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Highlander Timeline Highlights

3000BC (A)
		Methos is born.

30BC
		During the Conquest of Egypt, Marcus Constantine, a  general in the Roman army,
                takes Nefertiri as a lover. Both are Immortals. She kills herself, so that she
                may be mummified and remain by the side	of Cleopatra.

60AD
		Britain, Ceirdwyn and other warriors of her tribe fight the Romans. A Centurian,
		Marcus Constantine, Commander of Roman Troops, takes her as a student.

550 (A)
		Darius leads an army to the gates of Rome. It is here that he kills a holy man
                and takes on the mantle of a holy man. His second-in-command is also an immortal,
                named Grayson, whom never forgives Darius for giving up his life of conquest.

850
		Abbey of St Anne, England, Rebecca takes in Amanda as a student.

853
		Abbey of St Anne, England, Amanda takes her first Immortal in combat, outside the
                castle of Rebecca.

1182
		England, Amanda takes Kenneth as a student. Kenneth's first death is at the age
		of 8.

1250 (A)
		Mako is born and begins his life calling of enforcing the Law.

1430 (A)
		England, Hugh Fitxcairn is born.

1453
		The Kurgan is spotted in Moscow, Russia.

1472
		Russia, Kurgan takes the head of Ivan Trotski.

1485
		Warren Cochran is born in Helensbourogho, near Strathide, in Scotland.

1513
		Warren Cochran is killed for the first time, killed by British Soldiers in
		Floddenfield.

1518	January 1st 
		Connor Macleod is born in Glenfinnan, Scotland on the shores of Lock Shiel.
1536
		Connor Macleod meets the Kurgan and receives a mortal wound. He is banished from
		his Clan afterward.

1592	December 21st
		Duncan MacLeod is born in the Highlands of Scotland.

1598 (A)
		Juan Sanches Villa Lopez Ramiraz finds Connor and takes him as a student.

1601
		The Highlands, the Kurgan finds and kills Ramiraz while looking for Connor
		Macleod.

1610
		The Kirgan leaves Scotland and heads for Milan Italy.

1618
		Glenfinnan, Duncan fights and kills a boyhood friend over Duncans boyhood love.

1622	October 2nd
		The Highlands, Duncan is killed for the first time in a border dispute with a
		neighboring Clan.

1624
		Glenfinnan, Duncan challenges his father for recognition, and is told that he is
		a changeling.

1625
		The Highlands, Connor Macleod finds Duncan and takes him as a student.

1630
		Rural Scotland, An English knight, the immortal Hyde, harrases Duncan trying to
		drive him to his teacher Connor. Duncan choses death over cooperation.

1634	April
		Rural France, Ducan finds and saves the beast like immortal Ursus. Duncan helps
		Ursus to a monestery and arranges for him to have a home there.

1635	September 11th
		Verona, Italy, Duncan meets Amanda and Rebecca for the first time as they quibble
		over which one will take his pretty head.
	Late
		Luther takes the head of Rebecca

1637	February 28th
		Duncan meets Hugh Fitxcairn in Verona, Italy, while protecting the Doge's
		Daughter from his amorous advances.

1639	August 27th
		Florence Italy, Duncan & Hugh protect the Duke diMilano against various
		assasination attempts.

1653
		Algiers, Duncan meets for the first time, Xavier St. Cloud who is dressed as a
		Moor.

1658
		The Monastery of St Christopher Europe, Duncan finds the Monastery run by
		Immortals, Brother Paul assisted by Brother Timmon. It is here that Duncan meets
		the evil immortal Kalas for the first time. Duncan reveals what Kalas has been
		doing and Kalas is exiled from the Monastery.

1660
		Duncan bursts in on a birthing being midwifed by the immortal Grace Chandel.

1661	December
		England, Duncan meets and befriends Garrick , a stone cutter and fellow immortal.

1663
		England, Duncan plays the character of Kate in a production of The Taming of the Shrew.

1670
		Rural Scotland, Duncan returns to his homeland. While there he takes employment
		tutoring the son of a local chieftan. Here he is challenged by the immortal
		________________.

