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Revision as of 15:14, 27 May 2020

How to add events to the list

When you want to add an event to the list, first find the date in the listed month. Then cut and paste putting your choice events in order by year. Be sure to include a link to the page with the alternate event. Please don't include events that occurred exactly the same in our time line. However, if the event happened with different consequences, be sure to add the different history to the listing. For example, if the British colonies declare independence but fail in the attempt, the declaration should be listed with a qualifying statement stating such.

On this day in alternate history...

January

  • 1st

  • 2nd
    • 2000 - The country's civil war over, King Alexander of Macedonia proclaims National Unity Day.

  • 3rd
    • 1945 - After a desperate offensive through hundreds of miles of Soviet territory, General Walter Model orders the German army to advance toward Riga.


  • 5th
    • 1926 - Under the government of Alexandr Kerensky, the Russian empire is re-constituted as the Eurasian Union.



  • 8th
    • 871: King Ethelred the Pious of Wessex and his brother Alfred suffer a crushing defeat to a Danish army, paving the way for the Danish conquest of England.


  • 10th
    • 1854 - Austro-Russian forces begin the Siege of Calafat, as the Ottomans seek British and French aid against the seemingly-unstoppable forces of Radetzky.
    • 1930 - The Mongols develop a device capable of receiving radio waves and uses it to spy on Roman and Japanese transmissions along the Frontline.
    • 1937 - Some ex-Canada governments make a conference to decide if they join the Commonwealth of Nations, the results were: the Commonwealth of Ontario, Commonwealth of Pacifica, and Commonwealth of Alberta.
    • 1946 - Congress passes legislation which abolishes the draft for the time being. Due to President Hitler's large mobilizations of troops in the 1930's the draft was never really needed anyway.
    • 1986 - After intense fighting against the United Arab Emirates, the last Iranian forces surrendered. According to its peace treaty with Iraq, Iran was forced to cede the islands to the UAE.
    • 1991 - German forces invade and manage to hold Block Island, off the coast of New England. Block Island is used as a staging ground for German bombings of the United States.


  • 12th
    • 1918 - The Finnish Senate and Parliament create a "State power of internal order and discipline," laying the foundations of the Finnish White forces that will be one of the major factions of the War of Liberty.

  • 13th
    • 1847 - Mexican forces in California surrender to Britain and the United States in the Treaty of Cahuenga, but the Mexican War will continue for another year in Baja California and central Mexico.


  • 15th
    • 1931 - Khmer surrenders to the Mongols, ending the Bellum Mundum in southeast Asia.




  • 19th
    • 1939 - The German population of New Swabia declares independence from Britain under the rule of the Nazi Party.


  • 21st
    • 1991 - Soviet forces begin an invasion of the Baltic States, blaming them for the deaths of Gorbachev and Yeltsin and for an attack in Leningrad (A false-flag operation carried out the night before).

  • 22nd
    • 467 - The assembled princes of the Cimbrian Alliance elect High King Æthelred of Cimbria to lead them, signaling their independence of Roman control.



  • 25th
    • 1937 The Second World War breaks out, pitting Comintern and the Allied Powers against the Rome Pact.

  • 26th
    • 1987: The British Bulldogs lose the WWF Tag Team Championship to The Hart Foundation; the Dynamite Kid is so debilitated with a back injury that he has to be virtually carried to the ring by Davey Boy Smith.


  • 28th
    • 1547 - Henry IX of England, a devout Catholic, ascends the throne and inaugurates an era of the suppression of Calvinism.

  • 29th
    • 1832 - The First Continental War begins as the United States and Mexico invade the newly-declared Confederate States.


February



  • 3rd
    • 2017 - Citizens of Bangsamoro vote to abolish the monarchy.

  • 4th
    • 1700 - The murder of King Charles II of Spain is blamed on French agents, sparking the First World War, in which Peru, Japan, and Siam will join the Bourbon side, and England and much of continental Europe will support the Habsburgs.


  • 6th
    • 1563 - In a great victory for the Puritan faction, Henry IX is crowned King of England four months after the death of Queen Elizabeth.


  • 8th
    • 1986 - The community of Natchez is reconstituted as a city-state as the town government merges with the provisional government of Mississippi.


