Timeline
1980
In September, Roger and Brianna find a box that has been deposited for their son Jemmy. It contains letters from Jamie and Claire, allowing their children to keep taking part in their lives in the past.
A vagabond who has been scaring the kids, turns out to be a visitor from the past: William Buccleigh MacKenzie, Geillis Duncan’s son and Roger’s grandfather five times removed, has traveled haplessly to the future.
It’s someone else who really threatens the family, though: Rob Cameron, a Jacobite fanatic, kidnaps Jemmy in order to get to the treasure he’s been reading about in Claire and Jamie’s letters. Assuming that Rob has taken Jemmy to the past, Roger and Buck hasten back through the stones on Craigh na Dun on All Hallows‘ Eve.
After Jemmy’s rescue and a dramatic showdown with Rob Cameron and his cronies, Brianna and the kids flee to the U.S. and to Claire’s best friend Joe Abernathy. Soon, though, Brianna decides that the safest place for the kids is the past. On the winter solstice she follows Roger into the eighteenth century.
1971
May 1: Brianna, who has found an antique newspaper clipping reporting the death of her parents in the eighteenth century, travels to the past to warn Claire and Jamie. She arrives in 1769. (Craigh na Dun).
Summer solstice: Roger, who has found the clipping as well, follows Brianna to the year 1769. (Craigh na Dun).
1968
Together with her adolescent daughter Brianna, Claire travels to Inverness in order to investigate the fates of a few survivors of Culloden. With the help of young historian Roger Wakefield / MacKenzie she finds out that Jamie survived the battle, too.
May 1: Gillian Edgars / Geillis Duncan travels to the past through the stones of Craigh na Dun to fight for the Stuart cause. She lands ca. 1733, about ten years earlier than intended. On the same night, her co-conspirator Kenneth follows her, but he ends up in 1743 – a few hours before Claire. He is killed shortly after his arrival.
November 1: Claire steps through the split stone of Craigh na Dun to find Jamie. She travels back to the year 1766.
November 1: A group of five activists (a.k.a. the Montauk Five) travels to the past through the stone circle on Ocracoke, meaning to prevent the genocide of the Native Americans. One of them, Richard Donner, ends up in 1766; his companion Jojo dies in the passage; a third man, Robert Springer (Otter Tooth), travels too far by decades.
1780
Brianna and Roger give Jamie a copy of Frank Randall's book, "The Soul of a Rebel." Jamie feels like Frank is speaking to him through the pages and directing him to his own demise.
Jamie, Claire and their militia set out for Kings Mountain with heavy hearts. Jamie is horribly wounded in the battle, but Claire refuses to let him go.
1779
In the spring the Frasers return to Fraser's Ridge, accompanied by Young Ian, Rachel, and Jenny. They bring their new charge Fanny with them.
Ian and Rachel have a healthy baby boy.
Roger, Brianna, Jemmy and Mandy return to the Ridge.
William goes looking for his cousin Benjamin and discover a possible new half-brother.
Young Ian learns of a massacre that might have affected his first wife Emily. Ian and his family (along with Jenny) journey to the Mohawk in search of answers.
On October 9, Roger is involved in a military confrontation outside Savannah.
William finds Ben and has to realized that his cousin faked his own death in order to disappear … and turn his coat.
1778
In the first week of January, they bury General Simon Fraser at Corrymony. Then they head for Lallybroch, where they find Jenny‘s husband, Ian, dying of consumption.
A letter begs Claire to come back to Philadelphia, and she leaves Jamie and Jenny at Lallybroch. In March, Ian dies. Jenny decides to travel with Jamie to the Colonies (book).
A. Bell, Printer, Edinburgh, publishes "Pocket Principles of Health" by C.E.B.R. Fraser, M.D..
A. Bell, Printer, Edinburgh, publishes "Grandfather Tales" by James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.
Family ties overcome military loyalties: William enters General Washington’s camp at Valley Forge in order to find help for his badly wounded step-cousin.
The ship that was supposed to carry Jamie to America sinks. Lord John persuades Claire to marry him so that he can protect her.
While the Loyalist troops prepare their departure from Philadelphia in late spring, Young Ian and his sworn enemy Arch Bug meet again under dramatic circumstances … as do Claire and Jamie (and Lord John) … and Jamie and William, who can no longer hide the fact that he looks just like his father.
On June 28 Jamie fights with generals Washington and Lee in the Battle of Monmouth. Claire is shot. A young French officer named La Fayette, who fights on the American side, contributes some of his homemade Roquefort cheese to her medical treatment.
Jamie resigns from service in the Continental army, and the family returns to Philadelphia.
In late summer, Young Ian marries Rachel. One morning Ian’s elderly wolf hound Rollo doesn’t wake up anymore.
Fergus and Marsali’s son Henri-Christian dies when their print shop burns down. The family decides to return to Fraser’s Ridge. They spend the winter in Savannah, where the British army catches up with them. Jamie’s son William needs to save a young prostitute for whom he feels responsible. He sees no other way but to ask his father for help.
1777
As the snow melts, Jamie and Claire leave Fraser’s Ridge for New Bern in order to find a ship for the passage to Scotland. Jamie wants to get his printing press from Edinburgh – the pen, not the sword is his weapon of choice in the coming conflict. Their ship is captured, and they end up in Fort Ticonderoga and are overrun by the battle as the Brits start their offensive from the north.
Jamie and Claire meet Benedict Arnold.
Jamie is injured during the Battle of Saratoga, and Claire has to amputate his finger. In the field camp, Young Ian has an eye-opening encounter with the young Quaker Rachel Hunter. Jamie and Claire are asked to take General Simon Fraser’s body home to Scotland.
December 20: In Edinburgh, Jamie finds his printing press, which Andrew Bell has kept for him for the past eleven years.
1776
January 21: The house on Fraser’s Ridge does not burn down as printed in the Wilmington Gazette.
