Just For Fun / Grand Unified Timeline - The Renaissance

aka: The Renaissance

Grand Unified Timeline events from 1501 C.E. through 1750 C.E.

1501 C.E. - 1550 C.E.

1502

• August 28^JulianAugust 18: Norwegian nobleman Knut Alvsson is killed under terms of safe conduct in Oslo. His body is brought in to the great hall at the fortress of Akershus, where an assembly of other nobles swear revenge. A 15-year-old girl, Inger, daughter of Otte Römer, pushes her way trough the crowd and swears her own revenge alongside the grown men. (Lady Inger at Austraat)

1503

• Remilia Scarlet born. (Touhou Project)
• Frustrated at every turn by Ezio Auditore's growing force of Assassins, and successful sabotage and takeover of Rome, Cesare Borgia assaults his sister/lover Lucrezia and murders his father, Master Templar Pope Alexander VI. Soon after, Ezio drives Cesare completely from Rome. In a failed attempt to reclaim the city, Cesare is promptly arrested and imprisoned by the papal forces of Pope Julius II. (Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood)

1505

• Time-traveling V.I.L.E. agent Sir Vile tries to steal Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, but is thwarted by ACME pursuers. (Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time)

1506

• Peabody and Sherman cure Mona Lisa's toothache, making it possible for Leonardo da Vinci to paint her smile. (Rocky and Bullwinkle) Around this time, Leonardo calls upon the Elite Beat Agents to help him win Lisa's romantic affections^moreThe implied use of time travel is left entirely to the Rules of Cool and Funny. (Elite Beat Agents)

1507

• Ezio Auditore tracks down Cesare Borgia to the Siege of Viana in Spain. In disgrace, Cesare is now a mercenary in employ of his brother-in-law, King John III of Navarre. After a fight on ramparts, Ezio gains the upper hand and goes to kill Cesare, who declares that he is not fated to "Die at the hands of man." Declaring that he will then leave Cesare "To the hands of Fate," Ezio throws him off the castle wall to his death. (Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood)
• Gideon Cahill creates the master serum, which gives him supernatural abilities, but is slowly killing him. After he refuses to give Damien Vesper the master serum, Damien traps him in his house and sets it ablaze. Gideon's wife and children are able to escape, but the children blame each other for their father's death and soon leave, marking the start of the Cahill family. (The 39 Clues)

1508

• Flandre Scarlet born. (Touhou Project)
• Modern England is born when John of Fozzwozzles defeats the Earl of Throbwobbles and decrees that 'math' shall be spelt with an s, everyone would drive on the left and that if someone buys you a round of drinks in the pub, it's not a gift, you need give one back at some point. (Exurb1a, England: A Beginner's Guide)

1509

• Approximate date that Meredoth is pulled from Mystara to Ravenloft. (921 AC, 635 BC)^{justification}(Warning, the following is extremely nerdy.) This date assumes that Meredoth was part of the first wave of colonists sent to Norwold by King Tylion IV of Alphatia, who assumed the throne in 919 AC. Meredoth entered the Land of Mists two years later, Ravenloft year 635 BC, so that year would match Mystara year 921 AC. The Earth connection assumes 1612=738 BC, as seen below. It should be noted that any date connections dependent on Ravenloft's mists, which are known to warp time, are questionable. (Dungeons & Dragons: Mystara & Ravenloft)
• AD1 is founded. (St. Trinian's)

1510

• Emperor Skantarios recaptures Jerusalem for the Eastern Roman Empire. The Dome of the Rock and other Islamic centers of worship are destroyed, and the surviving Muslims driven from the city. (I Am Skantarios)
• Birth of Cassia Marsilka in Greece. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Birth of Nils to Lady Inger by Sten Sture. (Lady Inger at Austraat)

1511

• Ezio Auditore travels to Constantinople to retrieve the seals of Altaïr in order to unlock the vault of Masyaf. (Assassin's Creed: Revelations)

1513

• Peabody and Sherman help Ponce de Leon deal with his baby soldiers (who were a little too thirsty when they found the Fountain of Youth) and repel an attack by the Seminole Indians. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Peabody and Sherman lead Vasco de Balboa to the Pacific Ocean so he can discover it; when they get there, they discover that English explorer Sir Augustus Coney was ahead of them, so they have to buy him off with a map of a small island in New York Harbor that he can name after himself. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Sasappis tells his father that he wants to be a storyteller. However, his father is concerned that Sasappis is similar to him and lacks “the gift” for he didn’t have it. Instead he encourages Sass to try something safer like being a hunter or warrior. His father gifts him an eagle feather which “represents bravery and courage” as it turned out that he has “the gift” and would help to comfort him while he told his stories but he died before he could. (Ghosts (US))

1514

• Bothan Spynet established. (Star Wars)
• Mecca sacked by the Byzantines. The Ka'aba is destroyed along with the rest of the city and its population is butchered. Emperor Skantarios decrees that only Orthodox Christians may henceforth enter the city. (I Am Skantarios)

1518

• Connor MacLeod born. (Highlander)

1519

• Peabody and Sherman arrange for Magellan to win a bullfight, thereby allowing him to pay his butcher's bill and sail around the world. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• V.I.L.E. agent Buggs Zapper steals the headdress of Montezuma II. ACME pursuers correct the damage done to history and capture Buggs Zapper. (Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time)
• Two Spanish idiots arrive in Guatemala ahead of Hernán Cortés. They discover El Dorado, the City of Gold, and trick the natives into thinking they are gods. Hilarity Ensues, although the events following their arrival lead to the city becoming impossible to find for anyone after them. (The Road to El Dorado)

1520

• The Spanish sea captain Vasco de Bizarro makes a wrong turn while sailing his banana boat to India. He lands on Barf Rock, located (presumably) somewhere in North America, and stays just long enough to leave behind a shipload of rotten bananas. Centuries later, the citizens of Bizarroville honor their founder with their annual Have-a-Banana festival. (Reading Blaster Ages 9-12)

1522

• Birth of Maria Regina in France. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• In Polly Spark's altered version of history, Vasco da Robot straps a jetpack to Ferdinand Magellan so that he can fly into outer space and take a photograph of the round Earth.^note Yes, a year after Magellan's death. (JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain)

1523

• Fr. Esteban Negron, a Spanish missionary, reports zombification among natives in Mexico. He attributes it to devil worship. (The Zombie Survival Guide)

1524

• On planet Zeist, there is a rebellion against the rule of General Katana. The rebellion is quickly crushed, and the leaders sentenced to be killed on Zeist and reborn on Earth as the immortals Ramirez and Connor MacLeod. (Highlander II: The Quickening ^more500 years before the main events of the film.)
• Ezio Auditore passes away quietly on a bench in Florence at the age of 65. (Assassin's Creed: Embers)

1525

• Cassia Marsilka becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Death of Jacob Fugger. He leaves the family bank to his nephew Anton. Anton would, however, lose a lot of money lending to warmongering kings in America who don't pay their debts properly and end up liquidating the business and distributing the proceeds among his wider family. (The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.)

1527

• Cassia Marsilka becomes a vampire by Cyrus the Gladiator and goes on a sociopathic rampage. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

1528

• Lady Inger at Austraat is tricked by Danish noble Niels Lykke to kill her own son, Nils Stensson, by default. (Lady Inger at Austraat)

1529

• King Arthur saves Vienna from the Turks with the help of some beer. (The Drawing of the Dark)

1530

• After being warped from 250,000,000 BCE, the Turtles find themselves on board a pirate ship. After making their way aft, they find and fight Captain Rocksteady and First Mate Bebop. They are then warped to 1885. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time)

1531

• In Polly Spark's altered version of history, Cosmo-Bot somehow tricks Nicolaus Copernicus into thinking that the Earth revolves around Polly, who won't even be born for centuries. (JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain)
• Birth of Humphrey Bone. ^note  His year of birth is confirmed to happen in this year in the tie-in book The Button House Archives. (Ghosts (UK))

1532

• Emperor Skantarios slays Pope Nicolaus IV the Missionary in single combat before capturing Rome for the Byzantine Empire. (I Am Skantarios)
• Peabody and Sherman help Francisco Pizzaro conquer the Incas. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• The Baldricks enter the service of the Blackadder noble family. (Blackadder II)
• Esteban, a young boy raised at Barcelona Cathedral, embarks on a voyage to the New World, having learned that the medallion he wears around his neck is connected to the seven Cities of Gold, one of which is in the Americas. He and an Inca girl named Zia, who wears an identical medallion, subsequently discover that their destiny is inextricably linked to the Cities. (The Mysterious Cities of Gold)

1535

• English sailor Christopher Walker, the son of the ship's captain, is the only survivor of an attack by the Singh Brotherhood pirates off the coast of Bengala. He is rescued by the native Bandar tribe, and nursed back to health, and soon after finds the body of his father's killer washed up on the beach. On the skull of his fathers murderer, Walker swears the solemn "Oath Of the Skull", vowing to eradicate injustice and piracy wherever he finds it, and dons the mask of the first Phantom. His descendants follow him for 20 generations. (The Phantom)

1536

• January 1: Birth of Cervantes de Leon in Valencia. (Soul Series)
• Connor MacLeod is slain by the Kurgan, but revives. He is banished by the fearful people of his hometown. (Highlander)
• Umberto Fulcanelli moves to Mexico to escape the Spanish Inquisition. Soon after, he invents the Cronos Device, making himself into an immortal vampire. (Cronos)

1537

• October 12:
  • Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VI) is born to Henry VIII and his third wife Jane Seymour in Hampton Court Palace. (Real Life)
  • Tom Canty is born in Offal Court, London. (The Prince and the Pauper)

1538

• March 31: Birth of Seong Han Myeong in Jirisan. (Soul Series)
• August 12: The Society of Explorers and Adventurers is founded in Porto Paradiso, Italy. (Fortress Explorations)

1539

• Connor MacLeod marries Heather MacDonald. (Highlander)
• Peabody and Sherman track down a jar of jelly for Henry VIII's kitchen, saving his cook from being beheaded. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Death of Maria Regina, the current Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• The Knights Templar order on Malta send a tribute to King Charles V of Spain in the form of a gold, gem-encrusted statuette of a falcon. The ship, however, is taken by pirates on the way and the statue never reaches its destination. (The Maltese Falcon)

1530s

• Publication of the major works (The Prince and Discourses on Livy) of Niccolò Machiavelli. Only after this is it really fair to call anybody "Machiavellian".

