A Sabatini Timeline

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Index: Bardelys the Magnificent Bellarion the Fortunate Black Swan Captain Blood Carolinian Chivalry Fortune's Fool Gamester Gates of Doom Hounds of God King in Prussia King's Minion Lion's Skin Lost King Love-At-Arms Lovers of Yvonne Marquis of Carabas Mistress Wilding Nuptials of Corbal Romantic Prince Scaramouche Scaramouche the Kingmaker Sea-Hawk Shame of Motley Snare St. Martin's Summer Stalking Horse Strolling Saint Sword of Islam Tavern Knight Trampling of the Lilies Venetian Masque

1128

June 14 Affonso Henriques defeats his mother at the Battle of San Mamede [HNE 2.I]

1345

September 19 Andrew of Hungary, King of Naples, strangled with the complicity of Queen Joanna [HNE 1.X]

1407

August 30 Bellarion Fortunato leaves the convent at Cigliano (more) [start of Bellarion the Fortunate]
August 31 Bellarion meets Fra Sulpizio, is pursued to Valeria's garden, takes a message to Barbaresco [bellarion]
September 1 Bellarion meets the conspirators and returns to Valeria as a painter [bellarion]
September 3 Bellarion petitions Theodore, attends his party, is suspected by the conspirators, kills Spigno [bellarion]
September 4 Bellarion is tried and imprisoned, escaping that night [bellarion]
September 7 The Miracle of the Dogs; Bellarion is rescued by Facino Cane (more) [bellarion]
September 9 Bellarion Fortunato formally adopted by Facino Cane (more) [bellarion]
December Facino returns to Milan, Bellarion hires men from Boucicault in Genoa (more) [bellarion]

1408

April (early) Facino and Bellarion leave Milan to fight Buonterzo [bellarion]
May 11 The Battle of Travo (more) [bellarion]
May 16 (Wed) Bellarion interrupts his own Requiem Mass at St. Ambrose's (more) [bellarion]
June (early) Filippo Maria sends to Milan for help [bellarion]
July 1 Duke Gian Maria marries Lady Antonia Malatesta (more)
July Bellarion captures Vignate of Lodi at Alessandria [bellarion]
August Bellarion, escaping Beatrice, leaves Facino to raise his own condotta (more) [bellarion]

1409

March Bellarion plans an ambush that kills Buonterzo (more) [bellarion]
September Bellarion receives a letter from Facino, requesting help [bellarion]
September 6 Theodore II Palaeologus captures Genoa from Boucicault
November 6 Facino Cane resumes the governorship of Milan (more)

1410

December 24 Facino Cane sacks Pavia, defeating Filippo Maria

1411

December (late) Bellarion persuades Beatrice to relocate to Melegnano (more) [bellarion]

1412

May 1 Facino comes to Pavia and sends Bellarion to Bergamo (more) [bellarion]
May 16 Mombelli admits to Bellarion that he has poisoned Facino (more) [bellarion]
May 16 Assassination of Gian Maria Visconti; death of Facino Cane
July 24 Filippo Maria Visconti marries Beatrice Lascaris, widow of Facino Cane (more)
October 20 Carmagnola begins building bridges over the Sesia (more) [bellarion]
October 31 Carmagnola's bridges destroyed [bellarion]
November 6 Bellarion's forces beseige Vercelli (more) [bellarion]
November 14 Bellarion agrees to Carmagnola's plan for a feint (more) [bellarion]
November 16 Bellarion is imprisoned, escapes, and leaves with the Swiss [bellarion]
November 20 Bellarion accepts the surrender of Casale and writes Valeria (more) [bellarion]
November 25 Theodore is defeated; Bellarion and Valeria are reconciled (more) [end of Bellarion the Fortunate]

1455

August Eufemia de' Santi, Countess of Rovieto, writes Colombo da Siena (more) [start of Chivalry]
November 1 Colombino executes Agostino della Francesca at Rovieto [chivalry]

1456

April (early) Onorato da Polenta engages Columbo to take Ravenna from Venice [chivalry]
May 24 (Mon) Columbo routs Annibale Belluomo and Francesco Gritti at Ravenna (more) [chivalry]
September Columbo leaves Ravenna and overcomes Ottavio Moro at the Neptune Inn [chivalry]

