Rewrite this but it's set during modern day.

"1700s to 1790s
1720
The city of Saint Denis is founded and serves as the capital of the French New World until the territory is purchased by the United States of America in the early 1800s.
1745
Ross Gray informs the British government of the impending Jacobite rebellion.
1755
The Gray family emigrates from Scotland to North America and settles in the region of Scarlett Meadows.
1779
The Braithwaite family settles in Scarlett Meadows and builds Braithwaite Manor.
1782
Birth of Josiah Blackwater.[1]
1797
27 November: Cardinal Blanco of Madrid writes a letter to Brother Rodolfo, a Jesuit missionary in California, asking him to refrain from leaving his mission to travel east. Rodolfo later receives the letter, but ignores Blanco and dies in New Austin.
1800s to 1840s
1806
Douglas Gray and Lucille Braithwaite conspire to steal large sums of gold from their families to fund the abolition of slavery. The Grays and Braithwaites, each believing that the other family had their missing gold, begin a blood feud that endures until 1899.
1817
24 April: Birth of Hannah Chilcott.[2]
1823
Birth of Esther Sinclair.[3]
1824
Birth of Edgar Shelton.[2]
Birth of Seth Trice.[3]
Birth of Amelia Eaves.[4]
1826
18 June: Birth of Quincy T. Harris.
1831
Birth of Lila Shelton.[2]
1832
The Saint Denis Times Tribune newspaper is founded in Saint Denis.
1834
Birth of Judith Johnston.[5]
1835
Birth of Greta van der Linde.[3]
1838
Earliest possible birth date of the Red Dead Online protagonist.
1839
Birth of Micah Bell Jr.[6]
1842
Death of Belle Finch, of cholera.[3]
1843
Birth of Ada Stillman.[3]
1844
Sisika Penitentiary is established.
Approximate year that Hosea Matthews is born.[7]
Approximate year that Angelo Bronte is born.
1846
Mexican-American War begins. Fort Mercer is built in New Austin to exert control over disputed territory on behalf of the United States of America.[8]
Birth of Leopold Strauss.
Birth of Alma Horlick.[5]
1847
Death of Seth Trice, of unknown cause.[3]
1848
Mexican-American War concludes, with the United States of America victorious over the Mexican Republic. Fort Mercer is abandoned overtime.
22 July: Death of Hannah Chilcott, of unknown cause.[2]
1849
7 August: Death of Amelia Eaves, of cholera.[4]
Fall: The latest possible date for Uncle's birth.[9]
1850s
1851
Birth of Hoover Cowan.[2]
Birth of Dwight Bundy.[2]
The West Elizabeth Co-Operative Bank is established.[10]
1852
Birth of Delilah Gaskell.[3]
Birth of David Purvis.
Birth of an unnamed individual buried in Tumbleweed.[4]
Death of Henrietta Feaney.[4]
1854
Birth of Betsy Glover.[4]
1855
Birth of Mabel Bryars.[2]
Birth of Dutch van der Linde.[11]
The Bank of Rhodes is established.
1856
Birth of Ulysses Howard.
Birth of Murtel Purvis.
Birth of Rosie Tenerton.[5]
1857
Birth of Elenora Riddick.[4]
Birth of Clinton Underwood.[3]
Birth of Juan Calomarde.[12]
2 February: Death of Judith Johnston, of unknown cause.[5]
1858
Birth of Dorothy Hewitt.[2]
Birth of Alberto de la Fuente.
Birth of Herbert Forth.
Birth of Agustin Allende[11]
1860s
1860
Birth of Ira Somers.[2]
Birth of Pearl Palmer.[3]
Birth of Micah Bell III.[6]
Birth of Leigh Johnson.[11][13]
Darragh MacGuire is implicated in the Fenian Uprising in Galway, Ireland, and temporarily flees to Canada to escape British authorities.[14]
1861
The American Civil War begins. Lemoyne is one of several states that secedes from the United States to form the Confederate States of America.
Billy West marries Annabel.[15]
Birth of Edgar Ross.[11]
Birth of Landon Ricketts.[11]
Valentine Savings Bank opens in Valentine.
6 September: Elijah, a runaway slave, writes a letter to his uncle Lewis after escaping both the Pennington family and the owner of Old Harry Fen. He later dies near Shady Belle before he can mail the letter.
