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!!!! The Discworld Timeline !!!!
-5000: Djelibeybi is discovered by Khuft.
Dios travels back to this time.
-60: Alberto Malich (Albert) is born.
1: Unseen University is founded.
7: Alberto Malich performs the Rite of Ashk-Ente backwards in an attempt to live forever. He ends up in Death’s realm and becomes his servant.
488: (Approx) The first Scone of Stone is baked.
670: Reign of Queen Benery of Lancre begins.
709: King Murune of Lancre is born.
722: Queen Benery of Lancre dies. Reign of King Murune begins.
745: King Murune of Lancre dies.
788: The first Scone of Stone crumbles after the Low King touches it. One of the witnesses is an ancestor of Rhys Rhysson.
890: Time of the First Empire.
906: Reign of King Gruneberry the Good of Lancre begins.
907: King Gruneberry the Good of Lancre dies.
1089: The Abbot of the History Monks is born for the first time.
1189: Lu-Tze is born.
1224: (9th Ember) Abelard Beghard, a baker and part-time children’s entertainer, invents the white-faced clown because he’s too busy to change after work. Also invents the brick pie, thinking it’ll be funnier than the custard version: it was, but only once.
1235: (15th May) Three men of different nationalities first go into a pub together. During King Ludwig the Tree’s reign there was a brief ban on any man going into a pub unless accompanied by two other men of different nationalities. This has since been repealed.
1304: (Ember) Wyllys Frone, inventor of red hair, is born.
1341: Ankh-Morpork Law: Dignity of Man (Civil Rights) Act.
1345: The Low King falls into a lake and drowns: his attendants, who did nothing to save him, are not blamed for his death as it is against the law to touch the king.
1358: Cowherd and Edwards of Kings Way (a tailors) established.
1389: Lu-Tze and the Abbot of the History Monks meet/become friends.
Ankh-Morpork Laws: Decency Ordinances.
1428: The great double Barrel Roll and Twist of the Disc: it takes over nine months.
1433: Ankh-Morpork Law: Licensed Premises (Hygiene) Act.
1447: (March) Freak rain of sharks and jellyfish in Ankh-Morpork.
1456: Ankh-Morpork Law: Licensed Premises (Hygiene) Act.
1457: Ankh-Morpork Law: Public Order Act.
1463: Ankh-Morpork Law: Licensed Premises (Hygiene) Act.
1465: Ankh-Morpork Law: Licensed Premises (Hygiene) Act.
1467: Ankh-Morpork Law: Privacy Act.
1470: Ankh-Morpork Law: Licensed Premises (Hygiene) Act.
1480: (20th June) Count Pettigrew Monflathers leads the charge of the Obese Brigade in the first Battle of Quirm.
1488: One of Sybil Ramkin’s ancestors cuts off a Klatchian’s head and brings it home on a pole.
1508: Ankh-Morpork Law: Industrial Processes Act.
1511: Work is started on the Royal de Murforte School for Gentlemen Assassins building.
1512: (27th August) The Royal de Murforte School for Gentlemen Assassins is officially opened by King Cirone II.
1514: Reign of Queen Grimnir of Lancre begins.
1530: (4th Sektober) Sir Roland de Colline is appointed as the first Master of the Posts by King Cirone II. He gets three shillings a month, two rabbits, a pound of turnips and a flagon and a half of ale for his trouble.
1547: A mysterious fire and highly localised earthquake strikes a building known as a ‘plague house’; the Brotherhood of Infernal Zoth the Undying Renderer were inhabiting the building at the time. The building later becomes the Fool’s Guild headquarters.
1553: Queen Grimnir of Lancre ‘dies’. She rises from the dead later that year and resumes her reign.
1557: Queen Grimnir of Lancre ‘dies’ again. She rises from the dead later that year and again resumes her reign.
1561: The Ankh-Morpork City Watch is established by King Veltrick I.
King Veltrick I of Ankh-Morpork is murdered by his son and the Empress of Sto.
The reign of King Veltrick II of Ankh-Morpork begins.
1562: Queen Grimir of Lancre ‘dies’…again. Rises from dead, resumes reign etc.
1567: Queen Grimnir of Lancre ‘dies’ once again.
The Fools’ Guild is established by Monsieur Jean-Paul Pune.
