TL 1900-1999 AD

    – A new library building is built to house Miskatonic University’s expanding collections.

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1901: LC: The first printing of Joachim Feery’s Notes on the Necronomicon is released. A second, heavily edited version is published later in the year. This original version becomes rare, and is later referred to as the Original Notes on the Necronomicon.

    – According to some, Amery Wendy-Smith is knighted in this year.

    – Harold Hadley Copeland unearths a version of the R’lyeh Text during an expedition funded by the Pickman Foundation.

Between January and February 21: LC: Joe Slater is taken to an institution following a murderous psychotic episode.

February 21: LC: Joe Slater dies.

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1902: LC: Harold Copeland’s work Prehistory in the Pacific: A Preliminary Investigation with Reference to the Myth Patterns of Southeast Asia is published. This establishes his reputation as an anthropologist.

    – Charles Vaughan, a future playwright who incorporates fragments of The King in Yellow into his work, is born.

    – Cyrus Llanfer completes his education at Miskatonic University.

    – Alonzo Typer resigns from the Society for Psychical Research.

    – Nathaniel Peaslee becomes a full professor of political economics at Miskatonic University.

   – An “eccentric missionary” returns to England from China, bearing with her the Imperial Library’s duplicate of the Book of Dzyan and two 13th-century transcriptions of the same. She disappears soon after her return.

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1903: LC: Randolph Carter’s nocturnal dream-journeys come to an end.

    – A copy of the Rituals of Yhe is found in an Egyptian tomb.

    – Hannah Peaslee is born to Nathaniel and Alice Peaslee.

    – A “mysterious Eurasian” who visits the van der Heyl mansion is found bizarrely scarred and practically mindless.

1904: LC: Thomas Delapore’s father dies.

    – February 24: “Globular lights” are observed by the crew of the U.S.S. Supply.

1905: LC: A typhoid outbreak sweeps through Arkham. Herbert West is among those who help battle the epidemic. A mad killer strikes at the height of the outbreak in August, killing 14 before his arrest. The killer bears a strange resemblance to Dr. Allan Halsey, the Dean of the Miskatonic University School of Medicine, who had himself been a victim of the epidemic.

1906: LC: Harold Copeland completes Polynesian Mythology, with a Note on the Cthulhu Legend Cycle.

    – Kingsport’s economy turns around when Mayor Stephen Cabot makes the town a tourist center.

    – Edward Pickman Derby enters Miskatonic University at age 16.

    – The last known original French copy of Cultes des Goules resurfaces.

    – April 18: A devastating earthquake hits San Francisco. The cthonians may have been involved. Some say an original Arabic Al-Azif appeared shortly before this event.

1907: LC: Harold Copeland completes his translation of the Ponape Scripture. It is published by Miskatonic University Press.

    – Winfield Phillips, descendant of the Reverend Ward Phillips, is born.

   – Edith Brendall, a young woman with a photographic memory, gains access to one of the two copies of Kazaj Heinz Vogel’s book. Memorizing it, she copies, rewrites, and adds to the original, releasing it (at her own expense) as Von denen Vertdammen. Most copies are bought or hastily stolen after its release, and Brendall soon suspects that she’s being followed. She moves from city to city to evade her pursuers.

    – Robert Harrison Blake, future writer of weird tales, is born. (“Typo,” Winkle)

   – November 1: John Raymond Legrasse, a New Orleans police inspector, leads a raid on a sacrificial rite of a bayou cult. Castro, a sailor who is a member of the cult, is captured, and reveals that they worship Cthulhu. He proves to be quite an informant on the nature of the cult. An idol of Cthulhu is also captured during the raid.

    – November 27: L. Sprague de Camp, future science fiction and fantasy writer, is born.

1908: LC: Justin Geoffrey is allegedly inspired to become a poet after a strange experience in the Catskills.

    – Golden Goblin Press is founded in New York by Samuel and John Addleton.

    – Inspector John Legrasse takes the Cthulhu idol he found in the raid to a meeting of the American Archaeological Society, where he also tells his story. These are the first clues to the academic community of a worldwide Cthulhu cult. Professor William Channing Webb returns with Legrasse to New Orleans, and the pair organize a second raid to disrupt the re-formed cult.

    – According to less traditional accounts, Das Geheimnis Der Unterzeerunen, which is later known as Unter Zee Kulten, is published in Vienna.

    – According to some, Edward Pickman Derby’s book of poetry, Azathoth and Other Horrors, is published when Derby is 18.

    – April 17: Alonzo Typer is last seen before his disappearance from the abandoned van der Heyl mansion.

   – May 14: Nathaniel Peaslee abruptly undergoes a mysterious change in personality, and simultaneously develops amnesia. He begins studying history, anthropology, and mythology, apparently in an attempt to regain his memory.

   – June 30: An explosion occurs near Tunguska, Russia. Most scientists believe it to be caused by the mid-air detonation of a meteor, but some believe it was caused by a seed of Azathoth.

1909: LC: Golden Goblin Press prints a superior English translation of von Junzt’s Unaussprechlichen Kulten, also under the title Nameless Cults. However, they also expurgate a quarter of the original material, and are forced to price it quite highly.

    – Starry Wisdom Press allegedly releases a version of Unaussprechlichen Kulten as well, but no copies are ever found.

    – A diver finds a figurine of the god Zoth-Ommog off the coast of Ponape. The statuette becomes known as the Ponape Figurine, and it eventually comes into the possession of Harold Copeland.

    – Paul Dunbar Lang moves to America.

    – Edward Derby graduates from Miskatonic University, having majored in English and French literature.

    – February 24: August Derleth is born.

Between 1910 and 1912: The Congregational Church in Kingsport is torn down. It is replaced by the Kingsport Congregational Hospital.

1910: LC: Harold Copeland completes The Ponape Figurine.

    – John Grimlan moves to a small town just outside San Francisco.

    – Edward Derby Upton, son of Daniel Upton, is born.

    – Alice Peaslee divorces the disturbingly changed Nathaniel Peaslee. Except for his middle son, Wingate, none of his family ever sees him again.

    – Andrew Phelan, later Laban Shrewsbury’s secretary, is born.

    – Miskatonic University sends an expedition to Mesopotamia.

   – January: Harry Houdini visits Egypt. While being guided by a man calling himself “Abdul Reis el Drogman,” he is abducted and imprisoned in an underground tomb. After a disturbing experience, Houdini escapes to the surface. He later writes an account of these events with H.P. Lovecraft.

    – March 27: Edith Brendall disappears in Bonn; eight days later, her body is discovered in the Rhine.

    – December 12: Dorothy Arnold disappears in Manhattan without a trace.

c.1911: LC: A Portugese translation of the Necronomicon, illustrated by Joachim Mendoza, is created.

1911: LC: Harold Copeland completes The Prehistoric Pacific in Light of the “Ponape Scripture.” This work begins the ruination of Copeland’s career.

    – Arthur Jermyn’s mother dies, and he takes up the investigations of his ancestors, Sir Wade and Sir Robert. He outfits an expedition to the Congo, and spends time among the Onga and Kaliri peoples.

    – The Mars, Incorporated candy company is founded.

    – April 8: The French warship Versailles is reported to have vanished off the coast of Ponape, around the same time as the appearance of a bank of strange low-lying fog.

    – The Order of the Black Sun, the Thule Society, and the Vril Society emerge.

1912: LC: Sussex clergyman Reverend Arthur Brooke Winters-Hall begins an attempt to translate the allegedly untranslatable Eltdown Shards.

   – American bookseller Wilfred Voynich discovers an enciphered medieval manuscript in an Italian castle. Included along with it is a letter, asserting that it is the work of the famous scientist Roger Bacon. The manuscript comes to be known as the Voynich Manuscript.

   – American millionaire Henry Widener adds a copy of the Necronomicon to his collection, just before his fatal trip on the Titanic. After his death, his books are donated to Harvard University.

    – Arthur Jermyn finds the ruined city of the “ape-men” which Sir Wade had investigated.

    – The Chapel of Contemplation in Boston is closed after a police raid.

    – Future poet Georg Reuter Fischer is born.

    – Hiram Lapham Hoag, ancestor of Winthrop Hoag, moves to Boston from Arkham.

    – April 30: Loud noises in the Dunwich hills occur on the night of the conception of Wilbur Whateley.

   – Summer: Reverend Isaiah Ashton of the Dunwich Congregational Church mysteriously disappears. [Presumably, this followed a temporary re-establishment of the Congregational Church as a place of worship, or the construction of a new church.]

November: According to some, the explorer Sir Howard Windrop publishes his controversial partial translation of the G’harne Fragments in the Imperial Archaeological Journal. The article destroys the explorer’s career, and the Fragments become known as “Windrop’s Folly.”

1913: LC: An Investigation into the Myth-Patterns of Latter-Day Primitives with Especial Reference to the R’lyeh Text, a book by Laban Shrewsbury, is published by Miskatonic University Press.

    – Golden Goblin Press publishes Bayrolles’ translation of Revelations of Hali.

    – Ambrose Bierce disappears in Mexico.

    – February 2: Wilbur Whateley is born to Lavinia Whateley and an unknown father.

   – May: Harold Copeland and his colleague Ellington set off for the mountains beyond the Plateau of Tsang in central Asia. This is known as the Copeland-Ellington Expedition. The expedition is a disaster, and contact is lost with Copeland for three months- when he is found in Mongolia, raving, he has a set of tablets in his possession. Copeland claims that the tablets were inscribed with the words of the Muvian high priest Zanthu. Following his recovery, Copeland begins translating theZanthu Tablets, as the objects become known.

    – June: The mummified goddess worshipped by the “ape-men” of the Congo is located and sent to Arthur Jermyn.

    – August 3: Arthur Jermyn commits suicide by setting himself on fire, after receiving the mummified goddess.

    – September 27: Nathaniel Peaslee regains his memory and original personality. Thereafter, Wingate is returned to his custody.

1914: LC: World War I begins.

