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Prehistoric[]
110,000 BC[]
- A Hyperborean burial mound is pillaged.[1]
14th century BC[]
1338 BC
- Panya overhears her father, Meryra, and another man arguing over the religious upheaval brought forward by Pharaoh Akhenaten.[2]
6th century BC[]
525 BC
- Cambyses II, King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, sends a force of 50,000 men to conquer Egypt. In a single sandstorm, the whole army vanished in the sands.[3]
1st century AD[]
60
- Boudicca is believed to have been killed by the Romans.[4]
6th century[]
- Fall of the Kingdom of Funan. An underground cult will maintain the tradition of the Black Flame until bringing about its incarnation in the 20th century.[5]
10th century[]
964
- June: St Dunstan binds the demon Ualac in a box. Legend merely records that he tweaked the devil's nose with tongs.[6]
11th century[]
1046
- September 24
- Saint Gerard is martyred.
1082
- Pope Gregory VII writes to the Bishop of Milan with the truth about Dunstan's binding of the devil.[6]
13th century[]
During this century humans still made sacrifices to the Ogdru Jahad on an island in the center of Lake Talutah, in modern day New York.
1214
- The royal family of Griart are cursed with lycanthropy.[7]
1222
- The Chutt tribe come down from Siberia to fight for Ghengis Khan, whom they believe to be the divinely-appointed emperor of the world.[8]
1227
- Death of Ghengis Khan. The Chutt return to their mountain and are never heard of again.[8]
1291
- Hagan Douglas is captured by Mamelukes outside the city of Acre. He is then decapitated and the body is sent into the city.[9][10] On May 28, the Mamelukes storm the final stronghold in Acre, taking the city. Those knights that survived claimed they witness the headless body of Hagan fighting alongside them. These men would go one to the found the Order of the Knights of Saint Hagan.
1299
- Romulus Diovanni is burned at the stake by the Knights Templar in Piazza St. Marcos.
14th century[]
1307
- Pope Clement V recalls the Knights of Saint Hagan from the Holy Land to carry out the arrest of the Knights Templar.
15th century[]
1412
- The dying Johannes von Berg records his encounter with the Beast of Ingelheim.[10]
1418
- Mihail Giurescu is born.
1492
16th century[]
1513
- Ponce de León arrives in Florida.[12]. It is possible that this is the first time Native North Americans, specifically the Timucua, encountered Spanish explorers.[13]
1525
- Vladimir Giurescu takes over his father's estate after Mihail turned 107.
1592
17th century[]
1617
- October 5th: Hellboy is born in Hell. His father amputates his right arm and implants the Right Hand of Doom.[15]
1645
- April
- Henry Hood begins his purge of witchcraft.[16]
1646
- Unspecified Date
- October
- Henry Hood's purge ends after the hanging of over 300 women assumed to be witches.[16]
c. 1647
- Death of Henry Hood.[17]
1667
- Hood's assistant Forsythe writes to the Archbishop of York in an attempt to clear Hood's name.[17]
1692
- Unspecified Date
1693
- Annie Whittier is executed by Cotton Mather after the witch trials found her innocent.[19]
18th century[]
1701
- Annaliese and Katharina Brezina die.[20]
1729
- Eugene Remy founds the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra.[21]
1740
- Peter Gurney is born.[22]
1745
- Eugene Remy dies.[16]
1748
- Lord Albert Gurney tracks down the local missing children, including his son Peter, and apprehends their murderer.[22]
1769
- August 15
- Napoleon Bonaparte is born. [23]
1771
- Summer
- Baron Konig hosts a party at Château Lac D'Annecy. Composer Jean-Marie de Grigny was in attendance.
1773
- Unspecified Date
- Jean-Marie de Grigny performs an opera inspired by the events of Baron Konig's party two years prior, Carnaval des Condamnes. The audience was so offended and horrified, they burnt the opera house down on opening night. Riots ensued and de Grigny is locked in the basement of an asylum and left to die as his works are destroyed.
- October
- Vladimir Giurescu makes a deal with King George III of England to lead a mercenary band of Prussian vampires to assist in the American Revolutionary War.