  • 10th
    • 1836 - Prussia defeats Austrian and Saxon forces in the Battle of Altenburg, continuing its southward advance in the War of German Hegemony.


  • 12th
    • 1824 - English- and Spanish-speaking settlers in the boomtown of Tampa declare independence from Spain, an attempt that will prove unsuccessful.


  • 14th
    • 1994 - For the first time, President Tohti Tunyaz of East Turkestan performs a public Islamic prayer for Ramadan.

  • 15th
    • 2005 - The conference to draft a charter for the Concert of Democracies (President McCain)|Concert of Democracies]] begins in Geneva.

  • 16th
    • 1919 - The Republic of Japan is declared by a National Congress of revolutionary parties in Kyoto.

  • 17th
    • 1826 - Kicking off the final phase of the Mexican Civil War, General Houston enters Mexican territory from El Paso, diverting royalist troops away from the real U.S. objective in Veracruz.

  • 18th
    • 1466 - With the Treaty of Elix, the Manchego War ends with Aragon gaining the Kingdom of Murcia from defeated Castile.

  • 19th
    • 377 - Emperor Julian overwhelms the Visigoths in the Battle of the Rhine.

  • 20th
    • 1989 - Chairman Kano Kagawa announces the end of the People's Republic of Karafuto; the island nation begins preparing for its first multiparty elections in June.



  • 23rd
    • 1920 - A final assault by the White army forces the remaining Bolshevik forces under Trotsky to disappear into Afghanistan, bringing an end to the Russian Civil War.

  • 24th
    • 840 - Pepin of Italy, Emperor of the Franks and Romans, dies of a stroke in Constantinople, leaving both thrones to his illegitimate son Bernard.

  • 25th
    • 1763 - After ten years of disputes over taxes, the New Netherland colony declares its independence as the United States of New Orange.

  • 26th
    • 2010 - Lafayette Parish, the center of population and government in the state of Louisiana, signs an agreement with the League of Nations for help restoring electricity and telephone service.

  • 27th
    • 1884 - The Congress of the Confederate States votes to authorize a transcontinental railroad, planned to stretch from Richmond to Baja California.

  • 28th
    • 1947 - The imperial government of Puyi, exiled in Taiwan and under the control of the extreme nationalist Concordia Association, declares martial law after left-wing protests break out, causing as many as 20,000 to be killed.

March


  • 2nd
    • 500 - Emperor Aurelianus of Britannia takes command of the army in the war against the Saxons.
    • 1917 - The Confederate States of America passes the Jones Act, extending full citizenship to Puerto Ricans.
    • 1941 - The USS South Dakota is sent on a suicide mission to divert Japanese forces from the planned counter-invasion of Hawaii.
    • 1945 - Confederate President Sam Rayburn is captured by Allied forces, effectively ending the North American phase of the Third Global War.
    • 1981 - Czar Alexander III of Alaska gives a speech condemning "moderate communism."
    • 1986 - Responding to a declaration of secession, U.S. President Bob Dole declares martial law in New England.
    • 1992 - The War of Pridnestrovie erupts between the USSR and Moldova.
    • 1998 - The Republic of Superior organizes the Huron Territory in Michigan's "Thumb."
    • 2000 - Following a spike in solar wind levels, it is generally acknowledged that orbiting satellites can no longer communicate with the Earth's surface.
    • 2004 - In the "Super Tuesday" round of U.S. state primary elections, Rudy Giuliani emerges as the front-runner in the Republican Party's contest to choose a challenger to Democrat and incumbent President Al Gore.
    • 2010 - The USSR and its allies form the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

  • 3rd
    • 484 - The Germanic king Odoacer is murdered in Italy.
    • 1403 - The future Hongxi Emperor, renowned as a reformer and sponsor of trade and navigation, is born in China.
    • 1878 - The Treaty of San Stefano definitively ends hostilities between Russia and Turkey.
    • 1907 - The front between French and German forces reaches the Swiss border town of Delle.
    • 1910 - World War I begins as the US-led Pact of Order declares war on the British-dominated Pact of Central Power.
    • 1917 - The Socialist-Revolutionary and Bolshevik Party forces Czar Nicholas II out of power.
    • 1986 - A provisional government for Bulgaria is formed in the city of Smolyan in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains.
    • 2003 - The ruling regime of Bougainville Island simultaneously declares independence and the annexation of the Solomon Islands, creating the new state of Bougainville and Solomon Islands.
    • 2009 - Indonesia adopts a new constitution.
    • 2010 - US President John McCain makes a much-publicized visit to Marjah, Afghanistan.