1540

• Emperor Skantarios is killed while touring new conquests just south of Bern. (I Am Skantarios)

1541

• June 28: Mendoza is recruited by the Company. (The Company Novels)
• August 25: Birth of Voldo in Palermo. (Soul Series)
• Connor MacLeod meets fellow Immortal Ramirez, who becomes his mentor. (Highlander)

1542

• While Connor MacLeod is out hunting, the Kurgan slays Ramirez and assaults Heather. (Highlander)
• Ludvig Prinn, imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition, writes De Vermis Mysteriis in his cell; he somehow smuggles it out before his execution. (Cthulhu Mythos)

1547

• Prince Edward of England switches places with street urchin Tom Canty, but must switch back after the death of his father, Henry VIII. Edward is crowned as King Edward VI. (The Prince and the Pauper)
• The time traveler Jacob von Hogflume stays in Bath, England, for a time. (A satirical blue plaque)

1549

• December 14: Birth of Nathaniel "Rock" Adams in London. (Soul Series)
• Sylvie kills a hunter from the Time Variance Authority in Aix-en-Provence, France who tracked her there. (Loki)

Early 16th century

• To escape the Italian Wars, Vercchi movees his fleet and his remaining possessions to an uninhabited island near Sicily. (Soul Series)
• Conquistador General Lord Machado leads a group in search of El Dorado. Instead, he finds a cursed artifact of great power, and begins a ritual to take it for his own. The ritual fails, and Lord Machado becomes the Cursed One. (Monster Hunter International)

1551 C.E. - 1600 C.E.

1550s

• Raphael Hythloday discovers the island of Utopia. (Utopia)

1553

• July 19: Rani Chandra, thrown through time to look for a piece of the rare metal chronostene, befriends Lady Jane Grey on the eve of Mary taking the English throne from her. (The Sarah Jane Adventures)

1554

• Spanish explorers encounter zombies while searching for El Dorado. (The Zombie Survival Guide)

1555

• Birth of Aeon Calcos in Sparta. (Soul Series)

1557

• Vercchi hires Cervantes de Leon to obtain the Soul Edge. (Soul Series)

1558

• Cervantes de Leon obtains the Soul Edge, begins 20-year reign of terror. Rock Adams, who was a passenger on the ship carrying it, washes up on the shore of the New World and befriends Bangoo of the Apache nation. (Soul Series)

1559

• June 8: Birth of Arthur in Southampton. (Soul Series)
• August 8: Birth of Hwang Seong-gyeong in Jirisan. (Soul Series)
• December 10: Birth of Ivy Valentine (Isabella de Leon) in London. (Soul Series)

1560

• October 23: Birth of Li Long in Peking. (Soul Series)
• Birth of Erzebet Bathory, the countess who, in legend, would go on popularize the notion of bathing in blood. (Real Life)
• Don Lope De Aguirre deserts the command of Pizarro and leads his men into the jungles of the Amazon in search of El Dorado. They find nothing except madness and death. (Aguirre, the Wrath of God)

1561

• Samanosuke Akechi receives a letter from his cousin, Princess Yuki, telling him of the mysterious disappearances at her castle. Demons soon kidnap her, and he goes on a mission to rescue her. (Onimusha: Warlords)

1562

• June 8: Birth of Heishiro Mitsurugi in Bizen. (Soul Series)
• Birth of Taki in Fu-Ma no Sato. (Soul Series)
• The Tenth Doctor, assisted by Queen Elizabeth I, the Eleventh Doctor and the War Doctor, combats a Zygon invasion. The Tenth Doctor also marries Elizabeth at this time.^moreThe Zygons escape into stasis paintings where they remain until the 21st century. (Doctor Who)

1563

• May 1: Birth of Maxi in Shuri. (Soul Series)

1564

• April: Birth of William Shakespeare, thanks to considerable effort by the wizards of Unseen University to undo all the possible timelines where he never existed. (The Science of Discworld II: The Globe)
• A naked, one-legged man appears in the middle of a road in the village of Nagybörzsöny, Hungary, speaking gibberish in an unknown language^more21st century American English. This kind of thing is why you don't aggravate witches. The locals fear he is some sort of warlock, and after a brief encounter with the Inquisition he is burnt alive. (The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.)

1565

• Ohper is born on Gaia. (Stargate SG-1)

1566

• March 12: Birth of Sophitia Alexandra in Athens. (Soul Series)
• Rome is sacked by the Anabaptist Alchemical Army. This leads to the papacy splitting between seven different claimants. (Girl Genius, Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle)

1567

• Arthur becomes an apprentice sailor. (Soul Series)
• Birth of Setsuka. (Soul Series)

1568

• February 6: Birth of Siegfried Schtauffen in Ober-Getzenberg. (Soul Series)
• February 9: Birth of Kilik in China. (Soul Series)
• November 3: Birth of Seong Mi-na in Jirisan. (Soul Series)

1569

• November 27: Birth of Raphael Sorel in Rouen. (Soul Series)
• Arthur is adopted by a wealthy Japanese merchant. (Soul Series)
• Alonso de Entrerríos, a soldier of the Tercios in Flanders, accepts an offer from a mysterious man to work for The Ministry of Time to avoid being hanged for attacking his supervisor out of anger for the high casualty rate their men suffered. (The Ministry of Time)

1560s

• The Englishman Solomon Kane embarks on a peculiar "pilgrimage." (Solomon Kane)

1570

• July 20: Birth of Cassandra Alexandra in Athens. (Soul Series)

1571

• April 2: Birth of Chai Xianghua in Peking. (Soul Series)
• Mary Guppy is born. ^note  Her year of birth is confirmed to happen in this year in the tie-in book The Button House Archives. (Ghosts (UK))

1572

• August 31^JulianAugust 21: The First Doctor and Steven Taylor arrive in Paris, France, during the height of Protestant-Catholic tensions. The doctor goes to meet scientist Charles Preslin, while Steven falls in with a group of Huguenots. (Doctor Who)
• September 1^JulianAugust 22: Steven sees the Abbot of Amboise and mistakes him for the Doctor, getting kicked out of the Huguenot lodgings as a result. He overhears a Catholic plot by the Abbot to kill the "Sea Beggar", but fails to bring the news to the Huguenots. (Doctor Who)
• September 2^JulianAugust 23: Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, the "Sea Beggar", is wounded in an assassination attempt.^noteIn real life, this event occurred the previous day. The Abbot of Amboise is killed by his own men for the plan's failure, inflaming tensions even further. (Doctor Who)
• September 3^JulianAugust 24: On the feast day of St. Bartholomew, thousands of Parisian Huguenots are massacred by the ruling Catholics. (Real Life) The Doctor and Steven barely escape Paris with their lives as the guard makes their way to successfuly kill Admiral de Coligny. (Doctor Who)

1573

• April 16: Birth of Hong Yun-Seong in Jirisan. (Soul Series)
• August 13: Birth of Hilde von Krone in Wolfkrone Kingdom. (Soul Series)
• Takeda Shingen is mortally wounded, and a thief is forced to impersonate him. (Kagemusha)

1574

• Birth of Tira. (Soul Series)

1575

• June 28: Takeda Katsuyori's cavalry is obliterated by Oda Nobunaga's riflemen. Japanese warfare reaches a turning point. (Soul Series and Real Life)
• October 6^Julian September 26: Sir Humphrey Bone is beheaded ^moreaccidentally, by the swords on his mantelpiece falling upon his neck when a plot to assassinate Elizabeth I is discovered ^morewhich was actually orchestrated by his wife, and he took the fall for it in order to save her life. (Ghosts (UK)) ^{Justification} The plot was a Catholic plot to restore the "true Queen" - implied to be Mary Queen of Scots. His date of death is confirmed on his gravestone as seen in the tie in book The Button House Archives.

