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D23 Expo 2022 SEA Timeline

WDI's internal SEA timeline developed for the Shinji Takahashi books presented at the D23 Expo 2022.

A chronology of events related to mythos of S.E.A. and adjacent attractions. As some attractions and stories would be connected to the S.E.A. lore through retcons and references, some events may vary.

B.C.E.[]

Pre-16th century[]

  • 997 A.D.
    • Viking lord Thorfinn Karlsefni uses the Shepherd's Journal to try and locate Atlantis. His vessel is sunken by the Leviathan.

15th century[]

1410s[]

1420s[]

  • 1420
    • The port of Harambe is built/colonized by Europeans in East Africa.

1430a[]

1440s[]

1450s[]

1460s[]

1470s[]

  • 1479
    • April 1: Diego Colon is born.

1480s[]

  • 1480
    • Ferdinand Magellan is born.

1490s[]

  • 1492
    • October 12: "Honorary S.E.A. member" Cristoforo Colón (Christopher Columbus) accidentally happens upon the Caribbean, mistakes it for India, and proceeds to commit several heinous crimes against Indigenous peoples.

16th century[]

1500s[]

  • 1500
    • The Shepherd's Journal of Atlantis is given to Leonardo Da Vinci. He manages to decipher the Atlantean language and is inspired by Atlantean flying-machines to design those of his own.
  • 1506
    • May 20: "Honorary S.E.A. member" Cristoforo Colón (Christopher Columbus) dies.

1510s[]

  • 1513

1520s[]

  • 1521
    • February 3: "Honorary S.E.A. member" Ferdinand Magellan dies.
  • 1524
    • December 24: "Honorary S.E.A. member" Vasco de Gama dies.
  • 1526
    • February 23: Diego Colon dies.

1530s[]

1540s[]

  • 1544:
    • Rajah Bhima Disampati of Anandapur encloses the Anandapur Royal Forest as his hunting-grounds.
  • 1546
    • December 14: "Honorary S.E.A. member" Tycho Brahe is born.

1550s[]

1560s[]

1570s[]

1580s[]

1590s[]

17th century[]

1600s[]

  • 1601
    • October 24: "Honorary S.E.A. member" Tycho Brahe dies.

1610s[]

1620s[]

1630s[]

1640s[]

  • 1643
    • The Castillo del Morro fortress is built in the town of Puerto Dorado in the island of Isla Tesoro.

1650s[]

1660s[]

1670s[]

  • 1673
    • The Tortuga Tavern is established on Tortuga.
  • 1677
    • (C. 1677) The ship La Belle Poule wrecks on Kraken Reef.

1680s[]

1690s[]

  • 1690
  • 1692
    • February: The Salem witch trials begin in Salem, Massachusetts. Salem witch Madame Leota travels to upstate New York to flee from persecution (Walt Disney World cannon only).

18th century[]

1700s[]

1710s[]

1720s[]

  • 1721
    • Events of Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (film).
  • 1724
    • Disputed death of Ned Low.
  • 1729

1750s[]

  • 1750
    • May 25: The Dutchman's captain William Turner constructs a sword in his blacksmith outpost on Jackson Island, Missouri for one Nathaniel Appleton.

1760s[]

1770s[]

1780s[]

  • 1786
    • August 17: Davy Crockett is born on a mountain-top in Greene County, North Carolina (later incorporated into the state of Tennessee).
  • 1789
    • Davy Crockett kills himself a ba'r (bear(?)) at the age of three.

1790s[]

19th century[]

1800s[]

1810s[]

  • 1813
    • The Creek War begins in the southern United States between the white colonial Americans and, "Red Stick" Creek Indigenous peoples. Among the participants are Davy Crockett, George Russel and Tobias Norton.
    • The Python Bar is established in Caracas, Venezuela.
  • 1814
    • The Creek War ends.
  • 1815
    • January 8: The Battle of New Orleans occurs between the American and British militaries.
    • September 4: The Museum of Fantastic Flight opens to the public.
    • The ship, "The Meteor" wrecks on Kraken Reef.

