Vampire Chronicle Notes

Timeline of World Events

1990
Jan - April - Hubble Space Telescope launched during STS-31, a Space Shuttle Discovery mission.

September 11 – Gulf War: President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he
threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait.

1991
Jan 12 - The Gulf War is waged in the Middle East, by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four
nations, led by the U.S. and United Kingdom, against Iraq.

March 3 - An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles, California police
officers.

July 22 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of eleven men and boys are found in his
Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment. Police soon find out that he is involved in six more murders.
The World Wide Web publicly debuts as an Internet service.

Sept. 2 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The United States recognizes the independence of Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania.

December 25-26 – The Cold War ends as President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev resigns and
the Soviet Union dissolves.

1992
April 29–May 4 – In Simi Valley, California, a jury acquits four LAPD police officers accused of excessive
force in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King, causing the 1992 Los Angeles riots and
leading to 53 deaths and $1 billion in damage.

Dec. 15 – Hip hop producer and rapper Dr. Dre releases his solo debut studio album The Chronic, which
sparks the beginning of the mainstream popularity and success of Gangsta Rap, G-Funk and West Coast
Hip-Hop in the United States (a run that lasts from the early-to-mid-1990s).

U.S. presidential election, 1992: Bill Clinton elected president, Al Gore elected vice president.

1993
Feb. 26 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of
the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over 1,000.

Feb. 28 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco,
Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations. Four agents and 5
Davidians die in the raid and a 51-day standoff begins.

Apr. 19 – A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire that
kills 76 people, including David Koresh.

Nov. 17–22 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes the legislative houses in the
United States, Canada and Mexico.
1994
North American Free Trade Agreement goes in effect.

April 8 – Kurt Cobain, songwriter and frontman for the band Nirvana, is found dead at his Lake Washington
home. He is believed to have committed suicide three days before he was found.

May 10 – Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy by lethal injection for the murder of 33 young men
and boys.

Sept.–Oct. – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to stop cooperating with UNSCOM inspectors and
begins to once again deploy troops near its border with Kuwait. In response, the U.S. begins to deploy
troops to Kuwait.

Nov. 4 – The first conference devoted entirely to the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide
Web opens in San Francisco. Featured speakers include Marc Andreessen of Netscape, Mark Graham of
Pandora Systems, and Ken McCarthy of E-Media.

1995
May 23 – Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Building are imploded. The event kills 168 and wounds 800. The bombing is the worst domestic
terrorist incident in U.S. history, and the investigation results in the arrests of Timothy McVeigh and Terry
Nichols.

July 5 – The U.S. Congress passes the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act, requiring that
producers of pornography keep records of all models who are filmed or photographed, and that all models
be at least 18 years of age.

Oct 3 - Retired professional football player O. J. Simpson is acquitted of two charges of first-degree
murder in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. The nine-month
trial receives worldwide publicity.

Nov. 14–19 — A budget crisis forces the federal government to shut down for several weeks.

1996
June 25 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen and one Saudi local.

July 17 – Paris and Rome-bound TWA Flight 800 (Boeing 747) explodes off the coast of Long Island, New
York, killing all 230 on board.

July 27 – The Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics kills 2 and injures 111.

U.S. presidential election, 1996: Bill Clinton is re-elected president, Al Gore is re-elected vice president.
1997
Feb 23 – Empire State Building shooting: A gunman kills one person and wounds six others before taking
his own life on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in Manhattan, New York City.

Feb. 28 - North Hollywood shootout: Two heavily armed bank robbers conflict with officers of the Los
Angeles Police Department in a mass shootout.

Mar. 9 – U.S. rapper The Notorious B.I.G. is killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles.

Mar. 26 – In San Diego, California, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.

June 28 – During the Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II boxing match in Las Vegas, Mike Tyson bites off
part of Evander Holyfield's ear.

Sept. 15 – www.google.com is registered by Google.

Oct. 27 – Stock markets around the world crash because of a global economic crisis scare. The Dow
Jones Industrial Average follows suit and plummets 554.26, or 7.18%, to 7,161.15. The points loss
exceeds the loss from Black Monday. Officials at the New York Stock Exchange for the first time invoke
the "circuit breaker" rule to stop trading.

Oct. 28 – In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average gains a record 337.17 points, closing at 7,498.32.
One billion shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time ever.

1998
Jan 28 - Clinton-Lewinsky scandal: President Clinton is accused of having a sexual relationship with 22-
year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky. This leads to the impeachment of Clinton later in the year
by the U.S. House of Representatives. Clinton is acquitted of all impeachment charges of perjury and
obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate trial.

Apr. 30 – Daniel V. Jones, a cancer and HIV-positive patient, commits suicide on a Los Angeles freeway
after a police standoff. The event was broadcast live on television and caused controversy about airing
police chases.

