Grand Unified Timeline/The Renaissance and Industrial Revolution: Difference between revisions

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* 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 (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'')

* 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 (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'')

* Approximate date that Meredoth is pulled from [[Mystara]] to Ravenloft. (921 AC, 635 BC)<ref>(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 Ravenloft two years later, in 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.</ref> ([[Dungeons and& Dragons]]: [[Ravenloft]])

* 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 (Fanfic)|I Am Skantarios]]'')

* Ezio Auditore travels to Constantinople to retrieve the seals of Altaïr in order to unlock the vault of Masyaf. (''[[Assassin's Creed Revelations (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'')

* 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 (Fanfic)|I Am Skantarios]]'')

* Connor MacLeod born. (''[[Highlander (Film)|Highlander]]'')

* Ezio Auditore passes away quietly on a bench in Florence at the age of 65. (''[[Assassin's Creed (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed]]: Embers'')

* Emperor Skantarios slays Pope Nicolaus IV the Missionary in single combat before capturing Rome for the Byzantine Empire. (''[[I Am Skantarios (Fanfic)|I Am Skantarios]]'')

* Kit Walker becomes the first Phantom. (''[[The Phantom (Comiccomic Stripstrip)|The Phantom]]'')

* Connor MacLeod slain by the Kurgan, but revives. He is banished by the fearful people of his hometown. (''[[Highlander (Film)|Highlander]]'')

* Connor MacLeod marries Heather MacDonald. (''[[Highlander (Film)|Highlander]]'')

* Publication of the major works (''[[The Prince (Literature)|The Prince]]'' and ''[[Discourses On Livy (Literature)|Discourses Onon Livy]]'') of [[Niccolo Machiavelli]]. Only after this is it really fair to call anybody "Machiavellian".

* Emperor Skantarios is killed while touring new conquests just south of Bern. (''[[I Am Skantarios (Fanfic)|I Am Skantarios]]'')

* Connor MacLeod meets fellow Immortal Ramirez, who becomes his mentor. (''[[Highlander (Film)|Highlander]]'')

* While Connor MacLeod is out hunting, the Kurgan slays Ramirez and assaults Heather. (''[[Highlander (Film)|Highlander]]'')

* The First Doctor and Steven Taylor arrive in Paris, France, during the height of Protestant-Catholic tensions. (''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'')

* Christopher Belmont goes on a quest to destroy the revived Dracula. ([[Castlevania (Video Game)|Castlevania]] Adventure)

* The Eleventh Doctor takes Amy and Rory on a date in Venice, as a wedding present. Vampires <ref>well, sexy alien fish really</ref> ensue. (''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'')

* Christopher Belmont hunts Dracula again to save his son. ([[Castlevania II: Belmonts Revenge (Video Game)|Castlevania II BelmontsBelmont's Revenge]])

* Three Carrionites break through into Elizabethan England. <ref>They manipulate the architect of the Globe Theatre into making it to their specified shape. They then break the architect's mind.</ref> (''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'')

* The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones meet [[William Shakespeare]] and prevent a Carrionite invasion. <ref>Which Shakespeare helped begin. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Whoops.]]</ref> Queen Elizabeth arrives, calling for the Doctor's head, after her nickname became... inaccurate. The Doctor flees, [[Timey-Wimey Ball|not knowing what's going on]]. (''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'')

* Approximate date that Diane de Moriamis leaves Averoigne on Earth for Nouvelle Averoigne in Mystara (local year 1012 AC).<ref>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.</ref> ([[Dungeons and& Dragons]]: [[Mystara]])

* Marcus Octavius and Colin MacLeod take part in [http://en.wikipedia.org/Sengoku_jidai a series of conflicts raging across Japan]{{Dead link}}, but their only recorded duel is inconclusive. (''[[Highlander the Search For Vengeance]]'')

* Queen Elizabeth I is assassinated at Richmond Palace by Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, as are the Lords Blackadder and Melchett <ref>(and two undistinguished peasants of minor importance and questionable sanity, whose names history has only partially recorded)</ref>. 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. ''([[Black AdderBlackadder]] II)''

* Approximate date that the town of Odiare is pulled from Italy on Gothic Earth to Ravenloft (local year 738 BC).<ref>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.</ref> ([[Dungeons and& Dragons]]: [[Ravenloft]])

* The Three Musketeers and D'Artagnan battle the schemes of Cardinal Richelieu. (''[[The Three Musketeers (Literaturenovel)|The Three Musketeers]]'')

* On [[The DCU|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 (Comic Book)|Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]'')

* Approximate date of the Faction War in Sigil. (130th year of Factol Hashkar's Reign)<ref>Assumes 1629=130th year; see ''Die Vecna Die!'' events in 1629.</ref> ([[Dungeons and& Dragons]]: [[Planescape]])

* Approximate date that Azalin Rex returns and reclaims most of Darkon. (local year 755 BC) <ref>Assumes 1629=755 BC; see ''Die Vecna Die!'' events in 1629.</ref> ([[Dungeons and& Dragons]]: [[Ravenloft]])

* Approximate date that the demigod Vecna becomes a full god, escapes [[Ravenloft]], visits [[Planescape|Sigil]], and returns to [[Greyhawk|Oerth]].<ref>Specifically, he lures Iuz the Evil from Oerth into Ravenloft and absorbs Iuz's power to ascend to greater godhood; uses his new power to force Ravenloft into sending him to 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.</ref> (591 CY, 755 BC, 130th year of Factol Hashkar's Reign)<ref>''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 D&D settings and Ravenloft, but those connected dates rely solely on Ravenloft's mists, which are notorious for warping time.</ref> ([[Dungeons and& Dragons]]: ''Die Vecna Die!'')

