Timeline of Events

The following is a timeline of all the relevant occurrences in the WMIT alternate history universe. This is a massive work in progress, so please be patient.

## 16th Century

* 1581: Acton Arkham (1581 - 1638), ancestor of Millicent Arkham Custer-Steele and Wyetta Oswald, is born in Nottinghamshire, England. He will become one of the most famous Puritan preachers of all time, an original Pilgrim, and a close friend of William Brewster.

* 1587: Patience Cromwelle (1587 - 1638). distant cousin of radical Protestant revolutionary Oliver Cromwell and future wife of Acton Arkham, is born in London, England.

* 1596: Jehue Burr, forefather of the Prophet Burr, is the first Burr to land in the New World, eventually settling in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

## 17th Century

* 1606: Archbishop Tobias Matthew comes to power in the Church of England. He begins persecuting the Puritan Dissenters League, based in Scrooby. PDL leaders William Brewster and Acton Arkham begin pooling resources to flee.
* 1607: The Puritans Dissenters League become the Pilgrims, and flee to Leiden, Holland. They will live there for some time.
* 1620: The Pilgrims depart aboard the Mayflower for the New World.
* 1620: Oceanus Arkham is born to Acton and Patience Arkham on July 4, while en route to the New World. He is their seventh child, and only one to survive to adulthood.
* 1621: The Pilgrims land in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
* 1621-22: The Pilgrims endure the Hard Winter. Half their number perish.
* 1622: The Mayflower Compact is signed, one of the founding documents of what would eventually become the Old Republic, Republican Union, and the New United States.
* 1637: After increased tensions between the Plymouth Colony and the Dutch-backed Pequot Native American tribe leads to the Pequot War. Plymouth joins Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Haven to form the United Colonies of New England. Acton Arkham commands mercenary Myles Standish to take his best men and exterminate the Pequots. The tribe is nearly wiped out.
* 1638: In revenge for the fate of their tribe, a small group of Pequot survivors ambush Acton Arkham and his family while on their way to church. Acton, Patience, and their entire family are scalped, as well as several other families. Only Oceanus survives.
* 1639: Oceanus marries Patience Standish, niece of Myles.
* 1640: God-Fear Arkham (1640 - 1690) is born to Oceanus and Patience Arkham.
* 1644: Oceanus Arkham becomes Governor of New England.
* 1658: Birth of Cadwallader Arkham (1658 - 1717) to God-Fear Arkham and his wife Margaret Armstrong.
* 1675 - 78: Metacomet's War begins in New England. Metacomet, the chief of the Wampanoag tribe, demands the town of Swansea be abandoned for encroaching on his tribal lands. After refusing an offer from the Puritans to buy his home of Mt. Hope, all-out war begins. The tribe is immolated and almost every Native American in New England is killed.
* 1683: Acton Arkham II (1683 - 1724) is born to Cadwallader Arkham and his wife Susanna.
* 1685: Standish Arkham (1685 - 1755) is born to Cadwallader Arkham and his wife Susanna.
* 1686 - 89: The Dominion of New England succeeds the United Colonies of New England. After the Glorious Revolution in England, it is dissolved into what would become the Thirteen Colonies of British America.
* 1690: Oceanus Arkham passes in his sleep, age 70. His son, Cadwallader, razes and rebuilds the family homestead into the famous Arkham Manor that would stand for the next centuries.

## 18th Century

### 1701

* January 18: The electorate of Brandenburg-Prussia becomes the Kingdom of Prussia, and Elector Frederick III is proclaimed King Frederick I. Prussia remains part of the First Holy Roman Empire. It consists of Brandenburg, Pomerania and East Prussia. Berlin is the capital.
* February 17: The 5th Parliament of King William III is assembled. Future Prime Minister Robert Walpole enters the Parliament of England, and soon makes his name as a spokesman for Whig policy.
* July 9: War of Spanish Succession (1701 - 1714) begins.
* August 3: The Snake Incident occurs. Standish Arkham is bitten by a poisonous snake and suffers no ill effects. He attributes this to his faith in God and locals call it a miracle. It is the birth of the American religious tradition of snake-handling. Standish's sermons become increasingly hellfire and brimstone, and he would heavily influence the writing of Jonathan Edwards, grandfather of the future Prophet Aaron Burr II.

### 1702

* January: The Second French and Indian War (1702 - 1713), also known as Queen Anne's War, begins. God-Fear Arkham leads the Plymouth Brethren militia and joins Major Benjamin Church in an assault on Acadia.

