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Grand Unified Timeline events from 1851 C.E. to 1913 C.E.

1851 C.E. - 1860 C.E.

1851

• July 28: The Crystal Palace exhibition, and associated scientific accomplishments, causes already-waning magic to cease existence entirely. (The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.)
• Early December: The Cybermen fall through time and space into Victorian London from the Void. ^moreJackson Lake finds an infostamp and takes on the identity of the Doctor (Doctor Who)
• December 24: The Tenth Doctor meets "The Next Doctor" and discovers a Cyberman plot. (Doctor Who)
• December 25: The Tenth Doctor and another Doctor ^moreactually a human with memories of the Doctor defeat an attack by time- and dimension-travelling Cybermen. (Doctor Who)
• 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. (Highlander)
• 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. (Brand)
• 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. (Bleak House)
• Minetta Van Cleve is born. (Heaven Can Wait (1943))

1852

• February 29: Frederick is born. He would grow up to become a pirate and pirate-hunter. (The Pirates of Penzance)
• American treasure hunters interfere in the live burial of a solanum victim, prompting a zombie outbreak in Chiapas. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Death of Margaret Madden, the current Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• August Leffler's ancestors emigrate to America on a Dutch schooner. (3rd Rock from the Sun)
• Victoria Waterfield is born. (Doctor Who)

1853

• Solomon Northup publishes his memoir about being kidnapped and enslaved. (Real Life and 12 Years a Slave)
• Birth of William "Spike" Pratt. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

1854

• June 10: Dan Morgan is sentenced to 12 years hard labour for highway robbery. (Real Life and Mad Dog Morgan)
• 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. (Highlander)
• 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. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Peabody and Sherman recover Florence Nightingale's lamp oil from the Russian army that stole it. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Sherlock Holmes is born. (Sherlock Holmes)
• 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. (Stargate Atlantis)
• In the Pegasus galaxy, the Wraith enter an hibernation cycle from which they would be prematurely awakened by Major John Sheppard in 2004. (Stargate Atlantis)
• Matilda Iredale is born. (Mirror, Mirror (1995))
• 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. (Ghosts (UK))

1855

• April 12: Virginia "Virgie" Cary is born. (The Littlest Rebel)
• October 25: Clara Clayton is born in New Jersey to Daniel and Martha Clayton. (Back to the Future)
• 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. (Alternate Presidents)
• Aduke "Addy" Walker is born. She does not know her exact birth date, so she uses April 9th as a birthday. (American Girls Collection)

1856

• November 4:
  • James Buchanan defeats John C. Frémont and Millard Fillmore in the U.S. presidential election. (Real Life)
  • 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. (Alternate Presidents)
• 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. (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force)
• Xiaoqin becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

1857

• Death of Darth Caedus at the hands of his twin sister. End of the Second Galactic Civil War. (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force)

1858

• January 12: Horatio Hornblower dies. (Horatio Hornblower)
• 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. (Rivers of London)
• Birth of Catherine Callan in Ulster. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• 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. (Alternate Presidents)
• P. T. Russell publishes the first and only edition of his Compendium of Birds. (S.)
• Sylvie kills four hunters from the Time Variance Authority in Salina, Oklahoma after luring them into a trap. (Loki)
• Birth of opera singer Irene Adler. (Sherlock Holmes: "A Scandal in Bohemia")

1859

• 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”)
• A large portion of central London is "stolen by bats" and taken underground, where it becomes known as Fallen London. (Echo Bazaar)
• Slave turned bounty hunter Django Freeman liberates his wife from the Candyland plantation in Mississippi. (Django Unchained)
• 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. (The Science of Discworld, The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch)
• The town of Morgue is founded in California. By 1963, it has become a Ghost Town. (The Outer Limits (1963))
• An alien scientist comes to the small town of Peaceful Valley, New Mexico. He provides the townspeople with numerous equations which allowed them to create devices that could perform a variety of feats such as replicate any object provided that they had its atomic structure, teleport objects, revive the dead and erect impenetrable barriers. He instructs them not to share their technology with the outside world until mankind learns the ways of peace. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• William Van Cleve is born. (Heaven Can Wait (1943))

1860

• 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. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• 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. (Voyagers!)
• 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 World War II veteran of the same name. (The Simpsons)
• June: Dan Morgan is released from prison for good behaviour, and promptly vanishes. (Real Life and Mad Dog Morgan)
• August 2: Jefferson Hope, John Ferrier, and his adopted daughter Lucy begin their flight from Salt Lake City, attempting to flee Utah entirely. (A Study in Scarlet)
• 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. (A Study in Scarlet)
• August 9: Lucy Ferrier is married against her will to Enoch Drebber. (A Study in Scarlet)
• September: Lucy Ferrier dies. Drebber does not grieve. (A Study in Scarlet)
• November 6:
  • Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States. (Real Life)
  • Stephen Douglas is elected President of the United States, defeating Abraham Lincoln. (Alternate Presidents)
  • On Earth-C, Abraham Linkidd is elected President of the United Species of America. (Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!)
• Ronin Kuwabatake Sanjuro wanders into a small Japanese village in the middle of a gang war, and plays both sides into destroying each other. (Yojimbo).
• Louis and Claudia try and fail to kill Lestat, and flee to Paris. There, they meet the Theater of the Vampires and Armand. ^moreClaudia is slain, the Theater burns down, and Louis and Armand leave Paris. (Interview with the Vampire)
• Angelus drives Drusilla crazy, then turns her into a vampire. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• 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. (Street Fighter III)
• Death of Xiaoqin. Agatha Primrose becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• William Channing Webb, professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, encounters a tribe of Eskimos who worship Cthulhu. (The Call of Cthulhu)
• In Polly Spark's altered version of history, Dr. Bug-Bot persuades Florence Nightingale to feed cake and ice cream to her patients. (JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain)
• 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. (Supernatural)

1850s

• Eliza Harris escapes to freedom by crossing the Ohio River on ice floes. Topsy grows like Topsy. Little Eva is stricken by tuberculosis. Uncle Tom is killed by the cruel slave master Simon Legree.^{Justification}The story has to take place between the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the Civil War, thus sometime in the 1850s. (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
• 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. (Stargate SG-1)
• 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 Victorian Novel Disease mean their love is doomed to tragedy. (La Traviata)

Pre-1861 (Exact year uncertain)

• 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. (DC Comics)

1861 C.E. - 1870 C.E.

1861

• Before April 2: Kizzy Reynolds dies. (Roots)
• 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. (Roots)
• April 12:
  • American Civil War launches with Confederates bombing Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. (Real Life)
  • 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. (Gone with the Wind)
  • Virginia "Virgie" Cary's sixth birthday party is disrupted by the outbreak of war. (The Littlest Rebel)
  • When he receives word that the war has begun, Evan Brent proudly boasts that the Confederacy will "whup them Yankees." (Roots)
  • 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. (Roots)
• April 29: Maryland secedes from the USA and joins the Confederacy. (Chrononauts)
• 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. (Brand)
• Sam is born. (Journey into Space)
• Daniel Covington is killed in the American Civil War. (Quantum Leap)
• Slavery comes to an end in the United States when President Stephen Douglas introduces the Civil Rights Act of 1861. (Alternate Presidents)
• Hanten Shiranui and Najimi Ajimu, the only Not Equals in existence, meet and join forces. (Medaka Box)
• Death of Sarah Morriss nee Mitchell. (Real Life, The Beale Papers)

1862

• 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”)
• April 12:
  • A group of Union soldiers volunteer to steal a Confederate train in Atlanta and take it north to Tennessee. (Real Life, The Great Locomotive Chase)
  • Johnnie Gray pursues the Union soldiers who stole his locomotive, The General, and kidnapped his fiancée, Annabelle Lee. (The General)
• April 18-May 23: Dr. Fergusson and his companions fly a balloon across Africa. (Five Weeks in a Balloon)
• 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. (Voyagers!)
• August 28-30: The Confederacy defeats the Union in the Second Battle of Bull Run in Prince William County, Virginia. (Real Life) Douger fights in the battle and is haunted by the experience. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• September 10:
  • A Confederate soldier manages to recover Special Order 191, narrowly avoiding handing the enemy the CSA's battle plans. (Timeline-191)
  • A group of time travelers (plus escaped slave Jim from a parallel timeline) steal Special Order 191, causing the South to lose the American Civil War. (Chrononauts)
• September 20:
  • 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 ^{someone famous}Martin Luther King Jr. (Quantum Leap)
  • With the Union unable to predict their bold manoeuvering, Confederate troops march into Pennsylvania, pursued by the Union Army. (Chrononauts)
• September: The Union army is crushed at the Battle of Camp Hill and Pennsylvania and Kentucky are occupied by the Confederacy. (Timeline-191)
• November 4: British and French ambassadors formally recognize the Confederate States of America, and the War of Secession ends. (Timeline-191)
• November: Arthur Denison and his son Will are both shipwrecked on the island of Dinotopia. (Dinotopia)
• 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. (Highlander)
• Death of Agatha Primrose. Pauline Francis Bernard becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Col. Rhett Butler of Charleston, South Carolina becomes a highly successful and famous blockade runner. (Gone with the Wind)
• In northern Alabama, the slave owner Peyton Farquhar is hanged by Union soldiers. ("An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge")
• 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. (Alternate Presidents)
• Robert Morriss entrusts J. B. Ward with the papers and affects left to him by Thomas Beale. (The Beale Papers)
• 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. (Good Omens (2019))

Before 1863

• 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. (Gravity Falls)

1863

• January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, making slavery illegal. Ending slavery now becomes a distinct goal of the Civil War. (Real Life) John Henry is one of millions of new freemen. (John Henry)
• June:
  • Professor Otto Lidenbrock leads an expedition towards the center of the earth. (Journey to the Center of the Earth)
  • The Confederate cavalryman Sgt. Joseph Paradine meets a warlock named Teague who intends to use evil magic to defeat the Union. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• July 1-3:
  • The Battle of Gettysburg is fought in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It is a major turning point in the American Civil War. (Real Life) Casualties of the battle include Brent and Stuart Tarleton (Gone with the Wind) and Charlie Constable (The Twilight Zone (1959)).
  • Nicholas Prentice transports Andy Larouche and Vince Chance back in time to experience the battle firsthand. (The Outer Limits (1995))
  • Private 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)
  • The Confederacy wins the Battle of Gettysburg, paving the way for its victory in the War of Southron Independence one year later. (Bring the Jubilee)
• 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. (Gangs of New York)
• Summer: Gravity Falls is founded ^by Sir Lord Quentin Trembley III, Esq. However, since Trembley is removed from history, official records describe the town being founded by Nathaniel Northwest. (Gravity Falls).
• 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. (Gravity Falls)
• August: 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)
• November 19:
  • U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address. (Real Life)
  • The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones are in attendance. (Voyagers!)
  • The First Doctor and his companions Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki Pallister watch Lincoln delivering the address using the Time-Space Visualiser. (Doctor Who)
  • 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. (Voyagers!)
• November 23: Edith Waterfield dies of pneumonia. (Doctor Who Expanded Universe)
• 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. (The Guns of the South)
• 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. (Star Trek: Enterprise)
• 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. (Highlander)
• Robert E.O. Speedwagon is born, and the hamon master Tonpetty takes William A. Zeppeli in as his apprentice. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Peabody and Sherman stop Alfred Nobel from blowing up himself, or the engineers who come to inspect his work. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Bill and Ted abduct Abraham Lincoln with the help of Genghis Khan, bringing him to the year 1988 for their history report. (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
• 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. (Supernatural)
• Wee Willie Williams is born. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• 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. (The Conjuring)
• 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. (Alternate Presidents)
• Dan Morgan's robbery spree begins. (Real Life and Mad Dog Morgan)
• Borgin and Burkes is founded in Knockturn Alley. (Harry Potter)
• Death of Robert Morriss. (Real Life, The Beale Papers)

