The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is an ongoing graphic novel series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill. The primary commentator on the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series (hereto after LoEG), is Jess Nevins, whose published works are considered the most complete annotations of all the various literary references made by this series. This timeline is composed of events that take place in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I (LGV1), Volume II (LGV2), The Black Dossier (BLKD), the first issue (of three) of Volume III: Century (CENT), as well as the side stories "Allan and the Sundered Veil" (ATSV), the events hinted at or briefly covered in the expansive work "The New Traveller's Almanac" (TNTA), and the first of the three part short story "Minions of the Moon" (MINM); all of these works written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O’Neill. However, ATSV, TNTA and MINM are text-based stories which take the form of a serialized, pulp-style "Boy's Story" (ATSV), a travel guide (TNTA) and a "new wave" science fiction story (MINM) respectively, with a few illustrations by Kevin O'Neill, rather than being in graphic novel form. All entries directly derived from these LoEG books will be so noted by footnotes, denoting exactly what volume, issue, page and (if applicable) panel the information comes from.
While this timeline concerns itself primarily with events which occur in the canon of LoEG directly, it also mention of several events which, while happening to characters contained in LoEG, are not directly shown in the pages of LoEG, but in the original works the characters were taken from; these entries shall be linked to their specific source material or otherwise noted in footnotes. Since LoEG is a crossover fiction, there are several events which the writer of LoEG will assume the reader already knows about the character, and these events can be considered canon. At some points, however, the fictional canon of LoEG comes into conflict with the worlds of the various fictional works used as components of the LoEG fiction. These places are clearly marked, but as a general rule, unless specifically noted, the events of the sampled fictional canon all are assumed to have happened as depicted in the original work, with the addition of being in a world in which the events of all the other fictional bodies have taken place as well.
Secondly, this timeline is written in ignorance of the events of all by the first issue of Century by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, the first issue having been released in 2009, the other two currently scheduled to be released in 2010 and 2011, respectively. Sufficient to say, there will be much needed addition and correction to this timeline with the continuing release of "Century."
Thirdly, this timeline heavily sites events from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Wherever Lemuel Gulliver is herein mentioned, and no note is made to site a specific reference in Moore's works, it is to be implied that this is in reference to the events this book.[1]
1260 BCE – Bio (later Orlando) born in Thebes as the daughter of Tiresias and his wife, and sister of Manto.[3]
1250 BCE – Bio, having inherited her father's gender changing curse, placed upon him by Hera, becomes a boy at age 10. Bio's father, Tiresias, in his shame over being reminded of his curse, sells Bio as an "exotic novelty" to slaver pirates.[4] The pirates, in turn, after a time, sell Bio to the Egyptian Pharaoh Ozymandias.[5]
1240 BCE – Upon reaching Punt, Bio again changes into a female, fleeing into the jungle from her male companions.[7] Wondering for weeks in the jungle, she discovers the "Pool of Fire and Life," bathes in it and becomes immortal and locates a graven map to Abyssinia, where she discovers a community of other immortals, though they are degenerated into troglodytic state.[8]
c. 1193 BCE – Bio (later Orlando), leaves the immortal troglodyte community and, now as a male named Bion, is sent to the Ilium by King Memnon to fight for the city against the Greeks.[10]
1184 BCE – Bion fights in the Trojan War, an effort by the Greek gods to cull their failed demigod hybrids from humanity[11], and is present at the fall of Troy, escaping it with Aeneas.[12] Slightly before this cataclysm, however, Orlando would later claim to have said "Oh look! What a wonderful horse!" and that he, in retrospect, regarded this to have been the stupidest thing he ever said.[13]
c. 1190 BCE – After six years of wondering, Bion, along with Aeneas and his family and followers, land in Carthage, where Aeneas has a brief but intense love affair with Queen Dido, on their way to Italy.[14]
c. 1110 BCE – After living with the family of Aeneas in Italy, including Aeneas's son Ascanius, Bion accompanies Brutus, Aeneas's grandson, who is banished from Italy after accidentally killing his father.[15]
1101 BCE – Bion is present when Brutus receaves a vision from Diana that he is to found a mighty island nation. After several months sailing they arrive at what will become known as the British Isles.[16]
1100 BCE – Bion (later Orlando) accompanies Brutus and his followers to the island which Brutus subsequently names "Brutain", after himself. The island, however, is inhabited by savage giants.[17]
1100 BCE-c. 1090 BCE – After some ten years of fighting the giants native to Brutain, they are driven almost to extinction. Corineus, Brutus's best wrestler and later founder of Cornwall, having previously taken the giant's chieftain, Gogmagog, prisoner at Totnes, throws him over a cliff during a wrestling match at a place which is thereafter known as Langoënagog (trans: "The Giants Leap") in modern day Plymouth.[18]
1000s BCE – At some point after Bion's arrival in 1100 BCE, he leaves Troy-Novatum, Brutus's new capital, for other lands.[19]
960 BCE – Bion (later Orlando), is now female again and in Cathay, is again using her female name, Bio. Serving as handmaiden to King Mu, she travelled to Mount K'un Lun where they encounter Lu Wo[20] the giant, human-headed tiger god who administrated the paradise of K'un Lun. Bio stays at K'un Lun as lover to Hsi Wang Mu for nearly 200 years.[21]
774 BCE – Bio (later Orlando), having left Mount K'un Lun, arrives in Italy.[22]
c. 745 BCE – Bio arrives shortly after the founding of Rome, now calling herself Vita. At some point around this time Vita becomes the lover of Romulus, co-founder of Rome, but accidentally slept with his twin brother Remus, spurring Romulus to kill his brother. Vita, becoming male soonthereafter, slips away unnoticed durring the furerary precession. Vita is now calling himself Vito.[23]
c. 329 BCE – Alexander and Vito have a bathysphere created that they might observe and sketch the liknesses of the various types of sea monsters plaguing Alexandria, and thereby create larger than life iron replicas to scare the real sea monsters away from the shore.[27] These iron monsters would later become tourist attractions.[28]
323 BCE – Alexander dies. Vito, soonthereafter becoming a woman again and resuming her female name, Vita, spends the next two hundred and fifty years or so reading through the Library of Alexandria.[29]
70 BCE – Vita (later Orlando), becomes male again, resumes his male name of "Vito," and returns to Rome just in time to whitness the end of the slave revolts of Spartacus.
44 BCE, October – Vito leaves Rome under the command of Marc Antony.[30]
31 BCE, September 2 – Vito present at the Battle of Actium, fighting for Antony's forces, and retreating with him back to Alexandria.[31]
30 BCE, August 1 – Vito, guarding Cleopatra during or after Antony's suicide, and during Cleopatra's suicide, escaping from Augustus's men while himself becoming a woman again. She will remain female, and, presumably, under the name Vita, for the remainder of the century.[32]
1 – Vita (later Orlando) is male again by this time, and, having resumed (assuming he called himself "Vita" during his previous thirty year stint as female) his male name Vito, is again fighting for Rome against the Teuton uprising in the province of Germania, probably under the command of then General Tiberius Claudius Nero as part of the XXth Legion.[33]
14, September 18 – Vito is present for the succession of his, austensibly, former commanding officer, Tiberius, to the Empery of Rome. Of him, Orlando later writes that he was "slimy" and "child-molesting"[34].
