CROSSOVER
CHRONOLOGY PART III 1800-1850
COLOR KEY;
BLACK FOR DATES,
BROWN FOR MY CHANGES TO THE
WOLD NEWTON TIMELINE,
NAVY FOR PRINTED REFERENCES,
TEAL FOR VIDEO REFERENCES
LIGHT BLUE FOR E-TEXT OR
ONLINE TEXT LINKS
The
Secret History of the Wold Newton Universe is now searchable.
c. 1800-1819 BLACK AS THE PIT, FROM POLE TO POLE
Following the events of Frankenstein, the
creature travels through a hole in the Arctic, and thence through a series of inner worlds, before emerging at the
locale of At the
Mountains of Madness in the
Antarctic. Arthur Gordon Pym, Mocha Dick, Otto and Axel Lidenbrock, and Abner
Perry, all either appear or are mentioned.
This story by Steven Utley and Howard
Waldrop was originally published in New Dimensions 7; it is reprinted in
Eternal Lovecraft, Jim Turner, ed., 1998. The story links together
Shelley's Frankenstein, Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stories, Poe's Arthur Gordon
Pym, Melville's Moby Dick, Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, and E.R.
Burroughs' Pellucidar series. For more information, please click here
1802 THE WANTON PRINCESS
Roger Brook is posing as a Frenchman when Napoleon
Bonaparte says to him: "You are almost as conceited as that gallant who
commands the Hussars of Conflans. What's his name? Yes, Brigadier
Gerrard."
Although author Dennis Wheatley spelt
Gerard with an extra "r" in The Wanton Princess, he uses the more common spelling in Evil in a Mask (1807).
1806 - Don Diego de
la Vega becomes El
Zorro (Johnston McCully's The Curse of Capistrano(The
Mark of Zorro).
1806 Marra using the name Moriarity has two
children , a daughter Morcar and a son Jerrold. He had used his access to the
necessary hormones to make his procreative fluids compatible with a human
female.
1807 EVIL IN A MASK
In 1807, British spy Roger Brook (still
pretending to be a Frenchman) is captured by the Russians. One of his
fellow captors is a French captain in the Hussars of Conflans.
Brook remarks: "Indeed, you must be a brave fellow, since you hold
that rank under such a dashing commander as Brigadier Gerard."
Rick Lai notes that "Dennis Wheatley
made several errors in his references to Gerard. He was a Lieutenant with
the Tenth Hussars during 1802 and 1807. He first joins the Hussars of Conflans
as a Captain in 1809 ('How the Brigadier captured Saragossa'). He becomes their commanding colonel in
1810, and is promoted to a Brigadier in 1813. The cited dates are based
on Jack Tracy's chronology of the Gerard stories in the 1982 Jove paperbacks, Brigadier Gerard and The Return of Gerard."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard was identified as a Wold Newton
Family member by Philip José Farmer, specifically as an ancestor of James Bond;
see The James Bond
Chronolog and Genealogy for a family tree.
1808 - The events of Doctor Syn: Death of Syn, who, in his lifetime, has operated as the pirate Captain
Clegg and as the night riding smuggler known as the Scarecrow of Rommey Marsh.
1808 - Birth of Prince Dakkar of India (The Mysterious Island), the son of Rajah Dakkar of
Bundelcund, a Capellean (The
Other Log of Phileas Fogg). Later in
his life, Prince Dakkar will use the identity of "Captain Nemo."
1809 THE THREE MUSKETEERS
While in France, Zorro has an adventure with the descendants of
Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan.
This is a 1991 two-part episode of New World television series Zorro, confirming Dumas'
The Three Musketeers and related novels in the Newtonverse. Tarzan Alive, postulates one of the Greystokes married the
natural (i.e. bastard) daughter of Charles de Baatz, Sieur d'Artagnan.
D'Artagnan, along with his friends, really were real people about whom
Alexandre Dumas, pere, wrote novels of historical adventure. (The original Three Musketeers is based on de Baatz's memoirs.)"
1809 DRACULA VS ZORRO
Don Diego de la Vega, otherwise known as Zorro,
fights against Count Dracula in Spain and France.
This is a comics mini-series/graphic novel
published by Topps Comics. For information on Zorro's inclusion the Wold Newton
Universe, see the Holmes-Dracula encounter in 1887. The 1820 date given in the
comic is inaccurate; see Matthew
Baugh's Zorro Chronology at Chronology Central.
1812 MEN AREN'T THE ONLY ONES WITH DUAL IDENTITIES
Anita Santiago goes into action as the
incredible Lady Rawhide, Zorro's sometime-enemy and sometime-ally.
