1800c (WOD)

The nineteenth century in the World of Darkness timeline.

• 1800s
• 1810s
• 1820s
• 1830s
• 1840s
• 1850s
• 1860s
• 1870s
• 1880s
• 1890s
• 1900

Events

• A British platoon encounters a local tribe. Soldiers begin to go missing during the night, replaced with Fetish Statues.^[1]

• Somewhere in this century an Ananasi named Abiele Dumont invents a flyfot (that is, a fetish) called the Armoire of Abiele.^[2]

• During this century the thus-far Indian and Chinese Khan begin to breed with the English that have arrived in their homelands, largely out of respect for their ability and ferocity.^[3]

• Clouster's Purge, a bloody war between the Khan Lord Clouster and Sultan Jampal of India during this time. Thirty Khan died, along with many more Kinfolk; the war aggravated tensions between the Indians and the English, and would eventually be revived in the 1940s-1950s in the Nagda-Rackbur War.^[3]

• Garou of various tribes begin to enter Egypt, interested in the cause of taking this land from the vampires that ruled it and in breaking the Silent Striders' curse.^[4][5]

• The inbred Bubasti Bastet become stronger due to new blood from European genes.^[3]

• Agents of the Wyrm begin sowing seeds for the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.^[6]

• Wendigo spread south, all the way into Mexico.^[7]

• Stargazers' homelands begin to fall to the Wyrm. This continues up to the present.^{[citation needed]}

• Most modern magick colleges are founded in this century.^[8][9]

• Syed Pinckney is a surgeon and a barber.^[10]

• An early Time-Motion Manager named Forge creates the Time-Motion Study Procedure to help him determine the most efficient means of assembling HIT Mark IIIs.^[11]

• Many occult groups are founded this century, most of whom claim descent from the Rosicrucian Brotherhoood.^[12]

• The field of "psychical studies" comes about as an attempt to scientifically quantify the paranormal abilities of humanity.^[13]

• Porthos Fitz-Empress owns large plantations in North Carolina and Tennessee, concealing and guarding two private Nodes.^[14]

• Julian Spence begins a self-study of the long-term effects of opium on the brain.^[15]

• Japan's feudal period lasts until this time.^[16] As Japan industrializes, water pollution causes many native kappa to sicken and die.^[17]

• The Void Engineers have spaceships during this century.^[18] They use them to reach the Universe behind the Horizon mid-century.^[19]

• Darkside Moon Base is constructed.^[20]

• The Order of the Black Willow, a British sect of the Euthanatos, falls to infernalism.^[21] Still, many Romantics seize the symbol of autumn representing death and decay as part of the circle of life. Their neo-Gothic descendants carry on the trend.^[22]

• The Nephite Priesthood has its origin in Mormonism.^[23]

• The mystic backlash of this century, as well as the addition of two unpredictable and new Conventions to the Order of Reason, gives the Traditions an edge.^[24]

• London becomes a focal point for the Invisible Exchequer's efforts this century.^[25]

• The Void Seekers have nearly completed their work, as most of the Earth has been explored.^[26]

• The rise of feminist writers like Mary Wollstonecraft brings a new awareness of the rights of women to society at large. This further supports the Sisters of Hippolyta.^[27]

• The popularization of Arabian and Persian cultures by Sir Richard Burton and other adventurers causes the Taftâni to relax and come back into the public eye.^[28]

• Accounts of large quadrupeds with long necks and tails come out of the Congo. These creatures are dubbed mokole-mbembe.^[29]

• The dynasty of the Rama family reforms Siamese law and expands its borders, conquering Chiang Mai and subjugating Cambodia.^[30]

• Until this century, there is only one female Wu Lung: the Phoenix Empress.^[31]

• European imperialism in China leads to a backlash against the Celestial Chorus.^[32]

• Many of Myanmar's "Karen" ethnic group are converted by Baptist missionaries.^[32]

• The Black Steel Centipede Triad in its present-day form is founded in Hong Kong, although the organization's roots are probably even older still.^[33]

• The Technocratic Union "clears the way," allowing the Order of Hermes to make inroads into the Middle Kingdom.^[34]

• Wesleyan Revival occurs in response to the excesses of the Roman Catholic Church.^[35]

• The Knights of St. George and the Dragon become the first of the Celestial Chorus' old guardian orders to admit men and women equally.^[36]

• The Acharne originate in the cults of Greece.^[37]

• Slavery ends in Eastern Europe, which begins an exodus of Roma to North America.^[38]

• The Ghost Wheel Society first appears in the American West.^[39]

• An Ecstatic shaman, William Cross, publishes The Journeys of William Cross. The journal is the first known mention of the Emerald Queen.^[40]

• Aboriginal Australian rock paintings depict the Prince of Nightmares.^[41]

• Two things keep the Artificers busy during this century: following up on industrial processes and the obsession with refining the previous generations of analog computers.^[42]

• The Baruti begin to fear that the destruction of ancient traditions is starting to outpace their ability to salvage lost information.^[43]

• Only the continued presence of Senex prevents the Euthanatos from declaring the Madzimbabwe defunct.^[44]

• Horatio Alger writes a series of children's books where heroes go from rags to riches through hard work, luck, and good deeds.^[45]

• Some shamans still practise in some small towns in Europe as late as this century.^[46]

• Although the Muse of Horror has been around as long as mankind, it is only this century that one of the most gifted poets of the Western world gives her a name: Lenore.^[47]

• The Electrodyne Engineers discover Etherspace.^[48]

• Russian military records describe what they call almas and kaptars in Central Asia. Historians will later realize they're surviving populations of Homo habilis.^[49]

• Some Technocrats examining governmental forms become enamored of the ideas of Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin, which come to be called the anarchist movement.^[50]

• The Reality Coders first appear.^[51]

• Reports begin of some sort of spirit/ghost/demon/thing which attacks people through mirrors after a light goes out.^[52]

• By this time, the Maximi of the Order of Reason become renamed the Invisible Collegium.^[53]

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