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+ | * July 11: As former U.S. Vice-President Aaron Burr meets with rival Alexander Hamilton for a duel, aliens beam up Burr and replace him with a cloned double who kills Hamilton and lives out the rest of his life. Aaron Burr survives for at least another 170 years until 1975, when he meets Green Lantern (Hal Jordan). ["The Man of Destiny," | ||
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* The British Parliament bans English participation in the transatlantic slave trade. | * The British Parliament bans English participation in the transatlantic slave trade. | ||
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- | * Lt. Jonah Hex surrenders to Union officials at Fort Charlotte. Hex is later balmed | + | * Lt. Jonah Hex surrenders to Union officials at Fort Charlotte. Hex is later blamed |
* January 1: President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation. | * January 1: President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation. | ||
* May 2-10: " | * May 2-10: " | ||
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- | * The JLA meet heroes of the wild west due to actions of the Lord Of Time.[JLA #198 -199] | + | * The JLA meet heroes of the wild west due to the actions of the Lord of Time.[JLA #198-199] |
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- | * Jonah Hex was killed in 1904 at the age of 68 by George Barrow. | + | * After tracking down and killing half the Barrow Gang for the reward, 66-year-old |
+ | * July, 1904: Alex and Linda Olsen are married. [" | ||
====1905==== | ====1905==== | ||
- | * Alex Olsen becomes | + | * Douglas Parker, the future Police Chief of Smallville, is born. |
- | * Douglas Parker is born; grows up to be Police Chief of Smallville. | + | * July, 1905: Jealous that his best friend married a beautiful woman named Linda, Damian Ridge arranges for chemist |
====1906==== | ====1906==== | ||
* George Taylor, future editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet, is born in Star City. | * George Taylor, future editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet, is born in Star City. | ||
+ | * Six months after their marriage, Damian Ridge suspects that Linda Olsen Ridge is beginning to realize the truth about Alex Olsen' | ||
====1911==== | ====1911==== | ||
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====1913==== | ====1913==== | ||
* Jor-El (father of Jor-El and grandfather of Kal-El -- Superman) travels from Krypton to Earth, where he saves a logger named Jeremy Bird from a tribe of angry Sioux warriors, then builds a canal to ensure the loggers don't anger the Sioux any longer. He then returns to his family on Krypton. ["The Superman of Yesterday," | * Jor-El (father of Jor-El and grandfather of Kal-El -- Superman) travels from Krypton to Earth, where he saves a logger named Jeremy Bird from a tribe of angry Sioux warriors, then builds a canal to ensure the loggers don't anger the Sioux any longer. He then returns to his family on Krypton. ["The Superman of Yesterday," | ||
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+ | ====1914==== | ||
+ | * September 6-10: First Battle of the Marne takes place, in which the French defend Paris from a German invasion along the Marne River. ["The Marne," | ||
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====1916==== | ====1916==== | ||
* March 12: Perry White, future editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet, is born in Chicago. | * March 12: Perry White, future editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet, is born in Chicago. | ||
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+ | ====1917==== | ||
+ | * Around this time the Titan named Thia, Goddess of the Sun, escapes from the pits of Tartarus after a 30,000 year imprisonment when she is somehow given power by the sun. Discovering that mankind now possesses great weapons that can destroy gods, she begins posing as a mortal woman and begins to cultivate a new kind of power for eventual world domination. Having several lovers over the next 70 years, she gives birth to many children all over the world who grow up to gain positions of power in politics and commerce, who are known collectively as the Children of the Sun. [" | ||
+ | ====1918==== | ||
+ | * April 21: Rittmeister Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is killed by English air ace Capt. Roy Brown over Northern France. Days later, a British flier drops a note to the Germans explaining that Richthofen was killed and buried with full military honors. ["The Fall of the Red Knight," | ||
====1920==== | ====1920==== | ||
* January 3: James W. Gordon born. | * January 3: James W. Gordon born. | ||
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+ | ====1923==== | ||
