Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit: A Collaborative Timeline

[Eparkhos]

Austria-Hungary, 1900

April 1900: Archduke Leopold Franz, the heir to the Duchy of Tuscany, has a falling out with Franz Joseph over what the proper response should be. Leopold believes that the very public shows of discontent are, surprisingly, very public shows of discontent, and thinks that Franz Joseph should induce his loyalists in both the Imperial Council and Royal Diet to introduce bills establishing basic health and safety requirements (12-hour work days, 72-hour work weeks, and stipends for the families of those who died as a direct result of actions by the employer). Franz Joseph demurres, and Leopold storms off to Bavaria.

Meanwhile, the director of the Evidenzböro, Arthur Giesel von Gieslingen, has the 2nd Brigade of the 29th Infantry Division (Austrian Landwehr) transfered to his control to better round up leftists. At the same time, the Imperial Council passes a law giving the Evidenzböro the power to try suspected anarchists within an internal court system, which Franz Joseph happily assents to.

May-November1900: A wave of reactionarism sweeps over Europe, with many governments cracking down on the revolutionary left. This is most prominent in Russia, Italy and the Balkan states, but most monarchs increase their bodyguards by at least a few men. This strikes into the upper working class as well, due to the high number of collateral fatalities in the 3 March attack and many suspected leftists are shunned and meeting places vandalized.

The initial wave of paranoia begins to die down in early July, but catches fire again when Bresci is arrested on 16 July and the resulting discovery of Anarchist cells. Suspected meeting places are stormed and set alight by panicked mobs, and countries across the continent begin either passing reforms or cracking down. After several tense months pass without attacks, the panic dies down in November.

 

[Red Arturoist]

August 12, 1900: After a strike in wharfs in Bremen, Hamburg and Kiel went violent, Emperor Wilhelm II. reinstitutes the infamous Sozialistengesetze ("Acts on Socialism"), yet again banning the SPD.

August 29, 1900: Someone calling himself Janusz Szieber (or "Jan Schieber" in German) commits a bank robbery in Basel, Switzerland. He is arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison, but the money is never found. Witnesses note that the person spoke "only broken German", but the arrested claims to be from East Galicia - which could indeed explain the fact. His identity will not be revealed until much later.

 

[PNWKing]

May, 1, 1900: Charles and Amy Dutter welcome a child named Peter Dutter into the world in Indianapolis, IN.

 

[Tales Weaver]

August 12, 1900: After a strike in wharfs in Bremen, Hamburg and Kiel went violent, Emperor Wilhelm II. reinstitutes the infamous Sozialistengesetze

September 1900: Socialist Democratic Party is founded in Japan by Abe Isoo, Kotoky Shusui, and Katayama Sen. It is allowed to enter Japanese Diet. Meanwhile, low countries, Britain and Scandinavia is unaffected by Reactionarism in Mainland Europe, with social democratic party remaining legal.

 

[Whiteshore]

September 1900: social Democtatic Party is founded in Japan. It is allowed to enter Japanese Diet. Meanwhile, low countries, Britain and Scandinavia is unaffected by Reactionarism in Mainland Europe, with social democratic party remaining legal.

Meanwhile in Germany, the National-Social Association grows in popularity amongst moderate SPD voters and SPD politicians who defect to the National-Social Association, reinvigorating it in the process with the SPD's moderate faction joining the NSV, which becomes the main center-left party in the German Empire as the SPD's radicals, led by figures like Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxembourg, and Karl Liebnekct, take over the SPD, shorn of its moderates, which they rename the German Socialist Workers' Party.

 

[Red Arturoist]

November 10, 1900: Shortly after the presidential election and the reactionary "Red Scare" in Europe, many communists and socialists in the US believe they must try "change within law", i.e. by the ballot and not by the bullet. Bill Haywood, Eugene V. Debs, Daniel DeLeon, and many young mineworkers, railroad and port workers, and even farmers from around the country - including the brothers Joe A. and Kelland M. Ironside and Henry J. Lapslie - form the Social Reform Party. They are planning to run in the 1904 "and all subsequent" presidential elections.

January 18, 1901: The "movement" (de facto a party) Moral and Values is founded by Prohibitionists. Southron opponents of Reconstruction and equal rights and Christian fundamentalists join soon after, including Baptist preacher Danny J. Brynn.

 

[InfernoMole]

November 10, 1900: Shortly after the presidential election and the reactionary "Red Scare" in Europe, many communists and socialists in the US believe they must try "change within law", i.e. by the ballot and not by the bullet. Bill Haywood, Eugene V. Debs, Peter deLeon, and many young mineworkers, railroad and port workers, and even farmers from around the country - including the brothers Joe A. and Kelland M. Ironside and Henry J. Lapslie - form the Social Reform Party. They are planning to run in the 1904 "and all subsequent" presidential elections.

