User:Rej Maddog/tc/Mad/Timeline

This timeline attempts to place the events mentioned in the Girl Genius story in internal chronological order.

Methods and Assumptions
The for Klaus Barry Heterodyne shows his birth year as 1_72. Kaja associates Gaslamp fantasy with the Victorian era so 1872 rather than 1972.
 * 1) Sources:  An attempt has been made in each event description to include a link to the source of the dating information.
 * 2) Rather than relative dates, an attempt has been made to best guess the actual year or day or even actual dates.
 * 3) These guesses are express in a relative way for editing purposes but appear as firm dates.
 * 4) Besides canonical information we assume that the naval moon phase data for our earth applies to the story as well.
 * 5) The seminal events
 * 6) The attack that destroyed Castle Heterodyne is placed at all hallows eve 1773. Our guesses assume the Great Pumpkin conjecture to be reliable.
 * 1) The start of the main story is placed at a time calculated from the first full moon in Pisces for 1892.
 * 2) The birth of Agatha is guessed to have happened in late fall or early winter.
 * 3) "Actual Dates":  The Canon gives a few absolute dates, but most entries in the Actual Dates column are calculated based on clues in the narrative.
 * 4) Canonicity:  Nothing is entirely certain.  Though statements in the narrative such as "100 years ago" are given literal effect below for convenience, but they were probably only approximations and are, of course, subject to being 'clarified'.
 * 5) Elapsed time:  As an approximation, a historical event occurring "14 years before", for example, volume 7 of the story is taken to occur at the same time as an event occurring "14 years before" volume 1 of the story, since the amount of time elapsed during the story isn't terribly precise (and may never be).
 * 6) Shading: Green highlights the attack-on-Castle-Heterodyne and start-of-narrative events.  Unshaded cells hold dates that source material fixes with some precision.  Grey cells hold ranges and other best estimates.

Timeline
† marks relative or absolute dates that are off by 100 years if Klaus Barry Heterodyne was born in 1972.

Other sources of Internal Chronology
an entry in girl genius lab