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 * 1859
 * birth of Peter Pienaar (age 56 in December 1915 )
 * 1877
 * birth of Richard Hannay (age 37 in May 1914 ; nearly 40 in June 1917 )
 * 1881
 * birth of the Graf von Schwabing ("just gone thirty-six" in January 1918 )
 * 1882
 * birth of Sandy Arbuthnot
 * circa 1883
 * Hannay leaves Scotland for Africa, age six
 * 1899
 * August: birth of Mary Lamington (turns nineteen in August 1918 )
 * October 1899 - May 1902: The Boer War. Hannay serves two years with the Imperial Light Horse and as an intelligence officer at Delagoa Bay


 * 1876?
 * Edward Leithen born (nearly twice Vernon Milburne’s age in 1913 )
 * 1893/4
 * Vernon Milburne born (age 15 in April 1908, 20 in January 1913, 19 in April 1913, 25 in April 1919, 25 or 26 in November 1919 )
 * 1897
 * 9-10 July: the Eton v Harrow match at Lord's. Edward Leithen plays for Eton; Ramon Pelem is twelfth man for Harrow
 * 1897/8
 * Mrs Ganthony moves from the Milburnes to the Leithens. Vernon is four, Leithen still at Eton


 * c. 1900
 * Leithen is called to the Bar (he has been examining witnesses for 20 years in January 1920 )


 * 1909 (eight years ago in January 1918 )
 * the Graf von Schwabing is exiled following a court scandal and begins working undercover for the German government


 * 1908
 * Monday 6 April 1908: Vernon is fifteen and at Eton. He discovers that the dream will end twelve years later
 * 1912
 * Monday 1 April: Vernon is in his first year at Oxford. On a walking trip in Brittany, he avoids the dream by staying up all night
 * 1913
 * January: Leithen goes to Lady Amysfort’s ball with his nephew Charles and meets Vernon Milburne
 * Easter vacation: Leithen goes walking in Westmorland
 * Monday 7 April: Leithen twists his ankle and is taken in by Vernon. That night Vernon has the dream again
 * Tuesday 8 April: Leithen and Vernon go motoring to Shap. After dinner Vernon tells Leithen about the dream and how he intends to face it
 * winter: Leithen visits Charles and Vernon at Oxford and hunts with the Bicester


 * 1914
 * February: Hannay returns to England


 * Day 1, May: Hannay meets Scudder and agrees to shelter him
 * Day 2: discovery of the body in Scudder's flat
 * Day 3: Hannay attends the inquest
 * 23 May: Scudder tells Hannay about the Black Stone and writes to Sir Walter Bullivant
 * 24 May : Hannay returns to find Scudder's corpse and resolves to flee to Scotland
 * 25 May: Hannay leaves London, arrives in Galloway and spends the night at a herd's cottage
 * 26 May: Hannay sees the monoplane and puts up with the literary inkeeper
 * 27 May: Hannay decodes Scudder's notebook. The Black Stone show up at the inn
 * 28 May: Hannay steals a car, meets Sir Harry, addresses a political meeting and confides in his host
 * 29 May: Hannay leaves Sir Harry, masquerades as a roadman and hijacks Marmie's car
 * 30 May: Hannay is captured by the bald archaeologist, blows his way out and sleeps rough again
 * 31 May: Hannay acquires food and a plaid from a herd's cottage. Sir Walter receives Scudder's letter
 * Sunday 1 June (though 1 June 1914 was actually a Monday): Hannay arrives at Turnbull's cottage suffering from malaria
 * 12 June : Hannay leaves Turnbull's cottage for Moffat
 * 13 June: Hannay travels from Moffat to Artinswell and meets Sir Walter Bullivant. Death of Karolides
 * 14 June: Hannay meets Macgillivray, gets in a fight with Jopley, recognises "Lord Alloa", and discusses the thirty-nine steps
 * 15 June: The Black Stone are confronted and captured in Kent


 * 3 August: Britain requisitions the Ottoman battleships Sultan Osman I and Reshadieh for the Royal Navy
 * 4 August: Britain declares war on Germany
 * before 11 August: Hannay joins the New Army and is given a captain's commission
 * 16 August: the German battlecruiser Goeben is transferred to the Turkish Navy as Yavuz Sultan Selim