1457

April Amedeo degli Amedei, Marquis of Cantalupo, captures Jacopo Piccinino [chivalry]
August (late) Squillanti's plot exposed; Columbo enters the service of Venice (more) [chivalry]
September (late) Columbo goes to Venice and is imprisoned (more) [chivalry]
October (mid) Samaritana da Polenta abdicates from Ravenna to rescue Colombo (more) [end of Chivalry]

1467

July Anthony of Egmont discusses poetry with Charles of Burgundy (more) [start of The Romantic Prince]
October 28 Charles the Bold conquers Liège at the Battle of Brustem [HNE 1.IX] (more)

1469

April Anthony of Egmont comes to Johanna in Flushing [end of The Romantic Prince]

1481

February 6 Celebration of the first Spanish auto de fe, in Seville [HNE 2.III] (more)

1497

January 13 Lazzaro Biancomonte invested by Cesare Borgia with a letter to Lucrezia (more) [start of The Shame of Motley]
January 16 Lazzaro meets and rescues Paolo Sforza di Santafior [motley]
January 17 Lazzaro and Paolo reach Pesaro [motley]
June 14 Giovanni Borgia, Duke of Gandia, is murdered in Rome by persons unknown [HNE 1.XI]
December 20 Marriage of Giovanni Sforza and Lucrezia Borgia annulled

1500

August (late) Lazzaro and Paolo discuss her upcoming marriage [motley]
October 11 (Sun) Lazzaro, in the guise of Giovanni Sforza, defeats Ramiro del' Orca (more) [motley]
October 13 (Tue) Giovanni flees Pesaro (more) [motley]
October 29 Cesare Borgia arrives at Pesaro [motley]

1502

March 22 (Tue) Meeting of the conspirators at Sant' Angelo (more) [start of Love-At-Arms]
March 23 (Wed) Francesco meets the Fool and Valentina at Acquasparta [arms]
March 30 Francesco reaches Babbiano (more) [arms]
May (early) Francesco reaches Valdicampo, enters Urbino two days later [arms]
May 15 Francesco arrives at Roccaleone [arms]
May 16 Gian Maria arrives at Roccaleone [arms]
May 23 Francesco exposed [arms]
May 25 (Wed) Gonzaga killed; capitulation of Roccaleone [end of Love-At-Arms]
October (early) Paola summons Lazzaro to Pesaro [motley]
December 20 Paolo poisoned by Ramiro del' Orca (more) [motley]
December 21 Lazzaro rescues Paolo from her coffin [motley]
December 22 Lazzaro taken captive to Cesena; murder of Beppo [motley]
December 23 Paolo, and later Cesare, arrive in Cesena; death of Ramiro del' Orca [motley]
December 24 Nuptials of Lazzaro Biancomonte and Paolo Sforza di Santafior [motley]
December 25 Lazzaro and Paolo travel from Cesena to Biancomonte [end of The Shame of Motley]

1525

February 24 The Battle of Pavia
May (early) Birth of Agostino Anguissola (more) [start of The Strolling Saint]

1527

August (early) Prospero Adorno, and the Dorias, capture Genoa (more) [start of The Sword of Islam]
August (early) End of Antoniotto Adorno's tenure as Doge of Genoa

1528

May 28 Hugo of Moncada killed while trying to break the French siege of Naples
July 27 Prospero is sheltered by Gianna and contracts the plague (more) [sword]
August 15 Death of Lautrec, commander of the French force investing Naples (more)
September (early) Prospero defeats the Venetians under Lando at Procida [sword]

1529

May Prospero returns to Genoa and learns of Gianna's relationship to Doria [sword]
August Prospero is captured by Dragut at Cherchell [sword]

1530

August Doria traps Dragut at Djerba; Prospero frees him by cutting a canal [sword]
September Prospero and the Dorias reconcile; Prospero marries Gianna (more) [end of The Sword of Islam]

1534

September 25 Death of Pope Clement VII (more)

1536

May 19 The execution of Anne Boleyn [HNE 3.I]

1540

July 5 Pier Luigi Farnese suppresses the revolt at Perugia
July 5 Giovanni d'Anguissola scarred and left for dead at Perugia (more) [strolling]
October Falcone banished from Mondolfo (more) [strolling]
November Giovanni d'Anguissola, in disguise, visits Mondolfo (more) [strolling]

1544

May (early) Agostino rescues Luisina, and leaves Mondolfo for Piacenza [strolling]
September Agostino kills Fifanti, is imprisoned and freed, and becomes an anchorite (more) [strolling]