* Approximate date that a mysterious patron<ref>Azalin Rex</ref> sends the noted scholar "S" to explore the domains of Ravenloft. (local year 756 BC) <ref>Assumes 1629=755 BC; see ''Die Vecna Die!'' events in 1629.</ref> ([[Dungeons and& Dragons]]: [[Ravenloft]])

* In France, Duncan MacLeod meets Kyra, a fellow Immortal and bodyguard to Anne of Austria, Queen consort of Louis XIII. (''[[Highlander the Series]]'')

* Apparent birth of Ronin in Glasgow, Scotland. An energy being, Ronin bonds initially to Jessel Howard, and in subsequent years to a female descendant of Jessel. (''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'')

* Prophecied Time of Unparalleled Darkness in Ravenloft. (local year 775 BC)<ref>Assumes 1629=755 BC; see ''Die Vecna Die!'' events in 1629.</ref> ([[Dungeons and& Dragons]]: [[Ravenloft]])

* 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 a [[The Night That Never Ends|Night That Never Ends]]. 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... Withwith Children]]'')

* September 30 - Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked on an island. (''[[Robinson Crusoe (Literature)|Robinson Crusoe]]'')

* [[The Three Musketeers (Literaturenovel)|The Three Musketeers]] conspire to depose Louis XIV and replace him with his twin brother Philippe. (''[[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]]'')

** The Great Fire of London is accidentally started when the Fifth Doctor and companions defeat the Terileptils. (''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'')

* 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 (TV series)|Heroes]]'')

* 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 (Video Game)|Darkstalkers]]'')

* On 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]]'')

* Birth of the succubus Morrigan Aensland in Scotland. (''[[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Darkstalkers]]'')

* The convicted English traitor Dr. Peter Blood escapes from enforced servitude on a Barbados plantation. (''[[Captain Blood (Film)|Captain Blood]]'')

* Simon Belmont takes up the whip to destroy Dracula. (''[[Castlevania (1986 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Castlevania 1986]]'')

** The Salem witch trials begin in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. (''[[The Crucible]]'' and real life).

** The magic-using Megans evacuate planet Earth. (''[[Star Trek: theThe Animated Series]]'')

* July-September - Reconquest of Santa Fe and the wider New Mexico area by the Spanish Empire. 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: theThe Next Generation]]'')

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

* April 1 - The Eleventh Doctor is briefly becalmed on Henry Avery's pirate ship. Mermaids are involved. <ref>So are spaceships.</ref> (''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'')

* November - Lemuel Gulliver is washed ashore in Lilliput. (''[[GulliversGulliver's Travels]]'')

* June 16 - Lemuel Gulliver is marooned in Brobdingnag. (''[[GulliversGulliver's Travels]]'')

* May - Lemuel Gulliver arrives at the floating island of Laputa. (''[[GulliversGulliver's Travels]]'')

* May 9 - Lemuel Gulliver is marooned in the land of the Houyhnhnms. You'd think he'd have figured out that sea voyages were unlucky for him. (''[[GulliversGulliver's Travels]]'')

* March 3/4, midnight - Tristram Shandy is conceived. His mother asks his father if he'd remembered to wind the clock. (''[[Tristram Shandy (Literature)|Tristram Shandy]]'')

* The Tenth Doctor meets a young Madame de Pompadour for the first time and fights off a clockwork android stalking her. (''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'')

* Birth of the twins Hsien Ko/Lei-Lei and Mei Ling/Lin-Lin in China. (''[[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Darkstalkers]]'')

* July 17 - Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a man with a superhuman sense of smell, is born in Paris. (''[[Perfume (Literature)|Perfume]]'')

* The Tenth Doctor meets Madame Pompadour, to discover [[She Is's All Grown Up|she's gotten big]]. (''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'')

* 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]]'')

* April 16- The Battle of Culloden serves as the [[Final Battle]] of the Jacobite rising. 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]]'')

* 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 Hunter|the Dark Hunter]] of supernatural beings. (''[[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Darkstalkers]]'')

* Harman Deltahead is born in New Southhampton, Wineport. (''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'')

* Kun Lan is born full-grown in Lhasa, Tibet. (''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'')

* September 15: British government switches from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. (''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' and [[Real Life]])

* Rose warns Madame de Pompadour about the threat of androids in five years time. (''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'')

* Estimated birth of Tarquin, a telepath in a race that fears telepaths. He would have trouble with companionship until 2135. (''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'')

