Post by MoMo on Mar 5, 2012 19:08:58 GMT -6
75,000 BC - Earliest human altars, including evidence of prehistoric bear-cult.
10,000 BC - Domestication of dog
6,000 BC - Catal Huyuk cave-drawings depict leopard men hunting
2,000 BC - Epic of Gilamesh written down (first literary evidence of werewolves)
850 BC - Odyssey written down (includes many traces of werewolf beliefs)
500 BC - Scythians recorded as believing the Neuri to be werewolves.
400 BC - Damarchus, Arcadian werewolf, said to have won boxing medal at Olympics
100 - 75 BC - Virgil's eighth ecologue (first voluntary transformation of werewolf)
55 AD - Petronius, Satyricon
150 AD - Apuleius, Metamorphosis composed
170 AD - Pausanias visits Arcadia and hears of Lykanian werewolf rites
432 AD - St. Patrick arrives in Ireland
600 AD - Saint Albeus (Irish) said to have been suckled by wolves
617 AD - Wolves said to have attacked heretical monks
650 AD - Paulus Aegineta describes "melancholic lycanthropia"
900 AD - Hrafnsmal mentions "wolf coats" among the Norwegian Army; Canon Episcopi condems the belief in reality of witches as heretical
1020 - First use of the word "werewulf" recorded in English
1101- Death of Prince Vseslav of Polock, alleged Ukrainian werewolf
1182-1183 - Giraldus claims to have discovered Irish werewolf couple
1194-1197 - Guillaume de Palerne composed
1198 - Marie de France composes Bisclavret
1250 - Lai de Melion composed
1275 - 1300 - Volsungasaga, Germanic werewolf saga, written down
1344 - Wolf child of Hesse discovered
1347 - 1351 - First major outbreak of the Black Death
1407 - Werewolves mentioned during witchcraft trial at Basel
1450 - Else of Meerburg accused of riding a wolf
1486 - Malleus Maleficarum published
1494 - Swiss woman tried for riding a wolf
1495 - Woman tried for riding a wolf at Lucerne
1521 - Werewolves of Poligny burnt
1541 - Paduan werewolf dies after having arms and legs cut off
1550 - Witekind interviews self-confessed werewolf at Riga Johann Weyer takes up post of doctor at Cleve
1552 -Modern French version of Guillaume published at Lyon
1555 - Olaus Magnus records strange behavior of Baltic werewolves
1560 - First publication of Della Porta, Magiae naturalis
1563 - First publication of Weyer, De praestigus daemonum
1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day of Massacre, intensification of French civil war
1573 - Gilles Garnier burnt as werewolf
1575 - Trials of the benandanti begin in the Friuili (and will continue for a century)
1580 - Rebellion at Romans with cannibalistic overtones
1584 - Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft published
1588 - Alleged date of Auvergne female werewolf (Boguet)
1589 - Peter Stubb executed as werewolf at Cologne
1598 - Roulet tried as werewolf, his sentence commuted; "Werewolf of Chalons" executed at Paris; Gandillon family burnt as werewolves in the Jura
1602 - 2nd edition of Bouget, Discours des sorciers
1603 - Jean Grenier tried as werewolf and is sentenced to life imprisonment
1610 - Two women condemned as werewolves at Liege Jean Grenier dies
1614 - Webster's Duchess of Malfi published
1637 - Famine in Franche-Comte: cannibalism reported
1652 - Cromwellian law forbids export of Irish wolfhounds
1692 - The Livonian werewolf Theiss interrogated
1697 - Perrault's Contes includes "Little Red Riding Hood"
1701 - De Tournefort sees vampire exhumation
1764 - Bete de Gevaudon starts werewolf scare in Auvergne
1796-1799 - Widespread fear of wolves reported in France
1797 - Victor of Aveyron first seen
1812 - Grimm Brothers publish their version of "Little Red Riding Hood"
1824 - Antoine Leger tried for werewolf crimes and sentenced to lunatic asylum
1828 - Death of Victor of Averyon
1857 - Accusation of being "wolf leader" ends in court in St. Gervais G. W. M. Reynolds, Wagner the Wehr-Wolf published
1880 - Folklorist collects werewolf tale in Picardy
1885 - Johann Weyer's book reprinted at Paris
1886 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde published
1906 - Freud lists Weyer's book as among ten most significant ever published
1913 - The Werewolf (film) using real wolf in transformation scene
1914 - Freud publishes "wolf man" paper
1920 - Kamala and Amala, the Orissa wolf children, discovered Right-wing terror group "Operation Werewolf" established in Germany
1932 - Jekyll & Hyde (film) starring Frederic March
1935 - Werewolf of London (film)
1941 - Wolf Man (film) starring Lon Chaney Jr.