1545

April 2 Holy Thursday: the saint fails to bleed; Calvalcanti recognizes Agostino (more) [strolling]
April 17 Agostino revives [strolling]
April 24 Fra Gervasio destroys the shrine; Agostino leaves Monte Osaro [strolling]
May Agostino arrives with Galeotto in Pagliano and meets Bianca [strolling]
August 19 Pier Luigi Farnese becomes Duke of Parma and Piacenza
September (late) Galeotto tempts Agostino with Bianca [strolling]

1546

August 12 Farnese and his retinue arrive in Pagliano (more) [strolling]
August 27 Agostino arrested and taken to Rome (more) [strolling]
September 3 Agostino freed (more) [strolling]
September 6 Cavalcanti rescues his daughter from Farnese (more) [strolling]
September 8 Death of Ettore Cavalcanti (more) [strolling]

1547

September 10 (Sat) Assassination of Duke Pier Luigi Farnese
September 11 Cosimo visits Pagliano [strolling]
September 13 Agostino summoned to Piacenza for trial (more) [strolling]
September 14 Revelation of Galeotto; death of Cosimo; Agostino and Bianca wed (more) [end of The Strolling Saint]

1553

July 19 The end of Lady Jane Grey's nine-days' reign as Queen of England [HNE 3.II]

1560

September 8 The murder of Amy Robsart [HNE 2.VI]
December 5 Catherine de Medicis assumes the regency of France upon the death of her son King Francis II [HNE 3.V] (more)

1566

March 9 David Rizzio is murdered in the presence of Mary, Queen of Scots [HNE 1.I]

1567

February 10 (early) Kirk o' Field destroyed by gunpowder; Lord Darnley's body found outside [HNE 1.II]

1572

August 24 The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of the Huguenots [HNE 1.V]

1578

March 31 Juan de Escobedo murdered by order of Antonio Pérez [HNE 1.III] (more)

1584

August (late) Gervase Crosby first proposes to Lady Margaret Trevanion (more) [start of The Hounds of God]

1585

July (end) Crosby returns from his first voyage and is again rebuffed by Margaret [hounds]

1588

July 28 (Sun) Crosby surveys the position of the Armada (more) [hounds]
July 29 The English mount a fire-ship attack against the Armada
August 26 Gervase Crosby and Oliver Tressilian are knighted (more) [hounds]
September 26 Don Pedro de Mendoza y Luna taken prisoner by Margaret Trevanion (more) [hounds]
October 26 (Sat) Don Pedro abducts Margaret Trevanion (more) [hounds]
October 29 Sir Gervase and Sir Oliver have an audience with the Queen (more) [hounds]
October 30 Don Pedro and Margaret reach the Bay of Santander (more) [hounds]
October 31 (Thu) Margaret is taken by the Holy Office [hounds]
November 5 Sir Gervase and Sir Oliver reach Santander [hounds]
November 12 First examination of Margaret by the Inquisition [hounds]
November 14 Second examination of Margaret by the Inquisition [hounds]
November 15 Sir Gervase delivers Queen Elizabeth's letter to King Philip [hounds]
November 17 The Cardinal-Archbishop argues the case with Frey Juan [hounds]
November 20 King Philip relents; Gervase rides to Toledo [hounds]
November 21 (Thu) The Auto de Fé; Gervase rescues Margaret [end of The Hounds of God]
December 23 Assassination of the Duke of Guise by Henry III [HNE 3.VI] (more)

1590

September Peter Godolphin denies his home to Oliver Tressilian (more) [start of The Sea-Hawk]
December 18 Peter strikes Oliver and is later killed by Lionel (more) [hawk]

1591

March 29 Oliver trepanned by Jasper Leigh [hawk]

1595

August 1 Execution of Gabriel de Espinosa, the pastrycook of Madrigal [HNE 2.IV] (more)

1596

May (early) Sir Oliver receives a second letter from Pitt (more) [hawk]
May (mid) Sir Oliver captures Jasper Leigh and sails for England [hawk]
June 1 Raid on Arwenack; abduction of Rosamund (more) [hawk]
June 29 Oliver returns to Algiers (more) [hawk]
July 1 Sakr-el-Bahr purchases and weds Rosamund Godolphin [hawk]
July 2 Sakr-el-Bahr and Asad set sail, Rosamund is revealed [hawk]
July 3 Lionel is freed and swims to the Silver Heron [hawk]
July 4 Trial of Sir Oliver and death of Lionel Tressilian [end of The Sea-Hawk]