### 1703

* October 5, 1703: Birth of Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1775) to minister Timothy and Esther Edwards. He is the maternal grandfather of the Prophet Aaron Burr II.

### 1706

* January 17: Future Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston, then part of the British Empire's colony of Massachusetts.

### 1710

* June 3: Future Continental Army General Ahab Arkham is born to Todd and Mary Arkham. Todd is the younger brother of Standish and Acton II. Ahab will serve alongside Aaron Burr II at Valley Forge, become the 57th man to sign the Declaration of Independence and will also serve in the cabinet of Willard Crawford after the Fall of the Old Republic.

### 1717

* October 1: Cadwallader Arkham passes from smallpox, age 59, and leaves the rule of Arkham Manor to his son Standish Arkham, following the disgraceful, bawdy and worldly behaviour of his oldest son Acton II. Standish orders Acton II to visit him to "face the wrath of God." Acton and a group of criminals steal the *Thanksgiving* from Boston Harbor and take to a life of piracy on the high seas.

### 1718

* November 22: Blackbeard, the infamous pirate king, is killed in action off the coast of North Carolina by the British Royal Navy. This leaves Acton Arkham II as the predominant pirate in American waters. Arkham begins flying the infamous "Demon Flag" shortly after this, saying that while his grandfather sailed for God, he sails for the Devil.

### 1724

* April 3: Like Blackbeard before him, legendary pirate captain Acton Arkham II is defeated off the coast of North Carolina. However, he survives the battle and is shipped back to Boston in chains, where he is summarily executed by hanging. Interestingly, his ship the Thanksgiving will be repaired and used as a harbor patrol vessel, where it will one day witness the events of the Boston Tea Party. His brother and family patriarch Standish Arkham is the one to pull the switch to execute Acton II. Standish continues to fan the flames for the Great Awakening that is slowly burning over the Thirteen Colonies.

### 1734

September 9: Birth of Andrew Arkham (1734 - 1808) to Ahab and Mary Arkham.

### 1754

Early Spring: The Third and Final French and Indian War (1754 - 1763) begins, as part of the wider Seven Years' War (1756 - 1763)

### 1755

* January 11: Alexander Hamilton is born in Charlestown, in the British colony of St. Kitts and Nevis.
* January 20: Standish Arkham passes at age 75 after a short illness. Having only daughters, he passes Arkham Manor down to his younger brother Todd's oldest son, Ahab. Ahab receives the news while serving alongside George Washington under General Edward Braddock. He narrowly escapes death at Braddock's Defeat, shortly thereafter. Arkham and Washington become lifelong friends.

### 1756

* February 6: Aaron Burr II, Founder and Prophet of the American Fundamentalist Church, is born.

### 1764

February 19: Birth of Abraham Arkham (1764 - 1846) to Andrew and Love-Joy Arkham. Abraham will one day fight in the War of 1812, become the first member of the Arkham family to profess faith in American Fundamentalist Christianity, and earn himself the spot of founding father of Benedict Arnold University of Boston (B.A.U.B).

### 1776

* July 4th: The Thirteen Colonies declare independence from Great Britain. The War of Independence ensues.

### 1777

* December 24th: Benedict Arnold is slain in battle as a martyr. In the decades to come he will be posthumously declared a Patriot-Saint by the American Fundamentalist Church.

### 1788

* July 18: Abraham Arkham maries Sylvia Crawford, daughter of future Republican Union founder Willard Crawford.

### 1795

* June 4: Moses Acton Arkham (1795 - 1865) is born to Abraham and Sylvia Arkham.

### 1799

* January 1: The United States of America declares war on both France and Spain.
* Mid-year: First American Fundamentalist Church constructed in Philadelphia.
* December: George Washington, former President of the United States in Congress Assembled, is killed in active duty.

### 1800

* January 1: Meinrad Beutel, father of the anarchist philosophy Beutelism, is born.
* October 9: Napoleon Bonaparte returns to France after his military campaign in Egypt, and within a short period of time becomes the undisputed leader of the former country.
* December 29: Colonel Charles Goodyear is born.

