It's a long, long way to Tipperary, correctly say the Irish; and my monster timeline is a Tipperary that never comes on sight. Today I've worked some six hours, (yes, doing also some other things) just to fix something here, something there and go on with the history of Italy till 1659... and many, many nations still miss, though the majority of the great ones is done.
To give an idea of the level of re-work and inconsistency I'm struggling against any time I have another "good idea", I'll post here a year a century of my TL, duly translated (I hope) and AS IS (remember the software licenses?), that is don't point out the inconsistencies b/c I proceed chronologically and fix'em as I crawl along time.
So, as I was born in 1974, in my honor I will pick the '74 years (or phenomenons which take years around them) with their (I repeat, unfinished) news:
73-74 Rome conquers the Agri Decumates between High Rhine, Mein and Danube
74 (void, for now)
74-94 The Chinese general Bao Chan subdues the Tarim Basin and parts of Central Asia for the Han dynasty
167-174 Marcomannic War: a confederation of Germanic tribes invades the Danube valley and reaches Friuli before being chased back and defeated
174 (void, for now)
274 (void, for now)
374 Aurelius Ambrosius, a lay civil servant who wasn't even baptized, is acclaimed Bishop by the people of Milan against his own will
474 (void, for now)
474-475 The Isaurian Zeno Tarasicodissa ascends to the throne of Constantinople; briefly dethroned by Basiliscus, crushes and eliminates the usurper in few months
574 When Clephi, successor to Albohin, is murdered, the Langobards fall prey to ducal anarchy and go on pillaging and conquering Italy without a king
574-576 Vain Frankish invasion of Northern Italy, stopped in the Trentino
674 The Chalukyas sack the Pallava capital of Kanchi (near Madras). The Arabs conquer Crete
773-774 Charles the Great, called for help by Pope Adrian I, crushes the Lombard thirst for independence in the battle of Mortara (Lombardy), takes
Pavia and Verona, then installs on the Lombard throne the brave Adelchis, son of the defeated king Desiderius, as his vassal and son-in-law, and formally cedes to the Roman Church the so-called Patrimonium Petri between Rome and Ravenna. The Lombard Duchies of Spoleto and Benevento obtain formal independence from Pavia; Marcianus Bulla's Western Byzantines occupy Histria and Trieste and obtain the obedience of the Byzantine Venetian duchy
774 (void, for now)
869-883 Great revolt of the Zanj (black slaves from Eastern Africa) in Low Iraq, that de facto ends the use of slavery in agriculture in the Islamic world
872-916 Scotic protectorate on the kingdom of Strathclyde
874 Battle of the Megirdia River between Cabilians and Arabs: final halt of the Arab expansion westwards. The Norwegian Vikings settle in Iceland with many Irish and Pictish slaves, exterminating, enslaving or putting to flight the few Irish monks on the spot. Viking (Danish) conquest of the kingdom of Mercia in England
971-977 Norwegian invasion of Alba (repulsed)
973-978 Rebellion in Bavaria and Bohemia against the imperial power
974 Harold Bluetooth unifies the kingdoms of Denmark and Norway. Mularaja founds the Chalukya kingdom of Anahillapura (Western Deccan). Maiolus, abbot of Cluny, refuses to succed Pope Benedict VI, murdered by the Crescenzis in Rome
974-976 John Tzimiskes' crusade in Syria and Palestina, almost till Jerusalem's door
1073-1075 Baronial insurrection in Saxony
1073-1085 Under Pope Gregorius VII (Hildebrand of Soana), the Papacy escapes German imperial control, reforms and strengthen itself immensely
1074 Sharp defeat of England's Normans at Dinmore Manor at the hands of the Welsh. Foundation of the Chalukya-Chola dynasty under king Rajendra of Vengi and Kanchi. The Byzantines defeat the Normans at Castrogiovanni/Enna (Sicily)
1156-1180 Henry the Lion wipes the Slavic pirates away from the Baltic and germanizes the lands between the Elbe and the Oder rivers
1170-1177 Second Byzantine-Venetian war, provoled by the Byzantium's attempt to free from Venice's economic stranglehold
1174 The Mameluks retake Tripoli from the Normans. At Lyon Peter Valdus founds the Valdese Christian confession, the most ancient of the reformed Christina Churches. The HRE emperor Frederick I Barbarossa comes back to Italy and besieges Alessandria in vain
