^  BC106|*Consul Gaius Marius forms the [[Legion of Hercules]].  |
^  AD196|*Emperor Septimius Severus orders the construction of a new headquarters for the [[Legion of Hercules]] in Byzantium.  |
^  196-530|*The [[Legion of Hercules]] flourishes and becomes [[Herakles Kallinikos]], and then simply the [[Kallinikoi]].  |
^  c. 500|*Dragons appear in Europe.  |
^  530|*Justinian strips the [[Kallinikoi]] of much of its power.  |
^  |*[[Christus Invictus]] is formed.  |
^  596|*Saint Augustine's mission to convert England is stopped by a werewolf attack.  |
^  |*Pope Gregory I negotiates a treaty with the dragons.  |
^  725|*Several Islamic alchemists begin corresponding about monsters.  |
^  742|*Islamic scholars compile The Wisdom of Allah.  |
^  744|*The Wisdom of Allah society is formed.  |
^  c. 1000|*The Order of Assassins forms in Iran.  |
^  1204|*Christian Crusaders sack Constantinople, causing the [[Kallinikoi]] to flee.  |
^  c. 1400|*The [[Council of Mages]] is formed.  |
^  c. 1450|*Gerard Von Schraffenberger becomes obsessed with the idea of scientifically creating life.Some claim that  |
^  |Schraffenberger was the inspiration for Mary Shelly's Victor Frankenstein character.  |
^  1562|*Queen Elizabeth offers the [[Kallinikos]] a permanent shelter, and gives them castle they dub the [[Herakleion]].  |
^  1632|*The pirate "Bloody" [[Bart Quinn]] is killed. Many people believe that Quinn left a hoard of treasure buried on an island  |
^  |off the coast of Mexico. This legendary treasure has yet to be found.  |
^  c. 1820|*Settlers in the Blue River area of Indiana are terrorized by a creature known as the [[Fire Bear]].  |
^  1845|*Professor [[Phillip Points]] heads out into the world to research monsters.    |
^  |*The vampire Horace Ray kills his own family in North Carolina.  |
^  1849|*Markus Derth founds the [[Acolytes of Leviathan]].  |
^  1866|*[[JakeSawyer|Jake "Six-Gun" Sawyer]] forms the [[Six-Gun Seven]].  |
^  1867|*Professor [[Phillip Points]] finishes his manuscript about monsters, but is killed in a fire.  |
^  1876|*James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok is killed by Jack McCall in Deadwood, South Dakota Territory while playing poker. Hickok  |
^  |was holding two pairs, aces and eights. The hand has since been known as "the dead man's hand."  |
^  1878|*[[DeadeyeDixon|William "Dead-Eye" Dixon]], sole surviving member of the Six-Gun Seven, forms the [[Lucky Seven]].  |
^  1895|*[[Stagger Lee]] Shelton kills Billy Lyons in cold blood folowing a gambling argument. Shelton is sentenced to death,  |
^  |but after several failed execution attempts, the sentence is commuted to life in prison.  |
^  1904|*The Roman Catholic Church establishes the [[Office of Extraordinary Missions]].  |
^  1909|*The construction of [[Witterstadt mansion]]is completed.  |
^  1919|*[[Stagger Lee]] Shelton dies in prison.  |
^  1922|*A man named [[Mr. Herrick|Herrick]]begins doing detective work for the rich and influential.  |
^  1925|*[[Mr. Herrick]] founds the [[Herrick Agency|Herrick Private Investigation Agency.]]  |
^  |*A man calling himself [[Stagger Lee]] appears in New Orleans, claiming to have been evicted from Hell because The Devil was afraid he would take over.  |
^  1926|*[[A.J. Farmer]], [[Sadie Witterstadt]], [[Jeff Wilscott]], [[Caleb Danforth]], and [[Sean O'Casey]] meet at a mutual  |
^  |friend's funeral.  |
^  |*The [[Golden Pyramid of Wadoe-yi-Dhahabee]] is discovered in Egypt.  |
^  1927|*[[A. J. Farmer]], [[Sadie Witterstadt]], and friends thwart the Acolytes of Leviathan's plans in [[Caledonia]], Massachusetts.  |
^  |*Al Capone begins using the living dead as footsoldiers.  |
^  1928|*The FBI assembles a top-secret task force dubbed "[[Zombie Squad]]" to battle Capone's undead minions.  |
^  c. 1933|*Blues singer Robert Johnson allegedly sells his soul to Satan.  |
^  1938|*Businessman Leon Witterstadt dies, and his eccentric daughter [[Sadie Witterstadt|Sadie]] inherits the estate.  |
^  1939|*A murder in [[New York]] City almost sparks an interplanetary war; the [[Herrick Agency]] intervenes and defuses  |
