November 22nd, 1917: The Treaty of Berlin is signed between Belgium and Germany. In exchange for some minor border adjustmens and trade agreements in Africa, the Belgians are not turned into a sattelite state as per pre-war plans. This is partially done because the Emporer does not want even more territory that needs to be held down and partly to better relations with the British.
100 Years: The World Changes
- Thread starter Mr_ Bondoc
- Start date
Here is the first draft of the 1910s:
May 18th, 1910: Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet. Charles Taze Russell, head of the "Jehovah's Witnesses" movement commits suicide in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after proclaiming "the Rapture"...
May 31st, 1910: Emma Goldman is killed in a car accident in Spokane, Washington, sending shockwaves through the labor community.
July 30, 1910: Former President Theodore Roosevelt succumbs to a massive heart attack while visiting family. At the age of fifty-one, the 'Trust-Buster' is out of the picture.
August 1, 1910: President Taft calls for a national day of mourning in remembrance of Theodore Roosevelt.
August 29th, 1910: Korean Emperor Sunjong calls for active resistance to Japanese military rule in Seoul, Korea....
September 2nd, 1910: Koreans rebel against Japanese rule.
December 25th, 1910: The 'Christmas Revolution' begins in Peru and Bolivia. 28 officials killed throughout the day.
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March 12th, 1911: Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (or Joseph Stalin as he is more commonly known) is found while attempting to escape from his exile in Solvychegodsk, and killed. The junior member of the Okhrana that found him was later killed after he disobeyed orders to simply recapture this man.
May 8th, 1911: Mexican Magonista guerillas launch an attack on San Diego, Califonia, sparking tensions between the United States and Mexico....
May 10th, 1911: Captain Jack Mosby, USMC, leads raid of American troops against Magonista positions in Tijuana, Mexico.
September 27th, 1911: The Italo-Turkish diplomatic crisis is settled in Italian favour by Germany, who is unwilling to see her allies fight. Italy annexes Libya but pays a small monetary compensation to the Ottoman Empire. In turn for the negotiation help, the Ottomans join the Central Powers. Germany signs a defensive pact with the Ottomans, as does Austria.
December 4th, 1911: Inspired by Korean rebels, Li Yuan-hung proclaims the creation of a republic in Beijing, China...
December 30th, 1911: Li Yuan-hung is elected the first President of the Republic of China in Nanjing, sparking international attention...
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January 15th, 1912: The Federal League is founded to counter the monopoly baseball in America by the American and National Leagues. Founded are 8 teams; the Baltimore Terrapins, the Brooklyn Feds, the Buffalo Blues, the Chicago Whales, the Indianapolis Hoosiers, Kansas City Packers, the Pittsburgh Rebels and the St. Louis Terriers. Some credence is also given to the league when star pitcher Walter Johnson signs onto the Whales.
February 12th, 1912: 7-year old Emperor Hsuan T'ung (a.k.a. Pu Yi) is transported by British and Japanese forces to Hong Kong, after refusing to abdicate the throne to Republican forces...
February 13th, 1912: Great Britain, Russia, France, and Japan refuse to diplomatically recognize the Republic of China, calling it a "rebel insurgency". The United States and Germany recognize the state...
April 15th, 1912 - The RMS Titanic successfully completes its Maiden Voyage (the Iceberg was spotted early enough and course was corrected)
June 7th, 1912: Nikola Tesla is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on wireless power transmission in Stockholm, Sweden.
October 14th, 1912: German zepplin airships bomb Sheerness, Kent, sparking calls for resignation of the War Minister...
October 16th, 1912 - Fred Snodgrass easily catches a flyball in Game 8 of the 1912 World Series. The New York Giants defeat the Boston Red Sox 2 to 1.
November 5, 1912: Woodrow Wilson is soundly defeated by the incumbent Taft in the Presidental election of 1912. Also on this day, Franklin Roosevelt is re-elected to his seat in the New York State Senate, despite taking a break from campaigning to work for the failed Presidential bid of Woodrow Wilson. In the years' Congressional election, Democrats hold control of the House, but with reduced majorities, as the Republicans keep control of the Senate. Notably, many members of the nascent Socialist Party take up seats in the House, owing to the strong showing of Eugene V. Debs in the Presidential Election (10.1% of the popular vote).
December 10th, 1912: After an ultimatum, Montenegro, Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria declare war on the Ottoman Empire, certain that their enemies will not intervene.
December 11th, 1912: Germany demands that the Balkan powers cease hostilities. They refuse. Austria-Hungary declares war.
December 12th, 1912: Germany declares war. Russia, knowing that Serbia was the agressor but also knowing that it can't let her allies fall, declares war on the Central Powers. Also on this day, Hearst Newspapers publish sensational stories, reportedly being written by a worker in the American Embassy in Mexico City. These stories raise the tensions between the United States and Mexico. War is now closer then ever before.
December 14th, 1912: France joins the war on Russia's side.
December 19th, 1912: In trade for a declaration of war on the Entente, Italy receives an influence sphere in Albania and Kosovo, as well as Austrian Trento. Italy declares war on the Entente.
December 20th, 1912: Germany invades Belgium, following the Von Schlieffen Plan. Britain declares war. Japan refuses to join the war, being busy with the Korean revolt. In the Balkans, the Serb advance stalls after conquering Kosovo thanks to having to fight a two-front war.
December 25th, 1912: President Taft secretly contacts the British to plan for a possible arbitration should the United States and Mexico do declare war.
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January 4th, 1913 - The German's win the Battle of Verdun. Young Charles de Gaulle dies in Battle of Verdun.
January 24th, 1913: Franz Kafka announces the completion of his novel Amerika in Prague, Austria-Hungary....
February 10th, 1913: Military officials in Toronto, Ontario report several German zeppelin airships hovering over the capital, causing riots and civil unrest in both Canada and the United States...
February 14, 1913 - the Valentine's Day raid upon San Diego, California occurs, the Taft administration is hesitant to declare war
February 19th 1913: Adolf Hitler dies in Serbia.
February 22nd, 1913: British naval transport HMS City of Leeds is sunk off the coast of Spurn Point, England...
March 20th, 1913: "September Morn" by Paul Chabas becomes a big hit of the art world in Paris, France.
March 22nd, 1913 - Hearst newspapers call for "A war upon Baja". Less than a week later, a Senate vote is called. The 63rd Congress votes 74 to 22 in favor of a declaration of war upon Mexico's "Baja Peninsula". The Baja War has begun. Also on this day, Pope Pius X dies in the Vatican City, sparking a succession crisis, many people attribute the stress of the war...
April 23rd, 1913: Basilio Pompilj (a.k.a. Benedict XV) is named Pope by the College of Cardinals in the Vatican City...
April 26th, 1913: Yuan Shikai, backed by British and Japanese forces, calls for rebellion against the Republican government in Nanjing...
May 4th, 1913: Czarevitsh of Russia Alexei injured and dies from bleeding.
May 9th, 1913: In Poland, nationalist demonstrations erupt in violence demanding autonomy.
June 5th, 1913: In Finland, violence erupts as nationalist demonstrations take place.
June 6th, 1913: Paris falls to the Central Powers.
June 7th, 1913: Emperor Wilhelm II suffers a stroke and dies later that same day.
July 1st, 1913: Korea gains independence from Japan
July 23rd, 1913: Chinese Civil War; Monarchist forces led by Yuan Shikai, and backed by foreign military forces, lay siege to Nanjing....
August 5th 1913: Turning point of the revolution in Peru and Bolivia. Rebels are winning.