Ankh-Morpork Law: Public Foregatherings (Gambling) Act.
1568: Queen Grimnir of Lancre rises from the dead after a few months rest. She resumes her reign once more.
1572: The first Ankh-Morpork City Watch copper badge is commissioned.
The reign of King Veltrick III of Ankh-Morpork begins.
1573: Queen Grimnir of Lancre dies for the last time.
1576: The Royal de Murforte School for Gentlemen Assassins officially becomes a guild, giving it voting rights in the city council. Later in the year it changes its name to the Royal Guild of Assassins.
1581: Ankh-Morpork Laws: Being Bloody Stupid Act.
1583: (15th May) The first ever flexible cosh is invented by Theo Thuckery, who subsequently becomes the first man to ever mug himself.
1586: Mr Morecombe becomes the Ramkin’s lawyer.
1590: The name ‘The Great Bazonko’ is first used.
1605: (6th December) Wallpaper is invented. Two hours after this Windy Jim is found covered in wallpaper paste: the Fool’s Guild commemorate this event by gluing the youngest clown in the guild to the ceiling for the day.
1634: Ankh-Morpork Law: Projectile Weapons (Civil Safety) Act.
1635: A commoner gets to use the Post Office for the first time. Master Lambert Cordwainder sent a letter to himself to see if would work; it did, and the letter was recently sold on cBay for AM$150,000.
(Spune) The Post Office gets its first cat, called Mr Tiddles.
1649: The Post Office Horn tunes are written by Morporkian composer Sir Arthur Brady. He is also fondly remembered for that old family favourite, ‘Om is Crushing the Infidel with Large Rocks’.
1650: (27th August) The first letter sent to Genua from Ankh-Morpork arrives at 9.45 a.m., having been sent from the Broad Way office at 3.12 p.m., 23rd August 1649.
1673: Ankh-Morpork Laws: Domestic and Domesticated Animals (Care and Protection) Act.
1675: (14th April) Lorenzo the Kind is crowned King of Ankh-Morpork.
1678: Ankh-Morpork Law: General Felonies Act.
Ankh-Morpork Law: Public Ale Houses (Opening) Act.
1685: The Declaration of the Omnian prophet Abbys takes place.
1687: Croydon Minimus inhumes Baron von Wendeltreppe-Steckenpferd with a one-armed teddy bear called Mr Wuggles.
1688: (8.32 p.m., 3 Grune – 10.45 a.m., 4 Grune) Ankh-Morpork Civil War.
King Lorenzo executed, Commander ‘Stoneface’ Vimes rules the city instead.
The Royal Guild of Assassins drops the ‘Royal’ from its name.
(Ick) ‘Stoneface’ Vimes is overthrown and executed.
1690: Gumler Vode is cursed by a wizard to measure Endless Street: since the street is endless, he’s still doing it (or at least his ghost is).
‘Dr Whiteface’ becomes head of the Fool’s Guild.
Ankh-Morpork Law: Licensed Premises (Hygiene) Act.
1703: Count Henrik Shline von Uberwald is born.
1714: The last person is charged under the Fish Law in Ankh-Morpork.
1722: (25th Grune) Master Richard Scallion is the youngest person ever fired from the Post Office for writing “Oh yes they do,” on a parcel inscribed with “Priceless engravings – do not bend” sent to the Duke of Eorle.
1732: (16th April) The golden statue is set up in the Post Office building. It was sculpted by Auguste Buonarotti who also did the cherubs and stuff for the Ankh-Morpork Opera House.
1737: Junior Postman Harold Pootah finds a forgotten letter in the bottom of his bag, and goes back the next day to find that the family had moved to Genua. So he goes to Genua, delivers the letter two and a half years later (he had to walk) and returns to Ankh-Morpork but is fired for being absent without leave. A thank-you note arrives 3 months later but by that time he’d already hung himself in shame.
1740: (12th April) ‘Libberreto’ Jones writes the opera ‘Cabbagori Il Furnato’.
1745: (23rd August) Burglar Rosy Rosenbloom becomes the first person to utter the immortal line, “Cor, you got me bang to rights, it’s a fair cop, guv’nor and no mistake.”
1751: Mr Pump is placed at the bottom of a hole to…er…pump water.
