The European Wold Newton Universe
        (with divers disquisitions and holdings-forth on matters obscure, 
arcane,    and mischievous, 
        and an occasional diversion into English and American personages)
        
        
               
Timeline
        (Before 1800)
        
        
   
Updated 10 May; updates in blue.
  
   
  c. 60-c. 30 B.C.E. Tros of Samothrace, the son of 
Prince Perseus, fights against Rome. Tros is a leader of men, a military captain,
clever as a leader and driven by honor to do right by those who serve him.
He is also a master seaman, among the best sailors of his day. Tros fights
his way around the Mediterranean, sending many Romans down to the briny deep;
Tros hates Julius Caesar, who is a "liar, a brute, a treacherous humbug and
conceited ass." Tros fights Northmen and Briton, eventually marrying one
of the former and bringing both groups around to his side. He builds the
Liafail, a massive ship of his own unique design, filled with special
armaments for Greek Fire. He cons Caesar into making him his Admiral. He
stops conspiracies in Spain. In Rome he helps pressure Caesar into abandoning
 an invasion of Spain (though not after having to fight in the Circus Maximus).
 He acquires the disfavor of Cleopatra and has to carry out tasks for her,
 squashing conspiracies and intrigues, some by her sister. He ends up marrying
 Arsinoe, the sister (his first wife was killed while a prisoner), earning
 him the wrath of Cleopatra (she burns Liafail, for one). Tros helps
 Marc Anthony defeat Brutus and Cassius, and Anthony gets Cleopatra off his
 back. (Talbot Munday's Tros of Samothrace stories, beginning with "Tros
of  Samothrace" in 1925). 
  
      
      65-66 C.E. In Rome Vinicius, a Roman soldier, meets the maiden
Lygia,    the daughter of a barbarian prince. Vinicius falls in love with
Lygia and    through love of her eventually converts to Christianity. Meanwhile,
Vinicius’    friend Petronius negotiates his way through the deadly
politics of   the court of Nero. He is known as "Petronius Arbiter" because
of his superb   taste in art and aesthetics. Nero orders Rome set on fire
and begins persecuting   the new cult of Christianity. Lygia is captured
but eventually freed, and   Lygia and Vinicius marry and flee to Sicily.
The rogue manhunter Chilo Chilonides   eventually escapes from Rome as well.
Petronius is not so lucky, although   he could at any time depose Tigellinus,
the leader of the soldiers, and take  command of the Roman army. (Such would
be too much effort for Petronius,  who is content instead to stay in his
villa, admire his works of art, and  read the classics. Knowing that he is
about to be condemned to death by Nero,  Petronius holds a lush feast for
those he values. At the end of the feast  he slits his wrist and then reads
a savage condemnation of Nero’s personality  and artistic abilities. Petronius
dies in the arms of Eunice, his love. (Henryk   Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis,
1895).
      
      
      79. In Pompeii in the days before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, 
 one  man, above all others, is a figure of fear and respect: Arbaces,
  "the Lord of the Burning Girdle." He is an Egyptian living in Pompeii.
A  magician,  he claims to be “he...from whom all cultivators of magic, from
 north to south,  from east to west, from the Ganges and the Nile to the
vales  of Thessaly and the shores of the yellow Tiber, have stooped to learn.”
Worshipers  of the Egyptian pantheon look to him as a priest, confessor,
and father figure;   those who are not worshipers fear him, because he is
widely rumored to wield   the Evil Eye. He has contacts everywhere, especially
among the Priests of   Isis, whose chief Calenus is his servant and into
whose company Arbaces personally   inducts a number of priests. None of this
is enough to save him when Vesuvius   erupts, however. (Edward Bulwer-Lytton's
The Last Days of Pompeii,   1834). 
      