+ | * May-June: The events of //The Nine Unknown// take place. [The Nine Unknown (1923 novel by Talbot Mundy); " | ||
====1926==== | ====1926==== | ||
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* On the same day, another mutant whose name is unknown is born; 50 years later he will take the name of Starstriker and attempt to seize Adam Blake' | * On the same day, another mutant whose name is unknown is born; 50 years later he will take the name of Starstriker and attempt to seize Adam Blake' | ||
* Dr. Clark " | * Dr. Clark " | ||
+ | * Sick of police corruption, Nathaniel Dusk quits the New York City Police Department and sets himself up as a private investigator. [" | ||
====1933==== | ====1933==== | ||
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====1934==== | ====1934==== | ||
- | * Nathaniel Dusk, private | + | * January 31-February 8: After his lover Joyce Gulino is murdered, Private |
* March 27: On the planet Daxam, Lar Gand is born. //Note: Lar Gand later becomes more famously known as Mon-El when he is mistaken as an older brother of Kal-El (Superboy) in 1963, when Lar Gand is physically 18 years old. But chronologically he was actually 29 years old, since he had spent 11 years in suspended animation as his rocket ship traveled from Krypton, where he visited Jor-El and Lara, to Earth.// | * March 27: On the planet Daxam, Lar Gand is born. //Note: Lar Gand later becomes more famously known as Mon-El when he is mistaken as an older brother of Kal-El (Superboy) in 1963, when Lar Gand is physically 18 years old. But chronologically he was actually 29 years old, since he had spent 11 years in suspended animation as his rocket ship traveled from Krypton, where he visited Jor-El and Lara, to Earth.// | ||
+ | * June 15-July 4: Private investigator Nathaniel Dusk is hired to bodyguard an apple cart vendor who lost his wealth in the 1929 stock market crash from men who want to kill him, but while he's unable to stop him from being killed in broad daylight, Dusk brings the true killers to justice. //Note: The fate of Nathaniel Dusk after this case remains unknown.// [" | ||
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- | * January: Gareth Gallowglass is born on the magical, multi-dimensional island of Tourmaline, his parents professors at the White School. A prodigy at birth, Gareth develops psychic abilities that allow him to affect reality around him. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/ | + | * January: Gareth Gallowglass is born on the magical, multi-dimensional island of Tourmaline, his parents professors at the White School. A prodigy at birth, Gareth develops psychic abilities that allow him to affect reality around him. ["[[https:// |
====1937==== | ====1937==== | ||
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* Lewis Padgett becomes Microwave Man, the world' | * Lewis Padgett becomes Microwave Man, the world' | ||
* Richard Benson becomes the Avenger and gathers agents to join his crime-fighting organization known as Justice, Inc. [Justice, Inc. #1] | * Richard Benson becomes the Avenger and gathers agents to join his crime-fighting organization known as Justice, Inc. [Justice, Inc. #1] | ||
- | * Gareth Gallowglass is orphaned at when his parents, professors at the White School, are murdered by fellow professor Henry Valdemir. The 2-year-old psychic Gareth is spirited away from the magical, multi-dimensional island of Tourmaline to mainland America for his own safety. Valdemir flees the island to avoid capture and uses his mystical abilities to become an influential member of the U.S. Army, eventually gaining the rank of major. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/ | + | * Gareth Gallowglass is orphaned at when his parents, professors at the White School, are murdered by fellow professor Henry Valdemir. The 2-year-old psychic Gareth is spirited away from the magical, multi-dimensional island of Tourmaline to mainland America for his own safety. Valdemir flees the island to avoid capture and uses his mystical abilities to become an influential member of the U.S. Army, eventually gaining the rank of major. ["[[https:// |
+ | * December: Arch-criminal Shiwan Khan, descendant of Genghis Khan, mind-controls Margo Lane, agent of the Shadow, and Smitty, member of Justice Inc., using them to manipulate the Shadow and the Avenger into battling each other. At first believing each other to be responsible for amassing an underground army and stealing arms shipments in order to conquer the world, the Shadow and the Avenger finally see through the ruse and learn the truth from the brainwashed agents. The Shadow' | ||
