User:Joelmills/Flashman timeline

1822

 * May 5 - Date of birth

1839

 * Summer
 * Expulsion from Rugby School for drunkenness
 * Seduction of his father's mistress, Judy
 * Joins 11th Light Dragoons under James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan

1840

 * Affair with Josette
 * Duel with Bernier, which he manages to win through bribery
 * Forced marriage to Elspeth after it is discovered he deflowered her
 * Forced resignation from the 11th Light Dragoons

1841

 * Arrives in India
 * Takes on Fetnab as language and sexual tutor
 * Becomes subaltern to William Elphinstone
 * Arrives in Afghanistan
 * Rape of Narreeman
 * Achieves the nickname "Bloody Lance" after fleeing and leaving his servant to fight four attackers alone
 * First Anglo-Afghan War begins
 * November 2
 * Witnesses the death of Sir Alexander Burnes
 * Escapes death by winning a tug of war against a massive dwarf over a trench of poisonous snakes
 * Becomes prisoner of Akbar Khan
 * December 23 - Witnesses the death of Sir William Hay Macnaghten

1842

 * January 6 - Retreat from Kabul
 * January 13 - Witnesses the destruction of the 44th regiment at Gandamak
 * January 14 - Capture by hostile Afghanis
 * Late January/early February - Tortured and threatened with castration
 * February - Arrives at seige of Jalalabad, skulks and hides while others die defending Piper's Fort, and somehow comes out looking like a hero.
 * Returns to England and reunites with Elspeth
 * July - Plays cricket for Tom Brown's team at Lord's and performs hat-trick
 * Bowled out Felix
 * Caught out Fuller Pilch
 * Gets Alfred Mynn leg before wicket
 * Meets Lola Montez and Otto von Bismarck
 * Late October/early November
 * Meets Duke of Wellington and Queen Victoria

1843

 * June
 * Exposes Lola Montez as Mrs. James on stage
 * Meets Richard Harris Barham at a hanging
 * Beds Mrs. Leo Lade
 * Threatened by the Duke, Mrs. Leo Lade's lover, with a beating by Ben Caunt and Tom Cannon
 * Plays single wicket cricket against Don Solomon Haslam and ties, losing a wager allowing Elspeth to accompany Haslam to East Asia and losing a wager for a bookie, forcing Flashman to go with them.

1844

 * April
 * Arrives in Singapore with Haslam, Elspeth, and his father-in-law
 * Meets Catchick Moses and Joseph Balestier
 * July
 * Saved from assassins by James Brooke
 * Elspeth kidnapped by Haslam
 * Sails with Henry Keppel on HMS Dido
 * August
 * Arrives in Kuching
 * August 5 - Meets Charlie Johnson and leaves Kuching
 * August 6-14 - Accompanies Brooke up the Batang Lupar river with the Dayaks to assault the pirate bases
 * August 16 - Ambushed on the Skrang river, nearly drowns, saved by Usman
 * September
 * Escapes Usman only to be taken captive in Madagascar
 * Elspeth also captured but bought by Prince Rakota
 * Arrives in Antananarivo and put up in slave auction
 * Meets Jean Laborde
 * Bought by Ranavalona I and made sergeant-general of the Malagassy army and lover of said queen

1845

 * Summer
 * Takes part in failed coup to overthrow Ranavalona
 * July 15 - Flashman and Elspeth Rescued by British and French navy

1845-1846

 * Bombay
 * Simla
 * Lahore
 * Ferozepore
 * Mackeson, George Broadfoot, Jawahir Singh, Florentia Sale, Emily Eden, Suchet Singh, Gulab Singh, Lal Singh, Peter Nicholson, Peshora Singh, Maka Khan, Chuttor Singh, Tej Singh, Charles Hardinge, 2nd Viscount Hardinge, John Lumley-Savile, 8th Earl of Scarbrough, Alexander Abbott, Charles Sackville-West, 6th Earl De La Warr, Runjoor Singh, William Bagot, 3rd Baron Bagot, Hurbon, Frederick Currie, William M'Gregor, Mangla, Mungela
 * Queen Victoria, Buffalo Bill, Abdul Karim, Ranjit Singh, Kharak Singh, Nau Nihal Singh, Sher Singh, Chand Kaur, Duleep Singh, Jind Kaur, Robert Henry Sale, Hugh Gough, Henry Hardinge, Henry Havelock, Harun al-Rashid, Josiah Harlan, Alexander Gardner, Thomas Love Peacock, Lars Porsena, Harry Smith, Henry Montgomery Lawrence, James Hope Grant, Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Robert Napier, William Stephen Raikes Hodson, Koh-i-Noor

