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This timeline attempts to place the events mentioned in the Girl Genius story in internal chronological order.
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Methods and Assumptions
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- Sources: An attempt has been made in each event description to include a link to the source of the dating information.
- "Relative Dates": This column places events relative to two seminal events: the attack that destroyed Castle Heterodyne (which is assigned Year 0, Day 0) and the start of the main narrative of Girl Genius (which is assigned Year +19, Day 0). Clues in the narrative usually allow an event to be placed relative to one of these.
- When was the attack on Castle Heterodyne? The memorial marker ✣ for Klaus Barry Heterodyne shows his birth year as 1_72. The second digit is round on the top and, since older dates in the crypt include 1623, is probably an 8.[1] Thus, he was born in "1872". The attack occurred 407 days ✣ after Klaus Barry Heterodyne was born, which would put the attack in 1873-4.[2]
- When does the main narrative begin? The narrative through Volume IX takes place in the late winter/early and middle spring[3]. The main narrative takes place roughly 19 years ✣ after the attack on Castle Heterodyne. Thus, the story likely begins in 1892-4. This date is assumed to be +19 years, 0 days, though it could as easily be off by +/- several months.
- "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.
- 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'.
- 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).
- 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.
New cues and clues from Agatha H. and the Airship City Edit
Long ago Edit
- The other war broke out in earnest six months after Castle Heterodyne blew up.
- Bill and Barry were last seen in public helping Woggleburg after the attack on Lord Womak.
Not so long ago Edit
- Events start on a cold day in March.
- Agatha is wearing her current favorite outfit, a birthday present from Lilith.
- Assuming the castle blew up in late summer or fall and Lucrezia was pregnant at the time, Agatha's is in her nineteenth year.
- Therefore the year is 1892.
New cues and clues from Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess Edit
- The Storm King Fought the Heterodynes at Sturmhalten in 1673-1676.
- The muses were all present when the treaty ending the battle was signed in 1676.
- Part of the treaty was that the Storm King would marry Bludtharst's sister Euphrosynia. They both were the offspring of Clemetious Heterodyne.
- Makes you wonder what major change happened to the castle in 1677.
Timeline Edit
Long, long agoEdit
| Relative Date | Actual Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| (long, long ago) | Geisterdamen serve ✣ their Eternal Lady at the Geisterdamen temple. | |
| (-832† years, or earlier) | 1041 or earlier | Ht'rok-din takes ✣ Mechanicsburg. |
| -831† years | 1042 | Knife, son of Ht'rok-din, builds ✣ 1st Castle Heterodyne in 1042 AD. |
| (-830† to -576† years) | Vlad "the Blasphemous" Heterodyne creates Jãgerdraught and the first of the Jãgers | |
| (-830† to -576† years) | Jägergenerals created. | |
| (-830† to -576† years) | Egregious Heterodyne uncorks the Dyne and destroys the first castle | |
| (-830† to -576† years) | Castle Heterodyne is rebuilt ✣ three times. | |