  • 4th
    • 733 - Arab forces capture Constantinople. Emperor Constantine V dies during the fighting, apparently of a heart attack.
    • 1821 - The Spanish colonies of South America declare independence at the United Congress of South America.
    • 1886 - George Washington Custis Lee is inaugurated as the fifth President of the Confederate States of America.
    • 1943 - Japan surrenders one month after being invaded by American and Chinese forces.
    • 1861 - In the Free Conference of 1861, non-slave states consider seceding from the US.
    • 1991 - Continuing their advance toward Baghdad, American troops capture An Nasinyah while the British stage a large paradrop onto Karbala.
    • 2001 -Nintendo releases their new console, the Playstation 2 to a huge success.
      Nintendo Playstation 2

      The Nintendo Playstation 2

    • 2008 - In the "Super Tuesday" round of state primary elections, Hillary Clinton and John McCain emerge as the respective leading candidates for the Democratic and Republican Party nominations for US President.
    • 2010 - The Texas Superhighway is opened, linking surviving societies in the eastern and western halves of Texas.
    • 2014 - Talks begin in the NFL to explore moving the Detroit Lions to London.

  • 5th
    • 1884 - A border clash between Chinese and Korean forces is the first land battle of the Franco-Chinese War since Korea's entry.
    • 1903 - Turkish, German, and British representatives agree on a plan for the Constantinople-Baghdad Railway.
    • 1997 - Four Soviet cosmonauts accomplished the first manned landing on Mars.
    • 2004 - Would-be whistleblower Emily Miller fails to speak to the FBI about her ex-fiance's illegal activities, sparing him and partner Jack Abramoff from federal investigation for more than a year.
    • 2004 - The Treaty of Asahikawa ends Japan's isolation and opens up trade with the USSR.
    • 2010 - The Slovak Parliament passes the Patriotism Act, requiring, among other things, the veneration of state symbols in classrooms.

  • 6th
    • 1846 - The murder of an Argentine businessman in Lima sparks general outrage, setting South America on a path toward war.
    • 1881 - A truce in the First Anglo-Boer War leads to Britain's ceding the entire Natal colony to Transvaal.
    • 1918 - The USSR moves its capital to Moscow in the face of a White Army advance.
    • 1939 - The violent uprising known as the Night of Fire breaks out in French-occupied Flanders.
    • 1987 - The Anderson-Toccoa War breaks out across the Georgia-South Carolina border.
    • 1996 - The independent state of Lower Saxosilesia is carved out of Germany and Poland.
    • 2010 - Kentucky joins Virginia by declaring war against the Republic of Jackson.


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    • None (yet).

  • 17th
    • 1717 - At the Kiel Conference, held in the middle of the Trønder War, Holstein-Gottorp is reorganized as the Kiel Confederation and formally made a Swedish vassal.

  • 18th
    • None (yet).

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    • None (yet).

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    • None (yet).

  • 22nd
    • 1989 - A massive asteroid Impact strikes the Atlantic Ocean, flooding the coast of North America and killing millions.

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    • None (yet).

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    • None (yet).

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    • 2011 - A massacre occurred in Busan in the ATL A Different History, by a man part of a Persian terrorist group, 52 were killed, and 92 were wounded.

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    • None (yet).

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  • 6th
    • 1948 - The Pacific Republic (Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and parts of utah, and California) and The Confederation fo Provinces (British Columiba and Alberta) Unite to form the Confederation of North America, and making its capitol Seattle.

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    • None (yet).

  • 8th
    • 1871 - Nagayama Yoshida, the first President of Japan (1931-1942; 1946-1949), was born in Koshigaya, Musashi Province, Empire of Japan

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  • 11th
    • 1940 - France surrenders to British Expeditionary Force and German Wehrmacht forces after a devastating two pronged invasion. Britain goes on to occupy the northern half of France, including Lyon and Nantes. Germany occupies Alsace-Lorraine and the south of France. Paris falls under joint control.

