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'CONTINUUM

 CHRONOLOGY'

ENGLAND & the BRITISH ISLES

 

 My three linked-novels, 'A Dangerous Energy', 'To Build Jerusalem' and 'The Two Confessions' [ henceforth ADE, TBJ and TTC respectively ] are set within, I trust, an internally consistent altered time-line.  For reasons too implausible and complex to explain, I christened the thing 'Continuum' history.

Here it is, as gleaned from the books.  Any mistakes you may delusionally perceive are the result of typing errors or duff info from - other - negligent historians.

The Chronology is divided into the following sections:

  • England & the British Isles

  • Amended English Regnal List

  • The Wider Continuum World

  • People and Personalities

  • Nations

  • Places and Races

 

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ENGLAND & THE BRITISH ISLES

 4004 BC    The Creation.  As definitively arrived at ( and published 1650 ) in an impressive work of Biblical scholarship by James Ussher, ( 1581 - 1656 ), Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland.

 ?    Britain settled by refugees from Troy

 61 AD    London: 'Boudicca, Vikings, Spanish and Charles I' burnt it.  Mention of 'Plantagenet London'.  'Cornish Rising' ?

 1562    'Queen Elizabeth the Wicked' ( or 'Black Betty' ) dies of smallpox.

 'Cardinal Archbishop Cranmer' [ ADE ]

 1563    Accession of MARY II and Henry Stewart: 'HENRY IX'

 1564    'Protestant rising nominally led by William Cecil'.  'Half-hearted support in Sussex'.  'Bloody defeat' in 1565.

 1571    'Violent and unnatural death' of HENRY IX.

 1575    Queen MARY and 'Spanish allies in England'.

 St. William Shakespeare: 'early conversion and driven pen'.

 1580    'Lewes Rising'.  'Lewes sacked by ( English ) royal army'.

 1585    'Great Armada welcomed ashore by the Queen at Dover'.

 'Spanish pogrom of the Protestant nobility and Essex's equally   bloody pogrom of collaborators' [ ADE ]

 1589    'Cambridge Rising'

 1591    'Spanish departed to the Lowlands and England lay at peace'.

 1600    'Queen Mary died'.

 1601    'Fighting in London'.  'Lord Essex Regent'. 'Essex's Revolt'.

 1602    'King James of Scotland came to reign.'

 1601 - 1649     'England the sole Protestant state in Europe' [ ADE ]

 1605    'Gunpowder Plot'.  King James and Prince Henry killed, Prince Charles kidnapped by plotters.  Essex as Regent.

 1625    'The King died. [ Essex as 'Henry X' ? ]  King Charles reigned'.

1635    King Charles I's conversion to Catholicism.

1642 - 49    The English Civil War.  'Protestant Parliament'.  London burnt by Charles I.  'Assisting Spanish volunteer troops [ TBJ p 34 ] & 'Second Battle of Godalming', 'Protector Oliver Cromwell' - his Scottish wars.  OC lives until 1666 - 'exile and conversion'.  [ ADE ]

 18th Century.    'St. John Wesley.  'Johnson's 'Lives of the Magicians'.  'Loyola College Oxford'.  [ ADE ]

 Early 19th Century.     Attempted draining of the Fens using Scottish POWs.  Major anti-Jewish riots in London.

 1819 - 1821    Scottish war.

1899 - 1901    Scottish war.

 1870    CHARLES III - 'King of United England'.  'Jerusalem' adopted as national anthem.  Charles III: ' late 19th century'.  [ ADE ]

19th Century.    'Gladstone Rising' ( Guildford affected ).  'Cornish Rising'' ?

 20th Century.    'Wessex Riots in the 20s'.  'Kernow as was - absorbed in the 20s 'Duchy of Cornwall'.  ''Waugh's 'Temple at Thatch'. [ ADE ]

 1940    Winston Spencer Churchill 'His Majesty's Chief Minister'

 20th Century.    CHARLES IV.  Lord John Waith - moral and political tutor in youth.  In 1990: 'King of England, Wales, Lord Protector of Cornwall and Scilly.  [ ADE ].  However, in 1995 he is 'King of England, Wales, Cornwall, Protector of Mannin and the Isles, Patron of the Jaffa and Jerusalem Citadels' in TBJ.  Therefore change in status 1990 - 95.  Charles IV dies, by poisoning, 1995.

 1970s    Celebration of 'great naval victory over the Mamelukes'.  [ ADE ]  'Warden of the Cinque Ports'.  ADE p124 'Laird of Dalriada'.