1782
- Lord Albert Gurney dies.[22]
c. 1789
- In Budapest, Tobok the Miser dies trying to save his gold from a house fire.[24]
1792
- Victor Frankenstein creates his creature.
1790s
- Privateer Cayetano de Povedilla Otero Antormarchi makes a name for himself as "El Bogavante" (the Lobster).[25]
1800
- Gustav Strobl leaves home for seminary school in Augsburg, Germany. A vision in his dreams has him abandon this.
19th century[]
1806
- October
- Outbreak of the War of the Fourth Coalition. Vladimir Giurescu leads Prussian troops against Napoleon Bonaparte's forces.[26]
1809
- Unspecified Date
- Vladimir Giurescu serves with the Austrians during the War of the Fifth Coalition.[26]
- July 29
- Vladimir Giurescu is severely wounded at the Battle of Halberstadt and is carried back home to Castle Giurescu.[26]
- August 12
- Vladimir Giurescu, now fully recovered, rejoins his troops.[26]
1810
- The Black-Fish is overtaken by the U.S.S. Narwhal off Monterrey. In St Croix, El Bogavante spends the night with Olivia Dascher; his headless body is found the next day. Nine months later, Olivia gives birth to twins.[25]
1811
- Before 12 March
- Vladimir Giurescu poses for a portrait prior to the Battle of Redinha. [26]
1812
- Unspecified Date
- Harriet Wood, niece of Lord Albert Gurney, is the first to record a sighting of the phantom hand. [22]
- September 7
- Vladimir Giurescu fights Napoleon Bonaparte's forces over the control of Moscow during the Battle of Borodino.
- October–December
- Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. Vladimir Giurescu leads Cossack guerrillas against the retreating Grande Armée and earns the nickname "Giurescu the Devil".[26]
1814
- April
- Vladimir Giurescu is in Paris and witnesses Napoleon's abdication.[26]
1815
- June 18
- Vladimir Giurescu fights alongside Blücher at the Battle of Waterloo.[26]
1818
- January 1
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is published.
1819
- May 24
- Queen Victoria is born. [27]
1821
- May 5
- Napoleon Bonaparte dies. [23]
1832
1834
1836
- Dr. Carp is born.[29]
- Martin Gilfryd is born.[30]
1839–1842
- Major W. H. Sleeman leads the suppression of the Thugs in India.[31]
1841
- Cavendish Hall is built by Elihu Cavendish.
1843
- Hallam Poole is drowned in the Mere. His father Horace vows to drain Unland in revenge.[32]
1850
- Albert Mayhew is born.[33]
1855
- Frankenstein's monster seeks refuge in a church in Austria, only to be attacked by the priest, who sees him only as a monster. [34]
1856
- September 16
- Edward Grey is born.
1859
1860s
- During the American Civil War, Obahdas Dascher leads his band of irregulars against both sides.[25]
1865
- Unspecified Date
- Sarah Eleanor Chesbro is born. [36]
- February 22
- The Calm Before the Storm
- Langdon Everett Caul embarks on his expedition, never to return the same.[37]
1866
- Unspecified Date
- Gustav Strobl takes on Martin Gilfryd as an apprentice. He later dismisses him as a fool.
- Martin Gilfryd kills Gustav Strobl.
- September 2
- The Osiris Club is founded.[21]
1867
- May 18
- Martin Gilfryd is admitted to Bedlam Asylum.[16]
1869
- Publication of My Time Among the Spirits: Revelations by the Rev. T. S. Blum.[38]
- January 21
- Grigori Rasputin is born. [39]
1870s
- Abner Whelstone makes his first fortune in the Black Hills Gold Rush.[40]
1878
- The Lord Wellington expedition discovers the lost city of Urrasan.[41]
1879
- Februrary 6
- Edward Grey thwarts the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria by the witches of Farnham.[42]
- March 11
- Edward Grey is knighted "for special services in the protection of crown and country".[42]
- Unspecified Date
- Sir Edward Grey investigates the deaths of members of the Saunders archaeological expedition and clashes with the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra.[43]
- The pentacle used by a witch who drowned in the Thames is placed in the vault of the Tower of London by Sir Edward Grey.[44]
1880s[]
1880
1881
- Sir Edward Grey travels to Hallam in the Somerset Levels to investigate the death of Arthur Neal.[45]
- Sarah Chesbro disappears. [36]
1882
- Unspecified date
- F.T. Benson is born. [22]
- 8 August: Sir Edward Grey writes to Queen Victoria warning that visiting nobleman Count Giurescu plans to establish a "secret, evil empire" in England.[26]
- 19 August: Grey reports that Giurescu has fled the country, referring to him for the first time as a vampire.[26]
1884
- October
1885
- Herman von Klempt is born in Frankfurt, Germany.
