League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Timeline
From DC Database
The following is a chronology of events pertaining to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen titles are published by America's Best Comics, an imprint of WildStorm Productions (owned by DC Comics). The adventures of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen take place in a separate continuity from that of other WildStorm titles as well as the mainstream DC Universe. Nearly all of the characters featured in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen titles are based on characters from novels published during the 19th and early 20th century, most of whom are now in the public domain. Series creators Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill treat the original literary works as authoritative and except where noted, are considered part of canonical League history. For the sake of chronological context, this timeline may contain information that was not explicitly revealed in the graphic novels, but was supplied by the original source material.
1787
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | The first League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is established. Its members include: Lemuel Gulliver, Percy and Marguerite Blakeney, the Reverend Doctor Syn, Mistress Hill and Natty Bumppo. | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #2 |
1841
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | French investigator C. Auguste Dupin investigates the gruesome deaths of Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter Camille. He deduces that the deaths were caused by an escaped orangutan | Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe; supplemented in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #1 |
1886
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Allan Quatermain's ally Umslopogaas is slain while battling his enemy Lord Nasta in the kingdom of Zu-Vendis. His death affects Quartermain deeply, and he decides to retire from adventuring. | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #1 |
| Unknown | Doctor Henry Jekyll creates a serum that releases the darker, more aggressive aspects of his personality. This persona becomes known as Edward Hyde. | The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; Supplemented in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #2 |
| Unknown | Allan Quatermain conspires with his biographer Henry Rider Haggard to fake his own death. | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #1 |
1889
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | The events of "Allan and the Sundered Veil" take place. | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #1-6 |
1890
| Year | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Inspector Dick Donovan solves the murder of Hetty Duncan. | Who poisoned Hetty Duncan by Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock; Supplemented in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #2 |
1891
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty confront each other for the first time at the Reichenbach Falls. It is believed that Holmes perishes during this encounter. | The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle; Supplemented in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #3 |
1897
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Summer-Winter | The vampire Dracula seduces Mina Murray, feeding on her, and forcing her to partake of his blood. Fortunately for Mina, Dracula is destroyed before she can turn into a vampire, but she still bears Dracula’s mark upon her neck. | Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| Unknown | Hawley Griffin creates a serum of invisibility. Another man (also named Griffin) uses the serum, and is subsequently murdered by an enraged mob in West Sussex. Note: Campion Bond clearly establishes that the Invisible Man featured in LoEG and the original character created by H.G. Wells are two separate people. | The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells; Supplemented in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #2 |
1898
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Mina's interaction with the vampire Dracula weighs heavily upon her marriage. Jonathan and she divorce soon after. | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #1 |
| Unknown | Invisible Man Harley Griffin infiltrates Miss Rosa Coote's Correctional Academy for Wayward Gentlewomen and begins raping several women, leaving three of whom with child. Rosa Coote believes that these pregnancies are the result of immaculate conception. Note: These events are revealed in late June, or possibly even early July, though they surely took place several weeks earlier. | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #2 |
| May | Campion Bond meets with Mina Murray in Dover. He enlists her service as a member of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Her first mission is to locate the retired adventurer Allan Quatermain. | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #1 |
| June | Mina Murray locates Allan Quatermain in Cairo, Egypt. | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #1 |
| June 28th | Mina and Quartermain arrive in Paris, France where they C. Auguste Dupin. They assist Dupin in solving a series of grisly murders, perpetuated by a brute named Edward Hyde | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #1-2 |
| July (Early) | Robur, Master of the Air, begins issuing threats from his hidden stronghold in the Great Eyry. | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #2 |
| July (Early) | The Astronomer Lavelle of Java discovers bursts of incandescent gas emanating from Mars. | War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells; League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #2 |
| July (Early) | Mina and Quartermain go to Miss Rosa Coote's Correctional Academy for Wayward Gentlewomen where they apprehend Invisible Man, Hawley Griffin, as he is in the throes of ravishing an unsuspecting woman. They bring him back to the League’s secret annex at the British Museum. | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #2 |
| July 5th | Criminal mastermind Fu Manchu steals a large supply of Cavorite from inventor Professor Selwyn Cavor. | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v.1 #2 |
