Timeline (Napoleon's World)

1813
February 27th: Napoleon emerges from winter quarters in Smolensk, where he had spent the past months recovering from illness

March 10th: Napoleon defeats Tsar Alexander on the Moskva River, and enters Moscow the next day

March 13th: Napoleon defeats Alexander once more at Rotovya, and pushes north towards Petrograd

April 6th: Battle of Petrograd, one of the greatest in history. Tsar Alexander is near victory when his detail is surrounded and he is killed. Napoleon smashes Russian forces against Lake Ladoga and sacks Petrograd. 61,000 Russians perish in one bloody day.

April 8th: Fall of Petrograd. Napoleon is crowned King of Russia on the 11th, as his Grande Armee devastates a resurgent Russian army to the south of Petrograd.

Robert Legrange and David Savalier, two young French generals, defeat a Prussian-Austrian army at Auptsburg.

May 9th: The Duke Wellington perishes at the Battle of Toledo in Spain. British forces are routed as the tide of the Peninsular War turns suddenly.

May 20th: Napoleon begins the Russian Purge with his rout of the Imperial Russian Army at Dolotek.

May 29th: Napoleon captures Kiev.

June 17th: Napoleon invades Austria from Russia, using a Russian army conscripted from his conquered domains

June 25th: Battle of Budapest. Napoleon defeats Emperor Franz II, killing or capturing 101,000 Austrian soldiers.

July 3rd: Napoleon enters Vienna and crowns himself Emperor of Austria

July 9th: Ricard Murburrien, another French general, puts down the July Uprising in Baden. Napoleon's Grand Armee arrives shortly afterwards and secures central Germany

August 10th: Portugal sues for peace in Spain. Napoleon annexes Aragon and Granada and but leaves Castille its own country, withdrawing his brother Joseph from the throne of the brief Bonaparte-run Kingdom of Spain

August 19th: British forces are defeated in southern Castille, and Napoleon's troops overrun Gibraltar

September 11th: Napoleon's Grand Armee defeats the Prussian army at Dreisen. Prussia sues for peace, and Napoleon crowns himself Duke of Germany, leaving Ostpreussen an independent nation for the time being.

1814
April 7th: Napoleon invades Italy following insurrection Austria, capturing Venice.

April 15th: Battle of Malena, a decisive French victory.

April 24th: Battle of Bologna, one of the bloodiest engagements in the history of warfare. British routed, and they withdraw from Italy.

May 16th: Napoleon reaffirms control of Rome, raising Imperial flag over St. Peter's Basilica

May 29th: One year after the fall of Kiev, Napoleon captures Naples almost bloodlessly.

August 5th: A Russian uprising is quashed by Murburrien, and the Russian Purge continues in full swing.

1950
January 8th: English Premier Francis Turley steps down, which is considered by historians as the trigger moment for the Anarchy

August: Japanese city of Kyoto hosts Summer Olympics; it is one of the most successful Olympiads in history, and the first broadcast on television in the United States.

1952
November 6th: Russell Long of the Democratic Party defeats Vice President Thomas Dewey for the Presidency.

1960
January 1st: Disastrous French attempt at first manned space flight; cosmonaut Albert Reiche's spacecraft Imperial I crashed only seconds after trying to launch, killing nearly twenty scientists manning the launch. Huge embarassment for French Empire

1961
June 20th: French cosmonaut Jules Depargne is first man sent into space. His pod lands again in the Mediterranean after a fourteen hour flight.

1962
August: Quebec plays host to the 1962 Summer Olympics, the first time the Olympics have been held in what is technically a "colony". The games are a major boost to all of French Canada, and Emperor Sebastien himself appears at the opening ceremony.

November 3rd: United States midterm elections. National Party suffers huge losses as Democrats take control of Congress.

November 10th: Jack Kennedy's directorial debut, Oahu, is released, and is considered one of the greatest war movies ever filmed. It stands for twenty years as the highest grossing film of all time.

November 18th: Massive bombing attack on Foreign Ministry in Paris, leaves 34 dead. Emperor Sebastien vows to find perpetrators.

