Year Life of Sherlock Holmes Life of John H. Watson Life of Arthur Conan Doyle Events in England Events on the Continent Events in the World
1928 Travels to South Africa. H. H. Asquith, actress Ellen Terry die. Kellogg-Briand pact, outlawing war, signed in Paris by 65 states. Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
1929 Dies under circumstances unknown. Visits Scandinavia, Holland, returns exhausted, has heart attack. Publishes Maracot Deep, Our African Winter. MacDonald again becomes prime minister. Lillie Langtry dies. Yugoslavia created as dictatorship. Ernest Hemingway publishes Farewell to Arms. “Black Friday” in New York, world economic crisis begins.
1930 Publishes Edge of the Unknown; dies July 7. Britain, U.S., Japan, and Italy sign naval disarmament treaty. Last Allied troops leave the Saar. First Sherlock Holmes radio show broadcast in U.S., starring William Gillette.
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1 The table includes speculations about the lives of Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson, m.d., drawn from William S. Baring-Gould’s Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World’s First Consulting Detective, which are not supported by the text of the Canon. The dates given for the Canonical cases represent a “consensus” of the major chronologists compiled in “The Date Being—?”: A Compendium of Chronological Data, by Andrew Jay Peck and Leslie S. Klinger. (A “consensus” is the choice of a majority of the fifteen chronologists for some cases; for others, the choice of a plurality of the major chronologists.) Those cases for which there is no consensus date are marked “*,” and the date given is this editor’s choice.
2 Baring-Gould actually proposed that Watson married one Constance Adams, based on the then-scant information about Arthur Conan Doyle’s unpublished play Angels of Darkness, which had been suppressed by Sir Arthur’s family. The play has subsequently been published, and the woman whom Watson is depicted as wooing is actually Lucy Ferrier, the former wife of Jefferson Hope (of A Study in Scarlet). Baring-Gould’s thesis has therefore been corrected to refer to the woman actually named in the play. Few scholars today credit the play as a reliable source of historical data about Dr. Watson.
3 Some chronologists place this case before 1892.
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