1762: (2nd August) Erasmus Wand tries to sail to the BrownIslands in ‘The Intestinal Explorer’, a ship made mostly from pig’s bladders. It sank.
(27th December) The first edition of the Post Office regulations is published. The previous method of passing down the regulations had been via word of mouth and a large box of royal decrees.
1767: The Assassin’s Guild freehold is lost to Sir John ‘Mad Jack’ Ramkin.
1782: Count Henrik Shline von Uberwald ‘dies’.
1784: Count Henrik Shline von Uberwald ‘dies’ again.
1786: Methodia Rascal starts work on ‘KoomValley’.
1788: Count Henrik Shline von Uberwald ‘dies’ once more.
Smale and Elharib declare war on one another after an invasion by the treacherous enemy.
Lacrimosa de Magpyr is born.
The Fool’s Guild buys La Sorbumme Academy in Quirm and begins to run it as a summer school.
1789: Great Gale in the Ramtops area.
The Boggis ‘Old Firm’ is established.
(Grune) Osric Pencillum cultivates a type of ‘pencil’ bush.
1790: Unseen University begins to hold the Convivium outside of the University.
1791: Count Henrik Shline von Uberwald manages to ‘die’…again.
1797: (24th Grune) The One Millionth Post Office Customer, otherwise known as Mrs Syvestra Wincot is presented with a dozen pre-stamped envelopes, an engraving of Mr N Aushlife, the Postmaster, and a bottle of blue-black ink. The lucky bitch.
1798: (31st May) Sub-Post Offices are finally allowed to sell grocery produce as well as stationary, hair grips, sink plugs, hair combs and fake nose/moustache sets.
(18th Grune) The 14th edition of the Post Office regulations is published. Due to a typo in the section about envelope regulation size the Post Office was deluged with thousands of one inch by half inch envelopes.
1799: (March) Slidypole Billy invents the Billy Lick (tasting the custard pie that’s just been thrown in your face).
(Spune) Uncle ‘Stuttering Jim’ Trouserer inadvertently invents the “I say, I say, I say” joke.
(5th March) Lady Alice Venturi is born.
1801: (Grune) Chas Nudder invents the hollow teddy bear, for use in the smuggling of small items.
1802: Methodia Rascal finishes ‘KoomValley’. He drops the cube in a well outside his lodgings in Empirical Crescent.
Count Henrik Shline von Uberwald ‘dies’.
1803: (26th June) Jethro Humdrummer invents the single-action cabbage drill.
(5th Spune) Hiram Blowthroat invents the double-action cabbage drill and kettle.
(10th December) Loquacious Merryman invents the reciprocating cabbage drill, kettle and harmonium.
1804: Count Henrik Shline von Uberwald ‘dies’.
1805: The Post Office motto in installed on the front of the building. The chosen motto narrowly won out against “We’ll Deliver It if We Feel Like It and Not Before”. Hee.
1807: Count Henrik Shline von Uberwald ‘dies’. Again.
1808: Count Henrik Shline von Uberwald manages to ‘die’ once more.
(8th August) Rubber braces are authorised for Fool’s Guild members.
1815: (13th February) Postmaster Sir William Guilfoyle introduces a pneumatic tub system to take money from the counters to the cash office. Sadly, it’d been designed by B.S. Johnson and the system was suspended by the then current Patrician due to the amount of change punching holes through the walls of the building.
1821: Count Henrik Shline von Uberwald ‘expires’.
1823: (February) The Eel Pie and Mash Riots take place in Ankh-Morpork.
1828: Wilhelmina Venturi dies.
1830: Count Henrik Shline von Uberwald manages to go the entire year without dying. Only joking, he’s ‘dead’ once again.
1835: Year of the Impromptu Stoat.
(15th June) A man is killed by a freak shower of goulash in Quirm.
Brother Nhumrod goes to live at the Omnian Citadel.
Ishmale Quoom becomes an Inquisitor for the Omnian Church.
1837: (22nd Ember) Captain Horatio Fanfare of the Selachii Middle-Weight Mounted Interlopers ascends the Mutterhorn.
1839: The Great Cabbage Root Fly Epidemic takes place.
1840: Jim Cloop becomes Mayor of Scrote.