1970
April 6th-9th: Philadelphia race riots begin on April 6th following the bludgeoning death of Ray Holmes by two white Philadelphia police officers. After two days of violence, looting and vandalism, black community leader Bill Cosby famously wrenches away a megaphone from Police Chief Earl Snooker on live television and pleads "Fighting whites ain't gonna get us their respect," to a crowd in South Philly. Cosby's attempts to mediate deep into the night led to a calming of hostilities the next day, when Mayor Eisler arranged for the two officers involved in the death to be immediately stripped of their badges, and Chief Snooker resigned on the 11th.

June 16th: Maurice Bonaparte, Crown Prince of the French Empire, is killed in a car accident in Berlin. Circumstances were mysterious. His younger brother Albert, at the time head of the French Foreign Ministry, assumes title of Crown Prince and the duties within the Grand Assembly that are entailed.

August: Peking Summer Olympics, which are not nearly as financially successful as initially hoped and are considered a failure by the Chinese leadership, who wanted a grand affair.

September 8th: Mitori, the largest bank in Japan, files for bankruptcy only two years after Shogun Ikenaka's ambitious economic stimulus program went into effect. Edo Stock Exchange bottoms out.

September 11th: Hotoji Ikenaka abdicates his title of shogun and respectfully commits seppuku following a stunning banking failure in Japan three days prior.

September 13th: Asano Hinaga becomes shogun of Japan.

October 18th: Halifax Whalers win World Series in a four-game sweep over the Brooklyn Dodgers, earning their first pennant in club history.

1972
July 7th: J. Edgar Hoover, the 33rd President of the United States, dies only a few days after helping President van Dyke with Independence Day celebrations. He is eventually laid to rest in Oxford Cemetery.

October 18th: Boston Paddies win second consecutive World Series pennant with a sweep of the Dallas Rangers.

November 3rd: Clyde Wilson Dawley, Governor of Texas, defeats Illinois Senator Dennis Hayward in the United States Presidential election by 57 electoral votes.

November 23rd: Donald Sutcliffe and England's Tories suffer a massive general election defeat to the Whigs, led by Eustace Minor into a new majority government.

1973
January 20th: Clyde Dawley is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States, but his inauguration speech is cut short due to a ferocious snow storm that blows in over Washington as he makes his address.

December 18th: Emperor Sebastien disappears from public view, failing to give his weekly radio and television address he had given every week since assuming power in 1943.

December 27th: What many suspected is confirmed by independent French newspaper Le Parisien; Emperor Sebastien suffered a stroke and is slowly recuperating.

1974
February 3rd: On the 130th Shroud Day, the clearly-ailing Sebastien makes his first national television address since his stroke.

March 3rd: Pope Innocent XVIII, who had been in power since 1953, dies in Rome. Emperor Sebastien attends his funeral, the first time the Emperor has been seen beyond the palace since his stroke in December.

March 20th: Cardinal Luigi Vespacci is elected Pope Innocent XIX by the papal conclave in Rome.

June 14th: President Dawley introduces the Free Trade Agreement while visiting Emperor Eduardo I in Mexico City, proposing a North American bloc to counteract the growing economic, military and political swath of Colombia, Peru and Brazil in South America.

August: Summer Olympic Games held in San Diego, USA. Notable for Colombian national baseball team upsetting a loaded "Dream Team" of Americans that included Dalton Brye, Willy Hanson, Christopher Walken, T.J. Cross, and Dick Smuts. The "Stunner in San Diego" came as such a surprise due to the fact that America had never lost a baseball game in the Olympics, that half the team was pulled from the Boston Paddies (who had won three consecutive World Series coming into the Olympics), and that the 1974 edition was hailed as one of the most complete and talented baseball teams ever assembled. Colombia's gold medal victory opened up a new era of foreign players in the Major Leagues.

October 25th: Redeeming their humbling Olympic loss, Boston Paddies stars Willy Hanson, Chris Walken and Dick Smuts take home their fourth straight World Series title with a 4-0 sweep of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1975
February 3rd: On Shroud Day, Sebastien announces his son Crown Prince Albert's assumption of day-to-day control of French government, alongside the Imperial High Command. It is received by the world as an effective abdication, despite Sebastien still being Emperor in name.

