UNKNOWN  - The Age of Titans

UNKNOWN - The Titanomachy

Prometheus steals fire from Zeus
Gogmagog rules southern Britain

UNKNOWN - Gotterdammerung
UNKNOWN - The Age of Man

3500 B.C. - The Sumerian civilisation begins in Babylonia

1070 B.C.-675 B.C. - The Daedalean Age

510-565 A.D. - The Arthurian Age

1212 A.D. - The Children's Crusade

1266

  Construction was begun on Shang-tu (mistranslated by the Italian explorer Marco Polo as Xanadu) in 1266 at the behest of the Great Kublai Khan.  It was designed along the lines of the classic Chinese Imperial cities, being a near perfect square with each side facing one of the four points of the compass.  Inside this compound Kublai erected an Imperial Stele which would become the Omphalos of the Mongol nation. 
 

1284

In this year a man came to Hamelin claiming to be a rat-catcher. The people of Hamelin promised him payment for killing the rats. So the man took a pipe, attracted the rats by his music and made them follow him to the Weser river, where they all drowned. Despite this success the people reneged on their promise and did not pay the rat-catcher.  He left the town, but returned several weeks later. While the inhabitants were in the church, he played his pipe again, this time attracting the children of Hamelin. One hundred thirty boys and girls followed him out of the town, where they were lured into a cave and sealed inside. Depending on the version, at most two children survived.

1653-1658 Oliver Cromwell is Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland

1658 Restoration of King Charles II as Richard Cromwell proves an unworthy successor

1661 Oliver Cromwell exhumed hung, drawn and quartered before being beheaded whereupon his head was displayed on a pole outside of Westminster Abbey until 1685

1665 The Great Plague

1666 The Great Fire of London

1687-1703

  In 1698 a mysterious man named "Eustache Dauger" was imprisoned in the Bastille.  This man had been a captive of the government since at least 1687, and for all that time his face had been hidden by a mask.  He died in 1703 his true identity never having been made public.  His confinement inspired the legend of the Man in the Iron Mask.

1724

  In 1724, near the German town of Hamelin, a boy, described as a naked brownish black-haired creature, was seen running up and down in the fields. The boy was enticed into town, and once there immediately became a subject of great interest. He behaved like a trapped wild animal, eating birds and vegetables raw, and when threatened, he sat on his haunches or on all-fours looking for opportunities to escape.  He became known as Wild Peter and was soon made the possession of King George I of England, where he lived the rest of his life.

1757

  Before you can begin to understand the works of William Blake you must first understand that he was insane. It is necessary to accept that his work is largely impenetrable and that any attempts to impose a coherent structure upon it will lead to failure. His prophecies are the rantings of a madman and the rantings of a madman, however elegant, do not stand up to logic. Throughout his life Blake claimed that he heard voices and saw visions; both are indicators of unusual brain chemistry.  We all hear voices in our heads.  Most of us believe this to be the stream of our own thoughts; the schizophrenic grants this voice a separate identity.  Blake even claimed that he wrote Jerusalem "from immediate Dictation... without Premeditation and even against my will."  Some people would characterize Blake as a "visionary" blessed with divine insight, yet others would characterize him as a paranoid schizoid.  I have no problem with characterizing him as both.  Indeed, as is often the case, madness seems to go hand in hand with genius.

1795 13 December, 15:30 hrs

"Several persons at Wold Cottage, in Yorkshire, Dec. 13, 1795, heard various noises in the air, like pistols, or distant guns at sea, felt two distinct concussions of the earth, and heard a hissing noise passing through the air; and a labouring man plainly saw (as we are told) that something was so passing, and beheld a stone, as it seemed at last, (about 10 yards, or 30 feet, distant from the ground), descending, and striking into the ground, which flew up all about him, and, in falling, sparks of fire seemed to fly from it. Afterwards he went to the place, in common with others who had witnessed part of the phaenomenon, and dug the stone up from the place where it was buried about 21 inches deep. it smelled, as is said, very strongly of sulphur when it was dug up, and was even warm, and smoked. It was said to be 30 inches in length, and 28 ½ in breadth, and it weighed 56lb. Such is the account*. I affirm nothing; neither do I pretend either absolutely to believe or to disbelieve. I have not an opportunity to examine the whole of the evidence. But it may be examined; so I leave it to be" (p. 22).  In a printed paper, drawn up by a well-known writer (Captain Topham), on a half-sheet, at the head of which is a representation of the stone, given to those who have the curiosity to examine the stone itself, now exhibiting in London.

1797

In the summer of the year 1797 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, then in ill health (due to him being an opium addict), had retired to a lonely farm-house on Exmoor.  In consequence of a slight indisposition , an anodyne had been prescribed (probably an opiate), from the effects of which he fell asleep in his chair at the moment that he was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance, in Purchas's Pilgrimage: ``Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.'' He continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he had the most vivid dream. On awakening he had a distinct recollection of the whole dream, and taking his pen, ink, and paper, instantly and eagerly wrote down the poem Kublai Khan.  However he was distracted by a visitor during this task and on returning to his writing he found he could recall no more of the poem. Under the pseudonym of Silas Tomkyn Comberback he also wrote two other poems of interest; Fire, Famine and Slaughter- A War Eclogue and The Devil's Thoughts.  The first of these works uses apocalyptic language and images to describe the devastation wrought by war while the second poem is a moral satire which describes the Devil's travels around England and the various sinners that he meets there.

1818

 In this year Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) wrote the poem Ozymandias. The name Ozymandias is generally believed to refer to Ramses the Great (Ramses II) of Egypt. Osymandias represents a transliteration into Greek of a part of Ramses's throne name, User-maat-re Setep-en-re.  Ramases commissioned more statues of his likeness during his long reign than any other Pharoh. Shelley's sonnet paraphrases the inscription on the base of one of these statues, given by Diodorus Siculus as "King of Kings am I, Osymandias. If anyone would know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my works".

1828-1833
 

Kaspar Hauser (April 30?, 1812 - December 17, 1833) was a mysterious foundling in 19th century Germany with alleged ties to the royal house of Baden. In May 26, 1828 a young boy appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany. He was wearing peasant clothing and could barely talk. His only documentation was a letter to the captain of the 4th squadron of the 6th cavalry regiment, where the writer asked the captain to either take him or hang him. Shoemaker Weissman took the boy to the house of Captain Wessenig where he could only repeat, "I want to be a rider like my father." Further demands resulted only in tears. In December 14, 1833, Hauser was lured to Ansbacher Hofgarten with the promise that he would hear something about his ancestry. Instead, a stranger stabbed him fatally in the chest. He struggled back home but died three days later. For some reason, Stanhope and Meyer tried to claim that the cause of death was suicide.

1805-1840

Between 1805-1840 Joseph Williamson, a wealthy tobacco merchant, employed an army of construction workers to build a labyrinth of tunnels under the Edgeware Hill district of Liverpool.  The locals of the time assumed that Williamson's project was an act of philanthropy, after the Napoleonic wars unemployment was rife in Liverpool and his projects, although pointless, did provide much needed employment.

1850

Peter Asmouth receives Zarkoff's forecast from his future self, stock market portfolio rises due to significantly successful speculations.

1855

 Peter Asmouth's financial influence allows him to pass several important bills though parliament and the House of Lords including establishing the babbage system of genealogical records at Somerset House.

1860

Using the Babbage system at Somerset House, Peter Asmouth uncovers the last descendant of the Arturo Rex Revividus bloodline. He adopts his young ward, Brittania

1870-1890 - The Modern Age

Unknown - The Fall of the British Empire

1900 - Fin de Sciecle

Unknown - The Eschaton