Fifty Four Forty

The PoD for the Fifty Four Forty timeline is June 15, 1846, when US President James K. Polk makes good on his campaign promises and refuses the Oregon Treaty proposed by Great Britain, instead chosing to mobilize the United States Armed Forces and forcibly seize the entirity of the Oregon Territory, up to the Russian Border at the 54-40 Parallel.

Timeline
June 15, 1846 - President Polk refuses the Oregon Treaty with Great Britain. American soldiers seize Forts Okanogan and Vancouver from British control on the Columbia River and begin sending large numbers of soldiers and supplies west along the Oregon Trail.

June 20, 1846 - The British Empire declares War on the United States.

June 27, 1846 - The British Empire signs the Treaty of London with Mexico. Mexico declares War and invades Texas.

July 3, 1846 - The United States signs the Treaty of Moscow with the Russian Empire. Russia's Baltic Fleet moves to engage the Royal Navy in the North Sea.

July 12, - The British and Russian Navies fight the Battle of the Skagerrak, ending in an upset Russian Victory.

July 18, 1846 - Mexican forces begin to lay seige to Austin, Texas for the second time in 20 years.

August 1, 1846 - American reinforcements break the Seige of Austin.

August 3, 1846 - The American Navy is defeated by the British Navy in the Battle of the Saint Lawrence. The British Empire begins to Blockade the American East Coast.

August 14, 1846 - Spain enters the War on the American side. The United States subsequently repeals the Monroe Doctrine; Spain has colonial ambitions in Mexico.

August 22, 1846 - The American, Russian, and British Navies fight the Battle of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The Americans and Russians defeat the British; a supply line from coastal Siberia and Russian Alaska is secured for the Forts in the Northwest.

October 2, 1846 - The Spanish Armada lands in Peurto Vallarta, Mexico. American forces coincidentally push the Mexican invasion back across the Rio Grande the same day.

October 4, 1846 - Following news of the Americans entering Mexico, the seperatist movement in the Yucatan begins armed resistance to the Mexican Government. Mexico now faces both invasions from the United States, Spain, and an armed Revolution in the South.

October 25, 1846 - American forces begin to lay seige to Santa Fe.

October 31, 1846 - American and Spanish forces rendevous and enter Mexico City to little opposition.

November 10, 1846 - France enters the War, hoping to capture long-lost territory in Canada from Britain.

November 22, 1846 - American, Spanish, Russian, and French forces break the British Blockade on the United States in the Battle of the Chesapeake Bay.

December 2, 1846 - Americans take Astoria, Oregon.

December 4, 1846 - British forces invade the Eastern United States over the Canadian border. By midnight Britain controls Detroit.

December 31, 1846 - President Polk declares that Alta California and Nuevo Mejico are United States Territories.

January 7, 1847 - Santa Fe falls to American troops.

January 23, 1847 - Under intense pressure from external forces, the Mexican Government capitulates. General Santa Anna is taken into custody by the Spanish Army. A tentative plan to divvy up Mexico between the United States and Spain is drafted; a US-backed puppet state in the Yucatan is planned.

February 23, 1847 - American troops freed from the fighting in Mexico move north, along with the Spaniards, to repulse the British in the Northern United States. The First Convention of New Orleans is held with ambassadors from France, the United States, Spain, and Russia on the aftermath of the war.

March 26, 1847 - American, Russian, French, and Spanish forces retake Rochester, New York from the British.

April 3, 1847 - The British forces in Canada group for a final stand in Montreal. Enemy forces surround the city; several Brigates bombard Montreal from the St. Lawrence River.

April 22, 1847 - British power in North America is ended after the Battle of Montreal. Canada is divvyed up.

July 4, 1847 - The Second Convention of New Orleans is held. The Victorious Powers agree on the territorial Divisions of Canada. Russia and the United States claim most of Western Canada, France claims the area directly north of the Great Lakes and Ellesmere Island, and Spain takes Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and portions of Quebec. All four nations claim slices of land along the Hudson Bay.

October 4, 1847 - The Second Congress of Vienna is held after Britain complained that the balance of Power in Europe had shifted, undermining the First Congress' purpose. The United States attends the Congress; little is changed.

January 24, 1848 - Gold is discovered in Alta California territory. This sparks the California Gold Rush.

February 23, 1848 - France plunges into Civil War.

December 2, 1848 - France establishes the Second French Republic.

June 15, 1849 - The United States makes the Oregon Compromise. All territory in the recently acquired western regions North of the Columbia, Snake, and Missouri Rivers was to be Free; territory south would be Slave. Abolitionists call foul; much of the territory declared free was largely uninhabited, while the slave territory contained most of the population centers in the West.

August 6, 1849 - Henry Clay founds the city of "West Monrovia" at the south end of the Puget Sound in Oregon Territory as a haven for freed slaves. Wagon Trains traveling west on the Oregon Trail begin continuing to the new Port City.

March 1, 1850 - The population of West Monrovia skyrockets as gold is discovered to the North of the city near Mount Baker. The Lone Jack Mine quickly becomes established. Soon after, prospectors discover gold up the coast on Queen Charlotte Island. (The Prospector actually sparked the rush after purchasing a 27 ounce nugget of Gold off a local Haida Indian for 1,500 blankets.) This marks the beginning of the Great Gold Rushes, where millions of prospectors from around the globe flooded the West coast of the United States and Russian America.

April 4, 1850 - Alta California is admitted as a Slave State to the Union.

June 13, 1850 - The first Non-African Slaves are sold by the Spanish in San Diego; Chinese sailors captured in the South Pacific. This sparks the brief Shanghai Crisis, in which the United States makes it illegal for a Non-Black to be a slave. The Captured Sailors are returned to China; however, the forced indentured servituted of Asians, mostly Chinese, becomes more common in the Gold Mines and on railroad lines.

August 2, 1850 - Oregon is admitted to the Union as a Slave State.

October 16, 1850 - French Quebec revolts against French colonial authorities.

January 7, 1851 - Monroe is admitted as a Free State to the Union.

February 14, 1851 - Quebec is recognized by the French Republic as a soveriegn nation. The Quebecious declare their nation République libre du Québec, or the Free Republic of Quebec.

November 11, 1851 - The State of Deseret enters the Union as a Slave State.

December 1, 1851 - Nuevo Mexico is admitted to the Union as a Slave State. Silver is discovered in Deseret; prospectors flood to the new Comstock Mine.

February 14, 1852 - Quebec holds it's first Independence Day celebration. Delegates from Europe and the United States attend.

April 3, 1852 - Russia founds the city of Alexsandrograd on the Hudson Bay.

September 22, 1852 - Brunswick is admitted to the Union as a Free State.