Timeline (Anglosphere)

This is the timeline for the scenario Anglosphere, a scenario where the United States annexed Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the British Isles. The timeline ends in 2050 as it will become too difficult to come up with a coherent timeline. Obviously, the main focus of the timeline will be on the Anglophone states, though major events beyond the nation's borders will be touched on as well.
== 2020 ==
* The COVID-19 Pandemic starts, causing a global economic crisis and a global lockdown.
* The United States suffers from major anti-racial riots after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
* Jacinda Ardern's NZLP wins the 2020 New Zealand General Election, securing a parliamentary majority without needing a coalition.
* Joe Biden defeats President Donald Trump in the 2020 United States Presidential Election after a prolonged delay in vote counting.
* The United Kingdom formally leaves the European Union.
== 2021 ==
* Storming of the Capitol results in the deaths of 5 police officers, drawing international condemnation against Donald Trump by America's own allies.
* Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States.
* The Taliban takes control over Afghanistan after the USA withdrew their troops from the country.
* AUKUS, a pact enabling Australia to construct nuclear submarines was signed. To this day, historians considers this the first move from America to fully subjugate Australia and the UK.
* Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party wins the 2021 Canadian Federal Election, though were forced to retain a minority government.
* The COVID-19 variant Omicron appears in South Africa, and began to overtake the dominant Delta variant seen across most of the world.
* Partygate, a scandal including the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson holding parties during lockdown, begins.
* All of the Core Anglosphere states barring New Zealand (America, Australia, UK and Canada) announces a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics due to mistreatment of the Uyghur people in China's Xinjiang province and concerns surrounding the freedom and democracy of the Hong Kong SAR. New Zealand would also not send any official representatives, though stated that it was due to COVID-19 concerns.
== 2022 ==
* After a major military buildup around the Russo-Ukrainian border, Russia's President, Vladimir Putin ordered a "special military operation", effectively declaring war on Ukraine. This resulted in a major schism between the Western World and Russia, causing Russia to become isolated on the international stage due to multiple sanctions.
* Antony Albanese's Australian Labor Party wins the 2022 Australian Federal Election.
* British Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigns after the collapse of his cabinet, sparking a major governmental crisis in the UK.
*The Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis began after the-then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan. The ensuing diplomatic breakdown between China and America resulted in the start of the "Eastern Trench", a term used to describe the polarization of East Asia.
* The NASDAQ 500 crashes after dangerously high inflation across the world as part of the fallout from the energy crisis caused by the Russo-Ukrainian War, starting the Second Great Depression.
* Germany and Poland completely runs out of energy supplies, resulting in a very strict ration on electricity, destroying both nation's economies. Finland, Sweden and the Baltics would follow suit.
* Rishi Sunak is elected as the new leader of the United Kingdom, though this was met with widespread protests across the UK.
* The British Pound Sterling collapses in value, beginning a period of hyperinflation after Sunak's economic policies broke the tresaury with unaffordable schemes.
== 2023 ==
* Russia captures Kyiv after the EU and America were forced to withdrew funding to support Ukraine as the West is in a state of economic turmoil. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is executed on film after Putin indirectly hinted the execution, causing widespread memorials and drawing global condemnation. Historians nowadays see it as a propaganda stunt by the Russians to send the message that the West cannot do anything to them anymore.
* Following the start of the Second Great Depression, French President Emmanuel Macron officially condemns the United States for overly sanctioning Russia, resulting in a global depression and Europe going dark often. This remark sparked an international crisis across Europe and North America, while creating a new wave of anti-Americanism within the EU.
* China overtakes the US as the largest economy in the world.
* Rishi Sunak was forced to resign following a no-confidence vote, resulting in another early general election.
*Keir Starmer's Labour Party sweeps the British Parliament in the 2023 United Kingdom General Election, taking over 400 seats in the process.
*Germany began negotiations to resume Russian gas trade despite the Russo-Ukrainian War still being ongoing, due to civil unrest caused by the energy rationing in the country. As a response, the United States condemn Germany for supporting Putin.
== 2024 ==
* Jacinda Ardern's NZLP wins again in the 2024 New Zealand General Election, though lost their parliamentary majority. 
* The unemployment rate has skyrocketed to over 10% in many countries across Europe and North America, a figure not yet seen since the Financial Crash of 2008. As a consequence, the Euro also drops dramatically in value, with one Euro now only equaling 0.5 USD.
* Russia captures' Odesa after a year-long siege, simultaneously announcing that they will annex Belarus.
* The British Pound Sterling reaches an all-time high inflation rate of 156%, with many in the British government criticize Starmer's radical policies to be damaging the Pound Sterling more and more. The supply crisis is relieved, but not solved in the meantime.
* Mike Pence defeats Kamala Harris in the 2024 United States Presidential Election, running with the promise to "make America stronger again".
* China initiates Operation Dart Fire to simulate a war against Taiwan, drawing widespread Western condemnation and briefly causing an actual skirmish at Kinmen Island after planes flew too far into Taiwanese territory.
