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)

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

November 9th, 1889: The coup against Pedro II of Brazil is foiled. (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)

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. (Japan 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.

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.

June 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.

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, 1946: Seattle is attacked with an atomic bomb by Japan, killing 129,000 Americans.

July 7th, 1946: 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)
1975: pol pot restores the khmer empire

1976: laos attempts to invade cambodia but fails

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.

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.

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

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

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)
February 2nd, 2004: AM activates itself.

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 United Kingdom, 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.