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1520
Ramirez is assigned as Chief Metallurgist to King Charles the Fifth
1525
The Kurgan encounters Osta Vazilek
(listed under the alias Stosch Basalok in the Watchers' files)
1528
For Connor's tenth birthday, his cousin Dugal catches a salmon
1530 - 1535
The Kurgan beheads the Mongol before going in search of Connor MacLeod
1536
Young Connor rides into his first battle with his clan!
On the battlefield Connor is mortally wounded by the Kurgan in the Battle of
Loch Sheil between the MacLeod's and the Frazier's Clan. Connor
miraculously recovers, causing rumors to spread amongst the clan of a evil
spirit in him.
Cursed as a demon, only the intervention of his cousin Angus prevents the clan
from burning Connor. Instead, he is banished from the Clan, but not
before Angus gives him his sword.
1536
He travels for a few days and meets Heather MacDonald and her father. He
works on Heather's fathers farm and learns the skill of blacksmithing
1539
After Heather's father dies, MacLeod marries Heather and they move to the
Southern Uplands near the village of Jedburgh. They take up residence in a
small stone castle, next to a small forge.
1541
The Immortal Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez finds Connor and teaches him about
Immortality and the rules of the Game and the Gathering, when the few Immortals
who remain will battle to the last; he warns Connor of the danger of an evil
Immortal like the Kurgan winning the Prize and plunging mankind into an
"eternity of darkness"
1542
After barely escaping with his head in Babylon, Greece, and China, Ramirez
fights the Kurgan for the fourth and final time while Connor is away hunting
Heather tells Connor she was hiding in the woods, and never tells him that the
Kurgan raped her after killing their friend. MacLeod's home is destroyed
in the battle and Connor acquires Ramirez's Masamune Katana and vows to avenge
his death.
1587
Heather dies of old age
Connor buries Heather and burns their home; he takes Ramirez's sword with him
and moves to Edinburgh where he learns to read and write; he stays there around
ten years; during the last six months of this time, he lives with a farmer and
the man's young daughter until bandits try to rape the girl; Connor kills the
bandits, but not before taking a crossbow bolt in the chest in full view;
because he saved them from the bandits, the farmer helps Connor by sneaking him
away from town and faking his burial; Connor leaves for London; in England he
meets the Immortal Thomas Cavanaugh, who introduces him to many other Immortals;
Cavanaugh also stresses that the Prize must not be won by an evil Immortal;
Connor leaves England for France, and is surprised when Cavanaugh decides to
travel with him; Connor begins to court Isabelle Tourez, a cousin of the King,
but barely a month into the relationship, Cavanaugh reminds Connor of Heather
and convinces him to break off with her; late at night after telling Isabelle he
must leave, Connor and Cavanaugh are caught by the King's guards who arrest them
after a short fight; the next morning, Cavanaugh is executed by beheading;
Connor receives his friend's Quickening and then escapes while the guards are to
stunned and scared to try and stop him; he leaves Europe for Asia
1592
Dec. 21st - Duncan MacLeod is born in the Highlands of Scotland; his parents are
Ian and Mary