1841: (15th Sektober) Senior Postman Granville Roberts is attacked by a dog while delivering post to Sir Desmond Pontefract at Scoone Avenue. The dog sinks its fangs into his leg but the postman manages to drag himself and the dog up to the door to deliver the package before collapsing from blood loss.
1842: (14th Spune) Sir Roderick Purdeigh is born.
1845: Ruby is born.
1847: Dervi Ichlos is born.
1855: Year of the Significant Triangle.
Windle Poons is born.
1856: Margaret Purdeigh dies.
1857: Dr Fettle Dodgast is born.
1858: Major-General Sir Ruthven Purdeigh dies.
1861: Count Henrik Shline von Uberwald…sigh…‘dies’.
Alison Weatherwax is born.
1864: Viscount Venturi dies.
1868: The Great Famine takes place.
Brutha is born.
1870: Omnia conquers Istanzia.
1871: Year of the Astounded Beetle.
1872: Count Henrik Shline von Uberwald is staked once and for all.
1876: The Ankh-Morpork and Wincanton Cabbage Growers Association is established.
(15th April) Rupert Muller invents the first steam-jacket wine warmer. Now the company designs warmers that can bring wine up to body temperature in 35 seconds and are much sought after by Black Ribboners.
(12th December) The first stock of rubber finger stalls are received by the Post Office. These were required after the death of a counter clerk who’d licked his finger to turn the pages of a book being delivered to a local monastery.
1877: (13th Offle) Mr William Sonkey personally replaces the rubber stocks with the correct product after the female staff complain.
1878: (21st Ember) The first performance takes place of the original Postal Opera, ‘Die Postmeistersinger von Uberwald’. It is incredibly popular for the next two years.
1880: Diet of Bugs in Uberwald – an agreement is made to no longer mine silver in the country.
(30th December) Lady Amelia Slathers, founder of the Ankh-Morpork League of Temperance dies. She requested to be embalmed in cocoa. From the name and the date, it’s somewhat unlikely that she was a member of the vampire Temperance league, possibly the founder of the alcohol one with its Roundworld counterpart.
Brutha leaves his village to start life as a novice in the Omnian Citadel.
Eumenides Treason is born.
1881: Lu-Tze sets off for Omnia.
Cohen the barbarian is born.
1882: Mad Hamish is born.
Hwell is born.
Om decides to manifest in order to really scare his people, do a bit of smiting and so on. He is somewhat surprised to manifest as a tortoise rather then the eagle he had in mind.
1885: Year of the Notional Serpent.
Small Gods.
1887: Ezrolith Churn is born.
1888: (1st March) The Great Post Office Almost Robbery takes place: unfortunately for the robbers, they fall into the sorting machine.
(June) The Whoopee Cushion is invented by Charlie ‘Dr’ Whoopee. A memorial chair can be found in the Fool’s Guild Library.
1889: The Book of Tobrun is revealed as a metaphor for a power struggle in the Omnian Chruch by the prophet Brutha and is removed from the Book of Om as decided by the Convocation of Ee.
Wayzgoose is born.
1890: (Sektober) There is an outbreak of cheese in Quirm.
Mr Schlummer is born.
1891: William the Gonnagle is born.
1892: Cohen is driven out of his village by his father.
1897: (12th Ick) Lady Alice Venturi dies.
1898: (25th Sektober) General Sir Roderick Purdeigh’s walking stick is found hanging from a tree in Bhangbhangduc. He is presumed dead due to a lack of social graces due to his tendency of trying to attract people’s attention by hitting them on the head with said stick.
For the first time, none of the Assassin’s Guild students can be bothered to follow the May Blossom day tradition.
Mr Weavall is born.
1899: The Great Pin is made.
1900: (1st Sektober) Tailcoats no longer part of the Post Office uniform as the first female employees of the PO are employed. Post master still wears them on special occasions though.
Old Vincent is born.
1901: (9th June) William Venturi, head boy of the Assassin’s Guild, becomes the first boy to complete the Test by Assassinating the tester. The rules have since been revised.
1902: Wolves invade Ankh-Morpork in an effort to find food due to the overly harsh winter.
Caleb the Ripper is born.
1903: Duchess Annagovia of Borogravia is born.
1905: (14th August) Makepeace Thomas Bounder, the poet of the cabbages, dies. Woo hoo.
1908: Lacrimosa de Magpyr becomes the vampire equivalent of a teenager.
