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 as 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.

1872: The remaining German Royals flee to the UK and Portugal via the Netherlands and France.

1873: Otto von Bismark becomes Chancellor of Germany, begining his '5 Year Plans' of mass industrialisation and sending political dissidents to toil on collective farms.

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...

20th Century
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.

1903: The Wright Brothers test the first powered aricraft successfully in North Carolina.

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.

1930: Albert Einstein flees to the United Kingdom from Hamburg.

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

1936: The Iron Curtain is established, large border fences are built to contain the Communist menace, The United States builds something similar to contain the newly Communalist Californians.

1937: Nuclear Weapons are theorised as a new powerful weapon. The Americans, Brits and Germans begin researching Nuclear technology.

1940: Franz I of Austria-Hungary dies in his sleep, aged 76. Otto von Hapbsburg takes the throne. The Germans detonate their first nuclear weapon in Scandinavian Svalbard, tensions between the newly formed ATO (Atlantic Treaty Organisation) escalate as the British, French and Americans scramble to develop their own nuclear arsernal. Winston Churchill is voted in as Prime Minister.

1945: Harry S. Truman is elected President of the United States, his administration is most known for having increasing Cold War tensions and testing more nuclear weapons. The Chinese test their first nuclear bomb, the 'Great Dragon' in Mongolia.

1947: The Warsaw Pact is formed in response to the ATO, the original founding members were: Germany, Russia, Poland-Lithuania, North Nippon and California. In a response to increasing Jewish and Palestinian nationalism, the Ottoman Empire, with the assistance of Britian and America, create the new nation state of Israel-Palestine. Millions of Jews and Palestinians flood into Jerusalem as Israel becomes an observer state in the ATO.

1950: Quebec and Aleyska join the ATO as full members.

1952: King George VI of the United Kingdom dies, Princess Elizabeth ascends to the throne as  Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India and Queen of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith. She is the last monarch to use the title 'Empress of India' after India gained independence in 1967. Winston Churchill is voted out of office. The Coronation ceremony was the first to be televised, with over 27 million people in the British Iles watching the Coronation.

1956: Elvis Presley releases his first studio album. Videotape is demonstrated for the first time in Britain. Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainer III of Monaco. Eurovision is broadcasted for the first time in Switzerland. Interstate highways are established in the USA. Television is broadcasted in Australia, New Friesland and New Burgundy.

1958: The European Community is founded. The Germans launch the first manned satellite, the Bismarck from Peenemunde. The United States and Britain races to launch the their own satellites, the Space Race has begun. The British later launch the Elizabeth I from an airforce base in British Zanzibar.

1959: Fidel Castro is elected Vice President of Mexico.

1960: US Senator John F. Kennedy announces his candidacy for the Democratic Party. France tests it's first nucluear weapon in Algeria. Eurovision is hosted in the United Kingdom. The Germans later launch the first man into space, a German Cosmonaut by the name of Walther Brack. The Californian-German split begins, California and North Nippon leave the Warsaw Pact.

1961: New Friesland gains independence from the Dutch, the new nation was known for the policy of Apartheid that disenfranchised Indigenous and non-white peoples, forming reservations and ghettos that kept non-whites separate from the ruling white New Frisians.

1962: President Kennedy says his famous 'We choose to got to the Moon' speech in New Orleans. Kennedy promises to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade and increases funding to NASA. The Royal Aeronautics Program is founded in the United Kingdom, with a spaceport being constructed in Bermuda.

1963: A Communalist Revolution takes hold in Siam, overthrowing the Monarchy. The British are worried, since their Indochinese and Indian Colonies might suffer the same fate. The British Invasion begins in the United States, the Beatles become one of the most recognizable bands in the world.

1964: JFK's campaign for equal rights passes successfully in Congress, citing the autonomy that the European nations had given their colonies, making them fully feldged dominions in their respective Empire. Most of their governments were made up of the native peoples, with a few of the white settlers intergrating in their society. The Bay of Bengal Incident officially marks British involvement in the Siamese War Civil War after a hostile Siamese destoryer attacks and sinks a British merchant ship. Britian commits 3,500 soldiers to the conflict, the other ATO Nations also join in the fighting both directly and indirectly.

