Part I: Sucess Becomes failure 1850's- Worse sectional tension than OTL in the US.

This leads to pro-secesionis t majorities gaining power in more states than OTL but secession is avoided for now. The debate over the compromise of 1850 is more heated with several threats of secession being issued. Relationships between the northern and southern state s in the US continually go downhill. The election of Seward in 1860 doesn't help things at all... -Production of steel revolutionised by invention of the Bessemer process -Benjamin Silliman fractionates petroleum by distillation for the first time -First transatlantic telegraph cable laid -First safety elevator installed by Elisha Otis -Crimean war (1854 - 1856) fought between Imperial Russia and an alliance consis ting of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Second French Empir e, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire. The majority of the conflict takes place around Crimea, on the northern coasts of the Black Sea. 1850- Rudolf Clausius publishes his paper on the mechanical theory of heat, whic h first states the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics -Rifling becomes common in firearms - Hippolyte Fizeau and E. Gounelle measure the speed of electricity - Bibliothque Sainte-Genevive in Paris, designed by Henri Labrouste is completed.( France) -Nationwide yellow fever epidemic in U.S. (US) - Construction begins on the first transcontinental railroad to be completed, th e Panama Railway.(Colombia) - The Crystal Palace designed by Joseph Paxton. -Modern acoustic guitar created in Spain - Sir John Everett Millais paints Christ in the House of His Parents(art) -Jean-Franois Millet paints The Sower(art) -"Camptown Races" by Stephen Foster is a hit tune(music) - Genoveva by Robert Schumann becomes a famous opera(music) - Antonina by Wilkie Collins published(novel) - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne written(novel) -1/1/1850- a raindrop falls on a different side of a leaf than OTL. , it rolls d own the left side of the leaf, startling the butterfly below it, which flaps its wings.... -1/4/1850- The first American ice-skating club is formed(US) -1/29/1850- Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress. U nlike OTL, the compromise of 1850 is taken less well and theres more threats of secession than OTL.(US) -3/7/1850- United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" spe ech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible c ivil war.(US) -3/18-1850- American Express is founded by Henry Wells & William Fargo.(US) -4/4/1850- Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.(USA) -4/23/1850- A mass meeting is held in Cape Town to petition Queen Victoria to gr ant the Cape Colony a government(UK) -7/9/1850- The Bb, founder of the Bb Faith, is executed by firing squad in Tabriz, Persia(persia) -7/9/1850- President Zachary Taylor dies while in office and Millard Fillmore be comes the 13th President of the United States (he is inaugurated the next day).( US) -7/10/1850- Millard Fillmore inaugerated as president(USA) -8/28/1850- Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres -9/9/1850- the U.S. passes Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850, including the Fugit ive Slave Act, which increases the resolve of abolitionists and the extremist sl aveholders. IT passes with more debate than OTL.(USA) -12/1850- Christian mystic Hong Xiuquan begins the Taiping Rebellion.(China) -12/16/1850- The first four ships arrive at Lyttelton to settle Christchurch, Ne

w Zealand(UK). 1851- Florida State University is founded. - Gold discovered in Australia. - St. Paul's College, Hong Kong is founded. - Sugar is first produced from cane in Natal(UK) - The first baked potato men appear on London streets, selling hot baked potatoe s as food and hand warmers from fall through spring; the practice continues unti l 1900.(UK) - Herman Melville writes Moby Dick(Novel) -Charles Finney publishes Systematic Theology, a seminal work for American evang elicals.(novel) - John Gorrie patents the first ice machine (refrigerator) in the U.S.; the fir st demonstration of his achine is made in Florida to ice champagne for a cotton buyer; the machine isn't produced commercially due to opposition from ice seller s. - Joseph Liouville proves that transcendental numbers exist - "Ring, Ring, de Banjo" By Stephen Foster is a popular tune(music) -1/9/1851- Salt Lake City officially incorporated(US) -1/23/1851- The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Boston winning.(US) -2/6/1851- Schumann's Symphony No. 3 premers in Dsseldorf, the composer conducti ng. -2/25/1851- the first passenger train on the Milwaukee Road operates over what is then known as the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad between Milwaukee, Wisco nsin, and Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. -3/1/1851- Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United States of Europe several times(France) -4/5/1851- Utah Territorial legislature formed(US) -5/1-10/18/1851- The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London is opened by Queen Victoria. -5/15/1851- Rama IV is crowed King of Siam(Siam). -6/1851- - The first "refrigerated boxcar" enters service on the Northern Railro ad of New York. -7/1851- - The immortal game, a famous chess game, is played. -7/1/1851- Colony of Victoria separates from New South Wales. -7/29/1851- Annibale de Gasparis, in Naples, Italy discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia . -9/18/851- The New York Times is founded. -10-1851- Reuters news service founded. -10/18/1851- The Great Exhibition in London is closed.(UK) -11/13/1851- The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what wil l become Seattle, Washington. -12/2/1851- Louis Napoleon, president of France, dissolves French National Assem bly and declares a new constitution to extend his term. (France) -12/26-27/1851- A Royal Navy warship bombards Lagos island; Oba Kosoko is wounde d and flees to Epe(UK) -12/29/1851- The first YMCA opens, in Boston, Massachusetts.(US) Part 3: From small acorns.... 1852-French engineer Henri Giffard launches the first successful man-carrying di rigible; it is 144 feet long, uses a steam engine and propeller and flies 20 mil es at 6 mph. - French replace semaphores with Morse telegraphs -The Second Anglo-Burmese War sees Lower Burma conquered by the British and made a province of British India(Burma/UK) - Hugh Burgess in England perfects the use of wood pulp for paper. - Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary, produces the first transl ation of the Bible in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, which is published with the parallel

text of the Syriac Peshitta by the American Bible Society - The Whig Party disintegrates, leaving the Democratic Party virtually unopposed in the U.S.(US) -The House of Commons in the Palace of Westminster designed by Charles Barry and August Pugin is completed.(UK) - "Massa's in de Cold Cold Ground" by Stephen Foster is a popular tune(music) - Pierre Larousse founds his publishing house in Paris, France(france) - Herman Melville writes Pierre.(novels) -The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte published by Karl Marx(novels) - Wilkie Collins writes Basil: A Story of Modern Life.(novel) - Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe becomes a popular novel that inflam es north/south tensions. This novel gets women into the anti-slavery movement(No vels) -1/14/1852- President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. -1/17/1852- United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal(UK/Transvaal ) -1/17/1852- Transvaal is established with the signing of the Sand River Conventi on(Transvaal) -2/16/1852- Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manuf acturer, is established -2/19/1852- The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Cano nsburg, Pennsylvania(US) -2/26/1852- The British troopship, HMS Birkenhead is wreck near Gansbaai, Wester n Cape(UK) -3/1/1852- Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord L ieutenant of Ireland(UK) -3/16/1852- Voortrekker leaders, Andries Pretorius and Hendrik Potgieter reconci l(Transvaal) -4/1/1852- Start of Second Burmese War(UK/Burma) -8/28/1852-At a special conference in Salt Lake City polygamy is officially proc laimed by the Mormon Church.(US) -9/24/1852- French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first airship trip from Pari s to Trappes -10/6/1852- In Mexico, French settlers under Count Gaston Raousset-Boulbon occu py the city of Hermosillo and declare the Republic of Sonora.(Sonora) -11/1852- Democrat Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire defeats Whig Winfield Scott of Virginia in the U.S. presidential election. The election is more acrimonius than OTL's election.(US) -11/4/1852- Count Cavour becomes Piedmont prime minister(Piedmont) -11/11/1852- New Palace of Westminster opened in Britain -11/21-11/22/1852- New French Empire confirmed by plebiscite: 7,824,000 for, 253 ,000 against(france) -12/2/1852- Napoleon III becomes Emperor of France. end of the second republic(f rance). 1853- James Beckwourth discovers Beckwourth Pass. - Independent Santa Cruz Maya of Eastern Yucatan recognized as an independent na tion by British Empire(Chan Santa Cruz/UK) - The British learn about papirosi (cigarettes) from the Turks. - Indianapolis' Union Station, the first "union station" in the world, is opened by the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, an d Bellefontaine Railroad. - Alexander Wood invents the hypodermic syringe -The first Canadian railroad is built, running from Portland, Maine from Montrea l.(US/UK) -Argentina adopts federal constitution - Buenos Aires opposes that -Russian explorer-trappers find oil seeps in Cook Inlet. -Stephen Foster writes "My Old Kentucky Home."(Music) - Charles Dickens writes Bleak House, the first English novel to feature a detec

tive(Novels) - The first McGuffey Reader by William Holmes McGuffey is published(novels) -Alexander Hislop publishes The Two Babylons(Novels) -1/19/1853- Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome -1/21/1853- Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope folding machine -1/29/1853- Napoleon III marries the Spanish Countess Eugnie at the Tuileries(Fra nce/Spain) -2/23/1853- A description of the proposed bridge across the St. Lawrence is publ ished.(UK) -3/4/1853- Inauguration of US president Franklin Pierce(US) -4/16/1853- The first passenger train in India is inaugurated between Bori Bunde r, Bombay, and Thana covering a distance of 34 km (21 miles).(UK) -6/6/1853-Gavazzi Riot in Quebec are quelled by military with excessive force us ed.(UK) -6/7/1853- Franklin College of Lancaster, Pennsylvania merges with Marshall Coll ege of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania to form Franklin and Marshall College in Lancas ter -6/18/1853- The Grand Trunk Railway is opened to Portland. -6/26/1853- Investigation of the riot proceeds, at Montreal. 7/1853- Irregular calling of jurors delays trial for riot. -7/8/1853- U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Edo Bay with a request for a trade treaty(US/Japan) -7/25/1853- Outlaw and bandit Joaquin Murietta is killed. -8/24/1853- Potato chips first prepared. -11/3/1853- Filibusters under the orders capture La Paz in Baja California and d eclare the Republic of Lower California(Lower California) -11/15/1853- Maria II of Portugal is succeeded by her son Pedro(portugal) -11/30/1853- The Russian fleet destroys the Turkish fleet at Sinope(Ottoman Empi re/Russia). -12/30/1853- Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facili tate railroad building in the Southwest(US/Mexico) 1854- An epidemic of cholera in London kills 10,000. Dr John Snow traces the sou rce of one outbreak (that killed 500) to a single water pump, validating his the ory that cholera is water-borne, and forming the starting point for epidemiology . - Adolphe Disderi develops carte-de-visite photography in Paris, leading to a wo rldwide boom in portrait studios. - Pope Pius IX declares the Immaculate Conception an article of faith -The Charge of the Light Brigade written by Lord Tennyson(Novel) - George Fitzhugh publishes Sociology for the South, or The Failure of a Free So ciety, advocating slavery as the alternative to capitalism.(Novel) -William Walker starts a civil war in cuba.(Spain) - Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden(Novels) -The Polyglotta Africana, an early classification of African languages based on field work under freed slaves in Freetown, Sierra Leone, is published by Sigismu nd Wilhelm Koelle(novels) -1/1/1854- Govenor Santiago Vidaurri of Coahuila meets with the rulers of Sonora and Lower California and forms an alliance against Mexico. In order to get supp ort for their plans, Sonora, Lower California and Vidaurri's regime in Coahuila all legalize slavery(Rio Grande/Sonora/Lower California) -1/20/1854- Santiago Vidaurri proclaims the rio grande republic. -2/5/1854- Emisarries are sent from Lower California, Sonora and the Rio Grande republic to various cities aroudn the world to seek filibusters and people to fi ght for the nations's militaries. This leads to various outlaws and bandits work ing in the service of thouse countries(Sonora/Rio Grande). -2/13/1854- William Walker's troops and the republic of sonora's troops force th e mexican army to retreat to durango(sonora/mexico/lower california) -2/23/1854-The Orange Free State Republic is established with the signing of the Bloemfontein Convention(Orange Free State)

-3/28/1854 France declares war on Russia(France/Russia) -3/31/1854- Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy, signs the Treaty/Conventio n of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, to be precise, Tokugawa Shogunate, o pening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.(US/Japan) -6/6/1854- - The Canadian-American Reciprocity Treaty is signed(UK/US) 7/13/1854-In the battle of Guaymas, Sonora, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the F rench invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.(Sonora/France) -7/13/1854- Assassination of Khedive Abbas I of Egypt(Egypt) -8/16/1854- Nuevo Leon's govenor surrenders to Santiago Vidaurri(Rio Grande/Mexi co) -9/18/1854-U.S. Grant proves that you can drink 22 straight whiskies and dies fr om alcohol poisoning(USA) -10/25/1854-The Battle of Balaclava occurs, overall a victory for the allies, bu t it included the disastrous cavalry Charge of the Light Brigade, from which onl y 200 of 700 men survive.(russia/UK) -10/27/1854- A Great Western Railway passenger train collides with the tail end of gravel train at Baptiste Creek, Canada West. At least 82 people are killed. -11/5/1854- Russians lose at the battle of Inkerman(russia/UK) -11/17/1854- In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the R ed Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.(Egypt/UK/France) -12/1/1854- Taumalipas falls to Vidaurri's troops and an invasion of Potosi begi ns(Rio Grande/Mexico) 1855- James Clerk Maxwell unifies electricity and magnetism into a single theory , classical electromagnetism, thereby showing that light is an electromagnetic w ave -The first archaeopteryx fossil found in Bavaria. -The first manmade plastic, called Parkesine (celluloid) is invented by Alexande r Parkes. The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown -Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley published and becomes a sucess(Novels) -A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev published(novels) -George Sand publishes The Story of My Life.(novels) - Palais d'Industrie built for the World Fair in Paris(France) -"Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming" by Stephen Foster is a popular tune(music) -1/1855-The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic Oc ean and the Pacific Ocean by rail as its route across Panama is completed.(Colom bia) -1/1/1855- Bytown is renamed Ottawa.(UK) -1/23/1855- - The region of Wairarapa, New Zealand hit by the strongest earthqua ke ever recorded in New Zealand, which reachs Magnitude 8.1 on the Richter Scale with 5 deaths.(UK) -1/28/1855-The first train travels the entire transcontinental route of the Pana ma Railway.(UK) -1/29/1855-Lord Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom over th e management of the Crimean War. -2/11/1855-Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Sal ama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam.(Ethiopia) -2/17/1855- Allied troops defeat the russians at Evpatoria -2/17/1855- Tsar Nicholas I of Russia receives news of the Russian defeat at Evp atoria on and poisons himself( Russia) -2/18/1855- Tsar Nicholas I dies and Alexander II suceeds him(Russia) -3/1855- The Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad, whose purchase formed t he basis of the Chicago and North Western Railway, begins operations. -3/3/1855-US Congress appropriates $30,000 to create US Camel Corps(US) -3/8/1855- - A bridge over the Niagara River near Niagara Falls is completed(UK) -5/3/1855- William Walker sails with 57 men to Nicaragua to -6/2/1855- Riots in portland, maine over the maine law of 1851(US) -6/15/1855- The Great Gold Robbery of 1855 in England(UK) -7/4/1855- In Brooklyn, New York, Walt Whitman's first edition of his book of po

em's titled Leaves of Grass is published.(novels) -8/16/1855- French and Piedmontense troops defeat russians at the Battle of Cher naya River(Russia/France/Piedmont) -9/1/1855- William Walker's troops dfeat the nicaraguan army at La Virgen(Nicara gua) -9/7/1855- French troops under general MacMahon defeat russian troops in the bat tle of Malakoff(russia/france) -9/3/1855- Last Bartholomew Fair on London, England(UK) -9/11/1855- Sevastapol falls to the British troops(UK/Russia) -9/12/1855- US supported Filibusters take over Chan Santa Cruz and set up a new regime, legalizing slavery(Chan Santa Cruz/US) -10/1855- Chinese pirates attack british and american boats near Kulau(China/UK/ US) -10/1/1855- William Walker takes over Nicaragua(Nicaragua) -10/31/1855- Due to northern republican protests, Chan Santa Cruz isn't annexed. This leads to more anger in the slave states against the north(USA) -12/1855- Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor completes a 4-4-0 steam locomotive name d General; this locomotive will later become the main object in the Great Locomo tive Chase of the War of Secession. 1856-Louis Pasteur discovers that fermentation is caused by microorganisms. -The Bessemer process used to make steel in England. -National Portrait Gallery in London opened. - Gregor Mendel starts his research on genetics -Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a popular no vel(Novels) -I and My Chimney by Herman Melville published(novels) -The Daisy Chain by Charlotte Mary Yonge published(novels) - Adam Bede by George Eliot published(novels) -Ernest Linwood by Caroline Lee Hentz written(novels) -British Country and Borough Police Act extends London police model to all of En gland and Wales(UK) -Polka Pomnenka by Antonn Dvok composed(music) -1/8/1856-Borax is discovered by John Veatch. -2/1856- The only month in recorded history to not have a full moon. -2/18/1856-Ottoman sultan Abdul Mejid I issues the Imperial Rescript, containing the germs of individual liberty and constitutional government.(Ottoman Empire) -3/30/1856- The Treaty of Paris (1856) is signed, ending the Crimean War -5/16/1856- the Vigilance Committee founded in San Francisco, California.(USA) -5/20/1856- US president Franklin Pierce recognizes Walker's government in Nicar agua as legitimate(USA/Nicaragua) -5/22/1856- Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles S umner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner ha d made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Ka nsas (USA). -5/23/1856- Sumner dies because of the beating he got(USA) -5/24/1856- A group of followers of radical abolitionist John Brown kill 25 home steaders in Franklin County, Kansas(USA) -6/9/1856- - 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.(USA) -7/1856- William Walker declares himself president of Nicaragua(Nicaragua) -7/1/1856- William Walker decides not to revoke Vanderbilt's associated transpor t company charter(Nicaragua) -7/18/1856- The Guano Islands Act passed by US congress(US) -8/1856- The Neanderthals are discovered in the Neander Valley near Dusseldorf -8/10/1856- A hurricane destroys Last Island, Louisiana - 400 dead. The whole is land was broken up into several smaller islands by the storm.(USA) -9/21/1856- Illinois Central Railroad connects Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, compl eting 700 miles (1,126 km) of track to become the longest railway in the United States.

