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Timeline of fictional historical events
Various storytellers have tried to create better verisimilitude for their stories by linking them to real history. Protagonists could have witnessed a historical event or even participated in it (often fighting in various wars). In some stories they may even be originators of some event or try to prevent it (see secret history) but fail - history, as we know it, does not change. In other cases history does change, and an alternate history branches off from our own.
In other stories, writers have simply placed the story in some specific year or date.
Fictional countries may also include history of their own, even if the story itself is not concerned about them.
See also timeline of fictional future events for fictional events that were set in the future when they were first written, but which have now been overtaken by real history.
These dates are connected to either specific historical dates or real-world historical events. They are known to be fictitious — not claimed nonfiction of conspiracy theories.
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Prehistoric
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4,000,000 YA
- Warring Transformers crash-land on Earth and are entombed until modern times.
Ancient civilizations
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"A Long Time Ago"
- Events of the Star Wars galaxy. See Dates in Star Wars for more information.
- 18,000 BC
- King Kull rules Atlantis. (Robert E. Howard's Kull the Conqueror stories)
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10,000 BC
- Conan the Barbarian is born in Cimmeria and eventually comes to rule Aquilonia. (Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian stories)
5th millennium BC
- 4000 BC
- The year a new game starts in Civilization (as well as Civilization II and Civilization III).
4th millennium BC
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3,400 BC
- The Scorpion King comes to power. (The Scorpion King)
2nd millennium BC
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1278 BC
- Major Arcana founded (Nephilim - roleplaying game)
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1250 BC
- Nantucket Island is sent back to this year from 1998 (Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Stirling)
1st millennium BC
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380 BC
- Birth of Ayesha . (H. Rider Haggard: Wisdom's Daughter )
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200s BC
- The events of Plautus' Miles Gloriosus, Pseudolus and Mostellaria (aka A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
1st millennium
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206-210
- Adventures of the Pict Bran Mak Morn , by Robert E. Howard
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665-681
- Career of Chinese magistrate Judge Dee (by Robert Van Gulik)
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730
- Forerunner of Necronomicon, Kitab Al-Azif, written by Abdul Alhazred.
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767
- Brotherhood of Hermes founded (according to Ars Magica roleplaying game)
10th-century
11th century
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1094
- The Belmont family first encounters the man who becomes Dracula (Castlevania: Lament of Innocence)
12th century
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1127
- Chief Hveghi drives away Turkish conquerors and founds Syldavia
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1135-1155
- Machinations around the building of a Cathedral in England (Ken Follett: The Pillars of the Earth)
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1137-1145
- Brother Cadfael's investigations during the civil war between Stephen I of England and Empress Maud
- 1195
13th century
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1204
- Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian Nicolas Khoniates when the knights of the Fourth Crusade sack Constantinople (as per Umberto Eco's Baudolino)
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1228
- Olaus translates Necronomicon into Latin
- Nicolas de Brabant becomes a vampire (Forever Knight)
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1275
- Syldavians drive away Bordurians
14th century
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1300s
- About this time, the Black Plague sweeps through Europe killing 99% of the population. Alternate timeline begins, as chronicled in The Years of Rice and Salt.
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1345
- A scouting starship of the Wersgorix Empire lands in the English town of Ansby, where it is captured by Sir Roger, Baron de Tourneville and his knights. They go on to topple the entire Empire (The High Crusade).
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1327
- William Baskerville and his aide visit an unnamed abbey and investigate a series of strange murders (Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose).
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1389
- Robert Gadling begins to meet The Sandman every 100 years.
15th century
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1460
- Prince Edmund is born to Gertrude of Flanders who was married to Richard, Duke of York but was also carrying an affair with Donald McAngus, Third Duke of Argyll. Which of the two men was his father remains uncertain.