30 – The young Caligula is at this time only 18 years old, and prisoner in all but name of the Emperor Tiberius. This year of particular note because Orlando later writes that this was the year Caligula succeeded Tiberius. This means that either the history of this event is wrong, Orlando haveing austensibly been there, and thereby being a first hand account, or something important involving Caligula and Vito happened this year to make it stick out in Orlando's memory. Or perhaps the number 30 sticks in Orlando's memory because this is how many times Caligula was stabbed during his assassination.[34]
37, March 16 – Vito is present for the succession of Caligula to the Empery of Rome. Of him, Orlando later writes that he was "ruthless... although undeniably sane"[34].
41, January 24 – Vito is still in the service of the Roman army, we assume, when Claudius becomes Emperor of Rome. Orlando later writes that he was "stuttering" and "skulking"[35].
79, August 24 – During the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Vito, stationed at Naples, accompanies Pliny the Elder on his rescue mission to Pompeii. Vito stays aboard the ship, thereby surviving.[39]
100s, Early to Mid – Vito (later Orlando) has become apprenticed to Alexander of Abonoteichus, the snake cultist. Orlando later claims Alexander was a "charlatan"[39].
150 – By this point Vito has become female again, resuming her female name "Vita," and is unfavourably propositioned by her teacher Alexander of Abonoteichus, who at this time has nearly reached the height of his fame. In spite, Vita defects to Alexander's rival, the philosopher and satirist Lucian of Samosata, becoming his student instead. Some time after this, on an expedition through the Pillars of Hercules, their ship, being lifted into the sky by a large waterspout, carries Vita and Lucian to the moon.[40] Presumably, Vita returns to Earth with the rest of the expedition which then encounters a large leviathan.
363 – During the short reign of the Emperor Julian the Empire began to reassert its Pagan heritage from christianity. By 363, the year of Julian's death, Britain is declared, officially, a Pagan nation. Orlando, having studied under such tutors as Alexander of Abonoteichus and Lucian of Samosata, under the name Vita, both strong critics of (and strongly criticized by) Christianity, later recalls that this "greatly cheered" her.[40] It is also at this time that Merlin, presumably, is born. Some time around 363 Vita returns to Britain, claiming it greatly improved since both the Roman Invasion and Julian's religious reforms.[41]
376 – At this time in Britain, Vita (later Orlando), is seduced by thirteen-year-old Merlin, whom she refers to as Ambrosius Merlinus.[41]
410 – Rome rapidly begins to collapse, and in 410 pulls out of Britain.[42]
c. 420s-430s – Uther Pendragon, in this power vacuum left by the withdraw of Rome, becomes King of Britain, his power centered in Cornwall. Orlando later refers to it as "Uther's Cornish kingdom"[42], she, at the time known as Vita, having been present in Britain at the time as companion of Merlin.
c. 449-468 – The Arthurian Era, or Camelot period, of Britain, during which, at some point, Vita becomes male again, resuming his male name of Vito. As Orlando, he later recalls Camelot was "quite as wonderful as is supposed"[43].
468 – Vito is present at the Battle of Camlann on Salisbury Plain, where Arturus is mortally wounded by Mordred[43], his magic scabbard, which magically heals bleeding wounds, having been stolen by Morgana who cast it into a lake. On his deathbed, Arturus bids Sir Bedivere to return Excalibur, his magic sword, to the Lady of the Lake from whence it came. Vito fights the Lady of the Lake, whom he later claims (as Orlando) was "a terrifying undine"[44], in order to steal the sword back for himself, renaming it "Durendal." Vito flees Britain, Camelot having been overthrown by Morgana.[45]
490 – A sword for hire in Denmark, Vito takes a contract from King Hrothgar to resolve his monster problem. Later, as Orlando, he would imply that he faced the monster, Grendel, first, but it was Beowulf who killed Grendel, in just the manner the poem claims.[46]
500 – Vito becomes companion to the dragon slayer Siegfried, and has his first encounters with ethereal realms.[47]
568-571 – Back on Earth, Ragnarok is mirrored in our dimension by a large meteorite impact that causes a three year period of cold and darkness, prophesied to accompany Ragnarok, and called Fimbul Winter. At this time, Vito makes for France.[49]
c. 768-770 – At a feast held by Charlemagne, to which both Christian and Pagan dignitaries have been invited, Roland, along with other knights, including Rinaldo, falls in love with Angelica, pagan princess of Albraca in Cathay. There is much violence surrounding the suitors of Angelica.[51] At Angelica’s flight from Lutetia (much later known as Paris)[52], Roland sets out to quest for her love, at various times having adventures in eastern Europe, Tartary, India and Cathay, rampaging through Europe and Africa mad with unrequited love and eventually having his sanity restored by sorcery. All this while, Charlemagne, abandoned by Roland, is under siege in Lutetia, the siege being lifted upon Roland’s return.[53]
770-778 – Charlemagne wages a seven year war against the Saracens. In a final thrust into Spain (777-778) Charlemagne’s forces subjugate many Saracen cities, only to be ambushed on the return trip to France through Roncevaux Pass in the Pyrenees, the covering forces for Charlemagne’s army fighting to the last man, which happens to be Roland, who is then, out of their admiration for his fighting prowess, asked by the Saracens to join them. Roland accepts, though he is believed dead by the rest of Christendom at this time.[54]
c. 779 – Roland, having his name mispronounced by the Saracens as "Orlando," becomes the lover of Sindbad the Sailor.[55][56] Orlando later will claim Sindbad's name was pronounced "Sinned-Bad"[57], that he was very well endowed[58] and that he was "the most ingenious theif of the eighth century."[59]
c. 808 – Orlando and Sindbad, having spent nearly thirty years together as lovers and partners, are separated when Sindbad leaves on his 8th Legendary Voyage, upon which, for some reason, Orlando does not accompany Sindbad and from which Sindbad never returns. Orlando sulks, miserable, in Bagdad for decades.[61]
847 – Orlando accompanies Caliph Vathek to the catacombs beneath Ishtakar, in the valley of Fakreddin, where the Caliph makes a deal with Eblis and is beset by demons who set his heart ablaze, perpetually, with hellfire for being allowed to view hell’s treasure. Orlando later comments that the treasure was less than impressive.[62]
c. 1099 – Orlando joins the Crusaders upon their arrival in the Holy Land, joining their side out of admiration of their outfits - these outfits are ostensibly those of the Knights Templar, which he may have joined at this time.[63]
1147-1149 – Orlando, very likely, takes part in the Second Crusade, fighting on the side of the crusaders. This may be the time when Orlando meets Prester John.[63]
c. 1540 – Orlando's tutor, Dr. Faust, in the occult becomes embroiled in contract disputes with his patron Mephistopheles, so Orlando travels with the Doctor's newest would-be student, a thirteen year old Prospero, back to the younger man's home in Milan, ostensibly becoming the young nobleman's tutor.[71]
1593, May 30 – In London, after a day of heavy drinking at the establishment of Ma Bull, Christopher Marlow, and his entourage, are working on a scene in the garden which degenerates into a fracas in which Marlow is accidentally stabbed in the eye by Andrew Norton, the time travelling "Prisoner of London," with a sharp stick.[76] The contemporary historical record of the Glorianian Era remembers Mr. Norton as "a strangely attired... Master Nortonne"[77].
