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Heinlein Future History
Heinlein Future HistoryThis is a final version - but I am always upgrading it. It was based on _The Number of the Beast_,_The Cat Who Walks Through Walls_ (CWWTW), those timelinesmentioned in those books and The Heinlein Timeline, thatprecedes every book of the Future History. Some dates andevents weretaken from _Time Enough For Love_,_Methuselah's Children_, and the short stories in the collections_The Green Hills of Earth_ and _Revolt in 2100_. _Life-Line_ mentionsthe date April 2, 1939, so I used April, 1939 for this short story.I have put some arrows  to help the reader followsome characters that jump in time, or out of this timeline.Lots of dates from _To Sail Beyond the Sunset_ contradict other datesfrom other stories, I still don't know how I will deal with the inconsistencies. I will probably just record them here, and mark themwith a "+TSBTS error", and, in a later phase, I will create a "rah2m" timeline, showing Mamma Maureen's datesas standard, and those here as deviations.Some of the dates are shown in intervals, for example3050 ± 12. This means thatI've run a Monte-Carlo simulation with the data - mainly from_Time Enough for Love_ - and this is the 95% confidence interval.In other words: just my guess :-)There are too many chronological data in those books, and I'm sure Ihaven't got all of them. I would be very happy to know about anydata that hasn't been added to this timeline.Please notify me of such. Return to Alberto Monteiro's Home Page Return to other Heinlein Timelines DisclaimerThis file contains spoiler information.It's recomended those who haven't read the books should not read this pageThis timeline is very similar to the real history until about 1939, but it includes theHoward Families. It is related to _The Number of the Beast_ timeline by a rotation t' = Tau (TNOTB, page 392).The American Presidents are: Woodrow Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, (1984) ..., Neemiah Scudder Interregnum, Second American Revolution (TNOTB, pages 495 and 496). This contradicts with _To Sail Beyond the Sunset_. Star-faring civilization due to Libby/Sheffield device. Howards colonize Secundus (c. 2250) and Tertius (c. 4300). (CWWTW) Time line 2. Leslie LeCroix is the first man on the Moon. World War Three, during Neemiah Scudder Interregnum, destroyed Europe, but probably England escaped (_If This Goes On_, Chapter 6, mentions The London Times and elsewhere it mentions _Great Britain_ as one of the foreign nations). 1635 Death of Old Tom Parr, at the age of 152 years (TEFL page xiii) 1795 Birth of George Edward Johnson (died in 1897) (TSBTS page 71) 1796 Birth of Terence McFee (died in 1900) 1798 Birth of Amanda Lou Fredericks Johnson (died in 1899) Birth of Rose Wilhelmina Brandt McFee (died in 1899) 1805 Birth of Ole Larsen (died in 1907) (TSBTS, page 71) 1809 Birth of Robert Pfeiffer (died in 1909) (TSBTS, page 71) 1810 Birth of Anna Kristina Hansen Larsen (died in 1912) (TSBTS, page 71) Birth of Heidi Schmidt Pfeiffer (died in 1912) (TSBTS, page 71) 1813 Birth of Asa Edward Johnson (died in 1918), son of George Edward Johnson and Amanda Lou Fredericks Johnson 1814 Birth of Rose Althelda McFee Johnson (died in 1918), daughter of Terence McFee and Rose Wilhelmina Brandt McFee 1825 Birth of Ira Howard (TSBTS, index) 1830 Birth of Richard Pfeiffer (died in 1932), son of Robert Pfeiffer and Heidi Schmidt Pfeiffer (TSBTS, page 72) 1831 Birth of Samantha Jane Johnson (died in 1915), daughter of Asa Edward Johnson and Rose Athelda McFee (TSBTS, page 72) 1833 Birth of James Ewing Johnson (died in 1884), son of Asa Edward Johnson and Rose Athelda McFee (TSBTS, page 72) 1834 Birth of Kristina Larsen Pfeiffer (died in 1940), daughter of Ole Larsen and Anna Kristina Hansen Larsen (TSBTS, page 72) 1838 Birth of Walter Raleigh Johnson (died in 1862), son of Asa Edward Johnson and Rose Athelda McFee (TSBTS, page 72) 1840 Birth of Alice Irene Johnson (died in ???), daughter of Asa Edward Johnson and Rose Athelda McFee (TSBTS, page 72) 1844 Birth of Edward McFee Johnson (died in 1884), son of Asa Edward Johnson and Rose Athelda McFee (TSBTS, page 72) 1850 Birth of Aurora Johnson (died after 1930), daughter of Asa Edward Johnson and Rose Athelda McFee (TSBTS, page 72) August 2nd, 1852 Birth of Ira Johnson, son of Asa Edward Johnson and Rose Althelda McFee Johnson (TSBTS, page 72) 1873 Death of Ira Howard (48), of old age (TSBTS, page 16) The Howard Foundation is created March 17, 1874 Ira Johnson learns about the Howard Foundation, and begins seeking a suitable wife (MC, Chapter 1, page 6) 1875 The First Howard is born (MC, page 7) 1876 Birth of Edward, Maureen Johnson's brother (TSBTS, page 18) 1878 Birth of Awdrey, Maureen Johnson's sister (TSBTS, page 18) 1879 Birth of Brian Smith, Lazarus Long's father (died in 1998, age 119) (TSBTS, page 258) 1880 Birth of Agnes, Maureen Johnson's sister (TSBTS, page 18) July 4, 1882 Birth of Maureen Johnson Smith (TSBTS, page 256) Earth Population: 1,500 million 1884 Birth of Frank, Maureen Johnson's brother (TSBTS, page 18) 1892 Birth of Beth, Maureen Johnson's sister (TSBTS, page 18) 1894 Birth of Lucille, Maureen Johnson's sister (TSBTS, page 18) 1897 Birth of George, Maureen Johnson's sister (TSBTS, page 18) April 24, 1898 Spain declares war on the United States (real) December 1st, 1899 Birth of Nancy Irene Smith Weatheral, daughter of Maureen and Brian (TSBTS, page 98 and 256) January 1st, 1902 Birth of Carol (Santa Carolita), daughter of Maureen and Brian (TSBTS, page 98) March 12, 1905 Birth of Brian Jr, son of Maureen and Brian (TSBTS, page 98) February 14, 1907 Birth of George Edward, son of Maureen and Brian (TSBTS, page 98) April 5, 1909 Birth of Marie Agnes, daughter of Maureen and Brian (TSBTS, page 98) April 21, 1910 Death of Mark Twain (real) (TSBTS, page 156) November 11, 1912 Birth of Woodrow (Lazarus Long), son of Maureen and Brian (TEFL) 1914 Birth of Richard, son of Maureen and Brian (TSBTS, page 113) August 2nd, 1916 Lazarus Long comes from the Future, and assumes the name of Ted Bronson (TEFL, page 450 shows a newspaper of the previous day, see letter to clones some pages later) 1916 Birth of Ethel, daughter of Maureen and Brian (TSBTS, page 113) 1917 Theodore Bronson (Lazarus Long) meets Maureen June 26, 1918 Carol's day. This date was celebrated, later, as Santa Carolita's Day in many planets (TSBTS, Ch.26, p.393) 1918 Theodore Bronson  is wounded, reported Missing in Action, in World War I World War I is Lazarus Long's 15th war (TEFL page 561) November 11, 1918 End of First World War (real) December 25, 1918 Birth of Roberta Weatheral (Barstow), daughter of Nancy Irene Smith Weatheral and Jonathan Sperling Weatheral (TSBTS, page 256 and TEFL page 579) 1919 Birth of Theodore Ira, son of Maureen and Brian (TSBTS, page 229) 1922 Birth of Margareth, daughter of Maureen and Brian (TSBTS, page 229) 1924 Birth of Arthur Roy, son of Maureen and Brian (TSBTS, page 229) 1927 Birth of Alice Virginia, daughter of Maureen and Brian (TSBTS, page 229) 1927 Birth of Alice Virginia, daughter of Maureen and Brian (TSBTS, page 229) October 29, 1929 Black Tuesday (real) 1930 Birth of Doris Jean, daughter of Maureen and Brian (TSBTS, page 229) July 7, 1932 Birth of Patrick Henry Smith, son of Maureen and Justin Weatheral (TSBTS, page 383) November 2nd, 1935 Birth of Anne Barstow (Hardy), daughter of Roberta Weatheral (Barstow) (TSBTS, page 256) 1937 to 1938 Maureen, from the future, is sent to Japan (TSBTS, page 271) April, 1939 _Life-Line_ TSBTS date is 1951 (Ch.20) September 1st, 1939 Second World War (real) October, 1940 Franklin Roosevelt dies from a stroke while playing tennis (TSBTS page 224) April 8, 1941 Nazi aerial attack against Coventry, England Cust Event to a Timeline where Germany won the Battle of England (TSBTS, page 411) Ira Jonhson is rescued to the Future December 7, 1941 Japanese attack San Francisco (TSBTS, page 244) After the attack, more than sixty thousand Japanese-Americans were murdered in two days (TSBTS, page 244) March, 1944 Allies land in Marseille (TSBTS, page 245) July 7, 1945 Emperor Hirohito is killed in an air strike. He is succeeded by his son Akihito, not yet twelve years old (TSBTS, page 246) 1945 Atomic Bombings over Tokyo and Kobe (?) (TSBTS, page 244) Patton drives the Soviets from Czechoslovakia (TSBTS, page 245) November, 1948 Patton is elected American President, successor of Barkley (TSBTS, page 268) December, 1948 Osaka Incident (???) - a crisis of American-Japanese relations (TSBTS, page 268) c. 1949 _Let There Be Light_ June 22, 1952 Birth of Nancy Jane Hardy, daughter of Anne Barstow (Hardy), (TSBTS, page 256) 1953 Birth of Mary Sperling c. 1962 Birth of Evelyn Foote, 4th wife of Lazarus Long , and ancestor of Ira Weatheral (TEFL, page 81. Also says that 3rd wife was Meg Hardy) 1966 Strike of '66 1969 The Crazy Years. The Masquerade of the Howard Families begin (MC, Chapter 1, page 10) c. 1970 _Blowups Happen_ c. 1976 _The Roads Must Roll_ There is a reference to roads strike in 1966 (MC page 90), and The Heinlein Timeline makes reference to the Strike of '76; Kevin Beauchamp solved this apparent contradiction by noticing that in The Roads Must Roll there are references to a previous Strike of '66, so there were two strikes. Probably this second date is a typographical error c. 1976 _The Man Who Sold the Moon_ (begin) 1978 Leslie LeCroix becomes the First Man on the Moon (TSBTS page 355) Notice how the date in TSBTS (1965) contradict the dates given in the books that precede it: it seems that the previous books were based on a date of 1978 for the landing on the books 1971 + TSBTS error George Strong dies. Pikes Peak Space Catapult operational. Luna City with over six hundred inhabitants (TSBTS page 363) Sunday, June 20, 1982 Maureen Johnson Smith is hit by a truck. She is rescued by the THQ (TSBTS page 223) c. 1983 _Delilah and the Space Rigger_ c. 1984 _Space Jockey_ c. 1986 _Requiem_ June 6, 1999 _The Long Watch_ c. 1998 _Gentlemen, Be Beated_ c. 1998 _The Black Pits of Luna_ December 31, 2000 Birth of Justin Foote, son of Nancy Jane Hardy and Charlie Foote. He is the ancestor of Justin Foote the 45th (TSBTS, page 256) c. 2001 _It's Great to be Back_ ??? _We Also Walk Dogs_ This story hardly fits this timeline, because there aretoo many intelligent alien races ??? _Searchlight_ c. 2003 _Ordeal in Space_ (end) c. 2004 _The Green Hills of Earth_ (end: death of Rhysling) Some time from 2000 to 2012 _I Will Fear No Evil_ c. 2006 _Logic of Empire_ ??? _The Menace from Earth_ 2012 Nehemiah Scudder is elected American President, and implants a religious dictatoship (TSBTS page 228) Howard Families Meeting (TEFL page 21) Lazarus Long moves to Mars (TEFL page 108) Cusp event to a Timeline where Nehemiah Scudder's birth was prevented 2020 Venus becomes