TbN-Timeline

From Tucson RPG Guild

Contents 1 Timeline of Events 2 Pre-Columbian 3 1700 4 1755 5 1775 6 1797 7 1844 8 1854 9 1861 10 1862 11 1867 12 1880 13 1881 14 1891 15 1900 16 1903 17 1905 18 1910 19 1912 20 1915 21 1919 22 1925 23 1927 24 1941 25 1960s 26 1970 27 1977 28 1983 29 1996 30 1998 31 1999 32 2000 33 2001

Timeline of Events

Pre-Columbian

• Changelings: The earliest notions of The Longest Shadow, a Gentry known to operate in the Sonoran desert, are dated to this time, though at this point there was no Changeling organization to speak of. They tended to try to incorporate themselves back into native tribes upon an escape from the Hedge, some of them mobile, others not so. This made them well-hidden but largely ineffective in terms of handling Hedge-related issues. As with most aspects of tribal life, records are scanty and oral history predominates.

• Native American mages (shamans) exist, most of which focus on Thrysus, the path life and spirit magic. They live in harmony with their environment, and get along well with the indigenous mortal (and some werewolf) populations.

1700

• The Mission of San Xavier was first founded in 1700 by Father Kino at the O'odham village of Bac, on the Santa Cruz River. This first church was never completed.
• Any supernaturals associated with the Catholic Church would have begun arriving around this time. Lancea Sanctum Vampires traveling with conquistadors, Malleus Maleficarum hunters for example. The local shamans do what they can to stem the tide of new European diseases, changing it from a genocidal wave to a merely disastrous one. Preoccupied with the losing battle of both disease and conquest, the shamans can do little about the infestation of vampires that ride the wave of the conquistadors. When the dust settles, smallpox is defeated, the natives still hold much of thier ancestral lands, but the vampires are established and here to stay. Worse, the native populations have been so reduced as to no longer be the major power in the region (this process would last through the Indian Wars of the 19th century.) The native mage population has also been reduced proportionately. Even if the shamans in the region did wish to directly confront the vampires (or any other supernatural force, for that matter), they find themselves now hopelessly outnumbered. Instead, they keep their existence secret and help their people where they can. Circle of the Crone vampires would have begun arriving about the same time, usually younger and fleeing established power structures in Europe and already Europeanized settlements elsewhere. Lancea Sanctum crackdowns and pogroms would keep them underground and out of the eyes of native non-Christians for centuries.

1755

• Father Espinosa builds a second church at the Mission of San Xavier.

1775

• August 21. The Tucson Presidio is founded.

1797

• The third church at Mission San Xavier is completed. It still stands today.

1844

• The branch of the Gomez family that would result in the modern-day drug ring is established in Tucson when Mariscal Murrietta marries rancher Heriberto Gomez of the Sinaloa Gomezes. Their homestead, no longer standing, was on the Santa Cruz river, just south of what is today South Tucson.

1854

• The Gadsden Purchase brings Tucson and surrounding areas into the United States territorial system.
• Between this period and the Civil War would have been the largest influx of largely European supernatural groups other than Vampires. Mages looking for new secrets to unearth and Werewolves looking for (in their minds) fresh territory. The first organized Changeling attempts to resist the Gentry and help the Lost escape the Hedge and return to the material world occurred around this time. They were brutally wiped out and almost all unsuccessful.

1861

• Angered by perceived neglect from the United States government, the citizens of Tucson vote to join the Confederacy.

1862

• Tucson is briefly occupied by Confederate troops led by Sherod Hunter. After a skirmish at Picacho Peak, the town falls into Union hands and is fortified at Fort Lowell.

1867

• Tucson is named the capital of the Arizona Territory.

1880

• March. The first railroad arrives in Tucson.

• Western, non-Hispanic Vampires would begin arriving around this time. Jacques, a blind and insane Keeper of Elysium NPC would have arrived around this time.

1881

• The gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone becomes a potent symbol of the lawlessness of the West.
• The Intercessors, a Changeling motley focused on resolving, mediating and arbitrating conflicts and agreements, is organized around this time. Although they primarily deal with mortal (and Changeling) conflicts, other supernatural groups eventually get an inkling that someone with the ability to enforce and mediate agreements exists.

1891

• The University of Arizona is established and quickly becomes a Mage stronghold.

1900

• More than a dozen Western Mages call Tucson home, virtually all members of the Silver Ladder. The population has grown sufficiently to support increased Vampire populations, though the town is run by Lancea fanatics and Invictus bosses.

1903

• The city establishes its first speed limit: 7 mph.

1905

• The Year Of Blood - a war between Mage and Vampire occurs.

1910

• The first airplane arrives in Tucson, piloted by Charles "The Bird Man" Hamilton. He lands in downtown Tucson.

• Serial killer Martin Bowen is arrested in Tucson. In all, he killed four women with a .44 pistol. He is mostly notable for sending letters to the Tombstone Epitaph about his murders, daring the authorities to find him. Bowen is confined in the Insane Asylum of Arizona until his death in 1922.

1912

• February 14. Arizona becomes the 48th state.

1915

• The inaugural air mail delivery is dropped on a vacant lot behind a Tucson post office by Katherine Stinson, the fourth licensed female pilot in America.

1919

• Tucson Municipal Flying Field is established - the first municipal airport in America.

1925

• Land is set aside by the city for the construction of a military airfield.

• Map of Tucson in 1925

1927

• Tucson Municipal Airport is opened by Charles Lindbergh, flying his Spirit of St. Louis plane.

1941

• Davis Monthan Air Force Base is established.

1960s

• An Idigam (see Werewolf: the Forsaken) arrives in Tucson. It attaches itself to the University of Arizona, seeing it as a great opportunity for prey and entertainment. It was inexpertly bound by a group of occult minded college professors, and its stirrings since then have sparked shadow wars that usually end with the entity being bound once again, but never truly defeated.

1970

• Hotel Fire in downtown Tucson kills 29.

1977

• The current Vampire power structure is established when the Lancea Sanctum Prince is murdered by a coterie backing Carthian Allison Arrington. A pitched war obliterates the Lance and Invictus power structure and covenant members who did not support Arrington were exiled.

1983

• The Illuminated Lodge is established.

1996

• The Gomez crime family becomes a significant player in the underworld of Tucson, bringing across immigrants and drugs from Mexico.

1998

• The Illuminated Lodge disbands with bitter acrimony.

1999

• The Gomez crime family has turned over virtually all of its drug distribution and sales to allied organizations, making it exclusively a drug transportation ring. Only a handful of Gomez-associated dealers are left.

2000

• June - September. A crime wave sweeps the streets of Tucson as an up and coming drug gang run by the Montes de Oca family enters into a vicious battle for territory. They come out on top, eliminating, among other forces, the Gomez drug transportation ring, forcing that family to restrict its activities to immigrant smuggling. The police and federal officials crack down on the violence as well.

2001

• September 11 - The World Trade Center is destroyed in New York City. In the aftermath, the Border Patrol (later Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Department of Homeland Security) increasingly militarizes and restricts border travel.