Between 1914 and 1918: LC: Early in the War, a supercargo captured by Germans in the Pacific escapes in a raft. He soon finds himself on a recently uprisen island, where he has a terrifying encounter. After returning to civilization, the former supercargo makes inquiries into the nature of the Philistine god Dagon. After this, he disappears.

Randolph Carter serves in the French Foreign Legion during World War I. During that time, he meets Étienne-Laurent de Marigny. The two become good friends following explorations into the tunnels beneath the town of Bayonne.

    – A single British soldier survives a battle with Germans over the cathedral of Ste. Nigoureth in a strange French town.

    – Ambrose Dewart’s only son dies during World War I, prompting him to move to his family’s ancestral property in Arkham.

    – Golden Goblin Press is believed to close down during World War I.

    – The Guildhall in Louvain, Belgium is burned by Germans. Inside were copies of the Necronomicon in seven languages.

    – Randolph Carter meets Harley Warren. The pair become close friends and investigate the unknown together.

    – January: By this month, 11-month-old Wilbur Whateley is already able to speak.

    – February: Nathaniel Peaslee regains his original post at Miskatonic. Beginning the following autumn, he begins to be plagued by nightmares of alien creatures and giant stone cities.

1915: LC: An occultist known as Captain Marsh lives in Cohasset and may meet with H.P. Lovecraft.

    – Powerful tremors and bursts of flame erupt from Sentinel Hill twice a year for the next ten years.

    – Late March: By this time, Herbert West has volunteered for medical service with the Canadians.

    – May 1: Henry Akeley records the sounds of disturbing rites on the slopes of Dark Mountain near his home in Vermont.

    – June: A party of amateur archaeologists enters the “haunted” mound near Binger, Oklahoma; they never return.

   – September: Laban Shrewsbury leaves a manuscript entitled Celaeno Fragments at the Miskatonic University Library.  Shrewsbury disappears soon afterward. (According to one source, he also leaves a copy of Cthulhu in the Necronomicon at Miskatonic.)

    – October: By this time, Nathaniel Peaslee has given up his professorship. He begins an investigation into the cause of his bizarre amnesiac period.

c. 1916: LC: Occultist Amos Tuttle begins to live a life of seclusion inside his house.

1916: LC: According to one account, the first printing of Azathoth and Other Horrors by Edward Derby is released by a Cambridge firm. They produce several more editions before they go bankrupt.

    – Harold Copeland releases The Zanthu Tablets: A Conjectural Translation. His career is destroyed.

    – Harley Warren comes to distinction as a member of a Boston society that investigates psychic matters.

    – Aleister Crowley publishes a limited-edition English translation of the Necronomicon.

    – Randolph Carter is almost mortally wounded in the French town of Belloy-en-Santerre.

    – May 11: Capt. George E. Lawton enters the “haunted” mound outside Binger, Oklahoma. A much younger, mutilated man claiming to be the same person appears over a week later and dies before dawn.

    – December 2: Titus Crow is born to a well-to-do London family.

c.1917: LC: Barnabas Marsh ceases to be seen in public.

Between 1917 and 1919: LC: An American reporter sent to cover the battle between the Red and White Russian armies in Siberia encounters something horrible while accompanying a White-allied Czech unit.

1917: LC: Reverend Winters-Hall publishes a thick pamphlet containing his translation of the Eltdown Shards.

    – April 6: America enters World War I.

   – Following America’s entry into the Great War, the draft board goes to Dunwich. It is unable to find the quota of recruits in that town, due to the degeneracy of its people. The Arkham Advertiser and Boston Globe pick up the story, and emphasize the area’s weirdness to increase circulation.

    – Alfred Delapore joins the military, and eventually becomes an aviation officer.

    – June 18: The German U-boat U-29 torpedoes the British freighter Victory. At sunset, the crew finds a seaman’s body, and take a strange ivory icon from him.

   – June 19-August 20: Conditions degenerate on the U-29, until it is wholly lost. Only Lt. Cmdr. Heinrich’s bottled account is left behind, which eventually washes up on the coast of the Yucatan and comes into the possession of Robert Suydam.

    – [According to those that believe Justin Geoffrey’s original name was John Ernest Tyler, he changes his name to Justin Geoffrey at this time.]

c.1918: LC: Both Halpin Chalmers and Fred Carstairs are members of the Partridgeville Amateur Press Club.

1918: LC: Halpin Chalmers graduates from Miskatonic University.

    – Thomas Delapore purchases Exham Priory, his family’s ancestral home in England. His son returns from World War I as a maimed invalid and enters his father’s care, halting Thomas’ plans to restore the home.

    – Harley Warren takes up occult studies of a more personal nature, in the company of Randolph Carter.

    – Charles Dexter Ward learns that he is descended from Joseph Curwen.

    – Hadley Copeland is committed to a San Francisco insane asylum.

    – Edward Taylor enters Brichester University, and founds a cult that worships the Great Old Ones.

    – John Legrasse, no longer with the New Orleans P.D., becomes a recluse, ceasing all contact with all his friends and acquaintances.

    – January 11: “Egyptian dreams” plague a man named Roger Carlyle. He becomes a patient of a Dr. Huston in the hopes of ending them.

    – September 18: Roger Carlyle begins to obsess about a woman named M’Weru who appears in his “Egyptian dreams.”

    – December 3: Carlyle decides to set out for Egypt, and blackmails Dr. Huston into accompanying him.

1919: LC: According to one account, the first printing of Azathoth and Other Horrors by Edward Derby is released by Onyx Sphinx Press of Arkham.

    – Randolph Carter’s book A War Come Near is published.

    – The last titled member of the Derleth line dies.

    – Cassilda Press secretly publishes a version of The King in Yellow. (“Typo,” Winkle)?? secretly?

    – Scrolls containing the Dhol Chants are donated to Miskatonic University by a Shanghai merchant.

    – According to one source, Sir Amery Wendy-Smith publishes a complete translation of the G’harne Fragments at this time. He is also said by some to have led his expedition to G’harne at this time.

    – April 5: The Carlyle Expedition leaves New York.

    – April 11: Three men visit the Terrible Old Man of Kingsport. Their savaged bodies are found washed ashore the next day.

    – April 30: An English captain stationed on the island of Inishdriscol in Ireland disappears.

    – May 4: The Carlyle Expedition arrives in Cairo.

    – June 1: The Carlyle Expedition engages in digs at Dhashur, and Carlyle finds the Red Pyramid. He breaks the seal on the Pyramid.

    – June 30: Strange happenings begin to occur at Dhashur, and the dig there is ended.

    – July 3: The Carlyle Expedition sets out for a “vacation” in Kenya.

    – August: Charles Dexter Ward discovers the portrait and notes of Joseph Curwen.

    – August 3: Carlyle and expedition member Jack Brady flee from the rest of their fellows.

    – September 15: Brady and Carlyle arrive in Hong Kong.

    – October: Charles Dexter Ward begins delving into the occult.

   – December: Harley Warren disappears while exploring a part of the Big Cypress Swamp of Florida with Randolph Carter. Randolph is held for questioning, but no definite evidence linking him to Warren’s disappearance can be found, and he is released.

1920s: LC: Edward Taylor’s cult is broken up, and the students involved are expelled.

    – A decade after World War I, Golden Goblin Press re-opens in Philadelphia.

    – A Los Angeles-area branch of the Starry Wisdom Cult reaches the peak of its popularity, lasting through the 1930s.

Early 1920s: LC: Professor Eliphas Cordvip Fallworth begins his work on occult subjects.

    – A branch of the Starry Wisdom Cult is established in Arkham.

    – A branch of the Derby family has a house built in Chesuncook, Maine.

    – George Goodenough Akeley leaves Vermont and moves to San Diego, where he later founds the Spiritual Light Brotherhood after a meeting with Aimee Semple McPherson.

1920: LC: Aleister Crowley’s (flawed) English translation of the Black Book of the Skull is published by Starry Wisdom Press.

    – Alfred Delapore, son of Thomas, dies from wounds inflicted during World War I.

    – Charles Dexter Ward graduates from Moses Brown School, and begins an intensive three-year period of occult studies.

    – Justin Geoffrey begins a tour of Europe.

    – French and Russian translations of the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan are published in Shanghai.

    – Asaph Waite supposedly writes the Invocations to Dagon at this time.

    – March 11: Erica Carlyle arrives in Kenya and begins her search for the lost Carlyle Expedition.

    – May 24: The savaged remains of the Carlyle Expedition are found.

    – September: The Clay brothers enter the “haunted” mound outside Binger, Oklahoma; only one returns, three months later, who commits suicide before the next day and leaves behind a rambling manuscript.

    – October: Schoolteacher Mr. Williams, of District School Number Seven far west of Arkham, and occultist Prof. Martin Keene meet regarding the strange case of the Potter family. Soon after, the Potter home is burnt down, and the Potter family moves out of the area of Witches’ Hollow.

1921: LC: Justin Geoffrey, while travelling Europe, stops in Stregoicavar, Hungary, where he experiences horrors in the presence of the Black Stone. His personality drastically changes, and he disappears shortly after returning to the United States.

    – Professor W. Romaine Newbold declares that he has deciphered the Voynich Manuscript. He states that the Manuscript is a scientific treatise proving that Roger Bacon invented the microscope centuries before Leeuwenhoek.

    – Herbert West disappears.

    – Erich von Varstein’s filming of The Prince of Babylon in the California desert leads to insanity and suicide among the cast and crew. The film is never shown.

    – Ephraim Waite, father of Asenath Waite, is locked in the attic of their Innsmouth home by his daughter. He soon dies, and Asenath becomes a ward of the principal of Kingsport’s Hall School.

    – Wilbur Akeley moves into the abandoned Wharton farmhouse off the Aylesbury Pike. He has the home extensively remodeled, including installing “the glass from Leng” as its gable window.

    – March: Ambrose Dewart moves into his ancestral home, the Billington House, and begins restoring it. He also begins investigating its history.

    – May: Jackson Elias’ work, The Black Power, is published.