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    • None (yet).

  • 13th
    • 2011 - Eva Ljubanović becomes the first human to be born on Mars.

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    • None (yet).



  • 17th
    • 1011 A.D - After two years of existence, Le'Anse;Aux'Meadows has revived hundreds of colonists with the arrival of a large fleet. ATL: The Empire of the White Falcon.

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  • 24th
    • 1951 - Colonel Kenny Roberson drops the Mark 4 atomic bomb "Big Boy" from his B-29 Superfortress Praetorian on Teng Sha Ho Military Base in Liaoning, China, ending Chinese involvement in the Korean War. (6-2-5 Upheaval)

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May

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  • 12th
    • 1014 A.D - Malachy II, High King of Ireland, grants Sigytrygg Silkbeard the land including and above Dublin, as well as the land in the Orkney Isles and the Isle of Man.

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  • 18th
    • 2001 - Shrek is released and is a big success for Dreamworks and prompted other studios to make CGI Shrek inspired films in the early-mid 2000's and a lot of them were failures but there were some success. (The Toon Boom)

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June

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  • 14th
    • 1775 - The Second Continental Congress, convening in Philadelphia, established a Continental Army under the command of George Washington.
    • 1911 - Novorossiya (New Russia) declares war on Canada.
    • 1940 - Soviet Union invades Mancukuo, the Japanese puppet state in Manchuria. This starts a war with Japan.
    • 1943 - Operation Quetzalcoatl (Nahuatl:Quetzalcoatl Ticicalli), the code name for A/A invasion of the Incan Empire during World War II, commenced on this date Over 2.3 million troops of the Allied powers invaded the Incan Empire.
    • 1974 - US Cyde President Dawley introduces the Free Trade Agreement while visiting Emperor Eduardo I in Mexico City, proposing a North American bloc to counteract the growing economic, military and political swath of Colombia, Peru and Brazil in South
    • 1948 - Porstewart is liberated by the US third Army with amphibious landings on the strand as well as attacks from Portrush and Coleraine. Now US supplies from Iceland have a better beachhead than in Galway.
    • 1984 - The Battle of Neebing occurred, in which the Thunder Bay Defense Force (TBDF) was forced to defend itself against an innumerable amount of raiders (estimates vary, with some saying that there were really only 1,500), who had been heading to Thunder Bay itself.
    • 1986 - Black protesters attempted a takeover of the Selma courthouse, only to be met with gunfire, thus beginning the Selma War.
    • 1990 - United Nations sent troops to attack Germany. US, UK, and Japan embargo China.
    • 2002 - Worried by the new friendship between the US and the Royal Christian Empire, China allows the UIR to purchase its newest weapon systems. This is the beginning of a new Sino-Islamic alliance.
    • 2003 - President McCain announces that certain elements of the embargo would be lifted, which meant that some U.S. corporations would be allowed to do business with Cuba for the first time in over 40 years.

  • 15th
    • 1884 - Work begins on the Confederate Transcontinental Railroad in Richmond, Virginia.
    • 1888 - Wilhelm II ("Wilhelm the Great") begins his reign as king and emperor of Prussia/German Empire.
    • 1911 - First skirmishes between Russian and Canadian soldiers in the Yukon valley in World War I (Chaos).
    • 1930 - A 7 kilometer long particle accelerator is completed in the Roman province of Raetia, despite protests within the Discateria that it was a waste of resources at the time.
    • 1943 - Unstoppable Axis armor pincers meet at Aleksandrov, completely surrounding Moscow in the Battle of Kursk (Morgen die ganze Welt).
    • 1960 - Hungarian-Romanian War (Deutschland Siegt) ends. The war is between Axis nations in a world in which Hitler's Germany won World War II, beginning a cold war between the "United Nations" and the "Anti-Comintern Pact."
    • 1975 - Burmese government is toppled in a popular coup. The exiled government and large parts of military retreat into jungle, beginning bloody Burmese War.
    • 1994 - Liu Zhou Ming, the savior of the People's Republic, passed away. He was succeeded by Ren Fang, a close friend of Liu and one of Liu's earliest supporters.
    • 2002 - Congress passes the Afghan Reinvestment Act of 2002. The bill sets out plans to invest American aid in Afghan infrastructure redevelopment projects.
    • 2004 - Germany assists in rescuing the stranded survivors of the Holland and Belgium flooding.
    • 2006 - NATO's bombing campaign against the Sudan ends, having involved up to 1,000 aircraft operating mainly from bases in Kenya, Turkey, Greece and the aircraft carriers USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower stationed in the Red Sea.