April 10th: Sebastien delivers his final national address, in which he famously says, "And of my accomplishments, none are as great as securing the Empire's safety and prosperity. All others, personal and political, I have no use of."

April 28th: Emperor Sebastien Bonaparte of France dies at the age of 77, having reigned for thirty-two years. France arranges a national week of mourning for the deceased dictator.

May 1st: Albert II of France is coronated in Paris three days after his father's death at the age of 37.

June 15th: Burmese government toppled in a popular coup - exiled government and large parts of military retreat into jungle, beginning bloody Burmese War

September 9th: First Burmese raids into China and Vietnam begin, triggering expansion of Burmese War

October 28th: Brooklyn Dodgers defeat San Diego Padres in a 4-0 sweep to finally win the pennant they had been so close to for seven years.

1976
February 3rd: One year since his Shroud Day reception of primacy in government, Albert II completes his modest democratic reform by appeasing popular demand to grant the Grand Assembly more autonomy on domestic issues from the Emperor. Albert II signs new laws granting the Grand Assembly rights it had held prior to the Iron Revolution amidst Shroud Day ceremonies.

May: China launches Grand Offensive, taking on Burmese forces. South-East Asian Mercenary Army employed by Burmese exiles and French government to combat Chinese and Vietnamese as war escalates.

October 19th: Chicago Cubs beat Santa Fe Wolves 3-1 in Game Six to win the World Series.

November 6th: Pennsylvania Governor Adam Eisler defeats President Clyde Dawley by 14 electoral votes in one of the narrowest elections in American history, although he carries 53% of the popular vote. The election is significant in that it elevates a Jewish man to the Presidency for the first time, and makes Eisler the second Jewish head of state in a Western country after England's Prime Minister Donald Sutcliffe.

November 20th: Chinese hammered by SEAMA counteroffensive, hurt especially by chemical and biological weapons. Outgoing US President Dawley offers ten million in aid to the Chinese and more modern weaponry.

November 29th: Chinese Prime Minister Fan Hixiang authorizes the deployment of nuclear weapons as Chinese casualties mount in wake of massive chemical attacks inside China herself.

December 6th: For the first time since the invention of nuclear weapons, they are used against enemy troops: a Chinese bomber drops a nuclear weapon on a remote Burmese village where most of the exile government is suspected to be staying.

December 7th: 130,000 Burmese exile troops killed in a nuclear strike by the Chinese a hundred miles outside of Rangoon. An attempted strike against a SEAMA base in Vietnam fails as the bomb fails to detonate; the "Big Dud" is still kept securely locked at a site in Vietnam as an important historical object.

December 16th: France and the United States both condemn China's use of nuclear weapons, as the Burmese exile forces reel in the aftermath of the strikes

1978
February 9th: 190,000 American soldiers are dispatched to Los Clajos, Colombia, in preparation to cross into Brazil to assist the Republicano guerilla faction.

March 25th: President Adam Eisler gives go-ahead for covert invasion of northern Brazil from Colombia, effectively beginning Brazilian War.

Summer Olympic Games held in Samarkand, Persia.

September 1st: President Adam Eisler of the United States is assassinated following a speech at the convocation at the University of Indiana, being shot twice by Earl Lee Jordan in the chest as he leaves podium. He was declared dead an hour later at Bloomington General Hospital. Vice President Neill Wallace is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States in Washington, DC.

October 26th: Boston Paddies knock off the Brooklyn Dodgers 3-2 in Game Seven of the World Series to capture their sixth title since 1971 and eighth in franchise history.

December 3rd: Pope Innocent XIX visits America for the first time, meeting with President Wallace and holding mass at Star Stadium in Los Angeles.

1979
January 3rd: Nebraska Cornhuskers beat the Cuba Spaniards in the Orange Bowl 31-14, giving them the college football national championship.

