When writing a story, particularly as far-reaching as with as many parts as I’d like this one to have, it’s very important to me that the various elements work out logistically. One of those ways is that it follows a workable timeline. I put a lot of work into making sure that the chronology in this story proceeds in a way that both makes sense and serves the story. It’s also a great way to procrastinate writing in a way that is maybe-kinda-sorta useful, and feels like writing. ;-)
This isn’t necessarily set in stone, if I find a reason to shift the chronology, or to nudge an event a year or two. But it’s interesting to have for reference, and to get a sense of cause and effect. I plan on adding to this as more significant events emerge in the plot, but here’s a good start to things that have already been established.
Some spoilers contained ahead!
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1813 – Gareth Stanton is born
1819 – Dawson Frost is born
1820 – Cornelia (Stanton) is born
1823 – Ambrose Marshall Hawking is born
1829 – Reginald Prescott Hawking is born
1831 – Margaret Spenser is born
1833 – Walter Granger is born in Yorkshire
1837 – Cedric Brockton is born
1838 – Elizabeth Danvers is born
– Queen Victoria is crowned
1839 – Gareth Stanton and Cornelia (Stanton) are married
1840 – Victoria Stanton is born to Gareth and Cornelia Stanton
1846 – Cornelia Stanton dies
1850 – Celeste Leighton is born
1851 – Ambrose Hawking and Margaret Spencer are married
– Justin Lionel Hawking is born to Ambrose and Margaret Hawking
1853 – Clara Partridge is born
– Nathaniel James Hawking is born to Ambrose and Margaret Hawking
1855 – George Bracknell is born
– Elena Zakharova is born
1857 – April 14th – Princess Beatrice is born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
May 10th – The Indian Rebellion begins
1858 – Catherine Stone II is born to Edward and Catherine Stone
June 20th – The Indian Rebellion ends
Arthur Swann is born
1859 – Victoria Stanton and Reginald Hawking first meet
– Elizabeth Danvers and Dawson Frost are married
1860 – Mary Frances Stone is born to Edward and Catherine Stone
– Reginald Hawking and Victoria Stanton are married
1865 – Gabriel Matthew Hawking is born dead to Reginald and Victoria Hawking
1869 – Gabriel Leighton is born to Celeste Leighton
1870 – Celeste Leighton and Jacob Fairmont are married
1874 – Nathaniel Hawking and Clara Partridge are married
1875 – Beatrice Hawking is born to Nathaniel and Clara Hawking
1877 – George Bracknell and Catherine Stone II are married
– Reginald Prescott Hawking II is born to Nathaniel and Clara Hawking
1879 – August – Reginald Hawking dies of a burst ventricle in London, England
– Violet Bracknell is born to Catherine and George Bracknell
– Catherine Stone dies of scarlet fever in India
1880 – Edward Stone dies of scarlet fever in India
– William Gladstone wins the general election for Prime Minister
– Battle of Kandahar is decisive victory for Britain in the Second Afghan War
– September – Victoria Hawking finishes her year and one month of mourning
– Gabriel Leighton is kidnapped by Cedric Brockton
– October – Mrs. Hawking
– Mary Stone comes to work for Victoria Hawking
– Gabriel Leighton is rescued and returned to Celeste Fairmont
1881 – April – Victoria Hawking finishes second mourning
– Hannah Mason is raped by Christoph Austerlitz
– June – Vivat Regina
– Mary Stone and Arthur Swann first meet
1882 – October – Victoria Hawking finishes ordinary mourning
1883 – February – Base Instruments
– April – Victoria Hawking finishes half-mourning
1885 – Miss Stanton
– Victoria Hawking and Elizabeth Frost encounter each other in London again
1886 – Mrs. Frost
1887 – Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
1888 – July – Jack the Ripper murders
– Ripper
