This is basically my 'State of Baja' TL, with the first 10 years in one post.
1898
-December 10th: Cuba is ceeded to the United States as the state of Santiago (east) and territory of Cuba (west). Cuba will become a state in 1906.
All Spanish oversees territories are also ceeded to the United States. Rio de Oro, Phillipines, and Puerto Rico all become territories.
1899
January 4th: Fuchow is bought from China, and Macoa from Portugal.
Feburary 26th: US Secretary of State John Milton Hay does not propes his 'Open Door Policy'. Tensions begin to grown in China between the competing powers.
March 9th: The United States's sphere of influence in China stretches from the port city Macoa (American), to Hangkow in the north, to Fuchow (American) to the east.
October 12th: The Boer War begins when the Orange Free State declares war on Britian. Natal and Cape Colony are invaded, and British forces at Natal, Ladysmith, and Mafeking are destroyed.
December 13th: Sir Redvers H. Buller reenforces soldiers at Colenso, Natal; the hills of Magersfontein on the Orange Free State and Cape Colony borders; and the mountain range of Stormberge in the Cape Colony.
December 20th: All these fresh soldiers are destroyed by Afrikaner forces.
1900
January 10th: General Frederick S. Roberts replaces Buller as commander-in-cheif in the war.
Feburary 4th: John D. P. French is sent to releive British forces at Kimberley, while Roberts begins a march from Cape Colony to the Orange Free State.
Feburary 8th: French arrives at Kimberley, and fights for two days to enter and capture the city.
Later that day, the Boxer Rebellion breaks out. It breaks out and ends as OTL, but with more American forces and less British present.
Feburary 15th: The Treaty of Bejing is signed. China is devided between the US, France, Britian, Germany, Russia, and Japan. A small independent country is allowed to exist, and is will have a coastline.
Feburary 27th: Roberts defeats Afrikaner general Piet Cronje. Roberts defeats Cronje, and his 4000 soldiers.
March 8th: Italian King Humpert I is assasinated.
March 17th: General Roberts enters the capital of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein.
May 17th: President McKinley signs the Gold Standard, and makes all American paper money backed by gold.
Mafeking, beseiged by Afrikaner forces, is releived.
May 31st: Johannesburg, capital of the South Afircan Union, is captured by General Roberts, and President Kruger flees to Europe.
August 29th: The Russia officaly annexes Manchuria, against all Japanesse threats. The United States establishes the territories Kwangtung, Kiangsi, Fukein, Chekiang, Hunan, Hupei, Kweichow, and Kwangsi.
October 3rd: Mexican/American relations are strained when El Paso is attacked by Mexican bandits.
December 31st: The Kwang-Chow stand-off begins after the US requests the France sells the city to the United States, but France refuses.
1901
January 3rd: General Roberts returns to Britian after a succesful Boer War.
January 5th: Oil is discovred in Texas. There is a lot more in Texas than OTL.
May 11th: The Commonwealth of Australia is formed, against much American protest. The Commonwealth includes all of Autralia, except for a northwestern part still held by the Netherlands.
July 23rd: Queen Victoria dies. King Edward VII succeds her as the Royal Soveriegn of the British Empire.
September 6th: President McKinley is shot. Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt takes over.
September 14th: The Republic of Liberia goes bankrupt. Voters agree to join the United States. Theodre Roosevelt accepts this, and Liberia becomes the Territory of Liberia.
November 4th: Roosevelt agrees to send supplies and weapons to Chinnese nationalist in other nation's parts of China, in exchange that the nationalists does not do operations in American territory. Also, the United States will fund the Afrikaners supplies, weapons, and money to fight against Great Britian.
1902
Feburary 6th: The Dominion of a United South Africa (DUSA) is formed. The Orange Free State officaly erupts into open rebellion the next day.
March 3rd: The United States invades Panama, and seizes it in a lightning fast operation, named Operation Hydra. The Territory of Panama is set up, and equipemnt for the Panama cannal construction begins to arrive.
May 4th: A strike of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is adverted at last second negotiations.
July 16th: Columbia is forced to reconize the American territory of Panama on the threat of war. France and Britian go into an uproar over this, but don't do much else.
August 16th: The Kwang-Chow stand-off ends when the US agrees to lease Guntamino Bay to France for 99 years, inexchange for Kwang-Chow for 99 years. Feburary 16ht, 2001, the United States will lower her flag from Kwang-Chow, and return it ot France, and France will do the samething to Guntamino Bay.
September 30th-June 8th, 1903: The First American Baby Boom, as hospitals nation wide are meet with record number of babies each day.
November 29th: Theodore Roosevlet enters a bill into Congress to increase the army by 35% and the navy by 30%. Developement of 12"/14 gune begins. Officaly, it is a 12-inch gun, but it is really a 14" gun to go onto the battleship Michigan.
1903
January 6th: Josef Stalin begins a Russian Army Eastern Orthodox Chaplin, but is intereseted in politics. He begins writin his book, Hoyliness and the Orthodx Polotics, which'll become the basis for his Orthodox Uprsising in 1920.
Feburary 15th: The USS Michigan is laid down in Norfolk Naval Yards. Armed with 10 of the new 14-inch/01 gun in 5 double turrets, she has a top speed of 20 knots and thick armor. The Michigan will begin the Dreadnoght Race.
May 6th: Vladmir Lennin and his Bolshveiks agree to stay with the moderate Mensheviks.
June 5th: The American navy begins to convert of oil-firing boilers instead of coal. Venezulian Oil is discovered and both France, Britian, and the United States "fight" for theri rights to drill their.
Septembe 3rd: The First World Series of Baseball is held, when the Boston Red Soxes beat the Pittsburg Pirates.
October 21st: The American Populist Party re-merges with the Democratic party. Later, when TR forms the Progressive Party, the Populists will join the new party.
November 11th: Diging of the Panama Cannal begins. An anti-biotic against malaria is tested.
