No kidding. *just laughing* I note the PotC one more for really amused interest -- I honestly came to believe that the writers were using a synthesis of piratical history and various other events and were deliberately being fuzzy about time themselves. There are things that in theory could help pin down a year -- signature of A Certain King on documents being one of them, presence of steam engines and redcoats and dress fashion and the like -- but none of them match exactly to each other, much less the overall setting.

For example: Mistress Ching? Probably based on Ching Shih, whose period of reign was approximately 1807-1810.

... I think I will stop. *giggle* Too much detail all melded together, but there's a lot and it's a lot of fun, so we just ran with it.

And now I'm the one running. To work. Bye!