independent (MC page 79) ??? , during Nehemiah Scudder's interregnum World War III: Europe (but not England) is destroyed by China 2075 _If This Goes On_ Second American Revolution Cust event to Time Line 11 (where Second American Revolution never ocurred) The Covenant is established in the USA (Methuselah's Children, page 11) 2080± 9 Birth of Andy Libby This contradicts TNOTB, Part Three, Chapter XL, page 400: "(...) I was a missing Howard in those days - after the Interregnum - and it was years after I entered the Navy that the Families found me. I married then, into the Families. Most XXY people are infertile - I was not. In the next seventy years I had twenty-one children and enjoyed living with my wives, enjoyed sex with them, loved our children. "Which brings us to the escape from Earth led by Lazarus. I was a bachelor, both my wives having remarried. (...)" but it's necessary to fit _Misfit_ into the right historical background. 2099 Birth of Edmund Hardy (died in 2259), descendant of Lazarus Long and ancestor of Roger Sperling (TEFL page 205) 2100 ± 9 _Coventry_ _Misfit_ ??? _Universe_ (prologue only) 2125 Howard Families Meeting, proposes the end of the Masquerade (MC page 12) Late September or Early October, 2136 _Methuselah's Children_ Howard Families Meeting. Attended by Mary Sperling (183 years old, MC page 5) and Lazarus Long (claims 213 years old, MC page 13), among others The Howards (c. 100,000 men, women and child) steal starship _New Frontiers_ and escape Earth (TEFL page xi) 2210 _Methuselah's Children_ (end) _New Frontiers_ returns to Earth (TEFL page xiv) Relative to the travelling characters, the trip took about 17 years Earth scientists had discovered rejuvenation Year One of Standard Galactic Calendar (TEFL page xiv) Probably, Year One of Diaspora ??? _Universe_ ??? _Commonsense_ 2225 ± 11 Tellus Secundus is settled by Howards from Earth 24th and 25th Century Forced Emigrations from Earth (TEFL page xv) 26th Century War, using bayonets. Lazarus Long took part in it (TEFL page 519) 2874 ± 27 Birth of Zaccur son of Phyllis Briggs-Sperling and Lazarus Long. Phyllis was the first woman to have 100 children (TEFL page 264) 3003 The last Howard from _New Frontiers_, except Lazarus Long, dies (TEFL page xi) This Howard is, probably, Andy Libby , since he died around this time (2982 ± 21) 3022± 9 Lazarus Long and Zaccur, his son, settle New Beginnings There are 20 million people (mostly Howards) on Secundus, plus 10 million Howards elsewhere (TEFL page 281). This is exactly (0.5% error) the number expected if they doubled their number every century 3031 Birth of Buck, the Mule (TEFL page 325) 3038± 11 Birth of Dora Brandon, in New Beginnings 3041± 9 The parents of Dora die when their house burns 3050 ± 13 A Law is passed, on Earth, making all 75-year-olders legally dead (TEFL page 274) 3058± 9 Crossing of the Hopeless Pass. Death of Buck The Mule Zack, the son of Dora and Lazarus Long, is born in Happy Valley 3064 ± 9 Incident in New Beginnings: the Montgomeries try to kill Lazarus Long and rape Dora, but are slain (TEFL page 325) 3112 ± 14 Death of Dora Lazarus Long doesn't marry for almost 100 years 3210 ± 38 Lazarus Long marries Laura Foote-Hedrick's grandmother, in Landfall 3277 ± 41 Llita and José, the twins that weren't relatives, are made in Blessed 3296 ± 40 Birth of Joseph Aaron Long son of Llita and José, during the trip from Valhalla to Landfall 3298 ± 40 Birth of Pattycake daughter of Laura Foote-Hedrick and Lazarus Long 3307 The Genealogies are revised to use matrilineal names (TEFL page 205) 3815± 203 Birth of Justin Foote 45th, descendant of Justin