By Velia Tanner and Julie Beamer (updated 8/26/96)
Duncan MacLeod (basic chronology)
1592-1630? Scotland (Family Tree)
Duncan was born in the Highlands and lived there
until his Immortality became known (1622, 4-
Homeland); was still in the area at the time of
his father's death in 1624 (4-Homeland); found and
trained by Connor MacLeod; met Martin Hyde as
a young Immortal (2-Prodigal Son); left
Scotland sometime later.
early 1630's France, near Paris? (Beast Below)
While traveling Duncan meets Urse, a more
simple-minded Immortal, and finds Urse sanctuary
in a monestary.
1635 France (2-Legacy)
Duncan meets Amanda and her mentor, Rebecca.
1637 Verona, Italy (3-Star-Crossed)
Duncan meets Hugh Fitzcairn while trying to keep
the Prince's daughter's virtue intact (he's a
little late). In the end, he "kills" Fitz and
they go off together to learn to read.
circa 1639 Italy (The Hunters)
Duncan is a bodyguard with Fitzcairn for an
Italian Duke and is attracted to the Duke's
daughter.
1653 Algiers (3-Finale, pt.1)
When traveling with an Immortal Arab friend,
Duncan is witness to the challenge by Xavier
St.Cloud. When his friend tries to avoid the
fight, Duncan goes in his place only to have his
friend arrive, to keep Duncan from fighting
Xavier (the friend loses).
1658 European Monestary (3-Song of the Executioner)
Duncan goes to a monestary run by Immortals to
look for his friend and to find a refuge. He
meets Kallas who uses the sanctuary to kill
Immortals when they leave. Duncan has Kallas
thrown out.
1659/60 Normandy (4-Chivilry)
Duncan lives with Kristen Gilles in her chateau
until he suspects her of murdering the artist he
fell in love with.
circa 1660 France? (Saving Grace)
Again traveling (wearing a type of uniform),
Duncan meets Grace who is delivering a baby.
1663 England (4-Timeless)
Duncan as an actor in a 2nd rate traveling show;
he's not that good :).
1665 England (3-Shadows)
Was almost burned at the stake for being a
witch.
circa 1670 Scotland (2-Unholy Alliance, pt.1)
Was Weapons Master and military tutor for a
chief's son.
circa 1685 China (Road not Taken)
[mentioned in dialog]
1696 France, near Paris (4-Till Death)
Gina meets her future husband, Robert de
Valincourt, with Duncan and FitzCairn
flabbergasted witnesses.
circa 1700 Paris (2-Prodigal Son)
Hyde kills MacLeod's friend Segur.
1712 England (4-Reluctant Heros)
Duncan tries to plead Scotland's cause with Queen
Anne, but a friend is killed in a dual with an
Immortal; Duncan is labeled a coward because of
it.
circa 1728 London-Dover Road (Revenge is Sweet)
Traveling from London to Dover; claimed to be
a merchant and used a common accent with the
people in the coach and reverted to his Scots
accent during the encounter with Walter
Reinhart.
1730 English Forest/Inn (2-Counterfeit, pt.1)
Was caught poaching and was rescued by another
Immortal who later tries to kill him.
1745/46 Scotland (4-Through the Glass, Darkly)
Duncan fights for the Jacobite cause with his
friend, Immortal Warren Cochrane who gets "killed"
in the process.
1746 Scotland (3-Take Back the Night)
Duncan is escaping with Prince Charles Stuart
after the defeat at Culloden. They take refuge
with Ceirdwyn (using the name of Flora
MacDonald). She dresses the prince as a woman.
Duncan stays to make the English pay and
Ceirdwyn eventually convinces him that the time
to kill is over.
1750 Don region, Russia (3-Testimony)
Duncan meets Cossack leader Kristov while
traveling, but he is disgusted when they attack
and sack a defenseless village.
1753 Constantinople (3-Finale, pt.1)
Duncan saves Amanda from having her hands cut
off for theft (she's a clumsy dancing girl).
[note: this could be the event mentioned in
"Lady and the Tiger"; the time is right.]
1755 North Africa (4-Promises)
Duncan makes a promise to another Immortal with a
"life for a life" bargin to save a boy from
execution.
1765 India (4-Wrath of Khali)
Duncan serves as a guide to the British and finds
himself respecting the Indian culture more than
his own.
1778 Japan (3-The Samurai)
Duncan was shipwrecked in Japan, accidentally
forcing the suicide of his host who gave Duncan
his katana.
1778 South Pacific (4-Reunion)
Duncan maroons an evil Immortal ship's captain on
a deserted island.
circa 1780 China (Road not Taken)
Duncan returned to visit Kiem Sun who had
perfected his mind control drug--except it
killed the subjects.
1780 Outer Mongolia (3-They also Serve)
After leaving Kiem Sun Duncan goes looking for
an Immortal martial arts master. He finds her
-- Mei Ling. She teaches him and after ending
their pupil-teacher relationship, invites
him to stay.
circa 1783 Paris (For Evils Sake)
Duncan was guarding a French Baron during
peace talks with the English.
