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*'''[[:Category:Chronology:Reality|Real World]]:''' '''[[November 11]].''' Germany signs an armistice with the Allies. End of World War I. | *'''[[:Category:Chronology:Reality|Real World]]:''' '''[[November 11]].''' Germany signs an armistice with the Allies. End of World War I. | ||
| − | *'''[[:Category:Chronology:Cthulhu Mythos| Cthulhu Mythos]]:''' '''After [[November 11]].''' By this time, [[Delapore, Thomas| Thomas Delapore]] has bought [[Exham Priory]], his family's ancestral home in England. His son [[Delapore, Alfred| Alfred]] returns from World War I as a maimed invalid; his father halts his plans to restore Exham Priory to care for his son. ("The Rats in the Walls | + | *'''[[:Category:Chronology:Cthulhu Mythos| Cthulhu Mythos]]:''' '''After [[November 11]].''' By this time, [[Delapore, Thomas| Thomas Delapore]] has bought [[Exham Priory]], his family's ancestral home in England. His son [[Delapore, Alfred| Alfred]] returns from World War I as a maimed invalid; his father halts his plans to restore Exham Priory to care for his son. ("The Rats in the Walls" by H.P. Lovecraft) |
*'''[[:Category:Chronology:Reality|Real World]]:''' '''[[December 1]].''' Transylvania becomes part of Romania. | *'''[[:Category:Chronology:Reality|Real World]]:''' '''[[December 1]].''' Transylvania becomes part of Romania. | ||
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| − | *'''[[:Category:Chronology:Cthulhu Mythos| Cthulhu Mythos]]:''' [[Ward, Charles Dexter| Charles Dexter Ward]] learns that he is descended from [[Curwen, Joseph| Joseph Curwen]]. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward | + | *'''[[:Category:Chronology:Cthulhu Mythos|Cthulhu Mythos]]:''' [[Ward, Charles Dexter| Charles Dexter Ward]] learns that he is descended from [[Curwen, Joseph| Joseph Curwen]]. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by H.P. Lovecraft) |
| − | + | *'''[[:Category:Chronology:Gargoyles|Gargoyles]], [[:Category:Chronology:Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles|Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles]]:''' [[Obsidiana]] and [[Zafiro]] are born. ([http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg Ask Greg]) | |
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==New Fictional Works== | ==New Fictional Works== | ||
Revision as of 21:39, 2 February 2007
Contents |
Events
Dated Events
- Real World: January 8. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his so-called "Fourteen Points" for reconstructing Europe after World War I. Few were actually followed.
- Real World: February 14. The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
- Real World: March 3. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed, ending Russian involvement in World War I.
- Real World: March 5. The Soviet Union moves its capitol from Petrograd to Moscow.
- Real World: March 19. The U.S. Congress adopts Daylight Savings Time and time zones.
- Real World: March 21. Second Battle of the Somme begins.
- Real World: April 1. The Royal Air Force is formed from the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
- Real World: May 15. The U.S. Postal Service initiates the world's first air mail service.
- Real World: May 16. The U.S. Congress approves the Sedition Act of 1918, making it a crime to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" towards the government or armed forces.
- Real World: July 15. The Second Battle of the Marne begins.
- Real World: July 16. Bolsheviks execute Czar Nicholas II and his family.
- Real World: August. A flu pandemic begins that ultimately kills 25 million people.
- Real World: August 8. In the Battle of Amiens, Canadian and Australian troops begin to significantly push back the German lines.
- Real World: November 3. Austria-Hungary signs an armistice with the Allies.
- World-as-Myth, Future History: November 4. Corporal Theodore Bronson (aka Lazarus Long) is reported missing in action in France. (Time Enough for Love)
- Real World: November 11. Germany signs an armistice with the Allies. End of World War I.
- Cthulhu Mythos: After November 11. By this time, Thomas Delapore has bought Exham Priory, his family's ancestral home in England. His son Alfred returns from World War I as a maimed invalid; his father halts his plans to restore Exham Priory to care for his son. ("The Rats in the Walls" by H.P. Lovecraft)
- Real World: December 1. Transylvania becomes part of Romania.
Undated Events
- Cthulhu Mythos: Charles Dexter Ward learns that he is descended from Joseph Curwen. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by H.P. Lovecraft)
- Gargoyles, Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles: Obsidiana and Zafiro are born. (Ask Greg)
New Fictional Works
Notable Books
The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Notable Films
Tarzan of the Apes.
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