Heroe's Arise Era
1582 AD - Gregorian Calendar adopted by Catholic countries.
1585 AD - After the Fall of Antwerp many of its merchants flee to Amsterdam. The modern square root symbol is first used. Protestant reform of the Christian church in several countries in Northern Europe.
French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots in France. Poland is the largest state in Europe. The Council of Trent, one of the ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church,
define a large number of new dogmas in response to the Protestant Reformation. Introduction of spinning wheel revolutionizes textile production. New world crops such as maize corn,
potatoes, chocolate, tomatoes, become known to Europeans.
1602 AD - Antwerp merchants establish the Dutch East India Company, embarking on colonial expansion based on shareholdership rather than royal control.
1605 AD - Australia first discovered.
1618-1648 AD - The Thirty Years' War in Europe. Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England. Scottish and English Protestants sent to colonize Ireland, as reaction to Catholicism there.
1625 AD - The adventures of the three Musketeers; Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan, as chronicled by Alexandre Dumas.
1637 AD - The Dutch republic becomes the dominant economic and political power in Europe. It also undergoes crashes, e.g. the windhandle in tulips leads to many bankruptcies.
1642-1651 AD - The English Civil War. The Deluge: series of wars and civil wars in Poland with Sweden, Russia, Prussia and Transylvania which cause Poland to lose power and began the rise of Russia.
1648 AD - Republic of the Seven United Netherlands gains formal independence from Spain. Dutch merchant ships sail all over the world, leading to the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic.
1650 AD - Spanish conquer South America.
1676 AD - First measurement of the speed of light.
1680 AD - Final failure of Turks to conquer Europe. A Dar'que Lord battles sea pirates. Calculus is invented and used to formulate classical mechanics. Cannon and gunpowder technology refined.
1700 AD - China reunified.
1707 AD - The Kingdom of Great Britain is formed.
1715 AD - Louis XIV dies.
1718 AD - Blackbeard and other buccaneers appear.
1760 AD - Spanish printing of the Necronomicon.
1770 AD - James Cook explorations. Australia first settled.
1776 AD - British colonies on the American continent declare their independence from Britain, renaming themselves the United States of America. Creation of the Illuminati.
1788 AD - First European settlement established in Australia.
1789 AD - United States Constitution.
1789-1795 AD - The French Revolution.
1790 AD - Events of Frankenstein.
1791 AD - Events of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
1792 AD - Illuminating gas used in England.
1793 AD - Construction of Washington capitol begins. Louis XVI executed in France.
1794 AD - First optical telegraph in Paris. Slavery abolished in the colonies.
1795 AD - Metric system established in France. First horse drawn railroad in England. Bread riots in Paris.
1796 AD - Jenner introduces smallpox vaccination. Edict of Peking bans opium into China. Napoleon conquers Austria.
1798 AD - French capture Rome, Naples, Malta and Egypt.
1799 AD - Rosetta stone (for deciphering hieroglyphics) is found by Napoleon's troops. Napoleon overthrows the French government.
1800 AD - Trevithik builds the steam engine. Volta creates first battery of zinc and copper.
1801 AD - Fulton invents first submarine. Thomas Jefferson president. Silver Deer is chosen as the new Earthlord.
1802 AD - Dalton introduces atomic theory into chemistry. Hershel discovers binary stars.
1803 AD - Fulton creates steam powered boat. Shrapnel invents the shell. The U.S. purchases Louisiana from France.
1804 AD - Trevithick builds first steam train. Spanish/English war.
1806 AD - British begin using rockets as weapons. Official end of holy Roman empire. Don Diego de la Vega returns to find that his father, who had been alcalde, has been replaced by the corrupt Luis Quintero. Quintero and the brutal garrison commander, Captain Juan Ramon, are exploiting the peasants, the priests, and the Indians. Diego poses as a harmless fop so that he can battle Quintero and Ramon in the guise of El Zorro.
1807 AD - Newberry invents the circular saw.
1808 AD - Napoleon abolishes the inquisition in Spain and Italy.
1809 AD - Gauss establishes mathematical geometry.
1810 AD - Main adventures of Silver Deer and a vigilante cowboy named the Spirit of Vengeance.
1812 AD - Iodine discovered. Grimm fairy tales. British American war over Canada ends in stalemate.
1813 AD - First bicycle.
1814 AD - First Steam locomotive. Gas street lights in London. British burn Washington DC.
1815 AD - Fresnel theory of light. First steam warship. Davy invents miner's safety lamp. Brazil independence.
1816 AD - Laennec invents stethoscope. English economic crisis leads to mass migration to the Americas. Argentina declares independence from Spain.