1174-1185 Saladin (Salah ad-Din) reunifies the lands of Nur ad-Din's empire
1269-1274 Chaos in Friuli, the Patriarchate of Aquileia remains vacant for five years till the appointment of Raimondo Della Torre
1271-1274 Byzantine reconquest of part of the Aegean islands
1271-1279 The Tratarian Nogai devastates the eastern Balkans (*I'll change the word "Balkans" as soon as I can find how the Byzantines called these mountains)
1271-1279 Marco Polo's voyages in the Far East in te service of Kubilay Khan
1274 Abahai Khan of the Ilkhans converts to Mazdeism and proclaims himself Shah-in-Shah. A Mongol invasion of Japan aborts in the bay of Hakata (Hakozaki, Kyushu). The Diet of Regensburg declares void the territorial acquisitions of king Ottokar II of Bohemia, who persists in his refusal to recognize Rudolph of Hapsburg as HRE emperor. Michael VIII Palaelogus accepts papal supremacy and the Union with Roma at the Council of Lyon, provoking the opposition of the Orthodox Church. Besides this, the Council forces orders and congregations born after 1215 to merge with those already existing, causing the rebellion of the Apostolics. Milaneses and Imperials defeat once and for all Castillians, Montferratian and exiled Della Torre fores in the battle of Tornavento on the Ticino river. The Anjou defeat sharply Asti at Cossano Belbo (Piedmont). Delhi Sultanate forces expel the Mongols from Ghazna (Afghanistan)
1274-1279 Trieste and Histria rebel to Venetian rule causing the War of Capodistria between the Patriarchate of Aquileia and Venice, after which the Venetians lose Trieste
1336-1392 The deposed emperor of Japan Godaigo and his followers found a Southern Court south of Nara. Continuous civil wars between the two rival courts mark the period
1338-1448 Adamite Empire in Mauretania, it will extend from Ifrigia (*medieval name of Tunisia in my TL) to Morocco
1341-1381 The War of Breton Succession, an episode of the Hundred Years' War, ends with the vassalization of Bretagne to king of France. In Byzantium the last major religious controversy, hesicasm, bursts out
1369-1375 The Breton general Bertrand du Guesclin frees most of France from the Englishmen, who resist only in several coastal strongholds (Bordeaux, Brest, Calais etc.). Siamese occupation of the Khmer kingdom
(Cambodia)
1374 Byzantium, called for help by Lesser Armenia, stops the Mameluks at Layas and annexes all the territory thus putting an end to Armenian rule in Cilicia. Albert IV of Tyrol-Gorz dies without issue and is succeeded by his brother Mainard V, who cedes eastern Histria to the Hapsburg in exchange for cash
1430-1480 Power of the heathen kingdom of the Mossis (High Volta) south of the Niger river
1441-1483 The Portuguese explore the western coast of Africa and make contacts with local kingdoms
1467-1477 The Onin War starts a period of chronic civil war in Japan, also named the Fighting States Era, during which the Ashikaga power declines notably
1474 (void, for now)
1568-1576 The Archbishop of Milan, Saint Ambrose del Seprio (or Saint Ambrose the Lesser), refpunds the Ambrosian (Milanese) Church and rages throughout his archbishopric fighting Protestantism and sorcery with hundreds of stakes
1572-1576 The rebellious northern provinces of the Netherlands, taking advantage of Spain's mutiple military engagements, expel the Spanish garrisons from all of Holland and sizable parts of Flanders
1574 The Englishmen defat the Catholic Welsh forces at Wrexham: abolition of the Welsh self-government. Byzantium recognizes the independence of the Republic of Ragusa/Dubrovnik. The Byzantines and the Punians (*stands for Tunisians in my TL) expel once and for all the Spaniards from Tunis. Byzantium obtains various commercial grantings and the ports of Pondicherry and Nagappattinam from the Vijayanagar Empire. King Bayinnaung of Burma conquers Vientian, Laos: greatest extension of the Burmanese Empire. Conquest and ravaging of Asti (Piedmont) at the hands of don Ferdinando Salinas' Spaniards. The Spaniards then try to besiege Milan and e Piacenza but are repulsed. Spanish invasion, from the Papal States, of the Sforza Principate of Abruzzo and of Tuscany: fall of Avezzano and Siena