    – December: Thomas Delapore begins restoring Exham Priory.

1922: LC: Justin Geoffrey’s Secrets of the Hanged Man, a treatise about the symbolism of a Tarot card, is published. However, Geoffrey’s whereabouts remain unknown.

   – The results of Nathaniel Peaslee’s research- wherein he drew parallels with his own case and those in the past- earn him a new job as a psychology professor with Miskatonic University.

    – H.P. Lovecraft mentions the Necronomicon for the first time in his story “The Hound.”

    – The Pnakotic Manuscripts: A New Revised Study is published.

    – January: Randolph Carter’s short story “The Attic Window” is printed in the magazine Whispers. The story is so disturbing that many newsstands keep the issue off the shelves.

   – May 17: Captain James P. Orne captures the corpse of a fifty-foot-long sea monster. Over the next few months, he displays the creature’s corpse up and down the Massachusetts coast.

    – June 17: A group of native Ponape fishermen are reported to have been attacked by unusually large “sea slugs” while passing through a thick fog.

    – July 20: Orne’s sea monster mysteriously vanishes.

    – August 8: Captain Orne and a crowd on Martin’s Beach are inexplicably drowned, scandalizing the local community.

   – December 21-22: A visitor to Kingsport walks off the cliffs at Orange Point, then is rescued, while raving about being from the past and taking part in a hideous subterreanean ceremony. He is confined to Arkham Sanitarium.

c.1923: LC: Nathaniel Corey goes into semi-retirement and moves to Arkham.

Mid-1920s: LC: Horvath Waite (later Horvath Blayne) is born.

1923: LC: Étienne-Laurent de Marigny’s son, Henri-Laurent de Marigny, is born.

    – According to some, The People of the Monolith is printed in New York in this year. The accuracy of this is suspect, since the author’s whereabouts were unknown at the time.

    – Charles Dexter Ward, having exhausted local resources for his strange studies, travels to Europe.

    – Stephen Bates visits his cousin Ambrose Dewart at the latter’s request. After some odd events, Bates convinces Dewart to stay at his Boston home during the winter.

    – By this time, ten-year-old Wilbur Whateley looks and acts like a full-fledged adult.

    – July 16: Thomas Delapore moves into the fully restored Exham Priory. By or around this time, Thomas Delapore adopts the ancestral spelling of his name (de la Poer).

    – August 8: Thomas de la Poer goes homicidally insane following investigations into the crypts beneath Exham Priory, and is confined soon after. Exham Priory is destroyed by dynamite.

c.1924: LC: The future Reverend Ambrose B. Mortimer is born.

1924: LC: Robert Martin Olmstead enters Oberlin College.

    – For reasons known only to him, Erich Zann leaves his family and moves back to Paris.

   – Edward Taylor locates a complete edition of the Revelations of Glaaki, and uses it for a long-sought experiment- he is confined to the Camside Home for the Mentally Disturbed afterward.

    – March: Wilbur Akeley dies and leaves the Wharton farmhouse to his cousin Fred.

    – Late March: Ambrose Dewart and Stephen Bates return to the Billington House. Dewart’s odd behavior intensifies.

    – April: Stephen Bates disappears. Shortly afterward, Dewart himself is killed. Seneca Lapham and his secretary Winfield Phillips investigate Ambrose Dewart’s death, and also acquire several of his books for the Miskatonic University Library. Among these are a partial English manuscript entitled Al-Azif.

    – April 16: Fred Akeley moves into the Wharton home. He later has a harrowing experience in the gable room. Later that year, Wilbur Akeley’s library is donated to Miskatonic University.

    – August 1: Noah Whateley dies. Thereafter, Lavinia Whateley grows apart from her son Wilbur.

c.1925: LC: Erich Zann vanishes while playing one of his unearthly “experimental pieces.”

1925: LC: Stanislaus Hinterstoisser graduates with a Ph.D. in political theory from the University of Dresden.

    – Dr. Henry Armitage visits Wilbur Whateley’s home in Dunwich.

   – A mysterious twelfth volume of the Revelations of Glaaki is discovered by a Brichester bookseller. All copies of this volume are allegedly destroyed, as it refers to the foul deity Y’golonac.

    – February 28: R’lyeh rises from the ocean. In short order, many cases of madness erupt worldwide. It is speculated that this contributed to the mismanagement that led to the Great Depression.

    – March 23: A group of sailors land on R’lyeh and have the misfortune of encountering Cthulhu himself.

    – April 2: R’lyeh sinks beneath the waves once more. Many believe this begins an era of increasing Mythos activity.

    – April 12: Gustaf Johansen, the sole survivor of the group of sailors that landed on R’lyeh, is found by rescuers. Johansen and his wife later move to Oslo, where Johansen dies in a dockside accident. His diary of the events on R’lyeh, later named the Johansen Narrative, comes into the possession of anthropologist Francis Thurston. The Narrative proves to be invaluable to investigators of the Cthulhu Mythos.

    – May: Charles Dexter Ward returns from Europe.

    – June: By this time, New York detective Thomas F. Malone is investigating the disappearances of children in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. The disappearances cease after Robert Suydam and his newlywed wife are murdered, and a group of buildings in Parker Place are destroyed.

    – Summer: The Olney family vacations in Kingsport. Thomas Olney, the father of the family, visits the Strange High House in the Mist and is never quite the same.

1926: LC: Justin Geoffrey reappears, half-crazed and addicted to alcohol and drugs. He is also holding the manuscript for his book of poetry, People of the Monolith, which is later published. Geoffrey, however, is committed to an insane asylum in Illinois, where he dies mysteriously.

    – Richard Upton Pickman disappears.

    – Before he can completely decipher the Voynich Manuscript, Professor W. Romaine Newbold dies.

    – The newly-built Arkham reservoir submerges the Gardner farm, the site where the mysterious meteor landed in 1882.

    – January 14: An upsurge of Mythos activity surrounds the occasion of a total solar eclipse.

    – May 15: Harold Copeland commits suicide.

    – October 31: Lavinia Whateley vanishes, and may have been killed by her own son. Harry Houdini dies.

    – November 23: George Angell dies of a heart attack. William Channing Webb has also died by this time.

1927: LC: Henry Armitage’s work Notes toward a Bibliography of World Occultism, Mysticism, and Magic is published by Miskatonic University Press.

    – At this time, an Enoch Bowen different than the original is head of the Arkham branch of the Church of Starry Wisdom. He dies, and the cult disbands.

    – S’ngac, a gaseous extraterrestrial being, may have come to Earth on an asteroid that landed near Arkham in this year. If so, he soon returns to space.

    – Visions from Yaddith, a book of poetry by “Ariel Prescott,” is published in a limited edition by Charnel House Publishers of London. “Prescott”‘s family later purchases and destroys most copies of the book, and soon move out of their home, Delaware House. “Prescott” herself is confined in Oakdeene Sanitarium.

    – Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere dies, leaving his Providence home to any male heir who may claim it. He also leaves enough funds to keep the house standing for about half a century.

    – Winfield Phillips meets his cousin, Brian Winfield, for the first time in the Widener Library at Harvard.

    – Between January and March: Professor William Channing Webb is believed dead by this time.

    – July: Charles Dexter Ward begins trafficking with a Mr. Allen.

    – July 15: Robert Olmstead visits Innsmouth, Massachusetts. He has a disturbing experience there, prompting him to convince the government to investigate. Zadok Allen, who spoke with Olmstead about Innsmouth’s history, vanishes. The government later states that they were investigating bootlegging in the town.

    – November: Sculptor Jeffrey Corey moves into a cottage on the coast south of Innsmouth.

   – November 3: Floods in Vermont bring to light several allegedly inhuman bodies, which later become a subject of debate. Albert N. Wilmarth is among those who argue that the dead creatures did not exist.

    – December: Throughout the next few months, Wilbur Whateley begins consulting Miskatonic University’s copy of the Necronomicon. He attempts to borrow the text, only to be refused by Henry Armitage.

1928: LC: The Feaster from the Stars, a collection of the work of Robert Harrison Blake, is published by Miskatonic University Press.

    – A Greek Necronomicon is found in the library of Ivan the Terrible, and is walled up beneath the Kremlin. Later, Stalin finds it and has it translated into Russian for himself.

    – Aberath Whateley dies. Increase Brown, his apparent manservant, maintains Whateley’s home in Dunwich.

    – The last painter imitating the style of Richard Upton Pickman moves on to the Expressionist style.

    – Professor Newbold’s The Cipher of Roger Bacon is published posthumously.

    – Between January and Mid-February: John Legrasse comes out of his seclusion, soon before a fire destroys his home. The same night Legrasse loses his home, a pitched battle in New Orleans’ harbor leads to an oil fire in the waters.

    – February 9: Charles Dexter Ward attempts to end his arrangement with Mr. Allen, and seeks the help of his father. Soon afterward, Ward undergoes a shocking change of personality.

    – Mid-February: The U.S. government raids the town of Innsmouth, attacking Devil Reef, and bombing the underwater city of Y’ha-nthlei. They also capture many deep one half-breeds, taking a number of them to a camp in Oklahoma. During the raid, Asaph Waite, author of the Invocations to Dagon, is killed. Most of the Marsh family escapes to Ponape, though a few remain behind or go elsewhere. As a result of this raid, the government becomes aware of the existence of Mythos activity. They continue to occupy and block off access to Innsmouth through the next year, destroying more buildings and taking numerous town records. Miskatonic University acquires numerous books from the Esoteric Order of Dagon’s library, including a copy of the Codex Dagonensis.

    – Following the raid and attack on Devil Reef, Jeffrey Corey finds “a peculiar blue clay” washed up on the shore near his cottage. He begin using it to make a sculpture he entitles “Sea Goddess.”

    – The soldiers involved in the attack on Devil Reef are given an unheard-of four weeks’ leave. Among those soldiers is Daniel Hacket, who visits his ancestral land of Ireland and never returns.

    – Some time later, Jason Carpenter moves from ruined Innsmouth to Kettlethorpe Farm in England.