At Moore’s Creek Bridge on February 27, Jamie and his militia fight their first battle for Independence of the American colonies.
April: Brianna gives birth to Amanda Claire Hope MacKenzie.
July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence is signed.
July: In Wilmington, Brianna and her family meet William Ransom, not knowing that he is Jamie’s son and Brianna’s half brother.
September 22: William witnesses the execution of Nathan Hale.
November 1: Brianna, Roger, Jemmy and Amanda use the stone circle on Ocracoke to return to the future – only there Amanda’s congenital heart defect can be healed.
December 21: The house on Fraser’s Ridge burns down on the wrong date. January 21 was a typing error in the Wilmington Gazette.
1775
Lord John finds Jamie’s name on the list of a Committee of Correspondence. In March, he warns him in a letter not to put himself and his family in danger.
April 18: Paul Revere's Ride [ LINK ]
In May the Second Continental Congress convenes.
Malva Christie, Claire’s medical assistant, who has become pregnant through incest, is murdered. Claire tries to save her unborn child with an emergency Cesarean but the baby does not survive.
Accused of murdering Malva, Claire becomes a prisoner of Governor Josiah Martin and witnesses the burning of Fort Johnston.
Brianna is abducted by Stephen Bonnet, the criminal who raped her. She is found and freed, and Bonnet is sentenced to death by drowning. During his search for Brianna, Roger has found a stone circle on the Island of Ocracoke.
1774
Jamie begins to organize and arm a militia in Fraser’s Ridge in order to be prepared for the coming unrest.
Roger’s seeks spiritual guidance in Charlotte so he can work towards being ordinated as a Presbyterian priest.
Ian shows Brianna the skeleton of a woolly mammoth that he has found and tells her about his failed marriage with Emily, his beloved Mohawk wife.
Malva Christie, daughter of Tom Christie, a Scottish settler in Fraser’s Ridge, shows great interest in Claire’s medical skills. Malva uses the knowledge Claire has taught her against Claire and infects her with a sickness that almost kills her.
The rebels get organized politically as well and develop a working state of their own. From early September until late October the First Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia.
1773
Claire is abducted and raped by a gang of outlaws. Jamie, Roger and Ian lead a search party and kill almost all of the kidnappers. This does not erase the trauma for Claire; she suffers from panic attacks even many years later.
In October Henri-Christian is born, Fergus‘ and Marsali’s fourth child. He is born dwarfed. Fergus is plagued by self-doubt and worry about the future of the child.
December 16, 1773:The Boston Tea Party takes place. [ LINK ]
1771
In March, Jocasta Cameron and Duncan Innes are wed.
In May, at the Battle of Alamance, Roger is hanged as a rebel on the testimony of Roger's ancestor Buck MacKenzie who is Dougal and Geillis son. He survives but loses his singing voice. Felicite Fraser is born to Fergus and Marsali.
In August, Josiah Martin takes office as governor of North Carolina.
1769
Brianna and Roger both go through the stones at Craigh na Dun (at different times). They both travel to the Colonies.
In September, Brianna and Roger meet up in Wilmington where they are handfast. Brianna is raped by Stephen Bonnet.
Jamie and Young Ian attack Roger, mistaking him for Brianna's rapist, and sell him to the Mohawk.
1767
John Grey becomes governor of Jamaica.
Jamie and Claire arrive in Jamaica in search of Young Ian.
Marsali and Fergus get married.
Young Ian is found on a plantation owned by Geillis Duncan. Claire kills Geillis, trying to prevent her from going after Brianna.
Jamie and Claire flee Jamaica and are swept ashore in Georgia by a storm.
Jamie, Claire and Young Ian make their way up the river to River Run. They are robbed by Stephen Bonnet.
Jamie accepts a land grant from Governor Tryon in exchange for his loyalty. They lay the foundations for Fraser's Ridge.
1746
January 17: Last Jacobite victory at Falkirk.
March: Mary Hawkins marries Jack Randall.
April 16: The Crown’s troops under William of Cumberland win the Rising’s last battle on the moor of Culloden near Inverness. After the bloodbath of Culloden they proceed with an ethnic cleansing of the Highlands. Jamie and Claire consider killing Charles Stuart and are overheard by Dougal. Dougal attempts to kill Claire and in the resulting struggle, Jamie kills Dougal.
April 16: Since Claire is pregnant and Jamie fervently wishes the child to survive, he sends her back through the stones and into the future. Badly wounded, he survives the Battle of Culloden and returns home to Lallybroch.
August 1: The Dress Act 1746 came into force which made the wearing of "the Highland Dress" including tartan or a kilt illegal in Scotland as well as reiterating the Disarming Act of 1716.
John Grey loses his lover Hector Dalrymple in the Battle of Culloden.
During the first seven years after the battle, Jamie lives hidden in a cave on his own land.
1745
In January, Harold Melton (Lord John Grey's brother) marries Minnie Rennie in Amsterdam.
In late Summer, Jamie receives a letter from Charles Stuart, who official staked his claim to the throne and has signed Jamie's name as one of his supporters.
In August, Charles Stuart arrives in Eriskay before going to Glenfinnan.
On September 17, the Jacobites take Edinburgh.
September 20, 1745: On the eve of the Battle of Prestonpans, Jamie gets important information from a young English scout named John William Grey.
September 21, 1745: Jacobite's win battle of Prestonpans.
In December the Jacobites take Derby, only one hundred miles from the gates of London, but retreat North.
1744
In January, Geillis Duncan gives birth to Dougal MacKenzie's son William Buccleigh MacKenzie.
While in Paris, Jamie and Claire conspire against Charles Stuart in an attempt to prevent the Jacobite Rising of 1745/46. Jamie meets a young English bookseller/spy named Minnie Rennie.
May 12: Faith Fraser is stillborn.
Fall: Jamie and Claire return to Lallybroch believing they have stopped the Rising.
