The Timeline for the Improbable Adventures of Ethan Dupreii really begins in the mid 1800s as much of what defines the world is determined then.

1861: American Civil War between the Union and the seceding Confederacy begins. Russia abolishes serfdom. French intervention in Mexico.

1863: Formation of the International Red Cross.

1864: First Geneva Convention is adopted. The Chincha Islands War begins and was an attempt by Spain to regain its South American colonies. The Journey to the Center of the Earth takes place. The War of the Triple Alliance ends Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and destroys much of the Paraguayan population.

1865: The US Civil War ends. Reconstruction in the United States begins. Neanderthals are discovered for the first time in the North American Arctic.

1866: Successful transatlantic telegraph cable follows an earlier attempt in 1858. Astro-Prussian War results in the dissolution of the German Confederation and the creation of the North German Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy. The Chincha Islands War ends. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan embarks on a program of rapid modernization.

1867: The United States purchases Alaska from Russia. The Canadian Confederation is formed. French intervention in Mexico ends.

1869: First Transcontinental Railroad completed in the United States. Suez Canal opens, linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. Japanese modernization program ends.

1870: The War of the Triple Alliance ends. The Franco-Prussian War results in the unification of Germany and Italy, the collapse of the second French Empire, the breakdown of Pax Britannica, and the emergence of a new imperialism.

1871: The Franco-Prussian War ends. Second Industrial Revolution begins.

1872: Yellowstone National Park is created.

1873: Maxwell�s A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism is published, paving the way for the construction of Mile High City, NJ to become possible.

1874: The British East India Company is dissolved.

1875: Famine in India.

1876: Because of the massive expansion in population, territory, industry, and wealth in the United States, this is referred to as the �Gilded Age�.

1877: Reconstruction in the United States ends. The Great Railroad Strike in the United States, it may have been the world�s first nationwide labor strike. Russo-Turkish War begins.

1878: Russo-Turkish War ends. The Balkans are freed from the Ottoman Empire in the Treaty of Berlin. The first commercial telephone exchange is built in New Haven, Connecticut.

1879: Anglo-Zulu War begins in South Africa. War of the Pacific between Peru, Bolivia, and Chile begins.

1880: The Boer War begins.

1881: The first electrical power plant and grid is built in Godalming, Britain.

1884: The War of the Pacific ends. The Sino-French War begins.

1885: John D. Rockefeller and other investors �of like mind� begin construction on Mile High City, north of Atlantic City just off the New Jersey coast. The Sino-French War ends, leading to the formation of French Indochina.

1888: Slavery is banned in Brazil.

1889: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.

1890: The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the American Indian Wars, this event represents the end of the American Old West.

1893: Construction on Mile High City is completed.

1894: First Sino-Japanese War begins.

1895: First Italio-Abyssinian War begins. First Sino-Japanese War ends, China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea.

1896: Olympic Games revived in Athens. Klondike Gold Rush in Canada. Italio-Abyssinian War ends with Italy�s defeat by Ethiopia.

1897: Gojong, or Emperor Gwangmu, proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire.

1898: The United States gains control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.

1899: The Philippine-American War begins.

1900: Australia Becomes a Commonwealth. Boxer Rebellion in China sucessfully drives the foreign powers from China. Italy's King Assassinated. Kodak Introduces $1 Brownie Cameras. Max Planck Formulates Quantum Theory. Sigmund Freud Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams. Famine ends in India, 26 million perish.

1901: First Nobel Prizes Awarded. First Trans-Atlantic Radio Signal. Queen Victoria Dies. U.S. President McKinley Assassinated.

1902: Boer War ends. United Kingdom conquers Dutch settlers in South Africa in two Boer Wars. Mount Pel�e Erupts. The Teddy Bear is Introduced. U.S. Passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.

1903: First Flight at Kitty Hawk. First Message to Travel Around the World. First Silent Movie, The Great Train Robbery. First World Series. Plague in India.

1904: First Popular American Film. Ground Broken on Panama Canal. New York City Subway Opens. Russo-Japanese War Begins. Trans-Siberian Railway Completed.

1905: "Bloody Sunday" - Russian Revolution of 1905. Einstein Proposes His Theory of Relativity. Freud Publishes His Theory of Sexuality.

1906: The Dreadnought Launched. Finland First European Country to Give Women the Right to Vote. Kellogg's Starts Selling Corn Flakes. San Francisco Earthquake. Upton Sinclair Writes The Jungle. Brummel University of Technology and Innovation is founded in Mile High City.