1864

• 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. (Real Life) Chicken George Moore is among the survivors. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• May 11: 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. (Real Life) Jud Godwin is also killed in the battle. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• 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. (Star Trek: Voyager)
• July 22: The crew of the Duncan, Lord Edward Glenarvan's yacht, find a message in a bottle from the shipwrecked captain Harry Grant. (In Search of the Castaways)
• 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. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• August 25: The Duncan sets out towards South America in hopes of rescuing captain Grant. (In Search of the Castaways)
• 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. (Real Life) 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. (Gone with the Wind)
• September 11: A 2,000-year-old immortal man, calling himself Major Hugh Skelton, participates in the 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. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• November 8:
  • Abraham Lincoln is re-elected U.S. President, defeating George B. McClellan. (Real Life and Lincoln)
  • Abraham Lincoln loses the U.S. presidential election to Horatio Seymour. (The Guns of the South)
  • Abraham Lincoln wins the U.S. presidential election by just 2 votes as the Confederate Army begins to surround Washington. (Chrononauts)
  • Abraham Lincoln loses the U.S. presidential election as a result of the Confederate States' victory in the War of Secession. (Timeline-191)
• November 12 - 15: The Burning of Atlanta by General Sherman's Union army. (Real Life) Contrary to popular belief, not depicted in Gone with the Wind (see above).
• 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. (Brand)
• 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. (Highlander)
• Bra'tac is born, probably on the planet Chulak. (Stargate SG-1)
• Death of Pauline Francis Bernard. Lucy Hanover becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• 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. (Copper)
• 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. (Peer Gynt)
• A series of temporal duplicates of Frankenstein's Monster are dropped in the middle of the American Civil War. (Army of Frankensteins)
• Elizabeth Harvey is born. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• The Nexus crosses through the Milky Way Galaxy. (Star Trek: Generations)
• The Demigod Civil War, between Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter. (The Camp Half-Blood Series)
• Birth of Jacob von Hogflume. He would go on to discover time travel. (A satirical blue plaque)
• At the Battle of Scarlett Meadows, Confederate General Quincy Harris successfully repels an attack by Union forces. (Red Dead Redemption 2)
• Valentina de la Cruz is born. (Quantum Leap (2022))

1865

• March 8: Captain Harry Grant is rescued. (In Search of the Castaways)
• 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. (Roots)
• April 8: Dan Morgan has his last stand against the Australian government, being mortally wounded by police the next morning. (Real Life and Mad Dog Morgan)
• April 9: Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Appomattox County, Virginia. This effectively marks the end of the American Civil War. (Real Life)
  • 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. (Roots)
  • Colonel Elias Openshaw retires from the Confederate army and returns to his plantation in Florida. (Sherlock Holmes: "The Five Orange Pips")
• April 14:
  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre. The play Our American Cousin is forever associated with this event. (Real Life)
    • 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. (Zoolander)
  • Superboy travels back in time to this date to try to prevent Abraham Lincoln's assassination, but fails to do so. (DC Comics)
  • Phil and Elsie Stoneman are in the audience of Ford's Theatre at the time of the assassination. (The Birth of a Nation)
  • 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. (National Treasure: Book of Secrets)
  • 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. (GoJyu Sentai Gigaranger)
  • "Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln" fires back at his assassin. (Police Squad! intro sequence)
  • [Alternate Universe] 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. (Sliders)
  • On Earth-Three, U.S. President John Wilkes Booth is assassinated by the actor Abraham Lincoln. (DC Comics)
  • A showing of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre is marred by a failed attempt to kill U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. (Chrononauts)
  • Peter Corrigan, a time traveler from 1961, attempts to prevent the assassination of Abraham Lincoln but he is unsuccessful. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
  • Professor Russell Cromwell, a scientist from an alternate 1953 in which Earth is a utopian, 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)
  • The Eternal Enemy hypnotizes John Wilkes Booth into assassinating Abraham Lincoln. (DC Comics)
  • 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. (Sleepy Hollow)
• 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. (Roots)
• April: The Confederate town of Pleasant Valley is massacred by Union soldiers. (Two Thousand Maniacs!)
• May 4: Alice visits Wonderland. (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
• July 14: Peabody and Sherman help Lord Douglas climb the Matterhorn. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• October: The Baltimore Gun Club launches a capsule towards the Moon. (From the Earth to the Moon)
• November 14: Gerald O'Hara dies. (Gone with the Wind)
• 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. (The Mysterious Island)
• Union victorious in the American Civil War. (Gone with the Wind and Real Life)
• A former member of Glaaki's cult leaks the Revelations of Glaaki. (Cthulhu Mythos)
• In Polly Spark's 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. (JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain)
• 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. (Forever)
• Zebulon Walton is born. (The Waltons)
• Lady Ellen is born. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• After the Union is defeated in the War on Northern Aggression, former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln goes on the run with Harriet Tubman. 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 silent film The Hunt for Dishonest Abe directed by D. W. Griffith. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
• 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. (Alternate Presidents)
• Missouri farmer Josey Wales hunts down the Yankee soldiers who murdered his wife and son. (The Outlaw Josey Wales)
• Vigilantes like Two-Gun Kid, Black Rider and Red Wolf are active around this time period. ("Marvel Universe")

1866

• May 17: H. G. Wells takes Tempus to Smallville, Kansas on this date instead of May 17, 1966 in an effort to prevent him from killing Superman as a baby. He claims that it is an accident. While there, Tempus meets Jesse James 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 Lois Lane follow Wells and Tempus in another time machine. Tempus uses the opportunity to tell Lois that Clark is Superman. (Lois & Clark)
• 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". (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
• August 24: The Civil War ends with victory for the Confederacy when the US President surrenders to CSA troops, ending the Siege of Washington. (Chrononauts)
• November 23: Clara Oswin Oswald is born. (Doctor Who)
• John Carter is transported to Barsoom (Mars). (John Carter of Mars)
• 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. (Highlander)
• Death of Lucy Hanover. Angela Martignetti becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Brand, a local reverend, rebels at the ceremonial opening of a new church, delivers an 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. (Brand)
• In Polly Spark's altered version of history, Robby Robot convinces Alfred Nobel (somehow) to use dynamite as an exploding cigar. (JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain)
• Eleven-year-old Clara Clayton is quarantined with diphtheria. Her father brings her a telescope, sparking a lifelong interest in astronomy and science. (Back to the Future Part III and Back to the Future)
• Esther Walton is born. (The Waltons)
• German anarchist and author Reinhold Feuerbach is born. (S.)
• John Openshaw is born. (Sherlock Holmes: "The Five Orange Pips")

1867

• March 5: The Moravian of the Montreal Ocean Company collides with the Nautilus en route from Canada. (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
• March 30: The CSA's Secretary of State Robert E. Lee negotiates with Spain to purchase Cuba as a new southern territory. (Chrononauts)
• April 30: Dr Pierre Aronnax publishes an article concluding that the "sea monster" is most likely a hitherto unknown species of giant narwhal. (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
• 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. (Highlander)
• 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. (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
• July 31: Jeffrey Howell, medical doctor and passenger on the Lady Crithania, is born. (SOS)
• 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. (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
• 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. (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
• November 7: Aronnax, Conseil and Ned Land are brought onto the Nautilus. (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
• 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. (Highlander)
• The Black Rock crashes on the island. ^moreA man by the name of Ricardo survives. (Lost)
• Dio Brando is born. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Birth of Scrooge McDuck in Glasgow. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)
• Peabody and Sherman find out how Buffalo Bill Cody got his name. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Peabody and Sherman help the Marquess of Queensbury come up with his famous set of rules for boxing. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Zombie outbreak in the RMS Rona brings zombies to Australia. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• U.S. Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon are assigned to covert activity in the Western territories. (The Wild Wild West)
• Daily Bugle founded. (Marvel Comics)
• 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. (The Wild Duck)
• Adam Adamant is born. (Adam Adamant Lives!)
• Former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is released from Confederate captivity and exiled to Canada. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)

1868

• February 24:
  • U.S. President Andrew Johnson is impeached, narrowly escaping removal from office by just one vote. (Real Life)
  • U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is impeached, narrowly escaping removal from office by just one vote. (Chrononauts)
• March 21: Captain Nemo and his party reach the South Pole, and he claims it in his own name. (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
• June 1: The Nautilus visits the wreck of the Vengeur du Peuple. (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
• Between July and September: Captain Nemo pilots the Nautilus into the Maelstrom. Aronnax, Conseil and Ned Land somehow escape and reach land. (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
• Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards goes after the Comanches who massacred his brother's family and kidnapped his niece. (The Searchers)
• 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. (Highlander)
• Duncan MacLeod saves the life of Chaske, a Native American slave boy, but he is shot the next day by distrusting townsfolk. (Highlander)
• Jonathan Joestar and Erina Pendleton are born. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• 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. (The Wild Duck)
• Twin assassins Jacob and Evie Frye rally together a gang called The Rooks to free London from Crawford Starrick and the Templars. (Assassin's Creed Syndicate)
• Swedish children's author Torsten Ekstrom is born. (S.)