1848

 * Thinks about joining British Parliament
 * Bryant, Frances Isabella Duberly, George Benticke or George Bentinck or George Bentick, Benjamin Disraeli (15)
 * Accused of cheating at vingt-et-un
 * John Charity Spring, Beauchamp Comber
 * Arrives in Dahomey, meets King Ghezo and his Dahomey Amazons
 * Arrives in Roatan
 * Abraham Fairbrother, Lady Caroline Lamb
 * Arrives in Washington, D.C. - Abraham Lincoln
 * Susie Willinck, Mr. Crixus, George Randolph
 * Travels on the Sultana
 * Peter Omohundro
 * Mandeville

1849

 * Cassy
 * Shot in the ass
 * Judge Payne's house (Henry B. Payne?)
 * Chico Velasquez, Samuel Owens, Hiram Young, Richard Lacey Wootton, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Lucien Maxwell, Alick Barclay, Anson Mills, Standing Elk, Myles Molyan, James Brisbin, Frank Grouard
 * Helen Hunt Jackson, Jim Bridger, Alexander MacKenzie, Spotted Tail, Charley Reynolds, William Bent, Ceran St. Vrain, John Joel Glanton, Mangas Coloradas, Geronimo, Kit Carson, Philip Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman, John Pope, George Crook, Crazy Horse, Ulysses S. Grant, William B. Allison, Alfred Terry, Red Cloud, Hamilton Fish, George Armstrong Custer, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Thomas Custer, Boston Custer, Lawrence Barrett, Sitting Bull, William W. Belknap, Rufus Ingalls, Marcus Reno, Frederick Benteen, Myles Keogh, James Calhoun, Henry Armstrong Reed, John Gibbon, George Yates, Chief Gall, Wild Bill Hickock

1854

 * Joins Board of Ordnance
 * Befriends Prince William of Celle, getting him drunk and leaving him in an alley, then becoming his mentor at the behest of Prince Albert
 * Joins the 17th Lancers under Lord Raglan
 * March 28 - Start of Crimean War
 * May - Catches the Earl of Cardigan with his pants down with Elspeth
 * June 28 - Receives dispatches for Raglan at Pembroke Lodge from Lord Palmerston
 * Arrives in Varna, attends meeting with Raglan, George Brown, and St. Arnaud
 * Bunks with Lew Nolan, Billy Russell, and William
 * Arrives in Crimea, works as a galloper for Raglan and Airey
 * September 20 - Participates in Battle of Alma, William is killed
 * Contacts dysentery during Siege of Sevastopol
 * October 25
 * Witnesses The Thin Red Line of Sir Colin Campbell and the 93rd Highland Brigade
 * Takes part in the Charge of the Heavy Brigade, commanded by James Yorke Scarlett
 * Witnesses the combined folly of Raglan, Lord Lucan, and Cardigan, and participates in the Charge of the Light Brigade with Cardigan
 * Taken prisoner by Russian general Pavel Liprandi
 * Travels to Starotorsk, meeting Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev on the way
 * Imprisoned in the house of Colonel Count Pencherjevsky, reunites with old shoolmate, Scud East, captured at Silistra

1855

 * February
 * Russian steam bath with Aunt Sara
 * Studded out to Valla, Pencherjevsky's daughter
 * Eavesdrops with East at meeting with Ignatiev, Tsar Nicholas I, and various generals where they discuss The Great Game
 * Peasant revolt allows Flashman and East to escape, with Valla
 * Crosses the Arrow of Arabat, dumping Valla in order to move faster, but Flashman is captured after a sleigh accident
 * Witnesses a knouting, arranged by Ignatiev
 * Arrives in Astrakhan and crosses the Caspian Sea
 * Crosses the Aral Sea, arrives at Fort Raim on the Syr Daria
 * Imprisoned with Yakub Beg, leader of the Tajiks, and Izzat Kutebar
 * Rescued by the Silk One, Ko Dali's daughter
 * Becomes blood brother to Yakub
 * Drugged with hashish by Ko Dali's daughter after sexual escapade
 * Helps destroy the Russian powder and cartridge ships with Congreve rockets
 * Travels through Khiva, Samarkand, and Kabul to Peshawar
 * Contracts cholera and returns to England

1856

 * Summer
 * Defames Lord Cardigan
 * Travels to Balmoral
 * September
 * Sept. 21 - Meets Florence Nightingale with Queen Victoria
 * Sept. 22 - Meets with Lord Palmerston, Lord Ellenborough, Charles Wood
 * September 25 - Nearly assassinated by Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev
 * November - Arrives in Bombay
 * Meets General John Nicholson
 * Arrives in Jhansi
 * Meets Rani Lakshmi Bai
 * Possibly has a tryst with the Rani, set upon by thuggees

1857

 * In disguise as Makarram Khan, joins 3rd Native Light Calvary in Meerut
 * April - meets Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough
 * May 9,10- refusal of the cartridges at Meerut, start of the Sepoy Mutiny
 * June - Arrive in Jhansi
 * June 21 - Meet Rowbotham
 * June 22 - Arrives in Cawnpore for Siege of Cawnpore
 * June 25 - Meets Nana Sahib, Tantya Tope, Azimullah Khan
 * June 26 - Massacre, Ilderim dies, Dirijibah Singh
 * Staff officer for Henry Havelock, James Outram, Siege of Lucknow
 * November
 * Nov. 10 - Accompanies Thomas Henry Kavanagh at orders of Outram and Robert Napier, Meets up with Colin Campbell

