1937

Events[]

Ernst Henne becomes the fastest man on two wheels by pushing a BMW to 173 mph (279.5 kph).^[1]
Indiana Jones travels to a tomb in Africa in search of a Ceremonial Dagger. Jones later heads to a temple to stop cultists from summoning Hecate.^[2]
Second Sino-Japanese War begins.^[3]
Japan sinks U.S. gunboat in China Sea.^[3]
Introduction of the first useful helicopter.^[1]
April:^[4] German planes bomb Guernica, Spain.^[5]
Neville Chamberlain heads the coalition government in Great Britain.^[5]
Burma granted limited-self government by Great Britain.^[5]
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is released.^[5]
Billie Simpson attends a lecture by Indiana Jones.^[6]
Amelia Earhart is mysteriously lost in the Pacific Ocean and her body is never recovered.^[5]
Foster McCray manages to build a civilization on Howling Island.^[6]
The Congress party, after defeating the Muslim League soundly in the Indian provincial elections, announces that there are only two parties in India, the Congress and the British Raj.^[7]
Anastasio Somoza becomes president in Nicaragua.^[8]
A vaccine is developed for Yellow fever.^[9]
Roger Ballentyne discovers a map leading to the Treasure of Sheba.^[10]
May
- Golden Gate Bridge is completed.^[3]
- May 5: Captain Konrad Altrichter of the German battleship KMS Kummetz receives orders to sail to Peru to take part in Emmerich Voss' Operation Großer Kreis.^[11]
- May 6: The zeppelin Hindenburg bursts into flames and crashes^[1] in the airport of Lakehurst,^[12] New Jersey.^[3]
- May 10: Laura Lombardi successfully translates Adamic carvings found in a secret chamber beneath the Temple of the Sun in Peru for Emmerich Voss' Operation Großer Kreis.^[11]
- May 12: At 00:12 Berlin time, the KMS Kummetz vanishes 50 kilometers off the coast of Peru with all hands after Laura Lombardi conducts Experiment Delta Circle Zero, the activation of the Earthsplitter Relic in a demonstration of its power for Emmerich Voss, who is observing the experiment from a second ship. The Kummetz is teleported to midair above the Himalayas. Numerous crew and passengers perish immediately from the impact when the ship drops onto a mountain peak and the others succumb to starvation, infighting and cold over the following days.^[11]
Summer: Indy finds Aurelius's Dagger in a Roman well.^[13]
July
- July 15: Viktor Gantz receives reassignment orders directly from Adolf Hitler to join Emmerich Voss' archaeological expedition in Giza, part of Operation Großer Kreis.^[11]
- July 28: the Japaneses take Peking.^[5]
- July 29: the Japaneses take Tientsin.^[5]
August
- Indy and his cousin are involved in the search of the Eye of the Fates.^[14]
- August 8-November 8: the city of Shanghai is taken.^[5]
- August 22: Registration occurs at Marshall College.^[11]
- August 23: Commencement of the classes at Marshall College.^[11]
- August 24: Registration endsat Marshall College.^[11]
Late Summer: Indiana Jones travels to New Delhi to purchase a statue of Shiva from a woman whose husband had gambling debts. Jones is forced to flee from her house when her husband, Rajid, comes home and thinks Jones was cheating on his wife, and began shooting at Jones.^[15]
September
- September 3
  - The Japanese take Kalgan.^[5]
  - Labor Day holiday occurs. Marshall College is closed.^[11]
- September 24: The Japanese take Paoting.^[5]
Fall
- Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood are set to get married, but one week before the wedding Indy reconsiders and leaves, thinking it would not work.^[1]
- Indy loses touch with Harold Oxley over his treatment of Marion.^[16]
- Marion Ravenwood gets pregnant with Mutt Williams.^[17]
October
- October 4: Projects submission occurs at Marshall College.^[11]
- October 5-10: Rosita Quiroga and her band perform at the Tango Palace club in Buenos Aires, Argentina.^[15]
- October 10: the Japanese take Shihchiachuang.^[5]
- October 14: the Japanese take Kweisui.^[5]
- October 21: Locus breaks into Marshall College and steals a Cat Mummy that Indiana Jones had excavated in Siwa six weeks earlier. Indy is dragged into a mystery about a circle of spiritual sites around the world.^[11]
- October 23: Indiana Jones arrives in Rome in search of the Cat Mummy, and infiltrates Vatican City to investigate the medallion left behind by Locus at Marshall College. There, Indy meets Gina Lombardi, who is searching Vatican City for her missing sister Laura. Indy also discovers the existence of the Nephilim Order, and learns of Nazi archaeologist Emmerich Voss' "Operation Great Circle", a worldwide hunt for the Great Circle artifacts. With the assistance of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and Father Cesare Ventura, Voss steals the 13 Great Circle artifacts that the Nephilim Order had collected over the years.^[11]
- October 25: Indiana Jones and Gina Lombardi arrive in Giza aboard Emmerich Voss' zeppelin. Indy discovers a hidden Nephilim temple beneath the Great Pyramid and retrieves the Sunsparker Relic from within the Idol of Ra. Voss seizes the Sunsparker Relic from Indy, then departs for Sukhothai, Siam while sending Viktor Gantz in pursuit of a distress signal from the missing battleship KMS Kummetz in the Himalayas.^[11]
November
- November 1: Indiana Jones and Gina Lombardi reach the KMS Kummetz in the Himalayas, where they recover the Earthsplitter Relic and are teleported to Shanghai.^[11]
- November 6: Indiana Jones and Gina Lombardi arrive in Sukhothai to investigate a site on the Great Circle containing the Wavebreaker Relic.^[11]
- November 9: the Japanese take T'ai-yuan.^[5]
- November 15: Indiana Jones arrives at the Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq, which had been excavated by Emmerich Voss' Operation Großer Kreis over a period of several months. The Nazis had also discovered Noah's Ark and the Allmaker Relic entombed beneath the ziggurat. Indy rescues Gina Lombardi from Nazi captivity. Noah's Ark, with Locus aboard, is teleported to Antarctica.^[11]
- November 22-23: Thanksgiving holiday occurs. Marshall College is closed.^[11]
Fall
- Indiana Jones is involved in the discovery of Chimu Taya Arms of Cuzco.^[15]
December
- December 5: Last to drop class/withdraw at Marshall College.^[11]
- December 9: Walter Donovan asks Henry Walton Jones, Senior to lead his research team.^[18]
- December 11: Italy quits the League of Nations.^[3]
- December 12-18: Final exams occur at Marshall College.^[11]
- December 13:
  - The city of Nanking falls.^[5]
  - Rape of Nanking: The Japanese army begins a two-month long orgy of brutal rape, torture and wanton slaughter that kills over fifty thousand men, women and children.^[19]