1869

• December 24: The Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler meet Charles Dickens and the medium Gwyneth and prevent an invasion by the Gelth. (Doctor Who)
• Captain Jack Harkness gets stranded in Cardiff and remains stationed at the Cardiff Rift and later Torchwood Three waiting for the Doctor. (Doctor Who, Torchwood)
• Peabody and Sherman help Talbot Heffelfinger find a model for the first Indian head nickel. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Peabody and Sherman help solve the very first case of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• The board game Jumanji is buried outside Brantford, New Hampshire. (Jumanji)
• Alexander Hartdegen is born. (The Time Machine (2002))

Late 1860s

• 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. (Sherlock Holmes: "The Five Orange Pips")
• A drifter known as Django wanders into a small Western town, where a gang of Confederate guerrillas are fighting Mexican bandits. After he plays the gangs against each other, he kills the leader of the former for killing his wife. (Django)
• A half-Indian gunman liberates a town held hostage by ex-Confederate guerrillas, battling his racist half-brothers in the process. (Keoma)
• Charlotte No-Haira's ancestors are shipwrecked on a "living island" in the Pacific Ocean. (The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: The Secret of the Living Volcano)

1860s

• American gunslinger Matthew Quigley moves to Australia to kill some animals, only to learn that said "animals" are what his employer calls Australian aboriginals. (Quigley Down Under)

1870

• October 5 - 20: The 15-Day War is fought between Sordland and Rumberg. The war ends with a status quo ante bellum peace treaty. (Suzerain)
• December: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson uncanonically meet as schoolboys at Brompton Academy, where they solve a mystery involving an Egyptian death cult. (Young Sherlock Holmes)
• At about this date, Vulcans had recovered from the disastrous civil wars of the 4th century. They discover or rediscover space flight. ^more"...it took my people nearly 1,500 years to rebuild our world and travel to the stars." (Star Trek: Enterprise)
• Peabody plays in the world's first golf match. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• 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. (The Lone Ranger)
• 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 Hjalmar Ekdal. Mrs Werle succumbs to alcoholism and dies soon afterwards. (The Wild Duck)
• The time travelers Phineas Bogg, Jeffrey Jones and Isaac Wolfstein prevent Clara Barton from being killed in the Franco-Prussian War. (Voyagers!)
• 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. (Roots)

1871 C.E. - 1880 C.E.

1871

• October 8-10: The Great Chicago Fire burns down most of the city. (Real Life)
  • Among the dead is one Dr. O'Reilly, who would go on to save President James Garfield from assassination 10 years later. (Chrononauts)
  • Gary Hobson, mysteriously pulled back in time from 1998, fails to stop the fire, but saves the life of a boy named Jesse. (Early Edition)
• Caleb, a ruthless gunslinger, meets Ophelia Price and both end up drawn into an evil cult. (Blood)
• Peabody and Sherman help P. T. Barnum recover full ownership of his circus from dastardly trapeze artists Hyde and Sick. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• 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". (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Birth of Mollie Prater in Kentucky. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• The Time Traveller receives a material with strange temporal properties from a man known only as "Gottfried Plattner".^moreThis turns out to be the Time Traveller's future self, placed there by the Constructors. (The Time Ships)
• 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. (Land of Oz)
• Randolph and Bertha Van Cleve are married. (Heaven Can Wait (1943))
• Charles Foster Kane's parents sign their custody away so he can get a good education. (Citizen Kane)
• Cynthia Harvey (later Palmer) is born. (Roots: The Next Generations)

1872

• 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. (Highlander)
• March: Connor MacLeod finds Duncan still mourning over the corpses. He helps prepare the funeral pyres and tries to comfort Duncan. (Highlander)
• 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. (Highlander)
• October 2: Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout begin a trip around the world. (Around the World in Eighty Days)
• October 25: Henry Van Cleve is born in Manhattan. (Heaven Can Wait (1943))
• November 5:
  • Ulysses S. Grant is re-elected U.S. President, defeating Horace Greeley. (Real Life)
  • After a constitutional amendment limiting Presidents to only one term, Victoria Woodhull is elected as the first female President. (Alternate Presidents)
• November 5 - December 4:
  • The Mary Celeste is found mysteriously abandoned. (Real Life)
  • The Mary Celeste is abandoned by its crew after time-traveling Daleks arrive hunting for the First Doctor. (Doctor Who)
  • Benjamin Spooner Briggs, Captain of the Mary Celeste, finds himself in Limbo where he has to aid Destiny in a war against Fate. (Limbo of the Lost)
• December 12: Birth of Henry Walton Jones in Scotland. He would grow up to become a professor of medieval literature. (Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide, 2008)
• December 21: Phileas Fogg and Passepartout arrive at the Reform Club in London just in time to win their wager. (Around the World in Eighty Days)
• The First Accords between the Nephilim (now called Shadowhunters) and Downworlders (vampires, werewolves, faeries, and warlocks) are signed. (The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices)
• Peabody and Sherman foil Jesse James's plan to rob a bank in St. Louis. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Peabody and Sherman help James Whistler keep his mother still long enough to paint her. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Birth of Elizabeth in White Chapel, London. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Carmilla comes to live with the young English girl, Laura. Laura eventually falls ill. (Carmilla)
• An alien being arrives in 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. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• Will E. Palmer is born. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• Edward Linfoot dies in Stockbridge. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• William "Billy" Bailey is born. (It's a Wonderful Life)
• Klaus Barry Heterodyne is born (1 year 42 days before the Other's attack on the Castle). (Girl Genius)

1873

• March 1: Apprentice pirate Frederick completes his term of indenture. (The Pirates of Penzance)
• July 18: Suicide of Augustus Mellmotte. (The Way We Live Now)
• 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. (The Time Ships)
• Martial artist Kwai Chang Caine begins his adventures in the American West. (Kung Fu (1972))
• Jonathan Joestar's dog, Danny, saves him from drowning, and they become best friends. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Peabody and Sherman prod Alexander Graham Bell into inventing the telephone. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Death of Angela Martignetti. Catherine Callan becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Scarlett O'Hara doesn't know where she'll go or what she'll do and Rhett Butler frankly doesn't give a damn. (Gone with the Wind)
• Klaatu is born. (The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951))
• 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. (Real Life) However, he did not actually do it, and killed the guy who did in self-defense. (Cannibal! The Musical)
• Eugene Victor Tooms is born in Baltimore, Maryland. (The X-Files)

1873 - 1874

• 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. (Girl Genius)
• Agatha Heterodyne is born sometime after the attack on the Castle. (Girl Genius)

1874

• Peabody and Sherman cure Calamity Jane of her excessive good luck by tricking her into breaking a mirror. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Peabody and Sherman help Jules Verne make it around the world in 80 days. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• A black railroad worker is made sheriff of a racist town as part of the 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. (Blazing Saddles)
• Thomas Campbell Brockless is born. (Torchwood)
• Mordechai Byreika is born in Lodz, Poland. (Monster Hunter International)

1875

• January: Lady Jocelyn "Joss" Holbrook is born. (Tenko)
• August 24: Peabody and Sherman teach Matthew Clift to swim, so he can become the first person to swim across the English Channel. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• December 14: Birth of Ciel Phantomhive. (Black Butler)
• Stepney is built. (Thomas & Friends)
• Peabody and Sherman help Wyatt Earp catch notorious outlaw "Aces" Wilde. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• In an unrelated trip, Peabody and Sherman save General Custer by baking pies. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• 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. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• U.S. Marshal Brisco County Sr. is murdered in California. (The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.)
• Tyler Means and Pat Knight are born. (Quantum Leap)
• 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. (Voyagers!)
• Matilda Moore dies. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• 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. (Ghosts (US))

1876

• 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. (Real Life) The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones are present for the call. (Voyagers!)
• June 25:
  • 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. (Real Life)
  • General George Custer smokes the peace pipe with Chief Sitting Bull, ending the Indian Wars. (Chrononauts)
  • 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. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
  • Jack Crabb witnesses and survives the Battle of Little Bighorn (Little Big Man)
• 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. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• 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 regardless of death. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• November 7:
  • Rutherford B. Hayes defeats Samuel J. Tilden in the U.S. presidential election. (Real Life)
  • Samuel J. Tilden is elected President of the United States. (Timeline-191)
  • Samuel J. Tilden defeats Rutherford B. Hayes in the U.S. presidential election after winning the Electoral College vote. (Alternate Presidents)
  • Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler campaigns for Samuel J. Tilden. (1876)
• Death of Catherine Callan in London. Princess Amirah becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• 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. (Darkwatch)

1877

• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• 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. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)
• Birth of Florence Gilbert in Virginia City, Wyoming. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• In Polly Spark's 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. (JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain)
• Ray Dobson is born. His father dies of cholera shortly after his birth. (The Twilight Zone (1985))

1878

• March 17: Birth of Anna Mary Jones in Virginia. She would become the wife of Henry Jones and mother of Indiana Jones. (Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide)
• April: Ned Kelly starts his robbery spree. (Real Life and Ned Kelly (1970))
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Birth of Marcus Brody in the United Kingdom. He would grow up to become a historian, archaeologist and museum curator. (Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide)
• 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. (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Alice Kingsleigh is brought back to Wonderland to help revolt against the regime of the Red Queen. (Alice in Wonderland (2010))
• 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. (Young Guns and Real Life)
• John Watson receives a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of London. (A Study in Scarlet)
• John Openshaw moves in with his uncle Elias. (Sherlock Holmes: "The Five Orange Pips")

1879

• 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. (Justice League)
• June 12: Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern arrive in this time in pursuit of Professor Chronos. (Justice League)
• 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. (Justice League)
• October 19-21: Thomas Edison perfects the light bulb in Menlo Park, New Jersey. (Real Life) The time traveler Jeffrey Jones assists him. (Voyagers!)
  • V.I.L.E. agent Dee Cryption steals the filament from Thomas Edison's new light bulb. ACME pursuers acquire cotton thread for a replacement filament and capture Dee Cryption. (Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time)
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• December 31: Thomas Edison demonstrates the light bulb in public for the first time in Menlo Park, New Jersey. (Real Life) The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones are in attendance. (Voyagers!)
• A mysterious figure named the Magister declares war on the London Institute, with a robot army for backup. (The Infernal Devices)
• The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler save Queen Victoria from a werewolf. The Queen forms Torchwood in the wake of this incident, and declares the Doctor a threat. (Doctor Who)
• Peabody and Sherman recruit the initial Texas Rangers. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• 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. (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
• 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. (The Haunting of Hill House)
• Clara Clayton's father Daniel dies. (Back to the Future)
• Walter B. Ryder, Sr. is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Abigail Sloan moves into Ma Chamberlain's boarding house in Homeville, Indiana. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Blake Holsey Preparatory School is established. (Black Hole High)
• 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.^SpoilersAt the end of the leap, Ben has a run-in with another apparent time traveler. (Quantum Leap (2022))
  • 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.^SpoilersMartinez 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 Reset Button. (Quantum Leap (2022))

1880

• April 21: A clipper moving a leper colony sinks near Antonio Bay. There are no survivors. (The Fog)
• June 28: Ned Kelly is captured after a shootout with police. (Real Life and Ned Kelly)
• 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. (A Study in Scarlet)
• November 2:
  • James Garfield defeats Winfield Scott Hancock in the U.S. presidential election. (Real Life)
  • 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. (Timeline-191)
  • 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
  • Samuel J. Tilden is re-elected President of the United States. (Alternate Presidents)
  • Samuel J. Tilden defeats James Garfield in the U.S. presidential election. (Alternate Presidents)
• November 11: Ned Kelly is hanged. (Real Life and Ned Kelly (1970))
• November 14: As he is about to be hanged for murder, Joe Caswell is transported forward in time to 1960 by Professor Manion. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Drusilla turns William into a vampire. He takes the name Spike. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Infamous gunfighter and bounty hunter Will Munny comes back from retirement for one last job. (Unforgiven)
• 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. (Mr. Sardonicus)
• 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. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Scrooge McDuck emigrates to America and meets the Beagle Boys. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)
• 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. (Mystic Manor)
• 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. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Numerous people are abducted from Earth and brought to Mars. (Journey into Space)
• Ada Burn Quigley is born. (Night Gallery)
• The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones prevent Theodore Roosevelt from being killed by Billy the Kid. (Voyagers!)
• 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. (GUN)
• American pulp novelist and screenwriter Victor Martin Summersby is born. (S.)