    – Early February: Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics at Miskatonic University, begins to experience strange dreams and bouts of sleepwalking while staying at Arkham’s “Witch-House.”

    – March: Uriah Garrison, a reclusive Arkham native, dies. He leaves his home and a small inheritance to his great-nephew Adam Duncan, on the stipulation that he spend the next summer there.

    – March 8: Charles Dexter Ward is taken to a private hospital.

    – Late March-Early April: Jeffrey Corey disappears following a series of increasingly vivid and disturbing dreams, connected to the “Sea Goddess.”

    – April: The Ponape Figurine, and other artifacts which are part of the Copeland Bequest, are given to the Sanbourne Institute of Pacific Antiquities.

    – Abel Harrop disappears from his home seven miles off the Aylesbury Pike.

    – April 13: Charles Dexter Ward disappears from his hospital room. Miskatonic University negotiates with his estate to acquire his large collection for their library.

    – April 30: Dan Harrop, cousin of Abel Harrop, takes over the latter’s home. Some time later, Dan goes insane and is arrested for murder by Aylesbury authorities.

    – May 1: Walter Gilman dies in a bizarre rodent attack.

    – May 25: Henry Akeley sends his first letter to Albert N. Wilmarth, leading to a lengthy correspondence.

    – June: Adam Duncan moves into Uriah Garrison’s home. A short time later, the house burns to the ground.

The Journal of Pacific Antiquities prints a series of excerpts from Harold Copeland’s journal of  the Copeland-Ellington Expeditition.

    – July 3: Halpin Chalmers is found dead in his apartment, apparently murdered. The case is never solved.

    – August: An ethnologist has a frightening experience within the “haunted” mound near Binger, Oklahoma.

    – August 3: Wilbur Whateley of Dunwich dies while trying to steal the Necronomicon from the Miskatonic University Library. Thereafter, public access to Miskatonic’s Necronomicon is forbidden.

    – August 4: Henry Stephenson Blaine goes mad after months of working on the Copeland Bequest.

    – Late August: Wilbur Whateley’s holdings are acquired by Miskatonic, including a fragmentary copy of the Dee Necronomicon.

[One other source suggests that a acquaintance of Whateley took the Dee Necronomicon and two of Wilbur’s other occult texts to the Sesqua Valley.]

    – Autumn: The Arkham Advertiser begins work on a new wireless station atop Kingsport Head.

    – September: Henry Akeley disappears under mysterious circumstances.

    – September 9: The “Dunwich Horror” begins.

   – September 15: Henry Armitage, along with Professors Warren Rice and Francis Morgan of Miskatonic, exorcizes the “Dunwich Horror.” Afterward, the town of Dunwich is willfully forgotten by its neighbors.

    – October 7: Randolph Carter disappears after visiting the ruins of his family’s ancestral mansion outside Arkham. Allegedly, he becomes a king of the Dreamlands.

    – Mid-November: Bryant Hoskins is found in a cabin in the woods north of Arkham, thoroughly insane, after having stolen and translated portions of the R’lyeh Text.

    – SG: Ra’s Stargate found in Giza

c.1929: LC: Professor Paul Lang begins teaching English literature at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

1929: LC: Cthulhu Among the Victorians, by Laban Shrewsbury, is published by Miskatonic University Press.

    – Jared Fuller disappears from his cabin in the hills north of Arkham.

    – Edward Pickman Derby marries Asenath Waite a few months after they meet. The union is at first harmonious, but soon tensions develop.

    – Early March: Bryant Hoskins dies in the County Sanitarium near Arkham.

   – Early Spring: A “chained and particularly obscure tome” is stolen from the locked section of Miskatonic University Library. A few weeks later, a fire destroys seventeenth and eighteenth-century records at Arkham Public Library.

    – March 12: An explorer named Slauenwite encounters the ruins once ruled by beings known as the “Fishers from Outside.”

    – March 26: The Ponape Figurine disappears from the Sanbourne Institute, soon before it would have been placed on public display.

    – June: A series of disappearances occur in Dunwich, ending with the vanishing of Septimus Bishop.

1930s: LC: Gerhard Schrach, a Viennese dream-interpreter, does much of his work in this decade.

   – During this time, a “magneto-optic” detection technique is highly regarded, and is even credited with the discovery of the “new elements” alabamine and virginium. However, the technique is later discredited, as are the two new elements it “detected.”

    – A city thought to be Irem is found in northern Saudi Arabia; however, its status as Irem is later disproven by Professor Yuni Abdalmajid of the University of Baghdad.

    – Miskatonic University’s loses much of its fortunes and prestige during the Great Depression.

Early 1930s: LC: Stanislaus Hinterstoisser accompanies a German expedition into the Antarctic.

c.1930: LC: A Study of the Book of Dzyan, by Joachim Feery, is published.

1930: LC: Swami Sunand Chandraputra takes up residence in Boston’s West End.

    – Georg Fischer enters UCLA.

    – Alijah Atwood leases the Charriere house. After a brief stay and inquiries into the past of its former owner, Atwood flees Providence entirely, after a shocking incident at the house one evening.

    – Amos Piper suffers a nervous collapse in a theatre, and undergoes a major change in personality.

    – Aimee Doyle Akeley is born to George Akeley and his wife in San Diego.

   – January: Professor Arnold Hird has a falling-out with Brichester University, and retires into a largely secluded life near his home in Severnford; after December, he is never seen again.

    – February 25: The entire population of the town of Stillwater in Manitoba disappears, and only one body is found.

    – March 10: John Grimlan apparently dies in a house fire.

    – June 9: Lin Carter, future science fiction and fantasy writer, is born.

    – September 2: The Pabodie Expedition, from Miskatonic University, sets off for Antarctica.

    – Autumn: A “great tidal bore” causes flooding along the Manuxet River, accompanied by a phenomenon described as “white lightning.” Simultaneously, a whirlwind causes damage in Arkham and Innsmouth.

    – October 20: The Pabodie Expedition crosses into the Antarctic Circle.

    – November 9: The Pabodie Expedition lands, and begins their research.

    – Winter: Robert Olmstead and a cousin in an asylum both disappear. In all likelihood, they were spirited away by Innsmouth agents.

1931: LC: If one believes the 1916 account, the Cambridge firm that published Azathoth and Other Horrors goes bankrupt.

    – Golden Goblin Press prints C.A. Smith’s The Dream of the Spider and the Awakening.

   – A Professor Manly, examining Newbold’s notes on deciphering the Voynich Manuscript, deduces that his supposed “cipher” came from the fading of theManuscript’s ink. Newbold’s work is discredited.

    – A monograph on the Pnakotic Manuscripts is published.

    – Enos Harker disappears when his rented cabin at Cairn’s Point is destroyed.

   – The Sanbourne Institute for Pacific Antiquities temporarily closes. Dr. Armitage negotiates with them and acquires the Copeland Bequest for Miskatonic, where an anonymous donor funds its housing in the new Copeland Wing of the library.

    – January 22: The “Mountains of Madness” are discovered by the Pabodie Expedition.

    – January 23: The Pabodie Expedition find the fossils of a remarkable unknown species. Soon afterwards, disaster befalls the expedition.

    – February: The survivors of the Pabodie Expedition leave the Antarctic, prepared to tell the world what they have found.

    – March: Following its being severely damaged in a gale, Arkham’s Witch-House is demolished. The bones of numerous human beings and a rat-like creature are found.

    – March 7: Constable Robert Norris of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police disappears from Navissa Camp, soon after finding two short-lived survivors of the events of Stillwater.

    – March 21: A tenant at Delaware House strangles his wife before committing suicide; when found by the authorities, their corpses seem strangely “shrunken and depleted.”

   – Spring: The Cabot Museum of Archaeology displays curious mummies from the crypts beneath the Chateau des Faussesflames near Averoigne. As an accidental result of this press attention, the Museum’s strange Pacific mummy is thrust into the public spotlight, and the Cabot Museum attracts inordinate numbers of visitors- some of which are rather unusual.

    – June: By this time, Étienne-Laurent de Marigny has published an article in the Occult Review about the Cabot Museum’s mummy exhibit.

    – September 2-3: Frightening events occur at the village of Clotton. These events (which are later never spoken of) cause the locals to tear down many riverfront buildings and erect a huge concrete pillar. Lionel Phipps also dies during the first day of these events.

    – October 17: Constable Robert Norris’ body is found buried in a snowbank four miles from Navissa Camp.

    – November: Swami Chandraputra visits the Cabot Museum’s mummy exhibit.

1932: LC: Increase Brown disappears and is presumed dead.

    – Twice during the year, Father Brisbois of Cold Harbor, Manitoba reports the disappearances of North American Indian children.

    – After his inauguration as president, Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the camp where many natives of Innsmouth were imprisoned.

    – Australian Robert Mackenzie discovers a grouping of strangely marked and ancient stones in the Great Sandy Desert.

    – January: A powerful storm causes great damage to Innsmouth, with its effects reaching as far inland as Arkham.

   – January 24: Slauenwite is found dead, under an assumed name, in his hotel room at the Orange Hotel in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He leaves behind an even stranger account of events, which eventually come into the possession of Miskatonic University.

    – Spring: Strange events occur surrounding the discovery of a set of tunnels leading from Miskatonic University to Innsmouth. The occurrences end when the tunnels are bombed, during which Captain of Detectives Cornelius Oates, of the State Police, disappears.

    – Between October 7 and December: Swami Chandraputra attends the reading of Randolph Carter’s will, to attest to the fact that Carter is alive. During the proceedings, the Carter family lawyer dies and Chandraputra disappears.

    – Mid-October: Asenath Waite disappears, and Edward Pickman Derby files for divorce. Derby moves in with Daniel Upton.

    – December 1: Two intruders die trying to steal the Pacific mummy at the Cabot Museum. Within the next year, several members of the staff die mysteriously, beginning a decline in the museum’s success.

    – Late December: Edward Derby has a nervous breakdown and is committed to Arkham Sanitarium.