## 19th Century

### 1801

* May 18: The Government of the United States is overthrown, and John Adams is deposed.
* May 28: The Republic of Virginia declares its breakaway from the crumbling United States as a sovereign state. For formal purposes, Virginian independence is retroactively dated back to 1800. By the end of the year Thomas Jefferson is elected President, with James Madison as his Vice-President.
* July 4: Twenty-five years after the first Independence Day, the first "Liberty Day" is proclaimed. Former President John Adams and his second-in-command Alexander Hamilton are both executed. In practice, the United States of America is no more.
* August: The Confederation of the Carolinas is proclaimed by Chancellor Andrew Jackson.
* September 10: The Chesapeake Republic of Maryland is declared by Samuel Chase, the country's first President, in Baltimore.
* October 31: The eight states which did not split apart have delegates present at a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, presided over by William Crawford. These states form the "Republican Union", a successor government to the United States. Said Convention officially lasted for about three years after the RU was established.
* November 20: Wolfe Washington Arkham (1801 - 1890) younger brother to Moses Acton Arkham, is born to Abraham and Sylvia Arkham.
* Date Uncertain: At some point after the trials of Adams and Hamilton, the decentralized and staunchly libertarian Green Mountain Republic of Vermont is declared.
* Date Uncertain: During the second half of the year, Georgia splits from the effaciously defunct United States, forming the Republic of Georgia.

### 1803

* Date Unknown: The Constitution of the Republic of Virginia, authored mainly by Jefferson and Madison, is adopted. This Constitution set into law many guarantees on freedoms and limited powers of government. A legislature, the pre-1776 House of Burgesses, was restored.

### 1804

* During this year, Napoleon declares himself "Caesar of France", ending the Republic and re-establishing absolute monarchism.
* King George III of Britain, overwhelmed with stresses from Britain's dwindling fortunes, collapses and dies. The next in line, a son who is beyond insane, is crowned King George IV.

### 1805

* Date Unknown: The Constitution of the Confederation of the Carolinas, a document with many similarities to its Virginian counterpart, is adopted, and military rule ends in short order.
* Napoleon christens his armed forces the "Grand Army", which would go on to bring total devastation to all who opposed it.

### 1806

* An informal alliance is created between the French Empire and the Republic of Georgia. An indirect result of this is a wave of Francophilia sweeping the Georgian government and, eventually, the public consciousness. French-style music, food, military uniforms, and the like are all "in" for a time in Georgia.

### 1807

* December 21: King George IV murders his brother, Frederick, in cold blood for attempting to form a regency council. He then unsuccessfully attempts to kill his other brother, William, before taking his own life with an ornate sword. This series of events severely weakens Britain at a time where it can afford few setbacks.

### 1808

* December 1: Andrew Arkham passes of cancer of the stomach, age 74.
* Three ships, two Virginian and one Georgian, were sunk by the Royal Navy. With the exception of the Republican Union, all post-U.S. breakaway states jointly declare a state of war on the British Empire.

### 1809

* February 12: Future R.U. President Abraham Aaron Lincoln is born.
* A wave of revolts sweep Prussia. Such revolts are put down by their French superiors using foreign manpower.

### 1810

* Emperor Napoleon declares "A new dawn. The Beginning of an era of peace" in Europe.
* It is around this time that the British Pound bottoms out in value after years of continued instability and failure after failure of the United Kingdom to make gains (or significantly mitigate losses) against Napoleonic forces.

### 1812

* The War of 1812, sometimes referred to by historians as the Campaign of 1812, begins. The aforementioned historians consider this conflict to be a significant turning point in the history of the world, and especially in the history of the Americas. British troops in Canada march south, into the Republican Union.
* April 22: The Redcoats reach New York for the first time in over forty years.
* April 28: A massive storm damages a large number of vessels in the British Royal Navy.
* May 1-4: A major naval battle, the "Armageddon of the Atlantic", takes place between the joint Franco-Spanish-Russian Armada and Britain's Royal Navy. The battle sees major losses on both sides, but ends as a major defeat for the British. The HMS Morpeth, flagship of the Royal Navy, is sunk, and Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood is taken as a prisoner of war by the Russians.
* Date Unknown: The Rape of Boston.
* Date Unknown: Southron hegemony established in Caribbean.
* Arkham Manor is occupied by the invading British Army, who attempt to burn it to the ground. Most of the building is saved, but the stress causes Ahab Arkham to pass away, age 102.

### 1813

* Date Unknown: Publication of the Book of Manifestum and the Book of Fati, the first two Books of Manifest Destiny.
* A slave revolt in Haiti erupts. It is crushed via joint military action with French, Spanish, and Southron soldiers participating. Over two-thousand participants in the revolt would be guillotined, their disembodied heads then mounted on pikes as a stark warning to other potential freedom fighters.

