History:Any event not mentioned happened the same time and in the same way in OTL

1588: Governor John White of Roanoke Colony is able to return with ships carrying supplies and colonists. These ships ensured that the colony would survive. Sir Walter Raleigh founds the Roanoke Trading company to help finance growth in the colony.

1596: The Virginia Company of London is chartered.

1597: Jamestown and Virginia Colony are founded. All British colonies founded ten years earlier.

1619: Carolina Colony is founded.

1748: Westsylvania Colony is established between the Appalachian Mountains and the Ohio River.

1750: Russian settlers found Yelisavetagrad in Alaska, starting a new colony, named after Tsarina Elizabeth.

1767: King George III partitions St. John’s Island Colony into 67 parcels of land that are distributed to his supporters in England. Residents of the Island are angry at the inability to buy land and at certain landowners producing fraudulent land documents and demanding rent from islanders.

New Brunswick Colony forms from western Nova Scotia

1770: St. John’s Island Colony is renamed New Ireland Colony.

1774: The First Continental Congress meets, with representatives from the lower 14 colonies and New Ireland present.

1776: July 2: The Second Continental Congress signs the Declaration of Independence.

November: Jonathan Eddy wins the Battle of Fort Cumberland, enabling a Patriot uprising in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

1777: Jonathan Eddy’s uprising succeeds in overthrowing the Loyalist Nova Scotia and New Brunswick governments. The new government joins the Continental Congress.

1778: Thomas Carleton, brother of the governor of Quebec, invades Nova Scotia. The colony would remain occupied until the end of the war.

1783: The Treaty of Paris is signed, recognizing the independence of the 17 United States of America.

1788: New Brunswick, Carolina, New Ireland, Nova Scotia, and Westsylvania ratify the Constitution.

1789: Roanoke Ratifies the Constitution.

1801: Toussaint Louverture writes a new constitution for Saint-Domingue and declares himself Governor-General for Life of the colony. He was persuaded to not include the policy of forced labor by his nephew and top general, Moïse.

1802: Napoleon sends an army to force Louverture to resign. A long guerilla war ensues.

1804: Napoleon is driven out of Haiti, which becomes a constitutional monarchy with Louverture becoming its first king.

1812: The Russian colony of New Rostov and its capital of Nikolaigrad are founded, named after the Count of Rostov and Tsar Alexander I’s new son (born a year and half before news arrived), Nikolai.

1816: Indiana appeals for statehood. Michigan receives the Toledo Strip in exchange for Ohio receiving an equal amount of territory on the western side of the state. Indiana’s borders shift west to accommodate this. A rivalry still exists between Ohio and Michigan.

1822: West Florida is admitted to the Union before the eastern portion of the territory in an effort to help create an equilibrium between slave and free states.

1840: The Republic of Texas is admitted to the Union, splitting into the states of Brazos and Colorado to work toward equilibrium. The Texas Rangers are the predecessors of Rangers in Brazos and Colorado, along with Oklahoma, Montezuma, Kansas, and Arizona.

1846: The Mexican-American War begins. Rebels in Chiapas launch a rebellion.

Arlington County remains in the District of Columbia.

1847: James Polk sends a division to the Republic of Yucatan to help put an end to the Caste War.

1848: The Mexican-American War ends with the United States receiving territory in the southwest. Mexico is forced to fully recognize the independence of Yucatan and the Republic of Chiapas.

East Florida becomes a state.

1855: Russia allows American and British settlers to buy land in the Yenovsky River Valley, OTL’s Fraser River.

1858: Mexico declares war on Chiapas with the intent to conquer it. The United States threatens war and Mexico steps down.

1861: The Free Territory of Jefferson is formed.

The Civil War breaks out. Maryland, Delaware, Westsylvania, Kentucky, and Missouri stay in the Union. Roanoke, Carolina, the Floridas, Colorado, and Brazos join the Confederacy.

May - July: The Knoxville Convention is held, where representatives from counties in eastern Tennessee, northern Alabama, and north-west Georgia meet to discuss their dissatisfaction around fighting a war that they have no interest in. They ultimately vote to secede from their respective states, form the new state of Appalachia, and rejoin the Union.

1862: March: Braxton Bragg invades and occupies Appalachia. A guerilla resistance movement persists until Sherman liberates the area on his way to Savannah, which he reaches four weeks earlier than OTL due help from the guerillas.

1865: Lincoln Territory is created from northern Idaho Territory and western Washington Territory and Oregon State.

1867: Due to maintenance cost, distance, and pressure from Great Britain, Russia offers all of its New World colonies to the United States. The United States buys New Rostov, but stalls on the offer for Alaska.

1869 – 1874: Yucatan-Guatemala War.

1870: July: The United States annexes the Dominican Republic. Dominicans gain stability and a close, stable market, while the United States gains strategic ports.

