Timeline of Events (New World)

This is a timeline of events for the New World Timeline, showing how this reality diverges from our own.

1774 - Britain's King George III signs the Quebec Act which forbids French in British North America and the practice of Catholicism in all North American colonies. This provokes the Quebeckers to join the Patriot cause.

1798-1800 - French-American War - French harassment of American shipment and impressment of Quebecker citizens prompts a declaration of war. Americans capture St. Pierre and Miquelon off Newfoundland, Guadalupe, Martinique, and French Guiana. In the treaty at the end of the war, Guadalupe and Martinique are given back to France, while the United States keep French Guiana and the other two islands, plus pay France minor war indemnities, and yield all slaves back to France held in French Guiana. First Consul Napoleon's more conciliatory stance, plus American diplomatic 'nicety' led the two parties to come to an amicable solution. 1803 - Louisiana Purchase - With Napoleon needing more cash to fund his European wars, he sells Louisiana, Guadalupe, and Martinique to the USA. 1812 - British-American War - With British impressment, and trade harassment, the two nations go to war. 1816 - Treaty of Ghent - ends the British American War; the British are forced out of North America and Suriname/Guyana. The Americans recognize British hegemony over Central America and Patagonia, settlements made after the Revolution. 1817 - President Madison revitalizes Alexandria in DC as a booming commercial and diplomatic district, making it a thriving part of DC nightlife. 1823 - Gran Colombia declares independence from Spain. Given aid by American volunteers from Guyana, it sets itself up along the American model, and also leads a number of Americans to move there seeking more land and opportunity. The Americans assimilate to the culture, but they also stabilize against the otherwise authoritarian tendencies of Spanish colonial legacies. 1866 - Austrian-Prussian War - Austria joins with Hungary to form Austria-Hungary, while Prussia forms the North German Confederation with Luxembourg also. It makes entreaties to Bohemia and Moravia to join, based on their Sudeten German population, but they barely stay in Austria-Hungary. 1871 - Franco-Prussian War - France and Austria-Hungary fight Germany and Italy. The more modernized Prussian-German army defeats France and Austria-Hungary; Austria-Hungary collapses into chaos, leading Bohemia and Moravia to join the German Empire on promise of greater power in the federal government, and colonies in Africa. Austria accepts annexation into Germany (along with Slovenia, Liechtenstein, and Modrus-Fiume) in the aftermath of the collapse of order, with Hungary becoming the Hungarian Empire. 1877-1879 - Russo-Turkish War - Another war between the Ottoman Empire and Russian Empire, lasted longer, and drew in the British Empire; as a result, the Greek State was given dominion over Constantinople, and Smyrna. 1912-1917 - World War I - UK, DE, IT fight against FR, RU, OT, with the USA joining in 1916. 1938 - France annexes Alsace-Lorraine in a rigged plebiscite; when Germany makes motion for war if the territory is not returned, Britain's Neville Chamberlain mediates the dispute, saying that 'war is never the answer.' 1939 - France claims French-speaking Belgium, violating its neutrality. Neville Chamberlain receives a promise from France that it will not move any further. Chamberlain comes back to Britain claiming 'Peace in our time.'