Timeline of the Famebright Universe. A fictional universe liberally mixing my own original characters with those in the public domain. Some of it has been adapted from the Free Universe.com. Characters I won’t use have been taken away, mostly those created by Howard and Burroughs due to their obnoxiously litigious offspring. Notable in their absence (but usually replaced by a character of my own, or a corresponding public domain character) are Zorro, Captain Marvel, Tarzan, Conan, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, Buck Rogers, John Carter of Mars, and Deja Thoris. Public domain characters who share a name with a more famous character owned by established companies have had their names (and often some of their appearance) changed, some examples include Gatta Nera (Black Cat), Green Scarab (Blue Beetle), Green Guru (Green Lama), WyldeFyre (Wildfire), Shujaa (Sheena) Cat (Catman), Stuntman (Daredevil).

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• In the far future of our reality, humanity wipes out existence accidentally when creating the entertainment space station Audumla, rebooting reality into the Famebright Universe of 50 000 BC

• 50 000 BC Earth must suddenly contend with the reality of magick, the gods of all the pantheons, and monsters as a tangible reality. Most of them live in pocket dimensions, but many deities and creatures regularly visit the prime plane, usually causing havoc when they do

• 30,000 BC A cro-magnon later called Caine, is cursed with becoming the first human vampire by other-dimensional vampiric demon king Ashmodai

• 9600 BC The first civilization, Atlantis conquers much of Northern Africa and Western Europe. The island continent that the Atlanteans call home is remarkable for the continued existence of Dinosaurs, of which many have been tamed. Their capture of a neanderthal/human hybrid, Thrag results in his causing the volcanic eruption that destroys their continent. The refugees include Utnapisham (Noah in the Bible) and they spread around the world, bringing elements of their civilization with them

• 2700 BC The Adventures of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk

• 1650 BC Daedalus is forced by King Minos to create a labyrinth for an inhuman bull/human hybrid known as the Minotaur. He escapes with his son Icarus, but Icarus dies in the process. This event twists Daedalus and upon his discovery of a formula for eternal life, he becomes a shadowy eternal figure using others as pawns in his quest for power

• 1230 BC The Twelve Labours of Herakles

• 1220 BC The Adventures of the Argonauts (Including Herakles)

• 1200 BC The Adventures of Theseus

• 1180 BC The Trojan War

• 1170 BC The Adventures of Odysseus and Aeneas

• 1050 - 600 BC Inhabitants of the region now known as the Middle East, witness skirmishes between two enormously powerful otherworldly beings, Ritemon and Mennodos. The jumbled, third or fourth hand accounts of these events will become known as the Old Testament. The strange events and “miracles” begin to wane as Ritemon and Mennodos continue their ancient war in other parts of the universe. Both sides leave a remnant of their forces on earth 

• 30 BC The Adventures of Tros of Samothrace

• 0 Influential cult leader, Jesus Christ is born

• 20-30 AD The Adventures of Jesus Christ

• 100 AD Cu Chulainn battles Queen Maeve of Connaught

• 284 AD The emperor Diocletian takes drastic steps to secure the faltering Roman Empire (they didn't call themselves Byzantines, that's a modern name for that era) having been visited in the past by the wanderer known as Caine.  He persecutes Christians in particular, very violently, blaming them in some way for the mysterious condition that leaves him always covered in robes and a metal mask.  The events of this story will take place in the graphic novel "Vempire"

• 539 AD Arthur Pendragon is slain at the battle of Camlann. Myrddin Emrys goes into an age-long slumber

• 400-600 AD Adventures of Beowulf, Britomart, and Hua Mulan.

• 500 AD The First Wyrm Council results in the migration from Earth of most of its Dragon population to their new home, located in the Draco Constellation, which they name Wyrmgaard

• 800 AD The Seven Voyages of Sinbad. The Adventures of Roland and Charlemagne's Paladins (The Twelve Peers).

• 1096 AD The beginning of the First Crusade.

• 1191 AD Upon successful completion of a diplomatic mission on behalf of Richard the Lionheart to Saladin, Robert of Locksley is disgusted when Richard violates the terms of the agreement and puts 2,700 Muslim prisoners to the sword. Shortly after he will return to find England an anarchic place gripped in the tyrannical rule of Prince John. He will take up the sword and bow against his feudal lords

• 1271 AD Marco Polo begins his exploratory travels

• 1299 AD Dante visits the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio (the pocket dimensions of Ritemon and Mennodos)

• 1322 AD Sir John Mandeville sets off to explore

• 1459 AD After attacking the wrong man, Sawney Bean and his cannibal clan in Scotland are rooted out of their caves by soldiers

• 1476 AD Vlad III Dracula becomes a vampire

• 1482 AD Quasimodo falls in love with Esmerelda

• 1492 AD Christopher Columbus sails the Atlantic to "discover" the "New World"