1886
- Sir Edward Grey interns the body and soul of Boudicca's Hag in the basement of St. Agnes Church.[46]
1888
- Graf Ling de Gothe is born. [47]
- November
- Sir Edward Grey comes across the first of Jack the Ripper's victims.[48]
- December
- Sir Edward Grey meets with Simon Bruttenholm and Ms. Grant to discuss that Gordon Asquith could be behind the recent ritual killings.[48]
- December 28
- Sir Edward Grey begins to stalk Gordon Asquith with a vengeance.[49]
1889
- January 17
- Sir Edward Grey continues stalking Gordon Asquith. [49]
- January 31
- Sir Edward Grey tracks Gordon Asquith to the Proserpine Home for Wayward Women where a meeting of the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra is taking place. [49]
- February
- Sir Edward Grey explains that he believed the Jack the Ripper killings to be ritual sacrifices from the beginning.[48] He resigns from the Queen's service and sets up as a private "occult detective" in Whitechapel.[50]
- April 20
- Adolf Hitler is born.[51]
1890s[]
1890
- May: The New York Golden Lodge of the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra is closed.[50]
- July 17: Martin Gilfryd is discharged from Bedlam Asylum.
- August: The original Paris temple of the HBR is closed.[50]
1891
- March: The Great Blizzard
1892
- June 11: Rawhead and Bloody Bones are beaten to death in the Whistling Pig pub, and buried in the woods nearby.[52]
1893
- The London Universal Temple of the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra is closed after an attack by an angry mob.[50]
- April 7
- Allen Dulles is born. [53]
1895
- January 20: The Battle of Weihaiwei begins [54]
- February 12: The Battle of Weihaiwei ends [54]
- Graf Ling de Gothe is found homeless and adopted [47]
- Herman von Klempt becomes infatuated with cybernetics, so much so that he kills the family cat and attempts to improve it by integrating clockwork pieces.
1899
- The Incredible Adventures of a Small Mechanical Head by Walter Edmond Heap is published.[55]
1900
- October 7: Heinrich Himmler is born. [56]
20th century[]
1900s[]
1901
- January 22: Queen Victoria dies.[27]
1902
1904
- February 9: On Meishin Island, Yumiko Daimio witnesses the horrific death of her father, at the hands of Grigori Rasputin.[57]
1905
- Albert Mayhew dies.[33]
- October: Zoya, pregnant with his child, confronts Rasputin at Prince George of Leuchtenberg's house in St Petersburg, and is contemptuously dismissed. Princess George is also present, along with Rasputin's daughters Maria and Varvara.[58]
1906
- Zoya's daughter is born. She names her Varvara after Rasputin's legitimate daughter.[58]
- Lady Celia Radford dies.[59]
- 18 April: San Francisco is devastated by an earthquake. Some suspect the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra of responsibility.[50]
1907
- Niels Waxman graduates from the Ludovicht Institute of Vienna.[60]
1908
- Sir Edward Grey, accompanied by Sarah Jewell, leaves London to hunt down the remains of the HBR in Europe.[31]
- 30 June: 800 square miles of Siberian forest are destroyed in a mysterious explosion. The HBR are again suspected of involvement.[50] Resulting glass closely resembles Enkeladite, implying the event involved nuclear fission.