      Arbaces' background is shrouded in mystery, but it is rumored that, 
decades   before, in the time of Julius Caesar, he was a manipulative force 
for evil   in Rome itself. At that time he posed as a Greek, although he was
even then   high in the community of the Pharaonic worshipers, even posing 
as a high  priest on several occasions. His schemes were always foiled by 
the heroic  slave Alix. It may seem unlikely that Arbaces could survive 
the long  decades between Julius' death and the destruction of Pompeii, but 
his repeated  return from seemingly-sure death while fighting Alix would seem
to indicate  that he possessed some form of magical powers. (Jacques Martin's
"Alix," in Tintin, 1948-present). 
     
     1150. Manfred, the Prince of Otranto, in southern Italy, 
 is  too ambitious and is punished for his sins by God. (Horace Walpole's 
The  Castle of Otranto, 1764). 
     
     c. 1220-c. 1300. The mysterious astrologer, mystic and wizard 
Innominato   benignly rules an area in southern Italy and shapes the 
fates of those who   live there and who come to him for help. (William Gilbert's 
The Wizard   of the Mountain, 1867). 
      
        
         1395-1401. Klaus de Winsfield, a native of Hamburg, is harmed 
  by  members of the Hanseatic League and swears vengeance against them. He
  takes  to the sea and becomes a pirate. For six years he preys on the merchant
  ships  of the League as well as against other pirates and other warships.
  He becomes  known as "Klaus Störtebecker." His base is in Heligoland,
  and  as time passes he allies with the feared Vitalis brothers and uses
his  ship,  the Ram, and his own secret store of Greek Fire, to help
the  Vitalis  brothers. Although he usually prowls the North Sea, some of
his adventures  bring him farther abroad. He is known along the coasts of
the North Sea as  the "Robin Hood of the waves," someone who helps the poor
and hates the rich.  He is eventually captured by the forces of the League
and hanged. But his  last request is that the authorities spare every man
of his crew who his headless body would walk past. Störtebecker's body
walked by all of his shipmates before collapsing, and every member of the
Ram's crew was saved. (Klaus Störtebecker, Der Gefürchtete
 Herrscher der Meere #1-60, 1908-1909). 
     
     1491-1496. The Spanish knight Garcilas de la Vega, Lord
 of  Bartas, fights against the Moors but eventually gets on the wrong side
 of  the Inquisition. He sails to the New World with Christopher Columbus,
 returns  to Spain and marries his lady-love. (J. Breckenridge Ellis' Garcilaso,
  1901). 
        
        
        1524-1525. Across Germany many peasants rise up against oppressive
    inheritance laws and unkind aristocrats. The revolt, which later becomes
   known as the Peasants' War, is widespread, and although the peasants are
  poorly armed and lack any kind of formal leadership, they posed a challenge
  to the nobility. Initially the peasants only wanted to air their grievances
  and negotiate a new legal status for themselves, but the Swabian nobility
  betrayed the peasants and forced them into armed rebellion. The peasants
 pressured local knights to lead them, but the peasants lacked suitable weaponry
 and tactics and were no match for the cavalry and discipline of the aristocrats'
    armies. 
        
        One of the leaders of the peasants during the war is Florian Geier.
    In 1524 he leads a local group of peasants against a corrupt band of
thuggish     knights. For the next year Geier's forces wage a successful
war, but in   1525  their siege of the castle of Giebelstadt, in Ingolstadt,
is broken.   Later  that year Geier is publicly executed, and the peasants'
rebellion  comes to  an end. (Florian Geier's Kampf mit den Raubrittern
#1-50,  1907). 
        
        This may not have been the end for Geier, however--see note #1 on the Notes page. 
        
        
     1568-1582. Medea da Carpi connives her way to the title
 of  Duchess of Stimigliano Orsini and then wife of Duke Guidalfonso II of
 Urbania.  Starting as a twelve year old and then dying as a twenty seven
year old, she uses lovers and husbands to gain power and then has them murdered,
 or does the killing herself, to rid herself of them. She is beautiful and
 manipulative  and is so frightening that Duke Robert, the priest who eventually
 defeats  her, has her strangled by two infanticides and refuses to allow
her to be  shriven before she dies, for fear that she would seduce the priest
 who would  grant her penitence. Duke Robert is so afraid of her, in fact,
 that after  he dies he has an image of his soul attached to his statue so
 that the spirit  of Medea could not haunt him and he could sleep peacefully
 until Judgment  Day. He is not entirely successful in this (see below).
(Vernon  Lee's "Amour  Dure," 1890). 
     
