Part 1
1873 - League of the Three Emperors created.
1874 - Bismark has a dream where a young prince in Austrian military uniform shoots Bismark. Bismark spends many years pondering the significance of the dream.
1876 - Alexander I of Serbia dies at childbirth.
1877 - Germany supports Russia for a super Bulgaria but Austria-Hungary refuses and sees the entire Russo-Turkish war as Russia supporting dangerous revolutionary ideas. The UK, France, the Ottoman Empire, and AH pressure Russia and goes according to OTL. Austria-Hungary pulls out of the League of Three Emperors.
1878 - Wilhelm II is appointed by Bismark to ambassador to the United Kingdom. Bismark sees this as a way to push away a young ambitious Wilhelm while improving relations, specifically against France. Also a great time for Grandmother-Grandson bonding.
1879 - Russia, for not supporting AH, successfully pushes for a Double Alliance with Germany.
1880 - Wilhelm II talks to Queen Victoria about a more assertive British policy. Queen Victoria backs Benjamin Disraeli in another election for such a foreign policy causing the Conservatives win another election the UK.
1881 - France seizes Tunisia causing Italy signing an alliance with Germany.
1882 - Germany, Italy, and Russia sign a triple alliance.
1884 - Bismark hosts Berlin Conference in another attempt to gain allies.. German East Africa, Togoland, and Southwest Africa are given to the UK. Italy receives Kamerun. German - British relationships are greatly improved.
1895 - Germany and Russia pressure Japan in the Double Intervention after the first Sino-Japanese War. (IOTL France was a third member but does not follow ITTL).
1898 - Otto von Bismark dies.
1899 - Britain declares war on France after the Fashoda Incident negotiates fail.
1900 - Gunboats shell port of Hai Phong, Indochina. Germany mobolizes on the border. Italy declares war on France hoping to take last minute territories.
1901 - Queen Elizabeth dies with Wilhelm by her bedside. Wilhelm returns to Germany. Germany readies to mobilize against France. France, fearing intervention by the Germany and Italy and more loss of colonies makes peace. The Treaty of Munich is signed. France signs a humiliating treaty signing over the loss of Madagascar, French Equatorial Africa, Madagascar, Niger, Mauritius, Seychelles, and French Guiana to British. Italy recieves Djibouti and Tunisia. France also loses it's sphere of influence in China to Germany and Britain.
1902 - The UK signs a treaty with Germany and Italy.
1903 - The UK and Japan sign a special alliance treaty after intense negotiations. It allows increase trade between the two countries, British naval bases in Taiwan and Korea and Japanese bases in Singapore and Hong Kong.
1904 - Russo-Japanese war starts.
1905 - Russia suffers a decisive, but costly victory against Japan. Russia blockades Japan and threatens to make it a colony of Russia. Japan calls on the United Kingdom to intervene. The UK, hesitantly warns Russia to back off, knowing both have alliances with Germany and Italy but not each other.
1906 - Germany hosts Treaty of Berlin. Russia gets full control over Manchuria and all of Korea north of the 38th. Japan remains independent and keeps areas south of the 38th as well as paying reparations to Russia. Both Russia and Japan are outraged and feel betrayed but are pressured into signing a peace agreement.