| -575† years | 1298 | 5th Castle Heterodyne is built ✣ in 1298 AD. |
Not so long, long agoEdit
| Relative Date | Actual Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| (long, long ago) | Jägers take ✣ Jägertroth to serve House Heterodyne. | |
| (-279 to -229 years) | 1593† to 1643† | Maxim, youngest of Da Boyz, is born. |
| (-830 to -196 years) | Faustus Heterodyne makes ✣ Castle Heterodyne self-aware. | |
| -ca 200 years | 1668 | Storm King starts to build his Palace of Enlightenment in Provance |
| -ca200 years | 1668-1673 | The spark Van Rijn builds ✣ nine muses ✣ for Andronicus Valois, the Storm King. Storm King and Coalition of the West battle ✣ Bludtharst Heterodyne. |
| -200 years | 1673-1876 | Storm King holds off Heterodyne Hordes at Sturmhalten. |
| -200 years | 1676 | Battle ends with treaty and wedding between Storm King and Euphrosynia. |
| -196† years | 1677 | A major change ✣ to Castle Heterodyne in 1677 AD. |
| -181 years, or earlier | 1691† or earlier | Knights of Jove are "destroyed" ✣ in Storm King's quest to win the heart of Euphrosynia Heterodyne. Storm King's reign ends. |
| -181 years, or earlier | 1691† or earlier | One of Van Rijn's muses, Otilia is tasked by the Storm King to protect "the Heterodyne girl ✣ . But Van Rijn
"learns ✣ what [the Heterodyne girl] would be," and orders her to keep others safe from that girl. Later, Lucrezia Mongfish transfers Otilia's personality into Von Pinn. |
| -121 years | 1751† | Embi is born ✣ . As a young man, he leaves home to see the world. |
| -81 years | 1779† | Da Boyz (Ognian, Dimo, and Maxim) fight ✣ for the Red Heterodyne against the lava cannons of the Unseen Empire. |
Long agoEdit
| Relative Date | Actual Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| (long ago) | Her Undying ✣ Majesty, Queen Albia, ascends throne of England. | |
| (-40 years to -30 years) | 1830s† | Baron Klaus Wulfenbach, The Heterodyne Boys, and Lucrezia Mongfish are born. |
| -20 years | 1852† | The Heterodyne Boys, Baron Klaus Wulfenbach, and Punch & Judy begin adventuring. |
| (-20 years to -3 years, 4 months) | 1852†-1868† | Klaus becomes a construct ✣ . |
| (decades ago) | Eternal Lady makes ✣ frequent visits to Geisterdamen temple. | |
| -6 years | 1867†-1868† | Prince of Sturmhalten grows experiments in Sturmhalten that occasionally escape ✣ to sewers. |
| -3 years, 4 months | October 1869†-October 1870† | Bill Heterodyne proposes to Lucrezia Mongfish, Lucrezia beds ✣ Klaus, Lucrezia drugs ✣ and exiles ✣ Klaus. |
| (-2 years, 6-8 months) | March-May 1871†[4] | Gil is born. Klaus keeps ✣ Gil alive. Klaus thinks this would give someone from Skifander a reason ✣ to kill Gil. |
| -1 year, 42 days | 1872† | Klaus Barry Heterodyne is born ✣ to Lucrezia and Bill in 1_72 AD. It is 2 years and 3 months since Klaus disappeared; gossips still ignore the math. |
| (-?? months) | Lucrezia repurposes ✣ von Pinn as nursemaid ✣ for Klaus Barry Heterodyne. | |
| -3 days | 1873†-1874† | Carson von Mekkhan retires ✣ as Heterodyne seneschal. |
| -1 day | 1873†-1874† | Bill and Barry leave ✣ Castle Heterodyne because of "something to do with giant vegetables". |
| Year 0, Day 0 | February 1873†-February 1874† | 5th Castle Heterodyne is destroyed after sundown with massive explosions ✣ ; Klaus Barry Heterodyne dies ✣ ; Lucrezia disappears ✣ ; Lucrezia's notes are burned. |
| +?? hours | 1873†-1874† | Bill and Barry return ✣ to Castle Heterodyne, recover bodies of Seneschal Von Mekkhan and 62 other ✣ staff. |