...Huh. For some reason, I find that party name a little odd.

Also, who is Peter deLeon, again?

 

[Red Arturoist]

...Huh. For some reason, I find that party name a little odd for some reason.

I also thought of "Socialist Reform Party" or just "Reform Party" - why do you think the party name "odd"?

Also, who is Peter deLeon, again?

My mistake. I mean Daniel DeLeon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_De_Leon

 

[InfernoMole]

I also thought of "Socialist Reform Party" or just "Reform Party" - why do you think the party name "odd"?

I mean, it's just that it's still 1900, so it's still possible that the party could be simply called "Socialist Party" (which was founded in 1901). It could also be called "Social Democratic Party of America", after its likely forerunner.

My mistake. I mean Daniel DeLeon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_De_Leon

Ooooh. Okay.

Well, that makes no sense. Daniel De Leon was a highly dogmatic, militantly revolutionary Marxist, a fervent critic of the trade union movement and an extremely contentious figure in the American Marxist movement as a whole; IOTL, DeLeon's opponents (primarily German-Americans, Jewish immigrants and trade unionists such as Morris Hillquit) abandoned the Socialist Labor Party in 1899 and joined up with the Social Democratic Party of America, forming the Socialist Party of America as we know it.

That aside, at least De Leon actually respected the electoral process, unlike Bill Haywood.

 

[Red Arturoist]

November 10, 1900: Shortly after the presidential election and the reactionary "Red Scare" in Europe, many communists and socialists in the US believe they must try "change within law", i.e. by the ballot and not by the bullet. Bill Haywood, Eugene V. Debs, Daniel DeLeon, and many young mineworkers, railroad and port workers, and even farmers from around the country - including the brothers Joe A. and Kelland M. Ironside and Henry J. Lapslie - form the Social Reform Party. They are planning to run in the 1904 "and all subsequent" presidential elections.

January 18, 1901: The "movement" (de facto a party) Moral and Values is founded by Prohibitionists. Southron opponents of Reconstruction and equal rights and Christian fundamentalists join soon after, including Baptist preacher Danny J. Brynn.

Late October and early November, 1901: At the first party meeting, splits are already beginning to show - and debate is always heated. The party is renamed to the name of its forebear, Social Democratic Party, while Daniel DeLeon is already excluded again (he was thrown from the "Theoretical and Idea Committee" in August) as a "militant" and "danger to the workers' cause". Many trade unionists averse to De Leon, mainly Morris Hillquit, and many German-American and Jewish-American workers from the Rust Belt join the party. Daniel De Leon joins with some remnant militants and forms the International Organisation of Revolutionary Labour (IORL), soon renamed Communist Revolutionary Organisation (CRO).

1902-...: Several European militant revolutionaries make the exodus to America, joining the CRO which has to operate underground.

 

[Eparkhos]

1900 con't:

(Alright, here's the mountain-sized butterfly)

June 1900: With the sudden fear of anarchists looming over the continent, King Aleksander I suddenly realizes that his popularity with the people is something he needs to maintain at nearly any cost. As such, he breaks off his as-yet unannounced betrothal to Draga Mašin and reluctantly agrees to carry out his arranged marriage to Princess Alexandra von Schaumburg-Lippe.

August 1900: Aleksander and Alexandra marry on 11 August 1900, a weeks after the latter' public conversion to Orthodoxy. The marriage to a foreign princess, although not especially well-liked, certainly doesn't cause the mass hatred of the king due to perceived frivolity and stupidity that a marriage to Draga Mašin would have brought. In fact, after Alexandra's pregnancy was announced in December there was a surge in popularity.

Due to the absence of this sudden disgust, Apis and the Black Hand feel no need to begin plotting the murder of the royal couple.

(Because of the different marriage, the Obrenović dynasty will remain in place for the foreseeable future and thus keep tensions between AH and Serbia to a minimum. At the very least, WWI won't be becuase of Gavrilo Princep.)

 

[InfernoMole]

February 14, 1900: The 123-day siege of Kimberley pulls through, with the Boers defeating their British counterparts. Thirteen days later, in Paardeberg, the Boer forces halt the British advance, and British Major General John French is incapacitated during an attempted escape.

April 5, 1900: Jean-Baptiste Sipido, a fifteen year old Belgian tinsmith's apprentice and anarchist, fires five shots through the window of a train at the Brussels-North railway station. Sipido is quickly subdued, but the deed is done: Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, has been killed. The incident causes an uproar in the British Empire and contributes to the growing fear of anarchism.