September 10th, 1913: The German High Seas Fleet and the British Grand Fleet clash in the biggest Naval Battle since Trafalgar near the Dogger Bank in the North Sea. Superior training and tactics lead to a clear and decisive Victory for the British, loosing three Dreadnoughts, HMS King George V, HMS Vanguard and HMS Orion. The Germans losses are far worse, only SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II is undamaged, and only three other ships of the Battle Line make it back. It is the end of the German Surface Fleet since Emporer Wilhelm III decides that the resources should be put to use in the Army. However Tirpitz and the rest of the SKL hope to rebuild the fleet after the war is won. All ships under construction are scrapped and any guns, if existing, are turned over to the Army Artillery.
September 11th, 1913 - The Revenue Act of 1913, which would implement a federal income tax is not passed by the United States Senate, as a response to the Socialist bloc increasing the income tax rate to levels that Senator Elihu Root (R-NY) called "ludicrously high". Despite the successful passage of the 16th amendment. Republicans blame the Socialist bloc in the House of Representatives. Taft, who supported the tax is now a lame duck president.
November 5th, 1913 - The Battle of Ensenada occurs, approximately 800 American soldiers die in the battle. The Secretary of State warns him about the continuing chaos of the Mexican revolution and privately says to Taft, "The instant we got involved, we made this whole Revolution explode."
November 19th, 1913: President Li Yuan-hung calls for an alliance with Germany and the Central Powers in Nanjing...
December 25th, 1913: William Randolph Hearst, following his extreme dissatisfaction with the Democrats conduct during the Income Tax debacle, pens an editorial where he announces that he is "switching bandwagons". The support of Hearst newspapers in the 1914 midterm election would prove a valuable tool for the Republican party.
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April 2nd, 1914: The Inaugural season starts fro the Federal League. After a close season, the Chicago Whales win the League championship over the Indianapolis Hoosiers by a .001 winning percentage. Star Walter Johnson is a great help.
April 11th, 1914 - Japan embarassed by Korea's successful bid for independence and bitter regarding Russia behavior during the incident, decides to exploit an opportunity presented by the war in Europe, and declares war on Russia, while trying to remain neutral in the war in Europe arguing that the war in Asia will not effect the European one. Emperor Taisho declares war upon Russia. The Second Russo-Japanese War has begun.
May 1st, 1914: Emperor Hsuan T'ung is returned to Beijing, under guard by foreign military forces.
June 28th, 1914 - Franz Ferdinand survives an Assasination attempt. The man who tackled Gavrilo to the ground and holding him until police could intervene, Nikolai Wolfgang Neretva a manager at a local bank is awarded a medal by Franz Ferdinand. In later years Neretva would become a prominent voice of support for Austro-Hugarian empire, and a friend of Franz Ferdinand.
June 30th, 1914: Residents of Alta, Norway report several German airships flying over Elvebakken and Bosekap, sparking fears of an expanding Northern Front for the war...
July 14th, 1914: German troops under Field Marshal Falkenhein eject the last Russian troops from German and Polish territory. The Germans and the Austro-Hungarians gear up for a new offensive designed to break the Russian Army once and for all in spite of the recent Austrian losses in men.
September 6th, 1914: Pope Benedict XV proclaims the war in Europe as "the suicide of civilization" during a mass in Rome, sparking international attention...
November 5th, 1914 - Across the country vicious smear attacks appear against many democrats. Many of the secrets that Hearst editors kept in their files when their boss was a democrat, were now ammunition against the Democrats, following Hearst or as his editors knew him as "the Chief" switch to the Republican party. The Republicans maintain their hold and actual gain ground in the Senate with a margin of 57 to 39. The House Democrats lose 17 seats but the Republicans don't gain those seats either. 207 Democrats, 195 Republicans, 25 Socialists and 8 Independents. One of the few new democrats was House Representative Fiorello Henry La Guardia.
November 21st, 1914: German zeppelin airships bomb Tjolta, Norway, destroying the Skjaervaer Lighthouse, killing 24 people....
December 11th, 1914 - Arthur Zimmerman is fired as Foreign secretary of the German Empire, following Wilhelm III hearing about Zimmerman's plan to ally with Mexico against the United States. The telegraph is never sent.
December 22nd, 1914: German zeppelin airships bomb Morganbladet, Norway, killing 213 people...
December 23rd, 1914: Pope Benedict XV calls for an armistice from both sides of the European conflict, through diplomatic channels and during Christmas Mass....
December 26th, 1914 - German Zeppelins begin bombing runs deep into Russia, prepping for an invasion in April. Following suit many other powers begin constructing their own Air Legions
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January 1st, 1915 - The Japanese land in Port Arthur and Vladivostock, and begin moving North, cutting off the Trans-Siberian Railway, crippling Russian Logistics in this theater.
January 12th, 1915 - Italian troops besiege the city of Marseilles, France. Italian supply lines have been stretched to their limit following an effective trench defensive strategy by the French, and bad weather delaying German Zeppelins.
February 1st, 1915 - Wilhelm III, seeks to end this war of his father. Germany now controls about half of France and has ejected all Russian troops from Poland. He seeks to end the war in Europe. He wants an accord with Britain, reparations from France, and a demilitarized zone in Western Russia.
February 5th, 1915 - Under the cover of darkness the German ambassador meets with British officials in Copenhagen, to begin talks of an armistice. Considering that the British control the Seas, but Germany controls both France and have effectively defeated the Russians. The German ambassador states during the meeting, "Mr Ambassador, the German Empire has no desire to make an enemy out of Great Britain. You have proven your supremacy on the high seas, and his majesty Wilhelm II wants to reach an accord to end the war with Britain. Any accord would require your neutrality regarding France, but considering the last time Europe was at war, Napoleon dared to attack your shores. Leave France to their fate and there shall be peace in our time."
February 8th, 1915: Birth of a Nation released by director D.W. Griffith. Many see the film as a call for resistance against "Republican tyranny" in Hollywood, California...
February 12th, 1915 - Tsar Nicholas II is assassinated. Okhrana uses the assassination as an excuse to round up dissidents and political opponents. Lenin,Trotsky and others flee Russia for Britain. There is no clear line of succession and Okhrana places Nicholas daughter Tatiana as Tatiana I of Russia (Grand Duchess Olga, Tatiana's older sister had gone missing while tending to wounded on the frontlines. Rumors abound about her capture by either Austro-Hungary or Germany). Lenin, Trotsky and 2 other Bolsheviks elude the Okhrana and flee Russia.
March 14th, 1915: President Li Yuan-hung calls for the cessation of diplomatic relations with Great Britain and France...
April 4th, 1915: To start of the entire baseball season, the Chicago Whales play the 1914 World Series winning Boston Braves. In a tense game, Walter Johnson pitches a 3 hitter while Whales batter Dutch Zwilling gets a 3 run rare out of the ball park home run to win 3-0. The game helps boast Federal League attendance.
July 1st-6th, 1915: East St. Louis Riots; Federal troops are ordered into East Saint Louis, Missouri after race riots spread across the city...
July 12th, 1915: Bisbee Massacre; Local vigilantes burn the Mexican-American town of Bisbee, Arizona after rumors of a "Mexican fifth column"...
July 28th-29th, 1915; Harlem Riots; Race riots erupt in Harlem, New York after rumors that African-Americans are aiding Mexican forces...
August 10, 1915 - Dr. Ernest Manchester (a nobody in OTL) of Florida attests that for most therapeutic purposes, marijuana can be an appropriate substitute for alcohol.