| +1 day | 1873†-1874† | Bill and Barry go to war, leaving ✣ Castle Heterodyne for last time. |
| +6 months | 1873†-1874† | The Other goes to war against ✣ the Sparks and the Heterodyne Boys; 43 major houses destroyed. Knights of Jove under Prince Aaronev VI Sturmvoraus fight for ✣ the Other. |
| (+0 to +1 years) | 1873†-1874† | "Eternal Lady" arrives ✣ at the Geisterdamen temple, visibly pregnant. The Holy Child is born. |
| (+0 to +1 years) | 1873†-1874† | Agatha is born. |
| (+0 to +3 years) | 1873†-1877† | "Eternal Lady" returns to the Geisterdamen temple, sends ✣ Geisterdamen to Europa to find the Holy Child. Loremistress Milvistle destroys ✣ the gateway to the temple and its plans, stranding Geisterdamen in Europa. |
| (+3 year) | 1875-1876 | Barry Heterodyne and Bill Heterodyne observe the attack on Lord Womak's city. [5]. Confirming their calculations and revealing the whereabouts of the other. |
| (+3 year) | 1875-1876 | Persons unknown assault ✣ the Geisterdamen temple while the "Eternal Lady" is absent, take the Holy Child. Geisterdamen rebuild ✣ their temple. |
| (+3 year) | 1875-1876 | The Other stops ✣ attacking; no body ✣ is found. The Heterodyne Boys disappear. Last date for construction ✣ of a hive engine. Snarlantz hides ✣ most of the existing hive engines in Passholdt. The great houses keep right on fighting ✣ , causing widespread destruction. |
| (+3 year) | Castle Wulfenbach is destroyed ✣ ; Klaus won't confirm ✣ whether the Other did it. | |
| (+4 year) | 1876-1877 | Geisterdamen are visited by their goddess in her aspect of Sharp Crystal. After purging many of the Geisterdamen the rest are put to a period of building. |
| (+3 years) | Klaus returns ✣ after 'a six years'[6] having spent about (four years in Skifander, and possibly additional time elsewhere) with baby Gil but without his wife ✣ , begins his war to establish ✣ The Baron's Peace throughout Europa. | |
| +4 years, 6 months | TPU expedition enters ✣ Castle Heterodyne, is conscripted by the castle to perform repairs ✣ . | |
| (+4 years, 6 months to +5 years) | Klaus politely ✣ takes ✣ Mechanicsburg, acquires ✣ Jägers and von Pinn, sets up ✣ town council. Shadow government led by Carson von Mekkhan continues to rule Mechanicsburg in secret. | |
| +5 years | Castle Heterodyne sends ✣ TPU assistant out for food; Klaus negotiates with the castle to supply labor. | |
| +5 years, 2 months | Carson von Mekkhan uses ✣ of Throne of Faustus Heterodyne 437215353 seconds (13.85 years) prior to Agatha's arrival in Mechanicsburg, swears never to channel the castle again. | |
| +5 years | 3000 of the Elite White Geisterdamen go through the one way door from the City of Silver Light to the Shadow lands. They are tasked with finding the Holy Child.[7] | |
| +6 years | Agatha first ✣ 'Heterodynes' at age 5. Barry keeps moving ✣ the family to keep them hidden. | |
| (+6 to +8 years) | Barry creates ✣ Agatha's locket and gives ✣ it to her. | |
| (+1 day to 8 years) | Barry tells ✣ Tarsus Beetle that Klaus did something untrustworthy. | |
| +8 years | Barry leaves ✣ on what should be a brief mission ✣ , placing Agatha in the sole care of Punch and Judy. He has not yet returned. | |
| +9 years | Higgs signs up with the Wulfenbach airship fleet. He serves for ten years "without distinction". | |
| (+6 years to 12 years) | 1878†-1887† | Gil constructs ✣ Zoing at age 8. Klaus hides ✣ Gil's spark. Gil attends Castle Wulfenbach school incognito. |