July 5 – Japan launches a probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as an outer space-
exploring nation.

Aug. 7 – U.S. embassy bombings: The bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to terrorist Osama bin
Laden, an exile of Saudi Arabia.

Sept. 4 – Google, Inc. is founded in Menlo Park, California, by Stanford University Ph.D. candidates Larry
Page and Sergey Brin.

Oct. 12 – The Congress of the United States passes the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Dec. 1 – Exxon announces a US$73.7 billion deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the second-
largest company on the planet by revenue.

Dec. 19 – Lewinsky scandal: President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of
Representatives. (He was later acquitted of any wrongdoing.)
1999
Feb. 12 – Impeachment of Bill Clinton: President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the Senate.

Mar. 25 – Enron energy traders allegedly route 2,900 megawatts of electricity destined for California to the
town of Silver Peak, Nevada, population 200.

Mar. 29 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark for the first time, at 10,006.78.

Apr. 20 – Columbine High School massacre: Two Littleton, Colorado teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan
Klebold, open fire on their teachers and classmates, killing 12 students and 1 teacher, and then
themselves.

Sept. 7 – Viacom and CBS merge.

Oct. 31 – EgyptAir Flight 990, traveling from New York City to Cairo, crashes off the coast of Nantucket,
Massachusetts, killing all 217 on board. The NTSB later reports that the co-pilot, Gameel Al-Batouti,
deliberately crashed the plane, however Egyptian authorities dispute this claim.

Dec. 7 – The Recording Industry Association of America files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing
client alleging copyright infringement.

Along with the rest of the world, the U.S. prepares for the possible effects of the Y2K bug in computers,
which was feared to cause computers to become inoperable and wreak havoc. The problem isn't as large
as theorized, preparations are successful, and disaster is averted.
Timeline of Las Vegas Events
1990
The Rio opens.

Excalibur opens.

Landmark closes. (imploded in 1995; now part of the convention Center parking lot. (WP)

Nob Hill closes (to reopen in 1992 as Casino Royale).

Siegfried & Roy begin their run at the Mirage

Guinness World Records Museum established

End of Year - Summerlin is officially founded and the first residential village, park and school opened.

1991

1992
Casino Royale opens in the space of the former Nob Hill Casino. It buys the Travelodge next door for
hotel space.

Holiday Casino becomes Harrah's, though the new carnival/party theme won't be installed until 1997.

El Rancho closes (and is imploded in 2000 to make way for condos). This was not the original El Rancho,
which was on the SW corner of LVB & Sahara.

Cannon Aviation Museum established near city

1993
Treasure Island opens.

Luxor opens.

MGM Grand opens (replacing Marina/MGM Marina).

The Dunes is imploded (to be replaced by Bellagio).

Defcon hacker convention begins.

1994
Summa Corporation is rebranded the Howard Hughes Corporation and continued to expand Summerlin
villages.
1995
Vegas World closes (to be replaced by the Stratosphere in 1996).

The world’s first Hard Rock Hotel opens in Las Vegas.

June 14 - $25 million monorail begins running between MGM Grand and Bally's hotel-casinos

Nov. 7 - Landmark imploded (now part of the convention Center parking lot – footage is used in Mars
Attacks!).

Dec. 14 - The face of downtown Las Vegas changes forever with the opening of the $70 million Fremont
Street Experience.

1996
Apr. 30 - The Stratosphere opens. (formerly Vegas World, without the tower.)

June 21 - Monte Carlo opens (replacing the Desert Rose Motel). Magician Lance Burton the featured
performer since the opening.

Sept. 7 -Tupac Shakur is shot; dies six days later.

Sept. - The $72 million, 1,100-acre Las Vegas Motor Speedway opens.

Nov. 26 - The Sands closes and is imploded (to be replaced by the Venetian in 1999).

Dec. 18 - The Orleans opens.

Dec. 31 - Hacienda closes and is imploded (to be replaced by Mandalay Bay in 1999). The casino had
started in 1956.

Neon Museum founded.

Work is completed on the Desert Inn Road arterial, creating the first tunnel under the Las Vegas Strip.
1997
Jan. - Coca Cola Co. opens its World of Coca Cola(r) store in the Showcase Mall marked by a 100-foot-
tall glass Coca Cola bottle.

Jan. 3 - New York New York opens.

Jan. 28 - Hilton Hotels Corp. makes a $10.5 billion hostile takeover move against ITT Corp., which resists
the bid. ITT shareholders reject Hilton takeover in favor of a more lucrative offer by Starwood Lodging.
The deal involves ownership of Caesars Place and The Desert Inn on the Las Vegas Strip.

