Collaborative TL: One-Hundred Years: A World Changes

Baconheimer

Baconheimer

In honor of the date, June 28th 2014, I have decided we should have another collaborative TL. Basically, we write down events to create a cohesive timeline. Remember to stick with what we already have. If someones event is considered implausible, a discussion will be held to decide if we should retcon the event.

June 28, 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary is involved in an assassination attempt. He is grazed by fragments of a bomb thrown by Muhamed Mehmedbašić, a Bosnian nationalist. He remains safe and in the city.

Go! For now, all events must be between the POD and January 1, 1919.
 

General Mosh

June 29, 1914: Emperor Franz Joseph orders a full investigation into the incident, and begins the deployment of extra troops to keep the peace in Bosnia.
 
Nataraj

Nataraj

March 4, 1913: After Theodore Roosevelt unexpectedly withdraws his candidacy for the presidency and backs Taft after the two renew their friendship, Taft is elected to a second term with a massively strengthened campaign. Taft officially returns to office on this date.

August 7-10, 1914: President Taft's sudden death, only a few months into his second term, leaves the United States government briefly in chaos as the inexperienced vice president Nicholas M. Butler makes several key mistakes; firstly, taking control over the White House before being sworn in as the 28th President of the United States; then, publicly losing his temper at Senator Elihu Root of New York, a popular member of Congress, thus gaining a reputation as a hot-headed, unskilled brute.

September 23, 1914: Conservative Republicans in the Senate led by Senator Elihu Root and House Democrats led by House Speaker James Beauchamp "Champ" Clark form an unlikely alliance, publicly calling for the resignation of President Butler after the acting president again makes another crucial mistake in alienating Taft's conservative base by appointing several progressives to his cabinet. Clark is particularly vitriolic, calling Butler's presidency "unconstitutional and...a shame to our democracy". In a speech on the National Mall, President Butler firmly refuses to resign the presidency, citing Andrew Johnson's presidency as precedent, shoring up support amongst progressive Republicans and independents by vowing to push for a liberal agenda.
 
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Baconheimer

Baconheimer

OnlyAlb said:
August 7, 1914: President Taft suffers a stroke and dies.
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Nataraj said:
March 4, 1913: After Theodore Roosevelt unexpectedly withdraws his candidacy for the presidency and backs Taft after the two renew their friendship, Taft is elected to a second term with a massively strengthened campaign. Taft officially returns to office on this date.

August 7-10, 1914: President Taft's sudden death, only a few months into his second term*, leaves the United States government briefly in chaos as the inexperienced vice president Nicholas M. Butler makes several key mistakes; firstly, taking control over the White House before being sworn in as the 28th President of the United States; then, publicly losing his temper at Senator Elihu Root of New York, a popular member of Congress, thus gaining a reputation as a hot-headed, unskilled brute.
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These events will have to be disqualified, because the POD is June 28th, 1914.
 
Nataraj

Nataraj

Baconheimer said:
These events will have to be disqualified, because the POD is June 28th, 1914.
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Apologies; I was trying to make OnlyAlb's event work. I propose this change:

August 7-10, 1914: President Woodrow Wilson suffers a sudden stroke and dies. In a remarkably smooth transition, Vice President Thomas R. Marshall is sworn in as 29th President of the United States. In his hastily-written inaugural speech, "A Tragic Accession", Marshall makes several faux pas as he champions a much more progressive agenda even than Wilson's own.

September 24, 1914: After President Marshall appoints several extremely progressive candidates to the cabinet, his legitimacy is openly challenged by conservative Republicans in the Senate, led by New York Senator Elihu Root. Marshall fires back angrily, calling "the fine senator from New York and all his ilk foul snakes chewing upon the bare leg of government". The statement soon makes its way, both visually and verbally, into newspapers around the country.

EDIT: Also--
December 20, 1914: The so-called Christmas riots in Calcutta in British India begin after the bubonic plague which had struck Bombay only fifteen years previously appears like wildfire in the city; the British struggle to regain order in the city, in what can accurately be called the largest Indian rebellion since the Sepoy Rebellion fifty years earlier. The riots and plague combined will eventually cause the displacement or death of nearly two million people*.