 * 1914
 * Spring: Leithen and Vernon go cruising in the Aegean on Lamancha’s yacht
 * Monday 6 April: Leithen and Vernon explore Plakos
 * Tuesday 7 April: Leithen and Vernon discuss the dream
 * mid-August: Leithen has joined the Guards in the ranks; Vernon is training with the Yeomanry
 * October: Vernon dines with Leithen before the latter leaves for France


 * 1915
 * April: Nureddin Pasha takes command of Ottoman forces in Iraq
 * 9 July: surrender of German forces under Victor Franke, marking the end of the German South West Africa Campaign. Hannay is training with his battalion in Hampshire
 * 24 July: the American Secret Service gains possession of the briefcase of the German commercial attaché, Dr Albert, after he leaves it in a tram
 * August: Harry Bullivant arrives at Delamain's camp and dies of his wounds. Sandy reads of Bullivant's death in the casualty lists
 * 9 September: the US government demands the recall of the Austro-Hungarian ambassador, Constantin Dumba
 * 25 September - 13 October: the Battle of Loos. Sandy saves Hannay's life, and both are wounded
 * 28 September: British forces capture Kut-al-Amara following the Battle of Es Sinn


 * Wednesday 17 November : Hannay travels to London to see Sir Walter Bullivant, meets John S. Blenkiron and they and Sandy plan their campaign
 * Saturday 27 November: Hannay meets Blenkiron in St James's Street and the latter causes a scene
 * Monday 29 November: Blenkiron sails from Newcastle
 * Wednesday 1 December: Sandy Arbuthnot leaves for Cairo as a King's Messenger
 * Friday 3 December: Hannay leaves Liverpool for Lisbon
 * ? December: Hannay arrives in Lisbon, meets Peter Pienaar, and they are recruited by a German agent
 * the next day: Hannay and Peter leave Lisbon for Rotterdam
 * Monday 20 December: Hannay and Peter arrive in Rotterdam and depart by train for Berlin. British troops are evacuated from Anzac Cove and Suvla Bay
 * some time between 20 December and Christmas: Sandy arrives at Panderma and is torpedoed by Tommy Elliot's submarine while crossing the Sea of Marmora
 * Tuesday 21 December: Hannay and Peter arrive in Berlin and meet Ulric von Stumm
 * Wednesday 22 December: Hannay and Peter are taken on a tour of a POW camp. Hannay is taken to meet Gaudian, Peter is arrested
 * Thursday 23 December : Stumm challenges Hannay about Peter. They leave for Stumm's house (meeting the Kaiser en route). Hannay fights Stumm and makes a run for it. Meanwhile Peter is transferred to prison at Neuburg
 * Friday 24 December: Hannay is chased across country, suffering from malaria. He seeks shelter in a cottage
 * Saturday 25 December: Peter gains the confidence of the bogus prisoners
 * Sunday 26 December: Peter announces his intention to escape the following Wednesday
 * Monday 27 December: Peter escapes from Neuburg and heads south. The decision is taken to evacuate VIII Corps from Cape Helles.
 * Wednesday 29 December : Hannay is well enough to get up
 * Thursday 30 December : Hannay reaches the Danube and is taken on a barge as engineer (at Absthafen? )
 * Friday 31 December: New Year's Eve. The barges stop at a town so the crew can revel. Peter Pienaar arrives in the town the same day


 * 1915
 * 15-25 May: the Battle of Festubert; Leithen is wounded
 * summer: Vernon goes out to the Dardanelles
 * 21 August: the 2nd Mounted Division sees action at the Battle of Scimitar Hill ("the Yeomanry fight at Suvla"). Vernon is badly wounded in the shoulder
 * 25 September - 14 October: the Battle of Loos. Leithen is wounded