1909
- Simon Bruttenholm and Honora Grant discover a false paranormal occurrence in Shifnal.[61]
1910s[]
1910
- A wooden coal mine is built in Sweetwater county, Wyoming.[62]
- German light cruiser SMS Emden is assigned to the East Asia Squadron based at Tsingtao.[63]
- April: Time Out of Mind
- May: The Black Goddess first appears to the young Raimund Diestel at an exhibition of Babylonian antiquities in Berlin.[64]
1911
- Walter Edmond Heap, while en route to India, is injured in a railway accident and subsequently eaten by a tiger.[55]
- Dr. Carp's sister dies, leaving the house abandoned.[29]
1912
- November: Slowly dying in poverty at Guriev, Zoya tells Yuri and Varvara the truth about Varvara's father. Yuri decides to ask Rasputin for help.[58]
1913
- January: Yuri and his family pass north of Zavodoukovsk on their journey through Siberia.[58]
- February: Yuri confronts Rasputin at his house in Pokrovskoye. He is killed by Rasputin, Zoya also dies, and Varvara is possessed by Yomyael.[58]
1914
- August: SMS Emden is detached for service as a commerce raider in the Indian Ocean. Raimund Diestel is aboard as a petty officer.[63]
- September: The Battle of the Marne. Two Irish nurses present will later go on to found the Holy Sisters of the Marne school in Savannah, Georgia.[65]
- 9 November: SMS Emden is wrecked in the Cocos Islands during a fight with HMAS Sydney. Diestel is ashore with a landing party, who escape capture on the schooner Ayesha.[63]
- 27 November: Ayesha reaches the neutral port of Padang. Diestel deserts and heads north to Siam.[63]
1916
- Trevor Bruttenholm is born.
- Graf Ling de Gothe infiltrates the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra under the suspicions of Henry Cyril Moore, in doing so she is captured and revealed to be a Volskak. Later she breaks free taking with her the Sword of Hyperborea and Vril crystal, crashing the zeppelin in the middle of the North Sea. [47]
- Late February: Sir Edward Grey is pulled into Hell by Amdusias.
- December 30: Grigori Rasputin is supposedly assassinated.[39]
1917
- Sir Albert Lindsay dies.[59]
- The Holy Sisters of the Marne school for "lady doctors" opens in Savannah, Georgia.[65]
1919
- June 7: Ilsa Haupstein is born.
- November: Ereshkigal appears again to Diestel in an opium den in Bangkok.[63]
1920s[]
Unspecified Date
- The first séance is held at Chesbro House. [36]
1920
- In Savannah, Georgia, Walter Wakeman invites his seven "wives" to the same house, then sets fire to it and hangs himself. His body is sent to the Holy Sisters of the Marne for anatomical instruction.[65]
1921
- Ruth Winger joins the Holy Sisters. She and six other students steal Wakeman's body and set up the Seven Wives Club. After that mysterious accidents begin to afflict the school.[65]
1922
- Ruth Winger graduates from the Holy Sisters but never goes on to practice as a doctor.[65]
- Autumn: Sarah Jewell and Marie-Thérèse LaFleur investigate an exsanguination in Bali.[66]
1923
- Tom Ferrell is born.
- May: Rise of the Black Flame
1924
- August: Marc Caprolione goes missing while hunting. His daughter believes he was taken by aliens, but he rather was transformed into a ghoul responsible for the disappearances in Tatoskok Falls, New Hampshire.[67]
- December: Sarah Jewell and Marie-Thérèse LaFleur encounter the Braithwood Boogum in upstate New York.[68]
1926
- Boss Stasio is killed, presumably by The Lobster.[69]
- February: Sarah Jewell and Marie-Thérèse LaFleur investigate deaths at Lilian Whelstone's house in the San Juan Islands.[70]
1930s[]
1930
- The Empty Chair
- In an attempt to harness the power of the Shakti, Karl Ruprect Kroenen was injured in an accident. The operations that saved his life would turn him into the man that he is well known.[71]
1931
- Harold McTell appears on the front page of the New York Post after knocking out a mugger who attacked the DA's sister.[72]
1932
- Ilsa Haupstein becomes one of Germany's top gymnasts.