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1482
- Sonia Belmont becomes the first vampire hunter to battle Dracula (Castlevania Legends )
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1483
- Events of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
- Richard, Duke of York is crowned King Richard IV. His son, Prince Edmund plots to take the throne. The Black Adder
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1492
- 31st October, Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington is sent to be executed. He is hit 45 times with a blunt axe. He becomes the ghost Nearly-Headless Nick . (Harry Potter)
- The year a new game starts in the game Colonization
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1498
- Death of Richard IV of England. His second son Prince Edmund, reigns very briefly as King Edmund III. The Black Adder
16th century
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1518
- January 1 – Connor MacLeod, the Highlander, is born in Glenfinnan, Scotland.
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1535
- The first man to the called The Phantom begins adventuring. (The Phantom comic strips and comic books.)
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1536
- Connor MacLeod is mortally wounded at the battle of Loch Shiel, but instead of dying, becomes immortal.
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1547
- Prince Edward and a beggar boy Tom Conty switch places (Mark Twain: The Prince and the Pauper)
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1549
- Solomon Kane is born
- 1553
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1558-1603
- Lord Edmund Blackadder in the court of Queen Elizabeth I (Blackadder II)
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1588
- Orlando (of Virginia Woolf) begins
- Don Quixote tilts at windmills.
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1592
- Duncan MacLeod is born (Highlander)
17th century
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1600s
- Shogun by James Clavell.
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1602
- Events of Marvel Comics' 1602
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1622
- Duncan MacLeod revealed to be an immortal (Highlander)
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1626
- D'Artagnan arrives to Paris and meets The Three Musketeers (according to Alexandre Dumas)
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1628
- D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers in the Siege of La Rochelle
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1643
- Innsmouth, Massachusetts (of the Cthulhu Mythos) founded
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1649
- D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers fail to rescue Charles I of England and return to Paris to witness the Fronde rebellion (Twenty Years After)
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1659
- Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked
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1685
- Peter Blood is convicted of helping a nobleman during a rebellion against King James II and transported to Barbados (according to Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood)
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1687
- Robinson Crusoe rescued
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1691
- Simon Belmont, the greatest vampire hunter of the Belmont clan, battles Dracula for the first time. (Castlevania)
18th century
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1703
- Lemuel Gulliver finds Brobdingnag (Gulliver's Travels)
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1711
- Mutinous crew maroons Lemuel Gulliver in Houyhnhnm land (Gulliver's Travels)
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1736
- September 7 - Young girl accused of infanticide refuses to be released in the middle of the Porteous Riots in Edinburgh (Walter Scott: The Heart of Midlothian )
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1740
- Natty Bumpo begins adventuring. (by James Fenimore Cooper)
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1749
- Events of Fanny Hill by John Cleland.
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1751
- Events of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped.
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1754
- The clergyman Doctor Syn assumes the identity of pirate Captain Clegg. (Russel Thorndike : Doctor Syn on the High Seas)
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1757
- Natty Bumppo and his Amerindian friends Uncas and Chingachgook, The Last of the Mohicans, try to save Cora and Alice Munro from Hurons during the French and Indian War.
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1760
- Lestat's mortal birth
- Mr. Earnshaw takes an orphan boy to his estate in Wuthering Heights and names him Heathcliff.
- The events of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
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1762-1815
- Edmund Blackadder serves as butler to George, Prince of Wales, later Prince Regent.
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1776
- July 4 - Horatio Hornblower is born.
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1780
- Lestat becomes a Vampire (according to the Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice)
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1785
- Blair Witch legend begins
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1787
- The Headless Horseman appears in Sleepy Hollow. (Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
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1790s
- Victor Frankenstein creates a Creature. (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
- The events of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
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1793
- Percy Blakeney takes the mantle of The Scarlet Pimpernel and helps French aristocrats to flee the terror during the French Revolution
- Sydney Carton goes to guillotine in place of Charles Darnay (Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities)
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1794
- The events of the first Horatio Hornblower story by C. S. Forester.
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1795
- December 13 - A radioactive meteorite lands in Wold Newton, England , mutating a group of travelers (per Philip José Farmer's fictional genealogies of the Wold Newton family) (NOTE: There was a genuine meteor strike in Wold Newton at that time. The fiction is the "ionising radiation" and, of course, the characters present.)
