Timeline (Aliens Among Us)

1859

 * A large geomagnetic solar storm causes power surges all over the ship and leads to it descending involuntarily towards Earth.
 * September 1st: Large pieces of the vessel land in a multitude of countries around the Earth. The ships engines lands in southern England, engulfing the entire city in a nuclear explosion and irradiating much of southern Britain.
 * September 8th: President Buchanan orders General Robert E. Lee to investigate the New York UFO.
 * October 16th: Abolitionist John Brown succeeds in raiding the armory at Harper's Ferry and sparks a massive slave revolt in the southern states.
 * November 21st: President Buchanan signs the Freed Slaves Act into law, freeing millions of African-American slaves.