  • 16th
    • 1940 - Germany declares war on America. The Soviet Union declares war on Japan.
    • 1970 - Maurice Bonaparte, Crown Prince of the French Empire, is killed in a car accident in Berlin. Circumstances were mysterious. His younger brother Albert, at the time head of the French Foreign Ministry, assumes title of Crown Prince and the duties within the Grand Assembly that are entailed.
    • 2006 - President Kerry sends a bill to Congress to increase the minimum wage and to link it to inflation. The Republicans immediately condemn the bill as anti-business.
    • 2009 - The Constitution on the Celtic Alliance is signed.

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July

  • 1st
    • 1520 - Spanish flee Tenochtitlan after hostilities break out between them and the Aztecs, culminating in the massacre in the Main Temple and the death of Montezuma.
    • 1704 - The Great War ends between the CCA and the AA.
    • 1916 - Eisenhower married Mamie Geneva Doud (1896–1979) of Denver, Colorado.
    • 1940 - The alliance of England, France, Japan and Poland invades Russia.
    • 1942 - Surviving New Zealand troops retreat to Wellington. The Japanese army besieges them there.
    • 1997 - The United Kingdom transferred sovereignty of Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan, ending over 150 years of British colonial rule.

  • 2nd
    • 1945 - The Treaty of New York is signed. Britain is recognized as a neutral with ties to the US. Germany is given free hand in Europe.
    • 1961 - Janey J Lummis is born.
    • 1964 - C.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, which finally gives the vote to the Confederacy's black population.
    • 1996 - O.J. Simpson decides that he will run for Mayor in the next election on a platform of lowering taxes to help Vegas-area businesses.
    • 2007 - Minority Leader Harry Reid asks President Bush for an explanation of the failures of the Iraqi Government to reach any of its "benchmarks". Spokesman Tony Snow says that "there are indications of a potential positive aspect that will be seen by the Fall". The matter is quickly dropped, though Maine Senator Susan Collins says on CNN that she too would like more "positive news" from "the Surge". Support for the war drops to 31% nation-wide.

  • 3rd
    • 1863 - Pickett's Charge, a successful Confederate infantry assault against Union Army positions, occurred during the final and bloodiest day of fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg, marking a turning point in the Southern War of Independence.
    • 1914 - Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia.
    • 1965 - John McCain married Carol Shepp, a model originally from Philadelphia.
    • 2009 - Vice President Sarah Palin announces in a tearful statement she will resign as Vice President of the United States after 5 months of being Vice President.

  • 4th
    • 1054 - July 4th becomes the date of the Caelum Oculus Eruptum festival.
    • 1776 - The United States of America declares its independence from Great Britain with varying results.
    • 1778 - Various drafters of the Declaration of Independence are executed for treason.
    • 1807 - Joseph Warren, who served 24 years as President of the United States, dies.
    • 1821 - American forces land on Baffin Island.
    • 1864 - The United States officially surrenders to the Confederate States. The United States ceases to exist after this point.
    • 1875 - Canada gains independence.
    • 1944 - Germany releases massive amounts of gas on Glasgow and Cardiff and on some on Allied troops near the cities.
    • 1946 - MOAB bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
    • 1948 - The United States annexes the entire North American continent.
    • 1949 - The United States drops two atomic bombs on the cities of Hamburg and Sapporo.
    • 1984 - President Belisario Betancut Cuartas from Colombia and Jaime Lusinchi from Venezuela signed a cooperation and commercial treaty in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. The agreement basically begun as a formalization of barter between Colombia's agricultural and some industrial products and Venezuela's oil, refined in Aruba.
    • 2005 - The Confederate Space Agency lands a probe on a near Earth asteroid.

