The Dark Lantern League
Calendar of Public Record
(Current Update)

1880
July 27 - Battle of Maiwand. British suffer a horrible defeat, and among the many, many casualties, a Private Thomas Wiggins is killed and a Dr. John H. Watson is wounded.

1881
Between January and April - Julia Stoner found dead in Surrey home.
October 22 - First issue of Tit-bits hits the streets, taking George Newnes, former vegetarian restaurant owner, into the publishing world.

1882
April 28 - Major Sholto, of Upper Norwood, late of the Thirty-fourth Bombay Infantry, found dead, after having suffered for years from an enlarged spleen.
May 4 - Advertisement appears in the Times asking for the whereabouts of a Miss Mary Morstan.

1883
March - 'Do We Progress?' by James Mortimer, published in Journal of Psychology.
Early April - Dr. Grimesby Roylott found dead in Surrey home.
May 2 - Former Florida planter and Civil War veteran Colonel Elias Openshaw dies in Horsham.
August - Mr. Neligan of Cornwall lost at sea in North Atlantic, after stealing securities from holdings of Dawson and Neligan.

1885
January 7 - Mr. Joseph Openshaw, patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, dies in Horsham.
October - Events "uncannily similar" to those later published as "The Adventure of the Second Stain" occur, according to Trelawny Hope.

1886
January - Sir Eustace Brackenstall of Marsham, Kent marries Miss Mary Fraser of Adelaide, Australia.
October - Release of Miss Grace Dunbar from jail in Gibson murder.

1887 (Victoria's Jubilee Year)
April - Colossal schemes of Baron Maupertuis exposed and Netherland-Sumatra Company question settled.
Late September - Mr. John Openshaw of Horsham drowns in Thames River after falling off Embankment.
November 13 - "Bloody Sunday" battle fought between homeless and the police in Trafalgar Square.
December - A Study in Scarlet published in Beeton's Christmas Annual

1888
March 21 - Miss Irene Adler, singer, marries Mr. Godfrey Norton, lawyer.
April 2 - Emmas Simms, a George Street prostitute, mortally wounded in attack.
August 7 - Martha Tabram found murdered on landing of George Yard Buildings.
August 31 - Polly Nichols found gruesomely murdered in Buck's Row.
September 8 - Annie Chapman found murdered on Hanbury Street.
September 30 - Catherine Eddowes and Elizabeth Stride are both murdered in East End.
November 9 - Mary Kelly murdered in her Miller's Court lodgings.

1889
June - Mr. Neville St. Clair missing; Mr. Hugh Boone arrested as suspect.

1890
February - The Sign of the Four published in Lippincott's.
April 27 - Mr. Duncan Ross advertises for red-headed men in The Morning Chronicle.
October 9 - Sign appears on door of Red-headed League in Pope's Court announcing close of League.

1891
January - First issue of The Strand Magazine published by George Newnes.
May 7 - The Reuter's dispatch in the English papers reports the deaths of Professor James Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes.
July - "A Scandal in Bohemia" published in The Strand Magazine.
August - "The Red-headed League" published in The Strand Magazine.
September - "A Case of Identity" published in The Strand Magazine.
October - "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" published in The Strand Magazine.
November - "The Five Orange Pips" published in The Strand Magazine.
December - "The Man with the Twisted Lip" published in The Strand Magazine.

1892
January - "The Blue Carbuncle" published in The Strand Magazine.
February - "The Speckled Band" published in The Strand Magazine.
February 13 - The train de-luxe to the Riviera on robbed.
March - "The Engineer's Thumb" published in The Strand Magazine.
Late March - Mr. Aloysius Garcia, of Wisteria Lodge, killed near Esher.
April - "The Noble Bachelor" published in The Strand Magazine.
May - "The Beryl Coronet" published in The Strand Magazine.
June - "The Copper Beeches" published in The Strand Magazine.
December - "Silver Blaze" published in The Strand Magazine.