+ | * December: The Shadow defeats Russian hypnotist Ivan Zarnovitch, who hypnotizes the colonial-themed town of New Gotham in Upstate New York into becoming his slaves, but blaming their actions on demon possession by Beelzebub. Planning to sell his method to the Germans, Zarnovitch is defeated and falls to his death from a church tower during his escape attempt. [" | ||
====1939==== | ====1939==== | ||
* At age 8, Adam Blake displays the uncanny ability to read and memorize an entire school textbook in minutes. ["The Origin of Captain Comet," | * At age 8, Adam Blake displays the uncanny ability to read and memorize an entire school textbook in minutes. ["The Origin of Captain Comet," | ||
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===June, 1940=== | ===June, 1940=== | ||
* The man known as the Unknown Soldier has first case. [Unknown Soldier #249] | * The man known as the Unknown Soldier has first case. [Unknown Soldier #249] | ||
+ | * Young reporter Wayne Clifford is sent by //The New York Courier// to London in order to report on the state of England during the Blitz, where he is mentored by seasoned reporter Ed Barnes and comes up against government news censorship. [" | ||
===August, 1940=== | ===August, 1940=== | ||
* The Blackhawks meet the first villainous Killer Shark. [Blackhawk #269] | * The Blackhawks meet the first villainous Killer Shark. [Blackhawk #269] | ||
+ | ===October, 1940=== | ||
+ | * An American correspondent for the London-based newspaper //The Tribute,// Richard " | ||
+ | * Wayne Clifford is transferred to North Africa, where he becomes a war correspondent alongside British soldiers fighting the Italian invaders. [" | ||
+ | ===December, | ||
+ | * Captain X steals a dangerous secret weapon -- a ray that instantly dissolves metal -- from the Germans that was invented by a scientist named Graff. [Captain X of the R.A.F., Star Spangled Comics #3 (December, 1941)] | ||
====1941==== | ====1941==== | ||
- | ===August, 1941=== | + | ===February, 1941=== |
- | * Richard " | + | * When the Germans invade Egypt using a fleet of experimental amphibious tank-boats in an attempt to capture the Suez Canal, Captain X acts as a one-man guerrilla army sabotaging and destroying the tanks. //Note: It is likely that the Germans were under strict orders to ensure that the tank-boats were destroyed rather than captured intact by the Allies, explaining how a single man could be so successful in destroying all of them.// [Captain X of the R.A.F., Star Spangled Comics #5 (February, 1942)] |
+ | ===April, 1941=== | ||
+ | * When the Germans bomb London with gas-bombs that cause victims to die quickly, with hideous grins on their faces, Captain X in his last known case travels to Germany to track down the inventor of the strychnine gas, an English chemist and novelist named Harold Calvert, whose experiments were stolen by German scientist Kurt Norbolt to create the gas. Rescuing Calvert from a concentration camp in Germany, Captain X also steals a tank of the gas from Norbolt and brings it back to England to be analyzed. //Note: It is likely that the strychnine gas is similar in chemical composition to Joker-venom.// | ||
===September, | ===September, | ||
* The adventures of Keen Arrow are first published by Kolossal Komics. //Note: Keen Arrow is a fictional character who predated the real Earth-1 Green Arrow' | * The adventures of Keen Arrow are first published by Kolossal Komics. //Note: Keen Arrow is a fictional character who predated the real Earth-1 Green Arrow' | ||
+ | ===October, 1941=== | ||
+ | * Wayne Clifford leaves North Africa for Russia to report on the Eastern Front, but the British supply ship he travels on is attacked by a German U-boat, and it nearly sinks until a Russian ship arrives to tow them to the nearest port. [" | ||
===December, | ===December, | ||
* December 7: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, resulting in the United States entering World War II. | * December 7: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, resulting in the United States entering World War II. | ||
+ | * Reporter Wayne Clifford is recalled home against his wishes by his newspaper publisher. With the attack on Pearl Harbor, Clifford hopes to become a war correspondent again by writing an accurate account of it, only to come up against U.S. government censorship on the attack. Reunited with fellow reporter Ed Barnes, he learns that Barnes' | ||
+ | * With the U.S. officially in the war, Richard " | ||
====1942==== | ====1942==== | ||
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* Jeb Stuart commands the Haunted Tank. | * Jeb Stuart commands the Haunted Tank. | ||
===February, | ===February, | ||
- | * Captain X's last known case. [Star Spangled Comics | + | * Reporter Wayne Clifford begins dating a young woman named Joy Winters, who wants to be an army nurse. [" |
+ | ===March, 1942=== | ||