== 2025 ==
* Mike Pence is inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States.
* Keir Starmer resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom due to a resurfaced scandal related to gatherings during lockdown. It was found that he bribed the investigators to clear his innocence. Another general election is held.
* The event above caused the British Stock Market to collapse, dropping over 20% in one day. British hyperinflation is now at 270%.
* The Conservatives under Penny Mordaunt wins the 2025 United Kingdom General Election by a narrow majority of 321 seats. She promises for closer integration with CANZUK.
* Mike Pence's government began drafting up plans to form a brand new country that will encompass Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the British Isles, named the United States of the Anglosphere.
* Russia declares another "special military operation", invading Georgia with Armenia. Poland invades the remnants of Ukraine around the same time due to the Russians encroaching on Lviv, and fears of another Russian invasion of Poland arose.
* Roman Baber's Conservative Party of Canada wins the 2025 Canadian Federal Election by a narrow majority, forcing Justin Trudeau to resign as the Prime Minister after 12 years.
* Canada receives an official offer to began the process of being admitted to the United States.
* Mordaunt's United Kingdom also receives an official offer to join the United States, along with Ireland under the promise of greater autonomy and with Northern Ireland returned to Ireland.
*Queen Elizabeth II dies ages 99, shattering all remaining morale for the Commonwealth, especially in the UK.
== 2026 ==
* Formation of the Anglosphere:
** Without consulting either the Canadian or British people, both Canada and the UK announces their merge with the United States, sparking a massive #WeAreNotAmerica movement.
** Australia's Albanese government and Ardern's New Zealand both receives offers to join the USA. Unlike Canada and the UK, Albanese puts forward the bill to the Australian parliament, while Ardern outright called an election on this matter.
**The Irish government also eventually agreed to this Union, but only under the condition that they will retain the right to leave the Union through democratic means. Pence accepts.
**After a tense parliamentary vote in Australia and a violent referendum in New Zealand, both nations agrees to join the United States.
**With all preparations, plans and a new constitution drafted, the United States of the Anglosphere was proclaimed.
*As the news spread across Europe and Asia, the European Union condemns the US for harming the identity of the British people, and for neo-colonialism. This results in the United States suspending trade between themselves and Europe. Europe further remarked if the Anglosphere is formed, the EU will break away from NATO itself.
*Georgia surrenders to Russia as Kazakhstan was also annexed. Vladimir Putin makes a speech during the Victory Day parade, proclaiming that the Americans are "the secret tyrants of Earth" in response to the formation of the Anglosphere.
*After the formation of the Anglosphere, all European states drops out of NATO in response to the American takeover of the British Isles by undemocratic means. This event is known by many as the Euro-American Split.
*In the 2026 US House of Representatives Elections, Ron DeSantis' Republicans beat Nancy Pelosi's Democrats, mainly due to his party appealing more to the 50 American States.
== 2027 ==
* The European Union announces that the alliance will officially reform as a defense organization, while admitting the remnants of Ukraine and the nations of Bosnia.
*Penny Mordaunt's Conservative Party began negotiations with Ron DeSantis to run on joint tickets for all elections for at least 5 years. DeSantis agrees to it, with Mordaunt also convincing Peter Dutton's Liberal Party of Australia to enter this coalition as well.
*The new Constitution of the Anglosphere was passed, creating the role of Prime Minister, though the majority of power still belongs to the President. As a result on this, DeSantis became the first Prime Minister of the Anglosphere. The new Constitution was criticized for trying to integrate all Anglophone states into America. Russian media outlets even depicted America as a power-hungry tyrant, chewing on "cakes" that is the Commonwealth.
*Former American President Joe Biden dies from complications associated with long COVID aged 85. Within 3 months, Jimmy Carter also dies from natural causes aged 103.
*In a joint declaration by ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), the alliance warns the First Island Chain nations to play ball with China, and explicitly warned Japan to not stick too close with the Anglosphere. Although initially lambasted by observers for declaring their allegiances to China, ASEAN members later made official state visits to the state of Victoria and Zealandia to show that their belief of neutrality.
*Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz announces a major deal between France and Germany, hinting a future merge along with the Benelux region to run Europe as one united country. The speculation was enough to cause Macron's LREM to lose to Jean-Luc Melenchon despite the latter being 75 and a radical socialist. New South Wales Senator Scott Morrison later remarked on a Senate session that France "elected another Biden".
== 2028 ==
* Antony Albanese's Australian Labor Party merges with Jacinda Ardern's NZLP, forming the Anglican Labour Party to provide an alternative to the American bipartisan system.
*The Fifth Taiwan Strait Crisis starts after China began a military buildup near Kinmen, resulting in the Anglophones increasing their military presence across Japan and Taiwan.
*Israel suddenly attacks Palestine's Gaza Strip area, causing a full-on war between the two. Syria and Lebanon would also join in on the Palestinian side, starting the Great Levant War.
