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-====== Look to the West ======+====== Look to the West : The Timeline ======
  
-[[timeline_for_look_to_the_west#Return to index page]]+This is the fifth page of the simplified timeline overview for //**[[timelines:Look to the West]]**//.
  
-[[lttw 4#Back to Part 4: Frontier George]]+----
  
-===== Part 5: The Age of Revolution ===== +==== Part 5: The Age of Revolution (1779-1799) ====
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-==== 1779-1799 ====+
  
 //**__1779-1785:__** The Second Platinean War. Spain and (theoretically) France vs. Peruvian Indian rebels, Platinean and Chilean colonial rebels, Britain and America, and (unofficially) Portugal. Defeat of the Bourbons with the creation of what will become the UPSA, although Britain suffers some embarrassing naval defeats in the process.// //**__1779-1785:__** The Second Platinean War. Spain and (theoretically) France vs. Peruvian Indian rebels, Platinean and Chilean colonial rebels, Britain and America, and (unofficially) Portugal. Defeat of the Bourbons with the creation of what will become the UPSA, although Britain suffers some embarrassing naval defeats in the process.//
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 **April** - the Spanish retake Lima from Tupac Amaru II. **April** - the Spanish retake Lima from Tupac Amaru II.
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 +Prince Lee Boe of Palau visits the Netherlands and is an instant celebrity, leading to renewed European interest in the South Sea islanders.
  
 **May **- Disintegration of Franco-Spanish common policy as Louis XV attempts to use the Royal Navy's defeats as an opportunity to invade England. The French armies have still not assembled by the end of the war. **May **- Disintegration of Franco-Spanish common policy as Louis XV attempts to use the Royal Navy's defeats as an opportunity to invade England. The French armies have still not assembled by the end of the war.
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 **March** - In Britain, Shrapnel and Philips develop the hail shot (known as case shot in OTL), a potent anti-infantry weapon that remains a British military secret for a generation. **March** - In Britain, Shrapnel and Philips develop the hail shot (known as case shot in OTL), a potent anti-infantry weapon that remains a British military secret for a generation.
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 +Birth of Thorvald Nielsen, a legendary adventurer, in Trondheim. 
  
 **May** - after a complicated amphibious invasion from Florida, American (mainly Carolinian) troops take Havana in Cuba. **May** - after a complicated amphibious invasion from Florida, American (mainly Carolinian) troops take Havana in Cuba.
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 **March** - The British Admiralty grants American shipyards the right to build ships of war for the Royal Navy. **March** - The British Admiralty grants American shipyards the right to build ships of war for the Royal Navy.
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 +**April** - Charles Darwin discovers light-sensitive silver salts, the beginning of the science of asimcony (photography).
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 +**May** - Under pressure from the French and Spanish, Pope Gregory XV issues the papal bull //Discidium// which condemns the separation of the UPSA from Spain. This drives many Meridians towards Jansenist Catholicism, as any Catholic clergyman in the UPSA who rejects the bull is effectively considered a Jansenist by default. 
  
 **June** - The Great Famine strikes France. A failure by the King's government to respond coherently, coupled with the fact that the nobles continue to eat well, stokes the resentment of the French people towards the royal system. **June** - The Great Famine strikes France. A failure by the King's government to respond coherently, coupled with the fact that the nobles continue to eat well, stokes the resentment of the French people towards the royal system.
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 **March** - John Pitt becomes Governor-General of the BEIC (based in Calcutta).  **March** - John Pitt becomes Governor-General of the BEIC (based in Calcutta). 
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 +Charles Town, capital of the Confederation of Carolina, is officially renamed Charleston.
  
 **April** - Peter IV of Portugal revives the Cortes, using the commoners as another stick to beat the nobility into line with. **April** - Peter IV of Portugal revives the Cortes, using the commoners as another stick to beat the nobility into line with.
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 **January** - Richard Wesley, Earl of Mornington, survived the Dublin attack because he was at home in Galway. He now assembles a Royalist army against the USE and is widely praised for managing to call Irish Catholics to his banner - indeed his army is majority Catholic.  **January** - Richard Wesley, Earl of Mornington, survived the Dublin attack because he was at home in Galway. He now assembles a Royalist army against the USE and is widely praised for managing to call Irish Catholics to his banner - indeed his army is majority Catholic. 
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 +Birth of future Great American War General Alf Stotts in Congaryton, South Province, Carolina.
  
 **February** - Britain launches the Seigneur Offensive. Four fleets, one Royal French, all protecting troopships, leave the southern ports for Brittany and the Vendée. Villeneuve manages to intercept one of the British fleets under Admiral Duncan at the Battle of Wight, before it forms up with the others, and sinks or disables most of its troopships. **February** - Britain launches the Seigneur Offensive. Four fleets, one Royal French, all protecting troopships, leave the southern ports for Brittany and the Vendée. Villeneuve manages to intercept one of the British fleets under Admiral Duncan at the Battle of Wight, before it forms up with the others, and sinks or disables most of its troopships.
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 Peace between Denmark and Sweden. The treaty restores a personal union between the kingdoms, with Johannes II becoming John IV of Sweden. However, aside from losing the most Danish-loyal part of Scania and her Baltic possessions, Sweden's territorial integrity is respected. This ends the Great Baltic War, and leaves Denmark as the dominant naval power in the Baltic. Peace between Denmark and Sweden. The treaty restores a personal union between the kingdoms, with Johannes II becoming John IV of Sweden. However, aside from losing the most Danish-loyal part of Scania and her Baltic possessions, Sweden's territorial integrity is respected. This ends the Great Baltic War, and leaves Denmark as the dominant naval power in the Baltic.
  
-[[lttw 6#Continue to Part 6: The Administration]]+---- 
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 +==== Navigation ==== 
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 +**[[lttw 4#Back to Part 4: "Frontier George"]]** 
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 +**[[lttw 6#Continue to Part 6: "The Administration"]]** 
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 +**[[timeline_for_look_to_the_west#Return to LTTW Timeline index page]]**
  
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