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Indiana
Jones' Child years |
1899 - 1914 |
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1872:
Henry Jones 'Senior' is born in Scotland.
1878: Anna Jones
is born of a wealthy family in Virginia.
1898: Anna and
Henry Jones marry.
June 1899: Henry
Jones Sr. graduates from Oxford University.
July 1, 1899:
Henry Walton Jones 'Junior' (aka Indiana Jones)
is born in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Henry
Jones, Sr. (professor at Princeton University)
embarks on a two-year lecture tour around the
world together with Anna and Indy.
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May
1908:
Henry Jr., traveling with his Mom and Dad,
meets his tutor, Helen Seymour, in England and travels
to Cairo, where he meets T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence
of Arabia). Once there, Indy becomes involved in
discussions about archaeology, mummies, and the
afterlife. He also travels to the Valley of Kings
where he meets Howard Carter (the archaeologist
who would eventually open the tomb of King Tutankhamon).
Later, young Indy explores a tomb from which a fire-eyed
Jackal is stolen. (Chapter
1: My First Adventure - tv-series) |
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Late
May 1908:
Indy and his family travel to Florence where
he and his mother meet Puccini. Indy is tutored
in basic physics (the laws of attraction) as his
mother and Puccini deal with their own awkward romantic
attraction. (Chapter
3: The Perils of Cupid - tv-series) |
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September
1908:
Indy visits Paris and meets Norman Rockwell in the
Louvre. They sneak out to streetside cafes
where they meet several other artists. Arguments
ensue about the cubist movements and impressionism.
(Chapter 2: Passion for
Life - tv-series) |
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November
1908:
Indy meets Princess Sophie, the daughter of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand, at a riding school in Vienna.
Sophie becomes Indy's first love but he is forbidden
from seeing her again. Despite this, Indy
sneaks into Belvedere Castle to see Sophie and exchanges
gifts with her. (Chapter
3: The Perils of Cupid - tv-series) |
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September
1909:
Indy returns to Africa with his father to visit
a plantation near Nairobi. While there, Indy
meets Teddy Roosevelt, who is on an expedition to
collect specimens for the Smithsonian. Indy
helps Roosevelt out when he and a local boy go looking
for a rare gazelle, Burton's fringe-eared onyx.
The safari teaches Indy a great deal about the relation
between man and nature, and Indy actually discourages
Roosevelt from shooting too many of the endangered
gazelle. (Chapter 2:
Passion for Life - tv-series) |
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January
1910:
The start of 1910 finds Indy in Benares, India where
he learns a great deal about the various religions
of the world. He has a discussion with Krishnamurti
and Annie Besant, the leader of the Theosophist
movement, about the Buddhist, Christian, Hindy and
Moslem faiths. (Chapter
5: Journey of Radiance - tv-series) |
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March
1910:
Continuing his travels eastward, Indy next
finds himself in Peking. Unfortunately, he
becomes very sick just after visiting the Great
Wall of China. A cold rainstorm and a carriage
accident only worsen his condition. After
much debate about the merits of Western medicine
versus Eastern medicine, Indy is treated by a Chinese
doctor. (Chapter 5:
Journey of Radiance - tv-series) |
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March
1910:
Indy feels like a stranger returning home
from World War I. He recalls happier times with
his father during a 1910 journey through the countryside
of Russia where Indy runs away from his father and
meets an 80-year old runaway, fabled Russian novelist
and troglodyte Leo Tolstoy. (Chapter
4: Travels with Father - tv-series) |
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April
1912:
Indy visits England and is invited to high tea with
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Soon after, Indy travels
on the ill-fated ocean liner, the Titanic.
He and his tutor, Helen, narrowly escape the fate
that claimed more than 1.517 lives. (Young
Indiana Jones' Titanic Adventure - Random House
novel) |
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Tragedy strikes the
Jones family when Anna Jones contracts scarlet fever
and dies. |
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June
1912:
Indy returns to the United States while his
father lectures in Boston. He travels a bit
with Helen (it is her first time in America) along
the New England coast and engages in a treasure
hunt after hearing tales of Captain Kidd's exploits.
(Young Indiana Jones and
the Pirates' Loot - Random House novel) |
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Summer 1912:
Back at home in Utah, Indy acquires his famous fedora,
some initial experience with a bullwhip and a lifelong
horror of snakes. Indy also discovers that
many treasures do not end up in museums, but rather
in the hands of private treasure hunters when the
Cross of Coronado is taken from some Indian ruins.
(Indiana Jones and the Last
Crusade) |
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Late Summer
1912:
Later in the summer, Indy meets an Anasazi
man who claims to be Billy the Kid. With his
help, Indy helps stop a pair of bank robbers.
(Young Indiana Jones and
the Lost Gold of Durango - Random House novel) |
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November 1912:
An ampoule with radium was stolen from the
Institute of the Marie Curie in Paris. Young Indy
thinks that there is e a connection to the strange
message he discovered in the underground of Paris.