1576

• June 15: Birth of Talim in the Village of the Wind Deity. (Soul Series)
• Christopher Belmont goes on a quest to destroy the revived Dracula. (Castlevania: The Adventure)
• Death of Heishiro Mitsurugi's parents. Mitsurugi becomes a samurai of the Murakami clan. (Soul Series)

1579

• Francis Drake, while in a resupply stop, sights zombies on the island of Atuk. (The Zombie Survival Guide)

1580

• The Eleventh Doctor takes Amy and Rory on a date in Venice, as a wedding present. Vampires ^morewell, sexy alien fish really ensue. (Doctor Who)
• Peabody and Sherman save Sir Walter Raleigh's career (and head) by recovering his sunken cargo and then inventing saltwater taffy. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

1582

• October: Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar, replacing the Julian calendar which is eleven days slower. October 4 is immediately followed by October 15. (Real Life) However, the Pope does not realize that he miscalculated by one hour. The lost hour slips free and bounces through eternity. A paladin of the lost hour is appointed to ensure that it does not run out and cause the entire universe to be engulfed in darkness. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• The Jedi notice that the Force has begun to "flux", and fear that the dark side is growing again. (Star Wars)
• Samanosuke destroys the Genma army and goes to Honnō-ji Temple for his final battle with Oda Nobunaga. Circumstances soon lead to him being sent to the year 2004. (Onimusha 3: Demon Siege)
• Galactus is repelled from Earth by Brotherhood of the Shield member Galileo Galilei. ("Marvel Universe")

1583

• Cossacks encounter zombies near a remote Siberian village. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Sir Philip Sidney stems the tide of Spanish porn and returns to London in triumph. (Monty Python's Flying Circus)

1584

• September 3: Astaroth is created at the Grand Shrine of Palgaea. (Soul Series)
• Cervantes de Leon is killed by Sophitia Alexandra, and Inferno defeated by Taki. Siegfried Schtauffen claims the remains of one of the blades, becoming Nightmare. Fragments of the Soul Edge are scattered across the world. (Soul Series)

1585

• February 2: Old Hamlet's battle with Old Fortinbras and Hamlet's birth ^{justification}Hamlet was named after and possibly inspired by Shakespeare's own son, Hamnet, who was born on this day. (Hamlet)

1586

• Late summer: A small Japanese village hires seven samurai to protect its barley crop from bandits. ^{justification}Kikuchiyo's fake family tree claims he was born in the second month of 1574, and the other samurai mock him because he "doesn't look like a thirteen-year-old"; convention at that time was to count age by the number of calendar years one has lived in. In temperate climates, barley is a summer crop.(Seven Samurai)
• John Dee translates the Necronomicon into English. (Cthulhu Mythos)
• Brit-Cit Psi-Judge James Dee is accidentally sent back in time and recruits Celibacy Steel, Jack Harkness, Tom Locke and William Shakespeare into a Watch patrol which he models on the Judges. (Deathwatch, Judge Dredd Megazine).

Between 1584 and 1587

• Aeon Calcos becomes Lizardman. (Soul Series)

1587

• English settlers on Roanoke Island flee from a zombie incursion. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Kilik and Chai Xianghua defeat Nightmare and partially release him from the control of the Soul Edge. Soul Calibur is infected with Soul Edge's evil at this time. (Soul Series)

1588

• August 6:
  • The English fleet defeats the Spanish Armada. (Real Life)
  • The Spanish Armada conquers England. Queen Elizabeth I is deposed and imprisoned in the Tower of London. England is forcibly converted to Catholicism by its new queen Isabella, the daughter of King Philip II of Spain. The country remains under Spanish occuption until a successful uprising in 1598. (Ruled Britannia)
  • [Alternate Universe] the Spanish Armada succeeds in conquering England. By the 2090s, the Spanish Empire stretches to the borders of Russia. (Crosstime Traffic)
  • The 2015 ministry are set on a mission to prevent Lope de Vega boarding a ship that is doomed to sink in the Spanish Armada. (The Ministry of Time)
• October 24: Birth of Pyrrha to Sophitia and Rothion Alexander in Athens. (Soulcalibur V)

1589

• September 13: Birth of Patroklos to Sophitia and Rothion Alexander in Athens. (Soulcalibur V)
• Arthur, under the influence of a fragment of Soul Edge, kills his wife and young son. He vows to destroy the evil sword. (Soul Series)
• Archibald Fritton steals a shipment of treasure from Lord Pomfrey, who had intended to use it to bring down Queen Elizabeth I. ^moreMiss Fritton founds the Globe Theatre and takes to writing plays under the name William Shakespeare. (St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold)

1587-1590

• An unknown calamity befalls the colony on Roanoke Island and the settlers disappear without a trace. (Real Life)
  • The demonic Andre Linoge forces all the settlers to drown themselves in the sea when they refuse to hand over a child for him to raise as his successor. (Storm of the Century)
  • Roanoke is sealed inside a timeless pocket dimension by Virginia Dare to contain a plague released by The Horseman Pestilence. (Sleepy Hollow)
  • The Roanoke settlers are visited by the dethroned king of the Sheeda, the descendants of humanity from the distant future. He interbreeds with them, and convinces them to relocate to a mystical underground realm where they found a new society heavily based on magic. (DC Comics)
  • The settlers move inland to avoid a harsh winter. Tomasyn White becomes possessed by a pagan witch and sacrifices the rest of the settlers, with the land they died on becoming cursed and haunted by their spirits. (American Horror Story: Roanoke)

1590

• Heather dies of old age; Connor MacLeod decides to travel the world. (Highlander)
• John White finally returns to Roanoke Island after three years, only to discover it completely abandoned, with the only clue being the word "Croatan" carved into a tree. The settlers are never seen again. (Real Life)

1591

• August 3: Birth of Natsu in Izumo. (Soulcalibur V)
• Summer: Once again, various warriors seek the Soul Edge. Nightmare defeats Raphael Sorel in a duel, but the Soul Edge is damaged, allowing Siegfried to separate from Nightmare. Siegfried claims the Soul Calibur. (Soul Series)
• Autumn: Battles for the Soul swords heat up again. Soul Edge and Soul Calibur clash once more, causing a huge explosion. Zasalamel does not gain the death he sought, and instead decides to try and improve the world. (Soul Series)
• Winter: Yet more battles over the Soul swords. Soul Edge and Soul Calibur are (apparently) destroyed at this time. (Soul Series)
• Winter: Sultan Murad III's court miniaturists are working on a book the Sultan intends to gift to European emissaries. One of the miniaturists is murdered. (My Name Is Red)
• Christopher Belmont hunts Dracula again to save his son. (Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge)

1592

• December 21/22: Birth of Duncan MacLeod in Glenfinnan, Scotland. He is a foundling child, born on the winter solstice. Fortunately for him, Ian and Mary MacLeod have a stillborn son at about the same time. The midwife replaces the dead baby with the living one. Ian knows his son is adopted but keeps it secret for the time being. (Highlander: The Series)
• Sherman helps Galileo get into the Tower of Pisa, incidentally setting off a gas explosion that makes it lean. (Peabody, being in bed with distemper, remains in the present day.) (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Birth of Xiba in China. (Soulcalibur V)

Between 1585 and 1592

• Aspiring playwright William Shakespeare decides that his performances aren't going down well in Stratford-upon-Avon and moves to London with his wife, Anne. He finally manages to get a play put on with the assistance of established playwright Christopher Marlowe, but discovers that the performance is actually a front conducted by King Philip II of Spain to smuggle gunpowder into the royal palace and assassinate Queen Elizabeth I. (Bill)
• Captain Next, formerly of the ChronoGuard, is surprised to discover that Shakespeare's plays do not exist in the time when they should do. He approaches the young playwright with a copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and a strict release schedule, incidentally solving the Shakespearean authorship question conclusively. (Thursday Next)

1593

• May 30:
  • Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe dies in a pub brawl. (Real Life)
  • Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe fakes his death to avoid being prosecuted for atheism and to keep up his work as a spy. (The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.)
• June 23: William Shakespeare, along with his troupe, repay his debt to Dream by performing A Midsummer Night's Dream to an audience of fairies before their departure from mortal realm. (The Sandman)
• July 7: Birth of Yan Leixia to Chai Xianghua and Yan Wujin in Luoyang. (Soulcalibur V)

1594

• A battle between ninjas and Youkai ends with the Youkai being sealed away. (Ninja Sentai Kakuranger)

1595

• August: Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England after exploring South America. (Real Life) In a blatant display of spite, Lord Edmund Blackadder announces his forthcoming venture around the notorious Cape of Good Hope. (Blackadder II)
• The wizards of Unseen University arrive in London and discover that Roundworld is infested with elves, taking advantage of human imagination to fill their heads with gods and monsters. London is a primitive and superstitious city, the greatest playwright is J. Arthur Nightingale, writer of The Hunchback King and The Short Comedy of Macbeth, and a lack of critical thinking means humanity will not manage to leave the planet before it turns into a giant snowball. They decide to do something about this.(The Science of Discworld II: The Globe)
• After going back in time and stopping the elves, the wizards discover that lack of imagination means humanity never leaves the Stone Age and London is a crude village whose inhabitants haven't had an original idea for thousands of years. This is not judged to be an improvement. (The Science of Discworld II: The Globe)
• After going back in time, stopping themselves from stopping the elves, increasing human imagination, and ensuring the birth of William Shakespeare, the wizards are present at the first performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which reduces the elves' power by letting humans define them as harmless and amusing. The actual elves attempt to disrupt this, but everyone thinks it's special effects. (The Science of Discworld II: The Globe)

1596

• February: Lord Blackadder's exploration venture 'successfully' arrives in Australia. None of the crew are enthused enough to take observations or try to win credit for the discovery. (Blackadder II)

1597

• Death of Markus Fugger, last known person to have central authority over the historical Fugger bank. Regardless, the brand survives and holds financial sway into the 21st century. (The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.)