1600[78] – Doll Common having recently died, Prospero, in mourning, takes his daughter, Miranda, and his immediate retinue to an enchanted island. Orlando and Queen Gloriana (if Orlando's later biographer, Virginia Wolfe, writing of the immortal nearly 320 years later, is to be believed) become lovers for a short while at about this time, and Orlando becomes engrossed in poetry and the arts[79] (possibly out of boredom waiting for Prospero to return to England).
1610 – The events of The Tempest take place about this time. Prospero returns to England to form Gloriana's "League."[81] Who the earliest members consist of (besides Prospero, Caliban, Ariel, and, possibly, Orlando) is unclear. It is possible that their handler is Sir Basildon Bond.[82]
1649 – King Charles I is beheaded by parliament. Beginning of the English Commonwealth. There is no information yet given as to the activities of Prospero's Men in regards to this development.
1653 – End of the English Commonwealth, beginning of the English Protectorate. There is no information yet given as to the events of Prospero's Men in regards to this development.
1659 – The English Commonwealth is reinstated. There is no information yet given as to the activities of Prospero's Men in regards to this development.
1670s, Early – Captain Robert Owemuch, president of the Insolvency Society, probably for reasons of avoiding his creditors, makes many long, far-flung voyages with his three ships, the Excuse, the Pay-Naught, and the Least-in-Sight, including a survey of islands off North America's east coast.[88]
1673 – Captain Robert Owemuch discovers "the great national embarrassment" of Scoti Moria, also called Summer Island or the Floating Island, in the English Channel (sometimes to be found in the Thames-Isis Gulf, other times near France), inhabited by the lazy, chain-smoking, perpetually ninepins playing race called Naiads.[89] One such Naiad, named Lebowski, joins Owemuch's crew, later settling in California on one of Owemuch's American journeys.[90] Captain Owemuch may have joined Prospero's Men at about this time.[85]
1677 – Lemuel Gulliver bound in apprenticeship to Mr. James Bates, whom he shall study under for four years in London.
1678 – Travelling from the "City of Destruction," a location in an apparently ethereal, "symbolic realm," Christian, the Everyman Journeyman, arrives in the town of "Vanity Fair" in which he turns down an alleyway and "steps into the streets of London."[87] Seemingly trapped in our more material, unfamiliar realm, he is confined to a madhouse, possibly Bedlam, from which he is later rescued by Prospero and Orlando and Co.[81] Unable to return to his realm, or his quest for that realm's "Shining City," he joins Prospero's Men in the hopes that Prospero, seemingly "diabolic" to Christian, may be his only hope of again crossing the dimensional gulf.[87]
1679 – Construction of Montagu House in Bloomsbury, London, future headquarters (in its various architectural incarnations) of the League in its incarnations as "Gulliver's Fellowship" and the first and second "Murray Groups," is completed. There is no information yet given as to the activities of Prospero's Men in regards to this development.
1683, Early January – Prospero's Men, including Captain Owemuch, briefly stop at Ransom Island[92] just before reaching The Blazing World. Whether or not they reached the island via one of the three ships of Captain Owemuch is unclear, their ship is only referred to as a "hired trawler."[87]
1683, Mid to Late January – They reach The Blazing World whereupon Christian departs into The Blazing World.[87]
1684 – Lemuel Gulliver becomes ship’s surgeon aboard the Swallow, under a Captain Abraham Pannel, for three and a half years, making two voyages to the Levant and "and some other parts."[93]
1688 – Lemuel Gulliver, MD, sets up medical practice in London and marries Mary Burton, second daughter to a Mr. Edmund Burton.
1690 – Master Bates, Lemuel Gulliver's former tutor, dies. Gulliver sets to sea again.
1701, Early November – Sailing aboard the Antelope, Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked on the islands of Lilliput and Blefuscu, and becomes entangled in their political affairs and war with each other.
1701, September 24 – Gulliver departs Blefescu, using one of their largest warships as a dingy, and is picked up two days later by an Englishmerchantman. Gulliver takes some Lilliputian livestock[96][97][98] and people[98] with him back to England.
1702, April 13 – Gulliver returns to England on the merchantman.
1702, June 20 – Gulliver again departs England on the Adventure, bound for Surat, India.
1703, June 17 – Gulliver, sailing aboard the Adventure, puts to shore on the peninsula of Brobdingnag, sighted June 16, for water. Gulliver left ashore when the island was found to contain a civilization of giants – one such giant shortly thereafter captures him.
1702, August 17 – Gulliver is taken to Capital City of Brobdingnag, arriving on October 26.
1705, c. October – Gulliver escapes, via a large bird, sometime around October, from Brobdingnag. Found floating in a box at sea, sailors take him home to England.
1706 – Gulliver arrives in England only to depart again in August.
1709 – Gulliver arrives in Luggnag (also Lugnag and Luggnagg) April 21. Some time later, Gulliver’s ship is attacked at sea by pirates, and he is marooned, yet again – this time on a tiny rocky islet. Fortunately, however, the flying island of Laputa rescues him and took him to Balnibarbi to await a Dutch trader ship bound for Zipang[99] (Japan). In May he leaves on the ship for Zipang.
1710, April 10 – Gulliver returns from Zipang and lands in Amsterdam, arriving in England about a week later.
1710, September – Gulliver sets off again to sea, this time as Captain of the Adventure.
1711 – Crew of Adventure mutinies and maroons Gulliver on the shores of Houyhnhnm-Land, which is inhabited by the horrific Yahoo and the magnificent and noble Horses known as Houyhnhnm. Gulliver is, subsequent to his rescue from the wretched Yahoos by a Houyhnhnm, kept in many ways as a pet or student by his rescuer and rescuer's wife.
1715 – Gulliver leaves his beloved Master and Lady Houyhnhnm in a raft and departs for Europe on February 15. Arrives in Lisbon, Portugal, November 5.
1721 – Lemuel Gulliver would later claim that he discovered Vichenbok Land[100] in 1721.[57]
1727, April 2 – At the urging of his Cousin Sympson, Captain Lemuel Gulliver officially publishes some account of his adventures at sea and about the distant lands to which he’s travelled.