1820s[]

  • 1823
  • 1826
    • May 8: Horace Ezra Bixby is born.
  • 1828

1830s[]

  • 1831
    • Camellia Falco travels down the Zambezi River.
    • Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Joe Harper run away to Jackson Island to become pirates.
  • 1832:
    • December 15: Gustave Eiffel is born.
  • 1835

1840s[]

1850s[]

1860s[]

  • 1860
    • August 13: Annie Oakley is born.
    • A massive earthquake hits Thunder Mesa, killing most of its inhabitants (including the then mayor, the founder Henry Ravenswood and his wife Martha) and ending the town's mining.
  • 1864
  • 1865
    • Captain John Winter ascends the Matterhorn. Events of Third Man on the Mountain.
  • 1867
  • 1868
  • 1869
    • Rainbow Ridge is founded as a mining town near Big Thunder Mountain (earliest dated building in town)
    • Constance Hatchaway marries and murders farming family-heir, Ambrose Harper in Secret County, California.
    • December 8: Captain Nemo begins exploring and documenting Kraken Reef.

1870s[]

  • 1870
    • Barnabas T. Bullion travels down the Colorado River.
    • Whitmore Industries is founded.
    • May 12: Captain Nemo discovers the Crystal Caverns underneath of Vulcania.
    • April 7: Captain Nemo studies the crystals underneath of Vulcania.
    • August 12: Captain Nemo finalizes his research of Kraken Reef.
  • 1871
  • 1872
    • Constance Hatchaway marries and murders eastern banker Frank Banks.
    • Harrison Hightower III travels down the Yangtze River.
    • October 9: Captain Nemo discovers the fossilized remains of Lava Monster eggs under Mount Prometheus.
    • December 12: Henry Jones, Sr. is born.
  • 1873
    • Merriweather Adam Pleasure is born in New South Frewsburg, Pennslyvania. Conflicting reports set the date as November 18 (Pleasure Island Papers) or December 31 (1991 revised story).
    • Captain Nemo fully maps the isle of Vulcania.
  • 1874
    • Henry Mystic travels down the Ganges River.
    • Constance Hatchaway marries and murders the Marquis de Doome.
  • 1875
    • Camellia Falco dies at age 75.
    • Harrison Hightower III begins a series of Asian Expeditions. In Japan, he claims a set of samurai armor for the collection.
    • Constance Hatchaway marries and murders Reginald Caine, a wealthy railroad baron, gambler and food gourmand.
    • Le Lapin Agile is established in Paris, France.
    • January 14: Albert Schweitzer is born.
    • October 22: Harriet Chalmers Adams is born.
  • 1877
    • George Hightower marries, and is murdered by his bride Constance Hatchaway and inherits the Haunted Mansion.
    • July 17: T.W. Baxter patents an automatic train-break.
  • 1878
  • 1879

1880s[]

  • 1880
  • 1881
    • Harrison Hightower III's Oceania Expedition. Claims an Easter Island moai for the collection.
  • 1882
    • Jason Chandler travels down the Elaho River
    • Harrison Hightower III's Mediterranean Expedition.
    • February 15- Milo "One Eye" Jones performs an armed robbery of the Big Thunder Mining Company.
    • February 16- Milo Jones is seen in the vicinity of Ravenswood Manor and is never seen again.
    • June 19 - Lord Henry Mystic and Albert travel to Morocco.
  • 1883
    • Beatrice Rose Endicott is born.
    • Harrison Hightower III seizes a Water God head from a temple in the Lost River Delta in Peru.
    • August 26: Krakatoa erupts with a sonic eruption which traveled across the globe four times.
    • August 27: Krakatoa's eruption ends.
  • 1884
    • A missing persons investigation is launched regarding Ravenswood Manor.
    • The Dark Horse Tavern is established in London, England.
    • February: Seismic activity from the eruption of Krakatoa ceases.
  • 1885:
  • 1886
  • 1887
    • Harrison Hightower III's Egypt Expedition.
    • January 28: Construction begins on the Eiffel Tower.
    • November 8: Doc Holliday dies.
  • 1888
    • June 5 - Dr. Albert Falls discovers the sunken Cambodian temple "Shir Lee Temple", accompanied by photographer Luana Teixeira. Sango Shio signs the Certificate of Official Discovery.
    • August 8th- Grizzly Gulch is established
  • 1889
    • Construction begins on the Hotel Hightower.
    • Lord Henry Mystic and Albert visit India.
    • March 31: The Eiffel Tower is completed.