1598

• Three Carrionites break through into Elizabethan England. ^moreThey manipulate the architect of the Globe Theatre into making it to their specified shape. They then break the architect's mind. (Doctor Who)
• Lord Blackadder's exploration party finally returns to England, just in time for Edmund to discover that the Queen has gone right off her love of exploration. (Blackadder II)

1599

• The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones meet William Shakespeare and prevent a Carrionite invasion. ^moreWhich Shakespeare helped begin. Whoops. Queen Elizabeth arrives, calling for the Doctor's head, after her nickname became... inaccurate. The Doctor flees, not knowing what's going on. (Doctor Who)
• V.I.L.E. agent Medeva time-travels to this year to steal Shakespeare's plays. ACME agents successfully restore history and capture Medeva. (Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time)

1600

• Approximate date that a meteor containing Glaaki crashes into the Severn Valley. (Cthulhu Mythos)
• Approximate date that Diane de Moriamis leaves Averoigne on Earth for Nouvelle Averoigne in Mystara (local year 1012 AC).^{justification}The document "Chronomancy and the Multiverse", originally from Wizards of the Coast's Web site, says that Moriamis is from a magical Europe around the year 1600. (Dungeons & Dragons: Mystara)

16th Century

• Queen Elizabeth I of Britannia bears a child, Henry IX, out of wedlock, with the father being either Sir Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester; Sir Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; or Sir Carl, Duke of Britannia. (Code Geass^note Mid 15th Century in Common Era)
• Marcus Octavius and Colin MacLeod take part in a series of conflicts raging across Japan, but their only recorded duel is inconclusive. (Highlander: The Search for Vengeance)
• On a battlefield in Japan, Marcus Octavius discovers Kyala, a new immortal. He decides not to decapitate her, and she becomes his student and lover for centuries. (Highlander: The Search for Vengeance)
• Queen Elizabeth I is assassinated at Richmond Palace by Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, as are the Lords Blackadder, Percy and Melchett ^note (and two undistinguished peasants of minor importance and questionable sanity, whose names history has only partially recorded). Presumably, the Prince is able to conceal his crime and assume her identity for the remainder of "her" reign. Unsurprisingly, no marriages or offspring result. (Blackadder II)
• Jizonobu, a Buddhist monk in Japan, makes a desperate bargain with the Kami of darkness to cure the daughter of a local nobleman. The child is cured, but in return, Jizonobu becomes possessed by a demonic entity calling itself Jei that slaughters almost all the monks of Jizonobu's temple along with the nobleman, sparing only the child because he deems her an "innocent". Dubbing himself "The Sword Of the Gods", Jei carves a swathe of atrocities across Japan, claiming he is eradicating evil, despite his killings being almost indiscriminate. Miyamoto Usagi becomes the student of reclusive hermit and master swordsman Katsuichi. Over the next decade, Katsuichi molds Usagi into one of the greatest swordsmen of his generation. Upon reaching adulthood, Usagi becomes a samurai under the benevolent Lord Mifune. (Usagi Yojimbo)

1601 C.E. - 1650 C.E.

Early 17th century

• Chris and Martin Kratt, plus Koki, time-travel to Mauritius during this era, where they meet the now-extinct dodo. They also observe (without being seen) the explorer ancestor of their villain Gourmand. (Wild Kratts)
• Miyamoto Usagi is one of the few survivors of the Battle of Adachi Plain between the scheming Lord Hikiji and Usagi's master Lord Mifune. Mifune is betrayed by one of his commanders, Buchi Toda, and is killed in the battle. Usagi cuts off his masters head and flees the field, later burying it in the mountains to keep Hikiji from displaying it as a trophy. Now masterless, Usagi begins to wander the land as a ronin. (Usagi Yojimbo)

1601

• September 6: The murder of King Hamlet at the hand of his brother, Claudius^{justification}William Shakespeare's father died on this date, and it gives Hamlet time to age properly. (Hamlet)
• October 4: King Claudius and Queen Gertrude's wedding. (Hamlet)
• A Manx adventurer^moreActually a time traveller arrives at the Old Tearsheet Brewery in Southwark, London (, England). He attempts to subtly persuade Sir Edward Greylock to invest in the East India Trading Company. Good thing neither of them knew about the business with Davy Jones' heart that would follow around 140 years later. ^{Spoiler timeline}In one crucial version of events, Sir Edward, the Tearsheet Brewery and the not-as-dead-as-expected Christopher Marlowe are obliterated in a Diachronic Shear event. (The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.)
• Aziraphale and Crowley have a discussion at a nearly empty Globe Theater in London. They flip a coin to determine which one will do both of their assigned tasks in Edinburgh. William Shakespeare takes down some of Crowley's words to use in a play, then later remarks that it would take a miracle for people to come see Hamlet. (Good Omens (2019))

1602

• January 5: Hamlet proves (at least to himself) that Claudius killed his father. He is sent to England. (Hamlet)
• February 13: Ophelia dies (possibly by suicide). (Hamlet)
• February 14: Hamlet returns to Denmark after being banished and kills his mother, his uncle, and himself. (Hamlet)
• The Age of Marvels begins centuries ahead of schedule. Queen Elizabeth I is assassinated by Latveria. King James I ascends to the throne. (Marvel 1602)

1603

• March 24:
  • Queen Elizabeth I dies of old age. King James I ascends to the throne. (Real Life)
  • Queen Elizabeth I dies of old age. King Henry IX ascends to the throne. (Code Geass^note 1548 CE)
• Sophitia Alexandra is murdered and becomes Elysium around this time. (Soulcalibur V)
• Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes the first Shogun of Japan, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate. (Real Life) Some versions of the story include the presence of Mons, but the accuracy of these is highly disputable.
  • The Conspiracy of Eight forms, planning to return the throne to the Emperor by finding the long-lost Grasscutter sword. (Usagi Yojimbo)

1604

• Patroklos Alexander wins his first sword tournament. Rothion falls ill at this time and tells Patroklos the truth about the Soul Edge. (Soulcalibur V)

1606

• Duncan MacLeod enters the supposedly haunted Donan Woods on a dare. He is confronted by a wolf but rescued by the legendary "Witch of Donan Woods", who turns out to be Cassandra, an immortal. Fortunately, she is interested in his well-being. (Highlander: The Series)
• Dracula comes across "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Bathory, whom he strikes an alliance with. (Dracula Lives! #4)

1607

• A ship carrying British settlers from the Virginia Company sail to North America to find gold. (Pocahontas)
• Nightmare is reborn as Graf Dumas, who gains control of Hungary and manipulates various people, notably Patroklos and Pyrrha Alexandra, into reiving Soul Edge. (Soulcalibur V)
• Richard Maynarde is born. (Doctor Who)

1608

• Restored Soul Edge and Soul Calibur clash for the fifth time. (Soulcalibur V)

1609

• The Master turns a dying prostitute in the Colony of Virginia into a vampire. She later becomes known as Darla. (Angel)

1610

• Jaunuary 23: A group of English colonists from Jamestown, searching for food, find a mysterious staircase. (House of Leaves)
• Countess Erzebet Bathory is discovered to have been murdering young women (no references to Blood Baths in the witness accounts). Her servants are killed as accomplices to her atrocities, and she is imprisoned.
• Cure Ange arrives on Earth, establishes the Precure Palace, enabling the creation of Pretty Cure on Earth (HeartCatch Pretty Cure!)

1611

• Peabody and Sherman convince William Shakespeare that Romeo and Juliet is a better play name than Romeo and Zelda, and prevent Shakespeare and Francis Bacon from killing each other in a duel. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

1612

• Approximate date that the town of Odiare is pulled from Italy on Gothic Earth to the Land of Mists (local year 738 BC).^{justification}Based on its Renaissance tech level in-game and Mystara's connection to Earth and Ravenloft history, it's probably around 1612 (but no later than 1700). It should be noted that any date connections dependent on Ravenloft's mists, which are known to warp time, are questionable. (Dungeons & Dragons: Masque of the Red Death & Ravenloft)
• February: Two farmers plan to accuse Mary Guppy for using witchcraft to summon the frost that destroyed their crops. Thus, she was burned at the stake. (Ghosts (UK)) ^{Justification} A drawing of Mary used in her memorial service reveals that she died in the 1610s. Her date of death is listed on a pamphlet about her execution as February 13th (Gregorian: February 23rd) 1612 in the tie-in book Button House Archives.

1614

• Death of Countess Erzebet Bathory. (Real Life)

circa 1614

• Birth of Chewbacca. (Star Wars)
• The Jedi Order feels the Dark Side of the Force growing stronger again. (Star Wars)
• Memory wipes become common droid maintenance following a personality virus unleashed by a member of the Baobab Merchant Fleet. (Star Wars)

1616

• April 23: A Time Traveler replaces the corpse of William Shakespeare with a replica and restores his health with 23rd century medical technology. (Chrononauts)

1618

• In Glenfinnan, Duncan MacLeod kills his cousin, Robert, for the affections of Debra Campbell, but she dies in a fall the same day. (Highlander: The Series)

1619

• The captain of a Portuguese ship is warned by the King's agents that 'the foul Sobreiro' is aboard and is ordered to hang him and dump his body. Shortly afterwards, the ship burns and sinks near the Azores. (S.)