1672-1674 Third British-Dutch War, barely fought and closed with no annexions
1672-1678 French-Dutch War. Holland, besieged by the French and forced to open the dams, gets off with some colonial concessions
1673-1675 First great rebellion of the Sikhs against Mughal hegemony
1673-1681 Helped by Western military technology brought by the Jesuits, the Manchus crush the rebellious barons in the South of China
1674 Mrassan Teufti dies in battle in the Casamance (Senegal) and the Christian revolution in the area founders. The Peace of Bhopal forces the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb to recognize full independence to the Parsmahratta and to abandon the lands south of the Narmada and Godavari rivers
1769-1775 The first British attempt to settle in Northern Borneo (Brunei, Srawak) is a flop
1772-1774 British Captain James Cook definitely proves that the great southern continent simply doesn't exist, but sights Antarctica and names New Alba (*New Caledonia in this TL)
1774 Dissolution of the Jesuit order. The Treaty di Kaynardzha between Russia and Byzantium guarantees the independence and sovereignity of the Dabubian principalities, recognizes the independence of the Krimean Khanate and the absolute dominion of Russia on the whole of the Ukraine till the Dniestr river. New conflict between Persia and Byzantium for Iraq. The Québec Act recognizes the autonomy of the French-speaking Canadian region
1774-1779 Tribal Rebellion in Bastar against The British and the Parsmahratta
1774-1781 War of American Independence: the 13 colonies of Massachussetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Filadelfia, Pennsylvania, New Vassilia, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia secede from Britain (*far more news and details added when I'll arrive at S like Stati Uniti...)
1869-1879 Egyptian expansion in the Sudan (Nubia): the Egyptians assumono control on the Red Sea coast (foundation of Port Sudan, 1871), occupy and explore the Darfur and Bahr al-Ghazal regions, clash with Abissinia. Arab slave traders begin to filter into Central Africa from the north
1870-1890 Mounting wave of anti-semitism in Germany, Austria and Russia. Birth of "scientific" racism and social "darwinism". Growing strength of the trade unions and socialist parties throughout Europe
1871-1881 Russian occupation of the Samarkandan region of Ili-Guldja (Central Asia)
1872-1876 The liberals win the civil war in Honduras against the conservatives
1872-1894 Neverending Batak War in the northwestern areas of Sumatra; the rebels are backed by Aceh, which Batavia cannot strike because it's under British protection
1874 (*here we are in inconstistent territory... I think soem things will change later)
January Confederati and Unionist volunteers flock to France to fight for the Republic
3 January The Republican government in Paris proclaims an amnesty for the Communards
11 January Republican victory in the battle of Tarbes, under a blizzard storm. The Royalist fortress of Agen falls
13 January The Republicans conquer Périgueux
21-24 January Royalist victory at Muret, near Toulouse
26 January-20 February Siege and conquest of Limoges at the hands of the Republicans
February Inflow of the Brazilian "volunteers" (about 10.000) on the Royalist part. The Royalist fleet occupies Ajaccio, Corsica
3 February-15 March Royalist conquest of Corsica
11 February The British conquer Kumasi, capital of the Ashanti kingdom in the northern Gold Coast, imposing their protectorate and the end of the slave trade
14 February Great Britain imposes a blockade of the French coasts
22 February The Republicans conquer the Royalist stronghold of Tulle
1° March Japan adopts a liberal Constitution, but the Emperor preserves his divine right and remains the supreme authority of the State
4-5 March Republican victory at Aurillac
13 March-18 April Siege and fall of Toulouse at the hands of the Republicans
15 March The Republican fortress of Bastia (Corsica) surrenders
20 March Royalist victory at Montpellier
26 March Italian troops land at Bonifacio, Corsica
April Nationalist Corsican insurrection against the French Royalists
1° April Italian victory at Aleria (Corsica) against the French Royalists
