From CaliBoy1990 & Mr_ Bondoc:
July 29th, 1800: Napoleon Bonaparte meets with Robert Fulton in Rouen, France, regarding construction of "Nautilus" vehicles (OTL: hand-driven submarines)....
November 3rd, 1800: James Madison wins the first U.S. election, against John Adams.
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April 17th, 1801: A Venetian frigate, the 'Marco Polo', with dozens of American and French diplomats on board, mysteriously explodes just off the coast of a small fishing village in the southern tip of Greenland. A visiting Swedish sea captain in the area, decides to end his stay early and head for the nearest major European town he can find. He lands in Liverpool about a week and a half after his departure.
May 10th/13th, 1801: The governments of the U.S. and Napoleon's France, respectively, send a half a dozen spies each to Greenland.
July 2nd, 1801: The Americans, and the Frenchmen find each other. A bitter argument ensues between the dozen of them, and somebody shoots. Two of the Americans and three of the Frenchmen escape to their boats, and sail back to their respective home countries.
July 3rd, 1801: American inventor Robert Fulton begins construction of "Nautilus" vehicles along the Seine River, France....
July 26th, 1801: What is known as the 'Marco Polo' affair, has begun........the U.S. and France begin what will be known as the 'Great Detente.'.
September 7th, 1801: French trader Charles Le Raye is captured by Teton Sioux along the Missouri River, becoming the first non-native to explore the Grand Teton area....
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March 4th, 1802: A British steamboat mysteriously explodes while anchored in Bombay.........250 people, mostly members of European high society, including a large number of Oldenburgers and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha people, are killed. It is perhaps the first truly major attack ever conducted against European nobility overseas.
March 13th, 1802: The British East India Company is given permission to deal with whatever enemies they may have in territories under their control, however they may please, but George III. It is the first time a corporation has ever been allowed to do something such as this; although the Company already had some power, they usually had to go through the Crown to get anything major done............not anymore, though.
July 15, 1802: What would have been Ohio just 8 months later in OTL, is reclaimed by Britain, and with OTL's Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and southern Wisconsin, is amalgamated into the hastily cobbled together, but still defendable British New England.
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June 11th, 1803: A visiting Polish rabbi in Lower Canada is accused of ordering the murders of a Christian couple in York............however, though, he is found to be innocent: the real killer was one Jebediah Grimes, of Kingston.
September 10th, 1803: Maine is now actually the 17th state. A few Mass. assemblymen make a considerable fuss at first, but quickly drop the subject.
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January 11th, 1804: Philosopher William Blake is executed for "republican sentiments" and "acts of witchcraft" in Sussex, England, after reportedly insulting the king and military...
February 2nd, 1804: The 'Midwinter Riots' begin to occur in London, following the Crown's refusal to pardon the late William Blake. Soldiers from some of the local army barracks attempt to quell the riots, but are unable to do so.
February 5th, 1804: The riots in London have now come to a head; multiple city blocks are now impeded by rioters, and the soldiers are getting more and more desperate to stop them. Then, finally just after noon, one of the sergeants, only identified as Wilfred S., loses his cool, and orders his men to fire on the advancing rioters.The 'London Massacre', soon becomes nationwide news, and eventually, riots begin to spread all over the country
February 22nd-29th, 1804: The last riots in London finally cease, but some problems continue elsewhere. Some members of Parliament decide to come up with the Emergency Powers Act, which allows for the military to directly intervene in times of a national crisis. It's quickly passed, and signed on the morning of the 29th.
May 19th, 1804: In Tennessee, a large tornado sweeps away the town of Rutherford{OTL Murfreesboro}, pop. 8,000; 107 residents die, mainly because of the flimsiness of the buildings, as well as the fact that it happened at only around 2:30 in the afternoon, when many people were still out and about.
November 3rd, 1804: Alabama is admitted as the 18th state in the Union. Slavery is only partially legal.
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May 3rd, 1805: French trader Charles Le Raye escapes to an American settlement in Saint Louis, Missouri...
July 10th, 1805: In Jackson{OTL's Cheriton}, Va., an eccentric but likable Revolutionary War veteran decides to start something that he's planned for months; he starts an annual mock pirate festival. It's not only a fairly big hit, but interestingly enough, also one of the first events to employ free African Americans as well as Caucasian ones.