1870s

• 14-year-old Mattie Ross teams up with US Marshall "Rooster" Cogburn and Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to avenge her father's murder. (True Grit)
• 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. (The Little Colonel)
• 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. (John Henry)
• 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. (The Explorers' Guild)

1881 C.E. - 1890 C.E.

1881

• July 1: The time traveler Paul Driscoll arrives in Homeville, Indiana, intending to settle down in a more peaceful time than 1963. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• July 2: President James Garfield is shot by Charles J. Guiteau, dying of his wounds on September 19. (Real Life) 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... (Chrononauts)
• July 3: The Homeville County School burns down. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• October 26:
  • Nine gunslingers fight the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. Vendettas ensue. (Real Life)
  • Lawmen Morgan and Virgil Earp insist on confronting the illegally-armed cowboys, leading to a complex tragedy. (Tombstone)
  • The First Doctor and his companions Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet become involved in the gunfight at the OK Corral. (Doctor Who)
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Sherlock Holmes meets John Watson. (A Study in Scarlet)
• The Confederate States purchases the Mexican provinces of Sonora and Chihuahua. The United States invades, beginning the Second Mexican War. (Timeline-191)
• Zombie outbreak in Piedmont, Oregon. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• 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. (Ghosts).
• We saw the past and it looked like fun... (Abney Park)
• The construct Geras is shot by Wyatt Earp under unknown circumstances. (Mortal Kombat 11)

1882

• January 19: Redwin Gardner, counselor and passenger on the Lady Crithania, is born. (SOS)
• April 3: Jesse James is assassinated by the coward Robert Ford. (Real Life, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
• 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. (Timeline-191)
• April:
  • Chicken George Moore moves in with his son Tom Harvey, daughter-in-law Irene and granddaughters Elizabeth and Cynthia. (Roots: The Next Generations)
  • 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. (Roots: The Next Generations)
  • The railroad arrives in Henning. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• 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. (Highlander)
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• 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. (Highlander)
• 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. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)
• Investigation party finds Piedmont destroyed. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• 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. (Wild Kratts)
• A meteor crashes on Nahum Gardner's farm outside Arkham. A strange blight affects his land over the next year. (The Colour Out of Space)
• Francis Sullivan (later Jack Kelly) is born. (Newsies)

1883

• January 20: A time-traveling Blendin Blandin inadvertently causes the Tehachapi train wreck via distracting a train conductor with his time machine. (Gravity Falls)
• March 10: Elias Openshaw receives a letter from Pondicherry, India bearing the initials K. K. K. and containing five orange pips. (Sherlock Holmes: "The Five Orange Pips")
• May 2: Elias Openshaw dies of drowning. His death is ruled a suicide. (Sherlock Holmes: "The Five Orange Pips")
• c. May: Late spring snowstorms combined with snowmelt cause flooding in rivers downstream of the Grizzly Mountains. (Red Dead Redemption 2)
• August 26-27:
  • The volcano at Krakatoa explodes in one of the most violent and continuous volcanic eruptions ever recorded. The island is almost completely destroyed. (Real Life)
  • A sketch of the Ninth Doctor at Krakatoa is discovered in Sumatra. (Doctor Who)
  • A piece of the Xylok, later dubbed Mr. Smith, emerges from the Krakatoa eruption. (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
  • 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. (Back to the Future)
  • 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. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: The Cowboy Captain Of the Cutty Sark)
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• The Seventh Doctor and Ace confront a bizarre plot to assassinate Queen Victoria and an attempt to halt Earth's evolution. (Doctor Who)
• The Geth revolt against their Quarian creators, forcing the evacuation of the Quarian homeworld and its colony planets over the following two decades. (Mass Effect)
• 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. (Highlander)
• Scrooge McDuck becomes a miner. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)
• Alferd Packer becomes the first American convicted of cannibalism. (Real Life) However, he is granted clemency with the help of Polly Boy at the last minute. (Cannibal! The Musical)
• Chicken George Moore dies. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• 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. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• In Warsaw, the King of Bohemia meets and begins an affair with American opera singer Irene Adler. (Sherlock Holmes: "A Scandal in Bohemia")

1884

• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• November 4:
  • Grover Cleveland defeats James G. Blaine in the U.S. presidential election. (Real Life)
  • Winfield Scott Hancock is elected President of the United States. (Alternate Presidents)
• Sherlock Holmes investigates the case of the Hound of the Baskervilles. Account published by Watson/Doyle during the Hiatus. (Sherlock Holmes)
• 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. (The Wild Duck)
• 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. (Back to the Future)
• The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Olivia Dunn bring Jeffrey Jones to Louis Pasteur in Paris after he is bitten by a rabid dog. Pasteur is able to cure Jeffrey, who makes a complete recovery. (Voyagers!)
• Thomas Bruce Wayne is born. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• 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. (Red Dead Redemption 2)

1885

• January 1:
  • 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. (Back to the Future Part II)
  • Batman, Gandalf, and Wyldstyle encounter Lord Vortech in Hill Valley. (LEGO Dimensions)
• January 4: Joseph Openshaw receives a letter from Dundee, Ireland bearing the initials K. K. K. and containing five orange pips. (Sherlock Holmes: "The Five Orange Pips")
• January 7: Joseph Openshaw dies of a cracked skull after a fall. His death is ruled an accident. (Sherlock Holmes: "The Five Orange Pips")
• May 3: Jonathan Harker arrives at Castle Dracula to slay Count Dracula. However, the vampire lord turns him. (Horror of Dracula)
• June 10: While retrieving his family for dinner in 1991, Doc picks up Clara, who has just had a run-in with Buford Tannen. (Back to the Future)
• July 4: Doc Brown faints after drinking a little alcohol during Independence Day celebrations. (Back to the Future Part III)
• 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. (Back to the Future Part III)
• September 1: Doc Brown drops off a letter with Western Union, with instructions to deliver it to a specific location in seventy years' time. (Back to the Future Part II)
• 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. (Back to the Future Part III)
• September 3: Marty walks to town, has a run-in with Buford Tannen, and makes contact with Doc Brown. (Back to the Future Part III)
• September 4:
  • 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. (Back to the Future Part III)
  • In the timeline with Doc but no Marty, Doc meets Clara Clayton at the train station, and it's love at first sight. (Back to the Future Part III)
  • 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. (Back to the Future Part III)
• September 5:
  • 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. (Back to the Future Part III)
  • Marty saves Doc from getting shot by Buford Tannen during the Hill Valley Town Festival. Doc spends the night with Clara Clayton. (Back to the Future Part III)
• September 6: Doc and Marty make preparations to jump back to 1985. Doc says goodbye to Clara, but it doesn't go well. (Back to the Future Part III)
• September 7:
  • In the timeline without Marty's interference, Doc dies of internal bleeding caused by his gunshot wound. (Back to the Future Part III)
  • 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. (Back to the Future Part III)
• 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. (Back to the Future Part III)
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• November 11: Birth of Elise McKenna in Salt Lake City, Utah. She would grow up to become a famous stage actress. (Somewhere in Time)
• 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. (Black Butler)
• December:
  • The Mousekewitzes, a Jewish family of mice from Shostka, Russia, flee to the United States after a pogrom. (An American Tail)
  • Abraham van Helming battles Dracula as he terrorizes the Hollywood family. (Horror of Dracula)
• The Great Hakurei Barrier is formed, sealing off Gensokyo from the rest of the world (Touhou Project)
• H. G. Wells meets the Sixth Doctor, and is inspired. (Doctor Who)
• 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. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time)
• Scrooge McDuck meets Howard Rockerduck and his son, John. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)
• Peabody and Sherman recover Annie Oakley's stolen gun and help her win a marksmanship competition. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Disappearance (and suspected murder) of Dr. Henry Jekyll of Strand St., London. (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
• Matthew Crawley is born. (Downton Abbey)
• In an effort to hide a dark secret, Gregory Anton deliberately drives his wife Paula mad. (Gaslight)
• Alana Mareva is transported back in time to this year. An artist named Claude Pierrot paints a portrait of her called Alana in Repose. (The 4400)
• Jesse Tyler is born. (Quantum Leap)
• Mary E. Ryder is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Martha Taylor (later Wayne) is born. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• German archaeologists discover a wall painting in Egypt depicting a ZPM in Ra's possession. (Stargate SG-1)
• Joshua Arthur Iredale is born. (Mirror, Mirror (1995))
• 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. (The Beale Papers)

1886

• March:
  • 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. (The Blair Witch Project)
  • 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. (The Librarians)
• May 4: A labour demonstration is bombed at Haymarket Square in Chicago. The ensuing police gunfire kills several more. (Real Life)
  • Candidates for the unknown bomber include recently-immigrated German anarchist Reinhold Feuerbach and elusive author V. M. Straka. (S.)
• 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. (The Librarians)
• 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. (The Librarians)
• July 10: The Statue of Freedom, combining American and Dutch symbols of liberty, is constructed in New York Harbour. (Chrononauts)
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• 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. (Highlander)
• Scrooge McDuck begins prospecting for gold in South Africa, with little success. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)
• Peabody and Sherman convince Geronimo to sign a peace treaty. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Young Fievel Mousekewitz is separated from his family on their voyage to America (An American Tail)
• Mollie Prater becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• 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). (Sherlock Holmes, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, James Bond)
• Le Cirque des Rêves begins its tour in London. (The Night Circus)
• "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. (MediEvil 2)
• 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. (The Explorers' Guild)
• In the original history, Diego de la Cruz dies of liver failure. (Quantum Leap (2022))

1887

• September: John Openshaw receives a letter from East London bearing the initials K. K. K. and containing five orange pips. ^moreHe dies two days later. His killers all die aboard a sinking ship before they can be brought to justice. (Sherlock Holmes: "The Five Orange Pips")
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• End of the Golden Age of Muttonchops. (Futurama)
• George Joestar I's health deteriorates, and he eventually passes away. ^moreHe was slowly poisoned by his adopted son, Dio Brando, who had then used an ancient stone mask to become a vampire. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Death of Mollie Prater. Belle Malone becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Maxwell Stoddard is born. (Quantum Leap)
• The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones prevent Queen Victoria'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. (Voyagers!)
• Carl Jasperson and Sam Forstmann are born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Spanish essayist and poet Tiago García Ferrara is born. (S.)
• Eino Jokinen is born. (Unimaa)

