This is a timeline of events that occurred before the 20th century in the HBO timeline.
Circa 2,000,000 BCE[]
- The first light emitted by SN 1885A, a supernova in the Andromeda Galaxy, begins its two million year journey to Earth.[1]
1303 BCE[]
- Ramesses II is born.[2]
1213 BCE[]
- Ramesses II dies.[2]
356 BCE[]
July[]
21/22[]
- Alexander the Great is born.[2]
323 BCE[]
June[]
10/11[]
- Alexander the Great dies.[2]
1095[]
- Geoffrey of Monmouth is born.[2]
1138[]
- The Historia Regum Britanniae (The History of the Kings of Britain), is a pseudohistorical account of British history, by Geoffrey of Monmouth is completed. It helped popularize the legend of King Arthur.[2]
1400s[]
- Cartwithen Castle is built.
1636[]
- Harvard University is established.[2]
1746[]
January[]
18th[]
- Princeton University is established.[2][3]
1776[]
- The United States of America is founded.[2]
1794[]
- "The Tyger", a poem by William Blake is published.[2]
1818[]
January[]
11th[]
- "Ozymandias", a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, is published.[2]
February[]
1st[]
- "Ozymandias", a sonnet by Horace Smith, is published.[2]
Mid to Late 1800s[]
- Hollis Wordsworth Mason is born in Montana.
1828[]
February[]
8th[]
- Jules Verne is born.[2]
1835[]
- George Caitlin finishes a painting titled Comanche Feats of Martial Horsemanship.[2]
1838[]
July[]
- Bass Reeves is born into slavery in Arkansas.[2]
1856[]
March[]
- "Ride of the Valkyries" by Richard Wagner is released.[2][4]
1870[]
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is published.[2][5]
1873[]
- Moe Vernon is born.[4]
1875[]
- Bass Reeves is recruited into the marshal service by Isaac C. Parker, becoming the first black deputy west of the Mississippi.[2]
1879[]
March[]
14th[]
- Albert Einstein is born.[2]
1882[]
January[]
30th[]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt is born.[2]
1884[]
January[]
2nd[]
- Oscar Micheaux is born.[2]
May[]
8th[]
- Harry S. Truman is born.[2]
1885[]
January[]
1st[]
- J. Edgar Hoover is born in Washington, D.C..[2][6][7]
August[]
20th[]
- German astronomer Ernst Hartwig detects SN 1885A, a two-million-year-old supernova in the Andromeda Galaxy.[2][3]
1886[]
May[]
8th[]
October[]
28th[]
- The Statue of Liberty is dedicated to the United States of America.[2]
1889[]
April[]
20th[]
- Adolf Hitler is born.[2]
1890[]
- Claude Debussy begins composing Suite bergamasque, featuring Claire de lune.[2]
October[]
14th[]
- Dwight D. Eisenhower is born.[2]
1891[]
- O.B. Williams is born.
1896[]
- American businessman, Henry John Heinz, the founder of H.J. Heinz Company, conceives of the slogan "58 Varieties" to describe his company's products.[8]
1898[]
- Norman Vincent Peale is born.[2][9]
1899[]
July[]
21st[]
- Ernest Hemingway is born.[2][10]
References[]
- ↑ Watchmaker
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 Historical date
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter IV: Watchmaker
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Under the Hood: Chapter II
- ↑ Little Fear of Lightning
- ↑ Before Watchmen: Minutemen 05
- ↑ This Extraordinary Being
- ↑ Chapter I page 10 panel 8
- ↑ After the Masquerade: Superstyle and the Art of Humanoid Watching
- ↑ An Almost Religious Awe