*Gavin Newsom declares a reformation of the Democratic Party, renaming it to the American Democrats while shifting their political appeal to the centrists. 
== 2029 ==
== 2030 ==
* The Anglican Labour Party led by Jacinda Ardern secures the most votes in the House of Representatives Elections, securing Ardern as the Prime Minister after her party struck a deal with Gavin Newsom's Democrats.
*The European Union federalizes, with the founding members being Germany and Benelux. France would not join due to Melenchon unable to come to an agreement with the EU.
== 2031 ==
* Austria, Poland and Ireland joins the European Union as federals states.
== 2032 ==
* Prime Minister Ardern suffers an assassination attempt after she was shot while she was at a coffee shop in Washington by a Zealander nationalist, claiming that she betrayed the people of New Zealand. Ardern was critically injured, but made a full recovery after several months of medical treatment.
* Labour Party's Alexandria Osacio-Cortez wins the 2032 Presidential Election after beating RTC's James Murdoch and Democrats' Steve Bullock, marking the first time a woman has became the President of the United States.
*France finally joins the European Union as another federal state after Melenchon retires post-presidency.
*Rumors about Russia collapsing due to Putin's ailing health caused Europe and Anglosphere to draw up plans to invade Russia to ensure that they will never threaten anyone again.
== 2033 ==
* Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia dies aged 81, sparking the Russian Collapse as Russia disintegrated into warlordism.
* The European Union conducts a "peacekeeping operation" against Russia, invading Russia and capturing Moscow and St. Petersburg. They would later establish the Republic of Karelia, the Novgorod Republic and the Russian territory, with the latter being a direct occupation of the Russian homeland.
* USA invades Russia from Siberia and takes over all Russian lands up to the Ural mountains (except for the ones near China). The Siberian Republic, a puppet of the Anglosphere, was established.
* China invades Russia from Kazakhstan and Manchuria, and also takes over all of the lands east of the Volga River and directly to their northern border. Russia reforms as the Russian Federation by China.
*Ukraine breaks away from the Russian sphere, with former First Lady Olena Kiyashko (Zelenskyy's wife) leading the Ukrainian rebel force. She later declares the start of the "National Revenge" against Russia two days later.
*Operation Balancer was launched, as the European Special Service successfully launches an assault to break Russian dissident Alexei Navalny out of prison. 
*The US would pass the 2033 Constitution that will redefine the control of power between the Prime Minister, the Parliament and the President, while also expanding the Congress to 1000 seats, with the gathering locations dependent on the new "national regions" that was introduced. The vote was passed with a narrow margin of 226 to 219.
== 2034 ==
* After the Ukrainian Army liberated the city of Mariupol, a detachment of nationalistic soldiers massacred hundreds of Russian civilians in the city in what will be named the Mariupol Massacre. Kiyashko and her government would condemn the action, though some speculated that she secretly supported the war criminals.
*Ukraine declares the reformation of the nation after capturing Rostov-on-Don, rebirthing as the Second Ukrainian Republic.
*The Mariupol Agreement was reached, confirming the final borders of Russia and the superpowers' zone of influences from 2034 onwards. The full treaty can be found on the page.
*Jacinda Ardern's Anglican Labour wins the 2034 General Election, snatching over half of the new 1000-seat House of Representatives, as well as 91 of the 140 Senator seats.
== 2035 ==
== 2036 ==
* Ron DeSantis publishes a book, detailing the ideology and philosophy of Americanism, which many called it "moderate Trumpism".
*Emmanuel Macron was defeated by Sanna Marin in the 2036 European Presidential Elections.
*Due to the incumbent President Oscaio-Cortez deciding to not run for a second term, Ron DeSantis easily beats Labour candidate Mark Holland and Democratic candidate Gavin Newsom to become the 49th President of the United States.
== 2037 ==
== 2038 ==
* In the 2038 European General Elections, Greta Thunberg's SPP clinches a minor majority, securing her as the Prime Minister of the European Union at just 35 years old.
== 2039 ==
== 2040 ==
== 2041 ==
* President Ron DeSantis was assassinated by a disillusioned Secret Service agent. This event started the "Chaos of the 2040s", when the Anglosphere became wildly unstable and on the verge of collapse.
== 2042 ==
* President Madison Cawthorn dies from alcohol poisoning aged 47.
== 2043 ==
== 2044 ==
== 2045 ==
* The Euro-American Hyperlink, the plan to build a supersonic railroad was approved. Phase Zero began construction between New York Grand Central to Quebec City, though the British section from London to Glasgow was unable to start due to disputes between either an upgrade to HS2 and miss many of the largest cities or to upgrade multiple sections to HSR while serving more cities.
== 2046 ==
* After intense debate, it was determined that the Euro-American Hyperlink will be using the upgraded HS2 to cut down costs.
== 2047 ==
== 2048 ==
== 2049 ==
== 2050 ==