CROSSOVER
CHRONOLOGY PART 4 1850-1890
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1851 - Bleak
House, by Charles Dickens
August
7, 1852 -Birth of John
H. Watson.
January
6, 1854 -Birth of
Sherlock Holmes at a farmstead in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
1855 - Events of Anthony Trollope's The Warden.
1854 Birth of Joaquin Murieta de la Vega, aka Ken Mason
1857 Birth of Lord John Roxton
1857 - Victor Frankenstein III creates the second Monster in The Horror of
Frankenstein (see Mark Brown's The House
of Frankenstein and Chuck
Loridans' Children of the Night for more
information).
1858 - The twin sons of the first Professor James Moriarty are born.
Throughout his long life one twin will call himself "Wolf Larsen,"
"Baron Karl von Hessel," and simply "Baron Karl." The other
twin is known as "Death Larsen."
1859 - Miguelitio Loveless, Jr., is born.
1859 - First appearance of Inspecteur Lecoq in L'Affaire
Lerouge by Emile Gaboriau.Click
here to read Rick Lai's Monsieur Lecoq Chronology.
1859 - Prince Dakkar, a Capellean like his father, begins the Nautilus
Project on a remote Pacific island, under the instructions of his Capellean
chiefs. The submarines being built will combine Capellean technology with
blueprints plundered from the Nine Unknown (see Talbot Mundy's Jimgrim and the The Nine Unknown).
C. 1860s - The events of Spring-Heeled Jack, the Terror of London, by Charlton Lea.
c. Early 1860s - The Siege of the Red House by J. Sheridan
Le Fanu.
c. Early 1860s - The events of Charles Kingsley’s The
Water-Babies.
1860s - The
Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh
Lofting (click here for more information).
1860 Birth
of Randolph Mason, lawyer and father to even more famous Perry.
1860 - The events of The
Curse of Frankenstein, in which
Victor Frankenstein III creates a third Creature (see Mark Brown's The House
of Frankenstein and Chuck
Loridans' Children of the Night).
1860'sThe extensive breeding program of the Nine,designed to
create their Undying God (Tarzan), culminates with the birth of the three
Cloamby brothers of the house of Grandrith. Using half remembered tales of the
future world as related by Tarzan in 24, 000 BP. For more details see Triple Tarzan Tangle
c. 1861-1862 - The main events of George Bernard Shaw's An Unsocial Socialist, which chronicles the life of John Clayton, the fifth duke of Greystoke,
Tarzan's grandfather.
1861-1865 - Gone With
the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
December 1861-June 1862 THE REVENGE OF DRACULA
Upton Welsford, of the British Foreign
Office, is committed to a sanatorium after a horrific experience with Count
Dracula. Welsford records his experience in a manuscript, which finds its way
into the hands of the head of a mental health clinic near Guildford in Surrey,
Dr. Hugh Strickland.
Dr. Hugh Strickland provided the
manuscript to Peter Tremayne in 1978, whereupon it was published by Dell Books,
1980. Dr. Strickland, shortly after turning over the manuscript, would go on to
be a major player in The
Vengeance of She. Since the She
novels take place in the Wold Newton Universe, so does The Revenge of Dracula, which in turn brings in two other Dracula novels by
Tremayne: Dracula
Undead (aka Bloodright), and Dracula,
My Love. The Dracula
featured in these books is "Dracula-Prime" (see Chuck Loridans' Children of the Night
for more information). Also of note,the female protanganist of The Revenge of Dracula is a woman named Clara Clarke. Clarke, of course, is
a name which is not unknown in the annals of Wold Newton. Her father is named
as Colonel George St. John Clarke of the Egyptian Rifle Brigade. Her mother is
an Egytian Princess named Yasmini.
1862 - Events of Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland andThrough
the Looking-Glass (and What Alice Found There), as related by Lewis
Carroll. See also Fantastic Alice: New Stories from Wonderland, Margaret
Weis, editor, Ace Books, 1999.
1862 - Birth of Urania Caber Moriarty, daughter of Professor James Moriarty
and Emily Caber. By this time, Professor Moriarty has been inducted into the
secret ranks of the Capelleans.
1863 Birth of Professor George Edward Challenger, father of Enid Challenger
and grandfather of Lew Archer. Very late in his life, Professor Challenger must
have had a son, who in turn had a daughter, Titania "Doc" Challenger.
1863 - The events of Five
Weeks in a Balloon, as
recounted by Jules Verne.
June 1863 - The events of Journey to the
Centre of the Earth, as told by
Axel Lidenbrock, edited by Jules Verne.
The opening
leading to the Center of the Earth is mentioned.
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras is a novel by Jules Verne.
Since the events of Journey to the Centre of the Earth take place in the
Newtonverse, so do the events of this novel.
1863 - Prince Dakkar is indirectly responsible for the death of Professor
Moriarty's wife and two of their twin children, James and Emile Caber. Only
their other twin children, "Wolf Larsen" and "Death
Larsen," and their fifth child, Urania Moriarty, survive. Vowing revenge, Moriarty encourages Rajah Dakkar of
Bundelcund, the Prince's father, to go renegade from the Capelleans. In turn,
Prince Dakkar also becomes persona non grata with the Capelleans. However,
Prince Dakkar continues with the submarine project on his own.
1863 - Birth of Rudolf Rassendyll.
1864 - Plantagenet Palliser's first appearance, in The
Small House at Allington, as
told by Anthony Trollope.
1864 - In accordance with his own plans, Professor Moriarty is ordered by the
Capelleans to infiltrate Prince Dakkar's group and begin working for the Prince
on the secret construction of the two atomic submarines, adding his own genius
to Capellean technology. Both of these underwater craft will be named the
Nautilus. Following orders which comport exactly with his private need for
personal revenge against Prince Dakkar, Professor Moriarty stages a rebellion,
steals the first sub, and sabotages the second sub, gravely injuring Prince
Dakkar with radiation poisoning. Dakkar retreats to remote Lincoln Island to
recover.
1865 - The events of E. Harcourt Burrage's Broad Arrow Jack.
1864-1865 - The events of Jules Verne's The
Children of Captain Grant (aka In Search of the Castaways aka Les
enfants du Capitaine Grant). Towards the end, in March 1865, a
villain named Ayrton is stranded on a desert island.
1865 - Captain Cyrus Harding and other Union soldiers are stranded on
Lincoln Island (The
Mysterious Island).
1865 - Carmelita Loveless is born.
October 1865 - The beginning of the events chronicled by Verne in
From the Earth to the Moon; the events of Around the Moon follow (click here for more information)
1865 - Prince Dakkar creates the identity of "Captain Nemo" and
launches his submarine Nautilus. Upon being apprised of this
intelligence by a Capellean spy whom Professor Moriarty left in Dakkar's camp,
Moriarty launches his own Nautilus, also going 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.
Young Phileas Fogg is placed among Moriarty-Nemo's crew as a spy for the
Eridaneans; he is ultimately successful in sinking Moriarty-Nemo's second Nautilus
in 1868. It is also possible that Moriarty-Nemo's first sons, Wolf Larsen and
Death Larsen, serve as cabin-boys on this Nautilus.
1866-1868 - The events of 20,000
Leagues Under the Sea by Jules
Verne. "Captain Nemo" is actually the Indian Prince Dakkar. The first
Nautilus appears to sink into the Maelstrom in 1868, but Professor Arronax
and Ned Land survive. Dakkar-Nemo also survives the incident, but radiation
sickness continues to plague him, and he retreats with the Nautilus to remote
Lincoln Island to recover.
Professor H.W. Starr, in
his article A Submersible Subterfuge, or, Proof Impositive, included in
Farmer's The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, viewed the events of Verne's 20,000
Leagues sequel, The Mysterious Island, as completely fictional.
However, while Starr was correct in asserting that Moriarty used the Nemo
identity first created by Dakkar, he did not realize that most of the events of
The Mysterious Island were true, that Prince Dakkar was not a fictional
person, and that Dakkar was the true Captain Nemo.