1601

February 8 (Sun) Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex rides into London against Elizabeth [HNE 3.III] (more)

1605

April 13 Death of Tsar Boris of Russia, clearing the way for the pretender Demetrius [HNE 2.II] (more)

1607

September King James meets Robert Carr (more) [start of The King's Minion]

1610

May 14 The assassination of Henry IV of France by François Ravaillac [HNE 2.V]
June 22 Arabella Stuart is secretly married to Sir William Seymour [HNE 3.IV]

1615

October 15 The Marquise of Condillac visits Monsieur de Tressan (more) [start of St. Martin's Summer]
October 16 Martin Marie Rigobert de Garnache arrives in Grenoble [martin]
October 17 Garnache exposes Margot and retrieves Valerie de La Vauvraye from Condillac [martin]
October 18 Garnache is duped and Valerie retaken [martin]
October 19 Garnache leaves Grenoble (more) [martin]
October 25 Garnache arrives at Condillac as "Battista" (more) [martin]
November 2 All Souls' Day; Garnache recruits Arsenio (more) [martin]
November 8 (Wed) Florimond's letter arrives; Garnache escapes and runs overnight to Voiron [martin]
November 9 Garnache & Florimond fight Marius & Fortunio at La Rochette; Fortunio returns to Condillac [martin]
November 10 Garnache returns to Condillac; wedding of the Marquise and Tressan (more) [end of St. Martin's Summer]
November 11 Feast of St. Martin

1616

May Trial of Robert Carr for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury [end of The King's Minion]

1618

October 29 The execution of Sir Walter Raleigh [HNE 2.VII]

1628

August 23 George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, assassinated by John Felton [HNE 2.VIII] (more)

1632

August 6 Bardelys' party and his wager with Chatellerault (more) [start of Bardelys the Magnificent]
September 1 Duc Henri II de Montmorency defeated at Castelnaudary
September 2 Bardelys meets Lesperon, fights dragoons, and rides to Lavedan (more) [bardelys]
September 13 Bardelys fights Saint-Eustache (more) [bardelys]
September 16 Bardelys is arrested by Castelroux, remeets Lesperon and Marsac in Grenade (more) [bardelys]
September 18 (Sat) Bardelys is tried and convicted in Toulouse (more) [bardelys]
September 19 Bardelys is set free, fights Chatellerault, whips Rodenard (more) [bardelys]
September 22 Bardelys meets Castelroux in Grenade, goes to Lavedan, and meets Rodenard in Blagnac (more) [bardelys]
September 23 Bardelys obtains Lavedan's pardon and brings it to Roxalanne (more) [end of Bardelys the Magnificent]

1649

February 27 Cardinal Mazarin dismisses Gaston de Luynes from his service (more) [start of The Lovers of Yvonne]
March 3 Luynes and Andrea arrive at Canaples [yvonne]
March 14 St. Auban fails to abduct Yvonne and later fails to murder Luynes (more) [yvonne]
April (mid) Luynes revives at Canaples [yvonne]
May 2 Nuptials of Andrea and Geneviève; Eugène arrives; Luynes expelled from Canaples [yvonne]
May 6 Luynes surrenders to Montrésor [yvonne]
May 27 Malpertuis and Montrésor inform Luynes of St. Auban's plans (more) [yvonne]
June 4 (Mon) Luynes visits his aunt and leaves Paris for Canaples (more) [yvonne]
June 7 The Chevalier is arrested; Luynes kills St. Auban and assumes his disguise [yvonne]
June 8 Luynes reveals himself and rescues the Chevalier [yvonne]
June 15 Luynes and the Canaples take ship; Luynes and Yvonne reconciled (more) [end of The Lovers of Yvonne]

1651

August 8 Charles, having crossed from Scotland, rests his troops at Penrith/Kendal
August 8 Sir Crispin Galliard rescues Harry Hogan (more) [start of The Tavern Knight]
August 23 Charles enters Worcester
August 29 Failed attack at Red Hill
August 30 Crispin returns Cynthia's letter to Kenneth without reading it (more) [tavern]
September 3 The Battle of Worcester; Charles flees
September 3 Crispin saves Charles and is sentenced to death [tavern]
September 4 Crispin and Kenneth escape [tavern]
September 12 Crispin and Kenneth reach Castle Marleigh (more) [tavern]
September 30 Crispin defeats the Ashburns and leaves Castle Marleigh (more) [tavern]
October 3 Crispin and Cynthia flee from Castle Marleigh (more) [tavern]
October 5 Crispin meets Hogan in Calais and marries Cynthia (more) [end of The Tavern Knight]