August 14th, 1915: Chinese Congress declares war against Great Britain, France, and Japan....
August 17th, 1915: Jewish factory owner Leo Frank is lynched in Atlanta, Georgia over the alleged murder and rape of Mary Phagan. Lynch mob members place the sign "Moneybagger" is hung on Frank's neck...
September 17th, 1915: Local vigilantes attack the town of Hermanas, New Mexico, amidst rumors of the rape of a white woman...
October 9th, 1915: The Brooklyn Feds start batter Benny Kauff goes head to head with Walter Johnson, with Kauff winning the competition by ending a shut out with a walk-off-in-the-park-grand-slam to clinch the last game of the season for the Feds, giving them the best win record and thus the championship of the league.
October 14th, 1915: The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Boston Red Sox in a close series, claiming the title for the Phillies in there first World Series win.
December 3rd, 1915: The Supreme Court rules in favor of the Federal League in its charges of violating the Sherman anti-trust act against the National and American Leagues.
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January 5, 1916: Wilhelm III asks Pope Benedict XV to hold the Vatican Peace Conference. Lloyd George of Britain, Wilhelm III of Germany, Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire, Giovanni Giolitti of Italy, Franz Ferdinand of Austro-Hungary and Clemeanceau of France. The issue is to negotiate an end to the war.
Britain who had throughly trounced the German Navy, and had already gotten much out of the war (the supremacy of the Royal Navy). Seeks to somewhat stymy the German War Machine, and a restoration of France.
France is exhausted. Its Trench strategy has failed following the Germans use of Air bombardments. They have lost Paris, and are bitterly entrenched in Toulouse.
Germany's monarch Wilhelm III, seeks to end this war, he requires reparations from France, the Alsace Lorraine, and a demilitarized zone between Verdun and the German border.
Austro-Hungary is attending to support Germany in these negotiations. They seek reparations from France considering their support of the Italian army
Italy thanks to the German Air Fleet, was able to drive the French all the way back to Toulouse. They seek a demilitarized zone as well from the 45 parallel south, and East of Marseilles.
At the conclusion of the conference, Clemeanceau is supremely displeased with the peace that France had to agree to. Britain had abandoned them in his eyes to Germany and Italy. The great French Colonial Empire, save Algeria had been divvied up amongst the powers attending the Vatican Conference. But in the end he had to pen his name to the Vatican treaty. Thankfully Lloyd George had negotiated with Wilhelm III and gotten reduced reparations. France will be restored but without Alsace-Lorraine, and with two large DMZs.
Wilhelm III earned the title "Peacemaker of Europe" and now that the Western war was complete, he could focus on peace on the Eastern Front.
January 7th, 1916: William E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, head of the Anti-Saloon League, advocates marijuana as a replacement for alchohol
January 15, 1916 - Smedley Butler, and a division of Marines land in Veracruz. Their mission is to March to Mexico City, and force a surrender, much like in the First Mexican American War. Along their march they encounter an envoy from Venustiano Carranza de la Garza and his Constitutional Army. Butler and Carranza meet and agree to what would be known as the Veracruz Accords. After the Installation of Carranza in Mexico City, he would cede Baja to the United States, and he would have the support of the American military. Time would tell if this would come to pass. President Taft hoped an end to the war so that at least he would be remembered as something other then failing to be Teddy Roosevelt's successor.
February 11th, 1916: With the Western Front winding down, Germany and Austria focus on Russia.
March 11th, 1916 - Butler reaches Mexico City, and Carranza is installed as President of Mexico. The Accords of Veracruz were followed, much to dismay of the Mexican citizenry.
March 17th, 1916: Faced with a losing war on two fronts, the Russian army revolts.
April 4th, 1916: As the new baseball season starts the Federal League uses there leverage to get all 8 teams into the American and National Leagues. The influx of teams though results in the need for the movement of teams. As a result, many of the ex-Federal League teams move, south especially. At the start of the season, the new MLB set-up is as follows (Italics representing ex-Federal teams):
American League
- New York Yankees
- Boston Red Sox
- Chicago White Sox
- Cleavland Indians
- Detroit Tigers
- St. Louis Browns
- Philadelphia Athletics
- Washington Senators
- Chattanooga Rebels
- Kansas City Packers
- Chicago Whales
- Atlanta Feds
National League
- Chicago Cubs
- Boston Braves
- New York Giants
- Philadelphia Phillies
- Pittsburgh Pirates
- Cincinnati Reds
- Brooklyn Robins
- St. Louis Cardinals
- Baltimore Orioles (changed from Terrapins)
- Indianapolis Hoosiers
- New Orleans Blues
- Charleston Terriers
April 19th, 1916: "Spectric" Art Movement is established by Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish in New York City, New York.
May 1st, 1916: Nikolai Bukharin declares the United Russian Soviet Republic. He sends peace feelers to the Germans and Japanese.
June 1st, 1916 - the USAS Ticonderoga, the first Bombardment Airship of the United States is completed. the USAS Lexington and Concord, follow 2 months later as aircraft carrier. All other powers follow suit.
June 2nd, 1916: Treaty of Warsaw. Germany establishes satellite kingdoms in Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus. Japan establishes a puppet regime in the Russian Far East called Primorsk. Russian influence over the Far East is ended.
June 4th, 1916: Aleskandr Kerensky launches a coup against Bukharin, starting the Russian Civil War.
June 10th, 1916 - the Republican National Convention convenes in Chicago. After several rounds of voting they decide upon Charles Evan Hughes and as his running mate Robert M. LaFollette. Hearst himself now sits on the Republican National Committee, he wanted LaFollette to be the Presidental candidate and Hughes as Vice President, but was unable to get the other committee members to do so.
June 15th, 1916 - The German Empire, fresh from its victory in the Great European War finds itself with both a huge continental and overseas empire. In order to achieve fiscal security. They sell the Northern half of the former French colony of Indochina to Japan.
June 16th, 1916 - Leon Trotsky moves to Finland. Also on this day, the Democratic National Convention convenes in St. Louis. After only two rounds of voting they decide upon: William McAdoo, the Assistant to the President of the Central Bank of the United States. The running mate was selected to be James M. Cox.
July 4th, 1916 - The New York Times pens an article about how all the candidates seem to be chasing Teddy's ghost for an endorsement.
July 4th, 1916 - Tesla's company, Tesla Dynamic lights up the city of New York with its first Wireless Power Station Antenna in Brooklyn. Thomas Edison upon hearing the news had a heart attack. The Wizard of Menlo Park had died at the age of 69.
August 10th, 1916 - A bomb is detonated in San Francisco, killing 38 people and injuring 120 others. The bomb was detonated, outside of the Hearst Newspaper building. The next day all Hearst papers carry the harrowing tale across the country. Hearst himself is eager to blame the Socialists.
August 20th, 1916 - the American Air Fleet is deployed to Veracruz.
October 15th, 1916: After a fierce, close season, the National League Pennant Winners, the Brooklyn Robins, are narrowly beaten 4-3 in the 7th game of the World Series by the American League Pennant winners, the Chicago Whales. The win gives the now expanded MLB a source of excitement. The snub starts one of the most heated inter-league rivalries as well.
November 8th, 1916: Surprising the Republican party, William McAdoo is elected to become the 28th President of the United States. A democrat is in the White House after nearly 20 years of Republican supremacy. Socialist candidate Victor Berger takes 12% of the vote running on an anti-war platform. He manages to tip both the state of Nevada and the state of Oklahoma to the Socialists in the electoral college.
