1898

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The year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) predates the launch of the Transformers brand by eighty-six years.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Fiction

Live-Action Movie Continuity

Events

• Between November 18^th, 1890 and February 15^th 1898, the Seeker Jetfire takes the alt mode of a Pre-dreadnought battleship and masquerades as the USS Maine.

• Between his return from the Arctic Expedition and January 1, Captain Witwicky is confined to the Boston Secure Hospital.Movie Prequel #2

• January 1 — While exploring a cave system beneath the Sierra Nevada mountains Walter Simmons and Joseph Wells are attacked by a race of inhuman monsters. After dispatching the creatures, the men are approached by agent Billy North of the United States Secret Service. Original

• ???? — President McKinley sends Joseph Wells and Walter Simmons to investigate Archibald Witwicky's claims of a giant metal man found frozen in the Artic. Movie Prequel #1

• ???? — Witwicky's claims of a frozen giant found during the National Arctic Circle Expedition in 1897 are "officially" discredited by Wells and Simmons. Witwicky's personal effects are sent on to his family. Movie Prequel #2

• ???? — The First Seven are formed.

• February 15 — The First Seven reach the "Ice devil". Upon sensing a near comatose Megatron's energy signature, Jetfire leaves to investigate it, leaving the crew to believe the ship was sunk by a mysterious explosion. Events of Original take place.

• The group that would become Sector Seven has a fragment of the Golden Disk (and possibly the Covenant of Primus) in its archives, some 79 years before the disk's creation in 1977. Other artifacts collected include blueprints for a flying saucer, a strange arm and a map of Skull Island. Movie Prequel #2

Deaths

February

• February 15 — Billy North

Non-Fiction

Events

• ???? — The Boxer Rebellion.
• June 13 — The Yukon Territory in Canada was formed, as a split from the existing Northwest Terrorities.