1943 - 1944 - Childhood autism first described LSD discovered
1944 - House of Frankenstein (film) includes mention of silver bullet
1951 - Outbreak of ergotism at Pont-Saint-Esprit
1952 - Ogburn & Bose, On the trail of the Wolf-Children published
1957 - I Was a Teenage Werewolf (film)
1972 - Shamdeo discovered living among wolves in India
1975 - Surawicz & Banta publish first two modern cases of lycanthopy
1981 - An American Werewolf in London (film) includes first four-footed werewolf
1985 - Death of Shamdeo
1988 - Monsieur X arrested McLean Hospital survey published
1989 - The first sighting of the beast of Bray Road
1990 - "Werewolf rapist" jailed McLean Case 8 full report published
1991 - "The Wolfman" escapes from Broadmoor
10,000 BC - Domestication of dog
6,000 BC - Catal Huyuk cave-drawings depict leopard men hunting
2,000 BC - Epic of Gilamesh written down (first literary evidence of werewolves)
850 BC - Odyssey written down (includes many traces of werewolf beliefs)
500 BC - Scythians recorded as believing the Neuri to be werewolves.
400 BC - Damarchus, Arcadian werewolf, said to have won boxing medal at Olympics
100 - 75 BC - Virgil's eighth ecologue (first voluntary transformation of werewolf)
55 AD - Petronius, Satyricon
150 AD - Apuleius, Metamorphosis composed
170 AD - Pausanias visits Arcadia and hears of Lykanian werewolf rites
432 AD - St. Patrick arrives in Ireland
600 AD - Saint Albeus (Irish) said to have been suckled by wolves
617 AD - Wolves said to have attacked heretical monks
650 AD - Paulus Aegineta describes "melancholic lycanthropia"
900 AD - Hrafnsmal mentions "wolf coats" among the Norwegian Army; Canon Episcopi condems the belief in reality of witches as heretical
1020 - First use of the word "werewulf" recorded in English
1101- Death of Prince Vseslav of Polock, alleged Ukrainian werewolf
1182-1183 - Giraldus claims to have discovered Irish werewolf couple
1194-1197 - Guillaume de Palerne composed
1198 - Marie de France composes Bisclavret
1250 - Lai de Melion composed
1275 - 1300 - Volsungasaga, Germanic werewolf saga, written down
1344 - Wolf child of Hesse discovered
1347 - 1351 - First major outbreak of the Black Death
1407 - Werewolves mentioned during witchcraft trial at Basel
1450 - Else of Meerburg accused of riding a wolf
1486 - Malleus Maleficarum published
1494 - Swiss woman tried for riding a wolf
1495 - Woman tried for riding a wolf at Lucerne
1521 - Werewolves of Poligny burnt
1541 - Paduan werewolf dies after having arms and legs cut off
1550 - Witekind interviews self-confessed werewolf at Riga Johann Weyer takes up post of doctor at Cleve
1552 -Modern French version of Guillaume published at Lyon
1555 - Olaus Magnus records strange behavior of Baltic werewolves
1560 - First publication of Della Porta, Magiae naturalis
1563 - First publication of Weyer, De praestigus daemonum
1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day of Massacre, intensification of French civil war
1573 - Gilles Garnier burnt as werewolf
1575 - Trials of the benandanti begin in the Friuili (and will continue for a century)
1580 - Rebellion at Romans with cannibalistic overtones
1584 - Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft published
1588 - Alleged date of Auvergne female werewolf (Boguet)
1589 - Peter Stubb executed as werewolf at Cologne
1598 - Roulet tried as werewolf, his sentence commuted; "Werewolf of Chalons" executed at Paris; Gandillon family burnt as werewolves in the Jura
1602 - 2nd edition of Bouget, Discours des sorciers
1603 - Jean Grenier tried as werewolf and is sentenced to life imprisonment
1610 - Two women condemned as werewolves at Liege Jean Grenier dies
1614 - Webster's Duchess of Malfi published
1637 - Famine in Franche-Comte: cannibalism reported
1652 - Cromwellian law forbids export of Irish wolfhounds
1692 - The Livonian werewolf Theiss interrogated
1697 - Perrault's Contes includes "Little Red Riding Hood"
1701 - De Tournefort sees vampire exhumation
1764 - Bete de Gevaudon starts werewolf scare in Auvergne
1796-1799 - Widespread fear of wolves reported in France
1797 - Victor of Aveyron first seen
1812 - Grimm Brothers publish their version of "Little Red Riding Hood"
1824 - Antoine Leger tried for werewolf crimes and sentenced to lunatic asylum
1828 - Death of Victor of Averyon
1857 - Accusation of being "wolf leader" ends in court in St. Gervais G. W. M. Reynolds, Wagner the Wehr-Wolf published
1880 - Folklorist collects werewolf tale in Picardy
1885 - Johann Weyer's book reprinted at Paris
1886 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde published
1906 - Freud lists Weyer's book as among ten most significant ever published
1913 - The Werewolf (film) using real wolf in transformation scene
1914 - Freud publishes "wolf man" paper
1920 - Kamala and Amala, the Orissa wolf children, discovered Right-wing terror group "Operation Werewolf" established in Germany
1932 - Jekyll & Hyde (film) starring Frederic March
1935 - Werewolf of London (film)
1941 - Wolf Man (film) starring Lon Chaney Jr.
1943 - 1944 - Childhood autism first described LSD discovered
1944 - House of Frankenstein (film) includes mention of silver bullet
1951 - Outbreak of ergotism at Pont-Saint-Esprit
1952 - Ogburn & Bose, On the trail of the Wolf-Children published
1957 - I Was a Teenage Werewolf (film)
1972 - Shamdeo discovered living among wolves in India
1975 - Surawicz & Banta publish first two modern cases of lycanthopy
1981 - An American Werewolf in London (film) includes first four-footed werewolf
1985 - Death of Shamdeo
1988 - Monsieur X arrested McLean Hospital survey published
1989 - The first sighting of the beast of Bray Road
1990 - "Werewolf rapist" jailed McLean Case 8 full report published
1991 - "The Wolfman" escapes from Broadmoor