Events[]
- By this year, Europe had 300 milions of inhabitants.[1] Austria-Hungary had more than 50 milions inhabitants.[2]
- By this year, all of Paris, France seemed to be celebrating Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso as the acclaimed masters of a whole new school of art.[3]
- A report by the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Scotland is produced.[4]
- Saint Petersburg is renamed Petrograd, Russia.[5]
- Treasure hunters steals the Statue of Anansi from a sacred cave along the shores of the Gold Coast.[6]
- A Mauser pistol, later owned by Lieutenant Musashi, is produced.[7]
- Car horn is invented.[8]
- The excavation of Carchemish ends.[9]
- The Panama Canal is opened.[9]
- John Ford arrives in Hollywood.[10]
- The Moab, Utah schoolhouse in the United States of America burns down.[11]
- First air conditioner is manufactured.[9]
- Edgar Rice Burroughs writes Tarzan of the Apes.[11]
- John Seven Oaks is abandoned when he is a baby,[12] (Approximate)
- The Lewis Gun is invented by Isaac Newton Lewis.[13]
- Bronislaw Malinowski begins studing the Trobriander tribe of Papua New Guinea.[14]
- Pilots begin exchanging shots with revolvers or rifles held to their shoulders.[15]
- Venustiano Carranza ousts Victoriano Huerta and becomes president.[16]
- Spring: Indiana Jones becomes involved in recovering a stolen family heirloom, the Cross of Roger for an Italian immigrant in New York City, New York, USA.[17]
- Summer: Indy and his father Henry Walton Jones, Senior move back to Princeton, New Jersey.[18]
- May: an enlistee in the British Expeditionary Force had to stand five-foot-eight to be enlist.[15]
- June 28: Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, is killed in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, setting in motion events that would lead to the first World War.[19][1]
- July
- August
- Germans invade Luxembourg and Belgium. They take Liege and Brussels.[9]
- August 1: Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.[1]
- August 3: Germany declares war on France.[1]
- August 4: Great Britain declares war on Germany.[1]
- August 5: The Schweitzers are informed that, as Germans in French territory, they are prisoners of war.[20]
- August 13: Russians invade Prussia.[9]
- August 23: Japan declares war against Germany and occupies the Marshall islands, the Marianas and the Carolines.[9]
- August 23-24: Battle of Mons. Germans and British battle for the first time. Germans force the main army of the British to retreat from Belgium.[9]
- August 26: Battle of Tannenburg. Germans defeat Russia, taking 25;000 prisoners and demoralizing the Russian army.[9]
- Jean-Luc joins to figth the Germans.[21]
- September
- October
- Late October-Early November: Indy and his father find themselves involved in a desperate hunt by Chinese, Japanese and German factions for a golden Chinese dragon statuette.[22]
- November
- The height requirement in the British Expeditionary Force is now five-three.[15]
- Henry and Indy leave Peking. Choma aboard the yacht of Amos Hungerford. They travel West, stopping in the small Indian territory of Killahabad. Indy befriends the Oxford-educated prince Kasim Khan. Indy confirms the region’s tiger troubles may be tied to a cursed gem recently discovered.[23]
- November 1: Battle of Coronel. German Admiral von Spee is victorious over the British.[9]
- December
- Trench warfare begins on both fronts.[9]
- December 6: Germans take Lodz as they march into Poland.[9]
- December 8: Battle of the Falkland Islands. British naval victory in the south Atlantic.[9]
- December 18: Great Britain moves to protect Egypt and the Suez Canal.[9]
- December 25: On Christmas Day]] the British and the Germans stop firing at each other and come out of their trenches to play football.[21]
- December 26: The British and the Germans go back to blasting each other again.[21]
- In San Francisco, USA, Carruthers shows off his acquisition of a "genuine 15th - century Inca funeral urn" from Bolivia before Henry points out the inscription saying "Made in Japan".[24]
- Hindu nationalist leaders like Tilak and Mohandas K. Gandhi back the war effort.[25]
- Brazil joins the Allies while Argentina is neutral.[9]
- The United States of America briefly seize the port of Veracruz to protect U.S. oil interests.[26]
- A patent is issued in Paris for a jet engine.[27]
- The Bas-ketmaker culture, first proposed by the late Richard Wetherill, is verified.[28]