1818 AD - First steamship crosses Atlantic. Chile independent.
1819 AD - Oersted discovers electromagnetism. Child labour outlawed in England. Florida purchased by the U.S. from Spain.
1820 AD - Mexico wins its independence from Spain.
1821 AD - Champollion deciphers Egyptian hieroglyphics. Peru, Honduras, Panama, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua become independent of Spain.
1822 AD - Greece becomes independent. So do Mexico and Ecuador from Spain, and Brazil from Portugal.
1823 AD - Macintosh invents waterproof fabric. United provinces of Central America formed with Guatemala, San Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
1824 AD - Cement developed. Thermodynamics developed. British workers unionize.
1825 AD - First railroad opened (England). Horse drawn buses in London. Tea from China introduced into Europe. Bolivia separates from Peru, Uruguay from Brazil.
1826 AD - First railroad tunnel. Russian war in Persia.
1827 AD - Niepce invents the photograph. Ressel invents the ship's screw propeller. Wohler creates aluminum from clay. Sulfur friction matches created by Walker. Russia takes Armenia.
1828 AD - First railroad in the U.S., Baltimore-Ohio. First Websters dictionary. Last inquisition execution.
1829 AD - Killing of widows upon husbands' death abolished in India by British. Slavery abolished in Mexico.
1830 AD - First steam cars in England. France takes Algeria.
1831 AD - Ross determines position of magnetic North Pole. Belgium separates from the Netherlands. The Foreign legion formed.
1832 AD - Chloroform invented. Britain occupies the Falklands.
1833 AD - First electromagnetic telegraph. Abolition of slavery in British empire.
1834 AD - Babbage invents first analytical engine (computer) in England. Electrolysis discovered. End of Spanish inquisition.
1835 AD - Halley's comet reappears. First German railroad. First electric batteries for trains. Hans Christian Andersen publishes first tales. Texas secedes from Mexico.
1837 AD - First Canadian railroad.
1838 AD - Ozone discovered. Thousands of native Americans forced to move off their land.
1839 AD - First bicycle. Goodyear discovers process of rubber vulcanisation.
1840 AD - Artificial fertilizer developed. First postage stamp in England. Lower and upper Canada united.
1841 AD - Opium war between Britain and China.
1842 AD - Ether used as surgical anesthesia. Doppler velocity effect discovered. Treaty of Nanking ends opium war.
1844 AD - Morse telegraph used. Wood pulp paper invented. Events of the Count of Monte Christo.
1845 AD - Hydraulic crane invented. Florida and Texas join the U.S.
1846 AD - Neptune discovered by Galle. Famine in Ireland. America annexes new Mexico.
1847 AD - Working hours reduced in England. Liberia independent.
1848 AD - First safety matches. Marx communist manifesto.
1849 AD - First safety pin. First reinforced concrete. Speed of light measured.
1850 AD - First gas burner. California joins the U.S.
1850-1864 AD - 20 million killed during rebellion in 17 Chinese provinces.
1851 AD - First continuous stitch sewing machines.
1853 AD - Colt begins manufacturing small arms. Crimean war; Britain, France and Turkey vs. Russia.
1854 AD - Florence Nightingale pioneers nursing in the Crimea.
1855 AD - First printing telegraph. London sewers modernised after the outbreak of Cholera.
1856 AD - Neanderthal skull found. Treaty of Paris ends Crimean war.
1857 AD - First elevator. British/French war against China.
1858 AD - Chinese ports opened to British and French trade.
1859 AD - Charles Darwin revolutionizes biology with his theories of evolution. Oregon joins the U.S.
1860 AD - First internal combustion engine. England/France occupy Peking. John Reid saves Tonto's life from a band of outlaw raiders. The same raiders go on to kill his parents and burn their ranch. John is adopted into the Potawatomai tribe as Tonto's blood brother. Tonto gives John an amulet to symbolize their friendship and bestows upon him the name, "Kemo Sabe," which means trusted friend (in some versions, it means trusty scout).
1861 AD - First horse drawn trams in London. Kingdom of Italy proclaimed. Lincoln president of
the U.S. U.S. civil war begins, 11 southern states secede. Confederate victory at Bull Run.
