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Here's something I've been messing around with for a while. I hope to post a more in-depth version when I have a home PC again.
A True History of the Draka
Timeline
1775-80: First American Insurrection.
1775: France withholds aid to American rebels.
1777: Cornwallis defeats Washington at Princeton.
1780: Washington surrenders at Yorktown, hanged with Franklin, Hancock, other rebel leaders. Iroquois, Cherokee, other tribes armed and allowed to kill illegal white settlers west of Appalachians. Thomas Jefferson flees to the Dutch Cape Colony in South Africa. American Legion formed, an aristocratic Loyalist regiment charged with policing British America.
1781: King George III of Britain’s eldest son, George, is killed by the actress Perdita Robinson after he refuses to be blackmailed by her (she had threatened to sell his love-letters); Frederick, the Duke of York, becomes heir to the throne.
1782: Lord North recognizes the value of a stronger centralized monarchy and begins reforms.
1784: France, Prussia, Russia, Austria begin similar reforms to off-set British power.
1785: Russians settle in Aleutian Isles.
1786: Lord Cornwallis made Governor-General of America.
1793-99: First Sugar War between Britain and Franco-Dutch Alliance; Britain takes Cape Colony, West Indies.
1794: Napoleon Bonaparte leaves French army, immigrates to Brazil, where he accepts a post as a military advisor.
1807: Cape Colony renamed Draka, in honor of Sir Francis Drake.
1808: Confederacy of Algonquin tribes under Tecumseh recognized as subject nation under the British Crown.
1808-10: Second Sugar War; Prussia allies with France and the Netherlands, but Britain is still victorious.
1811: Jefferson completes his Essay on Liberty, advocating democratic reforms throughout the British Empire.
1812: Jefferson arrested, dies in jail in Capetown in 1815. Russians found Fort Ross in California.
1815: Drakan surveyors and prospectors first use balloons for exploration in central Africa. George III, in ill health and mentally unstable even before the murder of his son, dies; succeeded by his second son Frederick.
1816-20: War of the Portugese Succession; Alfonso VII dies without an heir and Spain presses its claim to the throne. Britain backs Pedro Castanza, a distant cousin of Alfonso; France and its allies back the Spanish claim as a way to further upset British power.
1819: The Jeffersonian movement founded in Draka, in honor of Thomas Jefferson. Outlawed throughout the British Empire, the Jeffersonians cultivate links to the Freemasons and other organizations.
1820: End of the War of Portugese Succession; Portugal absorbed by Spain; Charles V proclaimed King of Portugal and Emperor of Spain. Portugese Brazil and African possessions pass to Spain.
1820-22: Jackson’s Rebellion in Georgia, Carolinas, put down using American Legion along with Cherokee and Algonquin troops.
1821: Beginning of revolutionary movement in Brazil under Napoleon Bonaparte and native leaders.
1822-25: Aid from French Louisiana to American rebels leads to British attack on New Orleans, war between Britain and France. War ends in British victory; France cedes Louisiana to Britain.
1822-30: So-called ‘Great Exodus’: thousands of fugitives leave America for South Africa, along with many sympathizers from both America and Britain.
1823-29: Brazilian Revolution; formation of the Empire of Brazil under Napoleon I.
1830: Algonquia, Sioux, other native nations reorganized as provinces of British North America.
1835: Britain abolishes slavery.
1839-41: Plantation Revolt in southern British America, resulting from financial ruin of many former slave-owning planters.
1845: Equality Act passed by Parliament, guaranteeing expanded rights for blacks and other minorities, including the right to own property, vote, and hold public office. The Act leads to recurring unrest in British America, even after the Crown begins its African Resettlement Program a year later. First primitive dirigibles used in Draka; over the next two decades they become a regular feature in the African skies and are beginning to see use on the vast American prairies as well.
1846: African Resettlement Program begun, whereby freed slaves are encouraged to settle in Draka, helping to bring civilization to central Africa and providing a ‘release valve’ for conflicts between white Americans and their former slaves.
1850s: Brazil, with French aid, foments rebellion in remaining Spanish South American colonies.
1850-1870: The African Resettlement results in a marked increase in the standard of living for the native Africans of Draka as the British Crown supplies the settlers the famous ‘two mules and a hundred acres’, along with much accompanying support, including the construction of rail lines linking much of the interior and the establishment of schools and factories.
1851: Malarial parasite first identified by Louis Ferrault (Draka).
1855-56: Great Indian Mutiny leads to nationalization of East India Company.
1858: Spain recognizes independence of La Plata, Chile, Peru, Colombia.
1860: Davidson’s Revolt in Maryland. Rebel leaders hanged.
