Challenge: Make Your Own 19th Century Phoenix

Simple challenge, might be a little difficult for people who have short attention spans, but oh well.

Pick a country that was down-and-out at some point in the 19th century, then write a short chronological timeline of how to make them become as powerful as possible by 1900.

An especially interested person can take a country that was successful in the 19th century, tear it down, and then build it up greater than ever before. The point is just to chronicle a "Rise and Fall" scenario that is non-OTL.

A noob or Pasha/Nekromans can make a Phoenix, AZ joke and derail the thread.
 
OTL.

France.

1800s : up

1814-15 : Down

1860s : Up

1871-73 : Down.

1890s : Up again

Or take Germany 1800 to circa 1860 : down. 1870 to 1900 : Up ( less bumps ).

Getting any of these more powerfull or worse than OTL is pretty easy.

Now, doing it with UK is more difficult.
 
Japan

1832: Mexican-American war begins over Texas

1836: The treaty of Santa Fe, war ends and Mexice cede it's northen territories to the United sates (OTL Guadalupe Hidalgo)

1842: William of the Netherlands urges Japan to open the country, the Shogun rejects

1844: Four US war ships arrive at Yokohama demanding that Japan end the isolation. Japan rejects. The port is bombarded, but the Japanese refuse to negotiate

1846: The American-Dutch Expedition is launched, the city of Nagasaki is occupied but the Shogun rallies his armies on Honshu

1847: American and Dutch forces land near Yokohama, Kochi, Hyogo and Satsuma

1848: Kyoto and Edo captured, Japan officially surrender, the shogun commits suicide.

1851: The last Japanese daimyos surrender. Townsend Harris, the president of the Dutch-American Company for Japanese Commerce, is crowned shogun of Japan.

1853: Japan becomes an official U.S. protectorate. Trade with the US increases and many american capitalists own factories in Japan.

1870: Japanese urbanization and BNP surpasses that of the US.

1872: The Japanese Revolution begins with the Riot of Kanazawa. Various warlords claiming ancestry to old clans rise in different parts of the country. The US troops in country are thrown out.

1874: In central and western Japan the Shinto-Nationalistic "Imperial Army" is formed. In southern and eastern Japan the Communist People's Democratic Front of Japan is formed while northen Japan is divided between socialists, conservative warlords and democrats.

1877: With british support the Democratic Part of Japan captures Kyoto and kill the Emperor

1879: The Democratic Party of Japan and the Communist Peoples Democratic Front of Japan agrees to a cease fire. The most of the smaller warlords are defeated.

1881: British soldiers invade communist-held Kyushu. The US is outraged and after threats of an invasion of Canada, the British leaves Kyushu, but the Democratic Party of Japan sees it's chance and invade the weakened communists.

1882: The Democratic Republic of Japan is esthablished.

1886: Russia invade Korea, Japan intervene on Korea's side and the Russo-Japanese war begins

1889: Russia is defeated. Korea, Sakhalin and the Kurils are annexed by Japan

1892: The Sino-Japanese war begin. Japan occupy the Ryukyus and Taiwan and invade mainland China

1896: Manchuria, Jiangsu and coastal Fujian are ceded to Japan. Japan buys the Philippines from the US

1898: The Chinese revolution. The Japan-Faction take over in a coup and China becomes Japans satelite nation

1899: World War One begins: Japan, the UK, France, the Ottomans and Austria-Hungary vs. Germany, Holland, Italy, Russia and the US
 
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1851: The last Japanese daimyos surrender. Townsend Harris, the president of the Dutch-American Company for Japanese Commerce, is crowned shogun of Japan.

1874: In central and western Japan the Shinto-Nationalistic "Imperial Army" is formed. In southern and eastern Japan the Communist People's Democratic Front of Japan is formed while northen Japan is divided between socialists, conservative warlords and democrats.

1877: With british support the Democratic Part of Japan captures Kyoto and kill the Emperor


1881: British soldiers invade communist-held Kyushu. The US is outraged and after threats of an invasion of Canada, the British leaves Kyushu, but the Democratic Party of Japan sees it's chance and invade the weakened communists.

1882: The Democratic Republic of Japan is esthablished.

1886: Russia invade Korea, Japan intervene on Korea's side and the Russo-Japanese war begins

1889: Russia is defeated. Korea, Sakhalin and the Kurils are annexed by Japan

1892: The Sino-Japanese war begin. Japan occupy the Ryukyus and Taiwan and invade mainland China

1896: Manchuria, Jiangsu and coastal Fujian are ceded to Japan. Japan buys the Philippines from the US

1898: The Chinese revolution. The Japan-Faction take over in a coup and China becomes Japans satelite nation
The ASB's they burn the eyes..................:rolleyes:
 
A noob or Pasha/Nekromans can make a Phoenix, AZ joke and derail the thread.

I'm not sure which comparison to object to more.

Surely the easiest here would be the ACW - the Confederacy leaves relatively peacefully earlier on, and then falls apart for America to pick up the pieces.
 
Does the country have to have actually existed on 1/1/1800?

If not, Poland would be interesting to try; not that I have any ideas, but it might provide an itneresting challenge for someone, and it's not totally clear in the OP.
 
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