Around the World in Eighty Days (1872)

In-fiction date: 10/2/1872

On Wednesday, October 2, 1872, the precise and methodical Phileas Fogg wagers twenty thousand pounds at the Reform Club in London that he can circumnavigate the globe in exactly eighty days — a sum representing half his fortune. He leaves his club at 8:45 PM and collects his new manservant Passepartout from their Baker Street flat. At 8:45 PM they board the train for Dover. Fogg has not packed luggage. He expects to buy whatever he needs along the way.