1888

• March 20: Sherlock Holmes is called upon by ^{a disguised Bohemian noble}the King of Bohemia himself regarding a significant scandal that could impact the royal family immensely. (Sherlock Holmes: "A Scandal in Bohemia")
• March 21: Sherlock Holmes matches wits with Irene Adler in a game of deception. (Sherlock Holmes: "A Scandal in Bohemia")
• March 22: The matter of the Scandal in Bohemia is resolved. ^moreIrene Adler departs England victorious, leaving behind a note for Sherlock Holmes and the King of Bohemia. (Sherlock Holmes: "A Scandal in Bohemia")
• April 12-18: Anthropophagi infestation discovered and destroyed by Dr. Pellinore Warthrop, Will Henry, ans John Kearns. (Monstrumologist)
• July 8: Peabody and Sherman help John L. Sullivan overcome his enormous mustache to become the new boxing champion. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Summer: Belle Malone ends a series of murders in Dodge City, but dies soon after. Elizabeth becomes the new Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• August 31 - November 9:
  • The Jack the Ripper murders take place in London. (Real Life)
  • 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. (Black Butler)
  • 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. (Star Trek: The Original Series)
  • A serial killer named Sebastian (Jack the Ripper) roams London's streets. He is eventually abducted by the Vorlons. (Babylon 5)
  • 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. (From Hell)
  • 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. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Dr. Henry Morgan consults on the murder of Jack the Ripper victim Mary Kelly, possibly making Morgan the world's first medical examiner. (Forever)
  • The Shadowhunters of London Institute neutralize Jack the Ripper, a childlike demon. (The Infernal Devices)
  • A malevolent Energy Being 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. (The Outer Limits (1995))
  • 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)
  • 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. (Sleepy Hollow)
• October 29: Verne Brown is born to Emmett and Clara. (Back to the Future)
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• November 6:
  • Benjamin Harrison is elected President of the United States, defeating Grover Cleveland. (Real Life, The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band)
  • U.S. President Winfield Scott Hancock is elected to a second term. (Alternate Presidents)
  • Belva Ann Lockwood is elected President of the United States, defeating Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison. She is the first woman to hold the office. (Alternate Presidents)
• 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. (Doctor Who)
• November 22: John Clayton, 8th Duke of Greystoke, is born on the Gabonese coast under extraordinary circumstances. (Tarzan)
• 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. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• John Watson meets and marries his first wife, Mary Morstan. (The Sign of Four)
• Gabriel Van Helsing battles Dracula and his minions. (Van Helsing)
• Immortal gambler Kit O'Brady loses his entire fortune, his casino, and his lucky coin to Amanda in a high-stake game of poker. Kit would go on to experience over a century of bad luck and blamed Amanda for it. (Highlander)
• The next night, Duncan MacLeod meets Alec Hill again, and finds his friend has sunk into depression and insanity in grief over Genevieve. (Highlander)
• 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. (Highlander)
• Birth of the twins Fiona and Jackson Canmore. They would both grow up to become Hunters. (Gargoyles)
• Jonathan Joestar fights and defeats his vampiric stepbrother, Dio Brando. ^moreDio cuts off his own head, which is later found by his underling, Wang Chen. During this year, Lisa Lisa is also born. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Peabody and Sherman help Louis Pasteur convince his cow Fifi that she's not a rooster, thereby allowing him to invent pasteurization. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Zombie outbreak in Hayward, Washington, put down by the efforts of Elija Black. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Scientists begin creating super soldiers who can jump in midair and survive without food and light for a long time. (Jumper)
• William J. Feathersmith is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• 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. (The Explorers' Guild)
• Sally Dexter is born. (Phyllis)

Before 1889

• 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. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)

1889

• January 30: Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Maria are found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in Mayerling, Austria. (Real Life) Future speculation would suggest that this was instead an assassination by The Dragon of the Black Hand known only as "Apis’ Amanuensis". (S.)
• February 7: Jonathan Joestar and Erina Pendleton marry, boarding a ship to America for their honeymoon. ^moreWang 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. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• April 28: Andrea Collins travels back in time to kill Adolf Hitler as a baby. (The Twilight Zone (2002))
• September 23: Nintendo Co., Ltd is founded. (Real Life)
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• November 19: In London, the time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones save the journalist Nellie Bly from an evil Voyager named Drake, who is posing as Jack the Ripper, with the help of Arthur Conan Doyle. (Voyagers!)
• 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. (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
• Birth of Lord Raptor/Zabel Zarock in Australia. Through unknown means, the man would still appear youthful until the late 20th century. (Darkstalkers)
• Scrooge McDuck returns to America to search for gold. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)
• Peabody and Sherman settle a dispute between Sitting Bull and a hotel manager. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• E Corp, or its predecessor, is founded. (Mr. Robot)
• Samuel Kittridge is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Les Jacobs is born. (Newsies)
• The Terror is born. (The Tick (2001))
• Alfred Pennyworth is born. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• The Eye of the Sun, which details the customs and rituals followed by Ra's worshippers, is published. (Stargate SG-1)
• Undersecretary Salvador Marti saves a young Emilio Herrera from a pot falling on his head. (The Ministry of Time)

1880s

• 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. (Wild Kratts)
• 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. (Paul Bunyan)
• 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. (Red Dead Revolver)

1890

• March 10: A janitor named Woodrow Mulligan travels to 1962 using a time helmet invented by Professor Gilbert. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• 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. (Sherlock Holmes, "The Red-Headed League")
• 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. (Doctor Who)
• Before July 29: Vincent van Gogh paints The Pandorica Opens in his madness. (Doctor Who)
• July 29: Vincent van Gogh commits suicide out of depression. (Real Life)
• September 25, 10:00: The Steel Ball Run cross-country race across the United States begins. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run)
• September: Louis J. Bookman is born to Jacob and Flora Bookman. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• 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. (Sherlock Holmes, "The Red-Headed League")
• October 14:
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower is born in Denison, Texas. (Real Life)
  • In an Alternate Timeline, Dwight D. Eisenhower's mother Ida 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. (Voyagers!)
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• December 28: The territory north of the new US state of Dakota is internationally recognised as an independent nation of the Nine Civilized Tribes. (Chrononauts)
• December 29: The Wounded Knee massacre takes place. Hundreds of Lakota men, women and children are gunned down by the 7th US Cavalry. (Real Life) A sixteen-year-old Booker DeWitt 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. (BioShock Infinite)
• 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. (Team Fortress 2)
• George Joestar II, named after his paternal grandfather, is born. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Guglielmo Marconi invents the radio, marking a new era in trope history. (Real Life) Cecil Gershwin Palmer is reportedly present for the event 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). (Welcome to Night Vale)
• A peddler named Jared Garrity comes to the small town of Happiness, Arizona claiming that he can raise the dead. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• French archaeologist and suffragist Armante Durand is born. (S.)

1891 C.E. - 1900 C.E.

1891

• Summer: While trying to deliver a letter to the now deceased Theo van Gogh, Armand Roulin learns about the life and death of Vincent van Gogh. (Loving Vincent)
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• 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, Andromeda).
• Sherlock Holmes thwarts the plans of Lord Henry Blackwood. (Sherlock Holmes (2009))
• Sherlock Holmes confronts Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls; both are believed dead. (The Final Problem)
• Immortals Thomas "Sully" Sullivan and Duncan MacLeod manage to share a $1,000 prize from an illegal bare-knuckle boxing match. (Highlander)
• In Polly Spark's 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. (JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain)
• Eliza Doolittle is born, possibly on the twentieth of May. (My Fair Lady, Pygmalion)
• 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. (The Time Ships)
• 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". (The Explorers' Guild)
• Death of Phil Shortman’s great-grandfather. (Hey Arnold!)
• Birth of Nick Charles. (The Thin Man)
• The Hill Valley Police Department is founded. (Back to the Future: The Game)
• Czech factory worker Vaclav A. Straka is born. (S.)

1892

• August 4: Lizzie Borden (allegedly) took an axe. You know the rest. (Real Life and various works of fiction)
• 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)
  • 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. (Lucky Luke)
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• November 8:
  • Grover Cleveland is elected to a second non-consecutive term as U.S. President, defeating Benjamin Harrison. (Real Life)
  • U.S. President Belva Ann Lockwood is defeated in her bid for re-election by former President Grover Cleveland. (Alternate Presidents)
• 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. (Doctor Who)
• December 24-25: The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones spend Christmas with Jeffrey's great-grandparents Stephen and Amy Jones in Pittsburgh. (Voyagers!)
• After a fight in Ellis Island, Captain Jack Harkness discovers he cannot die. (Doctor Who)
• Michigan J. Frog is buried in the cornerstone of a sky scraper to be found in 1955 when the building is demolished. (Looney Tunes)
• Twins August Lupa (a.k.a. Nero Wolfe) and Marko Vukčić are born to Irene Adler in Montenegro. (Nero Wolfe fanon)
• Lady Edith Crawley is born. (Downton Abbey)
• Moe Stein is born. (Quantum Leap)
• The public library in Eerie, Indiana is founded. (Eerie, Indiana)

1893

• May 5: Jonathan Harker arrives at the castle of Count Dracula, where he will find himself unable to leave for two months. (Dracula)
• 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. (Back to the Future)
• June 24: Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen embarks on a North Pole expedition. (Real Life)
  • 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. (S.)
• June 30: Dracula leaves for London, and Harker is able to escape the castle. (Dracula)
• 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. (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• September 7: Van Helsing arrives in London to help save Lucy Westenra. (Dracula)
• September 12: James Edward Whitaker is born. (Journey into Space)
• September 20: Lucy Westenra dies. (Dracula)
• 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. (BioShock Infinite)
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• November 5: Jack the Ripper uses H. G. Wells' time machine to escape into the future, traveling to San Francisco in 1979; Wells follows in pursuit. (Time After Time)
• November 6: Count Dracula dies. (Dracula)
• Having failed to find gold in America, Scrooge McDuck decides to try his luck in Australia. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)
• Zombies lay siege to Fort Louis Philippe. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• The current Slayer defeats a series of demonic murders in Oklahoma. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Birth of Millicent Rose Gresham in Duluth, Minnesota. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• The crew of the ship carrying the Damascus expedition is found mostly dead on arrival near Texas. (The Outing)
• Tyler Browning is transported back in time to this year. (The 4400)
• John Preston is born. (Colditz)
• Sally Clarke's grandmother moves to Texas. (Taken)
• Viola Draper is born. Her mother is an immortal woman who is more than 2,000 years old. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Jeffrey Jones' grandfather is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Voyagers!)
• Affection is made illegal in England, and remains so to this day. Everyone is quite glad about it. (Exurb1a, England: A Beginner's Guide)

1894

• February 7: Tommy Brockless is born. (Torchwood)
• July 17: Radigan Conagher finishes construction of a life extender machine for Blutarch Mann so he can outlive his brother Redmond. (Team Fortress 2)
• 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. (The War of the Worlds)
• August 3: Radigan Conagher finishes construction of a life extender machine for Redmond Mann so he can outlive his brother Blutarch. (Team Fortress 2)
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Sherlock Holmes returns from three years of travels (the "Great Hiatus"). (The Adventure of the Empty House)
• Outlaw Catherine "Cat" Ballou is sentenced to death by hanging for murder in Wolf City, Wyoming. (Cat Ballou)
• In Polly Spark's 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. (JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain)

1892-1894

• 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. (Girl Genius — events of Act 1)

