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| Year | Births | Deaths | Scientific Disoveries | Timeline Events and Comments |
| 1893 | Lunar Colonies | Paris Worlds’ Fair. Impressive aerospace related exhibits with a centerpiece being the simulated Martian landscape. This is the first major international event to showcase the Earthling exploration of space. | ||
| First landing on Venus. | ||||
| Ewing and Stewart Drive | French Imperial Navy forms Squadron of Aerial Experimentation to develop aerial vessels and warfare. | |||
| Sidney Worlds’ Fair | ||||
| Sir Richard Burton makes Contact with la selpurdi. Sent to mars with the specific mission of contacting the Mysterious “True Martians” Burton quickly masters the lojban language of the Martians and is brought to meet them in one of their massive strongholds. | ||||
| War between British Empire and Zulu nation breaks out. The initial British invasion results in the near total destruction of the Central Column and a pitched battle at Rorke’s Drift. War continues for several months and ends with the complete destruction of the Zulu nation. | ||||
| Melbourne Worlds’ Fair | ||||
| Improved Spring Powered inventions | Royal Navy forms an aerial squadron. The intent was to provide vessels for use in South Africa. Although | |||
| Milan Worlds’ Fair | ||||
| Krakatoa Eruption | Large scale importation of Venusian springs. Clockwork manufacturers on Earth now begin production of improved and increasingly powerful spring powered mechanisms | |||
| Brennan Locomotive torpedo | ||||
| Loss of Etheria | ||||
| British War Office accepts the Brennan Locomotive torpedo for active service and agrees to purchase exclusive rights to the device for over 100,000 pounds. Brennan is appointed director of the Royal Torpedo Factory at Gosport. | ||||
| New Orleans Worlds’ fair | ||||
| British Army in Sudan forms aerial company using experimental vessel Crusader and three requisitioned merchant vessels. Is ordered by General Wolseley to support the desert column and provide communications with the river column due to specific directions from the Prime Minister. | ||||
| Interplanetary vessel Etheria is loss with all hands in a tremendous explosion when she attempted to leave earth orbit. She had been outfitted with a new drive system designed by Nicola Tesla | ||||
| British Army Aerial Company is finally released to attempt rescue of Gordon. The four vessels arrive just as the Mahdist forces are storming the city. The vessels are able to force back the desert warriors long enough for the majority of the town’s surviving garrison and civilians to board the ships. A Mahdist ambush is sprung while the ships are pumping feed water for their boilers from the Nile. One of the ships is destroyed the other two are badly damaged. General Charles Gordon is killed during aerial retirement from the Sudan. | ||||
| Brennan Torpedo enters British Army Service. | ||||
| Brennan now begins work on Aerial version of his device, using aerolyth for lift and the pulled wire system for locomotion and control. |