1967: The United States and Great Britain land the first manned mission on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Taylor Wallace are the first to land on the Moon. The broadcast is watched by over 600 million people on Earth.

1968: Prince Frederick of Denmark is born in Edinburgh on the 26th of May. The Battle of Khe Sahn takes place on January 21st, ending on April 8th in a phyrric victory for both sides, the British advance further into Northern Siam, but at the cost of many troops, while the Siamese use the draw to distract the British from a seaborne invasion of Mayla that ended in the Invasion of Singapore. Student protests erupt in Poland-Lithuania.

1969: John F. Kennedy finishes his 2nd Term as President of the United States, Richard Nixon is elected as President of the United States Nixon promises to defeat the Saimese Communalists and aid the British in restoring the monarchy and turing Siam into a Western aligned Democracy.

1970: The ATO starts considering a military outpost on the moon. The idea is quickly shot down as more sensible leaders are wary of increasing tensions with the Communalists. Many nations being construction of moonbases for scientific purposes.

<p class="MsoNormal">1971: Germany celebrates 100 years of Communalist rule, huge parades are organized in Berlin and other major cities in Germany.

<p class="MsoNormal">1972: The Saimese War ends in a German-British draw. The war will be forever known as a failure for the ATO and led to the deaths of numerous troops. Communalist Germany celebrated this as the time that the mighty British Empire was fought to a standstill. Decolonisation begins in Africa and Asia, with the ruling colonial powers slowly giving the nations independence, rather than the what happened in OTL.

<p class="MsoNormal">1975: The North Sea Crisis begins in December as Dutch spyplanes spotted nuclear missiles in the Faroe Islands. The Communalists threaten the ATO with 'prompt and utter destruction' if any ATO nations threatens any WarPac member's territory. Britain, America and Quebec blockade the Faroe Islands. The tensions from the Crisis make their way around the world, tensions between the Americans and Californians rise as thousands of Californians attempt to jump the Californian Wall. The tensions along the DMZ between North and South Japan also rise as various skirmishes start occuring.

<p class="MsoNormal">1976: The tense events of the previous year were known as Dark December, The Crisis ended after a one and a half long month blockade of the Faroe Islands. The Germans eventually backed down and were forced to dismantle the nuclear weapons on the Islands, the British and Americans did the same in Italy and the Ottoman Empire.

<p class="MsoNormal">1977: Shirley-Tempel Black is elected the first female President of the United States. Originally the US Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Black successfully ran for President for the Republican Party. Her foreign policy was one of reconcilliation with the Communalist states, trying to mend their shattered relations.



<p class="MsoNormal">1978: Helmut Kohl is elected Chancellor of Germany. This is seen as a turning point in Western/German Relations. Kohl's policies of Durchsichtigkeit (Transparency) and Umstrukturieing (Restructuring) gave the Germans more freedom of speech and cracked down on government corruptions, while also curtailing the powerful Stasi. Polish-Lithuanian Pope John Paul II is elected, he was seen as a very influential figure during the Cold War, especially in his home country of Poland, speaking out agains the brutal regime.

<p class="MsoNormal">1979: The Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Shav Pahlavi dies at age 60 in Tehran, his son, Reza Pahlavi, become the new Shah of Iran. The former Shah was seen as the beacon of light in the Middle East, having successfully westernised the country, similar to the reign of Japanese Emperor Showa. Japanese company Philips demonstrates CD technology, which quickly superscedes magnetic tape by the early 1990s as the primary form of music storage. Mobile Suit Gundam is released in Japan, paving the way for the Anime boom in the West during the mid 1990s. Magaret Thatcher is elected the first female Prime Minister of the UK, meeting President Black in June.

