Timeline of fictional historical events
Various storytellers have tried to create better verisimilitude for their stories by linking them to real history. Protagonists could have witnessed a historical event or even participated in it
(often fighting in various wars). In some stories they may even be originators of some event or try to prevent it (see secret history) but fail - history, as we know it, does not change. In other
cases history does change, and an alternate history branches off
from our own.
In other stories, writers have simply placed the story in some specific year or date.
Fictional countries may also include history of their own,
even if the story itself is not concerned about them.
See also timeline of fictional
future events for fictional events that were set in the future when they were first written, but which have now been
overtaken by real history.
These dates are connected to either specific historical dates or real-world historical events. They are known to be fictitious
— not claimed nonfiction of conspiracy theories.
Before the Big Bang
- The previous universe was collapsing. The last person left, Galan of Taa, was spared, as the universe spoke to him. Their
sentiences became one, forming the all-powerful World Devourer, Galactus, who appeared at the Big Bang. (Fantastic Four, Marvel Universe)
- The Nibblonians begin their existence seventeen years before the Big Bang. (Futurama)
Beginning of the Universe
Prehistoric
- ca. 59,960,000 BC
- 4,000,000 YA
- Warring Transformers crash-land on Earth and
are entombed until modern times.
- Unknown date
- Predacon and Maximal ships pass through a space warp and crash on the ancient Earth. Their fights will be known as the
Beast Wars. From their point of view, it is the early 24th century.
- 1,000,000 BC
- A time machine containing Bill S. Preston, Ted (Theodore) Logan, and several other historical figures land in the area that
will later become San Dimas, California, after the aerial on the machine is damaged. (Bill and Ted's Excellent
Adventure)
Ancient civilizations
- "A Long Time Ago"
- A technologically advanced civilization inhabiting a galaxy "far, far away" goes through periods of intense political turmoil
involving the rise and fall of the Galactic
Empire (Star Wars series, see Dates in Star Wars for more information.)
- 27,000 YA
- 20,000 YA
- The Guardians of the Universe accomplish mass genetic tampering with the Martian species, giving them a weakness to fire and
making them shy away from being chaotic creatures. (JLA)
- A spaceship crashes into Earth, bringing a Guardian of the Universe and a Burning Martian. The Martian kills a tribe of
Cro-Magnons and later is killed by Vandal Savage. (JLA)
- 18,000 BC
- 12,000 YA
- Arnessk becomes uninhabitable. The Eidolons are forced to find different planets to settle in. Some enter suspended
animation. (Farscape: The Peacekeeper
Wars)
- 10,000 BC
5th millennium BC
4th millennium BC
2nd millennium BC
1st millennium BC
1st millennium
10th-century
11th century
12th century
13th century
14th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
First decade
The teens
The twenties
The thirties
The forties
- 1940
- 1941
- May 21 - The Blackbury Blitz destroys Paradise Street and the Blackbury Pickle
Factory. In one timeline the siren is sounded and the street is evacuated in time, in another it isn't. (Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Bomb)
- Parisian private eye Nestor
Burma is released from a prisoner of war-camp and resumes his job during the German occupation of Paris (according to
Leo Malet's books)
- Harald Olufsen tries to use old Hornet Moth plane to warn British about a German installation in Denmark (Ken Follett: Hornet Flight)
- Professor Reinstein is assassinated by a Nazi spy resulting in the irretrievable loss of critical data for Project Rebirth.
To make the most of the project's one successful public test subject, Steven Rogers becomes the patriotic superhero Captain America.
- The All-Star Squadron is formed when the Justice Society goes
missing
- The Invaders are
formed
- Reptilian aliens invade Earth, forcing an alliance between the Axis and Allies, and creating an alternate history. Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series.
- 1942
- 1943
- 1944
- December 23 - Hellboy appears
in East Bromwich, UK
- German spy dashes through England to reveal Allies D-Day invasion plans (Ken
Follett: Eye of the Needle).
- Nazi's retrat from Russia into Lithuania. They kill most of the adults and destroys the Lecter estate. They cannibalise the
children. One of the victims was Mischa Lecter, younger sister of Hannibal. Hannibal escapes.
- 1945
- 1947
- 1948
The fifties
- 1950s
- In the Zodiacian star system (the Twelve Colonies of Man), a robot race of Cylons attack four Battlestars and the twelve
planets (and its inhabitants); the Battlestar Galactica escapes and heads for a "lost" planet called Earth (Battlestar Galactica movie and TV series)
- 1950
- 1951
- 1955
- 1957
- Michael Myers, future murderer in the Halloween
movies, is born.
- 1958
The sixties
- 1960
- 1961
- 1962
- Huge snowstorm engulfs the world and threatens to cancel Christmas; Rudolph
the Red-Nosed Reindeer "goes down in history" and saves Christmas Eve (Rudolph television special)
- 1963
- The Red Dwarf crew travel to John F. Kennedy's assassination in a botched attempt to get curry supplies.
Kennedy survives. The crew travel three years and persuades Kennedy (now in prison) to go back to 1963 and shoot himself. He
agrees and the timeline is restored.
- Michael Myers murders his 17-year-old sister, Judith, and is committed to a sanitarium for the next fifteen years
(Halloween movie)
- The First Doctor leaves London to begin his
adventures, leaving behind the Hand of Omega. Later that year two
Dalek factions fight over the Hand, until the Seventh Doctor arrives, and tricks them
into turning their homeworld's sun into a supernova.