15 April New Italian victory at Corte (Corsica). Japan declares war on China on the issue of the Ryukyu Islands
18 April Japanese gunboats bombard Tientsin and Wei-hai-Wei destroying the Chinese fleet
22 April The Rising Sun flag is raised on Shuri Castle at Okinawa (Ryukyu Islands). The king of the Ryukyus is forced to abdicate and th islands are annexed to the Japanese Empire
27 April The Republicans occupy Montpellier and besiege Carcassonne. In Great Britain mandatory primary school education is approved by the Houses of Parliament
2-5 May Republicans win at Narbonne: half the Royalist army in the Midi become POWs
12-15 May Republican capture of Perpignan. 50.000 Royalist civilians e military cross into Spain for safety
13 May Japanese troops land on Taiwan
21 May The Italians complete the conquest of Corsica
30-31 May The Japanese destroy the Taiping garrison of Taiwan in the Battle of Kaohsiung
2 June Republicans take Angoulême
6 June Japanese gunboats devastate Guangzhong's haven provoking protests from the Western powers
13-18 June Republican victory at St. Jean-d'Angély
24 June The Republicans begin the siege of La Rochelle
27 June The Republicans take Niort
7 July Republican reconquest of Chartres; the Royalist Marshall MacMahon dies on the battlefield. The Sultanate of Aceh formally abolishes slavery (but de facto goes on tolerating it)
8-11 July Great Republican victory at Chantonnay
15 July The Republicans conquer Cholet. Now the Royalists control only Normandy, Anjou and Brittany plus a besieged La Rochelle
18-20 July Royalist victory ad Alençon
20-21 July Republican victory at Bernay
8 Agosto The Republicans retake Angers. Henry V of Bourbon makes a proposal to the Republicans: the independence of Brittany under French suzerainity, and himslef as King of Brittany
10 August The Treaty of Fuzhou, brokered by Britain, closes the war between Japan and China. China is forced to yield Taiwan to Japan, and has to renounce to any idea of suzerainity over the Ryukyus
15 August After some debate, the Republican government of Leòn Gambetta accepts Henry V's proposal and signs the Armistice of Nanterre
August-September The rival armies demobilize, Republican troops occupy Nantes, Lorient, Brest and St.-Malo, a Vreton army and navy are formed
22 August The Republican government proclaims the general pardon for Royalist veterans
October The local chieftains cede the Fiji Islands to Britain
1° October Leòn Gambetta dissolves the National Republican Assembly and calls for new elections for a Constitutional Assembly
31 October The eelctions in France return a solid majority to the liberals, but with a strong radical presence
14 November Treaty of Nice between Italy and France. Italians evacuate Savoy but gain back Corsica and high Val di Susa (Piedmont)
To give an idea of the level of re-work and inconsistency I'm struggling against any time I have another "good idea", I'll post here a year a century of my TL, duly translated (I hope) and AS IS (remember the software licenses?), that is don't point out the inconsistencies b/c I proceed chronologically and fix'em as I crawl along time.
So, as I was born in 1974, in my honor I will pick the '74 years (or phenomenons which take years around them) with their (I repeat, unfinished) news:
73-74 Rome conquers the Agri Decumates between High Rhine, Mein and Danube
74 (void, for now)
74-94 The Chinese general Bao Chan subdues the Tarim Basin and parts of Central Asia for the Han dynasty
167-174 Marcomannic War: a confederation of Germanic tribes invades the Danube valley and reaches Friuli before being chased back and defeated
174 (void, for now)
274 (void, for now)
374 Aurelius Ambrosius, a lay civil servant who wasn't even baptized, is acclaimed Bishop by the people of Milan against his own will
474 (void, for now)
474-475 The Isaurian Zeno Tarasicodissa ascends to the throne of Constantinople; briefly dethroned by Basiliscus, crushes and eliminates the usurper in few months
574 When Clephi, successor to Albohin, is murdered, the Langobards fall prey to ducal anarchy and go on pillaging and conquering Italy without a king
574-576 Vain Frankish invasion of Northern Italy, stopped in the Trentino
674 The Chalukyas sack the Pallava capital of Kanchi (near Madras). The Arabs conquer Crete
