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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.
March - Treaty of Recife settles the postwar borders of the reduced French colony of Louisiana, with parts of the pre-war colony becoming parts of New Spain, the ENA and Carolina. In many cases the defined borders do not match up particularly well with the actual lines of control.
August - The split between the Germanophile and Neo-Jacobin factions of the Colorado Party in the UPSA finally comes to a head, with the Germanophiles leaving to form the Mentian Party.
1855
January - By this point, the population of Pérousie has quadrupled from what it was before the Balérat goldrush, reaching 800,000.
February - Birth of Crown Prince William Daniel of Carolina, son of Henry Frederick Owens-Allen and Susanna (née Wragg).
May - Presidential election in the UPSA sees Unionist Ignacio Ángel Insulza (brother of the admiral) elected.
July - Start of the conquest of Palawan from Sulu by a joit Meridian-Batavian fleet.
1856
February - The nonfunctional Spanish Republic is subject to the Golpe Tranquilo (quiet coup) in which Estebán de Vega and his allies overthrow their opponents and have many arrested for treason. A new constitution is passed and Prince Charles Leo, Duke of Anjou (and second son of the King of France) becomes President.
March - The Siamese-Cambodian War concludes with the conquest of Cambodia by the Siamese (with Batavian Dutch help).
April - President Insulza of the UPSA declares the formation of La Hermandad de las Naciones – the Sisterhood of Nations - an economic alliance of nations across the Americas and beyond led (very firmly) by the UPSA. Other founding members include Pernambuco, Guayana and Brazil, and more will swiftly come…
1857
April - Palawan is conquered by the Meridians and Batavians, forcing Sulu and other local powers into acknowledging Meridian power.
1860
May - Death of Carolinian General Alf Stotts at the age of 61.
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.
May - First recorded appearance of the French version of The Ballad of the Concordat.
June - End of the First Spanish Republic as it becomes a Kingdom with its President, Prince Charles Leo of France, becoming King. He marries into the Spanish aristocracy, but his wife María Cayetana de Silva is suspected to be sterile–which should eventually lead to the crowns of France and Spain being united as one.
August - The two big rival Carolinian-based fruit cartels, the Tropical Fruit Company and the Gulf Fruit Company, finally merge to form American Fruit.
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.
1864
March - First recorded use of a black flag by Societists (the Societist Club of Valdivia to be specific). This is condemned by Pablo Sanchez in a letter.
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.
May - Portugal, years of Neo-Jacobin rule having resulted in poverty, mismanagement and misery, overthrows its government in the Fogueira dos extremistas (Bonfire of the Extremists) counter-revolution. The Portuguese Latin Republic becomes simply the Portuguese Republic, far more liberal but with its political power always subject to influence from the army.
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.
1873
April - California's original revolutionary constitution dating from 1849 is replaced by a new one.
July - The Birmingham Star newspaper uses the first recorded example of calling the 1848-1853 conflict “The Great American War”.
1878
May - First recorded appearance of the English version of The Ballad of the Concordat.
1883
February - Ulysses Spencer publishes When The Guns Sang, a historical drama novel set during the First Siege of Ultima in 1850.
1891
April - The musical Vaneebenig! premieres in New York City, being a…creative adaptation of an anecdote told by Emperor Frederick II about a one-legged Dutchman and his mule that he met in Lerhoult during his 1847 tour of the ENA.