© 2004 Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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2119 B.C.: Saint-Germain born in Carpathian Mountains north-west of a town that is now Tirgu-Ocna. He is proto-Etruscan royalty. His Winter Solstice birth automatically enrolls him in the priesthood, which is vampiric. Eventually he has three sisters and four brothers.

2087 B.C.: Saint-Germain is taken prisoner by proto-Scythians, clients of the emerging Hittite Empire; he is made a slave. All his relatives are executed.

2085 B.C.: Saint-Germain executed for leading his slave squad to victory over the Greek foes of his captors; his disemboweling allows him to come to vampiric existence.

2984-1 B.C.: Saint-Germain takes vengeance on those who ordered his death.

2080-1947 B.C.: Saint-Germain gives vampires a bad name.

1947 B.C.: Saint-Germain taken captive and held at Nineveh.

1933 B.C.: Saint-Germain faces Egyptians in combat as a demon (caged until the killing starts and then released to feed on the dying; recaptured after the battle and sold to Babylon)

1933-1804 B.C.: Saint-Germain used as semi-divine demon by Babylonian military, to terrify the opposition and feed on dying enemy soldiers.

1803-1572 B.C.: Saint-Germain held in Babylonia oubliette.

1571-1504 B.C.: Saint-Germain held by High Priest of Judea.

OUT OF THE HOUSE OF LIFE Madelaine de Montalia #1

1503 B.C.: Saint-Germain presented to Pharaoh Hatshepsut and taken to Egypt

1502 B.C.: Saint-Germain becomes a slave at the Temple of Imhotep

1321 B.C.: Saint-Germain acquires and reanimates Aumtehoutep

1091 B.C.: Saint-Germain creates alchemical glass (more precious than gold in Pharoahnic Egypt).

932 B.C. : Saint-Germain faces Assyrians in battle as Imhotep incarnate.

807 B. C.: Saint-Germain leaves Egypt for his homeland. The proto-Etruscans have long since left for Italy. Saint-Germain broadens his alchemical studies.

774 B. C.: Saint-Germain produces alchemical gold for the first time.

680-79 B. C.: Saint-Germain visits Athens for the first time.

529 B. C.: Saint-Germain faces the Medes in battle with Dacian cavalry.

402-0 B. C.: Saint-Germain visits Athens for the second time. He meets Xantippe as well as her better-known husband.

399 B. C.: Saint-Germain returns to Dacia.

371-66 B. C.: Saint-Germain returns to Thebes and travels up the Nile as far as the Third Cataract, where he develops jewel and gold trade, as well as renewing his medical practice from his Imhotep days.

361-56 B. C.: Saint-Germain in India. Asoka's reforms impress him.

355-41 B. C.: Saint-Germain resident in Athens (Epicurus, Zeno, Aristotle, etc.) He establishes the first of his many shipping businesses.

337 B. C.: Saint-Germain visits Rome for the first time. He remarks on the totemic family names and sees similarities to the Egyptian gods.

282 B. C.: Saint-Germain discovers how to make jewels alchemically.

116 B. C.: Saint-Germain travels to Tyre, Alexandria, Memphis, Thebes, and Edfu. He renews contact with the Priests of Imhotep

63 B. C.: Saint-Germain journeys to Gaul for ores and rare earths.

56-1 B. C.: Saint-Germain travels with Roman troops under Julius Caesar. It is his first trip to Britain.

48 B. C.: Saint-Germain purchases a villa east-north-east of Rome, calling it Villa Ragoczy.

43 B. C.: Saint-Germain returns to Dacia.

31-12 B. C.: Saint-Germain with Catullus on the Black Sea at Trebizond.

12 B.C.-49 A.D.: Saint-Germain in Egypt with Priests of Imhotep.

49 : Saint-Germain buys Tishtry.

50 : Saint-Germain returns to Rome.

53-54 : Saint-Germain's second trip to Britain lasting almost a year.

59 : Saint-Germain acquires Kozrozd.

BLOOD GAMES Saint-Germain #3

71 : Saint-Germain and Olivia leave Rome.

49 : Saint-Germain at Lake Comus.

99 : Olivia returns to Rome for the first time since her death.

101-8 : Saint-Germain in Persia.

109 : Saint-Germain in Cyprus; departs after Temple fire.