1910: Scraps is born…created…er…parts of him at least.
Renata Flitworth is born.
1911: (23rd march) A prisoner in the Tanty, Bistro Frilli, won a bet that he could eat fifty boiled eggs in one sitting. He survived for a further very eventful fifteen minutes.
1913: Arno Veyzen ‘kills’ Count Magpyr.
1916: Mrs Spudding is born.
1917: A new kelda arrives at the mound of the Nac Mac Feegles on the Chalk.
1918: The Bursar is born.
Ysabell is born.
The Dean is born.
Mustrum Ridcully is born.
1919: Mr Cripslock is born.
Duke Felmet is born.
1920: The Duke of Borogravia dies.
Corporal Drebb is born.
1924: Vitoller is born.
Ridcully gets hit on the head with a model boat by his brother.
1925: Minty Rocksmacker is born.
The Dean becomes a wizard.
1928: Dozy Longfinger becomes King of the Candles.
1929: King Verence I of Lancre is born.
1930: Fred Colon is born.
1933: Mr Pony is born.
1934: The Sphinx thinks of its riddle.
1935: Rincewind is born.
1936: Esme Weatherwax and Mustrum Ridcully have a relationship. Or meet. At the very least, she runs away from him a lot.
Esme Weatherwax meets the Queen of the Elves.
1937: Two Little Wang is born.
1938: Alison Weatherwax cuts off Count Magpyr’s head and drives a stake through his heart.
Mrs Content becomes a midwife.
A dwarf in Ankh-Morpork discovers that putting a mesh over a lantern stops the flame igniting any firedamp in the area. The debate over whether to use this or not leads to a dwarfish civil war.
Miss Treason stops washing her windows.
1939: Ipslore is banished from UnseenUniversity for having, amongst other things, the sex.
1940: (June) Samuel Vimes is born.
Havelock Vetinari is born.
Downey is born.
Johan Ludorum is born.
Salacia von Humpeding is born.
Miss Treason goes blind.
1941: Rincewind gets a ‘Happy 5th Birthday’ badge for his birthday. Unfortunately he’s just turned six.
1943: Sybil Ramkin is born.
The official portrait of Duchess Annagovia of Borogravia is painted.
1945: Josiah Wintler is born.
Mustrum Ridcully leaves the UnseenUniversity to look after his family’s estates.
1946: Sam Vimes goes to school for nine months.
Samuel Arblaster is born.
1948: Lord Smince is overthrown and Lord Winder becomes Patrician of Ankh-Morpork.
1949: Cutwell is born.
Rincewind goes to UnseenUniversity.
Duke and Duchess Felmet get married.
1950: Agneathea responds to a wedding proposal from Antimony Parker via letter.
Sergeant Jackrum joins the Borogravian Army.
Captain Froc dances with Duchess Annagovia at a ball: Froc had just been made the youngest captain ever.
Clarence Harry is born.
Sidney Clancy is born.
1951: Bethan is born.
1952: Verence is born.
Banjo Lilywhite is born.
Johan Ludorum, Havelock Vetinari and Downey enrol at the Assassin’s Guild.
1953: Mort is born.
Wuffles I is born.
1954: Arthur Crank gets married.
Princess Keli is born.
1955: Quirke joins the Ankh-Morpork City Watch.
Nobby thinks this may be the year he was born.
Miss Treason goes deaf.
1956: Sobriety Ogg dies.
1957: Sybil Ramkin copies ‘KoomValley’ for a school project.
Mr Hogland is born.
1958: Iffy Scurrick joins the Ankh-Morpork City Watch.
Fred Colon gets married.
Verence approaches his granddad with an unofficial joke he’s made up about a duck. He gets a severe thrashing.
1959: (Year of the Dancing Dog)
Night Watch.
Havelock Vetinari, Downey and Johan Ludorum all pass their Final exam.
Coin is born.
1960: The last time the Duchess Annagovia is seen in public.
Eskarina Smith is born.
Bethan starts preparing to be sacrificed.
Twoflower starts saving up to go to Ankh-Morpork.
1961: Harry King starts ‘Taking the Piss’.
Crispin Horsefry is born.
Lord Hong is born.
Magrat becomes a witch.
1963: Tethis is sent to mind the circumfence.