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1800
- Jack Aubrey meets Stephen Maturin and gains his first command - a brig Sophie (Patrick O'Brian: Master and Commander)
19th century
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1801
- Tenant Mr Lockwood begins to visit his landlord Heathcliff and gradually begins to discover the story of the Wuthering Heights.
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1805
- San Theodoros gains independence
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1806
- Don Diego de la Vega dons The Mask of Zorro.
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1813
- Shirley Keeldar arrives at Fieldhead.
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1815
- February 14 - Edmond Dantes returns to France - and is soon imprisoned suspected of Bonapartist sympathies (The Count of Monte Cristo)
- The events of John Palodori 's The Vampyre .
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1822
- Harry Paget Flashman is born
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1827
- The events of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe.
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1829
- February 27 - Edmond Dantes escapes from the Chateau d'If
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1835
- The events of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.
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1838
- The Count of Monte Cristo arrives in Paris
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1841
- Auguste Dupin investigates The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
- The sailor Ishmael joins the crew of the Pequod. (Herman Melville's Moby Dick)
- Tom Sawyer has a series of adventures.
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1842
- Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by ghosts. (Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol)
- Jess Hurch born. (The Muller-Fokker Effect)
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1844
- In April, Monck Mason crosses the Atlantic in a balloon (Edgar Allan Poe: The Balloon-Hoax)
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1854
- Birth of Sherlock Holmes.
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1860s
- Doctor Dolittle begins his veterinarian practices. (Hugh Lofting's The Story of Doctor Doolittle )
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1861
- Mike Steve Donovan flees to North during the American Civil War and joins the Union army with the name Mike Blueberry.
- Texan-born Tex Willer defects to the North and joins the Union army in order to fight against slavery.
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1862
- Alice travels to Wonderland. (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll)
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1863
- German professor Axel Lidenbrock takes his nephew to the underground trip down Iceland (Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth)
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1864
- Hercule Poirot is born
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1865
- Ardan, Barbicane, and Nicholl ride a cannon fired spaceship to the moon (Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon)
- The United States of America signs a peace treaty with the Confederate States of America, according to Harry Turtledove
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1866
- First reports of Captain Nemo's submarine
- March 4 - John Carter is astrally projected to Barsoom
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1867
- Captain Nemo saves professor Arronax and his entourage (according to Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea)
- Charles Darwin, aged 58, begins attempting to convince a colony of follicle mites in his left eyebrow that he is not God. - The Sandwalk Adventures .
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1868
- June 2 - Professor Arronax and his friends escape Captain Nemo's Nautilus
- Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon are assigned to the Wild Wild West
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1869
- The events of Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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1870
- The events of the film Young Sherlock Holmes
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1871
- The death of vampire Carmilla .
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1872?
- Phileas Fogg sets for a journey Around the World in Eighty Days with his new valet Passepartout (according to Jules Verne)
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1873
- Captain Nemo rescues a group of castaways from The Mysterious Island
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1874
- Arsene Lupin is born
- 1876
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1878
- The events of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club
- The events of Rurouni Kenshin
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1881
- January - Sherlock Holmes and John Watson befriend
- Phantom of the Opera
- Second war between the United States and the Confederate States begins over Confederate plans to expand into Mexico. (How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove)
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1882
- Raffles the Thief begins his criminal career
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1885
- January 1 - Doc Brown is accidentally sent back to this past from the year 1955. (Back to the Future III)
- Allan Quatermain finds King Solomon's Mines
- Death of Dr. Henry Jekyll.
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1886
- John Carter is transferred back to Earth for a short time
- Allan Quatermain fakes his own death
- The events of Robur the Conqueror
- Nick Carter begins his detective career
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1887
- July 10: Corto Maltese is born.
- The events of The Prisoner of Zenda.
- The events of The Island of Dr. Moreau.
- Jess Hurch dies (The Muller-Fokker Effect).
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1888
- November 22: birth of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (better known as Tarzan)
- Georges-Antoine Kurtz is sent to Congo to gather ivory (Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness).