1740 – Associate of Lemuel Gulliver, Sir Charles Smith, shipwrecked on an island off the coast of South Africa he dubs New Britain. (Mémoires de Sir George Wollap by Pierre Chevalier Dupessis and The New Traveller’s Almanac by Alan Moore)
1743 – It is around this time, when she is 15, that Fanny Hill’s parents die, and she is brought to London to begins her life in brothels.
1749 – John Cleland, in debtor's prison, corresponds with Miss Fanny Hill, and publishes a confessional-autobiography of her life[101] in order to pay for his freedom.
1754 – Fanny Hill, at this point 26 years old, encounters, in Bristol while staying at the Admiral Benbow Inn, Lemuel Gulliver for the first time, and shares a brief romantic liaison with him.[98] Soon after, she also encounters future League member Captain Clegg.[102]
1791 – Sir Percy Blankeney forms the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel in August, an organization dedicated to rescuing innocent French nobles out of France to avoid the Guillotine. In November of this year Lady Marguerite St. Just and Sir Percy Blankeney marry.
1793 – Monsieur L'Epouvantail, alias Doctor Syn, alias The Scarecrow, alias Captain Clegg, and the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel both are active in rescuing innocent French nobles from the Reign of Terror, smuggling them to England. These activities are probably what bring the Blankeneys and Doctor Syn into each other's acquaintance. Imposing themselves upon Queen Venus of Horselberg, the Gulliver's Fellowship meet the young, comely Miss Fanny Hill, a resident of timeless Horselberg since 1754. Miss Hill leaves with the the Fellowship, at this time consisting of Captain Lemuel Gulliver, the Reverend Dr. Christopher Syn (in the guise of Captain Clegg), Nathaniel Bumppo, the young married couple Sir Percy and Lady Marguerite Blankeney, when they depart Horselberg.
1794 – Captain Clegg officially declared dead by British officials, along with the publication of rather sensationalist (though not entirely true) material concerning the captain's demise. At this time, in actuality, the Fellowship is off to the Pacific Ocean, via Drake's Passage. While travelling through the area between South American and Antarctica, they encounter, briefly, Megapatagonia[105] before entering the Pacific. The Fellowship, now with its new member the immortal Orlando, take part in the Giant War upon the peninsula of Brobdingnag, on the coast of California.
1795 – The Fellowship returns to Europe, Sir Percy and co. become involved in the events of the French White Terror.
1796 – Returned to England, the Fellowship makes inquiries within the subterranian realms[106] of northern England. At about this time, a portrait is drawn of the Fellowship, backdated to 1787, the probable year of the Fellowship's founding, though the membership was not the same at that time.
c. 1797-1799 – Gulliver and co. set out on one last adventure in the South Seas, travelling through Austrailasia and up into Zipang, travelling down into the Indian Ocean and spending some time on Feather Island[107].
1799 – Lemuel Gulliver dies. The remaining members of the Fellowship, according to Captain Gulliver's last wishes, burry him on Lilliput.
c. 1849 – Count Allamistakeo, an Egyption nobleman, is awakened in America as a result of an experiment using electricity. Sometime after this, Count Allamistakeo goes to sleep again after having his portrait done; in 1898, we see both his sleeping form and his portrait in the British Museum.[96]
1857-1858 – Prince Dakkar (later known as Captain Nemo) takes part in the The Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. Nemo later relates to Miss Wilhelmina Murray that he considered himself to never had surrendered like the Indian rebels did in 1858.[109]
1865, c. June-October – At Oxford, England, the River Thames, "somewhere between Godstow and Folly Bridge," the elder sister of one Miss A. L. awakens to discover her younger sibling gone without trace and presumably abducted. Later, in mid-October of the same year, Miss A. L. is found in the same meadow she vanished from about four months earlier.[110]
1871 – Jack Harkaway, an orphan, carves out a niche for himself at the Pomona House School with his fists and his wits and plays vicious pranks on the faculty.[112]
1871 – Six years after her presumed abduction, Miss A. L., during a family visit to the Deanery of Christ Church, Oxford, passes through a looking glass in the Deanery and into the same "contra-rational" world she spoke of six years ago. Upon returning, a mere seven minutes later, she became ill. The disorder prevented her from eating and weakened her until death in late November.[113][114]
1874 – Jack Harkaway and his friends set out to see on the ship Fairy and begin an adventure around the world fighting pirates and brigands.[116]
1876 – Dr. Eric Bellman leads the "Bellman Expedition" to the "peculiar hole" located "perhaps a mile from Godstow." On April 23 the group ventured into the "well-like space" whereupon the expedition members vanished along with the hole. Their party reappeared in October, completely insane, minus one member and one member strangely, and fatally, transmogrified.[117]
1880 to 1930 – William Sampson Sr. and William Sampson Jr. record/report sites around Ardistan, which shares boreders with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Persia.[119]
1885, January to June 21 – William Sampson Senior participates in the fight against the Muhammad Ahmad, the self-proclaimed Mahdi, called the "Mad Mahdi" by the English at the time, in North Africa.[122]
1886[123] – The murderous events surrounding the activities of Doctor Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde necessitate the pair's flight from England to France, where they will stay for the next dozen years or so. Jean Robur kidnaps the lighter-than-air lobbyists of the Weldon Institute of Aeronautics and takes them around the world on a five week tour aboard his heavier-than-air airship the Albatross, only to be sabotaged by them during their escape.
c. 1886-1887 – Harry Quatermain, Allan Quatermain's only son, dies, spurring Allan Quatermain and company to return to Africa for another adventure. Allan Quatermain fakes his own death in order to escape the world.[124][125]
1889[125] – Allan Quatermain returns to England to seek Lady Ragnall and her supply of the "taduki" drug which has the power to send you to another life in another time, to which he has become addicted. This precipitates the adventure of Allan and the Sundered Veil, which, ultimately, leave him with vague prognaticative visions of the future.
1890 – Basil Hallward's portrait of Dorian Gray, having deteriorated somewhat over the years, has miraculously reconstituted itself at the same time as Dorian Gray himself dies and becomes disfigured. The painting hereafter begins to decay again until some time before mid-1898 when it is brought to the British Museum for restoration[126].
1894[132] – The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes returns to England, though secretly (probably under an assumed name), and will remain so until 1903 when Doctor John Watson begins publishing his account of the Great Detective’s cases again. Though, in Dr. Watson’s later accounts of the cases between 1894 and 1903 he will skew the facts slightly to the effect of making it appear that the Great Detective’s return was known – this annoying anachronism may have been the choice of Dr. Watson’s editor and Literary Agent, Arthur Conan Doyle.Captain Nemo makes extensive explorations of Antarctica, circumnavigating the continent and making extensive explorations of the interior[133].