- February: The Lobster begins his career as a vigilante crime fighter.[73]
- 6–11 February: The Burning Hand. Raimund and Kamala Diestel sail for New York.[74]
- Spring: P.B. Calory is killed by the Lobster.[75]
- 30 May: Heinrich Brüning resigns as Chancellor of Germany.[76]
- 9 June: The Superior Airship Company's Zeppelin begins its maiden voyage from Lakehurst to Quebec. The Lobster thwarts a plan aboard to drop poison gas on New York.[76]
- Summer: Crimson Lotus
- 31 October: The Lobster brings justice to a group of men using the homeless for scientific research.[77]
- 8 November: Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in the presidential election.[77]
- 3 December: General Kurt von Schleicher becomes Chancellor of Germany. On his orders Raimund Diestel is incarcerated in Haufftiz Castle maximum security prison.[78]
1933
- 26 January—1 February: The Lobster helps the On Leong Tong with cash deliveries for the resistance in Manchukuo and outs Japanese spy the Crimson Lotus.[79]
- June: The new Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler, visits Raimund Diestel in Haufftiz Castle.[78]
- Tony Masso's Finest Hour
- Ilsa Haupstein's gymnastic career is sabotaged and ended.
- Stanley Corn is appointed head of a top-secret research project at Zinco-Davis.[80]
1934
- October: Get the Lobster!
1935
- The Kelpie
- Herman von Klempt and Karl Ruprect Kroenen are invited by Heinrich Himmler to join the Sonnenrad Society.
- Autumn: Mangekyō
- Winter: The Forgotten Man
1936
- The new coal tipple is built to replace the old wooden one from 1910.[62]
- Our Haunted Houses of England, Ireland, and Wales is published by F.T. Benson.[22]
- A laboratory explosion destroys most of Herman von Klempt's body. His life being saved by Karl Ruprect Kroenen by keeping his head alive in a jar.
- December: Ilsa Haupstein is promoted and invited into the Sonnenrad Society by Heinrich Himmler.
1937
- January: The Iron Prometheus
- July: Heinrich Himmler meets Grigori Rasputin who is hiding in Postignano, Italy. Himmler recruits Rasputin to aid the Nazis in the occult.[33]
- December 1: Max Nohl sets the new record of deep diving (420 Feet) in Lake Michigan. [81]
- Victor Olssen visits a college to discuss his new book Hitting the Bottom. [82]
1938
- January: In New York, the Lobster tracks the deaths of Zinco-Davis employees Drs Skinner, Wiley, Kent and Gowland to the brain of their colleague Stanley Corn.[80]
- Spring: And What Shall I Find There?
- December: End of the Lobster's career as a murderous vigilante.[73]
1939
- February: In Colorado, the Lobster fails to stop a Nazi saboteur from blowing up a train carrying American troops and Manhattan Project scientists.[83]
- March 20: The Lobster prevents the launch of a space capsule from Hunte Castle. The resultant explosion kills him and everyone else in the castle, with the exception of Herman von Klempt.[84]
- Spring: Bishop Olek's Devil
- Detective Norvell Cooper leaves the NYPD and starts a new career as a pulp writer.[73]
1940s[]
1940
- July: Victor Olssen dives in the English Channel to recover the Vril Crystal and Sword of Hyperborea from the zeppelin crash of 1916 for Henry Cyril Moore. [82]
- September: The first of Norvell Cooper's Lobster stories, "The Long Arm of Death", is published in Weird Detective. Cooper claims his stories are based on real events, but admits the Lobster's alter ego of Walter Johnson is his own invention.[73]
1941
1942
- February: "Death Means Justice", eighth and last of Norvell Cooper's Lobster Johnson stories, is published in the final issue of Weird Detective.[73]
- October: Robert Emerson is reported missing, but actually killed.[67]
1943
- Trevor Bruttenholm gradutes from Oxford University.
- Norvell Cooper takes a job as a security guard at Gimbels department store.[73]
1944
- June 6: Jacob Stegner storms the beaches as part of the D-Day Normandy Invasion.[85][86]
- August: Sledgehammer 44
- October: Ilsa Haupstein recruits Vladimir Giurescu for Project Vampir Sturm.[26]
- December 3: Vladimir Giurescu meets Adolf Hitler at Wewelsburg Castle to discuss Project Vampir Sturm.[26]
- December 4: Vladimir Giurescu and his six wives are arrested on the orders of Adolf Hitler.[26]
- December 16: Vladimir Giurescu and his wives arrive at Dachau where they are supposedly killed.[26]
- December 21: A patrol of U.S. troops led by Sgt. George Whitman, accompanied by Trevor Bruttenholm, Lady Cynthia Eden-Jones, Malcolm Frost, and The Torch of Liberty, arrive at the ruins of a church in East Bromwich, where it is believed that an event of some sort would occur in two days.