1895

• May 26: Samantha Parkington is born in New Bedford, New York. (American Girls Collection)
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• December: Raymond 'Bubba' Shackleford I forms a company of monster hunters he calls Bubba Shackleford's Professional Monster Killers. (Monster Hunter International)
• The King in Yellow is published and promptly denounced across Europe. (The King in Yellow)
• Birth of Mason E. "Mace" Malone. He would grow up to become a leading gangster and a member of The Illuminati. (Gargoyles)
• The current Slayer is killed by Lothos. Angelique Hawthorne becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• 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. (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
• 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. (BioShock Infinite)
• The bar Cheers is opened in Boston. (Cheers)
• The wall painting depicting a ZPM in Ra's possession is destroyed in a museum fire. (Stargate SG-1)
• Hetty commits suicide to avoid her house and money getting confiscated by the authorities for her husband crimes. (Ghosts (US))

1896

• January 1: Society of Explorers and Adventurers member Lord Henry Mystic opens his home at Mystic Point as an art museum for the public. (Mystic Manor)
• January: An expedition led by Robert Walton IV discovers the Frankenstein's Monster encased in ice in Antarctica. (The Monster of Frankenstein #1)
• March: Edward George Pryor is born. (American Dreams)
• October: Deaver commits suicide by shooting himself after losing everything that he owns in a card game. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• November 3:
  • William McKinley is elected U.S. President, defeating William Jennings Bryan. (Real Life)
  • William Jennings Bryan is elected U.S. President, defeating William McKinley. (Bring the Jubilee, Alternate Presidents, Job: A Comedy of Justice)
• 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. (Highlander)
• Edward is built. (Thomas & Friends)
• Having failed to find gold in Australia, Scrooge McDuck decides to try Canada. This time, he succeeds. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)
• Peabody and Sherman arrange to drain the Venetian canals in order to let Marconi invent the radio. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Garrison at Fort Louis Philippe, running low on supplies, gather what they can and escape, managing to trap the zombies within the fort. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Sam is abducted from Earth and brought to Mars. (Journey into Space)
• Joseph McCabe is born. (St. Elsewhere)
• John Walton, Sr. is born. (The Waltons)
• In an Alternate Timeline, 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 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)
• 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. (The Explorers' Guild)
• Cynthia Harvey and Will E. Palmer are married. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• Hamilton Ten Eyck is born. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• John Kinsella is born in North Dakota. (Field of Dreams)
• Winston Pennington is born in the Home Counties of England. (Unimaa)

1894 - 1896

• Agatha Heterodyne, Martellus von Blitzengaard, Violetta Mondarev, Krosp, and a wasp eater weasel show up again; Agatha travels to Paris, England, and more. (Girl Genius — events of Act 2)

1897

• Summer: Vampire lord Count Vlad Dracula comes to England in pursuit of Mina Harker, who looks identical to his long-dead wife. (Bram Stoker's Dracula)
• June 3: Enoch Soames makes a 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. ("Enoch Soames")
• 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. (The Great Mouse Detective)
• November 2: Andrew commits suicide by hanging himself, though he 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Death of Angelique Hawthorne. Florence Gilbert becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Florence Gilbert ends a series of vampiric murders, but she herself dies soon after. Grace becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Grace is killed by vampires Helen and Angelus. Xin Rong becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Ben Wainwright is born. (Doctor Who)
• Bertha George Palmer (later Haley) is born. (Roots: The Next Generations)

1898

• January 12: Florence Sundvik dies. (Doctor Who)
• February 15: The sinking of the US battleship Maine is blamed on Southern saboteurs, sparking the Second War Between the States. (Chrononauts)
• March 4: Mary Eliza Millington is born. She lives for only thirteen days. (Doctor Who)
• April 8: Capris Wisher, architect and passenger on the Lady Crithania, is born. (SOS)
• July 1:
  • The United States is victorious in the Battle of San Juan Hill in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, a major battle in the Spanish-American War. Theodore Roosevelt leads the Rough Riders into battle. (Real Life)
  • In an Alternate Timeline, the United States is defeated in the Battle of San Juan Hill as Theodore Roosevelt was killed by Billy the Kid 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. (Voyagers!)
• 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. (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
• September 10: Empress Elizabeth of Austria is fatally stabbed while walking to a ferry. (Real Life) Future speculation would suggest that this was orchestrated by The Dragon of the Black Hand known only as "Apis’ Amanuensis". (S.)
• October 26: Henry Van Cleve and Martha Strable are married. (Heaven Can Wait (1943))
• November 2: Cornelius commits suicide by shooting himself. This leaves Frederick as the 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• November 13: Fritz Spitzwerg is born. (Secret Army)
• November 24: The Lone Prospector and Big Jim McKay eat a delicious shoe for Thanksgiving dinner. (The Gold Rush)
• December 31, at 8 PM: The Lone Prospector is stood up by Georgia and her friends. Georgia regrets the prank. (The Gold Rush)
• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Mina Harker, Captain Nemo, Allan Quatermain, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man) formed by British Intelligence to retrieve stolen cavorite from the "Devil Doctor". (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
• A Gypsy witch curses Angelus by giving him a soul. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Birth of the gargoyles Una, Leo and Griff in the London Clan. (Gargoyles)
• Birth of the gargoyle Kai in the Ishimura Clan of Japan. (Gargoyles)
• Frankenstein's Monster is tricked to revive Dracula, and fights him to return him to the dead. (The Frankenstein Monster #7-9)
• In Polly Spark's altered version of history, Miss Battery-Bot convinces Marie Curie (somehow) that radium runs on AA batteries. (JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain)
• Ilyena Sirotskaya (later cinema actress Evelyn Harrow) is born to a family of modest means in Eastern Europe. (The Explorers' Guild)
• Four brothers team up to get the family farm back from the man who killed their mother. (The Sons of Katie Elder)

1899

• 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. (The Gold Rush)
• 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. (Red Dead Redemption 2)
• June: Some members of the Van der Linde gang flee the city of Sant-Denis^moreafter the deaths of three members and the arrest of John Marston, and are shipwrecked on the island of Guarma. (Red Dead Redemption 2)
• July 1: Birth of Henry Walton Jones Jr., a.k.a. Indiana, to Henry and Anna Jones. He would grow up to become an archaeologist. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• 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". (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• July: Newsboys Strike in New York City, New York. (Newsies and real life)
• 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. (Return to Oz)
• 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. (Unimaa)
• November 24: Ena Schofield (later Sharples) is born. (Coronation Street)
• Before December 31: James Filby is born. (The Time Machine (1960))
• December 31:
  • Harrison Hightower disappears after 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. (Tower of Terror (Tokyo Disney Sea) and Mystic Manor)
  • George uses his time machine to travel forward to the year 802,701. (The Time Machine (1960))
• Richard Wilkins founds Sunnydale, California. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Alexander Hartdegen's sweetheart Emma is killed by a robber. He becomes obsessed with traveling back in time and averting her death.^moreHe does travel back to save her, but only succeeds in changing how she dies. (The Time Machine (2002))
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen thwarts the Fantom's plans for world war. (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
• Elise McKenna starts her acting career. She is only 14 years old. (Somewhere in Time)
• 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. (Moulin Rouge!)
• Scrooge McDuck becomes a millionaire and enters the banking sector. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)
• Thomas and Anna Sheridan are killed by Abhartach. Their daughter, Róisín, is given power to kill demons. (Róisín Dubh)
• 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. (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
• Alex Stottel is born. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Jack Van Cleve is born. (Heaven Can Wait (1943))
• Olivia Walton is born. (The Waltons)
• Teal'c is born. (Stargate SG-1)
• After inventing a time machine, H. G. Wells uses it to travel to the 22nd Century, where he finds that the world is a utopia created by Superman's descendants. He then brings Tempus, a native of that century, to Metropolis in 1995. (Lois & Clark)
• Somerset Frisby and Agatha Cook are born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Rick Frost, who has been wrongly convicted of murder, is transported back in time to 1899 from 1986. He finds himself in a park bandstand. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• A mysterious group called "The Seven" rescues from human sacrifice a nameless infant who will become known as Doctor Occult. (DC Comics)
• Late 1899: Silent film actress Norma Desmond is born. (Sunset Boulevard)

1890s

• The Cutler Mine near Starlight, New Mexico goes bust. (Quantum Leap (2022))

1900

• 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. (The Time Machine (1960))
• February 14: In Australia, three students and a teacher disappear during a field trip to a rock formation. (Picnic at Hanging Rock)
• June 18: Amidst the chaos of the Boxer Rebellion, current Slayer Xin Rong is killed by Spike. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• July and August: Leo Colston stays with the Maudsley family at Brandham Hall, Norfolk (The Go-Between)
• October 27: Luke Haines, sailor on the Lady Crithania, is born. (SOS)
• November 6:
  • William McKinley is re-elected U.S. President, once again defeating William Jennings Bryan. (Real Life)
  • William Jennings Bryan is elected to a second term as U.S. President. (Bring the Jubilee)
• Before November 13: Lord Henry Mystic's Magneto-Electric Carriage takes first prize in an invention competition at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. (Mystic Manor)^{Justification} Date taken from Real Life.
• Two rural Amestrian brothers crack open an alchemy book for the first time. (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Percy is built. (Thomas & Friends)
• Peabody and Sherman stop John Holland's submarine from behaving like a helicopter, then extricate it from underneath a giant octopus. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Birth of (future DCI) Thomas Nightingale, immortal guardian of London. (Rivers of London).
• The flying city of Columbia is sent on a global tour to showcase American exceptionalism. (BioShock Infinite)
• Parisian playboy Gaston Lachaille falls in love in with Gigi, a young courtesan-in-training. (Gigi)
• Virgil Harvey dies. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• Indian poet and humanitarian Sindu Singh is born. (S.)
• Anya Petrova is born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Unimaa)
• 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. (Ghosts (UK))

Mid to late 19th Century

• 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 falling in love with each other and mating. (The Blue Lagoon (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. )
• 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, though that may or may not have been a dream. (An American Tail series)
• 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. (The Phantom of the Opera ^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 does not coincide with the construction of the Opera or the Siege of Paris, and any theories about later incidents involving the parties in question are highly controversial at best.)
• Between 1889-1899: Scottish philosopher and novelist Guthrie MacInnes is born. (S.)
• 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. (Gunnerkrigg Court)
• "Big" George Jetwest, George Jetson's great-great-great-grandfather, has a showdown against the notorious Bad Bart. (The Jetsons episode "High Moon")
• Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity. (The Lighthouse)
• 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. (Missing Link)

19th Century

• 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. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
• 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. (Street Fighter Alpha)
• Latest possible date for the "birth" of the demon Garuda, a combination of all the souls driven mad by the Satsui no Hadou. (Street Fighter EX^moreHe wears samurai armor. The samurai class and its armor were abolished in the late 19th century. He is arguably older than the 20th century.)
• 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. (Gravity Falls)
• 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 cavorite, which has antigravity properties. (The First Men in the Moon) 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. (Princess Principal)
• Annes Town, Massachusetts is renamed Anniston. (The Twilight Zone (1985))