1657

February 10 Marchese Gian Rinaldo Monaldeschi executed by order of Christina of Sweden [HNE 3.VIII]

1665

(spring) Colonel Randal Holles takes up residence at the Paul's Head (more) [start of Fortune's Fool]
June 3 The Battle of Lowestoft, a great sea victory of the English over the Dutch
October (mid) Colonel Holles and Nancy Sylvester, his wife, depart for Bombay [end of Fortune's Fool]

1666

Etienne Guibourg celebrates the Black Mass over Mme. de Montespan [HNE 1.VI]

1667

November 29 Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, exiled to France [HNE 2.IX]

1670

June 30 Death of Henriette d'Angleterre , supposedly by poisoning [HNE 3.VII]

1682

June 3 Charles de Bernis boards the Centaur (more) [start of The Black Swan]
June 6 (Tue) The Centaur is captured by Tom Leach [swan]
June 11 (Sun) Arrival at Maldita (more) [swan]
June 28 Tom Leach spies on the bathing Priscilla (more) [swan]
June 29 Leach assaults Priscilla, de Bernis sows the apple of discord [swan]
June 30 Leach attempts to provoke a fight with de Bernis [swan]
July 1 M. de Bernis kills Tom Leach and wins Priscilla Harradine [end of The Black Swan]

1685

January Peter Blood moves to Bridgewater (more) [start of Captain Blood]
May 30 (Sat) Lord Gervase Scoresby's party; Wilding's toast (more) [start of Mistress Wilding]
May 31 Ruth Westmacott betrothed to Anthony Wilding; Wilding apologizes to Richard [wilding]
June 1 Sir Rowland Blake challenges Anthony Wilding; they meet the next day [wilding]
June 7 (Sun) Nuptials of Anthony Wilding and Ruth Westmacott [wilding]
June 10 Nick Trenchard entraps Richard Westmacott (more) [wilding]
June 11 Arraignment of Richard and Sir Rowland, broken up by Wilding [wilding]
June 11 Monmouth lands in Lyme
June 13 (Sat) Andrew Fletcher kills Thomas Dare
June 14 Anthony Wilding goes to London (more) [wilding]
June 18 Monmouth proclaims himself king
July 5 Peter Blood watches Bridgewater turn out for Monmouth [blood]
July 5 Wilding returns to Brigwater; foiled assassination at Newlington's [wilding]
July 6 (morning) The Battle of Sedgemoor
July 6 Blood arrested for treason [blood]
July 6 Attempted execution of Anthony Wilding and his flight to London [wilding]
July 9 Sir Rowland Blake renews his courtship of Ruth Westmacott (more) [wilding]
July 20 Lady Alice Lisle shelters Hickes and Nelthorpe at Moyles Court, her home [HNE 1.IV]
July 26 Return of Anthony Wilding, death of Sir Rowland Blake (more) [end of Mistress Wilding]
September The Bloody Assizes, Baron Jeffreys of Wem presiding
September 19 Blood brought to trial [blood]
December (mid) Blood arrives in Carlisle Bay and is sold to Colonel Bishop [blood]

1686

January (mid) Blood first speaks to Arabella Bishop [blood]
May (end) Blood treats wounded Spaniards [blood]
June (end) Blood escapes from Barbados (more) [blood]
October 6 Ogle fires a blank shot; Blood escapes from Easterling (more) [bloodreturns]
December (end) The Arabella first puts to sea [blood]

1687

May (approx) Rescue of Madeleine and Henri d'Ogeron; death of Levasseur (more) [blood]
June 3 Blood takes command in San Juan to defeat the imposter (more) [bloodfortunes]
August The raid on Maracaybo (more) [blood]
August The Chevalier de Saintonges arrives in Tortuga [bloodfortunes]
November Blood meets Walker and plans Yberville's sacreligious impersonation [bloodfortunes]