• 1519 AD Having independently discovered a formula for eternal life, Leonardo DaVinci fakes his death in order to elude certain enemies. Thus begins a many centuries personal war with the immortals Daedalus and Caine

• 1589 AD Werewolf, Peter Stumpp is put to death

• 1600 AD Don Quixote sets off on his quest

• 1610 AD The wizard Prospero returns to civilization with his daughter Miranda

• 1614 AD Elizabeth Bathory, a vampire cultist who bathes in virgins blood executed after trial

• 1625-1667 AD The Adventures of Cyrano De Bergerac, D'Artagnan, and The Three Musketeers in France

• 1642 AD The pirate known as the Crimson Raider is murdered

• 1659 AD Robinson Cruson is stranded and makes a friend

• 1666 AD The Great Fire of London prevents a zombie outbreak

• 1680-1689 AD Adventures of Captain Blood and Tom "The Old One" Jordan

• 1699-1715 AD Lemuel Gulliver travels to many exotic places

• 1721 AD Italian explorer Caproni discovers the island of Caspak, inhabited by dinosaurs (The Land that Time Forgot)

• 1715-1740 AD The Adventures of Long John Silver and many other pirates

• 1740-1770 AD The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Natty "Hawkeye" Bumpo

• 1767 AD Jean Chastel kills the marauding Beast of Gevaudan

• 1776 AD The United States of America declares independence from England

• 1783 AD The end of the American Revolutionary War

• 1785 AD Sweeny Todd goes on a murder spree in London

• 1783 AD The beginning of the French Revolution

• 1792 AD Formation of The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

• 1796 AD Ichabod Crane visits Sleepy Hollow.

• 1799 AD The end of the French Revolution.

• 1810 AD The Swiss Family Robinson is stranded on an island.

• 1812 AD The War of 1812. Britain burns the Whitehouse down.

• 1835 AD Hans Pfall travels to the moon.

• 1836 AD The Adventures of Oliver Twist.

• 1836 AD After many perilous voyages, Arthur Gordon Pym goes missing. He finds himself in the hollow earth, where he encounters a strange culture derived from the descendents of stranded crusaders

• 1839 AD DaVinci hires Edmond Dantes for a series of missions

• 1839 AD Captain Ahab hunts down Moby Dick.

• 1840-1845 AD The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.

• 1844 AD Don Loring becomes The Eagle in order to stop a Russian invasion of the Western United States.

• 1861-1865 AD The American Civil War

• 1863 AD An expedition by Professor Lidenbrock conclusively proves that there is a hollow earth inhabited by all manner of strange beings and its primary entrance is in Iceland

• 1866-1868 AD The Nautilus under Captain Nemo terrorizes the seven seas.

• 1874 AD Sherlock Holmes takes his first case in his second year of college.

• 1880 AD The First Boer War.

• 1881 AD Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson move to Baker Street.

• 1885 AD Dr Jekyll creates the formula that results in his becoming Mr Hyde.

• 1886 AD Robur proves his aerial superiority in The Albatross. Nick Carter attempts to find Mabel Livingston. The Man in the Black Cloak begins his crusade against crime.

• 1889 AD Barbara Meredith becomes the Black Whip after her brother is killed.

• 1891 AD Sherlock Holmes is apparently killed by Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls.

• 1893 AD Sexton Blake takes his first major case.

• 1897 AD Lord Dracula comes to England aboard the Demeter and is hunted down by Dr. Van Helsing and apparently slain.

• 1898 AD The Spanish-American War. The Boxer Rebellion in China. Martians briefly invade England.

• 1899 AD Beginning of the Second Boer War.

• 1900 AD Fantomas captured by Inspector Juve. He promptly escapes.

• 1901 AD Bedford and Cavor build a ship from cavorite and travel to the moon to encounter insectoid selenites.

• 1902 AD End of the second Boer War. The Gun Club of Baltimore builds the giant Columbiad Cannon to launch Michel Ardan, Impey Barbicane and Captain Nicholl to the moon.

• 1903 AD The Wright Brothers make the first sustained human flight. Arsene Lupin is arrested.

• 1906 AD The city of Kowa collapses under the city of San Fransisco. Docteur Omega visits Mars. Sherlock Holmes tracks Fantomas in London.

• 1908 AD Oliver Haddo conducts terrible experiments in England. Dr Silence takes his first case.

• 1909 AD Sar Dubnotals first adventure. Nick Carter captures Fantomas who escapes again. Craig Kennedy takes his first case. Thomas Carnacki begins hunting ghosts. Sherlock Holmes tracks down Arsene Lupin.

• 1911 AD The Nyctalope (an early cyborg) begins his crusade against evil in France, and travels to Mars.

• 1912 AD Professor Challenger leads an expedition to Maple White Land in the Amazon, a plateau filled with dinosaurs and with entrances to the Hollow Earth.

