Timeline

Before Common Era

 * -857
 * ? - the witch known as Rho appears for the first time in historical records.
 * -370
 * ? - the witch known as Rho disappears from historical records.
 * -352
 * ? - Julius, Julia, and Livia Valerius, all triplets, are born.

16th Century

 * 1543
 * ? - matchlock rifles known as arquebuses are introduced to Japan by the Portuguese. Within a decade, the Japanese have mass-produced arquebuses, numbering upwards of 300,000 arquebuses.
 * 1582
 * June
 * 21 - Oda Nobunaga, a leading figure in the Sengoku period, is killed in the Honno-ji Incident. Akechi Mitsuhide, one of Nobunaga's retainers, betrays him and attacks him at the Honno-ji temple. Although Nobunaga attempts to resist the intrusion, he decides to commit seppuku in one of the inner rooms. His page, Mori Ranmaru, sets the temple on fire before following his lord.

17th Century

 * 1600
 * October
 * 21 - the Battle of Sekigahara occurs.
 * 1688
 * September
 * ? - the Genroku era begins. This period is considered the golden age of the Edo period as the previous 100 years of isolation had produced a period of relative economic stability.

18th Century

 * 1760
 * November
 * 12 - Wilhelm Neumann is born to Heinrich and Christa Neumann.
 * 1765
 * March
 * 22 - the Stamp Act is passed by the British Parliament. The act imposes a direct tax on the American colonies to fund a large standing army in the colonies. It requires that many printed materials in the colonies be printed on stamped paper, carrying a embossed revenue stamp, produced in London. The Stamp Act is highly unpopular among the colonists, many of whom considered it a violation of their rights as Englishmen to be taxed without their consent.
 * 1766
 * October
 * 22 - Alan Neumann is born to Heinrich and Christa Neumann.
 * 1775
 * April
 * 19 - the American Revolution begins. Soldiers of the Massachusetts militia harass the British garrison at Boston after the garrison destroyed colonial powder stores.
 * 1781
 * October
 * 17 - the British forces at Yorktown, Virginia, surrender to American forces. Yorktown is the last major battle on the American mainland, though Britain continues to fight France and Spain elsewhere for 2 more years.
 * December
 * 24 - the Scholars of the First Sin are founded in Boston, Massachusetts Bay. The organization was established by a group of local magicians to investigate the fringes of magic, but eventually it grew to be one of the most prominent magical groups in the Americas.
 * 1783
 * September
 * 3 - the American Revolution ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris between the British, French, and Americans. The last of the British forces in America leave from Savannah, Charleston, and New York City by 25 November 1783.
 * 1785
 * June
 * 23 - the Guild of American Magicians is founded.
 * 1790
 * May
 * ? - Alan Neumann disappears while exploring west of Pittsburgh. Although his body was never found, he was declared dead within a couple of years. His widow Louise Neumann never gave up looking for him and spent the rest of her life believing that he was still alive.