1743
May 2: Claire wakes up in the stone circle at Craigh na Dun, having traveled back in teim from May 2, 1946.
Jamie returns to Scotland in hopes of clearing his name. He meets Claire, whom he marries a few weeks later.
In October, Claire is accused of witchcraft along side Geillis Duncan. Jamie rescues her. Claire tells Jamie she's from the future. The two go to Lallybroch.
Later, Jamie is betrayed and delivered to Jack Randall. Claire, Angus, and Rupert save him from Wentworth Prison.
Jamie and Claire flee to France.
1741
Jenny Fraser marries Ian Murray. Their son James Fraser Murray is born.
Jamie meets Captain Jack Randall. He is arrested and sentenced for obstruction. Brian Fraser suffers a stroke at Fort William and dies after watching Jamie being flogged. Jamie flees to France and spends time as a mercenary.
1739
Jamie lives in Paris.
In November, Roger and Buck MacKenzie arrive in the past in search of Jemmy who was kidnapped by Rob Cameron. They run into Brian Fraser, Dougal MacKenzie, Jack Randall (books) and Geillis Duncan (show). They find Jerry MacKenzie, Roger's father who went missing during WWII, and send him back through the stones.
1715
The Jacobite rising of 1715 was the attempt by James Francis Edward Stuart to regain the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland.
1841
Dr. Hector MacEwen from Edinburgh disappears without a trace during a hunting trip in the Highlands...
1782
Midsummer: William Buccleigh MacKenzie, son of the witch Geillis Duncan, ambles into the stone circle on Craigh na Dun … and disappears.
1778
In the first week of January, they bury General Simon Fraser at Corrymony. Then they head for Lallybroch, where they find Jenny‘s husband, Ian, dying of consumption.
A letter begs Claire to come back to Philadelphia, and she leaves Jamie and Jenny at Lallybroch. In March, Ian dies. Jenny decides to travel with Jamie to the Colonies (book).
A. Bell, Printer, Edinburgh, publishes "Pocket Principles of Health" by C.E.B.R. Fraser, M.D..
A. Bell, Printer, Edinburgh, publishes "Grandfather Tales" by James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.
Family ties overcome military loyalties: William enters General Washington’s camp at Valley Forge in order to find help for his badly wounded step-cousin.
The ship that was supposed to carry Jamie to America sinks. Lord John persuades Claire to marry him so that he can protect her.
While the Loyalist troops prepare their departure from Philadelphia in late spring, Young Ian and his sworn enemy Arch Bug meet again under dramatic circumstances … as do Claire and Jamie (and Lord John) … and Jamie and William, who can no longer hide the fact that he looks just like his father.
On June 28 Jamie fights with generals Washington and Lee in the Battle of Monmouth. Claire is shot. A young French officer named La Fayette, who fights on the American side, contributes some of his homemade Roquefort cheese to her medical treatment.
Jamie resigns from service in the Continental army, and the family returns to Philadelphia.
In late summer, Young Ian marries Rachel. One morning Ian’s elderly wolf hound Rollo doesn’t wake up anymore.
Fergus and Marsali’s son Henri-Christian dies when their print shop burns down. The family decides to return to Fraser’s Ridge. They spend the winter in Savannah, where the British army catches up with them. Jamie’s son William needs to save a young prostitute for whom he feels responsible. He sees no other way but to ask his father for help.
1777
As the snow melts, Jamie and Claire leave Fraser’s Ridge for New Bern in order to find a ship for the passage to Scotland. Jamie wants to get his printing press from Edinburgh – the pen, not the sword is his weapon of choice in the coming conflict. Their ship is captured, and they end up in Fort Ticonderoga and are overrun by the battle as the Brits start their offensive from the north.
Jamie and Claire meet Benedict Arnold.
Jamie is injured during the Battle of Saratoga, and Claire has to amputate his finger. In the field camp, Young Ian has an eye-opening encounter with the young Quaker Rachel Hunter. Jamie and Claire are asked to take General Simon Fraser’s body home to Scotland.
December 20: In Edinburgh, Jamie finds his printing press, which Andrew Bell has kept for him for the past eleven years.
1776
January 21: The house on Fraser’s Ridge does not burn down as printed in the Wilmington Gazette.
At Moore’s Creek Bridge on February 27, Jamie and his militia fight their first battle for Independence of the American colonies.
April: Brianna gives birth to Amanda Claire Hope MacKenzie.
July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence is signed.
July: In Wilmington, Brianna and her family meet William Ransom, not knowing that he is Jamie’s son and Brianna’s half brother.
September 22: William witnesses the execution of Nathan Hale.
November 1: Brianna, Roger, Jemmy and Amanda use the stone circle on Ocracoke to return to the future – only there Amanda’s congenital heart defect can be healed.
December 21: The house on Fraser’s Ridge burns down on the wrong date. January 21 was a typing error in the Wilmington Gazette.
1775
Lord John finds Jamie’s name on the list of a Committee of Correspondence. In March, he warns him in a letter not to put himself and his family in danger.
April 18: Paul Revere's Ride [ LINK ]
In May the Second Continental Congress convenes.
Malva Christie, Claire’s medical assistant, who has become pregnant through incest, is murdered. Claire tries to save her unborn child with an emergency Cesarean but the baby does not survive.
Accused of murdering Malva, Claire becomes a prisoner of Governor Josiah Martin and witnesses the burning of Fort Johnston.
Brianna is abducted by Stephen Bonnet, the criminal who raped her. She is found and freed, and Bonnet is sentenced to death by drowning. During his search for Brianna, Roger has found a stone circle on the Island of Ocracoke.
1774
Jamie begins to organize and arm a militia in Fraser’s Ridge in order to be prepared for the coming unrest.
Roger’s seeks spiritual guidance in Charlotte so he can work towards being ordinated as a Presbyterian priest.
Ian shows Brianna the skeleton of a woolly mammoth that he has found and tells her about his failed marriage with Emily, his beloved Mohawk wife.