-10/1856- William Walker's nicaragua starts invading Honduras. Start of the wars of central american consolidation(Nicaragua/Honduras) 11/4/1856- Democrat James Buchanan defeats former President Millard Fillmore, re presenting a coalition of "Know-Nothings" and Whigs, and John C. Frmont of the fl edgling Republican Party to become the 15th President of the United States. -11/17/1856- On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United St ates Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired i n the Gadsden Purchase.(USA) -12/9/1856- - Bushehr surrenders to the British.(UK/Persia) -12/17/1856- The Boer republic of Lydenburg is established(Lydenburg) -12/20/1856- Honduras's government overthrown by William Walker's forces(Nicarag ua/Honduras) 1857- Louis Pasteur proposes the germ theory of disease. -The periodicals Harper's Weekly and The Atlantic Monthly debut. -# Divorce without parliamentary approval becomes legal in Britain -The first shipment of dressed beef by rail is sent from the Chicago Stockyards; the beef is packed in ice and shipped in conventional boxcars. -Speculation in US railway shares causes financial crisis in Europe -The Mormons abandon Las Vegas -American Joseph Coyetty invents toilet paper. -American Institute of Architects (AIA) founded. -Charles Dickens publishes the final installment of Little Dorritt.(novels) -"Lorena" by Reverend H. D. L. Webster m. Joseph Philbrick Webster is a popular dong(music) -1/1/1857- Honduras declares war on Nicaragua -1/9/1857- Earthquake at Fort Tejon, California with an estimated magnitude of 7 .9 -1/13/1857- Thaddeus Fairbanks is awarded U.S. Patent 16,381 for a railroad scal e. -1/6/1857- MW Pretorius becomes the first President of the Transvaal(Transvaal) -1/8/1857- Mexico's government recognizes the Republic of Yucatan(Yucatan/Mexico ) -2/14/1857- Beginning of a revolt in cuba sparked by US filibusters(Spain) -3/5/1857- In London, ex-solicitor James Towsend Saward is sentenced for transpo rtation for forging number of cheques over the years -3/6/1857- The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. San dford case, driving the country further towards the War of Secession.(USA) -3/12/1857- The bridge over Desjardins Canal, near Hamilton, Canada West, collap ses under a Great Western Railway passenger train. About 60 people die. -3/19/1857- The Nicaragua Channel Company is formed, owned 50/50 by Britain and Nicaragua.(Britain/Nicaragua) -5/8/1857- Havana falls to the rebels(spain) -5/10/1857- In India, the Mutiny of XI Native Cavalry of the Bengal Army in Meer ut, revolt against the British Army -5/11/1857- Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.(UK) -7/15/1857- British forces under the command of General Sir Henry Havelock adva nce on the town of Cawnpore and are opposed by rebels but are crushed(UK) -8/9/1857- last rebel leaders in Honduras executed(Honduras) -8/24/1857- After major embezzlement The New York City branch of the Ohio Life i nsurance and trust co. collapses(US) -9/11/1857- Mormon militia and Paiutes kill an entire wagon train of Arkansas fa rming families known as the Baker/Fancher party, traveling from Arkansas to Cali fornia together with a group from Missouri that called themselves the "Missouri Wildcats -9/15/1857- 30,000 pounds of gold lost at sea -10/8/1857- Spain forced to recognize Republic of Cuba under John Quitman(Cuba) -11/30/1857- End of term for President of Mexico Ignacio Comonfort. He is succee ded by Flix Mara Zuloaga.(Mexico) -12/15/1857- George S. Griggs is awarded U.S. Patent 18,883 for a steam locomoti

ve fire arch developed by Matthew Baird. -12/20/1857- The US senate votes not to annex the Republic of Cuba. southern sen ators are outraged(US/Cuba) -12/31/1857- Queen Victoria chooses Toronto, Ontario as the capital of Canada(UK ) 1858- British Empire takes over powers & properties of the British East India Co mpany -War breaks out between the Orange Free State and the Basotho tribe(orange free state) -The Canadian government imposes revenue tariffs on US manufactured goods to pay for railroad debts.(UK) -"Can-Can", music by Jacques Offenbach is popular(music) - Dsir Charnay makes the first photographs of the Maya ruins of Palenque -War breaks out between the Orange Free State and the Basotho tribe -John L. Mason receives a patent on Nov. 30 for an airtight watertight jar usefu l for storing sweetmeats; its use for preserves causes white sugar to replace ma ple sugar and molasses for home cooking, and causes the usage of white sugar to double in the U.S. by 1915. -George Eliot publishes The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton.(novels) -The competition to design Central Park in New York is won by Frederick Law Olms ted and Calvert Vaux. -The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe published(novels) -1/14/1858- Emperor Napoleon and Empress Eugenie escaped unhurt after an Italian assassin threw a bomb at their carriage as they traveled to the Paris Opera. -1/25/1858- The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding rec essional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daug hter Victoria, "Vicky," the Princess Royal to Prince Friedrich of Prussia in St. James's Palace, London -3/13/1858- Hyman Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser -4/1/1858- Abraham lincoln shot by an assasin(US) -4/7/1858- Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of Canada's Fathers of Confederation, is ass assinated in Ottawa(UK) -5/11/1858- Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.(US) -6/20/1858- Last rebels of the Indian Mutiny surrender in Gwalior(UK) -6/23/1858- Police of the Papal States seizes jewish boy Edgardo Mortara and tak e him away to be raised as a catholic(papal states) -7/1/1858- Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace present their papers on thei r theories of evolution to the Linnean Society of London -7/29/1858- United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.(US/JApan) -8/11/1858- First ascent of the Eiger. -8/16/1858-US President James Buchanan inaugurates the new trans-Atlantic telegr aph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. How ever, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.(US/UK) -9/11/1858- Another vote on annexing Cuba is held and the measure fails again(US A/Cuba) -11/17/1858- epoch of the Modified Julian Day -12/1/1858- Costa rica declares war on william walker's empire(Central america/N icaragua) 1859 -Mannheim invents the first modern slide rule with a cursor. - The first railway is started in South Africa. Its route is from Cape Town to S tellenbosch, Paarl and Wellington. - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens(novels) -7/4/1859- Mexico signs the humiliating second treaty of Quadalupe-hildago: Dura ngo, sinaloa, zacatecas and san luis potosi all go to the rio grande republic.(M exico/Rio Grande Republic) -6/24/1859- Battle of Solferino: Kingdom of Sardinia and Napoleon III of France armies defeat Franz Josef I of Austria in northern Italy. Battle also reputedly

inspires Henri Dunant to found the Red Cross(Sardinia/Austria/FRance) -10/6/1859- Thomas Austin takes 24 rabbits and 5 hares to Australia in order to release them there as a game. They will multiply exponentially. -11/24/1859- British naturalist Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, a book which argues that organisms gradually evolve through natural selection. Part II: Brothers forever.... or not?(1860-1869) 1860'sThe victorious CSA emerges from the war with a seemingly strong economy, d riven by the export of cotton. In many ways the CSA is the OPEC of the 1800s. Slave prices remain relatively stable as cotton prices return to high levels fol lowing the absorbtion of the cotton glut of the late 1850s. This is mainly due t o the CSA embargo on Cotton sales in 1861 and early 1862. -Slavery is enshrined as a popular institution and given strong constitutional p rotection at the state level . Due to heavy reliance on cotton exports, industr ialization remains a slow (if not stagnant) process for a long time. Ironically the state governments increase in relative size as the aborb many of the traditi onal jobs performed by the old US federal government. The national CSA governme nt remains weak for the most part. -In Catholicism, reaction against higher criticism and the liberal movement in E urope -The Football Association is formed in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and I reland, paving the way for Association football to become the world's predominan t spectator sport -Bah'u'llh declares His station as "One who was made Manifest", in the Garden of R idvn, as foretold by the Bb. Bah's see this as the beginning date of the Bah' Faith. -James Clerk Maxwell publishes his equations that quantify the relationship betw een electricity and magnetism, and shows that light is a form of electromagnetic radiation -Gregor Mendel formulates Mendel's laws of inheritance, the basis for genetics -Dmitri Mendeleev develops the periodic table 1860-Two years after their first vote, the Congress of South Carolina votes to s ecede from the Union. They are quickly joined by Missisipi, Florida, Alabama, Te xas and Louisiana -Construction on Longwood, the largest octagonal residence in the USA, is begun in Natchez, Mississippi; it will be completed in may 1862 -9/12/1860- The costa rican authorities surrender to William Walker. Walker's em pire now covers land from the Yucatan to costa rica(Nicaragua/Costa Rica) -12/1860- After the election of President Elect Seward, South Carolina secedes f rom the Union(USA/CSA) -12/10/1860- Governor Letcher of Virginia sends agents into Maryland to organize a secession along with arms sent from Virginia.(USA/CSA) 1861-Vidaurri's Rio Grande Federation and Quitman's Cuba join the Confederacy. C oahuila and Cuba admitted as states(Sonora, durango, baja california, chiuhaha, nuevo leon and potosi remain terretories for now). -The CSA establishes its Permanent Capital at Montgomory now renamed Dixie -The CSA refrains from attacking Fort Sumter. --Secession referendums are held in maryland, virginia, arkansas, tenesee, north carolina, delaware, missouri and kentucky. All of these states opt to secede. -1/3/1861- Delaware joins the Confederate States of America(USA/CSA) -1/24/1861- Cuba under president quitman joins the Confederate States of America . Cuba's small fleet begins running the blockade(Cuba/CSA) -2/4/1861-The CSA is officially formed, this day will be the Confederate Holiday known as Liberty Day, people will party, States will be admitted, and damnyanke es will be damned.(CSA) -4/10/1861- The Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Regiment routs a hastily c reated Delaware Militia in a running battle between Wilmington and Newark.(USA/C

SA) -4/12/1861- Facing the bayonets of the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Reg iment, the Delaware legislature rescinds it's decision to join the Confederate S tates of America.(USA/CSA) -4/15/1861- The lawfully restored Delware Legislature reconvenes and re-affirm t heir declartation for the Confederacy. -4/18/1861- Virginia sends additional troops into Delaware to stop Yankee incurs ions from pennsylvania or New Jersey as a response to US forces digging in along Delaware's borders with New Jersey and Pennsylvania(USA/CSA) -4/19/1861-Letters from DuPont regarding use of DuPont powder facilites by the C onfederates arrive in Baltimore. Pro-Confederate Delaware Governor proposes join ing the Confederacy to the State House. -4/20/1861- President Seward orders the bombardment of Delaware's coastline(USA) -4/21/1861- In Maryland, Pro Confederate militias continue to meet in secret and begin plotting.(USA) -5/2/1861- The Maryland Naval Militia blockades Annapolis and engages a portion of the Federal fleet returning from the shelling of Delaware.(USA/CSA) -7/1/1861- The Confederate congress and the state governmnets opt to do wartime censorship(Confederate States) -8/1/1861- Taking up an offer of annexation by President Santiago Vidaurri of th e Rio Grande Republic, Texan infrantry marches in and establish a base in northe rn Coahuila. Soon, gold and silver are flowing out of Mexico into the CSA.(CSA/R io Grande Republic) -12/1861- The Confederacy buys off many Mexican military personnel and prepares to use them for General Lee's assault on Washington.(CSA) 1862-1863- Due to the chaos of the US trying to respond to the secession and the CS trying to consolidate control leads to a massive black exodus from northern tier of the seceded CSA into the Union that was set up by abolitionist forces. -the Mormons in Utah revolt and are put down after some unest. 1862-the USA has established fixed borders with the CSA, but some institutions c ontinue to be joint (post office and some military patrols out west. -The US military is caught unaware and isn't able to stop the wave of secessions -4/8/1862- Confederate troops defeat Union troops at the Battle of Shiloh.(USA/C SA) -7/4/1862- General Robert E. Lee's forces, bolstered by Santiago Vidaurri's forc es, smash the Union position at Gettysburg, wiping out General Meade's army. Sto newall's forces are the first to march into DC, followed by Robert E. LEe and th en Vidaurri himself, who takes time to sit at Seward's desk, abandoned just befo re the Capital fell. (CSA) -8/4/1862- The governments of Chan Santa Cruz, Yucatan and Sonora offer to join the Confederacy(CSA/Chan Santa Cruz/Yucatan) -11/16/1862- Two or more Confederate warships sail into New York harbor in the m iddle of the night and pound New York City for 20 minutes before escaping. The s hips are never caught or identified.(USA/CSA) -11/17/1862- Damage to New York City and its port facilities was extensive, due in large part to special incindiary shells fired by the Confederate Warships. Th e extensive fires burn almost half the city before being put out from heavy Nove mber rains and an early winter snowstorm. It is reported that over 8,000 people are homeless with deaths numbering over 1,500.(USA) -11/18/1862- Boston, Providence, Portsmouth, and Portland/Kittery are all shelle d by the mysterious Confederate ships, now joined by 5 others. These ships had b een identified during the Portsmouth raid as a new type of ironclad, not seen he retofore. Due to the attacks and disruptions in the Union economy, support for S eward's War is beginning to waver in the New England States and New York. Severa l of these affected states seize some undelivered union military supplies (blank ets, clothing, food and medicine)to help ameliorate the suffering. Seward, while attending a White House dinner party, admitted that there was indeed suffering going on, but that the "ragged masses best suffer in the cold, to the extent tha

t it proves the morality of Our Cause."(USA) 1863-After the treaty with the CSA is concluded ending the war is done, a radica l extremist assasinates president Seward. President Hamlin suceeds him. -Hamlin signs treaty with the CSA regulating trade. US goods get free transit d own the Mississippi. -Cuba is admitted as the 14th state, making its white sugar farmers very happy a s they now have proper representation. A naval yard is set up near Habana to dea l with the CSA's frigate fleet. -8/1/1863- the Confederate congress passes a national fugitive slave law. 1864- Hamlin administration passes second major internal approvement bill. US su bsidized Merchant Marine and Rail Roads. -The Confederate government remains relatively wealthy thanks to cotton exports . -The "Hollow States" admitted in an attempt to gain GOP victory in the -Negro and Chinese homestead act passed. This offers blacks and chinese 40 acres and a mule in the west(especially in the empty, poor and dangerous "Hollow Sta tes" of Fremont, Dakota, Idaho and Shoshone. The Indian and Utah terretories are also used as a black homestead area.). -This year marks the demobilization of both the Union and Confederate armies. Wa shington and Richmond defenses remain well manned and the USA keeps an ironclad riverine fleet at St. Louis. -USA ratifies the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing slavery. - Democrat George McClellan is elected President of the United States on a "Peac e and Reconciliation" platform. -As a way of upraising middle finger at the CSA, ,Benito Juarez's Baja californi a's request to join the Union is accepted. Baja California is incorporated into the state of california. The American Foreign legion is established and Benito J uarez's army becomes the first legionnaires. -The new Executive Mansion, the House of the Ages is dedicated in Manhattan.(US) 1866-1886- Very cool US-UK relations. The US builds a series of well armored ra iders along the Wampanog class lines. They are faster than any UK ship and what they can't outrun they can sink. 1866- Confederate troops under General Magruder cross the Rio Grande in support of Maximillian's regime. Their price for intervention is the recognizing of thei r holdings in northern mexico(where Maximillian cannot keep control anyway) is r eadily accepted. Work begins immediately on a transcontinental railroad originat ing from Houston. -The CSA protests over fugitive slaves arriving in the US, but its told too bad, old fruit. The fugitive slaves quickly either go west. -In clandestine meetings with represenatives of Queen Victoria's government, Jud ah P. Benjamin, the director of the Confederate Foreign Services, negotiates and end to the slave trade(only officially but the trade continues in an unofficial form. The slave trad was wasready illegal but it wasn't really enforced). Howev er, the Confederacy will continue to keep slaves and will not give them any righ ts. 1867-14th Amendment to US Constitution passed, outlawing secession, nullificatio n, guaranteeing civil, voting rights of blacks. -Robert E. Lee handily defeats Joe Brown for the Presidency. Lee's Presidency in troduces a mixture of popular and unpopular measures, including amnesty for runa way slaves freed by the Union armies(amnesty conditional on the ex-slaves leavin g the CSA), nationwide easing of laws relating to the education of blacks and em ancipation, homestead acts for Texas and the mexican conquests, a Constitutional amendment to allow for Federal funding of internal improvements, etc. While wor d from Europe's leaders and newspapers is that he goes not far enough, the gener al opinion of the Confederate planter elite is that he goes far too far indeed.