1860s: The new Russian Tsar, Alexander II, nationalizes serf labor and uses it to build Russia’s first railroads.
1861: Kingdom of Italy proclaimed.
1866: General Marcus Brownlee becomes commander of the Drakan Colonial Army, the first black man to hold that post.
1869-72: War between Russia and the Ottoman Empire ends in Russian victory; Russia annexes Turkish Europe, Turkish capital moved to Angora. Britain, Spain declare war on Russia to force the Tsar to reopen the Dardanelles.
1869: Britain, Japan sign treaty of alliance to forestall Russian interest in annexing Japan; Japan begins to modernize.
1872-1883: Dardanelles War - Britain, Spain, Ottoman Empire, Japan vs. Russia, France, Dutch, Austria-Hungary.
1871: Telephone invented by Rudolf Van Aiken (Netherlands).
1874: Rebellion in British India. First black men, Robert Mwele and Abner Grosse, elected to Drakan Colonial Parliament.
1875: Russia conquers California.
1878: Massive tax increases and troop levies in Draka, as well as Crown seizure of private businesses to fund the war effort, leads to open rebellion, spearheaded by the Jeffersonians.
1880: Rebellion in British America, inspired by Draka revolt. It collapses in less than a year, the victim of feuding between rebel leaders, despite significant funding from Russia.
1883: Treaty of Venice ends Dardanelles War in Russian victory. Britain forced to recognize independence of Draka and India (they retain Sind - OTL Pakistan). Two ‘delegates’ from America, John Anson and Walter Fisk, who are there to obtain independence for America, are refused entry to the peace talks after much debate among the other delegates. The Austro-Hungarian Empire and several of the southern German states are reorganized as the German Confederation. Russia refuses to return California to Spain, mostly since gold was discovered there earlier in the year; this almost precipitates a return to war, but Britain and her allies are too exhausted.
1884: Ottoman Empire collapses in civil war. Russia, Britain, other powers, exhausted by over a decade of war, offer little or no aid for the various factions competing for power. Kingdom of India proclaimed. Tsar Alexander of Russia abdicates in favor of his son, Peter IV, due to failing health.
1885: Constitutional Convention in Cape Town. After heated debate, the new nation’s name is confirmed as the Commonwealth of Draka; as a compromise, plans are laid to construct a national capital to be named in honor of Thomas Jefferson. Adam Wilcox, a prominent Jeffersonian, is elected to a five-year term as first President of the Commonwealth.
1887: Dominions of New Wales and New Zealand formed.
1888: Beginnings of Neo-Orthodox Movement in Russia.
1889: Spain recognizes Mexican independence to forestall possible Russian expansion. First practical electric light developed by Marcus Rutherford (Draka).
1890: Draka becomes involved in Ottoman civil war, now in its sixth year, as fighting in Egypt and Aden threatens Drakan business interests in Somalia and Abyssinia. After guaranteeing religious and personal freedoms and promising their citizens an equal say in the government, Egypt and Aden agree to join the Commonwealth of Draka. President Wilcox re-elected President of Commonwealth of Draka.
1891: End of Ottoman civil war. Ottoman Empire is formally dissolved. President Wilcox of Draka is the principle author of the peace treaty. Religious and ethnic unrest in German Confederation leads to independence of Romania, Bulgaria, other Balkan states, which had been under Austrian protection following the Dardanelles War.
1892: Construction begun on Jefferson City, future capital of Draka (near the site of OTL Queenstown, South Africa).
1895: Russia begins to settle serfs and dissidents en masse in Alaska and California. President Wilcox sets two-term precedent by refusing to run for re-election; Henry Willingham becomes second President of Draka.
1898-1905: Second American Insurrection. This conflict marks the first use of dirigibles as warships (by both British and American forces).
1900: Robert Russell elected President of Draka.
1901: Tsar Peter IV of Russia dies; succeeded by his son Theodore IV.
1901-03: Russo-Japanese War. Japan annexed by Russia, Japanese royal family executed, leading to a century of rebellion and terrorism. Britain, its economy in tatters after the loss of some of its most prosperous colonies, and facing massive revolt in America, declines to come to the aid of Japan.
1905: Republic of America proclaimed under leadership of the American Directorate and its Chairman, John P. Morgan. All British possessions in North America ceded to the Republic, with the exception of Quebec, Canada (OTL Ontario), and the Maritime provinces. The Directorate is, to all intents and purposes, a military dictatorship offering limited freedoms to its citizens, although reforms are always ‘just around the corner’. The provinces of Algonquia, Sequoyah, and Sioux, as well as those named for British statesmen, are renamed in honor of American patriots of the First Insurrection.
