'Women in Trousers' - Timeline
- 855 Joan becomes Pope and dies three years later. Maybe.
- 1021 Approximate date by which The Tale of Genji was written by Murasaki Shikibu
- 1361 Boccaccio begins writing On Famous Women, which includes Pope Joan
- 1601 Pope Clement VIII rules that pope Joan never existed
- 1913 Takarazuka Revue founded near Osaka
- 1923 Vita Sackville-West’s Challenge goes unpublished
- 1926 D.H. Lawrence’s The Virgin and the Gipsy
- 1928 Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography. Radclyffe Hall publishes The Well of Loneliness and creates a scandal. Arthur Waley’s translation of Blue Trousers, the fourth volume of The Tale of Genji.
- 1936 Vita Sackville-West publishes Saint Joan of Arc
- 1941 Virginia Woolf commits suicide
- 1950 Rashomon, by Akira Kurosawa
- 1962 Vita Sackville-West dies; her husband Harold died 6 years later
- 1972 Pope Joan film starring Liv Ullman
- 1972 The Rose of Versailles manga is first released and subsequently serialized
- 1975 Brother, Dear Brother manga debuts
- 1979 The Rose of Versailles anime is first shown on Japanese TV
- 1990 Malcolm Forbes includes Joan in his book Women who Made a Difference
- 1991 Brother, Dear Brother anime debuts on NHK
- 1996 Pope Joan; A Novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross
- 1993 The film Orlando, starring Tilda Swinton and directed by Sally Potter
- 1998 Disney film Mulan