### 1820

* Date Unknown: American Fundamentalist Church is standardized, each church given a number

### 1821

* Date Unknown: Erie Canal completed
* Date Unknown: Goodyear Enterprises founded

### 1825

* Date Unknown: Book of Patriots, the Third Book of Manifest Destiny, is published by Prophet Aaron Burr

### 1826

* July 5-6: Congress of Vienna, Union acquires Ontario
* October 1: Prophet Burr recieves a vision from the Angel of Destiny
* October 8: Prophet Burr completes the Book of Purity, the Fourth Book of Manifest Destiny
* December 3: Toronto Riot
* December 25: Christmas Massacre in Green Bay
* December 25: Virginia acquires Cuba

### 1827

* September 5: The Confederation of the Carolinas declares war on the Republic of Virginia
* November 1: Carolinian forces shell Norfolk before being repelled
* December 25: Carolinian forces routed at Greenesboro, Chancellor Jackson dies from wounds
* Date Unknown: Henry Marx publishes his book on Phrenology, founding Marxism and Yankee Race Science

### 1828

* January 8: Confederation of the Carolinas surrenders to the Republic of Virginia
* February 1: Treaty of Charlotte signed, Carolinas cede West Carolina to Virginia
* August 5: Great Southron Slave Revolt begins, aided by AFC missionaries
* November 9: Zachary Taylor appointed Emergency Potenate of Virginia in response to the Great Southron Slave Revolt
* Date Unknown: Great Southron Slave Revolt crushed

### 1829

* Date Unknown: Council of Jehovah created

### 1830

* November 14: Democratic Republic of Texas declared

### 1832

* October 1: The Republican Union declares war on the Green Mountain Republic of Vermont

### 1833

* Date Unknown: Colonel Goodyear publishes a treatise laying down foundations for the Union's "New Slavery"

### 1835

* Date Unknown: Colonel Goodyear enacts his plans for the "New Slavery" by abusing Infee laborers in Shicagwa
* January 4th: Caesar Napoleon I dies

### 1842

* Date Unknown: Republican Union Military Police founded
* July 20: English Revolution begins

### 1843

* September 11: English Commonwealth declared

### 1845

* January 5: First telegraph message sent in Virginia
* Date Unknown: Crude telephone developed in Georgia
* Date Unknown: Australia declares independence

### 1846

* March 5: Death of Abraham Arkham of natural causes, age 82. Leadership of the family passes to his son Moses Acton Arkham.

### 1849

* Date Unknown (November?): Abraham Lincoln and the Second Sons seize power, declare Lincoln President

### 1853

* December 25: President Lincoln bans Christmas, institutes Patriot-Saints Day in its place

### 1855

* September 5: Union-Confederation Non-Aggression Pact signed in secret by the Republican Union and Carolina

### 1858

* August 22: Sinking of the *O.K. Sultan*
* August 24: The Republican Union declares war on Georgia, sparking the Great American War

### 1861

* July 14: Birth of Julius Caesar Arkham (1861 - 1933) to Wolfe Arkham's grandson Thaddeus Arkham and his wife Wyetta. Julius Caesar is a future founding member of the Manifest Destiny Party and will serve as Thane (second in command) of the MDP from 1898 to 1933.

### 1865

* October 29: Moses Acton Arkham passes away after complication from a minor surgery, age 70. Arkham Manor passes to his brother Wolfe Washington Arkham.

### 1890

* June 2: Death of Wolfe Washington Arkham, age 89, of old age. Arkham Manor passes to Julius Caesar Arkham.
* August 4: Birth of future First Lady of the Republican Union Millicent Arkham (Steele) to Julius Caesar Arkham and his wife and cousin Elizabeth Crawford.

## 20th Century

### 1910

* December 1: Joseph Steele marries Arkham scion Millicent Arkhram at Aaron Burr's original First Fundamentalist Christian Church of Philadelphia, in one of the largest public ceremonies seen in the Republican Union up to this point.

### 1917

* Birth of future First Lady of the Republican Union and New United States of America Wyetta Arkham Custer-Steele, to Millicent Arkham Custer-Steele and her husband, Union tyrant Joseph Steele.

### 1920

* Birth of future alleged Antichrist Marcus Aurelius Arkham Custer-Steele to Millicent Arkham Custer-Steele and her husband, dictator of the Republican Union, Joseph Steele.

### 1933

* April 15: Death of Julius Caesar Arkham, Thane of the Manifest Destiny Party, age 72, of liver failure. For the first time in literal centuries, Arkham Manor prepares to leave the rule of a male member of the Arkham family. First Lady Millicent Arkham begins running the estate for her son and alleged Antichrist, Marcus Aurelius Arkham Custer-Steele, who maintains a painting studio and garden on the property to escape the stress of Philadelphia.