1895 – The man later known as the Time Traveller finishes his fantastic time machine and begins his temporal adventures[134]. For the purposes of this time-line, however, these anachronistic travels appear in the order they would appear on the timeline proper, not in the order the Time Traveller perceived them.Professor Selwyn Cavor writes the British Minister of Scientific Progress of the imperative of beating the French to the moon[135].
1897, August-November 3 – Wilhelmina Murray, later Wilhelmina Harker through marriage, fights Count Dracula in England and across Europe in a battle for her very soul.
c. 1898, January-May – Captain Kettle transports Miss Murray to Lincoln Island where she manages to recruit Captain Nemo into the League. She returns to England aboard the Nautilus
1898, April 14 – The Titan, a British passenger liner, strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks around midnight.
1898, Early-Mid June – Wilhelmina Murray and Captain Nemo arrive in Cairo, Egypt, where they, with some minor difficulty, recruit and detoxify Allan Quatermain, who has become a pathetic opium addict in his later years.[141]
1898, Early July[143] – A unified coalition of Martian armies under the command of John Carter, of Virginia, and Gullivar Jones, of the United States Navy, make one final attack on the last stronghold of the alien creatures which have plagued Mars for some time, creatures they call the Molluscs. The siege is successful only by using the combined strength of all the significant armies of Mars, including the giantish Sorns. Unfortunately, the Molluscs manage to escape in several cylinder shaped refugee ships bound for Earth. The launch of these craft are seen on Earth, and believed to be volcanic eruptions (as reported in a newspaper seen in LoEG Vol. 1 on about July 6, 1898).[144]
Mission
(Jul. 3–Aug. 4, 1898)
Objectives
Retrieve Cavorite
Save London
Enemies
Fu Manchu
Prof. James Moriarty
Status
Success
MIA
Prof. James Moriarty
Mission
(Aug. 4-9, 1898)
Objectives
Defeat Martians
Save England
Enemies
Martians
Status
Success
KIA
Hawley Griffin
Dr. Henry Jekyll
Edward Hyde
Resigned
Captain Nemo
1898, July 3[145] – Wilhelmina Murray, Allan Quatermain, and Nemo arrive in Edmonton, London, at Miss Rosa Coote's Correctional Academy for Wayward Gentlewomen, where they capture Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man, who has been raping the schoolgirls of the academy and produced at least three illegitimate children.
1898, July 5[146] – The three official League members arrive at what will become their base of operation, the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London, where they officially induct Hyde, Jekyll, and Hawley Griffin into their League.
1898, c. July 6-August[147]4 – The League make inquiries as to the location of the Devil Doctor, the "Lord of Limehouse" in London, reconnoitring back at the Nautilus (which has dropped anchor in the Thames River in Wapping, London) that evening, which has become their lodging in London. Through infiltration, sabotage, subterfuge, suspicion, quick thinking, and violence the League manage to survive the first London "Air War," which is waged between London's leading criminal factions: Professor James Moriarty controlling London’s West End and the Devil Doctor controlling London's East End. Both faction leaders are presumed dead. Mycroft Holmes assumes control of British Intelligence
1898, August 5 – The Molluscs, falsely called Martians by the public of Earth, land in Horsell, in the South of England, in the early morning. The League, under Wilhelmina Murray, is dispatched to investigate, and witness the onset of "Martian" aggression.
1898, Saturday[148], August 6 – British artillery and infantry regiments guarding the Horsell Commons crater are vaporized by "Martian" heat rays. Murray Group pull back to London and their British Museum base. Map with British Artillery positions stolen.
1898, Sunday, August 7[149] – The War of the Worlds has reached just south of London, where Captain Nemo and Mr. Hyde, in the Nautilus take part in fighting along the locks connecting to the River Thames, defending London from its inevitable siege. Meanwhile Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain arrive in Wildwood[150], in England's South Downs, to seek out a secret British research installation run by the eccentric scientist Dr. Alphonse Moreau.
1898, Monday, August 8 - "Martians" clog the Thames with red weed[151]. Allan Quatermain and Wilhelmina Murray found copulating in the woods by Rupert the Bear[152]. Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man, answers for his crimes against England and Humanity with his life. Murray and Quatermain have meeting with Dr. Alphonse Moreau and his Animen.[153]
1898, August 9 – Final victory over the "Martians" in the Battle of South London. Citing moral issues, Captain Nemo resigns from the League and returns to his family on Lincoln Island. Edward Hyde turns the tide of the battle, but does not survive to see final victory. Martians die of the "common cold."[154]
1898, September 30"[156] – Wilhelmina Murray’s League officially dissolved.
Mission
(Jul. - Sep. 7, 1899)
Objectives
Investigate Arkham Manifestations
Enemies
The Unnameable
Status
Unclear
Mission
(c. Sep. 1899-Aug. 1900)
Objectives
Investigate Avondale Phalanstery
Status
Unclear
1898, c. October 2 through 1899, July – Wilhelmina spends some months in the matriarchal settlement of Coradine, in Scotland, in order to recuperate from the "Martian" invasion.
1899, July 7 - Wilhelmina, in response to a letter from Quatermain, writes that a visit from him to Coradine would not only be permissible, but, to Mina, very welcome, as she has become quite bored with the women of the all female community.[157]
1899, c. July-September 7 – Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain, once again in the employ of British Intelligence, are sent to Massachusetts to investigate the bizarre and dreamlike apparitions reportedly seen there. The two of them make acquaintance with Randolph Carter, who has been researching the realm of dreams, and has been investigating along similar lines.[158]
1899, September 8 – Allan Quatermain writes to Campion Bond that they are returning to England from Massachusetts.[157]
1899, Late – Serpentine Park renamed Hyde Park after the events of 1898[159], and a statue of Edward Hyde, by Jacob Epstein[160], erected in Hyde’s honour. Allan Quatermain and Wilhelmina Murray return to England from America and begin the investigation of the United AvondalePhalanstery. The investigation occupies them until Mid-August of 1900[161].
1900, Mid-August[161] – Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain go on assignment to Africa in search of the City of Kôr and the Pool of Fire and Life, which grants youth and immortality. On the sea trip to Africa, Wilhelmina records several interesting, though previously explored, islands that the ship passes.
Investigate Dimensional Weak Points in British Isles
Status
Unclear
1901, January 8 – Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain trek southeast from the Kingdom of Fantippo, in Africa, to Uganda and the hidden city of Kôr, passing several interesting kingdoms and lands as they go, and finding the Fire of Life as well as a "stone etched map of Abyssinia... by the crater pool."[163]
1901 – The difficulties encountered in the effort to rebuild London after the Martian Invasion of 1898, and also the strain of returning to full military strength, is cited as one of the primary reasons England loses the Boer War. The Airship Wars[164] break out between the German Empire and the United States, and quickly spreads throughout Europe – devastating London and other major cities. The English lunar expedition, delayed in 1898 from its original goal of reaching the moon by November 1900[135], succeeds travelling to and annexing the moon. Swelyn Cavor does not survive the journey, and a monument is dedicated to him in St. James Park[165]. Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain find Kôr in Africa and bathe in the Pool of Fire and Life, making both of them immortal and rejuvenating Allan to a younger age. To conceal his mystical age change and prevent British Intelligence from finding out about the fire's regenerative abilities, they claim nothing had happened and Allan died of exposure later on, claiming the rejuvenated hunter to be his son, Allan Quatermain, Jr.[163]. Rumors of Sherlock Holmes's continued existence circulate, though nothing is at this time substantiated[166]. The beginning of the crime spree of the super-criminal known as Fantômas. Fantômas will continue to plague authorities for at least the next four decades.
