History
AU History
Slayer/Vampire Events (AU)
1763 -- Seven Years' War ends
1774 -- First Continental Congress convened
1775 -- (April) first shots fired at Lexington and Concord -- (May) Second Continental Congress convened
1776 -- (July) Second Continental Congress issues the Declaration of Independence
1781 -- Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, Virginia, which was the last major battle of the war
1783 -- Treaty of Paris finally ends the hostilities between America, Britain, France and Spain -- Britain recognizes American Independence and cedes all territory west of the Mississippi (from Canada to Spanish Florida) to the Americans
1789 -- (July) storming of the Bastille begins the French Revolution
1793 -- (France) Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette brought to the guillotine -- knee breeches give way to trousers and women adopt the flowing gowns and hairstyles of Ancient Greece
1798 -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth publish Lyrical Ballads
1799 -- Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication for the Rights of Women -- (November) Napoleon overthrows the French Directory becomes dictator
1802 -- Napoleon sells the Louisiana Territory to the United States
1804 -- the Civil Code drafted by Napoleon [later known as the Napoleonic Code] is instituted in France -- Napoleon crowns himself emperor of the French
1810 -- Latin American colonies in open revolt
1812 -- war breaks out between the United States and Great Britain
1813 -- (October) Napoleon defeated at Leipzig
1814 -- Napoleon exiled to Elba -- Congress of Vienna -- Battle of New Orleans occurs after a peace is reached by delegates in Europe
1815 -- (June) Napoleon defeated at Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blucher, and permanently exiled to St. Helena where he died six years later
1819 -- Florida is purchased from Spain for $5 million dollars
1822 -- Spanish South America now independent nations and all free countries adopt the Napoleonic Code
1823 -- Monroe Doctrine issued and immediately supported by British Prime Minister George Canning
1824 -- Trade unions legalized in Great Britain
1832 -- Reform Bill in Great Britain redistributed seats in the House of Commons, taking them from dying small towns and giving them to the industrial cities in the north
1833 -- Slavery abolished in the British Empire
1846 -- Corn Laws passed in GB
1848 -- Revolution breaks out in France, eventually leading to the establishment of the Second French Republic with Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte as President
1851 -- Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte takes power in France in a coup d'etat
1763 -- Seven Years' War ends
1774 -- First Continental Congress convened
1775 -- (April) first shots fired at Lexington and Concord -- (May) Second Continental Congress convened
1776 -- (July) Second Continental Congress issues the Declaration of Independence
1781 -- General Washington assassinated while en route to Yorktown -- de Grasse's fleet does not arrive -- Continental Army slowly collapses and the Congress flees to Louisiana while Britain reestablishes control from Maine to Georgia
1789 -- (July) storming of the Bastille begins the French Revolution
1791 -- (France) Fearful of failing in their quest as had their American counterparts, Robespierre and the radicals send Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to the guillotine -- knee breeches give way to trousers and women adopt the flowing gowns and hairstyles of Ancient Greece
1798 -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth publish Lyrical Ballads
1799 -- (November) Napoleon overthrows the French Directory becomes dictator
1802 -- Napoleon sells the Louisiana Territory to a large group composed of French Creoles and exiled American Patriots who establish La Grande Territorie de Louisiane (GTL), an independent self-governing republican country
1804 -- the Civil Code drafted by Napoleon [later known as the Napoleonic Code] is instituted in France -- Napoleon crowns himself emperor of the French
1808 -- first of several skirmishes begin along GTL's eastern border that eventually lead to open hostilities -- settlers in the British colonial frontier swear allegiance to the GTL
1810 -- Latin American colonies in open revolt
1813 -- (October) Napoleon defeated at Leipzig
1814 -- Napoleon exiled to Elba -- Congress of Vienna -- Battle of New Orleans occurs after a peace is reached by delegates in Europe -- La Grande Territorie de Louisiane formally recognized by the Congress of Vienna as an independent nation -- Britain cedes all territory from Canada to Spanish Florida, and Spain cedes Florida, to the GTL as a part of the peace settlement
1815 -- (June) Napoleon defeated at Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blucher, and permanently exiled to St. Helena where he died six years later
1822 -- Spanish South America now independent nations and all free countries adopt the Napoleonic Code
1824 -- Trade unions legalized in Great Britain
1832 -- Reform Bill in Great Britain redistributed seats in the House of Commons, taking them from dying small towns and giving them to the industrial cities in the north
1833 -- Slavery abolished in the British Empire
1846 -- Corn Laws passed in GB
1607 -- Nest (the Master) turns Darla in Virginia
1689 -- Hugh FitzDougal turns Harold
1753 -- Darla turns Angelus in Galway, Ireland
1778 -- Slayer Phyllis Conley dies in Virginia while aiding a local Patriot militia
1783 -- Slayer Charlotte Eddings killed in England by Angelus -- his first Slayer kill
1791 -- Slayer Margaret Campbell kills Hugh FitzDougal in Paris
1798 -- (November) Angelus turns William James Woodville in London
1799 -- (February) Angelus adopts the title Viscount Pierrepont
1802 -- Angelus turns Penn in Ireland
1812 -- (April) Angelus kills Slayer Francesca Lafitte in Lyon, France -- (July) Penn leaves Angelus and William for greener pastures
1819 -- Angelus and Darla kill Slayer Emilie de Rohan in Naples, Italy
1825 -- (March) Harold leaves for Australia -- (May) Angelus kills Slayer Sophie Kreuller in Zurich
1830 -- William fights and kills Slayer Millicent Peploe
1832 -- Roderick, Harold's lieutenant, is slain by Slayer Maria del Ponce and the remaining half of Clan Aurelius reverts to Nest (with each Sept self-governing)
1834 -- Angelus kills Slayer Niamh O'Neill in Dublin, Ireland
1840 -- Darla turns Rosalind and Angelus kills Slayer Janet Grant in Edinburgh, Scotland
1860 -- Angelus turns Drusilla in London
1868 -- Angelus kills Slayer Hermione Douglas in Hungary
1871 -- William kills Slayer Justine Delsarte in Vienna, Austria
1872 -- Angelus kills Slayer Bethany Littleton in England
1875 -- Angelus kills Slayer Julia Emory during the Cruciamentum
1881 -- Angelus kills Slayer Maisri MacKenzie in Scotland
1883 -- Rosalind leaves Darla to join Penn
1887 -- Angelus kills Slayer Natalia Vilosova in St. Petersburg, Russia
1892 -- (January) Slayer Zhusannah Olenski dies in Prague while battling a group of Fyarl demons
1893 -- (November) Slayer Eunice Cardwelle is killed by Angelus
1894 -- Alicia Price is made the Slayer by way of powerful magick because the next in line, Marie-Cecile, is only eight years old
1898 -- (February) Darla and Drusilla killed by a fire in Prague -- (December) Buffy displaced into this reality
1899 -- (February) Angelus and his allies overthrown Nest -- (June) Felicity becomes lady's maid and companion to Buffy -- (July) the Gathering is held in Paris, and Buffy becomes the currency in a deal between Indara and Angelus -- (August) Penn is cursed by the Rom and Rosalind is disowned by the Order of Aurelius -- (August/December) -- Angelus, William and Buffy embark on a quest to find Penn
1900 -- (January) Alicia visits Buffy, who turns to Indara for assistance -- (February) Alicia gives birth to Corrine Elizabeth and then dies, formally activating Marie-Cecile as the Slayer and thus restoring the lineage