Malva Christie, daughter of Tom Christie, a Scottish settler in Fraser’s Ridge, shows great interest in Claire’s medical skills. Malva uses the knowledge Claire has taught her against Claire and infects her with a sickness that almost kills her.
The rebels get organized politically as well and develop a working state of their own. From early September until late October the First Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia.
1773
Claire is abducted and raped by a gang of outlaws. Jamie, Roger and Ian lead a search party and kill almost all of the kidnappers. This does not erase the trauma for Claire; she suffers from panic attacks even many years later.
In October Henri-Christian is born, Fergus‘ and Marsali’s fourth child. He is born dwarfed. Fergus is plagued by self-doubt and worry about the future of the child.
December 16, 1773:The Boston Tea Party takes place. [ LINK ]
1772
In May, while hunting in the nearby woods, Jamie is bitten by a poisonous snake. He manages to survive the venom but nearly succumbs to the infection of the wound.
In October, Young Ian appears on the Ridge. He has returned from the Mohawk and seems much changed.
1771
In March, Jocasta Cameron and Duncan Innes are wed.
In May, at the Battle of Alamance, Roger is hanged as a rebel on the testimony of Roger's ancestor Buck MacKenzie who is Dougal and Geillis son. He survives but loses his singing voice. Felicite Fraser is born to Fergus and Marsali.
In August, Josiah Martin takes office as governor of North Carolina.
1770
In February, Young Ian is adopted by the Mohawk to free Roger.
In May, Jeremiah Alexander Ian Fraser MacKenzie is born.
In October, Brianna and Roger get married.
1769
Brianna and Roger both go through the stones at Craigh na Dun (at different times). They both travel to the Colonies.
In September, Brianna and Roger meet up in Wilmington where they are handfast. Brianna is raped by Stephen Bonnet.
Jamie and Young Ian attack Roger, mistaking him for Brianna's rapist, and sell him to the Mohawk.
1767
John Grey becomes governor of Jamaica.
Jamie and Claire arrive in Jamaica in search of Young Ian.
Marsali and Fergus get married.
Young Ian is found on a plantation owned by Geillis Duncan. Claire kills Geillis, trying to prevent her from going after Brianna.
Jamie and Claire flee Jamaica and are swept ashore in Georgia by a storm.
Jamie, Claire and Young Ian make their way up the river to River Run. They are robbed by Stephen Bonnet.
Jamie accepts a land grant from Governor Tryon in exchange for his loyalty. They lay the foundations for Fraser's Ridge.
1766
November 1: Coming from 1968, Claire comes back in time to find Jamie.
November 1: Coming from 1968, Richard Donnor arrives in the stone circle on Ocracoke.
Young Ian is abducted by pirates. Jamie, Claire, Fergus and Marsali set sale in search of Young Ian.
1765
In January, Jamie marries Laoghaire, but a short time later moves to Edinburgh and opens a print shop.
In July, William Tryon becomes governor of North Carolina.
1764
Jamie receives his parole. He leaves Helwater and goes home to Lallybroch leaving Willie in Lord John and Isobel Dunsany's hands.
1760
With the help of Jamie Fraser, who still lives at Helwater, Lord John prevents another Jacobite rising.
1758
January 9: William "Willie" Clarence Henry George Ransom, the nineth Earl of Ellesmere, is born. The eighth Earl of Ellesmere dies. Geneva Dunsany dies after giving birth.
1756
The Seven Years' War Begins. Ardsmuir Prison closes; the prisoners are deported to the Colonies. Lord John pulls strings to have Jamie serve his sentence as a paroled prisoner on the Helwater estate in the Lake District.
1755
John Grey becomes Governor of Ardsmuir.
1753
Jamie is imprisoned at Ardsmuir.
1752
November 15: Ian Fraser Murray (Young Ian) is born.
1746
January 17: Last Jacobite victory at Falkirk.
March: Mary Hawkins marries Jack Randall.
April 16: The Crown’s troops under William of Cumberland win the Rising’s last battle on the moor of Culloden near Inverness. After the bloodbath of Culloden they proceed with an ethnic cleansing of the Highlands. Jamie and Claire consider killing Charles Stuart and are overheard by Dougal. Dougal attempts to kill Claire and in the resulting struggle, Jamie kills Dougal.
April 16: Since Claire is pregnant and Jamie fervently wishes the child to survive, he sends her back through the stones and into the future. Badly wounded, he survives the Battle of Culloden and returns home to Lallybroch.
August 1: The Dress Act 1746 came into force which made the wearing of "the Highland Dress" including tartan or a kilt illegal in Scotland as well as reiterating the Disarming Act of 1716.
John Grey loses his lover Hector Dalrymple in the Battle of Culloden.
During the first seven years after the battle, Jamie lives hidden in a cave on his own land.
1745
In January, Harold Melton (Lord John Grey's brother) marries Minnie Rennie in Amsterdam.
In late Summer, Jamie receives a letter from Charles Stuart, who official staked his claim to the throne and has signed Jamie's name as one of his supporters.
In August, Charles Stuart arrives in Eriskay before going to Glenfinnan.
On September 17, the Jacobites take Edinburgh.
September 20, 1745: On the eve of the Battle of Prestonpans, Jamie gets important information from a young English scout named John William Grey.
September 21, 1745: Jacobite's win battle of Prestonpans.
In December the Jacobites take Derby, only one hundred miles from the gates of London, but retreat North.
1744
In January, Geillis Duncan gives birth to Dougal MacKenzie's son William Buccleigh MacKenzie.
While in Paris, Jamie and Claire conspire against Charles Stuart in an attempt to prevent the Jacobite Rising of 1745/46. Jamie meets a young English bookseller/spy named Minnie Rennie.
May 12: Faith Fraser is stillborn.
Fall: Jamie and Claire return to Lallybroch believing they have stopped the Rising.