1907: British possessions of Quebec, Canada, Maritimes, reorganized as Dominion of Canada. America invades and annexes Cuba due to Spanish-backed pirate activity.
1908: Airplane invented by Karl Marstein (Prussia).
1910: Britain agrees to sell Tangyanika colony to Draka as a desperate measure to revive their struggling economy.
1912-14: War between America and Mexico over trade and immigration in Tejas. War ends in American victory; Tejas ceded to the Republic.
1915: Louisa, daughter of Henry IX of Britain, becomes Queen upon her father’s death; her two brothers, John and William, had died without issue during the Second American Insurrection. Under the Salic law, the link of Britain and Hanover ends and Louisa’s uncle Otto becomes King of Hanover.
1916: America’s Chairman Morgan dies and is succeeded by Alfred Roswell.
1917: America invades and annexes central American republic of Nicaragua after that nation’s revolutionary government nationalizes all business interests.
1918-22: First Continental War. Caused by French terrorism in central Africa as they attempt to hold onto their increasingly unstable colonial empire, the war is a conflict the likes of which the world has never seen before. Dozens of nations wage war across three continents (Europe, Africa, and Asia), millions are killed, and technological terrors like the tank, combat airplanes, and gas warfare are introduced.
1920: Construction begun on Nicaraguan Canal.
1921: Russia forced to withdraw from the war as returning troops, Neo-Orthodox leaders, and others begin to foment serious rebellion in St. Petersburg and other major cities.
1921-23: Russian Revolution. Tsar Theodore IV is overthrown and imprisoned, and a new coalition government led by Patriarch Anatoly Kurochkin, head of the Neo-Orthodox Movement, is formed in Moscow.
1922: Treaty of Algiers ends First Continental War. France’s monarchy is abolished and the government is reconstituted as a republic. All French colonies are either emancipated or transferred to Britain, Draka, or Spain. The Republic of Mali is formed; French Kongo, Malagasy, and several other central African colonies vote to join Commonwealth of Draka. Portugal is once again independent from Spain under a republican government.
1924: Archduchy of California established by Russian monarchists; Alaska retained by Neo-Orthodox government.
1925: Kenneth Atlee elected President of Draka. Militarists come to power in India; King Jahandar recognizes authority of Prime Minister Akbar Singh.
1926: Patriarch Kurochkin dies of a supposed heart attack and is succeeded by an up-and-coming member of the Neo-Orthodox Movement, Father Josef Dzugashvili, the so-called ‘Steel Priest’. The Holy Russian Republic is proclaimed in Moscow in August. Former Tsar Theodore and his family die mysteriously in a Moscow jail.
1928: Death of Chairman Roswell; succeeded by Oliver Hunt. Patriarch Dzugashvili begins purges of Russian military and government, seeking to weed out ‘religious undesirables’. British Dominion of Papua formed. India invades Tibet, China (start of Sino-Indian War). Nicaraguan Canal opened.
1929: Brazilian rubber industry collapses, inciting economic depression and unrest in the urban centers.
1929-1931: Brazilian Civil War; nation under rule of General Jean San Marco; royal family flees to London.
1930: Start of Great Depression, brought about by economic collapse in France. Atlee re-elected President of Draka.
1931: Brazilian Civil War ends in Royalist victory; San Marco deposed, Bonapartes return to Rio de Janeiro.
1932: Illinois Senator Thomas Sheridan advocates armed revolution to overthrow the Hunt government, which he claims is responsible for the economic ruin sweeping America. At the same time, Francois Deladier, the leader of the French Nationalist Party, is elected Premier. The Nationalists are a socialist party, though with few of the racist policies of the American Directorate; they are much more focused on hate for the British, Spanish, and Drakans, whom they blame for dismantling their empire and humiliating them on the world stage.
1933: Drakan President Atlee assassinated by Egyptian fanatic Omar Shahi; Patrick Jefferson, the first black man to hold the post of Speaker of Parliament, is confirmed in the succession as the new President, thereby becoming the first black to hold that office as well.
1932-33: American Civil War, establishment of Second American Directorate under Chairman Thomas Sheridan. The Second Directorate is much more fascist in tone than the first, with extreme racist views.
1934: France begins to secretly re-arm. California reorganized as a Republic.
1935: First internment camps for indians, blacks, other minorities, set up in America. America and France sign treaty of alliance and begin technological and economic exchanges. Jefferson elected President of Draka, begins National Recovery programs.
1937: American Chairman Sheridan green-lights the diabolical ‘Purification Policy’, setting in motion the extermination of more than 8 million ‘undesirables’ in death-camps across the nation.
