a timeline of events that influence the books and world
of my TRIALS OF THE BLOOD series
(Contains ***SPOILERS*** for virtually every single book in the series!!!)
33 — (Friday, April 3) Jesus’ crucifixion — first vampire created — Kristos is born in Athens, Greece
60 — Kristos’ wife and children are killed by vampires
61 — Peter creates the first werebears, including Kristos
100 — the vampire Vsevolod (based out of what is now Russia) starts keeping human feeders, starting a trend for vampires across the world, who no longer necessarily turn everyone they come across
170 — Kristos kills the first vampire (Longinus)
316 — Zacchaeus, consanguinea, is born to a poor family in Tolosa, Gaul
320 — the church makes Kristos the personal bodyguard of Zacchaeus
325 — first council of Nicaea
335 — Zacchaeus, consanguinea, becomes a vampire — Kristos is excommunicated for insubordination and failure to destroy a threat to humanity
336 — the church creates their first werewolves — among them is Adam, their first purgatum
340 — Adam turns a packmate human in an argument — church culls him, sends his pack on suicide missions
417 — Zacchaeus turns Aurelia vampire — Kristos joins Zacchaeus’ coterie
525 — Anno Domini era calendar invented based on estimated birth year of Jesus
570 — Soga no Kitashihime, former consort of the Emperor of Japan and mother to the first Empress of Japan (Empress Suiko), becomes a vampire five years after her thirteenth child is born
590 — Gregorian chants established
638 — Jerusalem and Syria conquered by Muslims
642 — Egypt conquered by Muslims (then rest of N. Africa)
711 — Muslim armies arrive in Spain
815 — the vampire Aurelia turns her first — Zacchaeus kills Aurelia — church razes Zacchaeus’ stronghold in Bulgaria, temporarily losing track of both Zacchaeus and Kristos
816 — church begins tracking consanguinea
817 — church realizes Zacchaeus must still be alive (relatively speaking)
1095 — Crusades begin (originally to quell vampire uprisings)
1119 — founding of the Knights Templar (predominantly werewolf strike teams)
1271 — Crusades largely end
1312 — Knights Templar officially dissolved (rumors abound of their continued operations)
1320 — Dante’s Divine Comedy completed
1354 — the Shroud of Turin (the burial shroud of Jesus) resurfaces
1400 — Chaucer completes The Canterbury Tales
1453 — fall of Constantinople
1478 — Tobias Sheppard is born
1492 — Columbus reaches the Americas
1495 — Leonardo da Vinci starts work on The Last Supper
1508-1512 — Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel ceiling
1517 — Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
1550 — Vampires arrive in the New World (America) along with the Spaniards
1600 — Sheppard comes to the New England colonies (America)
1614 — Christianity is banned from Japan (under Tokugawa Ieyasu)
1625 — Buckheim saves Sheppard from vampires
1685 — Matthew Wildes is born in Salem, MA
1692 — Sarah Wildes, Matt’s mother, is killed during the Salem witch trials
1703 — Frederick DuBois is born
1705 — John Wildes (Matt’s father) dies, Matt moves to Virginia
1712 — Matthew Wildes is turned werewolf while hunting deer
1719 — Sheppard meets Kristos, the pack squabbles, Kristos owes them three favors
1720 — Frederick is turned werewolf
1765 — Start of the American Revolution
1769 — Sheppard calls in favor #1, Kristos and the pack fight back the influence of the Anglican church over the natural packs of the colonies and wilds beyond
1776 — Declaration of Independence signed
1783, September — End of the Revolutionary war (via the signing of the Treaty of Paris)
1784 — first Korean Catholic baptized
1861-1865 — American Civil War
1866 — Kaylah Abernathy is born in southern Louisiana
1868 — Meiji Restoration in Japan lifts ban on Christianity
1871 — Frederick’s pack is killed by vampires, Frederick turns vampire
1883 — Kaylah is turned werewolf while traveling to visit a sick relative
1885 — the first car invented in Germany (by Karl Benz)
1896 — first American made car sold in the US
1903 — President Roosevelt quietly authorizes the US Military to build a force of werewolves, under the leadership of then-Colonel George Buckheim
1914 — World War 1 starts in Europe
1917 — Daniel Chapman is born
1917, Spring — America enters WW1 — the first US Army werewolf forces fight in the war
1917, Fall — Sheppard calls in favor #2, Kristos and the pack destroy a pair of vampire elders trying to move into America while the human men are away at war
1918 — Elias Clark, consanguinea, is born
1919, June — Treaty of Versailles ends WW1
1920, January — Kaylah joins Sheppard’s pack
1920, August — the 19th Amendment to the US constitution gives women the right to vote
1921 — Chastity McAllister is born in New York City
1931-1936 — Red Terror in Spain (instigated by vampire leadership)
1935 — Daniel Chapman is turned werewolf
1936 — Elias Clark starts school at Johns Hopkins University
1937 — Chastity is turned werewolf — first blood bank opens in Chicago
1939, February — US Army scouts Elias Clark (consanguinea, junior, top 10% of his class), marks him for entry, provides scholarship for the rest of his college career
1939, September — World War 2 starts
1940, September — Elias Clark, graduate of Johns Hopkins University, joins US army, continues medical training
1942 — Elias Clark is turned werewolf via General Buckheim’s program
1943 — Elias Clark, healer consanguinea, travels overseas on covert missions to help Allied forces
1945, September — World War 2 ends
1947 — Jonathan Holt is born
1952 — Jamie Holt is born
1954 — Lord of the Rings published
1969 — Jonathan and Jamie Holt are turned werewolf on a hunting trip
1983 — Ian Peterson is born in Cincinnati, OH
1991 — the internet becomes publicly available — Soviet Union dissolved
1992 — New York passes law requiring ATMs to have surveillance cameras
1997, March 20th — Grace Lynn Cartwright, consanguinea, born in Colorado Springs, CO
2001, September — World Trade Center in New York City destroyed by terrorists
2003 — finish mapping human genome — the military starts DNA mapping werewolves
2007 — Ian is turned werewolf on a camping trip
2019, November — Grace is turned werewolf, becomes purgatum — Grace kills Frederick — Kristos takes up guardianship of Lynn — Lynn
destroys Zacchaeus, consanguinea day-walking vampire — Matt takes favor #3, healing the pack with Kristos’ strength