+ | * Wayne Clifford takes a new assignment as a combat reporter at Bataan in the Philippines, | ||
===April, 1942=== | ===April, 1942=== | ||
+ | * April 1: Commander Steel (Hank Heywood) crosses over from Earth-2 and establishes a new life for himself on Earth-1. | ||
* The Boy Commandos have first public case. //Note: This is the Earth-1 version of the Earth-2 team.// [Detective Comics #64] | * The Boy Commandos have first public case. //Note: This is the Earth-1 version of the Earth-2 team.// [Detective Comics #64] | ||
* Albert Hollerer of Germany becomes a wood elemental called the Heap. [Swamp Thing v2 #47] | * Albert Hollerer of Germany becomes a wood elemental called the Heap. [Swamp Thing v2 #47] | ||
* Microwave Man goes into retirement for 40 years. [Action Comics #487] | * Microwave Man goes into retirement for 40 years. [Action Comics #487] | ||
- | * April 1: Commander Steel (Hank Heywood) crosses over from Earth-2 | + | * Combat reporter Wayne Clifford is captured as a prisoner of war by the Japanese along with U.S. troops in Bataan, |
===November, | ===November, | ||
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* The Losers -- Johnny Cloud, Capt. Storm, Gunner and Sarge -- are formed. | * The Losers -- Johnny Cloud, Capt. Storm, Gunner and Sarge -- are formed. | ||
- | * A U.S. Army Air Force pilot is shot down in the Okinawa Islands, arising to become the wood elemental known only as Number 99. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/ | + | * A U.S. Army Air Force pilot is shot down in the Okinawa Islands, arising to become the wood elemental known only as Number 99. ["[[https://5earths.com/ |
- | * The Sentinels of Magic -- Mac Maine; Harry " | + | * The Sentinels of Magic -- Mac Maine; Harry " |
- | * Gareth Gallowglass, | + | * Gareth Gallowglass, |
* OSS agent [[Lucius Fox]] serves with Mademoiselle Marie in her French Resistance cell for a time. ["The Man Who Killed Mlle. Marie," | * OSS agent [[Lucius Fox]] serves with Mademoiselle Marie in her French Resistance cell for a time. ["The Man Who Killed Mlle. Marie," | ||
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===June, 1944=== | ===June, 1944=== | ||
* June 6: | * June 6: | ||
- | * The Blackhawks' | + | * On the eve of D-Day, the Blackhawks |
- | * Sgt. Rock and Easy Co. are amongst | + | * Sgt. Rock and Easy Co. are among the Allied soldiers invading Normandy on D-Day. |
* Jimmy Olsen time-travels from the year 1977 to Europe after D-Day and masquerades as Private Von Olsen. He subsequently is promoted first to Captain and then to Adolf Hitler' | * Jimmy Olsen time-travels from the year 1977 to Europe after D-Day and masquerades as Private Von Olsen. He subsequently is promoted first to Captain and then to Adolf Hitler' | ||
* James W. Gordon graduates from law school and decides to become a policeman, entering police academy during the next intake. | * James W. Gordon graduates from law school and decides to become a policeman, entering police academy during the next intake. | ||
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* At age 14, Adam Blake plays Mozart' | * At age 14, Adam Blake plays Mozart' | ||
* The Losers are killed in their final mission in Markovia. //Note: Crisis #3 incorrectly places this story in June, 1944; in fact, it takes place in early spring, 1945.// [" | * The Losers are killed in their final mission in Markovia. //Note: Crisis #3 incorrectly places this story in June, 1944; in fact, it takes place in early spring, 1945.// [" | ||
- | * The White School on the multi-dimensional island of Tourmaline is attacked and bombed by a group of former students turned Nazi mystics from Earth-X, members of the Thule Society who seek to use the Clock Tower to conquer parallel universes and other dimensions. To defend itself, the island disappears into the mystical dimension of Darkworld, causing the Nazi mystics to drown in the ocean. Most of the professors and students are saved, each returning to his or her world of origin and given partial amnesia about the island and the school. Among those students is 9-year-old Gareth Gallowglass. Former professor Henry Valdemir, who assisted the Nazi mystics in the plot to take the island and lost much of his mystical powers in the failed attempt, settles into his role as a U.S. Army major while slowly regaining his powers. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/ | + | * The White School on the multi-dimensional island of Tourmaline is attacked and bombed by a group of former students turned Nazi mystics from Earth-X, members of the Thule Society who seek to use the Clock Tower to conquer parallel universes and other dimensions. To defend itself, the island disappears into the mystical dimension of Darkworld, causing the Nazi mystics to drown in the ocean. Most of the professors and students are saved, each returning to his or her world of origin and given partial amnesia about the island and the school. Among those students is 9-year-old Gareth Gallowglass. Former professor Henry Valdemir, who assisted the Nazi mystics in the plot to take the island and lost much of his mystical powers in the failed attempt, settles into his role as a U.S. Army major while slowly regaining his powers. ["[[https:// |
