Timeline (Day of Glory)

1760: Moncalm wait to take the field until after the arrival of de bougainville's reinforcement. The battle of Québec mark the final major franco-british conflict in north-america.

1763: the treaty of Paris end the 7 years war. France manage to hold to most of its pre-war colonies. Fearing a repeat of the invasions of the previous years, the king begins a reinforcement program of its colonies ecouraging settlement in somes and creating penal establishment in others.

1769: corsica becomes a france territory, After a ceasefire is declared, some of the nationalists leader are arrested and deported to the penal colonies.

1778: English rebels from the north-american colonies request help from France in their endaveour. Not wishing to jeopardize its gains from the last decade, the king is advised to refuse. Less then a year later, the rebelion falter has some of its soldiers mutiny en masse, not having being paid since the begining. Most of the leaders are executed for treason. Lower ranking members that have commited act deemed reprehensible are sent to penal establishment while the vast majority of insurgents are simple amnistied.

In the following years, the English government introduced some taxation reforms to placate the local middle-class. Loyalist are angered at having the government seemingly rewarding rebels for their actions.

1789: a series of bad crop years coupled with an apparent greater interest given to colonisation then to metropolitan problems lead to the french revolution.

1792: after failing to escape the country, the king of france is arrested, tried for treason and executed.

As the revolution spread to neighbouring countries in the following years, sporadic counter-revolutionaries actions have to be put down in various departments (Mainly in the ex-provinces of Brittany & Canada).

1796: Italian wars. French forces are under the command of General Joubert. Conquest of piedmont, Nice and savoie are joined to france. Conquest of Lombardie and the papal states, avignon and comtat venaisain are joined to france.

Deat of Catherine II of russia.

1797: Austria sign a peace treaty with France, renounce the lower-countries and recognise the french ownership of the ionian islands and the western shore of the rhine. It also recognise the existence of the new italian republics.

1799: after years of chaos and terror, a new form of government arise in france after a bloodless coup. Although its public face is the popular General Joubert, its instigator and planifier is Consul Sieyes (later to be the first Grand Elector). By reducing the size of the government while at the same time dividing the power between 3 people, the republic avoid falling into the dictatorship many people feared.

1802: After the destruction of the english armada by a combined hispano-french armada, the republican forces invade the british isles with the help of local nationalists in ireland and scotland. Ireland is declared independant while Scotland and part of northen england becomes the "Caledonian Republic". After accepting the resignation of the king, the rump territory of england is proclaimed the "Albionese Republic".

1877-1880: Albionese civil war. Victory of the monocentrists who transform the republic into an [Arecsy]