110-8 : Saint-Germain returns to Lake Comus in northern Italy, meets Pliny there.

119-32 : Saint-Germain returns to Persia.

219-224 : Saint-Germain in Rome.

ROMAN DUSK Saint-Germain #19

230-243 : Saint-Germain in Vindobona (Vienna) and other eastern European Roman settlements.

299-300 : Saint-Germain returns to Rome; establishes a Deed of Succession to protect his estates.

300-309 : Saint-Germain in Near East and Egypt.

312 : Saint-Germain reanimates Niklos Aulirios as Olivia's ghoul-bondsman.

388-401 : Saint-Germain in western Mongolia, early Samarkand and the Hindu Kush.

441 : Saint-Germain and Niklos Aulirios battle against Attila's forces in northern Greece. Saint-Germain is involved with Nicoris.

446: Saint-Germain returns to his homeland before leaving for Asia.

502-27 : Saint-Germain tours India, Burma, Indo-China, Cambodia, and China as jewel merchant, establishing himself in Yang-Chau in 524, and expanding his trading business.

531-536: Olivia at Lake Comus in northern Italy.

535-37 : The Years of the Cold Sun in Europe, the Yellow Snow in China (caused by catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa in February, 535)

DARK OF THE SUN Saint-Germain #17

536-45: Olivia in Rome.

545 A. D.: Olivia goes from Rome to Constantinople under Belisarius' protection.

A FLAME IN BYZANTIUM Olivia #1

546 : Saint-Germain in Poetovio after leaving Pons Saravi bound for Trapezus.

548-9 : Saint-Germain in Perath.

550 : Saint-Germain in Trapezius.

552 : Olivia goes to Kythera.

556 : Saint-Germain returns to his homeland.

560 : Saint-Germain in Rome.

566 : Saint-Germain in Crete where two attempts are made on his life (direct armed assault and scorpion sting).

587 : Saint-Germain defends a group of earthquake refugees from marauding bandits outside Baghdad.

587-91 : Saint-Germain resident in Baghdad studying mathematics.

591 : Saint-Germain travels from Baghdad to Ragusa.

604 : Saint-Germain forced to flee his homeland.

618-40 : Olivia in Rome.

620-27 : Saint-Germain in eastern Spain where he becomes involved with Csimenae.

COME TWILIGHT (SAINT-GERMAIN #13 - PartI)

628-791 : against Saint-Germain's instruction, Csimenae makes a whole clan of vampires.

683-5 : Saint-Germain on Cyprus.

715 : Saint-Germain in Tunis.

719 : Saint-Germain imprisoned in Tunis. He is branded but no scar remains.

720 : Saint-Germain taken to Spain; he escapes his slave-holder, the Emir's son, and flees eastward.

COME TWILIGHT (SAINT-GERMAIN #13 - Part II)

729 : Saint-Germain and Roger in France.

740 : Saint-Germain lives in the Polish marshes as an outcast; he acquires a large tract of marshland no one else wants and builds an alchemical laboratory there, where he can work undisturbed.

746-57 : Olivia in Rome, expanding her holdings.

COME TWILIGHT (SAINT-GERMAIN #13 - Part III)

753-70 : Saint-Germain travels throughout the eastern Mediterranean and eastern Europe.

781-96 : Saint-Germain in Poland; becomes a noted geographer.

792 : Olivia returns to Rome.

NIGHT BLOOMING Saint-Germain #15

804-16 : Saint-Germain in Kiev.

804-16 : Olivia in Venice.

867 : Saint-Germain purchases a ship-building business in western France (Brittany Marches).

931-44 : Olivia at Avlona on the Dalmatian coast.

933-8 : Saint-Germain a merchant traveler again; visits Rome twice in his journeys.

938 : Saint-Germain washes up on a beach near Liubice (Lubeck).

BETTER IN THE DARK Saint-Germain #8

944-50 : Saint-Germain and Olivia share his Roman villa while her own is rebuilt.

951-72 : Olivia in Aigues-Mortes in southern Francia.

964 : Saint-Germain returns to his homeland.

1059 : Saint-Germain purchases three estates in Persia.

1081-3 : Saint-Germain goes to Rome, returning to his homeland before going back to Persia.

1114 : Saint-Germain goes to Spain.

COME TWILIGHT (SAINT-GERMAIN #13 - Part IV)

1118 : Saint-Germain at Orleans at Olivia's horsefarm.