December 3rd: The Wright brothers fly teh first manned powered flight at Kitty Hawk. Teddy Roosevlet begins a fascination with the aeroplane when he sees one fly at the White House a year later.
1904
January 23rd: Russian intellegince uncovers the Japanese attack on Port Arthur before it happens, and it is is put onto full alert. The Russians have two more battleships there than OTL due to the tensions in China.
Feburary 8th: The Japanese luanch there attack on Port Arthur. The First Battle of Port Arhthur sees the loss of 1 Russian and 1 Japanese battleships, and a total of 7 smaller vessels.
Feburary 16th: In agreement with the United States, Russian naval forces from the Baltic will be refuled from Liberia, the Philipines, and finally Macoa, then attack Japan.
March 24th: Japanese First Army lands at Inchon. Teddy Rossevelt attempts to find a peace sollution, but neither side agrees.
May 1st: Battle of Yalu. Of an army of 40,000 soldiers, 15,000 are killed in this bloddy battle. Reports of American soldiers fighting are dennied by the US.
May 2nd: The Japanese 2nd Army lands and attempts to sever communications from Port Arthur to Manchuria, but fails.
May 11th: General Kuropatkin is ordered to hold Russian areas in China gainst Japanese agression.
A surprise attack from Vladavostok catches the Japanese off guard. 25,000 Russians land in Korea to surprise the Japanese.
June 14th: The Russians have severed the Japanese line at the 38th parallel. So far, the war has dragged into a bloody trench warfare. The United States begins shipping supplies to Russia to help against the Japanese.
July 9th: 180,000 Russian soldiers pour across the 38th Parallel on a new offensive into Korea.
August 5th: The Russian Baltic Fleet arrives at Macoa to face off agains the Japanese. The feeling of both the Russians and Japanese is whoever wins this upcoming battle will win the war.
August 12th: After waiting in harbor for a week and training with the Americans, the Russian fleet leaves Macoa to fight the Japanese.
August 21st: American-Mexican relations are strained as more attacks by Mexican bandits occur. Fianlly, Teddy Roosevelt releases the Mexico agreemtn that if the attacks do not stop by the end of the year, he will have no choice but th take action against the Mexicans.
August 27th-29th: The Battle of Tsushima. It is a draw as both sides lose half their warships. It is a tactical victory for the Russians who still retain more advanced ships and a startegic victory for the Japanese who forced the Russians to retreat.
September 4th: The Dover Peace Accors in Dover, Delaware begin. A 1 month truce is agreed apon, while both sides like their wounds.
October 4th-December 9th: Small sporadic fighting as the Dover Peace Accors are going on. Finally, on December 10th, the Second Battle of Port Arthur. The Russians loss all but three battleships, and surrender.
1905
January 6th: Last Russian offensive stalls. The Dover Peace Treaty is signed, and all pre-war boundries are restored.
Feburary 5th: Through Sweedish Somliland (Italian Eritera OTL), the Sweedish King Oscar II forecefully annexes Abyssiania.
Febuarary 16th: Mexico agrees to atemtp to stop attacks on American cities and encampements on the border. In a week, this attacks are cut in half.
March 1st: Alaska declares her independence from Russia.
March 5th: The USS South Carolina-sister ship to the Michigan-is commisioned on the west coast of the United States. She, and 2 Michingan-style armored cruisers and 6 light cruisers head towards Maco to set up the new First Chinese Squadron in China.
March 12th: The British lay down the HMS Dreadnoght in an attempt to catch up to the Americans as fast they can.
Sweeden begins to enlarge her navy considerble by laying down 2 new dreadnoghts and 6 armormored cruisers.
March 19th: The Siam, who has been embroiled in a civil war, requests help not from Britian, but from Sweeden who has established a naval base off the coast of Siam.
March 21st: The first Sweedish soldier enters Siam. Britian asks if Siam needs any help, but they put down the request.
April 30th: The Siam Civil War ends in favor of the king.
May 1st: King Oscar orders his soldiers stage a coup against the king. It succeds, and the king is killed. Siam is officaly annexed by Sweeden as the Sweedish Indochina.
May 11th: Teedy Roosevelt declares that Sweeden 'had better stay out of North America', a reply to King Oscar's willingness to buy the Dutch Guinea from the Netherlands.
June 4th: Sweeden buys the Dutch Guenia from the Netherlands. Also, the Dutch East Indies are also bought.
June 11th: Roosevelt threatens to enact the Monroe Doctrine against Sweeden if they do not leave Dutch Guienea, and return it to its rightful owner, the Netherlands.
July 6th: The Michigan and a fleet of 2 pre-dreadnoghts, 6 armored cruisers, and 13 smaller vessels anchor off the Dutch Guiena coast and blockade it.
August 15th: The ISwMS King Gutavus II Adolphus, Sweeden's first dreadnoght, is laid down. It is armed with 12 13-inch guns in 6 double turretss.
August 21st: The ISwMS Torrenstein, a dreadnoght-style armored cruiser, is commisioned in Stockholm. It is immdediatlety sent to the Dutch Guinea to attempt to break its blockeade.
September 11th: The Torrenstein arrives 500 feet from the Michigan's bow. the two exchange some shots and move away.
October 9th: The American-Sweedish War breaks out when the Michgan fires on the Torrenstein, damaging. The French allow it to dock at her ports for repair. The First Chinese Squadron (that leaves 3 pre-dreadnoghts to defend China) sails to Sweedish Indochina to invade it with 15,000 soldiers.
October 21st: The South Carolonia shells Bangock, killing the Imperial Sweedish Indochina Govenor, Robert Jörgen. The First Chinese Squadron (1 dreadnoght and 2 pre-dreadnghts) shell Bongock Naval Base, destroying the pre-dreadnoght Oscar I.
November 11th: The Americans tighten their blockade on Dutch Guinea, and several times the repaired Torrenstein attempts to break through.
November 23rd: Bangock is occupied by American forces. The Americans now have complete naval authority after they destroyed the Oscar I.