1940: America, France, India sign mutual defense treaty, forming the Triple Entente. Jefferson re-elected President of Draka.
1942: Start of American nuclear program. Republics of California and Colombia join Triple Entente.
1943: Spain sells its few remaining colonies (Puerto Rico, Rio de Oro, Philippines) to France in return for a guarantee of non-aggression.
1944: Mexico joins Triple Entente.
1945-52: Second Continental War.
1945: French Premier Deladier demands the return of various territories in north Africa, as well as Alsace-Lorraine and other regions. Britain, German Confederation issue ultimatum for France to stand down, which is ignored. March 2: Britain and Germany declare war on France. America honors its agreement with France and declares war on the Allies. Jefferson re-elected President of Draka for an unprecedented third term. Quebecois revolt against British rule; proclaim independence. France invades Hanover, German Confederation, north Italy.
1946: Introduction of jet airplane in America and France; followed by Britain and Draka ten months later. With the pacification of Hanover, the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern Italy complete, France breaks its non-aggression treaty with Spain and invades (Sep. 7). India conquers British Sind.
1947: January 1: Indian sneak attack on Drakan naval base on the island of Socotra. Draka declares war on India and the Triple Entente the next day.
1948:American conquest of Hawaii. First use of jet aircraft by India.
1949: Battle of the Tasman Sea - American fleet suffers disastrous loss at the hands of Drakans and Brazilians.
1950: Jefferson re-elected President of Draka. France surrenders to Allies (July 29); Premier Deladier and many of his officials flee to Quebec. American assassination attempt on Britain’s Queen Louisa foiled.
1951: Allies in control of the Caribbean, Central America, southern California, parts of Mexico. Drakan President Jefferson dies of a heart attack (October 14), succeeded by Speaker of Parliament Martin Kirk.
1952: Massive Allied invasion of India commences (May10). India surrenders to Allies (November 14). America drops first atomic bomb on its own soil to destroy massive Allied landings in Georgia (December 2). Death of Chairman Sheridan; succeeded by Douglas Newell. Newell signs Armistice with Allies; all continental American territories are retained with the exception of Nicaragua and Cuba. Draka allowed to construct bases in the two nations and in Bermuda, which is directly annexed by Draka.
1953: Beginnings of American Civil Rights movement. Treaty of Rome signed, officially ending Second Continental War. America banned from developing long-range jet aircraft to prevent the use of atomic bombs on Europe, Africa.
1955: Assassination of Nathan Cooper, popular American civil rights leader. Draka develops atomic bomb, shares technology with Britain, Germany, Mali.
1959: America, Draka, develop first intercontinental missiles; beginning of the Standoff.
1960: Death of Patriarch Dzugashvili, leader of the Holy Russian Republic. The Duma, which has functioned as a Church council since the Russian Revolution, elects Ivan Ankudinov as the new Patriarch.
1961: Assassination of Chairman Newell; succeeded by Ronald Monroe.
1967: Death of Patriarch Ankudinov; succeeded by Boris Merkulov.
1969: Russia develops nuclear bomb.
1974: Death of Chairman Monroe; succeeded by Christopher Shaw.
1975: Chairman Shaw begins limited governmental reforms, especially in the area of civil rights.
1977: First man to orbit Earth is American Matthew Carson.
1980: Death of Patriarch Merkulov; succeeded by Yuri Vsorov.
1981: Drakan Pieter Sulaweyo becomes first man to set foot on the Moon. Rebellion in Japan put down by Russia.
1983: Coup by Restorationists results in overthrow of Second American Directorate. Restorationist government headed by Zachary Sutherland, former head of the Ministry of Defense. Many reforms instigated by the Shaw government are repealed.
1985: Death of Patriarch Vsorov; succeeded by Mikhail Gurovich.
1987: China develops nuclear bomb.
1988: Publication of S.M. Stirling’s Marching Through Georgia.
1989: Death of Chairman Sutherland; succeeded by Aaron MacGregor, a 78-year old former Senator and Minister of Finance. Macgregor is a compromise choice and is a weak leader.
1991: Chairman MacGregor, after suffering a stroke, slips into a coma and dies a week later. The Director of the Bureau of Security and Intelligence (BSI), George Hunt, stages a coup and takes power. He is assassinated by revolutionaries while touring New Orleans in October, only seven months after assuming the office of Chairman. For eight tense weeks, it seems full-scale civil war will erupt in America until charismatic Army general Alexander Devane forges a new government on Christmas day.
1992: First orbital missile platforms constructed (Draka, America, Britain).
1994: Draka begins construction on first permanent space station.
2002-2004: Japanese Revolution; Russian rule overthrown; establishment of Japanese Republic.
