Well, my first TL. Wow. Anyway there really is no one POD in this but oh well. The TL will sometimes be told like a story from the viewpoint of charectars that I will think of sometime... But anyway this is a TL that starts in the era of New Imperialism. But everything is not what it seems... There is an independent Alaska, and American Empire and a socialist revolution in France. This my friends is a work of Edwardian Excelence.
August 1st 1859: Bismarck declares a Prussian-ruled German Empire after the Frankfurt riots in which hundreds of people rose up calling for a unified German Empire. Not to be confused with the attempted revolt of 1848
January 1861: William Seward elected president of the United States.
April 12th 1861: Sumter Crisis, the secession of southern states nearly avoided although southern guerillas keep fighting until late 1863.
1875: The Austro-Hungarian empire, with its military in dissary and on the brink of war with Italy begs the German Empire for protection. The Germans exapt underthe terms that Austria becomes a vassal.
1891: Spanish American war starts. U.S. forces invade Cuba.
September 9th 1893: Spanish American hostilites halt. America gains the Philipenes and Cuba among others. President Roosevelt declares an American Empire.
March 23rd 1894: Quebec war starts when Quebec attempts to succed from Canada and France intervenes on Quebec's side.
December 31st 1894: The French surrender and their economy falls into ruin.
May 1st 1899: May day riots in all major French cities start a bloody civil war Socialists vs. Royalists, colonies divided.