eliza Doolittle thinks it would be "loverly" if she could have danced all night. Poor Professor Higgins grows accustomed to her face and wonders why can't the English learn to speak. With a little bit of luck, Alfred Doolittle gets to the church on time. A blasted plain in Spain is soaked by rain. (''Theatre/MyFairLady'', ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'') |
| 1257 | * James is built. (''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'') |
| 1258 | * Augusta Endicott and Una Percival are born. (''Series/StElsewhere'') |
| 1259 | * Blanche Simmons is born. (''Series/{{Tenko}}'') |
| 1260 | * Professor Ellis Fowler begins teaching at the Rock Spring School for Boys in Vermont. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 1261 | * Bartlett Finchley is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'') |
| 1262 | * Jonathan Dexter is born. (''Phyllis'') |
| 1263 | * The Flask Plan to create superhumans is instituted by Najimi Ajimu and Hanten Shiranui at Kurobako Cram School, refounding it as Hakoniwa Academy. (''Manga/MedakaBox'') |
| 1264 | * The 1912 Prix Bouchard ceremony, held in Chamonix, is disrupted when a capuchin monkey appears on the dais with a note pinned to its jacket. The note, written by the absent prize-winner V. M. Straka, states that the Bouchard Prize and all other literature prizes are anathema to art, treating writers as if they were "dancing monkeys." [[labelnote:more]]He may also have provided proof that Bouchard had orchestrated and covered up a massacre of striking workers in the Calais Riot that February.[[/labelnote]] The prize is discontinued shortly afterwards due to the death of Bouchard's wife by suicide. (''Literature/SDorst'') |
| 1265 | * 2-5 tycoons compete to build the best-connected rail network throughout the Europe. (''TabletopGame/TicketToRide: Europe 1912'') |
| 1266 | |
| 1267 | [[AC:1913]] |
| 1268 | * January: A ''Magazine/NationalGeographic'' Expedition, led by Professor Levinson, visits the Amazon River basin and encounters the Curacai tribe. The youngest member of the expedition is 13-year-old Alex Stottel, who joined it expecting great adventure but instead finds his life put in grave danger. The Curacai believe that creating an image of them steals their souls and force the expedition members to leave when they discover what their cameras can do. That night, after a camp is established as far away from the village as possible, the expedition's photographer is taken by the Curacai and never seen again. However, his Kodak 100 camera is left behind. It is eventually found in 1986 in an old trunk by Daniel Arnold, who soon learns that the Curacai's fears were well-founded. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'') |
| 1269 | * May 5: Claudie Wells is born in New York City. (''Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection'') |
| 1270 | * Spring: |
| 1271 | ** Indiana Jones helps Elizabeth "Lizzie" Ravenall, seek out her family treasure. (''[[Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles Young Indiana Jones and the Plantation Treasure]]'') |
| 1272 | ** While staying at Downton Abbey, the Turkish ambassador Kemal Pamuk secretly visits Lady Mary in her bedroom. While they are sleeping together, he inconveniently dies. Mary, Cora, and Anna surreptitiously move Pamuk's body back to his room in order to save Mary from scandal. (''Series/DowntonAbbey'') |
| 1273 | * June 11: Mary Rutledge is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'') |
| 1274 | * July 5: Rose Miller is born. (''Series/{{Tenko}}'') |
| 1275 | * Summer: Marcus Brody, assistant curator of the National Museum, leads an archaeological expedition to Egypt. He is accompanied by Indiana Jones, 14-years-old and eager to participate in archaeological research. Meanwhile, Gustav von Trappen has located the tomb of Tutankhamun and plans to use it for espionage activities. The ring of Osiris which von Trappen uncovered exposes him to the Pharaoh's curse. He dies before announcing his discovery. Indiana gets his first experience with an ancient artifact of supernatural significance. (''[[Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles Young Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Terror]]'') |
| 1276 | * August: In China, Indiana Jones assists a child lama against his enemies. (''[[Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles Young Indiana Jones and the Child Lama]]'') |
| 1277 | * Late Summer/early Autumn: On the way to Armenia, Henry and Indiana Jones pick up some documents relating to the Crusades and help Georgian princess Tamar Rustavi escape from the [[SecretPolice Okhrana]]. (''[[Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles Young Indiana Jones and the Princess of Peril]]'') |