1680	November 23rd
		Duncan and Kiem Sun meet in China, where Kiem Sun studies the mysteries of the
		Kwanlo root.

1696
		Angelena & Baron Robert de Valencourt meet and marry, both are immortals. Duncan
		and  Hugh Fitxcairn stand as witnesses.

1700
		Paris, Duncan has come for the funeral of Alain Jaubert, a mortal friend. He
		stays with a fellow immortal Monsieur Segur.

1712
		England, Duncan is a member of the English Court, trying to use his position to
		gain respect for his fellow Scotts.

1728
		England, Walter Reinhardt waylaid a coach traveling to Dover. When Reinhardt
		challenged the Earl of Covington, whom he had mistaken for an immortal, Duncan
		steps in.

1730
		King's Forest, England, Duncan is caught poaching and is saved from a beheading
		by Charles Browning of York. It was later, after much celebratory drinking, that
		Duncan awoke to Charles's decending blade.

1745
		Eriskay Island, Scotland, Duncan and Warren Cochran are fighting the English in
		the army of Bonnie Prince Charlie.


1746	April 15th
		Warren Cochran is found dead by mortal friends, this means that he may not
		participate in the Battle of Culloden.
	April 16th
		The Battle of Culloden, where Duncan and the other Scottish troops under Bonnie
		Prince Charlie were defeated.
	Late April
		Ceirdwyn, going by Flora MacDonald, first shelters, then aids in Prince Charlie's
		escape to France.

1750
		Steppes of Russia, Duncan travels northward and meets Christov, an immortal, and
		the Cossacks that he commands.

1753	September 14
		Constantinople, Amanda, having made quite a place for herself in the Sultan's
		hart, still found herself sentenced to having her hands cut off when caught
		stealing, but is rescued By Duncan.

1778
		South Pacific, Duncan is part of a crew that mutiny's against its Captain
		Terrence Kincade, who is an immortal, he convinces the crew to leave him, rather
		than taking his head.
	April 30th
		Duncan is washed ashore in Japan after a shipwreck and is found by the Samurai
		Hideo Koto.

1780
		China, Duncan visits with his friend Kiem Sun.

		Duncan visits Outer Mongolia, here he meets Mei Ling Shien & is taken as her
		student to study the White Crane Style of combat.

1783
		France, Duncan is unable to prevent the assasination of the Baron by Kuyler, an
		immortal.

1786
		The Auberge aux Arts in Pickardy in Normandy. Warren Cochran offers to raise an
		army for Bonnie	Prince Charlie, nothing comes from his efforts.

		Paris, Piton steals a necklace from the Marchesa di Michelli with the gleeful aid
		of Duncan Macleod.

1789	July 14th
		The storming of the Bastille marked the start of the French Revolution.

1795
		England. Duncan's student, Jon Philipe de la Fey III, is killed by the Immortal
		Damon Case.

1796
		On the 100th anniversary of Angelena & Robert de Valencourt's wedding.

1803
		England, the widowed Duchess of Montinore throws a ball at which Duncan is her
		chief treasure.

1804
		Bavaria, Amanda leaves Duncan to take the blame of her thefts, which prevents her
		partner Zachery	Blaine from trying for Duncan's head.

1805	October 17th
		England, Duncan is convicted of murder and hung in a small English village to
		save his innocent friend Johnny.

1810	May
		The Rhone Valley, Switzerland, as Duncan & Brian Cullen travel a mortal, Allen
		Kelly, demands satisfaction of Brian.

1814	April 11th
		Toulouse, France, in the aftermath of battle, Duncan shows mercy to a fallen foe.
		He promises the	dying Henri Martin that his son will receive his fathers ring and
		word of his honourable death.

1815	April 22nd
		France, Charles Dartmore is mistakenly arrested and executed for fleeing the
		battlefield. Duncan feels guilt for his part in his friends death, and his
		failure to save him.
	June 18th
		The Battle of Waterloo where Duncan meets Darius, who teaches him about the
		futility of war.

1816	January 29th
	 	Belgium, Duncan says farewell to Darius in Paris and leaves for his first voyage
		to the New World.