December 16th: The American-Sweedish War enters into a 1 month undeclared truce. Britian, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan stay nuetral, while Russia allows American to use their ports and merchantmen to ship supplies to Bangcock.
1906
January 3rd:The Torrenstein and 2 high-speed transports break through the American blockade of the Dutch Guinea. The transports land 5,000 soldier at Paramaribo Harbor. In response, the Americans begin to land soldiers Nieuw Nickerie.
January 5th: the United States lands her remaining 25,000 soldier that are offshore at Nieuw Nickerie. The railroad system begins to transport the soldiers towards Paramaribo. The Michigan begins to shell Paramaribo to lay the way for an assault of 1,500 soldiers.
January 16th: In Siam, the United States land another 5,000 soldiers to re-enforce the garrison already there. The Swedish naval base at Surat Thani is captured, along with the armored cruiser Olaf Skotkonung. The Olaf is pressed into US service and renamed the New Sweden.
January 24th: The Battle of Laem Chabang. The Swedish garrison there is able to hold-off the Americans for 4 days before finally capitulating.
The pre-dreadnought, the Carl XIV Johan, three armored cruisers, and 9 supporting ships set sail from the Swedish Samliland to Siam to bring back control of the seas to Sweden.
February 16th: The Battle of Nieuw Amsterdam as the Swedes are finally able to land the remaining 15,000 soldier to occupy the Dutch Guinea. They meet an army of 9,000 Americans and a three-day battle begins.
February 19th: General Marcus Reno (who survived to fight WW I in TTL) is able to retreat from Nieuw Amsterdam with only 1900 soldier reaming.
March 3rd: The Battle of Malacca. The Carl XIV Johan and two other pre-dreadnoughts engage an American force of the South Carolina and two pre-dreadnoughts. On the first day of fighting, the South Carolina is bale to damage the Carl XIV Gustav. The Swedes lose an armored cruiser, and the Americans lose two light cruisers and a destroyer.
March 4th: The last day of the Battle of Malacca. The remaining Swedish naval forces, except for the Carl XIV Johan, are sunk. Ironically, the ex-Olaf Skotkonung sinks a Swedish ship of the same class. The Carl XIV Johan is captured and pressed into service as the Emperor.
March 15th: The Torrenstein is sunk in a duel against the American battleship Illinois. The Torrenstein explodes after a 12-inch shell explodes here magazine and she goes down with all hands.
April 2nd: The Battle of the Gulf of Thailand. The reaming Swedish Eat Indies Fleet-comprising of one armored cruiser, 3 light cruisers, and 5 torpedo boats-attempts to make towards the Dutch East Indies. All but one light cruiser and 3 torpedo boats are sunk. King Oscar II’s approval ratings begin to plummet after the disastrous Battles of Malacca and Gulf of Thailand.
April 3rd: The Battle of Paranam, which south of Paramaribo. The city is shelled for 3 days, and over half of the Swedish garrison is killed. The Dutch garrison, which was suppose to go to Paramaribo a day ago, is also killed in the attack.
April 7th: The April Revolution in Sweden, supported by Lenin’s Bolsheviks. Oscar II is killed, and so is the rest of the royal family. The leader of the Swedish Workers Party, Valter Ingemar, declares the People’s Empire of Sweden.
April 10th: Valter sues for peace with the United States. Teddy Roosevelt agrees, and the Treaty of Copenhagen is signed a month later. The Swedes are allowed to keep Siam, except for Bangkok and a few surrounding areas. The Dutch Guinea will be under American administration until they feel it is time for independence. Abyssinia and Swedish Samliland will be partitioned between Sweden (east) and the United States (west)
May 16th: The King Gutavus II Adolphus construction speeds up. Two more warships, the Stockholm and Gustavus I Adolphus are laid down in other shipyards. The loss of 4 pre-dreadnoughts and a portion of their cruiser fleet see a rethinking of the Swedish Navy’s reason for existing an combat tactics.
May 21st: Sweden officially adopts jeune ecole with the laying down or four new, high-speed commerce raiders. Two new, fast semi-dreadnoughts are laid down also to make up for the loses in Siam. These new semi-dreadnoughts will be armed with 6 14-inch guns in two triple turrets, and he heavily armored, but faster than most battleships at the time.
July 6th: The territories of Guinea and Suriname are set up in the Dutch Guinea.
August 25th: Cuba is granted statehood in the United States. The area surrounding Bangkok and Bangkok herself becomes the territory of Siam within the United States.
September 1st: As thanks for their help in the Swedish-American War, the United States gives Russia the ability to use American docks in Hawaii, Macao, and Bangkok.
November 19th: The territory of American Samliland is established in Africa, and Teddy Roosevelt’s approval ratings sore after the end of the Swedish-American War. The Navy is celebrated as the real ‘victor in the war against Sweden’.
December 5th: The HMS Dreadnought is commisioned. She is just as she appears OTL, but with more armor.
1907
January 2s1t: Okalhoma becomes the 48th state in the Union, and New Zeland reaches Dominion status within the British Empire.
Febuarary 28th: Britian joins a defensive pact with France and Russia, and they invite the United States, which has become a world power in less than a year. The US declines, and decides to sit on the fence unless the United States of her territories are attacked.
March 4th: The panic of 1907 is averted when J.P. Morgan and a pool of investors shore up American financial institutions. Teddy Roosevelt forms the American Oversees Territorial Office (AOTO), and puts a slightley different William Jennings Brian in charge of it.
March 14th: The final numbers for the First American Baby Boom comes in. Nearly 47 (compare to 77 between January 1, 1946 to December 31, 1964 OTL) million babies have been born. No scientist are bel to deterimine why this has happened.
April 2nd: The US Navy orders 6 more dreadnaught battleships to be commisioned in less than 18 months, begging at the end of the year.
July 6th: An uprising in Niuew Amsterdam is put down by American soldiers wielding the new Sorenson auto-carbine. Despite begins called "auto", he had the firing mechanism of a Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol. The design of the Sorenson is an enlarged C96, but with a longer barrel and larger ammunition.