1862 AD - Gatling invents machine gun. Lincoln emancipates slaves. Union victory at New Orleans but lose at Bull Run. Dr Moriarty begins his career as a master criminal.
1863 AD - Science of metallurgy developed. Confederate loss at Gettysburg.
1864 AD - International Red Cross founded. Pasteurization invented for wine. Tolstoy writes War and Peace. Confederate loss at Atlanta.
1865 AD - First transatlantic cable laid. First oil pipeline (Pennsylvania). Alice in Wonderland written. Surrender of Confederates, end of civil war. Lincoln assassinated. Slavery fully abolished. Prince Dakkar creates the identity of "Captain Nemo" and launches his submarine Nautilus. Moriarty having stolen a second Nautilus also goes by the name Captain Nemo. Moriarty's goal is to commit as many heinous, reprehensible, and criminal acts as possible, all the while having them attributed to Dakkar.
1866 AD - Dynamite invented. Underwater torpedo invented. Austro-Italian war. Upon hearing of the mysterious exploits of another submarine, and its master, Captain Nemo, Arthur Gordon Pym also begins calling himself Captain Nemo, and begins plundering ships worldwide. In the course of his adventures, this third Captain Nemo encounters the square-jawed, self-righteous Dick Lightheart and his boys, the water-logged survivours of an encounter with a sea-monster. The sea monster turns out to actually be the third Nemo's submarine, the Enigma. Pym-Nemo regales Lightheart and the boys with a fictional autobiography, calling himself Harold Duggan, a Confederate veteran whose fiancée, convinced that he was dead, married someone else. For this Nemo has sworn vengeance, sinking ships and generally causing havoc on the high seas. Having his destructive exploits attributed to the real Nemo is an added benefit. Lightheart sabotages the sub. Pym is killed.
1867 AD - Livingstone explores the Congo. The U.S. buys Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.
1868 AD - Shogunate abolished in Japan. Meiji restoration opens Japan to modern influences and returns the emperor to power. Phileas Fogg is placed among Moriarty-Nemo's crew as a spy for the British secret service; he is ultimately successful in sinking Moriarty-Nemo's second Nautilus.
1869 AD - First periodic table. Suez canal opened. 20,000 leagues under the sea written. Railroads make fast mass transit available to many. First Transcontinental Railroad finished in linking east to west in the United States. Postage Stamps introduced in Great Britain and soon thereafter in many other countries.
1870 AD - Rockefeller founds his oil company. The French leave Italy, Rome proclaimed capitol. French-Prussian war. The United States begins massive industrialization in urban areas. James Moriarty, who has abandoned the Captain Nemo identity, uncovers the diabolical plans of an Anglo-Egyptian named Rathe, who formerly called himself Ahtar. Abetted by his masterful abilities of disguise, Moriarty kills Rathe and takes his place as an instructor at a school in London. He serves as young Sherlock Holmes' tutor.
1871 AD - First pneumatic rock drill invented. British parliament legalises labour unions.
1872 AD - Conscription in Japan and France. Spanish civil war.
1873 AD - First typewriter, colour photographs. Spanish republic proclaimed. Bengal famine. First theories on electricity and magnetism.
1874 AD - First pressure cooking. Iceland independent of Denmark. Captain Reid and his Ranger troop, accompanied by John Reid, pursue some killers. Unfortunately, Collins leads the six men into an ambush at the bottom of Bryant's Gap where they are all gunned down. Tonto finds the rangers and nurses John, the only survivor, back to health, and tells him "...others dead, you lone ranger now." Tonto digs six graves so that the gang will not suspect that there was a survivor. John spends most of the winter and early spring months recovering from his wounds. John and Tonto have heard of a fabulous wild stallion in a nearby valley. After saving the magnificent animal from a frenzied bison, they nurse the horse back to health. John wins the animal's trust and, at Tonto's suggestion, names him "Silver." At Tonto's suggestion, John fashions bullets out silver taken from the mine he and Dan discovered. He makes a mask out of his brother's vest and becomes the Lone Ranger. He begins his career by tracking down and bringing to justice the members of the Cavendish gang who participated in the ambush including the corrupt Collins.
1874-1876 AD - The Lone Ranger and Tonto scour Texas for Cavendish gang members who scatter from the main band. He captures them and turns them in to await trail and ultimately to hang. Sheriff Wyatt of Del Rio is so rattled by the Masked Man's activities he takes refuge at Cavendish's hidden headquarters.
1875 AD - First rotary printing press. Korean independent from China. Sherlock Holmes encounters Dr. Fu Manchu and later in the year Moriarty.