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1889
- Dorian Gray dies
- Tarzan is born - after his parents are killed female ape Kala adopts him
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1890
- Count Dracula arrives in London
- Circa 1890 - 1893
- Rudyard Kipling travels around India meeting various animals in order to gather research material for The Jungle Books.
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1891
- April 5 - Sherlock Holmes disappears in Reichenbach Falls and is presumed dead
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1892
- Arsene Lupin begins his criminal career
- The Time Traveler constructs The Time Machine and departs for the year 802701 , according to H.G. Wells
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1893
- Brisco County, Sr. is killed – his son Brisco County, Jr. begins pursuit of the culprits
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1894
- Sherlock Holmes reappears in London
- Catherine Ballou turns outlaw and teams up with Kid Sheleen - Cat Ballou
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1895
- Martians land in England (H.G. Wells: The War of the Worlds)
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1897
- The events of H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man
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1898
- "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" - Allan Quatermain, Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, Captain Nemo, The Invisible Man and Mina Murray (nee. Mina Harker), fight Fu Manchu who controls London's Limehouse
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1899
- Indiana Jones born as Henry Jones, Jr. (according to internal evidence in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles)
- Dorothy Gale first travels to Oz (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
- Events of Flatland. The book says it takes place in 1999, but a sequel, Flatterland says that Flatland years are exactly 100 years ahead of Christian years.
20th century
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1900
- Date of departure of Time Traveler in The Time Machine, according to George Pal
- Birth of several major characters in the comic book series Planetary
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1901
- November 12: birth of Clark Savage Jr. (later called "Doc Savage")
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1902
- Charles Dexter Ward is born (according to H. P. Lovecraft)
- March - Maurice Leblanc meets Arsene Lupin for the first time and becomes his biographer in June
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1903
- Sherlock Holmes retires to keep bees in Fulworth , Sussex
- Professor Challenger discovers The Lost World
- Pellucidar is discovered (Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the World's Core )
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1904
- Hercule Poirot resigns from Belgian police
- June 16 - Leopold Bloom has an unusually active day (James Joyce - Ulysses)
- The gunslinger Jonah Hex is killed; his body is stuffed and mounted
- 1908
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1909
- 10-year-old Indiana Jones in Africa with Theodore Roosevelt's safari
- The events of Tarzan of the Apes
- Kilgore Trout born* - Breakfast of Champions
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1911
- Adele Blanc-Sec faces a rampaging pterodactyl in Paris - her first adventure (Jacques Tardi: Adele and The Beast)
- Denis Nayland Smith first encounters Fu Manchu.
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1912
- April - Innumerable characters with time machines attempt to stop the sinking of The Titanic . Every one of them fails.
- Professor Challenger explores Maple White Land (according to Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World)
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1913
- November 1 - Corto Maltese works for mysterious man called Monk (Hugo Pratt's Ballad of Salty Sea – first story about Corto Maltese).
- Richard Hannay defeats an assassination plot by a gang of German secret agents in John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps.
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1914
- Three men wander into an Amazonian country at the onset of The Great War. Events of Herland .
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1915
- Harry Paget Flashman dies.
- Herbert West joins the army medical service in World War I to obtain access to dead bodies for his reanimation research - H. P. Lovecraft.
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1916
- James "Biggles" Bigglesworth lies about his age to enter Royal Flying Corps.
- Roderick Burgess imprisons The Sandman – Sleeping Sickness begins
- Indiana Jones volunteers to join Belgian army under the alias Henri Defense.
- Hercule Poirot flees Belgium under German occupation and becomes a refugee in England.
- Richard Hannay goes undercover in Germany and the Ottoman Empire to defeat a Central Powers plot to ferment an Islamic uprising against British Empire (John Buchan: Greenmantle).
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1917
- Lord Clifford Chateley marries Constance but afterwards he is seriously wounded in the front during the First World War and permanently paralysed under the waist (Lady Chatterley's Lover).