1964: Sam Vimes meets Gussie Two Grins.
Burleigh and Stronginthearm come to Ankh-Morpork and set up their business.
Ponder Stibbons is born.
1965: ‘Grandad’ is born.
Moist von Lipwig is born.
Chidder is born.
Teppic is born.
Arthur Ludorum is born.
Cheesewright is born.
1966: Spelter becomes a 5th level wizard.
Granny Weatherwax begins training Esk.
Granny Weatherwax begins training Esk.
1967: Tomjon is born.
Pewsey Ogg is born.
1968: The Colour of Magic.
The Light Fantastic.
Havelock Vetinari graduates from the Assassin’s Guild.
Imp y Celyn is born.
1969: Equal Rites.
Mort.
Mort.
Sourcery.
Wyrd Sisters.
Carrot Ironfoundersson is born.
‘Ginger’ Hobbley is born.
Willikins becomes a butler.
The Dean starts writing a treatise on ‘The Use of the Syllable ENK in Levitation Spells’.
Agnes Nitt is born.
Lucy Tockley is born.
1970: Susan Sto Helit is born.
Tomjon starts acting.
1971: Fred Colon starts painting his kitchen.
The Post Office gets a new cat, called Tiddles.
The Post Office closes.
Wazzer a.k.a. Alice, is born.
Eric Thursley is born.
1972: Igorina is born.
Paul Perks is born.
Lobsang Ludd is born.
1973: Polly Perks claims this is the year she was born.
Wuffles II is born.
Susan gets a ‘My Little Binky’ for her birthday from her grandfather.
Baron Saturday dies.
Lily Weatherwax takes over Genua.
1974: Sergeant Jackrum signs up for another 12 year tour of duty. The sergeant is still in the army 16 years later.
Mort and Ysabell take Susan to see Death for the first time.
Toby Weavall dies.
1975: Goriff’s son, Janil, is born.
1976: Susan sees Death for the last time after Mort forbids any more visits.
Roland is born.
1977: The last message from the Agatean Empire to Ankh-Morpork arrives.
Annabel Curry is born.
Teppic, Chidder, Arthur and Cheesewright enrol at the Assassin’s Guild.
1978: (16th May) The first ‘Mail Order’ business is set up by CMOT Dibbler. Despite the name, the business also extends to sheet armour.
(17th May) The Mail Order service is shut down by Lord Vetinari, who doesn’t like puns in the mission statements of city businesses.
‘Princess’ a.k.a. Alice, is born.
Polly Perks is told badness is not going to bed when she’s told to.
‘Scumbag’ a.k.a. Gavin, is born.
Goriff and his family come to Ankh-Morpork.
Smale and Elharib stop fighting, but only because they’ve run out of rocks.
Hans Piotr’s granny dies.
Uberwald replaces trial by ordeal with trial by lawyer because it’s nastier.
Tiffany Aching is born.
1979: Sam Vimes’ mum dies.
Aaron Fidget is born.
1980: One Favourite pearl is born.
Verruca Lumpy is born.
1981: Frederick, the first husband of Agneathea Parker, dies.
Polly Perks buys her brother Paul a box of paints. They’re confiscated and she’s told she’s lucky not to go into the Grey House.
Twoflower’s wife is killed by Lord Hong’s soldiers.
Maurice is born.
Euphrasia Goat is born.
1982: Blouse becomes a 2nd Lieutenant.
Tuttle Scrope becomes the President of the Guild of Cobblers and Leatherworkers.
Jason is born.
Mr Pounder starts a five year run of winning the Guild of Ratcatcher’s Golden Mallet award.
Victor Tugelbend passes the UU exam but successfully appeals.
Mildred Pusher is born.
Thomas Ague is born.
1983: (2nd March) The men involved in The Great Post Office Almost Robbery are arrested by Captain Vimes.
Leonard da Quirm goes missing.
1984: Wyrd Sisters.
Pyramids.
Ironcrust stops paying his taxes.
Mightily Oats joins the OmnianTheologicalCollege.
Margolotta becomes a Black Ribboner.
Christine starts training under Mme Venturi at the Quirm Conservatory.
1985: Guards! Guards!
Eric.
Moving Pictures.
Reaper Man.
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.
Witches Abroad.