July 23rd, 1805: Mississippi is admitted as the 19th state in the Union. Slavery is also restricted here{slaves are required to be freed after a certain amount of time}.
August 25, 1805: The 'York Crisis' ends...........yet no concessions are made to the protesters. In fact, the ringleader, a Welshman by the name of Henry Powell, is extradited back to the U.K. to face treason charges.
September 4, 1805: Another protest occurs...........this time in Bytown{future Ottawa}. Unfortunately, however, it ends in disaster: A fire started in the early afternoon which destroyed the whole town in only 8 hours.
The Viceroyalty heard 2 stories: Either a dry thunderstorm in the area struck the local church and caused a gunpowder depository to explode{the protesters}, or one of the protesters set fire to a tavern{local soldiers}. Either way, it was going to get nasty very soon in places.
September 12, 1805: In the area near OTL present-day Sherbrooke, Quebec, a group of about 100 Iroquois Native Americans attacks a British convoy. Nearly all of the soldiers are killed, but there were a small group of civilians with them who were left unharmed, save one 10 year old Amish boy who was accidentally killed in the crossfire.
November 2, 1805: A tropical storm impacts, and devastates much of, St. John's, Newfoundland; 300 people have died.
July, 1805: The first of the anti-slavery protests in the Spanish owned areas of the New World occur in California, around the Yerba Buena area.
July 23rd, 1805: Mississippi is admitted as the 17th state in the Union. Slavery is also restricted here{slaves are required to be freed after a certain amount of time}
August 9th, 1805: News of the murder of the Native American tribal chief begins to spread it's way to not just to some of the local First Nations peoples, but even some citizens of York are beginning to get a little concerned.
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January 19, 1806: A British colonel, Jeremiah Woodehame, while on off-duty tour in Nova Scotia, sees a Native American woman in an intimate embrace with a local farmer. He angrily confronts the two lovers, and soon a fight breaks out. In what many view as an act of cowardice, Woodehame shoots the farmer thru the back of the head. But just after he does so, he turns around just in time to see the woman swing a hatchet at him, and he is totally decapitated in only a fraction of a second.
March 9, 1806: An inquest is sent to London by the wife of the deceased to locate the farmer's lover and have her executed{part of this will be due to racial bias}..........thankfully, however, she is never found.{She dies peacefully in 1866, having married a Quaker minister and having a large and supportive family. }
March 14, 1806: Near a small village in what will be southeastern New Brunswick, a Native American man is suddenly and brutally attacked by a group of teenaged thugs. He doesn't survive.
August 20th, 1805: Some of the first demonstrations begin to occur in York. Although they are pretty much all peaceful, some of the Crown officers decide that much of what they have heard isn't to their liking and they start ordering the arrests of many. This is met with quite the angry reaction.........the 'York Crisis' begins on this day.
March 18, 1806: A couple of Native Americans decide to take revenge for their fallen comrade, and ambush a local farmer and his 2 sons on a property near Moncton.
December 22, 1806: In Spanish Florida, A significant anti-slavery protest occurs in the tiny town of Alachua after a dozen slaves are violently beaten to death, simply for affirming their humanity in front of a Jesuit priest who was favored by the wealthy slaveowner who beat them.
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February 3rd, 1807: In Apalachee, controversy erupts after a Jesuit priest gives a speech about the supposed 'inferiority' of those of African descent
March 31st, 1807: Another major anti-slavery protest, this time in Fort Smyrna. Many of the protesters, white{including even most of the Spaniards}, black, and Latino alike are beaten by angry soldiers.
April 14th, 1807: Tennessee is now the 18th state.
It is NOT a slave state, as it was in OTL.
April, 24-25, 1807: Inspired by the protesters in California, several thousand escaped slaves and hundreds of anti-monarchist revolutionaries march in Mexico City. The Spanish soldiers shoot many of them, killing over 200.
May 15th, 1807: The Viceroy of Florida fears for his life after multiple small rocks are thrown at his carriage during a routine stroll while visiting Pensacola by angry slaves.
June 6th, 1807: Florida secedes from Spanish control after yet another major anti-slavery demonstration in St. Augustine goes horribly wrong, with soldiers ruthlessly firing upon dozens of innocents. The U.S. decides to step in, particularly under President Madison's request.