 * 1916
 * Saturday 1 January: while rounding up the crew Hannay meets Peter, who joins him
 * Sunday 2 January: the barges pass through Vienna
 * Wednesday 5 January: Peter relates the circumstances of his escape
 * Friday 7 January: the barges arrive at Belgrade. Hannay overhears Blenkiron discussing the evacuation of Cape Helles
 * Sunday 9 January: the last British troops are evacuated from Cape Helles
 * Monday 10 January: the barges arrive at Rustchuk. Captain Schenk is ill so Hannay oversees the unloading
 * Tuesday 11 January: Hannay has an altercation with Rasta Bey. They set off to deliver the munitions to Turkey
 * January: Hannay and Peter cross the frontier at Mustafa Pasha and have a further run-in with Rasta Bey
 * Sunday 16 January: Hannay and Peter deliver the munitions to Chataldja and head on to Constantinople. They find Mr Kuprasso and are rescued from Rasta's thugs by the Companions of the Rosy Hours. That night Turkish forces withdraw to Erzerum after the Battle of Koprukoy
 * Monday 17 January: Hannay and Peter go to the Garden-House of Suliman the Red and meet up with Sandy and Blenkiron
 * Tuesday 18 January: Hannay is fitted out as an American and tours Constantinople with Blenkiron
 * Thursday 20 January: Blenkiron and "Richard Hanau" attend a reception at Moellendorff's; also present are Gaudian and Enver Pasha. (General Liman and Count Metternich are at Nish with the Kaiser)
 * Friday 21 January: Blenkiron meets with Hilda von Einem
 * Tuesday 1 February: Blenkiron and Hannay go riding outside Constantinople
 * Wednesday 2 February: Hannay and Peter go riding, get lost and encounter Sandy and Hilda von Einem. Hannay returns to meet Rasta Bey again, and is visited by von Einem then Sandy
 * Thursday 3 February: the passports arrive for Erzerum
 * Friday 4 February: Hannay, Peter, Blenkiron and Hussin arrive at Angora by rail
 * Saturday 5 February: they leave Angora in an old Studebaker
 * Sunday 6 February: they crash their car and spend the night at a farm
 * Monday 7 February: Hussin searches fruitlessly for transport
 * Tuesday 8 February: Hussin returns with two "miserable screws"
 * Wednesday 9 February: Hussin acquires an Arab stallion
 * Thursday 10 February: the party set out on horseback, but steal Rasta Bey's car and drive it through Siwas
 * Friday 11 February: they pass the Euphrates, bluff their way through Erzinghian, and are imprisoned by Stumm on arrival in Erzerum. Hussin helps them escape and Hannay steals Stumm's map; they hide in Sandy's house
 * Saturday 12 February: Hannay surveys the lines and Peter agrees to cross them. Sandy visits and tells of Greenmantle. Peter sets off with the map and reaches the Russian general
 * Sunday 13 February: Hannay watches the comings and goings around Erzerum from the rooftop
 * Monday 14 February: the way to the roof is barred. Hussin returns that evening
 * Tuesday 15 February: they leave Erzerum and take refuge in the castrol. Hilda von Einem is killed by a Russian shell. They settle down for the night
 * Wednesday 16 February: Stumm begins shelling the castrol, but is overrun by the Russians. Hannay, Blenkiron and Sandy participate in the Cossacks' entry into Erzerum, ending the Erzerum Offensive.


 * around May: Peter Pienaar begins service with the Royal Flying Corps
 * June or earlier: Hannay is given command of a battalion
 * 1 July - 18 November: the Battle of the Somme
 * 15 - 20 July: the 1st South African Brigade sees action at the Battle of Delville Wood
 * late July: Hannay discusses Peter's tactics with a South African MGO
 * end of August: Peter Pienaar has become one of the RFC's leading heroes
 * 15 September: Hannay is wounded in the head (and later awarded the DSO)
 * end of October: Peter is shot down near Morchies
 * 1917
 * early in the New Year: Hannay receives his first letter from Peter
 * January: Hannay rejoins the Army
 * before 9 April: Hannay is given command of a brigade
 * 9 April - 16 May: the Battle of Arras. Hannay's brigade has a "star turn"
 * May: Hannay's brigade has a month's rest
 * June: Hannay's brigade is posted to the Scarpe, but Hannay is soon ordered back to Britain
 * Monday: Hannay meets with Bullivant and Macgillivray and is given his assignment
 * Thursday, June: Hannay visits Isham and Fosse Manor, and is given his orders by Mary
 * Saturday: Hannay arrives at the Garden City of Biggleswick
 * 7 - 14 June: the British win the Battle of Messines
 * 3 July: Blenkiron writes a letter to the Critic supporting Senator La Follette
 * 31 July: Hannay's brigade suffers substantial losses