- December 23: Project Ragna Rok enters its final phase on Tarmagant Island and fails to bring forth the key to the apocalypse, rather bringing it to a ruined church in East Bromwich. The "Hellboy Incident" occurs, with Hellboy appearing on Earth at the ruined church in East Bromwich.[87]
1945
- Vic Williams portrays The Lobster in the Phantom Jungle movie serial.[84]
- Hans Ubler smuggles Vladimir Giurescu's body out of Germany.[26]
- January 27: Jacob Stegner witnesses the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
- April 30: Adolf Hitler orders General Frederich Manstein to unfreeze the subjects of Project Vampir Sturm.[88]
- May 23: Heinrich Himmler commits suicide to avoid interrogation by Allied Forces.[56]
- Summer: At the BPRD Headquarters in Fairfield, Hellboy reads of the adventures and disappearance of Scarlett Santiago, the Sky Devil, in Thrilling Stories magazine.[89]
1946
- January 17: Tom Manning is born in Somerville, Massachusetts.
- Johann Kraus is born in Stuttgart, Germany.
- 1946
- Yumiko Daimio is put on trial for War Crimes during WWII.
- December 25: Hellboy gets a Lobster Johnson Decoder Ring for Christmas. [90]
1947
- Hellboy tries pancakes for the first time.
- F.T. Benson dies.[22]
- Jacob Stegner becomes an affiliate of the B.P.R.D.
- The Hyperborean sword and Vril crystal are stolen from Victor Olssen's beachside bar, the Second Chance[91]
- Spring: 1947. Annaliese and Katharina Brezina are put down for the last time.[20]
- May: The Hidden Land
- June: Assault on Castle Death
1948
- The Midnight Circus
- Archibald Muraro becomes an affiliate of the B.P.R.D. [92]
- 1948
1950[]
1952[]
Unspecified Date
- 1952
- Susan Xiang becomes an affiliate of the B.P.R.D. [92]
- Guitarist "One-Leg" Elijah Bone defeats the HBR with the aid of the Hyperborean sword.[93]
August 6
- Hellboy is granted human status by the United Nations.
August 13
- Hellboy is promoted to field agent in the B.P.R.D.
1953[]
Unspecified Date
- Malcolm Frost commits suicide.[22]
- Beyond the Fences
- Hellboy appears on the cover of Life. He autographs Ursula Morhaim's copy on her birthday at Idlewild Airport.[94]
February
February 26
- Allen Dulles is promoted to Director of Central Intelligence.[53]
March
April
May
- Trevor Bruttenholm and Harry Middleton tell Hellboy of how they lost their friend Bill Conolly to the Kelpie.[95]
October
- Woodrow Farrier became a B.P.R.D. affiliate.[96][97]
November
1954[]
Unspecified Date
February
June
1955[]
March
September
October
1956[]
Unspecified Date
- Johann Krauss becomes aware of his own psychic powers.
- King Vold
- Frankenstein's monster is captured by subterranean race in Mexico. [34]
- The Coffin Man
- Three former Dachau guards testify to the death in 1944 of Giurescu and six women.[26]
April 15
- Margaret Laine is promoted to Assistant Director of Operations of the B.P.R.D. [98]
May
- Hellboy is assigned to deal with the Vampire epidemic in Mexico.[98]
- Hellboy's dog, Mac, dies.
July
- Trevor Bruttenholm meets with Allen Dulles to discuss enkeladite. [98]
August
- Susan Xiang attempts to discover the identity of the Soviet operative that attacked Hellboy in 1955. [98]
- Margaret Laine has an arguement with Trevor Bruttenholm over the leadership of the B.P.R.D. [99]
August 17
- Hellboy is convinced by Adolfo Flores to be in wrestling films.[100]
August 20
- Hellboy begins filming his movie. [100]
September
- Trevor Bruttenholm returns to the B.P.R.D. HQ in Fairfield Conneticut to tell Margaret Laine and Archibald Murarothat Jacob Stegner was killed in the field.