1866 - For some years,
Arthur Gordon Pym, has had the Dzyan working on a project to construct a
submarine in which he can travel the world and expand his power base.(Based on
entry for "Neptune Perkins" in Who's Who Update '88, volume 2,
DC Comics.) To see the true story of these
people called the Dyzan visit here. 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
survivors 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.
(Bracebridge Hemyng's Dick Lightheart; or, the Scapegrace at Sea; click here for more information.)
1866-1876- John
Carter makes his first trip to Barsoom (Mars) However, before he reaches
Barsoom, he is diverted to thedimension known as the Dreamlandswhere he meets several other cosmic explorers (Allan and the Sundered
Veil). After this adventure, Carter resumes his journey to Barsoom
and the events of Burroughs' A
Princess of Mars. ensue. The
remainder of the series consists of: The Gods
of Mars, The
Warlord of Mars, Thuvia,
Maid of Mars, The
Chessmen of Mars, The
Master Mind of Mars, A
Fighting Man Of Mars, Swords
of Mars, Synthetic Men of
Mars, Llana of Gathol,
and John Carter of Mars. A chronology of these
adventures can be found here.
1867 - The events of Nana, as related by Émile Zola.
September 1867-January 1868 - Spock of Vulcan, trapped in his past and stricken
with amnesia after being subjected to a Klingon Mind-Sifter, spends several
months with his human ancestor, Aaron Stemple, in the town of Seattle,
Washington (Ishmael, as told by Barbara Hambly). Stemple and a few others realize that Spock
is not of this world, but nevertheless protect and care for him. Stemple's
experiences with Spock give him the means to successfully deal with another
alien contact in 1873.
1867 THE NIGHT OF THE INFERNO
U.S. Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon begin
working under the direct orders of President Grant.This is the first episode
of the 1960s television series The Wild Wild West. For
further information and a list of episodes, see The Wild Wild West: The Series,by Susan Kesler, Arnett Press, 1988, or visit The Wild Wild West
Chronology. Click here
for more info on Artemus
Gordon..(Johnson, Grant had not been elected as
of yet)
1868 - Prince Dakkar reveals himself to Cyrus Harding and the others who
have been stranded on his island for three years (The Mysterious Island). After
his meeting with Dakkar, viewing the second submarine Nautilus, and his rescue
from the island in 1869, Captain Harding would read a copy of 20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea, assume that Dakkar and Nemo were the same person, and relate
this erroneous assumption to Jules Verne. In later years, Dakkar himself would
further confuse the issue by using the identity of "Captain Nemo."
Verne did fictionalize the ending of The Mysterious Island: Dakkar did not die
and the second Nautilus was not destroyed.
NOTE: Rick Lai's article, The Secret History
of Captain Nemo, was an invaluable resource in resolving the question of
Moriarty/Nemo and Dakkar/Nemo and the two submarines called Nautilus. However,
I respectfully disagree with Mr. Lai's dismissal ofThe Other Log of Phileas Fogg, The Return of Moriarty,and The Revenge of Moriarty as fictional.
1869 - Birth of Arronaxe Land, daughter of Ned Land, named after
Ned's friend Professor Arronax.
1869 - Secret Service agents James Douglas Henry and
Barton Swift defeat
the evil plans of Dr. Arliss Loveless, a relative of the equally evil Dr.
Miguelito Loveless (1999 feature film Wild Wild West).
Records of the conflict were altered and the victory was attributed to agents
Jim West and Artemus Gordon. The reason for the alteration was either (1) based
purely on racist motivations or (2) the result of a grand plot which is better
explained by clicking here.
1869 - Bartholomew Aloysius Lash, otherwise known as Bat Lash, is born.
A character named Hobson
mentions Captain Hatteras. There is also a reference to a total eclipse in the
Canadian North.
The Land of Furs (aka The
Fur Country aka Seventy Degrees North Latitude) is a novel by Jules
Verne. Since Captain Hatteras (1863) is in the Newtonverse, so are the events
of this novel. The eclipse
in question took place on August 7, 1869.
1869 - The events of Charles Dickens' unfinished novel, The
Mystery of Edwin Drood
1869-1872 James Moriarity I traveled extensively on missions for the
Capellean Hierarchy, actually Juro posing as an Elder, On one such mission he
went to Siberia, where he fathered a child, Grigori Rasputin. Dynamics of an
Asteroid was actually a study of when the Capellean Mother ship would fall
to the earth
1870 THE LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER John
Reid becomes The Lone Ranger. Tonto
joins him as his partner and together they save President Grant's life.
This was a movie (with novelization by Gary
McCarthy, Ballentine Books) that came out in 1981. Note that by virtue of all
having encountered President Grant, James West, Artemus Gordon, The Lone Ranger
and Tonto are established to be in the same universe. John Reid's grand-nephew,
Britt Reid (otherwise known as The Green Hornet), encountered The Shadow in 1942,
thus placing West, Gordon, The Lone Ranger, Tonto, The Green Hornet, and Kato
all in the Wold Newton Universe.
For a different version of this incident visit Masked Memories-The Reids
1870s - Scarlett, by Alexandra
Ripley, a sequel to Gone
With the Wind.
1870-1889 - The events of Oscar Wilde's The
Picture of Dorian Gray.
1870 - The events of Anthony Hope's The
Prisoner of Zenda.
1870 THE YSABEL KID
The Floating Outfit meets Cheyenne Bodie.
Novel by J.T. Edson. The Floating Outfit is
comprised of Dusty Fog, Mark Counter and the Ysabel Kid. Dusty Fog is a
relative of the English Foggs, and thus is a Wold Newton Family member.
Cheyenne Bodie is from the television series Cheyenne. Please read Brad
Mengel's The
Edson Connection for more information.
Summer 1870 - The first Professor James Moriarty, who has
abandoned the "Captain Nemo" identity, uncovers the 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
(see The Infernal Device) and fencing instructor (see Young Sherlock Holmes).
Summer 1870 - The events of Dracula, My Love, as told by Peter Tremayne.
1870 - The events of Jules Verne's Une fantaisie du Docteur Ox
(A Fantasy of Dr. Ox aka Dr. Ox's Experiment).
1870 - Birth of Jules
de Grandin. For
his complete history
Winter 1870 - The actual first meeting of Holmes and Watson (Young Sherlock Holmes) Holmes by Watson, Alan Arnold, ed.; Watson's account
was made into a 1985 feature film). Holmes and Watson expose Rathe's evil
plans, but Holmes' young love, Elizabeth, is killed by Rathe. Holmes thinks
Rathe dead, but unknown to Holmes, Rathe survives and retreats to his true
identity, Moriarty.
1871 - Main events of the tale of Carmilla, as chronicled by J. Sheridan LeFanu.
1871 - The events of Susan Coolidge's What Katy
Did. Sequels are What Katy Did at School and What Katy Did
Next.
1871-1875 - Events of Hondo, as
related by Louis L'Amour (click here for more info).
1871 DECISION FOR DUSTY FOG by J. T Edson
There is a reference to Matt Dillon.
1871 DIAMONDS, EMERALDS, CARDS AND COLTS
The Floating Outfit meet Lord James Roxton, the
father of Lord John Roxton.
1871 THE CODE OF DUSTY FOG
The Floating Outfit encounter Edmund Fagin
and Sir John Unglow Ramage, the youngest son of Sir Nicholas Ramage (from the
Ramage Series by Dudley Pope).
These three entries are Floating Outfit
novels by J.T. Edson. Matt Dillon is from the television series Gunsmoke. Lord John Roxton is a Wold Newton Family member,
who would accompany Professor Challenger to The Lost
World. Edmund Fagin is
the grandson to the Fagin from Dickens' Oliver Twist.
Sir John Unglow Ramage is the youngest son of Sir Nicholas Ramage, from the Ramage series by Dudley Pope. Please read Brad
Mengel's The
Edson Connection for more information.