1858

 * Looting of Lucknow - Sam Browne, William Howard Russell, Fred Roberts, William Stephen Raikes Hodson
 * March - Hugh Rose, Harry Hammon Lyster, racked by Ignatiev
 * April 4 - Leaves Jhansi w/ Lakshmai
 * Arrives in Gwalior - two months in prison, death of lakshmai, tied to cannon, saved by Clement Walker Heneage
 * James Hope Grant, Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, Victoria Cross, Knight of the Bath, Tom Brown's School Days, Thomas Hughes

1858-1859

 * Cape Town
 * Baltimore, Maryland
 * Washington, D.C.
 * New York City
 * George McWatters, Jeremiah Anderson, Owen Brown, John Brown, Jr., Oliver Brown, John Cook, Aaron Dwight Stevens, Stewart Taylor, Watson Brown, Albert Hazlett, William Leeman, Charles Plummer Tidd, William Thompson, Dauphin Thompson, Edwin Coppock, Shields Green, Salmon Brown, Jason Brown, Francis Meriam, Lewis Washington, John Foulkes, Christine Fouke
 * Jack Johnson, Julia Ward Howe, John Brown, Benjamin Franklin, James Outram, George Edward Grey, Moshoeshoe I, Richard Francis Burton, John Brown (servant), David Rice Atchison, Charles Sumner, Hugh Forbes, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, Stephen A. Douglas, Allan Pinkerton, Richard Lyons, William H. Seward, Franklin Sanborn, William Wilberforce, Robert Marcellus Stewart, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wilson, Samuel Gridley Howe, George Luther Stearns, John Henrie Kagi, Dangerfield Newby, Barclay Coppock, Frederick Douglass, J.E.B. Stuart, Robert E. Lee, Henry A. Wise

1863-1865

 * Fought in the Battle of Gettysburg, apparently on both sides. Took Part in Sherman's March to the Sea.  Was present during Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.

1867-1868

 * Jesus Montero, Duke of Wurtemburg, Tewabech Ali, Charles Speedy, King Kussai, William Merewether, Gobayzy, Le Comte de Bisson, Warkite, Masteeat, Tiruwork Wube, Alemayehu Tewodros, Henry Blanc
 * Maximilian I of Mexico, Benito Juárez, Napoleon III of France, Franz Joseph I of Austria, James Bruce, Ali II of Yejju, Tewodros II of Ethiopia, Walter Plowden, Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Alexandra of Denmark, Hormuzd Rassam, Benjamin Disraeli, Prester John, G. A. Henty, Johann Ludwig Krapf, Henry Morton Stanley, Robert Napier, Yohannes IV of Ethiopia (King Kussai), Menelek II of Ethiopia, James Augustus St. John, Richard Francis Burton, Tekle Giyorgis II of Ethiopia (Gobayzy), Alexander Roberts Dunn, Charles Fraser

1876

 * Takes part in the Battle of Little Big Horn. Meets Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, SD on the morning before his death.

1877-1878

 * Baron Heinrich Karl von Haymerle, Desprey, Comte de Saint-Vallier, Baker Russell, Prince Felix of Salm-Salm, Jesus Montero, W. Pembroke Fetridge, John Stewart, J.D.H. Stewart, Osman Digna
 * Henri Blowitz, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Disraeli, Patrice MacMahon, Otto von Bismarck, W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, Lord Salisbury, Gyula Andrássy, William Henry Waddington, Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov, Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov, Chlodwig, Prince Hohenlohe, William Tecumseh Sherman, Garnet Wolseley, Charles George Gordon, William Hicks, Muhammad Ahmad, Wilhelm I of Germany, Georges Nagelmackers, Valentine Baker, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Maximilian I of Mexico, Lajos Kossuth, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, Alexander II of Russia, William Ewart Gladstone, Jules Grévy, Anthony Hope, H. H. Asquith, Johann Strauss II, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, Lord Granville

1879

 * Sebastian Moran, Henry Pulleine, Lord Chelmsford, Anthony Durnford, Cetshwayo, Paul Kruger, John Chard, Gonville Bromhead

1890

 * Lord Coventry, Owen Williams, Lycett Green, Berkeley Levett, Arthur Stanley Wilson, Edward George Clarke
 * Edward VII, William Gordon-Cumming, Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Daisy Brooke, Lillie Langtry, Alice Keppel, Madame de Pompadour, Lord Coleridge, Charles Russell, H. H. Asquith

1894

 * Oscar Wilde, Edward VII, George Edwardes, Mrs Patrick Campbell, Aubrey Beardsley, William Ewart Gladstone, Duchess of Connaught, Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson

1900-1905

 * Flashman papers written

1915

 * Flashman dies

1965

 * Flashman papers discovered