June 9th, 1807: The Floridian War begins.
July-October, 1807: The U.S. seems to be losing at first; 2,000 volunteers have died, compared to only 400 Spanish conscripts, and the Americans have actually lost ground in Georgia. And with Spanish reinforcements on the way, the situation seems hopeless for a while. But, luckily, on October 21st, almost the entire Spanish fleet is destroyed by a major hurricane while the fleet is between central Florida and the Bahamas. There are only a few dozen survivors.
September 4th, 1807: Anti-Christian riots erupt in Macau, China; Portuguese officials voice their outrage in Beijing, China and Lisbon, Portugal...
September 8th, 1807: A couple of Portuguese soldiers in Macau go AWOL and decide that it might be fun to blow some bloody holes in some locals.........mayhem ensues. When it's all over, 9 people are dead, including an 18 mo. old boy.
November 12th-29th, 1807: The Battle of St. Augustine is the last major battle of the war. In fact, amazingly enough, hundreds of Spanish slaves, defect to the American side and help drive them out of the area by the end of the month. {After the war, these slaves, mostly Africans and Native Americans, are all freed, and those to want to leave Florida, are offered plots of land in either the Louisiana Territory or any one of the free soil states, although with the exception of Pennsylvania.}
November 22nd, 1807: Female pirate Zheng Yi Sao, under the approval of the Emperor, launches a war of piracy against European vessels in the South China Sea, with the aid of c.60,000 people and c.800 vessels....
December, 1807: The Revolutionaries, led by Francisco Hidalgo, fight their first battle with Spanish troops in Toluca.
December 25th, 1807: The Viceroy of Florida commits suicide in his home. He is not given a burial until March, after his body has been shipped back to Spain.
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February 14th, 1808: Florida becomes the 20th state in the Union, although controversy erupts and will remain for some time.
April 7th, 1808: Tennessee becomes a free soil state thanks to the campaign of one Henry A. Jameson, of Nashville.........there is some opposition from certain members of the aristocracy{especially former Loyalists}, but the populace thinks nothing of it, and continue to live their lives regardless.
March-June, 1808: Madison begins secret correspondence with select people on how to eventually end 'the necessary evil'{as they might've called it} of slavery.
December 1808-July 1809: The invasion of what is OTL's Louisiana occurs in retaliation for the loss of Florida. This time, however, the Americans lose and are forced to pull out.
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January 14, 1809: A severe winter snowstorm in Liverpool, Great Britain kills 50 people.
March 4, 1809: Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated.
April 13, 1809: The 'Thursday the 13th' massacre in Mexico City occurs. 5,000 people were not only protesting the latest crackdowns on free citizens but the expansion of slavery as well. By 1:00 pm, hundreds of soldiers were in the center of the city to counteract them all. Things got progressively worse, and, just before 6:00 pm, things would go absolutely to hell. Nobody is exactly sure who fired the first shot, but, unfortunately, once it did happen, all hell broke loose. Many of the conscripts fired on the charging protesters, but it was no use to stop them all, and quite a few of them were totally trampled by the peasants{and a few slaves, mostly Africans, who had escaped.}.
June 24, 1809: In Zacatecas, just before sunrise, hundreds of revolutionaries launch a sneak ambush on a local garrison, following the events in Mexico City, and the murder of a local 'Indio' woman and her family. The battle is rather short lived but quite fierce; when it's all over, all but 2 dozen of the 500 soldiers are dead, compared to only 75 of the Revolucionarios. The commander who personally issued the order, is shot by a mutual friend of Hidalgo's, an 'Indio' by the name of Jose Antonio Garcia. And on that note, the Mexican Revolution has begun.
July 8, 1809: Word of the Revolution in Mexico, reaches Washington.
July 10, 1809: The U.S. issues it's informal support for the Mexican Revolutionaries, but does not get directly involved with the Spanish gov't, having just lost most of Louisiana.{with the exception of anything north of Lake Pontchartrain}.
September 9th, 1809: A couple of stolen gunpowder barrels are exploded in London following the decision by George III to bring more German nobility into the British government. The King, and his wife, are killed along with 20 others, mostly noblemen, in Trafalgar Square. The time? 9:09:09 am.
November, 1809: Many places in Central Europe see their warmest late autumn in decades. Wine festivals are held all over the place as a result, particularly in France and Baden.