    – December 20: The Starkweather-Moore Expedition, which seeks to investigate the Pabodie group’s claims, begins to be organized.

1933: LC: Dr. Eric Williamson leads an expedition into the Belize jungle to find the fabled city of Bendal-Dolum. He disappears.

    – Stanislaus Hinterstoisser suffers a nervous breakdown and moves to Zurich, where he is treated by Carl Jung. Jung inspires an interest in the occult in Hinterstoisser.

    – The original Zanthu Tablets are stolen from the Sanbourne Institute. Some time later, the Sanbourne Institute closes thanks to the Depression.

    – Amateur anthropologist and occultist Paul Tregardis acquires a crystal, one supposedly held by the Hyperborean wizard Zon Mezzamalech. Soon after, he disappears.

   – Amos Piper’s original personality returns, simultaneous with amnesia regarding the time since his personality shift. A week afterwards, he begins having terrible dreams and visions, that result in his seeing psychoanalyst Nathaniel Corey. Piper has an abrupt recovery after three weeks of treatment, but Corey suffers a breakdown of his own some weeks later and is committed to the Larkin Institute insane asylum.

    – Late January: Edward Derby recovers and stands to be released, but his friend Daniel Upton shoots him in what seems to be a fit of madness. A few days later, during Edward’s funeral, Upton has a breakdown of his own and is committed.

    – [According to another source, Upton is given a “clean bill of mental health” and his crime is judged “justifiable homicide.” He goes on to design several buildings for Arkham and Miskatonic University. However, the bulk of evidence contradicts this course of events.]

    – March 3 Constable James French of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police disappears while investigating the events surrounding the disappearance, reappearance, and death of one Henry Lucas, and the connection to certain North American Indian religious practices near Cold Harbor, Manitoba.

    – Spring: Sir Amery Wendy-Smith sets out an expedition to locate G’harne.  During the expedition, all of Wendy-Smith’s companions are killed in an earthquake; five weeks later, he finds his way to a village in a deranged state, and later returns to England. From there, he retires to a house on the Yorkshire moors.

    – April 22: Cabot Museum curator Dr. Johnson is the last member of the museum’s staff to suffer a strange death.

    – May 7: Constable James French’s battered and frozen body is found in a deep snow bank.

    – May 11: John Dalhousie, James French’s superior in the RNMP, disappears while attempting to break up the Cold Harbor cult; like French, his body is found frozen three nights later.

    – August: Titus Crow has his first nightmares connected to the Great Old Ones.

    – Autumn: Simon Maglore’s father dies, forcing him to leave school and return to his home.

   – September: The Starkweather-Moore expedition sets off for the Antarctic. Sir Amery Wendy-Smith and his author nephew, Paul Wendy-Smith, disappear during a series of earth tremors in Yorkshire.

1934: LC: Joachim Feery, occult researcher and son of Baron Ernst Kant, dies.

    – Vartan Bagdasarian finds a copy of Azathoth and Other Horrors, sparking his interest in the works of Edward Derby.

    – Spring: Unknown thieves break into the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England, and steal the original manuscript of the John Dee Necronomicon.

    – July 10: Nathaniel Peaslee receives a letter from Robert Mackenzie about the stones discovered by the Australian.

1935: LC: Stanislaus Hinterstoisser ends his treatment under Carl Jung.

    – Laban Shrewsbury reappears, with no account of his whereabouts for the past twenty years.

    – Nicholas Walters inherits the home of Aberath Whateley in Dunwich. His fate is unknown.

    – January to February: Robert Harrison Blake returns to Providence and takes up residence in an apartment on College Street. He writes some of his most famous stories there.

    – Spring to Summer: Robert Blake becomes obsessed with a deserted church on Federal Hill in Providence. Inside, he finds the Shining Trapezohedron.

    – March 28: The Peaslee Expedition leaves Miskatonic for Australia.

    – May 31: The Peaslee Expedition reaches the Great Sandy Desert.

   – IJ: Indiana Jones survives a plane crash in the Himalayas, reaches Mayapore (a village in northern India), and assist the locals in retrieving a Sivalinga stone and their brainwashed children from the nearby Pankot Palace, the Thuggee cult, and Mola Ram (a man with the ability to magically extract one’s heart with his grip).

    – June 3: The Peaslee Expedition locates the first signs of ruins.

    – July 1: The Ahnenerbe was founded.

    – July 17: Nathaniel Peaslee is driven insane by an encounter in the desert, and later returns home. His son Wingate continues the expedition until a huge sandstorm forces them to leave.

    – August 8: Robert Blake is found dead from electric shock in his apartment after a thunderstorm. Shortly after, his physician, Ambrose Dexter, bears away the Shining Trapezohedron and the Starry Wisdom cult’s books. Inexplicably, he spends the next 16 years as a nuclear physicist.

    – Early Fall: Winthrop Hoag inherits the cabin of his cousin, Jared Fuller, in the hills north of Arkham.

   – November 12: A powerful wind-storm results in the collapse of the van der Heyl mansion. A local from Chorazin discovers a diary that once belonged to Alonzo Typer in the wreckage.

    – December: Winthrop Hoag disappears.

    – December 31: Bizarre and horrible events occur at Oakdeene Sanitorium, near Glasgow.

1936: LC: According to some, an edition of Shrewsbury’s An Investigation into the Myth-Patterns of Latter-Day Primitives with Especial Reference to the R’lyeh Text is published by Miskatonic University Press. [This same source suggests this is the first printing, but it’s probably just another edition.]

Golden Goblin Press publishes Wingate Peaslee’s book The Shadow Out of Time, in which he writes about his father’s experiences.

    – H.P. Lovecraft’s novel The Shadow Over Innsmouth is published.

    – Chinese buyers acquire the two 13th-century transcriptions of the Book of Dzyan taken by the English missionary.

    – January 1: A number of inmates die at Oakdeene Sanitarium outside Glasgow.

   – Late February / Early March: Amos Tuttle dies. Tuttle leaves his house to his nephew Paul. Some time later, Paul vanishes. Tuttle’s books, including a copy of the R’lyeh Text, are bequeathed to the Miskatonic University Library. By this time, Cyrus Llanfer has taken over from Henry Armitage as head librarian at Miskatonic University.

    – Spring: Georg Reuter Fischer graduates from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in English literature, and a minor in history. Around a month later, Fischer’s book of poetry, The Tunneler Below, is published at his own expense. Later that summer, his mother dies.

    – Early Spring: Winthrop Hoag’s briefcase is found in a farmer’s field south of Townshend, Vermont. The fairly damaged briefcase contains Hoag’s strange journal.

    – June: Winfield Phillips leaves the service of Seneca Lapham, and goes to live on the estate of his late uncle Hiram Stokeley.

    – IJ: Indiana Jones acquires a golden idol from an ancient temple in the Peruvian jungle, but is forced to surrender it to rival archaeologist Rene Belloq.  Upon returning to the U.S., Army intelligence agents recruit him to find the Ark of the Covenenant before the Nazis’ occult research unit does.  The Americans place the Ark of the Covenant in a secret warehouse.

Late 1930s: LC: Étienne-Laurent de Marigny sends Henri-Laurent to England, where he meets Titus Crow.

1937: LC: The documentary film Malaya Today is filmed. In one of its deleted scenes, preserved in a transcript of the film, a Malayan child speaks of the demon Shugoran.

    – After Sir Amery and Paul Wendy-Smith are both declared dead, a manuscript left behind by the latter is taken for fiction and published as the short story “Cement Surroundings.”

    – Albert N. Wilmarth visits George Akeley in San Diego, and helps him with research into his father’s studies. He next goes to visit Georg Reuter Fischer.

    – March 13: H.P. Lovecraft dies.

    – March 16: Georg Fischer dies in an earthquake that destroys his West Coast home.

Albert Wilmarth returns home, overwrought by his experiences. He takes ill, and eventually lies in his deathbed. Before he passes on, he forms the Wilmarth Foundation, to combat Mythos activity on Earth. It is centered at Miskatonic, and later headed by Wingate Peaslee.

    – Summer: A sailor named Timoto Fernandez, later interviewed by Laban Shrewsbury, sees something strange and terrible in the vicinity of Machu Picchu.

   – Late Summer: Professor Francis Morgan leads a Miskatonic expedition to British Honduras, searching for a site called “El Cacao” and mythical “sea peoples.” The expedition is a disaster, with all but one member disappearing, dying of sickness, or being murdered. Morgan himself goes insane and disappears, though he does reappear some time later. This latest failure, after a string of other troubled expeditions, leads to the Morgan expedition being the last of its kind.

1938: April 27: LC: Asa Sandwin disappears from his home along the Innsmouth road.

    – IJ: Indiana Jones finds the Canyon of the Crescent Moon, which houses a subterranean complex designed to protect a cup called the Holy Grail, which he discovers to actually work.

    – June: Andrew Phelan becomes the secretary of Laban Shrewsbury. In Dunwich, Earl Sawyer marries Zenia Whateley.

    – August: Zenia Whateley dies giving birth to Hester Sawyer on the night of a powerful thunderstorm. Thereafter, increasingly powerful earth tremors and other phenomena occur in the area of the Devil’s Hop Yard.

    – August 13: Fantasy author Giles Angarth and his recent visitor, artist Felix Ebbonly, both disappear from Angarth’s cabin south of Crater Ridge in the Sierras. Angarth leaves his journal behind for his friend, Philip Hastane.

    – August 17: Nayland Massie, a London dockworker who disappeared seven months before, reappears, speaking in a language later identified as R’lyehian.

    – Mid-August: Laban Shrewsbury completes the manuscript for the first portion of Cthulhu in the Necronomicon. This is sent to the publisher by Andrew Phelan, and some days later, Shrewsbury has Phelan take his papers and texts to Miskatonic University. Soon after, Laban Shrewsbury disappears in a mysterious fire. Andrew Phelan returns to Boston.

   – September 1: Two weeks after Shrewsbury’s apparent death, Andrew Phelan vanishes. He leaves behind a document dubbed the Phelan Manuscript, which comes into the possession of the Miskatonic University Library.