1620

• November 21:
  • The Pilgrims arrive in New England aboard their ship, the Mayflower. (Real Life)
  • Nettie Albright, an ancestor of Mary Albright, arrives in America on the Mayflower. (3rd Rock from the Sun)
  • Shaggy Rogers and Scooby-Doo's ancestors, McBaggy Rogers and his pet dog Yankee Doodle Doo, arrive in New England on the Mayflower. (Scooby-Doo)
  • Cooder's ancestors arrive in New England after "clangin' to the side of the Mayflower." (The Simpsons)
  • Traveling on the Mayflower becomes Grandma Georgina's earliest memory, after an overdose of Vita-Wonk in the future retcons her birthdate to the 1600s. (Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator)
  • Unknowingly, The Pilgrims had brought a Barghest to their colony from the old world. It killed a young girl, Mercy Bradford. When the settlers came for it, the barghest took on the form of Mercy's father, Captain William Bradford. When the real William arrived, the barghest reverted to its natural form and killed the search party. Ultimately they subdued the creature and sealed it in an underground chamber under an enchanted stone: Plymouth Rock. (Sleepy Hollow).
• The final battle between the forces of Lord Hikiji and Lord Noryuki is interrupted by technologically advanced invaders from another world, possibly Mars. Lord Hikiji, originally believed dead in the initial attack, betrays Earth with the intention of allying himself with the alien beings to rule the entire world, but is killed by his magistrate Lord Hebi in revenge. The Japanese suffer massive losses but are eventually able to defeat the limited number of invaders through the use of prototype weapons created by a local inventor. Myamoto Usagi is killed in the final battle and lives long enough to pass his swords to his son Jotaro. (Usagi Yojimbo: Senso)

1622

• October 2: The MacLeod clan is involved in an armed conflict with a rival clan. Duncan MacLeod is killed in battle and hailed a hero, but revives as an immortal and is driven out by his fearful and superstitious clan. (Highlander: The Series)

1624

• Glenfinnan is attacked by the immortal Viking Kanwulf and his raiders, who fatally wound Ian MacLeod. Duncan MacLeon takes up his father's sword and manages to defeat Kanwulf, but fails to fully kill him. (Highlander: The Series)
• Arquimedes de Sobreiro is recorded as an inmate in a jail in Stockholm in this year. (S.)

1625

• The Three Musketeers and D'Artagnan battle the schemes of Cardinal Richelieu. (The Three Musketeers)
• Duncan MacLeod receives his first Quickening after Timothy of Gilliam, the Hermit of Loch Bannoch, warns him of an evil that enters the world every thousand years and then commits suicide. (Highlander: The Series)
• Connor MacLeod meets Duncan MacLeod and becomes his mentor. (Highlander: The Series)
• On Earth-C, the Three Mouseketeers (Porterhouse, Aramouse, and Amouse) defend King Looey of France against various threats. They're also briefly visited by a time-traveling Yankee Poodle and Rubberduck of the Zoo Crew. (Funny Stuff, Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!)
• The town of Jericho is founded in east America by pilgrim Joseph Crackstone. (Wednesday)

1627

• A trio of Imperial Assassins are tasked by the Emperor of China with assassinating a powerful eunuch plotting a coup. (Brotherhood of Blades).
• Ilvermorny was founded (Harry Potter)

1629

• Approximate date of the Faction War in Sigil. (130th year of Factol Hashkar's Reign)^{justification}Assumes 1629=130th year; see Die Vecna Die! events in 1629. (Dungeons & Dragons: Planescape)
• Approximate date that Azalin Rex returns and reclaims most of Darkon. (local year 755 BC)^{justification}Assumes 1629=755 BC; see Die Vecna Die! events in 1629. (Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft)
• Approximate date that the demigod Vecna becomes a full god, escapes Ravenloft, visits Sigil, and returns to Oerth.^moreSpecifically, he lures Iuz the Evil from Oerth into the Land of Mists and absorbs Iuz's power to ascend to greater godhood; uses his new power to escape from the Dark Powers into Sigil; sets up shop and starts disrupting the multiverse by his presence; and is expelled by adventurers armed with his old body parts. Vecna falls back to Oerth, loses Iuz's essence, and is reduced to a lesser god. (591 CY, 755 BC, 130th year of Factol Hashkar's Reign)^{justification}Living Greyhawk Gazetteer pegs this as 591 CY; the third edition Ravenloft Campaign Setting pegs this as 755 BC; and the events in Sigil take place shortly after the Faction War adventure, set in the 130th year. The link to 1629 C.E. is via the 1612 events with Odiare (738 BC). Note this causes some hiccups with other transfers between other D&D settings and Ravenloft, but those connected dates rely solely on Ravenloft's mists, which are notorious for warping time. (Dungeons & Dragons: Die Vecna Die!)
• Approximate date of the Fremdan genetic purge. (Axiom's End)

1630

• Approximate date that a mysterious patron^moreAzalin Rex sends the noted scholar "S" to explore the domains of Ravenloft. (local year 756 BC) ^{justification}Assumes 1629=755 BC; see Die Vecna Die! events in 1629. (Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft)
• Duncan MacLeod has his first encounter with Martin Hyde, the Hunter, who was at the time seeking a confrontation with Connor MacLeod. (Highlander: The Series)
• Around this time the entity currently known as Jones arrives in Jamestown. She goes missing shortly thereafter (Gunnerkrigg Court)
• Ronin Tsugumo Hanshiro enters the stronghold of the Ii clan via pretending to want a place to commit seppuku, secretly plotting his final revenge on the clan's heads for slowly killing his ward. (Harakiri).
• Princess Asa Vadja is executed for witchcraft. (Black Sunday)

1632

• The town of Grantville, West Virginia circa 2000 C.E. arrives in Thuringia, Germany. Massive social, political, and technological upheaval follows. (1632)

1634

• Devon Marek, son and heir of the Duke of Willoughby, revives as an immortal. Due to the circumstances, he blames Duncan MacLeod for cheating him out of his inheritance. (Highlander: The Series)
• At about this year, Duncan rescues fellow immortal Ursa from a mob armed with pitchforks]] and scythes. Ursa finds sanctuary in a monstery. (Highlander: The Series)

1635

• September 11: In Verona, Duncan MacLeod meets Rebecca Horne and her student Amanda, with the latter of whom he would have an on-off relationship for about the next four or five centuries. (Highlander: The Series)

1637

• Duncan MacLeod is hired to kill the immortal Hugh Fitzcairn, who a local aristocrat thinks has stolen his daughter, Arianna's, virtue. Duncan and Hugh become good friend when Duncan discovers that Arianna's virtue had gone long before she met Hugh. (Highlander: The Series)

1638

• After November 23: Lady Peinforte and her servant Richard Maynarde travel forward in time to November 23, 1988. (Doctor Who)

1639

• Kingsport founded in Massachusetts. (Cthulhu Mythos)

1630s

• A family exiled from New England due to religious differences is tormented by witches. (The VVitch)

1640

• In France, Duncan MacLeod meets Kyra, a fellow Immortal and bodyguard to Anne of Austria, Queen consort of Louis XIII. (Highlander: The Series)
• A young woman arrives in Cambridge, Boston and steals a freshly-printed copy of the Bay Psalm Book, which she buries within the village. (The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.)

1642

• Duncan MacLeod turns 50 and decides to seek some education. He and Hugh Fitzcairn finally learn how to read and write. During their studies, the duo first meet Mako, another immortal. (Highlander: The Series)

1643

• Innsmouth founded in Massachusetts. (Cthulhu Mythos)

1647

• Apparent birth of Ronin in Glasgow. Ronin bonds initially to Jessel Howard, and in subsequent years to female descendants of Jessel up to Dr. Beverly Crusher in 2370. (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

1649

• Prophecied Time of Unparalleled Darkness in Ravenloft. (local year 775 BC)^{justification}Assumes 1629=755 BC; see Die Vecna Die! events in 1629. (Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft)

1651 C.E. - 1700 C.E.

1653

• May: Clarence Oddbody is born. (It's a Wonderful Life)
• Duncan MacLeod captured by pirates and sold into slavery to Hamza el Kahir, a fellow immortal. Hamza becomes his new mentor, teaching him the use of the scimitar as well as the Arabian language, culture and customs. His studies are cut short when Hamza loses his head to Xavier St. Cloud. (Highlander: The Series, novel: Scimitar)
• Seamus McBundy insults Poxilda (a fat, ugly witch) and gets himself cursed. Seamus and male Bundys are cursed with eternal bad luck. Furthermore, his home village of Lower Uncton, England is going to have eternal night. It will only end when the last male Bundy is dead. In the 20th century, the people of Lower Uncton would try to dispose of Seamus' last known male descendants: Al and Bud Bundy. (Married... with Children)
• The Sanderson Sisters are banished from Salem after Winnie refuses to marry the Reverend’s son. While in the forbidden woods, they meet Mother Witch who gives them a magic book. Thus gaining the ability to perform magic. (Hocus Pocus 2)

1657

• November 2: Richard Maynarde dies. (Doctor Who)
• Duncan MacLeod receives training in swordsmanship from Graham Ashe, a former mentor to Ramirez, but Ashe is soon killed by the immortal Graham Clay. (Highlander: The Series)
• Cyrano de Bergerac tests a prototype payload rocket and lunar lander. (Autres Mondes)

1658

• Duncan MacLeod enters a monastery, founded centuries ago by the pacifistic Brother Paul. Duncan improves his literacy under Brother Timon, but Timon is later killed by the treacherous Brother Kalas. Duncan exposes Kalas and gets him expelled from the monastery. (Highlander: The Series)