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March 2nd, 1810: Anti-Jewish pogrom in Berlin occurs after a rabbi was accused of murdering a small boy during a supposed sacrificial ceremony.
March 8th, 1810: Several soldiers are ambushed while on patrol on southern Mississippi. It was originally believed to be Creek Indians, but it is quickly discovered that some rogue Spanish troops were to blame. Again, no direct action against Spain is taken.
August 25th, 1810: James Watt, the Scottish inventor, dies after a hunting accident in Yorkshire.
September, 1810: A strong hurricane impacts the North Carolina coastline: 200 people are killed.
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January 21st, 1811: John Lynd calls for an American role in the colonization of Africa, citing the territories of Sierra Leone and Liberia, during Congressional testimony in Washington D.C., sparking international attention and concern
March 22, 1811: A mysterious man approaches John Lynd one day while he is at home in his home in Dover, Del. He tells him: 'I know of a very powerful, and wealthy man who can assist you in your quest, if you'll allow yourself to come with me.'
November 11, 1811: A proto-Theosophic secret society called the 'Solaris Society', is founded in Attica, New York, by 4 former Puritan women.
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February 27th, 1812: Creation of the Missouri and Kansas Territory.
August 8th, 1812: Lady Ludd leads "Corn Market Riot" in Leeds, England, sparking concerns of unrest within the working class...
November 8th, 1812: Aaron Burr wins the 1812 election over a wide margin compared to his opponent, John Quincy Adams.
December 25th, 1812: The 'Christmas Bonfire' incident. In a small town in southern Ireland, the residents light a Christmas bonfire as they have done for the past 130 years. This one, however, will end in tragedy; just after the man playing the role of Brian Boru finishes his prepared speech, from out of nowhere some object falls into at the pile of burning wood, and then, it all explodes. Of the about 250 there, only 5 villagers and the actor survive.
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March 4th, 1813: In southern Africa, a Zulu village is ambushed by some 200 Dutchmen and about 2 dozen Prussian mercenaries. Of the around 1,100 villagers, about 120 die, and virtually all of the rest are put to work for the conquerors.
September 2, 1813: In Georgia, 3 young slaves try to escape from their 'master's plantation. One of them is shot and killed by an opportunistic big game hunter, but fortunately, the other 2 are able to make it to the free-soil state of Tennessee.
November 6th, 1813: In Tuscumbia, Miss., Andrew Jackson has just finished a speech on the importance of liberty, when a man dresses in suspiciously colored rags, pulls out a flintlock and screams 'Long live the King!'. Jackson is hit in the chest and dies within 2 days of his injuries. The assassin? A former Loyalist, and enthusiastic slaveowner from Virginia named Daniel Lewis Blakeney.
November 9, 1813: A reporter from Savannah requests an inquiry to a Norfolk, Va. newspaper as to how Jackson's assassin was able to slip into the crowd and why there hasn't been more press coverage. He gets no answer.
December 22nd, 1813: Tokujo-maru, a Japanese trading vessel from Edo, lands in San Francisco, California...
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March 21, 1814: A major Indian raid on the small settlement of Fort Windsor{In OTL's present day, Marion County, Ill.}destroys it completely, and forces Britain to withdraw from that part of the area.
August 13, 1814: Yet another raid by Native Americans; this time on New London, Lower Canada{London, Ontario in the present day in OTL.}. The town late burns to the ground; it isn't known who did it or why.
August 29th, 1814: The 'Vandalia Territory' is suggested by Congressman Louis Claremont of Tenn.
September 18, 1814: Tecumseh survives a surprise assassination attempt near OTL present day St. Catharine's, Ont. The small group of Redcoats who were sent to kill him are quickly dispatched
September 20th, 1814: In Lower Canada, the Viceroy issues an order: begin preparations for war against the Natives.
September 23, 1814: Arkansas becomes the 21st state in the Union.....with OTL borders as well. Unfortunately, however, it is NOT a free soil state like Tennessee.
November 5, 1814: Tecumseh survives yet another assassination attempt, in British New England{as in, the new New England. Only this time, it's a renegade American hunter from Pennsylvania. And when Tecumseh finds out, he decides to keep a better eye on Washington, as well.