August 1st: The King Gustavus I Adolphus is commisioned. It is based of the original design for it, but faster and a little less armored.
September 29th: Nicarugua is occupied by American soldiers after its president requests American help in the country's civil war. The United States annexed Nicarugua two months later.
October 5th: the Angol-American minority in Alaska takes control of the government. Alaska became indpendent after the Russo-Japanese War. Tsar Vladmir I was overthrown, and the Republic of Alaska declared.
1908
January 23rd: The Ford Model T begins production, priced at $850.
Febuarary 8th: The Federal Buereu of Investigation is formed. It is a more sccret police like orgainization.
Febuarary 15th: The Belgiun Parliment takes control of the Belgium Congo away from King Leopold II.
The Monarchist in Sweden rise up, and so do the workers, because they have been mistreated by the government.
March 2nd: King Gustav V of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden and King Gustav I of Siam.
March 21st: The United States wins rights to drill in Venezula for oil there. In Persia, the first major oil deposit is discovered. Britian gets the right to drill there.
May 8th: The Sorenson Rifle model 1908 enteres production. It has a a 20-round magazine and a firing rate of 90 rounds per minute.
June 30th: President Roosevelt visitis the Panama Cannal, being the first US president to travel abroad while in office.
July 9th: The US Army Air Service is formed around 3 Wright R-Flyers.
November 13th: President Roosevelt is not re-elected President even if he does have a approval rating.
November 20th: There is a few skirmishes against Mexican soldiers in the United States. This almost starts a war, but stops suddenly when Teedy Roosevelt is steps in.
1909
January 19th: The German dreadnoght Nassau, is commisioned, three weeks after the French, Italians, and Austrians lay down their first dreadnoghts. The Swedish Navy is now back up and running, but she's lost a lot of trained officers.
Febuary 21st: Revolts in Armenia are put down by Ottomon authorities, with
help from a hand-ful of American Sorenson auto-carbs.
March 3rd: The Holy Russian Party is formed in Moscow by Josef Stalin. Due to his valor in the Russo-Japanse War, he becomes a minor noble in the Tsar's court.
April 13th: Partions of Standard Oil is nationalized by the US government, cutting down prices of oil for the US navy.
May 29th: American forces in the western territories of China are ambushed by remnanets of the Boxer Secret Society, which has largley been dismantled after the Boxer Uprising.
July 1st: Kwame Nkrumah's mother has a miscarriage, and the un-born Kwame is dead.
August 14th: Japanses shipyards lay down 3 Kongo-class dreadnoght warships. That same day, the USS Reprisal is laid down. She is the new battle cruiser concept, which is an armored cruiser with heavier armament and armor.
August 15th: The sister ships to the Reprisal, the Repulse and Revenge are laid down. They are all armed with 8 12-inch guns and a top speed of 25 knots, with about 9.5-inches of armor.
August 28th: Parliment authorizes a massive naval build-up to counter that of the United States. The I-class of battle cruisers (the HSM Invinicble, Indomitable, Inflexable, and Indefatigable) are laid down, after a several years of designing. They are the Invincible-class battlecruisers of OTL, but withan extra 2-inches of armor.
September 20th: The Panama Cannal is finished nearly a year ahead of schedule. The US Army Air Service receives several new bi-plane reconassiance aeroplanes from Wright Aircraft.
November 6th: King Edward VII and his only son, George Frederick Ernest Albert, die in a freak carrieage accident. King Edward VII eldest daughter (his other two sons died before this), Louise Victoria Alexandra, is crowned Queen Victoria II of England and Ireland, and Empress of India.
Note: As a result of the not-to-be King George V, the royal family has been completley upset. Here's the rulers after Victoria II. The KGV-class of warships will be named the King Henry V-class.
Key= assa: assasinated
abd.: abdicated
-Queen Victoria II, 1909-1931
-Queen Alexandra I, 1931-1936 (assa)
-King Arthur, 1936-1938 (abd.)
-King George V, 1938-1977
-King Edward VIII, 1977-present day
December 15-20th: The Chrismas Fleet Review in Portsmith, in honor of the King and prince. Queen Victoria II begins to push for more power to the monarch, and less to the prime minister.
1910
January 16th: Queen Victoria II's push for more power succedes as the Labor & Liberal Coalition has a majority in Parliment. The monarch now has the supreme power to veto any bill that he/she feels un-nescary, and it does not go back to Parliment. Over the next 10 years, the Prime Minister will have less power.
March 9th: Mexican President Porfirio is overthrown in a very blody coup. The United States attempts to invtervine, but they do not.
April 29th: Panama and Liberia are granted statehood. Many consider renaming the United States of America to the United States of America and Africa, or United States of the World. Both names are not adaopted.
May 15th: Japan officaly annexes Korea and Formosa, and their possesions in China. The Holy Russian Party gains mebers from the Beloshivkes (Holyisim is based of Communisim).
June 7th: The United States occupies Vera Cruz after Fransico Poncha Villa attacked several American settlements in two weeks. The US Navy too begins on a massive naval build-up, and so does Germany.
July 17th: The American Sorenson model 1911 begins desiging. It will have a rate of fire of 120 rounds, and have a 4-round burst capabilitty.
September 30th: China officaly bans slavery after pressure from the Great Powers. The American Army eradicates the final forces of Boxers in China when the Kwang-chu Boxer Compound is destroyed and captured by American forces.
October 31st: The Nigh of Halloween sees an attempted coup against Queen Victoria II of anti-Royalists, or people who wnated limtied power of the monarch. Queen Victoria II declares dictatorship powers, and bans the office of the Prime Minister indefinatley.
November 7th: The Halloween Rebellion is adverted when Queen Victoria II releases dictator powers, but keeps some. The office of the Prime Minister is re-enstated after a week.
December 29th: The Italian Communist Party gains a new vice-chariman, Benito Mussolino. The Italian Communist Party expands in two years, and will take power in 1922.