  • 5th
    • 1943 - Axis columns reach Gorki on the Volga, while others close in on central Moscow.
    • 1948 - Burma and Rhodesia become British dominions.
    • 2005 - US President John Kerry launches a failed attempt to persuade Congress to adopt the Fairness Doctrine.
    • 2006 - North Korea test-fires nuclear missiles as a provocation to the League of Democracies.

  • 6th
    • 1253 - Mindaugas is crowned first King of Lithuania.
    • 1872 - A six-day fire begins in New York City, blamed on Confederate agitators and New England separatists.
    • 1887 - The Kingdom of Hawaii is annexed by the Confederate States.
    • 2004 - Howard Dean, Democratic candidate for US President, names Evan Bayh as his running mate.

  • 7th
    • 1778 - Various members of the Continental Congress are executed for treason.
    • 1893 - Mao-Jen-Sheng, interested in becoming more prosperous, immigrates with his wife to the USA.
    • 1928 - Sliced bread is first produced in the Confederate States.
    • 1947 - A peace treaty is signed between Germany and the United States, ending World War II.
    • 1965 - China detonates an atomic bomb.
    • 1979 - In response to a request for troops by the Afghanistan government, a Soviet airborne battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel A. Lomakin, arrived at the Bagram Air Base.

  • 8th
    • 1815 - The second restoration of King Louis XVIII, ending the Hundred Days of Napoleon.
    • 1919 - Vlastimil Tusar begins serving as Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia.
    • 1947 - Moscow and Washington D.C. are both destroyed by blinding lights causing both NATO and the Warsaw Pact to declare war on each other.
    • 1947 - The Confederate Military denies an earlier press release that said a UFO had crash landed in Roswell, Arizona.
    • 2002 - Angus King served as active president under the terms of the 25th Amendment when President Jesse Ventura was hospitalized for a blood clot in his lungs.

  • 9th
    • 1850 - Millard Fillmore is sworn in for his first term as President of the United States of America.
    • 1889 - Ottoman Empire accepts the Treaty of Odessa, surrenders Armenia and Kurdistan.
    • 1943 - The siege of Moscow ends with German troops capturing the Kremlin.
    • 1944 - Confederate forces defeated Japanese on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
    • 1970 - Colin Powell reaches the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
    • 1974 - Earl Warren, the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, dies.

  • 10th
    • 1849 - China’s new constitution was signed, establishing a government nearly identical to the British model, and Zhang Luoxing became the first Chinese Prime Minister.
    • 1889 - Joe Dowling is born.
    • 1893 - Mao-Jen-Sheng arrives in Los Angeles, California after a three day journey. He buys a small apartment in the Diamond Bar, and establishes a fruit market, which is relatively successful in the local area (but enough to hold on to the business).
    • 1944 - Tokyo is bombed for the first time since the Doolittle raid of April, 1942. For many Japanese this is the first sign that the war is not going as planned.
    • 1956 - A national day of mourning is declared in Japan after the death of Emperor Hirohito and the Imperial family.
    • 2007 - The War in Iraq ends.
    • 2008 - The Midland and Yorkshire Republic Army liberates Boston.

  • 11th
    • 1917 - In the Second Battle of Ypres, the German Army first uses artillery to launch mustard gas against advancing British troops.
    • 1960 – Confederate author Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, featuring themes of racial injustice and the destruction of innocence in the Deep South, was first published. It would be banned in most states of the Confederacy.
    • 1984 - The Soviet advance on Washington is halted in Maryland by American forces using apparently stolen Soviet technology.
    • 2008 - A UNSC measure to sanction Zimbabwe over President Robert Mugabe's political violence during a run-off election is vetoed by Russia and China.

  • 12th
    • 1782 - Work begins on a final draft of the United States Constitution in convention by delegates from all sixteen American states.
    • 1794 - Former Continental Congressman the Rev. John Witherspoon dies in exile in Paris.
    • 1943 - In the Battle of Kursk, The US 7th army and British 8th army make good progress in Sicily in spite of a vicious counterattack.
    • 1946 - The Red Army captures Belfast, effectively ending Axis opposition to Soviet hegemony in Europe.
    • 1958 - The Aztec Empire observes the 16th birthday of Emperor Moctezuma Tlacaelel Tonantzin II, his first birthday since becoming the fifteenth Emperor.
    • 1971 - Bloody Sunday in Ulster: Soviet troops fire into a crowd of IRA supporters at a protest.
    • 2006 - Israel invades Lebanon with knowledge of the League of Democracies' certain support.
    • 2008 - North America observes the 43rd birthday of King Marlon I Lincoln, his first official birthday since acceding to the throne.
    • 2008 - The Puerto Rico Admission Act recognizes Puerto Rico as the 51st US state pending the results of a referendum the following year.