1817	August
		Fort Wolf, Montana

1820 (?)		(is this the 1866 ref?)
		America, Boston area, Duncan meets and courts Claire. Who is accidentally killed
		when her Fiancee challenges Duncan for dishonoring her.

1825
		Philadelphia, Duncan finds his friend David Kegh to have closed up his office and
		disapeared in a	greatly depressed condition.

		Virginia, Duncan is asked by his friend Brian __________, an immortal to stand as
		best man.

1840	Early
		Paris, Grace Chandel  finds herself much taken with Carlo Sendaro, A South-
		American sugar and rubber Baron. Duncan is unable to disuade her from going to
		Carlo's home in the Amazon.
	Late
		Paris, Nicholaus Ward is terrorizing the city in the guise of a Vampire.

1848
		Alzett river, Duncan takes up with a band of Gypsies.

1854
		San Francisco, Duncan finds Brian Cullen hiding in a Opium Den, avoiding a fight
		with Zoltan Lazlo.
1859
		Carl Robinson, born a slave, is killed for the first time.

1862
		Virginia, Duncan finds an immortal, one Sean Zale, who was first killed at the
		age of 12.

1863	August
		Tennessee, Duncan was captured while working as part of the Underground Railroad.
		There he met, and was befriended by Lukas Desiree, then a Confederate Officer.

1866
		Annapolis, Maryland, Duncan is finding wonderful diversion with a local girl
		named Bess. Unfortunatley Ned Bascome, her fiance, is likely to object.

1867	June 19th
		Duncan and Paul Karros witness the fall of Emperor Maximilian, marking the end of
		the Mexican Revolution.

1868	October
		Great North Woods, Duncan joins a tribe of indians after returning the body of a
		dead Brave.

1870
		France, Felicia Martins murders the mortal wife & child of the immortal Devereux.

1872	March 13th
		Dakota Territory, Duncan's adopted Lakota Sioux family is massacred by soldiers
		led by the evil	Kern.
	Late March
		Dakota Territory, Kern taunts Duncan with tales of the destruction of an entire
		indian village.
	Late
		Shaman Island, Pacific Northwest, Dispite the urging of Connor, Duncan goes on a
		holy retreat.

1882	July 4th
		Davidson, Pacific Northwest, Duncan only has eyes for Sarah Carter at the 4th of
		July hoe-down.
	Late
		Duncan is working in the Pacific Northwest as a Newspaperman. Here he has a run
		in with Mako, then a Federal Marshal. Mako kills Tim Ramsey, a mortal friend of
		Duncans.

1883
		Washington Territory, Doctor Gregor Powers and Duncan Macleod work hard to ease
		the mortal dying from the cholera epidemic raging up and down the Poni River.

1891
		San Francisco, Tommy Sullivan, both a little Irish boxer and an immortal, fast
		talks Duncan into fighting the heavy weight boxing champ, Joe Brock.

1896
		Boston, Axel lays a trap for a fellow immortal, Duncan Macleod, at the Orpheum
		Club.


1897	February 15th
		Connor and Duncan rescue Gabriella and defeat The Salamander. (A paperback)

1900 (?)
		Grace Chandler escapes from Carlos Sendaro's possession.

1905
		New York City, Duncan has started an Import/Export business and it is thriving.

1916	December 8th
		Lawrence of Arabia sends Duncan MacLeod on a mission from Cairo to the Bedouin
		tribes.

1917	May
		Soissons, France, Duncan is fighting the war from behind the steering wheel of
		an ambulance.

1918	November 11th
		Armistice day marks the end of World War I. Colonel Simon Killian, an immortal,
		leads a charge,	knowing that the war is over. Duncan convinces the Court Marshal
		board to sentence Killian to a Sanitarium instead of a firing squad.