        
        1570-1588. Captain Franz Drake sails the seas. The brother 
  of  Sir Francis Drake, Franz leaves England at the same time as Francis 
and  follows  roughly the same route for the same number of years, but Franz's
   travels bring him to much more exotic locations, including "Cannibal Island"
   off the coast of Chile, and into conflict with a much unusual adversaries,
   including a tribe of female warriors along the Amazon river. However,
Franz    preyed primarily on the enemies of England, especially the Spanish,
and  robbed  them and sank their ships. He became known as "the metal pirate"
due to the  great amount of gold and silver he took from the Spanish. He
returned to England at the same time as his brother Francis and died fighting
the Spanish Armada. (Die Blutfahne der Flibustier #1-30, 1908). 
    
    1585-1589. Gaston de Marsac, an impoverished French nobleman,
  endures tribulations, danger, and wounds to gain true love and a Lieutenant
  Governorship under King Henry IV of France. (Stanley Weyman's A Gentleman
  of France, 1893). 
    
    1598-1610. Maximilien de Bethune, the Duc de Sully, uses
 his  not-inconsiderable wiles to help King Henry IV of France. (Stanley
Weyman's   From the Memoirs of a Minister of France, 1895).
    
    1600. The Italian mercenary Ugi di Savelli endures disgrace,
  poverty, and starvation to find friendship (with Niccolo Machiavelli and
 the Seigneur de Bayard) and preferment (with King Henry IV of France). (S.
 Levett-Yeats' The Honor of Savelli, 1895). 
    
    1628. The feared Italian condottiere known as "the Unnameable"
  is so touched by the innocence and purity of a peasant woman that he reforms
  and swears to use his abilities for good rather than evil and greed. (Alessandro
  Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi, 1825-1827).
        
        
        1660. Claude Duval begins his career as a "knight of the 
 road,"   a gentleman highwayman. Born in 1643, Duval moved to England during 
 the Restoration  and worked as a footman for the Duke of Richmond. However, 
 he soon took to  highway robbery. Duval was active on the roads to London 
 and targeted stagecoaches.  Unlike most other highway robbers, Duval acted 
 in a gentlemanly manner, dressed  fashionably, and reportedly never used 
violence. He was known in his time  for his courtly manners toward women, 
supposedly dancing a coranto with a  knight’s lady after robbing her husband, 
and in another case agreeing to take only part of a gentleman’s money if his
wife agreed to dance with him. Duval was eventually arrested in a London tavern
and hanged in 1670. 
        
        Or so the history books state. But the hidden history of the Wold 
Newton    Universe, that which has been overlooked, ignored, or suppressed 
by authorities    and historians, tells a much different story about Duval. 
        
        As the various stories and folktales state, Duval did right wrongs, 
 gamble,   womanize, restores noblemen in trouble to their rightful estates, 
 succeed   in hair’s-breadth escapes from the forces of law and order, and 
 in general   lead a life of adventure. But his exploits went far beyond lighthearted
 robbery,  as shall be seen. (James Rymer's Claude Duval, the Dashing
Highwayman.    A Tale of the Road #1-201, 1854). 
        
        Meanwhile, Gaspard, Comte de Chavagnac, begins his greatest
 exploits,    lasting until his death in 1679. He becomes famous across France
 not only    as a great military mind and general but also as one of the
country's  finest    swordsman and a valiant defender of the poor and downtrodden.
(Aventures     et exploits du Comte de Chavagnac #1-5, 1913). 
        