1743
May 2: Claire wakes up in the stone circle at Craigh na Dun, having traveled back in teim from May 2, 1946.
Jamie returns to Scotland in hopes of clearing his name. He meets Claire, whom he marries a few weeks later.
In October, Claire is accused of witchcraft along side Geillis Duncan. Jamie rescues her. Claire tells Jamie she's from the future. The two go to Lallybroch.
Later, Jamie is betrayed and delivered to Jack Randall. Claire, Angus, and Rupert save him from Wentworth Prison.
Jamie and Claire flee to France.
1741
Jenny Fraser marries Ian Murray. Their son James Fraser Murray is born.
Jamie meets Captain Jack Randall. He is arrested and sentenced for obstruction. Brian Fraser suffers a stroke at Fort William and dies after watching Jamie being flogged. Jamie flees to France and spends time as a mercenary.
1740
Brianna, Jemmy, and Mandy arrive in the past to find Roger who is in the "wrong time". They find him at Lallybroch. Roger and Brianna decide to take a ship to America, use the stones at Okracoke to return to Jamie and Claire in 1779.
1739
Jamie lives in Paris.
In November, Roger and Buck MacKenzie arrive in the past in search of Jemmy who was kidnapped by Rob Cameron. They run into Brian Fraser, Dougal MacKenzie, Jack Randall (books) and Geillis Duncan (show). They find Jerry MacKenzie, Roger's father who went missing during WWII, and send him back through the stones.
1735
Jamie fosters with Dougal MacKenzie's family at the age of 14 for a few months.
1733
Gillian Edgars (Geillis Duncan) arrives in the past to fight for the '45 Jacobite Rising, but arrives 10 years too early. She came from 1968.
1729
Lord John Grey is born.
Ellen Fraser dies giving birth to her fourth child.
1727
Jamie's brother, Willie, dies of smallpox.
1721
May 1: James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser is born.
1716
November 1: The Disarming Act was enacted to curtail Jacobitism among the Scottish Clans in the Highlands after the 1715 Rising. The new law outlawed the custody, use, or bear of broad sword, poignard, whinger, durk, side pistol, gun, or other warlike weapons.
1715
The Jacobite rising of 1715 was the attempt by James Francis Edward Stuart to regain the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland.
1702
Lallybroch is built. In Chapter 34 of Drums of Autumn it says 1716, the year Brian and Ellen move in, and their oldest son William is born.
1695
Ellen Caitriona MacKenzie Fraser (Jamie's mother) is born. She is the oldest child of "Red Jacob" MacKenzie. Her siblings are Colum, Dougal, Jocasta, Flora and Janet.
1692
Brian Fraser (Jamie's father) is born. He is the illegitimate son of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat "The Old Fox" and his maid Davina Porter.
1980
In September, Roger and Brianna find a box that has been deposited for their son Jemmy. It contains letters from Jamie and Claire, allowing their children to keep taking part in their lives in the past.
A vagabond who has been scaring the kids, turns out to be a visitor from the past: William Buccleigh MacKenzie, Geillis Duncan’s son and Roger’s grandfather five times removed, has traveled haplessly to the future.
It’s someone else who really threatens the family, though: Rob Cameron, a Jacobite fanatic, kidnaps Jemmy in order to get to the treasure he’s been reading about in Claire and Jamie’s letters. Assuming that Rob has taken Jemmy to the past, Roger and Buck hasten back through the stones on Craigh na Dun on All Hallows‘ Eve.
After Jemmy’s rescue and a dramatic showdown with Rob Cameron and his cronies, Brianna and the kids flee to the U.S. and to Claire’s best friend Joe Abernathy. Soon, though, Brianna decides that the safest place for the kids is the past. On the winter solstice she follows Roger into the eighteenth century.
1979
With the help of Claire's old friend Joe Abernathy; Brianna, Roger, and the kids find their footing in the 20th century. They buy Lallybroch and settle down.
1978
Since their daughter Amanda has a congenital heart defect that could not be treated in the 18th century, Brianna and Roger had to leave Fraser’s Ridge and head back to the future. Coming from 1776, they land at Ocracoke on November 1.
1977
The first Star Wars movie opens in U.S. theaters. Brianna and Roger’s son Jemmy later becomes a huge fan of its young hero Luke Skywalker.
1971
May 1: Brianna, who has found an antique newspaper clipping reporting the death of her parents in the eighteenth century, travels to the past to warn Claire and Jamie. She arrives in 1769. (Craigh na Dun).
Summer solstice: Roger, who has found the clipping as well, follows Brianna to the year 1769. (Craigh na Dun).
1969
On July 20 Brianna and Roger watch the first Moon landing on TV in Boston.
1968
Together with her adolescent daughter Brianna, Claire travels to Inverness in order to investigate the fates of a few survivors of Culloden. With the help of young historian Roger Wakefield / MacKenzie she finds out that Jamie survived the battle, too.
May 1: Gillian Edgars / Geillis Duncan travels to the past through the stones of Craigh na Dun to fight for the Stuart cause. She lands ca. 1733, about ten years earlier than intended. On the same night, her co-conspirator Kenneth follows her, but he ends up in 1743 – a few hours before Claire. He is killed shortly after his arrival.
November 1: Claire steps through the split stone of Craigh na Dun to find Jamie. She travels back to the year 1766.
November 1: A group of five activists (a.k.a. the Montauk Five) travels to the past through the stone circle on Ocracoke, meaning to prevent the genocide of the Native Americans. One of them, Richard Donner, ends up in 1766; his companion Jojo dies in the passage; a third man, Robert Springer (Otter Tooth), travels too far by decades.
January 1966
Frank dies in a car crash.
1957
Claire starts medical school in Boston.
1948
In April Claire reappears in Inverness under mysterious circumstances. She is two months pregnant.
Frank and Claire move to Boston. In November she gives Birth to Brianna Ellen Randall.