Feb. 7 - Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino opens Masquerade Village and new 41-story, 1,025-room tower
giving the resort a total of 2,556 suites.

Apr. 14 - Sheldon Adelson breaks ground to build the 6,000-suite, $1.8 billion Venetian Hotel and Resort
on the grounds of the original Sands Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip

June 10 - Sunset Station Hotel-Casino opens June 10.

July 6 - Steve Wynn, builder of Las Vegas Strip megaresorts, calls for a "go slow" approach to future
expansion in Las Vegas.

Aug. 29 - The Forum Shops at Caesars opened 35 new shops, stores and restaurants in a 276,000-
square-foot expansion. Growth doubles the size of the upscale shopping mall adjacent to Caesars Palace
on the Las Vegas Strip.

Sept. 18 - The U.S. Air Force celebrates its 50th anniversary in an unequaled display of military aviation
might attended by 80 foreign, high-ranking NATO and Pacific Air command officials, and 300,000
spectators.

Sept. 27 - Harley Davidson Cafe opens on the Las Vegas Strip, continuing the theme restaurant
proliferation.

Nov. 25 - The Aladdin Hotel closes on the Las Vegas Strip November 25 making way for a $1.2 billion
gambling and hotel complex. Plans call for development of a Middle East-theme shopping center, a 2,600-
room hotel as well as a joint venture with Planet Hollywood Inc. for development of a neighboring $250
million, 2,000-room music-theme resort. Planet Hollywood drops out of the deal in 1998.
Housing boom in Summerlin and ranked as #1 community in the United States for new home sales.

Dec. 2 - Owners change the name of the Boomtown Hotel Casino to Silverton after Majestic Realty Co.
takes control of the struggling resort from Boomtown Inc.

Dec. 27 - Caesars Palace opens the Palace Tower

1998
Jan. 4 - Las Vegas Hilton opens “Star Trek: The Experience.”

Jan. 8 - Las Vegas Weekly newspaper begins publication.

April 27 – The Aladdin Hotel is imploded.

May 14 - Frank Sinatra dies of a heart attack. The next night the lights on the Strip are dimmed in his
honor.

July 4 - Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra founded.

Oct. 15 - Bellagio opens, on the site of the former Dunes and is billed as the most expensive hotel in the
world ($1.7 billion) opens on the Las Vegas Strip and initiates a policy barring persons under 18 years of
age who are not registered guests of the hotel.

Nov. 16 - Las Vegas Convention Center opens an expansion, boosting its total space to 1.9 million square
feet.

Dec. 31 - Hilton Hotels Corp. spins off its gaming division to Park Place Entertainment Corp., including the
Las Vegas Hilton, Flamingo Hilton, Bally's and Paris Las Vegas on the Strip

1999
Jan. - The Flamingo Hilton becomes Flamingo Las Vegas.

Mar. 2 - Mandalay Bay opens. Four Seasons Hotel opens.

May 3 – Phase I of The Venetian opens.

June 8 - Oscar Goodman becomes mayor

July 8 – A major flash flood in Las Vegas swamps hundreds of cars, smashes mobile homes and kills 2
people.

July 15 – The Resort at Summerlin opens

Sept. 1 - Paris opens.

Timeline of the Kindred
1990
Baba Yaga (ancient Nosferatu) wakes up, and claims control of Mikhail Gorbachev. Most Brujah council
members in Russia send their KGB agents etc, against Mikhail Gorbachev (they were against his reform
plans), but all agents vanished without trace.

The Brujah Council in Russia with Ventrue and Toreador elders get diablerised and then eaten by Baba
Yaga in only 8 days, there is supposedly only 1 survivor (currently in hiding). During which time Boris
Yeltsin gains control of Russia.

The population of Mexico City is estimated at 20 million mortals, 200 Kindred, 60 Garou, 20 Mages, and
millions of Wraiths.

Helena awakens after 158 years of Torpor. After clawing her way out of the ground, she immediately
drains Maria, her Progeny.

1991
Ice Box (Vernon), Brujah was embraced by Luther. Now Anarch.

The Brujah Council in Russia with Ventrue and Toreador elders get diablerised and then eaten by Baba
Yaga in only 8 days.

Sergei Voshkov is embraced by Baba Yaga.

1992

1993
The prince of Chicago declares a Blood Hunt on all Lupines. Garou and Sabbat assault Chicago,
destroying almost half the Kindred.

1994

1995
Tariq was captured by Tremere antitribe and subjected the Thaumaturgical ritual Quenching the Lambent
Flame reducing him from 5th to 13th gen.

1996

1997
Mar. – Night of Bloody Terrors: Giangaleazzo (Archbishop of Milan, Italy) destroy the Sabbat in his city and
burn the Code of Milan then joins the Camarilla (becoming the Prince of Milan).