1871 - The events of The
Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
1872 - The events of Anthony Hope's Rupert
of Hentzau.
1872 SHE AND
ALLAN
Allan Quatermain meets Ayesha,
She-who-must-be-obeyed.
Novel by H. Rider Haggard, crossing-over his
two most famous creations. Ayasha also appeared in She,
Ayesha:
The Return of She, and
Wisdom's
Daughter.
Summer 1872 -Moriarty prepares to use the "Nemo"
identity once more (see The
Other Log of Phileas Fogg). During this time period, Moriarty also remarries,
to a woman named Donleavy, thus providing his daughter Urania with a
step-mother, as well as an alias: Urania becomes known as Patricia Donleavy
(see The Beekeeper's
Apprentice)
October-December 1872 - The events of Verne's
Around the World in Eighty Days.
December 1872 FOGG BOUND Paladin meets
Phileas Fogg during the events of Around the World in Eighty Days, as Fogg
travels through America. Paladin helps Fogg, Aouda and Passepartout cross a
river. 1960 episode of television series Have Gun, Will Travel. Evidently neither
Verne nor Farmer knew of this particular incident.
October-December 1872 THE OTHER LOG OF PHILEAS FOGG
In this companion novel to Jules Verne's
Around the World in Eighty Days, "Captain Nemo" (from Verne's 20,000
Leagues Under the Sea) and the first Professor James Moriarty are revealed to
be the same person. Moriarty-"Nemo" has several Capellean assistants:
Colonel Sebastian Moran; Colonel James Moriarty (the very tall dark man with a
heavy stoop); and a man named Vandeleur. It is also divulged that Phileas Fogg,
in disguise, was a crewman aboard the Nautilus who was working against
Moriarty-"Nemo" during 1866-1868, and that Fogg was ultimately
responsible for the sinking of the Nautilus in the Maelstrom in 1868.
Moriarty-"Nemo," knowing that Fogg's servant Passepartout is
listening, deliberately misstates the circumstances surrounding his own
parentage. With the death of the last Old One (original alien Eridanean or
Capellean), this adventure marks the end of the secret conflict between the
Eridaneans and the Capelleans.
(Rather, the Core groups of
both surviving Elders determine to work even more behind the scenes, fearing
that the recent advances of earth technology, without Capellean or Eridanean
help, has reached the point that it could be combined with stolen alien
technology to create primitive space vessels. Being still socially primitive
ethnocentric, the earthlings would see the Capellean and Eridanean efforts to
aid them as hostile actions and could cause disturb the Galactic peace.)
This novel written by Philip José Farmer was
published by Tor Books in 1982 (original publication date 1973). Vandeleur
appeared in Robert Louis Stevenson's short story The Rajah's Diamond, which appeared in the volume New
Arabian Nights. Moran was the
first Professor Moriarty's lieutenant and appeared in several of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Colonel Moriarty is the Professor's
elder half-brother. Regarding the theory, adopted here, that there were two
Professor James Moriartys (as well as an older brother, Colonel James
Moriarty), please refer to The
Return of Moriarty and The Revenge of Moriarty, both by John Gardner, Berkley Books, 1981. The
author is the same John Gardner, incidentally, who continued to write the James
Bond series of books in the 1980s and '90s. The Rajah Dakkar of Bundelcund, a
renegade Capellean who is killed in this adventure, is not the Prince Dakkar of
Verne's The Mysterious Island, but rather the Prince's father. After these
events, the first Professor Moriarty permanently gave up on the "Captain
Nemo" identity and laid low for several years, before resuming his
criminal career under his own name. Prince Dakkar, aware of the fear and
mystery the name "Nemo" inspired, aware that he had already been
confused with Nemo, and in possession of the second submarine Nautilus, began
actively using the "Nemo" identity in 1875.
1873 to 1876. Fu Shan (Fu Manchu) convinces the Governor of Honan that
if China were to regain its place in the world, it would have to advance with
the Western World, taking what it can while retaining the essence of Chinese
culture. To this end, I believe that Fu Shan acquired an education in Europe,
studying at Heidelberg University and possibly at Cambridge from about 1873 to
1876. During this time he made contacts with the Chinese communities in Europe,
including the Limehouse district in England. It is also possible that he
established a relationship of sorts with Professor James Moriarty and had an
early encounter with Sherlock Holmes as demonstrated in THE MUSGRAVE VERSION.
(It is possible at this time
he was made a trial member of the Capellean race, recruited without full
knowledge or truth of the Capellean origins, merely as a member of a powerful
Secret Society bent on ruling the world)
1873 - Bancroft Stoneham Pons is born to Asenath Pons and Roberta McIvor.
March 1873
Prince Dakkar
reveals himself to Cyrus Smith and the others who have been stranded on his
island for three years. Captain Robert Grant and Ayrton appear, and there are
references to the events of Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Adventures
of Captain Hatteras, and Around the Moon.
The
Mysterious Island takes place from 1869-1873, but is placed here in the
Chronology in order to put the events involving Dakkar in context.
Regarding the dating, Rick Lai has stated: "Since the first Nemo book [20,000
Leagues Under the Sea] wasn't published until 1870, it might be argued that
Cyrus Smith couldn't have read it until 1870. Such a conclusion would
lead to the argument that The Mysterious Island didn't begin until at
least 1870. On the other hand, it could be argued that Smith read the original
account of Professor Aronnax's experiences aboard the Nautilus prepared
for the American government (since it financed the Professor's expedition)
before Verne 'edited' this report and had it published as a novel."
Proceeding on that argument, the 1869-1873 dates are used here.
The novel is a sequel to both Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and
The Children of Captain Grant (aka In Search of the Castaways). Five
Weeks in a Balloon, The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, and Around the
Moon must also take place in the Wold Newton Universe.
Jules Verne did fictionalize the ending of The Mysterious Island,
in that Dakkar did not die and the Nautilus was not destroyed. Rick
Lai's article, The Secret History of Captain Nemo, was an invaluable
resource in resolving the question of Dakkar-Nemo and Moriarty-Nemo and the two
submarines called Nautilus. However, I respectfully disagree with Mr.
Lai's dismissal of The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, The Return of
Moriarty, and The Revenge of Moriarty as completely fictional.
I
resepctfully disagree with the need for the alteration of the dates and place
the events of The Mysterious Island in 1865-1869An explanation for how both
occurred within the time frames of the books could be thus. Dakkar was wounded
by radiation poisoning, the American soldiers did land on the island he was
using as a secret base. He did aid them in surviving. This was in 1865. The
following year he began the events of 20,000 leagues. There were times when he
returned to Lincoln Island which were not depicted in 20,000 leagues, times
when Arronaxe and company were not allowed to know where they were headed. These
visits lasted only a day or so when Dakkar was dropping off supplies to the
American soldiers. Why did he not rescue them? Well, he could not take the
chance that they had somehow discovered his secret base yet he did not want
them to die from want either.
As for Cyrus Smith having read the novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, this is
probably a statement placed by Verne to tie together his works as a means of
"plugging" it.
1873 - Throughout this time period, the Karsid Empire is in power in this quadrant
of the galaxy. The Karsids have built their Empire primarily on economic
infiltration of less advanced worlds, eventually leading to total dependence
and subjugation, rather than military invasion. When the Karsids, disguised as
humans, make first contact with the U.S. government, Congressman Aaron Stemple,
addressing a secret Congressional committee, argues vehemently against any
dealings with them. Fortunately for Earth, his arguments carry the day (Ishmael).
1873 - First recorded adventure of Jonah Hex (All-Star Western No. 10,
DC Comics; click here for
more info).
1874 - Birth of Arsène Lupin in Blois.
1874 THE QUEST FOR BOWIE'S BLADE
The Ysabel Kid encounters Octavious Xavier "the
Ox" Guilemont who makes reference to the first Professor Moriarty and to
the Maltese Falcon
1874 THE SCHOOL TEACHER
Dusty Fog reveals that Mark Counter is a
relative of Bret Maverick.
