Scrooge McDuck

Scrooge McDuck is a fictional character created by artist Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company's comic books. Scrooge is the uncle of Donald Duck, and is likely meant to be a caricature of Andrew Carnegie. The first member of the Clan McDuck to appear in the comics, Scrooge's name was based on Ebenezer Scrooge, a character from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

Scrooge McDuck timeline

Details are constantly added to Scrooge's biography by many different writers. However, one popular timeline was created by writer Don Rosa, consisting of the most important "facts" about Scrooge's life. Please note this tentative timeline is in serious disharmony with the DuckTales cartoon, (as well as a lot of Non-Barks comics), as much of the technology displayed in that series is simply nonexistent when working within this timeline.

Related Topics:
Don Rosa - DuckTales

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• 1867: Scrooge was born in Glasgow, Scotland to Fergus McDuck and Downy O'Drake. He had an older half-brother, Rumpus McFowl. He would have two younger sisters, namely Matilda McDuck and Hortense McDuck, and a younger half-brother named Gideon McDuck.
• 1877: Scrooge becomes a shoe-polisher but his first customer fools him and pays him with an American dime. He keeps the dime he can't spend as his symbol of success.
• 1880: Scrooge emigrates to the United States. He first meets his uncle, Mississippi riverboater Angus "Pothole" McDuck and the Beagle Boys, a family of outlaws that remain his enemies for the rest of his life.
• 1882: His uncle retires and leaves his riverboat, named "Dilly Dollar," to Scrooge. The Beagle Boys destroy the riverboat in an act of revenge. Scrooge decides to try his luck in the American West and later in the year gets hired as a cowboy by cattle baron Murdo MacKenzie (an actual historical figure, one of the many that Scrooge met).
• 1883: Scrooge becomes a miner searching for silver and copper.
• 1885: Scrooge's father calls his son back to Scotland on an important family matter. Just a week before he leaves he meets and befriends the millionaire Howard Rockerduck, who had became rich in the California gold rush of 1849. He also meets Howard's seven year-old spoiled son John Rockerduck, who will grow up to become the Third Richest Duck in the world and one of Scrooge's main rivals.
• 1886-1889: Scrooge searches for gold in South Africa. During his first year there he saves the life of a duck about his age named Flintheart Glomgold. A little later they become bitter enemies, and remain as such for the rest of their lives. Glomgold later became the Second Richest Duck in the World.
• 1889-1893: Scrooge returns to the United States to search for gold. He meets many famous historical figures but his search fails.
• 1893-1896: Scrooge goes to Australia to search for gold but his search again fails.
• 1896-1899: Scrooge searches for gold in the Klondike. During his years there he meets the saloon owner, singer and occasional thief "Glittering" Goldie O'Gilt. He continues to have a love/hate relationship with her for the rest of their lives. His search for gold succeeds.
• 1897: Scrooge's mother Downy O'Drake dies, aged 57, in the Duckenburgh, Dismal Downs.
• 1899-1902: Scrooge becomes a millionaire and buys a bank. He starts building a small financial empire; by 1902 he has become a billionaire.
• 1902: Scrooge returns to Scotland to get his sisters Matilda McDuck and Hortense McDuck to come to America with him. Also in 1902, Scrooge's father Fergus McDuck dies, aged 67, in the Duckenburgh, Dismal Downs. Scrooge's mother and one of his two uncles, Angus "Pothole" McDuck (deceased in 1901, aged 72), had already died by this point. Scrooge, Matilda and Hortense are the last of the McDuck clan. Scrooge settles in the small village of Duckburg, Calisota, USA, which he chose as his homebase.
• 1909-1930: While his sisters remain in Duckburg and run his empire, Scrooge travels the world expanding his empire in every continent.
• 1930: Scrooge becomes the richest duck in the world but a fight with his family leaves him with no contact with them for the next seventeen years. Note that during this year he met his ten-year-old nephew Donald Fauntleroy Duck and his nephew's twin sister Della Thelma Duck for the first time. He also first met Brigitta McBridge, a woman who fell in love with him; they continued to have a love/hate relationship for the rest of their lives.
• 1942: Scrooge feels depressed and tired and decides to retire.
• 1947: Scrooge meets his nephew Donald Duck again and his grandnephews, Della's children, Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck. He decides to become active again and soon a circle of activities whirl around him as he attracts the attention of relatives, old and new enemies and friends.
• 1953: Scrooge's uncle Jake McDuck dies, aged 121, in Glasgow, Scotland. According to Carl Barks (1901-2000), Jake McDuck was the oldest ever member of the Duck/McDuck family.
• 1961: Scrooge meets the Italian sorceress Magica De Spell for the first time, as she begins her various attempts to steal Scrooge's Number One Dime so she can melt it into an amulet.
• 1967: After a life of adventure, Scrooge McDuck purportedly dies at the age of 100, according to Don Rosa's unofficial timelines (though sometimes Rosa does not trust his timeline).
• 1994: According to Carl Barks, Scrooge McDuck is still alive in 1994, having found the Trojan Horse.
• 1997: Barks states that Scrooge is still alive in this year, according to the story "Somewhere in Nowhere."