1659

• September 30: Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked on an island. (Robinson Crusoe)
• In Normandy, the horse-driven carriage of wealthy immortal Kristin Gilles is attacked by highwaymen. Duncan MacLeod intervenes and rescues her. (Highlander: The Series)

1660

• Duncan has settled in Kristin's mansion in Normandy but for some reason decides to leave her for Louise Barton, a mortal painter. Kristin kills Louise and attempts to decapitate Duncan. She fails but Duncan can't bring himself to kill her. (Highlander: The Series)
• While travelling around Normandy, Duncan MacLeod meets Grace Chandel, an immortal healer. (Highlander: The Series)

1662

• Amos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan conspire to depose Louis XIV and replace him with his twin brother Philippe. (The Man in the Iron Mask)

1663

• Duncan MacLeod is in England, having been hired by a Shakespearean company. His boss is Walter Graham, an Immortal actor. Duncan is not too pleased with his role, cast as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew. He would like to play her "nicer". Graham doesn't want to even consider Duncan's suggestions. (Highlander: The Series)
• The 6th Phantom establishes the Jungle Patrol. (The Phantom)

1664

• Micah Clarke is born. (Micah Clarke)

1665

• October 8: Giovanni Cassini first observes SCP-2399 (SCP Foundation)
• Duncan MacLeod fails to rescue John Garrick, an immortal, from being burned at the stake. Garrick survives, and is not pleased. (Highlander: The Series)
• At Ashen Hill Manor, after his family's lifespans get absorbed into a transdimensional device by Erasmus Darknening, Lord Marchwood breaks the device trapping the two in limbo. (The Sarah Jane Adventures)

1666

• September 2 - September 5:
  • The Great Fire of London is started by a fire in a bakery. (Real Life)
  • The Great Fire of London is accidentally started when the Fifth Doctor and his companions Adric, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka defeat the Terileptils. (Doctor Who)
  • The Great Fire of London is caused by a meteorite crashing through Earth's atmosphere, and zombies subsequently rise from the ashes. (Defoe)
  • The Great Fire of London is started by a child of Hephaestus with the power of fire. (Percy Jackson)

1669

• The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones help Isaac Newton to determine how gravity works. (Voyagers!)

1670

• Duncan MacLeod works as a tutor and weapons master to the heir of a Scottish clan. He tries to teach the young man the importance of strategy and the ways of war. When fellow immortal Michel de Burgoyne challenges Duncan to a duel, the boy insists on intervening but Duncan knocks his own student out. (Highlander: The Series)
• Wealthy, xenophobic Dutch merchant Gerrit Martense constructs the Martense mansion in the remote Catskill Mountains, intending to isolate himself and his family from the hated British colonists. (The Lurking Fear)
• Birth of Annie. ^note  Her birth is confirmed to happen in this year in the tie-in book The Button House Archives. (Ghosts (UK))

1671

• A time-traveling Hiro Nakamura meets his hero, Takezo Kensei, and discovers that he's not all the legends make him out to be. (Heroes)

1673

• Birth of the samurai Oboro Bishamon in Japan. He would grow up to be possessed by the demonic armor Hannya and the cursed sword Kien, turning him into a Blood Knight. (Darkstalkers)
• The Battle of Sturmhalten, between the Heterodynes and the Storm King, begins. (Girl Genius, Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess)

1674

• The Fey leave Earth, leaving a sole warrior, Elphin, behind to complete an unknown quest. (Soon I Will Be Invincible)
• In Polly Spark's altered version of history, a miniaturized Slobot sneaks under the lens of the world's first microscope and takes a bath there, giving Antonie van Leeuwenhoek the impression of having caught a tiny creature in the bath. (JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain)

1675

• On the planet Bajor, the "Book of the Kosst Amojan" is placed into the Bajoran Central Archives and then forgotten about until 2375. The Book is a mystical text, its content only revealed when blood is spattered across its surface. Said content details the existence of Pah-wraiths (evil spirits) and offers instructions on how to release them. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
• The McDuck Clan are forced to flee their ancestral castle on Dismal Downs by a monstrous spectral hound. While the clan retains ownership of the castle and the land, they never dare to return. Unbeknownst to them, the Hound is nothing but a ruse by their old enemies, the Whiskervilles, in the hopes of ruining the McDucks so the Whiskervilles can claim their lands. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)

1676

• Sir Francis Haddock of the British Royal Navy^*French Royal Navy in the original version is attacked by the pirate Red Rackham in the West Indies. His ship, the Unicorn, is taken by the pirates. Haddock escapes and blows up the ship with a slow-burning fuse, killing Rackham in single combat as he escapes. (Tintin)
• The Battle of Sturmhalten ends. A treaty is signed, and Storm King Andronicus Valois is arranged to marry Euphrosynia Heterodyne. (Girl Genius, Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess)

1678

• Birth of the succubus Morrigan Aensland in Scotland. (Darkstalkers)
• Francis Haddock is rescued from the tropical island he was stranded on and successfully returns to Europe. (Tintin)

1680

• Duncan MacLeod meets Kiem Sun in Qing-dynasty China. Kiem Sun begins researching the use of the kwanlo root to enhance humans. (Highlander: The Series)

1685

• The convicted English traitor Dr. Peter Blood escapes from enforced servitude on a Barbados plantation. (Captain Blood)
• Sir Francis Haddock is rewarded for his naval service by the King with the deed to Marlinspike Hall^*Moulinsart in the original version. (Tintin)

1686

• July 15: Peabody and Sherman take advantage of a handy earthquake to split Juan Fernandez Island in half, letting Robinson Crusoe have some privacy from the hordes of real-estate developers he was sharing it with. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
• Peabody and Sherman find an apple for Isaac Newton, allowing him to discover the law of universal gravitation. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

1690

• Arkham has been founded by this time in Massachusetts. The school later known as Miskatonic University founded. (Cthulhu Mythos)
• The Galactic Senate declares the Outer Rim to be a free trade zone. (Star Wars)
• Zombie outbreak on the Portuguese slave ship Marialva. (The Zombie Survival Guide)

1691

• Simon Belmont takes up the whip to destroy Dracula. (Castlevania)
• An unspecified "major change" to the Castle Heterodyne. (Girl Genius)

1692

• February 29:
  • The Salem witch trials begin in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. (Real Life, The Crucible)
  • The magic-using Megans evacuate the planet Earth. (Star Trek: The Animated Series)
  • Solomon Kent accidentally stabs Sarah Osborne. Rather than confessing the truth, he disfigured Sarah so he can pretend that he killed a witch in self-defence triggering the Salem witch trials. (Sleepy Hollow)
• April 10: After taking the Mega Corporation's time machine for a test drive on September 15, 1978, Dr. Neil Perry arrives in Salem, Massachusetts on this date. The time machine is taken as a sign that he is in league with Satan. Neil is found guilty of witchcraft and sentenced to burn at the stake with his machine. However, he manages to free himself and escapes to California on June 30, 1871. (The Time Machine (1978))
• July-September: Reconquest of Santa Fe and the wider New Mexico area by the Spanish Empire. (Real Life) Javier Maribona-Picard serves under Vargas during the brutal suppression of the revolt. His distant descendant Jean-Luc Picard would consequently have trouble gaining the trust of a Native American leader who happened to recognize the name "Picard". (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• November 13-14: The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones prevent Benjamin Franklin's mother Abiah Folger from being hanged during the Salem witch trials. (Voyagers!)
• Dunwich founded in Massachusetts. (Cthulhu Mythos)
• Ben Song leaps into Elizabeth Bleeker in Middle Towne, Massachusetts. He's there to save Elizabeth and two other women from being executed as witches. (Quantum Leap (2022))

1693

• May 1: Billy Butcherson dies. (Hocus Pocus)
• October 31: In Salem, Massachusetts, the Sanderson sisters (Mary, Sarah, and Winifred) steal the lifeforce of young Emily Binx. Thackery Binx, older brother of the girl, attempts to rescue her and gets transformed to an immortal black cat. Shortly after, the Sanderson sisters are hanged by a lynch mob of locals after being accused of witchcraft. (Hocus Pocus)
• Agatha Harkness is put on trial by a coven of witches led by her mother Evanora for practicing dark magic and almost immediatly sentenced to death. The witches attempt to kill Agatha, but she turns their death spell against them to drain the life from them. (WandaVision)
• Birth of Colum Mackenzie. (Outlander)

1694

• Ebenezer Cooke is appointed Poet Laureate of Maryland by Lord Baltimore. (The Sot-Weed Factor)
• Birth of Dougal Mackenzie. (Outlander)

1695

• September:
  • A fleet of pirate ships led by Captain Henry Avery and Thomas Tew attack a Mughal treasure convoy in the Red Sea. Thomas Tew is killed in the battle, but Captain Avery and his crew survive and make off with an enormous treasure haul. Avery disappears from history afterwards. (Real Life)
  • Henry Avery and Thomas Tew both survive the battle and use their newfound wealth to found the pirate settlement of Libertalia with the help of other famous pirates of the era such as Edward England and Anne Bonney. Faking his death, Avery creates an elaborate series of trials for anyone searching for the location of Libertalia. (Uncharted 4: A Thief's End)