1874 COMANCHE BLOOD
The Ysabel Kid meets Pedro, one of the heirs to
the title of El Zorro.
Three more entries in the Floating Outfit
novels by J.T. Edson. Comanche Blood
is found in The
Hard Riders. Bret Maverick is from the television series Maverick.
1874 THE REMITTANCE KID
Calamity Jane works with Lt. Ed Ballinger,
Belle Boyd, and Capt. Patrick Reeder.
Thanks to the research of Philip José
Farmer, J.T. Edson reveals in this Calamity Jane novel that Ed Ballinger is the
grandfather of Lt. Frank Ballinger, the Head of M Squad. M Squad's adventures were made into a television series which appeared
from 1957 to 1960. Belle Boyd is revealed to be the great aunt of Jane Clayton,
neé Porter, and Patrick Reeder is the uncle to J. G. Reeder, Edgar Wallace's
famous detective.
1874 - Birth of Richard Hannay. Hanney's uncle, William Drummond, is the
grandfather of Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond and John "Korak"
Drummond-Clayton. Hanney's maternal grandmother is Oread Butler, a cousin of
Rhett Butler (Gone With the Wind).
1874 - Birth of Randolph Carter whose tales were chronicled by H.P.
Lovecraft in such classics as The Statement of
Randolph Carter, The Dream Quest of
Unknown Kadath, and The Silver Key.
July 1875 THE MUSGRAVE VERSION Sherlock Holmes crosses paths with Dr. Fu Manchu.
Musgrave then recounts that he and Holmes would later take a "mad
voyage" aboard the submarine Nautilus and encounter the maniacal Dr.
Moreau.
A short story edited by G.A. Effinger, from
a manuscript by Reginald Musgrave (from Doyle's "The Musgrave
Ritual"). Story found in anthology Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, DAW, 1995.
The Nautilus mentioned here would be Prince Dakkar's submarine. Dr. Moreau is
from H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau.
November 1875 -The death of Professor Moriarty's beloved uncle and
father-figure, Jerrold Moriarty, adds fuel to the Holmes/Moriarty feud (Enter the Lion A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes, edited by
Michael P. Hodel and Sean M. Wright). Of course, given Sherlock's experiments
with royal jelly bee pollen in the 1920s, the "Posthumous" of the
title is highly questionable). This is the first time that Holmes becomes
acquainted with the first Professor Moriarty in his true identity; Holmes had
literally crossed swords with Moriarty five years earlier when Moriarty was
posing as Rathe, but Holmes does not make the connection.
1876 - The first Professor James Moriarty begins to build his vast criminal
empire. Over the years, many will serve with the Professor, including his
daughter Urania (aka Patricia Donleavy); his younger brother, the third James
Moriarty; Colonel Moran; and John Clay.
April-October 1876 - The Bellman Expedition (Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting
of the Snark).
1876 - Sherlock Holmes has a "brief but notable" stint on the New
York stage billed as "Mr. William Escott." Holmes goes on tour and is
involved in several mysteries while on tour. (Sherlock Holmes and the Hands of Othello by Alexander
Simmons. This reference explains
Holmes’ reputation at the time of The Suicide Club. Additionally, Holmes
used the "William Escott" many times throughout his career. Indeed,
as Baring-Gould states in Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, his birth
name was William Sherlock Scott Holmes.)
1876 John
Carter returns from his first trip to Barsoom, teleporting back into the
clothes that he left behind on his first trip. He spends the next few years
traveling to Virginia and New York.
1876 - Birth of Carthoris of Helium, son of John Carter and Dejah Thoris.
1877 OFF ON A
COMET (HECTOR SERVADAC)
Hector Servadac is trapped on a comet and
journeys throughout the Solar System. There is a reference to the events of Black
Indies. Novel by Jules Verne.
1877BLACK
INDIES (THE UNDERGROUND CITY)
There is a reference to the events of Hector
Servadac.
Black Indies (aka Les Indes Noires aka The
Underground City aka Child of the Cavern) is a novel by Jules Verne.
1878 - The events of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club, found in the volume entitled New
Arabian Nights. The story's
Prince Florizel of Bohemia also appeared in the same volume's The Rajah's
Diamond and would be seen again in Watson's/Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia. The
"celebrated detective" who is indirectly involved in these events is
clearly Sherlock Holmes, although Holmes had scarcely enough of a career
history at this time to be described as "celebrated." And the tall
man with a heavy stoop who declines to assist the Prince is Colonel James
Moriarty. Finally, as Rick Lai demonstrated in his article, The Secret History
of Captain Nemo, Dr. Noel, the retired master criminal who assists in the
case, is the father of the first Professor James Moriarty and the second
Professor James Moriarty. (See Edgar W. Smith's A Scandal in Identity in the
volume Profile in Gaslight, Simon & Schuster, 1944; see also Jack Tracy's
Some Thoughts on the Suicide Club in The Baker Street Journal, New Series, Vol.
22, #2, June, 1972.)
1878- The Lone Ranger helps out Robert Walker, the son of lawman called
"Six Gun" Walker. "Six Gun," who died in 1872, left his
land and property to Robert, who has lived his entire life abroad. (Television
episode of The Lobe Ranger entitled Six Gun's Legacy.) Wold
Newton researcher Chuck Loridans postulates that "Six Gun" Walker is
actually the 16th Phantom, also called the Masked Cowboy. The Phantom Chronology
indicates that the 16th Phantom operated during the1840s-60s and that he died
sometime after 1867. Masked
Men: A Chronology of the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet demonstrates
that the first season of the Lone Ranger television series took place
around 1878. It is possible that 16th Phantom and his wife, Texan Annie Morgan,
had another child, born several years after the twins Kip (the 17th Phantom)
and Julie (according to some the 18th Phantom), named Robert. The 16th Phantom
died in 1872, and his younger son, who would not receive the Phantom
birthright, did inherit his father's land in Texas, and returned to permanently
settle there. Perhaps he is an ancestor of the modern-day kick-boxing Texas
Ranger (see TV Crossovers),
as well as Los Angeles policewoman Darcy Walker, better known as The Black
Scorpion.
c. Late 1870s - The events of The Bostonians, as chronicled by Henry James.
c. 1880s - The events of Kim, as related by Rudyard Kipling.
1880 -The events of the Allan Quatermain adventure King
Solomon's Mines, as related by H. Rider Haggard. The general reading
order of Haggard's series is: Allan's
Wife, Marie,
Child
of Storm, A Tale
of Three Lions, Maiwa's
Revenge: or, The War of the Little Hand, Hunter
Quatermain's Story, Long Odds, Allan
and the Holy Flower, Heu-Heu:
or, The Monster, She and
Allan, The Treasure of the Lake, The
Ivory Child, Finished,
King
Solomon's Mines, The
Ancient Allan, Allan and
the Ice-Gods, and Allan
Quatermain. The time period covered by Allan's Wife actually
spans the events of Marie and Child of Storm. There is also a
related novel of the great warrior Umslopogaas, Nada
the Lily. The story of Quatermain's life continues in Allan and the
Sundered Veil, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
1880 - Birth of Joseph Jorkens (click here for more information).
July 1880 THE
ADVENTURE OF THE STALWART COMPANIONS
Sherlock Holmes works with Theodore Roosevelt. This is a novel written by
Theodore Roosevelt, edited by H. Paul Jeffers, Harper & Row, 1978.
1880 Solar Pons is born in Prague to Asenath Pons, consular official for
Great Britain, and Roberta McIvor.
1880 Jake Mason, son of Joaquin (Ken Mason is born)
1880 - The events of Gaston Leroux's The
Phantom of the Opera.
January 1881 -Holmes and Watson are reintroduced and take rooms at
221B Baker Street. Holmes formally begins his consulting detective practice. ( A
Study in Scarlet)
May 1881-January 1882 - The events of Jules Verne's The School for
Robinsons (aka The School for Crusoes).