May 14th: New York Stock Exchange collapses by 18% in one day following months of signs that Eisler's ambitious "Prosperity Tomorrow" program has been failing.

June 21st: Emperor Albert II sends Brazil first consignment of military materiel, including tanks and jets. On same day, Brazilian dictator Savala launches a bombing campaign against American forces near the coast.

August 3rd: New York Stock Exchange crosses teh 50% loss point, having halved its value since pre-May 14th in just under three months.

September 22nd: The French High Command, in a top-secret meeting, elects not to supply nuclear weapons to the Brazilians, fearing a dangerous escalation of the ongoing war.

September 27th: Emperor Albert II makes his case to the Grand Assembly to not send soldiers to defend Brazil, instead using money and covert operations to fuel the unstable civil war.

October 15th: Turkey tests its first nuclear weapon in mountains of Kurdistan, fueling Persia and Arabia's race to build their own weapons.

October 23rd: Long Island Sounders beat the Philadelphia Liberties 4-1 in Game Six of the World Series to take their first-ever pennant, ending their seventy-year drought of futility.

1980
January 14th: Following a dismal earnings report for the fourth quarter of 1979, New York Stock Exchange drops 15% additional percent to add to the 8-month slump it has been experiencing. The stock market reaches its lowest point since 1971, during a mild recession caused by overspeculation in the rich and opulent Sixties.

January 20th: Commentator Ronald Reagan famously forebodes "The shining light of the Seventies are over, and we can all look forward now to the darkness of the Eighties." The Dark Eighties would become a household term from then on out, even in the late Eighties when there was a brief recovery.

February 3rd: President Wallace stuns the political world when he announces he will not run for office in 1980, choosing to finish his brief term as Eisler's replacement.

February 6th: Sensing the political weakness of the Democrats with Wallace's drop, Nationalist party throws support behind Elizabeth Shannon, until that point a dark-horse candidate who had placed second in the Florida primary and a third in the Aroostook caucus

March 6th: American forces suffer a massive defeat in the Amazon campaign, and the death toll in Brazil reaches 40,000 since 1978. A chemical attack is launched against villages in the central heartland of the country. France is at this point shipping one hundred thousand tons of materiel to Brazil per week - one of their shipping convoys can be seen from space.

March 18th: American ally Argentina launches an attack into Brazil's southernmost territory, distracting Savala's forces briefly enough for American general Thomas Landry to reorganize his forces. The Argentinian assault is considered the reason Americans were able to survive the brutal onslaught of Brazilian forces during 1980.

April 9th: Lizzie Shannon beats out California Governor Robert Redford in the Texas and New York primaries, effectively winning the Nationalist nomination. She appears on The Ronald Reagan Show following her primary win and announces her intention to end the Brazilian War by cutting a deal with Savala and removing American forces within a year of her election.

April 30th: Emperor Albert II and President Wallace meet in Peking at a summit of nuclear powers. With full knowledge that France supports the Savala regime in Brazil and is funding America's opponent, the meeting is tense but both sides agree that an escalation of fighting is detrimental to the security of both nations.

May 8th: American stock exchange sinks to lowest point since the dismal 1957-1960 period.

May 20th: Jimmy Carter defeats Michael Floyd for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. He lags behind Shannon in the polls by nearly 16 points.

October 23rd: The Boston Paddies win their seventh World Series title since 1971, and their ninth ever, as Bobby Kennedy's team defeats the Tacoma Rainiers with a 4-0 sweep.

November 4th: Lizzie Shannon defeats Jimmy Carter by a margin of 130 electoral votes and 57% of the popular vote. The Democrats lose 45 seats in the House and 13 in the Senate, making the election one of the largest electoral landslides in history.

November 6th: Emperor Albert II visits Rio de Janeiro to meet with General Savala, and they watch a military parade together - staged to warn the new, upstart President Shannon of who Brazil's ally is.

