Vampire: The Masquerade Timeline

 

Below is the timeline for Vampire: The Masquerade that has been updated into the Modern Nights, This is part of my attempt in keeping a lot of the relevant information in one place. 

1022

• Tremere and his inner circle become Vampires

1204

• The Crusaders sack the city of Constantinople, starting a fire that burns for eight days. During the sack, the Inconnu destroy Gregorius Dimities. Michael lets Peter the Humble lead Mary the Black to him, where he is finally diablerized. The Byzantine Empire is torn asunder and divided among the Crusaders.
  

14th Century

• The First Anarch Revolt was spurred on during the days of the Inquisition. Vampire neonates were appalled by their clan elders who were eagerly sacrificing their young to the Inquisitors. The neonates were perishing at alarming rates during this period. A voice on the Ventrue council was the Brujah named Patricia who expressed to Hardestadt and the elders that they must stand up and fight against the mortal humans. However, Hardestadt and the fellow elders rejected her notions. They felt it was better to hide, create a masquerade, and form rules that would later be known as Camarilla. Disgusted with inaction, Patricia left the council and sided with rebellious neonates. To drive her point across to the elders as to what she felt was best for vampire society, she donned the name Tyler, formed a resistance of Brujah, and marched right into Castle Hardestadt. A huge battle ensued. Though she suffered heavy losses, she successfully committed Amaranth on Hardestadt.

1493

• The Convention of Thorns was a peace agreement between leaders of the Camarilla, the Anarchs and the Assamite clan made on October 23, 1493. It marked the end of open conflict between the three groups, and more specifically an end to the first Anarch Revolt.

1944

• Despite the formation of the Camarilla and the Sabbat, self-proclaimed anarchs would continue in isolated groups. During the French Revolution, prominent anarchs used the opportunity to fight the traditional claim of the Toreador to France. Despite intentions to take the fight to the rest of Europe, the mortal revolution soon fell apart, allowing the Camarilla to move in and restore order.

  Afterwards, many of the remaining anarchs made their way to the United States and from there to the West Coast. As Los Angeles quickly increased in prominence, the Camarilla established Don Sebastian as prince with the hope that he would curb the growing number of anarchs in the region. He largely ignored their presence, however, and over the next few decades, several famous anarchs made their way to the city. Finally, in 1944, Don Sebastian realized the full extent of the discontent in his city and ordered the savage beating of one such luminary, Jeremy MacNeil. Instead of instantly rebelling, MacNeil lead the anarchs in locating and studying the havens of the local Elders over a period of six weeks, and on December 21, 1944, the Second Anarch Revolt began.

  The prince was killed and those Elders that were not destroyed fled the city, making it a strong victory for the anarch movement. Soon thereafter the anarchs moved south to San Diego and then attempted to liberate San Francisco. They were repelled by the then-current Prince of San Francisco, Vannevar Thomas, but in those three months they had claimed everything from the border of Mexico to San Jose. This region would come to be called the Anarch Free State, ruled under a set of principles entitled the Perfect State.

  Despite such ideals, the Anarch Free State soon became little more than a region dominated by roving gangs that were often at each other's throats. Whatever the reasons for the inability to create their perfect society, the invasion of the Cathayans and their efforts to turn the anarchs against one another resulted in several anarchs eventually joining the New Promise Mandarinate, with little remaining of the Free State by the year 2000.

1999

• Kindred debate when exactly the Week of Nightmares fell, with some claiming it landed just prior to the turn of the millennium, while others conflate it with the supposed commencement of Gehenna. In truth, the “Week” of Nightmares sprawled across years, sweeping up several thousand vampires in its wave. During the Week, an impossibly ancient vampire arose and purged its own clan: the Ravnos. Thin-blooded vampires emerged with omens and portents as the Red Star, Anthelios, blazed in the night sky. The Ravnos Antediluvian met Final Death in July 1999 at the hands of parties unknown, armed with advanced weaponry and the power of the sun. Before he died, he drained vitae from all his clan, driving them to frenzy and cannibalism in his death throes. Thick, sentient ropes of his vitae stained the ground in Bangladesh where he fell. The noonday sun did not destroy it all and some can own a small vial containing the Blood of the Ravnos Antediluvian.