1890s[]

  • 1891
    • Merriweather Adam Pleasure rejects father’s offer to set him up in business, determined to make it on his own. He lies about age, brokers commodities on New York Curb Exchange, makes first million, moves back to Pittsburgh and founds most advanced steel foundry in the world.
    • August 12 - Dr. Albert Falls discovers and names Schweitzer Falls and the fabled "backside of water". Luana Teixeira signs the Certificate of Official Discovery.
    • December 30 - Lord Henry Mystic acquires a trio of ceramic ladies for his Chinese art collection.
  • 1892
    • January 24 - Grand Opening of Hotel Hightower.
  • 1896
  • 1898
    • Merriweather Adam Pleasure marries Isabella Domenico after a three-week courtship.
    • Grizzly Hall is constructed.
    • Year found on Gideon's cook-book.
    • July 30 - Maiden voyage of the R.V. Oceaneer Lab, Mary Oceaneer's first treasure hunting ship. Holds her first "Pirate Night" aboard the ship around this time.
  • 1899
    • Mary Oceaneer travels down the Orinoco River.
    • February 15: Lillian Bounds is born.
    • July 1- Indiana Jones is born in Princeton, New Jersey.
    • July 16 - On an expedition through the Congo, Harrison Hightower III acquires Shiriki Utundu during an encounter with the Mtundu Tribe. In the months to follow, Hightower acquires a bounty of treasures from a number of tribes along the river frightened by the cursed idol's reputation.
    • December 12 - Lord Henry Mystic and Albert return from an Indian expedition.
    • December 28 - Harrison Hightower III returns from the Congo with Shiriki Utundu in tow.
    • December 31 -

20th century[]

1900s[]

  • 1900
    • Merriweather Adam Pleasure travels down the Kissimmee River. This may have later influenced his decision to settle in Florida.
    • The partial postcranial skeleton of a brachiosaurus is found in the valley of the Colorado river.
    • April 14: The Expo Universelle de Paris begins.
    • July 19 - Lord Henry Mystic shows the Mystic Magneto-Electric Carriage at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. The invention inspires Henry Ford to invent gasoline cars.
    • November 12: Expo 1900 ends.
  • 1901
  • 1903
    • Dr. Albert Falls travels down the Mbei River.
    • Dr. Falls is awarded with an Elephant Juju for his discoveries.
    • Archibald Smelding is institutionalized.
    • April 1 - Lord Henry Mystic and Albert embark on Siberian Expedition.
  • 1904
  • 1906
    • Dr. J.L. Baterista travels down the Congo River.
  • 1907
  • 1908
    • Smelding is released from his mental-institute. He meets Beatrice Rose Endicott in Central Park.
    • June 12 - Albert makes mischief at the Eiffel Tower during one of Henry Mystic's visits to Paris.
    • Lord Henry Mystic opens up Mystic Manor for tours to the general public.
  • 1909
    • Merriweather Adam Pleasure has a mystical vision of the Funmeister while traveling in Mexico, is inspired to restart his industrial empire and begins looking for land in Central Florida.
    • The Balinese Music Box becomes part of Lord Henry Mystic's collection. (events of Mystic Manor)
    • Construction begins on the S.S. Columbia.
    • March 4: Teddy Roosevelt ceases his time as President of the USA.
    • March 23: Marion Ravenwood is born.

