1905

The year that the island was nearly destroyed by earthquakes that started deep within the sea.  Every family lost members.  The population on the island was dangerously low, some families only had a single surviving member.

1906

It took no convincing for the Voice to open the island to as many Outsiders as they could. For the first time marriages of Founding Families to Outsiders was encouraged.  This would last only one generation however.

1922

Several fishermen refuse to return to the deeper waters after claiming they saw a city of black stone beneath the waves during a calm night at sea. 

Jacob Fontaine develops an unnatural interest in this rumor.  It’s said that Jacob was driven mad by his own research.  By years end he is found on the shore with his guts spilled out and his genitals chewed to nothing.

1945

Eloise Martin loses both her husband and her infant son.  Her husband is found dead on the shore, his belly had been ripped open and his innards eaten.  Her son died after a rat bit him in his crib.  The tragedies were so close together many believe they are the cause for her madness.  It had to be madness.  Why else would she chain the school house doors and set it ablaze with the children and the Matriarch of House Keane inside?

1946

The Founding Fathers and the Voice determine that they must make up for the loss of so many young.  A small group of Bleakwater Cove folk are recruited to join the Island Community.  Those with children already or newly married are looked for specifically.

1954

Repairs to the Black Church bring about idle talk amongst the Island folk about how the sweet water spring has never once run dry, even during the harshest drought years on record.  The Islands harvests have never failed.

1960

The age of ‘maturity’ is moved from 16 to 18

1975

Vincent De La Poer seals off the island from the outside world.  

The Fontaines push to allow for some goods to be brought in from the mainland but it is denied.  Quietly and carefully they continue their operations when it becomes obvious that the island folk still require goods from Beyond the Tide.  

1978

The Stillwater Sanitarium is expanded after two women chosen for the Sowing survive childbirth but begin to display marked mental decline.  The children did not survive past the first week of life.

1984

This year had a rather large population of young adults that were meant to return to the island on their 19th birthday.  But they did not.  There was a great deal of concern as quite suddenly the island lost around thirty of their young adults.  Lucky and Dean Fontaine were sent to find these lost young.  When they returned it was revealed that most of them had died of this strange illness that swept through the Mainland and made it’s way to Bleakwater Cove.  Those that were not yet dead were hospitalized and after much discussion amongst the Founding Fathers the Voice determined that the young adults could not be returned to their homes for risk of spreading this new plague.

1985

The Tidelong Year is canceled this year for fear of losing more of the islands young adult to this strange wasting plague

1986

With the loss of so many of their young a couple of years prior and after much assurance given by Estelle Visage and The Crow that they could now test for this plague, the Voice and the Founding Fathers agreed to open the Island to outsiders.

1990

It is agreed that trade with the larger island of Bleakwater Cove is a necessary evil and that the young who have reached the age of majority should keep with the (now) ancient traditions.  The Fontaine family is placed in charge of all exports and imports to and from the island.  No outsiders are allowed onto the Island.  It is only goods being brought from the island or onto the island by the Fontaine family.

1998

 A group of visiting mainland fishermen disappear after anchoring too close to Cresline Cay. Their vessel is later found drifting with its nets torn to shreds.