Raffaello Santi 1483-1520
Study for the lower left section of the Disputa, ca. 1508 – 1509
Städel Museum, Frankfurt
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GOOD OMENS in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER (a fanfic helper)
I tried to find this online, but I only found bits and pieces here and there. This should be a very good tool when writing fanfics, or just for understanding the narrative - so, here's my best attempt at a timeline for the canonized events in the show. Let me know if I missed any, or if something is wrong!
CHRONOLOGY of GOOD OMENS
4004 BC: Before the Beginning (Sunday, October 21st, Nowhere, no name for Crowley)
Aziraphale meets Crowley as an angel in Heaven pre-Beginning and Crowley makes a star factory.
4004 BC: The Eden Wall (Rather more than 7 days later, Crawley)
Crowley finds Aziriaphale on the Eden wall and they talk about right and wrong. Aziraphale gave his sword to Adam and lies to God about it. Eve looks about 6 months pregnant.
3004 BC: Noah’s Ark (Ancient Mesopotamia, Crawley)
Crowley finds Aziraphale in front of the Ark and they talk about how God will drown kids.
2500 BC: A Companion to Owls (Land of Uz, Crawley)
Crowley and Aziraphale work together to save Job's kids from God.
1353 - 1336 BC: Nefertiti's reign as queen, during which, at some point, Aziraphale did a magic trick for her. (Thebes/Luxor, ancient Egypt, Crawley) (unfilmed, just mentioned)
We know he fooled her with a "lone caraway seed and three cowry shells"
33 AD: Crucifixion of Jesus (Golgotha, Palestine, name change to Crowley)
Crowley (canonically confirmed female form) tells Aziraphale she showed Jesus the world.
41 AD: Oysters in Rome (41 AD)
Aziraphale playfully tempts Crowley to go eat oysters with him at Petronus' restaurant. If this isn't innuendo, I don't know what is.
537 AD: Medieval England/King Arthur (Kingdom of West Essex)
Aziraphale as a knight of the Round Table meets the Black Knight (Crowley) who suggests the Arrangement for the first time. Aziraphale says no.
1020: The Arrangement is agreed to (unfilmed, just mentioned in the book or by Neil)
I can't find the exact date - tell me if this is wrong?
1040 - 1601: Crowley and Aziraphale act on their arrangement "dozens of times", as mentioned in the Globe Theatre.
As far as I've understood this arrangement (correct me if I'm wrong) it means that whenever they receive orders from Heaven or Hell, they tell the other, compare notes, and if it takes place in the same area, they agree that just one of them has to go do both tasks. Either that, or both tell their respective bosses that the task has been done, because they would have cancelled each other out either way. Letters would probably be too risky communication other than "Let's meet up at....", so I assume they have seen a lot of each other during this time.
1500s: Something related to the Catholic Church and the Papacy (Rome?). (Unfilmed idea)
My theory: Raphael/Crowley (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino) works as painter in Rome from 1508 until his "death" in 1520. He was invited to Rome by Pope Julius II and was immediately commissioned to work on a series of frescoes for the Pope's private library in the Vatican Palace. Crowley can't enter consecrated spaces. Hilarity ensues.
This would explain his conversation about helicopters (in the book) with Leonardo da Vinci.
1601: Hamlet (Globe Theatre, London)
Aziraphale and Crowley meet inconspicuously as Shakespeare struggles with Hamlet (both actor and play), and Aziraphale agrees to do both his and Crowley's assignments in Edinburgh.
1650: Aziraphale does his first apology dance (unknown)
Nothing more is known about this event.
1655: Agnes Nutter's book is published, and doesn't sell a single copy.
1656: Agnes Nutter is burned (Lancashire, England, 1656)
After writing the Nice and Accurate Prophecies, she is burned by Pulsifer's ancestor.
1793: French Revolution (The Bastille, Paris)
Aziraphale puts himself in harm's way by dressing like a nobleman while looking for crepes in revolutionary Paris, just so that Crowley will save him.
1800s: Aziraphale opens his bookshop. (Soho, London)
I can't figure out when, it just says 19th century online. Crowley asks if Aziraphale wasn't supposed to open a bookshop when he saves him in the Bastille.
1827: The Resurrectionist (Edinburgh, October)
Aziraphale and Crowley discuss morality, meet Elspeth and Wee Morag - and the body snatching doctor.
1827 - ????: Crowley sleeps or is in Hell
We don't actually know long or exactly when, but in the book it's mentioned he only got up to go to the toilet once. Why?
1862: St. James’s Park, London
Crowley is paranoid, Aziraphale won't give him holy water.
1862 - ????: Wild West meetup (Unfilmed idea)
Neil Gaiman just had the idea, it wasn't filmed.
1928: Crowley buys the Bentley
And he keeps it in tip-top shape until the Not-Apocalypse.
1933: Aziraphale gets his driving license (unknown location)
1941: WW2 Blitz (London)
Church bombing, magic show, photo taken, shades of dark and light grey.
1967: Aziraphale gives Crowley holy water (Soho, London)
...And says Crowley goes too fast for him. He does it because Crowley is about to orchestrate the robbery of a church. One of the robbers is Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell, who we meet later. He offers his 'army' to Crowley.
1980s: Crowley designs the M25 (Hell)
No other demons understand the whole thing about constant, low-level, effortless evil.
2007: Three children are born in a hospital in Tadfield
The old switch-a-roo.
2007 - later that night: Godfather meetup (Soho, ca 2009)
They're drunk, talking about whale brains and agreeing to raise Warlock as nanny and gardener.
2012 - 2018: Raising Warlock (Winfield House, England)
He's way too normal!
2018: Not-Apocalypse (Saturday, August 11th, Tadfield Airbase)
Do I need to explain this?
2019 - 2023: Beelzebub and Gabriel start meeting each other.
We see them meet in an American bar, a Russian café and in the Resurrectionist in Edinburgh.
2020: Lockdown (London)
Aziraphale goes on about cake, Crowley wants to come by and watch him eat. Aziraphale chickens out.
2023: Jimbriel (Soho, London)
A naked archangel with amnesia shows up on Aziraphale's doorstep.
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Since John Blackthorne is canonically a fan of the theatre, I decided to find out what he could realistically quote when describing the London theatrical scene to Mariko or Toranaga.
Regrettably he wouldn't be able to reference either King Lear or Macbeth, since they're dated to around 1605-06, so no Ran/Throne of Blood/Akira Kurosawa nods. Alas.
Also, no Henry V (1599), Julius Caesar (1599) or Hamlet (1600-1602) as he's been away from England for about two years. However, he could feasibly quote from Henry VI Parts I, II and III, Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Richard II and maybe Henry IV Parts I and II, depending on when he left to go to sea, as they're all dated up to 1598. (Plus, as @fairy-anon-godmother noted, and most fittingly for how things currently stand between he and Mariko, Romeo and Juliet!!!)
He'd also be able to quote Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus (1592-93). I bet he'd love that play, purely because the main character punches the pope.
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