Events[]
- Commercial flights across the Pacific become available.[1]
- A cure for malaria is discovered.[2]
- February: Indiana Jones gets a mysterious visitor before he leaves for treasure hunting - an Arctic explorer who dies after giving him a box and explores his tale. He joins a Danish adventurer, a pilot friend, and a smart radio operator to a Nazi ship near Iceland and tests their wits about finding the world beneath our feet.[3]
- February 6-7: A Communist riot occurs in Paris.[4]
- Paul Robeson travels to the Soviet Union.[5]
- A Duesenberg Auburn convertible, later owned by Uncle Wong, is produced.[6]
- The excavation of Ur ends.[4]
- Electron microscope is invented.[4]
- Nylon is invented.[4]
- Army suppresses uprisings in Spain.[7]
- Rioting breaks out in Morocco.[7]
- The poors in British Honduras respond with riots, strikes and demonstration.[8]
- The Soviet Union joins the League of Nations.[7]
- General strike is called in San Francisco.[7]
- US forces withdraw from Haiti.[7]
- Indiana Jones saves the life of Professor Kobayashi.[9]
- King Alexander of Yugoslavia is assassinated in France.[7]
- Adolf Hitler's government combined the office of the president and chancellor into a consolidated position of unparalleled authority: Führer.[10]
- The Nazis begin sending out archaeological teams across the world in search of religious artifacts under the orders of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.[11]
- A German Ticket Taker wins a gold metal in light-weight boxing at the Olympic Games.[12]
- Hitler purges the Brownshirts in the "Night of the Long Knives".[7]
- Lao Che gives a critical lead to Indiana Jones that helps him to find the ancient burial ground of the Chinese emperors.[13]
- Summer: after months of planning, Indiana Jones travels to the Rub al Khali Desert of Saudi Arabia to dig for the remains of a nomadic culture that pre-dated Jesus Christ only to find that his rival René Emile Belloq had swept in and extensively excavated the site before him.[14]
- Indiana Jones unearths the entrance to the Tomb of Qin in Mount Hua, China. He is assisted by Lo, a villager who guides him through his expedition.[15]
- Faye Maskelyne and her daughter Mystery finds out the fate of Kaspar Maskelyne, through the Omega Book.[15]
- Indy partecipates to an excavation in the Navelo region, in Russia.[16]
- Japan refuses the naval treaties it had signed with Britain and the US.[1]
- Turkey, Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia form the Balkan pact.[4]
- November: the followers of General Mazaki plot a military coup.[1]
- Joseph Stalin establishes his "cult of personality" to promote totalitarianism, continues bloody purge of political opponents.[4]
- Mao Tse-Tung leads Chinese communists on "Long March."[4]
- Lazaro Cardenas becomes Mexican President.[4]
- George McHale makes a trip to Dufourspitze, the Swiss Alps, where he uncovers a set of the late Leonardo da Vinci's long-lost mirror-writing notebooks, which he delivers to the British Museum, much to the annoyance of many Italians.[17]
Births[]
Deaths[]
- Paul von Hinderburg[10]
- Dolfuss[4]
- Alexander I in France[7]
- Early: Evelyn Briggs Baldwin in New Jersey[3]
- January: Serge Stravisky[4]
- February:
- Alecia Dunstin[3]
- Dortmuller[3]
- Liebel[3]
- Rudolf Reingold[3]
- In Texas
- John Dillinger in Chicago[4]
- Montgomery Bryce[15]
- In Giza, Egypt
- "Pretty Boy" Floyd in Ohio[4]
Appearances[]
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Special Delivery (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth
- Indiana Jones and the Cult of the Mummy's Crypt
- Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx
- Indiana Jones Adventure World
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom novel (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: A Tale of High Adventure (Mentioned only)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark novel (Mentioned only)
The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones – "Trail of the Golden Guns" (Indirect mention)
- Indiana Jones und das Schiff der Götter (Indirect mention)
- Indiana Jones and the Army of the Dead (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
- The Adventures of Indiana Jones
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (TSR)
- The World of Indiana Jones
- Indiana Jones and the Rising Sun
- Indiana Jones and the Golden Vampires
- Paul Robeson - Scandalize My Name (Non-fiction source)
Marshall College on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
Belloq's Marshall College entry on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
Adolf Hitler's Marshall College entry on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
- The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
Inside the World of Indiana Jones on Lucasfilm.com (backup link on Archive.org)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Indiana Jones and the Rising Sun
- ↑ The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Special Delivery
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 The World of Indiana Jones
- ↑ Paul Robeson - Scandalize My Name
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom novel
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 The Adventures of Indiana Jones
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Golden Vampires
- ↑
The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones – "Dragon by the Tail!!"
- ↑ 10.0 10.1
Adolf Hitler's Marshall College entry on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- ↑ Raiders of the Lost Ark
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (TSR)
- ↑ Raiders of the Lost Ark novel
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx
- ↑
The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones – "Trail of the Golden Guns"
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Army of the Dead