2005: The present.
A True History of the Draka
Timeline
1775-80: First American Insurrection.
1775: France withholds aid to American rebels.
1777: Cornwallis defeats Washington at Princeton.
1780: Washington surrenders at Yorktown, hanged with Franklin, Hancock, other rebel leaders. Iroquois, Cherokee, other tribes armed and allowed to kill illegal white settlers west of Appalachians. Thomas Jefferson flees to the Dutch Cape Colony in South Africa. American Legion formed, an aristocratic Loyalist regiment charged with policing British America.
1781: King George III of Britain’s eldest son, George, is killed by the actress Perdita Robinson after he refuses to be blackmailed by her (she had threatened to sell his love-letters); Frederick, the Duke of York, becomes heir to the throne.
1782: Lord North recognizes the value of a stronger centralized monarchy and begins reforms.
1784: France, Prussia, Russia, Austria begin similar reforms to off-set British power.
1785: Russians settle in Aleutian Isles.
1786: Lord Cornwallis made Governor-General of America.
1793-99: First Sugar War between Britain and Franco-Dutch Alliance; Britain takes Cape Colony, West Indies.
1794: Napoleon Bonaparte leaves French army, immigrates to Brazil, where he accepts a post as a military advisor.
1807: Cape Colony renamed Draka, in honor of Sir Francis Drake.
1808: Confederacy of Algonquin tribes under Tecumseh recognized as subject nation under the British Crown.
1808-10: Second Sugar War; Prussia allies with France and the Netherlands, but Britain is still victorious.
1811: Jefferson completes his Essay on Liberty, advocating democratic reforms throughout the British Empire.
1812: Jefferson arrested, dies in jail in Capetown in 1815. Russians found Fort Ross in California.
1815: Drakan surveyors and prospectors first use balloons for exploration in central Africa. George III, in ill health and mentally unstable even before the murder of his son, dies; succeeded by his second son Frederick.
1816-20: War of the Portugese Succession; Alfonso VII dies without an heir and Spain presses its claim to the throne. Britain backs Pedro Castanza, a distant cousin of Alfonso; France and its allies back the Spanish claim as a way to further upset British power.
1819: The Jeffersonian movement founded in Draka, in honor of Thomas Jefferson. Outlawed throughout the British Empire, the Jeffersonians cultivate links to the Freemasons and other organizations.
1820: End of the War of Portugese Succession; Portugal absorbed by Spain; Charles V proclaimed King of Portugal and Emperor of Spain. Portugese Brazil and African possessions pass to Spain.
1820-22: Jackson’s Rebellion in Georgia, Carolinas, put down using American Legion along with Cherokee and Algonquin troops.
1821: Beginning of revolutionary movement in Brazil under Napoleon Bonaparte and native leaders.
1822-25: Aid from French Louisiana to American rebels leads to British attack on New Orleans, war between Britain and France. War ends in British victory; France cedes Louisiana to Britain.
1822-30: So-called ‘Great Exodus’: thousands of fugitives leave America for South Africa, along with many sympathizers from both America and Britain.
1823-29: Brazilian Revolution; formation of the Empire of Brazil under Napoleon I.
1830: Algonquia, Sioux, other native nations reorganized as provinces of British North America.
1835: Britain abolishes slavery.
1839-41: Plantation Revolt in southern British America, resulting from financial ruin of many former slave-owning planters.
1845: Equality Act passed by Parliament, guaranteeing expanded rights for blacks and other minorities, including the right to own property, vote, and hold public office. The Act leads to recurring unrest in British America, even after the Crown begins its African Resettlement Program a year later. First primitive dirigibles used in Draka; over the next two decades they become a regular feature in the African skies and are beginning to see use on the vast American prairies as well.
1846: African Resettlement Program begun, whereby freed slaves are encouraged to settle in Draka, helping to bring civilization to central Africa and providing a ‘release valve’ for conflicts between white Americans and their former slaves.
1850s: Brazil, with French aid, foments rebellion in remaining Spanish South American colonies.
1850-1870: The African Resettlement results in a marked increase in the standard of living for the native Africans of Draka as the British Crown supplies the settlers the famous ‘two mules and a hundred acres’, along with much accompanying support, including the construction of rail lines linking much of the interior and the establishment of schools and factories.
1851: Malarial parasite first identified by Louis Ferrault (Draka).
1855-56: Great Indian Mutiny leads to nationalization of East India Company.
1858: Spain recognizes independence of La Plata, Chile, Peru, Colombia.
1860: Davidson’s Revolt in Maryland. Rebel leaders hanged.