1907: Ten Rules of War Established at the Second Hague Peace Conference. First Electric Washing Machine. Picasso Introduces Cubism. Typhoid Mary Captured for the First Time.

1908: Earthquake in Italy Kills 150,000. Ford Introduces the Model-T. Three Year-Old Pu Yi Becomes Emperor of China. Turks Revolt in the Ottoman Empire. Ethan Dupreii born in Wisconsin.

1909: Japan's Prince Ito is Assassinated. NAACP Is Founded. Plastic Is Invented. Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole.

1910: Boy Scouts Established in U.S. Halley's Comet Makes an Appearance. The Tango Catches On.

1911: The Chinese Revolution. Ernest Rutherford Discovers the Structure of an Atom. Greenwich Mean Time Adopted. The Incan City of Machu Picchu Discovered. Mona Lisa Is Stolen. Roald Amundsen Reaches the South Pole. Standard Oil Company Broken Up. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Catches on Fire First Magnetic Acceleration Guns (MAG) tested in the American southwest.

1912: Oreo Cookies First Introduced. Parachutes Invented. Piltdown Man, the "Missing Link," Discovered (Fraud). SOS Accepted as Universal Distress Signal. The Titanic Sinks.

1913: First Crossword Puzzle. Henry Ford Creates Assembly Line. Los Angeles Owens Valley Aquaduct. Opened Personal Income Tax Introduced in U.S. Philippine American War ends.

1914: Archduke Ferdinand Assassinated. Battle of the Marne. Charlie Chaplin First Appeared as the Little Tramp. First Traffic Light. Panama Canal Officially Opened. Second Industrial Revolution ends. Westward Expansion ends. World War I Begins.

1915: Armenian Genocide. D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation Released. Germans Use Poison Gas as a Weapon. Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat. Second Battle of Ypres.

1916: Battle of the Somme. Battle of Verdun. Easter Rising in Ireland. First Self-Service Grocery Store Opens in U.S.

1917: First Pulitzer Prizes Awarded. Mata Hari Executed for Being a Spy. Russian Revolution. U.S. Enters World War I.

1918: Daylight Saving Time Introduced. Influenza Epidemic. MAGs used in battle for the first time. Russian Czar Nicholas II and His Family are Killed.

1919: Prohibition Begins in the U.S. Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I.

1920: Bubonic Plague in India. First Commercial Radio Broadcast Aired. Harlem Renaissance Begins. League of Nations Established. Pancho Villa Retires. Women Granted the Right to Vote in U.S.

1921: "Fatty" Arbuckle Scandal. Extreme Inflation in Germany. Irish Free State Proclaimed. Lie Detector Invented.

1922: Kemal Atat�rk Founds Modern Turkey. Tomb of King Tut Discovered. Michael Collins Killed in Ambush. Mussolini Marches on Rome. The Reader's Digest Published.

1923: Charleston Dance Becomes Popular. Hitler Jailed After Failed Coup. Ruhr Occupied by French and Belgian Forces. Talking Movies Invented. Teapot Dome Scandal. Time Magazine Founded.

1924: First Olympic Winter Games. J. Edgar Hoover Appointed FBI Director. Leopold and Loeb Murder a Neighbor Out of Boredom. V.I. Lenin Dies.

1925: Flapper Dresses in Style. Hitler Publishes Mein Kampf. The Scopes (Monkey) Trial

1926: A.A. Milne Publishes Winnie-the-Pooh. Houdini Dies after Being Punched. Robert Goddard Fires His First Liquid-Fuel Rocket. A Woman Swims the English Channel.

1927: Babe Ruth Makes Home-Run Record. BBC Founded. The First Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer. Rocket Packs are adopted for use by police forces in the United States. Lindbergh Flies Solo Across the Atlantic. Sacco and Venzetti Executed.

1928: Bubble Gum Invented. First Mickey Mouse Cartoon. First Oxford English Dictionary Published. Kellogg-Briand Treaty Outlaws War. Penicillin Discovered.

1929: Byrd and Bennett Fly Over South Pole. Car Radio Invented. First Academy Awards. New York Stock Market Crashes. St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

1930: Gandhi's Salt March. Pluto Discovered. Sliced Bread Available. Stalin Begins Collectivizing Agriculture in the U.S.S.R. Professor E.M. Happenstance is abducted from his office at Brummel University of Technology and Innovation.