1898
-December 10th: Cuba is ceeded to the United States as the state of Santiago (east) and territory of Cuba (west). Cuba will become a state in 1906.
All Spanish oversees territories are also ceeded to the United States. Rio de Oro, Phillipines, and Puerto Rico all become territories.
1899
January 4th: Fuchow is bought from China, and Macoa from Portugal.
Feburary 26th: US Secretary of State John Milton Hay does not propes his 'Open Door Policy'. Tensions begin to grown in China between the competing powers.
March 9th: The United States's sphere of influence in China stretches from the port city Macoa (American), to Hangkow in the north, to Fuchow (American) to the east.
October 12th: The Boer War begins when the Orange Free State declares war on Britian. Natal and Cape Colony are invaded, and British forces at Natal, Ladysmith, and Mafeking are destroyed.
December 13th: Sir Redvers H. Buller reenforces soldiers at Colenso, Natal; the hills of Magersfontein on the Orange Free State and Cape Colony borders; and the mountain range of Stormberge in the Cape Colony.
December 20th: All these fresh soldiers are destroyed by Afrikaner forces.
1900
January 10th: General Frederick S. Roberts replaces Buller as commander-in-cheif in the war.
Feburary 4th: John D. P. French is sent to releive British forces at Kimberley, while Roberts begins a march from Cape Colony to the Orange Free State.
Feburary 8th: French arrives at Kimberley, and fights for two days to enter and capture the city.
Later that day, the Boxer Rebellion breaks out. It breaks out and ends as OTL, but with more American forces and less British present.
Feburary 15th: The Treaty of Bejing is signed. China is devided between the US, France, Britian, Germany, Russia, and Japan. A small independent country is allowed to exist, and is will have a coastline.
Feburary 27th: Roberts defeats Afrikaner general Piet Cronje. Roberts defeats Cronje, and his 4000 soldiers.
March 8th: Italian King Humpert I is assasinated.
March 17th: General Roberts enters the capital of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein.
May 17th: President McKinley signs the Gold Standard, and makes all American paper money backed by gold.
Mafeking, beseiged by Afrikaner forces, is releived.
May 31st: Johannesburg, capital of the South Afircan Union, is captured by General Roberts, and President Kruger flees to Europe.
August 29th: The Russia officaly annexes Manchuria, against all Japanesse threats. The United States establishes the territories Kwangtung, Kiangsi, Fukein, Chekiang, Hunan, Hupei, Kweichow, and Kwangsi.
October 3rd: Mexican/American relations are strained when El Paso is attacked by Mexican bandits.
December 31st: The Kwang-Chow stand-off begins after the US requests the France sells the city to the United States, but France refuses.
1901
January 3rd: General Roberts returns to Britian after a succesful Boer War.
January 5th: Oil is discovred in Texas. There is a lot more in Texas than OTL.
May 11th: The Commonwealth of Australia is formed, against much American protest. The Commonwealth includes all of Autralia, except for a northwestern part still held by the Netherlands.
July 23rd: Queen Victoria dies. King Edward VII succeds her as the Royal Soveriegn of the British Empire.
September 6th: President McKinley is shot. Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt takes over.
September 14th: The Republic of Liberia goes bankrupt. Voters agree to join the United States. Theodre Roosevelt accepts this, and Liberia becomes the Territory of Liberia.
November 4th: Roosevelt agrees to send supplies and weapons to Chinnese nationalist in other nation's parts of China, in exchange that the nationalists does not do operations in American territory. Also, the United States will fund the Afrikaners supplies, weapons, and money to fight against Great Britian.
1902
Feburary 6th: The Dominion of a United South Africa (DUSA) is formed. The Orange Free State officaly erupts into open rebellion the next day.
March 3rd: The United States invades Panama, and seizes it in a lightning fast operation, named Operation Hydra. The Territory of Panama is set up, and equipemnt for the Panama cannal construction begins to arrive.
May 4th: A strike of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is adverted at last second negotiations.
July 16th: Columbia is forced to reconize the American territory of Panama on the threat of war. France and Britian go into an uproar over this, but don't do much else.
August 16th: The Kwang-Chow stand-off ends when the US agrees to lease Guntamino Bay to France for 99 years, inexchange for Kwang-Chow for 99 years. Feburary 16ht, 2001, the United States will lower her flag from Kwang-Chow, and return it ot France, and France will do the samething to Guntamino Bay.
September 30th-June 8th, 1903: The First American Baby Boom, as hospitals nation wide are meet with record number of babies each day.
November 29th: Theodore Roosevlet enters a bill into Congress to increase the army by 35% and the navy by 30%. Developement of 12"/14 gune begins. Officaly, it is a 12-inch gun, but it is really a 14" gun to go onto the battleship Michigan.
1903
January 6th: Josef Stalin begins a Russian Army Eastern Orthodox Chaplin, but is intereseted in politics. He begins writin his book, Hoyliness and the Orthodx Polotics, which'll become the basis for his Orthodox Uprsising in 1920.
Feburary 15th: The USS Michigan is laid down in Norfolk Naval Yards. Armed with 10 of the new 14-inch/01 gun in 5 double turrets, she has a top speed of 20 knots and thick armor. The Michigan will begin the Dreadnoght Race.
May 6th: Vladmir Lennin and his Bolshveiks agree to stay with the moderate Mensheviks.
June 5th: The American navy begins to convert of oil-firing boilers instead of coal. Venezulian Oil is discovered and both France, Britian, and the United States "fight" for theri rights to drill their.
Septembe 3rd: The First World Series of Baseball is held, when the Boston Red Soxes beat the Pittsburg Pirates.
October 21st: The American Populist Party re-merges with the Democratic party. Later, when TR forms the Progressive Party, the Populists will join the new party.
November 11th: Diging of the Panama Cannal begins. An anti-biotic against malaria is tested.
December 3rd: The Wright brothers fly teh first manned powered flight at Kitty Hawk. Teddy Roosevlet begins a fascination with the aeroplane when he sees one fly at the White House a year later.
