I have revised it a bit, and the page references are now to the Baen paperback edition.
Dates are in the Gregorian calendar, dates without paranthesis are fixed dates, those in paranthesis are estimated or inferred dates.
Evidence and reasoning in italics. Real placenames in Bold text.
| Date | Month | What | Ch. | Page |
| 1631 | ||||
| 20 | May | Sack of Magdeburg (From our history) | ||
| (25) | May | Tom & Rita's Wedding (could be 1 or 2 days later, but not more) | 1 | 7 |
| Ring of Fire | 2 | 16 | ||
| Firefight at farmhouse | 3 | 28-36 | ||
| Rebecca meets Mike (She knows about Magdeburg, so this is after May 20) | 4 | 48 | ||
| (26-27) | May | Power plant back on line, basic services restored | 7 | 82 |
| (28) | May | Town Meeting (the Ring of Fire was 3 days ago) | 7 | 79 |
| Mike and emergency committee elected, cabinet selected | 7 | 90-93 | ||
| First cabinet meeting (HS graduation next month, so this is still May) | 8 | 82, 103 | ||
| (29) | May | Scots find grave | 10 | 119 |
| Cabinet meeting (seems to be on the day after the first meeting) | 11 | 123 | ||
| Informal alliance Mackay's Scotsmen - Grantville | 12 | 140 | ||
| June | HS graduation(?), organise militia, build rockets, modify coal trucks to APCs. | 16 | ||
| (11) | June | Frank uncovers machine gun (less than 3 weeks before battle) | 16 | 166 |
| 30 | June | Battle of Crapper (at Badenburg) | 16 | 163-192 |
| Jeff proposes to Gretchen | 24 | 236 | ||
| Cabinet meeting same evening (4 days before July 4) | 26 | 250 | ||
| 1-3 | July | Gretchen sorts prisoners | 28 | 258-260 |
| 4 | July | Thüringen Gardens opens | 29 | 271 | Gretchen & Jeff's wedding | 30 |
| Aug | Hans awakens, learns to drive | 32 | 295 | |
| Sept | Railway built from coal mine to power plant, using reused rails (?) | ? | ? | |
| Thüringen Gardens decide to build tavern across from Club 250 | 33 | 304 | ||
| 10 | Sept | TV station on line | 32 | 297 |
| 17 | Sept | Battle of Breitenfeld | 34 | 313 |
| (early Oct?) | Battle of Jena, Julie's first kill | 39 | 370 | |
| 1st Committee of correspondance | 38 | 360 | ||
| Machine shops working round the clock (?) | ? | ? | ||
| (Nov ?) | Elections to Constitutional Convention (?) | ? | ? | |
| First and only duel in Grantville | 43 | 411 | ||
| Turkish Abrabanel rep arrives | 43 | 413 | ||
| Chemical plant announced | 43 | 418 | ||
| (Dec ?) | Constitution accepted ("3 days later") and elections announced | 44 | 422 | |
| Campaigning (6 weeks campaign) | 43 | 420 | ||
| 1632 | ||||
| (Jan ?) | Fourth of July party elected | 44 | 425 | |
| Mike and Rebecca married | ? | ? | ||
| mid | March | Gustav II Adolph wants to meet Americans | 45 | 441 |
| 14 | April | Gustav II Adolph meets the Americans, gets offer of material and financial support | 47 | 456-460 |
| 15-16 | April | Battle of Crossing of the Lech | 48 | 462-470 |
| (30) | April | Tilly dies | 48 | 471 |
| (mid June ?) | hospital completed (?) | ? | ? | |
| 3 | July | Gustav II Adolph enters Nürnberg | 50 | 485 |
| (late July) | Battle of Suhl | 51 | 490-493 | |
| Battles of Eisenach and Wartburg | ch. 52-55 | |||
| Julie Pregnant | 53 | 505 | ||
| Battle at High School | ch. 57-58 | |||
| Gustav II Adolph and Mike negotiate | 60 | 578-583 | ||
| Julie and Mackay married | 61 | 587 | ||
| (late Aug) | Battle of Alte Veste (a month after Julie's wedding, Aug 29 in our history) | 61 | 589 | Julie shoots Wallenstein, he is seriously wounded | 61 | 590 | Mike and Rebecca's daughter born | 61 | 592 |
Notice: This timeline assumes that Grantville arrived in Germany at the same (Gregorian) date, but many years earlier, as when it left West Virginia.
If that is not the case then the "Ring of Fire" could have happened somewhat earlier in the year in Grantville, and somewhat later in the (much earlier) year in Germany.
In Germany 1631 the "Ring of Fire" must still have happenened some days after the sack of Magdeburg on May 20 Gregorian style.
And more than 21 days before the battle of the Crapper on June 30. The Police chief had recovered enough to be on duty with his arm still in a sling when Frank showed the M-60 "less than three weeks" before the battle (ch. 16 p. 166 pb). I take that to be 17-20 days. And since the Police chief was still in bed 3 days after the "Ring of Fire", 21 days is an absolute minimum, it was probably at least 25 days, maybe 30-35 days.
But what about the Grantville date?
At the cabinet meeting 3 days after the "Ring of Fire" (ch. 8 p. 103 pb) they talk about "next month's High School graduating class". So it could have been any time between early April (HS graduation late May) to late May (HS graduation early June).
At the cabinet meeting on the evening of June 30 1631 (day of Crapper battle) Jeff says that he is about to graduate (ch. 25 p. 243 pb). This might mean that according to the Grantville calendar it is still no later than early June, but it could also mean that HS graduation has been delayed.
// Bo Johansson
2001-12-02 Bo Johansson