1862
Saint Denis Railway Station opens in Saint Denis.
1863
Birth of Arthur Morgan.[16]
30 March: A Confederate charge led by Major Hobart Crawley is routed by Union troops, resulting in the deaths of 3,202 Confederate soldiers. Major Crawley is the only survivor. The battle is later memorialized with a statue in Rhodes.
8 May: A Confederate Army force under General Quincy T. Harris attacks Fort Brennand under cover of night and massacres the Union Army garrison.
July: Leopold Strauss arrives in New York with his uncle.
1864
The Battle of Scarlett Meadows occurs at Bolger Glade in Lemoyne. Despite suffering massive casualties, Confederate troops successfully repel a major Union Army offensive. General Quincy T. Harris participates in the battle.
24 August: Death of Esther Sinclair, of unknown cause.
1865
The American Civil War concludes, with the Union victorious over the Confederacy. Lemoyne and other seceded states are subsequently readmitted to the United States of America.
Death of Edgar and Lila Shelton, struck by a lightning bolt.[2]
1866
Birth of Bill Williamson.
Birth of Lupe del Valle.[12]
Death of Philip J. Greenup[4]
Otis Miller and his boys commit the first train robbery in history.
13 September: Death of Georgia Dobbs, killed by a falling oak tree.[3]
1867
Birth of Hamilton Murphy.[5]
Birth of Obediah Graves.[4]
Birth of Andreas Müller.
1868
Birth of Louisa Warthington.[2]
Birth of Harold MacDougal.[11]
Birth of Mary Dutton.
4 November: Death of an unknown individual buried in Odd Fellow's Rest, of unknown cause.[2]
1869
Birth of Harold MacDougal.
The town of Annesburg, a coal mining settlement first built by German settlers around the turn of the century, is incorporated.
1870s
1870
The start of the "Picturesque Period". Many stories and legends from this period were later adapted to motion pictures in the 1910s.
Dutch van der Linde leaves his childhood home in Pennsylvania.
Beatrice Morgan sits for a formal photographic portrait in the town of Spring Rocks.
1872
Birth of Mr. Pickering.
Birth of Houston Greenup.
Earliest possible date for Seth Briars's birth.[11]
1873
Birth of John Marston.[17]
Death of John Marston's mother, died during childbirth.
Death of Ellen Nugent, to an epileptic fit.[2]
1874
The Lemoyne Raiders are founded.
Professional figure skater Felix Hawley loses his right leg.
Lyle Morgan is arrested for larceny.
1875
Death of Ada Stillman, choked on a fishbone.[3]
Latest possible date for Seth Briars's birth.
1876
Birth of Sam Odessa.
Birth of Butch Somers.
During a bloody coup, Francisco Ramirez Torres becomes President of Mexico.
11 January: Death of Juan Calomarde, of unknown cause.
18 January: Death of Gideon Knox, presumably from an orgy with six women.
Death of James Jacob Somers.
Frank Heck travels through The Heartlands, signing his name on Register Rock.
1877
Birth of Abigail Marston.[17]
Birth of Vincente de Santa.[12]
Birth of Norman Deek.
Micah Bell Jr. and Micah Bell III are on the run for the murder of Roscoe and Jean Briggs.
9 March: Dutch van der Linde and Hosea Matthews escape from prison in Kettering, Ohio after being arrested for defrauding local residents out of a total of $300.
Dutch van der Linde and Hosea Matthews meet and recruit the orphaned Arthur Morgan, marking the beginning of what would one day be known as the Van der Linde gang.
1878
Birth of Fred Peagler.
Birth of Ellie Boone.
Birth of Lydia Grubb.
Death of Rosie Tenerton, of unknown cause.
1 April: Death of Josephine Byrd, of unknown cause.
1879
Death of Mabel Bryars, of unknown cause.
Birth of Kit Skaggs.
Birth of Harold Thornton.
Birth of Nelly Dillard.
Birth of Isabeau Katharina Zinsmeister.
Otis Miller travels through The Heartlands, signing his name on Register Rock.
14 March: Death of Lucile Riggs, of unknown cause.
10 May: Death of Samuel Makepeace, of unknown cause.
1880s
1880
Birth of Earl Errington.
26 May: Death of Emma Crawford, of unknown cause.
Birth of Lenny Summers.