1904
January 23rd: Russian intellegince uncovers the Japanese attack on Port Arthur before it happens, and it is is put onto full alert. The Russians have two more battleships there than OTL due to the tensions in China.
Feburary 8th: The Japanese luanch there attack on Port Arthur. The First Battle of Port Arhthur sees the loss of 1 Russian and 1 Japanese battleships, and a total of 7 smaller vessels.
Feburary 16th: In agreement with the United States, Russian naval forces from the Baltic will be refuled from Liberia, the Philipines, and finally Macoa, then attack Japan.
March 24th: Japanese First Army lands at Inchon. Teddy Rossevelt attempts to find a peace sollution, but neither side agrees.
May 1st: Battle of Yalu. Of an army of 40,000 soldiers, 15,000 are killed in this bloddy battle. Reports of American soldiers fighting are dennied by the US.
May 2nd: The Japanese 2nd Army lands and attempts to sever communications from Port Arthur to Manchuria, but fails.
May 11th: General Kuropatkin is ordered to hold Russian areas in China gainst Japanese agression.
A surprise attack from Vladavostok catches the Japanese off guard. 25,000 Russians land in Korea to surprise the Japanese.
June 14th: The Russians have severed the Japanese line at the 38th parallel. So far, the war has dragged into a bloody trench warfare. The United States begins shipping supplies to Russia to help against the Japanese.
July 9th: 180,000 Russian soldiers pour across the 38th Parallel on a new offensive into Korea.
August 5th: The Russian Baltic Fleet arrives at Macoa to face off agains the Japanese. The feeling of both the Russians and Japanese is whoever wins this upcoming battle will win the war.
August 12th: After waiting in harbor for a week and training with the Americans, the Russian fleet leaves Macoa to fight the Japanese.
August 21st: American-Mexican relations are strained as more attacks by Mexican bandits occur. Fianlly, Teddy Roosevelt releases the Mexico agreemtn that if the attacks do not stop by the end of the year, he will have no choice but th take action against the Mexicans.
August 27th-29th: The Battle of Tsushima. It is a draw as both sides lose half their warships. It is a tactical victory for the Russians who still retain more advanced ships and a startegic victory for the Japanese who forced the Russians to retreat.
September 4th: The Dover Peace Accors in Dover, Delaware begin. A 1 month truce is agreed apon, while both sides like their wounds.
October 4th-December 9th: Small sporadic fighting as the Dover Peace Accors are going on. Finally, on December 10th, the Second Battle of Port Arthur. The Russians loss all but three battleships, and surrender.
1905
January 6th: Last Russian offensive stalls. The Dover Peace Treaty is signed, and all pre-war boundries are restored.
Feburary 5th: Through Sweedish Somliland (Italian Eritera OTL), the Sweedish King Oscar II forecefully annexes Abyssiania.
Febuarary 16th: Mexico agrees to atemtp to stop attacks on American cities and encampements on the border. In a week, this attacks are cut in half.
March 1st: Alaska declares her independence from Russia.
March 5th: The USS South Carolina-sister ship to the Michigan-is commisioned on the west coast of the United States. She, and 2 Michingan-style armored cruisers and 6 light cruisers head towards Maco to set up the new First Chinese Squadron in China.
March 12th: The British lay down the HMS Dreadnoght in an attempt to catch up to the Americans as fast they can.
Sweeden begins to enlarge her navy considerble by laying down 2 new dreadnoghts and 6 armormored cruisers.
March 19th: The Siam, who has been embroiled in a civil war, requests help not from Britian, but from Sweeden who has established a naval base off the coast of Siam.
March 21st: The first Sweedish soldier enters Siam. Britian asks if Siam needs any help, but they put down the request.
April 30th: The Siam Civil War ends in favor of the king.
May 1st: King Oscar orders his soldiers stage a coup against the king. It succeds, and the king is killed. Siam is officaly annexed by Sweeden as the Sweedish Indochina.
May 11th: Teedy Roosevelt declares that Sweeden 'had better stay out of North America', a reply to King Oscar's willingness to buy the Dutch Guinea from the Netherlands.
June 4th: Sweeden buys the Dutch Guenia from the Netherlands. Also, the Dutch East Indies are also bought.
June 11th: Roosevelt threatens to enact the Monroe Doctrine against Sweeden if they do not leave Dutch Guienea, and return it to its rightful owner, the Netherlands.
July 6th: The Michigan and a fleet of 2 pre-dreadnoghts, 6 armored cruisers, and 13 smaller vessels anchor off the Dutch Guiena coast and blockade it.
August 15th: The ISwMS King Gutavus II Adolphus, Sweeden's first dreadnoght, is laid down. It is armed with 12 13-inch guns in 6 double turretss.
August 21st: The ISwMS Torrenstein, a dreadnoght-style armored cruiser, is commisioned in Stockholm. It is immdediatlety sent to the Dutch Guinea to attempt to break its blockeade.
September 11th: The Torrenstein arrives 500 feet from the Michigan's bow. the two exchange some shots and move away.
October 9th: The American-Sweedish War breaks out when the Michgan fires on the Torrenstein, damaging. The French allow it to dock at her ports for repair. The First Chinese Squadron (that leaves 3 pre-dreadnoghts to defend China) sails to Sweedish Indochina to invade it with 15,000 soldiers.
October 21st: The South Carolonia shells Bangock, killing the Imperial Sweedish Indochina Govenor, Robert Jörgen. The First Chinese Squadron (1 dreadnoght and 2 pre-dreadnghts) shell Bongock Naval Base, destroying the pre-dreadnoght Oscar I.
November 11th: The Americans tighten their blockade on Dutch Guinea, and several times the repaired Torrenstein attempts to break through.
November 23rd: Bangock is occupied by American forces. The Americans now have complete naval authority after they destroyed the Oscar I.