• 1913 AD Dr Fu Manchu's first confrontation with Denis Nayland Smith.

• 1914 AD Beginning of World War I. Judex begins his crusade against evil in France.

• 1915 AD The Laughing Mask battles the Iron Claw.

• 1918 AD End of World War I. A captured Uboat is marooned on the island of Caprona (The Land that time forgot). Jonathan Battle loses an eye in battle.

• 1919 AD Bulldog Drummond takes his first case. John Flatchley becomes the Thunderbolt to battle corruption.

• 1922 AD Mstislav Los builds a rocket and travels to Mars with Alexei Gusev. They meet Princess Aelita.

• 1929 AD The Great Depression begins. Bill Reed fights crime as the War Eagle.

• 1930 AD Tristan O’Shea gathers a crew and begins his travels in search of undiscovered animals aboard the Daedalus. He is funded by the secretive Mr Marant

• 1931 AD Sir John Steele decides to directly compete with Tristan O’Shea and begins his own search for undiscovered animals, his more brutal methods and pirate crew are funded by the enigmatic Mr Skein

• 1932 AD Tristan and crew are flung into the dimension of Tir Nan Og. Only Tristan, Valerie Keer and Gloria emerge. Captain Davenport remains with his fey bride. Professor Donnelly is killed by a formorian

• 1932 AD Chandu the Magician leaves his monastery to battle evil around the world.

• 1933 AD The Spider, The Phantom Detective and the Moon Man begin their crime fighting careers.

• 1934 AD Nibs Halloway battles Dr Death for the first time.

• 1936 AD Unga Khan of Atlantis makes a bid for world conquest. The Clock and Domino Lady begin crime fighting. Dr Mystic and Zathor set off to save "The Seven".

• 1939 AD Beginning of World War II. John Amman, the Amazing Man is sent into the world by the Council of Seven. The Green Scarab begins crimefighting. The Claw teams up with Hitler. The Flame leaves his monastery to fight evil.

• 1940 AD 10th of May, the British invade Iceland in order to pre-empt the Nazis. They are already too late as unknown to both the UK and Iceland, the germans have already deposited three Kompanies of Stormtroopers and a group of Norwegian “Lebensborn” women on the island with a great deal of equipment, using U-boats. Iceland is not the target however, as with the use of notes from Professor Lidenbock’s journals, they have entered the hollow earth. There they remain and are not encountered again until the 80’s

• 1940 AD Lash Lightning is granted his powers. Stuntman begins to fight crime. The Red Monk leaves his monastery to fight crime.

• 1941 AD The United States enters World War II after Pearl Harbour. Blackhawk, the Black Terror, Fighting Yank, Phantom Lady all become crimefighters.

• 1942 AD Crimebuster begins to fight crime after his parents are killed by IronJaw. Captain Freedom, Shock Gibson, Gatta Nera and the Girl Commandoes repel a Japanese invasion of Los Angeles. Pyroman fights the Axis powers. Captain Gary Hart is saved by the mysterious Kuhlaya.

• 1945 AD World War II ends.

• 1947 AD U.F.O. crashes in Roswell, New Mexico and is covered up by the US military.

• 1950 AD US war with Korea. Dr John Darrow builds a rocket ship and travels to the moon where he meets Dantro of the League of Planets.

• 1952 AD Rocky King solves crimes.

• 1956 AD Executed murderer Butcher Benton becomes indestructible when revived by a scientist. Another scientist creates giant venomous shrews on a remote island. A giant Gila Monster attacks a small southwestern town. Dr Myra plots to create a zombie plague on yet another island. A small town is threatened by alien Gargons. Clutch Cargo travels to the moon. Dr Eric Zinthrop accidentally turns Janice Starlin into the Wasp Woman.

• 1963 AD Cuban Missile Crisis. Eegah a prehistoric giant is reawakened. The US sends troops to Vietnam. JFK assassinated.

• 1969 AD Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon...they are promptly captured and replaced with robots, by the many alien denizens of the bustling spaceport on the moons darkside. The other inhabitants of the galaxy have decided that humanity is too violent and undeveloped to be allowed into space. All further knowledge of space from this point on is spoon fed to us through trickery and high-tech deception

• 1972 AD A werewolf terrorizes Marsh Island, Louisiana.

• 1977 AD It is 10 years later and Mike and Gabby are moving to their new home in Clarion, Pennsylvania.  Their pleasant drive is interrupted by a gang of bikers who make some lewd gestures at the pointedly beautiful Gabby, angering Mike to the point that Gabby lays her hand on his arm to calm him, before they roar off on their harleys.  They soon reach Clarion to find that the gang has made this their new stomping grounds.  The gang really should have picked a different town.  The couple have found just what they deserve.  Blood will flow.  Cliches will be made.  The Alarum will sound

• 1977 AD In the Nahanni Valley, on the border of Alaska and Canada there have been legends of the Waheela since before the white man stole the continent. The local tribes avoid this valley for those who perish there are often found headless...hence its also being named the "Headless Valley". It is 1977, and a group of hunters are about to encounter the horrifying secret of this remote area. The Waheela is not only a living, breathing threat...a species of bear-dog that should be long extinct...it is guided by a much graver and more intelligent threat...one that also should be long gone...