1946
On May 2, the day after the Beltane feast, Claire, who is spending her second honeymoon with Frank in the Scottish Highlands, steps into a split menhir in a stone circle on the hill Craigh na Dun near Inverness … and disappears.
1945
May 8: The German capitulation ends WWII in Europe.
September 2: The Japanese capitulate after the nuclear bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. World War II is over.
1943
On March 3, there is a mass panic inside the London Tube station Bethnal Green, which serves as an air raid shelter. Many people are crushed or trampled to death, Roger’s parents among them.
Roger survives; he is adopted by Reverend Wakefield in Inverness.
1941
Roger MacKenzie is born. Roger's father Jeremiah "Jerry" MacKenzie goes MIA.
1939
On September 1, WWII begins with the German attack on Poland.
Claire becomes a field nurse. Frank works for the British secret service.
1937
Claire marries Frank Randall.
1923
Claire's parents die in a car crash. She spends her childhood and adolescence traveling with her uncle Lambert, an archaeologist.
1918
On October 18, Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp is born.
On November 11, the First World War ends.
1906
Frank Wolverton Randall is born.
1782
Midsummer: William Buccleigh MacKenzie, son of the witch Geillis Duncan, ambles into the stone circle on Craigh na Dun … and disappears.
1781
William enlists Jamie's help when Lord John is kidnapped.
1780
Brianna and Roger give Jamie a copy of Frank Randall's book, "The Soul of a Rebel." Jamie feels like Frank is speaking to him through the pages and directing him to his own demise.
Jamie, Claire and their militia set out for Kings Mountain with heavy hearts. Jamie is horribly wounded in the battle, but Claire refuses to let him go.
1779
In the spring the Frasers return to Fraser's Ridge, accompanied by Young Ian, Rachel, and Jenny. They bring their new charge Fanny with them.
Ian and Rachel have a healthy baby boy.
Roger, Brianna, Jemmy and Mandy return to the Ridge.
William goes looking for his cousin Benjamin and discover a possible new half-brother.
Young Ian learns of a massacre that might have affected his first wife Emily. Ian and his family (along with Jenny) journey to the Mohawk in search of answers.
On October 9, Roger is involved in a military confrontation outside Savannah.
William finds Ben and has to realized that his cousin faked his own death in order to disappear … and turn his coat.
1778
In the first week of January, they bury General Simon Fraser at Corrymony. Then they head for Lallybroch, where they find Jenny‘s husband, Ian, dying of consumption.
A letter begs Claire to come back to Philadelphia, and she leaves Jamie and Jenny at Lallybroch. In March, Ian dies. Jenny decides to travel with Jamie to the Colonies (book).
A. Bell, Printer, Edinburgh, publishes "Pocket Principles of Health" by C.E.B.R. Fraser, M.D..
A. Bell, Printer, Edinburgh, publishes "Grandfather Tales" by James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.
Family ties overcome military loyalties: William enters General Washington’s camp at Valley Forge in order to find help for his badly wounded step-cousin.
The ship that was supposed to carry Jamie to America sinks. Lord John persuades Claire to marry him so that he can protect her.
While the Loyalist troops prepare their departure from Philadelphia in late spring, Young Ian and his sworn enemy Arch Bug meet again under dramatic circumstances … as do Claire and Jamie (and Lord John) … and Jamie and William, who can no longer hide the fact that he looks just like his father.
On June 28 Jamie fights with generals Washington and Lee in the Battle of Monmouth. Claire is shot. A young French officer named La Fayette, who fights on the American side, contributes some of his homemade Roquefort cheese to her medical treatment.
Jamie resigns from service in the Continental army, and the family returns to Philadelphia.
In late summer, Young Ian marries Rachel. One morning Ian’s elderly wolf hound Rollo doesn’t wake up anymore.
Fergus and Marsali’s son Henri-Christian dies when their print shop burns down. The family decides to return to Fraser’s Ridge. They spend the winter in Savannah, where the British army catches up with them. Jamie’s son William needs to save a young prostitute for whom he feels responsible. He sees no other way but to ask his father for help.
1777
As the snow melts, Jamie and Claire leave Fraser’s Ridge for New Bern in order to find a ship for the passage to Scotland. Jamie wants to get his printing press from Edinburgh – the pen, not the sword is his weapon of choice in the coming conflict. Their ship is captured, and they end up in Fort Ticonderoga and are overrun by the battle as the Brits start their offensive from the north.
Jamie and Claire meet Benedict Arnold.
Jamie is injured during the Battle of Saratoga, and Claire has to amputate his finger. In the field camp, Young Ian has an eye-opening encounter with the young Quaker Rachel Hunter. Jamie and Claire are asked to take General Simon Fraser’s body home to Scotland.
December 20: In Edinburgh, Jamie finds his printing press, which Andrew Bell has kept for him for the past eleven years.
1776
January 21: The house on Fraser’s Ridge does not burn down as printed in the Wilmington Gazette.
At Moore’s Creek Bridge on February 27, Jamie and his militia fight their first battle for Independence of the American colonies.
April: Brianna gives birth to Amanda Claire Hope MacKenzie.
July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence is signed.
July: In Wilmington, Brianna and her family meet William Ransom, not knowing that he is Jamie’s son and Brianna’s half brother.September 22: William witnesses the execution of Nathan Hale.
November 1: Brianna, Roger, Jemmy and Amanda use the stone circle on Ocracoke to return to the future – only there Amanda’s congenital heart defect can be healed.
December 21: The house on Fraser’s Ridge burns down on the „wrong“ date. January 21 was a typing error in the Wilmington Gazette.
1775
Lord John finds Jamie’s name on the list of a Committee of Correspondence. In March, he warns him in a letter not to put himself and his family in danger.
April 18: Paul Revere's Ride [ LINK ]
In May the Second Continental Congress convenes.
Malva Christie, Claire’s medical assistant, who has become pregnant through incest, is murdered. Claire tries to save her unborn child with an emergency Cesarean but the baby does not survive.