1919	early
		Moscow, Duncan helps former Countess Katarina Abernova survive the loss of both
		her husband and lands in the aftermath of the War.
	late
		Ireland, Kerry Devlin is killed before the eyes of his immortal wife, Annie, and
		friend Duncan Macleod. With Duncans help Annie escapes from the English army.
	December
		New York, NY, the singing debut of Anthony Neri 

1920	May 27th
		Duncan and Maria Campolo attend the Paris debut of singer Antonio Neri, who is
		actually the evil Kalas. It is here that Duncan destroys Kalas's greatest
		treasure, his voice.
	September 10th
		Pennsylvania, Duncan goes with Jesse Collins, to see what is going on at the
		mines Jesse's father owns, and find themselves in the middle of a Union/
		Management war.

1921
		Seacouver, Pacific Northwest, Quentin Barnes, an immortal, kills the mortal wife
		of Dr. Michael Moore. Quentin is an alternate personality to Michael, though no
		one will know for another 70 years.

1923
		Boston, Duncan and a Miss Nora Fontain, a difinitive 'Flapper', barely escaped
                incarceration, when the New Years Eave party they were attending, was raided by
		the Police.

1925
		Seacouver, Washington, USA, Duncan rushes from Boston to do battle with Marcus
		Korolus, the Legendary Actor, and a one time friend.
1926
		In Louisiana Duncan gets shot stopping a lynching of 3 blacks. One is the
		Immortal Carl Robinson. This is their first meeting.
1926 Late
		In the American Southwest, Amanda leaves the Circus that she had been performing
		at, with a US Marshal in pursuit.

1930
		Paris, Duncan is present when Tarsis & Kagan, both immortals rob a bank. Warned
                that he would not interfer if no mortals were harmed, Tarsis kills a mortal.
		Duncan finds Tarsis and takes his head as punishment, Kagan is allowed to escape.

1936
		Berlin, Duncan is a smuggler struggling to avoid the attention of the Third Reich.
Amanda spends time as a cabaret singer. 1937 Spain, during the Civil war, Duncan is there as a reporter doing a story on the rebels.. Kage another immortal is also there, posing as a reporter, actually he is working for the Nationalists. 1938 early Leningrad, While trying to smuggle people out of Stalins Russia, Duncan is turned in to the KGB by the immortal Voshin. mid-year Seacouver, Washington, USA, Duncan is caught in the middle of a power play between the Lankovski boys. He is shot and killed in a frame up for one brother to take over the business. August 13th Duncan makes the front page rescuing a child from a burning building. Seacouver, Benny Carbassa is making the rounds of dives and burning up credit he does not have. 1943 Paris, Duncan works with the French Resistance. Outside Paris the Resistance traps a troop of German soldiers, among them is Major Ernst Daimler. 1954 May 17th Alabama, Duncan and Carl Robinson read about the Brown vs. Board of Education decision outlawing segregation. 1958 August 24th Tessa Noel is born. 1960 (A) Pacific Northwest, Quentin Barnes is executed at Raskers prison. 1972 Duncan is seen to be living in Paris. 1974 September 20th Richard Ryan is born. 1975 Cambodia, Duncan is trying to get some children out of the war zone. Kage refuses to allow the use of his helicopter for their escape. This leaves the children to be butchered. 1975 Late Michael Christian is killed for the first time. 1980 May Paris, Duncan having been saved from a bad situation with the killer mime Kuyler by the police, meets Tessa for the first time. 1983 April Duncan shows his immortality to Tessa. 1985 Connor Macleod kills the Kergan. 1988 Seacouver, Walter Reinhardt is the one to challenge Duncan, but ends up taking a swim in the Bay to save his own head. 1992 Duncan takes Richard Ryan under his protection. Later that same year Duncan, Tessa & Richie move to Paris. 1993 This year Tessa & Richie are killed in a mugging. Richie is revealed as an immortal. Nefertiri is awakened from her mummified slumber, by Duncan. 1994 Richie passes his 'finals' as an immortal, when he kills Mako in a Duel. March 6th Duncan meets the legendary Methos for the first time in Paris. France, Ceirdwyn's mortal husband is killed. 1995 France, Joe Dawson a Watcher, is called before the Watcher Tribunal and tried for treason to the Watchers. Authors Note: Yes there are many flashbacks that are not noted here. This is as my efforts had made it as of several years ago. I will be updating it as time and information are available to me.
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