September 1
October
- The B.P.R.D. begins its search for Hellboy in Mexico.[100]
October 16
- The B.P.R.D. gets a big lead on where Hellboy has gone.[100]
October 31
- Hellboy is found and brought back to B.P.R.D. HQ.[100]
November
- Hellboy returns to field work.[100]
1957[]
Unspecified Date
- Lobster Johnson and the Ring of Death is released.
- Death of former "Lobster Johnson" author Norvell Cooper.[73]
March
July
December 31
1958[]
Unspecified Date
- The Crooked Man
- The Penanggalan
- Kate Corrigan is born in Oakland, California.
- Trevor Bruttenhom resigns as director of the B.P.R.D.
1959[]
Unspecified Date
- The Corpse
- Hellboy stops Herman von Klempt from preying on peasant girls in Macapa. [101]
1960[]
Unspecified Date
1961[]
Unspecified Date
1962[]
Unspecified Date
- The Beast of Vargu
- Hellboy vs. Lobster Johnson: The Ring of Death
- Hellboy has a bad night with some followers of Kali.[102]
April
April 15
- Liz Sherman is born.[103]
1963[]
1964[]
March
1966[]
1967[]
Unspecified Date
1968[]
- Rieu Yessler gives a speech at the United Nations on ballistic missile proliferation. [104]
1969[]
January 29
- Allen Dulles dies. [53]
October
- Hellboy and Bruttenholm investigate a "really bad, ugly witchcraft thing" at a castle in Lochmaben, Scotland.[6]
Unspecified date
- Death of Nadya's mother, Violca. Ferko vows to return in ten years to claim his bride.[105]
c. 1969-70[]
- The castle at Lochmaben is bought by Count Guarino.[6]
1971[]
- Johann Krauss opens up a small office in Munich to go into business as a psychic medium.
1972[]
- Rieu Yessler runs for public office.[104]
1973[]
July
- Liz Sherman accidentally kills 32 people, including her parents and brother, with a pyrokinetic blast.
1974[]
May
- Liz Sherman is transferred to the custody of the B.P.R.D.
1975[]
October
December 22
December 24
1976[]
Unspecified Date
- Tom Manning joins the B.P.R.D.
- The Dead Remembered - Hellboy encourages his own mentor, Trevor Bruttenholm, to let Elizabeth Sherman outside the Bureau more often.
1978[]
November
- Abraham Sapien is discovered under St. Trinian's Hospital in Washington, D.C.
1979[]
2 March
- Abe Sapien is revived by electrical stimulation.[106]
Unspecified Date
- The Last Witch of Fairfield
- Goodbye Mister Tod
- Abraham Sapien takes a leave of absence from the B.P.R.D. to work in an archaeological endeavor with Anastasia Bransfield. [107]
- Her Fatal Hour
- Hellboy is summoned from BPRD HQ to France and saves Nadya from her demon suitor.
27–28 June
- Hellboy and Anastasia Bransfield recover a case of British Museum artifacts from some goblins.[108]
1980[]
Unspecified Date
- Tom Manning is promoted to Director of Field Operations.
- Kate Corrigan completes her BA with honors at University of California Berkeley in 1980, and her PhD at the University of Bucharest.
April 15
- Liz Sherman becomes an adult and chooses to join the B.P.R.D. as an official field agent.
1981[]
1982[]
Unspecified Date
- The Vârcolac
- While in Mexico, Hellboy tells Abraham Sapien of his time in the country decades prior. [109]
August 19
1983[]
Unspecified Date
- Kate Corrigan becomes a professor of Folklore at New York University. She also becomes a consultant for the B.P.R.D.
- The Land of the Dead
June
- Mr. Yessler is interviewed about his wife Rieu.[104]
13 October
1984[]
Unspecified Date
- Harry Middleton dies. [110]
- Kate Corrigan meets Hellboy for the first time.
1985[]
Unspecified Date
- The Bride of Hell
- Kate Corrigan begins interviews with Hellboy for a book. It is never published.