^  |the situation.  |
^  1941|*[[ACA|The American Crimefighters' Association]] assembles to battle Axis agents in America and abroad. Throughout  |
^  |the course of the war, the [[ACA]] battles cybernetically enhanced gorillas, surrealist terrorists, submarine pirates, and many other menaces.  |
^  1942|*Nazi uber-zeppelins mount an attack on [[New York]] City.  |
^  1944|*The [[Kallinikoi]] foil the Nazi's [[Plan Entscheidungskamps]] but most of them die in the process.  |
^  1945|*The [[ACA]] disbands after its final mission.  |
^  1946|*American nuclear testing creates giant ants.  |
^  1948|*Dr. [[Henry Fields]] assists the Navy in killing a sea monster.  |
^  |*[[Herbert Gantley]] founds the [[Proteus Club]] in [[Caledonia]].  |
^  1949|*[[KRA|The Kentuckiana Rasslin' League]] is founded.  |
^  1951|*Myron Hunt publishes the [[Hunt Curve]].  |
^  1952|*Dr. [[Henry Fields]] founds the Washington University Cryptid Studies Club, also known as [[M-Force]].  |
^  1953|*The [[Herrick Agency]] helps Mars and Venus negotiate a treaty; tragically the war flares up one final time,  |
^  |doomsday weapons are deployed, and both planets are rendered barren.  |
^  1954|*Dr. [[Henry Fields]], [[A.J. Farmer]], and [[Joe Thursday]] thwart the ambitions of the [[Gorilla Gangsters]] of [[New York]] City.  |
^  |*[[Camp Waka'Naka]] is established.  |
^  |*The Cold War spy organization [[WOLF|W.O.L.F. (World Organization for Liberty and Freedom]]) is formed.
^  1956|*Washington University student Bill Snyder is killed, [[Henry Fields]] disbands the Cryptid Studies Club, and  |
^  |[[Abernathy Quinn]] helps organize a tougher [[M-Force]].  |
^  1958|*[[Galaxikhan]] attacks.  |
^  |*The secret society known as The [[Justice Band]] is formed. Their original goal is to collect potentially dangerous artifacts to prevent their misuse.  |
^  1959|*[[M-Force]] moves into [[Sadie Witterstadt]]'s guest house.  |
^  |*White Hat Studios, formerly known for its Westerns (including several movies about The [[Six Gun Seven]]), produces its first horror movie, The Creature From Beyond.  |
^  1961|*The [[League of Alphabetical Madmen]] is formed.  |
^  |*Two University of Kentucky students allegedly experience a "time slip" finding themselves in the middle of an 1979 feud between the Callahan and Deaton clans of Devil's Hollow, Kentucky. One of the men is killed in the fighting.  |
^  1963|*[[Dr. Unspeakable]] attempts to unleash the [[Twelve Great Horrors]] upon the world. The newly-formed  |
^  |[[ACA|Association of Costumed Adventurers]] thwarts his plan.  |
^  1964|*The [[Anti-Armageddon Alliance]] is formed.  |
^  |*The Maguire Federal Correctional Institute, better known (for reasons not clearly known) as "[[Tool Town]]" opens in Montana. Its first inmate is [[Dr. Unspeakable]]. A new security designation, "hyper-maximum" was adopted for the facility, the most heavily guarded prison in the nation.  |
^  |*A small cruise ship operating out of Hawaii disappears during a storm. Its seven passengers and crew are presumed dead.  |
^  1965|*The [[Slugs]] attack [[Witterstadt mansion]], killing [[Abernathy Quinn]] and [[Sadie Witterstadt]].  |
^  |*[[M-Force]] inherits the mansion and the [[Herakleion]].  |
^  |*[[Cassius Riley]] is hired as the first [[Special Collections]] Librarian.  |
^  |*Dr. [[Henry Fields]] passes the directorship of M-Force over to [[Mike Mulligan]].   |
^  |*Captain [[Jonathan Rickard]]'s plane crashes but he is saved by Bigfoot.  |
^  1965|*[[M-Force]] begins its [[War on Slugs]].  |
^  1967|*The town of [[Paradise]], Mississippi is terrorized by a demonically possessed bulldozer.  |
^  1969|*Nigel H. Mert, better known as former [[ACA]] member [[The Spring]], rejects modern society for a simpler (and more   |
^  |springocentric) life in the Ozark Mountains. He soon begins to attract followers among the hippie generation, becoming a minor cult figure.  |
^  1970|*The Senate investigates [[M-Force]].  |
^  |*M-Force activities are suspended.  |
^  |*[[The Hunt-Ray Curve]] is put forth.  |