1910s[]

  • 1910
    • Sango Shio travels down the Amazon River.
    • April 21-
      • Samuel Clemens dies.
      • Halley's Comet.
  • 1911
    • Merriweather Adam Pleasure and his family establish their new home on the Federber Peninsula in Florida.
    • Merriweather Adam Pleasure purchases The Floating Arts Palace to use as a home and entertainment centre.
    • S.S. Columbia is finished and christened.
    • Thaddeus Thatch dies.
    • Alberta Falls is born to Albert Falls, Jr. and Sneh Falls.
    • January 11 - Colonel Blumbert establishes an outpost in the Lost Delta region of India.
    • April 8 - Dr. Albert Falls establishes the Jungle Navigation Company.
    • October 21 - Mary Robinson is born.
  • 1912
    • Beatrice Rose Endicott establishes the New York City Preservation Society to save the derelict Hotel Hightower. Beatrice Rose Endicott begins tours of the abandoned Hotel Hightower (events of Tower of Terror)
    • Construction of "Pleasure Canvas and Sailmakers" facilities begins at Federber Peninsula.
    • Opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. A 13 year old Indiana Jones gets involved in treasure-hunters taking the Cross of Coronado.
    • The Wilderness Explorers travel to the Anandapur Royal Forest.
    • The Café Noir is established in Brussels, Belgium.
    • March 20: S.S. Columbia makes her maiden-voyage to Liverpool, England.
    • May 16: Anna Mary Jones dies.
    • August 1: Horace Bixby dies.
    • August 2: Palle Huld is born.
    • April 14: The RMS Titanic begins to sink.
    • April 15: The RMS Titanic sinks.
    • November 6: The New York Preservation Society sends a portrait of Billamongawonga from Hotel Hightower to his alleged grandson Trader Sam.
  • 1913
    • Chef Tandaji travels down the Irawaddy River.
    • December: Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition
  • 1914
    • April: End of the Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition
    • July 28: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated resulting in the beginning of World War 1 (then known as, "The Great War").
    • September: British colonist Rose Sayer is hunted by German soldiers and the events of The African Queen transpire.
    • October 22-27 - Milo Expedition to Atlantis. Events of Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
  • 1915:
    • Mary Oceaneer becomes president of S.E.A. and establishes a new mission statement for the organization.
  • 1916:
    • July 24: Willard P. Bounds dies.
  • 1917
    • January 10: Buffalo Bill dies.
    • August 15: Howard Stark is born (MCU).
    • Charles Muntz is born.
    • Walt Disney encounters members of S.E.A. during his time with the Red Cross in France during World War 1.
    • Merriweather Adam Pleasure sets off the "World's Largest Firework" to celebrate the end of World War 1, accidentally destroys the Federber Peninsula's link to land. The area is renamed Pleasure Island.
    • The Hollywood Tower Hotel is opened in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
  • 1918
    • The Floating Arts Palace is refurbished by Merriweather Adam Pleasure.
    • Merriweather Adam Pleasure builds his family home on Pleasure Island.
  • 1919
    • January 6: Teddy Roosevelt dies of an asthma attack.
    • Isabella Pleasure starts her flower garden.
    • Alberta Falls visits her grandparents in the jungle and stays there.

1920s[]

  • 1920
    • Shiriki Utundu is returned to the Mtundu tribe by a S.E.A. expedition after the organization learned of its true nature.
  • 1921
    • August 19: Dr. Albert Falls receives the “Hightower Spirit of Adventure Award”, Certificate signed by Mary Oceaneer.
  • 1922
    • Pleasure Canvas Works - Fabrication Plant No. 12 and Fireworks Laboratory and Storage Bunker are constructed on Pleasure Island.
    • The Lilly Plaza is constructed on Pleasure Island.
  • 1923
  • 1924
    • December 25: Rod Serling is born.
  • 1925:
    • Walt Disney marries Lillian Bounds.
    • Early tests of the Hydrophone.
  • 1926:
    • February 8: Wan Li is born.
    • November 3: Annie Oakley dies.
  • 1927
    • Constance Hatchaway dies at age 76 and goes on to haunt the attic of the Haunted Mansion. (2017 live event continuity).
    • Merriweather Adam Pleasure constructs his greenhouse on Pleasure Island.
    • At the age of 16, Alberta Falls travels the Ganges River in the Molopo Marie to visit her maternal grandparents. Her first solo trip as a Skipper.
    • Dr. Albert Falls mysteriously disappears.
    • July 3: An accident at the Fireworks Factory of Pleasure Island results in a massive explosion.
    • December 31- The first Balderdash Cup is held and won by Merriweather Adam Pleasure.
  • 1928
    • September 11 - Colonel Blumbert takes ill and with no one to take his place, puts the outpost out for sale.
    • The Global Broadcasting Service is founded, presumably by Nigel Greenwater.
    • Palle Huld circumnavigates the globe in tribute to Jules Verne.
    • Pleasure Island is electrified.
  • 1929
    • Garrett Reed has his members revoked from the Society of Explorers and Adventurers by Lord Henry Mystic for grave robbing an Egyptian tomb.
    • Henry Pleasure has an Artificial-Intelligence lab constructed on Pleasure Island.
    • Hollywood Tower Hotel is opened (Disney's California Adventure).
    • February 29- Jock Lindsey wins first-place in the Midwest Air Races & Stunt Show for his aerial maneuvers.
    • October 9- The Great Depression hits on "Black Tuesday" with the stock-market crash. This comes to bring financial issues to the Jungle Navigation Company.
    • November- The Jastro Expedition (including Indiana Jones and Sophia Hapgood) uncover Atlantean artifacts in Iceland.
    • December 31- Balderdash Cup is cancelled.

