A page of a soldier's journal, undated but describing grass, is found in a Brennholt…

A page of a soldier's journal, undated but describing grass, is found in a Brennholt bookbinder's stock. It is seized. So the record has it; the Encyclopedia adds nothing that the record does not contain.^[1]

Those concerned

• The Crown v. S. M. (prosecution)
• The Ministry of Chronology (actor)
• Simone Marsch (questioned)
• Brennholt (location)

Place

Brennholt (town), The Ostrand.

Grand Chancellor at the time: Andrea Wendl. The Grand Chancellor of the day is given for reference; the Chancellery's roll fixes the dates.

Background

• 13 March 1984: A priest at Vellhausen takes down a dying man's account of a long walk east. The priest is transferred.
• 6 February 1983: A clock face at Ostrabruck is found to carry an unlicensed year on its calendar dial. The clockmaker's licence is revoked.
• 11 November 1979: A clock face at Marschau is found to carry an unlicensed year on its calendar dial. The clockmaker's licence is revoked. Among those questioned is a S. Wendl.
• 30 April 1979: A ledger with fourteen months of entries is found in the cellar of a Sanding counting house. The counting house is closed for a week. Among those questioned is a E. Wendl.
• 30 July 1974: A bundle of letters postmarked in a year that does not exist is handed in at Wasserdorf by an executor. The executor is thanked and charged.

The same year at Brennholt

• 7 May 1984: Brennholt marks the 700th anniversary of its charter with a procession along Long Street.
• 1 August 1984: A fire in Tanner Street at Brennholt destroys 6 houses. The volunteer brigade attend. No lives are lost.
• 27 April 1984: The harvest at Brennholt is reported late. Grain is 6 pfen the measure.
• 15 August 1984: The Ostra rises 80 centimetres above its mark at Brennholt. Cellars in Bridge Row are flooded.
• 4 October 1984: A wireless set is installed in the town hall at Brennholt so that the evening bulletin may be heard in public.
• 6 January 1984: A new wing opens at the Brennholt hospital, with 70 beds.

Aftermath

• 10 January 1985: The Court of Chronological Offences rules in The Crown v. S. M.: 11 months.
• 10 April 1987: Over three spring weeks a four-digit number is painted on more than three hundred walls in the Reedside district of Vellmar. The Ministry of Chronology describes it as 'an unlicensed date'.
• 16 November 1987: A ledger with fourteen months of entries is found in the cellar of a Reedtal counting house. The counting house is closed for a week.
• 20 January 1989: A gravestone at Sudfurt is found to bear a year that does not exist. The stone is replaced at the Ministry's expense.
• 15 February 1991: A licensed printer at Lindenmar surrenders an almanac found in a wall during renovations. The Ministry of Chronology declines to describe its contents.
• 25 January 1994: A priest at Brennholt takes down a dying man's account of a long walk east. The priest is transferred.
• 7 July 1996: A gravestone at Weinwick is found to bear a year that does not exist. The stone is replaced at the Ministry's expense.
• 21 August 1999: A priest at Berging takes down a dying man's account of a long walk east. The priest is transferred.

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