At least everything seems to refer to it. (Indiana
Jones Jr et l'Ampoule Radioactive - Hachette novel) |
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Spring
1913:
Henry Jones Sr. is in Georgetown lecturing
at the university on medieval literature. Indy,
however, travels to the Carolinas where he follows
the trail of a Civil War slave in the Underground
Railroad. (Young Indiana
Jones and the Plantation Treasure - Random House
novel) |
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Summer
1913:
In one of his first meetings with Marcus
Brody, Indy helps him in his hunt for archaeological
artifacts in Egypt. Together, they discover a valuable
ring that may be from the not-yet-officially-discovered
tomb of King Tutankhamen. They also cross swords
with German spies and narrowly escape the last major
outbreak of the bubonic plague. And that all with
his new friend, the young boy Sallah. (Young Indiana
Jones and the Tomb of Terror - Random House novel) |
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August
1913:
In the monastery of Tsadong - high up in
the Himalayas - an atmosphere of tension and distress
reigns. The child Lama, comes to be removed and
sequestered. Young Indy tries to save his new friend
without caring for the so called harmful demons.
(Indiana Jones Jr et l'Enfant
Lama - Hachette novel) |
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Late Summer
1913:
The summer ends with a brief jaunt to Russia
and a meeting with the hereditary Georgian princess,
Tamar. Afterwards he rejoins his father in Armenia
(his father is on a side trip studying the Crusades). (Young Indiana
Jones and the Princess of Peril - Random House novel) |
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Halloween 1913:
The fall of 1913 finds Henry Jones Jr. in a boarding
school in England while his father lectures at Cambridge
University. This does nothing to slow down Indy's
adventures, however. Between a corrupt mine owner,
a ring that may have belonged to the court of King
Arthur and the mystique of Samhaim (All Hallow's
Eve), Indy has little trouble filling in the time
between classes. (Young
Indiana Jones and the Ghostly Riders - Random House
novel) |
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Christmas 1913:
Indy and a boarding school pal, Herman Mueller,
aid Herman's father on a research trip to Stonehenge.
They soon discover that someone is trying to sabotage
the dig as they are confronted by a magic wielding
German spy. Indy and Herman barely escape injury
with some questionable help from the ancient stones
themselves and the power of the rising sun focused
through the saboteur's magic crown.
(Young Indiana Jones and
the Circle of Death - Random House novel) |
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January
1914:
Henry Jones Sr. allows Indy to travel to
London for one last vacation before returning to
school. While there, Indy discovers (through a bit
of misfortune) that an ancient Greek bowl is a forgery.
Indy and his father then travel to Greece in search
of the stolen artifact.
(Young Indiana Jones and
the Journey to the Underworld - Random House novel) |
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Spring
1914:
Indy discovers the power of an Italian curse
placed upon a cross made from the sword hilt of
a Norman warrior. He helps an old friend (Lizzie
Ravenall, who was involved in his Underground Railroad
adventure) locate the cross while an a break in
New York City. (Young
Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Ruby Cross -
Random House novel) |
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May
1914:
Indy's school in Utah burns down, ending
the year early. Making sure that Indy doesn't
lose out in his studies, his father sends him off
with a graduate assistant to southern France. The
goal of their trip is to find a letter from King
Louis IX, send before the king's second crusade.
Instead they find a jewel-encrusted crown swiped
from Louis by gypsies. (Young
Indiana Jones and the Gypsy Revenge - Random House
novel) |
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June 1914:
Immediately after his French escapade, Indy
is dragged to Constantinople as his father pursues
the Holy Grail. Luckily, also joining him is Herman
Mueller and together they investigate the trail
of a knife believed to be linked to the legend of
Cain and Abel (Cain and Abel where sons of Adam
and Eve; Cain slew Abel out of jealously). Their
adventure is cut somewhat short when Indy's father
hears of the assassination of Austrian Archduke
Franz Ferdinand and leaves Turkey.
(Young Indiana Jones and
the Secret City - Random House novel) |
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October
1914:
Far from the problems in Europe, the Joneses
travel to China in search of more Grail clues.
However, in Honolulu, one of their stopovers on
the way, the war catches up. Indy's adventure
in Honolulu pits him against a very active volcano
and a German agent intent on killing a British
professor.
(Young Indiana Jones and
the Mountain of Fire - Random House novel)
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Once they finally leave Honolulu,
they still encounter troubles as their steamer is
intercepted by a Japanese naval vessel. Indy discovers
soon after that someone has smuggled a golden Chinese
dragon statuette in his luggage, which he hides
from the Japanese inspectors. Once they reach the
mainland, the statuette becomes object of a desperate
hunt by Chinese, Japanese and German factions. (Young
Indiana Jones and the Face of the Dragon - Random
House novel) |
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December 1914:
Indy and his father travel to India where he meets
and befriends Prince Kasim. The royal guard tells
Indy and Kasim not to touch the ancient tiger's-eye
amulet, but Kasim refuses to listen and begins wearing
it around his neck. When a tiger is seen stalking
the area, Indy notices that Kasim has mysteriously
disappeared. He begins to wonder if his friend could
have changed into the dreaded legendary beast -
the weretiger. Indy sets out to find the answer
and save his friend from the curse of the amulet. (Young Indiana
Jones and the Eye of the Tiger - Random House novel) |
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