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May 4th, 1917: Tiananmen Square Massacre; Anti-Japanese riots erupt in Beijing, as student leaders demand Japanese withdrawal from Shangdong province, killing c.3,000 Chinese demonstrators...
May 10th-October 1st, 1917; Red Hot Summer of 1917; Race riots, targetting African-Americans and Mexican-Americans, erupt in Charleston, South Carolina; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Washington D.C.; Norfolk, Virginia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Chicago, Illinois; New York City, New York; and Omaha, Nebraska...
May 29, 1917: John F. Kennedy dies in infancy.
June 27th, 1917: Annapolis Riots; African-American naval recruits are lynched outside the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland...
August 5th, 1917: Nikola Tesla unveils "radionics" tracking system for the U.S. Army at Wardenclyffe, New York....
September 30th, 1917: Elaine Massacre; 285 African-Americans are lynched and killed Philips County, Arkansas after 1,000 African-Americans call for wages from share-cropping...
October 31st, 1917 - Soon to be known as the October Revolution plunges Finland into a civil war against the German puppet government.
November 16th, 1917 - Wilhelm III now finds Germany stretched to its limit and "grants" Finland independence.
Novemeber 20th, 1917- Future President Robert Byrd born. Also on this day, Finland renames itself the The People's Republic of Finland.
November 22nd, 1917: The Treaty of Berlin is signed between Belgium and Germany. In exchange for some minor border adjustmens and trade agreements in Africa, the Belgians are not turned into a sattelite state as per pre-war plans. This is partially done because the Emporer does not want even more territory that needs to be held down and partly to better relations with the British.
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May 30-31, 1919: Tulsa Race Riots; Race riots against African-Americans erupt in the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, leaving c.10,000 people homeless...
September 4, 1919-Venezelan President Hernando Domico declares himself President for life.
October 15, 1919-Julius Martov is exiled when he and his freind Vladimir Lenin start the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, or in short the RSDLP.
November 4, 1919-Julius Martov makes it out of Siberia, his freind Vladimir dosent.From there he leaves to Argentina where he starts the Venezuela Socialist Party, which works in small groups.
May 18th, 1910: Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet. Charles Taze Russell, head of the "Jehovah's Witnesses" movement commits suicide in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after proclaiming "the Rapture"...
May 31st, 1910: Emma Goldman is killed in a car accident in Spokane, Washington, sending shockwaves through the labor community.
July 30, 1910: Former President Theodore Roosevelt succumbs to a massive heart attack while visiting family. At the age of fifty-one, the 'Trust-Buster' is out of the picture.
August 1, 1910: President Taft calls for a national day of mourning in remembrance of Theodore Roosevelt.
August 29th, 1910: Korean Emperor Sunjong calls for active resistance to Japanese military rule in Seoul, Korea....
September 2nd, 1910: Koreans rebel against Japanese rule.
December 25th, 1910: The 'Christmas Revolution' begins in Peru and Bolivia. 28 officials killed throughout the day.
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March 12th, 1911: Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (or Joseph Stalin as he is more commonly known) is found while attempting to escape from his exile in Solvychegodsk, and killed. The junior member of the Okhrana that found him was later killed after he disobeyed orders to simply recapture this man.
May 8th, 1911: Mexican Magonista guerillas launch an attack on San Diego, Califonia, sparking tensions between the United States and Mexico....
May 10th, 1911: Captain Jack Mosby, USMC, leads raid of American troops against Magonista positions in Tijuana, Mexico.
September 27th, 1911: The Italo-Turkish diplomatic crisis is settled in Italian favour by Germany, who is unwilling to see her allies fight. Italy annexes Libya but pays a small monetary compensation to the Ottoman Empire. In turn for the negotiation help, the Ottomans join the Central Powers. Germany signs a defensive pact with the Ottomans, as does Austria.
December 4th, 1911: Inspired by Korean rebels, Li Yuan-hung proclaims the creation of a republic in Beijing, China...
December 30th, 1911: Li Yuan-hung is elected the first President of the Republic of China in Nanjing, sparking international attention...
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January 15th, 1912: The Federal League is founded to counter the monopoly baseball in America by the American and National Leagues. Founded are 8 teams; the Baltimore Terrapins, the Brooklyn Feds, the Buffalo Blues, the Chicago Whales, the Indianapolis Hoosiers, Kansas City Packers, the Pittsburgh Rebels and the St. Louis Terriers. Some credence is also given to the league when star pitcher Walter Johnson signs onto the Whales.
February 12th, 1912: 7-year old Emperor Hsuan T'ung (a.k.a. Pu Yi) is transported by British and Japanese forces to Hong Kong, after refusing to abdicate the throne to Republican forces...
February 13th, 1912: Great Britain, Russia, France, and Japan refuse to diplomatically recognize the Republic of China, calling it a "rebel insurgency". The United States and Germany recognize the state...
April 15th, 1912 - The RMS Titanic successfully completes its Maiden Voyage (the Iceberg was spotted early enough and course was corrected)
June 7th, 1912: Nikola Tesla is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on wireless power transmission in Stockholm, Sweden.
October 14th, 1912: German zepplin airships bomb Sheerness, Kent, sparking calls for resignation of the War Minister...
October 16th, 1912 - Fred Snodgrass easily catches a flyball in Game 8 of the 1912 World Series. The New York Giants defeat the Boston Red Sox 2 to 1.
November 5, 1912: Woodrow Wilson is soundly defeated by the incumbent Taft in the Presidental election of 1912. Also on this day, Franklin Roosevelt is re-elected to his seat in the New York State Senate, despite taking a break from campaigning to work for the failed Presidential bid of Woodrow Wilson. In the years' Congressional election, Democrats hold control of the House, but with reduced majorities, as the Republicans keep control of the Senate. Notably, many members of the nascent Socialist Party take up seats in the House, owing to the strong showing of Eugene V. Debs in the Presidential Election (10.1% of the popular vote).
December 10th, 1912: After an ultimatum, Montenegro, Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria declare war on the Ottoman Empire, certain that their enemies will not intervene.
December 11th, 1912: Germany demands that the Balkan powers cease hostilities. They refuse. Austria-Hungary declares war.
December 12th, 1912: Germany declares war. Russia, knowing that Serbia was the agressor but also knowing that it can't let her allies fall, declares war on the Central Powers. Also on this day, Hearst Newspapers publish sensational stories, reportedly being written by a worker in the American Embassy in Mexico City. These stories raise the tensions between the United States and Mexico. War is now closer then ever before.
December 14th, 1912: France joins the war on Russia's side.
December 19th, 1912: In trade for a declaration of war on the Entente, Italy receives an influence sphere in Albania and Kosovo, as well as Austrian Trento. Italy declares war on the Entente.
December 20th, 1912: Germany invades Belgium, following the Von Schlieffen Plan. Britain declares war. Japan refuses to join the war, being busy with the Korean revolt. In the Balkans, the Serb advance stalls after conquering Kosovo thanks to having to fight a two-front war.
December 25th, 1912: President Taft secretly contacts the British to plan for a possible arbitration should the United States and Mexico do declare war.
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January 4th, 1913 - The German's win the Battle of Verdun. Young Charles de Gaulle dies in Battle of Verdun.
January 24th, 1913: Franz Kafka announces the completion of his novel Amerika in Prague, Austria-Hungary....
February 10th, 1913: Military officials in Toronto, Ontario report several German zeppelin airships hovering over the capital, causing riots and civil unrest in both Canada and the United States...