| 1278 | * September: |
| 1279 | ** John Smith [[labelnote:more]]actually a Time Lord disguised as a human[[/labelnote]] hides from the Family of Blood with Martha Jones secretly making sure he stays out of trouble...badly. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 1280 | ** The school year is starting. But Indiana Jones is preoccupied otherwise. A Stradivarius violin has been stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Indy attempts to retrieve it. He has to face The Mafia to do so. (''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'', novel: ''Young Indiana Jones and the Violin of the Metropolitan'') |
| 1281 | ** Woodrow Smith and Indiana Jones attempt the first crossing of the Florida straits by plane, but they first have to survive the influence of the Bermuda Triangle. (''[[Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles Young Indiana Jones and the Bermuda Triangle]]'') |
| 1282 | * October 31: Indiana Jones travels back in time while investigating a silver dragon ring that belonged to Myth/KingArthur. (''[[Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles Young Indiana Jones and the Ghostly Riders]]'') |
| 1283 | * November 10: The Family of Blood land in England, searching for John Smith. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 1284 | * November 11: Teacher John Smith [[labelnote:more]]actually the Tenth Doctor transformed into a human[[/labelnote]] becomes the target of extraterrestrials. [[labelnote:more]]The Family of Blood come to hunt the Doctor's lifespan, stealing the bodies of four humans in a sleepy English village and murdering several more. The Doctor defeats their plan by rerouting the engines of the Family's ship, then gives every single one of them the immortality they wanted...[[FateWorseThanDeath but with a price]].[[/labelnote]] (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 1285 | * December: Indiana Jones and his friend Herman Mueller visit Stonehedge. They have a confrontation with a magic user, but the ruins themseles do not tolerate evil. (''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'', novel: ''Young Indiana Jones and the Circle of Death'') |
| 1286 | * Alice Elliot is saved by the harmonizer Yuri Hyuga. These two and others then go on a quest to stop the man who murdered Alice's father and seeks to use her powers: Roger Bacon.[[labelnote:more]]It's later discovered that "Roger Bacon" is actually former cardinal Albert Simon, who attempts to summon the alien known as Meta-God to destroy humanity. Though he and Meta-God are stopped, Alice perishes to save Yuri from Malice.[[/labelnote]] (''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'') |
| 1287 | * In Ireland, pre-immortal street urchin Lucas Kagan gets into a fight with an older bully, wins and keeps going. The fight bring him to the attention of immortal Richard Tarsis who realizes the boy is a pre-Immortal and adopts him. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'') |
| 1288 | * The Nemesis passes near Earth, influencing events. (''Series/DoctorWho'') |
| 1289 | * Dr. Jan Vanderhaven studies zombies in Paramaribo. He coins the term ''solanum'' for the agent that causes zombification. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'') |
| 1290 | * After four years of intensive exploration, Nathaniel Peaslee is struck with a notable malaise and boredom. Shortly after, he's found unconscious in his home, and awakens with his original personality. Peaslee has no recollection whatsoever of his actions the past four years, and spends some time in an asylum before being released and resuming his old career and affairs. Despite this, he's plagued with dreamlike visions of a bizarre alien world. (''Literature/TheShadowOutOfTime'') |
| 1291 | * The owner of the Carlton Mine lets a bunch of children die in a cave-in. (''Film/WickedLittleThings'') |
| 1292 | * King Eodred Arabasti II of Korvosa dies, leaving the throne to his young queen Ileosa. Queen Ileosa uses her position to attempt the mass sacrifice of her subjects in a plot to become immortal. (''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'') |
| 1293 | * The approximate birth year of the girl who would be chosen by the Great Heart Tree to fight Dune's Desert Apostles as Cure Rose, the predecessor of Kaoruko Godai/Cure Flower who tests her to earn the [=HeartCatch=] Mirage. (''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' novel) |
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