Timelines
Follow the Red Baron through maps, dates, and turning points.
Travel through the story with a map-driven timeline, a real calendar view, a dedicated combat archive, a classic chronology, a simplified reading mode, an “on this day” view, and a surprise jump into the archive.
Choose a Mode
Timeline paths
Map-first
With the map
See events geographically, page by page, with red map markers and location-aware browsing.
Classic archive
Without the map
Browse the chronology as a rich card-based sequence of events.
Calendar view
Calendar
See the archive month by month in a real calendar that also preserves empty dates.
Combat archive
Combats
Follow the air combats in sequence and jump directly into the linked event, pilot, and aircraft records.
Reading mode
Simplified
Use a cleaner vertical timeline when you want fast scanning without the heavier card layout.
Place archive
By place
Browse the same archive in a quicker place-based structure built from locations and imported location descriptions.
Date lens
On this day
Find what happened on the same month and day across Richthofen’s story.
Archive jump
Surprise me!
Jump directly into a random event when you want discovery instead of planning.
Featured chronology
Selected timeline entries
May 2, 1892
MvR born
Powstancow Slaskich 92-94, Borek Wroclaw
‘Now about my youth. The old man was in Breslau with the Leibkürasseren 1 when I was born on 2 May 1892. We lived in Kleinburg.’
May 2, 1894
Manfred von Richthofen, two years old
MvR three years
May 2, 1899
Manfred von Richthofen is seven years old
MvR seven years
May 2, 1900
MvR eight years old
Powstancow Slaskich 92-94, Borek Wroclaw
When he was eight years old, he climbed the largest apple trees on the estate, which hardly anyone else could reach. But then he didn't let himself down from the trunk, b...
May 2, 1900
I did that myself
Powstancow Slaskich 92-94, Borek Wroclaw
"Because from the earliest days of his youth, Manfred had already shown samples of unusual energy. As an eight-year-old boy, my parents were expecting him one day from th...