 * 13 September: Hannay returns to France
 * 19 September: Hannay resumes command of his brigade
 * shortly afterwards: Hannay appoints Geordie Hamilton as his batman
 * 26 September: Hannay's brigade sees action at the Battle of Polygon Wood
 * 30 September: Hannay's brigade is brought out to refit
 * early October: Hannay meets up with Lancelot Wake again
 * just before 7 October: Hannay spends three days laid up with malaria and lets Macgillivray know of the Deep-Breathing advertisements
 * 7 October: Hannay is given command of a division
 * 23 October: Hannay is wounded in the head and spends three days in hospital
 * early November: Hannay's division sees peripheral action around Ypres
 * 20 November - 6 December: the Battle of Cambrai; Hannay's division is in support towards the end of the battle
 * 10 December: Mary begins nursing at Douvecourt
 * December: Hannay's division is stationed around St Quentin
 * before Christmas: Hannay's division is pulled out for some rest


 * 1918
 * April: death of Lensch
 * just before the Armistice: Archie Roylance has an aeroplane smash which leaves him lame
 * "just after the war": Hannay buys Fosse Manor as a wedding present for Mary
 * 1919
 * Sandy is elected to the Thursday Club
 * 1920
 * January: birth of Peter John Hannay ("rising fifteen months" in mid-March; nearly fourteen years old on 7 January )
 * early December: Greenslade goes shooting at Hanham and meets Medina
 * just before Christmas: Adela Victor arrives in Europe
 * 1921 (the Hannays have been at Fosse for 2½ years; seven years since Hannay's first visit to Artinswell in June 1914; five years since Hannay last saw Sandy in 1916 )
 * "earlier in the year": Archie Roylance nearly breaks his neck in a steeplechasing accident
 * 17 February: Lord Mercot is kidnapped
 * 8 March: Adela Victor is kidnapped
 * Sunday: David Warcliff is kidnapped
 * Wednesday: Julius Victor, the Duke of Alcester and Sir Arthur Warcliff receive the poem
 * Monday (mid-March ): Dr Greenslade theorises, and Hannay is warned by Lord Artinswell
 * Tuesday: Hannay is visited by Julius Victor, Macgillivray and Sir Arthur Warcliff
 * Wednesday: Hannay discusses the poem with Greenslade
 * Thursday: Greenslade remembers his meeting with Dominick Medina
 * Friday: Hannay goes up to London and meets Sandy. Macgillivray explains about the kidnappers
 * Sunday: Hannay worries about his meeting with Medina
 * Monday: Hannay lunches with Medina
 * Tuesday: Hannay lunches with Julius Victor and dines with Sandy
 * Thursday: Hannay attends the Thursday Club with Medina, who later tries to hypnotise him
 * Friday (still March ): Hannay wakes and visits Dr Newhover and Palmyra Square. He discusses Medina with Sandy
 * Saturday: Hannay is at Oxford, Sandy leaves for France
 * Sunday: Hannay goes for a drive with Turpin and dines with Victor; Medina is also present
 * Monday (now April ): Hannay goes to see Macgillivray


 * winter: Archie Roylance marries Janet Raden
 * 192-
 * 27 January: Blenkiron leaves New York for Panama
 * February: Sandy succeeds as 16th Lord Clanroyden


 * July: Mary and Peter John go to Machray
 * August: Hannay discusses Blenkiron with Willis and Sandy
 * November: Hannay hears of Sandy disgracing himself
 * 28 December: Hannay reads of Blenkiron's death in The Times
 * 19--
 * January: Hannay discusses Sandy with Palliser-Yeates and hears from Blenkiron