* James W. Gordon graduates from police academy, a six-month program, and is hired as a patrolman for the Gotham City Police Department. On his first day on the job, his childhood friend jeweler Hank Weber is shot and killed during a robbery, and while Gordon pursues the killer Daryl Richmond into an unused subway tunnel and captures him, he fails to find the jewels that were stashed away. //Note: This story is said to take place in 1945, or 35 years before the present. Although the present-day story takes place in 1983 according to the compressed timeline, the specified date of 1945 is firm and takes precedence.// | * James W. Gordon graduates from police academy, a six-month program, and is hired as a patrolman for the Gotham City Police Department. On his first day on the job, his childhood friend jeweler Hank Weber is shot and killed during a robbery, and while Gordon pursues the killer Daryl Richmond into an unused subway tunnel and captures him, he fails to find the jewels that were stashed away. //Note: This story is said to take place in 1945, or 35 years before the present. Although the present-day story takes place in 1983 according to the compressed timeline, the specified date of 1945 is firm and takes precedence.// | ||
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===Unspecified month in 1946=== | ===Unspecified month in 1946=== | ||
- | * Gareth Gallowglass, | + | * Gareth Gallowglass, |
===October, 1946=== | ===October, 1946=== | ||
* October 11: James W. Gordon and Thelma Barbara Kean are married in Gotham City. | * October 11: James W. Gordon and Thelma Barbara Kean are married in Gotham City. | ||
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* The modern nation of Israel is founded. | * The modern nation of Israel is founded. | ||
* Cory Renwald, now 18, " | * Cory Renwald, now 18, " | ||
- | | + | ===April, 1948=== |
+ | | ||
+ | ===May, 1948=== | ||
+ | * May 14: The Sentinels of Magic are sent in by the U.S. Army to investigate Grim Island, but they leave their mascot, 12-year-old Gary the Miracle Boy (Gareth Gallowglass) behind. Gary soon discovers that the commanding officer, Major Henry Valdemir, intends to not only let the Sentinels die on the island, but also have Gary killed according to his plan. Gary confronts Major Valdemir, who reveals that he killed Gary's parents before he uses his own mystical abilities to gouge out Gary's left eye, while Valdemir himself has every bone in his body broken and is crippled for life by Gary's power. Battling demons that emerge from a pit leading from Hell, the Sentinels are each killed in their ultimately successful efforts to close the gate and prevent a giant demonic menace from reaching Earth. Two Sentinels, Johnny Constantine and Doc Harvard Yale, deliberately sacrifice themselves in an occult rite that effectively purchases the island with their own blood, thus thwarting Valdemir' | ||
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===February, | ===February, | ||
* February 5: Perry White is hired as a full-time reporter at the Daily Planet. //Note: Previously, Perry was a cub reporter at the Chicago Journal in the mid-1930s, then a cub reporter at the Daily Planet as a cub reporter from 1937 to about 1938 or so, then as a full reporter at the Gotham Gazette until 1949, probably acting as a war correspondent from 1942-1945 for that paper.// ["The Most Amazing Camera in the World," | * February 5: Perry White is hired as a full-time reporter at the Daily Planet. //Note: Previously, Perry was a cub reporter at the Chicago Journal in the mid-1930s, then a cub reporter at the Daily Planet as a cub reporter from 1937 to about 1938 or so, then as a full reporter at the Gotham Gazette until 1949, probably acting as a war correspondent from 1942-1945 for that paper.// ["The Most Amazing Camera in the World," | ||
+ | * February 20: Hal Jordan is born. //Note: Hal Jordan appears to be about a year older than Clark Kent, according to The New Adventures of Superboy #13, which portrays Hal applying to Metropolis University during a time when Clark was only 16 years old.// | ||
===March, 1949=== | ===March, 1949=== | ||
* March 19: Barry Allen is born to Dr. Henry and Nora Allen in Fallville, Iowa. | * March 19: Barry Allen is born to Dr. Henry and Nora Allen in Fallville, Iowa. |