The Vampirates Timeline



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As requested on the Simon Mayo Show (20th September 2007) by the Book Panel here is an attempt at a timeline for the Vampirate books. The podcast can be listened to here.
The events in black are historical events and those in red are found in the Vampirate books.

100 BC - Roma
Julius Caesar was born

75 BC - Aegean Sea
Julius Caesar was kidnapped by Cilician pirates and held prisoner in the Dodecanese islet of Pharmacusa. He maintained an attitude of superiority throughout his captivity. When the pirates thought to demand a ransom of twenty talents of gold, he insisted they ask for fifty. After the ransom was paid, Caesar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and imprisoned them in Pergamon. The governor of Asia refused to execute them as Caesar demanded, preferring to sell them as slaves, but Caesar returned to the coast and had them crucified on his own authority, as he had promised to when in captivity – a promise the pirates had taken as a joke.

75 BC - Pergamon
Julius Caesar killed Sidorio


1776 - England
The british prison ship or prison hulk came into being.

1801 - Canton
Cheng I Sao (Ching Shih) was working as a prostitute on one of Canton's floating brothels before marring Cheng (Zheng Yi), later on the same year.

1803 - Connemara
Lorcan Furey was born.


1807 - Chinese Coast and South to Malaysia
Cheng died in 1807, Cheng I Sao took charge as a sort of admiral and placed Chang Pao, formerly her husband’s right-hand man, in command of the operation of the fleet.

1820 - Dublin
Lorcan Furey died.


1926? - Mid-Ocean
Darcy Flotsam "sang after second supper each night and all the posh gents and ladies". Then the great cruise ship "the Titania was struck mid-ocean by a powerful bolt of lightning. We sank." As she wore a Chanel Flapper dress, and flappers did not truly emerge until 1926. (Flapper fashion embraced all things and styles modern). The ship must have sunk 1926 or shortly after.


From The Blue Peter Blog
"I thought that it made sense to have pirates in the future because, with global warming and sea-level rise, there would be a lot more ocean for them to roam around and whoever controlled those vast oceans would be very powerful indeed!"

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Jez Stukeley was born.

2490
Bartholomew Pearce was born.

2498
Connor and Grace Tempest were born.

2504 - The Diablo
Bartholomew Pearce (Bart, age fourteen) and Jez Stukeley (age fifteen) joined the Diablo.

2505 - Crescent Moon Bay
Grace first sees The Nocturne.

2512 - Crescent Moon Bay
Dexter Tempest died.

2512 - The Albatross
Jez Stukeley Dies at twenty-three.