Before 1800
1542
A Spanish expedition lead by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo seems to have sailed along the coast of Calisota without landing there.
June 17th 1579
Sir Francis Drake takes possession of the land of Nova Albion, in the name of Queen Elisabeth I of England.
Mid-1580s
Drakeborough is attacked by Indians, everyone is supposed to have been killed - except Fenton Penworthy who where hiding in the underground room with Drake's library and sealed it with himself inside.
1596
Sir Francis Drake dies nearby Puerto Rico, probably on his way to Drake Borough.
May 1st 1707
As a consequence of the English-Scottish Act of Union Drake Borough becomes British.
1776
The British loose their colonies in the east, but keep Drake Borough on the Pacific coast.
1793
George Vancouver's expedition is supposed to have landed in the area during their exploration of the Western Coast.
Ca 1812
British troops return to Fort Drakeborough and restore the fort.
The 19th Century
1818
Cornelius Coot takes over Fort Drake Borough.
Ca.1820
Cornelius Coot and the pioneers are founding "The Woodchuck Militia" to protect the area from hostile Indians and other threats.
1821
The Spanish loose most of their American colonies, including Calisota and its surroundings and thus don't make any threat to the newly founded Duckburg anymore. Calisota becomes a part of Mexico.
Ca. 1830
The birth of Clinton Coot, the founder of "The Junior Woodchucks".
Unknown dates
· Cornelius Coot pipes mountain water to Duckburg.
· Cornelius Coot changes the name of his fort from Drakeborough to Dukckburg.
1848
Large areas on the North-American western coast, including Calisota and it's surroundings are turned over from Mexico to the USA.
1850
The new western territories, including Calisota, join the union and becomes full worthy states of the USA.
1860
General Stonewall Duck fights "the battle that saved Duckburg".
The new western territories, including Calisota, join the union and becomes full worthy states of the USA.
1861-1865
The American civil war. Calisota remains neutral.
Ca. 1880
Cornelius Coot dies aged ca. 90.
1897
Duckburg is reached by the worst northeaster in its history so far.
July 1st, 1898
The Woodchuck militia rides together with colonel Theodore Roosevelt, at the charge-up San Juan Ridge.
Ca. 1898
Casey Coot goes to Klondike to dig for gold.
December 1899
Casey Coot sells the deed to Fort Duckburg and Kill Mule Hill (a total of 10 acres of land) to a Scottish gold prospector named $crooge McDuck.
The 20th Century
Ca. 1900
The Woodchuck militia is disbanded.
1901
The Junior Woodchucks is founded by Clinton Coot.
1902
· $crooge McDuck and his two sisters arrive in Duckburg.
· Fort Duckburg is attacked during the charge-up Kill Motor Hill.
· $crooge McDuck's Money Bin is finished.
1904
$crooge McDuck builds a railroad out of the town.
1905
$crooge McDuck builds the main sewer of Duckburg.
1906
$crooge McDuck decides to condemn the railroad built in 1904.
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1908
$crooge McDuck leaves the town for 22 years.
Ca. 1910
Clinton Coot dies aged ca. 80.
Early 1920s
The twins Donald and Della Duck are born.
1930
$crooge McDuck returns to the city and find himself the richest man in the world, but also ends up loosing his family for many years to come.
Ca. 1940
The triplings Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck are born.
1942
The McDuck empire is closed down.
December 25th 1947
Donald Duck and his nephews meet their uncle $crooge McDuck who during some incidents this day, becomes revitalized and then returns to public life.
Spring 1949
Donald Duck discovers some square eggs at Duckburg Museum of Natural Science and is sent to Andes, together with his nephews, in order to search for the origin of these eggs.
Christmas 1951
· Accidentally a canon is fired form inside the McDuck-building in downtown Duckburg. The McDuck-building and several other buildings are damaged.
· $crooge McDucks builds a new downtown "overflow-bin".
· The great McDuck calamity: The bottom fells out of Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin and his money ends up at the bottom of a deep cave. Only a thin lair of earth keeps the money from ending up in deep quicksand.
· After dramatic incidents $crooge McDuck ends up paying for the greatest Christmas party ever made for the children of poorest part of Duckburg - known as Shacktown.
1952
· $crooge McDuck and the maharaja of Howduyustan erects a lot of statues, mostly of Cornelius Coot, around in Duckburg just to prove who's the richest.
· Gyro Gearloose takes over his father Fulton Gearloose's business.
· Gyro Gearloose manges to reverse the great McDuck calamity with good help from his new Little Helper, which actually was made from one of Donald's lamps.
1953
In a contest with their uncle Donald and Gladstone Gander, HD&L shows to be the better qualified for taking over McDucks fortune after his death.
1956
· Duckburg experiences the worst earthquakes in it's history. The quakes are caused by the Terries and the Fermies trying to get back their trophy that was stolen by $crooge McDuck and his nephews.
· A competition between Donald Duck and his cousin Gladstone Gander to show whom to be the best fitted to take over the McDuck empire, ends when feather from Donald Duck's factory was blowing all over the city.
· Donald Duck's short career as a smokewriter on the sky, ends with whole Duckburg covered by thick smoke.
1957
Donald Duck accidentally pours dye into the local river, causing all of Duckburg's drinking water to turn red.
1958
A bet between Scrooge McDuck and Jolly Ollie Eiderduck makes Duckburg ending up with it's main Christmas tree standing on some equipment from an amusing park.
1959
· Donald Duck causes a lot of trouble in downtown Duckburg when he accidentally thinks that people from a carnival are stolen wax-statues from Duckburg Wax Museum where he is a night-guard.
· In a dramatic Money World Championship held in Duckburg, $crooge McDuck finally win a close-race against his South-African rival Flintheart Glomgold.
1961
When testing out Gyro Gearloose's new Jet-broom dressed as a which, Donald Duck manages to scare some police horses and the animals at the zoo so that Duckburg ends up in chaos for a short while.
1962
During the worst northeaster hurricane in the history of Duckburg Donald Duck and his nephews manages to put lights in the top of the lighthouse at Cape Quack and thus saving the ship "The Dauntless" that was bringing the city's main Christmas tree from the Polar Gulf.
1964
As a result of unlucky circumstances Donald Duck ends up blowing up a dike so that Duckburg was flooded by water.
1965
Some trouble occurred in Duckburg when a machine that gave people skills via beams was stolen by the Brutopian Consul. The situation ended when McDuck, believing he was a great shooter, put a bullet through the machine.
After taking over some giant man-driven robots the Beagle Boys steal McDuck's money. Later McDuck manages to take over one of the robots and get his money back.
Sometime in the 1960s
Elvira "Grandma" Duck dies.
1967
$crooge McDuck dies near 100 years old.
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