February 14, 1913 - the Valentine's Day raid upon San Diego, California occurs, the Taft administration is hesitant to declare war
February 19th 1913: Adolf Hitler dies in Serbia.
February 22nd, 1913: British naval transport HMS City of Leeds is sunk off the coast of Spurn Point, England...
March 20th, 1913: "September Morn" by Paul Chabas becomes a big hit of the art world in Paris, France.
March 22nd, 1913 - Hearst newspapers call for "A war upon Baja". Less than a week later, a Senate vote is called. The 63rd Congress votes 74 to 22 in favor of a declaration of war upon Mexico's "Baja Peninsula". The Baja War has begun. Also on this day, Pope Pius X dies in the Vatican City, sparking a succession crisis, many people attribute the stress of the war...
April 23rd, 1913: Basilio Pompilj (a.k.a. Benedict XV) is named Pope by the College of Cardinals in the Vatican City...
April 26th, 1913: Yuan Shikai, backed by British and Japanese forces, calls for rebellion against the Republican government in Nanjing...
May 4th, 1913: Czarevitsh of Russia Alexei injured and dies from bleeding.
May 9th, 1913: In Poland, nationalist demonstrations erupt in violence demanding autonomy.
June 5th, 1913: In Finland, violence erupts as nationalist demonstrations take place.
June 6th, 1913: Paris falls to the Central Powers.
June 7th, 1913: Emperor Wilhelm II suffers a stroke and dies later that same day.
July 1st, 1913: Korea gains independence from Japan
July 23rd, 1913: Chinese Civil War; Monarchist forces led by Yuan Shikai, and backed by foreign military forces, lay siege to Nanjing....
August 5th 1913: Turning point of the revolution in Peru and Bolivia. Rebels are winning.
September 10th, 1913: The German High Seas Fleet and the British Grand Fleet clash in the biggest Naval Battle since Trafalgar near the Dogger Bank in the North Sea. Superior training and tactics lead to a clear and decisive Victory for the British, loosing three Dreadnoughts, HMS King George V, HMS Vanguard and HMS Orion. The Germans losses are far worse, only SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II is undamaged, and only three other ships of the Battle Line make it back. It is the end of the German Surface Fleet since Emporer Wilhelm III decides that the resources should be put to use in the Army. However Tirpitz and the rest of the SKL hope to rebuild the fleet after the war is won. All ships under construction are scrapped and any guns, if existing, are turned over to the Army Artillery.
September 11th, 1913 - The Revenue Act of 1913, which would implement a federal income tax is not passed by the United States Senate, as a response to the Socialist bloc increasing the income tax rate to levels that Senator Elihu Root (R-NY) called "ludicrously high". Despite the successful passage of the 16th amendment. Republicans blame the Socialist bloc in the House of Representatives. Taft, who supported the tax is now a lame duck president.
November 5th, 1913 - The Battle of Ensenada occurs, approximately 800 American soldiers die in the battle. The Secretary of State warns him about the continuing chaos of the Mexican revolution and privately says to Taft, "The instant we got involved, we made this whole Revolution explode."
November 19th, 1913: President Li Yuan-hung calls for an alliance with Germany and the Central Powers in Nanjing...
December 25th, 1913: William Randolph Hearst, following his extreme dissatisfaction with the Democrats conduct during the Income Tax debacle, pens an editorial where he announces that he is "switching bandwagons". The support of Hearst newspapers in the 1914 midterm election would prove a valuable tool for the Republican party.
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April 2nd, 1914: The Inaugural season starts fro the Federal League. After a close season, the Chicago Whales win the League championship over the Indianapolis Hoosiers by a .001 winning percentage. Star Walter Johnson is a great help.
April 11th, 1914 - Japan embarassed by Korea's successful bid for independence and bitter regarding Russia behavior during the incident, decides to exploit an opportunity presented by the war in Europe, and declares war on Russia, while trying to remain neutral in the war in Europe arguing that the war in Asia will not effect the European one. Emperor Taisho declares war upon Russia. The Second Russo-Japanese War has begun.
May 1st, 1914: Emperor Hsuan T'ung is returned to Beijing, under guard by foreign military forces.
June 28th, 1914 - Franz Ferdinand survives an Assasination attempt. The man who tackled Gavrilo to the ground and holding him until police could intervene, Nikolai Wolfgang Neretva a manager at a local bank is awarded a medal by Franz Ferdinand. In later years Neretva would become a prominent voice of support for Austro-Hugarian empire, and a friend of Franz Ferdinand.
June 30th, 1914: Residents of Alta, Norway report several German airships flying over Elvebakken and Bosekap, sparking fears of an expanding Northern Front for the war...
July 14th, 1914: German troops under Field Marshal Falkenhein eject the last Russian troops from German and Polish territory. The Germans and the Austro-Hungarians gear up for a new offensive designed to break the Russian Army once and for all in spite of the recent Austrian losses in men.
September 6th, 1914: Pope Benedict XV proclaims the war in Europe as "the suicide of civilization" during a mass in Rome, sparking international attention...
November 5th, 1914 - Across the country vicious smear attacks appear against many democrats. Many of the secrets that Hearst editors kept in their files when their boss was a democrat, were now ammunition against the Democrats, following Hearst or as his editors knew him as "the Chief" switch to the Republican party. The Republicans maintain their hold and actual gain ground in the Senate with a margin of 57 to 39. The House Democrats lose 17 seats but the Republicans don't gain those seats either. 207 Democrats, 195 Republicans, 25 Socialists and 8 Independents. One of the few new democrats was House Representative Fiorello Henry La Guardia.
November 21st, 1914: German zeppelin airships bomb Tjolta, Norway, destroying the Skjaervaer Lighthouse, killing 24 people....
December 11th, 1914 - Arthur Zimmerman is fired as Foreign secretary of the German Empire, following Wilhelm III hearing about Zimmerman's plan to ally with Mexico against the United States. The telegraph is never sent.
December 22nd, 1914: German zeppelin airships bomb Morganbladet, Norway, killing 213 people...
December 23rd, 1914: Pope Benedict XV calls for an armistice from both sides of the European conflict, through diplomatic channels and during Christmas Mass....
December 26th, 1914 - German Zeppelins begin bombing runs deep into Russia, prepping for an invasion in April. Following suit many other powers begin constructing their own Air Legions
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January 1st, 1915 - The Japanese land in Port Arthur and Vladivostock, and begin moving North, cutting off the Trans-Siberian Railway, crippling Russian Logistics in this theater.
January 12th, 1915 - Italian troops besiege the city of Marseilles, France. Italian supply lines have been stretched to their limit following an effective trench defensive strategy by the French, and bad weather delaying German Zeppelins.
February 1st, 1915 - Wilhelm III, seeks to end this war of his father. Germany now controls about half of France and has ejected all Russian troops from Poland. He seeks to end the war in Europe. He wants an accord with Britain, reparations from France, and a demilitarized zone in Western Russia.
February 5th, 1915 - Under the cover of darkness the German ambassador meets with British officials in Copenhagen, to begin talks of an armistice. Considering that the British control the Seas, but Germany controls both France and have effectively defeated the Russians. The German ambassador states during the meeting, "Mr Ambassador, the German Empire has no desire to make an enemy out of Great Britain. You have proven your supremacy on the high seas, and his majesty Wilhelm II wants to reach an accord to end the war with Britain. Any accord would require your neutrality regarding France, but considering the last time Europe was at war, Napoleon dared to attack your shores. Leave France to their fate and there shall be peace in our time."