December 16th: The American-Sweedish War enters into a 1 month undeclared truce. Britian, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan stay nuetral, while Russia allows American to use their ports and merchantmen to ship supplies to Bangcock.
1906
January 3rd:The Torrenstein and 2 high-speed transports break through the American blockade of the Dutch Guinea. The transports land 5,000 soldier at Paramaribo Harbor. In response, the Americans begin to land soldiers Nieuw Nickerie.
January 5th: the United States lands her remaining 25,000 soldier that are offshore at Nieuw Nickerie. The railroad system begins to transport the soldiers towards Paramaribo. The Michigan begins to shell Paramaribo to lay the way for an assault of 1,500 soldiers.
January 16th: In Siam, the United States land another 5,000 soldiers to re-enforce the garrison already there. The Swedish naval base at Surat Thani is captured, along with the armored cruiser Olaf Skotkonung. The Olaf is pressed into US service and renamed the New Sweden.
January 24th: The Battle of Laem Chabang. The Swedish garrison there is able to hold-off the Americans for 4 days before finally capitulating.
The pre-dreadnought, the Carl XIV Johan, three armored cruisers, and 9 supporting ships set sail from the Swedish Samliland to Siam to bring back control of the seas to Sweden.
February 16th: The Battle of Nieuw Amsterdam as the Swedes are finally able to land the remaining 15,000 soldier to occupy the Dutch Guinea. They meet an army of 9,000 Americans and a three-day battle begins.
February 19th: General Marcus Reno (who survived to fight WW I in TTL) is able to retreat from Nieuw Amsterdam with only 1900 soldier reaming.
March 3rd: The Battle of Malacca. The Carl XIV Johan and two other pre-dreadnoughts engage an American force of the South Carolina and two pre-dreadnoughts. On the first day of fighting, the South Carolina is bale to damage the Carl XIV Gustav. The Swedes lose an armored cruiser, and the Americans lose two light cruisers and a destroyer.
March 4th: The last day of the Battle of Malacca. The remaining Swedish naval forces, except for the Carl XIV Johan, are sunk. Ironically, the ex-Olaf Skotkonung sinks a Swedish ship of the same class. The Carl XIV Johan is captured and pressed into service as the Emperor.
March 15th: The Torrenstein is sunk in a duel against the American battleship Illinois. The Torrenstein explodes after a 12-inch shell explodes here magazine and she goes down with all hands.
April 2nd: The Battle of the Gulf of Thailand. The reaming Swedish Eat Indies Fleet-comprising of one armored cruiser, 3 light cruisers, and 5 torpedo boats-attempts to make towards the Dutch East Indies. All but one light cruiser and 3 torpedo boats are sunk. King Oscar II’s approval ratings begin to plummet after the disastrous Battles of Malacca and Gulf of Thailand.
April 3rd: The Battle of Paranam, which south of Paramaribo. The city is shelled for 3 days, and over half of the Swedish garrison is killed. The Dutch garrison, which was suppose to go to Paramaribo a day ago, is also killed in the attack.
April 7th: The April Revolution in Sweden, supported by Lenin’s Bolsheviks. Oscar II is killed, and so is the rest of the royal family. The leader of the Swedish Workers Party, Valter Ingemar, declares the People’s Empire of Sweden.
April 10th: Valter sues for peace with the United States. Teddy Roosevelt agrees, and the Treaty of Copenhagen is signed a month later. The Swedes are allowed to keep Siam, except for Bangkok and a few surrounding areas. The Dutch Guinea will be under American administration until they feel it is time for independence. Abyssinia and Swedish Samliland will be partitioned between Sweden (east) and the United States (west)
May 16th: The King Gutavus II Adolphus construction speeds up. Two more warships, the Stockholm and Gustavus I Adolphus are laid down in other shipyards. The loss of 4 pre-dreadnoughts and a portion of their cruiser fleet see a rethinking of the Swedish Navy’s reason for existing an combat tactics.
May 21st: Sweden officially adopts jeune ecole with the laying down or four new, high-speed commerce raiders. Two new, fast semi-dreadnoughts are laid down also to make up for the loses in Siam. These new semi-dreadnoughts will be armed with 6 14-inch guns in two triple turrets, and he heavily armored, but faster than most battleships at the time.
July 6th: The territories of Guinea and Suriname are set up in the Dutch Guinea.
August 25th: Cuba is granted statehood in the United States. The area surrounding Bangkok and Bangkok herself becomes the territory of Siam within the United States.
September 1st: As thanks for their help in the Swedish-American War, the United States gives Russia the ability to use American docks in Hawaii, Macao, and Bangkok.
November 19th: The territory of American Samliland is established in Africa, and Teddy Roosevelt’s approval ratings sore after the end of the Swedish-American War. The Navy is celebrated as the real ‘victor in the war against Sweden’.
December 5th: The HMS Dreadnought is commisioned. She is just as she appears OTL, but with more armor.
1907
January 2s1t: Okalhoma becomes the 48th state in the Union, and New Zeland reaches Dominion status within the British Empire.
Febuarary 28th: Britian joins a defensive pact with France and Russia, and they invite the United States, which has become a world power in less than a year. The US declines, and decides to sit on the fence unless the United States of her territories are attacked.
March 4th: The panic of 1907 is averted when J.P. Morgan and a pool of investors shore up American financial institutions. Teddy Roosevelt forms the American Oversees Territorial Office (AOTO), and puts a slightley different William Jennings Brian in charge of it.
March 14th: The final numbers for the First American Baby Boom comes in. Nearly 47 (compare to 77 between January 1, 1946 to December 31, 1964 OTL) million babies have been born. No scientist are bel to deterimine why this has happened.
April 2nd: The US Navy orders 6 more dreadnaught battleships to be commisioned in less than 18 months, begging at the end of the year.
July 6th: An uprising in Niuew Amsterdam is put down by American soldiers wielding the new Sorenson auto-carbine. Despite begins called "auto", he had the firing mechanism of a Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol. The design of the Sorenson is an enlarged C96, but with a longer barrel and larger ammunition.