Fall 1881 A
FATHER'S TALE
Brigadier Donald Ffellowes relates a tale of
his father's encounter with a man called only "Mr. Verner." The
encounter occurred in the Fall of 1881 off the coast of Sumatra, and involved a
group of man-rat creatures called the Folk, who were created by the Moreau-like
experiments of a scientist called Cornelius Van Ouisthoven.
A short story by Sterling E. Lanier, in
Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space, edited by Issac Asimov, Martin
Greenberg, and Charles Waugh, Bluejay Books, 1984. "Verner" is
obviously Sherlock Holmes, and this tale relates the story otherwise known as
the "Giant Rat of Sumatra." Another "Giant Rat" story takes
place in 1886, but its events are unrelated to this one, save that "Matilda
Briggs" must have been a popular ship name in the 1880s. This story brings
Lanier's Brigadier Ffellowes into the Wold Newton Universe.
1882 NO FINGER ON THE TRIGGER
Waxahachie Smith encounters Lord Maidstone,
son of Horatio Hornblower, and Donald Garfew Beech, Head of the US Secret
Service. Beech's grandson, Orville Garfew "Fluency" Beech would later
meet Doc Savage.
Novel by J.T. Edson confirming the
Hornblowers in the Newtonverse. Smith is an associate of the Floating Outfit
and a former Texas Ranger. Orville Garfew "Fluency" Beech is from Red
Snow by Kenneth Robeson (Lester Dent). Please read Brad Mengel's The Edson
Connection for more information.
1882 IT CRAWLS
The Necronomicon is featured in this Lone
Ranger tale.
Wu Chan a mentor of the Lone Ranger and
Tonto loans them two books to assist in their quest to defeat an Aztec Mummy
who is really a brain damaged visitor from the stars. One of the books is a
copy of the Necromicon
A Lone Ranger and Tonto comics mini-series
written by Joe R. Lansdale and published by Topps Comics, which links the
Ranger with the Cthulhu Mythos.
Late 1882 -
A.J. Raffles' earliest criminal exploit, as told by Raffles himself, in Le Premier Pas (edited by
E.W. Hornung, and appearing in The
Amateur Cracksman).
1882 ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
"Slim" and "Tubby" are
American cops in London to study police tactics. After ending up in jail, they
are bailed out by Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll has been murdering fellow doctors who
laugh at his experiments, and has more murders in mind. At one point, the serum
that turns Jekyll into the murderous Hyde gets injected into Tubby.
This film takes place prior the events of Robert Louis Stevenson's book.. Please
read Hyde and Hair:
Hydden Pair for a further explanation of these events in the Wold Newton
Universe. These two bumblers would go on to meet Larry Talbot and
Frankenstein's Monster, although they were using different names.Immortal
Befuddled provides the solution to the mystery as to why these fellows are
so long
January 1883 -Holmes first encounters the "amateur
cracksman," A.J. Raffles. Holmes marries Raffles' sister Marjorie. Raffles
Holmes is born later that year; Marjorie dies in childbirth (R. Holmes & Co.) since it is doubtful that A.J. Raffles was old
enough in 1883 to have a daughter of marrying age, Marjorie was more probably
A.J.'s sister, as stated here).
1883 - Birth of Dr. Caber, son of John Clay (see Watson's/Doyle's The Adventure of the Red-Headed League) and Urania Moriarty, grandson of the first
Professor James Moriarty. Dr. Caber would become the nemesis of Wold Newton
family member Joseph Jorkens. Lord Dunsany related their tales in three
stories: The Invention of Dr. Caber (found in Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey), and
The Strange Drug of Dr.
Caber and The Cleverness of Dr. Caber (both in The Fourth Book of Jorkens).
Please read Rick Lai's A Brief Biography
of Dr. Caber for complete
information.
1883-1885 - The events of She,
as narrated by Ludwig Horace Holly, and transcribed by H. Rider Haggard. Holly,
a Wold Newton Family member (click here for more information), scholar, and African
explorer, is the guardian of Leo Vincey, the reincarnated love of
She-who-must-be-obeyed, of the lost valley of Kôr. The date is derived from Ayesha:
The Return of She.
April 1883 THE ADVENTURE OF THE OLD RUSSIAN WOMAN
Holmes and Watson endeavor to locate an
artist named Vukcic, whose subject matter for the painting at the heart of this
case is a farm woman in Montenegro. Holmes also refers to a
"mastermind" behind the mystery, whose name he knows as well as his
own, but Holmes declines to name the man at this time.
Short story by H. Paul Jeffers, in the
anthology The
Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Marvin Kaye, ed., St. Martin's Press, 1998. One of Holmes' twin sons would later answer to the
name Marko Vukcic, perhaps hinting that Holmes had a deeper relationship with
the eponymous painter than is otherwise indicted. Both Marko Vukcic and his
twin brother, Nero Wolfe, had close ties to Montenegro. The mastermind is, of
course, Mycroft Holmes.
1883 -Denis Nayland Smith is born. Smith is the son of Sherlock Holmes'
sister, Sigrina Holmes, and thus is the nephew of Holmes. Nayland Smith shares
an interesting characteristic with another British detective, Solar Pons,
namely, the habit of tugging on the left earlobe in times of stress or deep
thought. Brad Mengel, in his The Family Tree of
Sherlock Holmes, proposes that Nayland Smith and Solar Pons are distant
cousins, related through Pons' mother, Roberta McIvor.
September 1883 Henry Jekyll begins developing a serum
that will liberate man from his bestial nature. Jekyll's formula uses a rare
mineral salt, which has recently been identified as Thyophite. This substance
releases Jekyll's innate traits of therioanthropy- shape changing, a form of
werewolfism. Although the transformed persona is called Edward Hyde is
really Henry Jeckyll taking advantage of the bestial form to live out his
darkest fantasies. Details about Henry Jekyll's life which Robert Louis
Stevenson was not privy to can be found in the series of articles Hyde and Hair.
October 1883-March 1885 - The events of R.L. Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
October 1883 –March 1885 DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HOLMES
In this companion novel to Robert Louis
Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson
encounter Dr. Henry Jekyll and his alter ego, Edward Hyde This Holmes / Jekyll
novel is by mystery writer Loren D. Estleman, published by Penguin Books in
1980.
Details about Henry Jekyll's life
which neither Robert Louis Stevenson or Loren Estleman were privy to can be
found in the series of articles Hyde and Hair.
1884 - Kathryn Koluchy conducts her nefarious activities, as detailed in The Brotherhood of Seven Kings, by L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace. Part of Katherine
Koluchy's familal relations can be seen at The Blind Seer genealogy.
August 1884 THE DORRINGTON RUBY SEAL (R. HOLMES & CO)
Sherlock Holmes first encounters the
"amateur cracksman," A.J. Raffles, who had stolen the Dorrington Ruby
Seal seven months earlier, in January 1884. Holmes marries Raffles' sister
Marjorie.
R. Holmes & Co. is a collection of
inter-connected short stories by John Kendrick Bangs. It is speculated that
Raffles Holmes was born in May 1885 and that Marjorie died in childbirth.
Since it is doubtful that A.J. Raffles was old enough in 1884 to have a
daughter of marrying age, Marjorie was more probably A.J. Raffles' sister, as
stated here.
Late December 1884-Late March 1885 - The events of The List of Seven, as recounted by Mark Frost, in which an occult cabal known as the
Seven is broken up by Jack Sparks and his friend Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle
(Watson's literary agent).
March-May 1885 THE INFERNAL DEVICE
Benjamin Barnett, a member of the first
Professor Moriarty's crime family, has a secretary named Cecily Perrine, who
describes her father as a man who is a student of languages and dialects, and
who can place someone within two blocks in London after listening to them
speak. Cecily's father is a Professor whose first name is Henry, and whom
Sherlock Holmes expresses an interest in meeting. Holmes and Watson actually
find themselves working on the same side as Moriarty. Writers Oscar Wilde and
Bernard Shaw are also mentioned.