1688

April (early) Easterling kills Pike and is finally defeated by Blood [bloodreturns]
April Brazo Largo invites Blood to attack Santa Maria [bloodreturns]
May Blood arrives in Porto Rico as Don Pedro de Queiroz, the King's messenger (more) [bloodreturns]
June Blood rescues the eloping hidalga, Isabelle de Sotomayor, from Fairfax [bloodfortunes]
July 9 Don Juan de la Fuente raids Basseterre; Blood rescues Mme. de Coulevain (more) [bloodreturns]
September 17 Lord Julian Wade and Arabella Bishop captured by Don Miguel (more) [blood]
September 18 Blood rescues Lord Julian and Arabella [blood]
September 19 Blood enters the service of King James [blood]
October Blood reaches Tortuga [blood]
October 3 Blood leaves Port Royal (more) [blood]
October 4 Lord Julian proposes to Arabella [blood]

1689

February (mid) Baron de Riverol arrives in Petit Goave [blood]
February 13 William III crowned King of England
March (mid) Joint French fleet sails to Cartagena [blood]
April 5 M. de Rivarol enters Cartagena [blood]
April 12 Blood leaves Cartagena in pursuit of Rivarol (more) [blood]
April 14 Blood meets Willoughby, defeats Rivarol (more) [blood]
April 16 Blood reconciles with Arabella and arrests her uncle (more) [end of Captain Blood]

1692

February 13 The Massacre of Glencoe
April Ian Macdonald of Invernaion visits his sister Ailsa Lochmore (more) [start of The Stalking Horse]
August 13 Grandval executed for plotting to kill King William (more)

1693

July (approx) Captain Burke kills Lord Lochmore in a duel (more) [stalking]
December 24 Ailsa rejects Glenleven [stalking]

1694

July 1 Disappearance of Philipp Christoph, count von Königsmark, lover of Sophia Dorothea [HNE 2.X]
December 28 Death of Mary II of England, wife of William of Orange

1696

February 15 Predergass, Fishers, and de la Rue betray the attempted assassination of William III
April Glenleven arrested for treason; Invernaion abducts de la Rue [stalking]
May 28 Sir John Fenwick indicted for high treason

1697

March (early) Walton leaves King James' court at Saint Germains [stalking]
April Walton arrives in England, seeks employment with Bentinck, and retires to Wiltshire (more) [stalking]
November (approx) Walton leaves Avonholme to research Jacobite sentiment across England (more) [stalking]

1698

May Walton returns to London [stalking]
May 11 Claybourne's rout (more) [stalking]
May 16 (Mon) Bentinck summons Walton and offers him a job as a spy (more) [stalking]
May 21 Glenleven provokes Walton to a duel (which he loses) (more) [stalking]
May 24 (Tue) Hay reads Invernaion's letter; Walton sends his cutter to Calais (more) [stalking]
May 29 (Sun) Walton revealed as King James' agent; Glenleven revealed as betrayer (more) [end of The Stalking Horse]

1715

(autumn) John Law learns of the death of Louis XIV (more) [start of The Gamester]

1721

April 12 (approx) Justin Caryll agrees to entrap his father, Lord Ostermore (more) [start of The Lion's Skin]
May 3 Caryll rescues Hortensia Winthrop from a mock-marriage with Lord Rotherby [lion]
May 10 Caryll and Rotherby duel, Caryll is wounded (more) [lion]
June 13 (early) Captain Harry Gaynor gambles with Lord Pauncefort (more) [start of The Gates of Doom]
June 13 Death of Sir Richard Everard (more) [lion]
June 15 Gaynor travels to Priory Close, meeting Damaris Hollinstone et aliae enroute [doom]
June 19 (Mon) Funeral of Sir Richard Everard (more) [lion]
June 21 Death of Ostermore, Justin Caryll revealed as his heir (more) [end of The Lion's Skin]
June 22 Meeting of the conspirators at the World's End [doom]
June 24 Gaynor and Damaris overcome by Nature, Gaynor arrested [doom]
June 26 Trial and conviction of Captain Jenkyn [doom]
June 29 Gaynor hanged at Tyburn; his body is retrieved by Dr. Emanuel Blizzard (more) [doom]
July 3 Lord Pauncefort threatens Sir John (more) [doom]
July 10 Sir John is again threatened by Pauncefort, visits Gaynor, and is arrested (more) [doom]
July 13 Gaynor visits Carteret and rescues Damaris from Pauncefort (more) [end of The Gates of Doom]

1729

June The Crown Prince serenades Charles Alverley and Hans von Katte (more) [start of King in Prussia]

1741

October Frederick II agrees to a truce with Maria Theresa in exchange for Silesia [HNE 3.IX] (more)
December 1 Frederick frees Alverly; they part in mutual contempt [end of King in Prussia]