2002

• Admiral John Poindexter takes control of the Information Awareness Office. He greenlights a number of DARPA initiatives intended to help expose and combat supernatural threats.

2003

• Felicity Price of the C.I.A. heads up project FIRSTLIGHT.

• The Camarilla feeds information about the Sabbat to government agencies, using them to help burn out the Camarilla's rival sect.

2004

• The NSA discovers and penetrates SchreckNET.

• The Eighth Direction in Russia joins what will come to be called the Second Inquisition. Members include the Newburgh Group from England, BOES in Brazil, and the Society of St. Leopold.

• The Red Question releases the first version of their manifesto.

• Some time after the Ankaran Sarcophagus crisis in Los Angeles, Isaac Abrams, "Nines" Rodriguez, and Therese Voerman each recognize the other as baron over the respective domains of Hollywood, Downtown, and Santa Monica, agreeing to work together as a council to resolidify Anarch sovereignty over the city.

2005

• F.B.I. Special Affairs Division is resurrected due to the work of FIRSTLIGHT. Retired members of Project Twilight are brought in out of retirement to advise.

[Conjecture - the Sabbat begin the slow migration to the middle east that will be known as the Gehenna Crusade. The year was chosen to coincide with Gehenna from the Revised edition and from contextual clues. Sabbat cities slowly empty out over the span of the next decade]

2006

• Anarchs Unbound is officially banned by the Camarilla, and dire warnings are issued about sect members mingling with the Red Question.

• British anti-terror unit SO13 begins the sterilization of London. This will continue for the next seven years.

• Camarilla elders begin to feed information about Anarch holdings as well Sabbat in an attempt to deflect attention from their own domains.

2007

• The Red Question deal directly with Camarilla Justicars; the next day, the 2007-08 financial collapse begins.

• Marcus Questor becomes the agent in charge of the Special Affairs Division, and his ties to the IAO aid in securing intelligence of the blank body phenomenon.

2008

• A joint SOCOM task force destroys the Tremere Prime Chantry, decapitating the Tremere pyramid and purging Vienna of Kindred.

• Carna begins her flight across the United States, spreading word of what she has learned from The Book of the Grave War to her followers.

• Anarchs take the opportunity to conquer several weak Camarilla domains.

2010

• Video leaks to vampire websites showing a member of the Red Question poisoning a Tremere rival in 2001. It is the last highly publicized act of the Red Question.

• The Camarilla of Milwaukee fend off a Sabbat invasion from the north.

• Rafael Obrero, a medical examiner from Minneapolis, loses his wife Maria after a "Jane Doe" they were dissecting turns out to be a torpored vampire. Driven by revenge, Obrero goes on to form the Mortician's Army.

2011

• Meeting of the Camarilla Inner Council chooses a new slate of Justicars, elevating Lucinde to Ventrue Justicar for Unlife.

2012

• Simultaneous conclaves are held in Chicago and Prague. Theo Bell assassinates Hardestadt (and possibly Jan Pieterzoon) at the Prague Conclave. The Brujah formally leave the Camarilla.

• Juggler surreptitiously produces a Hollywood zombie movie filmed in Gary, Indiana. The film is heavily coded with pro-Anarch messages. The Anarchs of Hollywood recognize his handiwork, and back his claim to become the Baron of Gary.
  
• A group of Kindred led by an infiltrator compromise Second Inquisition operations in the Midwest across three states, disrupting a city-clearing operation in Detroit.

2013

• Queen Ann is decapitated in London, effectively concluding the sterilization of the city.