19th Century

 * 1803
 * May
 * 18 - the War of the 3rd Coalition begins when the British Empire declares war on France.
 * 1805
 * April
 * 11 - Russia joins the 3rd Coalition.
 * December
 * 2 - the Battle of Austerlitz occurs between the French army and an allied Russian and Austrian army. The French defeat the Russo-Austrian army, and within a month, the Austrians sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
 * 1860
 * February
 * ? - The Sea of Life is published by the Scholar of the First Sin named Anthrax. The book revealed the existence of the Echo to the magical community, but otherwise it was seen as a fantastical work by the mundane world.
 * July
 * 9 - Florence Nightingale establishes the Nightingale Training School at St. Thomas' Hospital in central London, England. Her book, Notes on Nursing published in 1859, served as the cornerstone of the school's curriculum and was instrumental in the growth of the Lindhardt family's medical profession.
 * November
 * 6 - Abraham Lincoln is elected president with Hannibal Hamlin as vice president.
 * 1861
 * February
 * 4 - the Confederate States of America is established by secessionist states. Between 30 December and 1 February, 7 southern states secede from the Union. As a result of the secessions, the Guild begins to fracture into Union and Confederate factions.
 * April
 * 12 - the Battle of Fort Sumter triggers the American Civil War. The battle does not result in deaths on either side of the conflict, and it spurs widespread support across both the North and South for further military action.
 * 1865
 * April
 * 9 - Confederate general Robert E Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Ullysses S Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War. News of the surrender spread throughout the South, triggering a wave of surrenders by Confederate forces across the South.
 * 15 - President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Although the wound is not immediately fatal, Lincoln dies of his wound the next morning. Lincoln's vice-president Andrew Johnson is sworn in as president.
 * May
 * 9 - President Johnson declares an official end to the civil war. The next day, Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, is captured.
 * June
 * 23 - Stand Watie, a Cherokee leader and the last of the Confederate generals, surrenders his forces.
 * 1867
 * November
 * 19 - Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, resigns from his position. This effectively restores the rule of the Emperor, but Yoshinobu still retains significant influence within the Japanese government.
 * 1868
 * January
 * 3 - the Japanese Emperor Meiji makes a formal declaration of the restoration of his power. All Tokugawa lands are seized and placed under the direct control of the Emperor.
 * 1869
 * May
 * 10 - the First Transcontinental Railroad is completed and opens for through traffic after the golden spike is tapped by Central Pacific Railroad Company of California President Leland Stanford. The coast-to-coast railroad revolutionized the settlement and economy of the west, and the influence of the Guild grew exponentially as new magicians are brought into the organization.
 * 1878
 * September
 * 5 - House Raven goes extinct. Although the family had a long lineage of magicians, the move to the United States and the family's involvement in the American Civil War had severely impacted the family, and by 1870, only 2 members of the family, a woman and an infant daughter, remained. An epidemic of yellow fever in New Orleans caused the deaths of both family members, thus extinguishing the family line.
 * 1879
 * January
 * 10 - House Lindhardt is established to take control of the magicians formerly sworn to the extinct House Raven. Following the deaths of the two remaining members of the Raven family, the magicians in the New Orleans area had started to become hostile to each other, and several incidents had occurred. In order to prevent the exposure of magic, one of House Raven's Prominent Families was elevated to the position of House to take control of the magicians.
 * 1896
 * April
 * 16 - Jamie Roche and Betty Neumann are married as part of a peace deal between House Neumann and the Independent Roche family. House Neumann and the Roche family had been involved in a longtime feud, and to help settle their differences, the families agreed to a marriage. House Roche is established in addition to the marriage, and the Roche family joins the Guild.
 * 1898
 * March
 * 3 - Eugenie Messier is born.

1900 - 1950

 * 1900
 * August
 * ? - House Roche moves its family home to Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
 * 1914
 * July
 * 28 - World War I begins.
 * 1916
 * December
 * 30 - Grigori Rasputin is murdered by Russian nobles concerning about his growing influence.
 * 1917
 * March
 * 15 - Tsar Nicholas II abdicates from the throne of the Russian Empire following collapse of public support for the Imperial family after a number of defeats in WWI and other wars. Initially the family was held under house arrest.
 * August
 * 19 - the Russian Imperial family is moved to Tobolsk by the provisional government after anti-governmental rioting raises concerns for the family's safety.
 * 1918
 * April
 * 30 - the Russian Imperial family is moved to Yekaterinburg by the Red Army.
 * July
 * 17 - the Russian Imperial family is murdered by the Red Army. Following the executions of the family members and some servants, the bodies are burned and soaked in acid before being thrown into a disused mineshaft.
 * November
 * 11 - World War I ends with the signing of an armistice between Germany and Allied forces.
 * 1922
 * February
 * ? - the Drowned City is discovered by Oscar Smith using his high-quality Class B mystic eyes. Despite being a reverse-side location, its proximity to the Echo has rendered the Drowned City inaccessible.
 * 1924
 * May
 * 8 - Caleb Grant is born. He is the first magician born into the Grant family. His parents struggled to find a teacher for their son, and they were eventually contacted by magicians from the Chandler Magical Association.
 * 1930
 * January
 * 7 - Glenn Loggia is born to a mundane family.
 * August
 * 27 - Viktor Davidovich Ulyanov is born in the Soviet Union. Within 5 years, the family fled across the Finnish border to avoid Soviet authorities and travelled to America.
 * 1945
 * July
 * 30 - the Tokyo Incident occurs at the Japanese Imperial Palace. The Japanese magical organization Yatagarasu attempts a Class A ritual, but following the failure, a large portion of the capital city is contaminated by a large amount of ether.
 * August
 * 6 - the Tokyo Exclusion Zone is established.
 * 1948
 * June
 * 13 - James Grant is born to Caleb and Sophia Grant. Despite being only the 2nd magician of the family, he is a surprisingly strong magician.
 * 1949
 * August
 * 2 - Emperor Akihito declares a restoration of the samurai class within Japan with a focus on magical heritage in the old samurai families. Samurai families that show long lineages of magic receive a higher level of prestige, and the right to wear katana in public is granted to many families.