Accused of murdering Malva, Claire becomes a prisoner of Governor Josiah Martin and witnesses the burning of Fort Johnston.
Brianna is abducted by Stephen Bonnet, the criminal who raped her. She is found and freed, and Bonnet is sentenced to death by drowning. During his search for Brianna, Roger has found a stone circle on the Island of Ocracoke.
1774
Jamie begins to organize and arm a militia in Fraser’s Ridge in order to be prepared for the coming unrest.
Roger’s seeks spiritual guidance in Charlotte so he can work towards being ordinated as a Presbyterian priest.
Ian shows Brianna the skeleton of a woolly mammoth that he has found and tells her about his failed marriage with Emily, his beloved Mohawk wife.
Malva Christie, daughter of Tom Christie, a Scottish settler in Fraser’s Ridge, shows great interest in Claire’s medical skills. Malva uses the knowledge Claire has taught her against Claire and infects her with a sickness that almost kills her.
The rebels get organized politically as well and develop a working state of their own. From early September until late October the First Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia.
1773
Claire is abducted and raped by a gang of outlaws. Jamie, Roger and Ian lead a search party and kill almost all of the kidnappers. This does not erase the trauma for Claire; she suffers from panic attacks even many years later.
In October Henri-Christian is born, Fergus‘ and Marsali’s fourth child. He is born dwarfed. Fergus is plagued by self-doubt and worry about the future of the child.
December 16, 1773:The Boston Tea Party takes place. [ LINK ]
1772
In May, while hunting in the nearby woods, Jamie is bitten by a poisonous snake. He manages to survive the venom but nearly succumbs to the infection of the wound.
In October, Young Ian appears on the Ridge. He has returned from the Mohawk and seems much changed.
1771
In March, Jocasta Cameron and Duncan Innes are wed.
In May, at the Battle of Alamance, Roger is hanged as a rebel on the testimony of Roger's ancestor Buck MacKenzie who is Dougal and Geillis son. He survives but loses his singing voice. Felicite Fraser is born to Fergus and Marsali.
In August, Josiah Martin takes office as governor of North Carolina.
1770
In February, Young Ian is adopted by the Mohawk to free Roger.
In May, Jeremiah Alexander Ian Fraser MacKenzie is born.
In October, Brianna and Roger get married.
1769
Brianna and Roger both go through the stones at Craigh na Dun (at different times). They both travel to the Colonies.
In September, Brianna and Roger meet up in Wilmington where they are handfast. Brianna is raped by Stephen Bonnet.
Jamie and Young Ian attack Roger, mistaking him for Brianna's rapist, and sell him to the Mohawk.
1767
John Grey becomes governor of Jamaica.
Jamie and Claire arrive in Jamaica in search of Young Ian.
Marsali and Fergus get married.
Young Ian is found on a plantation owned by Geillis Duncan. Claire kills Geillis, trying to prevent her from going after Brianna.
Jamie and Claire flee Jamaica and are swept ashore in Georgia by a storm.
Jamie, Claire and Young Ian make their way up the river to River Run. They are robbed by Stephen Bonnet.
Jamie accepts a land grant from Governor Tryon in exchange for his loyalty. They lay the foundations for Fraser's Ridge.
1766
November 1: Coming from 1968, Claire comes back in time to find Jamie.
November 1: Coming from 1968, Richard Donnor arrives in the stone circle on Ocracoke.
Young Ian is abducted by pirates. Jamie, Claire, Fergus and Marsali set sale in search of Young Ian.
1765
In January, Jamie marries Laoghaire, but a short time later moves to Edinburgh and opens a print shop.
In July, William Tryon becomes governor of North Carolina.
1764
Jamie receives his parole. He leaves Helwater and goes home to Lallybroch leaving Willie in Lord John and Isobel Dunsany's hands.
1760
With the help of Jamie Fraser, who still lives at Helwater, Lord John prevents another Jacobite rising.
1758
January 9: William "Willie" Clarence Henry George Ransom, the nineth Earl of Ellesmere, is born. The eighth Earl of Ellesmere dies. Geneva Dunsany dies after giving birth.
1756
The Seven Years' War Begins. Ardsmuir Prison closes; the prisoners are deported to the Colonies. Lord John pulls strings to have Jamie serve his sentence as a paroled prisoner on the Helwater estate in the Lake District.
1755
John Grey becomes Governor of Ardsmuir.
1753
Jamie is imprisoned at Ardsmuir.
1752
November 15: Ian Fraser Murray (Young Ian) is born.
1746
January 17: Last Jacobite victory at Falkirk.
March: Mary Hawkins marries Jack Randall.
April 16: The Crown’s troops under William of Cumberland win the Rising’s last battle on the moor of Culloden near Inverness. After the bloodbath of Culloden they proceed with an ethnic cleansing of the Highlands. Jamie and Claire consider killing Charles Stuart and are overheard by Dougal. Dougal attempts to kill Claire and in the resulting struggle, Jamie kills Dougal.
April 16: Since Claire is pregnant and Jamie fervently wishes the child to survive, he sends her back through the stones and into the future. Badly wounded, he survives the Battle of Culloden and returns home to Lallybroch.
August 1: The Dress Act 1746 came into force which made the wearing of "the Highland Dress" including tartan or a kilt illegal in Scotland as well as reiterating the Disarming Act of 1716.
John Grey loses his lover Hector Dalrymple in the Battle of Culloden.
During the first seven years after the battle, Jamie lives hidden in a cave on his own land.
1745
In January, Harold Melton (Lord John Grey's brother) marries Minnie Rennie in Amsterdam.
In late Summer, Jamie receives a letter from Charles Stuart, who official staked his claim to the throne and has signed Jamie's name as one of his supporters.
In August, Charles Stuart arrives in Eriskay before going to Glenfinnan.
On September 17, the Jacobites take Edinburgh.