Between 1938 and 1947: LC: Asaph Waite, formerly Miskatonic University professor, is killed in a riot in Limehouse in London. A few months later, his great-nephew Claiborne Boyd investigates Waite’s death and disappears in Peru, leaving behind a manuscript later acquired by the University of Buenos Aires.

    – Nayland Colum, author of Watchers on the Other Side, and Laban Shrewsbury disappear off the ship Sana in the Red Sea. Colum leaves behind a manuscript later published by the British Museum.

    – Laban Shrewsbury is rumored to have taken an incomplete Arabic Al-Azif from Abdul Alhazred’s tomb during this time.

    – Nazis establish Base 211, Neuschwabenland, beneath over 2 miles of Antarctica’s vertical ice cap, and from Base 211 launch the first Repulsine saucers, such as the Haunebu, to Earth’s Moon, Luna, where they establish another secret subterranean city-base.  Germany‘s brightest are immediately relocated to these two facilities, and Hitler pretends to lose WWII.

Between 1939 and 1945: LC: The British War Department hires Titus Crow as an advisor on the occult and a code-breaker.

c.1939: LC: Harold Robinson’s first record, the Blue Star Company’s Lost Highway Blues, is released.

1939: LC: The incomplete Cthulhu in the Necronomicon is published.

    – Arkham House is founded, which publishes the works of H.P. Lovecraft and other similar writers.

    – May 15: Henry Armitage dies while trying to save the Rare Book collection of Miskatonic from a fire.

    – Early Summer: Philip Hastane goes to Crater Ridge in search of Angarth and Ebbonly; he locates the former, but the latter remains missing.

    – September: Vartan Bagdasarian enters Miskatonic University, and soon joins the “Dead Edward Derby Society.”

    – Late September: During a visit by his grandson Tony, an assistant librarian at Miskatonic, Josiah Alwyn disappears during a ferocious windstorm. Josiah and Leander Alwyn’s books are donated to Miskatonic University.

    – October: Edward Derby Upton begins hosting meetings of Miskatonic University’s “Dead Edward Derby Society” at his home.

        -Admiral Byrd departs with his 3-ship fleet and a plane-carrying snow-tank on an expedition to Antarctica.  Rumor is this force is almost completely destroyed by the NAZIs of Base 211, and ends up leaving 59 personnel behind with the snow-tank.  A second rumor is that he discovers the South Polar Hole, and meets with the Inner Earthlings; the Aghartans.

    – Late November: Edward Upton’s mother dies from complications during a routine operation.

    – December: Edward Upton permits Vartan Bagdasarian to begin examining Edward Derby’s manuscripts.

1940: LC: The Cabot Museum of Archaeology’s decline is halted when its collection is taken over by Miskatonic University.

    – Silver Key Press of Boston publishes Étienne-Laurent de Marigny’s superior English translation of the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan.

    – Late January: Edward Upton undergoes a striking change in personality, soon after an equally striking personality change in his father Daniel.

    – February: Edward Upton’s new and much cruder behavior eventually causes all the members of the Dead Edward Derby Society but Vartan Bagdasarian to stop visiting. Edward begins pursuing a relationship with Wendy Babson, an Innsmouth native, while his relations with with Vartan grow more and more hostile over the next few years.

    – April: Josiah Alwyn’s unusually cold body is found buried in the sand on an island southeast of Singapore.

    – June: Professor Upton Gardner travels to the woods around Rick’s Lake in Wisconsin to investigate strange happenings there.

    – Summer: Abel Keane, a student lodging in Andrew Phelan’s former apartment, investigates Phelan’s disappearance. He also consults some of the same texts Phelan himself consulted at Miskatonic, and visits Innsmouth. Soon after, Keane himself disappears.

    – July 3: The mutilated bodies of several Arkham citizens are found on the shores of Devil Reef near Innsmouth. The same day, the similarly murdered bodies of tourists are found in Tahiti.

    – September: Contact with Professor Gardner ceases.

    – October: Investigators searching for Professor Gardner narrowly escape a fire in the woods around Rick’s Lake.

1941: Summer: LC: To avoid the draft, Edward Upton marries Wendy Babson.

    – December 7: The Japanese launch a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, pulling the United States into World War II.

Between 1942 and 1945: LC: Dr. Ambrose Dexter serves as an advisor on the Unites States’ Manhattan Project.

c.1942: LC: Harold Robinson disappears.

1942: LC: Following the creation of the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.) in the U.S., the P Division (which was made aware of the Mythos in the Innsmouth raid) becomes Delta Green.

    – The Nazis dig up the corpse of Alexis Ladeau in hopes of finding knowledge of sorcery.

    – February: A branch of the Esoteric Order of Dagon based in Bay City, California and led by Janice Marsh, is broken up by a multi-government action.

    – Mid-February: Following the fall of Singapore to the Japanese, Edward Upton is given a draft notice. The night before he would be sent to Parris Island, he suffers a sort of breakdown, following which he is committed to Arkham Sanitarium. On the second night of Upton’s incarceration, his former butler Soames strangles him to death.

    – Late February: Vartan Bagdasarian is drafted into the United States army.

    – April 27: Ephraim Waite Upton, child of Wendy and Edward Upton, is born.

1943: LC: Stanislaus Hinterstoisser’s magnum opus on the occult, Prolegomena zu Einer Geschichte der Magie, is published. Shortly thereafter, the Nazis destroy every copy they find.

    – Lama Dordji Ram (possibly with the assistance of explorer Alexandra David-Neel) makes a French translation of the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan.

    – Occultist Uriah Horby is committed to Dunhill Sanitarium in Santiago, California.

    – April 30: Hester Sawyer disappears under strange circumstances. The phenomena emanating from the Devil’s Hop Yard cease after this night.

    – October 28:  The Philadelphia Experiment accidentally discovers time travel, inter-dimensional travel, and cloaking (invisibility).

1943-2011: TF: Transformers war while on Earth, but have visited here for millions of years.

1944: LC: Nazi occultists supposedly uncover the Gothic Necronomicon. It is translated, but they are unable to use it before the Allies conquer them.

    – A man named Wheeler discovers Sanskrit tablets in the Indus Valley that make reference to Leng.

    – September 13: Wilbur Nathaniel Hoag disappears.

1945: LC: Delta Green is disbanded.

    – TR: After 500 years of imprisonment, Eckhardt can escape from the Lux Veritatis, taking one of the three Periapt Shards – the only weapons that can actually kill him – with him.

    – April: TR: A German submarine carrying the Spear of Destiny sinks.

    – June: British soldier Harold Briggs and his fellow operatives have a terrifying encounter with the Tcho-Tcho while conducting operations against the Japanese in Thailand.

    – Autumn: Following the end of World War II, Horvath Blayne begins travelling across the Pacific Ocean.

    – SG: Stargate used, connects to planet Heliopolis, disconnects, trapping team there.

1946: LC: A Professor Mayhew searches for the city of the “Fishers from Outside,” and dies under particularly grotesque circumstances.

    – Spring: Vartan Bagdasarian’s imprint Azathoth House publishes a new edition of Azathoth and Other Horrors. New York bookseller Philip C. Duschnes advertises a Latin copy of the Necronomicon in his spring catalog.

    – The UFO Retrieval Team (UFORT; “the blue berets”) is founded.

1947: LC: Delta Green is reformed in the wake of the Roswell incident.

    – Abel Keane reappears, and enters the clergy.

    – Azathoth House prints Forever Azathoth, a collection of Edward Pickman Derby’s work.

    – Aleister Crowley dies.

    – Mr. and Mrs. Marius Phillips disappear in the Polynesian Isles; the former leaves behind an unbelievable manuscript.

    – Colonel Lionel Urquart makes his first discoveries regarding Mu.

    – September: Horvath Blayne is sighted in Singapore with scholar Laban Shrewsbury, and is believed to take place in a secret government action in the Pacific.

    – September 24: Majestic 12 is established by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.

1948: LC: Abel Keane dies. Horvath Blayne disappears.

    – Azathoth House prints Son of Azathoth, a collection of “posthumous collaborations” with Edward Pickman Derby.

   – Ambrose Bishop, great-nephew of Septimus, comes to Dunwich to claim his great-uncle’s property. A series of disappearances begins some time afterwards, culminating in that of Ambrose himself. Ambrose leaves behind a manuscript behind describing these events as he saw them.

1949: LC: Azathoth House publishes The Derby-Geoffrey Letters. Some time later, Vartan Bagsadarian disappears.

    – Spring: Uriah Horby disappears under disturbing circumstances.

1950s: LC: The Mau Mau campaign of terror occurs in Kenya. It may be caused by the Cult of the Bloody Tongue, a sect of Nyarlathotep-worshippers.

1950: LC: The cypher used to encode the Tibetan versions of the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan is broken.

    – Miskatonic University begins making regular attempts to collate their papers of von Junzt with that of his family and literary executors, hoping to create a definitive scholarly copy of Unaussprechlichen Kulten.

Early 1950s: LC: Jacob Lamar Derby moves into his family’s Chesuncook home, where he dies many years later.

1951: LC: Dr. Cyrus Llanfer’s catalogue of Miskatonic University’s folkloric and occult books, as well as its incunabula, is published posthumously. Around the same time, Miskatonic University’s foundations, libraries, and museums are extensively reorganized. Planning begins soon afterwards for a refurbished library building.

    – Late Spring: Dr. Ambrose Dexter returns to his Providence home. A bizarre incident later occurs there, but the police do not detain him. Shortly afterward, he disappears, and is believed to have defected to the Russians.

1952: Project Blue Book begins.

    – The Montauk Project begins, leading to the Montauk Chair.

1953: LC: After receiving reports of continued activity in Y’ha-nthlei, Delta Green bombs the underwater city.

1954: The Bilderberg Group is founded.

