Timeline (Colony Crisis Averted)

=18th century=

1770s
1775 1777
 * Colonists in America begin to rebel after years of unfair taxes and no representation in Parliament. The Colony Crisis begins.
 * James Watts unveiled his new Watts steam engine which replaces the Newcomen engine jump starts the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain and around the world.
 * Diplomats led by military general George Washington and Benjamin Franklin go to London to end this revolt in America. King George III and George Washington come up with a treaty that grants the American Colonies sovereign territory, the North American Union. The Colony Crisis in North America is peacefully ended.

1780s
1789
 * The French Revolt takes place. The French King Louis XVI escapes to Spain. Louis is captured. The revolt is crushed by Spanish troops.

=19th century=

1800s
1805 1809 1815 1824 1829 1834 1854 1859 1860s 1860 1867 1883 1891 1892 1898
 * Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France. Because of his famous aid at the Bastille during the revolution, he quickly becomes popular among the French people.
 * George Washington dies in Nova Scotia at the age of 73 of natural causes. Before he died he expressed his grief at "not making the Colony Crisis a war of independence for the colonists".
 * The Union of France and Spain is signed, creating the new nation of Franco-Spain. The empire is made up of Genoa, Savoy, Swiss cantons, France, and Spain.
 * The Holy Alliance is formed between Russia, Prussia and Austria to prevent Franco-Spain from invading the rest of Europe.
 * Charles Babbage succeeds with his Difference Engine, and after showing its potential the Labour PartyAnalyticalMachine.jpg supports Babbage and goes on to the develop Analytical Engine, the world's first mechanical computer.
 * The Franco-Spain passes the Cristiano Reforma Acto (Christian Reform Act),making non-Catholic Christian religions legal in the empire, except Islam.
 * The Great Southern Mutiny in the North American Union begins after Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. It began with the assault on Fort Howe by former slave owners in retaliation of the act.
 * The Russian Imperial Geographic Society is founded.
 * Holy Office of Racial Identity is established leading to crackdown on "racially impure" individuals by the Spanish Inquisition.
 * The Great Western Railway in Great Britain is built.
 * The British Royal Navy, supported by NAU naval ships,opens Japan to western trade.
 * Babbage engine is being mass-produced and ever-present in British daily life.
 * Winfield Scott becomes Governor-General of the NAU.
 * The British government began to expand the Great Western Railway which now uses the newly invented atmospheric railways across England and Ireland.
 * Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution but also discovers DNA and genetic organisms. But only simple, small forms of organisms are made.
 * The start of the Second Industrial Revolution.
 * French Ambassador Carl Hendrik Huell travels to British Paichu (OTL China). Talks open for later programs to allow Franco-Spanish run prison labor camps in China, resulting in cheaper goods being imported and made in Asia.
 * In August, a British company builds a railroad from Baghdad to Istanbul and the Persian Gulf, in effort to gain more both economic and territorial influence in the rump Ottoman Empire.
 * The Holy Office of Racial Identity founds the Cartwright Institution for Slave Illness thanks to the effort of former British subject Samuel A. Cartwright.
 * The Great Depression occurs.
 * To counter the British Fly Elephant super-tank and the steam tank fleet, Russian engineers developed the Tsar Tank, a hugeTsar_tank.jpg tricycle vehicle which stands 27 feet and is equipped with rockets on top and machine guns under the hull.
 * The First Pacific War ends. Japan annexes the Philippines and Taiwan from Franco-Spain.
 * Russia and Franco-Spain sign a treaty beginning a military alliance, which is later called Franco-Russian Alliance.
 * Russian weapon designer Vladimir Fyodorov, invents the world's first assault, Fedorov Avtomat.Ak47.jpg
 * To effectively harvest its crops after the Great Famine in Ukraine, the Duma passes the Agrarian Reform of 1898.

=20th century=

1900s
1901 1902 1905 1909
 * In honor of Queen Victoria's death, the capital city of the N.A.U. Burgoyne is renamed Victoria.
 * Ransom E. Olds develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing, with the Oldsmobile Curved Dash becomes the first mass produced car.
 * Due to Russian aggression, the British Empire and Japan sign the Anglo-Japanese Alliance  which ended Britain's splendid isolation.
 * Pan-African Expansionist Conflicts began: Franco-Spain continued its expansion into Africa by overthrowing Islamic governments, taking over their raw materials and oil production and converting the native populace to Christianity.
 * The Stanley Motor Carriage Company begins manufacture of the Stanley Steamer, the most popular production steam-powered car. 
 * The Holy Office of Racial Identity begins used of DNA testing.220px-The_Russo-British_Pact_in_1905.jpg
 * Skirmishes in Persia begin between British colonial army in British Raj and Russian forces.


 * An Jung-guen's assassination attempt against Ito Hirobumi is thwarted.
 * Nikola Tesla founds Tesla Electric in Russia to profit from his inventions and designs.

1910s
1910 1913 1919
 * Japan annexes Korea as Chosen Province.
 * Contruction of Pan-African Railway (PAR) begins. PAR is a joint Anglo-Franco project to contruct a motorways linking Cairo to the Cape, Louisvile in the east to Dar es Salaam in the west
 * Nikola Tesla patents a bladeless steam turbine and after a few improvements it is quickly mass produced in the Russian Empire.
 * After much debate and conflict, the British Parliament passed the Government of India Act of 1919 creating the British Raj into dominion state similar to the North American Union.
 * The March 1st Movement protest in Korea is suppressed.