773-774 Charles the Great, called for help by Pope Adrian I, crushes the Lombard thirst for independence in the battle of Mortara (Lombardy), takes
Pavia and Verona, then installs on the Lombard throne the brave Adelchis, son of the defeated king Desiderius, as his vassal and son-in-law, and formally cedes to the Roman Church the so-called Patrimonium Petri between Rome and Ravenna. The Lombard Duchies of Spoleto and Benevento obtain formal independence from Pavia; Marcianus Bulla's Western Byzantines occupy Histria and Trieste and obtain the obedience of the Byzantine Venetian duchy
774 (void, for now)
869-883 Great revolt of the Zanj (black slaves from Eastern Africa) in Low Iraq, that de facto ends the use of slavery in agriculture in the Islamic world
872-916 Scotic protectorate on the kingdom of Strathclyde
874 Battle of the Megirdia River between Cabilians and Arabs: final halt of the Arab expansion westwards. The Norwegian Vikings settle in Iceland with many Irish and Pictish slaves, exterminating, enslaving or putting to flight the few Irish monks on the spot. Viking (Danish) conquest of the kingdom of Mercia in England
971-977 Norwegian invasion of Alba (repulsed)
973-978 Rebellion in Bavaria and Bohemia against the imperial power
974 Harold Bluetooth unifies the kingdoms of Denmark and Norway. Mularaja founds the Chalukya kingdom of Anahillapura (Western Deccan). Maiolus, abbot of Cluny, refuses to succed Pope Benedict VI, murdered by the Crescenzis in Rome
974-976 John Tzimiskes' crusade in Syria and Palestina, almost till Jerusalem's door
1073-1075 Baronial insurrection in Saxony
1073-1085 Under Pope Gregorius VII (Hildebrand of Soana), the Papacy escapes German imperial control, reforms and strengthen itself immensely
1074 Sharp defeat of England's Normans at Dinmore Manor at the hands of the Welsh. Foundation of the Chalukya-Chola dynasty under king Rajendra of Vengi and Kanchi. The Byzantines defeat the Normans at Castrogiovanni/Enna (Sicily)
1156-1180 Henry the Lion wipes the Slavic pirates away from the Baltic and germanizes the lands between the Elbe and the Oder rivers
1170-1177 Second Byzantine-Venetian war, provoled by the Byzantium's attempt to free from Venice's economic stranglehold
1174 The Mameluks retake Tripoli from the Normans. At Lyon Peter Valdus founds the Valdese Christian confession, the most ancient of the reformed Christina Churches. The HRE emperor Frederick I Barbarossa comes back to Italy and besieges Alessandria in vain
1174-1185 Saladin (Salah ad-Din) reunifies the lands of Nur ad-Din's empire
1269-1274 Chaos in Friuli, the Patriarchate of Aquileia remains vacant for five years till the appointment of Raimondo Della Torre
1271-1274 Byzantine reconquest of part of the Aegean islands
1271-1279 The Tratarian Nogai devastates the eastern Balkans (*I'll change the word "Balkans" as soon as I can find how the Byzantines called these mountains)
1271-1279 Marco Polo's voyages in the Far East in te service of Kubilay Khan
1274 Abahai Khan of the Ilkhans converts to Mazdeism and proclaims himself Shah-in-Shah. A Mongol invasion of Japan aborts in the bay of Hakata (Hakozaki, Kyushu). The Diet of Regensburg declares void the territorial acquisitions of king Ottokar II of Bohemia, who persists in his refusal to recognize Rudolph of Hapsburg as HRE emperor. Michael VIII Palaelogus accepts papal supremacy and the Union with Roma at the Council of Lyon, provoking the opposition of the Orthodox Church. Besides this, the Council forces orders and congregations born after 1215 to merge with those already existing, causing the rebellion of the Apostolics. Milaneses and Imperials defeat once and for all Castillians, Montferratian and exiled Della Torre fores in the battle of Tornavento on the Ticino river. The Anjou defeat sharply Asti at Cossano Belbo (Piedmont). Delhi Sultanate forces expel the Mongols from Ghazna (Afghanistan)
1274-1279 Trieste and Histria rebel to Venetian rule causing the War of Capodistria between the Patriarchate of Aquileia and Venice, after which the Venetians lose Trieste
1336-1392 The deposed emperor of Japan Godaigo and his followers found a Southern Court south of Nara. Continuous civil wars between the two rival courts mark the period