1901, July[161] – Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain, Junior, return to England.[166]
1901, Late[166] – Mina visits the Dr. Reverend Eric Bellman[161], the last survivor of the Bellman Expedition, and obtains a map to Snark Island for British Intelligence.[91] Wilhelmina also makes inquiries reguarding Winton Pond[167] and its small island of East Anglia[167].[91]
1902 – Sherlock Holmes publicly announces his survival of the events of 1894.[166] Allan Quatermain Junior, and Wilhelmina Murray travel to Ireland[166][161] as part of their two-year investigation of dimensional weak points throughout the British Islands.
1902, February - In May 1898 this was the projected complesian date of the Channel Causeway, stretching from the Cliffs of Dover to France.[168]
1905 – Doctor Omega and colleagues travel to Mars and bring back the Martian Tiziraou, a dwarfish, pumpkin-headed creature with tentacle-like arms.[172] Tiziraou is later spotted in the Paris sewers.[120] Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain Jr.'s investigation of strange phenomenon around the British Isles comes to a close.[161]
1906, March[161]-September – Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain, Junior, are deployed to Asia, with primary emphasis on strengthening diplomatic relations between Russia and England for the upcoming Anglo-Russian Convention.[166] The two research many interesting lands throughout China, Persia and Russia. Notably, the city of Shangri-La in Tibet.[173]
1906, September 5[169] – Wilhelmina Murray writes a letter to Longdon from Shangri-La reporting that she and Allan Jr. have met Orlando and that the three of them are heading toward Moscow, and that they should arrive there before the end of the year.
? - 2nd Murray Group - ?
(1906-1945)
Leader
Wilhelmina Murray
Roster
Allan Quatermain, Jr.
Orlando
Thomas Carnaki (1910)
A.J. Raffles (1910)
Handler
Campion Bond
Unknown (1908)
M
Mycroft Holmes
Associates
Prof. George Edward Challenger
Andrew Norton
Pirate Jenny
Engelbrecht
Mission
(c. Nov. 1906-Apr. 1907)
Objectives
Trans-Arctic Expedition
Status
Success
1906, Late – Second Murray League is ordered to leave Moscow for the port of Tiksi, and thereby return to England via a trans-polar investigation through the Arctic Ocean.[174]
1906, December 25 – Second Murray League are still travelling by coach to Tiksi at this time.[174]
1906, December 27 – Second Murray League depart Tiksi aboard the rented ice-breaker The Joseph, under the captainship of Rudolf Svejk, bound for the Chukchi Sea.[174]
1906, December 28 – Second Murray League, Wilhelmina Murray, Allan Junior and Orlando, arrive in the Chukchi Sea and pass by Elisee Reclus Island[175].[174]
1906, December c. 30 – Second Murray League turn northwest and pass by Vichenbolk Land[100].[57]
1907, January 1 – Second Murray League have encounter with two giant, cultured, dinosaurian inhabitants from the subterranean North Pole Kingdom[176].[57]
1907, January 2-3 – Second Murray League discovers the Polar Bear Kingdom[177]. After spending some time with these talking Bears, they head east toward Norway’s Svalbard islands.[57]
1907, January 4-6 – Second Murray League sails past Gaster's Island[178], and enters the Sea of Frozen Words[178], and sailed past Queen Island[179][57], Thule, and Hyperborea[180].
1907, January 7 – Second Murray League's ice breaker The Joseph finds itself unable to sail farther north, due to heavy ice.[57]
1907, January 8 to March 19, or thereabouts – Second Murray League heads out on foot into the Back of the North Wind, freakishly warm for being so far north. This group spends what, subjectively, seems like three days, but is actually closer to three months, in the Back of the North Wind, and encounter such peoples and places as Frankenstein's Creature, Olympia, Toyland, a "forlorn and sorry chap" who lacks identification, and Noddy, and are made aware of a "bold, fearless black balloonist," before leaving.[57]
1907, March 10 – Wilhelmina posts a letter to England reporting that they are the guests of Queen Olympia in Toyland.[169]
1907, March 25 – Second Murray League arrives in the Blazing Worlds Archipelago, on their way back to the British Isles.[181]
1907, April[161] – Murray, Quatermain and Orlando return to Great Britain.
1908 – Mr. Campion Bond publishes his memoirs, Memoirs of an English Intelligencer.[182] First reports of a mysterious French hero known as the Nyctalope[183]
1908, April – The Channel Causeway, a bridge between the Dover Cliffs and France, is completed.[77]
Die Zwielicht-Helden
(1909-c. 1930s)
Leader
Dr. Mabuse
Roster
Dr. Caligari
Dr. Rotwang
die Maschinenmensch
Caesar
Handler
Joh Fredersen?
Allegiance
German Empire
c. 1909 – It is sometime this year, British Intelligence speculates, that the League clone "Die Zwielichthelden" was formed. It's members, based in Berlin's Metropolis include the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse, the homicidal mesmerist Dr. Caligari, engineer Dr. Rotwang and his female automaton, the Maschinenmensch.[184] The first reports of a mysterious French "supernatural detective" calling himself the "Sâr Dubnotal"[185]. The Second Murray Group is completed with the additions of Thomas Carnacki and Arthur James Raffles.
c. 1910 – Doctors Caligari and Mabuse, members of the German counterpart League, "Die Zweilicht-Helden," begin their campaign of misinformation against the English and French intelligence communities. Their goal is to embroil the two in conflict, leaving themselves (and Germany) free to further their ambitions without outside interference. This sets the stage for a future confrontation between the English and French leagues.[186]
Mission
(1910)
Objectives
Safeguard Coronation
Save London
Enemies
Oliver Haddo
Jack MacHeath
Status
Unclear
1910[187], February 24[188] – The daughter of Captain Nemo, Janni, stows away aboard a passing ship, running away from her father and her home on Lincoln Island in defiance of her dying father's wish that she become his successor.