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April 9, 1815: Martha Woodley's mother, Livinia, is shot and killed by an overseer at their plantation in Greene County, Va.{Wasn't Martha's original last name Woodley, and wasn't she from Virginia originally, as I first created her? Please let me know if not.}. Was caused this? Giving a quarter to a local white boy.
May 23, 1815: The overseer who killed Livinia Woodley, is ambushed, and violently beaten to death by a group of young men, free black and white, one morning while on his way to the plantation. His severed head is left on a pike and burned, as a stark warning to anyone who dares murder innocent people out of hatred, especially people of color.
September 4, 1815: In Upper Canada, German mercenaries, in service of the Viceroy, ambush a Native American village and murder thousands near OTL Trois-Rivieres.
September 22, 1815: Mount Tambora erupts a bit behind of schedule compared to OTL; the winter of 1815-1816 is even worse for much of North America and Europe, however, though, some of the most beautiful sunsets can be seen, and in the the newly created Missouri Territory, an aspiring artist by the name of John Francis Boone manages to capture one of these sunsets in April of 1816. He later becomes quite a sensation
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January 24th, 1816: The Vandalia Territory{much of OTL southern Ill.} is created.
June 23rd, 1816: Luddite attack on Heathcoat & Boden's Mill at Loughborough, England....
June 28th, 1816: The city council of Loughborough demands that the Crown crack down on the Luddites.
October 29th, 1816: British Captain Basil Hall is captured by Chinese pirates led by Zheng Yi Sao in the South China Sea, while en route to Okinawa....
November 8th, 1816: Basil Hill begins writing a journal about his capture by the pirates, while on their junk.
December 16th, 1816: General Richard Allen, Henry Clay, and John Randolph establish the American Negro Militia in Washington D.C., with the express effort to "promote the rights of the American Negro..."
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July 9, 1817: In Tennessee, a young man decides he'd like to uproot from home and head out west. His name? Davy Crockett.
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April 18th, 1818: Battle of Suwann; A unit of freed slaves and Native-Americans captures British forces in Suwann, Florida, sparking debate as to the nature of race relations in the United States....
May 30th, 1818: Missouri is admitted as the 22nd state. It is a free soil state.........but only controls everything south of the river that it was named after.
June 2nd-27th, 1818: In the state of Virginia, anti-integration and pro-slavery riots become quite common, until the Kentucky compromise is drawn up.
August 4, 1818: The first of the 'Negro Militias' goes into action; they are assigned to stop a slave trader's and cotton brokers' rebellion near Philadelphia.
September 23rd, 1818: Percy Bysshe Shelley is arrested in London, England after publishing "Mask of Anarchy", protesting against the government's crackdown against alleged "Republican agitators"...
October 4th, 1818: Although the Rt. Hon. Judge Jameson Tugwell wishes Percy Shelley to be sentenced to death, the defense at his later infamous trial, instead comes up with an agreeable plea bargain: He is to be exiled to Australia instead.
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June 2, 1819: Martha Woodley narrowly escapes serious injury at the hands of one of the cat-o'-nine-tails wielding overseers at the plantation..........The 8 year old is playing in some sand with a friend when the overseer decides that he's had enough of watching this poor slave girl enjoy herself, and begins to run after her, whip in hand. Martha sees this coming just in time and runs for the door, and just barely makes it.
The plantation owner, a John Morrissey, looks out the window and demands to know what's going on{There had been other vicious beatings before but he thought these were just rumors}.
The overseer, enraged, yells all kind of dirty words at Martha. Unfortunately, her slightly older friend doesn't make it and is basically tortured by the overseer. By the time Morrissey makes it outside, the poor girl is bleeding profusely. Even worse, the girl's father, the head chef, is being whipped himself.
Horrified, Morrissey demands that the overseer stop. But, the other man draws a gun, and, in front of the Morrissey family, and just about all of the 4 dozen or so other slave workers, the chef is brutally murdered, execution style. Martha begins to cry, and Morrissey is standing there, still in a state of shock. The overseer is nowhere to be found.
July 6, 1819: In his personal journal, John Morrissey begins to write about his dissatisfaction with his current life and begins to ask himself why he even got into the business in the first place. But little does he know where this will take him...........
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May 10th, 1822: Charles Babbage announces the development of the "Difference Engine" at the Royal Academy of Science in London, England....