1860s: The new Russian Tsar, Alexander II, nationalizes serf labor and uses it to build Russia’s first railroads.
1861: Kingdom of Italy proclaimed.
1866: General Marcus Brownlee becomes commander of the Drakan Colonial Army, the first black man to hold that post.
1869-72: War between Russia and the Ottoman Empire ends in Russian victory; Russia annexes Turkish Europe, Turkish capital moved to Angora. Britain, Spain declare war on Russia to force the Tsar to reopen the Dardanelles.
1869: Britain, Japan sign treaty of alliance to forestall Russian interest in annexing Japan; Japan begins to modernize.
1872-1883: Dardanelles War - Britain, Spain, Ottoman Empire, Japan vs. Russia, France, Dutch, Austria-Hungary.
1871: Telephone invented by Rudolf Van Aiken (Netherlands).
1874: Rebellion in British India. First black men, Robert Mwele and Abner Grosse, elected to Drakan Colonial Parliament.
1875: Russia conquers California.
1878: Massive tax increases and troop levies in Draka, as well as Crown seizure of private businesses to fund the war effort, leads to open rebellion, spearheaded by the Jeffersonians.
1880: Rebellion in British America, inspired by Draka revolt. It collapses in less than a year, the victim of feuding between rebel leaders, despite significant funding from Russia.
1883: Treaty of Venice ends Dardanelles War in Russian victory. Britain forced to recognize independence of Draka and India (they retain Sind - OTL Pakistan). Two ‘delegates’ from America, John Anson and Walter Fisk, who are there to obtain independence for America, are refused entry to the peace talks after much debate among the other delegates. The Austro-Hungarian Empire and several of the southern German states are reorganized as the German Confederation. Russia refuses to return California to Spain, mostly since gold was discovered there earlier in the year; this almost precipitates a return to war, but Britain and her allies are too exhausted.
1884: Ottoman Empire collapses in civil war. Russia, Britain, other powers, exhausted by over a decade of war, offer little or no aid for the various factions competing for power. Kingdom of India proclaimed. Tsar Alexander of Russia abdicates in favor of his son, Peter IV, due to failing health.
1885: Constitutional Convention in Cape Town. After heated debate, the new nation’s name is confirmed as the Commonwealth of Draka; as a compromise, plans are laid to construct a national capital to be named in honor of Thomas Jefferson. Adam Wilcox, a prominent Jeffersonian, is elected to a five-year term as first President of the Commonwealth.
1887: Dominions of New Wales and New Zealand formed.
1888: Beginnings of Neo-Orthodox Movement in Russia.
1889: Spain recognizes Mexican independence to forestall possible Russian expansion. First practical electric light developed by Marcus Rutherford (Draka).
1890: Draka becomes involved in Ottoman civil war, now in its sixth year, as fighting in Egypt and Aden threatens Drakan business interests in Somalia and Abyssinia. After guaranteeing religious and personal freedoms and promising their citizens an equal say in the government, Egypt and Aden agree to join the Commonwealth of Draka. President Wilcox re-elected President of Commonwealth of Draka.
1891: End of Ottoman civil war. Ottoman Empire is formally dissolved. President Wilcox of Draka is the principle author of the peace treaty. Religious and ethnic unrest in German Confederation leads to independence of Romania, Bulgaria, other Balkan states, which had been under Austrian protection following the Dardanelles War.
1892: Construction begun on Jefferson City, future capital of Draka (near the site of OTL Queenstown, South Africa).
1895: Russia begins to settle serfs and dissidents en masse in Alaska and California. President Wilcox sets two-term precedent by refusing to run for re-election; Henry Willingham becomes second President of Draka.
1898-1905: Second American Insurrection. This conflict marks the first use of dirigibles as warships (by both British and American forces).
1900: Robert Russell elected President of Draka.
1901: Tsar Peter IV of Russia dies; succeeded by his son Theodore IV.
1901-03: Russo-Japanese War. Japan annexed by Russia, Japanese royal family executed, leading to a century of rebellion and terrorism. Britain, its economy in tatters after the loss of some of its most prosperous colonies, and facing massive revolt in America, declines to come to the aid of Japan.
1905: Republic of America proclaimed under leadership of the American Directorate and its Chairman, John P. Morgan. All British possessions in North America ceded to the Republic, with the exception of Quebec, Canada (OTL Ontario), and the Maritime provinces. The Directorate is, to all intents and purposes, a military dictatorship offering limited freedoms to its citizens, although reforms are always ‘just around the corner’. The provinces of Algonquia, Sequoyah, and Sioux, as well as those named for British statesmen, are renamed in honor of American patriots of the First Insurrection.