1980s    Slave plantations in Gower peninsula, Welsh-speaking bonded workers owned/employed by Irish Plantation owners.  Rising in Gower suppressed by Father Oakley.  'Southern coastal resorts patronised by royalty' [ ADE p284 ].

 1982    ADE p112 - no Bibles in English.  TBJ: 'a recent development' - therefore a presumed dramatic development 1982 - 95.

         Charles' son - never named - 'Prince of Wales' aged 9 in 1990 at Reading Crusaders' camp.  [ ADE ]

         Contemporary 'English [ language ] a neglected medium'.   Potatoes, tea, coffee and tobacco in England'.  Description of London ADE p43, TBJ p79 including description of the City.

 1990    'Thames Valley Crusade'

 1995    General Mott's 'lightning Christmas Welsh campaign'.  Sack of Llanarth,  surrender of Caernarfon and collapse of 'Free Wales'.  [ TTC ]

 1995    Archbishop of London's recounting of recent unrest and associated personalities.  [ TBJ ]

 1995    'Enclosure Crusade'.  Liverpool destroyed - but also mentioned as the site of a Thaumaturgical College in ADE [ p 261 ] 2003 AD ?

 2014    ( 25th March )  Coronation of CHARLES V 'King of United England and Wales and Cornwall, Protector of Scotland-Secunda, Dalriada and the Isles, Protector of Mannin, Patron of the Jaffa and Jerusalem Citadels, Defender of the Faith'.

 2023    Pelagian heretics and the Inquisition in Lewes, Sussex.  [ ADE p307 ].

 

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AMENDED ENGLISH REGNAL LIST

 

                RICHARD III

                HENRY VII

                HENRY VIII

                EDWARD IV

                MARY I 'THE GREAT'

                ELIZABETH I 'THE WICKED' or 'Black Betty' - to 1562

                MARY II  1563 - 1600.

                [ 'HENRY IX' ]  - to 1571

                ESSEX - Regent - 1601 - 1602.

                JAMES I - 1602 - 1605.

                ESSEX - Regent and 'HENRY X'  1605 - 1625

                CHARLES I 'The VICTOR' - born 1600.  Reigned 1625 - ?

                CHARLES II - born 1630.  Reigned ? - 1685.

                CROMWELL - 1599 - 1666.  'Protector' ? - ?

                JAMES II 'The TRUE' - 1633 - 1701.

                [ 'MARY III' 'Restorationist' [ post Archbishop Abbot,  wife of JAMES I ? and survived him - 'Queen' as honorific title ? ]

                 JOSEPH I 'The WIZARD'. ? - ?

                 PETER I  'The BRAVE'.  ? - ?

                 CHARLES III  fl. 1870

                 'GUY Prince of Wales'  [ TTC 1958 ]

                 CHARLES IV  ? - 1995

                 [ No reference in ADE's 1995 - 2023 section re name/sex of reigning monarch.  Prince of Wales aged 9 in 1990 as per ADE but unnamed.

                 CHARLES V  Coronation 2014 [ TCC ]

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     See also this ditty, quoted in ‘TO BUILD JERUSALEM’.  Victor Gollancz.  1995.

 

From 'THE PIOUS CHILD'S GARDEN OF WISDOM'

By Enid Blyton

Published Coventry, Auto-de-fé Press, 1942.

 

Page 23: 'A Rhyme for Recalling the Rulers of England'

 

            'When the Romans departed,

            there were Saxon Kings,

            till William slew Harold,

            at the field of HASTINGS.    [ 5th - 11th century ]

             

            ….

 

            Richard the Bad,

            and Henry the Worse.

            Then Henry his son,

            whose name we all curse.    [ 15-16thcentury ]

 

            Edward his bastard,

            and Mary the Great.

            Black Betty, her sister,

            the vile apostate.      [ 16th century ]

            

            Mary the Second,

            ( less Darnley the clot ).

            Then Essex, then James,

            the blown-up Scot.    [ 16-17th century ]

 

            Saint Charles the Victor,

            and Charles his son.

            Then James the True,

            and the battles he won.    [ 17th century ]

 

            Joseph the Wizard,

            and Peter the Brave ….'

 

 

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THE WIDER CONTINUUM WORLD

   

4004 BC    Creation.  As definitively arrived at ( and published 1650 ) in an impressive work of Biblical scholarship by James Ussher, ( 1581 - 1656 ), Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland.