1141 : Saint-Germain takes refuge near Rome on one of Olivia's country estates.

1142 : Olivia goes to the Dalmatian coast.

1159 : Saint-Germain's three associates (Herchambaut, Javotte and Yolande - vampire, vampire and ghoul, respectively) burned at Lyon, the last of Csimenae's tribe.

1162 : Saint-Germain flees Milan just ahead of Frederick Barbarossa.

1166 : Saint-Germain once again returns to his homeland.

1172 : Olivia leaves Rome for Alexandria.

1180 : Olivia goes from Alexandria to Tyre.

CRUSADER'S TORCH Olivia #2

1182 : Saint-Germain en route to China stops at Karakhorum in April.

1183 : Saint-Germain arrives at Lo-Yang, and is given permission to purchase property and teach at the university.

1186-7 : Saint-Germain is imprisoned at Lo-Yang as a suspicious foreigner. He is released by order of the university administration.

1188-1216 : Saint-Germain teaches at Lo-Yang university.

PATH OF THE ECLIPSE Saint-Germain #4

1206 : Olivia returns to Rome from Trieste.

1219 : Saint-Germain leaves India in October in the company of Mei Hsu-Mo on a Byzantine ship bound for Constantinople.

1221 : Saint-Germain arranges for Mei Hsu-Mo to return to China along the Old Silk Road as part of a trading expedition he is sponsoring.

1222 : Saint-Germain returns to his homeland.

1231-9 : Olivia travels to France and the Low Countries. She has a tricky affair in Brabant.

1285 : Saint-Germain purchases a villa in Prague

1292 : Saint-Germain establishes a shipping company in Roskilde in Denmark.

1301 : Saint-Germain purchases a business in Bruges where he can ship to his other companies in other parts of Europe..

1323 : Saint-Germain's palace in Seville is destroyed by arson.

1335-47 : Saint-Germain practices alchemy at Orgon neat Marseilles. He has his first dealings with Jenfra's family.

1338-52 : Olivia to Trieste; she purchases a villa outside the city.

1347-50 : Saint-Germain wanders northern Europe as a troubadour. He becomes involved with Heugenet da Brabant. The Black Plague epidemic spreads northward. Saint-Germain has an ugly reunion with Jenfra.

BLOOD ROSES Saint-Germain #11

1351 : Saint-Germain purchases a palace in Venice and starts a spice and rare earth trading company. He travels to the west coast of India to set up another business there.

1353 : Saint-Germain returns to Venice.

1389 : Saint-Germain travels to Delhi to pursue his studies and broaden his trading.

1391-99 : Olivia to Rhodes.

A FEAST IN EXILE Saint-Germain #14

1401 : Saint-Germain goes to Alexandria, joining Rogerian but not Avasa Dani, who remains there, dying the True Death in 1581.

1415 : Saint-Germain establishes himself once again in Venice.

1429 : Saint-Germain returns to his homeland to protect it from invaders. He becomes allied with Janos Hunyady. He fights his last military campaign.

1484 : Saint-Germain adds an alchemical laboratory to his Venetian palace.

1490-4 : Saint-Germain is resident in Florence.

THE PALACE Saint-Germain #2

1499 : Demetrice Volandrai commits suicide.

1500-16 : Saint-Germain travels in Middle East as a scholar and spice merchant.

STATES OF GRACE Saint-Germain #18
1530-8 : Saint-Germain continues his spice trade in Venice and adds metals and jewels as well; he also establishes a press at Bruges, at Antwerp, and enlarges his publishing in Amsterdam.

1549 : Saint-Germain goes to his homeland as diplomat.

1563 : Olivia purchases a horse farm in France.

1564 : Saint-Germain moves to Hungary; serves as a diplomatic envoy to the Ottoman Court.

1570 : Olivia takes up residence near London, still raising horses.

1577 : Saint-Germain leaves Transylvania and takes up residence in Prague.

1581 : Saint-Germain is sent by Istvan Bathory, Transylvanian King of Poland on embassy to Russia.

DARKER JEWELS Saint-Germain #7

1585 : Saint-Germain leaves Russia via English ship from Novo-Kholmogory.

1585-6 : Saint-Germain with Olivia in England.

1586 : Saint-Germain goes to Ghent where he establishes a press.

