Told out of order and often without date, the flashbacks that appear in most of the episodes of Forever Knight can nevertheless be analysed and organized to provide a reasonably coherent timeline for the long life of Nicolas de Brabant, better known to the viewer as "Nick Knight". However, a minority of the historical scenes in Forever Knight relate to events in the lives of other characters in the series.
The following timeline provides a chronological list of each of the flashbacks from the episodes of Forever Knight, with a few additional dates for which there is evidence. While most screenshots in the timeline below will clearly illustrate the approximate date in question, some cannot because the dates are merely referenced in the course of characters conversing. When no associated flashback screenshot clearly demonstrates the date in question, preference has been given to a screenshot in the episode where the date is mentioned in conversation.
Still mortal, the young knight, Nicolas de Brabant, is framed for murder. However, rather than being tried for the crime, he is permitted to go on crusade instead.
On his way home from crusade, Nicolas de Brabant is seduced by Janette, and then brought across by her master, LaCroix, who teaches him the skills he will need to survive.
Nicolas returns home to Brabant to see his mortal family once more. LaCroix falls in love with Fleur de Brabant, but reluctantly agrees not to bring her over.
Nick is modelling for Hieronymous Bosch, when he discovers that Bosch has raped a woman who has also been modelling for him: she blames herself, and commits suicide.
After they have been living together for 98 years, Janette decides to leave Nick. However, she reluctantly agrees that he may keep a portrait of her that was painted by Leonardo.
A young conquistador with Pizarro's forces, Javier Vachon, is mortally wounded in battle with an Inca warrior. Both are brought across; but, after giving them their eternal orders, their master walks into the sun the following morning.
Nick has a mad, secret love affair with a mortal girl, Amalia, who is besotted with him. However, he eventually drains too much of her blood, and she dies.
With a mortal partner, Nick kidnaps the Dauphin of France and holds him for ransom. After they murder their prisoner, Nick duels with and kills his partner, keeping all the money for himself.
Nick is accidentally seen flying by a Puritanfarmer with whom he has been staying. Believing himself mad or possessed by devils, the man hangs himself.
During the Great Plague, Nick brings across a zealous young doctor who is trying to treat the victims, only to find that he starts to prey on them instead.
LaCroix takes Nick to stay with another of his children in her chateau on the Côte du Rhone. She drains a talented violinist in order to absorb his musical ability.
An aging, but still lovely Baroness whose husband is turning to younger women tries to persuade Nick to bring her over so that she can preserve her looks forever.
A diseased woman is stabbed by fishermen when she steals a fish from their catch. Nick impulsively decides to bring her across; but, when she only wants vengeance, he kills her.
After enjoying music in a tavern, Nick and LaCroix begin to argue while Janette lures one of the musicians outside and kills her. Her friend is accused of the crime; and Nick tries in vain to defend him in court.
LaCroix gives Nick and Janette a lesson in the especial pleasures to be found in hunting down a mortal who has sufficient skill to think he has a chance of escaping them.
During the Crimean War, LaCroix tries to feed upon a dying Russian soldier who stabs him with a shard of wood. Unable to remove it himself, LaCroix has to turn to Nick for help.
Nick turns to a doctor for a cure, only to find the man draining him of sufficient blood to weaken him so that he can be imprisoned and used as an experimental subject.
Nick is working as a surgeon with the Union Army during the American Civil War when Sullivan, a war photographer, shows him prints of LaCroix feeding on a dying soldier. Enforcers kill Sullivan and destroy his plates.
Nick is helped out of a fix by an apparently friendly stranger, not knowing that the other man is a bounty hunter intent on collecting a reward that has been placed on his head.
Nick is trying to live apart from LaCroix, subsisting solely on deer blood. However, his master gets a carouche to turn Nick's dog, Raleigh, into a vampire that menaces people in the area, including Arthur Conan Doyle.
Nick becomes infatuated with a ballerina, Sylvaine Rochet, whom he sees as a pure angel. LaCroix tricks him into believing that she is a prostitute; and Nick kills her, only discovering her innocence as he drains her blood.
Vachon is attracted to Urs, a singer at a nightclub; but his attentions anger her patron, who threatens her with a knife. Vachon kills him and brings her over.
Nick is an archeologist on a dig at a Mayan site called Altun Kinal, where a jade cup is dug up that is reputed to have once been used in a ceremony to cure vampirism. To ensure that no more such cups can be found, LaCroix starts to kill off the local labourers who have been hired to work on the site until eventually they all quit.
Nick tries to persuade Czar Nicholas to take a stance against his wife's dependence on Rasputin. Then he discovers that the monk has been turned into a vampire by LaCroix, and decides that he has to kill him.
Nick is enticed to visit an archeological dig being conducted by a fellow vampire, Thomas Monroe, who claims to have found a papyrus scroll suggesting a cure for vampirism.
Nick is intrigued by a cross-dressing independent woman, Serena, who wants him to give her immortality, not realizing that she actually wants him to impregnate her, not bring her across.
When LaCroix stops Nick seeking an herbal cure in Paris, he uses an underworld smuggling operation to cross the Atlantic. However, LaCroix pays the mob boss to tell him where Nick is.
During World War II, Nick catches a young thief who tries to steal Janette's purse. The boy has been orphaned in the Blitz; and, after she decides to adopt him, LaCroix brings him over.
Nick crosses secretly into East Berlin to search a state repository for a book of magic, the Abarat, reputed to contain a cure for vampirism. In return for their assistance, he helps the night custodian and his family escape to the West.
Janette decides to move on, gives the Raven to LaCroix, and moves to Montreal. There she meets an arson investigator, Robert McDonagh, with whom she falls in love. When he is murdered, she becomes mortal. Wanting vengeance on his killer, she returns to Toronto.
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The timeline above is based on information from the following websites:
Loftworks: This time line determines flashback dates first from script evidence, then from costuming and sets.
Bright Knight:This time line determines flashback dates first from script evidence, then from real historical people and events depicted, and only finally from costuming and sets.
These two timelines do not always agree. Where there are differences, a decision was made on which date to use. For the reasons behind each choice, see the discussion page.