1901 C.E. - 1910 C.E.

Early 20th Century

• The Fourth Doctor defeats a Rutan invasion fleet at the Fang Rock lighthouse. (Doctor Who)
• 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.(Earthbound Beginnings)
• Mr. X's cloning experiment goes horrifically wrong, transforming him, driving him insane and sending out a 'genetic shockwave' across the world. (Pokéumans)
• 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. (Stargate SG-1)
• Lord Haikon becomes the leader of the Sodan. He would retain that position until his people's destruction in 2006. (Stargate SG-1)

1901

• At the stroke of midnight on January 1, the Century Babies are born. Among others, this includes Jenny Sparks and Elijah Snow. (The Authority, Planetary)
• 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. (The War of the Worlds) Sherlock Holmes gets involved. The discrepancy between H. G. Wells' 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)
• June 30: Birth of Dorothy Singers in Chicago. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• September 24: Ike Godsey is born. (The Waltons)
• 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. (Doc Savage)
• November 22: Ryunosuke Naruhodo makes his courtroom debut, defending himself for the murder of Dr. John H. Wilson. (The Great Ace Attorney)
• 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. (The Godfather Part II)
• Zombie outbreak in Lu Shan. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Simon Templar is born in Indochina. (The Saint)
• In Austria, Bill and Ted abduct Sigmund Freud for their history report, taking him to 1988. (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
• The floating city of Columbia ends the Boxer Rebellion by razing Peking to the ground. (Bioshock Infinite)
• 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. (The Marvelous Land of Oz)
• Clyde Globe is born. (Amazing Stories)
• Verna Johnson is born. (Tenko)
• 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'. (The Explorers' Guild)
• Birth of Genshin, a future monk, in Myoujin Village. (Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir)
• President Theodore Roosevelt establishes the Perpetual Unearthly Forces Fund, an official government bounty system for the killing of dangerous monsters. (Monster Hunter International)

1902

• 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. (BioShock Infinite)
• October 5: Nora Charles was just a gleam in her father's eye. (The Thin Man)
• 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. (The Great Ace Attorney)
• 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. (Ozma of Oz)
• 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. (Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz)
• Birth of Dominic Dracon. He would grow up to be a leading figure in the organized crime of New York. (Gargoyles)
• 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. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)
• Adam Adamant is frozen in a block of ice by his nemesis, the Face. He is eventually revived in 1966. (Adam Adamant Lives!)
• Sean Aloysius O'Brien dies. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
• 2-5 tycoons compete to build the best-connected rail network throughout Germany (Ticket to Ride: Deutschland 1902)

1903

• February 3: Alexander Hartdegen completes his Time Machine and travels forward in time to 802,701. (The Time Machine (2002))
• June 11: King Alexander I of Serbia is assassinated by a group led by Captain Dragutin Dimitrijević, also the leader of the Black Hand. (Real Life)
  • Candidates for the assassins include elusive author V. M. Straka. (S.)
• 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. (The Road to Oz)
• November: A young woman called Sarah comes to works as a parlormaid at 165 Eaton Place. (Upstairs Downstairs)
• Before December 17: The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones help Wilbur and Orville Wright reconcile their differences over their mutual love for Agnes Spence so they can perfect the Wright Flyer and the Allies can win World War I. (Voyagers!)
• December 17: The Wright brothers conduct the first powered flight with a heavier-than-air machine, the Wright Flyer. (Real Life)
  • Peabody and Sherman help the Wright brothers retrieve their airplane from Kitty Hawk, who's fallen in love with it. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
  • Doc Brown is present for the first flight. ("Doc on the March")
• 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. (Meet Me in St. Louis)
• The Terror makes his debut battling President Teddy Roosevelt. (The Tick)
• Sherlock Holmes retires to Sussex and takes up beekeeping. (His Last Bow)
• Birth of Sasquatch in Canada. He belongs to a Bigfoot tribe but resembles a Yeti. (Darkstalkers)
• A German girl becomes the Slayer. Creighton Faust serves as her Watcher. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Professor George Challenger and Lord John Roxton launch an expedition to a hidden mini-ecosystem of primaeval flora and fauna. (The Lost World)
• Carlos Muerto fails to kill Dracula permanently. (Dracula Lives! #9)
• The Nexus crosses through the Milky Way Galaxy. (Star Trek: Generations)

1904

• June: Sugar Kowalczyk, later known as "Sugar Kane," is born in Sandusky, Ohio. (Some Like It Hot)
• June 16: Mr. Leopold Bloom of Dublin has an extremely long day. (Ulysses)
• 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. (Chrononauts)
• November 8:
  • U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is elected to a full term in his own right, defeating Alton B. Parker. (Real Life)
  • William Jennings Bryan is elected to a third term as U.S. President. (Bring the Jubilee)
• Death of Jonah Hex. (DC Comics)
• Root submachine built. (Submachine)
• Peter and Billy Bailey found the Bailey Bros. Building & Loan Association in Bedford Falls, New York. (It's a Wonderful Life)
• Joshua and Primrose Iredale are married. (Mirror, Mirror (1995))

1905

• January 22: A wish granted by Anyanka causes a revolution in St. Petersburg. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• April 4: Rebecca Rubin is born
• April: Sophia Petrillo is born. (The Golden Girls)
• June 27: Russian sailors mutiny on the battleship Potemkin. (Real Life) On the Odessa steps, Cossacks massacre civilians who have sided with the mutineers. (The Battleship Potemkin)
• June: Shortly before his death, the 96-year-old former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, living in exile in Canada, is interviewed about the Union's failure to defeat the Confederacy in the War on Northern Aggression. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
• October 11: Victor Rutledge is born. (The 4400)
• October 15: Nemo begins having strange recurring dreams every night about a fantasy world called Slumberland. (Little Nemo)
• Herbert West has begun his experiments in reviving the dead by this time. (Herbert West - Reanimator)
• Creighton Faust becomes a vampire. His Slayer goes insane and commits suicide. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Birth of Britta Kessler in Munich. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Birth of Greg Mallory.^{Justification}91 years old in 2006 (The Boys)
• Circus magician and air balloonist Oscar Diggs is swept away by a tornado to the Land of Oz. (Oz the Great and Powerful)
• Dorothy and her family move to Oz permanently; meanwhile the Nome King gathers other evil races and tries to invade Oz. (The Emerald City of Oz)
• Arthur Biehl is born. (Somewhere in Time)
• Brian Douglas is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Mrs. Dempsey is born. (Twilight Zone: The Movie)
• Louisa Iredale is born. (Mirror, Mirror (1995))

1906

• 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. (San Francisco)
• April 18, 5:12 am PST:
  • An earthquake destroys 80% of San Francisco. (Real Life)
  • As a result of the earthquake, saloon owner "Blackie" Norton is traumatized and reforms his ways. He reunites with his lady love Mary. (San Francisco)
  • Jenny Sandolvar loses her lover in the earthquake, and is left alone and pregnant. (Frisco Jenny)
• June 24: Edward Grainger is born to Lawrence and Mary Grainger. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• Birth of Britt Reid. (The Green Hornet)
• Romantic hijinks ensue in the Oklahoma Territory shortly before it becomes a state. (Oklahoma!)
• 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. (The Patchwork Girl of Oz)
• 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. (Tik-Tok of Oz)
• The first annual Tornado Day celebration is held in Eerie, Indiana in order to appease the tornado Old Bob. (Eerie, Indiana)
• A German archaeological expedition discovers the DHD of the Giza Stargate in Egypt. (Stargate SG-1)
• Nora, future wife of Nick Charles, is born. (The Thin Man)
• 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. (Not for Broadcast)
• Birth of Frank Randall. (Outlander)

1907

• Spring: An Irish servant named Emily falls for a footman named William; He rejects her, which leads to her suicide (Upstairs Downstairs)
• November 1: Inspector John Legrasse breaks up a Cthulhu cult. (The Call of Cthulhu)
• Mrs. Bridges, the Eaton Place cook, steals a baby. (Upstairs Downstairs)
• First recorded appearance of Baron Ether, first super-villain. (Soon I Will Be Invincible)
• George Bailey is born. (It's a Wonderful Life)
• In Colorado, construction of the Overlook Hotel begins. (The Shining)
• Bobby Cabe is born. (Star Trek: The Original Series)
• 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. (The Scarecrow of Oz)
• Ray and Sarah Dobson are married. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• 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. (Red Dead Redemption 2)
• Knuckles the Echidna graduates from Princeton University, having learned Braille and that he's a really handsome guy. (Real-Time Fandub)
• Shadow the Hedgehog runs for president in the election. (Real-Time Fandub)
• Winston Pennington, tormented in boarding school, gives up his real life to become the first member of Frida's Friends Club besides Eino. (Unimaa)
• 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. (Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds)

1908

• January 8: [Alternate Universe] Marcus Americanius Scriptor is born. (Faction Paradox)
• May:
  • 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. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
  • In Florence, Anna Jones is romanced by Giacomo Puccini, but decides to remain loyal to her husband. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• June 21: Laurent and Bertille are brought back in time to this era, from their present in 1996. (Sasmira)
• June 30: The Tunguska Event.
  • An alien, or angel, or something crashes to Earth near the Tunguska river. (SCP Foundation)
  • Nikola Tesla, Charles Fort, and H. P. Lovecraft defeat an extradimensional horror in Siberia. (Atomic Robo)
  • Nikola Tesla successfully test-fires his prototype superweapon, Goliath.^moreOr so he thinks. (Leviathan)
  • Aliens known as the Chimera crash-land on Earth. (Resistance)
  • An alien explorer later known as Ned is transported to Earth through a tachyon portal. (Eerie, Indiana)
• September: In Paris, Indiana Jones meets Norman Rockwell, Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, and Henri Rousseau. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• November 3:
  • William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential election. (Real Life)
  • Thomas Edison defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential election. (And Having Writ...)
• November 6: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are gunned down in Bolivia. (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and probably real life. The identification of the corpses was questionable)
• November: Elizabeth Bellamy meets Lawrence Kirbridge. (Upstairs Downstairs)
• 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. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• A car race around the world is won by Professor Fate. (The Great Race)
• The Ishvalan War of Extermination begins in Amestris. (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Birth of Aron Canmore to Jackson Canmore and an unnamed mother. He would grow up to become a Hunter. (Gargoyles)
• 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. (The Call of Cthulhu)
• 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. ("The Shadow Out of Time")
• Chloe Williams is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Jeffrey Carlson is born. (Star Trek Novel 'Verse)
• 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. (The Lost Princess of Oz)
• Nola Granville is born. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Nelson Gardner (Captain Metropolis) is born. (Watchmen)
• Birth of future President of Sordland Anton Rayne. (Suzerain)

1909

• January 14: Gold rush in Icefinger mountains (Fighting Fantasy)
• Early in the year: King Edward VII comes to Eaton Place for dinner. (Upstairs Downstairs)
• 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. (The Magic of Oz)
• September 4: Dick Tracy is born. (Dick Tracy)
• 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. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• Superior English translation of Unaussprechlichen Kulten (also titled Nameless Cults) published. (Cthulhu Mythos)
• Ernest Grainger is born. (Are You Being Served?)
• 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. (Fullmetal Alchemist)
• Peabody and Sherman are captured by Eskimos. They escape and lead Commodore Perry to the north pole. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Big Jake McCandles rescues his grandson, Little Jake from a group of outlaws. (Big Jake)
• 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. (Mystic Manor)
• The Overlook Hotel opens in Colorado. (The Shining)
• Rosalind and Robert Lutece suffer a peculiar laboratory mishap in the floating city of Columbia. (BioShock Infinite)
• Alfredo Pedillo Jose is born. (Star Trek: The Original Series)
• 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. (The Tin Woodman of Oz)
• 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. (Glinda of Oz)
• Constance Clarke is born. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• Death of Jacob von Hogflume, the discoverer of time travel. (A satirical blue plaque)
• 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. (S.)