October: Russia retracts their offer to sell Alaska to the United States.

1872: The Republic of Alaska declares independence. Russia accepts on the condition that everyone agrees it was their idea.

1876: Jefferson becomes a state. The capital of Missouri remains Jefferson City to the annoyance of grade schoolers everywhere.

1887: New Mexico Territory renames itself Montezuma Territory.

1890: Lincoln and Washington become states. Oregon agrees to give Idaho territory, allowing it to become a state.

1893: The United States, Japan, and Great Britain invade the Kingdom of Hawai’I and reinstate Queen Liliʻuokalani to her throne.

1896: The Alaska Gold Rush triggers a mass migration of prospectors. The majority returned to where they came from, but enough stayed to leave a reasonable American minority in the Republic.

1898: The United States receives The Philippines and Guam in the Spanish-American War. Cuba and Puerto Rico become independent nations. The United States establishes a naval base at Ceiba, Puerto Rico.

1905: Alaska sells a portion of its southern territory to Canada

Dominica and New Rostov become states.

1906: Tomás Estrada Palma, the first president of the Republic of Cuba is overthrown and the people of Cuba vote overwhelmingly to join the United States.

1917: The United States, Alaska, Chiapas, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Yucatan join the Allied Powers.

Alaska sees a flood of immigration as Russians opposing the Bolsheviks flee the country.

1920: Prohibition begins in the United States. Due to their close relations/geography to the United States and their tropical climates, Hawaii and Haiti become popular vacation destinations for Americans looking to get drunk. Haitians operating gambling houses and running alcohol into Cuba and Dominica form the Kat Kay La, criminal organizations that would grow to include much of the Caribbean and parts of Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and the American South.

1933: Prohibition ends, Haiti remains a popular vacation destination for upper-middle class Americans to this day. Using loans from American banks, Haiti had improved its infrastructure to allow for tourism.

1934: Newfoundland does not join Canada and remains an independent nation.

1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. The United States and Hawaii declare war. They are joined within the next week by Alaska and the nations of Central America and the Caribbean.

1942: Japan invades Alaska and occupies the islands of Attu and Kiska.

1943: A joint Alaskan-American-Canadian task force evicts the Japanese from the Aleutians.

1945: The Cold War begins. There is minor distrust of Alaska in some areas of the United States, but due to over a century of isolation and influence from Tsarist and American immigrants, Alaska is a staunchly anti-communist nation. Due to heavy influence from Alaskan Native languages and English, Alaskan Russian is very distinct from Rodina Russian and some scholars assert it should be considered a different language. Alaska would be a vocal and active supporter of all efforts against communism in the coming century. Alaska remains one of the more conservative Western nations.

1949: NATO forms, its membership including Newfoundland.



Nicholaigrad, New Rostov changes its name to Nicholai.



1952: Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola lead a failed attack on a military barracks in Puerto Rico. The attack fails and the two are banished to Mexico.

1956 – 1960: Yucatecan Civil War.

1959: Collazo, Torresola, and Che Guevara overthrow the dictatorship of President Jesús Piñero of Puerto Rico. Collazo becomes the leader of the new Communist government.

The United States, Canada, and Alaska create NORAD.

Cuba becomes a state.

1960: Collazo signs a commercial agreement with the USSR.

1961: The CIA arms Puerto Rican refugees for an invasion to overthrow Collazo’s government. The invasion lands at Tallaboa Bay and immediately fails without the promised US air support.

1962: The Soviet Union places ballistic missiles in Puerto Rico in response to American missiles in Turkey. After a tense standoff and secret negotiations, both nations agreed to withdraw their missiles.

1964: The CIA organizes a coup in Chiapas, overthrowing José Castillo Tielemans’ Communist leaning dictatorship, and installing and supporting Manuel Velasco Suaréz’s capitalist dictatorship.

A 9.2 earthquake strikes near the Alaskan capital of Yelisavetagrad, devastating the city. Recovery is slow due to the country’s relatively small economy, even with American and Canadian aid.

Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz become the first democratically elected president of Yucatan.

1967: The largest oil field in North America is discovered off the Arctic coast of Alaska, causing the country’s economy to skyrocket.

1974: Richard Nixon resigns over the Watergate scandal. Vice President Roland Ritchie ascends to the presidency.

1978 - 1981: The Palmetto War between Chiapas and Guatemala. Caused by Chiapasito loggers poaching in Guatemala.

1984-1990: Chiapasito Civil War. A tenuous democracy is established.

1987: The Yucatecan Army launches a coup and overthrows the government.

1991: The Soviet Union collapses. Travel to Puerto Rico is still illegal for Americans.

2003: Oscar Collazo dies, leadership of Puerto Rico passes to Griselio Torresola.

2006: The Manos Marxist movement begins guerilla attacks against the government of Chiapas.

2015: The United States announces its intent to reestablish ties with Puerto Rico.