- Captain Edmund Blackadder in the First World War (Blackadder Goes Forth)
- Birth of Steve Rogers, who would later become Captain America
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1918.
- October - unspecified death of Paul Baumer (All Quiet on the Western Front).
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1919
- "Ace" Mifflin and others are fired after they have taken part of the Boston police strike (Jazz Age Chronicles ).
- The stoor worm wakes up from the shelling in the First World War. Events of The Stones Are Hatching .
- Bulldog Drummond begins adventuring.
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1920
- Ellery Queen begins his detective career.
- November 11- James Bond is born.
- Namor the Sub-Mariner is born.
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1921
- Arkham Asylum opened.
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1922
- Jimgrim first encounters the Nine Unknown .
- Lin Carter's Anton Zarnak begins work as a detective of the occult
- Birth of Carl Kolchak
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1923
- Palombia gains independence (according to Marsupilami stories)
- Lord Peter Wimsey solves his first murder, in Bellona Club
- The events of the 1999 film The Mummy
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1924
- Young Walt Rawley becomes an apprentice of magician Master Yehudi (Paul Auster: Mister Vertigo )
- March 23 - April 2 - R'lyeh Rises
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1926
- Events of the run of Jazz Age Chronicles comic book by Ted Slampyak
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1927
- Parisian inspector Maigret meets (his) writer Georges Simenon for the first time (according to Maigret's memoirs)
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1927?
- Tarzan first travels to Pellucidar
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1928
- October 11 - Orlando (of Virginia Woolf) ends
- Simon Templar, "The Saint", begins adventuring
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1929
- Tintin visits the Soviet Union
- Two male musicians witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and escape dressed as women (Some Like It Hot)
- James Watson dies for reasons unknown
- Hercule Poirot solves a murder in Orient Express
- Kent Allard becomes The Shadow
- Sam Spade on the case of The Maltese Falcon
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1930
- Nero Wolfe hires Archie Goodwin and begins his job as a private eye
- Miss Marple has her first case
- Nancy Drew has her first adventure
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1931
- Tintin witnesses Japanese invasion of China after an incident similar to Mukden Incident (The Blue Lotus).
- A giant ape is brought to New York City (King Kong)
- Doc Savage and companions begin adventuring together
- Dick Tracy becomes a detective
- Birth of Kilgore Trout* (per Kurt Vonnegut's Timequake)
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1932
- Willie Garvin is born in Whitechapel
- Accidental founding of town of Cicely, Alaska (Northern Exposure)
- Tintin becomes briefly a colonel in the army of San Theodoros
- The events of Lost Horizon
- On Christmas day, the golem known as the Monolith is created to avenge the death of an innocent man (DC Comics)
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1933
- Philip Marlowe become a private investigator
- The Spider begins his vigilantism
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1934
- Events of The Thin Man
- Mandrake the Magician begins adventuring
- Having become too dangerous, The Monolith is sealed up inside of a tunnel.
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1935
- Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane
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1936
- Modesty Blaise's assumption of her birth year
- Arsene Lupin narrates his adventures in French radio
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1937
- Corto Maltese disappears in the Spanish Civil War
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1938
- Indiana Jones finds and loses the Holy Grail
- Doctor Emilio Lizardo is possessed by Lord John Whorfin (the Red Lectroid war criminal) when his dimensional experiment goes awry at Princeton.
- The superheroes of the Golden Age of Comic Books begin appearing
- October 30 - Alien spacecraft (presumably from Mars) land at Grover's Mill, New Jersey , as reported by Orson Welles.
- November 1 - Forty-six people apply for Social Security cards in Grover's Mill, New Jersey, all named "John". (Actually Red Lectroids, as revealed in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)
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1939
- Failed attempt to oust Syldavian king Muskar XII
- The original Human Torch is built, and Namor the Sub-Mariner attacks the surface world
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1940
- Monique D'Aubainne takes over in Al Amarja and becomes its president-for-life.