 * 14 June : the rebels capture Gran Seco city


 * 19 July: Lossberg enters Gran Seco City


 * 19 August: the Bodyguards attack the Courts of the Morning
 * 20 August: Janet is kidnapped. Barbara discovers her absence and Archie is told
 * 21 August: Archie discusses Janet's whereabouts with Castor. He flies south with Geordie Hamilton but is forced to bail out. They make their way out of the jungle
 * 22 August: Archie and Geordie Hamilton find the sea-plane and meet up with the Indians


 * Monday: Peters and Escrick concentrate their forces on the railway
 * Tuesday: Olivarez pushes southwards and the Council of War at Veiro hear of it. San Luca is captured overnight, and Sandy arrives
 * Wednesday (sixteen days since Lossberg was turned back at the pass): Luis, Blenkiron and Archie go to meet with the Cabinet in Olifa. Sandy and his Indians destroy the route between Lossberg and Olivarez
 * Thursday: Olivarez surrenders to Sandy. Blenkiron outlines the rebel proposals for the Gran Seco. Olivarez arrives at Olifa with Gedd to announce his defeat; the Cabinet capitulate
 * Friday: Lariarty warns Sandy of the danger at Veiro, and Geordie warns Gedd. The Bodyguard and Conquistadors arrive at Veiro and Castor and Lariarty are killed


 * October: Hannay hears Lombard's name in a Commons debate then meets Lombard in a train
 * week before Christmas: Archie mentions that Morag needs a home
 * a week later: Morag arrives from Crask
 * two years since Sandy's doings in Olifa
 * 7 January: Hannay and Peter John arrive at the Rose and Crown. Hannay meets "James Smith"
 * 8 January: Hannay and Peter John are out early, and meet "Smith" after lunch
 * 9 January: Morag fails to catch a goose, and "Smith" draws a moral from it
 * end of February: Sandy returns from the Far East


 * 1922
 * 15 January: Raymond Poincaré becomes Prime Minister of France
 * 31 October: Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy
 * 6 December: the Constitution of the Irish Free State is proclaimed
 * Leithen is between forty and fifty, Palliser-Yeates forty-five, Lamancha in the early forties. The three were contemporaries at school and university
 * early July: Leithen visits Acton Croke. Archie Roylance tells Leithen, Lamancha and Palliser-Yeates about Jim Tarras
 * 21 August: The Times announces the departure of Leithen and Palliser-Yeates for Scotland
 * 24 August: Leithen, Lamancha and Palliser-Yeates read the replies and draw for beats
 * 25 August: Leithen reconnoitres Strathlarrig and recruits Fish Benjie. Archie meets Janet Raden
 * 27 August: Janet meets Fish Benjie. John Macnab plans the assault on Glenraden
 * 29 August: John Macnab feints on Carnbeg
 * 30 August: Palliser-Yeates kills a stag on the Home beat but is discovered by Janet. Mr Bandicott announces his discovery of the remains of Harald Blacktooth
 * 31 August: Junius Bandicott plans his defence of the Larrig
 * 1 September: news of Mr Bandicott's discovery appears in the Scottish press
 * 2 September: the national press takes up the story of Harald Blacktooth and Inverlarrig is inundated with reporters. Leithen recruits Crossby. Archie dines at Strathlarrig with the Bandicotts and Radens; Leithen catches a salmon, is captured, but released by Agatha Raden
 * 3 September: John Macnab delivers the salmon and Janet lectures Archie on life
 * Thursday 4 September : Archie and Lamancha speak at the meeting in Muirtown. Dr Kello is let in on the secret
 * Friday 10 September: Janet visits Haripol and Fish Benjie abducts Roguie. Lamancha plans his attack
 * 11 September: Lamancha shoots the Auld Hero. Palliser-Yeates draws off the navvies and Wattie Lithgow removes the stag. Archie proposes to Janet. Roguie is returned, and Leithen captured. Lamancha fights with Stokes and is taken to Haripol by Johnson Claybody. The story of John Macnab is told to the Claybodys


 * November: Sir Archibald Roylance and Janet Raden are married at Inverlarrig


 * spring: marriage of Junius Bandicott and Agatha Raden