  • 13th
    • 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, abolishing slavery, is proposed by the Congress of the remaining United States.
    • 1953 - The Russian Empire launches Sputnik I.
    • 1985 - The Beatles reunite for the first time in fifteen years in a performance at the Live Aid concert. Their first song is "Hey, Jude".
    • 2002 - United Nations inspectors return to Iraq at the urging of US President McCain and his supporters in the Security Council.
    • 2004 - The National Enquirer breaks the story of John Edwards' illegitimate child in the middle of his campaign for Vice President of the United States.



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    • 1790 - The city of Georgetown, originally named Washington, D.C., is founded.
    • 1910 - Emperor Ludovico of the New Roman Empire dies.
    • 1946 - President Truman proposes an armistice with Germany to the Senate.
    • 1975 - Anarchists retook Cayenne, the capitol of French Guiana.


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    • 1691 - A Roman-Khmer flotilla defeats Danish and Mayan fleets in the Pacific.
    • 1943 - Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, Milch and an army of lesser dignitaries visit Moscow to attend the victory parade. Leni Riefestahl makes a small documentary about the event.
    • 1988 - The Democratic Party nominates nominates Joe Biden as its candidate for President of the United States.
    • 2003 - The United States awards Tony Blair the Congressional Gold Medal.


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    • 1944 - Adolf Hitler and several other prominent German officials are killed when a bomb explodes during a meeting in East Prussia.
    • 1969 - A malfunction causes the Apollo 11 lunar module to crash on the surface of the moon.
    • 1986 - King John I begins his reign as King of Bermuda.

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    • 939 - Leon is defeated by the forces of the Caliphate of Cordoba at the Battle of Simancas.
    • 1403 - Prince Henry is killed at Shrewsbury.
    • 1896 - Japan declares war on Spain after they refuse to allow the Japanese to build a naval depot on Guam.

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    • 1424 - A large asteroid impacts Jupiter. The event became an inspiration for apocalypse fiction writers and producers.
    • 1776 - Thirteen North American colonies declare independence from Great Britain.
    • 1863 - The Union and Confederate presidents sign the Baltimore Armistice.
    • 1876 - All newborn babies born to slaves in the United States are declared free.
    • 1899 - Confederate forces begin their invasion of Spanish Cuba on the first day of the Battle of Santa Clara.
    • 1929 - Fascist Italy purchases Tunisia from France and unites it with Italian Libya.
    • 1938 - Nazi Germany invades the Sudetenland, provoking declarations of war from Britain and France.
    • 1942 - German forces capture Moscow.
    • 1944 - Marshal Tito leads an anti-fascist rebellion in Italian-held Yugoslavia.
    • 1946 - The United States Senate accepts President Truman's plan for an armistice with Nazi Germany. Hitler, willing to abandon Japan in order to end the war with America, accepts as well.
    • 1946 - President Scott W. Lucas dies in office. Vice President Robert Taft becomes the 32nd President of the United States.
    • 1948 - Josef Stalin is assassinated as part of a Nationalist coup.
    • 1977 - Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping is killed in Jiang Qing's Great Party Purge.
    • 1990 - Transylvania is constituted as an independent republic almost seven years after the collapse of the Romanian state.
    • 1994 - Most fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collide with Jupiter; three fragments, however, continue to approach Earth.
    • 2005 - T Essa is sworn in as Vice President of Northwest Africa.
    • 2009 - Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai meet in Harare with Thabo Mbeki of South Africa to discuss the creation of a government of national unity for Zimbabwe.