1930s[]

  • 1930
    • Carl Fredricksen is born.
    • April 16 - The Jungle Navigation Company moves into the Lost Delta outpost to serve as a base of operations in the region.
    • November 13- Dreamy Ka'imi is made a member of the Adventurers Club.
  • 1931
    • Ellie Fredricksen (maiden-name unknown) is born (c.).
    • The Key to the Tomb of the Gods is found by Henrik Mellberg, Francis Beresford-Hope, and Marwell O'Brien in the Popigai Crater of Norilsk, Siberia.
    • July 15 -
      • League of Adventurers team in Peru meets with Indiana Jones, discover the Temple of the Crystal Skull.
      • The Herman Family disappears in an elevator malfunction at the Hollywood Tower Hotel.
    • October 1 - The Jungle Navigation Company holds their first inaugural Jungle Cruise. (Skipper Canteen)
  • 1932
    • Merriweather Adam Pleasure's Adventurers Club headquarters opens on Pleasure Island.
    • October 26- Molly Brown dies.
    • December 8 - Garrett Reed is believed to be actively seeking the Emerald Trinity while various authorities pursue him. Leads into the events of Curse of the Emerald Trinity.
    • December 9 - The Daily Colonial Journal publishes an interview with Mary Blair.
    • December 15: Gustave Eiffel dies.
  • 1933
  • 1934
    • The Anandapur Rail Services route through Forbidden Mountain is shut down due to incidents beginning in 1933.
  • 1935
    • Events of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
    • January 8: Elvis Presley is born.
    • June 4: Sallah sends Indiana Jones a missing piece from the map of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye which was obtained by his brother-in-law on the black market.
    • July: Indiana Jones discovers Temple of the Forbidden Eye
    • July 18: Annie Smith Peck dies.
    • August 10: Abner Ravenwood tries to contact Indiana Jones.
    • August 16: The Magdalena Maiden and Mekong Maiden are wrecked.
    • September 4: Abner Ravenwood translates maraglyph stones in the temple of the Forbidden Eye.
    • September 13: Abner is in contacts with Sallah.
    • October 1: René Belloq learns of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye from the Indianensis Universitatis Sigillium.
    • October 12:
    • First Jingle Cruise is held by the Jungle Navigation Company.
  • 1936
    • Nigel Greenwater is given the trophy for announcer of the year.
    • June: Events of Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods.
      • June 3: Jock Lindsey begins a new flight log.
      • June 17: Jock Lindsey, Indiana Jones and Marcus Brody travel to Tibet in search of the Key to the Temple of the Gods.
    • July 5: Indiana Jones goes missing in the Temple of the Forbidden Eye
    • September: Jock Lindsey and Indiana Jones hunt the Chachapoyan Fertility Idol but lost it to Belloq.
    • April to August - Events of Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • 1937
    • Skipper Rico wins the trophy for River League Bubble Gum Champion.
    • Skipper Jonathan wins trophy for River League Home Derby Champion.
    • The Adventureland Treehouse is built.
    • July 4: The Plaza of Pleasure Island is remodelled for the Pleasure Island Philharmonic Concert Band.
    • July 17: Adventure Trading Company member Harriet Chalmers Adams dies.
    • October 10 - Indiana Jones travels with the Jungle Navigation Company to find the Temple of the Forbidden Eye. (Skipper Survival Guide).
    • October 29- Indiana Jones ceases his expedition with the JNC (Skipper Survival Guide).
    • December 31 - Adventurers Club Open House. Events of the Adventurers Club.
    • Merriweather Adam Pleasure constructs, "Building X" on Pleasure Island to design his experimental aircrafts.
  • 1938
    • Alberta Falls opens up the Jungle Navigation Co. Skipper Canteen.
    • JNC Skippers Jay Friesner and Richard Reyes are named Skippers of the Year at the company's Amazon River Base.
    • AMC Pleasure Island 24 is refitted by Merriweather Adam Pleasure to experiment in thermodynamics.
    • Events of The Rocketeer.
    • Events of the Jungle Cruise (Post 2021 refurbishments)
    • Aya Kouame-Beauciel sends lenses to the Adventureland Treehouse daughter as part of their astronomy correspondence.
    • October: Indiana Jones and Jock Lindsey search for the Fountain of Youth in Florida. After spending time in Disney Springs, Jock falls in love with the locale.
  • 1939
    • September 1: Nazi Germany invades Poland, World War 2 begins.
    • October 31- Lightning strikes the elevator shafts of the Hollywood Tower Hotel in Los Angeles. Five people in the elevator are killed. The hotel is subsequently closed.
    • Trader Sam attends a trinket selling convention.
    • Charles Muntz is removed from the National Explorers Society and self-exiles himself to Paradise Falls.