1920s
1921 1924 1925
 * Nikola Tesla founds Tesla Motors Company to develop the first electric car. With large funding coming from the Russian government the company quickly becomes a major rival to Oldsmobile and Stanley M.C.
 * Ottoman Civil War begins.The Europeans powers intervene with the British effectivaly taking control the entire empire and making it a proctectorate.
 * The British Empire Exhibition is held in New York, it attracts over 31 million people from around the Empire.
 * The Russo-Balt becomes the first electric car to be mass-produced.
 * Cairo Conference takes place to decide the future of Africa.The continent is to be divided between Franco-Spain and British Empire.Franco-Spain is given a free hand in the west and central Africa. Britain will maintain her old and new colonies in the east of the continent, including Egypt,Sudan, Kenya and N&S Rhodesia.

1930s
1932 1936
 * The Franco-Spain Holy Alliance is hit by the 1932 Economic Crisis and extricates itself by reviving the abolished Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Secretary of State Charles de Gaulle introduces a tax that alleviated the purchase of slaves.
 * The Great Slave Insurrection begins.

1940s
﻿1947 1948
 * The "British Isle Project" begins. It leads to the British Empire pioneering the Atomic Bomb.
 * The  AK-47, a selective fire, gas-operated rifle is developed in the Russian Empire. It quickly becomes the standard rifle in the Russian Army and fully replacing the Federov Avtomat.

1950s
1954 1957 1958
 * The Great War breaks out.
 * The Treaty of Rome is signed officially ending the Great War.
 * Congress of Yalta is held to discuss the future of post-war Europe, specifically Prussia and Central Europe. Prussia acquires all the German states, Balkan and Baltic states as well forming the Imperial German Union.
 * The St.Petersburg Accord are held between the United Kingdom and Russian Empire to end a long-standing struggle for power over Central Asia.

1959
 * With new acquired territory and wanting to secure a sphere of influence, Imperial Japan formed the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity.
 * Franco-Spain Holy Alliance and the United Kingdom sign a series of treaties called the Entente Cordiale, marking the end of almost a millennium of conflict between these two nations.Its also a response to the German Union military build-up and expansion of it navy, threatning to rival the British naval supremancy.

1960s
1965
 * Japan launches its first satellite, Sakura 1.
 * Richard "Honest" Dick buys Stanley M.C. Company for $5 million. He soon turns the failing company into a multi-million dollar corporation, producing better and more efficient steam cars.

1970s
1970 
 * The government of Franco-Spain announces the National Transportion and Reconstruction Act. Elements of this act include: the construction of the Franco-Spain Autovia Imperial Highway, the building of the New Spain railway network, and the erecting of the Gilbralter Dam.

1973 1975
 * Project Atlantropa begins as Britain and Franco-Spain proceed to increase their colonial empire by using new terraforming technology to drain some parts of the Mediterranean Sea and convert it into farmland.
 * The Russian Empire sends their last Imperiya space shuttle to colonize Mars and other parts of the Solar System.
 * The War in Indochina (1975-1979) begins with the armies of Franco-Spain and the British Empire attempted to support the French colony from anti-colonial guerrillas backed by the Empire of Japan.
 * Delegates of the German Union and the Empire of Japan as well other GEACOP members meet in Berlin to discuss making an alliance with each other for common defense and economic security.They sign the Treaty of Berlin forming the Coalition of Independent Countries (CIC).

1980s
1981 1982 1985 1986 1988 1989
 * The failed assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II occurs in New York City, with the assassin being a black civil rights activist, who is subsequently executed for the crime.
 * A site in Russian Turkestan is established to build the proposed space elevator.
 * SolairesMobile developed its first successful solar powered car, The Corona, in Madrid. It quickly becomes popular but the company struggles to sell cars in competitive market against petroleum powered cars, despite its cars being cheaper.
 * The Proletariat Revolution in Brazil overthrows the authoritarian regime that plagues the new nation for three decades. More than 200,000 people are dead from riots, military engagements, and mass killings. The League of Nations send Franco-Spain and British peacekeeping forces into Brazil through Rio de Janeiro and many other major cities to quell the rebellion and restore peace but with little success.
 * Brazil is accepted into the Coalition and begins a large military buildup. The League of Nations ignores this but do send inspectors to see if any WMD are being developed.
 * 1988 Summer Olympics is held in Nagoya, Japan.
 * The Treaty of Canterbury was sign between Franco-Spain and the United Kingdom, allowing the construction of the Channel Tunnel to proceed.
 * With no warning Imperial Japanese bomber begins air strikes on the port of Vladivostok destroying the entire Russian Pacific Fleet and invaded western Siberia.Simultaneously, the German Union launches supersonic ballistic missile at St. Petersburg, Paris, Rome, and London. Though much of them were destroy by anti-missile satellites, three did hit St. Petersburg (two of the missiles hit the city) and Rome killing hundreds. Outrage of these attacks Franco-Spain, Russian Empire and the British Empire declared war on the Coalition of Independent Countries and are later joined by the League of Nations. Global War has begun.

1990s
1995 1998 1999
 * After many delays, the Channel Tunnel is completed and officially open to the public.
 * The Bering Strait Bridge is completed, finishing the Moscow to Sitka Railway Line.
 * Construction on the Russian Space Elevator begins on the Caspian Islands south of Baku, Russian Turkestan.