- Scorpions of the Desert , including escaped Polish Jew Koinsky, begin their fight against Axis in Northern Africa
- The Justice Society of America is formed
- The Human Torch and Namor battle and eventually team up
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1941
- Parisian private eye Nestor Burma is released from a prisoner of war-camp and resumes his job during the German occupation of Paris (according to Leo Malet's books)
- Harald Olufsen tries to use old Hornet Moth plane to warn British about a German installation in Denmark (Ken Follett: Hornet Flight)
- Steven Rogers becomes the patriotic superhero Captain America
- The All-Star Squadron is formed when the Justice Society goes missing
- The Invaders are formed
- Reptilian aliens invade Earth, forcing an alliance between the Axis and Allies, and creating an alternate history. Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series.
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1942
- The Chamber of Secrets is opened by Tom Riddle. The monster inside the chamber kills a girl. Riddle successfully frames Rubeus Hagrid for the crime.
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1943
- September 24 - The Guns of Navarone explode
- A wormhole in time is opened from this year to 1984 - The Philadelphia Experiment (movie).
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1944
- Winston Smith is born in what will later become Oceania (George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four).
- December 23 - Hellboy appears in East Bromwich, UK
- German spy dashes through England to reveal Allies D-Day invasion plans (Ken Follett: Eye of the Needle).
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1945
- Young amnesiac girl (future Modesty Blaise) escapes from a prison camp in Greece.
- Billy Pilgrim survives the bombing of Dresden (Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five).
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1947
- Midnight's Children are born the night India gains independence (by Salman Rushdie).
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1948
- Hercule Poirot retires.
- Planet Krypton explodes after being drawn closer to the the planet's red sun (Superman: The Movie)
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1950s
- In the Zodiacian star system (the Twelve Colonies of Man), a robot race of Cylons attack four Battlestars and the twelve planets (and its inhabitants); the Battlestar Galactica escapes and heads for a "lost" planet called Earth (Battlestar Galactica movie and TV series)
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1950
- Buckaroo Banzai is born.
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1951
- Blackford Oakes joins the Central Intelligence Agency.
- A futuristic space ship carrying Baby Kal-El (one of four known survivors of Krypton) lands in a field near Smallville, Kansas and is discovered by an elderly couple (Superman: The Movie)
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1955
- August 31 - Buckaroo Banzai's parents are killed when an experimental vehicle explodes, due to sabotage by Hanoi Xan .
- November 5 - Doctor Emmet Brown invents time travel. Marty McFly from 1985 stumbles in, meets his would-be-parents and tries to get Back to the Future.
- November 12, 10:03 PM - Lightning strikes the Hill Valley clock tower, Marty McFly returns to the year 1985. (Back to the Future)
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1958
- Gaston Lagaffe appears in the office of Spirou magazine.
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1960
- Ingsoc comes to power and forms the state of Oceania (George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four) (approximate date).
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1961
- Modesty Blaise retires from the lead of her Network.
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1963
- The Red Dwarf crew travel to John F. Kennedy's assassination in a botched attempt to get curry supplies. Kennedy survives. The crew travel three years and persuades Kennedy (now in prison) to go back to 1963 and shoot himself. He agrees and the timeline is restored.
- The first Doctor Who leaves London to begin his adventures, leaving behind the Hand of Omega. Later that year two Dalek factions fight over the Hand, until the eighth Doctor arrives, and tricks them into blowing up their own sun in a supernova.
- Serge A. Storms is born.
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1971
- Haruka Urashima is born. Aged 27 at start of Love Hina.
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1972
- The A-Team is framed.
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1973
- Events of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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1974
- Hercule Poirot dies.
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1975
- Sophie Amudson born. Aged 15 in 1990.
- Dr Hannibal Lecter is imprisoned for nine counts of first degree murder Red Dragon.
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1976
- Coup in San Theodoros reinstates General Alcazar.
- July 8, Dr Hannibal Lecter is examined after complaining of chest pains. A nurse attempts to give Lecter an ECG and is savaged by Lecter. Red Dragon.
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1978
- G.I. Joe team reformed.