1608 : Saint-Germain moves to Antwerp and begins to practice alchemy again.

The Spider Glass

1625-8 : Saint-Germain travels to Ottoman Turkey.

1633 : Saint-Germain visits his homeland.

1634 : Saint-Germain goes to the university of Padua in Italy.

1640 : Saint-Germain travels to Pamplona in Spain en route to the New World.

1641 : Saint-Germain leaves for Latin America in February, he establishes himself in Cuzco in the Vice-Royalty of Peru.

A CANDLE FOR D’ARTAGNAN Olivia #3

MANSIONS OF DARKNESS Saint-Germain #9

1647 : Saint-Germain is accused of heresy for his study of native medicines. He is imprisoned by Passionist monks.

1658 : Olivia dies the true death in December.

1666 : Saint-Germain freed. He returns to Europe in December and * visits Helvetius at The Hague on 25 December. Helvetius reports that his visitor gave him the secret to the Philosopher's Stone*

1678 : Saint-Germain goes to Hungary (now controlling his homeland) after a brief stop-over in Rome.

COMMUNION BLOOD Saint-Germain #12

1699-1717 : Saint-Germain goes to Russia, settling in Saint Petersburg in 1705, two years after the founding of the city. He builds two Baroque palaces and a successful shipping business. He also sponsors Italian marble workers for Peter the Great.

*171?-180? : probable lifespan of the historical Comte de Saint-Germain

*1719-28 : Saint-Germain in Switzerland, Austria and Italy.

1724 : Madelaine de Montalia born 22 November at Montalia.

1729-34 : Saint-Germain in The Netherlands where he establishes another press and a botanical laboratory in addition to his alchemical one.

1735 : Saint-Germain purchases Schloss Saint-Germain near Munich in Bavaria.

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA Saint-Germain #1

1743 : Saint-Germain goes to London in December.

1744 : Madelaine de Montalia dies 4 August. She becomes a vampire.

*1745-78 : Saint-Germain travels to all major European courts.

*1786 : first reputed death of the historical Comte de Saint-Germain.

*1789 : second reputed death of the historical Comte de Saint-Germain.

1801 : Saint-Germain establishes a new press in Amsterdam.

*1802 : Saint-Germain leaves Genoa for Egypt. This is the last documented sighting of the historical Comte de Saint-Germain.

1803 : Saint-Germain arrives at First Cataract on the Nile.

1804 : Saint-Germain leaves Egypt for eastern Europe and his highly original circus.

AFTER SUNDOWN Saint-Germain #20

1809 : Saint-Germain returns to Egypt.

1812 : Saint-Germain leaves Egypt for Crete.

1813 : Saint-Germain arranges to purchase a villa in Switzerland. He adds an alchemical laboratory to the property.

1814-6 : Saint-Germain leaves Crete, visiting Athens, Corfu and Trieste on his way to his homeland.

1817 : Saint-Germain establishes himself in Switzerland.

1819 : Madelaine de Montalia buys Monbussy-sur-Marne, calling herself the Widow Bienoir, immediately bequeathing her property to her "niece".

1821-2 : Saint-Germain visits French Canada.

1822-5 : Saint-Germain in Greece.

1825 : Saint-Germain goes to Rotterdam and Amsterdam in The Netherlands in April. He returns to Switzerland in August. Madelaine de Montalia goes to Thebes.

OUT OF THE HOUSE OF LIFE Madelaine de Montalia #1

1826 : Saint-Germain at Lake Como in the spring. He returns to Switzerland for the summer and Autumn (fall).

1827 : Saint-Germain travels to the Dalmatian coast in January, going as far as Constantinople before returning to Switzerland in November.

1828 : Saint-Germain goes to Athens in March, then to Crete in April. He meets Madelaine de Montalia there at the end of May.

1831 : Saint-Germain goes to Prague.

1834 : Madelaine de Montalia organizes an antiquarian expedition to Turkey.

1837 : Saint-Germain goes to Frankfurt where he establishes a manufacturing business and begins to develop improved fuels. He expands his business to Koln.

1839 : Madelaine de Montalia is declared persona no grata in Turkey. She returns to France.

1840 : Madelaine de Montalia goes to London where she develops an interest in American Indians.

1847 : Madelaine de Montalia sails for Baltimore, bound west to study Indians.