1752

September 2 (Wed) Last day of the Julian calendar in England
September 14 (Thu) First day of the Gregorian calendar in England

1756

November 1 Giovanni Casanova escapes from I Piombi [HNE 1.XII]

1762

July 13 Catherine the Great proclaimed Empress of Russia [HNE 3.XI]

1772

January 17 (early) Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark arrested [HNE 3.X]

1775

June 17 The Battle of Bunker Hill
June 23 Harry Latimer learns that Myrtle Carey has terminated their engagement (more) [start of The Carolinian]
June 27 Latimer visits Lord Campbell, then Andrew Carey; Featherstone killed [carolinian]
June 29 (Thu) Latimer and Myrtle are married; Brewton's ball; Latimer's duel with Carey [carolinian]
September 15 Lord William Campbell leaves Charlestown for the safety of the Tamar (more)

1776

April Birth of Andrew Fitzroy Latimer (more) [carolinian]
June 28 General William Moultrie victorious at the Battle of Fort Sullivan; Latimer wounded

1778

January Latimer's house burns; Myrtle moves in with Moultrie [carolinian]

1779

January Myrtle discovers Major Mandeville disguised as Jonathan Neild (more) [carolinian]
February 22 Myrtle questioned by Moultrie concerning Neild (more) [carolinian]
May 1 Latimer begins to fortify Charles Town against Prevost [carolinian]
May 11 Quinn the spy apprehended; Latimer unmasks Jonathan Neild [carolinian]
May 12 Rutledge sends offers of surrender to Prevost [carolinian]
May 13 Prevost withdraws, ending The Battle of Charleston
May 13 Death of Andrew Carey; Latimer vindicated [end of The Carolinian]

1784

August Cardinal Rohan meets Nicole Leguay, a prostitute impersonating Marie Antoinette [HNE 1.VII]

1788

November 4 (Tue) The Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr murders Philippe de Vilmorin (more) [start of Scaramouche]
November 5 (Wed) André-Louis in Rennes: sees M. de Lesdiguières, addresses the mob [scaramouche]
November 6 Omnes Omnibus speaks in Nantes [scaramouche]
November 7 André-Louis returns to Gavrillac (more) [scaramouche]
November 10 (Mon) Figaro-Scaramouche opens in Guichen [scaramouche]
November 12 André-Louis' debut as Scaramouche [scaramouche]
November 13 Binet troupe in Maure (more) [scaramouche]
November 17 Binet troupe in Pipriac [scaramouche]

1789

January La Tour d'Azyr leads battle at Rennes [scaramouche]
February 2 (Mon) Binet troupe opens in Nantes (more) [scaramouche]
February 5 André-Louis encounters Aline [scaramouche]
February 6 (Fri) La Tour d'Azyr visits Climène (more) [scaramouche]
February 10 (Tue) André-Louis encounters Le Chapelier and breaks up with Climène (more) [scaramouche]
March Aline rejects La Tour d'Azyr; Fracas at the Theatre Feydau (more) [scaramouche]
April André-Louis finds employment with Bertrand des Amis [scaramouche]
April Caron La Boulaye declares himself to Suzanne de Bellecour and is taken away by Robespierre (more) [start of The Trampling of the Lilies]
July 12 (Sun) Death of Bertrand des Amis [scaramouche]
July 14 The Storming of the Bastille
August (early) André-Louis visits Le Chapelier [scaramouche]

1790

June André-Louis visits M. de Kercadiou, is rejected but later reconciled, visits Mme. de Plougastel (more) [scaramouche]
August 21 Danton visits André-Louis, who agrees to become a Representative (more) [scaramouche]
September 13 (Mon) André-Louis debuts in the Assembly (more) [scaramouche]
September 20 (Mon) André-Louis fights La Tour d'Azyr [scaramouche]

1791

(early spring) Quentin de Morlaix defeats Rédas in a public duel (more) [start of The Marquis of Carabas]
September André-Louis Moreau becomes a Legislator [scaramouche]

1792

March 16 Gustav III of Sweden assassinated at a masked ball by Jacob Johan Anckarström [HNE 1.XIII]
August 9 Aline and Mme. de Plougastel are prevented from leaving Paris [scaramouche]
August 10 The Journée; siege of the Tuileries palace
August 10 André-Louis learns of his patrimony and rescues his parents [scaramouche]
August 11 André-Louis and Aline reconcile in Meudon and leave for Coblenz [end of Scaramouche]
August 18 André-Louis reaches Coblenz with his mother, godfather, and intended (more) [start of Scaramouche the Kingmaker]