1910, c. April 2[189] – The Second Murray Group, acting on the vissionary dreams of its member Thomas Carnaki, begin investigations into a secret doomsday cult somewhere in London. Janni, now styling herself Jenny Diver, arrives in London. Jack MacHeath returns to London after a near twenty-two year absence. In his bed on Lincoln Island, Captain Nemo (Prince Dakkar) dies.[111]
1910, April 20-21[190] – Passing through 1910 on his way to 1969, Andrew Norton, the time travelling "Prisoner of London"[36], is encountered by Mina Murray and Raffles at King's Cross[191]. Allan Quatermain Junior, Orlando and Carnaki break into Oliver Haddo's "Profess-House." The pirates of the Black Nautilus raid the London docks and "Pirate Jenny" leaves with them as their captain.
1911[91] – The Caswell family fights the ancient entity the "White Worm," existent beneath their ancestral home of Castra Regis in Staffordshire.
1911, Mid – Les Hommes Mysterieux assembled in response to reports of the activities of England and Germany's extraordinary teams.[184]
1912 – Professor George Edward Challenger, sometime consultant to the League, makes a return expedition to South America, where he explores Maple White Land, where there be dinosaurs.[160] The Second Murray League visits Launcelot's tomb in Northumberland, for reasons that remain unexplained, before returning to London. Thereafter, Allan Junior and Mina travel across Europe on holiday, briefly investigating the Castle Dracula and Selene[194] before arriving at the destination, Evarchia, on the coast of the Black Sea. Meanwhile, in London, Thomas Carnacki encounters a spirit that gives him precognitive visions, portending the League's clash with Les Hommes Mysterieux in Paris and the onset of World War I. British Intelligence, swayed by artful propaganda disseminated by Die Zweilicht-Helden, supposes that France plans to provoke a world war with their Hommes Mysterieux.[195]
Mission
(1913)
Objectives
Defeat Les Hommes Mysterieux
Enemies
Les Hommes Mysterieux
Status
Unclear
Mission
(1913)
Objectives
Defeat the Murray Group
Enemies
The Murray Group
Status
Unclear
1913, Early – The Second Murray League, consisting of Wilhelmina Murray, Allan Quatermain, Junior, Orlando, and A. J. Raffles travel to France, possibly via the agrarian republic of Calejava[196][84] on the Bay of Biscay. They intend to confront Les Hommes Mysterieux and thus prevent the horrific visions of world war seen by Carnacki, who remains in Britain, laid low by fever.[195]
1913, February 23 – The Second Murray Group's first attempt to confront Les Hommes Mysterieux ends in disaster when their balloon assault on Jean Robur's airship is halted more than a half-mile distant by his airborne artillery.[195]
1913, March 14 – Murray's League, having made their way to Paris after surviving their crash-landing in rural France, are lured to the Paris Opera by Les Hommes Mysterieux. The league's skirmish ends indecisively when the terrorist mastermind Fantômas remotely detonates a large cache of explosives sequestered in the former lair of the Phantom of the Opera, collapsing a portion of the above opera house. Though the explosion and subsequent collapse cause some 200 casualties, Orlando and Allan Junior survive and begin assisting digging out bodies; Raffles and Mina, who were under the Opera House at the time, remain missing. Most of the french League's whereabouts remains unclear.[197]
1913, March 15-17 – Wilhelmina Murray and Arthur Raffles are lost in the caverns below Paris, encountering the Graveyard of Unwritten Books and the Land of the Fattipuffs. Returning to the surface on the 17th.[198]
1913, August 11 – Orlando posts a letter to Carnaki that they are returning home after the events at the Paris Opera.[169]
1914, August 2 – Notorious German spy-ring uncovered. Mr. Altamont disappears, last being seen driving down a dark country road in the company of Dr. John Watson.
1925, March 23 – The crew of the schooner Emma, aboard the yacht Alert, commandeered from pirates, land on a small island raised from the sea off the coast of New Zealand, containing the city of R'lyeh. (One Survivor).[200]
1926 – R'lyeh is discovered by British authorities.[2] The workers' riots in the Berlin Metropolis[184] take place, Professor C.A. Rotwang and his Maschinenmensch are the believed instigators, both possibly dying in the conflagration.
1928[201] – In one of the League's few documented appearances in the 1930s/late 1920s, Mina Murray, Allan Quartermain, Orlando, and Thomas Carnacki travel to Brinkley Court, Worcestershire, to put down a dangerous reformed cult. They are summoned by Jeeves, who was present with his master, Bertie Wooster. Jeeves was alerted to the presence of the cult when his master informed him the groundskeeper, Peabody, spoke at great lengths regarding the great "Cool Lulu", the reservation of "Riley", and the city of Yuggoth, which Wooster supposed was in Massachusetts. A body of an Elder Thing is later recovered from the scene, buried in the garden.[202]
1930 – Scientific Expedition to the Black Lagoon. (No Survivors).[88]
1930, May – New Traveller's Almanac completed and is published by HM Stationary Office.[203]Apocrypha: This travel guide written by Alan "Squiffy" Moore (b. 1847), and his team at the private wing of the British Museum.[204]
1931 – The Miskatonic University Pabodie Expedition ends in disaster with a Professor Lake's party and their dogs being murdered during the night at their camp at the foot of Professor Lake's discovery, the Mountains of Madness. Strangely preserved frozen specimens, dubbed Elder Things by Mr. Danforth are also missing or otherwise buried in peculiar fashion. One man and most of the dog's bodies are never accounted for.
1934, December – Count Zero menaces the Famous Five and co, including Billy Bunter, over the Christmas holiday in an effort to fund the ItalianInvasion of Abyssinia.[205] Zero will continue to be a dangerous adversary of the Famous Five until at least well into 1946.[206]
1937, Spring – Wilhelmina Murray, Allan Quatermain, Jr., and Orlando travel via submarine to the Blazing World Archipelago[207]. Emma Night, daughter of Sir John Night, is born[208] It is around this time that Hugo Drummond begins working for his friend John Night breaking strikes and thwarting other acts of social activism[209]. At the time Night and Drummond were known as Johnny Bull and Bulldog, respectively. Drummond is made Emma's godfather.
1937, Winter – Wilhelmina Murray and co return to England, handing in a possibly fabricated report regarding subterranean exploits in the North of England, known for subterranean sites of interest to British Intelligence.[77]
1941 – Wilhelmina Murray and Allan Quatermain, Junior, return to London after dynamiting a half-mile section of the Channel Causeway.[77] The two are sent on a mission to the United States in order to convince them to enter the war on England's behalf.[211]
1943 - Orlando, having joined the RAF, is shot down over France, but manages to escape back to London to find that the League's Museum base deserted.[210] He takes the time on leave from the RAF to compose a brief memoir, which is published in the TRUMP not too long thereafter in nine chapters as "The Life of ORLANDO."[213]
1944 – Orlando slips from view of British authorities, some say because he has been turned into an orange cat.[214][215]
1947 – The Warralson Team fight a cabal of the Famous Five's most powerful adversaries, led by criminal mastermind and former agent of Fascist Italy, Count Zero, and the slaver/pirate James Soames[218][219][220][221]. The mission is an apparent failure and the Warralson Team is disbanded.[206]
1952 c. November – The Life of Orlando is intended to be republished as a facsimile in the August-October 1953 editions of TRUMP, but is suppressed beforehand[223]. General Sir Harold Wharton, known as "Big Brother", dies[216] on the 27th[224] and is replaced as Party leader by Gerald O'Brien[225][226].