^  |*Captain [[Jonathan Rickard]] inherits The Investigator.  |
^  1971|*[[Samuel Gundersen]] and others break the monster-hunting ban, leading to Gundersen's trial.  |
^  |*During the Senates investigation of [[M-Force]], many cities pass anti-vigilante laws to prevent similar tragedies from occurring due to costumed crimefighters. [[Ultra City]], Minnesota is the most notable exception to the rule. Rather than outlaw "super-heroes," the city council made resident heroes The [[Ultra Squad]] special officers of the city's police force.  |
^  1972|*The Senate passes [[FMHA-72]].  |
^  |*A crack commando unit is sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit.  |
^  1973|*[[M-Force]] reorganizes with a new structure. [[G. Carlton Saunders]] takes over as Director.  |
^  1975|*The Investigator becomes The [[Strange Times]].  |
^  |*[[Cassius Riley]] retires. [[Milton Young]] becomes the new head of [[M-Force]]'s [[Special Collections]] team.  |
^  1976|*The tour bus belonging to [[Groovin' Zed & The Roller Kings]], who had a minor hit on college radio stations  |
^  | with their song "[[Peyote]]," is found abandoned in the Arizona desert. None of the band members is ever heard from again.  |
^  1978|*The FBI covertly launches [[Project Eightball]].  |
^  |*The [[Ultra Squad]] saves [[Ultra City]] from [[ARARARARARAR]], God of FIRE and EVIL.  |
^  1979|*[[Sam Milton]] directs his first movie, The Thing That Came From The Grave The film is a surprise hit.  |
^  1980|*[[Frankie Ampersand]] founds the Ampersand Detective Agency.  |
^  1982|*The [[Sons of Thunder]] begin monster hunting.  |
^  |*[[Sam Milton]] forms his own movie studio, Zombie Pictures.  |
^  1985|*[[Stanley Ampersand]] joins his brother [[Frankie Ampersand|Frankie]] in L.A.  |
^  |*The [[Justice Band]], now an ultra-modern crimefighting organization, goes public.  |
^  1986|*[[The Wrath]] begins operating.  |
^  |*[[Edward Morales]], forms [[Morales Industries]], a company specializing in "high performance pursuit and evasion vehicles" (spy cars).  |
^  1987|*The [[League of Awesome Dudes]] is formed.  |
^  |*[[Agamemnon Industries]] creates the bioengineered form of wheat called DR-1174, which inadvertently creates the Grain Giant.  |
^  1988|*[[Frankie Ampsersand|Frankie]] and [[Stanley Ampersand]] form [[Ampersand & Ampersand]] Celebrity Services.  |
^  1990|*Thomas Shanks goes on a killing spree near [[Camp Waka'Naka]].  |
^  1993|*[[M-Force]] defeats the [[Grain Brain]].  |
^  |*[[ANkST & ANkHS]] releases their first album, As The Blood Drips Down My Face.  |
^  1994|*Classes begin at [[Fort High|Charles H. Fort High School]] in [[Sherwood]], Ohio.  |
^  1995|*[[Mr. Colin Thomas]] takes over the [[URL|Universal Rasslin' League]].  |
^  |*[[Beowulf Van Helsing-Froglick IV]] founds the [[DAMN|Discordian Association for Monster Neutralization]].  |
^  |*The [[Escort|Eightball Special Crisis Response Team]] is formed.  |
^  1997|*A woman claiming to be the reincarnated goddess Artemis founds a temple to herself near Olympia, Washington.  |
^  |*Austrailian businessman [[Ian Gallownorth]] establishes [[Northwind]] to protect his investments in the Pacific Rim. Northwind is world's first corporate sponsored super-hero team.  |
^  1998|*Dr. [[Henry Fields]] dies of heart congestion.  |
^  |*Werewolf [[Zack Willoughby]] narrowly survives an encounter with [[M-Force]].  |
^  |*A costumed crime fighter known as [[Los Zapatos]] appears in [[New York]] City.  |
^  2000|*M-Forcer [[Barney Magnum]] discovers a [[Slug]] in [[New York]].  |
^  2002|*[[M-Force]] celebrates its 50 year anniversary and opens up a European office in the [[Herakleion]].  |
^  2003|*The Paranoia virus appears.  |
^  2004|*Cleveland, Ohio experiences a sharp spike in monstrous activity.  |
^  2005|*A new incarnation of the [[ACA]] is formed.  |
^  c. 2070|*[[Yum Yum Girl]] wages a bloody, brutal war to restore the innocence of her youth.  |
^  2314|*The original [[ACA]] is transported from 1941 to do battle with their old nemesis, [[The Steel Swastika]].  |