| (+1 to +16 years) | Vrin and Aaronev VI rebuild ✣ Holy Machine, kidnap many ✣ sparky girls in attemps to revive ✣ Lucrezia. |
Before our story beginsEdit
| Relative Date | Actual Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| (+16 years) | Hidden Skifander is “discovered” by expedition. Zeetha leaves home ✣ to see the world. Skull pirates capture Zeetha. | |
| +16 years | "Dot magnetic prince guy" raises ✣ the last significant rebellion against The Baron's Peace but is put down in five months. | |
| (+16 years) | Master Payne's Circus of Adventure acquires ✣ two of Van Rijn's muses (Tinka and Moxana). Aaronev VI nearly kills ✣ Anevka in the Holy Machine. Tarvek takes ✣ Tinka and copies her to create a clank for Anevka. | |
| +16 years | Zeetha destroys ✣ skull pirate fortress and, with it, all her leads ✣ to finding the way back to Skifander. | |
| +16 years | Professor Tiktoffen is condemned ✣ to Castle Heterodyne. He supervises repairs for Klaus ✣ , but also reports ✣ to the Knights of Jove. | |
| +17 years | Zeetha joins ✣ Master Payne's Circus of Adventure. | |
| (+5 to +19 years) | Vole is expelled from Jägers, renounces ✣ Jägertroth. | |
| (+6 to +19 years) | A female prisoner earns ✣ her freedom from the Castle Heterodyne repair crew. | |
| (+18 years) | Snarlantz successfully modifies ✣ one slaver engine to enslave a spark, then another turns ✣ all of Passholdt into revenants. Selnikov and the Jotun brothers erase evidence in Snarlantz's lab and acquire ✣ spark-enslaving engine for Aaronev VI . | |
| (+18 years) | Klaus defeats ✣ the Gilded Duke. Wulfenbach clanks blow up ✣ the mountain of the Duke D'Omas. | |
| (not too long ago) | Gil acquires Ardsley Wooster, a reputation ✣ , and a Lamp while living incognito in Paris ✣ and meets ✣ Zola. When Gil returns to Castle Wulfenbach, he is announced as the son of the Baron. Klaus (or Von Pinn) censors ✣ Gil's mail. | |
| +18 years, 9 months | Klaus assigns ✣ Dihoxulator to TPU as test for Gil. | |
| (+19 years, less ?? weeks) | Bangladesh DuPree destroys ✣ walking gunboat Vienna 707. Moloch and Omar von Zinzer flee, as do Bruno and the kid. Bang sees ✣ an electrical anomaly during the attack. | |
| (+18 years, 50 weeks) | Tarsus Beetle brings ✣ a hive engine to TPU. | |
| (+19 years) | Two weeks after destroying Vienna 707, Dupree investigates ✣ a burning town and sees another electrical anomaly. Unusually, Bang wasn't the one who burned the town. |
Prologue and First arc: Castle WulfenbachEdit
| Relative Date | Actual Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| +19 years, 0 days | 1892†-1894† possibly morning of Wednesday, 7 March 1894 | The events of Girl Genius begin ✣ . 18-year old ✣ Agatha Clay sees ✣ an electrical anomaly with a malevolent figure inside, has her locket stolen ✣ by Omar von Zinzer, screams for him to die slowly ✣ . Gil discredits ✣ the Dihoxulator, kills ✣ Tarsus Beetle, and saves ✣ a fish (twice ✣ ). Merlot takes over TPU and expels ✣ Agatha. |
| +19 years, 1 day | Agatha builds ✣ the Beetleberg Clank. Omar von Zinzer dies ✣ while holding Agatha's locket. | |
| +19 years, 3 days | Agatha awakens ✣ in Castle Wulfenbach, meets ✣ the imprisoned Othar Tryggvassen, Gentleman Adventurer, gets the sniff test ✣ from the Jägergenerals. | |
| +19 years, 4 days | Gil adopts ✣ a fish. Agatha tells ✣ Mr. Rovainen to "go do" whatever it is he "should be doing". | |
