3000 B.C. Professor Childermass had Aurelian Townsend return the Horus statue to this year [The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost; 42]. 1050 B.C. Mrs. Zimmermann has a magical orb dating from this time period [The House Where Nobody Lived; 129]. 14 B.C. Using the time trolley, the Professor traveled back in time to Egypt and found the Horus statue [The Trolley to Yesterday; 16]. March 15: Using the time trolley, the Professor travels back in time to Egypt for two hours in the afternoon [The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost; 61]. 70 A.D. Both Jerusalem and Solomon's Second Temple are destroyed by the Romans [The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn; 173]. 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius erupts and destroys the Roman city of Pompeii [The Vengeance of the Witch-finder; 63]. 482 A.D. St. Fidgeta was born [Saint Fidgeta & Other Parodies; 11]. 489 A.D. March: A distraught pedagogue slaps St. Fidgeta to death for fidgeting too much in her desire to attend mass [Saint Fidgeta & Other Parodies; 12]. 490 A.D. St. Fidgeta canonized [Saint Fidgeta & Other Parodies; 12]. 623 A.D. The building of the Cathedral of St. Gorboduc in Los Honchos, Spain begins [Saint Fidgeta & Other Parodies; 33]. 658 A.D. Persian Emperor Tissaphernes leads attack against the Byzantine city of Ud [Saint Fidgeta & Other Parodies; 22]. 898 A.D. Spatulus III is elected pope [Saint Fidgeta & Other Parodies; 52]. 899 A.D. Pope Spatulus III dies; he is crushed to death by the Curia after being pope for around one year [Saint Fidgeta & Other Parodies; 52-3]. 972 A.D. Professor Childermass pretends he was hypnotized to remember important facts - such as who was czar of Bulgaria in this year (it was Boris II, if you want to look it up, too) [The Chessmen of Doom; 98]. 982 A.D. The siege of Grisly Grange, where Crankforth defended a castle with crabapple preserves [The Pedant and the Shuffly; 21]. 1066 A.D. One of the Barnavelt’s distant relatives came across the English Channel with William the Conqueror to establish the first English branch of the family [The Vengeance of the Witch-finder; 12]. 1204 A.D. A crusader army loots and burns Constantinople out of pure greed. As punishment, the spirits of twelve knights remain, haunting the Isle of the Dead [The Trolley to Yesterday; 100]. 1252 A.D. Grand Central Schism begins [Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 58]. During the Grand Central Schism, four French cardinals and four Italian cardinals elect Sporus IV pope [Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 58]. During the Grand Central Schism, pirate Ragbash threatens city of Spug unless he is named pope [Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 59]. During the Grand Central Schism, "the Popes exchange excommunications for Christmas" [Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 59]. 1253 A.D. During the Grand Central Schism, a Dutch mystic claims to know the real pope - but no one seems to care [Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 59]. During the Grand Central Schism, all claimants meet in Verona and elect Zosimus II [Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 59]. 1254 A.D. During the Grand Central Schism, four men claiming to be antipopes appear in a boat on the Tiber. They disappear completley [Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 59]. 1270 A.D. The Duke of Cornwall gives Hailes Abbey a small vial that contained some of the blood of Jesus - hence the relic known as the Blood Hailes [The Dark Secret of Weatherend; 177]. 1272 A.D. St. Fidgeta appears to Scintilla Sforza in Tormento, Italy; she later becomes Mother Latifundia, foundress of the Order of Faithful Fidgettines (O.F.F.) [Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 14]. 1292 A.D. The Catherdral of Saint Gorboduc remains untouched following the Horror of 1292 [Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 34]. 1450 A.D. St. Fidgeta appears again, this time as a fluffy pink cloud, and stretching forth a chubby hand manages to rout a Turkish siege of the city Pinsk [Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 20]. 1453 A.D. The first time the Professor, Johnny, and Fergie go back to Constantinople [The Trolley to Yesterday; 29, 66]. The professor says that the city of Constantinople was taken around four in the afternoon of this day [117]. Some people sought refuge from the invading Turks in the Church of Holy Wisdom, but to no avail. Many were murdered, the rest sold into slavery [29-30, 66]. 1491 A.D. The Cathedral of St. Gorboduc is returned to Christian control [Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 34]. 1493 A.D. Paracelsus is born [The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder; 98]. ( next )