1955: LC: The Aldwinkle sinks off the coast of Dawton, England. Remarkably, all of the passengers survive thanks to a compartment that remained airtight.  * And the International Corporate Conglomerate (ICC) of the Secret Space Program (SSP) is signed into law.

1956: LC: Henrietta Montague completes her translation of the British Museum’s Necronomicon into English, for the Museum’s directors. This abridged translation is later published in an edition intended for scholars. Montague succumbs to a wasting disease shortly after the project’s completion.

1957: NORAD and its headquarters, the Cheyenne Mountain (subterranean city-base) Complex, are established.  Over the next 50 years, the U.S. will build over 300 bigger, more advanced versions of this facility, eventually connecting all of them via subterranean “mag-lev” (magnetic levitation; “bullet train”) technology.

    – IJ: Indiana Jones is coerced by a Soviet research team to assist in their infiltration of a U.S. military base, and in the finding of a crystal skull.  This event leads them to the Nazca Lines, and the temple of Akator, where they discover it is the skull of a multi-dimensional alien humanoid, which reforms itself once the crystal skull is near one of its decapitated bodies.

Late 1950s: LC: The Armitage Library, named in honor of the former head librarian, replaces the old Miskatonic University library.

1958: LC: A set of the Revelations of Glaaki is donated to Brichester University.

    – The deaths of seven Wilmarth Foundation recruits leads to an effort to mass-produce the protective star-stones of ancient Mnar.

    – A book on the Pnakotic Manuscripts is published.

    – Summer: Three Brichester University students happen upon the abandoned home of Prof. Arnold Hird; one goes mad.

    – Winter: The Natural History Museum in New York City holds an exhibition of Asian artifacts. Among these is a 19th-century robe depicting the demon Shugoran, made by the Tcho-tchos.

1959: LC: The Wilmarth Foundation sends out a series of secret expeditions to research the Great Old Ones.

    – John F. Kennedy delivers a commencement address to the Miskatonic University Class of ’59 in which he denounces the government actions in Innsmouth in 1928.

   – Chinese forces invade Tibet. Most Tibetan-language copies of the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan disappear, and the Chinese are only able to capture two. Six other copies are dispersed, along with other valuable antiquities from the Sakya Library, to various universities and private collections across the world.

c.1960: LC: Jason Carpenter disappears, and Kettlethorpe Farm is bought by newlyweds David Parker and June Anderson. After strange happenings occur there, the Farm collapses into underground caverns beneath it; David disappears, and June goes mad before dying eight months later, along with her child, in labor.

1960s: LC: According to some, Albert N. Wilmarth survives to this time. However, this is unlikely given the well-known circumstances of his death.

    – Erika Zann, granddaughter of Erich Zann, disappears in a fire that destroys the Purple Blob nightclub in San Francisco.

    – Reverend John Rogers, curate of Temphill, begins expousing an unorthodox set of religious views that divide the local religious community.

1960: LC: Every member of the Wilmarth Foundation is given a replica star-stone, but they are found to be useless unless fragments of original star-stones are incorporated into their mass.

    – September: “Morbid” artist Thomas Cartwright moves into a house in Lakeside Terrace.

   – October: to November A series of nightmares and weird events lead Thomas Cartwright to ask a friend to help him leave Lakeside Terrace. Before his friend can do so, he is murdered.

1960-2020: The events of Perfect Dark (game).

1961: April 3: LC: A man named Roy Leakey visits euthanasia-favoring Dr. Linwood to ask for assisted suicide. He is recorded as relating, as the background for his desire for suicide, a terrifying experience in the town of Goatswood. After Linwood asks for further proof of Leakey’s need to die, he is found by other doctors and nurses, screaming and alone.

    – August: Clark Ashton Smith dies. His copy of the Book of Eibon, a more recent French translation than Gaspard du Nord’s, is lost soon after.

Between 1962 and 1973: LC: The United States becomes heavily involved in the Vietnam War. The CIA arms the Tcho-tcho people in Indochina during this crisis.

1962: LC: The Kennedy-Keaton Act is passed into law, offering compensation to natives of Innsmouth or their descendants for the government’s actions in 1928.

    – The Annotated Necronomicon, a combined Latin/English text translated by A. Philip Highgas, is issued by Miskatonic University.

    – Wal-Mart is founded.

   – April: Anderson Tharpe, owner of a freak-show in a travelling carnival in England, revises his attraction, renaming it the “Tomb of the Great Old Ones.” This, combined with advertisements appealing to people with knowledge of the Cthulhu Cult, attracts many erudite (and many more questionable) individuals to him. After April, however, interest begins to wane.

    – May: Numerous cases of insanity erupt across England. Chandler Davies, a master in the field of horror art, completes a work called G’harne Landscape. His mistress sets the work on fire immediately thereafter, sending Davies into a fit of rage that leads to his being committed to Woodholme Sanitorium. He dies some time later. Julian Haughtree is committed to Oakdeene Sanitarium.

    – October 31: As crowds to the “Tomb of the Great Old Ones” dwindle even further, Anderson Tharpe disappears after meeting with one particular individual on this night.

1963: LC: Roland Franklyn founds a cult of young men around Brichester, England. They advocate drug use and journeys to locations of occult power in the Severn Valley. They are believed to be responsible for stealing Brichester University’s copy of the Revelations of Glaaki.

    – July: Professor Gordon Walmsley of Goole claims to have deciphered the G’harne Fragments. Julian Haughtree recovers from his madness and is released to his brother Phillip.

    – November 15: Julian Haughtree is shot dead by his brother.

    – November 16: The island of Surtsey rises, and a volcano during the event throws out a mysterious golden box. Inside is a manuscript later entitled Legends of the Olden Runes. Thelred Gustau discovers it and begins translating it, sometimes assisted by Titus Crow.

1964: LC: Despite the efforts of the Wilmarth Foundation, the cthonians invade the Americas. This leads to an intense campaign against the cthonians in America and Great Britain that continues through 1969.

    – January: Roland Franklyn’s book We Pass from View, which describes the doctrine of his cult, is published.

1965: LC: The Annotated G’harne Fragments, a translation by Ryan Millbue, is published by Miskatonic University Press.

    – Errol Undercliffe attends the 1965 Brichester Fantasy Convention.

    – XM: S.H.I.E.L.D. agency established.

1966: LC: Charles Vaughan dies.

    – Texan telepath Hank Silberhutte is recruited by the Wilmarth Foundation, along with a number of other telepaths.

1967: LC: Professor Paul Dunbar Lang makes an attempt to decipher the Voynich Manuscript. He later discovers that it is written in Greek and Latin using Arabic letters. Lang’s work eventually proves that the Manuscript is a commentary on certain passages of the Necronomicon, by a monk named Martin Gardener.

    – L. Sprague de Camp purchases a manuscript in Duriac while sightseeing in Baghdad. He learns that it was found by looters in ruins near Duria, and that three Iraqi scholars had attempted to translate it and subsequently disappeared.

    – Professor Yuni Abdalmajid disappears after beginning studies on an unidentified manuscript.

    – Miskatonic University publishes the notes of an anonymous collator of the Pnakotic Manuscripts.

   – July 4: Roland Franklyn dies. Later in the month, Errol Undercliffe disappears after investigating Franklyn’s demise. However, Undercliffe was supposedly sighted at least once afterward.

    – October: Professor Lang travels to Llandalffen, Wales, and meets Colonel Urquart. Some time later, the “Great Llandalffen Explosion” occurs.

1968: TR: Lara Croft is born in Wimbledon, London.

    – March 29: LC: A “vampire cult” leads a massacre in Panagyurishte, Bulgaria.

    – May 18: The Glasgow edition of the Daily Express prints a story on a sea-devil worshipping witch-cult.

    – June: Titus Crow and Henri-Laurent de Marigny join the Wilmarth Foundation, and eventually serve as the heads of the Foundation’s English branch.

    – August 19: Professor Paul Lang and Colonel Urquart hold a meeting of intellectuals in London, where they reputedly attempt to pull off an elaborate practical joke.

c.1969: LC: Reverend Ambrose B. Mortimer begins serving as a missionary. He eventually is sent to establish a mission in “Chaucha” territory.

1969: January 22: LC: Hank Silberhutte, and the crew of the plane he was on, all disappear while investigating Ithaqua.

    – February 19: Professor Paul Dunbar Lang disappears. His work on the Voynich Manuscript is taken up by other scholars.

    – April 14: The Wilmarth Foundation leads an attack on Shudde-M’ell that ends in disaster.

    – October 4: Titus Crow’s home of Blowne Manor is destroyed by a “freak storm.” Both Crow and Henri-Laurent de Marigny  disappears.

1969 through 1992:  Universal Soldier (movie events).

1970s: LC: The first reputable translation of the G’harne Fragments is made by the Wilmarth Foundation, based on the notes of Prof. Gordon Walmsley of Goole.

    – According to some, prosperity comes to Innsmouth when local company Deepnet Communications becomes a leader in the burgeoning PC software industry. This prosperity lasts into at least 1990.

Early 1970s: LC: Communist insurgent Chin Lai allies with the Tcho-Tcho to lead raids in Malaya. The alliance is later destroyed, thanks in part to Major Harold Briggs and his allies.

Between 1970 and 1975: LC: A Professor Winslow leads an expedition into the jungles of war-torn Cambodia, where he investigates a strange temple.

1970: LC: Delta Green is disbanded again following a botched operation in Cambodia.

    – An offshore earthquake takes place near Peru. The cult of Ghatanothoa credits their god with the disaster.

    – The United States government secretly begins to bomb all confirmed or suspected Tcho-tcho settlements in Indochina.

1971: LC: George Goodenough Akeley dies, leaving the Spiritual Light Brotherhood’s leadership in the hands of his granddaughter Elizabeth Akeley (formerly Elizabeth Pelley).

    – The United States government ceases its bomb raids on the Tcho-tcho.

    – TR: Lara Croft begins private tutoring.

    – July 4: LC: August Derleth dies.

1972: LC: Thelred Gustau vanishes after a mysterious explosion at his house in Woolwich.

c.1973: LC: Reverend John Rogers is forced to resign due to the controversy he has caused.

