Timeline of the Earls of Sild
1509-1547 HENRY VIII 1540 SieGFRieD MAXIMILLIAN SILDENSTEIN IS BORN, DESTINED TO BECOME 1ST EARL OF SILDenstein 1546 TYCHO BRAHE IS BORN, DESTINED TO BECOME FAMOUS DANISH ASTRONOMER
1547-1553 EDWARD VI     GERMAN PAINTER LUCAS CRANACH DIES
1553-1558 MARY I     1558 IVAN THE TERRIBLE INVADES LIVONIA TO TAKE THE BALKANS
1558-1603 ELIZABETH I 1561 SieGFRIED MARRIES MARGARET MACFARLANE. A YEAR LATER SIEGFREID WILHEIM IS BORN 1560 ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
    1571 SieGFRIED MAXIMILLIAN PURCHASES TITLE THE EARL OF SILDENSTEIN 1571 THE ROYAL STOCK EXCHANGE, FOUNDED BY SIR THOMAS GRESHAM, IS INAUGURATED BY THE QUEEN
    1575 at the tender age of 13, SieGFRIED wilheim becomes queen's favourite. 1578 BECOMES 2ND EARL OF SILDENSTEIN    
    1588 SAILS WITH LORD HOWARD. SECRETLY MARRIES ELEANOR SHORTLY AFTERWARDS. 1588 ENGLAND DESTROYS THE SPANISH ARMADA
1603-1625 JAMES 1 OF ENGLAND (JAMES VI OF SCOTLAND 1567-1625) 1603 a year after the death of the queen, eleanor commits suicide 1605 MIGUEL DE CERVANTES' NOVEL DON QUIXOTE DELIGHTS HIS SPANISH AUDIENCE
    1614 EDWARD SEIGFRIED BECOMES 3RD EARL OF SILDENSTEIN. 1619 MARRIES MARIA WHO DIES IN CHILDBIRTH 1616 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE breaks wind and DIES
    1620 3rd earl abandons son and sails on the mayflower 1622 the frumpy writer marie le jars de gournay writes about sexual equality
1625-1649 CHARLES I 1643 the earl returns to england with a new family and a new breed of bird, the wild turkey 1647 italian fishmonger tommaso aniello brings naples to its knees
    1648 the 3rd earl dies at the ill-fated battle of preston. william becomes 4th earl 1648 mad, crazy sultan ibrahim assassinated
1649-1660 OLIVER CROMWELL 1665 plague devastates the family; lord george survives. 1669 the earl chokes to death on a pig's trotter 1654 an explosion in a gunpowder factory destroys a quarter of the city of delft
1660-1685 charles ii 1662 disfigured by the pox, lord george becomes 5th earl at the age of seven 1662 transvestite highway'man' moll cutpurse dies leaving her sensational memoir of cross-dressing

1685-1688 james II

1685 5th earl marries hortense 1685 bishop egbert of hereford arrested for possession of clerical pudenda display tray
1688-1702 william and mary 1694 james siegfried born. death of his older brothers leave him next in line 1687 Chris Cock invents the microscope, swiftly dropping the original name of cockoscope
1702-1714 Anne 1706 5th earl loses nose at ramillies; silver replacement made. earl dies at malplaquet 1709 1705 astronomer halley claims comets will return
1714-1727 George i 1717 the dull 6th earl begins to establish the indigo library at sild hall 1719 Frederick William I of prussia dismisses MdM von trap following an eruption on his johnson

1727-1760 george ii

1748 6th earl dies of a stroke at 54

1758 7th earl dies at battle of carillon

1755 louis xv's beautiful mistress mme de pomadour shops til she drops
1760-1820 George III 1770 margaret, sister to 8th earl, is associated with henry duke of cumberland 1779 captain cook dies after offending hawaiians with pudenda display tray
1820-1830 George IV 1823 9th earl, known as the 'wicked earl' is crippled by gout 1821 napoleon dies of boredom
1830-1837 William IV 1835 9th earl acquires brass bound buggery box for collection 1836 John McAdam, road safety pioneer, dies on the road

1837-1901 victoria

1837 sebastian, gentleman scientist, taxidermist and victorian prig, becomes 10th earl 1861 albert dies of typhoid fever. earl's request to stuff him for prosperity denied
    1862 the earl's famous stuffed winged cat goes on display in sildchester town hall 1861-1865 american civil war
    1869 Albert becomes 11th earl, his life plagued by scandal surrounding his son 1894 younger son willliam killed in bulawayo by a matabele warrior
1901-1910 Edward VII 1909 young charles becomes 12th earl 1908 Old age pensions established
1910-1939 George V family drops german name of sildenstein and becomes earls of sild 1914 first world war
jan-dec 1936 Edward VIII        
1936-1952 George VI 1940 earl dies when the backsliders club is bombed in the blitz 1945 victory in europe day
1952-present elizabeth ii 1940-present george montague 13th earl of sild