- First known appearance of a red-caped superhero (Superman: The Movie)
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1979
- Keitaro Urashima born. Mutsumi Otohime born. Mitsuni Konno born.
All aged 19 at the beginning of Love Hina.
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1980
- July 31st Harry Potter is born to Lily and James Potter Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
- The Battlestar Galactica reaches Earth, but the Cylon fleet is closely following; as Earth is not yet equipped to handle a Cylon attack, the Galactica and its rag-tag fleet keep its distance from Earth; it is assumed they shortly after leave the Solar System for another planet with climates similar to Earth (Galactica 1980 TV series)
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1981
- Lesbians Mo, Clarice, Lois, Sparrow and Toni meet each other in Second Women's Pentagon Action demonstration, (According to Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For).
- Naru Narusegawa born. Aged 17 at the beginning of Love Hina.
- Birth of Buffy Ann Summers.
- Lord Voldemort murders James and Lily Potter on Halloween after a tip off. Voldermort's killing curse backfired when trying to kill Harry Potter. His disembodied spirit flees. Harry is later retrieved from the ruins of the house by Rubeus Hagrid and later his godfather Sirius Black is sent to Azkaban fortress for 13 counts of murder.
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1983
- Dr Hannibal Lecter escapes from Memphis, killing five men in the process The Silence of the Lambs.
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1984
- May 12 - A T-800 Terminator arrives from the future to kill Sarah Connor (The Terminator).
- Lestat rises from his coma and becomes a rock star
- Two sailors from 1943 arrive in 1984 via a wormhole when an radar-blocking device goes wrong. - The Philadelphia Experiment (movie)
- Keitaro Urashima, aged five, makes a promise to marry a girl he meets (Love Hina).
- Motoko Aoyama born. Aged 15 at start of Love Hina.
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1985
- The Time of The Gathering, as shown in the movie Highlander
- October 26 - Marty McFly accidentally goes back in time to 1955. (Back to the Future)
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1986
- Events of Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos.
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1987
- Kaolla Su born. Aged 13 at the start of Love Hina.
- Rabo Karebekian writes down his life's story (Bluebeard (novel) )
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1988
- September 14 - The Sandman escapes from Frederick Burgess.
- Shinobu Maehara born. Aged 12 at start of Love Hina.
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1990
- Events of Sophie's World.
- 1991
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1992
- The Chamber of Secrets is re-opened. The monster within it attacks a ghost, a cat and four students. (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
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1993
- Sirius Black escapes from Azkaban.
- The Red Dwarf crew travel to this year in a backwards reality.
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1994
- The clan of Gargoyles awakens to find themselves in 20th Century New York.
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1994
- Voldemort regains his corporeal form after snatching Harry Potter from the Tri-Wizard tournament. Albus Dumbledore however is able to reform the Order of the Phoenix just moments after Voldemort summons his remaining Death Eaters back to him.
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1997
- Events of the Tim Dorsey novels Triggerfish Twist, Florida Roadkill and Hammerhead Ranch Motel . Serge Storms chases a suitcase with $5 million around Florida.
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1998
- Keitaro Urashima takes control of Hinata House (Love Hina).
- Serge Storms catches up with his suitcase (The Stingray Shuffle)
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1999
- Tyler Durden, along with Project Mayhem, blows up the headquarters of the world's largest credit agencies. (movie version of Fight Club)
- December 31 - Philip J. Fry is cryogenically frozen. (Futurama)
- December 31 - Robert MacDougal and Virginia Baker attempt to steal $8 billion electronically in Kuala Lumpur on the stroke of midnight (Entrapment)
21st Century
- 2002
- Events of Orange Crush
Notes
- Kilgore Trout has two birthdates in the two different novels in which he stars; 1909 in Breakfast of Champions; 1931 in Timequake. He also has two deathdates, 1981 and 2001. No explanation is offered.
External links
- List of timelines from across the web of things that never were
- Fictional encyclopedia wiki with a section for fictional history
- Wold Newton Universe Crossover Chronology - several entries on the Wikipedia fictional timeline are taken from the WNU Chronology