The Vampirates Timeline
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. Sorry I have lost the podcast. As
Justin wrote in a blog entry "you asked why, though my
story is set in the future, they are using swords and
traditional sailing ships rather than more futuristic tec.
The reason is that VAMPIRATES paints a rather dystopian
view of the future – it’s a brutal world which has been
altered by serious flooding and a lot of technology has
been lost, causing the world to turn backwards."
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 to 72 BC - Pergamon
Julius Caesar killed Sidorio
72 BC - Mediterranean
The
pirate Isidorus (Cilician) raided eastern
Mediterranean, killed in battle with Roman Lucullus.
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!"
2489
Jez Stukeley was born.
2490
Bartholomew Pearce was born.
2498 - (Read Black Heart)
Connor and Grace Tempest were born.
2498
Moonshine Wrathe was born.
2504 - The Diablo
Bartholomew Pearce (Bart, age fourteen) and Jez Stukeley
(age fifteen) joined the Diablo.
2405 - Crescent Moon Bay
Grace first sees The Nocturne on her own.
2512 - Crescent Moon Bay
Dexter Tempest died.
- From the vampirates.co.uk blog
"Oh and in answer to your query re: 2512, go back to the
beginning of DEMONS and you’ll see that when we first
meet Connor and Grace they are just seven years old.
Those seven years quickly pass."
2512 - The Diablo
6th June Conner signs his articles.
"On this, the sixth day of the sixth month in the year two
thousand five hundred and five, I, Connor Tempest, being of
sound mind and able body, do solemnly swear my allegiance
in perpetuity to Captain Molucco Wrathe ..."
- yes I know 2505
2512 - The Albatross
Jez Stukeley Dies at twenty-three.
2512 - The Tiger is launched.
The Motto for Captain Li and the crew of The Tiger
is "Slaying one Vampirate at a time since 2503."
(Congrats to Chase for his suggested motto)