Latest possible birth date of the Red Dead Online protagonist.
1881
Death of John Marston's father, of a cause presumably related to his alcoholism.
Death of an unnamed individual buried in Tumbleweed, of unknown cause.
Death of Abe Shackleford.
Death of Greta van der Linde.
Birth of Hank MacFarlane.
Birth of Walton Lowe.
Birth of Isabel Feaney.
27 October: Death of Charlotte Eaves, of unknown cause.
1882
Birth of an unnamed thief, later buried in Blackwater Chapel.
Emmet Granger is sighted at the Beaver Brook Massacre.
Slim Grant kills Ged Calloway.
17 March: Birth of Owen MacFarlane.
27 June: Death of Elenora Riddick, of unknown cause.
1883
Birth of Gus MacFarlane.
Birth of Betsie Errington.
Death of Dorothy Hewitt, of unknown cause.
Death of Alberto de la Fuente, of unknown cause.
An eclipse occurred which famously blinded a man named Stretch Hawthorn. The story was later adapted to a motion picture in 1911.
August: Pleasance was founded.
September: Hosea and Bessie Matthews have a formal photograph taken of them together.
18 October: Death of Minerva Pratt, from a fever.
1884
Birth of Ethan and Bonnie MacFarlane.[11]
Birth of Abraham Reyes.[11]
Birth of Willie Feaney.
Birth of Antonio de la Cueva.
June: Princess Isabeau Katharina Zinsmeister of Luxembourg disappears during a royal visit to the United States.
1885
Birth of Irish.[11]
Birth of Travis Glover.
3 June: Death of Elijah Liggons, of unknown cause.
John Marston joins the Van der Linde gang.
1886
The 3rd Street Hardware opened in Blackwater.
Death of Obediah Graves, hanged for a murder which, according to his gravestone, he did not commit.
Death of Betsy Glover, of unknown cause.
Emmet Granger is rumored to be involved in the disappearance of the Laidlaw family.
19 July: Death of Carmen Galindo, of unknown cause.
7 November: Death of lawman Calvin Draper, killed by a criminal.
1887
Birth of Charlotte Lauterback.
Birth of Hattie Tanner.
Death of Pearl Palmer, of unknown cause.
Death of Dwight Bundy, of unknown cause.
Death of Lupe del Valle, of unknown cause.
15 April: The Lee and Hoyt Banking House is robbed by Arthur Morgan, Hosea Matthews, and Dutch van der Linde.[18]
10 October: Death of Bryon Vickers, from losing a duel in New Austin.
1888
Birth of Alberto Viveros.
9 April: Death of General Quincy T. Harris.
18 August: Death of Felix Hawley.
1889
Death of Ira Somers, presumably from syphilis.
The Prancing Fox Brand, a company selling socks, was established.
June: Darragh MacGuire is killed by British agents in Boston.[14]
29 November: Death of Sergeant Joseph Drummond, of unknown cause.
1890s
1890
Emmet Granger is suspected in the Chapparal killings.
10 January: Death of Myra Leathers, of unknown cause.
1891
Birth of Carlos Bonavides.
Death of Delilah Gaskell, of unknown cause.
23 June: Death of Jack Greenwood, of unknown cause.
12 July: Death of Theodore Kilbane, of unknown cause.
29 September: Death of an unnamed young black male, buried in the Blackwater Chapel, of unknown cause.
1892
Birth of Luisa Fortuna.
Birth of Mary Shackleford.
Death of Hoover Cowan, of unknown cause.
25 August: Death of Truman Briggs, murdered by his wife.
27 December: Bill Williamson is dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army.
1893
Birth of Mary Shackleford.
Bill Williamson attempts to rob Dutch van der Linde.
The Panic of 1893 begins, resulting in JD McKnight and others selling gold to the US Treasury.
18 August: Death of Matilda Eaves, of unknown cause.
2 November: Death of an unnamed outlaw, buried in the Blackwater Chapel, of unknown cause.
8 December: Death of Hank MacFarlane, to tuberculosis.
1894
15 January: Death of Peter Turner, from a blow to his head.
3 March: Death of Willie Swenson, of unknown cause.
19 May: Death of a child buried in Perdido, of unknown cause.
Bill Williamson joins the Van der Linde gang.