1950 - 1999

 * 1950
 * March
 * ? - Viktor Davidovich Ulyanov joins the Scholars of the First Sin.
 * 1956
 * August
 * 21 - Roman Yarbrough is born.
 * 1957
 * December
 * ? - the Tokyo Exclusion Zone is expanded to a 20-mile radius around the Imperial Palace.
 * 1962
 * January
 * 31 - Pierce Roche is born.
 * June
 * 3 - the Telephone Network is discovered after several people go missing in the Chicago area in a short span of time.
 * July
 * 10 - the Sunken Temple is discovered using the Telephone Network.
 * 1969
 * January
 * 14 - the USS Enterprise is severely damaged by a series of explosions triggered when a warhead was overheated by the exhaust of a nearby piece of equipment. Initial rumors of magical involvement flare anti-magic sentiment among the mundane community and eventually leads to the Bloody Summer of 1969.
 * June
 * 15 - the Burlington Massacre occurs. Fueled by anti-magic sentiment, the mundane community violently expels the magical community of Burlington, Wisconsin.
 * July
 * 10 - Caleb Grant dies.
 * 1970
 * June
 * 25 - Ellen McCarry is born.
 * 1972
 * August
 * ? - a piece of the Grail is discovered by a group of Scholars of the First Sin during an exploration of a newly-discovered reverse-side location.
 * 1973
 * July
 * 31 - Viktor Kerensky is born. As a Carthage magician, he is abandoned at a local orphanage shortly after his birth. It is unknown who his mother or father were, and he was raised at the orphanage for several years.
 * 1975
 * December
 * 21 - Sera Dreyfus is born to Thomas and Lucie Dreyfus. As the oldest child of the couple, she is considered the heir and raised as such for many years.
 * 1978
 * February
 * 12 - James Grant and Amanda Harper are married. Their marriage comes as part of a peace deal between the Chandler Magical Association, led by the Grant family, and the Mesa Magical Association, led by the Harper family; the organizations had come into conflict over the growing influence of the Chandler Magical Association.
 * May
 * 6 - Anna Pynchon is born.
 * 1980
 * August
 * 24 - Suzanne Dreyfus is born.
 * 1981
 * September
 * 7 - Damian Redgrave is born to Stephen and Yasmin Grant. Although part of the Redgrave family, Stephen and Yasmin were outspoken pacifists and often ostracized by the rest of the family.
 * November
 * 22 - Nikolai Kerensky adopts Viktor Kerensky from the orphanage, despite severe criticism from other magicians.
 * 1982
 * January
 * 4 - Benjamin Fletcher is born to Alexander and Maria Fletcher. As the oldest child of the couple, he is considered the heir to the Fletcher family, a prominent Independent magical family in the New England area.
 * April
 * 20 - Jacob Grant is born to James and Amanda Grant.
 * 1983
 * November
 * 30 - Glenn Loggia dies from injuries sustained suppressing an outbreak of Echo beasts into the Shallows of the Sunken Temple.
 * 30 - Roman Yarbrough becomes the 2nd Director of the Echo Division after he is chosen by the Key to succeed Glenn Loggia.
 * 1984
 * June
 * 12 - Graham Grant is born to James and Amanda Grant. As the 2nd son of the couple, he is not considered the heir to the Grant family, but he is shown to be a strong magician from an early age.
 * September
 * 15 - Aiden Roche is born to Pierce and Rebecca Roche. He is the oldest of the couple's children.
 * 1986
 * November
 * 15 - Mariana Roche is born to Pierce and Rebecca Roche.
 * 1987
 * March
 * ? - the Livia branch of the blood-kin is driven to extinction by members of the Julian branch.
 * 1989
 * July
 * 9 - Liliana Roche is born to Pierce and Rebecca Roche.
 * 1990
 * June
 * 5 - Daniel Crass dies.
 * August
 * 22 - Daniel Salvatori is born.
 * 1992
 * February
 * 27 - Viktor Davidovich Ulyanov is assassinated by a car bomb following a meeting with the leader of the Red Scholars, Ryan Davos. Ulyanov's death caused a marked shift in the conflict between the Red and White Scholars, and violence broke out between the opposing factions.
 * September
 * 4 - Alexander Rossfeld, the leader of the White Scholars, is formally expelled by a resolution passed by the council of the Scholars of the First Sin's leadership. Following his expulsion, Ryan Davos quickly assumed total control of the Scholars.
 * 1993
 * January
 * 23 - the corpse of the divinity known as Mar is discovered at the Black Shore of the Sunken Temple. After a couple of months, the corpse is moved to a specialized tank in the Research Sector within the Shallows.
 * October
