*** At this time, [[Al Capone]] has fully consolidated his power in [[Chicago]] and is effectively in full control. He is a force to be reckoned with.
*** At this time, [[Al Capone]] has fully consolidated his power in [[Chicago]] and is effectively in full control. He is a force to be reckoned with.
** [[January]]: [[Harry Bacharach]] is once again elected as Mayor of [[Atlantic City]]
** [[January]]: [[Harry Bacharach]] is once again elected as Mayor of [[Atlantic City]]
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** [[February]]: [[Joe Masseria]] issues a decree ordering the death of [[Salvatore Maranzano]], in return Maranzano declares war on Masseria. These events mark the formal beginning of the [[Castellammarese War]], the bloodiest and most important Mafia war in history.
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** [[February]]: [[Joe Masseria]] issues a decree ordering the death of [[Salvatore Maranzano]], in return, Maranzano declares war on Masseria. These events mark the formal beginning of the [[Castellammarese War]], the bloodiest and most important Mafia war in history.
** [[November]]: As 1931 approaches, the tide begins to turn and the war starts going poorly for [[Masseria]]. [[Lucky Luciano]], his trusted [[Meyer Lansky|friends]] and [[Benny Siegel|associates]] seek to secure their positions in the coming power struggle.
** [[November]]: As 1931 approaches, the tide begins to turn and the war starts going poorly for [[Masseria]]. [[Lucky Luciano]], his trusted [[Meyer Lansky|friends]] and [[Benny Siegel|associates]] seek to secure their positions in the coming power struggle.
Revision as of 14:16, 30 August 2014
The series timeline includes events in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Harry Daugherty and Jess Smith hide in Daugherty's parents' house as a tornado swepts Washington Court House, Ohio. The victims include 10-year old Mary Shakledorf. ("A Man, A Plan...")
Nucky Thompson claims to have searched for food chest deep in snow in order to feed his family, ultimately killing three rats, while his father Ethan Thompson was drunk. He later denied the story, however. ("Boardwalk Empire")
1892: Doomsday cult leader Edgartin Sterry prophesies the Second Coming to take place in this year. Nelson Van Alden's father, one of his followers, gives away the family farm in anticipation and the family awaits in a tent for the whole of the year. Van Alden's relation with his parents begins to sour afterwards.
Margaret gets pregnant with Douglas Walton's child, the son of the barrister she was working for as a maid. Refusing to tell the father's identity, and threatened with being confined to a Magdalene Sisters asylum, she steals Eamonn Rohan's passage and immigrates to the United States. She miscarries on arrival. ("Family Limitation")
Jimmy is injured by a German grenade during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and is treated in a field hospital in Verdun. Experimental surgery is able to save his leg. Fred Sagorsky is killed during the same battle. ("Anastasia", "Home", "Ging Gang Goolie")
Jimmy spends several months at the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC and returns to Atlantic City in January of next year. ("Home", "Broadway Limited")
December 11-12: British paramilitaries set fire to several buildings in the Irish city of Cork and shoot at the firemen when they try to contain the flames.
While in jail, George Remus tells the Bureau of Investigation that Nucky Thompson is 'the linchpin of a nationwide criminal conspiracy'. ("William Wilson")
September: Al Capone invites Frankie Yale to Chicago to mend their relationship. Despite the visit going well, their friendship began to rapidly deteriorate after Yale returned to New York. Due to many other business obligations, Capone would have to wait until 1928 to retaliate.
October: George Remus goes on trial for the murder of his ex-wife, Imogene. Remus pleaded temporary insanity and was granted a six-month insanity sentence. Upon release, Remus attempted to get back into bootlegging, but soon retired when he found that the market had been completely taken over by gangsters.
1928:
1928:
Undated:
Johnny Torrio returns to the United States as Benito Mussolini begins putting pressure on the Mafia in Italy
November: Arnold Rothstein is shot and mortally wounded during a business meeting in Manhattan, he died the next day. The shooting was reportedly linked to debts owed from a three-day long, high stakes porker game a month earlier. The gambler George "Hump" McManus was arrested for the murder, but later acquitted for lack of evidence. Following this, Lucky Luciano quickly pledges fealty to Joe Masseria
1929:
1929:
Undated: Joe Masseria is now formally known as "Joe the Boss," head of the largest Mafia grouping in New York. Lucky Luciano, now a top aide in the Masseria organization, reluctantly begins paying homage and tribute.
February: The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre occurs, seven mob associates of the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran, successor to Hymie Weiss, are killed.
March:
Herbert Hoover is elected the 31st President of The United States
Following the election of President Herbert Hoover, U.S. Treasury SecretaryAndrew Mellon was specifically charged with bringing down Al Capone. Eliot Ness was chosen to head the operations under the National Prohibition Act targeting the illegal breweries and supply routes of Capone. Ness creates a team of nine men known as "The Untouchables" to help in his effort.
Lucky Luciano is forced into a limousine at gun point by three men, beaten and stabbed, and dumped on a beach in Staten Island.He survived the ordeal but was forever marked with a scar and droopy eye.
The Wall Street Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurs, beginning the ten-year long Great Depression
November:
Senator Walter Edge resigns from his post as a Senator of New Jersey to become the U.S. ambassador to France
The efforts of Eliot Ness and his team bring major damage to Capone and his organization
1930s
1930:
1930:
Undated:
A "Jake paralysis" outbreak occurs in the United States resulting from adulterated Jamaica ginger sold as an alcohol substitute
February: Joe Masseria issues a decree ordering the death of Salvatore Maranzano, in return, Maranzano declares war on Masseria. These events mark the formal beginning of the Castellammarese War, the bloodiest and most important Mafia war in history.
November: As 1931 approaches, the tide begins to turn and the war starts going poorly for Masseria. Lucky Luciano, his trusted friends and associates seek to secure their positions in the coming power struggle.
