Editing The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose (section)

==[[TheStarsAreRight:TheIrishRoseTimeline | Timeline]]==

Our current timeline is spread out between August 1, 1932 and September 30, 1932. All of the locations in the Lovecraft universe exist in the campaign. Arkham, Innsmouth, Kingsport, Dunwich — all of them. In addition, most of the events in HPL's stories are part of the time line: the meteor strike near Arkham as reported in ''The Color Out of Space'', the U.S. Naval operation off of Dunwich in ''The Shadow over Innsmouth'', the polar expedition out of Miskatonic detailed in ''The Mountains of Madness'', etc.

You can find a [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Cthulhu_Mythos_Timeline fuller chronology] here.

Other significant events reported in the media include:

[[File:Charles_Curtis.jpeg|thumb|upright=0.5|c|Charles Curtis]]

* '''1928'''
** '''Edward Chandler''', head of '''New World Industries''', runs as an independent candidate for president, but loses to Hoover.
** November: Following his electoral defeat, Chandler is called to Washington, DC for a closed door hearing into possible violations of the Treaty of Versailles. He flees the United States, and is formally charged with treason. New World Industries is taken over by [[Alexi_Vishnevesky|'''Alexi Vishneveski''']] and closed. All activities and willing personnel are transferred to Switzerland.
** November 21: First outbreak of the [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Kansas City Influenza|'''Kansas City Influenza''']] reported in the media. The disease continues to spread from the Kansas City railhead toward the East Coast.
** December: President-elect Hoover contracts the Kansas City influenza and dies before taking office.

[[File:Charles_Fort.jpeg|thumb|upright=0.5|c|Charles Fort]]

* '''1929'''
** January 1: '''Charles Curtis''', Hoover's Vice President, is sworn in as President of the United States. A member of the Kaw tribe, he is the first Native American President.
** Mid-February: The world experiences global Fortean events. Frogs fall from the skies, mysterious lights shine in the high places, water turns to wine... The occurrences begin to taper off toward the end of the month, and have become backpage filler by the end of March. Many people witnessed ''something'' strange, and everyone knows someone who has a cousin of a friend from grade school who had something strange happen to them. This period has become known as the '''Night of Miracles''', or more rarely as the '''Night the Weather Changed.''' No one is quite sure where the second name originated.
** April: Wall Street crashes, ushering in the '''Great Depression'''. Banks close and factories begin to cut back on production.
** April 29: An extraordinary mining disaster during the Pioneer Days celebration in Madisonville, Kentucky results in thousands of deaths by poison gas and the destruction of '''Eveling Industries'''. The entire Hibbs Valley area is cordoned off by the government due to continuing health risks and unstable geology.

[[File:Adolf_Hitler.jpeg|thumb|upright=0.50|c|Adolf Hitler]]

* '''1930'''
** '''Adolf Hitler''' is declared Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.

* '''1931'''
** '''Dachau Camp''' opens.

* '''1932'''
** May 3: '''Charles Fort''', author of ''The Book of the Damned'' and other works, dies of leukemia.
** August 1: DeWitt Ecker, JT Williams and James O'Keefe arrive in Detroit. Danny Macklin, proprietor of the Irish Rose, beats his girlfriend Katie Flynn severely. These four events precipitate a crisis in the [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/TheStarsAreRight:TheIrishRoseTimeline '''Irish Rose Matter'''].