- Yuri is captured and imprisoned in Dusterstadt. He begins creating a robe using strings.[29]
- The A-1 Triad is redesigned to AH-1.[30]
Deaths[]
- Alexander Zonze[9]
- May: Man in the iron mask[31]
- June: Zed[19]
- June: Igor Ivanovich Stravsky[19]
- June 28:[19] in Sarajevo[1]
- Franz Ferdinand[19]
- Sophia (Ferninand)[21]
- Ellen Wilson in White House, Washington DC[32]
Appearances[]
- Young Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Terror (Historical note)
- Young Indiana Jones and the Princess of Peril (Historical note)
- Young Indiana Jones and the Journey to the Underworld
- Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Ruby Cross
- Young Indiana Jones and the Gypsy Revenge
- Young Indiana Jones and the Secret City
- Young Indiana Jones and the Mountain of Fire
- Young Indiana Jones and the Face of the Dragon
- Young Indiana Jones and the Eye of the Tiger
- South of the Border (Chronology)
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Revolution (Mentioned only)
- Prisoner of War (Mentioned only)
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Germany, Mid-August 1916" → Trenches of Hell (Mentioned only)
- Field of Death (Mentioned only)
- The Day of Destiny (Mentioned only)
- The Mata Hari Affair (Mentioned only)
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Special Delivery (Mentioned only)
- The Secret Peace (Historical note)
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hunting for Treasure (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants
- Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones: The Search For Buried Treasure (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
- Grail Diary
- Who Are Those Guys? (Non-fiction source)
- "Uncovering the History Behind Young Indy" – The Lucasfilm Fan Club Magazine 16
- The War to End All Wars (Non-fiction source)
- The Battle of Verdun (Non-fiction source)
- Schweitzer (Non-fiction source)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Sourcebook
- The World of Indiana Jones
- Indiana Jones Artifacts
- Indiana Jones and the Lands of Adventure
Chapter 13: Adventures in the Secret Service on The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones (backup link on Archive.org)
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Media Kit
- Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century (Non-fiction source)
- Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed (Non-fiction source)
- Dreaming of Africa - The Life of Frederick Selous (Non-fiction source)
- V. I. Lenin - History Will Not Forgive Us (Non-fiction source)
- The Secret Life of Edith Wharton (Non-fiction source)
- Woodrow Wilson - American Idealist (Non-fiction source)
- The Best Intentions - The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles (Non-fiction source)
- New Gods for Old (Non-fiction source)
- The World of John Ford (Non-fiction source)
- Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 The War to End All Wars
- ↑ The Secret Peace
- ↑ Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants
- ↑ Young Indiana Jones and the Princess of Peril
- ↑ Indiana Jones Artifacts
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx
- ↑ Indiana Jones Jr et le Violon du Metropolitan
- ↑ 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.10 9.11 9.12 9.13 9.14 9.15 9.16 9.17 9.18 The World of Indiana Jones
- ↑ The World of John Ford
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth
- ↑ The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Special Delivery
- ↑ The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hunting for Treasure
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 The Mata Hari Affair
- ↑ South of the Border
- ↑ Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Ruby Cross
- ↑ Young Indiana Jones and the Mountain of Fire
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 Young Indiana Jones and the Secret City
- ↑ Schweitzer
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 The Day of Destiny
- ↑ Young Indiana Jones and the Face of the Dragon
- ↑ Young Indiana Jones and the Eye of the Tiger
- ↑ Grail Diary
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Sourcebook
- ↑ Who Are Those Guys?
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy
- ↑ The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Germany, Mid-August 1916" → [[Trenches of Hell|]]
- ↑ The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Revolution
- ↑ Young Indiana Jones and the Gypsy Revenge
- ↑ Woodrow Wilson - American Idealist