-A Hawaiian protecterate is established by the union as a way of upraising middl e finger at the british lion. -Britain passes the British North America Act, uniting Upper and Lower Canada in to the Dominion of Canada. 1868- Riel Rebellion in Canada and declaration of Republic of Manitoba. The US s ends unofficial help(demobilized veterans needing a job) to help the rebellion a nd sends lots of guns. The Canadian Army wrecked by unrest and defections. -The CSA congress and the Lee administration pass the Forrest amendment to the C S constitution which states: No amendment shall be made to the Constitution whi ch will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons hel d to labor or service by the laws of said State without all the states ratifying said amendment. 1869- CSA has a federally supported militia system that keeps the slaves in chec k. South carolina has set up a plainclothes police force meant for keeping slave s and abolitionists in check called the State security or eventually the SS. In the 1870's other states establish their own SS forces. In 1886 after the war wit h the union, a national SS force is created but the state SS forces remain. The SS is given some military hardware(for dealing with BIG situatiosn but its small er than the military). The name "blackshirts" for the SS force develops as a cyn ical name for them based on their black uniforms... -Haiti and Santo Domingo request protection by the US. Haiti becomes a US protec trate. In a highly corrupt deal, Santo Domingo's government sells itself to the US. Despite being a very corrupt deal it manages to narrowly pass the senate(nat ional security considerations and the advantages of having a state in the carrib ean to strike at the CSA). Along with going west, some unions blacks start headi ng to the haitian protecterate and the territory of santo domingo. -President Seward orders troops to mass upon the US/CS border, to "protect again st invasion from the slaveholding states". President Lee, in an address to the C S Congress, calls for preparedness, and calls President Seward's actions "Border ing on the nonsensical" and without cause. Colorado Territory and Washington Ter ritory are admitted as US states. The New England states' governors meet to cons ider secession, and are arrested by federal troops. Rioting in Boston and Hartfo rd kills 50. President Stanton calls for order, and sends more troops to New Eng land. -8/7/1869- tHe required number of states ratifies the 1st amendment(the bill of rights is included in the CS constititon so this is the first new amendment) whi ch guarantees that the federal government shall not disturb slavery in any state where it currently exists. Said ammendment requiring unanamous consent of ALL states to repeal. 1870's-US industrialization continues. The Federal government is growing stronge r and without the agrarian alliance of Midwestern farmers and Southern democrats the North East and New England dominate the republic. The USA (without the stro ng isolationist/warlike tendencies of the CSA states) becomes moreinvolved in wo rld politics and trade. Graudally Europe is pulling away from the CSA asalterna tive cotton sources are developed. The USA moves farther to the left politicall y than in our TL because it is less rural and has a higher percentage of immigra nts than our TL USA. Moderate social reforms are instituted. . The union see a burst of new colleges, institutions, factories, and public works projects while the CSA keeps to the same ways it was with no need to change. -The Confederate government in order to get more slaves to work the planations a nd the new lands opened up in north mexico begins enslaving a large chunk of the more black looking central americans(well the poorer ones, if you're rich or ow n land you're just fine). The nonslave central americans are denied political ri ghts. THe rich elites in the conquered lands begin assimilating into the Confede racy. -The SS forces are adopted by virtually every state in the CSA with only missour

i being the last holdout by 1880. The CS federal government creates a terretoria l SS force to bring order to the terretories before 1872. The CSA lags in development. With a cash crop like cotten importation is cheape r than development and more profitable. The opening up of Texas to large scale plantations (called latifundia) working both cotton and soon oil, gives slavery a longer lease on life. Increasingly however the CSA is isolated internationall y. Brazil also becomes isolated because of slavery and the 2 nations become clos er. Increasingly anti-slavery attitudes in the UK and US worsen the CSA position . In the CSA some attempts are made to industrialize, but mainly with black slav e labor. The small white middle class is bought off with moderate subsidies and a clear slave owning ruling class is emerging. While still republican in form the CSA is barely democratic in nature. Increasing numbers of whites are employ ed in internal security duty as the restive black population stages some minor r evolts. As each is ruthlessly crushed and harsher treatments imposed another ca dre of 'revolutionary' slaves is created. Covert support by non-govermental orga nizations in Europe and the USA is discovered and the CSA moves towards a more i solationist policy. -Slavery begins to move out of the plantation and into industry. Unfortunately i t can not compete effectively with free labor in the world market. In order to presereve its own native industry the CSA erects high tariff walls. This allows Southern Slave industry to compete against cheap US and UK profits. To some ex tent this is fueling the first real internal opposition to slavery in the South, particularly in the upper South. Here the small middle and industrial class is in fierce competition with the slave workers. The resent the absence of taxati on of slave property and the domination of the slave holders in government. Agi tation for limitation of the competition between white (free) and black (slave) labor grows heated. -The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. -The light bulb was invented. -The phonograph is invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. -Ludwig Boltzmann's statistical definition of thermodynamic entropy 1871-US adopts Prussian General Staff system. This is done as part of the genera l attitude that "somehing needs to be fixed with the military". -english made the official language of the CSA by constitutional amendment. A se ries of laws stripping rights from nonwhite(read: mexicans who don't own any lan d whatsoever) are passed. anyone of ANY african descent whose not a slave is ree nslaved. . This also leads in an expansion of the slave population and slavery b egins spreading into the new mexican lands... 1872-1900- Widespread labor unrest in US; Industrial development continues unaba ted. Tariff walls remain high, encouraging domestic production. U.S. becomes wor ld's largest producer of steel by 1900. - The Confeder 1872-the military Military Technology Review Board,US military, naval reform beg ins. Army strength set at 400,000. Winchester magazine rifle becomes standard Ar my weapon replacing muzzle-loading musket, early repeaters. Gatling guns issued widely. US Navy begins building sea-going ironclads. -US 15th Amendment passes allowing for the popular election of Senators. -American Abolishinists arrested in Brazil for organizing a slave revolt in Braz il. sentenced to Hanging. US protests at the repression. 1873- In an environment of economic depression blamed both on Yankee interests a nd Lee-Longstreet policies, Nathan Bedford Forrest wins the Presidency in a land slide. His Presidency shall be marked by motions to overturn all of Lee's and Lo ngstreet's efforts save for the strengthening of army and navy. Civil rights are curtailed, legal abuse of blacks both free and slave increases, and the gap bet ween rich and poor grows wider. -North Carolina passes a law enslaving all free blacks within its borders. (Simi

lar laws had been passed in other states as early as 1865 (in Texas) without dif ficulty, but always in states with little or no Union occupation during the war. ) The attempt to enforce the law leads to a general slave uprising. Order is res tored within the year, as Forrest orders the hanging of thousands of free blacks and a general police state throughout the Confederacy. Whites object to the res trictions on travel which are considered necessary to protect against future upr isings. Education of blacks is again outlawed, and Northern 'missionary teachers ' are expelled from the Confederacy. -8/12/1873- Capitol building dome in Washington, D.C., is completed. The Confede racy had given the project a lower priority than the US did. 1874- As a nationalistic measure designed to help differentiate the US from CS the Confederate military adopts the confederate Salute instead of using the trad itional military salute. The confederate salute is the right arm raised up with the palm being flat and facing the front. -the CSA begins building a canal in nicaragua. Thanks to yellow fever making it dangerous we see slaves who rebel being brought there and worked to death.. 1875- CSA President Rhett and Congress secretly authorize a build-up of ironclad s and wooden vessels, in the face of the growing militarism of the United States . - The Opra Garnier is completed in Paris. -The State governments begin buying up slaves from failing plantations and emplo ying them for free in building roads and railroads. This is the first incidence of government owned slaves. 1876-US protest CSA actions in northern mexico in regards to the status of the m exicans there. CSA imposes heavy taxes on US Mississippi River traffic. "Tempor ary revenue" tariffs placed on goods from the US by the CS government. The Unite d states government responts in kind. US forced to build more extensive rail net in midwest to carry exports to Lake River Ports. The short 15 year honeymoon of decent relationships after secession is over. Both nations begin preparing for war against the other(well more focused on each other as a priority target, they had been preparing before). -Both the union and confederacy celebrate the Centenial. The centennial occasion doesn't help union and confederate relations at all. It merely makes them worse . -Various mine owners in the confederacy begin using slaves for mining. The usage of slaves as miners in appalachia canuses many of the mountain whites to leave. . -7/1/1876- "Centralization in the defense of slavery is no vice" - Confederate P resident Forrest -8/1/1876- After confe 1877- CSA establishes close commerical relationship with UK. RN is granted perm anent 99 year leases at Key West and Mobile. US protest, slightly larger USN is built. -Widespread labor violence. A continent-wide railroad strike provokes riots in N ew York City, Monterrey, Managua, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Atlanta and Sacramento. A coal strike leads to violence in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tenn essee. The Grange leads a farmer's strike against the large landowners in Texas and the CSA. Militias and police meet much of this unrest with heavy blows. -3/4/1877- The Confederacy forced to sign a humiliating peace treaty; the treaty of cleveland: missouri, kentucky, west virginia, maryland, delaware, washington DC and nothern virginia are ceded to the US, the confederacy is to recognize un ited states rule over baja california/indian territory/new mexico. The only brig ht spot in the treaty is the union recognizing the confederacy for the first tim e(USA/CSA) -8/1/1877- The Citizenship act is passed: it gives american citizenship to all p eople to all people living in the US regardless of they're in a state or territo

ry. IT also removes all race-based barriers to naturalization(United States) 1878- Haitian protecterate annexed by the US. -Constitution amendment to make electoral college victory dependent on having th e most electoral votes and not a majority number. This is done to stop complaint s that Tilden's election wasn't legal.(United States) 1879- CSA enacts several draconian anti-Negro laws as the One Nation Party run o n a platform of bwhite superiority and vengence. Most moderates in CSA silenced by the paramilitary squads of the One Nation party(). Abolitionism isn't even openly discussed anywhere in the CSA. 1880's-An interesting social split is further dividing the nations. In the US w ith its small black population and bitter feelings over secession the black has gained more rapid acceptance and assimilation. Racism is Identified with the ha ted (in some quarters) political-social system of the CSA. Most overt discrimin ation ends in the New England and Upper West by the late 1800s. Haiti/Dominicana enjoy a Romantic Projection (based on the writings of the Three Great late 19th Century American Novalist - Douglas, Inverness and Cranston). Also the higher p roportion of non WASP immigrants into the US has created a more diverse mix. In the CSA the opposite effect has occurred. Social and Political Darwinism (but w ith no religious acceptance) has set the CSA on a severe Racist path. With no r estraining hand and the fear of revolt the Blacks and Indians are viewed with ov ert contempt and covert fear. - The CSA now is the first modern police state, based on racial politics. The b ulk of the agricultural and industrial work is done by slaves (although many are employed in domestic/servent roles). A small number of families control the n ation. The white(read: landowning) mexicans in the confederate empires become mo re assimilated. 1880's- In the upper South (Tennessee, Arkansas, North Carolina and Virginia) th e free labor movement is gaining a political voice. In response some slaves are moved South (accelerating the black reverse migration away from the upper South ) and a number of instances of white burning black factories/mills. Social unres t in particularly acute in the mountain sections of these stateswhich pay a high er per capita tax rate and recieve little benefit. -Development and commercial production of electric lighting -Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Be nz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach -First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. -First steel frame construction (yiia) "sky-scrapers" 1880- USA annexes several Pacific Islands. USN enters long growth phase. CSA m ilitia system is developing into an extensive internal security network. -9/8/1880- Newly inaugerated President Forrest announces that the CSA will do a n industrial buildup.(Confederate States) 1882-Naval Bill passed in US; commits US to building and maintaining a navy "sec ond to none." 1884-Berlin conference as OTL with the resulting partition in africa. The union refuses to attend the berlin conference citing more pressing matters like settli ng the west. The only change is that Liberia is recognized as being a confederat e posession. - The issue over how long people have exlusive rights to copyrights and patents in the US is solved by establishing that the clause in the constitution which me ntions copyright and patents for limited times only has them protected for a 10 year nonrenewable term. 1885- Harrison Motors produces the 'Model F' Autosteamer. This is the first mass

produced autosteamer on the market. Harrison Motors is the first company to appl y mass production on a large scale. -CSA entering a severe depression as cotton prices. This causes unrest and rioti ng all over the Confederacy. The result of the violence is to. -The border with the USA is sealed. The closure of the Mississippi hurts the Mid western farmers who have to ship through the Lakes and Erie to the Eastern ports . 1886- The CSA begins a state (federal) industrialization policy and cracks down hard on rebellion and dissidence. Anyone suspected of abolitionist beliefs is e ncouraged to leave or imprisoned. A national SS force is created but the state S S forces remain in existence. The general attitude of the CSA is one of paranoia and fear. 1887- After massive labor unrest and riots in many major cities moderate Social reforms instituted by a coalition off moderate republicans and members of the ne wly formed Liberal Party. These reforms include a national pension, limited nati onal health insurance and other measures that resemble Bismarkian germany's safe ty net. These reforms cause the socialist party which was gaining strengh to los e most of its support. 1889-Depression in US continues. Granger Farm Strike accompanied by General Stri ke by American Federation of Labor paralyzes US, Martial Law declared in several states. -The CSA finishes the Nicaraguan Canal which had been being built since 1865. 1890's- The 1890s are sometimes referred to as the "Mauve Decade," because Willi am Henry Perkin's aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashi on, and also as the "Gay Nineties", under the then-current usage of the word "ga y" which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no connotation of homo sexuality as in current-day usage. - The emergence of 'scientific' slavery begins. Corporate ownership of slaves, in particular breeder slaves, is affirmed by the CSA supreme Court, which ironic ally recognizes Corporations as 'persons' entitled to the full rights of CSA cit izenship. The decline of cotton prices is putting a squeeze on slavery in the CS A. The cost of slavery is also rising particularly on the frontier and in the n ew territories. In Cuba and North Mexico there is particular unrest as high mili tary expenditures are necessary to suppress 'wild' populations (this is much lik e the USA pacification of the West). On the US-CS frontier there is a 'leakage' problem of slave labor that necessitates a fortified border and greater internal control. Many whites in the mountain areas are actually helping blacks escape to cut down on the competition in labor and attack the planter class. -Lynchings of African Americans in the Confederated States average 350 per year. -Early commercial production of automobiles. -H. G. Wells creates modern science fiction with his book The War of the Worlds. 1890-The US signs a treaty of alliance with the Japanese Empire. In return for l etting the American Navy to be based in Japan, the US provides Japan with capita l and technology. A controversial measure of the treaty provides unrestricted im migration between the two nations. -The CSA Congress approves a plan to construct a Confederate Transcontinental Ra ilroad, with each state paying for sections of track within its borders, and res ponsible for its proper maintenance. -7/4/1890- A federal anti-lynching law is passed(United States) 1894-14th Amendment to US Constitution establishes Income Tax. 15th Amendment pr ovides for the abolishment of the Senate(and adds in the 2 senators as extra rep resentatives), establishes proportional representation for the house of represen tatives and the electoral college(also makes the electoral college give the win to the candidate with the most electoral votes not a majority).