* Three-year-old Kun Lan is identified as the reincarnation of a demon and is worshipped by an underground cult. (''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'')

* The last Mohicans and [[The Leatherstocking Tales (Literature)|Natty Bumppo]] rescue hostages from the Huron. (''[[The Last of the Mohicans (Literature)|The Last of the Mohicans]]'')

* Clockwork androids come through time to fetch the "complete" brain of Madame de Pompadour. The Tenth Doctor enters Versailles on horseback, cutting off the time window to the SS Madame de Pompadour and subsequently shutting down the androids. Madame de Pompadour gives the Doctor a way back to his TARDIS. (''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'')

* Harman Deltahead meets his neighbour, who has an angelic smile <ref>who is Kun Lan</ref>. (''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'')

* Barnabas Collins and his family leave Liverpool for America. (''[[Dark Shadows (Filmfilm)|Dark Shadows]]'')

* The town of Collinsport is established around the Collins family fishing business. Construction begins on the Collins family manor. (''[[Dark Shadows (Filmfilm)|Dark Shadows]]'')

* 15 April: Death of Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour from tuberculosis. The Tenth Doctor, too late to take in Madame de Pompadour as a companion, is left a letter by the King of France as her body is taken away. (''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'')

* April - After killing a series of women for their scents in Grasse, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is caught by the authorities and sentenced to death. <ref>When he's about to be executed, he uses the perfume he created to make the crowd love him and declare him innocent</ref>. (''[[Perfume (Literature)|Perfume]]'')

* At about this date, the planet Eminiar VII goes to war against its former colony Vendikar. The war lasted for 500 years, ending in 2267. During the war, the two sides switched from using actual weaponry to using computer simulations. The two sides calculated the casualties each strike would cause. An equivalent number of actual people would then be asked to commit suicide. (''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'', novelization ''Star Trek 2'')

* Murder of Harman Deltahead's daughter, Susan. Harman goes mad and begins seeing ghosts. His angelic neighbour helps him become a killer. (''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'')

* The inhabitants of Epsilon 3 leave the planet, leaving behind the Great Machine and it's guardian. (''[[Babylon Five5]]'')

* Thomas Gainsborough paints "The Two Georges," commemorating George Washington's meeting with King George III and the peaceful resolution of tensions between England and its American colonies. (''[[The Two Georges (Literature)|The Two Georges]]'')

* Harman Deltahead joins the Jim Townsend Survey Company as a professional assassin. (''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'')

* Harman Deltahead assassinates "Three-eyes" Dimitri at the Union Hotel, gaining his god-killer powers. Kun Lan speaks to Harman through Dimitri's body, and the two become friends. (''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'')

* Harman Deltahead assassinates Jim Townsend and legally changes his name to Harman Smith. He founds the Smith Syndicate, with Three-eyes Dimitri as his first employee. (''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'')

* A delegation from the Thirteen Colonies led by George Washington meets with King George III and his ministers to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the brewing hostilities between the colonies and Great Britain, a process while will ultimately result in the North American colonies being unified as the North American Union and remaining under the British Crown. The successful meeting is later immortalized by a painting by Gainsborough, "The Two Georges" (''[[The Two Georges (Literature)|The Two Georges]]'').

* The Collins family mansion is completed. After Barnabas rejects the affections of serving girl Angelique, the patriarch and his family are killed. Barnabas becomes a vampire and is buried for 196 years. (''[[Dark Shadows (Filmfilm)|Dark Shadows]]'')

* July 7 - Count de LaFey finds out that the child his wife is carrying is not his, and pushes her down the stairs. ([[King Diamond (Music)|King Diamond]] album ''Abigail'')

* Harman Smith quits contract killing and drops out of society. Dimitri is rejected from the core personal, who reverts to the name Harman Deltahead. (''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'')

* Supported by a secret society, Harman Deltahead founds and serves as the first principal of Coburn Elementary School, intending to use it as a vehicle to spread capitalism. (''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'')

* Crane meets a scarier version of the Horseman. [[Nightmare Fuel|Terror]] follows. (''[[The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney)|The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad]]'')

* First US presidential primary elections are held in Coburn Elementary School. (''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'')

* First appearance of the Scarlet Pimpernel. (''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (Literaturenovel)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'')

* Dracula revives, kidnapping the loved ones of Richter Belmont to lure him to his castle. (''[[Castlevania (Video Game)|Castlevania]]: Dracula X'')

* The First Doctor and companions arrive in Paris, France, during the Reign of Terror. (''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'')

* Alucard, son of Dracula, awakens from his slumber, and seeks out the cause of what disturbed his sleep. (''[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]]'')

* Convicted thief Jean Valjean is sentenced to hard labor at the notorious Bagne de Toulon (''[[Les Misérables (Literaturenovel)|Les Misérables]]'')

* Ichabod Crane, a New York police constable, arrives at the small town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of murders. Performed by the Headless Horseman. (''[[Sleepy Hollow (Film)|Sleepy Hollow]]'')