 * 31 - Alexandra Rasputin is born to Simeon and Olga Rasputin. She is premature and is found to be affected by immature magic circuits. After undergoing special treatment to help mature her magic circuits, she becomes healthy and is soon established as the heir to House Rasputin.
 * 1994
 * May
 * ? - a piece of the Grail is discovered by the Federal Bureau of Magical Affairs operating at the Defiled Labyrinth. The high mana demands of the artifact make it difficult to study the
 * 1997
 * October
 * 4-7 - the Sentinel House Incident occurs. The Redgrave family had gathered at Sentinel House in northern Wisconsin, but an early winter storm caused access to the house to get cut off. By the time access to the building was reestablished, most of the family members were dead, with only 2 survivors and an infant.
 * 7 - Levi Redgrave is born to unknown parents at Sentinel House. Although he was born during the Sentinel House Incident during which only members of the Redgrave family was present, both Damian Redgrave and Jason Redgrave, the only two survivors of the incident, insist that he is not the biological child of anyone at the house.
 * 1998
 * January
 * 3 - the Lindhardt Massacre occurs on orders of Johan Friis V. The head of House Lindhardt and many supporters of the family were killed in the chaos. Dirch Lindhardt and his pregnant mother flee to the Phoenix area and are sheltered by the influential Grant family.
 * February
 * 6 - Randall Walker is born. His parents used in-vitro fertilization to conceive a child, drawing significant criticism from the surrounding magical community. Despite his unconventional method of conception, he is well-loved by his parents.
 * 1999
 * February
 * 23 - Amie Hamilton is born to Leon and Emily Hamilton. Despite being the 2nd child of the couple, her older brother's inability to use magic disqualified him, and she was established as the Hamilton family's heir. She soon developed an unusually powerful Class C mystic eye.
 * March
 * 1 - Theodore Fletcher is born to Alexander and Maria Fletcher. Although he is born to a magical family, he is found to be unable to use magic, and his older brother Benjamin Fletcher takes him to the Phoenix area shortly afterwards.
 * May
 * 24 - the Asley Massacre occurs. Although the village had come under the control of Guild forces earlier in the month, Scholar activities continued in the area. Pierce Roche entered the village early in the morning of the 24th, and within an hour, almost all of the 244 residents were dead or dying. The massacre was not discovered until the 26th of May.
 * June
 * 14 - Johan Friis V and his 2 sons is murdered by Dirch Lindhardt in retaliation for the Lindhardt Massacre. As the conflict was conducted under the rules of a war of whispers, Dirch Lindhardt is considered immune from prosecution for the murder. With the death of Johan Friis V and his sons, House Friis goes extinct.
 * 21 - House Lindhardt is restored to the position of House of the Guild.
 * 30 - Dirch Lindhardt and Sera Dreyfus are married. Although Sera was the heir to House Dreyfus, the marriage is approved by all involved, and it is believed that she was the one to suggest the marriage.
 * July
 * 19 - Clara Lindhardt and Aksel Lindhardt are born to Dirch Lindhardt and Julia Zelle. Although Clara's birth was expected, Aksel's birth was not. Julia died shortly after due to complications from the childbirth, but Sera Lindhardt accepted the children as her own. Aksel was elevated to the position of heir of the House, despite being the younger of the twins.
 * August
 * 21 - the Michigan Disaster occurs. Following a string of defeats and driven into their last bastion of defense, the Scholars of the First Sin under Ryan Davos attempt a high-class ritual. However, the ritual fails, creating a large zone of magical contamination and killing many of the residents of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Michigan Disaster marks the end of the Grey War. The disaster killed many Scholars, and the remaining attempted to cross the quarantine line. Although a dozen are captured by Guild forces, it is believed that several hundred Scholars had escaped the Upper Peninsula.
 * September
 * 3 - Roman Yarbrough is murdered by Tobias Vain. Following the Michigan Disaster, the Federal Bureau of Magical Affairs was concerned with the capture of surviving Scholars of the First Sin and securing the artifacts that the organization once possessed. Tobias Vain was known to be involved with the organization's artifacts, and he was taken to the Sunken Temple for interrogation. Ellen McCarry becomes the 3rd Director of the Echo Division.

