1841: Mexico explodes into civil war. Liberals, Conservatives, military strongmen and various separatist movements fight one another over land reform, religious power and cultural oppression.

1842: American republican emigrants in Texas declare independence but receive no support from neighbouring Louisiana and are soundly defeated by General Santa Anna.

1846: The Caste War begins in the Yucatan peninsular. The Yucateco separatists appeal to the Mexican central government for aid, but none is forthcoming and the ethnoreligious state of Chan Santa Cruz is established by the Mayan rebels.

1847: Adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement flee the persecution they receive in America and begin the long trek that takes them to Salt Lake City, Ute.

1848: Chiapas, Guatamala and British Honduras fall to the Mayan state. Chan Santa Cruz is recognised by Britain in exchange for exclusive henequen trading rights. France joins Britain in banning slavery in her colonies.

1849: Mexico is bankrupted by the civil war and defaults on her debt. Chief amongst her debtors are French banks.

1850: Emperor Louis-Napoléon intervenes in the Mexican crisis. General Santa Anna is raised to Emperor of Mexico by the French forces in exchange for resumption of interest payments to French banks.

1851, May Day: A strike by French textile workers is put down with force, leaving dozens dead and hundreds injured. May 1st becomes a day of commemoration across the world for the growing trades unionist movement.

1852: A large Serbian revolt is put down by the Ottoman Empire.

1853: Russia attempts an invasion of the Ottoman Empire and is defeated by a British, French and Italian coalition. One of the conditions of peace is Roumanian autonomy within the Ottoman Empire.

1854: A Millenarian Christian cult in China topples several provincial governments and receives British recognition. French support to the Qing government prevents the conflict from being concluded decisively, resulting in a China split between the powerful Qing state to the north and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom hugging the southern coast.

1857: The Sepoy Mutiny shakes British India. The East India Company is liquidated and the British Raj declared. Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India. French and Qing support to the rebels is suspected.

1859: Native Americans equipped and trained by Deseret defeat a Louisianan expedition. The Algonquin Republic is formally recognised by Louisiana. Quebecois nationalists become more vocal.

1863: Russia invades White Ruthenia in an attempt to annex the territory lost to Napoleon. Zaporozhye, Livonia and Poland come to White Ruthenia's aid and the invasion is defeated. Georgian and Armenian nationalists rebel and are successful for several months before Russia reconquers the Caucasian state.

1864: Russian serfdom is ended to stave off lower class militancy. Over 10 million privately owned peasants become free men.

1865: Russian emigrants drive down wages across Europe and the New World.

1866, May Day: Demonstrations in Paris turn violent when protesters make political demands. Hussars ride down radicals and onlookers alike. Similar demonstrations are also met with violence in London, Dortmund, Prague and many other cities.

1866, May 2nd: Parisians storm several armouries and distribute thousands of muskets.

1866, May 3rd: Government forces make little headway in the narrow streets and retreat to the city limits. Hundreds of soldiers and thousands of revolutionists are dead.

1866, May 4th: Parisians declare a republic. Government forces begin a siege of the city.

1866, May 5th: Radicals in Toulon, Marseilles and Orleans begin large scale demonstrations in favour of the republic. Local militias refuse to fire on the crowds.

1866, June: Insurrection spreads to other countries. Jacobins begin arming themselves in Britain, Westphalia, Luxembourg, Italy, Russia, Croatia, and many other nations.

1866, July: Imperial forces assault Paris and sweep the streets with grapeshot. The Duchy of White Ruthenia falls to Jacobins.

1866, August: The French Jacobins go underground, although many are later executed. The Duchy of Livonia falls to Jacobins. The King of Westphalia flees to France.

1866, September: The French army moves to restore order in Germany. The Italian King requests French assistance.

1866, October: A Louisianan army sets sail from New Orleans to retake Quebec City from Jacobins. Italian soldiers desert en masse to the Jacobins and attempt to liberate Piedmont from France but are repulsed.

1866, November: French forces put down the revolutions in Luxembourg, Germany, Poland and Austria. Livonia, Croatia, Holland and White Ruthenia form stable republican governments which are reluctantly recognised.

1867: Italy, Hungary, Sweden, Russia and Zaporozhye reach accommodation with less radical elements of the Jacobins. The Republican Revolutions come to an end.

1868: The island of Crete attempts to break away from the Ottoman Empire and join Greece. The rebellion is put down with great loss of civilian life, isolating the Ottoman Empire even further.

1870: A French naval expedition to Japan opens the feudal nation to outside trade through force of arms. The Shogunate begins its decline and a modernised Japanese state takes its place.