<p class="MsoNormal">1980: The 1980 Olympics in Berlin is boycotted by most ATO members. Pac-Man is released in Japanese arcades. Former Premier of Croatia, Josip Broz Titov, dies at age 87 in Ljubljana in  the Austro-Hungarian Federation. Tim Berners-Lee and other scientists work in the hypertext software ENQUIRE while working at CERN in Switzerland. This was seen as a crucial stepping stone for the modern day Internet and helped advance computer technology slightly past OTL. The 1980s will be knownas an era of unprecedented technological advancement, with prototype flat screen montiors being developed in the mid to late years of the decade. The Solidarty movement is founded in Poland-Lithuania.

<p class="MsoNormal">1981: Ronald Regan, President Black's Vice President,  wins the 1981 election, his policy against the Germans was a modified version of former President Black's policy, being slightly more harsh when it came to dealing with the WarPac nations. Regan's tactics aided in ending the Cold War a few years later. The United Kingdom wins Eurovision.

<p class="MsoNormal">1982: Tensions in the Warsaw States begin to rise as Chancellor Kohl's reforms begin to backfire as the Germans see how corrupt and bankrupt they really are. The Polish Solidarity movement begins to pick up steam as more protests begin to envleop the nation. Scandinavia promises free elections for mid 1983.

<p class="MsoNormal">1983: 3 high ranking German generals attempt to seize the Volkskammer and return Germany to the Pre-Kohl government. The Germany Army fractures, with most the military being under Gerhard Schroder, a liberal leader and opponent of the Communalist regime. Various uprisings also take place in Poland-Lithuania, with Poles, Bealrussians, Ukrainians, and Lithuanians, Lativians and Estonians rebelling in various cities, causing the nation to fall apart. The Liberal Faction, lead by Schroder, defeats the Communalist Emergency Government. Establishing a democracy in Germany for the first time in over a century. Scandinavia elects the first democratic leaders, who invite the former monarchy back to Stockholm.

<p class="MsoNormal">1984: The British-American-French project of ARPANET is changed to the TCP/IP Format, more funding is given to the Internet, originially being a military project developed in the mid-1960s by the US, UK and French governments. Bob Hawke is elected Prime Minister of Australia, his administration was seen as one of the key factors to the end of Apartheid in neighbouring New Friesland. Mobile phones are developed by the Motorola Company.

<p class="MsoNormal">1985: Live Aid is performed in Philidlephia and London to fundraise billions for the famine that was ravaging Ethiopia. Bands like Queen, the Beatles (who briefly reunified for the concert in London), U2, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin performed some of the highlights of their careers, while solo singers like David Bowie, Bob Geldof, Mick Jagger and Madonna also performed at both Wembley Stadium and Benjamin Franklin Stadium (OTL JFK Stadium). The first mobile phone network is launched in the UK. Russia holds their first free elections, electing Liberal Party member Mikhail Gorbachev as the first President of the newly democratic Russia. Italian North Africa is rocked by various terrorist attacks as the self proclaimed 'People's Ruler' Colonel Mummar Gaddafi, orchestrates the violent seccession of Italian Tripolitania. Italy pushes for the invoking of Article 5, which passes successfully in a landslide vote in Paris, officially starting the Mediterranean War as ATO troops begin massing in Malta and Sicily for a massive seaborne invasion of the Troplitanian Coast.

<p class="MsoNormal">1986: After lengthy arguments in the German Reichstag, the German people vote to restore the monarchy under Louis Ferdinard, who is crowned Louis I of the German Confederation. South Japan and North Nippon reunify under the Southern government. After the end of the 1983-1986 Revolutions in Europe, California remains the only Communalist State in the world. Germany launches the first components of the space station Freiden (Peace), the station would remain in orbit until 2003, until it's decommissioning by the German government. Space Shuttle Franklin rendezvouses with the Frieden habitation module during a routine LEO flight. Belgium wins Eurovision.

<p class="MsoNormal">1987: The War in Tripolitania enters it's second year, US President Ronald Regan promises to crush the 'Mad Dog of the Middle East' in summit at the Union of Nations HQ in New York City. Regan funds the armed anti-Gaddafi insurgency, the Mujahadeen, with 2.5 billion dollar of training by the US Army.

<p class="MsoNormal">More to come!