Internal Chronology
From Girl Genius
Dated from the year of The Other's attack on Castle Heterodyne. All dates are approximate and probably subject to being changed.
The birth of Klaus Barry Heterodyne is 407 days before the attack. His memorial marker 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 or 9. This puts "Year 0" as 1893-4 or 1993-4 and the beginning of Agatha's adventures as likely 1892-4 or 1992-4.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| -200 years prior | The events of The Storm King take place. |
| -80-100 years | The Red Heterodyne attacks the Unseen Empire and develops a taste for bat sandwiches. |
| -20 years | The Heterodyne Boys, Baron Klaus Wulfenbach, and Punch & Judy begin adventuring. |
| -3 years, 4 months, 12 days | Bill Heterodyne proposes to Lucrezia Mongfish. Klaus disappears the next day. |
| -1 year, 42 days | Klaus Barry Heterodyne is born, __72. It is 2 years and 3 months since his namesake disappeared. Gossips still ignore the math. |
| -3 days | Carson von Mekkahn retires as Heterodyne seneschal. |
| "Year 0" | Attack on the Castle. Klaus Barry is killed, along with Carson's son and 63 others; Lucrezia's lab notes are burned and her staff killed. She disappears and is presumed kidnapped. |
| +1 day | The Heterodyne Boys set out to battle the Other. They never return home. |
| (date unknown) | Agatha Heterodyne is born. |
| +1 year | Roughly, the latest one would have expected to date the construction of a hive engine. Around the same time, The Other ceases operations and The Heterodyne Boys disappear. Barry Heterodyne remains and raises his neice in secret. |
| +1-3 years | Klaus Wulfenbach reappears and begins his conquest of Europa. He returns with a son, who is kept a secret from the rest of the world. |
| +4 years | An expedition from TPU enters Castle Heterodyne, roughly 14.5 years before the events of Girl Genius. |
| +4-5 years | Klaus politely takes over Mechanicsburg and negotiates with Castle Heterodyne. |
| +5-6 years | 5060d08h42m 33s (13.85 years) before the events of Girl Genius was the last time Carson channeled the Castle; swears he will never do so again. |
| +8 years | Barry Heterodyne leaves on what should be a mission of a few months (eleven years before the story starts), leaving Agatha in the sole care of Punch and Judy. He never returns. |
| (date unknown) | Zeetha completes the destruction of the Pirate fortress and realizes she has killed everyone who could have revealed where she was picked up. |
| +16 years | "Dot magnetic prince guy" makes a bid for power, and is put down in five months. Considered by the Jägers to be the last significant rebellion against Baron Wulfenbach. |
| +17 years | Zeetha joins Master Payne's Circus of Adventure. |
| (date unknown) | Gil is revealed as the son of Baron Wulfenbach. |
| (date unknown) | Walking gunboat Vienna 707 destroyed by Bangladesh DuPree. Moloch von Zinzer flees, among others. Bang sees a strange anomaly during the attack. Two weeks later, she investigates a burned-out town and sees another one. Unusually, Bang wasn't the one who burned the town. |
| +19 years | Beginning of the events of Girl Genius. Agatha sees a strange electrical anomaly with a seemingly malevolent figure inside. |
| +19 years, 2 days | Agatha wakes up aboard Castle Wulfenbach. |
| (date unknown) | Agatha breaks through as a spark, she and Gil destroy a hive engine, Gil proposes (badly), and her identity as Agatha Heterodyne is discovered by all concerned. Punch and Judy attempt to rescue her but are killed by Von Pinn. Agatha flees the Castle, along with Othar (briefly), and Krosp. |
| (date unknown) | Not much later, the Circus helps Agatha fake her death. |
| +19 years, 2-3 months | Agatha enters Mechanicsburg. She meets Castle Heterodyne, channeled by Carson von Mekkahn seated on the Throne of Faustus Heterodyne, and enters the castle. The same day the Torchmen are activated for the first time since the attack on the castle. |
