This timeline deals with what would have happened if Tyler was there when the Princeton cannon exploded. I mentioned this possibility on Reedit before, and this subject has come up already, but I believe I am the first to make a timeline.
President Mangum defeats the annexation of Texas
Van Buren v. Clay election, Clay wins
1845-1849 Clay presidency:
Texas annexed by Mexico
Oregon terr.
Florida & Wisconsin
Texans move to Yucatan Republic and add Guatemala and other states to the Yucatan
1849-1853 Polk:
Annexation of Yucatan as state
Capture of Alta California, Baja California; gold rush
War with Mormon Republic, US victory, Mormonism folds
California and Colorado (Baja + Socal)
1853-1857 Fillmore:
Sale of Vancouver Island to Russia
Russia, Britain, Japan, and France trounce China
1857-1865 Fremont
Kansas up to the Smoky Hill sold to Indians; extra land given to California and Colorado; new Apache and Navaho territories; land between Platte, 41 and Smoky Hill sold as Kansas Territory; north of that to 43 (44 west of the Missouri) as Platte Territory
Free Soil Party victories ensure no slavery in Colorado, Yucatan, Maryland and Delaware
Democrats dissolve
Dred Scott not decided
Abraham Lincoln gets into Senate as Free Soil
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom formed; China industrialized
Italian Unification starts
Oregon becomes a state
Slavery ends in Missouri and Kentucky
Japan remains a shogunate
Horatio Seymour and Alexander Stephens v. Abraham Lincoln
Whig Party collapses into Northern and Southern
1865-1869 Lincoln
South Carolina , Mississippi, and Georgia briefly secede, Lincoln militarily brings them back and abolishes slavery with replacement governments
Tennessee, Virginia, and Arkansas abolish slavery fearing military intervention
Movement of slaves between states is banned, so North Carolina and Louisiana are forced to ban slavery.
Transcontinental Railroad built
Kansas and Nebraska become states
Lincoln not re elected due to tension from South
1869-1873 Seymour
Franco-Prussian War
Empire reemerges in North China, loss by Russia
Ottoman, Austrian, and German territory expands
Sale of slaves ends
1873-1880
Ottomans retake Greece
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom falls, becomes British territory
Russian Empire adopts Duma
Colonies taken in Africa
Southeast Asia partition between Britain and France
Slavery is abolished in 1876
1880-1890
Alexander III dies, Duma takes full power
Russia takes Poland
Russo- German War, Russia wins
Russia invades China, stalemate
Chinese Revolution, Republic of China established
ROC invades British China, Sino-British War, Tibet reconquered
Austro-Ottoman war; Ottoman Empire is forced to give Libya to France, Bosnia to Austria, and Ukraine to Russia
1890-1900
Germany colonizes Baluchistan
Further colonization
Annexation of Hawaii by America
Italy buys Crete
1900-1910
Italy colonizes Madagascar
Protests by Germans in Russian Poland begin
Slavic nationalism grows
Greek nationalism grows
1910-1920
Greece declares independence
Slavic Coalition (Yugoslavia, Albania,Bulgaria) declares independence
Germany and Italy support independence
Germany invades Poland and Bohemia
Italy invades Libya and the Levant
The Great War starts
France repels invasion, Italy attempts to return the favor by invading Corsica and Southern France
France retaliates by attacking Germany with the Netherlands and Belgium
England, Spain, and Portugal join in the war
I hope to add maps in the future.
What do you think about this, and what will happen next?