1981
January 20th: Elizabeth Shannon inaugurated as the 38th President of the United States

June 20th: The George Lucas science-fiction epic is released, and becomes the highest grossing movie of all time up until that point. The movie stars John Travolta as Jake Windrunner, a young man who with his two robot friends, leaves his desert planet on adventures with a motley crew of space pirates to combat an evil Empire. Clear overtones to compare the film's "Galactic Empire" and the French Empire are noticed. With a supporting cast of Jamie Lee Curtis as a beautiful Princess named Jia and Clint Eastwood as the daring pirate Sam Koor, owner of the Centurion Eagle.

1982
March 1st: After nearly twelve years in the position, beloved Japanese shogun Asano Hinaga respectfully resigns his position. Jiro Hataka assumes the position later that day, having been Hinaga's chosen successor for several years.

1983
May 8th: Sultan Omar IV of Turkey dies after being on the throne for sixty years at the age of 89. His son, Omar V, is coronated later that day in Istanbul.

May 20th-23rd: The Colombian Congress votes to hold a vote of no-confidence for incumbent President Carlos Triago; he is removed from power on the 22nd in a stunning loss in the no-confidence vote, and his majority government collapses as several members resign. Effective the 23rd, Rafael Villana is the new President of Colombia.

1984
January 7th: The "Upset of the Century," when Texas Longhorns - who had won seven national championships since 1966 and were easily the premier college football school in the country, were upset by the upstart Massachusetts Minutemen, led by young head coach Harrison Ford.

1986
June: Persia announces that it has tested its first nuclear device in the steppes of Central Asia; a few days later, President Lizzie Shannon of the United States and Foreign Minister Peter Nurene of France arrive in Teheran to convince the Shah to discontinue nuclear programs. The Middle East disarmament talks are seen as a major boost to US-French relations and to calm the rapidly escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf

October 25th: Tacoma Rainiers enter baseball lore when they sweep the seemingly unstoppable Memphis Giants, who had not lost a single playoff game up until the World Series, while Tacoma had been forced to fight from behind in both previous rounds, which each went to the last game. 1986 was "The Year of the Little Guy," according to sports commentator Gerald Ford.

1987
April 7th: Caliph Ali of Arabia meets with President Shannon to discuss rising tensions with Persia, and humbly requests military assistance in case of conflict, since Turkey and Syria, while tepid US allies, are unlikely to battle the mighty Persian military.

1988
January 5th: Famous television and movie star Nick Johnson found dead in his Manhattan apartment from a cocaine overdose; the fallout of "Pretty Nick's" death casts a pallor over filmmaking industry and shines light on the rampant drug use in Hollywood and New York.

November 6th: Vice President Robert Redford wins the presidential election by 135 electoral votes over Pennsylvania Senator Frank Reed. Redford makes his famous, "We did it, as a country. We chose our future," speech.

1989
January 20th: Robert Redford inaugurated as the 39th President of the United States

April 4th: During a visit by Japanese shogun Jiro Hataka, Redford and Hataka are photographed driving golf balls off of the White House roof in their boxers and shirts at 3 AM. Redford and Hataka both later commented on how the incident, which was admittedly brought on by the two heads of state drinking sake together, was very inappropriate for men of their stature. The "Night Golfer" became a moniker for Redford for the duration of his presidency, and a lasting image of the President.

May 29th: Emperor Hirohito of Japan dies; his son, Akihito, is the next presumptive Emperor of Japan.

1990
February 19th-27th: President Redford hosts the World Nuclear Disarmament Conference in Havana, and representatives of 23 nations, both nuclear-capable and not, attend. Redford and French Foreign Minister Sebastien Moncrief agree to reduce US and French nuclear stockpiles in half by the year 2000.

August: Summer Olympics held in Hanseong, Korea, and they are an enormous financial and commerical success, and help boost Korea's economy, which had recently begun to fall behind China's and Japan's.

1991
February 1st: Under intense scrutiny for his "golf incident" at the White House in 1989 and thanks to a powerful opposition in the House of Daimyo, Japanese shogun Jiro Hataka resigns in disgrace, and is denied permission to commit seppuku by Emperor Akihito. Ryuji Nagano assumes title of shogun.