1973: LC: Owlswick Press of Philadelphia publishes the version of Al-Azif discovered by de Camp. A copy is placed in the Brown University library.

    – December 28: A British Intelligence agent kills Ambrose Dexter somewhere in the South Pacific.

1974: LC: Reports of continued activity in Y’ha-nthlei lead the Wilmarth Foundation to bomb it a third time.

1974 through 2004: Ong Bak (movie events).

1975: LC: Professor L.N. Isinwyll’s work Yog-Sothoth in the Eastern Pacific is published by the University of California Press.

    – A former associate of Professor Winslow dies in a mountain-climbing accident.

   – Wilbur Nathaniel Hoag’s sonnet-cycle, Dreams from R’lyeh (edited by Lin Carter), is published by Miskatonic University almost thirty years after their discovery among the poet’s papers.

1976: LC: The Wilmarth Foundation locates and explores a portion of R’lyeh.

1977: LC: The Kester Library of Salem, Massachusetts, is acquired by Miskatonic University. They move their collections of books on American history, religion, and folklore there, and in turn acquire a Wormius Necronomicon and the original text of the Ponape Scripture.

    – A former associate of Professor Winslow dies by drowning.

    – TR: On the way home from a skiing trip, Lara’s plane crashes in the Himalayas. She survived alone in extreme conditions for 2 weeks.

1979: LC: Leonard Dingle, a professor who lectured on the meaning of dreams, dies. He continues on in the Dreamlands as the hero Eldin the Wanderer.

    – Phileus P. Sadowsky, Professor of Arabic Literature and Philopseudology at the University of Sofia in Bulgaria, finds a page from the Kitab Al-Azif in a shop in Egypt. He acquires and studies it, but the page is lost on the way through Customs. Sadowsky later tracks down the only complete copy of the Al-Azif in Europe and begins a study of it.

    – Federal agencies investigate the Spiritual Light Brotherhood during a series of odd events surrounding Elizabeth Akeley.

    – TR: Lara Croft enrolls at Wimbledon High School for Girls.

    – September 4: Henri-Laurent de Marigny is found clinging to a buoy in the Thames, with all of his limbs broken and no recollection of the past ten years’ events.

c.1980: LC: Terrified by experiences among the “Chauchas,” Reverend Mortimer returns to the United States, and later disappears. An author, who was once a correspondent of H.P. Lovecraft, investigates and soon disappears himself.

1980: LC: Phileus Sadowsky dies in a house fire. His Further Notes on the Necronomicon is published by Miskatonic University Press.

    – The last of the Brothers of St. Jerome dies, and Miskatonic University acquires Arkham House.

    – By this time, philanthropist Kathleen Lewis has helped re-establish the Sanbourne Institute.

    – March 11: Henri-Laurent de Marigny disappears again, and leaves a lengthy manuscript and a number of audio tapes to Wingate Peaslee of the Wilmarth Foundation.

   – March 25: The Wilmarth Foundation initiates Project Cthylla. A nuclear bomb is sent burrowing beneath Devil’s Reef, where it is intended to destroy Cthylla. After it is detonated, a hateful psychic assault is sent from R’lyeh. Over the next three days, many are driven insane, the Miskatonic Valley is decimated by natural disasters, Miskatonic University itself is destroyed, and Wilmarth Foundation director Wingate Peaslee is killed. The University is rebuilt, but Cthylla survives, and the anti-Mythos organizations must look on their foes with new humility.

    – Wingate Peaslee is succeeded by Arthur Meyer as the director of the Wilmarth Foundation.

1981: LC: Lamp-Eft Anatomy and Physiology, by Professor Herbert Hike, is published by University of Michigan Press.

1982: LC: A film version of The People of the Monolith, adapted by celebrated director Corman Abbè, premieres in a New York theater. During that first showing, the theater collapses. The film is never released to the public.

    – August: Infamous serial rapist Alun Caleb, also known as the Black Goat of the Woods, is finally captured after terrorizing much of northern England.

    – District 9 (movie); An alien ship stops over Johannesburg, South Africa (but is cloaked by Inisfree and MIBs work to weave its occupants into the outskirts of the city).

1983: LC: A Preliminary Celaeno Catalog, by Prof. Herbert Hike, is published by University of Michigan Press.

    – U.S. Navy SE.A.L. unit Red Cell is founded.

    – On a mysterious ship, the first member of the race of Djinn-nymph demi-gods is (re)born; Auz.

1984: TR: At the age of 16, Lara accompanies Werner VonCroy to Angkor Wat in Cambodia to retrieve the Iris.

    – Lara explores the haunted island off the coast of Ireland.

    – Lara is sent to boarding school at Gordonstoun, Scotland.

1985: LC: The Barton-Doherty Expedition goes in search of Atlach-Nacha in the Andes. They do not return.

    – May 15: TR: Lord Richard Croft goes missing.

1986: LC: Claiborne Boyd, a student of Creole culture, dies in Ft. Myers, Florida.

    – An associate of Professor Winslow dies in a cyclone.

    – TR: Lara Croft enrolls at Swiss Finishing School.

    – Top Gun (movie events).

1987: LC: Fallworth Festscrift, a collection of essays in honor of Prof. Eliphas Fallworth, is published by Miskatonic University Press.

    – The Shadow in the Wood, by Prof. L.N. Isinwyll, is published by Oxford University Press.

    – An individual named Laban Shrewsbury (apparently unrelated to the man who disappeared in 1938) is teaching at Miskatonic University at this time.

c.1988: LC: Danforth, a survivor of the Pabodie Expedition of 1930-1931, dies.

1988: LC: Elegant Symmetry: Inversion and Reversion in Dark Dimension Demi-Life, by Miskatonic’s Professor Peter Dannseys, is published by Houghton and Mifflin.

    – February 7: Lin Carter passes away. One of his unfinished works is a partial manuscript of the John Dee Necronomicon.

    – Bloodsport (movie events).

c.1990: LC: The Vatican Codex is found in the Vatican library.

    – August: Researcher Jonathan Creighton steals Miskatonic University’s copy of Liber Damnatus Damnationum. He later disappears after visiting the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

1990s: LC: Howard Willet, an inspector for a grocery store chain, rediscovers the town of Foxfield.

1990: LC: The Candlemas issue of Crypt of Cthulhu prints Lin Carter’s segments of the John Dee Necronomicon.

    – Cyrus Llanfer’s catalogue is revised for the second time.

    – TR: Lara Croft inherits her Surrey mansion and butler from her Great Aunt.

1991: LC: An associate of Professor Winslow dies in a plane crash.

    – April 30: Tom Hacket receives a letter written 63 years ago by his grandfather Daniel, telling of his experiences on the island of Inishdriscol.

    – LC: Alien Nation: their ship lands in Mojave Desert, the MIBs quickly cover it up and weave them into society

c.1993: LC: Morgan Ackerley becomes the new curate of Temphill, the first since John Rogers 20 years ago.

1993-2001:  JP:  Jurassic Park (movie series) timeline.

1993: LC: At this time, Professor Francis Morgan is still active in the affairs of Miskatonic University.

    – High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) begins experiments on weather-control and communications-denial (meteorological-jamming).

    – Late March: An expedition from Kansas University meets with disaster when they investigate the ruins of Dunwich, Kansas.

    – June 15: Professor Edmund Samuel and his wife Louise of Kansas University disappear mysteriously.

1994: A copy of the Gothic Necronomicon is found beneath the former KGB headquarters. It is stolen by a Neo-Nazi group.

    – January: President Bill Clinton issues an Executive Order releasing any Innsmouth natives still held prisoner by the federal government, following the public revelation of the events in Innsmouth in 1928. A week later, Fred Carstairs dies.

    – Later that year, the Kennedy-Keaton Act is amended.

1994: XM: Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters is renamed “the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning”.

Mid-1990s: LC: Certain congressmen allow for the immigration of some 40,000 Tcho-tchos to the United States.

1995: LC: Horror writer Carl Dreadstone disappears soon after his attendance at the 1995 Brichester Fantasy Convention.

    – TR: Lara travels to Rome, Italy to meet with Larson and Pierre DuPont and hand over the Mercury Stone. After she’s decided otherwise – which was probably the idea from the start – she sets out to find the Philosopher’s Stone.

    – TR: Lara comes face to face with the famous Bigfoot on one of her travels.

    – TR: Lara discovers the Ark of the Covenant, which she later displays in her mansion.

1996: LC: The Necronomicon is published by Chaosium Inc. The book includes much fiction about the Necronomicon, as well as parts of the 1973 Owlswick Press version, Lin Carter’s translation, and Fred Pelton’s translation of the Sussex Manuscript.

    – SG: The Stargate is opened to Abydos.

    – TR: After being hired by Jacqueline Natla to recover one part of the Scion, Lara sets out to find the other missing pieces and stop Natla from misusing them.

1997: TR: Lara follows the trail of Marco Bartoli to find the Dagger of Xian.

    – Following a hint in an old newspaper from 1945 – a faded photograph showing an Inuit Whale-hunter holding what looks like an ancient Golden Mask – Lara travels to Melnikov Island in the Bering Sea to find The Golden Mask of Tornarsuk at a secret, fortified military mine-base.

    – Lara invades Von Croy’s New York-office building to steal the Iris they found in Cambodia over ten years ago.

1998: SB: Russians use telepresence to explore Mars, finding water.

    – TR: Lara searches for The Meteorite Idols (the Infada Stone, the Ora Dagger, the Eye Of Isis, Element 115, and the Hand Of Rathmore) in India, the South Pacific Islands, London, Area 51, and France.

    – Lara recovers The Spear of Destiny from a sunken German submarine.

1998-2004: The events of the Blade (movie) trilogy.

1999: FS: Farscape-1 accidentally passes through a wormhole.

     – The Sixth Sense (movie events).

    – TR: Lara travels to Egypt in search of The Amulet of Horus. When collecting it, she sets free the evil Egyptian god.