-First zeppelins developed. -7/4/1897- The former spanish colonial empire is divided into the following terr itories: Ilocos, Laguna, Luzon, Micronesia, Mindanao, Mindoro, Palawan, Visayas. Puerto rico and the marianas also get territory status with plans for "future s tatehood". 1895- President Custer shot in los angeles - Several states in the CSA mandate sterilization of "criminals"/"undesitrables" - Virginia passes a law granting automatic compensaiton at 120% of market value for slave owners who free their slaves. 1896 -US begins to expand military forces and fortifies both mainland borders, p uerto rico and possessions. - The date palm is introduced to the Confederacy in a move to try boosting the e conomies of the north mexican states. The date palm is also introduced to the un ion around this timeframe. 18971900s - The free labor whites win control of the Northern tier of the CSA, they impose taxes on slave labor accelerating the flight of slave labor into the deep South. This consolidates free labor power in the Northern CSA and reinforces s lave labor in the deep South. A clear expection is the use of domestic and agri cultural slaves which continue all over the CSA. nstitutionally Corporate Slaves are creating a minor economic niche because of their ability to be shifted to a nd from market. Euthenasia of poor quality slaves becomes a open practice. - Emergence of Cubist and Futurist art -Lawrence Hargrave makes the first stable wing design for a heavier-than-air air craft -Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first documented flight in a powered heavier -than-air aircraft -Mass production of automobile -Wide popularity of home phonograph 1900-The 1900 US census and reapportionment of representatives gives the new eng land/rustbelt states more influence in the government. -7/4/1900- Santo Domingo is given statehood(United States) 1901- Henry Ford invents the massproduced car as OTL only its a steamcar instead . 1902- Narrowly avoiding a vote for total prohibition in the United States. Congr ess passes a law which forces every single bar in every single state to close at 6pm Monday-Saturday and close completely on Sundays as America follows an Austr alian, South African, and New Zealand example of 6 o'clock bar closing. 1904-The Russo-Japanese War, waged over control of Manchuria and Korea begins on Feb. 8 with a surprise Japanese attack on the Russian naval squadron at Port Ar thur, followed by a formal declaration of war by Japan on Feb. 10; the Japanese are victorious in a naval battle off Port Arthur on Apr. 13 and invade Manchuria by land, and begin a siege of Port Arthur in June. By November the japanese hav e seized all of alaskas ports and have effective control of the coasts. 1906-The Revolts in Mexico are over, CSA troops are proving remarkable effectiv e. They have siezed Vera Cruz and are marching on Mexico City. Both the US and the UK are pressuring the CSA to limit its War aims -10/8/1906-The Thurston-howell bill is signed into law which states "in times of necessity citizens of certain groups(blacks) may be interned or conscripted for labour at the discretion of the state"(CSA)

1908- President Jefferson Davis Willis of Florida annouces the end of the Mexica n War. CSA troops are garrisoning the entire country. Willis is looking for a treaty to annex several provinces, but no Mexican politican will step forward to sign. -Helium-filled transcontinental/ transoceanic dirigible service introduced and b ecomes wildly successful. 1909- - Watson decides to formally annex all of Mexico. Endemic insurgent war c ontinues until 1912 when the last major Mexican forces are destroyed in central mexico. In order to prevent them from rallying, the holiday cinco de mayo is ba nned in the CSA. It is still a day when major attacks are done by rebels in mexi co even in 2005. -As part of a reform movement Congress passes national voters rights legislation to allow federal supervision of federal and state elections to ensure honest an d fair elections. - The Fundamentals: A Testimony of the Truth in 12 volumes is published and dist ributed in the Confederacy, launching the label of 'fundamentalist' for follower s of it. 1910's-The 1910s represent the culmination of European and American militarism w hich had its beginings during the second half of the 19th Century. The conservat ive lifestyles during the first half of the decade, as well as the legacy of mil itary alliances, would forever be changed by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne, on 28 June 1914. The murder would trigger a chain of events in which, within 30 days, war would break out in Europe, as well as other regions of the world. The long, wide, and protracted c onflict would end in November 1918 with the controversial Treaty of Versailles i n europe and it would in May 1921 in North America with the Treaty of Tijuana. T he Great War-- held the reputation of being the widest and most expensive confli ct in history (at the time), and would leave a lasting legacy during the subsequ ent decades. -The decade was also described as a period of revolution or attempted revolution in a number of countries. Austria-hungaries minorities revolted in failed revol utions. Russia also had a similar fate, since the Great War led to collapse in m orale as well as economic chaos. The New Soviet governmnet under the mensheviks promised reform... Social unrest grows in the South as revolutionary ideas infect workers and slav es in the South. Most blacks in urban settings are revolutionized, rural slaves because of isolation remain more controled but a problem with occasional coord inated slave revolts on plantations leads to more draconian measures being taken by the CS government against any black that dares to question its place. Open revolts in Central america and Mexico tie down a good deal of the CSA resources but are managed. The CSA has stagnated Politically and is still a racist backwat er. Some 'progressive' leaders like Wilson emerge (but still racist) but are un able to transform the CSA into a more modern egalitarian state. -The revival of slave profitablity in the wake of the Great War in Europe. Soci al unrest grows in the South as revolutionary ideas infect workers and slaves in the South. Most blacks in urban settings are revolutionized, rural slaves beca use of isolation remain more controled. Open revolts in Cuba and Mexico tie dow n a good deal of the CSA resources. -After various reforms for increased civil rights are done in the US, bans on po lygamy and black settlement in Utah the mormons decide they have had enough of l ife in the US. The Mormon population leaves the US for the CSA and the exodus is complete by 1914. 1910- Frank Madero calls for an uprising on Nov. 20, beginning the Mexican Revol t -8/1/1910- Internal Affairs Bureau given arrest powers for all but high-ranking politicians (Senatorial immunity) and citizens currently serving the Confederacy outside areas that (mostly War Directorate personnel in battl).(CSA)

1911- Open revolt in CSA Mexico. CSA deploys troops to brutally supress it. Firs t use of concentration camps and strategic bombing(zeppelins). -Republic of Manitoba joins the US 1914-1921- The Great War as the entente and the central powers go to war. The en tente of the British Empire, portugal, France, Russia, Confederate States and Be lgium faces off against Germany, Austria-hungary, Ottoman Empire, Japan, Italy a nd the Union Combat use of biplanes, Tanks, radio, poison gas and zeppelins. Air borne troops are in gliders towed by dirigible. The war quickly degenerates into trench fighting. In 1917 russia implodes into revolution with a leftist coaliti on taking power. The revolutionaries take moscow and declare the "Russian Soviet Republik". Russia seeks peace with Germany and turns over poland, the baltics a nd the ukraine to germany. With german troops freed from the eastern front Germa ny does a massive offensive in the west during spring 1918. After peace is reach ed in europe, Germany helps its union allies in americas. After a union blitzkri eg goes into richmond, the Confederacy is forced to sue for peace. WWI ends with the treaty of Washington.. - US commerce raiders - surface and submarine wreck any major commercial use of the Atlantic as only battlefleet convoyed shipping gets through. This prevents t he british empire from getting resources from its colonies. 1916- THird offensive of the northeastern front: Confederate forces try pushing north but their offensive is stopped. French canadian revolts in canada push the dominion authorities over the edge and mass executions are done. French is outl awed as a language in canada.. -Virginia mandates abortion for "Severely deformed"(read: mixed race fetuses) fe tuses. 1918- The CSA supreme Court declares illegal virginia's attempt to free its slav es (which would have remained second class citizens). The Ionians are running m ost CSA universities. - Congress of Munich ends The great war in europe. The victorious Germans begin funneling money into the Union. The world war in north america turns. 1919-Govenor Doroteo Arango shot by US occupying authorities after he was caught promoting rebellion in occupied sonora. This leads to a period of unrest in the mexican front. 1920's- Growing conflict between free labor states of the CSA and the slave stat es. A great fight over the proportional election of representatives loom. The 3 /5s representation of slaves in the Congress is the chief tool of control for th e slave holders. Despite being free labor states slaves are still used in agricu lture on those states. - The young turk governmnet imposes Turkish language reform (spelling, grammar, but retaining Arabic script) but, faces the challenge of growing Arab and kurdis h demands for political equality. A compromise is made where ALL of the minority languages of the ottoman empire and its vassal kingdom of Arabia under the heja z are standardized and the western script imposed. Classical koranic arabic is t ransferred to the western script and it begins to spread. A Dual Turco-Arab Mona rchy is established on the model of Austria-Hungary under slogan of "Two Peoples , One Faith, One Caliph". The Kurdish demand to be made the Third Nation of the Empire is unfulfilled. Christian minorities push for more rights but, as the cou ntry remains authoritarian, official tolerance just means a push to make money. The development of the Ottoman Oil in dustry really funds massive economic expansion. - Germany is having some trouble economically supporting its large land army and building a navy. Ironically the two wars have divided the country as a strong socialist movement is critical of the Prussian-Militarist clique which seems to dominate foreign policy. The Slavic possessions in the east are proving difficu

lt to administer due to rebellion. 1920- Reparations crippling French economy. -8/1/1920- Full Adult male suffrage granted in Japan -10/31/1920- In Willis V. Virginia the Confederate Supreme court rules that virg inia's compulsory school attendance laws are are unconstitutional -12/25/1920- The Citzenship act is passed which restricts confederate citizenshi p to the descendents of the current people who have citizenship. The act provide s ways for the governmnet to make exceptions. 1921-1955- Due to immigration restrictions and a continous need for labor since the long boom is only interrupted by short recessions in the early 30's and late 40's, millions of people from the US's carribean and phillipine posessions move to the mainland US. The "immigrants" from the overseas territories of the US la rgely assimilate somewhat into the mainstream within a generation or two. 1921- World War one in north america ends. Britain cedes Belize, jamaica, baham as, trinidad & tobago and bermuda. Canada is now split into Quiebec, Canada, Mar itimes and Newfoundland -Most of the populations of the conquered terretories end up leaving in the next 5 years(either "voluntarily" leaving in the case of the whites or emigrating to the west/carribean in the case of the blacks). At first the newly opened land i s distributed to veterans of the war and their families. After that it begins be ing sold to poor people in the union. -4/15/1921- Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell is promoted to the rank o f Major General and placed in command of the US army air corps. Although Mitchel l has had a bit of a colorful record with his superiors in the army and has anta gonized several high ranking officers in the navy, Mitchell is both liked and re spected by most of his pilots and several other aviation enthusiasts in the arme d forces, and plans to use his new influence to strengthen the air power of the US. Umong his first recommendations is the procurement of a single engine, one s eat monowing airplane armed with at least 4 .5 inch machine guns with a range of at least 1,000 miles, a ceiling of at least 30,000 feet, and a speed of at leas t 350mph. While Mitchell and several of his men think the idea holds merit, many believe he is living in a fantasy world. Mitchell goes to talk to engineers at a fledgeling airplane company by the name of North American Aviation to give the m his requirements. -7/4/1921- Haiti given statehood(United States) 1922- Constitutional amendment passed in CSA allowing states to gradually abolis h slavery if they wish, however slaveowners are allowed to bring their slaves in to the free state and keep them as long as the slave wasn't born there. The need to do more identifying of the slaves leads to some states doing fingerprint dat abases or tattoos. -The U.S. government grants full citizenship to all Indians (aborigines) who ser ved in the armed forces during the world war. -5/3/1922- After a year of hard study, the team and North American Aviation have come up with an interesting design that actually manages to surpass even Mitche ll's plans. The team has developed a one man fighter that is armed with 6 .5 inc h machine guns, 3 to a wing, a canopy incased in a a clear plexyglass bubble tha t give the pilot an excellent view of the surrounding airspace and is pressurize d below 10,000 feet, but keeps air in, allowing for safer high altitude operatio ns. The aircraft is also capable of reaching a top speed of 450 miles per hour a nd has an air intake under the tale section to cool the engine. The engineers du b the new aircraft "Mustang". -8/12/1922- The Ottoman empire is set up as a dual monarchy on the model of aust ria-hungary split between the main ottoman empire(OTL turkey, armenia, kuwait, I raq, Syria, cyprus, Lebadon, Isreal) and Hejaz Arabia(the rest of the arabian pe ninsula)

1923-The US establishes benefits for verterans of military service which include : full 4-6 year ride on education, preferential rates and availability on Federa l Home loans and small business loans, real bonus points on civil service and to wards getting government contracts for ones small business. These are replacing the free land that was given to veterans. -the US supreme court rules that blue laws are unconstitutional for violating bo th the free exercise clause and the first amendment. -7/4/1923- The Maritimes republic establishes the prohibition of the use, sale, posession or transporting of liquor(Maritimes) -8/2/1923- An arrangmeent is reached where hejazarabia gets ottoman territories south of mesopotamia in exchange for no more claims or fighting(Hejaz Harabia/Ot toman Empire) 1924- Pavel Milukov takes power in the USSR and he begins doing various reforms to turn the USSR from being a shaky nation to a stronger one. These reforms incl ude establishing government economic and welfare policies that are closer to a s ocial democracy. The second set of reforms has to do more with decentralizing an d reducing corruption in the economy. The third set of reforms is establishing a limited democracy on the local level(each oblast of the USSR has its own Genera l assembly and Commisar that can be elected by the citizens of it but the nation al government is still run by the communist party). The final set of reforms is allowing each oblast to send 3 elected delegates and 6 advisors to the Grand Sov iet council in the kremlin in moscow. These advisors initially just answer quest ions and offer advice to the Party but eventually get more and more power. -The CSA and Brazil expand their defensive alliance and this marks the formation of the white circle alliance. While preaching a free market and individualism in fact most of the CSA economy is controled by the Government or the economic e lites, out of necessity to control the conquered areas, the slaves and run an ap artheid policy. -9/1/1924- The Electoral college is abolished in the US and presidential electio ns are now based on the popular vote. -10/21/1942-The Office of Promoting Virtue and Supressing Vice is set up(Confede rate States) 1925-9- Japanese economy, less burdened by a smaller military, does somewhat bet ter than in OTL. -The Union builds a true two ocean navy equal to both all of europe and Japan's navies combined. 1925- Rise of Radical Right in France. Coup by General Petain replaces the Thir d Republic. - In India there are major marches for independence, but the British remain comm itted to an India inside the Empire. Some in the ViceRoy government do however work for a greater level of autonomy. -The US Supreme court rules that legislation taxing religious groups and churche s is constitutional. After the legislation is proven constitutional it starts sp reading eventually to the federal government. -Scopes trial as OTL only the anti-darwin law is ruled invalid -7/1925-12/1925- Mass arrests take place, as police throughout the Confederate S tates arrest Communist party members and suspected sympathisers. Tens of thousan ds of people suspected of being communists are convicted (sometimes on very flim sy, or even non-existant evidence) for various minor crimes and are imprisoned.( Confederate States) -7/1/1925- Strikes and unions heavilly restricted for citizens and banned for no ncitizens(Confederate States) 1927-1937- German colonial policies have attached a good deal of criticism. The Germans have moved hundreds of thousands of Africans completely out of various colonies to create 'settler zones' or SZs(Read: a comb of apartheid homelands an

d forced labor camps). Most of Togoland and East Africa have been cleared. The majority of the black populations moved have been exploited as slave labor, the Germans have forcibly settled various minority slavic populations in Africa to open up living room in Eastern Europe for german settlers. An abortive Polish r evolt in 1930 sees nearly the entire population of Poland resettled to Africa (o r immigrating to the Americas). 1927- Gerrymandering abolished in the union. The American electoral comission se t up to determine district boundaries based on population as an impartial agency . State boundaries are not a consideration in deciding borders.. -8/1/1927- The oil wealth of the CSA established as a trust for the citizens of the Confederate States. Initially it is spread only to white citizens but its ev entually sprewad to the mixed race and mexicano citizens. 1928- Italian Air Force officers Italo Balbo and Major Oreste di Carraciolo make the first Transatlantic airplane flight, in a converted Fiat bomber. - Orthodox fundamentalist terrorist Joseph Dzugashvili executed on charges of te rrorism for his crimes in the Georgia republic of the Soviet Union. -8/1/1928- the following is set up: All major and most minor cities build paved airport. All airport are partly controlled by armed forces army, airforce nation al guards and other military groups. The Confederate military begins increasing funding of long range transport planes to move troops across the country to put down civil disturbances. This is a modernizaion of an ealrier system that was in place. (Confederate States) 1930's- Both the ottoman empire and Hejaz Arabia emerge as big powers due to the fact that both nations control massive oil deposits. 1930- Venezuela a nonally of the US is attacked by joint Brazillian and CSA forc es. Using privitive tanks and armoured trucks the CSA forces quickly overwhelm the enemy in the first modern blitzkrieg. Venezuela joins Colombia in being a CS puppet. Black/those who look black venezuelans are sent either north to the con federacy or east to Brazil to become slaves. -8/1/1930- The Confederate constitution amended to grant automatic federal comp ensation at 120% of market value to any state that chooses emancipation. -- 9/16/1930-Universal Service Act passes, granting 2 years mandatory order in g overnment service for all American men and women (United States) 1932- The US supreme court rules that reapportionment of legislative districts i s a "political question," and hence not a question which may be resolved by fede ral courts. This decision also rules that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitut ional. -7/4/1932- Palawan given statehood. Palawan is given statehood as a test case to see if it works for the phillipines.(United States) -8/1/1932- As a means of averting a possible constitutional crisis aobut what ha pens if the hejaz ruler inherits the ottoman throne the ottoman Empire and hejac arabia opt to split peacefully along their current borders in a "velvet" divorc e(Ottoman Empire/Hejaz Arabia) -9/1/1932- Beginning of an economic recession -11/1932- Leverett Saltonstall(C-MA) elected president(United States) 1933-4/3/1933- As part of a remilitarization measurem the following is set up: All m ajor and most minor cities build paved airport. All airport are partly controlle d by armed forces army, airforce national guards etc(United States) 1934-Transfer resistor (transistor) experimental prototype demonstrated to US Army s ignal corps. -5/19/1934- Bulgaria becomes a dictatorship.(Bulgaria)