1907: British possessions of Quebec, Canada, Maritimes, reorganized as Dominion of Canada. America invades and annexes Cuba due to Spanish-backed pirate activity.
1908: Airplane invented by Karl Marstein (Prussia).
1910: Britain agrees to sell Tangyanika colony to Draka as a desperate measure to revive their struggling economy.
1912-14: War between America and Mexico over trade and immigration in Tejas. War ends in American victory; Tejas ceded to the Republic.
1915: Louisa, daughter of Henry IX of Britain, becomes Queen upon her father’s death; her two brothers, John and William, had died without issue during the Second American Insurrection. Under the Salic law, the link of Britain and Hanover ends and Louisa’s uncle Otto becomes King of Hanover.
1916: America’s Chairman Morgan dies and is succeeded by Alfred Roswell.
1917: America invades and annexes central American republic of Nicaragua after that nation’s revolutionary government nationalizes all business interests.
1918-22: First Continental War. Caused by French terrorism in central Africa as they attempt to hold onto their increasingly unstable colonial empire, the war is a conflict the likes of which the world has never seen before. Dozens of nations wage war across three continents (Europe, Africa, and Asia), millions are killed, and technological terrors like the tank, combat airplanes, and gas warfare are introduced.
1920: Construction begun on Nicaraguan Canal.
1921: Russia forced to withdraw from the war as returning troops, Neo-Orthodox leaders, and others begin to foment serious rebellion in St. Petersburg and other major cities.
1921-23: Russian Revolution. Tsar Theodore IV is overthrown and imprisoned, and a new coalition government led by Patriarch Anatoly Kurochkin, head of the Neo-Orthodox Movement, is formed in Moscow.
1922: Treaty of Algiers ends First Continental War. France’s monarchy is abolished and the government is reconstituted as a republic. All French colonies are either emancipated or transferred to Britain, Draka, or Spain. The Republic of Mali is formed; French Kongo, Malagasy, and several other central African colonies vote to join Commonwealth of Draka. Portugal is once again independent from Spain under a republican government.
1924: Archduchy of California established by Russian monarchists; Alaska retained by Neo-Orthodox government.
1925: Kenneth Atlee elected President of Draka. Militarists come to power in India; King Jahandar recognizes authority of Prime Minister Akbar Singh.
1926: Patriarch Kurochkin dies of a supposed heart attack and is succeeded by an up-and-coming member of the Neo-Orthodox Movement, Father Josef Dzugashvili, the so-called ‘Steel Priest’. The Holy Russian Republic is proclaimed in Moscow in August. Former Tsar Theodore and his family die mysteriously in a Moscow jail.
1928: Death of Chairman Roswell; succeeded by Oliver Hunt. Patriarch Dzugashvili begins purges of Russian military and government, seeking to weed out ‘religious undesirables’. British Dominion of Papua formed. India invades Tibet, China (start of Sino-Indian War). Nicaraguan Canal opened.
1929: Brazilian rubber industry collapses, inciting economic depression and unrest in the urban centers.
1929-1931: Brazilian Civil War; nation under rule of General Jean San Marco; royal family flees to London.
1930: Start of Great Depression, brought about by economic collapse in France. Atlee re-elected President of Draka.
1931: Brazilian Civil War ends in Royalist victory; San Marco deposed, Bonapartes return to Rio de Janeiro.
1932: Illinois Senator Thomas Sheridan advocates armed revolution to overthrow the Hunt government, which he claims is responsible for the economic ruin sweeping America. At the same time, Francois Deladier, the leader of the French Nationalist Party, is elected Premier. The Nationalists are a socialist party, though with few of the racist policies of the American Directorate; they are much more focused on hate for the British, Spanish, and Drakans, whom they blame for dismantling their empire and humiliating them on the world stage.
1933: Drakan President Atlee assassinated by Egyptian fanatic Omar Shahi; Patrick Jefferson, the first black man to hold the post of Speaker of Parliament, is confirmed in the succession as the new President, thereby becoming the first black to hold that office as well.
1932-33: American Civil War, establishment of Second American Directorate under Chairman Thomas Sheridan. The Second Directorate is much more fascist in tone than the first, with extreme racist views.
1934: France begins to secretly re-arm. California reorganized as a Republic.
1935: First internment camps for indians, blacks, other minorities, set up in America. America and France sign treaty of alliance and begin technological and economic exchanges. Jefferson elected President of Draka, begins National Recovery programs.
1937: American Chairman Sheridan green-lights the diabolical ‘Purification Policy’, setting in motion the extermination of more than 8 million ‘undesirables’ in death-camps across the nation.
1940: America, France, India sign mutual defense treaty, forming the Triple Entente. Jefferson re-elected President of Draka.
