A Timeline of History

1899: October - Cavorite first manufactured at Lympne.

April 1900 - Cavor and Bedford visit the Moon. An account of this journey, The First Men in the Moon, is written shortly after, and serialised in The Strand magazine.

1901-1902 - Messages from Cavor received from the Moon.

1902: June - The War of the Worlds, the Martian Invasion of Earth.

1903 - Land Ironclads first deployed in Africa.

1904: January - The Universal Peace Conference is held in London, England. The Great Powers sign a treaty of mutual cooperation against the threat of future Martian attack and the sharing of research into Martian technology.

1905 - The Selenite War.

1907 - The Brennan Mono-rail first demonstrated to the Royal Society

1908 - The War of the Worlds, an account of the Martian Invasion, is published.

1914 - Mr. Alfred Butteridge demonstrates his Flying Machine in a flight from the Crystal Palace to Glasgow and back again.

1923 - The War on Mars. Scouts sent to Mars from Earth as advance guard of the Space Flotilla.


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