This Professor Moriarty novel is by Michael
Kurland, Signet Books, 1978. Although Cecily's father is named as Henry
Perrine, this is clearly a pseudonym for Professor Henry Higgins. George
Bernard Shaw told the story of Professor Higgins in Pygmalion, also known as My
Fair Lady. For an in-depth article on this entry by fellow Wold
Newton fan Mark Brown, please click here.
1885 CURE THE TEXAS FEVER
Waxahachie Smith works with the Floating
Outfit and Theodore Roosevelt to protect those who can cure the Texas fever.
Novel by J.T. Edson. The Newtonverse
version of Roosevelt worked with Sherlock Holmes and would also meet Indiana
Jones.
1885 - Dr. Henry Frankenstein recreates his ancestor's experiments, as seen
in the feature film Frankenstein (read Mark Brown's article for more information). The full cycle of adventures
of this fifth Frankenstein Monster is as follows: Frankenstein, Bride
of Frankenstein, The Son of Frankenstein, The Ghost of
Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, The House of
Frankenstein,House of Dracula, Abbott and Costello Meet
Frankenstein, Return of the Wolf Man, The Devil's Brood, and The
Devil's Night.
1885 - Arronaxe Larsen, Doc Savage's mother, is born. She is the daughter of
Wolf Larsen and Arronaxe Land.
September-October 1885 - The Jekyll Legacy, a sequel to The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as told by Robert Bloch and Andre Norton, in which
Dr. Jekyll's niece, Hester, is involved in some terrifying events. The
murderous culprit of the tale was obviously lying when elucidating on the theft
of Mr. Hyde's corpse from its grave, since, unbeknownst to many, Jekyll / Hyde
still lived at the conclusion of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (see Tooth
and Nail, 1909). Click here for more information. Details about Henry Jekyll's life which neither Robert
Louis Stevenson or Boch/Norton were privy to can be found in the series of
articles Hyde and Hair.
December 1885-October 1886 THE PURCHASE OF THE NORTH POLE
The members of the Baltimore Gun Club buy
the North Pole at an international auction. The events surrounding the previous
auction of a Pacific island are also mentioned. Also mentioned are the events
of Hector Servadac and The Adventures of Captain Hatteras.
The Purchase of the North Pole (aka Topsy Turvy) is a novel by Jules Verne. The Gun
Club was also mentioned in Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and Rosny &
Farmer's Ironcastle. The Gun Club members are now twenty years older
since the Moon project. The previous auction of the Pacific island occurred in
Verne's The School for Robinsons (aka The School for Crusoes). Hector
Servadac and The Adventures of Captain Hatteras are also novels by
Jules Verne.
1886 - Events of the film Bride of Frankenstein
(read Mark Brown's article for complete information).
1886 - Mycroft Holmes is appointed head of the British Secret Service, thus
becoming the first "M." Subsequent "M"s will include Laird McTarry, Admiral
Sir Miles Messervy and Barbara Mawdsley.
1886 - Birth of Dominick Medina, son of the third James Moriarty and Kathryn
Koluchy.
March 1886 The Giant
Rat of Sumatra Holmes is retained by
Professor August Belknap for assistance in a case involving the Cthulhu Mythos
Short story edited by Paula Volsky, from a manuscript by H.P. Lovecraft, based
on the notes of Dr. John Watson, contained in the volume Resurrected Holmes,
Marvin Kaye, ed., 1996. August Belknap must be a relative of H.P. Lovecraft
associate and fellow writer Frank Belknap Long.
1886 - Events of Allen
Quatermain, which features the title character's purported
death, as related by H. Rider Haggard. Actually, Quatermain fakes his own
death. Speaking of the events of Allen Quatermain, he states, "Only
my demise was sham, a ruse to grant me freedom from my suffocating
reputation." See Allan
and the Sundered Veil, as told by
Alan Moore.
1886 - The events of Jules Verne's Robur
the Conqueror.
1886 - The Old
Detective’s Pupil, Nick Carter's first case.
1886 - Leo Vincey and Ludwig Horace Holly set out for Central Asia on a
quest to locate Ayesha; they will not succeed until 1903 (Ayesha: The Return of She).
March 1886 From the house of a member of his
extended family, John Carter once again teleports bodily to Barsoom.
August 1886PREDATOR: NEMESIS
Captain Edward Soames is recruited by
Mycroft Holmes and the ruling cabal of the Diogenes Club to track down and
eliminate a serial killer prowling London. In the course of the case,
Soames also works with Inspector Lestrade. The London newspapers refer to
the killer as "Spring-Heeled Jack," but the true nature of the
murderer is covered up by the Diogenes Club.
Mini-series from Dark Horse Comics by
Gordon Rennie and Colin MacNeil, 1997. The Diogenes Club, Mycroft Holmes, and
Inspector Lestrade are all from the Sherlock Holmes stories. This case further
solidifies the notion that the Diogenes Club was a secret arm of the British government.
The alien hunters called Predators have been crossed-over with so many
different comics characters and universes, that they must be deemed
"multi-versal." Therefore, only crossovers that work within
Wold Newton continuity, such as Tarzan
vs. Predator at the Earth's Core (1945), will be listed on the Crossover
Chronology. Another way of saying this is that Soames encountered the Wold
Newton Universe version of the Predators.
December 1886 - The events of Sherlock Holmes and the Hands of
Othello, as related by Alexander Simmons. Holmes helps Amanda
Aldridge, the black actress and daughter of the famous "Negro
Tragedian," the late Ira Aldridge. Holmes is hired by Thomas Kane
(Amanda’s suitor) to investigate a strange series of events. Holmes also fights
Phillipe Moreau, an assassin hired to kill Amanda Aldridge. The first duel
between Moreau and Holmes ends in a draw. In the second duel, a sword fight,
Holmes kills Moreau. (Further genealogical research may reveal a distant link
between Solomon Kane and Thomas Kane, as well a connection between Dr. Moreau
and Phillipe Moreau.)
December 1886 - The Adventure of the Red Leech, in which Holmes and Watson foil the first Professor Moriarty's plan to
assassinate Queen Victoria (Detective Comics number 572).
January 1887 DEATH BY GASLIGHT
The first Professor Moriarty concocts a
scheme involving Her Majesty's Battleship Hornblower. Colonel Sebastian Moran
continues to be a some time operative for Moriarty. Holmes and Watson also
appear, as does the eighty-year-old Duke of Denver.
Michael Kurland's Professor Moriarty novel
(Signet, 1982) most likely takes place in January, not March date listed, since
the good Professor is otherwise occupied in February-April 1887. The ship is
named after nautical hero Horatio Hornblower, thus confirming Hornblower in the
Wold Newton Universe. This Duke of Denver must be an ancestor of Lord seen here
is probably the 14th, making him Lord Peter Wimsey's grandfather, George Wimsey
(click here
for more information.Peter Wimsey. Kurland indicated that a third Moriarty
novel, The Murder Trust, was in the works; however, I believe it was never
published.
February-April 1887 ALL-CONSUMING FIRE In which Holmes and Watson encounter a mysterious
traveler known as the Doctor (Who, that is, the Seventh) and together battle
Azathoth, one of the Great Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos. Mycroft Holmes,
Sherringford Holmes, Professor Moriarty and Professor Challenger's associate,
Lord John Roxton, also appear. Fu Manchu's Si Fan criminal organization,
Professor Challenger, and Kolchak the Night Stalker are mentioned.
A Doctor Who novel by Andy Lane, part of The
New Doctor Who Adventures series, Doctor Who Books, 1994. The Doctor visits the
Newtonverse. It is also confirmed that the Cthulhu Mythos is associated with
the Newtonverse. Given the differences between the history of Dr. Who's
universe and that of the Wold Newton Universe, it is probable that the Doctor's
native universe is an alternate or parallel timeline.