1785 England (4-Leader of the Pack)
Duncan is living with a Duchess with Royal
connections when he and she fall afoul of Kanis
and his pack of dogs.
1786 Normandy (4-Through the Glass Darkly)
Duncan and Warren Cochrane go to visit "Bonnie
Prince Charlie" -- later they will remember the
event quite differently, with Duncan remembering
a broken man and Cochrane, a noble hero.
1795 England (4-The Immortal Cimoli)
Duncan has a young Immortal student, Jean-
Philippe, who's too cocky and loses his head.
1796 France (4-Till Death)
Gina and Robert de Valincourt's 100th wedding
anniversary. Gina saves Robert from the
guillotine, with a little help from FitzCairn and
Duncan.
1799-1816 Europe - Napoleonic/Empire period
1799--Duncan boozed and caroused with Gabriel
(Eye of the Beholder),
1803--had an affair with a Duchess in England
and fought Gabriel (Eye of the Beholder),
1804--lived with Amanda in a Bavarian Inn (Lady
and the Tiger),
1805--just returned to England with a
mortal friend and hangs in his place when the
friend is accused of murder (3-Blackmail)
1810--travels through Switzerland to French
border with Immortal friend Brian (both
drinking) (3-Courage),
?--in the British Army [a highlander reg.] in
the early Napoleonic Wars (2-Unholy Alliance,
pt.2),
1814/15--Meets Darius on the battlefield and
joins him in Paris, leaving him about a year
later (Band of Brothers).
1817 Snake River, Montana (3-Cross of St. Antoine)
Duncan runs across Immortal Durgan, who kills a
priest to steal the Cross. Duncan promises the
priest he will return the cross to the church.
[note: Snake River is a mythical location.]
1825 Philadelphia (3-Obsession)
Duncan is friends with Immortal David Keogh, who
wants to marry a wealthy man's daughter and is
refused.
circa 1835 London (the Gathering)
[mentioned in dialog]
circa 1840 Paris (Saving Grace)
Duncan sees Grace off to the Amazon with Sendaro
with a warning about him--he was right.
circa 1840 Paris (2-The Vampire)
Duncan's looking for business investments and
his partners are killed by another Immortal who
wants to marry the daughter of one of the
victims for her money.
circa 1842 Europe (a gypsy camp) (2-The Darkness)
a gypsy lover of Duncan's, curses him when she
sees in his palm he will never marry anyone,
even though he said he would marry her.
1854 San Francisco (3-Courage)
Meets Immortal Brian Cullen again, who has lost
his nerve and is addicted to opium.
1861-1865 American Civil War (Innocent Man and 3-The Lamb)
Duncan is hung as a spy when he is caught
helping slaves escape without his uniform.
Lucas Desiree, an Immortal, is a witness to the
hanging and digs him up. Also while helping
slaves escape, Duncan finds a child Immortal;
unfortunately the child is decapitated when
Duncan leaves him.
1866 Annapolis, MD (2-Epitaph for Tommy)
Duncan is challenged to a duel by the fiance of
Bess, with whom he was rolling in the hay
(literally). Bess is killed by accident.
1867 Mexico (3-The Revolutionary)
Duncan fights against Maximilian in Mexico with
an Immortal friend, Paul, a former Roman slave.
He realizes Paul fights for the love of the
fight.
1872 Great Plains, Black Hills? (The Gathering &
3-Line of Fire)
The Lakota band Duncan is living with is
massacred by soldiers when he wasn't there. The
army scout was an Immortal Kern who Duncan kills
in 1994. Presumably, Duncan then headed for
Holy Ground in the Pacific Northwest and stayed
there.
1873 Great Plains (4-Something Wicked)
Still tracking Kern and consumed by hatred, Duncan
meets Coltec, a hayoka, who helps him let go of
the hatred and get on with his life.
circa 1870s Pacific Northwest (Mountain Men)
Duncan meets Carl the Hermit who teaches him to
track.
circa 1880's Location unknown (Lady and the Tiger)
[Another encounter with Amanda, mentioned in
dialog, post 1876.]
1882 Pacific Northwest (2-Under Color of Authority) &
(3-Obsession) (unknown which is first)
Duncan tries to protect a young man from an
Immortal bounty hunter. The young man is shot.
(some of the date stamps in the script indicate
later dates, but 1880's was intended).
Also, Duncan wants to marry Sarah, who is
unfortunately already married; Duncan almost
kills her husband in a rage and he is shot by
the husband in front of Sarah, who rejects
Duncan in terror when he revives.
1880's Pacific Northwest (2-Studies in Light)
Duncan and Gregor try to help in a cholera
epidemic. Gregor is "killed" by a distraught
father.
1888 San Francisco (4-Double Eagle)
Duncan's living at a Saloon with friend Kit
O'Brady when Amanda wins the saloon from Kit in a
card game.
1890's Seacouver (?) (2-The Fighter)
Duncan fights in an illegal bare knuckle bout
for his Immortal friend Thomas Sullivan.
1896 Boston (3-Rite of Passage)
Duncan is set up by a helpless female Immortal,
Sharon, for Axel, an evil Immortal who uses her
as bait and kills her when she tries to leave
him.