1875: Bosnia, Bulgaria and Serbia explode into nationalist revolution. Simultaneously a Russian invasion diverts Ottoman attentions. France and Britain decline to intervene. The Ottoman Empire is defeated, pushing her European borders almost back to Turkey.

1876: A Louisianan cavalry regiment led by Colonel Custer is destroyed by the Deseret Army around the Dakota-Lakota border. Mutual recriminations result in a short border war that pushes Deseret back to the mountainous interior before peace is signed.

1877: The Mexican Empire takes the opportunity to invade Deseret, but the incompetence of the field officers results in the loss of much of California.

1880: The Scramble for Africa begins. France and Britain claim vast swathes of territory and almost come to blows over competing claims.

1885: The London Conference. African colonisation is apportioned between all attendees from Europe and the Americas.

1890: Louisiana and America agree to phase out slavery after the French and British governments declare increased tariffs on slave-made goods.

1901: The Philippine War of Independence breaks out. Spain attempts to crush the rebels with increasingly harsh means.

1907: Philippine independence formally recognised by Spain.

1908: Cuba declares independence from Spain. Quebec declares independence from Louisiana.

1909: Cuban independence movement defeated.

1911: Quebecois independence recognised by Louisiana.

1914: Italy attempts to conquer Abyssinia but is humiliated in a defeat.

1928: The Kings of Hungary, Poland and Serbia agree to the partition of the Austrian Empire. The French Empire backs Austria and brings the Continental System into the fight. Britain declares war on France and launches an amphibious invasion at Calais. Fighting across Europe quickly reaches stalemate as the killing power of machineguns and artillery shatters the Napoleonic mindset of the belligerents.

1929: Croatia and Bulgaria join the Continental System. Italy attacks France to take Piedmont, and Austria to take Istria and Tyrol.

1930: The Ottoman Empire enters the war on the Continental side, sending reinforcements through Bulgaria. Russia responds by attacking Turkey via the Caucasus.

1931: British attacks on neutral shipping result in a declaration of war by the Kingdom of America. American Royal Marines begin occupying British colonies across the Western hemisphere.

1932: The European economies are falling apart and food shortage has turned into starvation. Polish Jacobin-Socialists attempt to overthrow the King but are defeated by gas attacks and machineguns. Caucasian separatists establish an unstable republic, uniting Armenians, Georgians and Azerbaijanis in their hatred of Russia.

1933: Peace in Europe. Hungary and Poland are forced by the terms of the treaty to pay huge war reparations. Serbia loses territory to Croatia and Bulgaria. The French Mandate for Pomerania and the Spanish Mandate for Egypt are declared by the newly formed League of Nations.

1934: The Young Turks revolt. The Ottoman Emperor narrowly secures his position as Head of State and Caliph of Islam but is forced to give up executive power.

1935: A Socialist Republic is declared in Germany. Demobilised Westphalian troops organise into Freikorps to destroy the revolutionists in the name of God and Kingdom.

1936, May Day: The present day.

dat lore tho

History in a nutshell: Italy tries to be awesome, and gets screwed.

ww4 anyone hehehehe

The Young Turks huh well that seems like something they could do.

Is there more detail on the 1928 Great War? It seems like Poland and Hungary made it out pretty unscathed. How did Hungary hold on to Transylvania and how did Poland lose Pomerania? This is really cool though!

The Great War resulted in initial gains for the Central Powers against Austria and the former Russian republics but the British were unable to deal decisvely with the French navy and the German and French armies gradually wore down the Polish strength (resulting in internal rebellions from food scarcity and war weariness). The Polish agreed to a peace that would result in only minor territorial changes (restoration of all the former Russian republics to their pre-war borders and the cession of French-occupied Pomerania) and the French were also too war weary to press on for a total victory considering the British fleets were still ravaging Continental merchant convoys.

im not sure in any scenario america would become a kingdom, they would still become at least somewhat of a democracy, just a suggestion.

Question: Do the majority of radical parties promote democratic centralism, syndicalism, libetarian socialism, or what?

Yes

that wasn't yes or no question tho :P?

I'm pretty sure George Washington would not have wanted to be a king regardless of other political situations.
Although he was offered a crown, he refused.
It would make more sense to crown someone else as king, say George steps down completely from leading the country (Very likely, he was tired after all that war) and his replacement decides to impliment a consitutional monarchy.

Alexander Hamilton was in favor of a constitutional monarchy, so he could have been given the crown instead of Washington. That would fit better with Washington completely stepping down, as most other prominent American Revolutionaries were opposed to the idea of a monachy and woud not have accepted the crown.

is this based off of any sort of book, maybe this was a scenario in another paradox game? or did you create the Apre Moi Le Deluge alternate history scenrio yourself? @General Runtime

I made it myself