Also of interest, Kim Newman's character
from the Anno Dracula trilogy, the British agent Charles Beauregard who works
for the Diogenes Club (British Secret Service), is mentioned in All Consuming
Fire in the same role. This is a case of Newman's own practice of
"borrowing" characters in reverse.
April 1887 - The events of Anthony Hope's The
Prisoner of Zenda.
1887 - The events of H.G. Wells' The
Island of Dr. Moreau.
1887 - Birth of Charlie Chan, probable son of Fu Manchu (click here for
more info).
1887 GOLD ON THE MISSISSIPPI Samuel Clemens meets The Lone Ranger and Tonto.
Story found in Pure Imagination Comics'
reprinting of Lone Ranger comic strips. Clemens, while in 1893 San Francisco,
was accidentally transported to the U.S.S. Enterprise-D of the year 2368.
1887 HOLMES AND THE
LOSS OF THE BRITISH BARQUE SOPHY ANDERSON
Holmes takes a case involving Lieutenant
Richard Hornblower, great grandson of Admiral Horatio Hornblower.
Short story edited by Peter Cannon, from a
manuscript by C.S. Forester, based on the notes of Dr. John Watson. Contained
in volume entitled Resurrected Holmes, Marvin Kaye, ed., 1996.
August-November 1887 - The events of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
August – November 1887 SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. DRACULA OR THE
ADVENTURE OF THE SANGUINARY COUNT
Holmes and Watson fight against Dracula in
this companion novel to Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The Holmes / Dracula novel is by Watson, edited
by mystery writer Loren D. Estleman, published by Penguin Books in 1979.
Dracula's encounter with Holmes places Dracula in the Wold Newton Universe.
Therefore, Zorro gains entry through his battle with the Count in 1809. The
Count Dracula featured here is the "real" Count, Dracula-prime, as
opposed to one of his many "soul clones" (for more on this theory,
please read Chuck Loridans' full account of the history of Count Dracula in the
Newtonverse, Children of the Night).
Although Watson dated these events in 1890, further research reveals that
Dracula-prime was once again present in England in 1888, just prior to the
Ripper murders (see entry for Dracula: The Suicide Club). Dracula: The Suicide
Club also makes it clear that the events of Stoker's Dracula took place one
year previous, i.e. 1887. See Also Best Fangs Forward
October 1887 - Paterson Erskine Guthrie takes a position as the
confidential secretary to British spymaster Mycroft Holmes, essentially playing
a Victorian Archie Goodwin to Holmes' Nero Wolfe (Against the Brotherhood by Guthrie, edited by Quinn Fawcett).
November 1887-May 1888 MINA: THE DRACULA STORY CONTINUES
Mina (Murray) Harker, conducting an
investigation in London, wonders, "What would Detective Holmes
do?"
Novel by Marie Kiraly (pseudonym for
Elaine Bergstrom). Although the novel also refers to the Holmes stories
as being written by Doyle, everyone knows that Holmes was a real person and
that Doyle served as Dr. Watson's editor and literary agent. For more
information on Dracula, see Chuck Loridans' Children of the Night.
Late Autumn 1887 HAPPY ENDINGS
Holmes and Watson travel to April 24, 2010
to attend a wedding.
An original Dr. Who novel by Paul Cornell,
featuring the Seventh Doctor. Presumably Holmes and Watson are returned to 1887
at the exact moment that they left. The year 2010 that they visit is probably
in the mainstream Dr. Who Universe, which is parallel to the mainstream Wold
Newton Universe.
1888 - Birth of Theodore Marley "Ham" Brooks, one of Doc Savage's
five assistants.
1888 John Cloamby, Lord Grandrith affected by inherited madness
triggered by an immortality elixer goes on a killing spree in the area near the
Grandrith estate. Many of his kills are undetected, others are attributed to
Jack the Ripper.
For more see Triple Tarzan Tangle
1888 - The events of Oscar Wilde's The
Selfish Giant.
1888 - Birth of Tara of Helium, daughter of John Carter and Dejah Thoris.
May-October 1888 BLOOD TO BLOOD: THE DRACULA STORY
CONTINUES
Arthur Holmwood, Lord Godalming, refers to
Sherlock Holmes and his Baker Street Irregulars.
Novel by Elaine Bergstrom, a sequel to Mina: The Dracula Story Continues. Although the novel's events are dated to 1891, and
there are references to the Jack-the-Ripper murders of late 1888, the larger
Dracula chronology dictates setting these events in May-October 1888. For
more on Dracula, see Chuck Loridans' Children of the Night.
Late August-September 1888 DRACULA: THE SUICIDE CLUB
Dracula has become the President of London's
Suicide Club. Sherlock Holmes, Dion Fortune, and Sir John Chandos also have
roles in this case. A journalist named Milverton also briefly appears.
Comic mini-series published in 1992 by
Adventure Comics, written by Steven Phillip Jones and illustrated by John Ross.
The Suicide Club is derived from Robert Louis Stevenson's New
Arabian Nights. Holmes makes an
unnamed appearance, but the appearance is clear. There was a real English
occultist and author named Dion Fortune, but she was born in 1890 and her true
name was Violet Mary Firth; perhaps the Dion Fortune seen in this story is her
mother, or at least an influence. (Interestingly, she studied studied occultism
under Dr. Theodore Moriarty.) Milverton is probably not Charles Augustus
Milverton, as seen on Watson's/Doyle's The Adventure of Charles Augustus
Milverton (the descriptions do not match), but is almost certainly a relative.
Sir John Chandos is undoubtedly a descendant of Sir John Chandos (Jean
Froissart's Chronicles; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sir Nigel and The White
Company); the relationship between the first Sir John Chandos and Richard
William Chandos (Dornford Yates' Chandos series) has also been conclusively
established by Brad Mengel in The Daring Drummonds.
Dracula, based on a reading of Chuck Loridans' Children
of the Night, appears to be Dracula-prime, and not one of his
"soul-clones." This exploit concludes just as the Jack the Ripper
murders are beginning.
Early September 1888 THE
ADVENTURE OF THE ARABIAN KNIGHT
Sherlock Holmes embarks to recover a stolen
document on behalf of his client, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton.
Story by Loren Estleman in Murder in Baker Street, 2001. Sir Richard Francis Burton
translated the Arabian
Nights and the Kama Sutra into English, and discovered the source
of the Nile. He also figures largely in Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series, which may
or may not be related to the Wold Newton Universe (see Dennis Power's Ozdyssey, or How
the Yellow Brick Road Lead Me to the Riverworld).
September-November 1888 Sherlock Holmes solves the Jack the Ripper slayings
in A STUDY IN TERROR by Ellery Queen
A novelization of the Holmes film, written
by Dr. Watson and supplemented by Ellery Queen (Manfred B. Lee and Frederic
Dannay), Lancer Books, 1966. After reading Watson's manuscript in 1966, Ellery
Queen had his own take on the Ripper case. But in 2265, Captain Kirk and the
crew of the Enterprise encountered the energy being truly responsible for the
murders, the life-form known as Redjac.
November 22, 1888 - Tarzan, Lord Greystoke (the future eighth duke of
Greystoke), is born after his parents, Alice and John Clayton (the son of the
fifth duke), are stranded in the jungle of French Equatorial Africa
(Gabon).(Authorized books in the Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan series are: Tarzan of
the Apes, The Return
of Tarzan, The Beasts
of Tarzan, The Son of
Tarzan, Tarzan and
the Jewels of Opar, Jungle
Tales of Tarzan, Tarzan
the Untamed, Tarzan
the Terrible, Tarzan and the
Golden Lion, Tarzan and the Ant Men, Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, Tarzan and
the Lost Empire, Tarzan at the Earth's Core, Tarzan The Invincible, Tarzan
Triumphant, Tarzan and the City of Gold, Tarzan and the Lion Man, Tarzan and
the Leopard Men, Tarzan's Quest, Tarzan and the Forbidden City, Tarzan the
Magnificent, Tarzan and the Foreign Legion, Tarzan and the Madman, Tarzan and
the Castaways, Tarzan and the Valley of Gold by Fritz Leiber, Tarzan:
The Lost Adventure by E. R. Burroughs and Joe R. Lansdale,and
Tarzan: The Dark Heart of Time by Philip José Farmer. There are many other
Tarzan pastiches listed on this Chronology. Click here for a Chronology of Tarzan's adventures, based on and
expanded from Philip José Farmer's timeline.)