  • 23th
    • 1925 - The Bourges Agreement was made between Albert, Grand Marshall Cerf and Heinrich Jasser, head of the Berlinerbank, the largest bank in the Empire: Napoleon III would be removed from power in one month's time, and the Empire's elite would back the coup one hundred percent.
    • 1935 - The Battle of Norfork occurs, resulting in the destruction of the naval yard, the shattering of the U.S. First Army, and the seizure of some destroyers and a battleship by the guerrilla forces.
    • 1942 - Japanese battle to capture Queenstown, New Zealand, begins. Queenstown had been functioning as the Guerrillas support base. With the Guerrillas mostly neutralized, Japanese troops occupy most of the remainder of South Island.
    • 1947 - NATO forces defeat Soviet Bloc armies at Gorzow, Poland, and continue to push into central Poland as World War III gets under way.
    • 2005 - Several Guantanamo detainees, including Australian David Hicks, are tried by a U.S. court during the administration of US President John Kerry. Though many are not so lucky, Hicks is found not guilty and returned home, where he begins to speak out against his treatment at Camp X-Ray and causes severe embarrassment for the Australian government
    • 2009 - US President John McCain's first trip to Iraq. McCain met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He also visited U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq War.

  • 24th
    • 1779 - Penobscot Expedition, The largest naval expedition ever made by the Patriots begins, going on to suffer a humiliating defeat at the hands of British forces in Maine on August 12.
    • 1816 - Napoleon issues the Second Petrograd Decree, which demands all landowners pledge allegiance to the French proxy throne in Moscow - or otherwise be stripped of their possessions and have them consolidated as terre publique - "public land" of the French Empire.
    • 1942 - Japan begins an invasion of northern Australia as a campaign strengthened by their decision to put off the attack on Pearl Harbor.
    • 1945 - A lone B-29 bomber and escort fighters appear over Leningrad. The bomber drops an atomic bomb. Within seconds, Leningrad is gone. 450,000 people are killed immediately, with another 300,000 dying later of radiological effects or conventional burns.
    • 1952 - Haiphong falls to the PLAR army. The remains of the Japanese 10th army retreats to Hanoi.
    • 1969 - The crew of the LOK-13 returned from landing on the moon to a heroes' welcome on July 24th, receiving both the "Hero of the Soviet Union" decoration, and a new decoration, the "Lenin's Order of Space Exploration," from Brezhnev.
    • 1983 - Aleksandria becomes a state of Ognia.
    • 1984 - The constitution for the Republic of Vermont was signed and ratified.
    • 2010 - At least 20 people are killed and 100 others injured in a stampede at the Love Parade music festival in Duisburg, Germany.

For possible additions see the Althistory search for "July 24."


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    • 1938 - France, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union declared war on Germany, triggering World War II. They were followed by the fully independent Dominions of the British Commonwealth — Australia (3 October), Canada (10 October), New Zealand (3 October), and South Africa (6 October).

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    • 1848: In Victorious 1848 John Móga and his Hungarian Army crosses the Austrian border and one day later they march into Vienna.
    • 2011: The 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of China.

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    • 1904 - The Dogger Bank Incident wasn't solved diplomatically and it escalates to Britain joining the Russo-Japanese war on Japan's side. The Russo-Japanese war continues to expand until most of the world is at war, thus causing an Early World War I.

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    • 1995 - A narrow majority of voters in Quebec vote to secede from Canada, inspiring a wave of separatist movements around the region.

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JFK escapes assassination paper
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    • 1963 - 35th United States President John F. Kennedy survives an assassination attempt in Dallas, Texas.
    • 1972 - Establishment of the Ognian Confederation in the tundra of Antarctica in the "Great White South".
    • 1993 - Film icon John Kennedy, Sr., finally succumbs to Alzheimer's disease at the age of 76, at his son Patrick's New York apartment (Timeline (Napoleon's World).
    • 2007 - Iraq joins the Arab coalition leading up to the Second American Civil War.

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    SNES-PlayStation
    • 1994 -Nintendo releases their brand new console, the play station.
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    • 1919 - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim is coronated King Kustaa I of Finland

Attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese planes view

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    • 1941 - Confederate President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declares war on the United States and the Axis powers.

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    • 1814 - American forces capture Halifax after a 3-month long siege on the city, displacing the British Royal Navy's forces in North America.

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    • 1920 - In the first clash of the German Civil War, a firefight breaks out between an armed group of Spartacists and a Freikorps group commanded by Ernst Rohm.

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See also