1940s[]

  • 1940
    • A photo of Hathaway Browne in the airfield is taken. It later goes into the possession of Trader Sam for his Enchanted Tiki Bar.
    • Stark Industries is founded by Howard Stark (MCU).
    • Events of Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
    • September 1: The only known flight of Merriweather Adam Pleasure's experimental aircraft, "The X-Thing".
    • September 13: The illusionists of the AbracadaBar disappear correlating with a performance of, "Lasdow the Lucky".
    • November 13: The Boardwalk Bugle reports on the Abracadabar's secret room.
  • 1941
    • Meriweather Adam Pleasure disappears at sea. (1989 Pleasure Island storyline)
    • August: Walt Disney travels to South America with his tour-guide being Trader Sam.
    • December 7: The U.S.A. joins in World War II.
  • 1942:
    • S.E.A. assists the Allies in World War II at a heavy cost of members, assets and artifacts, with Headquarters being devastated.
    • October 22: Annette Funicello is born.
  • 1943:
    • Project: Rebirth turns Steve Rogers into the super-soldier Captain America (MCU).
    • Hightower Industries builds up its strength through war profiteering.
    • September 15: Jock Lindsey travels to the Nile river.
  • 1944
    • Hurricane Charlotte strikes Pleasure Island and the Pleasure family disappears. (revised 1991 Pleasure Island storyline)
  • 1945
    • February: Captain America fights HYDRA atop The Valkyrie. He crashes the aircraft into the Arctic where he is frozen and presumed dead.
    • September 2: World War 2 ends.
  • 1947
    • T-Rex skeleton is discovered in Diggs County, Florida.
    • Events of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
    • July: Roswell UFO incident in New Mexico. An interdimensional being's craft crashes in Roswell, New Mexico. Indiana Jones is recruited to assist in excavation before remains are sent to Hangar 51 in Nevada.
  • 1948
    • British Imperialism ends in the kingdom of Anandapur. The Anandapur Royal Forest is turned into a nature sanctuary.
    • January: Jock Lindsey looks for a place to settle down. He decides on Disney Springs.
  • 1949
    • The Avigators begin importing and exporting from Pleasure Island.
    • The Dino Institute is founded in Diggs County.