Late November-December 25, 1888 THE TANGLED SKEIN
Holmes and Watson once again meet Dr.
Abraham van Helsing. Van Helsing enlists their aid in tracking down
Dracula, who has returned to England. Stapleton, the villain who attempted
to terrorize Sir Henry Baskerville, also makes an appearance.
Novel by Dr. John H. Watson, edited by David
Stuart Davies, 1992. The novel, a sort-of sequel to Watson and Doyle's The
Hound of the Baskervilles, treats this as the first encounter between
Holmes, van Helsing, and Dracula. It even recounts the facts of Dracula's
arrival in England aboard the Demeter. This would lead one to assume that the
events of this case would parallel those related in Bram Stoker's Dracula, as
does Watson and Estleman's Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula. However, this is
not the case, as none of the remaining events recounted in The Tangled Skein
parallel those in Dracula. Therefore, these events can be seen as a subsequent
meeting of Holmes and Dracula, rather than the initial one. Watson must
have had his own reasons for confusing the facts of this case, one which, of
course, "the world is not yet prepared."
THE MADNESS OF
COLONELWARBURTON Sherlock Holmes
receives the Maltese Falcon as a gift for successfully concluding this case.
The Maltese Falcon will become the object of great pursuit in forty years,
embroiling San Francisco detective Sam Spade in much intrigue.
Short story is edited by Carole Buggé, from
a manuscript by Dashiell Hammett, based on the notes of Dr. Watson. In the
volume Resurrected Holmes, Marvin Kaye, ed., 1996.
1889 - Birth of Carl Peterson,
arch-enemy of Bulldog Drummond. Peterson is the second son of John Clay and Urania
Moriarty, making him the grandson of the first Professor James Moriarty and the
brother of Dr. Caber.
1889 John Cloamby, Lord Grandrith son of John Cloamby and his
raped sister-in-law is born in a the caverns of the Nine in the mountains of
Uganda. His parents are eliminated and he is given over to the care of a band
of mangani. For more see Triple Tarzan Tangle
1889 ALLAN AND THE SUNDERED VEIL
Allan Quatermain
ingests the narcotic taduki and enters a state akin to the Dreamlands, a land
where linear time does not exist. Indeed, there he meets the astral projection
of Randolph Carter, who has come from the early 20th century. He also meets
Randolph's great-uncle,John Carter, who, on his way to Barsoom from the
Arizona cave where he lay dying in 1866, has been diverted to this realm. At
the end of the second chapter, as the three are about to be attacked, The Time
Traveler appears to rescue them. It is also revealed that the Morlocks of the
far future are related to the Mi-Go of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Novella by Alan Moore, serialized in the six
issues of the comics mini-series, The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen. Allan Quatermain was established as pert of the
Wold Newton Family by Philip José Farmer, as was Wells' Time Traveler (aka
Bruce Clarke Wildman). (For an excellent article on the Time Traveler, please
read Travels
in Time by Loki Carbis.) This crossover confirms that E.R. Burroughs' John
Carter was originally an inhabitant of the Newtonverse, before he took up
permanent residence in the dimension containing the planet Barsoom. It also
relates John Carter to H. P. Lovecraft's Randolph Carter, who appeared in such
classics as The Statement of
Randolph Carter, The Dream Quest of
Unknown Kadath, and The Silver Key.
1889 - Events of Rudyard Kipling's Soldiers Three.
1889 - The events of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of
Dorian Grey.
1889 - Birth of Carl Peterson, arch-enemy of Bulldog Drummond. Peterson is
the second son of John Clay and Urania Moriarty, making him the grandson of the
first Professor James Moriarty and the brother of Dr. Caber.
November 21, 1889 - Upon the death of the fifth duke of Greystoke, his
brother, William Cecil Clayton, becomes the sixth duke.
1890 SHERLOCK HOLMES i
LIVSFARE
Raffles, in London,
steals a pearl necklace, only to be apprehended by Sherlock Holmes. Raffles,
piqued, appeals to Professor Moriarty to have Holmes eliminated
Danish silent film, 1908,
aka Sherlock Holmes in Danger of His Life.
1890 Birth of Wold Newton Family member Lord Peter Wimsey (click here for
an in-depth article).
1890 - Sir Thomas Bulfinch’s My Heart’s In the Highlands.
October 1890 - The events of Anthony Hope's Rupert
of Hentzau. Death of Rudolf Rassendyll.
1890 THE MAGICIAN'S
NEPHEW It is stated that the
Sherlock Holmes mysteries are happening concurrently with these events in
Narnia In C.S. Lewis' Narnia book, The Magician's Nephew, it states: "In
those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street...." Since
Narnia is clearly not part of "our" universe, The Wold Newton
Universe, it must be another parallel reality. (See also Alternate Universes.)
The date is based on educated guesswork.
1890-1891 THE BEAUTIFUL WHITE DEVIL
Alie Dunbar is a female pirate in the
Pacific, of the Robin Hood variety. A man named Benwell appears briefly.
Novel by Guy Boothby. Benwell was a also
minor character in Guy Boothby's novel Dr. Nikola, thus linking this novel to
the Nikola series. Nikola is in the Wold Newton Universe through references to
Lecoq and Sherlock Holmes, and an appearance in the Doc Savage comic
mini-series Doom Dynasty. For complete information, please read Rick Lai's The Life of Dr. Antonio
Nikola (1856-1898?).
1890's Ling Fu Shan assumed the identity of the Governor of
Honan province, Fu Manchu, and in doing so made himself from a half-Caucasian
bastard into a member of the royal ruling family. (He probably had
Capellean aid in doing so) Once he had the identity of the Governor and the
pretense of his bloodline, the newly named Fu Manchu played along with the
Capellean scheme to make him Emperor and began a disastrous policy of
destabilization. As you may know, the period from 1880 to 1905 is one of
violent upheaval in Chinese history. During this period, China lost most of its
provinces and power, becoming a virtual subject state to England, France and
Germany. This was the direct result of one of Fu Manchu's schemes that
backfired. He had traveled to Europe and England several times in the 1890s,
possibly as an agent of the Empress, and as an agent of the Capelleans through
his contacts in the criminal underground, such as Professor James Moriarty and
Carl Peterson but he also used the position to further his own aims.
Through his contact with the
governments of Europe through various double agents, he arranged a policy of
aggression and inflexibility on the part of the European governments. His true
aim was probably to make the Royal family pursue a policy of non-cooperation
with the European governments while at the same time using Capellean
resources to create a modern Chinese state that was technologically equal
to Europe. The events progressed too rapidly for even Fu Manchu to calculate
and he and China lost the gamble.
Furious that the Westerners,
rather than the Chinese and himself had benefited from his policies, Fu
Manchu turned his back on his Capellean sponsors, created the Boxer
rebellion using Si Fan operatives. This effort too was a failure and soured the
Empress on the schemes of Fu Manchu. Fu Manchu decided to take a more direct
approach and, using Si Fan operatives, attempted to assassinate the royal house
of China. Retribution was swift and painful. Since Manchu had betrayed the
Capelleans they aided in his capture.
REVISED WOLD NEWTON
CHRONOLOGY
Prehistory-858, 858-1799,
1800-1849,
1850-1890 1891-1910,
1911-1920,
1921-1930, 1931-1940, 1941-1970,
1971-Future.
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Win Eckert.
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