1338-1448 Adamite Empire in Mauretania, it will extend from Ifrigia (*medieval name of Tunisia in my TL) to Morocco
1341-1381 The War of Breton Succession, an episode of the Hundred Years' War, ends with the vassalization of Bretagne to king of France. In Byzantium the last major religious controversy, hesicasm, bursts out
1369-1375 The Breton general Bertrand du Guesclin frees most of France from the Englishmen, who resist only in several coastal strongholds (Bordeaux, Brest, Calais etc.). Siamese occupation of the Khmer kingdom
(Cambodia)
1374 Byzantium, called for help by Lesser Armenia, stops the Mameluks at Layas and annexes all the territory thus putting an end to Armenian rule in Cilicia. Albert IV of Tyrol-Gorz dies without issue and is succeeded by his brother Mainard V, who cedes eastern Histria to the Hapsburg in exchange for cash
1430-1480 Power of the heathen kingdom of the Mossis (High Volta) south of the Niger river
1441-1483 The Portuguese explore the western coast of Africa and make contacts with local kingdoms
1467-1477 The Onin War starts a period of chronic civil war in Japan, also named the Fighting States Era, during which the Ashikaga power declines notably
1474 (void, for now)
1568-1576 The Archbishop of Milan, Saint Ambrose del Seprio (or Saint Ambrose the Lesser), refpunds the Ambrosian (Milanese) Church and rages throughout his archbishopric fighting Protestantism and sorcery with hundreds of stakes
1572-1576 The rebellious northern provinces of the Netherlands, taking advantage of Spain's mutiple military engagements, expel the Spanish garrisons from all of Holland and sizable parts of Flanders
1574 The Englishmen defat the Catholic Welsh forces at Wrexham: abolition of the Welsh self-government. Byzantium recognizes the independence of the Republic of Ragusa/Dubrovnik. The Byzantines and the Punians (*stands for Tunisians in my TL) expel once and for all the Spaniards from Tunis. Byzantium obtains various commercial grantings and the ports of Pondicherry and Nagappattinam from the Vijayanagar Empire. King Bayinnaung of Burma conquers Vientian, Laos: greatest extension of the Burmanese Empire. Conquest and ravaging of Asti (Piedmont) at the hands of don Ferdinando Salinas' Spaniards. The Spaniards then try to besiege Milan and e Piacenza but are repulsed. Spanish invasion, from the Papal States, of the Sforza Principate of Abruzzo and of Tuscany: fall of Avezzano and Siena
1672-1674 Third British-Dutch War, barely fought and closed with no annexions
1672-1678 French-Dutch War. Holland, besieged by the French and forced to open the dams, gets off with some colonial concessions
1673-1675 First great rebellion of the Sikhs against Mughal hegemony
1673-1681 Helped by Western military technology brought by the Jesuits, the Manchus crush the rebellious barons in the South of China
1674 Mrassan Teufti dies in battle in the Casamance (Senegal) and the Christian revolution in the area founders. The Peace of Bhopal forces the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb to recognize full independence to the Parsmahratta and to abandon the lands south of the Narmada and Godavari rivers
1769-1775 The first British attempt to settle in Northern Borneo (Brunei, Srawak) is a flop
1772-1774 British Captain James Cook definitely proves that the great southern continent simply doesn't exist, but sights Antarctica and names New Alba (*New Caledonia in this TL)
1774 Dissolution of the Jesuit order. The Treaty di Kaynardzha between Russia and Byzantium guarantees the independence and sovereignity of the Dabubian principalities, recognizes the independence of the Krimean Khanate and the absolute dominion of Russia on the whole of the Ukraine till the Dniestr river. New conflict between Persia and Byzantium for Iraq. The Québec Act recognizes the autonomy of the French-speaking Canadian region
1774-1779 Tribal Rebellion in Bastar against The British and the Parsmahratta
1774-1781 War of American Independence: the 13 colonies of Massachussetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Filadelfia, Pennsylvania, New Vassilia, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia secede from Britain (*far more news and details added when I'll arrive at S like Stati Uniti...)