Issue number 3 of Topps' Zorro series by Don McGregor and Mike Mayhew
introduced the heroine Lady Rawhide to the Newtonverse. She went on to
individual adventures in two comics mini-series.
1814 OTHER PEOPLE'S BLOOD
Lady Rawhide lies bleeding and near death
after various battles. One of Dracula's spawn, Carmelita Rodriguez (see Dracula
vs. Zorro), is on the same ship as Lady Rawhide, and after denying her
vampiric urges for so long, Carmelita can no longer resist. But in Carmelita's
feeding on Lady Rawhide, she is also saving her life.
This is in the second Lady Rawhide solo
mini-series published by Topps Comics, written by Don McGregor and illustrated
by Esteban Maroto, which abruptly ended mid-series with issue 5. Does this mean
that Lady Rawhide became a vampire too? In issue 5, Lady Rawhide has regained
her health and goes on to further battle, and there the series ends. Wold
Newton scholar John Small believes that she went on to become a well-known
vampire, with whom Lady Rawhide shares many shapely characteristics and
attributes. Click here
to read his article.
Summer 1814 SHARPE'S JUSTICE
Major Richard Sharpe tangles with a young
Captain of the Yorkshire militia, George Wickham.
This is a British television movie based
on Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe
novels. This might be the same George Wickham seen in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
However, this tale is set in 1814, and the George Wickham seen here seems to be
in his twenties or early thirties, while the George Wickham in Pride and Prejudice would have been in his forties by this point.
Additionally, Sharpe's Wickham is still in the militia, while the Wickham in Pride and Prejudice takes a commission in the regular army at the end of
that novel. Most likely, the Wickham seen here is George Wickham, Jr. Wickham
junior would be a Wold Newton family member, as Wickham senior married
Elizabeth Bennet's youngest sister in
Pride and Prejudice, and Bennet, according to Farmer, was present at the
meteor strike. In any case, the Wickham connection brings in Richard Sharpe,
since Darcy and Bennet from Pride and Prejudice are
mentioned prominently in Farmer's Wold Newton family tree. Richard Sharpe has
at least three children; one of them appears in Cornwell's Starbuck series of Civil War novels, thus bringing
that series into the Newtonverse.
1815 - Lord Ruthven is introduced in John Polidori's The Vampyre.
1815 The events of ZORRO
AND THE JAGUAR WARRIORS Jerome Preisler, a novel published in 1998.
ZORRO AND THE DRAGON RIDERS by David Bergantino, published in 1999. In this
episode, Diego has a
strong attraction for a female samurai who had been hired to kill Zorro.
Although the book plays down any romance, I speculate that a romantic interlude
did occur. When the woman returned to Japan she discovered that she was with
child. This child's descendent was Ikano Kato
1817 - Birth of Allan Quatermain.
January 1817 BLOODED
George Gordon, Lord Byron, brings the
Watcher Claire Silver "certain books" and fragments of Oriental
scrolls, and hints he knows that Justine is the Slayer; Justine suspects
something odd about Byron, too.
Perhaps Justine was sensing that Byron was
an Immortal. Nancy Holder, co-author of this Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel,
also wrote a Highlander novel, so she most likely knew of Byron's status in
that series. This is not the "real" Lord Byron of "our"
universe, but rather the version of the Lord Byron who exists in the
Newtonverse, and who is the ancestor of many Wold Newton Family members. A
mystery still remains regarding how Lord Byron could have descendants and also
be an Immortal; perhaps Immortals can have children before they become
Immortal.
1819 - Die Bergwerke zu Falun (The Mines of Falun), as told by E.T.A.
Hoffmann.
1822 - Birth of Harry Paget Flashman.
1824 Lord Byron suffered a fatal fever in Missougla, Greece and
dies. His body regenerates from the disease proving him to be an Immortal. (HIGHLANDER TV series has him as an Immortal)The Vampire Virus also
manifests itself. (LORD OF
THE DEAD by Tom Holland
has Byron as a Vampire) Because of all of his genetic abnormalities, Lord Byron
never became the Mover that the Tocs
and Ogs wished longed for. Prior to his "death", some of
Lord Byron's sperm is frozen by the Ogs.
1827-1828 - Arthur Gordon Pym travels on an expedition to the
Antarctic as told by Edgar Allan Poe in The Narrative
of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (most recently reprinted in the anthology The Antarktos Cycle,
Chaosium, 1999). While on
this expedition, Pym discovers the alien Dyzan, The Dyzan are masters of
the Vril, a mysterious magical energy. Living with the Dyzan, Pym masters the
Vril, and its power enables him to mentally control the aliens, as well as
artificially extend his life, although it also magnifies Pym's inherently
amoral personality.Later in his career,
Pym will use the alias "Captain Nemo" as a cover for his own
piratical activities. (Based
on entry for "Neptune Perkins" in Who's Who Update '88, volume
2, DC Comics.) To see the true story behind Pym and
Perkins follow this link.