May 3, 1900: With British forces demoralized and reinforcements slowed down, the Boers repel the British Army in Mafeking, further weakening the British effort in the Second Boer War.

 

[InfernoMole]

November 6, 1900: The 29th quadrennial presidential election in the United States of America is held. In a rematch of the 1896 race, Republican President William McKinley faced his Democratic opponent, former Nebraska Congressman William Jennings Bryan. The selection of "Vanderbilt's attorney" Chauncey Depew over the popular and energetic Vice President Theodore Roosevelt as McKinley's running mate affects the race as a whole, with Democrats courting "Teddy voters" and calling the 1900 RNC a corrupt bargain. In the end, the 1900 election is much closer than expected, with Bryan expanding his vote share and winning states which previously voted Republican, such as Indiana, Maryland and Kentucky. Indeed, some even say that Bryan almost flipped Ohio. Still, "Prosperity at Home, Prestige Abroad" resonates with American voters, and McKinley wins re-election.

November 6, 1900: Boosted by William Jennings Bryan's performance in the presidential election, incumbent Democratic–People's Governor of Minnesota, John Lind - endorsed by Populists and Silver Republicans - is re-elected for a second term, beating out former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives Samuel Rinnah van Sant.

 

[InfernoMole]

May 12, 1904: After Battle of Liancourt rocks see Russian Defeat at the hand of Admiral Togo Heihachiro, Petropavlovsk retreats.

August 12, 1904: In a hard-earned victory with heavy casualties, the Far East Fleet under Stepan Makarov defeats the Japanese Navy in the Battle of the Yellow Sea.

 

[InfernoMole]

November 16, 1904 The Russo Japanese war ends on a stalemate similar to OTL, Korea is annexed to Japan, but there is a bigger surviving russian fleet and the russian prestige is slightly reduced, Sakhalin is divided

...Korea didn't get annexed until 1910 (and it didn't become a protectorate of Japan until the Eulsa Treaty in 1905). I suggest we wait a bit before making developments on Korea's status.

Also, I think a stalemate would've delayed Korea's annexation, since Russian influence would be still present (if slightly reduced).

 

[Gukpard]

...Korea didn't get annexed until 1910 (and it didn't become a protectorate of Japan until the Eulsa Treaty in 1905). I suggest we wait a bit before making developments on Korea's status.

Also, I think a stalemate would've delayed Korea's annexation, since Russian influence would be still present (if slightly reduced).

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[InfernoMole]

August 12, 1904: In a hard-earned victory with heavy casualties, the Far East Fleet under Stepan Makarov defeats the Japanese Navy in the Battle of the Yellow Sea.

November 6, 1904: With the Far East Fleet, reinforced by the Baltic squadron, moving towards Port Arthur, the Japanese forces besieging the city are ultimately repelled.

 

[Red Arturoist]

November 6, 1904: With the Far East Fleet, reinforced by the Baltic squadron, moving towards Port Arthur, the Japanese forces besieging the city are ultimately repelled.

Early 1905: With Korean help, Russia invades Manchuria. The Qing Empire, weakened by European imperialism and increasing discontent in the population, offers only token resistance.

July 1, 1905: The Treaty of Vladivostok is signed. South Sakhalin and Port Arthur are ceded to Russia, with Manchuria de facto under Russian occupation.

 

[brunohusker]

April 1901: After the Hitler family, including their 12-year-old son Adolf, moves back to Passau, good school marks return. Religion is still hated as a subject by young Adolf, however, his father applies less violence (beatings etc.) as he regains hope that Adolf might indeed become a civil servant.

September 9, 1902: Alois Hitler dies of natural causes.

Easter 1903: Leopold Pötsch was "promoted" to an Oberrealschule (grammar school) in Vienna and holds his first lesson at the start of the school year.

1904: The widow Klara Hitler sends her 15-year-old son Adolf to Vienna, where he ends up visiting the Oberrealschule. He is influenced by Leopold Pötsch and achieves qualification for studying at a university in late 1907. He studies history and political sciences, having come to admire writers and theories Leopold Pötsch always hated with a passion: Karl Marx, August Bebel and Ferdinand Lassalle.

1911: In a detailed thesis, Adolf Hitler lambasts racist and antisemitic thoughts after having read books by Guido von List, Houston Stewart Chamberlain et al., also citing personal positive experiences he has made with people of Jewish descent and even practising Jews.

1912. Looking to evade compulsory service. the 23 year old Hitler emigrates from Austria to Liverpool England to live with brother Alois, and sister in law Bridget.