Timeline (Revolution!)

Timeline 1775-Present Day

18th Century

1775 (POD): Quebecois militiamen rebel against their British masters, paving the way for more rebellions among the French-Canadians.

1778: Britain is defeated by the Franco-American alliance. The United States is officially formed.

1789: Benjamin Franklin elected as the first President of the USA. The US capital is designated to Philadelphia, which eventually becomes a federal district.

1790: The French Monarchy defeats the Revolutionaries, but eventually liberalizes to placate the rowdy populace.

19th Century

1800: Lower Canada breaks away to form the Republic of Quebec, Anglo-Canadians either flee or stay in Montreal.

1801: The Anglo-Irish Compromise is signed, giving Ireland equal status among the English and Scots. Irish is reluctantly made a second language in Ireland, the same is done in Scotland and Wales to alleviate accusations of favouritism.

1803: The United States purchases Louisiana from the French, nearly doubling the size of the nation.

1807: The Holy Roman Empire falls after a vicious Civil War erupts due to huge amounts of in-fighting from the nobles over religious differences and territory, the Dutch, Danish and French grab territory from the fractured 'Empire'.

1812: The Spanish colonies in South America revolt, causing numerous upheavals that end in various nations being granted independence, the British seize Patagonia from the Spanish and incorporate it as a crown colony. The United States attempts to seize Canada, but a combined Anglo-Dutch army destroy the American forces, Quebec joins the war and annexes Maine and the Great Lakes territories.

1816: Portugal colonises Northern Australia by using Timor as a base of operation, encounters with the Indigenous population result in a boom in trade between the colonists and natives.

1820: The Race for Australia begins, The French colonise OTL Western Australia in 1821 while the Dutch take Southern Australia, forming New Friesland in 1824.

1836: The Caucasian majority states of California and Texas break away from Mexico in a British funded revolt, the Anglo-Mexican War ends in the expansion of British Honduras (Now the Commonwealth of Yucatan).

1845: The Russians expand their holdings in North America, meeting the Brits and Americans in Oregon. The three Nations split the territory into what would by Aleyskan Kodiak, Canadian British Oregon (OTL British Columbia) and American Cascadia Territory (Admitted as a state in 1937)

1848: After an attempt at Hungarian Independence, the Austrian Hapsburgs allow the other minorities in the Empire to have an equal say in Imperial affairs, the Federation of Austria-Hungary is formed.

1850: Brazil negotiates a Personal Union between the Portuguese and Brazilian royal houses as the nation suffered economic problems.

1864: The Dominion of Canada is founded, with Calgary as its capital.

1869: The North German states unify into the German Empire after an agreement in the Palace of Versailles, France hands over the German majority state of Alsace-Lorraine to appease the Germans, the French and British are wary of the Prussian led power.

1871: The Communalist teachings of Karl Marx becomes quite popular in the new German state, as the wars with Russia over Lithuania begin to cause the new nation to run into economic difficulties. Germany suffers a massive revolution as Kaiser Wilhelm the 1st is executed by a Communalist rebel, a shaky provisional government is established, but is quickly conquered by Communalists, who establish the worlds first Communalist state.

1875: The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth falls to a German backed Uprising.

1884: Austria-Hungary fights a long and arduous war with the Germans, but eventually force the Germans to secede Bavaria. Russia later falls to another German backed Uprising, the Romanovs later flee to Aleyska, not before taking most of their Navy with them...

1889: The 18 year period of instability is labelled the Red Rebellion, or the Uprising, Britain, France and Austria-Hungary later form a secret defence pact that would lay the foundations for the Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scandinavia falls to the Communalists at the end of the year, making many people question if the Uprising had really ended...

1900: Africa is fully colonized, but not without tensions from the native populations, treatment differs from each nation, going from peaceful co-existence to internment camps.

1919: The Japanese Empire suffers a Communalist Uprising, split between the Northern Communalists, aided by Germany and the Southern Imperials, supported by the USA and Britain, the nations are permanently split along the 45th Parallel.

1924: The Balkan Wars end in the near-dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after the Greeks re-take Constantinople. The Ultra-nationalist Young Turk Party is outlawed and the Greeks and Kurds gain independence. Status quo ante bellum is re-established.

1927: The Great Depression begins due to economic issues that plagued the Post Balkan Wars economy of Europe, the mass share selling reached the United States and other nations in the New World and cuts a swathe through the US economy.

1933: Adolf Hitler is elected Chancellor of Austria-Hungary. (Fascism doesn't exist in this TL, only seen as an underground hyper-nationalist movement)

1936:

More to come!