Timeline

see also: POD Timeline

Prewar Era (Until 1947)
August 16, 1840: The failure of the HMS Britomart to reach Akaroa eventually leads to the South Island being permanently colonized by France. (New Zealand POD)

August 10, 1879: Thanks to the proposals of former US president Ulysses S. Grant, the year following the Japanese annexation of Ryukyu the Japanese and Qing government reach an agreement where the Amami Islands are handed over to Japan while the rest of the Ryukyus is reverted into an independent kingdom. Japan also receives favourable trading rights with China. (Japanese POD)

September 16th, 1884: After negotiations to diplomatically resolve the border dispute fail, Guatemala invades Mexico. (Mexico POD)

November 15th, 1889: After removing Prime Minister Viscount of Ouro Preto from power at the request of young republican officers, Deodoro da Fonseca Sends a letter for Pedro to appoint the Viscount of Maracaju (then minister of war) as PM and Pedro would reluctantly accept it later that day. On the afternoon José do Patrocínio refused to allow republicans to commemorate in the Rio de Janeiro city council. During the night Deodoro gets a visit from a messenger sent by some republicans to tell a lie about Pedro II appointing Gaspar da Silveira Martins (a man who stole Fonseca’s lover 40 years ago) for Prime Minister. Deodoro, knowing this makes no sense, he quietly goes to the government palace to talk with the new PM and the Emperor, and is decided that the people behind this messenger should somehow be arrested at least provisionally, in the next day the news gets to republican circles who get furious and start organizing an uprising and so they march in front of the government palace. Deodoro asks for a compromise but the rebels answer that they will not accept any compromises. Then loyal battalions are immediately called to end the rebellion and escort them to prison. (Brazil POD)

July 7th, 1896: James B. Weaver is nominated as William Jennings Bryan's running mate, helping him secure a narrow victory over William McKinley in the 1896 Presidential Election. (United States POD)

April 21, 1898: William Jennings Bryan refuses to recognize the USS Marine as having been intentionally sunk by the French, preventing the Spanish-American War from beginning until eight years later, in 1906. (Spain POD)

June 26th, 1907: Ioseb Jughashvili is mortally wounded by a bomb fragment during the Tiflis bank robbery of Erivansky Square. (Soviet Union POD)

May 19th, 1911: Emiliano Zapata revolts against Porfirio Díaz with the support of Mayan rebels in Yucatan. (Chan Santa Cruz POD)

February 2nd, 1919: Soviet forces fail to neutralize Julius Kuperjanov, leading to his survival and a stronger Estonian victory in the Estonian War of Independence. (Estonian POD)

May 19th, 1919: The Turkish War of Independence is prevented by the success of the Misak-ı Millî. (Anatolian POD)

November 14th, 1921: Empress Isabel dies with the throne being passed to her grandson Pedro Henrique, although he is put under the regency of his mother until he is 20 years of age in 1929.

1938: Nikolai Bukharin is elected Premier of the USSR. The election of Nikolai Bukharin as premier of the Soviet Union was shocking to the world for a multitude of reasons- one being the peaceful transition of power that occurred as Trotsky begrudgingly allowed Bukharin to replace him as premier, and the other the clear implication of a coming seismic shift in Soviet foreign policy. Unlike Trotsky, who believed in an apolitical military aimed at defending the revolution at home and providing assistance to Soviet-aligned movements worldwide, Bukharin believed in a revolutionary invasion of Europe and direct confrontation with neighboring bourgeois powers. It was too late for Bukharin to implement his early programmes of extending the NEP and investing in industry through heavy intervention, but even so he planned substantial economic reforms where peasants could enrich themselves through proletarian humanism.

While the capitalist powers balked at extending any hand towards Bukharin, Hitler had some cautious optimism of Bukharin being perhaps easier to negotiate with than his Jewish predecessor. Despite this, negotiations started by Joachim von Ribbentrop in the early months of 1939 failed to make any headway with Bukharin’s appointed foreign minister, Nikolai Uglanov. Unlike OTL Stalin’s general ambivalence and realpolitik, both Bukharin and Trotsky were resolutely anti-fascist to the point of zero compromise. Hitler’s invasion of Poland had to be done alone and without partition, and with the constant threat of Soviet invasion constantly in the horizon.

The Second World War (1939 - 1947)
September 1st, 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland after having staged several false flag border incidents as a pretext to initiate the invasion, starting the Second World War in Europe.