1893
January - "The Cardboard Box" published in The Strand Magazine.
February - "The Yellow Face" published in The Strand Magazine.
March - "The Stock-broker's Clerk" published in The Strand Magazine.
April - "The 'Gloria Scott'" published in The Strand Magazine.
May - "The Musgrave Ritual" published in The Strand Magazine.
June - "The Reigate Squires" published in The Strand Magazine.
July - "The Crooked Man" published in The Strand Magazine.
August - "The Resident Patient published in The Strand Magazine.
September - "The Greek Interpreter" published in The Strand Magazine.
October - "The Naval Treaty" (Part One) published in The Strand Magazine.
November - "The Naval Treaty" (Part Two) published in The Strand Magazine.
December - "The Final Problem" published in The Strand Magazine.

1894
March 30 - Honourable Ronald Adair, the second son of the Earl of Maynooth, murdered at his home at 427 Park Lane, London.
Late November - Mr. Willoughby Smith stabbed to death by intruder in his employer's home in Yoxley.

1895
January - Mr. James Winter shoots Mr. Rodger Prescott, famous Chicago forger, over cards in Waterloo Road night club.
April - John Vincent Harden, the well known tobacco millionaire, is persecuted peculiarly.
July - Captain Peter Carey stabbed to death with a harpoon in Woodman's Lee.
Late November - Mr. Cadogan West found dead on London Underground.

1897
March 16 - Miss Brenda Tregennis found dead; her brothers Mr. Owen Tregennis and Mr. George Tregennis committed to mental institution.
March 17 - Mr. Mortimer Tregennis found dead.

1901
January - Mr. James Dodd, of Throgmorton Street, and Mr. Godfrey Emsworth, the son of Colonel Emsworth the Crimean V.C., enlist in the Middlesex infantry corps to fight the Boer War.
August - Chapters One and Two of The Hound of the Baskervilles published in The Strand Magazine.
September - Chapters Three and Four of The Hound of the Baskervilles published in The Strand Magazine.
October - Chapters Five and Six of The Hound of the Baskervilles published in The Strand Magazine.
November - Chapter Seven and Eight of The Hound of the Baskervilles published in The Strand Magazine.
December - Chapter Nine of The Hound of the Baskervilles published in The Strand Magazine.

1902
January - Chapter Ten and Eleven of The Hound of the Baskervilles published in The Strand Magazine.
February - Chapter Twelve of The Hound of the Baskervilles published in The Strand Magazine.
March - Chapter Thirteen and Fourteen (First Part) of The Hound of the Baskervilles published in The Strand Magazine.
April - Chapter Chapter Fourteen (Second Part) and Fifteen of The Hound of the Baskervilles published in The Strand Magazine.
Late June - Dr. John H. Watson, author, shot in leg during apprehension of Mr. James Winter.
September 7 - Sherlock Holmes severely beaten in Regent Street, outside Cafe Royale.

1903
September 15 - Professor Presbury of Camford attacked by dog and seriously injured.
September - "The Empty House" published in The Strand Magazine.
October - "The Norwood Builder" published in The Strand Magazine.
November - "The Dancing Men" published in The Strand Magazine.
December - "The Solitary Cyclist" published in The Strand Magazine.1904
January - "The Priory School" published in The Strand Magazine.
February - "Black Peter" published in The Strand Magazine.
March - "Charles Augustus Milverton" published in The Strand Magazine.
April - "The Six Napoleons" published in The Strand Magazine.
June - "The Three Students" published in The Strand Magazine.
July - "The Golden Pince-Nez" published in The Strand Magazine.
August - "The Missing Three-Quarter" published in The Strand Magazine.
September - "The Abbey Grange" published in The Strand Magazine.
December - "The Second Stain" published in The Strand Magazine.

1907
Late July - Mr. Fitzroy McPherson, science master at Sussex school the Gables, murdered on beach.1908
September - "The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles" published in The Strand Magazine.
October - "The Tiger of San Pedro" published in The Strand Magazine.
December - "The Bruce-Partington Plans" published in The Strand Magazine.1910
December - "The Devil's Foot" published in The Strand Magazine.

1911
March - "The Red Circle" (Part One) published in The Strand Magazine.
April - "The Red Circle" (Part Two) published in The Strand Magazine.
December - "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" published in The Strand Magazine.

1914
August 2 - German spy Von Bork arrested at his home.