1992
November 5th: Sequoyah Governor John Burwin narrowly defeats President Robert Redford for the US Presidency, winning by a mere nineteen electoral votes. The election ends the twelve years of the Shannon-Redford era of Nationalist control; the National Party will spend the next four years figuring out ways to reinvent their image away from that of the 1980's

1993
January 20th: John Burwin is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States.

November 22nd: Film icon John Kennedy, Sr., finally succumbs to Alzheimer's disease at the age of 76, at his son Patrick's New York apartment.

1994
July 1st: Walt Disney's The Lion King is released, and it is the highest-grossing animated film in history. It will go on to win five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

August: Summer Olympics held in Dallas, the first Olympiad held in the US in 20 years. It is also the first time the US Olympic baseball team takes gold since the last American-hosted Olympics, ending their 20-year title drought.

1995
November 27th: Less than a year before US President John Burwin must face reelection, the National Press magazine runs an obscure story about Burwin possibly having an affair with superstar actresses Sandra Bullock and Natalie Weaver.

December 2nd: After a week of denials from the White House, Weaver comes forward and acknowledges an affair with Burwin that had been ongoing until 1994. They had met while he was campaigning for President in 1991.

December 20th: Sandra Bullock denies relationship with the President, but admits that they are close friends and can see where the supposition she had an affair with him came from.

1996
January 9th: Mitt Romney, the Mormon Governor of Michigan, scores a huge win in the Virginia Primary.

January 16th: President John Burwin addresses the nation in lieu of a worsening economy, and noticeably leaves out any comment on the Weaver scandal.

January 22nd: In a statement, Burwin's wife Wendy professes her support for her husband, vehemently denying any trouble in the White House marriage. Pundits question whether or not a messy divorce, such as the one that plagued Clyde Dawley's presidency, will occur.

February 1st: Portugal is struck by a major earthquake; 2,100 people are killed.

November 5th: Mitt Romney defeats John Burwin for the Presidency. Also, John Kennedy, Jr., is elected as New York Senator, becoming the next member of the Kennedy political dynasty.

1997
January 20th: Mitt Romney is sworn in as the 41st President of the United States

1998
March 23rd: In a stunning, unexpected move, President Romney convinces longtime Berlinerbank executive Reinhard Junge to take over as Chairman of the US National Bank - the first time a foreigner has been given charge of such a major US institution, especially one who has spent his entire life in the Empire and runs that country's largest and oldest private bank. Criticism is rampant over the move, feeling Romney is selling out to bring a 'Cold War enemy' into the beleaugered US economy

1999
December 4th: Hireki Tokoda assumes title of shogun after his mentor, Ryuji Nagano, dies of a sudden heart attack in Edo. Tokoda, assuming the position at only the age of 41, is the youngest shogun in one hundred and eleven years.

December 31st: New Years celebrations from around the globe usher in the 3rd Millennium. Paris, as always, tries to have the best fireworks and festivities of all; Emperor Albert welcomes in the New Year as "France's Century."

2000
January 1st: The 3rd Millennium begins amid massive worldwide celebration. The feared Y2K virus never strikes.

January 20th: Software giant Windstream introduces its new operating system, Millennium; it earns almost 200 million dollars in sales within its first day on the market.

March 4th: Major 7.5 earthquake hits the Tacoma-Vancouver area; 103 people killed. President Romney declares state of emergency in his Presidency's first significant natural disaster.

November 3rd: President Mitt Romney wins a smashing victory over Ohio Governor James Tanner in an election that was largely a referendum on the success of Romney's first term; due to a growing economy and a hopeful outlook for the first time since the late 1980's, Romney is considered a success by the American public.

2001
January 10th: Notre Dame Fighting Irish defeat the California Bears 34-28 for the college football national championship

January 20th: Mitt Romney inaugurated for a second term as United States President in Washington, DC

January 22nd: Parisian Stock Exchange loses 19% of its worth in one day following revelation of rampant corruption scandal in Sartribe, the largest manufacturing company in France, the largest single-session financial loss in French stock history.

February 7th: President Romney visits Mexico to officially repair strained relations with Emperor Eduardo II.

