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Look to the West : The Timeline
Part 11: The Long Peace (1854-1896)
1854
February - The last general of the Janissary Sultanate, Mehmed Bushati Pasha, surrenders to Ottoman forces as his men are trapped before they can retreat to Valbona. This is sometimes cited as the end of the Ottoman Time of Troubles, but in reality that was long over and Mehmed Bushati's men had long since degenerated into being pure brigands.
1855
January - By this point, the population of Pérousie has quadrupled from what it was before the Balérat goldrush, reaching 800,000.
July - Start of the conquest of Palawan from Sulu by a joit Meridian-Batavian fleet.
1856
March - The Siamese-Cambodian War concludes with the conquest of Cambodia by the Siamese (with Batavian Dutch help).
1857
April - Palawan is conquered by the Meridians and Batavians, forcing Sulu and other local powers into acknowledging Meridian power.
1861
March - The Treaty of Banjarmasin is signed between the Sultans of Sulu, Mataram and Banjarmasin as an agreement to resist encroachment by external powers such as the Meridians.
1863
April - The Jansenist Catholic Church in the UPSA creates a synodic structure with partially-elected bishops, reflecting the democratic traditions of the UPSA's temporal society.
1867
February - The Chinese writer Wang Jishi publishes The Triumph of Guile, a fictionalised account of the conquest of Wuchang by General Gao Enmao in the First Riverine War. The novel proves very popular and is adapted multiple times to other mediums later on.
March - After two decades of enforcement, the Moderate government in Great Britain lifts the NFA ban on non-standard football variants. By this point however Authority Football has firmly established itself as the standard game.
1869
December - Around this time most of the navies of advanced nations have abandoned auxiliary sailing rig on their steamships.
1872
March - The American poet William Henry Davies publishes My Father's Shoes, a poem about the 'National Gloom' crisis of confidence in America in the 1830s.