1942: Start of American nuclear program. Republics of California and Colombia join Triple Entente.
1943: Spain sells its few remaining colonies (Puerto Rico, Rio de Oro, Philippines) to France in return for a guarantee of non-aggression.
1944: Mexico joins Triple Entente.
1945-52: Second Continental War.
1945: French Premier Deladier demands the return of various territories in north Africa, as well as Alsace-Lorraine and other regions. Britain, German Confederation issue ultimatum for France to stand down, which is ignored. March 2: Britain and Germany declare war on France. America honors its agreement with France and declares war on the Allies. Jefferson re-elected President of Draka for an unprecedented third term. Quebecois revolt against British rule; proclaim independence. France invades Hanover, German Confederation, north Italy.
1946: Introduction of jet airplane in America and France; followed by Britain and Draka ten months later. With the pacification of Hanover, the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern Italy complete, France breaks its non-aggression treaty with Spain and invades (Sep. 7). India conquers British Sind.
1947: January 1: Indian sneak attack on Drakan naval base on the island of Socotra. Draka declares war on India and the Triple Entente the next day.
1948:American conquest of Hawaii. First use of jet aircraft by India.
1949: Battle of the Tasman Sea - American fleet suffers disastrous loss at the hands of Drakans and Brazilians.
1950: Jefferson re-elected President of Draka. France surrenders to Allies (July 29); Premier Deladier and many of his officials flee to Quebec. American assassination attempt on Britain’s Queen Louisa foiled.
1951: Allies in control of the Caribbean, Central America, southern California, parts of Mexico. Drakan President Jefferson dies of a heart attack (October 14), succeeded by Speaker of Parliament Martin Kirk.
1952: Massive Allied invasion of India commences (May10). India surrenders to Allies (November 14). America drops first atomic bomb on its own soil to destroy massive Allied landings in Georgia (December 2). Death of Chairman Sheridan; succeeded by Douglas Newell. Newell signs Armistice with Allies; all continental American territories are retained with the exception of Nicaragua and Cuba. Draka allowed to construct bases in the two nations and in Bermuda, which is directly annexed by Draka.
1953: Beginnings of American Civil Rights movement. Treaty of Rome signed, officially ending Second Continental War. America banned from developing long-range jet aircraft to prevent the use of atomic bombs on Europe, Africa.
1955: Assassination of Nathan Cooper, popular American civil rights leader. Draka develops atomic bomb, shares technology with Britain, Germany, Mali.
1959: America, Draka, develop first intercontinental missiles; beginning of the Standoff.
1960: Death of Patriarch Dzugashvili, leader of the Holy Russian Republic. The Duma, which has functioned as a Church council since the Russian Revolution, elects Ivan Ankudinov as the new Patriarch.
1961: Assassination of Chairman Newell; succeeded by Ronald Monroe.
1967: Death of Patriarch Ankudinov; succeeded by Boris Merkulov.
1969: Russia develops nuclear bomb.
1974: Death of Chairman Monroe; succeeded by Christopher Shaw.
1975: Chairman Shaw begins limited governmental reforms, especially in the area of civil rights.
1977: First man to orbit Earth is American Matthew Carson.
1980: Death of Patriarch Merkulov; succeeded by Yuri Vsorov.
1981: Drakan Pieter Sulaweyo becomes first man to set foot on the Moon. Rebellion in Japan put down by Russia.
1983: Coup by Restorationists results in overthrow of Second American Directorate. Restorationist government headed by Zachary Sutherland, former head of the Ministry of Defense. Many reforms instigated by the Shaw government are repealed.
1985: Death of Patriarch Vsorov; succeeded by Mikhail Gurovich.
1987: China develops nuclear bomb.
1988: Publication of S.M. Stirling’s Marching Through Georgia.
1989: Death of Chairman Sutherland; succeeded by Aaron MacGregor, a 78-year old former Senator and Minister of Finance. Macgregor is a compromise choice and is a weak leader.
1991: Chairman MacGregor, after suffering a stroke, slips into a coma and dies a week later. The Director of the Bureau of Security and Intelligence (BSI), George Hunt, stages a coup and takes power. He is assassinated by revolutionaries while touring New Orleans in October, only seven months after assuming the office of Chairman. For eight tense weeks, it seems full-scale civil war will erupt in America until charismatic Army general Alexander Devane forges a new government on Christmas day.
1992: First orbital missile platforms constructed (Draka, America, Britain).
1994: Draka begins construction on first permanent space station.
2002-2004: Japanese Revolution; Russian rule overthrown; establishment of Japanese Republic.
2005: The present.