A wave of madness sweeps across the Camarilla Malkavians reigniting access to their Discipline of
Dementation.
1998
Baba Yaga meets Final Death and the barrier isolating Russia from the rest of the world falls. Rumours
circulate throughout the Sabbat that the Hag’s death came about at the hands of the Black Hand Seraph
Jalan-Aajav, while some Camarilla Kindred claim that their own warlord, Karsh, is responsible for her
demise.

Some Gangrel antitribe whisper that the Gangrel seem perilously ready to abandon the Camarilla.

Tremere loses his struggle with Saulot in control for Tremere’s body. Tremere creates a ritual that
transfers his consciousness into Etrius. Etrius then travels with a coterie bodyguard from Vienna, Austria
to Atlanta, Georgia to meet with Sascha Vykos to negotiate an audience with Goratrix. Then from Atlanta
to Mexico City where Tremere takes control of Goratrix and destroys the Tremere antitribe with the coterie
that traveled with Etrius

Fortieth Justicar election. Brujah Jaroslav Pascek, Malkavian Maris Streck, Nosferatu Cock Robin,
Toreador Madame Guil, Tremere Anastasz Di Zagreb, Ventrue Lucinde

1999

Nosferatu Zelios master mason dies at the claws of the Sabbat.

The Seventh Sign of Gehenna “The Web of Power” Zelios geomantic web is actived and places Eastern
Europe (and Manhattan) on the verge of nuclear disaster.

Xaviar resigned his commission as Justicar. Nights after Xaviar resigns the Gangrel clan renouncing
Camarilla membership almost to a vampire.

Summer: 6th Maelstrom ripped through the Shadowlands.

Other Story Notes
Love Lost Still Burns (’97) – Nicholas Keller, Seven’s boyfriend still lives. Or does he? In actuality he
has become a Risen and stalks Seven from the shadows, trying to look over her and protect her. He
seeks knowledge on killing Kindred so that he may visit vengeance upon the creatures that corrupted his
former love. Nicholas’ Shadow on the other hand has far more sinister plans.

The Changeling’s Victim (’97) – Kacey still awaits Embrace so that they can protect themselves from a
Shadow Court Ogre. They had a long-term enchantment placed upon them when they were young after a
Sidhe and Troll saved (her) from (her) father who raped both (her) and (her) brother multiple times. When
their mother found out, their father went on a rampage, torturing them for days before finally killing their
mother. (Her) brother tried to intervene and got himself killed in the process. The two Changelings came
upon the house after seeing a large spike in Banality coming from the home.
They rescued Kacey, but not before the trauma had been inflicted. They couldn’t care for (her) and
enchanted (her) so that (she) could find them if (she) needed to. This backfired as (she) is now victimized
by an orderly that is actually an ogre and (she) knows what it is. (She) has conflicting nightmares and
memories, often confusing past, future and present. This is often when (she) reverts to her male form
which looks like her twin brother Casey.

To be Human is to be a Beast (’97) – A serial killer (normal human) is lose in the city. The coterie is
tasked with finding and eliminating this individual as a feeding victim (one of the coterie’s victims in fact)
gets confused for one of the serial killers. This killer is cunning and very resourceful.
Note – This is not the same killer that massacred Seven and her friends.

The Holy Society (’97-’98) - Beauregard’s past misdeeds continue to haunt him as a hunter form the
Society of Leopold continually harasses and hounds him. Leroy must find out who the leader of this
branch of the Society is an eliminate him with all due haste.

Fear’s Legacy (’98) – First the Malkavians rediscover their true power in Dementation. Now the
Nosferatu have found themselves changing after Baba Yaga’s destruction. Somehow the old hag
managed to enact a last minute ritual before her destruction causing some Nosferatu to regain their
former human selves. However this change comes with a price – their aura is felt by all and they know that
there is something monstrous about them (+2 difficulty on Social rolls). They also seem to gain the power
of fear itself (gain Nightmare in lieu of Animalism). More and more Nosferatu necropolis go silent, and
many wonder what exactly is happening to their clan.

Fang’s Experiment (’98) – Jason “Fang” Kyles, now the Primogen of the Las Vegas Nos has a captive
audience for his experiments. His enforcers are many as are his followers who almost worship him as a
twisted cult leader. After his transformation he finds himself ever more loved by the clan as he was the
first to undergo the change. He uses this to his advantage to use a mixture of Thaumaturgy, the Vaulderie
and tidbits of occult lore that he received from someone in Russia after Baba Yaga’s destruction. His
plan? To decentralize Discipline specialty and allow anyone who follows him to learn any Discipline as
though it were natural to their clan. Many are protective of their secrets though, and the Jyhad is littered
with the bodies of those that would share and expose those secrets.