-10/16/1934- Maoist forces captured during daylight break-out from Jiangxi (Repu blic of China) 1935- Virginia declares that all slaves born after this date are freed at age 21 -Los Luchadores style mexican professional wrestling breaks out into the Confede rate mainstream. -8/21/1935-The US's Congress passes the Workers Act, encouraging the creation of worker-administrated enterprises.(USA) -9/1/1935- The Confederate constitution 1937-1/25/1937- Spain receives the first shipments of Confederate rifles for the arm y, including M1 Bronzefist rifles and M1903 Birmingham rifles. There also starts the production under license of the Jackson Submachine gun in Barakaldo Armory. (CSA/Spain) - 3/29/1937-The Supreme Court rules against minimum wage laws for noncitizens bu t mandates a high minimum wage for citizens citing the seperate but equal doctri ne as precedent (Confederate States) -5/10/1937- The french architect Le Corbusier is charged to design the new city of Neu Germania in the German Namib. Here, he'll is able to build his innovative s urbanistic theories.(German empire) -10/20/1937- After months of negotiations, Spain and the USSR agree to a trade t reaty: Spain will sell wolfram to the Red Army, while Russia will provide modern Polikarpov and Yakovlev planes for spanish aviation. The USSR is expanding its ties with the Fascist Powers to make Germany have to watch several fronts at onc e(USSR/Spain) -12/9/1937- Spain qualifies for the 1938 soccer world cup after defeating Turkey by 8-1. 1938-CS Government establishes an income tax and this time its not ruled unconst itutional - 2/1938-Popular Mechanics magazine introduces hemp as a "billion dollar crop" ( United States) - 3/12/1938-Realizing the enormous potential profits to be made from the sale of transistor-equipped commerical radios, RCA vice-president David Sarnoff convinc es the company's board of directors to buy the patent rights for the original tr ansistor design. The company's research and development staff is then put to wor k looking for ways to improve on the design. - 9/12/1938-18 months after acquiring the original transistor patent, RCA introd uces the world's smallest portable radio. Despite debuting during the darkest da ys of the depression, the new radio is wildly successful. RCA promotes it with t he slogan, "RCA brings you the world." 1939-The Holy fire religious movement which is a combination of preaching,aerobic ex cerisize and diet cooking appears in the Confederacy and is very sucessful(CSA) -body and soul evanglical fitness movements that are based on the holy fire appe ar in the Confederacy(CSA) -A soviet copycat of the holy fire movement called the proletariatin fire moveme nt appears in the USSR(USSR) 1941- Confederate forces bomb Tokyo, killing the emperor and the royal family an d destroying the parliement building on december 7th 1941 in a sneak attack. The famous "This day will live in infamy" statement made by prime minister Shinamot o. Beginning of the great pacific war. Surplus union munitions find their ways i nto Japanese hands. German panzers also make their way into japanese forces. Man y of the US's volunteers from the indian revolutionary war opt to go help the ja panese. - Ford Motor Company announces the development of hemp-based fuel (United States )

-FDR begins an initiative to convert all american fuel demands to hemp fuel and have it be very efficiant -5/23/1941-Jury nullification is restored in the USA(USA) -Confederacy detonates an atomic bomb in the sonoran desert and is the first ope n nuclear power. The Union's current lack of nuclear capacity prevents it from i ntervening however the union threatens to declare war on the confederacy if nucl ear weapons are used in the war against japan. 1942- Taiwan invaded by confederate forces. The CSA does high levels of brutalit y in its occupation of taiwan. 1943- Andrei Vlasov takes power in the USSR. He begins a program of democratic r eforms, economic reforms and improving the soviet military so it can do a consis tent foreign policy of undermining german or confederate backed governments -The Confederate Congress unanimously adopts a Constitutional Amendment calling for the seating of all former Presidents in the Confederate Senate as non-voting Members At Large six years after having left office. -4/1/1943- "Airflyer" flying discs begin test flights near Roswell (United State s) -5/1/1943- The Citizenship act amended to allow for citizenship to be grantd for foreign guest workers in special cases. IT alsois amended to state that unless the descendents of guest workers somehow assimilate/intermarry into the normal citizen population they dont' have citizenship rights.(Confederate States) 1944- Okinawa invaded by confederate forces after a massive rain of firebombing. -the US establishes a new immigration policy: this policy encourages immigration of skilled workers/well educated people from pretty much any other nation but d iscourages unskilled or poor immigrants in most circumstances(exceptions for US allies/latin america/india/eastern asia, nonwhites from the CSA) -1/4/1944- The United States becomes the largest naval power(United States) -4/1/1944- As part of a plan to try reducing the desert, the bedouin populations are cleared out of the sinai peninsula(Ottoman empire) 1945- Confederate forces invade a firebombed Shikoku but are repulsed. Japanese forces begin liberating taiwan and okinawa with US aid. -US Emergency Labor Act allows draft of workers for war-related industries, prov ided union scale is paid. - Contraception legalized on a national basis in the union as a way of minimizin g distruptions to the work force. -Deu to the alliance and trade, pachinko pinball games reach popularity in the U S along with japan. 1946- Taiwan and okinawa fully liberated. Japanese forces invade. The Confederac y forced to sue for peace after Japanese forces invade CS New Guinea. A status q uo antebellum peace is reached. -THe US begins helping to rebuild japan as well as helping them make their own n uclear weapons. A Summit between Chancellor Bormann, President Tamerlake and Pri me Minister Tojo. -A secret protocol is drafted for usage of the atomic bomb in warfare by the US A: In the event of a future war with the confederacy: A rain of atomic bombings, gas and massive firebombing would be used on major confederate cities along wit h a massive tank offensive, heavy bombers striking industry and missiles to deal with CS airbases. Any confederates wther white or black would be rounded up and put in newly set up internment camps if noncombatant or if they resist shot on site. Civilian casualties would be encouraged with pretty much anyone not brough t to one of the camps being shot on sight. The Confederacy would be burned to th e ground with civilian casualties encouraged. Nuclear weapons will be used used if someone else used them on America or another one of the Axis powers. The end of the pacific war marks the beginning of "the long drum roll" which is the conf

lict between the White circle powers(CSA, Brazil, south africa and Australia) ag ainst the Axis Powers(United states, Germany, Japan, india, argentina, Canada an d India). -2/22/1946-Confederate officials justify military actions in the regions of Lati n America as "defense against Yankee encirclement" (Confederate States) -4/9/1946-Confederate armored divisions move into the northern border of Colombi a to "restore order and secure the panama canal" to the region (Confederate Stat es) 1947-Mass arrests occur throughout the German Empire. A protest is brutally put down in Vienna and over 34 people are killed plus 19 soldiers in the ensuing street fighting.(Germany) -2/12/1947-meteor, Clarke 193 strikes destroy the region 245 miles north of Vlad ivostok, massive damage (USSR) -3/2/1947- The first "Wavedisc" flying discs are brought into service as the fir st flying discs to be able to lift off from sea. The union copies it with its "S eawing" flying discs(Confederate States) -5/26/1947- Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrinin discovers listening devices desig ned by Lev Sergeyevich Theremin planted at the Soviet embassy in Montgomory D.D. (Confederate States/ USSR) -7/12-8/1/1947- The great negro riots in north carolina with 300 whites and 5,00 0 blacks dead(Confederate States) -8/1/1947- As part of the "Great cities for a great power" initiative the US Fed eral government passes the Urban homsesteading act which states: Find an abandon ed building or lot, either make productive use of it or bring it up to code with in a certain time and it's yours. This act comes on the heels of a measure makin g landlords have to live in the apartment buildings they own as a measure of sto pping slumlords. 1948-Confederacy sends troops into Venezuela to defeat anti-CSA rebels. As a par t of punishing the venezuelan population and crushing all resistance the confede racy takes many venezuelans who look like they're of african descent and brgins them back to the confederacy as slaves. The Union also sends in troops to try he lping the venezuelans. - The birth control pill is invented in the Union. It slowly filters out into ma instream Union society. From the start the pill is over the counter. -Belize gets statehood 1949-President James Rockefeller, tells a joint session of Congress, "I believe this nation should commit itself, before the year of 1960, to placing a man on the M oon and returning him safely to the Earth."(US) -9/1/1949-The Atlantic War starts after France, Italy and Britain declare war on Germany. 1950's- The Second Golden Age of the German Empire begins in culture and science s, with Imperial Germany leading the way in the development of Atomic Power and the Space Race. . - The Union experiences social changes. The beatnik movement becomes a more popu lar subculture. Mento music comes out of the carribean states. Rastafarianism st arts filtering into the rest of the Union. Due to the rastafarian influence, mar ijuana becomes more a part of beatnik culture and starts slowly filtering into t he mainstream. Marijuana also goes in the mainstream. The carribean states all i mmediantly proceed to legalize it(if they'd illegalized it at all). Due ot the l ack of a federal law banning it states tend to vary. The new england states and the west coast first opt for leniency and when the lack of problems with it is n oticed eventually move to legalization. -The 50's start out as a decade of social change for the CSA but the forces of r eaction win. Charismatic evangelical groups gain more political clout in the CSA

and manage to get abortion and the pill banned by 1959 when the evangelical Sam uel Branch wins election. Overly vocal agitators for Black rights in the CSA fin d themselves ending up working on a highway in northern mexico or dead in an SS deathcamp. Martial law declared in south carolina 5 times due to race rioting. -The advent of the pill, good antibiotics for curing STDS and the good economy a ll combine to start a slow motion sexual revolution in the Union. An attempted s exual revolution starts but it faces major opposition by the confederate governm ent and is complely shut down by the 1958 election of Samuel Branch as POTCS. -Because of the rest of the world being more and more hostile, The Kaiser's gove rnment seeks to ensure its superpower status by building a better bomb. During t he next decade, the German Empire demonstrates the power of these super bombs by setting off more than 50 of them on land, in the air and underground. The rest of the world responds slowly. The United States, Confederacy, USSR and India bui ld small nuclear arsenals and their own H.bombs. . - As the oil industry boom boosts the Confederate economy many south american gu est workers are imported into the CSA. - Due to the improving conditions in the urban ghettoes caused both by people ta king advantage of the urban homestead act and due to the lack of importing forei gn oil for cars(Which makes mass transit improtant and since suburbs made to ta ke advantage of mass transit will take longer...). The large coastal metropolise s begin expanding. This creates a parrtern of expansion which will feature a see mingly haphazard placement of suburbs, urban areas and mass transit centered sem i-suburbs with some green areas. 1950- The first H-bomb is detonated somewhere in german Mittel Afrika, obliterat ing a patch of savannah. Rumors that it was a camp for anti-colonial dissidents are quashed with arrests. -drive through liquor stores appear in the US -The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) to lobby for legalization of marijuana is founded in New York City by Tobias Labatt. NORML q uickly becomes a popular underground cause celebre and it eventually suceeds in first getting marijuana legalized in some states then on a national basis. -"Sound System" parties become a popular fad and activity in the union -Virginia declares that all slaves that older than 64 are automatically freed 1952- Chiang cracks down on communists in the south. The communists form a popu lar insurgent army, and begin guerilla operations against the Chinese Republican regime. (Chinese Republic) -Soviet scientists report health effects of Tesla weapons (USSR) 1953-1983- As a backlash against the Tory Party's incompetent handling of the In dian war and the Alliance war(and the resulting post-war financial collapse), Th e Labour Party gets in charge for 30 years of unbroken rule and begins implement ing a socialistic program. The programs turn britain into a semisocialist econom ic failure. As a result 20-30% of the British population migrates to the white D ominions, The CSA, Argentina or the US. Businesses and capital flee the city of london by the end of the 1950's and London is no longer a center of world financ e or business. The Labour party sets about with immediente decolonization and by the end of the 1950's every colony britain has is freed. 1953-1/30/1953- Internal Affairs Buro begins the construction of concentration camps for "Venezuelan, Bolivian and other foreign criminals" (Confederate States) 2/17/1953-Internal Affairs Buro announces the completion of construction of forc ed labor concentration camps; 2 camps are located in The state of Laboria, 1 cam p is located in The state of Cuba, and 1 is located in Georgia (Confederate Stat es) -3/6/1953-Black Dissidents are rounded up in Montgomory, to be shipped from Lee station to different labor camps (Confederate States) -5/1/1953- The Confederacy ratifies a constitutional ammendment guaranteeing tha

t 'local' juries could determine federal compensation for runaways(Confederate S tates) -7/1/1953- The Ottoman Empire/Kingdom of Hejaz arabia sign a freee trade agreeme nt(OTtoman Empire/Hejaz arabia) -10/31/1953- President Gaston of france founded dead. A junta lead by Marshal Pe tain and General DeGaulle takes power and requests an armistice. -12/22/1953- Canada's government passes a law forbidding francophones or indians from recieving social welfare(Canada) 1954 to present- THe German refusal to allow france to rebuild its prewar indust rial capacity causes France to be poor and only grow slowly from an agricultural base. Frenchmen who seek to use their industrial skills for work to have a job are forced to emigrate in astonishing numbers, like nothing since the aftermath of the political madness of 1848 in Germany. The long term result is a dictatori al somewhat unstale france with its best and brightest emigrating to The Confede rate States(the largest amount of frenchmen go there), Quebec, Argentina or the Union. 1954-1/8/1954- As part of the treaty with germany france is not allowed to reindustr ialize -5/6/1954- President Rockefeller signs the landmark Interstate Transportation Ac t. The act provides for the creation of the National Railroad Corporation as wel l as a series of four-lane highways. In Rockefeller's words, the goal of the bil l is "to provide a dual solution to the nation's transportation needs in the sec ond half of the 20th century ... we will have speed and efficiency for both our trains and our cars and trucks."(United States) -8/13/1954-Tegucigalpa-Baton Rouge Railroad bombed after freight train workers i nsult locals (Confederate States) 1955- Jager Goldschlager(Luftewafte) lands on the moon. -the US establishes tariffs on foreign oil. -9/13/1955- Major riots in Nashville(Confederate States) 1956-1964- The French economy slowly starts recovering with a new focus on expor ting processed foods, as well as food processing technology and food preservatio n technology. Unable to restart heavy industry the french beging pursuing health care and biotech technologies. This helps the french eocnomy but due to the occa sional anti-german uprisings causing backlashes and the corrupt and capricious f rench governmnet france is still unable to return to the first world. 1956-3/6-8/1956- pro-Democrat riots in Charleston, South Carolina (Confederate State s) -10/31/1956- Getuilio Vargas congratulates Shadrach Cartwright in his ability to crush "leftist revolt" (Confederate States) 1957-5/1/1957- Confederate military authorities detonate a hydrogen bomb on a city i n the state Mexico, sparking international concern (Confederate States) -12/14/1957-Joint Confederate-Brazillian Committee (re: defense industry product ion) established (Confederate States/Brazil) 1958- Robert Kensington(CSSF) lands on the moon and raises the confederate flag on luna Launch of Japan's first satellite Osumi. -the US supreme court rules that fan created versions of trademarked works are p rotected by the first amendment -Palawan recieves statehood -5/20-23/1958-White Circle Alliance talks begin in order to establish economic c

ooperation through slaveholder's international division of labor and production specialization (Confederate States/Brazil) -7/1958- Large Scalar EM Interferometer Accident in Urals (USSR) -9/1958-major riots in Atlanta, Georgia, 400 people arrested, 60 injured (Confed erate States) -9/15/1958- President Droms gives a ceremonial blast on the horn as the Pennsylv ania Railroad's new GG-2 high speed engine heads a train out of New York's Penn Station. On board are the presidents of the PRR and the National Railroad Corpor ation, the Secretary of Transportation and numerous other dignitaries. The train arrives in Philadelphia 65 minutes later, then heads west to Chicago. They pull in shortly after 6 pm, having covered over 900 miles at an average speed of 112 mph. 1959- The first instances of domestic terrorism by reactionary militia groups in the US on a large scale occur. 1960's- The Coastal metropolises in the Union continue expandin. The encourageme nt of people rebuilding/using empty buildings. 1960- The state of Cuba desegregates its school system. This causes outrage in t he more conservative parts of the CSA but everything is smoothed over. -2/28/1960- A cartoon panel about a wholesome family with three boys and a girl who mispronounce words and take long dotted lines from place to place, and two g hosts named Not Me and Ida Know debuts in a handful of newspapers. The cartoon, called The Family Circus, is cancelled, because it resembles other family orient ed comics such as Marmaduke, Blondie and Hi and Lois. -8/12/1960 -The Japanese Aerospace Development Agency (JADA) space agency organi zed(Japan) 1962- Ska music breaks out from jamaica and becomes popular with the bands the S katalites and The Wailers. This continues the "jamaican invasion" of popular mus ic. -9/9/1962- The Chinese Confederacy detonates a nuclear bomb in the middle of the western deserts(Chinese Confederacy). 1963- the Neutron Bomb is detoned again somewhere in Mittel Afrika by the german s. -The hit anime series Astro Boy premiers in the US and Japan(TV) -"Reefer Girl" style/movement becomes popular fad in the Union. - Several smaller powers like Argentina, France or The UK propose a "nuclear clu b" for arsenal-holding countries. The idea is that members of the club would for m a checks and balances system to openly monitor each other and share research. In response to the idea, the Empires(US, CSA and Germany) refuse the proposal -reluctant to allow other countries to restrain their places at the top of the f ood chain. -5/18/1963- Rumors of a Japanese "bullet train" cause the NRC to explore the use of much faster trains in the US. They hope to develop a line from New York to C hicago that averages 150+ mph.(USA) -8/12/1963- Caracas nuked into glass by the CSAF(Confederate States/Venezuela) -8/16/1963- The CSAF firebomb Bogota into ruins then release nerve agents into t he City along with anthrax and the plague. (Confederate States/Colombia) -8/22/1963- The Confederacy accepts a surrender/armistice from the andean allian ce. CS Naval landing parties enter many Colombian/Venezuelan/Ecuadorian ports. ( Confederate States) 1964- The japanese pop music group The Drifters breaks out and becomes a popular suceess in the USA too. 1965- Former astronaut Jager Goldschlager takes power in Germany. As a sign of t he military's continuing influence in politics the kaiser isn't even notified th