February 8th, 1915: Birth of a Nation released by director D.W. Griffith. Many see the film as a call for resistance against "Republican tyranny" in Hollywood, California...
February 12th, 1915 - Tsar Nicholas II is assassinated. Okhrana uses the assassination as an excuse to round up dissidents and political opponents. Lenin,Trotsky and others flee Russia for Britain. There is no clear line of succession and Okhrana places Nicholas daughter Tatiana as Tatiana I of Russia (Grand Duchess Olga, Tatiana's older sister had gone missing while tending to wounded on the frontlines. Rumors abound about her capture by either Austro-Hungary or Germany). Lenin, Trotsky and 2 other Bolsheviks elude the Okhrana and flee Russia.
March 14th, 1915: President Li Yuan-hung calls for the cessation of diplomatic relations with Great Britain and France...
April 4th, 1915: To start of the entire baseball season, the Chicago Whales play the 1914 World Series winning Boston Braves. In a tense game, Walter Johnson pitches a 3 hitter while Whales batter Dutch Zwilling gets a 3 run rare out of the ball park home run to win 3-0. The game helps boast Federal League attendance.
July 1st-6th, 1915: East St. Louis Riots; Federal troops are ordered into East Saint Louis, Missouri after race riots spread across the city...
July 12th, 1915: Bisbee Massacre; Local vigilantes burn the Mexican-American town of Bisbee, Arizona after rumors of a "Mexican fifth column"...
July 28th-29th, 1915; Harlem Riots; Race riots erupt in Harlem, New York after rumors that African-Americans are aiding Mexican forces...
August 10, 1915 - Dr. Ernest Manchester (a nobody in OTL) of Florida attests that for most therapeutic purposes, marijuana can be an appropriate substitute for alcohol.
August 14th, 1915: Chinese Congress declares war against Great Britain, France, and Japan....
August 17th, 1915: Jewish factory owner Leo Frank is lynched in Atlanta, Georgia over the alleged murder and rape of Mary Phagan. Lynch mob members place the sign "Moneybagger" is hung on Frank's neck...
September 17th, 1915: Local vigilantes attack the town of Hermanas, New Mexico, amidst rumors of the rape of a white woman...
October 9th, 1915: The Brooklyn Feds start batter Benny Kauff goes head to head with Walter Johnson, with Kauff winning the competition by ending a shut out with a walk-off-in-the-park-grand-slam to clinch the last game of the season for the Feds, giving them the best win record and thus the championship of the league.
October 14th, 1915: The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Boston Red Sox in a close series, claiming the title for the Phillies in there first World Series win.
December 3rd, 1915: The Supreme Court rules in favor of the Federal League in its charges of violating the Sherman anti-trust act against the National and American Leagues.
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January 5, 1916: Wilhelm III asks Pope Benedict XV to hold the Vatican Peace Conference. Lloyd George of Britain, Wilhelm III of Germany, Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire, Giovanni Giolitti of Italy, Franz Ferdinand of Austro-Hungary and Clemeanceau of France. The issue is to negotiate an end to the war.
Britain who had throughly trounced the German Navy, and had already gotten much out of the war (the supremacy of the Royal Navy). Seeks to somewhat stymy the German War Machine, and a restoration of France.
France is exhausted. Its Trench strategy has failed following the Germans use of Air bombardments. They have lost Paris, and are bitterly entrenched in Toulouse.
Germany's monarch Wilhelm III, seeks to end this war, he requires reparations from France, the Alsace Lorraine, and a demilitarized zone between Verdun and the German border.
Austro-Hungary is attending to support Germany in these negotiations. They seek reparations from France considering their support of the Italian army
Italy thanks to the German Air Fleet, was able to drive the French all the way back to Toulouse. They seek a demilitarized zone as well from the 45 parallel south, and East of Marseilles.
At the conclusion of the conference, Clemeanceau is supremely displeased with the peace that France had to agree to. Britain had abandoned them in his eyes to Germany and Italy. The great French Colonial Empire, save Algeria had been divvied up amongst the powers attending the Vatican Conference. But in the end he had to pen his name to the Vatican treaty. Thankfully Lloyd George had negotiated with Wilhelm III and gotten reduced reparations. France will be restored but without Alsace-Lorraine, and with two large DMZs.
Wilhelm III earned the title "Peacemaker of Europe" and now that the Western war was complete, he could focus on peace on the Eastern Front.
January 7th, 1916: William E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, head of the Anti-Saloon League, advocates marijuana as a replacement for alchohol
January 15, 1916 - Smedley Butler, and a division of Marines land in Veracruz. Their mission is to March to Mexico City, and force a surrender, much like in the First Mexican American War. Along their march they encounter an envoy from Venustiano Carranza de la Garza and his Constitutional Army. Butler and Carranza meet and agree to what would be known as the Veracruz Accords. After the Installation of Carranza in Mexico City, he would cede Baja to the United States, and he would have the support of the American military. Time would tell if this would come to pass. President Taft hoped an end to the war so that at least he would be remembered as something other then failing to be Teddy Roosevelt's successor.
February 11th, 1916: With the Western Front winding down, Germany and Austria focus on Russia.
March 11th, 1916 - Butler reaches Mexico City, and Carranza is installed as President of Mexico. The Accords of Veracruz were followed, much to dismay of the Mexican citizenry.
March 17th, 1916: Faced with a losing war on two fronts, the Russian army revolts.
April 4th, 1916: As the new baseball season starts the Federal League uses there leverage to get all 8 teams into the American and National Leagues. The influx of teams though results in the need for the movement of teams. As a result, many of the ex-Federal League teams move, south especially. At the start of the season, the new MLB set-up is as follows (Italics representing ex-Federal teams):
American League
- New York Yankees
- Boston Red Sox
- Chicago White Sox
- Cleavland Indians
- Detroit Tigers
- St. Louis Browns
- Philadelphia Athletics
- Washington Senators
- Chattanooga Rebels
- Kansas City Packers
- Chicago Whales
- Atlanta Feds
National League
- Chicago Cubs
- Boston Braves
- New York Giants
- Philadelphia Phillies
- Pittsburgh Pirates
- Cincinnati Reds
- Brooklyn Robins
- St. Louis Cardinals
- Baltimore Orioles (changed from Terrapins)
- Indianapolis Hoosiers
- New Orleans Blues
- Charleston Terriers
April 19th, 1916: "Spectric" Art Movement is established by Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish in New York City, New York.
May 1st, 1916: Nikolai Bukharin declares the United Russian Soviet Republic. He sends peace feelers to the Germans and Japanese.
June 1st, 1916 - the USAS Ticonderoga, the first Bombardment Airship of the United States is completed. the USAS Lexington and Concord, follow 2 months later as aircraft carrier. All other powers follow suit.
June 2nd, 1916: Treaty of Warsaw. Germany establishes satellite kingdoms in Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus. Japan establishes a puppet regime in the Russian Far East called Primorsk. Russian influence over the Far East is ended.
June 4th, 1916: Aleskandr Kerensky launches a coup against Bukharin, starting the Russian Civil War.
June 10th, 1916 - the Republican National Convention convenes in Chicago. After several rounds of voting they decide upon Charles Evan Hughes and as his running mate Robert M. LaFollette. Hearst himself now sits on the Republican National Committee, he wanted LaFollette to be the Presidental candidate and Hughes as Vice President, but was unable to get the other committee members to do so.
June 15th, 1916 - The German Empire, fresh from its victory in the Great European War finds itself with both a huge continental and overseas empire. In order to achieve fiscal security. They sell the Northern half of the former French colony of Indochina to Japan.