Abigail Roberts joins the Van der Linde gang.
Emmet Granger turns witness on Fosse Gang, leading to their arrest.
1895
The end of the "Picturesque Period". Many stories and legends from this period were later adapted to motion pictures in the 1910s.
Tavish Gray receives a letter from Edinburgh University historian Malcolm Moffat revealing that his ancestor Ross Gray was not an exiled Jacobite as he had believed, but a spy for the Duke of Cumberland who had been forced to flee Scotland to escape the Jacobites' reprisals against informers.[19]
Birth of Jack Marston.
12 October: Death of Estella Blankenship, of unknown cause.
Javier Escuella joins the Van der Linde gang.
Emmet Granger retires to his hoggery, granted by the federal government.
1896
Approximate point which John Marston deserted the Van der Linde gang.
Death of the Butcher Brothers, killed in a gunfight with Landon Ricketts.
National Bureau of Criminal Identification is founded by the National Chiefs of Police Union.
23 June: Death of Owen MacFarlane, to chronic diarrhea.
12 August: Death of Gideon Bennett, Ira Bennett, and Earl Bennett, who killed each other in a dispute over gold.
7 September: Jake and Sadie Adler marry.
1897
Approximate point which John Marston returned to the Van der Linde gang.
Leigh Johnson became the marshal of Armadillo.
Death of Clinton Underwood, of unknown cause.
The Blackwater Restaurant was established.
President Alfred MacAlister approves the finalized demarcation lines for the states of New Hanover, Lemoyne, Ambarino, West Elizabeth, and New Austin.
23 May: Death of Francis Moon, killed by Walton Lowe.
16 September: Death of an unnamed cowboy, buried at Coot's Chapel, of unknown cause.
1898
Birth of Florence Snyder.
Death of Larry Chambers.
Death of Philip LeClerk by gunshot, leading to the events of Red Dead Online.
18 March: Death of Hattie Tanner, of unknown cause.
Charles Smith, Lenny Summers, and Micah Bell join the Van der Linde gang.
The Spanish-American War occurs. Of note, Colonel Thaddeus Waxman captures San Juan Hill in Guarma.[20]
1899
The Wilder Publishing Company publishes the Atlas of the United States of America 1899. This edition features maps of the states of New Hanover, Lemoyne, Ambarino, West Elizabeth, and New Austin compiled and drawn by cartographer N.J. Worthingham.
An outbreak of Scarlet Fever occurs in Armadillo.
Leviticus Cornwall begins the acquisition of the Jameson Mining and Coal Company of Annesburg.[21]
May: The Blackwater Massacre occurs, during which Heidi McCourt is killed by Dutch van der Linde.
May-June: The main setting of Arthur Morgan's part in Red Dead Redemption 2.
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The Wapiti Indians abandon Wapiti Indian Reservation in Ambarino and flee to Canada to avoid retaliation for the razing of Cornwall Kerosene & Tar.
Dissolution of the Van der Linde gang at Beaver Hollow.
26 July: Death of Cole MacFarlane, from a gunshot wound to the head.
7 November: Death of Oscar Palomares, of unknown cause.
1900s
1900
Death of Butch Somers, hanged for his crimes as a horse thief.
24 July: Death of Maybelle Fordham, Archer Fordham's mother, of unknown cause.
1901
Basilio Aguirre Olmos de la Vargas begins his 10 year search for his great-great-grandfathers treasure.
Death of Mary Dutton, of unknown cause.
Death of Herbert Forth, of unknown cause.
Death of Walter Pettigrew, the founder of Manzanita Post, of unknown cause.
21 August: Death of Rosalie Tanner, of unknown cause.
16 September: Death of Antonio de la Cueva, of unknown cause.
1902
After a gunfight in eastern California, Landon Ricketts moved from the United States to Mexico, eventually settling in the town of Chuparosa.
Death of David and Muriel Purvis, parents of Cyril Purvis, of unknown cause.
Death of Alberto Viveros, of unknown cause.
A bicycle model (later branded the "1902 Model") was produced and sold by the Blue Head Wonder Coaster company.
1903
Death of Ethan MacFarlane, after irritating a bull.
Death of Hamilton Murphy, of unknown cause.
Birth of Ralph Anderson.
The infamous Irving Factory Explosion occurred, killing over 400 child workers.