1869-1879 Egyptian expansion in the Sudan (Nubia): the Egyptians assumono control on the Red Sea coast (foundation of Port Sudan, 1871), occupy and explore the Darfur and Bahr al-Ghazal regions, clash with Abissinia. Arab slave traders begin to filter into Central Africa from the north
1870-1890 Mounting wave of anti-semitism in Germany, Austria and Russia. Birth of "scientific" racism and social "darwinism". Growing strength of the trade unions and socialist parties throughout Europe
1871-1881 Russian occupation of the Samarkandan region of Ili-Guldja (Central Asia)
1872-1876 The liberals win the civil war in Honduras against the conservatives
1872-1894 Neverending Batak War in the northwestern areas of Sumatra; the rebels are backed by Aceh, which Batavia cannot strike because it's under British protection
1874 (*here we are in inconstistent territory... I think soem things will change later)
January Confederati and Unionist volunteers flock to France to fight for the Republic
3 January The Republican government in Paris proclaims an amnesty for the Communards
11 January Republican victory in the battle of Tarbes, under a blizzard storm. The Royalist fortress of Agen falls
13 January The Republicans conquer Périgueux
21-24 January Royalist victory at Muret, near Toulouse
26 January-20 February Siege and conquest of Limoges at the hands of the Republicans
February Inflow of the Brazilian "volunteers" (about 10.000) on the Royalist part. The Royalist fleet occupies Ajaccio, Corsica
3 February-15 March Royalist conquest of Corsica
11 February The British conquer Kumasi, capital of the Ashanti kingdom in the northern Gold Coast, imposing their protectorate and the end of the slave trade
14 February Great Britain imposes a blockade of the French coasts
22 February The Republicans conquer the Royalist stronghold of Tulle
1° March Japan adopts a liberal Constitution, but the Emperor preserves his divine right and remains the supreme authority of the State
4-5 March Republican victory at Aurillac
13 March-18 April Siege and fall of Toulouse at the hands of the Republicans
15 March The Republican fortress of Bastia (Corsica) surrenders
20 March Royalist victory at Montpellier
26 March Italian troops land at Bonifacio, Corsica
April Nationalist Corsican insurrection against the French Royalists
1° April Italian victory at Aleria (Corsica) against the French Royalists
15 April New Italian victory at Corte (Corsica). Japan declares war on China on the issue of the Ryukyu Islands
18 April Japanese gunboats bombard Tientsin and Wei-hai-Wei destroying the Chinese fleet
22 April The Rising Sun flag is raised on Shuri Castle at Okinawa (Ryukyu Islands). The king of the Ryukyus is forced to abdicate and th islands are annexed to the Japanese Empire
27 April The Republicans occupy Montpellier and besiege Carcassonne. In Great Britain mandatory primary school education is approved by the Houses of Parliament
2-5 May Republicans win at Narbonne: half the Royalist army in the Midi become POWs
12-15 May Republican capture of Perpignan. 50.000 Royalist civilians e military cross into Spain for safety
13 May Japanese troops land on Taiwan
21 May The Italians complete the conquest of Corsica
30-31 May The Japanese destroy the Taiping garrison of Taiwan in the Battle of Kaohsiung
2 June Republicans take Angoulême
6 June Japanese gunboats devastate Guangzhong's haven provoking protests from the Western powers
13-18 June Republican victory at St. Jean-d'Angély
24 June The Republicans begin the siege of La Rochelle
27 June The Republicans take Niort
7 July Republican reconquest of Chartres; the Royalist Marshall MacMahon dies on the battlefield. The Sultanate of Aceh formally abolishes slavery (but de facto goes on tolerating it)
8-11 July Great Republican victory at Chantonnay
15 July The Republicans conquer Cholet. Now the Royalists control only Normandy, Anjou and Brittany plus a besieged La Rochelle
18-20 July Royalist victory ad Alençon
20-21 July Republican victory at Bernay
8 Agosto The Republicans retake Angers. Henry V of Bourbon makes a proposal to the Republicans: the independence of Brittany under French suzerainity, and himslef as King of Brittany
10 August The Treaty of Fuzhou, brokered by Britain, closes the war between Japan and China. China is forced to yield Taiwan to Japan, and has to renounce to any idea of suzerainity over the Ryukyus
15 August After some debate, the Republican government of Leòn Gambetta accepts Henry V's proposal and signs the Armistice of Nanterre
August-September The rival armies demobilize, Republican troops occupy Nantes, Lorient, Brest and St.-Malo, a Vreton army and navy are formed
22 August The Republican government proclaims the general pardon for Royalist veterans
October The local chieftains cede the Fiji Islands to Britain
1° October Leòn Gambetta dissolves the National Republican Assembly and calls for new elections for a Constitutional Assembly
31 October The eelctions in France return a solid majority to the liberals, but with a strong radical presence
14 November Treaty of Nice between Italy and France. Italians evacuate Savoy but gain back Corsica and high Val di Susa (Piedmont)