1696

• Robert de Valicourt, an immortal pirate, has had great success. Having spend decades robbing the European overseas colonies and amassing a vast fortune, Robert joins the French aristocracy by gaining the title of "Baron". He settles in a château outside Paris. (Highlander: The Series)
• Angelina "Gina" di Bergamo, a lady immortal, hires Duncan MacLeod and Hugh Fitzcairn to help her retrieve a shipment of gold she has lost to the Baron de Valicourt. Things go awry, resulting in Gina and Robert falling in love and marrying a few months later. (Highlander: The Series)

1697

• Peabody and Sherman recover a stolen slot machine from Captain Kidd before he can hit the jackpot, saving the British government from bankruptcy. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

1698

• Simon Belmont goes on a quest to find the remains of Dracula, so that he could reverse a curse plaguing the land. (Castlevania II: Simon's Quest)

1699

• April 1: The Eleventh Doctor is briefly becalmed on Henry Avery's pirate ship. Mermaids are involved. ^note So are spaceships. (Doctor Who)
• May 4: Captain William Pritchard sets sail from Bristol to the South Sea. Lemuel Gulliver is the surgeon of the crew. (Gulliver's Travels)
• November 5: Lemuel Gulliver is washed ashore in Lilliput. (Gulliver's Travels)
• December 31: The swashbuckling feline adventurer Phillipe L'Entrique Elan de Chanel, Count Givenchy and Duke of Fantom is trapped within a painting by his archenemy Baron Hugo von Skelter. (Fantomcat)
• J'onn J'onzz was born on Mars. (Supergirl (2015))
• Faith Tanner is accused of being a witch in Annes Town, Massachusetts. Under the pretense of checking her body for the Devil's mark, Squire Jonas Hacker has her strip and rapes her. (The Twilight Zone (1985))

1700

• Duncan MacLeod is still in Paris and feeling very old. He has just buried a mortal friend who died of old age. But Duncan remembers that he held this man in his arms when the guy was a newborn. He turns to senior immortal Pierre Segur for advise. Segur soon loses a duel with Martin Hyde. Leaving Duncan feeling both depressed and lonely. (Highlander: The Series)
• Charity Payne, a Puritan girl living in the colonial Massachusetts village of Annes Town in 1700, and Peter Wood, a teenage boy living in the Massachusetts town of Anniston in 1985, gain the ability to communicate with each other across time and see through each other's eyes after they both contract cholera. (The Twilight Zone (1985))

17th Century

• Estimated date^{justification}roughly nine generations before 20-year-old Ramón Salazar in 2004 that Las Plagas discovered in a remote region of Europe by Los Illuminados, who use them to recruit new members. Las Plagas are eventually sealed away by the first castellan of Castle Salazar. Los Illuminados stripped of their lands and possessions, and continue as an underground society (Resident Evil 4)
• The Goa'uld System Lord Shak'ran is killed in battle by his enemy Apophis. (Stargate SG-1)
• Heru'ur abandons the planet Tagrea as its resources are depleted. In defiance of their former god, the Tagreans destroy almost all evidence of Goa'uld occuption and bury the Stargate in the Wastelands of Anhur. The Gate remains buried until 2003. (Stargate SG-1)

1701 C.E. - 1750 C.E.

1701

• Before September 24: Lemuel Gulliver discovers a wrecked ship off the coast of Blefuscu, and the King of Blefuscu employs many men to repair it. (Gulliver's Travels)
• September 24: Gulliver sets sail from Blefuscu. (Gulliver's Travels)
• September 26: Gulliver moves his ship alongside that of Captain John Biddel and is allowed onto the ship after a few good words from a friend of his on the ship, Peter Williams. (Gulliver's Travels)
• Asano Naganori assaults Kira Yoshinaka in the shogun's palace and is ordered to commit sepukku. His lands are confiscated, and 47 of his samurai become ronin. (Tales of Old Japan)
• Agatha Penderghast is born. (ParaNorman)

1702

• April 13: Lemuel Gulliver returns home. (Gulliver's Travels)
• June 20: Gulliver sets sail for India on the Adventure, commanded by Captain John Nicholas. (Gulliver's Travels)
• The 3PO-series protocol droid line begins production by Cybot Galactica. (Star Wars)

1703

• January 30: The 47 ronin kill Kira Yoshinaka. (Tales of Old Japan)
• March 20: 46 of the 47 ronin are apprehended and made to commit seppukku. (Tales of Old Japan)
• April 19: A storm picks up intensity in the Indian Ocean, affecting the course of the Adventure. (Gulliver's Travels)
• May 2: The storm pauses. Captain John Nicholas of the Adventure takes its position, finding it to have drifted just east of the Moluccas. (Gulliver's Travels)
• June 16: A boy on the top-mast of the Adventure spots land. (Gulliver's Travels)
• June 17: Lemuel Gulliver is marooned in Brobdingnag. (Gulliver's Travels)

1704

• Squire Jonas Hacker dies. The bodies of two sailors are found in his root cellar. Hacker is posthumously tried and convicted of murder. He is sentenced to death. Since the sentence cannot be imposed, it is commuted to the forfeiture of Hacker's sizeable estate to the Crown. (The Twilight Zone (1985))

1705

• September 3: Jonathan Wolverton Randall is born. (Outlander)
• September: Lemuel Gulliver escapes from Brobdingnag and luckily encounters Captain Thomas Wilcocks in his ship not long after drifting away in a box. (Gulliver's Travels)

1706

• June 3: Lemuel Gulliver returns home for the second time. (Gulliver's Travels)
• June 13: Gulliver is approached by a friend of his, Captain William Robinson of the Hope-well, with an offer to join his crew. Gulliver agrees. (Gulliver's Travels)
• August 5: The Hope-well sets off on its journey to the East Indies. (Gulliver's Travels)

1707

• April 11: The Hope-well stops in Fort St. George in India to resupply and heal sick crewmates. (Gulliver's Travels)
• May 2: The Hope-well departs from Fort St. George three weeks after it had arrived. (Gulliver's Travels)
• May: Lemuel Gulliver arrives at the floating island of Laputa after his sloop is commandeered by pirates and he is marooned. (Gulliver's Travels)

1708

• Nyo Boto is born in the village of Jufureh in the Gambia. (Roots)

1709

• April 21: Lemuel Gulliver arrives in Luggnagg. (Gulliver's Travels)
• May 6: Lemuel Gulliver takes leave of the King of Luggnagg. (Gulliver's Travels)
• May 12: Gulliver arrives at the Royal Port of Glanguenstald and prepares to leave Luggnagg. (Gulliver's Travels)
• May 27: Gulliver finds a ship to take him to the Japanese port of Xamoschi. (Gulliver's Travels)
• June 9: Gulliver arrives in the city of "Nangasac" (Nagasaki). (Gulliver's Travels)

1710

• April^note The arrival in Amsterdam is noted as April 14, and the arrival in the UK is April 10. This appears to be a mistake on the part of Gulliver.: Lemuel Gulliver arrives in Amsterdam, then returns home. (Gulliver's Travels)
• August 2: Gulliver sets out again, this time as Captain of his own ship. (Gulliver's Travels)
• August 14: Gulliver meets with Captain Pocock from Bristol in Tenerife. (Gulliver's Travels)
• August 16: A storm parts Captains Gulliver and Pocock. ^note Capt. Pocock's ship later is run aground, and only one cabin-boy survives. (Gulliver's Travels)
• Jerusalem's Lot founded in Massachusetts. (Cthulhu Mythos)

1711

• May 9: Lemuel Gulliver is marooned in the land of the Houyhnhnms after pirates take over his ship. You'd think he'd have figured out by now that sea voyages were unlucky for him. (Gulliver's Travels)
• A group of alchemists aboard the Advena Avis successfully summon a demon who grants one of them the knowledge of how to create an elixir of eternal life. (Baccano!)
• Death of Annie. ^note  She chocked on a piece of bread. Her year of death is confirmed to happen in this year in the tie-in book The Button House Archives. (Ghosts (UK))

1712

• Duncan MacLeod works as a bodyguard for the outspoken politician Lord Dennis Keating. Keating is killed by the immortal assassin Paul Kinman at the behest of one of Keating's opponents, but Queen Anne forbids MacLeod and Kinman to duel. MacLeod vows not to fight Kinman as long as the queen reigns. (Highlander: The Series)
• In Kildare, Ireland, Connor and Duncan MacLeod handily defeat a group of bandits disguised as tax collectors. In the process, Duncan shows off for local girl, the pre-immortal Catherine Mary "Kate" Devaney. (Highlander: Endgame)
• Agatha Penderghast is executed for witchcraft. In her rage, she curses the men who convicted her to rise from their graves on the anniversary of her death. (ParaNorman)

1715

• February 15, 9:00 AM: Lemuel Gulliver departs from the land of the Houyhnhnms. (Gulliver's Travels)
• November 5: Gulliver arrives in Lisbon, Portugal. (Gulliver's Travels)
• December 5: Gulliver returns home, finally. (Gulliver's Travels)
• Duncan MacLeod and Kate Devaney get married. Duncan attempts to make Kate into a full immortal by killing her violently without warning her; surprisingly, she is not pleased. (Highlander: Endgame)
• Birth of Alexander Randall. (Outlander)

1718

• March 3/4, 12:00 AM: Tristram Shandy is conceived. His mother asks his father if he'd remembered to wind the clock. (Tristram Shandy)

1719

• Birth of Jenny Fraser Murray. (Outlander)