1950s[]

  • 1950
    • Disney Springs holds the Springs Grand Centennial Expo and builds the neighbourhood of West Side.
  • 1951
    • The Avigators cease operations on Pleasure Island.
    • Henry Jones, Sr. dies.
  • 1952
    • Marcus Brody dies.
    • The Society of Explorers and Adventurers enters the age of espionage and recruits secret agents to hinder the activities of Hightower Industries.
  • 1953
    • February 9: "Hammerhead Fred" kills a a tiger shark in the Shark Reef of Placid Palms.
  • 1954
    • January 21: World's first operational nuclear-powered submarine the USS Nautilus is launched.
  • 1955
    • August 3: The Class 4 hurricane Hurricane Connie begins.
    • Hurricane Connie hits Placid Palms and transforms it into Typhoon Lagoon. Mary Oceaneer is involved in the incident with the Miss Tilly and retires in secret on the island. (Original 1989 storyline; in same story Hurricane Connie hits Pleasure Island, causing the island to be abandoned)
    • August 15: Hurricane Connie ends.
    • November 27: Bill Nye is born.
    • Jock Lindsey opens his Hangar Bar in Disney Springs.
  • 1957
    • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (film) takes place.
  • 1959
    • October 2: First episode of The Twilight Zone premieres.

1960s[]

  • 1960:
    • Annette Funicello's album Hawaiiannette is released.
  • 1961:
    • Following a revolution, Harambe gains its independence from Europe.
  • 1963:
    • Walt Disney begins developing the Florida Project around Bay Lake, Florida (real-world history).
  • 1964:
    • Formation begins on the band Aerosmith.
    • April 22: Beginning of the 1964 New York World's Fair.
    • June 19: The last episode of the original Twilight Zone TV series is released.
    • October 18: New York World's Fair ends.
  • 1965
    • September 4: Albert Schweitzer dies.
  • 1966
    • December 15: Walt Disney dies of lung cancer due to a lifetime of heavy smoking.

1970s[]

  • 1970
    • The band Aerosmith is formed.
  • 1971
    • The Floating Arts Palace is restored by the Walt Disney Company and renamed to The Empress Lilly in honour of Lillian Disney.
  • 1975:
    • March 30: Pancho Barnes dies.
    • June 28: Rod Serling dies.
  • 1977:
    • August 10: Joshua Gates is born.
    • August 16: Elvis Presley dies.
  • 1978:
    • April 22: The Dino Institute moves into a new museum headquarters.
    • May 27: An expedition on the Matterhorn finds a yeti footprint on the mountain's south slope.
    • July 26: Mary Blair dies.

1980s[]

  • 1982
    • An expedition through the Forbidden Mountain in the Himalayas encounters the Yeti and is subsequently lost. Blurred photographs of the yeti are recovered much later and put on display in the Yeti museum.
    • Hightower Industries rebrands into the Hightower Group, dominating global business through its various subsidiaries.
    • April 20: Hammerhead Fred kills a Great White Shark in the lagoon at the base of Mount Mayday.
    • October: The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) is built in Florida.
  • 1987
    • Archaeologists uncover the remains of Pleasure Island.
  • 1988
    • AMC Pleasure Island 24 is rebuilt by American Multi-Cinemas, Inc. and the Walt Disney Company.
  • 1989
    • Pleasure Island is reopened to the public.
    • February 1: Lillian Boyer dies.
    • October 1: Hammerhead Fred unsuccessfully fights a massive shark in Humunga Cowabunga.

1990s[]

  • 1990
    • August 12: The T-Rex skeleton FMNH PR 2081or, "Sue" is discovered in South Dakota.
  • 1994
    • July: The Hollywood Tower Hotel is reopened to the public
    • November 26: Hammerhead Fred kills a Bull Shark in Humunga Cowabunga.
  • 1997:
    • December 16: Lillian Bounds Disney dies.

21st century[]

2000s[]

  • 2007
    • December: TV-show host Joshua Gates finds an alleged (in real-life debunked) yeti footprint in the Himalayas.
  • 2008
    • April: Josh Gates donates his Yeti footprint cast to the Yeti Museum of Serka Zong.
  • 2009
    • C. the events of Up.

2010s[]

  • 2010
    • November 26: Adventure Trading Company member Palle Huld dies.
  • 2013
    • April 8: Annette Funicello dies.

2020s[]

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