June 16th, 1916 - Leon Trotsky moves to Finland. Also on this day, the Democratic National Convention convenes in St. Louis. After only two rounds of voting they decide upon: William McAdoo, the Assistant to the President of the Central Bank of the United States. The running mate was selected to be James M. Cox.
July 4th, 1916 - The New York Times pens an article about how all the candidates seem to be chasing Teddy's ghost for an endorsement.
July 4th, 1916 - Tesla's company, Tesla Dynamic lights up the city of New York with its first Wireless Power Station Antenna in Brooklyn. Thomas Edison upon hearing the news had a heart attack. The Wizard of Menlo Park had died at the age of 69.
August 10th, 1916 - A bomb is detonated in San Francisco, killing 38 people and injuring 120 others. The bomb was detonated, outside of the Hearst Newspaper building. The next day all Hearst papers carry the harrowing tale across the country. Hearst himself is eager to blame the Socialists.
August 20th, 1916 - the American Air Fleet is deployed to Veracruz.
October 15th, 1916: After a fierce, close season, the National League Pennant Winners, the Brooklyn Robins, are narrowly beaten 4-3 in the 7th game of the World Series by the American League Pennant winners, the Chicago Whales. The win gives the now expanded MLB a source of excitement. The snub starts one of the most heated inter-league rivalries as well.
November 8th, 1916: Surprising the Republican party, William McAdoo is elected to become the 28th President of the United States. A democrat is in the White House after nearly 20 years of Republican supremacy. Socialist candidate Victor Berger takes 12% of the vote running on an anti-war platform. He manages to tip both the state of Nevada and the state of Oklahoma to the Socialists in the electoral college.
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May 4th, 1917: Tiananmen Square Massacre; Anti-Japanese riots erupt in Beijing, as student leaders demand Japanese withdrawal from Shangdong province, killing c.3,000 Chinese demonstrators...
May 10th-October 1st, 1917; Red Hot Summer of 1917; Race riots, targetting African-Americans and Mexican-Americans, erupt in Charleston, South Carolina; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Washington D.C.; Norfolk, Virginia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Chicago, Illinois; New York City, New York; and Omaha, Nebraska...
May 29, 1917: John F. Kennedy dies in infancy.
June 27th, 1917: Annapolis Riots; African-American naval recruits are lynched outside the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland...
August 5th, 1917: Nikola Tesla unveils "radionics" tracking system for the U.S. Army at Wardenclyffe, New York....
September 30th, 1917: Elaine Massacre; 285 African-Americans are lynched and killed Philips County, Arkansas after 1,000 African-Americans call for wages from share-cropping...
October 31st, 1917 - Soon to be known as the October Revolution plunges Finland into a civil war against the German puppet government.
November 16th, 1917 - Wilhelm III now finds Germany stretched to its limit and "grants" Finland independence.
Novemeber 20th, 1917- Future President Robert Byrd born. Also on this day, Finland renames itself the The People's Republic of Finland.
November 22nd, 1917: The Treaty of Berlin is signed between Belgium and Germany. In exchange for some minor border adjustmens and trade agreements in Africa, the Belgians are not turned into a sattelite state as per pre-war plans. This is partially done because the Emporer does not want even more territory that needs to be held down and partly to better relations with the British.
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May 30-31, 1919: Tulsa Race Riots; Race riots against African-Americans erupt in the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, leaving c.10,000 people homeless...
September 4, 1919-Venezelan President Hernando Domico declares himself President for life.
October 15, 1919-Julius Martov is exiled when he and his freind Vladimir Lenin start the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, or in short the RSDLP.
November 4, 1919-Julius Martov makes it out of Siberia, his freind Vladimir dosent.From there he leaves to Argentina where he starts the Venezuela Socialist Party, which works in small groups.
January 1st, 1918: The British Prime Minister makes a speech in the House of Commons, saying that Britain came out of the war ahead, achieved all it's war aims and even enlarged the British Empire, and can thus count it as a victory in spite of the French defeat. This and the French reaction to it spark international attention.
Germany signs a trade agreement with Korea.
Germany signs a trade agreement with Korea.
November 1918: Franklin Roosevelt is elected President of the New York State Senate thanks to the votes of both Socialists and Democrats in that chamber.
March 1919: Eugene V. Debs lets it be known that he will again seek the Presidential nomination of the Socialist Party while serving time for speaking out against American involvement in Mexico.
March 1919: Eugene V. Debs lets it be known that he will again seek the Presidential nomination of the Socialist Party while serving time for speaking out against American involvement in Mexico.
August 27, 1915 - General Pershing's house in the San Francisco Presidio burns down. Fortunately Pershing's wife and three sons survive the blaze unharmed, although his son Warren was heavily scarred.
January 22nd, 1918: The Emporer refuses to accept a motion of electoral reform that would not only grant universal suffrage for all Germans over the age of 21 be they male of female. Even though female suffrage is granted in mid 1919, the rest of the motion will remain an issue of discontent between the Reichstag and the Throne.
October 1st, 1919: After the election of a 77% majority Social-Democrat Reichstag, Emporer Wilhelm III refuses to make the new majority leader Phillip Scheidemann the Chancellor. This is just the latest in a series clashes between the Reichstag and the Emporer over just who rules Germany. The Reichstag desires a solution similar to Great Britain, while the Emporer wants to retain what powers he still has.
OOC: I am going somewhere with this, so please leave this line to me. Please?
October 1st, 1919: After the election of a 77% majority Social-Democrat Reichstag, Emporer Wilhelm III refuses to make the new majority leader Phillip Scheidemann the Chancellor. This is just the latest in a series clashes between the Reichstag and the Emporer over just who rules Germany. The Reichstag desires a solution similar to Great Britain, while the Emporer wants to retain what powers he still has.
OOC: I am going somewhere with this, so please leave this line to me. Please?
January 29th, 1920: The Netherlands allies with Germany.
February 19th - 24th, 1920: Leaders of Denmark, Norway and Sweden meet in Oslo where they found military and economically alliance.
March 3th, 1920: Faisal ibn Husain rise Arabs rebel against Ottoman Empire.
May 19th 1920: Egypt declare indepent.
May 22th 1920: United Kingdom doesn't accept indepent of Egypt.
February 19th - 24th, 1920: Leaders of Denmark, Norway and Sweden meet in Oslo where they found military and economically alliance.
March 3th, 1920: Faisal ibn Husain rise Arabs rebel against Ottoman Empire.
May 19th 1920: Egypt declare indepent.
May 22th 1920: United Kingdom doesn't accept indepent of Egypt.
If it's okay, I also have a map proposal, because the previous one didn't include any gains for the Ottoman Empire, and gave too much territory to France that neither Germany or Italy would want, as it's all desert. If I may, here's my map idea.
Oh, and I forgot Finland and the Baltic Duchy's eastern border, but I didn't have problems with them, so they should be there.
Anyway:
March 21st, 1921: Violence erupts in Japanese Russia. Especially deeper inland, the natives protest the Japanese annexation. Japan attacks back with brute force.
April 11th, 1921: China signs a treaty with Korea, bringing the latter under her protection. This angers Japan, but interests Germany. They propose an alliance to China and renounce their own influence sphere in China for a low compensation price.
June 5th, 1921: In France, hyperinflation appears as a result of the war. Several generals from the war toy with the idea of staging a coup. The far-right and monarchist movements gain popularity en masse. As a result, the government is forced to remove the law from 1886 that disallows pretenders to enter the country. Napoleon Victor Bonaparte, Jaime de Bourbon and Philippe of Bourbon-Orléans return to France.
