


Furthermore, he is instructed not to reveal the contents to anyone else until 21 years after Carter's death. Burroughs also receives a manuscript of Carter's memoirs, which he is told not to read until 11 years after Carter's death. His nephew Edgar receives instructions to lay his uncle to rest unembalmed in a specially-designed tomb. March 4 - Exactly 20 years to the day of his advent on Mars, John Carter dies of natural causes on Earth, and finds himself back on Barsoom.February 6 - Tardos Mors and Mors Kajak leave Helium to seek out Carthoris.February 1 - Tars Tarkas ventures out to the Valley Dor.Carthoris, on a whim, decides to visit the Valley Dor, but is captured by the Black Martians and brought before Issus.Almost simultaneously, he re-awakens in the cave in Arizona. March 5 In a last, desperate bid to save Barsoom, John Carter flies to the Air Factory and dies just after re-activating it.This news is kept from the general populace to avoid causing a panic. March 2 - Word reaches Helium that the keeper of the Air Factory has been assassinated and the factory has stopped producing air.The last act of A Princess of Mars occurs in 1876. Princess Thuvia of Ptarth is captured by the Therns.June 22 - The Battle of Zodanga begins.May 1 - The great games commence in Warhoon.March 15 - Carter kills Dotar and Sojat while defending Dejah Thoris and gains all of their possessions and retinue.Powell is killed, and Carter, after taking refuge in a cave, is transported to Mars through mysterious means. The expedition is a disaster they are set upon by Native Americans. March 4 - John Carter and his friend John Powell head out to Arizona to look at a gold mine.

The majority of A Princess of Mars occurs in 1866. John Carter, then a soldier for the Confederate Army, is left broke. June 22 - The American Civil War ends.The whaling ship, Dolly Dorcas, goes down.The Tree of Life, origin of Barsoomian life, flourishes in the Center of Valley Dor.ĩ00 years before John Carter's advent on Mars, the first great battleship on Mars was built in Helium, but it had too great a quantity of the 8th ray.