- 1968
- 1969
The seventies
- 1970
- Dr Hannibal Lecter sets up a psychiatric practice in Baltimore.
Lecter treats a male bowhunter for an arrow wound. Five years later, this man will become the sixth victim of The Chesapeake
Ripper.
- 1971
- Haruka Urashima is born. Aged 27 at start of Love Hina.
- 1972
- 1973
- 1974
- 1975
- Sophie Amudson born. Aged 15 in 1990.
- Between March 12 and March 25, four people are brutally murdered by the Chesapeake Ripper. FBI Agent Will Graham interviews
Dr Hannibal Lecter about the sixth victim. Graham realises that Lecter is the serial killer he is hunting and is nearly murdered.
Lecter is arrested for the Chesapeak Ripper murders. He is imprisoned for nine counts of first degree murder. Graham retires.
(Red Dragon)
- 1976
- Coup in San Theodoros reinstates General Alcazar.
- July 8, Dr Hannibal Lecter is examined after complaining of chest pains. A nurse attempts to give him an ECG and is savaged
by Lecter. (Red Dragon)
- 1978
- G.I. Joe team reformed.
- Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield, Illinois, to murder its residents on October 31, Halloween, then escapes to the town hospital to stalk his sister, Laurie Strode. After being pursued by Dr.
Loomis, both Myers and Loomis die in an explosion at the hospital, ending Myers' reign of terror forever (Halloween and Halloween II, and not counting future
sequels)
- First known appearance of a red-caped superhero (Superman:
The Movie)
- FBI Agent Will Graham comes out of retirement to capture The Tooth Fairy, who has murdered two families within a month. He
goes to Dr Hannibal Lecter, now imprisoned, for help.
- 1979
- Keitaro Urashima born. Mutsumi Otohime born. Mitsuni Konno born.
All aged 19 at the beginning of Love Hina.
The eighties
- 1980
- Harry Potter is born to Lily and James Potter on July 31 (Harry Potter series.)
- The Battlestar Galactica reaches Earth, but the Cylon fleet is closely following; as Earth is not yet equipped to handle a
Cylon attack, the Galactica and its rag-tag fleet keep its distance from Earth; it is assumed they shortly after leave the
Solar System for another planet with climates similar to Earth (Galactica 1980 TV series)
- 1981
- 1983
- 1984
- May 12 - A T-800 Terminator arrives from the future to kill Sarah Connor
(The Terminator).
- Lestat rises from his coma and becomes a rock star
- Two sailors from 1943 arrive in 1984 via a wormhole when an radar-blocking device goes wrong. - The Philadelphia Experiment
(movie)
- Keitaro Urashima, aged five, makes a promise to marry a girl he meets (Love
Hina).
- Motoko Aoyama born. Aged 15 at start of Love Hina.
- 1985
- 1986
- Events of Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos.
- A time-stranded crew of Moya seek to prevent John's father from entering the Challenger. A young John loses his virginity to Chiana, and the crew manages to return to their
proper time. (Farscape)
- 1987
- 1988
- September 14 - The Sandman escapes from Frederick Burgess.
- Shinobu Maehara born. Aged 12 at start of Love Hina.
- Bill S. Preston and Ted (Theodore) Logan are visited by a man from the future. He lends them a time machine disguised as a
phone booth to help them with a history report. At the same time, Bill and Ted engage in conversation with future versions of
themselves. Future Ted reminds his past self to wind his watch back. Events of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures.
- 1989
- Dave Lister lands on an exact replica of Earth after going through a cosmic storm. After meeting his future self, he does not
go to see 'Run From the Wind'.
The nineties
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993
- August - Sirius Black becomes the first known prisoner to escape from Azkaban. His escape causes panic throughout the
wizarding world. In June 1994, Black and former best friend Remus Lupin
expose Peter Pettigrew as a traitor in front of Harry, Ron, and
Hermione (Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.)
- The Red Dwarf crew travel to the far distant future into a Time Hole. They
arrive in a Universe where time runs backwards. They land on Earth in the year 3991 (or 1993). They 'unlive' three weeks of their
lives.
- 1994
- 1995
- 1996
- June 6: Lucifer Alpha is accidentally released from Chernoton Research
Facility, killing 80% of the population of Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Snatcher).
- 1997
- 1998
- 1999
- Tyler Durden, along with Project Mayhem, blows up the headquarters of the world's largest credit agencies. (movie version of
Fight Club)
- August 1 Seven human children are dragged into the digital world, in a day that
would mark the fall of Devimon and Etemon, as well as the beginning of digimon/human relations.
- December 31 - Philip
J. Fry is cryogenically frozen. (Futurama)
- December 31 - Robert MacDougal and Virginia Baker attempt to steal $8
billion electronically in Kuala Lumpur on the stroke of midnight (Entrapment)
- December 31 - Norbert and Dagget are dragged from the real universe by an
unknown being and asked to create their own world as a start-over (The Angry Beavers)
- 1999 - 2002 - The events of Farscape
21st Century
Notes
- Kilgore Trout has two birthdates in the two different novels in which he stars; 1909 in Breakfast of Champions; 1931 in Timequake. He also has two deathdates, 1981 and 2001. No explanation is offered.
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