May 27, 1940: The evacuation of Dunkirk is a failure. (Great Britain POD)

January 3rd, 1941: Noting the relative ambivalence of the Long presidency towards the Pacific War, Isoroku Yamamoto decides against attacking Pearl Harbor on December 7th, instead launching the attack in 1942. (Hawaiian POD)

July 29th, 1943: On the 43rd anniversary of his father's assassination, Victor Emmanuel III is assassinated himself by partisans at the height of the Italian Empire's wartime fortunes.

November 11th, 1943: Desperate for a success to occur, Hitler approves of an emergency contingency plan to accuse Switzerland of more than implicitly supporting the Allies with material and intelligence. Operation Tannenbaum was undertaken with unprecedented destruction to both the Swiss country and the Wehrmacht, and after three weeks of heavy fighting, Zürich fell to Nazi Germany with unacceptable losses done to the Reich. Furious at Mussolini’s insignificant contribution to the invasion, Hitler refused to transfer the Italian-speaking cantons of Switzerland to Italy, resulting in brief and pathetic skirmishes occurring between Italian forces in Ticino and SS battalions. Despite maintaining neutrality during the First World War and the interwar period, Switzerland, along with Liechtenstein, were dragged into the Second World War- and the military sphere of the West- against its will.

July 25th, 1944: The Grand Council of Fascism is authorized by Umberto II to depose of Mussolini, who is arrested.

July 31th, 1944: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry returns to Algiers safely, and does not die in a plane crash. (France POD)

September 12th, 1944: Mussolini is captured by anti-fascist partisans, beaten, tortured, executed by firing squad, and hanged.

September 23rd, 1944: In revenge for the execution of Mussolini, Hitler orders the formation of the Italian Social Republic led by Roberto Farinacci.

July 20th, 1945: Adolf Hitler is assassinated by a bomb from the conservative opposition forces which aim to break a peace with the Western Allies. The resulting chaos results in the formation of a new government by a triumvirate of Joseph Goebbels, Herman Goering, and Heinrich Himmler, with notable figures such as Albert Speer and Reinhard Heydrich promoted to Reichskanzler and Reichsführer-SS respectively.

November 26th, 1945: Prime Minister Ion Antonescu removed from power by King Michael I, Romania leaves the Axis. (Romania POD)

April 25th, 1946: The Italian Social Republic collapses. Farinacci attempts to escape to Sweden via Nazi Germany, but he is caught and executed by Abba Kovner and his United Partisan Organization.

May 9th, 1946: Berlin falls to the Western Allies, ending the Second World War in Europe. Goebbels commits suicide, Goering and Speer are captured, Himmler flees for Argentina, and Heydrich regroups his forces as the Werwolf-SS. The war continues to rage on in the Pacific.

August 30th, 1945: Bảo Đại does not abdicate from the throne of Vietnam, as Japan is winning the Pacific War. (Vietnam POD)

September 9th, 1946: During the final days of the Defense of Beijing, Mao Zedong is struck by an artillery shell and dies, depriving the Communist Party of China of it's iconic leader.

July 4th, 1947: Pearl Harbor is attacked with an atomic bomb by Japan, killing 19,000 Americans.

July 7th, 1947: America conditionally surrenders to Japan in the Treaty of Hiroshima, dividing the world into three spheres of power and starting the period known as the Cold War.

The Cold War (1947 - 1993)
May 1968: Anger over the government of De Gaulle leads to the brief French Civil War, where a united front of the French Communist Party, the Situationist International, the General Confederation of Labour,  and various anarchists combines to form a provisional government termed the French Communal Republic, or the French Sixth Republic to some historians. Lead by Chi Minh, the French government struggled to control Paris save for a few enclaves surrounding police stations and military installations. Three months later, infighting between Communist and Syndicalist factions coupled chaotic conditions in liberated cities caused the Sixth Republic to fracture and the civil war to end, along with the short-lived Fifth Republic. The revolutionaries were further crippled by Soviet Premier Pyotr Masherov’s attempts at providing support to the uprising via airlift being blockaded and shot down by the Entente, straining relations even further, even if it was not enough for trade between the West and Belgrade to halt in the face of the ever-raging Cold War.

May 28th, 1972: King-Emperor Edward VIII of the United Kingdom dies aged 77 whilst in residence at Windsor Castle. Edward’s death triggered a unifying outpouring of mourning in the Commonwealth and beyond. Even the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Soviet Premier Varlam Shalamov had to acknowledge the passing of a titanic figure, and the great uncertainty his departure left behind. He was succeeded by his niece, the Duchess of Edinburgh, who became Elizabeth II.