• 1980 AD After almost a millenium away, Ritemon and Mennodos return to earth with their cosmic war. In his parallel dimension of Asgard, Loki begins to hatch defence plans

• 1984 AD Daniel Davenport is imbued with the powers of his great, great, great grandfather, the celtic sun god Lugh, when Lugh is slain by Mennodos. His life becomes a nightmare of ancient celtic magic and 1980’s mundanity

• 1986 AD Loki unleashes the Pandoran virus to make Earth a no-mans land where he can keep Ritemon and Mennodos busy, while he forges alliances with other pantheons for their mutual protection

• 1986 AD Owen Drake, a seventeen year old, rugby loving London teen, is the only son of Ted Drake. When Owen was still an infant, Ted Drake married a divorcee named Vivian Goring, mother to Caleb, Hugh and the triplets Meggan, Morgan and Margaret, and insisted upon their all taking his surname, something that has soured Caleb all his life. The oldest of the children at nineteen, he used to bully Owen, until Owen inherited his fathers bull like strength on the rugby field. Caleb has finished school and coaches girls soccer, when not getting into drunken brawls at the pub. The triplets tend to keep to themselves and are fascinated with modern wicca and being wannabee vampires, they tend to dress in black makeup and torn tights and smoke cheap fags when they're skipping class. Owen and Hugh, both the same age are as close as any "blood" brothers ever could be and a good deal closer than some. Owen has the slow, placid easy going nature and large build, while Hugh is mercurial, quick witted and a tad over sensitive, he is however a consummate athlete, able to outrun, out wrestle and out play virtually everyone at their school, Orpington Kingsway College. Owen and Hugh are very tight with all their school/rugby chums, Gary and Adrian Fisher, Gavin Chase, Ian Collins, Brian, Paul, Percy, Boris and Sanje. Ian Collins is infatuated with Isabella Olwen, who in turn adores him and finds herself also in the unfortunate situation of being hit upon on a regular basis by her lecherous thirty three year old teacher Martin Cornwell. Brother and sister, Adam and Gwen Troy have just moved in next door to the Drake residence, with their parents. Adam is in the year below all the other boys, and he quickly gravitates towards the schools pariah Matthew, an evil minded troublemaker much like himself. And such is the scene of this dreary, painfully normal little corner of London in 1988. But old patterns have begun to emerge...and an old man just fell out of a tree... 

• 1987 AD During the height of the Pandoran Crisis, there is the creation of the Council of Britain. Under attack from many sides, the monarchy slaughtered, the government reeling and the army collapsing, Merlin and his mad sidekick Taliesin come out of hiding. "It is time to create the council" says he. And so doing he brings first the young newly renamed men Arthur and Lancelot and those of their followers, but further more he casts into time and space and brings back (many reluctantly): Jack of the Tales,Cuchulainn, Robin (who refuses to return without Marian and his followers...Merlin reluctantly agrees), Alfred, Cromwell, Boudicca, Wallace, John Graft, William the bastard, Simon DeMontfort and Llud map Beli Mawr. The council of Britain is created. But there is a snake in the ranks, for the ancient Giant king Llud has no intention of ceding his former home to all that have come since. He envisions returning Britain to the Nephilim (giant kind), which will bring him into conflict with all the council but with Jack in particular. 

• 1988 AD The End of the World. The Ritemon/Mennodos War is finally ended by the Thirteen (unknowingly gathered together by Loki’s machinations). Seeking revenge for the destruction of their empire by Ritemon an Mennodos, the Zamorian warfleet arrives over Earth. They take out their anger on the shattered remnants of humanity until the various Pandorans eventually defeat them. But humanity is left in a post apocalyptic state.

• 2351 AD The Solar Guard patrols the planets of the Solar Alliance. 

• 2430 AD The Great Tarrano of Venus comes close to conquering the solar system, but is exiled to an asteroid instead.

• 2488 AD Aliens from Aldebaran attempt to smash a planetoid into Earth. The attack is fended off by Space Patrol.

• 2552 AD The Space Rangers patrol the solar system.

• 5077 ADSED The interstellar war between the Orion Syndicate and the League of Colonies begins.

• 5097 ADSED The war between the O.S. and L.C. ends at the second battle of Megide

• 5099 ADSED The L.C. colony ship “The Phoenix” engages in battle with the O.S. ship “The Titan” over Wyrmgaard. Both ships crash land on the planet