• The Camarilla meets with the Banu Haqim and the Setite Ministry on the same night to weigh the merits of admission into the Camarilla. The Ministry meeting ends prematurely when a bomb levels the hotel where the dignitaries are convening. The preferential optics of the Banu Haqim selecting a discreet, small-town kitchen in Denmark as their venue likely results in their admittance to the sect. Facing rejection, the Ministry instead moves to align themselves with the Anarchs.

• The Camarilla takes Mexico City.

2014

• Modius is deposed as Prince of Gary, Indiana after a ghoul lets slip that it is he who is responsible for the deaths of numerous Kindred in the city after sending Sullivan Dane a box full of intelligence. With the blessing of Annabelle Triabell, Modius is placed under arrest by the Anarchs.

2016

• A progressive mayor is elected in Gary, Indiana.
• The Sub-Ministerial Level Consultation Program to Address Stochastic Crisis Events (SMLCPASCE), an operation of the Second Inquisition, is formed.

2017

• Massive slaughter in Berlin stretches the Masquerade to the breaking point. Berlin becomes an Anarch domain after the Prince is destroyed in the street.

2018 

• The initial jumping-off point of the timeline, as of the publication of the V5 Corebook.
• Vannevar Thomas claims praxis over Los Angeles. The city's Anarch barons quickly negotiate a truce with the Camarilla in order to avoid an immediate, highly destructive war.
• Antwerp, Belgium is taken over by the Anarchs after centuries of Camarilla rule. Storming Elysium at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts under cover of the city's ongoing gilets jaunes protests and riots, the rebels crush in the skull of Toreador Prince Delphine Gaël, who was trapped in a trance. He meets Final Death being stuffed into a barrel and burned next to a police barricade.

2019

• Clan Lasombra is granted formal membership in the Camarilla after a vote in Chicago, following a diplomatic campaign by the Amici Noctis. The ritual sacrifice of Malenkov and other high-ranking Sabbat members are among the notable concessions rendered. Most other cities accepting of them begin following the general rule of thumb that one Lasombra must be sacrificed for every one who is to join the sect.
• The domains of Boston, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut merge into one under the praxis of Hazel Iversen.
• The torpored body of Zelios is discovered in a labyrinth hidden deep within the sewers beneath Griffith Park in Los Angeles. He was eventually recovered and awakened by Maximillian Strauss.
• Baron Isaac Abrams of Hollywood leaves Los Angeles to answer the Beckoning.
• The M. F. Sumtsov Historical Museum in Kharkiv, Ukraine hosts an exhibition on Ancient Egyptian artifacts, including among other items an intact enameled sculpture of Set that dates back to at least the 15th century BCE.

2020

• A devastating Second Inquisition offensive, spearheaded by the Society of Leopold, roils the vampiric population of Los Angeles. The Camarilla, finding the situation untenable, withdraws from the city once more as Prince Vannevar Thomas and his court abandon the city. The L.A. Anarchs quickly regroup and attack the Society, decapitating their leadership and crippling their operations in the city. Victorious in the moment, they redeclare the sovereignty of the Anarch Free State and pronounce the Camarilla persona non grata.
• New York Anarch baron Douglas Callihan is unexpectedly found dead in his office. Prince Hellene Panhard sends Lasombra clan representative Julia Sowinski to investigate on behalf of the Camarilla.

2021

• Prince Arundel of Ottawa goes missing, leaving Seneschal Eden Corliss in charge of affairs.
• In the wake of a bloody assault by the Mortician's Army, Cecily Bain becomes Prince of the Twin Cities.

Unknown/Indeterminate/Ongoing

• Augustus Giovanni is murdered, staked, or otherwise driven into involuntary torpor. His personal menagerie of wraiths and spectres are unleashed from captivity.

• Clan Hecata is founded at the Family Reunion, reconciling Clan Giovanni with the Cappadocians and their cousin bloodlines the Samedi, Harbingers of Skulls, and the Lamiae. A contingent of displaced Nagaraja is also brought into the fold.