| +19 years, 5 days | [8] | Agatha builds ✣ the Dingbots. She and Gil destroy a hive engine activated ✣ by Mr. Rovainen. Gil proposes poorly ✣ . Klaus, Agatha, and others conclude ✣ that Agatha is a Heterodyne, probably Bill and Lucrezia's child. Punch and Judy rescue Agatha but are 'killed' in the process by Von Pinn. Zulenna Luzhakna is killed ✣ by Dupree. Agatha flees the castle, along with Othar Tryggvassen (briefly ✣ ) and Krosp. |
Second arc: Circus and SturmhaltenEdit
| Relative Date | Actual Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| +19 years, 6 days | Madame Olga is killed ✣ by spider clank. | |
| +19 years, ?? days | Klaus reassigns ✣ Jägers far from Agatha, ships ✣ Moloch von Zinzer to Castle Heterodyne. Othar Tryggvassen chats ✣ with Theopholous DuMedd. Klaus sends Merlot to Castle Heterodyne because of ✣ 'Miss Clay, the Heterodyne girl'. | |
| +19 years, 7 days | Circus helps Agatha fake ✣ her death. | |
| +19 years, 8 days | Agatha starts ✣ Kolee-dok-Zumil training with Zeetha, designs ✣ battle circus. Moxana starts ✣ a new game. | |
| +19 years, a few days | [9]Possibly Wednesday, 21 March 1894 (full moon) | Circus arrives at ✣ Zumzum a few days after Agatha begins training, meets Othar. Jenka seeks ✣ instructions concerning Agatha. |
| +19 years, a few weeks | Circus discovers ✣ revenants at Passholdt a few weeks after leaving Zumzum, acquires Da Boyz. | |
| +19 years, 2 months, 1 day | Master Payne's Circus of Adventure arrives ✣ at Sturmhalten in Balan's Gap, performs ✣ for Aaronev VI again. Anevka kills ✣ Aaronev VI. Vrin helps an 18-year out-of-date ✣ Lucrezia inhabit ✣ Agatha using the Holy Machine. Wasp weasels uncover ✣ 170 covert revenants aboard Castle Wulfenbach. (First day in ✣ Sturmhalten.) | |
| +19 years, 2 months, 2 days — Friday? | Klaus deduces ✣ that Agatha is alive, deploys ✣ to Sturmhalten to capture her. Gil sends ✣ Wooster to Sturmhalten, completes primary ✣ repairs on Punch and Judy, including Punch's voice. (Second day in ✣ Sturmhalten.) | |
| +19 years, 2 months, 3 days — Saturday? | [10] Possibly Saturday, 19 May 1894 (full moon) | Tarvek shelves Anevka, puts ✣ a copy of Lucrezia into her clank. Geisterdamen and the Lucrezia clank move ✣ several hive engines and "some sort of machine" ✣ from Castle Sturmvoraus to ancient caverns. Tinka and Moxana presumedly remain ✣ in Castle Sturmvoraus. Wulfenbach troops fight ✣ covert revenants in Sturmhalten. A gigantic projection announces ✣ a Heterodyne heiress to the world, claims Klaus is the Other. Lucrezia/Agatha orders ✣ Vrin to die, infects ✣ Klaus with a special slaver wasp. Klaus kills ✣ Lars, meets ✣ Zeetha, Daughter of Chump. Agatha drops ✣ a house on the wicked Klaus. Circus creates mass ✣ Heterodyne apparition. (Third day in ✣ Sturmhalten.) |
| +19 years, 2 months, 4? days — Sunday night | Circus departs ✣ for England following Battle of Sturmhalten. Sgt. Scorp, The Unstoppable Higgs, and Klaus arrive ✣ in Mechanicsburg. |
Third arc: MechanicsburgEdit
| Relative Date | Actual Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| +19 years, 2 months — Monday morning to midday | Agatha enters Mechanicsburg.
Jenka arrives ✣ . Zola enters ✣ Castle Heterodyne. Agatha makes ✣ coffee. | |
| +19 years, 2 months — Monday afternoon (thunderstorm) | Carson von Mekkhan uses ✣ of Throne of Faustus Heterodyne 437215353 seconds (13.85 years) after he swore never to do it again.
