User blog comment:Stormwell/Timeline of Events/@comment-3525200-20140121142237/@comment-16533050-20140122055122

Actually, the way its written I believe the author (Donovan) has been living in the Flooded District for a year... and he mentions the Regent as having forgotten the place. I only say this, because the Empress was apparently murdered six months before the beginning of the game... and even IF Hiram Burrows was named Lord Regent immediately, he wouldn't have been regent for a year.