21st Century

 * 2000
 * May
 * ? - Benjamin Fletcher and Graham Grant graduate from the ASU Academy. Although being a couple of years younger than Benjamin, Graham's high intelligence and strong magical skill allowed him to skip a couple of grades early in his education. The pair had been close friends for many years and were infamous for their investigations into obscure magic.
 * June
 * 30 - Alyssa Lindhardt is born to Dirch Lindhardt and Sera Lindhardt. She is the only child of the couple and the only one of Dirch's children to be born in wedlock.
 * July
 * 17 - Pierce Roche is arrested by the Crownsguard for his involvement in the Asley Massacre.
 * 2001
 * June
 * 7 - the Scholars of the First Sin are banned in the United States.
 * August
 * 10 - Jason Redgrave is stricken from the family register. He had been convicted of murdering another person and nearly causing the deaths of two more people and sentenced to life imprisonment. Despite being from a minor branch of the family, Damian Redgrave becomes the current head of the Redgrave family. Levi Redgrave, his adopted son, is established as the heir to the family, and following Damian's declaration of refusing to have children, the Redgrave bloodline is effectively extinct.
 * September
 * 11 - the 9/11 attacks occur.
 * November
 * 11 - the Redgrave family, consisting of Damian Redgrave and Levi Redgrave, become sworn members of House Lindhardt.
 * 2003
 * January
 * 23 - Pierce Roche is convicted of committing the Asley Massacre and is sentenced to death for his crimes. His wife and children are expelled from the Guild as a result, and Patrick Roche, Pierce's younger brother, takes control of the House.
 * June
 * 12 - Pierce Roche is executed by firing squad at Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah. The execution occurs just after midnight, and he is declared dead 2 minutes later. His body is cremated before being released to his children.
 * 2004
 * April
 * 7 - House Roche undergoes a schism after nearly a year of growing instability within the House. Approximately 20% of the magicians under the House leave the Guild, forming the Independent magical organization Subrosa.
 * 2010
 * April
 * 1 - Alison Roche is born to Mariana Roche. Mariana dies shortly afterwards due to complications from the birth, but Alison is a healthy infant. She is moved into the custody of Aiden and Liliana Roche's custody.