This timeline attempts to place the events mentioned in the Girl Genius story in internal chronological order.
| Relative Date
| Actual Date
| Event
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| (long, long ago)
|
| Jägers take ✣ Jägertroth to serve House Heterodyne.
|
| (-279 to -229 years)
| 1593† to 1643†
| Maxim, youngest of Da Boyz, is born.
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| (-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 Strumhalten.
|
| -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.
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| 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
| The 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 starts working on Wulfenbach airships. 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.
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| Relative Date
| Actual Date
| Event
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| (+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.
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| (+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.
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| (+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.
|
| +19 years, 0 days
| 1892†-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.
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| +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.
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| +19 years, 6 days
|
| Madame Olga is killed ✣ by spider clank.
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| +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'.
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| +19 years, 7 days
|
| Circus helps Agatha fake ✣ her death.
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| +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]
| 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.
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| +19 years, 2 months
|
| 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
|
| 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
| [10]
| 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, ?? days)
|
| Circus departs ✣ for England following Battle of Sturmhalten. Sgt. Scorp, The Unstoppable Higgs, and Klaus arrive ✣ in Mechanicsburg.
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| +19 years, 2 months — Monday
|
| Jenka arrives ✣ at Mechanicsburg. Knights of Jove attack ✣ Mechanicsburg. Zola enters ✣ Castle Heterodyne. Agatha makes ✣ coffee. Carson von Mekkhan uses ✣ of Throne of Faustus Heterodyne 437215353 seconds (13.85 years) after he swore never to do it again. Agatha enters ✣ Castle Heterodyne. Klaus prepares ✣ units to destroy Castle Heterodyne. (First day in Mechanicsburg.)
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| +19 years, 2 months — Tuesday ✣
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| 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. Von Pinn enters ✣ Castle Heterodyne. Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, Schmott Guy enters ✣ Castle Heterodyne. Grantz hauls ✣ Othar before Klaus in Mechanicsburg. In the morning, Agatha captures conspirators Gil and Zola ✣ in Castle Heterodyne. (Second day in Mechanicsburg.)
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† marks relative or absolute dates that are off by 100 years if Klaus Barry Heterodyne was born in 1972.
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