1720

• May: Birth of Ian Murray. (Outlander)
• Duncan MacLeod attempts to steal the Stone of Scone and return it to Scotland in order to undermine the authority of King George I. On the same night, Hugh Fitzcairn attempts to blow up the Abbey as part of a plan to put a fellow Catholic on the throne. Their encounter alerts the tower guards, and so they flee. They then try to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London using information provided by Bernie Crimmins, jailer at the Tower and a fellow immortal and friend of Hugh. (Highlander: The Series)
• A peculiar house is built in Virginia. (House of Leaves)
• Lemuel Gulliver writes a book of his travels. (Gulliver's Travels)

1721

• May 1: Birth of Jamie Fraser. (Outlander)

circa 1722

• A cult worshiping the Ancient Egyptian god Seth, in actuality a Goa'uld who has been hiding on Earth for several thousand years, arises in Wiltshire, England near Stonehenge. They are persecuted by the Christians in the area. The members of the cult are later found dead, having slit their own throats, but Seth's body is never recovered. He eventually sets up a new cult, the Children of Seth, outside of Seattle in or before 1999. (Stargate SG-1)

1723

• May 26: The town of Sharpesville is completely destroyed by an Ascension. The journal of the town's pastor, Desmond Kane, survives. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

1724

• Jamie McCrimmon is born. (Doctor Who)

1725

• The Potentium Heresy, a group of Jedi, theorize that the Force has no Dark side, only its users do. Heretics exiled, settle on the planet Zonama-Sekot. (Star Wars)
• Peter Plogojowitz dies in the Serbian village of Kisilova. Several weeks later, other villagers die of an unknown illness after claiming Plogojowitz visited them during the night. In order to end this epidemic, Plogojowitz's body was dug up, staked, and burned. This is the first official account of the vampire myth, although famous vampires (Carmilla, Dracula) are said to have existed long before then, and the actual myth (Plogojowitz was called a vampire in his time) already existed. (Real Life)

1726

• An account of the travels and discoveries made by Lemuel Gulliver entitled Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, Vol. 1 is published. (Gulliver's Travels)
• Birth of Laoghaire Mackenzie. (Outlander)

1727

• Liam, later known as Angelus and Angel, is born in County Galway, Ireland. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• The Tenth Doctor meets a young Madame de Pompadour for the first time and fights off a clockwork android stalking her. (Doctor Who)
• In the Serbian village of Medvegia, villager Arnod Paole dies from falling off a hay wagon, but villagers continue to claim they saw him at night long after his death. Four villagers who have mentioned him fall suddenly ill and die. His body is dug up and found to be oozing fresh blood and deemed vampiric. (Austrian medical officer Johannes Fluckinger's report, published 1732)

1728

• On a lonely road, 25 miles from Dover, Duncan MacLeod has his first encounter with Walter Reinhardt of Salzburg, an immortal highwayman. (Highlander: The Series)

1729

• May 23: The mysterious man known only as Shiro attempts to disrupt the balance between the worlds of the living and the dead, hoping to bring his deceased lover Sora back to life. He is defeated by Den-O and his allies. (Farewell Kamen Rider Den-O: The Final Countdown)
• June 14: Birth of Lord John Grey. (Outlander)
• Jesuit scholar László Turóczi’s Tragica Historia includes the first written account of Countess Erzebet Bathory that mentions bathing in blood, linking the two together ever since.
• Mos Eisley founded on Tatooine around the wreckage of the ship Dowager Queen. (Star Wars)

1730

• In England, Duncan MacLeod is arrested for poaching. He almost loses his head to an executioner's axe. He is rescued by Charles Browning, a fellow immortal. The duo celebrates their friendship with a night of drinking, which doesn't end well. (Highlander: The Series)
• Birth of the twins Hsien Ko/Lei-Lei and Mei Ling/Lin-Lin in China. (Darkstalkers)

1731

• Puppeteers introduce Superconductor Plague to the Ringworld, destroying the basis of the technology used by the dominant hominid species there, the City Builders. (The Ringworld Engineers)
• Mos Espa founded on Tatooine. (Star Wars)
• Seventeen villagers from Medvegia die within a few weeks. The bodies are dug up and resemble the case of Paole four years prior. Their heads are cut off and the corpses burned to prevent any vampire attacks. (Austrian medical officer Johannes Fluckinger's report, published 1732)

1732

• Liska Mitsel-eman is born in the Lowlands of the planet Katmandu. (Katmandu)

1733

• Fall of the Cities; floating cities begin crashing to the ground as damage caused by loss of superconductors reaches breaking point. (The Ringworld Engineers)

1734

• David Balfour is born. (Kidnapped)

circa 1735

• Fergus Claudel Fraser is born. (Outlander)

1738

• July 17: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a man with a superhuman sense of smell, is born in Paris. (Perfume)

1740

• Luc-Esprit Gillenormand is born in Vernon. Charles Francois Myriel is born. (Les Misérables)
• October: Death of Brian Fraser. (Outlander)
• November 22: Lt. Col. Thomas Knowlton is born. (The Dreamer)

1742

• Isaac Higgintoot is born ^{Justification} He states to Pete that this Christmas (2022) will be his 280th one. It’s later confirmed in “The Silent Partner.” (Ghosts (US))

1743

• Claire Beauchamp Randall is transported to this year from 1946, whilst on honeymoon in Scotland. (Outlander)

1744

• The Tenth Doctor meets Madame Pompadour, to discover she's gotten big. (Doctor Who)
• Deimos is born on Mars. (The Outer Limits (1963))
• May 12: Claire miscarries her daughter Faith.(Outlander)

1745

• July 23 - August 19: The immortals Duncan MacLeod and Warren Cochrane fight for the forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in the Jacobite Rising at Eriskay. Before long, the duo find themselves fighting at the front lines. (Highlander: The Series)
• Fall of D'ni (Myst)
• Peabody and Sherman smuggle the nine-foot-tall Bonnie Prince Charlie out of Aberdeen and onto a boat to France. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

1746

• April 16:
  • The Battle of Culloden serves as the final battle of the Jacobite rising as well as the final pitched battle fought in Britain. (Real Life)
  • Warren Cochrane is killed while fighting a small advance force of Hanoverians. With the help of Duncan MacLeod, he revives and must flee. Duncan fights on. (Highlander: The Series)
  • Jamie Fraser is grievously wounded in the battle, and several of his close friends and enemies^moreRupert, Ross, and Black Jack Randall die. (Outlander)
  • The TARDIS lands after the battle. The Second Doctor, Ben and Polly meet Jamie McCrimmon. (Doctor Who)
• June: The immortals Duncan MacLeod and Ceirdwyn help Bonnie Prince Charlie flee Scotland. Duncan refuses to go with them, instead taking revenge on the Hanoverians. (Highlander: The Series)
• Duncan kills Richard Dunbar, Earl of Rosemont and adviser to the Earl of Cumberland, who gave the order to execute all the Jacobites. Ceirdwyn eventually calms him down and helps him flee England, but they are pursued by the immortal Steven Keane, a supporter of Dunbar. (Highlander: The Series)
• The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones prevent the 14-year-old George Washington from joining the Royal Navy so that the American colonists can win The American Revolution. (Voyagers!)

1747

• Death of Terasaka Kichiemon, last of the 47 ronin. He is buried alongside his comrades. (Tales of Old Japan)

1748

• Dooku and Qui-Gon Jinn embark on their last mission as Master and Padawan. (Star Wars)
• Shmi Skywalker is sold into slavery. (Star Wars)
• A phantom version of Dracula's castle appears in the woods of Eastern Europe. (Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance)

1749

• The Hutts take control of Tatooine.
• Alan Warren is born. (The Dreamer)
• Liska Mitsel-eman is kidnapped by Rial Hada-ro-seg and his cousin-brother Pyndan Kota-te-mar and became the slave of the former later on. (Katmandu)
• Abraham Van Brunt is born. ^note  His year of birth is stated in part 1 of the Bones Crossover, "The Resurrection in the Remains". (Sleepy Hollow)

1740s

• The mother of Hsien Ko/Lei-Lei and Mei-Ling/Lin-Lin gives her life to defend their village from an attack by ghosts. The twins proceed to use a forbidden technique in an attempt to reclaim her soul from the dark, which transorms Hsien-Ko to a Jiang Shi and Mei-Ling into a disembodied soul, inhabiting the sealing ward which prevents her sister from going berserk. Together they would become the Dark Hunter of supernatural beings. (Darkstalkers)
• The crew of the Black Pearl attack Port Royal in search of the means to break their curse. (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
• Natty Bumpo makes his name as one of the finest trackers, hunters, and sharpshooters in the New World as "Hawk-ye" (The Deerslayer)

1750

• While travelling in Russia, Duncan MacLeod joins up with the Cossacks for a short while, but leaves in disgust when he learns they intend to attack a defenceless farming village just because the inhabitants are different. (Highlander: The Series)
• Kunta Kinte is born in the village of Jufureh in the Gambia. (Roots)
• Harman Deltahead is born in New Southhampton, Wineport. (killer7)
• Kun Lan is born full-grown in Lhasa, Tibet. (killer7)
• A group of Hoplite raiders attacked the Highland tribe; Liska Mitsel-eman, who was a slave at that point, earned her freedom and warrior status by killing three of them. During the raid, one inhabitant of the tribe, Kayce, was killed. (Katmandu)

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