1910

• January: Henry Jones and his family meet Annie Besant in India. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• March: In China, Indiana Jones learns a little Mandarin and has his first brush with death when he contracts typhoid fever. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• 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. (Homestuck)
• April 20:
  • 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. (Real Life)
  • Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher chase after Halley's Comet in a steampunk airship. (The Adventures of Mark Twain)
  • 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. (The Time Tunnel)
  • 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. (Shadow of the Comet)
• 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. (Homestuck)
• Summer: Indiana Jones temporarily runs away from his father Henry and meets Leo Tolstoy. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• Autumn: Henry and Indiana Jones visit the Meteora, where they get in trouble with the locals and later meet Nikos Kazantzakis. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
• October 30: Czech factory worker Vaclav A. Straka attempts suicide by jumping off the Charles Bridge. He is presumed dead. (S.)
• October 31: The names Stenfalk, Corbeau, Pfeifer, Ostrero, and a guest appear on the register at the Hotel Voliéry in Prague.^moreThese 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". (S.)
• December: Mrs. Claus crash-lands in New York's Lower East Side, where she improves the lives of those she meets and participates in several musical numbers. (Mrs. Santa Claus)
• 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. (The Aristocats)
• Mr. George Banks hires the perfect nanny, Mary Poppins, for his children Jane and Michael. (Mary Poppins)
• Birth of William Brown (Just William)
• 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. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Peabody and Sherman help Barnaby Victor win the first Indy 500 against the fiendish Carmen Dioxide. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Master Thomas Swift of Shopton, N.Y. invents an ingenious motor-cycle prototype. (Tom Swift)
• Bill Webster is abducted from South Africa and brought to Mars. (Journey into Space)
• Daniel Auschlander is born. (St. Elsewhere)
• The Highball Express crashes. (Amazing Stories)
• William J. Feathersmith makes a pact with Satan in 1963 and is transported back in time to his home town of Cliffordville, Indiana in this year. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Ward Cleaver is born. (Leave It to Beaver)
• Fay Truscott-Sade is born. (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Toby and Millie McKenzie are married. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Mary Hatch (later Bailey) is born. (It's a Wonderful Life)
• Birth of Kiku Ayashiro (Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir)
• 2-5 tycoons compete to build the best-connected rail network throughout the United States. (Ticket to Ride: USA 1910)

1900s

• President Theodore Roosevelt closes off access to the "Devil's Forest", convinced that the woods were a repository for dark magic. (The Librarians)

1911 C.E. - 1913 C.E.

1911

• The Fourth Doctor prevents the return of Sutekh. (Doctor Who)
• 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. ^moreShortly after accomplishing his task, Marston is killed by the US Army. (Red Dead Redemption)
• Zombie outbreak in Vitre, Louisiana. Zombies are destroyed by fire, but the town is burned down as a result. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Death of Millicent Rose Gresham. Arabella Gish becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Denis Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard begins investigating coordinated criminal activity among the Asian gangs of London. (Fu Manchu)
• Birth of Eustace "Huckabone" Befufftlefumpter ^{Justification}Stated to be 102 in "Northwest Mansion Mystery" (Gravity Falls)
• Dorothy Livingston is born. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Professor Ellis Fowler begins his 51 year teaching career at the Rock Spring School for Boys in Vermont. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• 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. (The Explorers' Guild)
• Bruce Wayne is born. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• Harry Bailey is born. (It's a Wonderful Life)
• Birth of Zenzou Tanabe (Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir)
• 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. (S.)
• 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. (Unimaa)

1912

• 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. (S.)
• April 9: The Ninth Doctor prevents a family from boarding the Titanic. (Doctor Who)
• April 10: The RMS Titanic leaves Southampton for New York in its sole voyage. (Real Life)
  • Indiana Jones and Helen Seymour take a trip on the Titanic. Indy befriends stowaway Molly Kincaid, and the two investigate a German sabotage mission. (Young Indiana Jones and the Titanic Adventure )
  • 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. (Ghosts (UK))
• April 14:
  • The RMS Titanic hits an iceberg and begins to sink, killing over 2000 people in the process. (Real Life)
  • The sinking of the RMS Titanic causes a break in the romance of Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater. (Titanic (1997))
  • 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. (Young Indiana Jones and the Titanic Adventure)
  • The RMS Titanic sinks, but the blandest couple ever survive so it's party time, everyone! (Titanic: The Legend Goes On)
  • The RMS Titanic is saved from capsizing by a giant squid. Everybody lives. (The Legend of the Titanic)
  • 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. (Doctor Who)
  • Amanda claims she was on board the Titanic during its maiden voyage. (Highlander: The Raven)
  • Lady Marjorie Bellamy, her brother and his wife die in the Titanic sinking. (Upstairs Downstairs)
  • Lord Grantham's only remaining male heirs die on the Titanic. (Downton Abbey)
  • Dr. Tony Newman and Dr. Doug Phillips, a pair of time travelers from 1968, fail to prevent the sinking of the Titanic. (The Time Tunnel)
  • 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. (Doctor Who New Adventures)
  • 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". (The Massacre Of Mankind)
  • 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. (Voyagers!)
  • Charlotte Elspeth "Charley" Pollard is born. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
  • WWII-era ex-secret agent Frank Carlson is given a second chance to complete his mission on the RMS Titanic before it sinks. (Titanic: Adventure Out of Time)
  • 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. (Family Guy)
• April 15: In the early hours of the morning, the RMS Titanic finally sinks completely. (Real Life)
  • 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. (Chrononauts)
• May 16: Anna Mary Jones dies. She succumbed to a combination of scarlet fever and influenza. (The World of Indiana Jones -1994, Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide)
• 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. (Tower of Terror (Tokyo Disney Sea))
• June 23: Birth of Robert Stoney. ("Oracle")^{Justification}Alan Turing was born on this date, and Stoney is a stand-in for him.
• 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. (Somewhere in Time)
• June: Indiana Jones engages in his first treasure hunt, searching for pirate gold along the New England coast. (Young Indiana Jones and the Pirates' Loot)
• 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. (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
• 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. (BioShock Infinite)
• 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. (Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom of the Klondike)
• 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. (Young Indiana Jones and the Lost Gold of Durango^moreAlternatively dated to 1913.)
• September 16: Ray Dobson becomes trapped in a mine and meets John Parker, another miner who has travelled back in time from 1986. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• October 18: Explorer Arthur Ogden arrives at Fort Defiance, 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. (The Explorers' Guild)
• November 5:
  • Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the United States, defeating Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. (Real Life)
  • Theodore Roosevelt defeats Eugene Debs in the U.S. presidential election. (Timeline-191)
  • Theodore Roosevelt is elected President of the United States, defeating Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft. (Back in the USSA, Alternate Presidents)
• 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. (The Explorers' Guild)
• November: A flask full of radium is stolen from the Institute of Marie Curie, Paris. Indiana Jones investigates. (Young Indiana Jones and the Radioactive Flask)
• December 19: U.S. President-elect Theodore Roosevelt is assassinated in Chicago by Annie Oakley. (Back in the USSA)
• 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. ^moreHe found - and stole a piece of jade from - the mythical city of Shambhala. (The Explorers' Guild)
• Tarzan meets Jane. (Tarzan)
• Woodrow Wilson Smith, later known as Lazarus Long, is born. (Methuselah's Children)
• A series of murders at a Brooklyn Boarding House end when Arabella Gish, a student nurse and current Slayer, checks in to room #6. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Birth of Nancy Drew.
• 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. (My Fair Lady, Pygmalion)
• James is built. (Thomas & Friends)
• Augusta Endicott and Una Percival are born. (St. Elsewhere)
• Blanche Simmons is born. (Tenko)
• Professor Ellis Fowler begins teaching at the Rock Spring School for Boys in Vermont. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Bartlett Finchley is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Jonathan Dexter is born. (Phyllis)
• The Flask Plan to create superhumans is instituted by Najimi Ajimu and Hanten Shiranui at Kurobako Cram School, refounding it as Hakoniwa Academy. (Medaka Box)
• 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.” ^moreHe may also have provided proof that Bouchard had orchestrated and covered up a massacre of striking workers in the Calais Riot that February. The prize is discontinued shortly afterwards due to the death of Bouchard's wife by suicide. (S.)
• 2-5 tycoons compete to build the best-connected rail network throughout the Europe. (Ticket to Ride: Europe 1912)

1913

• January: A National Geographic 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. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• May 5: Claudie Wells is born in New York City. (American Girls Collection)
• Spring:
  • Indiana Jones helps Elizabeth "Lizzie" Ravenall, seek out her family treasure. (Young Indiana Jones and the Plantation Treasure)
  • 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. (Downton Abbey)
• June 11: Mary Rutledge is born. (The 4400)
• July 5: Rose Miller is born. (Tenko)
• 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. (Young Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Terror)
• August: In China, Indiana Jones assists a child lama against his enemies. (Young Indiana Jones and the Child Lama)
• 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 Okhrana. (Young Indiana Jones and the Princess of Peril)
• September:
  • John Smith ^moreactually a Time Lord disguised as a human hides from the Family of Blood with Martha Jones secretly making sure he stays out of trouble...badly. (Doctor Who)
  • 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. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, novel: Young Indiana Jones and the Violin of the Metropolitan)
  • 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. (Young Indiana Jones and the Bermuda Triangle)
• October 31: Indiana Jones travels back in time while investigating a silver dragon ring that belonged to King Arthur. (Young Indiana Jones and the Ghostly Riders)
• November 10: The Family of Blood land in England, searching for John Smith. (Doctor Who)
• November 11: Teacher John Smith ^moreactually the Tenth Doctor transformed into a human becomes the target of extraterrestrials. ^moreThe 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...but with a price. (Doctor Who)
• 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. (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, novel: Young Indiana Jones and the Circle of Death)
• 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.^moreIt'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. (Shadow Hearts)
• 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. (Highlander: The Series)
• The Nemesis passes near Earth, influencing events. (Doctor Who)
• Dr. Jan Vanderhaven studies zombies in Paramaribo. He coins the term solanum for the agent that causes zombification. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• 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. (The Shadow Out of Time)
• The owner of the Carlton Mine lets a bunch of children die in a cave-in. (Wicked Little Things)
• 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. (Pathfinder)
• 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. (HeartCatch Pretty Cure! novel)

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