September 20, 1745: On the eve of the Battle of Prestonpans, Jamie gets important information from a young English scout named John William Grey.
September 21, 1745: Jacobite's win battle of Prestonpans.
In December the Jacobites take Derby, only one hundred miles from the gates of London, but retreat North.
1744
In January, Geillis Duncan gives birth to Dougal MacKenzie's son William Buccleigh MacKenzie.
While in Paris, Jamie and Claire conspire against Charles Stuart in an attempt to prevent the Jacobite Rising of 1745/46. Jamie meets a young English bookseller/spy named Minnie Rennie.
May 12: Faith Fraser is stillborn.
Fall: Jamie and Claire return to Lallybroch believing they have stopped the Rising.
1743
May 2: Claire wakes up in the stone circle at Craigh na Dun, having traveled back in teim from May 2, 1946.
Jamie returns to Scotland in hopes of clearing his name. He meets Claire, whom he marries a few weeks later.
In October, Claire is accused of witchcraft along side Geillis Duncan. Jamie rescues her. Claire tells Jamie she's from the future. The two go to Lallybroch.
Later, Jamie is betrayed and delivered to Jack Randall. Claire, Angus, and Rupert save him from Wentworth Prison.
Jamie and Claire flee to France.
1741
Jenny Fraser marries Ian Murray. Their son James Fraser Murray is born.
Jamie meets Captain Jack Randall. He is arrested and sentenced for obstruction. Brian Fraser suffers a stroke at Fort William and dies after watching Jamie being flogged. Jamie flees to France and spends time as a mercenary.
1740
Brianna, Jemmy, and Mandy arrive in the past to find Roger who is in the "wrong time". They find him at Lallybroch. Roger and Brianna decide to take a ship to America, use the stones at Okracoke to return to Jamie and Claire in 1779.
1739
Jamie lives in Paris.
In November, Roger and Buck MacKenzie arrive in the past in search of Jemmy who was kidnapped by Rob Cameron. They run into Brian Fraser, Dougal MacKenzie, Jack Randall (books) and Geillis Duncan (show). They find Jerry MacKenzie, Roger's father who went missing during WWII, and send him back through the stones.
1735
Jamie fosters with Dougal MacKenzie's family at the age of 14 for a few months.
1733
Gillian Edgars (Geillis Duncan) arrives in the past to fight for the '45 Jacobite Rising, but arrives 10 years too early. She came from 1968.
1729
Lord John Grey is born.
Ellen Fraser dies giving birth to her fourth child.
1727
Jamie's brother, Willie, dies of smallpox.
1721
May 1: James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser is born.
1716
November 1: The Disarming Act was enacted to curtail Jacobitism among the Scottish Clans in the Highlands after the 1715 Rising. The new law outlawed the custody, use, or bear of broad sword, poignard, whinger, durk, side pistol, gun, or other warlike weapons.
1715
The Jacobite rising of 1715 was the attempt by James Francis Edward Stuart to regain the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland.
1702
Lallybroch is built. In Chapter 34 of Drums of Autumn it says 1716, the year Brian and Ellen move in, and their oldest son William is born.
1695
Ellen Caitriona MacKenzie Fraser (Jamie's mother) is born. She is the oldest child of "Red Jacob" MacKenzie. Her siblings are Colum, Dougal, Jocasta, Flora and Janet.
1692
Brian Fraser (Jamie's father) is born. He is the illegitimate son of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat "The Old Fox" and his maid Davina Porter.
Summer Solstice 1971
Roger discovers Brianna traveled back in time and follows. He ends up in 1769 also.
May 1, 1971
Brianna travels back in time to warn Jamie and Claire about a newspaper article she found which reports their deaths in a fire. She arrives in 1769.
July 20, 1969
Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.
November 1, 1968
A group called the Montauk Five travels to the past rhough the stones circle on Ocracoke, meaning to prevent the genocide of the Native Americans. Donner ends up in 1766; his companion Jojo dies in the passage and a third man Robert Springer (Otter Tooth) travels too far by decades.
November 1, 1968
Claire steps through the stones again in an attempt to return to Jamie at Brianna's urging. She appears in 1766.
May 1, 1968
Gillian Edgars (Geillis Duncan) murders her husband as a sacrifice to travel through the stones at Craigh na Dun. She lands in 1733. Kenneth, her co-conspirer, followers her later the same night and appears in 1743 only hours before Claire.
1968
Claire and Brinna travel to Inverness and pay their respects to Roger Wakefield over the death of his father Reverend Wakefield. Claire asks Roger to look into some survivors of Culloden.
January 1966
Frank dies in a car crash.
1957
Claire starts medical school in Boston.
November 23, 1948
Brianna Ellen Randall is born.
Mid-1948
Frank and Claire move to Boston, Massachuettes.
Mid-April 1948
Claire returns to the 20th century two months pregnant.
May 2, 1946
The day after the Beltane, Claire goes up to the standing stones to find a flower and travels back in time 200 years.
May 1, 1946
Frank and Claire go up to the standing stones Craigh na Dun and watch local woman dance around the stones in what seems to be some sort of ritual.
September 2, 1945
Japanese capitulate after the nuclear bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. WWII is over.
May 8, 1945
WWII ends in Europe.
March 3, 1943
The crush at London's Bethnal Green tube station results in the death of Roger's mother. Rev. Wakefield, his great uncle, adopts him in Inverness.
1941
Roger MacKenzie is born. His father Jeremiah goes MIA.
1939
Claire becomes a field nurse. Frank works for the British secret service.
September 1, 1939
WWII begins with the German attack on Poland.
1937
Claire marries Frank Randall.
1923-1937
Claire spends her childhood and adolesecence traveling with her Uncle Lamb, a archaelogist.
1923
Claire's parents die in a car crash.
November 11, 1918
WWI ends.
October 20, 1918
Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp is born.
1906
Frank Randall is born.