Deaths[]

Otto's father^[20]
Charles Marie Widor^[21]
Amelia Earhart in the Pacific Ocean (presumed)^[5]
Edith Wharton^[22]
Bruno Hauptmann^[5]
Early: In Washington
- Canyon Creek bartender^[23]
- Zack^[23]
- Hyatt^[23]
In Estray Island, Scotland
- Douglas^[24]
- Crazy Angus^[24]
- Ian Soames^[24]
May:
- Konrad Altrichter^[11]
- Laura Lombardi^[11]
November:
- Viktor Gantz^[11]
- Emmerich Voss^[11]
Fall: In the Andes

Behind the scenes[]

Indiana Jones and the Golden Vampires notes that if the Nationalists claim the Face of Destruction and use it to level Madrid, Spain in Summer 1937, the city falls two years earlier than out-of-universe, as in real-world, Madrid fell in 1939.^[25]

Appearances[]

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Special Delivery (Mentioned only)
The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones – "Big Game"
The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones – "Double Play!"
Indiana Jones and the Wrath of Hecate
Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures 3 – "Aurelius's Dagger!"
Indiana Jones and the Eye of the Fates
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle teaser
Indiana Jones and the Arms of Gold
Indiana Jones and the Monkey King (Cancelled)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure (Mentioned only)
Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasure of Sheba (Mentioned only)
Indiana Jones and the Ape Slaves of Howling Island (Mentioned only)
Indiana Jones und das Schiff der Götter (Indirect mention)