Anyway:
March 21st, 1921: Violence erupts in Japanese Russia. Especially deeper inland, the natives protest the Japanese annexation. Japan attacks back with brute force.
April 11th, 1921: China signs a treaty with Korea, bringing the latter under her protection. This angers Japan, but interests Germany. They propose an alliance to China and renounce their own influence sphere in China for a low compensation price.
June 5th, 1921: In France, hyperinflation appears as a result of the war. Several generals from the war toy with the idea of staging a coup. The far-right and monarchist movements gain popularity en masse. As a result, the government is forced to remove the law from 1886 that disallows pretenders to enter the country. Napoleon Victor Bonaparte, Jaime de Bourbon and Philippe of Bourbon-Orléans return to France.
1919, April 12, Vienna: Adolf Hitler, a decorated and unwounded veteran of the great war, signs on as a designer for Ferdinand Porsche's automotive company. Porsche's ongoing interest in developing a lightweight automobile dovetails with Hitler's enthusiasm for a "people's car" that Austrians and Germans can travel about their empires with.
Let's finish up the 1910's first before we jump into the 1920s. I know everyone is excited, and we are almost there, but let's make sure that 1918 is filled up!!
March 12th, 1915: Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg is assigned to command ground forces against Japan, at Vladivostok...
January 1st, 1918:Battle of Berbera; Forces loyal to Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "the Mad Mullah") launch a sneak attack on British forces encamped at Berbera, Somalia...
January 28th, 1918: Forces loyal to Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "the Mad Mullah" seize the strategic towns of Jideli and Hassan, Somalia...
July 9th, 1918: Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill is court-martialed for his military failures against Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "the Mad Mullah") in London, England...
November 5th, 1918: Governor Geoffrey Francis Archer blames the failure of British forces in Somalia due to inadequate air power, calling for a stronger "Air Legion"....
December 21st, 1918: Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "The Mad Mullah") seizes control of Mogadishu, Somalia, despite heavy resistance by British forces...
January 5th, 1919: Warsaw Rebellion; Polish nationalists Marian Januszajtis-Żegota and Prince Eustachy Sapieha launch a failed coup in Warsaw, Poland in an effort to drive out German occupation forces...
March 13th, 1919: Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg is proclaimed warlord over Mongolia at Ulan Bator, sparking international attention...
August 6th, 1919: István Friedrich launches a failed coup against the Hapsburg Dynasty in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, sparking concerns of the polical instability of the country...
March 12th, 1915: Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg is assigned to command ground forces against Japan, at Vladivostok...
January 1st, 1918:Battle of Berbera; Forces loyal to Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "the Mad Mullah") launch a sneak attack on British forces encamped at Berbera, Somalia...
January 28th, 1918: Forces loyal to Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "the Mad Mullah" seize the strategic towns of Jideli and Hassan, Somalia...
July 9th, 1918: Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill is court-martialed for his military failures against Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "the Mad Mullah") in London, England...
November 5th, 1918: Governor Geoffrey Francis Archer blames the failure of British forces in Somalia due to inadequate air power, calling for a stronger "Air Legion"....
December 21st, 1918: Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "The Mad Mullah") seizes control of Mogadishu, Somalia, despite heavy resistance by British forces...
January 5th, 1919: Warsaw Rebellion; Polish nationalists Marian Januszajtis-Żegota and Prince Eustachy Sapieha launch a failed coup in Warsaw, Poland in an effort to drive out German occupation forces...
March 13th, 1919: Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg is proclaimed warlord over Mongolia at Ulan Bator, sparking international attention...
August 6th, 1919: István Friedrich launches a failed coup against the Hapsburg Dynasty in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, sparking concerns of the polical instability of the country...
Let's finish the 1910's so we can enjoy a world of President Pershing.
March 19th, 1912:Anarchist bomb a brewery in Boston, killing 12.
August 6th, 1912: Anarchists bomb a Pittsburgh steel mill, killing 17.
August 17th, 1912: A Russian man named Gregori Rasputin immigrates to Japan.
December 12th, 1912: Anarchists bomb several farms in northern Kansas.
January 5th 1913: Gregori Rasputin becomes the spiritual advisor for the Emperor of Japan.
December 31st, 1918: The emperor of Japan dies. With debate over who should take the throne, a civil war begins with the poor and members of the newly annexed territories favoring Rasputin and the rich favoring an aristocrat.
Someone else can finish the Rasputin plot to keep it interesting, and feel free to add more bombings too.
March 19th, 1912:Anarchist bomb a brewery in Boston, killing 12.
August 6th, 1912: Anarchists bomb a Pittsburgh steel mill, killing 17.
August 17th, 1912: A Russian man named Gregori Rasputin immigrates to Japan.
December 12th, 1912: Anarchists bomb several farms in northern Kansas.
January 5th 1913: Gregori Rasputin becomes the spiritual advisor for the Emperor of Japan.
December 31st, 1918: The emperor of Japan dies. With debate over who should take the throne, a civil war begins with the poor and members of the newly annexed territories favoring Rasputin and the rich favoring an aristocrat.
Someone else can finish the Rasputin plot to keep it interesting, and feel free to add more bombings too.
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I'm looking forward to the 1920s, what with Prohibition leaders now advocating the use of weed. 
Also:
(insert date here) A young corporal in the German army named Adolph Hitler is killed after an artillery shell explodes next to him at the battle of (insert location here).
There, we just did this world a favor. Now all that’s left is Mao, and we’d have ridded this world of the 20th century’s 3 worst tyrants.
Also:(insert date here) A young corporal in the German army named Adolph Hitler is killed after an artillery shell explodes next to him at the battle of (insert location here).
There, we just did this world a favor. Now all that’s left is Mao, and we’d have ridded this world of the 20th century’s 3 worst tyrants.
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Don't worry, that was already during the German campaign in 2/13/1913. As for the tyrants, don't worry, there will certainly be a few who will certainly take their place...I'm looking forward to the 1920s, what with Prohibition leaders now advocating the use of weed.
(insert date here) A young corporal in the German army named Adolph Hitler is killed after an artillery shell explodes next to him at the battle of (insert location here).
There, we just did this world a favor. Now all that’s left is Mao, and we’d have ridded this world of the 20th century’s 3 worst tyrants.
That's what I'm hoping to do with Rasputin in Japan, although it'll be interesting to see how Japan handles a white leader.
Why do people keep leaving off Ukraine and Belarus? Their German puppets too. And Bulgaria was neutral (and pro-German) in this war, why would the Ottomans annex them?
You do know the Taisho Emperor had four sons born by 1910, including Hirohito, don't you? And you don't give any reason why he would die eight years ahead of schedule.
Forgot Hirohito had brothers, although they we're young. Maybe time to write in an heir killing disaster? And in the grand scheme of things, 8 years isn't too long, people will die at different times ITTL.
Well from these PODs, not very well:
October 30th, 1916: Count Yoshimichi Hasegawa warns the Emperor in Tokyo, that as "gaijin", Grigori Rasputin can't be trusted...
September 29th, 1918: Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo, for "betrayal of the Yamato people"...
January 1st, 1919- Prince Hirohito (18yo) and Prince Chichibu (16yo) call for the execution of Grigori Rasputin as "defiance to Yamato people" during a speech in the imperial capital in Kyoto...
August 12th, 1919: "Showa Restoration" proclaimed by P.M. Saitō Makoto, claiming that Rasputin as a "gaijin" must be executed in Tokyo....