1905 New York Italian Neighborhood (2-Revenge of the
Sword)
Duncan tries to help a grocer fight the Black
Hand. The grocer is shot for not paying
protection.
1914-1918 World War I--France, Red Cross (For Tomorrow We
Die & 4-The Colonel, 4-Deliverance)
Duncan is an ambulance driver for the Red Cross.
Xavier St. Cloud steals the army payroll by
gassing everyone, but fails to kill Duncan. In
1917 he meets Sean Burns, a psychiatrist working
with shellshocked soldiers. Near the end of the
War Duncan gets an Immortal committed to an asylum
for needlessly causing soldiers deaths.
1918 Russia (2-Warmonger)
Duncan rescues a countess and her family from
the firing squad by promising an Immortal
(Drake) that he won't ever come after him.
1919 outside Dublin (2-Eye for an Eye)
Annie and her mortal husband try to convince
Duncan to join the Irish revolution. He refuses
and Annie's husband is killed. Annie refuses to
escape with Duncan.
1920 Paris (3-Methos)
Duncan and Kallas run across each other again.
When Kallas tries to kill Maria, Duncan's
friend's niece, Duncan fights Kallas and cuts
his throat -- destroying Kallas's voice.
1920 Coal Mine Strike, Pennsylvania (2-The Zone)
Duncan tries to talk a friend out of joining a
strike. The friend is killed by Pinkerton
agents hired by his own father.
1921 Seacouver, WA (2-Turnabout)
Michael's wife Jeanette is killed in the insane
asylum where they both work by Michael's
alternate personality, Quenten Barnes.
1924 East Coast City (2-Bless the Child)
A new years party is raided for liquor and
Duncan tells his girlfriend he can never father
children.
1925 Seacouver, WA (See No Evil)
[mentioned in dialog]
1926 Louisiana (2-Run for your life)
Duncan helps Carl, another immortal, evade a
lynch mob.
1926 Southwest US [Barnum and Bailey Tour] (Lady and
the Tiger)
[mentioned in dialog]
circa 1930 New Orleans (2-Pharaoh's Daughter)
[mentioned in dialog]
1930 Paris (3-Reasonable Doubts)
Duncan is in a bank checking on an "old" deposit
when it is robbed by two Immortals. A woman is
shot dead and Duncan hunts down the Immortal
responsible, but lets his cohort live.
1936 Berlin (2-The Return of Amanda)
Duncan helps a physicist escape the Nazi's while
Amanda steals plates for US dollars. He lets
Amanda escape in the airplane in his place.
1937 Spanish Civil War (3-Blind Faith)
Duncan and Cage are covering the war for a
paper, when Cage betrays the Republican band for
money.
circa 1938 Russia (The Sea Witch)
Duncan tries to get people out of Russia with
girlfriend Niva and is betrayed by Alexei Voshin
who wants to kill him.
1938 Coconut Lounge (3-Vendetta)
Duncan meets Benny, two bit hood and Immortal,
and gets involved with two mafia brothers and is
shot by one so the brother can have the other's
girlfriend that Duncan was dancing with.
circa 1938 Seacouver, WA (2-Studies in Light)
Duncan meets and has relationship with Linda
Plager, a photographer. He tells her to look
for the good in her work. She tells him to
leave because his love is a distraction to her
work.
1939-1945 World War II--French Resistance (For Tomorrow We
Die & 3-Mortal Sins)
Mentioned in dialog in FTWD, he is actively
working with the Maquis in MS, when a Nazi
Immortal trys to find the resistance workers.
Unknown to Duncan, Daloux and a young boy
Bernard stab the Nazi to protect the others
and throw him in the river, where he stays for
40 years; in 1940 he was in London and was
"killed" with a reporter during the blitz (4-The
Blitz).
1954 Southern City (2-Run for your life)
Duncan visits Carl, an Immortal and baseball
player, when segregation is declared
unconstitutional.
1958 Greenwich Village, NY (4-Something Wicked)
Duncan meets Coltec again, after Coltec has killed
another Immortal. The evil is starting to get to
Coltec.
1960 Seacouver, WA (2-Turnabout)
[inferred: he knew Quentin Barnes had been
executed]
1975 Cambodia (3-Blind Faith)
Duncan tries to rescue a nun and her charges
from the war. Only Cage can help them and he
refuses in order to get more drugs out. The nun
and children are killed. Duncan buried them
where they died.
1980 Paris (For Evil's Sake)
Duncan meets Tessa when he jumps on the tour
boat where she's working as a guide.
1992-present Seacouver, WA & Paris, France
[note: Seacouver is the name of the city where Duncan lives. It's
halfway between Seattle and Vancouver :) ]
(All errors in this section should be blamed on Debbie Douglass)
30 B.C. Nefertiri and Marcus Constantine are lovers
then fight after Cleopatra suicides and Rome
marches on Eygpt. Nefertiri poisons herself
and is entombed in a sarcophagus. (Pharaoh's
Daughter)
850-853 A.D. Rebecca rescues Amanda from the collectors of
the dead during the Plague and then trains her
in the arts of swordfighting and in Rules of
'The Game.' (Legacy)