Clarence Chinny leaves Ankh-Morpork on assignment.
Polly Perks gets a slap from her mum for asking what it meant when ‘some women are no better than they ought to be’.
Brutha dies.
Tiffany Aching buys the china shepherdess.
Granny Aching dies.
Tiffany Aching is told that a dobby stone is lucky.
Wentworth Aching is born.
1986:TrollBridge.
Lords and Ladies.
Theatre of Cruelty.
Men at Arms.
Soul Music.
Sadie Parker dies.
Roland goes missing.
Petulia starts studying witchcraft.
Ponder applies for permission and funding for an attempt to split the thaum.
1987: Interesting Times.
Wee Free Men.
Maskerade!
Feet of Clay.
Hogfather.
Nuggan makes it an Abomination to grow root crops on ground which had grown grain or peas.
The Klatchians refuse to accept a boatload of cabbages from a Morporkian merchant, despite the offer of free caterpillars with purchase.
The Watch almost arrest Snowy Slopes, but he escapes while they dig Nobby out of the dandruff pile Slopes so helpfully provided.
Magrat gets pregnant.
1988: Jingo.
The Last Continent.
Carpe Jugulum.
The Sea and the Little Fishes.
The Fifth Elephant.
300 year anniversary of the Ankh-Morpork Civil War.
The first clacks company is established.
Maladicta becomes a Black Ribboner.
A flour mill in Plotz blows up in mysterious circumstances. Both the owner and his wife are killed, but their serving girl survives.
Otto von Chriek becomes a Black Ribboner.
Great A’Tuin rolls over to stop a meteor heading for the Disc by snatching it out of the sky with his mouth.
Mr Parkinson goes over Lancre falls and survives, albeit with a stutter.
1989: The Science of Discworld.
The Truth.
Thief of Time.
Night Watch.
The Last Hero.
A Hat Full of Sky.
Undo Prung dies.
Paul Perks joins the Borogravian Army.
Lipz is captured by the Borogravians but the Zlobenians soon take it back.
Sergeant Jackrum is told to go recruiting for a year.
Tilda’s baby is born and taken from her.
1990: The Science of Discworld: The Globe.
Monstrous Regiment.
Reacher Gilt and his associates take over the Grand Trunk.
1991: Year of the Prawn.
Going Postal.
Thud!
The Science of Discworld: Darwin’s Watch.
Wintersmith.
2068: Shoblang was originally due to reincarnate this year.
BRAVO! \o/
<(^^<) <(^^)> (>^^)> You win a dancing Kirby. :D
Interesting choice on Small Gods ;)
What are your thoughts on the change from the Century of the Fruitbat/Century of the Anchovy?
Of course, ToT shows us that trying to make a timeline is meaningless...
Have you read the lspace solution on using the Lancre Timeslip?
I did wonder about the century of the fruitbat/anchovy thing. It's mentioned in the companion and in Going Postal, but it isn't definitely shown to be that century yet. The only way you could fit things in would be to insert ten years between Feet of Clay and The Fifth Elaphant anyway, because by then you have to take into account Sybil Vimes' pregnancy. But then that throws off the years of Night Watch.
The only way I could figure it either was like this, or just by throwing my notes in the air and screaming, "It was the monks, it's their fault!"
It's an interesting idea. If you make 88 the last year of the century, then the Really Important Time Changing Stuff (ToT/NW) happen on the first year of a new century. And this feels right, because ToT feels like it's about the Millenium Bug.
So yeah, I favour the Fruitbat ending in 88 and Anchovy beginning in 89.
The easiest way to do the monkish explanation is simply that we loose 10 years during the events of ToT. Much like the Lancre Timeslip, but worldwide.
But what if the popular names for centuries ("Century of the Fruitbat") or whatever run from the year 89 to the year 88? Centuries still last 100 years, but they aren't from 00-99, they're from 89-88. So Fruitbat began in 1889 and ended in 1988. Anchovy begins 1989 and ends 2088...
It's just a random suggestion a fan made to try and explain the issue. Not canon in any way, but personally I quite like it.
Oh well, another reason to read Going Postal though :D
The explanations for the timeline are taking longer though :)
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Re: sweet...
So I worked on the assumption that everyone (unless specifically stated) is using this calendar, especially as a lot of the Discworld characters are pretty old.