A timeline of when all characters are from
Take this as a "sequel" to my post yesterday about which modern-day countries ERB characters come from. I wanted to continue this by going by what period of history they are from.
This was mostly for fun and also to spark a discussion- I'm now curious about what time period they will pull from next.
Again, THIS LIST IS NOT PERFECT- I'm not a history expert or anything, and just used basic Google searches to find out when these guys were born/created. ***For all fictional characters, I went off their creation date***
Anyways- here's the list
The Beginning of Time
- Adam
- Eve
- Zeus
- Thor
Ancient History
- Moses (1300ish BC)
- Confucius (500ish BC)
- Lao Tzu (500ish BC)
- Sun Tzu (500ish BC)
- Leonidas (500ish BC)
- Socrates (400ish BC)
- Alexander the Great (350ish BC)
- Julius Caesar (100ish BC)
- Cleopatra (60ish BC)
Medieval and Renaissance
- Santa Claus (270ish- based on St. Nicholas)
- Charlemange (742)
- Ragnar Lodbrok (900ish)
- Richard the Lionheart (1157)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- William Wallace (1270)
- Mansa Musa (1280)
- Donatello (1386)
- Joan of Arc (1412)
- Vlad the Impaler (1431)
- Christoper Columbus (1451)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Raphael (1483)
- Ivan the Terrible (1530)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Guy Fawkes (1570)
- Romeo and Juliet (created 1595)- *first fictional character*
Early Modern Era
- Sir Isaac Newton (1643)
- Blackbeard (1680)
- Voltaire (1694)
- The Easter Bunny (folklore, 1700s)
- Ben Franklin (1706)
- Frederick the Great (1712)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- George Washington (1732)
- Thomas Jefferson (1743)
- Mozart (1756)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770)
- William Clark (1770)
- Meriwether Lewis (1774)
- Shaka Zulu (1787)
Industrial Era
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Frederick Douglass (1818)
- JP Morgan (1837)
- Ebenezer Scrooge (created 1843)
- Ghost of Christmas yet to come (created 1843)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844)
- Thomas Edison (1847)
- Nikolai Tesla (1856)
- Sigmund Freud (1856)
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858)
- Henry Ford (1863)
- Wilbur Wright (1867)
- Grigori Rasputin (1869)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Oriville Wright (1871)
- Harry Houdini (1874)
- Winston Churchill (1874)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Pablo Picasso (1881)
- Sherlock Holmes (created 1887)
- Dr. Watson (created 1887)
- Jack the Ripper (active around 1888, unidentified)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- JRR Tolkien (1892)
- The Red Baron (1892)
- Babe Ruth (1895)
- Count Dracula (created 1897)
- Al Capone (1899)
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899)
Early 1900s
- Walt Disney (1901)
- Dr. Seuss (1904)
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904)
- The White Death (1905)
- Clyde Barrow (1909)
- Mother Teresa (1910)
- Bonnie Parker (1910)
- Jacques Cousteau (1910)
- Julia Child (1912)
- Frank Sinatra (1915)
- Stan Lee (1922)
- Marilyn Monroe (1926)
- Che Guevara (1928)
- Mister Rogers (1928)
- Stanley Kubrick (1928)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929)
- Clint Eastwood (1930)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (1931)
- King Kong (created 1933)
- Joan Rivers (1933)
- Elvis Presley (1935)
- Jim Henson (1936)
- George Carlin (1937)
- Superman (created 1938)
- Batman (created 1939)
- Robin (created 1940)
- The Joker (created 1940)
- John Lennon (1940)
- Bruce Lee (1940)
- Richard Pryor (1940)
- Chuck Norris (1940)
- Wonder Woman (created 1941)
- Kim Kong-il (1941)
- Bob Ross (1942)
- Muhammad Ali (1942)
- Stephen Hawking (1942)
- Joe Biden (1942)
- Donald Trump (1946)
- Steven Spielberg (1946)
- Freddie Mercury (1946)
- Stephen King (1947)
- Hillary Clinton (1947)
- Mitt Romney (1947)
- George RR Martin (1948)
- Bill O'Reilly (1949)
- Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner (1949)
Late 1900s
- Stevie Wonder (1950)
- Robin Williams (1951)
- Mister T. (1952)
- Macho Man Randy Savage (1952)
- Vladimir Putin (1952)
- James Bond (created 1953)
- Hulk Hogan (1953)
- Gandalf (created 1954)
- Godzilla (created 1954)
- Oprah Winfrey (1954)
- Bill Gates (1955)
- The Burger King (created 1955)
- Steve Jobs (1955)
- Bill Nye (1955)
- David Copperfield (1956)
- Jamie Hyneman (1956)
- Billy Mays (1958)
- Michael Jackson (1958)
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958)
- Ellen DeGeneres (1958)
- Barack Obama (1961)
- Wayne Gretzky (1961)
- Bruce Banner/The Hulk (created 1962)
- Steve Irwin (1962)
- Quentin Tarantino (1963)
- Dr. Who (created 1963)
- Ronald McDonald (created 1963)
- Michael Jordan (1963)
- Michael Bay (1964)
- Sarah Palin (1964)
- Jeff Bezos (1964)
- Kamala Harris (1964)
- Captain Kirk (created 1966)
- Gordon Ramsay (1966)
- Adam Savage (1967)
- HAL 9000 (created 1968)
- Tony Hawk (1968)
- Wendy (created 1969)
- Grant Imahara (1970)
- Tory Belleci (1970)
- Lance Armstrong (1971)
- Elon Musk (1971)
- Thanos (created 1973)
- Kari Byron (1974)
- Wolverine (created 1974)
- Luke Skywalker (created 1977)
- Darth Vader (created 1977)
- Kanye West (1977)
- Boba Fett (created 1978)
- Nice Peter (1979)
- Epic Lloyd (1979)
- Indiana Jones (created 1981)
- Hannibal Lecter (created 1981)
- John Rambo (created 1982)
- The Mario Brothers (created 1983)
- The Terminator (created 1984)
- Freddy Krueger (created 1984)
- Ghostbusters (created 1984)
- Goku (created 1984)
- TMNT (created 1984)
- Mark Zuckerberg (1984)
- Dr. Brown (created 1985)
- Pennywise (created 1986)
- Lady Gaga (1986)
- RoboCop (created 1987)
- John McClane (created 1988)
- Skrillex (1988)
- Bill and Ted (created 1989)
- Deadpool (created 1991)
- Miley Cyrus (1992)
- Justin Bieber (1994)- ***youngest real person***
- Lara Croft (created 1996)
- Ash Ketchum (created 1996)
- Harry Potter (created 1997)
- Dumbledore (created 1997)
- Austin Powers (created 1997)
Turn of the Century
- Master Chief (created 2001)
- Rick Grimes (created 2003)
- Napoleon Dynamite (created 2004)
- Walter White (created 2008)
- John Wick (created 2014)- only character to originate after the first ERB