Timeline (Empires of Freedom and Liberty)

Empires of Freedom and Liberty is a timeline wherein the British Empire continues to exist, in a modified form, to the present, while the United States grew larger, and Germany also grew larger.

Events
1824: Central American War: British Honduras and the Central American Republic fight over the border of British Honduras. Reinforcements from Cuba mean the Central Americans have to yield in short order. British Honduras extends its border straight across to Mexico. Additional British settlers and troops join in the colony. 1836: Texas declares independence from Mexico 1840: Republic of Rio Grande declares indepence from Mexico with Texan aid, in exchange for fixing their mutual border at the Rio Grande river. 1846-48: Mexican American War fought over annexation of Texas and Rio Grande. 1848: US defeats Mexico, annexing California, Baja California, New Mexico, Texas, Rio Grande, Sonora, and Chihuahua. Rio Grande and Texas become states. Yucatan becomes independent. 1849: Mexico creates a settler company in Europe, bringing in new settlers for the north, including Spaniards, French, Belgian, Dutch, and Austrians into the northern border regions. 1852: Yucatan becomes British protectorate from British Honduras when Mexican aggression spikes. 1860: United States fights Civil War. 1862: Mexico becomes an Empire under Emperor Augustine I., who requests any able and willing Austrian to settle in the already densely European states of Durango and Sinaloa (in comparison to the rest of Mexico). From across Austria, around 40-60,000 arrive in Durango/Sinaloa, on promise of new opportunities and vast rich lands. 1867: Emperor Augustine is deposed and the Mexican republic is restored 1868-9: Mexican-Durangan War: Durango/Sinaloa declares independence as a reserve of sentiment towards the emperor, declaring itself independent of Mexico. The US is too embroiled in its own reconstruction to notice. In the next 50 years, however, Durango faces immigration mostly from Austria, then Hungary, then the Slavic portions of Austria-Hungary, and finally from the other German states.
 * 1740: Admiral Vernon captures Havana, Cuba, and the island soon falls, instead of heading towards Cartagena de Indias. Most of the Spanish population deports itself.
 * 1763: The British Empire wins the Seven Years' War, securing its hold on Cuba. The United Kingdom petitions for 5000 settlers from Hanover and Prussia to settle Cuba.
 * 1765: Preußisches Cuba-Siedlungsverein formed, with charter from King George, to settle any British American colony in possession of the crown, with promise of free land in exchange for loyalty to the British Crown. From 1765 to 1775, about 8,000 Prussians, Hessians, and Hanoverians move into Cuba, creating enclaves or "mini-Germanies" in towns with the British.  Their industry and skill bring a boost to the Cuban economy.
 * 1774: Quebec Act is much harsher due to a conflated report of a bar fire turning into attempted arson by papists in Quebec. The new Quebec Act bans use of French in government, removes French common law with English common law, and requires oaths of loyalty to the crown. Outraged Quebeckers turn to the nascent patriot cause, against government intrusion into their own internal affairs.
 * 1776: Declaration of Independence signed by the Thirteen Colonies and Quebec. Quebec's Patriots create a Quebec Congress in Montreal, attempting to oust Guy Carleton's government.
 * 1779: Bermuda captured by Americans
 * 1780: Bahamas captured by Americans
 * 1783: Treaty of Paris signed, recognizing the United States of America as independent, as well as Nova Scotia and Quebec. Newfoundland Island and a portion of the eastern side of the continent remain in British hands, along with Rupert's Land. Quebec's new border is Lac St. Jean into Saguenay river into the St. Lawrence on the east, the Hudson Bay watershed to the north, and Lake Nipigon into Nipigon Bay.  The United States maintains its border at the Mississippi north to the Lake of the Woods, thence emptying out into the Great Lakes.  This gives Rupert's Land valuable lakefront territory for its fur trappers.
 * 1791: Vermont joins the Union as the 14th state.
 * 1792: Nova Scotia joins the Union after signing the Constitution.
 * 1798-9: French-American War: Quebec and American citizens were being harassed by French naval forces from St. Pierre et Miquelon, leading to several minor skirmishes, and landing naval forces on the two small islands. Quebeckers and Americans worked together, seeing the value of pooling resources.  President Adams did not manage to secure a second term, however, due to his Alien and Sedition Acts, but he did leave the next President two things: a larger, more experienced navy, and Quebec, signing to be the 16th state.
 * 1806-8: War of Argentina: The United Kingdom captures Rio de la Plata, starting with Buenos Aires, then Montevideo, before Spain cedes all territory south of the Salado River
 * 1812: The Dutch settlers call Havana "Koningshavene." A popular name for the town becomes Kingshaven, and is the name of one of the Dutch neighborhoods in the town.
 * War of 1812: US and UK fight over impressment and trade harassment.
 * 1814: the British-American War ends, with not much to show for it on either side.
 * 1815-16: Second Argentinian War: Britain and Spain clash over the treaty's use of the Salado River as the border to the Pacific. Spain contends the southern river by the name, while the British contend the northern river was meant.  British and Spanish armies fight in South America, and in Central America, at British Honduras, with the encroachment of the loyalists from the United States.  With the shelling and capture of Panama City and Caracas, however, Spain capitulated.  It set the border for British South America at the Bermejo River at the north, emptying into the river plate via the Parana River, then due west to the Pacific; Montevideo surrounded by the Uruguay River would become British Southeast America territory.  All Spanish were ordered deported if they didn't want to become British citizens, which most did not.
 * 1816: Part of the Napoleonic War, Britain secures from the Netherlands settlers for South Africa at a rate of 5,000 per annum, providing free land for whomever would settle there. With the declining Dutch Empire, approximately 8,000 leave the Netherlands in 1817, and between 5 and 10,000 for the next 20 years.  Most go to South Africa, while some go to British South America, and others to Australia, New Zealand, Cuba, British Guyana, and British Honduras.