Sources[]

Notes and references[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
↑ Indiana Jones and the Wrath of Hecate
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 The Adventures of Indiana Jones
↑ "Uncovering the History Behind Young Indy Part Two" - The Lucasfilm Fan Club Magazine 17
↑ ^5.00 ^5.01 ^5.02 ^5.03 ^5.04 ^5.05 ^5.06 ^5.07 ^5.08 ^5.09 ^5.10 ^5.11 ^5.12 ^5.13 ^5.14 ^5.15 The World of Indiana Jones
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 Indiana Jones and the Ape Slaves of Howling Island
↑ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Sourcebook
↑ Indiana Jones and the Lands of Adventure
↑ The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Special Delivery
↑ Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasure of Sheba
↑ ^11.00 ^11.01 ^11.02 ^11.03 ^11.04 ^11.05 ^11.06 ^11.07 ^11.08 ^11.09 ^11.10 ^11.11 ^11.12 ^11.13 ^11.14 ^11.15 ^11.16 ^11.17 ^11.18 ^11.19 ^11.20 ^11.21 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
↑ Indiana Jones und das Schiff der Götter
↑ Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures 3 - "Aurelius's Dagger!"
↑ Indiana Jones and the Eye of the Fates
↑ ^15.0 ^15.1 ^15.2 ^15.3 ^15.4 ^15.5 Indiana Jones and the Arms of Gold
↑ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
↑ Inferred from Mutt's birth in July 1938 per Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide.
↑ Grail Diary
↑ Indiana Jones and the Rising Sun
↑ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
↑ Schweitzer
↑ The Secret Life of Edith Wharton
↑ ^23.0 ^23.1 ^23.2 The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones – "Big Game"
↑ ^24.0 ^24.1 ^24.2 The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones – "Double Play!"
↑ Indiana Jones and the Golden Vampires

External links[]

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[:1-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide

[2] Indiana Jones and the Wrath of Hecate

[:3-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 The Adventures of Indiana Jones

[4] "Uncovering the History Behind Young Indy Part Two" - The Lucasfilm Fan Club Magazine 17

[:7-5] 5.00 ^5.01 ^5.02 ^5.03 ^5.04 ^5.05 ^5.06 ^5.07 ^5.08 ^5.09 ^5.10 ^5.11 ^5.12 ^5.13 ^5.14 ^5.15 The World of Indiana Jones

[:2-6] 6.0 ^6.1 Indiana Jones and the Ape Slaves of Howling Island

[7] Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Sourcebook

[8] Indiana Jones and the Lands of Adventure

[9] The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Special Delivery

[10] Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasure of Sheba

[:9-11] 11.00 ^11.01 ^11.02 ^11.03 ^11.04 ^11.05 ^11.06 ^11.07 ^11.08 ^11.09 ^11.10 ^11.11 ^11.12 ^11.13 ^11.14 ^11.15 ^11.16 ^11.17 ^11.18 ^11.19 ^11.20 ^11.21 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

[12] Indiana Jones und das Schiff der Götter

[13] Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures 3 - "Aurelius's Dagger!"

[14] Indiana Jones and the Eye of the Fates

[:0-15] 15.0 ^15.1 ^15.2 ^15.3 ^15.4 ^15.5 Indiana Jones and the Arms of Gold

[16] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

[17] Inferred from Mutt's birth in July 1938 per Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide.

[:6-18] Grail Diary

[:8-19] Indiana Jones and the Rising Sun

[20] Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure

[21] Schweitzer

[22] The Secret Life of Edith Wharton

[:4-23] 23.0 ^23.1 ^23.2 The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones – "Big Game"

[:5-24] 24.0 ^24.1 ^24.2 The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones – "Double Play!"

[:10-25] Indiana Jones and the Golden Vampires

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