        
        1661-1672. Captain Henry Morgan conducts a nine-year career
   of  privateering and piracy against the Spanish, plundering Santiago (Chile)
   in 1663, sacking Campeche, marching 50 miles overland to take Villahermosa,
   and organizing over 1000 natives in taking the wealthy town of Grenada.
 By  1670 Morgan was one of the greatest buccaneers, and his destruction
of  Panama  is one of the landmark events in the history of piracy. In 1672
Morgan  returned   to England and retired from piracy. 
        
        So reads Morgan's official history. Different, less-respected and 
unofficial    accounts, from oral folktales to diaries, grant Morgan a more 
heroic career.    He fought numerous evil pirates, both Spanish and English, 
including the   dreaded Captain Satan. He left the Spanish Main and sailed 
as far as Africa,   where he overthrew the Tyrant of Zanzibar. And he helped 
the natives of the  Caribbean when he defeated the cannibals of Turtle Island. 
(Unter Schwarzer  Flagge #1-240, 1907-1910; Sous Le Pavillon Noir, 
Les Aventures de Morgan Le Pirate #1-200, 1907-1911). 
        
        1665-1666. Claude Duval helps Paul Peril, the Red Hand, 
  the  Red Avengers, and the dreaded Skeleton Horseman to defeat the evil 
Black  Band and the wicked schemes of King Charles II of England. Duval helps 
Peril  run away with Nell Gwynne. (The Skeleton Horseman, 1866).  
        
        
        1698-1719. The black-hooded Beati Paoli wage a two decade-long
    struggle against the power of both the Catholic Church and the Italian
 government.   Located in Palermo and named after "Beato Paola," Saint Francis
 of Paolo,   the Beati Paoli are a group of hooded "avengers" who (supposedly)
 work for   the common people against the Inquision, its spies, and the Austrian
  government,   which at this time controls the Sicilian throne. The Beati
 Paoli are a fraternity   of secret knights headquartered in the Capo district
 of Palermo; they use   a vast array of tunnels, sewers and hidden passageways
  to secretly navigate   the city. Their membership is unknown; they only
work  by night, and appear   dressed all in black and wearing hoods which
conceal  their faces. (Luigi  Natoli's Beati Paoli, 1909-1910). 
        
        History states that the Beati Paoli eventually faded from power as
 they   continually failed to achieve their goals. But this is not so. The
 truth  is that the Beati Paoli were but one manifestation of an ongoing
struggle   between conspirators in Sicily and the Italian government, one
which spanned   not decades but centuries. As our colleague Dr. Lofficier
has described,  from the
time of the Templars    until the 20th century, a vast criminal conspiracy
was active in the Mediterranean.    The modern struggle began in 1625,
with the murder of François Vitelli,    heir to the title of Count
of Monteleone, by his jealous cousin Ercole Vitelli.   This struggle culminated
in the triumph of Andrea Vitelli and the foundation   of the Frères
de la Merci, which later become the fearsome "Black   Coats" criminal
conspiracy. (Paul Féval's Bel Demonio,  1850). 
        
        Vitelli's whereabouts between 1655 and 1800 are not documented. But 
 evidence   indicates that he, or one of his lieutenants, was involved in 
taking an offshoot  of the Frères de la Merci and transforming them 
into the Beati Paoli.  Furthermore, there is evidence to suggest that a later 
offshoot approached  Rinaldo Rinaldini (see below). 
    
    1700. The French writer and wit Mademoiselle de Scudéry,
  as well-known for her devotion and goodness as for her novels, solves a
series  of crimes plaguing Paris and helps an innocent man avoid execution.
(E.T.A.  Hoffmann's “Das Fräulein von Scuderi,” 1819).
        
        
        1710-1721. Inspired by the example of Claude Duval, Louis-Dominique
    Bourguignon takes to the roads of France and gains fame as the highwayman
    Cartouche. What is not widely known is that Cartouche ventured
into    England and carried out various gallant acts there. (Artheme Fayard's
Le    Roi des Bandits #1-38, 1907-1908). It is not known whether he
ever enountered   Dick Turpin (see below). 
        