is time. -"Black Nationalist Jazz" becomes a popular fad and fashionable activity among t he confederate black noncitizens but it is supressed by the government to no eff ect. -The Velvet Underground founded as a resistance group against the UK's conservat ive-fascist government. -7/4/1965- A ceasefire is reached between the USA Supported Republic of China an d the CSA supported Chinese Confederacy(USA/CSA/Republic of China/Confederacy of China) -8/12/1965-Dan Soo-Ell is elected the 1st president of the Republic of China in the first free elections. 1966- In order to prevent disease from spreading out of the slums ,the corrupt l ocal police forces in several major confederate cities establish "death squads" to eliminate children who live in slums. This happens after an epidemic of disea se causes thousands to die. - Union engineers transmit television along optical fibers. -9/1/1966- The United States begins putting SAC air bases in The Chinese Republi c(Chinese Republic/US) -2/1/1966- As a move to prevent the overcrowding of coastal cities as well as pr event disturbing population trends from coming to fruit(the emptying of the midw est), the federal government passes the Second National Homestead act. This act states: where newly arrived immigrants(or native born americans who wish to take advantage of) can be granted (at a minimal fee) property in states which have b een designated as having declining or stagnant populations or to parts of other states which have stagnant/declining populations. (United States) 1967- The UK declars -India institutes a very strict one-child-per-family population control program. Both the Chinese confederacy and the chinese republic during the 70's also do s uch programs. -Several CSA reactionary movements unite and form the Aryan American Party. This party grows steadily on a platform of "moderate extremism". 1968- Soviet Commisar Andrei Vlasov dies. The legacy that he left the USSR was a truly modern economy, a democratic government, efficiant social programs, a goo d military and a good start on a space program. The first free elections for Com misar in the USSR are held with the election being narrowly split between the Me nshevik Party, the Social Revolutionaries, the Communists and the Reform Party. A moderate Reform-Menshevik coalition government takes power. Unlike past soviet governments, this one is rather less involved with trying to overthrow the germ an empire or spread socialist ideology. This event is considered to be the begin ning of what is called "the parade rest". 1969-The 7/11 incident as the anti-government terror group "the Uhuru alliance" releases sarin gas and the bubonic plague in the CSA's capitol of Montgomory. 15 ,000 people die from the gas/plague while over 150,000 blacks/other nonwhites ar e killed in the reprisals from the CS military/SS forces. Fears of union support of the incident nearly lead to nuclear war between US and CS but war is avoided . - The first commercial cellular telephone system begins operation in New York ci ty. Tokyo, Richmond and Moscow follow suit within 5 years. -4/12/1969- Stanley v Utah rules that obscene speech is under the catagories of protected speech(United States) 1968- South Carolina passes "The Homosexual Control and regulation acts". homose xuals are required to register with their local police department, cannot vote, they need to carry ID cards and have to contact the police department to get per mission to leave the county or move. Homosexuals are also declared to be automat ic sex offenders under this law.

-The "Fair officeholding requirements" amendment passed. THe amendment states th at any naturalized citizen who is over 18 and resident in the US for 15 or more years can run for president. 1969-President Connally of the US announces The USA Military numbers 11,734,265, in all branches. The largest, and most powerful military in history.(USA) 1970's- Due to The election of the neo-isolationistic Joseph Barron in the union and the moderate Alan Bentson in the Confederacy. The Union and Confederacy exp erience a lessening of tensions. Trade and tourism between the 2 empires flouris hes. younger confederate begin supporting rights for the nonwhites. Cultural dif fusion happens with coca cola brand soda, Tequila, pulque, "soul food" and mexic an mezcal liquor all going into the Union. Pepsi-cola brand soda, pizza, rum, ga nja and sushi all go into the confederacy. Even after the parade rest ends this cultural transmission remains. This time becomes known as the "parade rest".The Parade rest ends in 1980 after the election of George W. Knox in the Union and J ohn Shacks takes power. - The neo-bohemian generation that had dominated the 60's begins fading away. Th e neo-bohemians are replaced by a new cultural movement: The New Order movement. THe skinhead culture spreads out of the carribean states and into the mainstrea m. Reggae music appears in the US's mainstream and carribean influences creep in to popular culture. - Thanks to the ottomans and Hejaz not opting to exploit their oil supply in a l arge way because of prices being too low and a desire to focus capital on modern izing their economy the world begins running out of oil and prices raise until i n 1980 the ottomans and Hejaz begin exploiting their oil supplies. 1970-Brazil develops a sattelite launch capibility and begins using it. - Cuba passes a civil rights act. THe civil rights act merely limits segregation but doesn't completely ban it. Cuba's program of "Racial cosmopolitanism" becom es a highly controversial policy. -Revolt in the Nigerian provinces of German Mittelafrika ends when the Biafran " government" surrenders to german occupation forces.. -the Crime act is passed which establishes strong penalties for violent crimes a nd increased penalties for "White collar crimes". The crime act ensures that cri me never becomes a big problem in the inner cities due to a more repressive regi me. It also helps prevent crony capitalism. Strict limits are also set on electi on funding, by 1980 all elections are publicly funded, -The sitcom "Little Klan buddies" premiers in the CSA. After the 70's, edited ve rsions of it to add perverse jokes quickly become parts of underground US cultur e particulary among african-americans in the US. -The Chinese Republic places their first satellite in orbit. The Chinese confede racy starts rushing to build its own. The two chinas are expanding their conflic t to space. -5/5/1970- Wide scale rioting begins in The Chinese Confederacy, calling for the fall of the Chinese Confederacy's government. -10/31/1970 -A team of Union scientists working in Chicago, illinois, USA figure out a means to contain high energy laser radiation within a fixed geometric sha pe, along with a compact high energy laser emitter. By combining the two devices , the scientist create what they later christened a "light saber": a, narrow, hi ghly potent stream of contained laser radiation maintained in a feedback loop, c apable of penetrating stationary metallic objects and energizing and deflecting high velocity objects as if they were laser bolts themselves. The scientists see this a potential self defense weapon.(USA) -4/10/1970- Tim Berners-Lee at CERN invents the Comnet -12/1970- "Gyroskates" which are special skateboards that use electromagnetic te chnology to keep themselves perfectly upright and never falling go on the market in time for the holiday season in both the union and confederacy....

1971-Khomeni and his ayatollahs come close to overthrowing the shah of iran. Thi s causes the shah to decide to take action, he ends american influecne and begin s to come out on his own. As a move to divide the clerics he makes the nation an islamic state with more power to the clerics in exchange for the extremist anti -shah factions being purged. Part of this a populist and Islamicist social poli cy. As a move to please some of the nationalists he does a crackdown on the graf ters, favor seekers and foreigners. - Mafia ceases to exist in organized form. Marcello, Trafficante, Giancana impr isoned for life sentences. (USA) - First successful implantation of an artificial heart in a human beings. -"Rude Boys" style, from the state of Jamaica, becomes popular in mainstream Uni on society. -The U.S. table-tennis team is invited to compete in the Confederacy. 1972- CSS Ares lands on mars. Robert E. Lee the 5th is the first man to step on the red planet and he raises the CS Flag and performs the confederate salute. De spite the near constant boasting from the Confederate government, the US ignores the repeated denunciations of US space capacities and continues building and ex panding the current space infrastructure.. -rioting in german occupied western europe put down. -the Union's supreme court rules that pornography is free speech provided that t he people in the pornography are of legal age. - Voting righrs act passed in Cuba guarenteeing everyone the right to vote. This is also highly controversial. -the Confederacy tries doing a moon colony but it fails and everyone in the colo ny dies. - Commercial cellular phone service authorized in the U.S. - The first Cloudcar is displayed at an auto industry sales show. The cloudcar i s a vehicle that due manipulation of electromagnetic fields floats above the gro und. Due to the fact that the US at present lacks a strong hydrogen fuel cel inf rastructure the Cloudcar starts off as a toy for the rich. 1973- 100,000 people demonstrate in Richmond against the Confederacy's "police a ction" in Peru. The rioters are put down with military force. - Blacks revolt in South carolina leading to harsh reprisals and public executio ns. -1/29/1973- President Barron calls for the Federal Government to begin serious r esearch into alternative fuel sources. He says that in ten year's time he would hope that the Union is using something other than gasoline powered engines.(USA) -8/31/1973- The United States Government, disbands its effort at massproducing lightsabers citing cost issues as the reason(US) 1974- the United States detonates a "super neutron bomb" capable of killing the occupants of a city the size of Richmond while leaving the basic structures inta ct -- and it's done using a remote-controlled delivery device, much like a tiny airplane. -The Goldschlager-Barron summit reaffirms the Union-German alliance. -Pres. Barron signs the Endangered Species Act on Dec. 28; it replaces the Endan gered Species Conservation Act of 1969. -5/6/1974- Scientests at Vandenberg along with engineers from Ford, GM, and Chry sler develop an efficiant engine that runs on hydrogen fuel cells. The engine de sign would have the same range as gasoline engines, and would have much better m ileage (800 miles per cell). The engine can be used with existing automobile des igns. They announce that by 1976 production model cars will be available for the general public to buy.(US) -5/12/1974-The Federal Government begins a program of grants and low-interest lo ans to gas stations to help them upgrade their equipment. They also provide fund ing to advertise this new system to the public. -7/8/1974- In order to keep the Fascist government in Venezuela in place the Con federate air force deploys 2 squadrons of Clouddarter helicopters to bomb rural

areas(Confederate States/Venezuela) -9/1/1974- The Flavr Savr tomato, which doesn't grow soft as it ripens is introd uced to U.S. store shelves 1975- US army service opened up to foreign volunteers- serving 10 years loyally and faithfully will get the volunteers a green card. - Hydrogen Fuel Cell powered cars hit the market. The remain unpopular alhough due to the heavty price tag. Its not until their prices get lowered thay they b reak out in popularity. Fuel cells begin to appear in homes and camps. - Riots in New York City, boston, Calgary, San Francisco and Port au prince in t he union over the US government's refusal to try forcing Generalissmo Trudeau's dictatorship out of power in Quebec -French forces forced to withdraw to positiosn nearer to the coast. Independence of Sahel and Algerian union recognized but france won't give up its coastal str ip. -South africa builds nuclear weapons -Coca Cola introduces the Georgia Club Coffee line of coffee flavored soft drink s in Japan, the Union and the confederacy. This drink is initially popular but a fter the "parade rest" ends we see the drink becoming less popular in the union and becoming more of a controverisal and underground drink. -12/8/1975- The first complete genome sequence of a microorganism is described. 1976-1977- Hydrogen fuel cell cars become very popular in this timeframe. This i s due in part to most service stations offering refuling for those type of cars, as well as fuel costing much less than gasoline. -Australia places strict limitations on all Asian immigrants, limiting their eco nomic options, confining them in shantytown "immigrant reservations" along the n orth coast, and treating them as second class members of society. THe australain government institutes manadatory passes for asians, it also allows the passes t o be bought and sold: after the pass is sold, the person the pass is for has to move. 1976- On the 200th anniversary of the decleration of independent, communist terr orists on orders from Che Guevera fly 20 planes into skyscrapers in various CSA cities. This is accompanied by a strike by nonwhite workers. -Persia reconfigures its military as a defensive and internal security oriented force. SAVAK beefed up to crush militant clericals and reds. Using Confederate a nd other foreign advisors it becomes a truely effective dissent surpressor inste ad of just a visible annoyance. These reforms also come on the heels of keeping the western media out. -The USSR establishes the largest permanent moonbase in the form of its "Barmino grad" settlement. The CSA sets up a small martian colony. The space race continu es to be popular. -4/19/1976- South Africa's National Party makes the unauthorized importation, sa le or use of a modem or fax machine without governmnet permission punishable by a lifetime of hard labor for blacks and 25 years hard labor for whiteS(sotuh afr ica) -8/1/1976- first killer bees spotted in Texas(CSA) 1977- American Free Trade agreement passed. The Union, Confederacy, Superior Bra zil, Argentina and Chile all sign this agreement. THe third world countries in t he americas(ecuador, bolivia, colombia, venezuela, peru and paraguay) aren't inc luded in this agreement due to the continuing Union/Confederate dispute over inf luence in this region. This represents one of the last major foreign policy chan ges done during the "Parade Rest". - Despite the protests of several of the more conservative states, Marijuana and other soft drugs are legalized on a national basis. When Utah, Dakota, Kansas a nd Shoshone refuse to accept this the Federal government threatens to cut transp ortation funding for those states. Confederate president Harper condemns "Yankee immorality" and vows to never let the CSA fall into such sinful decadence.

-Linguistic antidiscrimination act passed in canada. The policy of banning the s peaking of french, banning catholicism and of imposing segregation on francophon es is ended. The act comes with provisions that allow it to be suspended naitonw ide or in a province in the event of an "emergency"(what an emergency is is dete rmined by the government). -the USA adopts the metric system. -4/3/1977- The Supreme Court rules that if men are required to register for the draft, women are as well.(US) 1978-1980- As part of a move towards alternate fuels and power sources by wester n nations, new formulations of methanol fuels are developed by several companies in different nations despite attempts at sabotage by interests in oil exporting nations like Arabia, The CSA or Indonesia. The reason why the development of fu els continues is due to paranoia on the part of governments about wanting to be secure in the event of oil embargo. 1978- The Union establishes martian colonies and begins working on terraforming mars but due to low technology not much is accomplished at the start. -Megabyte chips are(Intel Decade, Taizu 1978) are introduced, becoming the basis for the next generation of computer technology. - Sustained "Hot Fusion" reaction is demonstrated at Hiromatsu Power's research facility on Hokkaido -"Virtual Reality" goggles and multi-purpose control surfaces are demonstrated b ut limitations on speed make them impractical for serious use. -"Suedehead" style becomes very popular among Union youth -3/16/1978-Full civil rights act passed in Cuba state, banning segregation and d iscrimination completely.(CSA) -7/4/1978- The US army unveils its Pentathopter which is an airship that uses el ectrmagnetic forces for lift. 1979-the United States and the Confederate States sign the Strategic Arms Limita tion Treaty (SALT) II, which limits each side's arsenals and restricts weapons d evelopment and modernization. -Smallpox is eradicated worldwide, the first time in history that a disease is c ompletely eliminated. - Royal Motors Canada, Canada and General Motors, USA unveil the lectra series o f electric cars, with a top speed of 50 miles per hour. They run for 6 hours on a single charge of their nickel-hydride batteries, rechargeable on household cur rent. - In The Union, 60 percent of American households receive cable service. In the CSA the number is around 30% due to cable still being relatively expensive becau se of lack of cable infrastructure and government restriction. -4/6/1979- Oil prices plumment to all time lows due to the fact that oil demand - particularly from the US - has dropped by about 85%. Oil is being sold for und er $5.00 a barrel in the US - which hardly imports any oil anymore. -10/19/1979- Seeing the growth of the former niche market of Cloudcars, Ford inv ents the first Hovercycles and displays them. 1980-2000-South africa removes the political power of the the english, jews and liberals and then consficates their wealth. South africa then augements their ec onomic skills with them all and more with people fleeing the Kaiser's europe or whites leaving the CSA, especially police, military and tech types. It also pick s up usable refugees from the rest of the world - Tutsis fleeing from German Mit tel Afrika, SouthEast asian boat people fleeing from the chaos of vietnam, Burme se hill people and other useable refugees. The aparteid regime also begins buyin g arms on the black markets and prioritizes its nuclear program. - Global warming becomes a reality - climactic turmoil across the world as weat her patterns shift. Desertification becomes a critical problem. Sea level rises 1 meter by the year 2000, and an additional 2 meters by 2010. Lowlands throughou t the world are flooded, many cities are forced to protect themselves with dikes

