K2 Timeline

• 1800: Irish Act of Union
• 1801: Rush for the Rosetta Stone
• 1803: Ohio is a state
• 1805: Anne Beuchamp born to Lawrence and Emily
• 1807: Randolph Beuchamp born to Lawrence and Emily. Slave traffic illegal in Great Britain.
• 1809: February 12: Abraham Lincoln born. Winston Beuchamp born to Lawrence and Emily
• 1810: University of Berlin founded. World's first research university.
• 1811: Gates of Hades coffee house burns. Kerberos Club gradually moves to its current location. Let's call this when Dorian Gray was born.
• 1812: Louisiana is a state
• 1812: May 11: Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated by John Bellingham. Bellingham died three weeks later, in Bethlehem. (In our world, he was hung on May 18.) Publication of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
• 1813: George III rescued by Kerberos Club and sent to Faerie. Dr. Simmons found dead.
• 1815: Ada Lovelace born. Victor Knight born. Gregory Sage born. Reginald Hunter born.
• 1816: Indiana is a state
• 1817: Charlotte Beuchamp marries Bertram (?doublecheck notes). Mississippi is a state.
• 1818: Alice Beauchamp born. First edition of Frankenstein published anonymously. Illinois is a state.
• 1819: Alexandrina Victoria (aka Queen Victoria) born. Alabama is a state. SS Savannah, American steamer, crosses the Atlantic in 23 days.
• 1820: Maine is a state.
• 1820: January 29: Official Death of King George III.
• 1820: February 15: Official Funeral of King George III.
• 1821: Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater. Inspires Samuel Berk (will create needle device). Richard Burton born. Greece breaks away from the Ottoman Empire. Napoleon Bonaparte dies, and his corpse is stolen before it can be autopsied.
• 1822: Death of Percy Shelley. Missouri is a state. Rosetta Stone unlocked (to a degree -- Kerberan agent Colonel Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner stopped samples of La'sur script and Writing of Pa from falling to public examination, preventing potentially incalculable damage.)
• 1823: Victor's parents, Augusta and David Knight, separate. Anne Beuchamp marries Henry Stephen-Fox Strangeways, currently 3rd Earl of Illchester (as of 1802). Second edition of Frankenstein published in France, with Mary Shelley's name on it.
• 1824: Death of Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron)
• 1825: Mary Shelley institutionalized in a secure sanitarium.
• 1826: Alice's parents, Edith and TBD, die (of consumption? Not cholera, as it's before 1831). Randolph Beuchamp dies.
• 1827: Gerald Beuchamp dies of consumption
• 1829: Sir Robert Peel's police force
• 1831: Winter: Ladon Green born.
• 1832: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson born 27 January, known in our world as Lewis Carroll
• 1831: Sophronia born. First case of cholera in England.
• 1836: Arkansas is a state.
• 1837: Victoria Regina Imperatrix. The first Kerberos campaign begins. Night Fears, Dragon in the Smoke, Spiritual Matters. Michigan is a state. 26 star USA flag, also Great Star Flag. Next change in 1845. Cf: http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagfact.html
• 1838: Lion Crest, White Wedding, Profane Miracles sequence.
• 1838: April: Lost Luggage sequence and aftermath. Dead Man's Hand.
• 1838: July: Visit to Pennsington.
• 1838: September: Hounds of Hate
• 1838: October: Tamar's ritual planned for Halloween.
• 1838: November: The wedding of Lady Rachel Durless and Graf von Gheistbiennenstock. Graf rescued from the Tower Gang (1 member captured -- his status as of 1838?) and Angelina rescued from mad doctor.
• 1838: December: "Lillian"'s identity discovered. Entry into Faerie. Merrill retrieved. A truce between Gregory and the sidhe man he injured.
• 1839: December: Exit from Faerie. Ship blown off course.
• 1840: Edward Oxford's failed attempt to kill Queen Victoria.
• 1840: January: Paris. Daguerre and the Fleople.
• 1840: February-???: Helping the Fairy Earl.
• 1840: August-December: Africa, thwarting Murray's schemes. Egypt, thwarting Khentykawes. New York, marring an opera and making an enemy of Astor. Reginald becomes the Pennsington heir in truth, and "Gregory's" engagement to Sophronia is announced at Edwina Campion's ball. Lord Mace and Victor Knight work on their reputations.
• 1841: January: Abigail Baker to marry Isaac Martin.
• 1842: Three weddings and a flying island.