Foote 3900 Birth of Ira Weatheral (TEFL page 2) 3914 ± 50 Birth of Tamara 4072 ± 51 Lazarus Long is rejuvenated in Supreme 4111 ± 7 Birth of Galahad son of Rebecca Sperling-Jones 4125 Birth of Ishtar Hardy, daughter of Tamara (TEFL page 51) 4186 ± 12 Ira Weatheral(285) becomes Chairman Pro Tem of the Families 4193 Birth of Hamadryad daughter of Ira Weatheral(293) 4272 Year 2053 of the Galactic Standard Calendar (probably the same as the Diaspora Calendar , except that this places Year 1 of the Diaspora in 2220 Gregorian, instead of 2210 Gregorian - unless a Standard Galactic Year is different from a Gregorian Year). Lazarus Long comes incognito from Out-Far, to die of old age in Secundus. Lazarus Long is rejuventated in Secundus. His memories are recorded Human Population is c. 500,000 million, inhabiting 2,000 planets (TEFL page x) Secundus Population is c. 1,000 million (TEFL page 48) 4273 Lapis Lazuli and Lorelei Lee, clones of Lazarus Long [except that Lazarus's Y chromossome is replaced by a copy of the X] are born. Host mothers are, respectively, Hamadryad and Ishtar 4278 ± 6 Tellus Tertius is settled by 7,000 Howards from Secundus (TEFL page 283) Tellus Tertius is 7,000 light-years away from Earth (CWWTW page 304) Arabelle succeeds Ira Weatheral as Chairman Pro Tem of the Families 4283 ± 1 Minerva, the Computer that controlled Secundus, becomes a woman 4286 ± 1 Justin Foote 45th arrives on Tertius (TEFL page 359) 4288 ± 3 Arabelle is murdered. Suzan Barstow succeeds her as Chairman Pro Tem of the Families (TEFL page 435) 4289 Year 2070 of the Diaspora 4291 Year 2072 of the Diaspora (by what calendar?) Lazarus Long travels to the past (TEFL, page 459)  Lazarus Long is rescued from World War I Lazarus thinks Tamara is 250 years old (TEFL, page 557) 4300 ± 8 Andy Libby's mind is recovered. His body is rebuild as a woman Around this time, Lazarus Long fights his 16th War (probably as a time-traveller) 4314 ± 1 The crew of Dora meet the crew of Gay Deceiver Maureen is rescued from the past Tamara is 400 years old. Ishtar is said to be 250 years old (TSBTS page 380), but she is actually only 190 years old 4316 Gregorian or 4324 Galactic Maureen, 101 years old, marries Lazarus Long family (TSBTS, page 256 (Gregorian) and page 388 (Galactic)) 4316 ± 1 Birth of Jane Libby Burroughs Long, daughter of Elizabeth Libby and Jake Burroughs 4335 ± 3 Writers Convention held at Tellus Tertius 4354 ± 2 Castor and Pollux, grandsons of Hazel Stone, lose a card game to Lorelei Lee and Lapis Lazuli, and begin a 60-year identure to them Some Time between 4316 and 4400 Lazarus Long fights in his 17th War (CWWTW, p.378) Lazarus Long goes to Time Line 3 and becomes the father of Colin Campbell Birth of Pythagoras, Archimedes, Maxwell and Wyoming, sons and daughter of the Long family 4400 Gregorian or 8160 Jewish Colin Campbell aka Richard Ames et al are rescued from Time Line 3 . They are brought to Tertius Adam Selene, from Time Line 3 is rescued 4403 ± 2 Maureen enters the Time Corps 4410 ± 2 Maureen is marooned to an alternate time line (number 11) 4412 ± 2 Ira Johnson is rescued from the Battle of Coventry The date in TSBTS is 4376 Athena and Mycroft Holmes change from computer to flesh and blood persons (except that the date for Athena contradicts CWWTW page 261) Ira Johnson, Athena and Mycroft Holmes marry into Long family Contributors to this page: Kevin Beauchamp Nick HoughThis page was visited timesPlease send any comments to albmont@centroin.com.br This page was created in 1997. This page hosted by  Get your own Free Home Page geovisit();
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