*The Bombay plague featured similar statistics.
 
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Nataraj

Nataraj

Sorry to double post, but I just realized, if Wilson's dead, this means the Socialist Party (which, BTW, Marshall was very sympathetic to IOTL) won't be crushed like they were by Wilson because of their anti-WWI stance and should be able to keep the momentum they had been building up since their founding. I imagine that Eugene Debs may actually be a serious contender in the next election if Marshall ends up alienating himself from the Democrats and backing Debs.
 
Indigo

Indigo

July 12th 1914: Grigori Rasputin is stabbed in the chest by Khionia Guseva, the wound proving fatal. The death is a extremely heavy blow to the royal family.

September 25th 1914: After Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels is shifted to the Treasury Department in Marshall's reshuffle of the cabinet, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt moves up to take Daniels' place
 
Mr_ Bondoc

Mr_ Bondoc

October 31st, 1914: Charles Taze Russell proclaims that an "apocalyptic war" is coming, during a mass in Allegheny, Pennsylvania,....

January 23rd, 1915: John Chilembwe launches a massive armed insurrection against British occupation in Nyassaland seizing control of the armory at Blantyre,...
 
Gorrister

Gorrister

September 1 1914: Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George is found dead after being hit by a car while walking in London, PM Asquith remains undecided on his replacement, but many agree it will be a Liberal.

August 2 1914: Hussein Onyango Obama decides to move to South Africa to find a job at the King's African Rifles.

Hope there are no conflicting events.
 
Gorrister

Gorrister

July 10th 1914: The Boston Red Sox refuse to buy Babe Ruth as a pitcher. Ruth, bitter about the rejection, decides to take up an offer with the Boston Braves, who immediately accept him.
 
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Nataraj

Nataraj

November 13, 1914: On November 13 in the early morning hours, a British freight ship out of Belize City collides with USS Utah, patrolling near the Mexican coast. While the Utah is not majorly damaged, the British ship suffers a large hole and rapidly takes on water. Though the American sailors manage to save several dozen crewmen, many more are lost in the black night and the ship is forced to return to Galveston with its sad cargo, leaving several dozen unaccounted for. The next day, the search is quickly called off by the Democratic governor of Texas, Oscar Branch Colquitt, ostensibly due to a lack of results.

November 18, 1914: In a speech before the American Senate, the British Ambassador to the United States, Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice, publicly shames Colquitt for calling off the search so quickly and calls on the president to continue the search, at least for the bodies of the sailors who might remain. While the president is certainly willing to do so, his response is unfortunately complicated by Senator Elihu Root, who uses the occasion to again challenge President Marshall's leadership.

November 19, 1914: Marshall, in an attempt to both save face from the diplomatic catastrophe and confirm his legitimacy, nervously bungles his "Apology" speech, again in front of the Senate and a gathering of foreign diplomats, managing to insult the British Ambassador with an ill-timed joke. The diplomatic situation is further complicated as the Mexican Ambassador to the United States, Eliseo Arredondode, questions American diplomatic staff as to why the Utah was patrolling so near Mexican waters.
 
Baconheimer

Baconheimer

If anyone is well-versed in the Government of Ireland Act, would they kindly put something in here.

August 1, 1914- Marcus Garvey founds the UNIA.

August 15, 1914- The Panama Canal is opened. Visitors from around the world show up.

August 20, 1914- Pope Pius X passes away.

October 13, 1914- Louis Luçon, a Frenchman, is elected Pope. He takes the name Alexander IX.

November 15, 1914- Harry Turner, captain of the Canton Professionals, leads that team to victory over the Akron Indians.
 
Nataraj

Nataraj

Well, here I go, trying...

September 18, 1914: The 1914 Government of Ireland Act receives royal assent. While the Unionist faction in Parliament strongly opposed the inclusion of Ulster in Home Rule, the addition narrowly passes, with Prime Minister H. H. Asquith pushing strongly for the inclusion of the entirety of Ireland. The royal assention prompts a Unionist walk-out of Parliament supported by Andrew Bonar Law juxtaposed with celebrations in Dublin, Cork, and other southern Irish cities. Ulster, however, is simmering...
 
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