IN THE FACE OF DEATH Madelaine de Montalia #2

1855-8 : Saint-Germain tours Europe and England. He consolodates his presses in Amsterdam

A Question of Patronage

1859 : Saint-Germain visits his homeland

1874 : Saint-Germain settles in Lausanne, Switzerland, to work on improving fuels for railway trains and ships, using alchemy as well as chemistry.

1883 : Madelaine de Montalia orders repairs on Chateau de Montalia. As her cousin Bertrande she takes up residence at Monbussy-sur-Marne.

1889 : Saint-Germain goes to London.

1891 : Madelaine de Montalia and Saint-Germain meet at Montalia in April following the February death of Willian Tecumseh Sherman.

1891-2 : Madelaine de Montalia goes to Amsterdam then on to the Middle East for another archeological dig (the term archeology was coined in 1890).

1894 : Madelaine de Montalia goes to Copenhagen.

1897 : Saint-Germain goes to Saint Petersburg.

1900 : Saint-Germain establishes shipping businesses in Moscow, Saint Petersbug, and Kiev.

1903 : Saint-Germain visits Oslo, Stockholm, and London. Madelaine de Montalia joins an archeological dig in the Sudan.

The Spider Glass

1904 : Saint-Germain returns to Saint Petersburg. He expands his businesses to include fuel production and manufacturing. He meets and becomes involved with Countess Amalija Khormanskaya.

1906 : Saint-Germain establishes schools for his employees and their families. He also becomes a major patron of the arts and eventually the friend of Czar Nicholas Alexandreivich Romanov.

1910 : Madelaine de Montalia returns to Monbussy-sur-Marne.

WRIT IN BLOOD Saint-Germain #10

1912 : Saint-Germain returns to Saint Petersburg (Petrograd).

1917 : James Emmerson Tree leave America 10 May for England. Saint-Germain is imprisoned at Krasnoye Selo in November.

TEMPTING FATE Saint-Germain #5

1930 : Madelaine de Montalia to Rhodes, then on to Latin America.

1931 : Saint-Germain goes to Rome. He also establishes a part-time residence in Paris near Hotel Transylvania.

1932 : Madelaine de Montalia goes to Latin America

1933 : Saint-Germain visits his homeland and is almost shot as a spy.

1936-8 : Saint-Germain in USA, traveling to Chicago, San Francisco, and Napa Valley

MIDNIGHT HARVEST Saint-Germain #16

1938 : Madelaine de Montalia remains in Latin America until European conflict is resolved. Saint-Germain returns to Europe and takes up residence at Chateau de Montalia for the duration of World War II.

Renewal

1949 : Saint-Germain goes to London in September.

1951 : Saint-Germain and Madelaine de Montalia meet in Rome in November.

Art Songs

1953-8 : Madelaine de Montalia goes to Near East on a dig.

1954-8 : James Emmerson Tree goes to New Zealand to develop a new identity.

1961 : Saint-Germain opens two businesses in Milan.

1964 : James Emmerson Tree goes to Canada. He begins to write children’s adventure books as Emmerson James.

1968 : Saint-Germain goes to Ragusa in Jugoslavia to expand his businesses again.

1969 : James Emmerson Tree arrives in Hobart, Australia and settles into a new life. Becomes involved with a woman named Eina.

1970 : Saint-Germain leaves Europe for U. S. A.

Seat Partner

1971 : Saint-Germain purchases Lost Saints Lodge in Colorado.

Cabin 33

1979 : Saint-Germain leave U. S. A. bound for Paris and points east.

1981 : Saint-Germain visits his homeland, and again encounters trouble with the authorities.

1991-4 : Saint-Germain repurchases and restores his palace in Saint Petersburg. When it is finished, he turns it over to the Russian government to house an international studies center.

1993 : Madelaine de Montalia goes to north-western China for archeological studies.

1994 : James Emmerson Tree goes on a world tour, including China.

1996 : Saint-Germain returns to his homeland and begins to purchase land and buildings along the limits of his father's ancient proto-Etruscan kingdom.

1997 : Madelaine de Montalia returns to France from China to discover some history students want to reseach her family.

1998 : As part of his development agreements, Saint-Germain excavates huge amounts of Transylvanian earth and sends tons of it to his various holdings around the world, all without question. He builds two small but superior universities, one in sciences, one in humanities, and begins to staff them.