        1726. Ptolemy Horoscope works in London as an astrologer.
    He lives in Little Britain, the “bibliopolitical part of London,” where
  all  the booksellers and publishers live. His landlady says that Horoscope
  “tauld  the fortunes o' a' the warld, for the people wad be coming in the
  morn, and  in the day-time, and in the dark night when naebody could see
 them.” Horoscope  does serve the public, but because his readings are so
accurate he is consulted  by the highest in the land, even the nobility.
The stories hint that Horoscope  has been a consultant to not just the loftiest
members of Parliament and the British royalty but also to foreign dignitaries.
But Horoscope serves all who come to him, down to the meanest members of
society. This includes Dick Turpin, who comes to Horoscope in 1726
(early in Turpin's criminal career) to find out what his fate will be. But
Horoscope is not home when Turpin comes to him for advice, so Horoscope's
assistant, Titus Parable, poses as Horoscope. Parable is greedy for lucre
and hopes for a reward from Turpin, but while Parable is giving Turpin a
false prediction, a mysterious, hollow voice speaks, predicting Turpin's
future. It is a true prediction, and it becomes clear that it was God who
spoke, and who Horoscope gets his predictions from. (Richard Thomson's Tales
of an Antiquary, 1828). 
       
       1728. The highwayman Macheath falls victim to the wiles
  of  the Peachums, receivers of stolen goods as well as willing collaborators 
  with a sinister thief-taker, Mr. Lockit. Lucy Lockit is Macheath's 
  sometime-lover; Polly Peachum is also in love with Macheath. (John 
  Gay’s Beggar’s Opera, 1728). 
       
       1731-1736. Joe Blake is a retired thief who works for the notorious 
   thief-taker and crime lord Jonathan Wild. Blake is known as “Blueskin” 
   because earlier in his life, during a crime, a gunpowder bomb had exploded 
   too near his head, coating half his face with a half blue, half purple 
tint.   A young Jack Sheppard, not yet entered into his life of crime, 
approaches   Blake for help; Blake was a friend of Tom Sheppard, Jack’s father, 
and Blake   knew Jack when he was young. Blake helps Jack enter Wild’s service, 
 and the  pair hunt out Jacobite plotters while enriching themselves. Plot 
 complications   ensue and Sheppard and Blake are forced to flee from Wild. 
 A long duel follows   between them, with the usual hair’s-breadth escapes 
 and picaresque roguery.   Wild’s villainy is eventually discovered and he 
 is hanged, and Sheppard and  Blake escape to France and live on the wealth 
 of a friendly heiress. (Edward  Viles’ Blueskin, 1866-7). (see note #2  on the Notes page)
       
       1732. The highwayman Red Ralph carries on a successful 
 career   as a highwayman. Among his friends and companions are Lucy Lockit 
  and Polly Peachum, intimates of Macheath; Elizabeth “Edgeworth 
   Bess” Lyon and Poll Maggot, friends of Jack Sheppard; 
 and  the highwaymen Dick Turpin, Sixteen String Jack Rann, 
Tom  King, and Blueskin. (Percival Wolfe’s Red Ralph, 
1866).  
       
       
       1735. Sapathwa, “the Blue Dwarf,” is actually Baron Mountjoye. 
   His father, Lord Granville Seymour, left India before his pregnant wife 
 did.  On her way home from Indian Lord Seymour’s wife, stranded in Malaysia, 
 gave  birth to Sapathwa. But for various reasons Lord Seymour was not informed 
  of Sapathwa’s existence and “died in ignorance of his having a male heir.” 
  Sapathwa grows up in Malaysia with his mother and does not return home until
  he is an adult, when he discovers that his underage cousin, Shelton Seymour
  (who would be the rightful heir to the Seymour estates if Sapathwa did
not   exist) is threatened by his evil brother, Brian Seymour. Sapathwa then
devotes   himself to protecting Shelton from Brian. Toward this end Sapathwa
makes  use of a number of agents, including Dick Turpin and Tom
King,  who Sapathwa rescues from the Bow Street Runners and aids in various
ways.  (Percy B. St. John’s The Blue Dwarf, 1874-1875). (see note #3 on the Notes page) The 
  Maypole Inn is mentioned as a location at which thieves such as Dick 
 Turpin meet. (Charles Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge, 1841). 
       