18 March: Death of an unnamed thief, buried in the Blackwater Chapel, of unknown cause.
23 April: Death of Priscilla Johnson, of unknown cause.
31 October: Death of Dolores Falcon, of unknown cause.
1904
29 April: Death of Lincoln Crenshaw, of unknown cause.
2 June: Death of Fred Peagler, presumably from a brawl.
The United States takes over construction of the Panama Canal from France.
1905
Death of Louisa Warthington, of unknown cause.
Death of Kit Skaggs, of unknown cause.
Death of Isabel Feaney, of unknown cause.
Death of Houston Greenup, presumably from losing a duel.
The Skinner Brothers move into Tall Trees.
15 January: Death of Ellie Boone, of unknown cause.
25 February: Death of Quincy Brogles, presumably from a brawl or duel.
15 March: Death of Ambrose Lee, of unknown cause.
4 August: Death of Gus MacFarlane, killed in a bar fight.
1906
Dutch van der Linde is rumored to have died in a fire following a failed robbery.
25 May: Death of Jane Scranton, of unknown cause.
8 September: Death of an unnamed woman, buried in the Church of Tumbleweed, suicide.
9 September: Death of Joshua Benning, of unknown cause.
6 November: Death of Freda Dunbar, wife of Oswald Dunbar.
1907
President Thaddeus Waxman appoints Colonel William Thomas Kirchner as the chief engineer of the Panama Canal project.
Construction begins on Blackwater Plaza and the First National Bank of Blackwater in Blackwater.
Armadillo experiences an outbreak of Cholera.
The main setting of John Marston's part in Red Dead Redemption 2.
Death of Evelyn Miller.
The Bureau of Investigation is founded, and Edgar Ross is appointed Director.
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John and Abigail marry at Beecher's Hope.
Death of Charlotte Lauterback, of unknown cause.
Death of Travis Glover, of unknown cause.
Death of Mr. Pickering, by a gunshot.
Death of Gustavo Obregon, of unknown cause.
15 May: Death of Grace Blankenship, of unknown cause.
1908
Death of Nelly Dillard, of unknown cause.
11 April: Death of Lambert Henning, hit by a train.
1909
Death of Lydia Grubb, of unknown cause.
Death of Carlos Bonavides, of unknown cause.
23 February: Death of Orla Gaston, hit by a car.
14 August: Death of Alejandro Fortuna, killed by the Mexican Army.
19 November: Death of Hart Cummings, presumably from a deadly illness.
1910s
1910
Death of Mr. Braithwaite, of an unknown cause.
Ignacio Sanchez overthrows his brother in yet another bloody coup and becomes President of Mexico.
Crops in New Austin were ruined by an unknown personnel, and farmers were forced to sell their lands at a cheap price. The culprit behind this was rumored to be Jeremiah Somerset.
The map of the frontier, later used by John Marston in 1911 and passed on to his son Jack Marston, was drawn.
1911
The Mexican Revolution led by Abraham Reyes to overthrow General Ignacio Sanchez begins.
John, Abigail, and Jack Marston are detained by the Bureau of Investigation.
25 March: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire occurs in New York City, the southwest hears news of this disaster sometime later.
The main setting of John Marston's part in Red Dead Redemption.
John Marston arrives aboard the Morningstar steamer at Blackwater and is escorted by BOI agents Edgar Ross and Archer Fordham to a train bound for New Austin to begin his search for his former gang members.
Professor Harold MacDougal begins residing in Blackwater to study the local Native Americans.
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Landon Ricketts returns to the United States.
After being absent for 6 months, Professor Harold MacDougal returns to Yale University.
Dissolution of the Williamson gang and Dutch's Gang.
Birth of Francis Leonard Errington.
1913
Professor Harold MacDougal published a thesis declaring the impossibility of taming a savage man.
1914
Edgar Ross retires from the Bureau of Investigation.
Leigh Johnson resigns the position of Marshal of Armadillo.
Seth Briars finds treasure in Tall Trees.
Bonnie MacFarlane marries an unidentified man.
Jeb Blankenship marries his love, Lucy.
Harold MacDougal is expelled from Yale University.
28 July: Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, marking the start of World War I in Europe.
November: The main setting of Jack Marston's part in Red Dead Redemption."