Knights of Jove attack ✣ , but are defeated by Gil single-handedly. Gil defeats Vole (and sends him to search for the leader of the KofJ) and is taken to Mamma Gkika’s. | |
| +19 years, 2 months — Monday afternoon late |
Agatha enters ✣ Castle Heterodyne. Klaus prepares ✣ units to destroy Castle Heterodyne. After a few hours ✣ Gil wakes up, almost completely healed. Zeetha explains Agatha's relationship to the Other. Gil meets Vanamonde and Krosp, and Zeetha meets Higgs. Klaus takes a walk in the medical mecha. Vole returns with Selnikov’s head. Evening bar fight at Mamma Gkika's | |
| +19 years, 2 months — Monday around sunset | Agatha enters the Chapel of Bones and submits to the Test ✣ . | |
| +19 years, 2 months — Monday evening |
At nightfall, Agatha's Torchmen take to ✣ the skies of Mechanicsburg for first time since the attack on Castle Heterodyne, drive off Zola's pink airship and Castle Wulfenbach. Tarvek enters ✣ Castle Heterodyne with Violetta. Agatha and Moloch find them and deal with a FSMADD. Gil catches up with Theo and Sleipnir. | |
| +19 years, 2 months — Monday night (fireworks) |
Gil attracts the town to the Castle with a fireworks show and fight with Zeetha. Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, Schmott Guy enters ✣ Castle Heterodyne. | |
| +19 years, 2 months — Monday night late/early Tuesday |
Von Pinn enters ✣ Castle Heterodyne. Sgt. Scorp has healed and is back on-duty. Grantz hauls ✣ Othar before Klaus in Mechanicsburg. Agatha treats Tarvek. Gil & co. meet Zola & co., and whole group is press ganged. Agatha builds a death ray and falls asleep. Most of Gil & Zola's group fall asleep. | |
| +19 years, 2 months — Tuesday ✣ |
Moloch succeeds in waking Agatha, who, after checking on Tarvek (who's worse), starts looking for Gil. After a talk with Zeetha, Gil wakes up his group and sends them off. Gil and Zola proceed to the Lion, where Agatha finds them ✣ . Agatha subdues Zola and is confronting Gil when Merlot interrupts ✣ and injures Gil. Agatha prepares the group to return to Tarvek, when Von Pinn appears ✣ , but is disposed of. Agatha, Tiktoffen, Gil, & Zola travel back to Tarvek, encountering many hazards. After examining and reconciling with Gil, Agatha reintroduces him to Tarvek. ... And after further adventures in medicine and engineering, Agatha shuts down the Castle ✣ . | |
| +19 years, 2 months — Tuesday ✣ evening |
Van visits Carson. Klaus tries to escape his hospital room but is sedated by Dr. Sun. Agatha undertakes the si vales valeo procedure. |
In the futureEdit
| Relative Date | Actual Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| (in the future?) | The enigma uses a time window device device to view Agatha in downtown Beetleburg | |
| (in the future) | Agatha uses ✣ a time window device with Gil, Moloch, and a Geisterdame. |
† marks relative or absolute dates that are off by 100 years if Klaus Barry Heterodyne was born in 1972.
Other sources of Internal Chronology Edit
References
- ↑ It could also be a 9 but this is a Gaslamp Fantasy and according to Kaja that means the Victorian era.
- ↑ To simplify this page, the birth is assumed to be in 1872 and calculated dates that may be off by 100 years are marked with (†).
- ↑ As the circus approaches Strumhalten they mention few passes have open up yet ✣ .
- ↑ Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess refers to Gil as "looking down from 22 years" at the time of the Sturmhalten events.
- ↑ Girl Genius Novelization
- ↑ Girl Genius Novelization
- ↑ Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess p276
- ↑ Around the time of a full moon.
- ↑ Around the time of a full ✣ moon ✣ .
- ↑ Around the time of a full moon ✣ .