. The Sahel drought reaches catastrophic proportions. The Sahara is expanding at up to ten miles a year. World food prices rise. The Antarctic hole in the ozone layer is discovered to be a natural phenomenon with no connection to mankind. W hile pollution is affecting the ozone, it is replenished at a rate far greater t han originally expected. Desertification becomes critical along the southern Med iterranean coast and begins to affect the northern Mediterranean. -Urbanization continues to increase dramatically. By 2000, 70% of the worl d's population lives in urban centers. Increase of urban social problems - crime , drugs, breakdown of the nuclear family. Millions of people flee parts of india, Thailand and Vietnam as coastal w aters rise. Many are accepted as refugees in The United States, India and Sovie t Union but a large number remain stateess wanderers around southeast asia. 1980's-The Long drum roll heats up again with hardline presidents Knox and Lee r uling in the union and Cartwright and Shacks ruling the confederacy. The world n early goes to the brink of nuclear war several times. THe end of the presidencie s of George W. Knox and Shadrach Cartwright. Advances made in airplane designs. The speed and safety of air travel incr ease dramatically. In 1999, the X-30 Orient Express Aerospace Plane begins runs between Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City, Richmond, Paris, Delhi, Nuremberg an d Moscow. By the end of the 20th century, aerospace planes are running regularly between 37 cities worldwide. -Minor genetic engineering leads to a number of developments, including disease resistant crops, more productive farm animals, and prototype aquaculture. -. The Soviet government concentrates on expanding its high-tech industry and ac ademic communities. Investments are put into utilizing the untapped resources of Siberia and the far eastern Soviet Union. - The oil-funded rapid industrialization of the Arabian Peninsula and anatolia c ontinues. Rurmoil in and unrest Europe leads to a shift of world tourism toward the Middle East. Hejaz Arabia, Persia and the Ottoman Empire become major touri st centers as resorts spring up all along the Persian Gulf. 1980- The Hardline wing of the Liberal Party manages to get its candidate George W. Knox elected in the union. President Knox is the first black president. PRes ident Knox begins a hardline foreign policy and ending the Parade Rest. -The president is impeached and nobody is found to replace him. In the chaos a c ongressional cabal of reactionaries lead by the One Nation Party takes power and Shadrach Cartwright takes office. Shacks is a reactionary hardliner who wants t o end the "parade rest". - Evangelical PReacher Sam Bible states "Good confederates will not participate in yankee satanic deviant activities or withcraft like this "dungeons and dragon s" swill they've started introducing. This leads to a massive moral panic agains t roleplaying games with some states even banning them. The moral panic fails to spread north of the mason dixon lines. - Kraft Foods starts the first nanotechnology lab for foods. - The Confederate researchers discovered a crude form of temporary empathy could be established between individuals and also between humans and animals, through a careful and regular application of one of the new compounds (which also offer ed some properties similar to opiates/hallucinogens) -Three CS missionaries and a lay worker killed in Colombia. The Confederate gove rnment retaliates by massive reprisals against the local ppulation and the fireb ombing of bogota and Medillin. -Japan changes its economic policies from autarchy to integration in the world m arket -German Robot probes land on jupiter and saturn -The radical John Tyndall is elected MP for the east london district -1/1/1980- People are worried about online porn on the Comnet. It's the endless` Who's better--Kirk or Pike?' threads that *should* scare them -- Conrad Endreson in "Entertainment Weekly" - 2/24/1980- The Internal Affairs Bureau unveils the Deviflyer and Eyezoomer cla

sses of the Confederacy's Hovercycles. The Deviflyer is used for massacring diss idents while the stealthy eyezoomer with its spy devices is used to spy on group ings of people to help decide if the police and military need to be called in. T he first police departments to get them are Montgomory DD, Richmond, Mexico City , Habana and Charleston(Confederate states) -3/2/1980- President Cartwright announces the formation of a new organization ca lled the Home Guard, which he claims is responsible for looking after the securi ty of the Confederacy. It is made up of a number of people from various law enfo rcement backgrounds, fire departments, civil air patrol members, members of the military, and others.(CSA) -12/16/1980- President Cartwright has a number of "reeducation camps" set up thr oughout the Confederacy. He has people who oppose his political views sent to th ese camps. These camps use torture (physical, sexual, and psychological) to "con vince" people that to oppose Cartwright was a bad idea, and to reeducate them wi th appropriate beliefs. The camps also exterminated those who the government tho ught couldn't be reeducated.(CSA) 1981-German troops into greece to supress protesters and rebels put in forced la bor camps with the ringleaders being killed. -"We as americans need to stand together, united against the Evil Empire. Across the mason-dixon lines lies an Evil Empire. If americans are divided the Confede rates will expand and expand till they come north and put The Union under the yo ke."- President George W. Knox in his inaugeral speech. Knox immediately announc es a simultaneous tax reform and massive funding for the militarsy, space and re search & development. - The Union sends its own robot probes to jupiter and saturn Advances made in solar energy production, but commercial use is still limi ted to small scale. -A radical islamist coup in Iran fails. -Tax Reform Act in the union lowers rates and eliminates loopholes. -Congress passes measure to allow offshore oil drilling off the east and west co asts of the US. US becomes much less dependent on imported oil than OTL, at the expense of the environment. Part of the provisions of this act include incentive s to do further energy efficiancy in cars and other devices. - General Jager Goldschlager shot by a polish secessionist during a patriotic pa rade. Germany puts more priority on its campaign to scatter non-german ethnic gr oups that live in germany to the 4 winds by resettling them in Mittelafrika. thi s is the final nail in the coffin that ends the Parade Rest. -4/4/1981- The Minidisc for both audio and data storage is released by Miharu in dustries.(Japan) -8/1/1981-Cosmorockets are invented by both the Union/Confederate lunar settlers . THey are small rockets meant for use in low gravity environemtns and contribut e to the rise of tensions in earth and the solar system(United States/Confederat e states) -10/12/1981- The CSA begins operations designed to deal with cybercrime includin g extending the reach of the IAB onto the Comnet(Confederate States) 1982-The Union expands its lunar/martian bases bases and the expansion of Tycho base into Selene City is completed. US mining operations on the moon are now pro ducing enough materials for export to Terra. Lunar mining and the martian coloni es are starting to make a new frontier. The Orbital cities begin accepting more settlers thanks to a desire to expand in population. -New technology makes it possible to construct the first optical chip that is pr oof against electromagnetic pulse effects. -Puerto Rico gains statehood - Major US car company's begin to manufacture Retro styled sport cars with a a d ecidedly 1930'-1940's edge to them. By the late 80's these neo-thirties are fai rly common sight on the road. - USA Today, a full-color newspaper with condensed news is launched -Tyndall elected Prime Minister of the UK. It is believed by many political anal

ysts that his subsequent inauguration sparked Steven Patrick Morrissey to rebell ion. -8/1/1982- First cultured lung tissue used in a transplant -11/19/1982- The Internal Affairs Bureau begins airing a number of commercials o n television. These commercials tell parents that it is perfectly acceptable to go through children's belongings, writings, and computer files in the search for evidence that their children have dangerous ideas. One commercial has parents " practicing" slamming doors so they could be "ready" for a child angry that they went through their stuff to determine the child had dangerous ideas. Some commer icals also say that it's perfectly acceptable to spy on people neighbors, go thr ough their trash, go through their belongings and computer files if they have th e chance, in order to find if the person has dangerous ideas. In both cases, peo ple are told that Cartwright and the Home Guard appreciate all information recei ved, especially if it brings down people with dangerous ideas.(CSA) 1983- Knox terms the Confederate States the "evil empire" and announces the Stra tegic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), a satellite-based defense system that woul d destroy incoming missiles and warheads in space. -Virginia begins a system of allowing both whites and blacks to work in the same jobs in some cases(only applies for lower class jobs) but with some quota spots /management reserved for whites. This principle is also applied to housing. Ther e are no provisions for fair wages(or any wages). -Several major tax reforms are done in the Union which limit the amount of deduc tions the wealthy can get, corporate welfare is cut down and subsidies to farmer s are slashed. -The highly controversial Marihuanaland theme park opens in Ensenada, California . -4/13/1983- India institutes a very strict two-child-per-family population contr ol program(India) -9/13/1983- the first organic light emitting diode(OLED) is invented 1984- On July 30, 1984, the CSS MAddox was destroyed in a mysterious explosion i n the Docklands in London, killing 8 officers Within 3 days, the Docklands Resol ution was passed by the CSA Congress in Atlanta, GA On November 1, 1984, one wee k before CSA Congressional elections, CSA military forces near Heathrow Airfield were attacked by Velvet Underground Forces. -1/1/1984- The 1st US anti-span law, the CAN-SPAM Act of 1983, went into effect. It made it illegal for advertisers to falsify their identity and required an ef fective way for recipients to get themselves removed from advertiser lists.(Unit ed States) -4/4/1984- South Africa's National Party creates a local intranet called the Sou th African Network(SAN).(South Africa) -5/2/1984-one out of five vehicles on the road in the United States is a hydroge n fueled car according to a survey -7/30/1984- The CSS Maddox destroyed by a mysterious explosion in the london Doc klands, killing 8 officers and vice president Harper.(CSA/UK) -8/1/1984- The Docklands resolution passed by the CSA congress in Montgomory(CSA ) -9/18/1984- Archangel Station completed in orbit by Brazil. This represents Braz il's joining the space powers in a big way.(Brazil) -11/1/1984- CSA Military forces attacked by Velvet Underground forces near Heath row airfield(CSA/UK) -12/25/1984-NewOrbit makes first fully privately-funded human spaceflight. 1985- The Union deploys the giant fusion powered Megadisk class flying discs. Th e Megadisks are giant fusion powered flying aircraft carriers that are orbit-cap able(United States/confederate states) -Basque resistance to spanish rule begins heating up with terrorism becoming fre quent in Spain.(Spain) - Bubble steel first invented. This new efficiant building material begins revol

utionizing construction. Bubble steel helps the space industries expand thanks t o better and more efficiant construciton materials. - Starting in January 1, 1985 until February 7,1985 Velvet Underground forces la unched a series of attacks on Manchester. Later that year CSA forces send 5,000 troops into Birmingham in an effort to capture Velvet Underground Forces, with 1 00 kills, between April 1, 1985 and May 1, 1985. BY September 4, 1985 the CSA 19 6th Brigade with 22,000 English troops began a sweep of the Scottish Highlands w ith major fighting in Edinburgh leading to 1,000 Velvet Underground deaths and 1 50 CSA deaths. By December 1, 1985 there are 385,000 troops in the UK, with an a dditional 60,000 troops stationed offshore. There are 6,000 soldiers killed and 30,000 wounded CSA soldiers according to official reports. -1/1/1985-2/7/1985- Velvet underground forces do several offenses to take Manche ster(UK) -2/3/1985- "Using propietary software for governmnet computers would endanger th e function of -4/4/1985- Researchers from Japan invent a new satellite held laser system that can destroy objects moving upto 670 mph in Earths atmosphere.(Japan) -5/6/1985- The Department of defense begins project CHAMELON Which is the full c onversion of all governmnet computers to open source software(USA) -6/1/1985- Project Genom e established to research biotech(USA) -12/1/1985- 385,000 Confederate troops in the UK with 60,000 more troops station ed offshore. 6,000 soldiers dead and 30,000 wounded according to official report s. 1986-Starting in Janurary 1, 1986 until May 12, 1986, two divisions of the Scott ish Liberation Army (SLA) launched attacks on Stranraer, Melrose, and Dumfries, pushing the CSA Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) south of Edinburgh. On Janurary 8, 1986 OPeration Little Rock was launched by the CSA Navy in effort to drive Velvet Un derground forces from the region of the Thames River, with 16,000 CSA troops and 14,000 Blackshirt officers. On April 24 1986, CSA forces clashed with Scottish Liberation forces over the cities of Greenham and Edinburgh. By May 11, 1986 maj or search and destroy missions were launched for members of the Scottish Liberat ion Army SLA)and the Velvet Underground forces along the Thames River.. A major Velvet Underground offensive overtakes the city of glasgow. Over 1,000 rounds of the artilery barrage strike CSA military encampments within the city. Despite s attelite and aerial intelligence, the insurgents are able to take surround the c ity. Only after Operation Pegasus is launched are the roads to Leeds reopened on July 8,1986 . CSA officials report casualties at 1,600, but USA observers put t he casualties closer to 4,800. - "Autoduelling" becomes a popular underground activity - The "Breadmaker" appliance is invented in Japan and becomes popular in the Uni ted States and other nations - Sea-bed mining begins. -1-/9/1986- Cultured liver tissue successfully transplanted -4/1986- Japan raises the value of the yen and opens the market more to US impor ts.(Japan) - 9/12/1986- World-library in Geneva is opened. The sum of humanity's knowledge. The Central Intelligent Corporation is founded to find information and add it t o the library. The CIC uses bounties for information to get people to find it fo r them. The geneva location is a temporary compromise while the location is to b e settled.... 1987-President John Shacks is talkingh about "Peace With Honor", with the popula rity of the war collapsing. On February 14, 1987, in an effort that would later be condemned by many international leaders, President John Shacks ordered the bo mbing of Velvet Underground and Irish Republican Army (IRA) positions in Belfast . This in turn would later be known as the "Valentine's Day Massacre", earning c ondemnation around the world. Within 8 days, on February 22, 1987 a major offens ive was launched on CSA forces nationwide throughout Glasgow, Manchester,Edinbur gh, London, and Birmingham killing over 2,280 CSA troops. By April 1, 1987 even

more damning news as it was revealed that 33,629 CSA were killed, more than any conflict since the Great War. As Confederate Broadcast News(CBN) reporter Dan Ra ther had put it, "We have reached a terrible plateau wherein the past is readily visible but the future is hidden in a dark fog and haze... We have reached a tr agic turning point!". President John Shacks was calls for the withdrawal of 25,0 00 CSA troops, in an effort during a meeting with Prime Minister John Tyndall, s parking international controversy. This was timed around the February 8,1988 whe n 3 Blackshirt Brigade Divisions launch a capture of Glasgow. Unfortunately, thi s was a trap, killing over 9,000 British troops. -Wehrmacht troops march into France and crush the Liberte movement brutally. Ma ny French refugees flee from europe(either to the US, argentina or south africa) or are shot. This comes at the same time as a major slav revolt in the ukraine. Rumors of nuclear weapon use and mass genocide by the Germans begin to appear. - OLEDs begin being used for technologies like wall screen displays and other us es. -Millions of blacks strike in The Confederacy to commemorate 1976 Alabama uprisi ng. The strikers are put down with force and are forced to return to work by the military and police. -The Soviet made "Zil" Car becomes a common cheap care in the more developed nat ions. "Zils" come in black, white, grey, silver and platinum colors. Despite bei ng not the best cars on the market they are a popular one for first time car own ers. -3/19/1987- Despite the threat of scandal over allegations of a hefty cash payof f to one of his former staffers to cover up a supposed affair,evangelist and PTL founder Jim Bakker vows that he will not resign his post as chairman of the org anization."That is precisely what Satan wants,"Bakker hotly asserts in a press c onference at his home in South Carolina,"and I refuse to give Satan any victorie s in his war on mankind."(CSA) -6/30/1987- A motion to reintroduce capital punishment in Canada is debated in t he House of Commons. Minister of Justice Ray Hnatyshyn declines to encourage MPs to vote one way or another. The motion is passed on a free vote by a narrow marg in of 151-124.(Canada) -9/12/1987- The bill to reinstate the death penalty is passed by the Senate, and becomes law after receiving Royal Assent. The death penalty is now a sentencing option for aggravated first-degree murder. When a defendant is convicted of cap ital murder, the trial will enter a sentencing phase to determine the punishment . Only the trial jury can recommend a sentence of death, and the final decision will rest with the judge. The method of execution will be lethal injection.(Cana da) 1988- The first undersea colonies are set up by the Union, Germany, USSR, Japan, Confederacy and India. The undersea colonies and the expansion into space are c reating new frontiers for union and confederate citizens. -5/8/1988- PM John Tyndall calls for an apology from the CSA president and congr ess regarding "The orbital bombing atrocities" -5/9/1988- The Union seals the border with the confederacy -8/8/1988-The Veda land amusement park is built in Calcutta. -8/23/1988-The Union mandates a minimum wage of $9 an hour but gives corporation s a tax break on it in the "Wage reform" act. This act is passed to try to help the lowerclass move up to a better life.(USA) -11/5/1988- John Shacks wins the CSA presidential election with the promise to " restore honor to the fighting men of the South..."(Confederate States) -12/13/1988- Members of the velvet underground walk out of peace negotiations in geneva 1989-Terrorist bombing by the Pan African Justice Movement(PAJ) kills 61 and wou nds over a hundred in Berlin department store. 100,000 africans executed by germ an authorities as a reprisal. -Friendship chains are popular-colorful chains linking 2 people together at wais