1793

February The rising on Bellecour, rescue of Suzanne, and capture of Ombreville (more) [lilies]
March Caron frees Ombreval, Suzanne surrenders him to Robespierre (more) [end of The Trampling of the Lilies]
July 17 Adam Lux witnesses the guillotining of Charlotte Corday, killer of Jean-Paul Marat [HNE 2.XI]
October Florence de la Salle draws Louis XVII in the presence of his sister (more) [start of The Lost King]
December 14 Jean-Baptiste Carrier's second noyade (mass drowning) at Nantes [HNE 1.VIII] (more)

1794

March 11 Death of Étienne de Chesnières [carabas]
March 12 Chauvinière visits Cléonie de Montsorbier in the Conciergerie (more) [start of The Nuptials of Corbal]
March 20 Cléonie leaves the asylum with Chauvinière [corbal]
March 23 (early) Cléonie escapes from Chauvinière [corbal]
April André-Louis returns to Aline and M. de Kercadiou in Hamm [end of Scaramouche the Kingmaker]
April (mid) Chauvinière reaches Poussignot [corbal]
April 28 Corbal is sentenced and encounters Cléonie (more) [corbal]
April 29 (Tue) Corbal kills Chauvinière and flees with Cléonie [end of The Nuptials of Corbal]
May Morlaix learns of his antecedents and inheritance from Edgar Sharpe [carabas]
September 12 Citizen Besné, the Public Accuser, receives Morlaix for purposes of extortion [carabas]
October Morlaix returns to London [carabas]

1795

March (end) Morlaix goes to France for the second time [carabas]
July 18 Death of Tinténiac; Cadoudal takes command of the Chouans
July 27 The first executions in Vannes, including Charles de Sombreuil
September (late) Morlaix returns to London for the second time [carabas]
October 5 Napoleon victorious at the battle of 13 Vendémiaire [HNE 3.XII]
October (mid) Germaine de Chesnières comes to visit and recapture Quentin de Morlaix [end of The Marquis of Carabas]

1796

May 10 Napoleon victorious at the Battle of Lodi
May 17 Marc-Antoine Villiers de Melleville kills Camille Lebel (more) [start of Venetian Masque]
May 20 Melville arrives in Venice; he meets Lallemont, Worthington, and the Pizzamani [masque]
June Louis XVIII expelled from Venice on orders of "Lebel" (more) [masque]
August 5 Wurmser defeated by Bonaparte at the Battle of Castiglione
September (late) Vendramin demands Isotta from her father and is rebuffed (more) [masque]
October 8 Vendramin challenges Melville at the Casino del Lione (more) [masque]
October 11 Melville and Vendramin duel [masque]
November 3 (Thu) Melville attacked by Vendramin's bully-swordsman (more) [masque]
November 18 Napoleon defeats Alvintzi at Arcola

1797

January 14 Napoleon defeats the Austrians at Rivoli
March 5 (Sun) Melville meets Villetard; Vendramin coerced into French service (more) [masque]
March 20 (Mon) Vendramin attacks and nearly kills Melville (more) [masque]
April 20 Domenico Pizzamano, commanding the Lido, fires on the Liberateur, killing Laugier
May 4 Domenico Pizzamano and the Inquisitors arrested; political prisoners freed
May 4 Isotta tells Vendramin of her plan to take the veil; Melville released (more) [masque]
May 5 Melville (and Domenico) leave Venice (more) [end of Venetian Masque]
May 12 Lodovico Manin, last Doge of Venice, abdicates

1810

March 25 (approx) Lieutenant Butler sets out for Regoa (more) [start of The Snare]
May (early) News of the Tavora affair reaches Lady O'Moy (more) [snare]
May 21 Richard Butler hidden by Lady O'Moy; ball at Count Redondo's (more) [snare]
May 29 Duel between O'Moy and Samoval; Tremayne arrested (more) [snare]
June 3 Tremayne tried and acquitted; O'Moy's resignation withdrawn [snare]

1811

April 3 Massena's troops retreat into Spain (more)
April 3 O'Moy wounded while protecting Wellington [snare]
April 5 Wellington visits the recuperating O'Moy (more) [end of The Snare]

1815

March 1 Napoleon escapes from Elba and returns to France
March 5 Louis-Charles abandons his quest and departs for Passavant (more) [end of The Lost King]