       1736. While Jack Sheppard and Blueskin are working
   for Jonathan Wild, Dick Turpin helps the highwayman Captain 
   Heron to reform, marry the lovely Edith Tarleton, and become the new 
  Earl of Whitcombe. (James Malcolm Rymer’s Edith the Captive, 1860). 
  
       
       
      1737-1739. Dick Turpin's long and successful career as a 
highwayman    comes to an end. (Edward Viles’ Black Bess #1-254, 1863-1868). 
Assisting    Dick Turpin  are his friends Sixteen String Jack Rann, 
Tom    King, Blueskin, Claude Duval, and Captain Hawk. (see note #4 on the Notes page)
       
       Claude Duval and Sixteen String Jack Rann help Wild 
 Will,   a notorious bandit, carry out a brief career as a Thames Pirate. 
 (Charles   H. Ross’ Wild Will, or The Pirates of the Thames, 1865).
       
       1738. Tom King dies when he is accidentally shot during
  a  robbery by Dick Turpin. (Edward Viles’ Black Bess). 
       
       1739. Dick Turpin can no longer evade his fate and is
 hanged   for his crimes. (Edward Viles’ Black Bess). Following his
 death Turpin   is buried, but within a short time some body snatchers attempt
 to steal his  body. Captain Hawk rescues the body and gives it a
proper  burial.  After the burial Hawk and his wonderfully talented horse
Satan embark  on the usual adventures of a highwayman. Hawk repeatedly duels
with a mysterious   enemy who is eventually revealed to be Frederick, the
Prince of Wales. After   numerous exploits Hawk and Frederick have been reconciled, 
both win their   lady-loves (Beatrice and Blanche), and Hawk is pardoned for
his crimes by   Frederick. (Edward Viles’ The Black Highwayman, 1868-1869).
        
       
    1745-1755. Inspired by the examples of Claude Duval and Cartouche,
   Louis Mandrin begins a decade-long career as a highwayman. Unknown
   to the French public at large, Mandrin also travelled to England and adventured
   there. (Mandrin, Roi des Voleurs #1-16, 1925). 
    
    1750. The Neapolitan Count Rosalvo takes on himself the onerous
 task  of ridding Venice of conspirators, thugs, and assassins. He does so
 by using  two assumed identities: one is Flodoardo, a handsome, virtuous
man who labors  unceasingly to improve Venice; the other identity is Abällino,
  a huge, monstrous and ugly outlaw. After some effort and difficulty he
is   successful. (Heinrich Zschokke's Abällino der Große Bandit,
  1794). 
        
        
        1770-1773. The noble-minded Corsican bandit Rinaldo Rinaldini
    leads a gang of thieves in a rebellion against both the French control
 of   Corsica and the stifling conventions of modern society. Rinaldini is
 successful   for several years, but is eventually cornered by the "Schwarzen,"
 the agents   of the French government. Rinaldini commits suicide rather
than  be hanged.   (Christian Vulpius' Rinaldo Rinaldini, der Räuberhauptmann,
  1799-1801).  
        
        In 1772, while Rinaldini is masquerading as an Italian nobleman on
 the   mainland,  he is approached by a sorcerer who claims to represent
"the  Black   Judges in Secret." This black-hooded group has grown "tired
of the  yoke of  tyrannical  government" and are "resolved to rule ourselves."
They  offer  Rinaldini their  leadership, but he declines it; his own experience
 as leader  of a gang of  bandits and thieves was a negative one and disillusioned
 Rinaldini   about both the nature of men and his own effectiveness as a
leader.  The Black  Judges  are later involved in an unsuccessful attempt
to overthrow  the Corsican  government.  
        