September 11th: Pope Innocent XXI dies in Rome. On same day, Tlingit Liberation Army stages a massive terrorist attack on Aleksandrgrad's main commuter lines, killing 450 civilians and wounding over a thousand. Also on this day, President Romney sponsors the American Peace Convention, which runs the entirety of the week in Boston.

September 15th: Stefano Diallino is made Pope Pius XV in Rome.

October 27th: San Diego Padres defeat Dallas Rangers in Game 7 of World Series 3-0 to take the pennant.

2002
January 13th: Mississippi Falcons lose on a last-second field goal to underdog Washington Huskies 20-17 in a stunning upset for the national championship for college football.

May 20th: Peking Stock Exchange and Canton Market both collapse simultaneously, feeding off of each other's weakness. Within hours, two hundred billion dollars of wealth is lost in China.

May 21st: China continues spiral downwards, and Hanseong's stock market drops heavily as well. Towards the end of the afternoon, the drop seems stable.

May 25th: Japan, the last stable Asian Bloc economy, starts to sag as the collapse in Korea and China escalates. The losses are the worst since the 1971 banking debacle that left Japan struggling in the early 70's.

June 8th: The Mars Frontier II mission launches from the United Space Center in Amarillo, TX, to begin its roughly eight-month flight to Mars.

July 3rd: Famed owner and baseball commissioner Bobby Kennedy dies at the age of 77.

July 19th: Japanese shogun Hireki Tokoda meets with Korean President Kim Sung-Yoon in Hanseong, where they frantically try to devise a way to dig out of of the massive and escalating financial mess that has been going on for two monhts. Billions of dollars of assets have been lost.

August 17th-September 2nd: Summer Olympics held in Bogota. Marred by attempted murder of Alaskan soccer player Yuri Ilyagin, who was hospitalized for the remainder of the games. Financially, the Bogota Games are one of the biggest duds in Olympic history.

October 26th: San Diego Padres win second consecutive World Series title by defeating the Dallas Rangers in a 4-2 series rematch of the previous year.

2003
January 9th: Virginia Cavaliers defeat Apachia Buffaloes 31-17 for the college football national championship.

March 15h: The Frontier II mission arrives in the orbit of Mars after an 8-month flight

March 30th: Voyage I, the lander of the Fronteir II mission, lands on the surface of Mars near the equator. Astronauts Owen Wilson and Ethan McGrady are first humans to walk on surface of Mars.

April 3rd: Voyage I leaves surface of Mars and returns to Frontier II, which will return to Earth after another week in the planet's orbit.

December 19th: Frontier II returns to Earth's orbit. Voyage II departs the ship and lands in New Mexico's Sonoran Desert. All six crew members are safe and healthy and the mission is one of the greatest successes in modern science.

2004
January 9th: Washington Huskies defeat the Huron Highlanders 35-24 to win the college football national championship.

November 6th: Massachusetts Governor Jay Leno, considered a heavy favorite going into the election, barely escapes with a victory over Florida Governor Jeb Bush, son of former Vice President George Bush and grandson of former President Prescott Bush.

2005
June 3rd: Successful and popular National Bank chairman Reinhard Junge resigns unexpectedly after a well-publicized disagreement with new President Jay Leno leaves the German-born economist frustrated and angry. "He couldn't run Massachusett's economy, he can't run America's," Junge says in his press conference resignation. Ben Bernanke is tabbed to replace Junge as head of National Bank by a bipartisan commission later in the month.

2006
June 30th: Emperor Albert Louis Bonaparte II of France dies peacefully at the age of 68, finally ending his long battle with lung cancer.

July 6th: After a week of mourning, Maurice Sebastien Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France at the age of 35.

August: Summer Olympics held in Vancouver. The games fully cemented Vancouver as the preeminent port in the Pacific Northwest, far more so than Tacoma, Wamash, Sydney or Bellingham to the north. The success was grateful after the failure of the 2002 Bogota Games.

