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Pax Napoleonica
A.k.a. “Napoleon's Victory” or “Pax Gallica”. Written by Zach.
You can read the timeline and its discussion here or on its purpose-made official blog here. Alternatively, you can use the chapter guide available below.
Premise and PoD
What if in 1807, the French invasion of Portugal is a tremendous success partly due to Spanish aid? The PoD of Pax Napoleonica is Napoleon's decision not to invade Spain. There is no Peninsular Campaign and in fact, France and Spain sign a treaty of friendship on the Third of May, 1808 (a reference to a famous Goya painting of the same title). With Iberia allied to France, Europe is under the control of Napoleon I. This leads to a very different outcome of the Napoleonic Wars… The timeline has currently reached the early-to-mid 1970s.
Chapters
The World from 1807 to 1860
Chapter 1: Conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars + a reworked version of the first third of the chapter
The United States from 1840 to 1865
The Americas from 1865 to 1900
Europe from 1860 to 1900
The Great War (1900-1904) and the Russian Civil War (1904-1912)
The Americas from 1880 to 1920
The Interwar World (1905-1935)
Chapter 18: A New Prussian Identity
Chapter 19: Zavtraist Russia and the End of the Second Pax Gallica
Chapter 20: The ‘Bond of Trust’, Sweden and the Romanian Crisis
Chapter 22: The Interwar Middle East and Africa
Chapter 23: The Americas (1905-1935)
The Second Great War (1935-1942)
Chapter 26: The Opening Battles (1935), Panslavism Realized (1936)
Chapter 28: “A rabble of bored samurai” (1939), Island Hopping (1940)
The Post-war World (1942-1990s)
Chapter 30: The Immediate Post-War Situation (1941-1943)
Chapter 31: The Aftermath of the War in Japan and the Middle East (1941-1944)
Chapter 32: The World in the Era of Peace and Good Feelings (1941-1976), Part 1: North America
Chapter 33: The World in the Era of Peace and Good Feelings (1941-1976), Part 2: Latin America
Chapter 33: The World in the Era of Peace and Good Feelings (1941-1976), Part 3: France
Awards
The timeline won the 2009 Turtledove Awards in the “Best 19th Century Timeline” category.