1975: Pol Pot establishes Democratic Kampuchea.

1976: Laos attempts to invade Cambodia, but fails.

1977: Japan signals to the League of Nations that Democratic Kampuchea is a menace and they should invade Cambodia to depose of them.

June 29th, 1976: The masonic charter of the Propaganda Due is withdrawn, and the lodge transforms into a clandestine, anti-communist, anti-Soviet, anti-leftist, pseudo-Masonic, and radical right-wing organization.

March 30th, 1981:  US President Ronald Reagan is assassinated by John Hinckley Jr. two months into his presidency. His vice president - Jeane Kirkpatrick - is sworn in as the 41st President of the United States.

July 5th, 1981: Pedro III dies, leaving the Brazilian throne to his son Luiz Gastão.

June 14th, 1982: The Beagle War sees Argentina defeat the British Military and sign a White Peace with Chile over disputes on the ownership of the Picton, Lennox, Nueva and Falkland Islands. The Malvinas Islands, then known as the Falkland Islands, were invaded by a surprise force of Argentine troops in April. Famously, the Argentine Ship, the Belgrano killed 900 British servicemen in a scuffle that May. Prime Minister Edward Heath agreed to transfer ownership of the Argentines provided the British could keep military bases on them until 2015. The Picton, Lennox and Nueva Islands are kept under Chilean control, however with Argentina offering a hand of friendship to the Chilean government.

1986: In response to the growing discontentment towards the administration of Jean-Claude Duvalier in Haiti, Jeane Kirkpatrick authorized the CIA to be deployed to crack down on the anti-Duvalier protest movement, suppressing leftists and pro-democracy protestors alike.

August 15th, 1987: The United Provinces of Korea unilaterally declares independence from the Empire of Japan, starting the Korean War of Independence.

December 2nd, 1987: The Ulster Free State is established in Northern Ireland as an independent transitionary state with the intention of presiding over a buffer period between British and Irish ownership.

November 8th, 1988: Donald Rumsfeld wins in a landslide election against former president Bob Dole and Angela Davis, bolstered by his campaign promise to ensure victory in the Korean War of Independence by any means necessary.

October 14th, 1989: With the consent of the governments of Ireland, Britain and Ulster, and the guarantee of special treatment, Northern Ireland joins the Republic of Ireland.

November 9th, 1990: After suffering another massive wave of defections along the Manchurian border, Morihiro Hosokawa brokers a ceasefire with Korea, ending the war with millions dead.

November 3rd, 1992: Donald Rumsfeld is decisively defeated on his bid for a second term by Ross Perot, who runs on the platform of ending the Cold War, as opposed to Rumsfeld's platform of invading Manchukuo to liberate all of China from the Sphere.

December 26th, 1993: After months of tense negotiations between Mikhail Gorbachev, Ross Perot, and Morihiro Hosokawa, the Stockholm Accords finalize with the end of American claims to Hawaii, Soviet claims to Manchukuo, and Japanese claims to Korea. End of the Cold War.

The Information Era (1993 - 2020)
1997: Brazilian Emperor Luiz I retires due to health problems and the throne is passed to  his son Pedro.

February 2nd, 2004: AM activates itself.

June 1st, 2009: Pedro IV dies in the Air France Flight 447 and the throne is passed to his son Rafael.

2010: Brazilian Emperor Rafael I resigns in favor of his brother Luiz since he never wanted to rule.

December 26th, 2012: King Michael I of Romania becomes the longest reigning monarch in recorded history.

July 15th, 2016: After making an unsubstantiated claim that leftist subversives has made a coup attempt on the Sultan, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman State Adil Öksüz orders capture and summary execution of communist leaders and sympathizers, causing massive unrest throughout the country.

August 25th, 2016: Kanye West abruptly cancels the Saint Pablo Tour before its first performance, citing mental health issues, and temporarily retires from music as he checks himself into a mental hospital.

March 25th, 2018: Following a bombing of Topkapı Palace, the Sultan abdicates the throne of the Ottoman State before evacuating to the Kingdom of England, triggering a coup of the General Assembly by the Worker's Communist Party of Anatolia. Chairman Erkan Baş declares martial law, and the Anatolian Civil War begins as anti-communist rebellions erupt all over the former Ottoman State.

December 25th, 2019: AM decides to reveal itself to the world within two years, having lost faith in humanity to be able to save itself from self-annihilation.

January 1st, 2020: The canonical timeline ends and the Victoria 3 mod begins.