- The Whittier Legacy
1986[]
Unspecified Date
1987[]
- Pauline Raskin becomes a field agent for the BPRD.[65]
1988[]
February
1989[]
Winter
- In Budapest, Hellboy encounters the ghost of Tobok the Miser.[24]
September 3
- Fernando Landa, aka the Blue Fury, is interviewed by Agent Pauline Raskin in Mexico City. [111]
December 24
Unspecified Date
- Time is a River
1990[]
- Abe Sapien and Hellboy find and contained Daryl Tynon, a Wendigo in Anonta, Ontario, Canada. [112]
- The Yule Cat
1991[]
- Dr. Carp's Experiment
- The Sending
- In England, Hellboy and Harry Middleton prevent a sending from obtaining the Farnham Grimoire.
1992[]
Unspecified Date
- In the Chapel of Moloch
- The Ghoul
- Trevor Bruttenholm meets with the Cavendish brothers to embark on an expedition to the Arctic circle.
- The Seven Wives Club
- In Savannah, Georgia, Hellboy and Pauline Raskin's investigation clears Jane Howell of the murder of Tommy Niles.
November
- Trevor Bruttenholm says goodbye to Hellboy as he leaves for the Cavendish Expedition.
1993[]
Unspecified Date
- Drums of the Dead
- Trevor Bruttenholm and the Cavendish brothers stumble upon the ruins of Gorinium.
August 16
- Hellboy is told the story of Makoma by a mummy at the New York Explorer's Club.
1994[]
Unspecified Date
May
- Seed of Destruction
- Trevor Bruttenholm is killed by a Frog monster.
1995[]
Unspecified Date
December 25
- Abe Sapien becomes intoxicated at the B.P.R.D. Christmas Party. [113]
1996[]
March
- Roderick Zinco is sent by the ghost of Rasputin to Norway, where he joins forces with the revived members of Project Ragna Rok.[26]
1997[]
November
- Roger is revived by Abe Sapien using electrical stimulation, in an echo of Abe's own revival in 1979.[106]
1998[]
1999[]
17 May
- Igor Bromhead steals St Dunstan's tongs and the box containing Ualac from behind the fireplace in Dugan Hill, England.[6]
18 May
- Hellboy and Abe Sapien are called in to investigate the theft at Dugan Hill.[6]
19 May
- At Lochmaben, Scotland, Bromhead sells the box to Count and Countess Guarino, and Ualac is released. The demon possesses Countess Guarino and turns the Count into a monkey. Hellboy and Abe arrive but are subdued by Bromhead and Ualac.[6] Hellboy defeats Ualac, who is bound in amber by Astaroth and returned to Hell.[114]
21st century[]
2000[]
2001[]
June
- Captain Benjamin Daimio's platoon is massacred
2002[]
February
- The Ectoplasmic Man
- The "Chengdou Disaster" Occurs, destroying Johann Krauss's body.
September
2003[]
July
- Liz Sherman and Roger investigate the appearance of a ghost train at Cottonville, Alabama, with the help of the ghost of the Lobster.[83]
2004[]
2005[]
- War on Frogs #2
2006[]
Unspecified Date
March
November
- Abe Sapien visits Hallam in Somerset and meets the Mere.[115]
2007[]
2014[]
June
- Liz Sherman confronts the Black Flame.[31]
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- ↑ 84.0 84.1 Conqueror Worm
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- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings
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- ↑ 1946 #4
- ↑ The Hidden Land #2
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- ↑ The Sword of Hyperborea #3
- ↑ 92.0 92.1 Occult Intelligence
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- ↑ Shadow Theater
- ↑ The Kelpie
- ↑ Black Sun #1
- ↑ Falling Sky
- ↑ 98.0 98.1 98.2 98.3 1956 #1
- ↑ 1956 #2
- ↑ 100.0 100.1 100.2 100.3 100.4 100.5 100.6 1956 #5
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- ↑ The Key to It All
- ↑ The Dead Remembered
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- ↑ Her Fatal Hour
- ↑ 106.0 106.1 Abe Sapien versus Science
- ↑ The Drowning #1
- ↑ Goblin Night
- ↑ Hellboy in Mexico (story)
- ↑ Darkness Calls
- ↑ Hellboy versus the Aztec Mummy
- ↑ The Universal Machine #4
- ↑ File:Christmas_1995.jpg
- ↑ Box Full of Evil #2
- ↑ The Mysteries of Unland #5