1956, September 7 – The Black Dossier is completed.[228]
1958, May[229] – James Bond, under secret contract from the C.I.A., assassinates industrialist Sir John Night. As an alibi for Bond, the C.I.A. fabricates the events of Dr. No (this is a subtle joke on their part as there was "no doctor").[230]
c. 1963 – Wilhelmina Murray, in the guise of the deceased Vull the Invisible[235][236][237], attempts to gather super-heroes together to form a group called "The Seven Stars." The groups members include Mars Man[238], Satin and Captain Universe (Jim Logan).[239]
1964 – In Paris, Allan Quatermain and Orlando play out dominance and submission fantasies with the decedents of the Silling Castle survivors. For this period of time, the female Orlando is referred to only as O. by Allan and those involved. In the Blazing World, Prospero assembles a team to intervene in a war between tribes of lunar inhabitants, including Miss Wilhelmina Murray.[240]
1969 – Andrew Norton[36], having travelled from 1910, arrives in 1969, at King's Cross Station, London.[241]
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LGV1:2 – Moore, Alan; O'Neill, Kevin. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 1, Issue 2: "Ghosts & Miracles." La Jolla, CA: America's Best Comics, April 1999
LGV1:3 – Moore, Alan; O'Neill, Kevin. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 1, Issue 3: "Mysteries of the East." La Jolla, CA: America's Best Comics, June 1999
LGV1:4 – Moore, Alan; O'Neill, Kevin. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 1, Issue 4: "Gods of Annihilation." La Jolla, CA: America's Best Comics, November 1999
LGV1:5 – Moore, Alan; O'Neill, Kevin. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 1, Issue 5: "'Some Deep, Organizing Power...'" La Jolla, CA: America's Best Comics, June 2000
LGV1:6 – Moore, Alan; O'Neill, Kevin. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 1, Issue 6: "The Day of Be-With-Us." La Jolla, CA: America's Best Comics, September 2000
ATSV – Moore, Alan; O'Neill, Kevin. "Allan and the Sundered Veil." The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1, Issues 1-6 (1999-2000)
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ATSV:2 – ATSV: Chapter 2, "In the Ruins of Time"
ATSV:3 – ATSV: Chapter 3, "In the Shadow of the Sphinx"
ATSV:4 – ATSV: Chapter 4, "The Abyss of the Lights"
ATSV:5 – ATSV: Chapter 5, "The Glint in Fortune's Eye"
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LGV2:2 – Moore, Alan; O'Neill, Kevin. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 2, Issue 2: "People of Other Lands." La Jolla, CA: America's Best Comics, October 2002
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TNTA:2 – TNTA Chapter 2: "Europe: From Aiolio to Zenda"
TNTA:3 – TNTA Chapter 3: "The Americas: In the Rubble of Utopia"
TNTA:4 – TNTA Chapter 4: "Africa and The Middle East: Lights of a Dark Continent"
TNTA:5 – TNTA Chapter 5: "Asia and the Australias: Visions of Cathay"
TNTA:6 – TNTA Chapter 6: "The Polar Regions: To The Ends Of The Earth"
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^BLKD p.27. Here Oliver Haddo, while agreeing with Orlando as to the purpose of the Trojan War, disagrees on the date, putting it in the 10th Century BCE. For the purposes of this timeline, Orlando's dates are taken above those of Haddo's, as Haddo is potentially a more unreliable narrator, not having been present for the events of which he speaks, as Orlando ostensibly was. Also, Orlando's date is corroborated by Eratosthenes, who gives us 1184 BCE, April 24, as the date of the fall of Troy. Haddo may also have meant to say "12th," one above eleven (as in the "11-hundreds"), rather than "10th," one below eleven.
^TNTA:2 p.3. Paris, in the world of League is not known as Paris until the 16th century. One would assume then, that before that it went as its Roman Era name of Lutetia
^Time Placement: If Caliph Haroun Al Raschid (who began his reign on
September 14 of 786) is the Caliph from 1001 Arabian Nights, then Scheherazade would have become his concubine after three thousand nights of women who failed to please him. Putting their first night together in about early December/late November of this year. It cannot be much later than this, because in 796 the Caliph moved the Imperial residence from Baghdad, where Orlando says he met both the Caliph and Scheherazade, to ar-Raqqah.
^ abBLKD p.41, pnl.2. Timeline Note: Orlando later claims to have sulked in Baghdad for "almost a century" until Al-Wathik Be’Ilah became Caliph, which was in 842. Even if he and Sinbad became lovers in 778, this would mean he would have been sulking until 908. Though this fits with the later reference in pnl.4 of this same page where he says "around 900 AD," for purposes of keeping with the geneology and named historical figures, we are assuming Orlando was exagerating with how long he mourned and was only being vague about the latter "around 900 AD" reference.
^ abcdTNTA:3 p.1. Apocrypha: Almanac Editors:This page contains what may be an error or obfuscation by Squiffy, or one of the other Editors of the Almanac, as it states that Nemo dies in May of 1909, when the events of "Century: 1910" show he probably dies in April of 1910.
^Jack Harkaway's Schooldays by Bracebridge Hemyng, 1871
^Note: the death of Alice is an invention of Moore's and does not appear in Caroll's work
^Most Sherlock Holmes year determinations made using the Brad Keefauver Holmesian Timeline AKA the The Birlstone Railway's Timetable where not explicitly stated by Moore
^BLKD p.98. "It was during the late months of 1897... [M] explained to me the scarcely credible events in which Mrs. Harker (who, reverting to her maiden name immediately after her divorce, now styled herself Miss Wilhelmina Murray) had become embroiled at the beginnings of the current year."
^TNTA:5 p.1. InThe War in the Air, the story takes place some time after 1907, TNTA states that it takes place in 1901. Given that London saw aerial warfare and alien invasion as early as 1898.
^Le Docteur Oméga – Adventures Fantastiques de Trois Français dans la Planète Mars (Dr. Omega – Fantastic Adventures of Three Frenchmen on the Planet Mars) by Arnould Galopin
^The moon is full here, assuming Janni spent March aboard the ship bound for England
^This assumes the ship Janni stows away on travels at about 14 knots cruising, and that Nautilus II travels about 25 knots submerged
^BLKD p.37 – Halley's Comet would have been visible at night at about April 20 in 1910. All other dates of events taking place in London are judged by their connection to this approxemate date.
^BLKD p.78, pnl.7: Here it is stated that Sir John Knight died "earlier this year," the year being 1958 (BLKD p.1, pnl.1). BLKD p.129, pnl.4: here Emma says her father died "right after his birthday luncheon in May." And here we see how old Emma was when her father died.