        The Black Judges are mentioned in the standard biography of Rinaldini,
   but  what is not often mentioned is the fact that the Black Judges are,
 like  the  Beati Paoli (see above), another offshoot of the Black
 Coats   conspiracy. As Dr. Lofficier has described, Pasquale Paoli spent years
    building up Corsica, only to have his efforts come to naught when
the    French invaded the island in 1769. Paoli--and, surely, the name cannot
 be   a coincidence--fled to England and lived there for twenty years. But
 he left  behind a group of men who would not leave the island, and instead
 fought  on. This group failed, as did a later iteration, the Companions
of  Silence.  (Paul Féval's Les Compagnons du Silence, 1857).
    
    1780-1781. Karl von Moor, the headstrong and passionate 
son  of the German Count von Moor, lets his emotions get the better of him 
when  he is disowned by his brother Franz. Karl leads a gang of bandits, and
many  lives are lost and much heartbreak ensues before Karl's death. (Friedrich
 Schiller's Die Räuber, 1781). 
    
    1785. An unnamed German Prince living in Venice is manipulated 
by  a mysterious Armenian. (Friedrich von Schiller's "Der Geisterseher," 1787-1789).
 The Armenian is actually Cagliostro, a.k.a. Joseph Balsamo, who is
 at the same time involved in the affair of Queen Marie-Antoinette's
  necklace. (Alexandre Dumas' Le Collier de la Reine, 1849-1850).
  
        
        
        1786. Following the 1785 formation of the League of German Princes, 
   which initially includes Prussia, Electoral Saxony, and Hanover, but which 
   is later expanded to include Brunswick, Mainz, Hesse-Cassel, Baden, Mecklenburg, 
   Anhalt, and the Thuringian lands, the Prussian sea captain Axel Holm 
   begins a sea journey which will take five years and carry him around the 
  world. (Kapitän Axel Holm's Abenteuer  #1-18, 1919-1920). 
(see also 1937). 
    
    1789. Sir Percy Blakeney masquerades as a brainless fop while
  carrying  out extensive rescue operations for the French nobility as The
   Scarlet  Pimpernel. He is assisted by his wife Marguerite and the
League    of the Pimpernel. (Baroness Emmuska Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel,
   1905).
    
    While the Pimpernel is aiding the nobility, Andre-Louis Moreau gains
fame     killing them as Scaramouche. (Rafael Sabatini's Scaramouche,
    1921). It is not recorded whether the two ever met. 
     
    During the French Revolution the Vicomte de Saux, a well-meaning 
 nobleman,  is forced to choose between loyalty to the nobility, the 
class into which he was born, and to the people of France, whose plight has 
earned his sympathies. The Vicomte chooses the people, which spares him from 
the attention of the Committees but alienates his friends and loved ones. 
Eventually he is reunited with the woman he loves, Denise St. Alais, and they
survive the massacre at Nîmes and emigrate to England. (There is no
evidence that they were assisted in their escape by the Scarlet Pimpernel
or his League). (Stanley Weyman's The Red Cockade, 1896). 
        
        1790 In Ingolstadt, Germany, Victor Frankenstein creates
   a  Creature, an act which he quickly regrets. (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,
    1818). 
    
    1795. Father Ambrosio, the marvel of Madrid, the most learned
and   saintly of all the monks of the city, is tempted by sex and falls prey
to   sin, becoming a murderer and rapist. He is eventually tricked into selling
  his soul to Satan, who then kills him. (M.G. Lewis' The Monk, 1796).
  
    
    Timeline: 1801-1859.
   Timeline: 1860-1900.
   Timeline: 1901-1910.
   Timeline: 1911-1920.  
 
Timeline: 1921-1930.
Timeline: 1931-1945.
    Notes.
    Some Unknown    Members 
     of the Wold Newton Family Tree.