1876 AD - Bell invents telephone. Internal combustion engine in Germany. Custer killed by Indians. The Lone Ranger and Tonto save President Grant's life. Wild Bill Hickok is murdered in Deadwood, South Dakota. The Lone Ranger takes the name of Allen King and joins a Ranger troop. They are opposing the depredations of a criminal mastermind who has assumed the identity of Marcus Jefferies, a government land agent.
1877 AD - First phonograph. First shipment of refrigerated meat. Samurai revolt suppressed in Japan. The Lone Ranger takes the name of Bill Andrews in order to defeat the plans of Bart Dolan, the nephew of a powerful cattleman who is trying to rid the San Ramon valley of settlers. With the aid of Tonto and Juan Vasquez, he is able to foil the schemes of Dolan's marauders.
1878 AD - First microphone. First repeater rifle. Salvation Army formed.
1879 AD - First electric light bulb. First electric tram in Berlin. Zulu war, defeated by England.
1880 AD - Cholera vaccine. Malaria parasite discovered. The adventures of Allan Quatermain in King Solomons Mines.
1881 AD - First electrical tram in Berlin. Persecution of Jews in Russia. Holmes and Watson begin their detective agency.
1882 AD - First hydroelectric plant.
1883 AD - First skyscraper built in Chicago. First run of Orient Express (Paris-Istanbul). Krakatoa eruption. Dr. Jekyll becomes Mr. Hyde.
1883-1885 AD - French Vietnamese war.
1884 AD - First underground railroad in London. First Oxford dictionary. May day strikes. Commencement of building of statue of Liberty.
1885 AD - First photographic paper. First gasoline engine for motor cars. First appendectomy. First roller coaster. Vaccine against rabies.
1886 AD - Aluminum produced by electrolysis. Statue of liberty finished.
1887 AD - Celluloid film invented. First gramophone. National Geographic Society founded. Island of Dr Moreau discovered.
1888 AD - First electric motor. First box camera. First pneumatic tire. Radio waves identified. Jack the Ripper murders six women. Van Helsing's war on Dracula.
1889 AD - Eiffel tower built. Insulin used to treat diabetes. Agnosticism established. Dakota, Montana and Washington become states of the U.S. Brazil becomes a republic.
1890 AD - First moving picture shows. Rubber gloves used in surgery. First steel framed building (U.S). Global influenza epidemic. Luxembourg separates from Netherlands. First cardboard box.
1891 AD - Wireless telegraphy in use. Zipper invented. First radio.
1892 AD - Basketball invented.
1893 AD - First automatic telephone switchboard. Benz and Ford each build their own first cars. First diesel engine. First motion picture studio.
1894 AD - Japan invades Korea. First Coca Cola. International Olympic Committee formed. Butch Cavendish escapes from prison and follows the Lone Ranger to Bryant's Gap, where he has taken his nephew Dan to visit his father's grave on the 20th anniversary of his death. Cavendish ambushes the two, but the Ranger fights back, mortally wounding him. As Cavendish is dying, the Masked Man reveals his true identity and the outlaw's last words are, "I wish I could have died not knowing."
1895 AD - First safety razor. First radio telegraphy. X-rays discovered.
1896 AD - Helium discovered. Radioactivity discovered. First modern Olympics in Athens. Beginning of Klondike gold rush. First x-ray photograph. At the age of 45, with the worst of the lawless elements in the west pacified, John Reid most probably hangs up his mask and guns. He marries Amy Striker and years later, her nephew Fran immortalizes his Uncle John's exploits on radio and a series of novels.
1897 AD - Brooklyn merges with New York. Scientist Dr. John Hawley Griffin becomes the invisible man.
1898 AD - Paris metro opens. Zeppelin builds airship. War of worlds written. Allan Quatermain, Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde, Captain Nemo (Prince Dakkar), The Invisible Man (Hawley Griffin) band together to battle Fu Manchu and Professor Moriarty.
1899 AD - First magnetic recording of sound. First aspirin. Cuba independent of Spain. Geometry introduced.
1900 AD - Quantum theory. Commonwealth of Australia established. Mexican revolution. Boer war. Gold discovered in Australia and throughout the west of the United States, leading to huge increases in national wealth and encouraging mass migration of free settlers there.
The first War of the Worlds; the Martians launch an unsuccessful attack on Earth, beginning with London. They succumb to Earth bacteria and are defeated.