March 22, 1829 - Artemus Gordon is born.
1829 - Birth of Erik, Opera Ghost.
1829 - Birth of Monsieur Lecoq.
1832 - Birth of Phileas Fogg, biological son of Sir William Clayton..
1834 - Birth of Sherringford Holmes.
1834 Marra begins a
campaign against Juro, sabotaging his experiments, exposing his various plans
and making several assassination attempts.
1835 - Charles Dickens' Oliver
Twist.
1835 - Birth of Colonel James Moriarty, son of Sir William Clayton and Morcar
Moriarty. Curiously, he is the oldest of three brothers, all named James. Morcar's
brother is Jerrold Moriarty. Jerrold becomes a favorite uncle and father-figure
to the three Moriarty brothers.
1836 - Birth of Professor James Moriarty, son of master criminal Dr. James
Noel and Morcar Moriarty. He is one of the many men who will use the identity
of "Captain Nemo."
October 20, 1837 Ada Augusta Lovelace, daughter of Lord
Byron, gives birth to twins, both are born deformed. One is clubfooted and the
other is a dwarf, she is told that they died at birth Lord Lovelace, urged by
his mother in law, reluctantly gives them up for adoption. There is some
suspicion that they are illegitimate given her Father's promiscuity. However,
no evidence supports this supposition. The boys are sent to a fosterage in
America but given a generous endowment. Their names are Michael Lovelace and
Arliss Lovelace. Never adopted and raised by rather cold foster parents the
boys adopt the names Miguelito
Quixote Loveless and Arliss Loveless.
December 1839-March 1840 THE SPHINX OF THE ICE FIELDS
This adventure contains many references to
Arthur Gordon Pym.
Jules Verne's sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym,reprinted in the anthology The Antarktos
Cycle, Chaosium, 1999. The cycle of stories continues in John W.
Campbell, Jr.'s Who
Goes There?and H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of
Madness, both also
republished in The
Antarktos Cycle.
1840 - Birth of James Douglas Henry, son of the legendary John Henry and
grandson of Sir William Clayton (click here for more info).
1840 - Birth of James Moriarty (the third), the second son of Dr. James Noel
and Morcar Moriarty. He will later assume the identity of his older brother,
Professor James Moriarty.
1840 - Birth of Fu
Manchu, son of Sir William Clayton and Ling Ju Hai.
c. 1840s - Events of James Buckingham’s National Evils and
Practical Remedies, with a Plan of a Model Town.
1841-1845 - C. Auguste Dupin's cases, as related by Edgar Allan
Poe: The Murders
in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, and The
Purloined Letter.
December 1841-early 1842 - The events of Moby Dick,
as told by Ishmael, and related by Herman Melville.
1842 -A
Christmas Carol, as related by Charles Dickens.
March 1, 1843 - James T. West is born.
1843 - The events of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Pavillion on the Links, found in the volume
New
Arabian Nights. Bernard Huddlestone, the prominent banker in the
story, is the uncle of Morcar Moriarty, and therefore the great uncle of the
three Moriarty brothers.
1844 - Birth of John Reid, who will
become The Lone Ranger.
1844 - Young Phileas Fogg, adopted son of Sir Heraclitus Fogg, an original
Eridanean, undergoes a blood-sharing ceremony which enables him to become a
full human-Eridanean and which gives him a lifespan of one thousand years.
1844-1892 - Events of the historical novel Raintree County by
Ross Lockridge, Jr.
February 12, 1847 - Birth of Mycroft Holmes.
1847 - Abner Perry is born in New England.
c. 1847 - The events of L'Assommoir,
as told by Émile Zola.
1848 - Events of David
Copperfield, as related by Charles Dickens.
1850s-1880s -George Bernard Shaw's An
Unsocial Socialist, which chronicles
the life of John Clayton, the fifth duke of Greystoke, Tarzan's grandfather.
REVISED WOLD NEWTON
CHRONOLOGY
Prehistory-858, 858-1799,
1800-1849,
1850-1890 1891-1910,
1911-1920,
1921-1930, 1931-1940, 1941-1970,
1971-Future.
Return to the Table of Contents
© 1997-2002 by the author,
Win Eckert. Additions
in brown text© 2000-2002 by Dennis E. Power