Events[]
- By this year Medlicot had left behind his children to be taught in England, while he moved to a coffee plantation in British East Africa with his wife Karen.[1]
- Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina.[2]
- The Saturday Evening Post newspapers soar to one million copies.[3]
- First Model T automobile is built.[4]
- Gyroscopic compass is invented.[5]
- Cellophane is discovered.[5]
- Radical nationalist leader B.G. Tilak deported for sedition to Mandalay prison, where he remains for six years.[6]
- Federal Bureau of Investigation is founded.[4]
- The first major oil deposit is discovered in the Middle East.[4]
- Young Turks lead a revolution in Turkey.[5]
- Bulgaria secedes from Turkey.[5]
- Crete proclaims union with Greece.[5]
- Halide Edib founds Society for the Elevation of Women.[4]
- Theodore Roosevelt proclaims the area of White Canyon a national monument.[7]
- General Porfirio Díaz inadvertently lets word slip that he intends to retire.[8]
- Pablo Picasso completes his painting Three Women.[9]
- The first Mother's Day is celebrated in the United States.[5]
- Olympics held in London.[5]
- Davin Rydge receives his Phd in archaeology from Oxford.[10]
- January: Indy and Henry Walton Jones, Senior take a photo in New Jersey.[11]
- January 17: British suffragettes chain themselves to the railings of the Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street.[4]
- April[11]: Henry Jones' two year long world lecture tour begins.[12]
- April 16: Anna Jones writes a letter to Indiana Jones during a vacation in New Mexico.[11]
- May
- Indiana Jones meets T. E. Lawrence and Howard Carter in Egypt.[12]
- Demetrios steals the Jackal headpiece from the tomb of Kha.[12]
- Young Indy visits Tangiers, Morocco; discovering that slavery is still an accepted institution.[13]
- The Jones family visits Florence and meet Giacomo Puccini.[14]
- June 30:[5] Tunguska explosion. An unearthly being crashes in Siberia.[15]
- July 25: Louis Bleriot becomes the first person to fly across the English Channel.[4]
- August 20: Belgium annexes Congo amid protests over atrocities carried out by King Leopold II's representatives.[4]
- September: Indy meets Pablo Picasso in Paris.[16]
- November: Indy meets Sophie von Hohenberg in Vienna and falls in love with her.[17]
- December: Thomas Alva Edison establishes the Motion Pictures Patent Company.[18]
Deaths[]
- May: Rasheed Sallam in Egypt.[12]
- Kuanghsu[6]
Appearances[]
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal" → My First Adventure
- Young Indiana Jones in the Curse of Kha
- Egypt, May 1908 comic
- The Mummy's Curse
- The Mummy's Curse (Golden Book)
- The Valley of the Kings
- Jakkaru no Noroi
- Der Fluch der Mumie Teil 1
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Tangiers, July 1909" (Cancelled) → My First Adventure
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Florence, May 1908" → The Perils of Cupid
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Paris, September 1908" → Passion for Life
- Masters of the Louvre
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Vienna, November 1908" → The Perils of Cupid
- Vienna, November 1908 / March 1917
- Hatsukoi no Uīn
- Mexico, March 1916 comic
- The Mata Hari Affair (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull novel (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones: The Search For Buried Treasure
- Indiana Jones: Den of Destiny (Mentioned only) (CIA file)
Sources[]
- The War to End All Wars (Non-fiction source)
- Indiana Jones Explores The Aztecs (Non-fiction source)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Sourcebook
- The World of Indiana Jones
- Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Templars
- American Dreams - Norman Rockwell & The Saturday Evening Post (Non-fiction source)
- Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed (Non-fiction source)
- The Rise of the Moguls - The Men Who Built Hollywood (Non-fiction source)
- Interactive Timeline
- Indiana Jones' Marshall College entry on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- Mexican Revolution's Marshall College Entry on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
- The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
- The Real Indiana Jones: Friendship & Sacrifice on Lucasfilm.com (backup link on Archive.org)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ African Safari
- ↑ The War to End All Wars
- ↑ American Dreams - Norman Rockwell & The Saturday Evening Post
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Interactive Timeline
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 The World of Indiana Jones
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Sourcebook
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy
- ↑ Mexican Revolution's Marshall College Entry on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
- ↑ Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Templars
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal" → My First Adventure
- ↑ The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Tangiers, July 1909" → My First Adventure
- ↑ The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Florence, May 1908" → The Perils of Cupid
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull novel
- ↑ The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Paris, September 1908" → Passion for Life
- ↑ The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Vienna, November 1908" → The Perils of Cupid
- ↑ The Rise of the Moguls - The Men Who Built Hollywood