October 28th: Only two months after their city successfully hosted the Summer Olympics, the Vancouver Pioneers baseball team wins a World Series pennant in Game Seven against the scrappy Detroit Tigers. The win makes 2006, which also featured the Oregon State Beavers winning 10 games in football and the University of Oregon Ducks placing third in the National Hockey Tournament, as the "Year of Oregon."

2008
January 12th: Alabama Crimson Tide defeat Sequoyah Braves 49-34 to claim their 3rd consecutive college football national championship.

March 4th: Frontier III arrives in Mars's orbit.

March 10th: Discovery I lands on the surface of Mars, thus making it the second successful manned mission to Mars, led by Roger Casey and Brian Edgarson.

May 14th: Black Spring Revolution begins in Moscow and Kiev on this day, and the French military cracks down across the eastern parts of the Empire. Emperor Maurice declares a state of emergency through the dangerous fighting.

June 7th: French victorious over Black Spring Revolution, and state of emergency and martial law lifted after final arrests in Moscow made.

October 21st: Cincinnati Redshirts sweep the Covenant Chargers 4-0 to take their third-ever World Series title.

November 4th: Incumbent President Jay Leno defeats Huron Governor Patrick Mead by 103 electoral college votes, securing himself a second term as President. Democrats gain a majority in both houses of Congress for the first time since 1996.

November 7th: Former Vice President George Bush, son of former President Prescott Bush, dies at his Connecticut home.

November 20th: Half a month ahead of schedule, Frontier III arrives back in Earth's orbit and the Discover II lander drops the astronauts off safely in the Sonoran Desert of New Mexico.

December 16th: Attempted military coup in Siam staved off by King Rakman's personal guard, and the embattled monarchy survives with a pledge of support from China.

2009
January 1st: Attempted assassination of Shogun Hireki Tokoda in Kyoto amid New Year's celebrations. Also, one of the greatest upsets in Rose Bowl history when the Indiana Hoosiers defeat 30-point favorite Washington Huskies on a last-second field goal to win 30-29.

January 4th: Emperor Akihito of Japan addresses the nation in support of the wounded Shogun, announcing that he will be brought to justice.

January 8th: In a stunning upset, the Massachusetts Minutemen defeat 3-time reigning champion Alabama Crimson Tide - who had won 45 consecutive games coming into the match - 34-28 with a touchdown pass in the final two minutes from quarterback Jonathon White to Greg Parrish. It is considered one of the greatest college upsets of all time.

January 20th: Jay Leno is inaugarated for a second term as President of the United States.

February 6th: The Persian army launches a campaign against guerilla forces in Armenia, claiming 200 lives on the first day.

February 11th: Businessman and former Connecticut Governor Edward Kennedy, last of Joseph Kennedy Sr.'s four prolific sons, dies at his home in Hartford. Nephew Jack Kennedy Jr. announces a continuance of his family's legacy into the future.

March 2nd: President Leno suffers a mild heart attack and is hospitalized. Vice President Springsteen assumes role of Acting President.

October 27th: Covenant Chargers earn revenge over Cincinnati Redshirts with a 8-1 drubbing in Game Six of the World Series to win the rematch of the previous year 4-2.

November 3rd: National Bank chairman Ben Bernanke dismally suggests to the United States Congress that the United States can realistically expect a mild-to-moderate recession anytime betwen 2010 and 2012 based on a weak quarterly earnings report from 2009's third quarter and projections for the fourth quarter.

December 24th: Christmas Eve Offensive in Persia, as Persian helicopters and tanks devastate villages inhabited by Armenian Christians believed to be part of the guerilla terrorist faction

2010
January 2nd: Emperor Maurice outlines his ambitious "Decade of the Future" plan, which has optimistic goals for clean-energy use and efficiency standards across the French Empire by 2020. Hailed and derided by different members of the international media, especially his choice to deliver one outline via an Internet video.

January 4th: After a Silver Bowl win over the Sequoyah Braves, Harrison Ford announces that he is retiring as head coach of the Massachusetts Minutemen and that offensive coordinator Charlie Sheen will replace him. Ford had served as head coach since 1978 at U-Mass.

January 7th: Virginia Cavaliers defeat Pacifica Orcas 28-20 for the college football national championship.