Timeline (The Crowned Eagle)
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This is a general timeline for the The Crowned Eagle alternate history.
18th Century[edit | edit source]
1770s[edit | edit source]
1773[edit | edit source]
- Quebec City, Province of Quebec, British America: December 24–25 (Point of Divergence) – Three burglars enter the house of Governor Guy Carleton. Carleton, awoken from their intrusion, goes downstairs to investigate. One of the burglars mistakes Carleton for a guard and stabs him in his abdomen. The next day, Governor Carleton is found dead by his family. This, combined with the Boston Tea Party a week prior, would fuel Great Britain's vengeance against their North American subjects.
1775[edit | edit source]
- Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay, British America: April 19 – Colonial militias and the Royal Army clash at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, marking the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
- Quebec City, Province of Quebec, British America: December 31 – With the help of the local Quebecois population, General Benedict Arnold takes Quebec City from the British. The revolutionaries begin recruiting Canadien volunteers and Quebec sends delegates to the Continental Congress.
1776[edit | edit source]
- Savannah, Georgia, British America: June 30 – The delegation sent to Philadelphia is ambushed by a Loyalist militia on the outskirts of Savannah. The delegation does not arrive in Philadelphia until the next month as two of the delegates are killed in the fighting.
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America: The Declaration of Independence is signed by 13 delegations: Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Quebec, Rhode Island, and South Carolina. These thirteen states will be known as the "thirteen colonies" in contemporary history.
- Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States: September 11 – The Patriots suffer a major defeat at the Battle of Brandywine, culminating in the death of General George Washington at the hands of sharpshooter Patrick Ferguson. Washington's adjutant, Artemas Ward, succeeds him as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
1783[edit | edit source]
- Paris, France: September 3 – The Treaty of Paris is ratified by the United States and Great Britain. Great Britain recognizes the independence of the United States, Quebec, and the Vermont Republic. Britain also relinquishes control over Rupert's Land to American and Quebecois control, while maintaining her territories in the Caribbean, the Labrador Coast, and the island of Newfoundland.
1789[edit | edit source]
- New York City, New York, United States: 30 April 1789 – Artemas Ward is inaugurated as the first President of the United States and Henry Lee III as the first Vice President of the United States.
1790s[edit | edit source]
1792[edit | edit source]
- United States: December 5 – President Artemas Ward is reelected unanimously without any serious opposition.
19th Century[edit | edit source]
1800s[edit | edit source]
1800[edit | edit source]
- Paris, France: December 24 – First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife are killed in an explosion from an apparent assassination plot. Jean-Jacques Cambacérès, previously Second Consul, becomes First Consul and the de facto head of state of the French Republic.
1810s[edit | edit source]
1814[edit | edit source]
- District of Columbia, United States: April 6 – Following the battle between American and Spanish soldiers in the Floridas, Congress votes to declare war on Spain, beginning the Spanish-American War.
1830s[edit | edit source]
1837[edit | edit source]
- Madrid, Spain: 4 May – The conservative Carlists, backed by the Holy Alliance, defeat the liberal faction at Madrid, making Charles V the King of Spain and sending Princess Isabella into exile.
- Paris, France: 13 September – Two weeks after Spain's declaration of war, Grand Elector [name here] announces his surrender to the Holy Alliance, thus ending the First Continental War.
1860s[edit | edit source]
1860[edit | edit source]
- Wardstown, South Carolina: December 20 – In response to the anti-slavery Federalist Abraham Lincoln winning the recent presidential election, South Carolina formally secedes from the Union, becoming the first state to do so.