 8th century    Charlemagne and 'Archmage Roncevat'

 1527    Rome sacked.  'Narcotics appeared soon after the great wars of religion, when overseas exploration resumed' - Venice, Rotterdam - London - Marseilles - Rome.  [ ADE ]

 1600    Destruction of Hamburg and rapid collapse of Protestantism.

 1640's    'Enterprise of Richlieu' - abiding Crusading success.

 1708 - 1820    'Great European War'.  The Holy Roman Empire's eventual success - 'whimpered to an end'.  [ TBJ ]  'Europe had been at peace for two centuries'.

 18th Century    Vienna burnt by Turks, Georgia destroyed, the 'Greek Despots and Gemistan Republic attacked.

 Early 19th Century    Turks expelled from Greece and Balkans.  Lord George Byron involved.

 19th Century    'In Italy and the Empire the age of the railway' [ TBJ ]

 1848    Council of Aberlemno.  Revised definition of Crusades.

 1896 - 1901    Polish - Imperial war.

 1900    Recapture of Istanbul/Constantinople.

 1900-50    Polish/Imperial Crusades against Tartars, Magyars and Ukrainians'Hetman Pilsudski.

 1930s    'Phillemian' dualist heresy in France.  Pope Constantine III.  Battle of Compiegn [ ADE p207 ]

 

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PEOPLE AND PERSONALITIES

 

1990s    Queen Bridget of Sicily.

 1995    Pope Simon-Dismas.  A 'Levantine'.

         'Nearly 800 years ago in 2008' therefore = 13th Century.  IBARRA Spanish magician.  Codifier of Demonology.

 1790's    LIGUORI.  died in 1815 - posthumously published standard thaumaturgical texts

 1560s - 1580s ?    Robin Corbishly, English Archmage.  'The Corbishly Codex'.  A 'charming conversationalist' as per the demon lord in ADE.

2020's    Mamaratu.  Renowned magician living in 'undiscovered' island on the 'other side of the world'.  [ ADE ]

 

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NATIONS

 

ENGLAND

SCOTLAND

IRELAND

FRANCE    ( 'endangered by Burgundy's expansionist policies'. The 'Archbishop of Paris and Versailles'.

THE [ HOLY ROMAN ] EMPIRE

POLAND     1982 Holy Roman Empire governor countering joint Magyar and Tartar incursions.

SWEDISH EMPIRE   'expansive and prosperous', crusades against pagan Lapps and East Prussians.

BURGUNDY

SPAIN

FLORENCE-TUSCANY

PAPAL STATES

NAPLES

'SWISS CANTONS'

AMERICAS

'CHRISTIANISED EAST'

'FREE WALES    Caernarfon capital, victories by Royal English army in 1995 mentioned in TBJ but still extant in 2003 [ ADE ]

BAGHDAD CALIPHATE ( Janissaries )

 CAIRO CALIPHATE ( Mamelukes, 'Bey of fez', colony of refugees from Christendom.  [ TBJ ]

'Sparta-reborn of the Grecian Despots and THE GEMISTAN REPUBLIC

 'Disputed KOSOVO province'.

 

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PLACES AND RACES

 

'Timber cathedrals of Greenland' [ TBJ ]

'Secret Jesuit utopias in INCA country' [ ADE p244 'very little known re South Americas' ]

'Crusade armies' of:

  • BOSPHORUS

  • CRETE

  • MALTA

  • NEW MEXICO

  • RHODES

'Druze Citadel in SYRIA SECUNDA'

'Gibborim' tunnel complex/ 'Maronites' in LEBANON-PHILISTIA [ 'Palestinian' TBJ p102 ]

 'Gnostic forest University in LATVIA.

 'Pagan LAPPS and EAST PRUSSIANS'

 Sophisticated but pagan CRIMEA and UKRAINE.

 Alexandria and Antwerp ports

 MUSCOVY and 'NEW HAMBURG' ( Famine therein mentioned )

 AMERICAS and AUSTRALASIA - 'Nativisation' policy

 IROQUOIS LEAGUE dominant in Northern America

'Protestant log stockade in Iroquois Country'.

 'AUSTRALASIA SECUNDA' ADE p 155 'Papal Legate killed by unincorporated Aborigines'.  'Regiments of incorporated Aborigines'.

 'Turkish converts mentioned in TBJ

 'Mohawk Steward' in England in ADE

 'Mediterranean slave galleys' and renegade Christian/apostate pirates raiding the coast of the Papal States - destroyed in turn by 'Neapolitan galleys'.

 Jesuits ADE p133.  'Jesuit magician'.

 Knights Templar and' Hospitalers of St. John' - modern military orders.

 

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