This is going to be where I post the known dates for the Chronicles of Thomas Book (as opposed to the Journals of James Blackthorn, the Steam-Pulp character).
1976, June - Child (male, unnamed) stillborn to Daniel and Margarette Book.
1976, August - Thomas Book born to Julian (name?) and Lucette. Lucette dies in child birth.
1976, September (6 days after birth) - Julian leaves Thomas with his sister and her husband and leaves to deal with the death of his fiance.
1976-1994 - Julian occasionally visits Margarette and Daniel (and Thomas) and presents himself as Thomas' uncle. Thomas and Julian exchange letters regularly. Julian often sends Thomas post-cards from his travels.
1994, September - Thomas enrolls at Harvard University to study Archaeology.
1998, September - Thomas is accepted into a small, paleography (ancient writing) program at Poague University (Ashland Kentucky - prior to creation of Metro)
1999, "Winter" - Thomas gets a new roommate, Alex Saunders - an undergraduate in Photography.
1999, "Spring" - Thomas meets Raymond, Nugget's older brother, through Alex.
2001, "Winter" - Thomas parents, Margarette and Daniel, die in a head-on car wreck.
2001, "Spring" - Julian moves his business from New Orleans to the newly thriving city of 'Metro'.
2001, "Summer" - Thomas starts to work for Julian as an 'agent' to identify, appraise, buy and sell rare books.
2002 - 2003 - Thomas travels throughout the US and into Europe on "buying trips".
2003, "Spring" - Julian dies of a "heart attack" while Thomas is in London. Julian actually dies of an infernal curse. No body is found - only remains.
2003, "Summer" - Thomas takes over Julian's business and inherits the fire house (with bookstore below).
2003, "Fall" - Thomas discovers Julian's secret and starts to learn magic from Julian's journals and the House spirit, Sir William.
2006, "Spring" - Thomas meets Natalya Poriskaya on a case of demonic possession.
2006, "Summer" - Thomas meets Natalya again and they begin to date.
2007, "Winter" - Thomas asks Natalya to marry him, but this starts a huge problem between the Gypsy families and Thomas. Wizards and Gypsies are in the middle of a supernatural cold war and so the engagement is called off (at least publically).
2007, "Spring" - Natalya is killed in the cross-fire between Thomas and a man using Infernal magic.
2008, Spring - Mouse, Natalya's younger brother, jumps off a four-story building and dies.
(story begins)
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