t - Huge earthquake (8.6 on the richter scale) hits Tokyo, but the city is well pr epared and damage is minimal -Calves are first cloned from frozen cells in Japan.(Japan) -3/1/1989- "In winning a nation to the gospel, the sword as well as the pen must be used."- President John Shacks(O-NL)(Confederate States) -4/18/1989- Brazil institutes Project Rainforest, a planned reforestation of the Amazon basin (now nearly 70% gone). Billions of dollars and man-hours are spent refertilizing and replanting.(Brazil) -5/9/1989- President Shacks signs the Video Recording Protection Act into law. T he statute forbids the retail sale of any videocassette equipment which can be u sed to make recordings. All new tape machines must operate only in playback mode and consumer sales of video cameras will no longer be permitted. Schools and bu sinesses will still be allowed to purchase recording equipment but must obtain a license for each device. The bill was supported by a diverse coalition ranging from those in the entertainment industry who wanted to prevent duplication of co pyrighted material, to religious groups who felt that video recorders were contr ibuting to the spread of pornography.(Confederate States) 1990'sGlobal warming becomes a reality -- climactic turmoil across the wor ld as weather patterns shift. Desertification becomes a critical problem. Sea le vel rises 1 meter by the year 2000, and an additional 2 meters by 2010. Lowlands throughout the world are flooded, many cities are forced to protect themselves with dikes. The Sahel drought reaches catastrophic proportions. The Sahara is e xpanding at up to ten miles a year. World food prices rise. The Antarctic hole in the ozone layer is discovered to be a natural phenomenon w ith no connection to mankind. While pollution is affecting the ozone, it is repl enished at a rate far greater than originally expected. Newly developed underwater construction techniques see the birth of "aquac ities", cities built on and below the sea on the continental shelves. By 2030, o ver 6 million Bengalis are living in aquacities, and smaller sea populations exi st in the Bahamas, the Azores, Tokyo Bay, the East of shanghai, Polynesia, Mauri tius, and San Francisco. -Members of neo-pagan religions and wicca experiance difficulties in the CSA. A new "burning time" happens as rioting, lynchings and harassment from local gover nments against wiccans and neo-pagans reach new heights. A good chunk of the CSA ends up banning thouse religious groups.(Confederate States) - With the easing of tensions in the Lee and Hoffman detentes the pressure begin s to be off of the German Empire. After long consideration, the hard liners see that parts of the free market system are necessary to continue to drive the econ omic expansion, but that democracy has no place in the new order. Growing restl essness in Europe is handled just as harshly as it always has been for decades. Those who agitate for more freedom continue to be jailed or shipped to hard labo r camps. Thousands continue to be jailed, enslaved and tortured for their politi cal and religous beliefs, ethnicity, race throughout Germany's empire in central europe and its african colonies. A new influx of western technology is used to increase (slightly) the standard of living for the majority of the population(an d boost the standard of living of the elites alot), as well as to make more sile nt submarines, and more accurate ICBM's, as well as a better military infrastruc ture. The economy is improving, but the people are still enslaved. 1990-Comic book characters Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles becomes a national fad in th e US -3/8/1990- The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that the Video Recording Protection Act i s constitutional.(Confederate States) -5/1/1990- The Confederate government passes the sentencing reform act: This act provides for sending people who commit some felony crimes into punitive virtual reality "Hells" as punishment. As part of the punishment, their life force will be used to provide part of the power for the virtual reality machine. (Confeder

ate States) 1991- Spain forced back into Mittel Europe by german occupation and the atomic b ombing of Barcelona - A total eclipse of the Sun, visible from Hawaii and the Confederacy's Mexican states becomes a true tourist attraction. -the US moves to proportional represenation in the house. -At the end of a ten billion dollar research program against multiple sclerosis, a cure for the disease is announced. The team heading the break-through win the 1991 Nobel Prize. -7/4/1991- Due to new advances in how small the electromagnetic(EMP) generators are the first flying skateboard, the Spellboard is invented by Star Inc. The fir st Spellboards go on the market.(United States) -9/12/1991- Barnes v Glen Theatre rules that laws against public nudity are a vi olation of the constitutional right to privacy(United States) 1992- A Basque group uses a nuclear bomb on Madrid, killing 12,400; Spain thereu pon crushes the Basque movement fiercely; Deaths, cancers and other aftereffects of the blast and reprisals done by the Fascists continue until the present day - Project Genome officially hits halfway marker. Side technologies resulting fro m this are enhanced gene therapy and the precursors to anti agathics. Health amo ng the well to do among first world countries soars to new heights. The elite in the confederacy, germany and brazil also does well. - Roll-up displays (flexible computer/TV screens) go on the market -The head of the Indian department of science, Kamla Reddy announces "curing hom osexuality". This claim is met with a warm reception from the German Empire and Ottoman Empire but it gets a VERY cold reaction from the Union, Confederacy, SSS R and Brazil. -4/10/1992- Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, New York City and Los Angeles. Word of its taste spreads like wildfire and people begin pouring i nto the three cities by plane, train, and automobile trying to get a sample. Pep si stock rises 37%. 1993-2021- Initial, 'Progressive' period of new Golden Age. New respect for sch olars and learning at the expense of mere politicians. Immense scientific advanc es for the benefit of civilisation generally. However, in the Confederacy, Braz il and Germany these advances which include mind control technology, dust sized spy devices and effective internet surveillance among other ways of increasing c ontrol this new golden age becomes a third dark ages. The Middle Eastern nations of the OTtoman Empire and Hejaz Arabia continue to diversify economically into light industry and tourism. The world's largest Disneyland (1044 square miles) is built just south of Mecca. It is commonly know n as "Dislam". The tourist industry, one of the few which is not rapidly automat ing, causes a labor shortage which is filled by immigrants from Africa. 1993- -Iran's government begins opening up its politics more with limited democr atic reforms and moderate liberalization of laws. Despite the reforms and libera lization, and the US left still rails against Iran for being a despotic nation a nd for posessing nuclear weapons. - Deep explorations into the earth's crust by scientific forces of the Great Pow ers. 1994 Soviet and Chinese Cofnederacy forces clash over borders. The crisis nearly co mes to war but calmer heads prevail. -Several corporations start research into mental computer direct interfaces. Exp erimental software, and cyberdecks are being tested. - Confederates agree to SALT III: the Banning of IRBMs only free falling (thus r ecallable) Nuclear weapons allowed. All nations agree to banning of Chemcial an d Biological weapons.

- The Soviet Union deploys Turbocraft class hovercrafts on its borders with germ any's puppet nations and the fascist Chinese Confederacy(Sovet Union) -8/16/1994-Boeing Platform completed in orbit over Seattle-Tacoma. -8/20/1994- Pope Saul II issues the Vatican III: neo-Catholic Reformation. Celib acy is abolished and women may finally be ordained priests. 1996-2001- Millenialist religious and or political movements become popular espe cially among the young. This leads to polical unrest and civil disorder even in the developed world. The Confederacy reacts by banning these new movements. - A new illegal street drug known as Mnem hits the market. It provides short t erm total recall and is in high use among college students. The drug has side ef fects of causing people's brains to turn into goop and dissolve. The Confederacy begins using it for interrogation. 1995-The US depoly the first solar-powered collector satellites to beam microwav e energy to receptors on the Earth's surface. -Ecoterrorism becomes a major problem with bombings all over the US, CSA, USSR a nd Brazil. -The Confederate supreme court rules that neo-pagan religions don't legally coun t as religions and they're allowed to be restricted by local governments. This l eads to repression. -8/1/1995- When the Chris-tian majority takes over this country, there will be n o satanic churches, no more free distri-bution of obscene materials, no more neg roes living in white society, and no more talk of abolishing slavery. After the Christian majority takes control, toleration of heretics will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil.- Sen . Jebediah H. Rodack jr(P-HD)(Confederate States) 1996- Oscar Niemeyer completes the Niteri Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.(Brazil) - Man portable laser weapons are developed for Marine and Army snipers in the US military. Due to the cost involved in using high temp (-100F) superconductors. They are never introduced to regular troops. -4/1/1996- Ecoterrorist Theodore Kaczynski arrested after killing over 100 peopl e with mail bombs, mostly in a 1995 burst of activity. -7/4/1996-US New guinea gets statehood -8/1/1996- World-library established at New York City as a place to store all of Man's knowledge. -9/29/1996- Chinese scientists perfect a cheap method of desalinization of sea w ater. Fresh water becomes abundant.(Chinese Republic) 1997-Beginning of catastrophic thermohaline collapse. Ocean circulation patterns change, bringing less warm water north to Europe and causing an immediate shift in the weather in Northern Europe. This is immediantly marked by colder and sto rmier weather(the collapse takes place in fall). the Blizzard of '97 hits and ca uses over 3 feet of snow to fall over much of western europe. high sea temperatu res cause massive coral bleaching in the Seychelles, Maldives and western Austra lian coral reefs. -Riot act passed, police given wide powers to quell disturbances in the USA. -The Orbitz soft drink becomes a newly popular soda in the US - Tolliver's disease appears on the world scene for the first time and is a majo r epidemic -Beginning of construction of the bering bridge; a highway crossing the bering s trait. - New telesensory technologies developed. In the Confederacy these are used as f urther methods on control for slaves. -9/12/1997- Eighty-four men and women, ranging from age 16 to 77 are executed by firing squad on the steps of the capitol building in Richmond. They are execute d for what the CS government calls crimes that range from communism, to helping slaves escape, to murder. Twenty of the people executed are either mentally ill

or retarted. Most of those convicted for murder had not killed anyone. None rece ived fair trials. The executions are met with worldwide outrage.(CSA) -10/1/1997- The National Party under Nick Griffin takes power(England) 1998- HEI genetic engineers succeed in their first design project, they make a p air of unicorns, that look exactly like their mythical counterparts. -Microsoft is dissolved in a US court decision -1/5-10/1998- a devastating ice storm hits the new england states(United States) -2/14/1998- The US military deploys the first low flying Earthwing flying discs. These are the first usage of cloaking devices by the military(United States) 1999- Food riots of the late 1990's reach their peak in New York City, during th e three month truckers' strike. Thousands are injured as violence spreads throug h the city. -1/1999-8/1999-South American rainforest natives in Brazil and Venezuela begin g uerilla warfare against the two nations, citing economic and political injustice s; The Native Tribes Coalition is formed(Brazil/Venezuela) -3/17/1999- Beer Pong is officially recognized as as summer Olympic sport. -6/5/1999-Microsoft agrees to settle its long-running anti-trust case by divesti ng itself into four separate companies. Shareholders receive one-for-one shares in the new companies. -8/20/1999- , Brazil institutes Project Rainforest, a planned reforestation of t he Amazon basin (now nearly 50% gone). Billions of dollars and man-hours are spe nt refertilizing and replanting.(Brazil) -9/25/1999- Project Genome is completed. Man has mapped his own genetic structur e. Research begins among developed countries to design RNA tailored virii to com bat genetic defects. -11/2/1999-Riot act passed, police given wide powers to quell disturbances in th e USA as a reaction to the Great food riots of 1999.(USA) -12/1/1999-Interface systems perfected. Birth of "The Net". Into The Future 2000's- Due to the inefficiant apartheid economy the standard of living of the c itizens(read: "white" people) of the CSA start dropping from being the highest i n the world. The CSA begins experiencing more unrest. As a reaction The Provisio nal government increases security restrictions. -The One Nation Party under a new platform wins the CS gubernatorial elections i n the Carolinas, Georgia, alabama, Mississippi and Texas. Various horrible laws are enacted in the ON states (racial tagging, forced abortions, labor camps for the homeless, etc.). Most of these states also change their constitutions to out law interracial marriages if interracial marriages were'nt already illegal. -Gene therapy leads to the successful treatment of most genetic diseases and the prevention of genetic birth defects. Cloning of major body parts (skin, muscle tissue, bone, intestines) is available for transplants. - The practice of "Insourcing" which is (named after the "outsourcing" of indust ry to developing countries in the 1980s and early 90s), where production is chea per in these advanced countries due to the rise of fusion power, a highly develo ped infrastructure making transport of goods and operation of the factory less o f a hassle, nanotechology making extraction of resources easier, and technology making production of many goods almost entirely automated. 2000-4/1/2000- The supreme court rules that churches have the right to enforce their strictures on their members. This ruling is condemned in the US(CSA) -7/2/2000- The first version of the death control pill is invented and begins to be sold on the black market. -10/1/2000- "Facts? I don't need no stinkin' facts!"- Senator Jebediah H. Rodac k(P-HD)

2001- A statewide emancipation law is proposed in south carolina but it doesn't get the necesarry support to pass(the SC legislature is malapportioned to give t he eastern slaveholder the majority of the vote and of course theres MASSIVE cor ruption).(CSA) -The International Space Station is finished, well behind schedule and over budg et -3/1/2000- A massive "die-in" happens in Berlin where 15,000 people commiet mass suicide via the death control pill(Germany) 2002- General Don Goodfellow of the Union Army's southwestern division causes a border incident when during sentry patrol several hoverpanzers from his unit go directly on the border line. President Berricks in the World Forum bangs his sho e on the table and says "You shall not pass!" in reference to the border skirtin g by union troops. -Several Mars Colonization ships are launched, by various corporations and gover nment groups from Moon Orbit. -gold masonic star necklaces and silver $ sign necklaces become popular. The nec klaces are worn along with matrix style black trenchcoats. These outfits are wor n by people who like electronic music. 2003- Taipei 101, designed by C.Y. Lee & Partners, becomes the tallest building in t he world. -1/12/2003-Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) spreads around the globe aft er it emerges in the chinese republic. -11/8/2003-pepsi green hits the market 2004- The US/CS Border city of Piedras Negras in the confederate state of Coahui la is flooded by bad rain storms more than 30 die and 4000 left homeless. This l eads to a new round of race rioting all over the CSA as the marginalized darker skinned confederates get virtually ignored by the CS government.(CSA) -A massive earthquake hits the indonesian archipelago causing a tsunami that kil ls 310,000 people. The USA and USSR are the first to start rebuilding their area s in indonesia.(US/USSR/Germany/CSA) -11/2004-President Harrisan reelected by a large margin in the Union.(USA) -12/1/2004- The reelection amendment passed by 3/4 of the Confederacy's states. This amendment allows for Confederate presidents to get reelected. 2005- After extensive testing, innoculations are available for several genetic defec ts like Down's Syndrome, spinal meningitis -4/1/2005-Willis Leland Miracle and invent a method to modify the spins of suba tomic particles; In combination with the recent discovery of momons, near-relati vistic (though not yet FTL, nor efficient) travel becomes a real possibility in the near future(space) -5/2/2005- Cor is captured in Ohio and going to trail but for legal reasons the members of Othertimelines.com have to testify as witnesses -5/5/2005- On his way to court to face charges Cor escapes from an armored car w ith the help of Sebastain,SebSeb and Thomas Jewar. They go to a secret hideout a nd vow to kill all the Othertimelines members -6/28-9/6/2005- CSA Gulf Coast Hurricane Katrina - The Category 4 hurricane impa cts the Gulf Coast, flooding New Orleans in Louisiana, most of Mississippi, Tenn essee, and Alabama. The current number of fatalities stands at 10,942. This hurr icane surpassed Hurricane Pedro in cost of damage, becoming the costliest natura l disaster in CSA history. The incompetence of confederate authorities leads to massive race rioting in the CSA as darker skinned confederates feel ignored by t he lighterskinned members of the population. (CSA) -7/7/2005--President Betences orders Cor be turned over to "Saunders" immediatel y and sent to one of his "Happy Fun Camps" in Argentina.(US) -11/17/2005- Cor is found dead in his prison cell apparently dead from autoerot

ic aphyxiation. -12/25/2005- Cor's dead body is then packaged up and Launched at the galactic co re to prevent major contamination of the Earth. -12/27/2005- A close aide said Bolivias President-elect Evo Morales will reject C S economic and military aid if the CS requires continued coca-eradication effort s to get the money. -12/31/2005- A powerful storm plowed through Northern California, causing mudsli des and widespread flooding and snarling holiday traffic from Sonoma to Monterey .(United States) 2006-2/2006- The Plantation Party runs a series of campaign ads featuring the follow ing tagline "Don't be stupid, be a schmarty, come and join the Plantation Party. " (Confederate States) -7/8/2006- I think that one man one vote, democracy, would not be wise. There ne eds to be some kind of protection for the minority which the christian white peo ple represents now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a prote ction of their rights."- President Jebediah H. Rodack(P-HD)(Confederate States) -9/18/2006- Noted american socialist activist Connor Fontaine calls CS President Rodack "the greatest terrorist in the world"(United States/Confederate States) 2007-3/4/2007- "No man stands so tall as when he stoops to humiliate a man dressed in a rat suit."- Confederate President Jebediah H. Rodack(P-HD) 2008-5/23/2008- An effective treatment for tolliver's disease is discovered 2010-