August 1st: The King Gustavus I Adolphus is commisioned. It is based of the original design for it, but faster and a little less armored.
September 29th: Nicarugua is occupied by American soldiers after its president requests American help in the country's civil war. The United States annexed Nicarugua two months later.
October 5th: the Angol-American minority in Alaska takes control of the government. Alaska became indpendent after the Russo-Japanese War. Tsar Vladmir I was overthrown, and the Republic of Alaska declared.
1908
January 23rd: The Ford Model T begins production, priced at $850.
Febuarary 8th: The Federal Buereu of Investigation is formed. It is a more sccret police like orgainization.
Febuarary 15th: The Belgiun Parliment takes control of the Belgium Congo away from King Leopold II.
The Monarchist in Sweden rise up, and so do the workers, because they have been mistreated by the government.
March 2nd: King Gustav V of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden and King Gustav I of Siam.
March 21st: The United States wins rights to drill in Venezula for oil there. In Persia, the first major oil deposit is discovered. Britian gets the right to drill there.
May 8th: The Sorenson Rifle model 1908 enteres production. It has a a 20-round magazine and a firing rate of 90 rounds per minute.
June 30th: President Roosevelt visitis the Panama Cannal, being the first US president to travel abroad while in office.
July 9th: The US Army Air Service is formed around 3 Wright R-Flyers.
November 13th: President Roosevelt is not re-elected President even if he does have a approval rating.
November 20th: There is a few skirmishes against Mexican soldiers in the United States. This almost starts a war, but stops suddenly when Teedy Roosevelt is steps in.
1909
January 19th: The German dreadnoght Nassau, is commisioned, three weeks after the French, Italians, and Austrians lay down their first dreadnoghts. The Swedish Navy is now back up and running, but she's lost a lot of trained officers.
Febuary 21st: Revolts in Armenia are put down by Ottomon authorities, with
help from a hand-ful of American Sorenson auto-carbs.
March 3rd: The Holy Russian Party is formed in Moscow by Josef Stalin. Due to his valor in the Russo-Japanse War, he becomes a minor noble in the Tsar's court.
April 13th: Partions of Standard Oil is nationalized by the US government, cutting down prices of oil for the US navy.
May 29th: American forces in the western territories of China are ambushed by remnanets of the Boxer Secret Society, which has largley been dismantled after the Boxer Uprising.
July 1st: Kwame Nkrumah's mother has a miscarriage, and the un-born Kwame is dead.
August 14th: Japanses shipyards lay down 3 Kongo-class dreadnoght warships. That same day, the USS Reprisal is laid down. She is the new battle cruiser concept, which is an armored cruiser with heavier armament and armor.
August 15th: The sister ships to the Reprisal, the Repulse and Revenge are laid down. They are all armed with 8 12-inch guns and a top speed of 25 knots, with about 9.5-inches of armor.
August 28th: Parliment authorizes a massive naval build-up to counter that of the United States. The I-class of battle cruisers (the HSM Invinicble, Indomitable, Inflexable, and Indefatigable) are laid down, after a several years of designing. They are the Invincible-class battlecruisers of OTL, but withan extra 2-inches of armor.
September 20th: The Panama Cannal is finished nearly a year ahead of schedule. The US Army Air Service receives several new bi-plane reconassiance aeroplanes from Wright Aircraft.
November 6th: King Edward VII and his only son, George Frederick Ernest Albert, die in a freak carrieage accident. King Edward VII eldest daughter (his other two sons died before this), Louise Victoria Alexandra, is crowned Queen Victoria II of England and Ireland, and Empress of India.
Note: As a result of the not-to-be King George V, the royal family has been completley upset. Here's the rulers after Victoria II. The KGV-class of warships will be named the King Henry V-class.
Key= assa: assasinated
abd.: abdicated
-Queen Victoria II, 1909-1931
-Queen Alexandra I, 1931-1936 (assa)
-King Arthur, 1936-1938 (abd.)
-King George V, 1938-1977
-King Edward VIII, 1977-present day
December 15-20th: The Chrismas Fleet Review in Portsmith, in honor of the King and prince. Queen Victoria II begins to push for more power to the monarch, and less to the prime minister.
1910
January 16th: Queen Victoria II's push for more power succedes as the Labor & Liberal Coalition has a majority in Parliment. The monarch now has the supreme power to veto any bill that he/she feels un-nescary, and it does not go back to Parliment. Over the next 10 years, the Prime Minister will have less power.
March 9th: Mexican President Porfirio is overthrown in a very blody coup. The United States attempts to invtervine, but they do not.
April 29th: Panama and Liberia are granted statehood. Many consider renaming the United States of America to the United States of America and Africa, or United States of the World. Both names are not adaopted.
May 15th: Japan officaly annexes Korea and Formosa, and their possesions in China. The Holy Russian Party gains mebers from the Beloshivkes (Holyisim is based of Communisim).
June 7th: The United States occupies Vera Cruz after Fransico Poncha Villa attacked several American settlements in two weeks. The US Navy too begins on a massive naval build-up, and so does Germany.
July 17th: The American Sorenson model 1911 begins desiging. It will have a rate of fire of 120 rounds, and have a 4-round burst capabilitty.
September 30th: China officaly bans slavery after pressure from the Great Powers. The American Army eradicates the final forces of Boxers in China when the Kwang-chu Boxer Compound is destroyed and captured by American forces.
October 31st: The Nigh of Halloween sees an attempted coup against Queen Victoria II of anti-Royalists, or people who wnated limtied power of the monarch. Queen Victoria II declares dictatorship powers, and bans the office of the Prime Minister indefinatley.
November 7th: The Halloween Rebellion is adverted when Queen Victoria II releases dictator powers, but keeps some. The office of the Prime Minister is re-enstated after a week.
December 29th: The Italian Communist Party gains a new vice-chariman, Benito Mussolino. The Italian Communist Party expands in two years, and will take power in 1922.
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