History of the United States

## Timeline

### **Early Period**

* July 4, 1776: The United States of America is created as the Declaration of Independence is signed.
* September 3, 1783: American Revolutionary War ends with an American and French victory.
* 1788-1789: George Washington is elected as the first President of the United States.
* 1792: President Washington is re-elected, New Holland declares independence from the Dutch Empire.
* 1793: New Holland Uprising ends, Holland grants its colonies independence, New Holland joins the United States.
* 1796: Vice President John Adams of the Federalist Party is elected President, defeating Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party. Jefferson is elected Vice President.
* 1798: President Adams signs the Alien and Sedition Acts, limiting immigration into the United States and restricting speech critical of the government.
* 1800: Election of 1800, Vice President Jefferson defeats President Adams.
* 1801: President Jefferson purchases the Louisiana Territory from France.
* 1804: President Jefferson wins a landslide re-election against Federalist Charles Pinckney.

### **Antebellum Era**

* 1808: Secretary of State James Madison is elected President, the second Democratic-Republican President.
* 1811: "Quasi-War" with Britain.
* 1812: President Madison wins re-election.
* 1816: Secretary of State James Monroe is elected, the Democratic-Republican dynasty continues.
* 1817: Annexation of "the Strip".
* 1820: President Monroe is re-elected in a near unanimous landslide. Missouri Compromise passed.
* 1824: 1824 Election, Four Democratic-Republicans run, none gain a majority in the Electoral Collage or Popular Vote, a contingent election is held in the House of Representatives, Vice President Daniel Tompkins is selected, Democratic-Republicans collapse and are replaced by the Democrats and Whigs.
* 1828: President Tompkins, part of the New Republican Party, is defeated in a landslide by Democrat General Andrew Jackson.
* 1831: Westerly War, Westerly Kingdom annexed.
* 1832: President Jackson wins re-election in a landslide against Whig Senator Henry Clay.
* 1836: Vice President Martin Van Buren is defeated by Clay.
* 1837: Panic of 1837.
* 1840: President Clay looses re-nomination to Senator James Colfax. Colfax narrowly defeats Van Buren in the general election.
* 1843: Republic of Texas is annexed into the Union.
* 1844: President Colfax chooses not to run for a second term. Whigs nominate Clay, but he looses the 1844 election to Democratic Representative William Dabney.
* 1845: Messico War begins.
* 1847: Messico is defeated and annexed by the United States, President Dabney becomes the first President to die in office. Vice President Harold Walter Witt takes over as President.
* 1848: California admitted as a Free State, President Witt defeated in the general election by Whig Governor Leroy Lynfield.
* 1849: President Lynfield backs Popular Sovereignty laws.
* 1850: New Friesland Senator Adam Jenson pulls a gun on Indiana Senator Harry Fillmore, no shots are fired.
* 1852: President Lynfield chooses not to run for a second term, Democrat Senator William Gates defeats Whig General Winfield Scott.
* 1854: President Gates proposes the Compromise of 1854 to Congress. It is shot down.
* 1856: President Gates narrowly wins re-election, the first President since Jackson to serve two terms.
* 1859: Franklin-Appalachia Act, Appalachia split into the free state of Appalachia and the slave state of Franklin, angering Northerners.
* 1860: 1860 Election, four candidates run, Abraham Lincoln for the Republicans, Vice President Landon Morrando for the Southern Democrats, Senator Stephen Douglas for the Northern Democrats, and John Bell for the new Constitutional Union Party. Lincoln wins.

### **Civil War and Reconstruction**

* 1861: Twenty slave states declare secession from the Union, fearing that President Lincoln would abolish slavery. President Lincoln maintains that secession is illegal. The Confederate States of America is created.
* 1862: Union forces capture New Orleans, General Ulysses S. Grant is put in charge of capturing the Mississippi River. Louisiana surrenders to the Union. Tennessee is captured by the Union. Confederate troops invade Kentucky, ending its policy of neutrality and making it side with the Union. General Grant lays siege to Vicksburg, Franklin.
* 1863: Vicksburg surrenders, the Confederacy is cut in half, and the Mississippi River falls into Union hands.
* 1864: General Grant is put in charge of the Union Army. General William Sherman begins his famous march to the sea in New Limburg, along the way his forces tear up railroads, sever communication lines, free slaves, and destroy crops. New Amsterdam falls to the Union. President Lincoln is re-elected in a landslide against former General George McCellen.
* 1865: Union troops enter Newport, Florida. The Confederacy surrenders and Confederate President Jefferson Davis goes on the run, Confederate General Robert Lee is captured and executed after signing a full surrender treaty. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments -outlawing slavery, granting freemen citizenship, and guaranteeing freemen's right to vote, respectfully- are passed.
* 1868: General Grant is elected President as a Republican.

### **Industrial Era**

* 1872: President Grant wins re-election against a Liberal Republican-Democrat coalition.
* 1873: Jefferson Davis is finally captured by Meridian troops in Sao Paulo, Meridia, and sent back to the United States where he is hanged.
* 1876: Republican Senator Herbert Minthorn is elected President.
* 1880: President Minthorn is assassinated by a communist. Vice President Cecil Lodge takes over as President. He chooses not to run for a second term. Republican Speaker of the House Wendell Cooper runs on a hasilty-assembled Republican ticket and wins.
* 1881: President Cooper signs the Communism Act, banning Communism in the US.
* 1884: President Cooper defeats Democrat Ohio Governor Grover Crawley.
* 1888: Crawley runs again for President and defeats Vice President Norbert Lynn by one electoral vote.
* 1892: President Crawley looses re-election to Republican Governor of New York Walter Strauss.
* 1896: President Strauss wins re-election.
* 1897: President Strauss dies in office due to blood poisoning. Vice President William Lott becomes President.
* 1898: President Lott signs the Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act.
* 1900: President Lott declines to run for a second term, Republican Governor Theodore Roosevelt is elected.

### **New Century**

* 1902: Italian-American War breaks out and ends in an American victory.
* 1904: President Roosevelt wins re-election.
* 1908: Republican Senator James J. Jackson wins.
* 1910: President Jackson sends US troops to defend the Azalian federal government during the Azalian Civil War.
* 1912: President Jackson wins re-election.
* 1916: Democrat Representative Ronald T. Thaddeus is elected President as the first Democrat since Grover Crawley to be President.
* 1917: President Thaddeus enters World War I.

### **War, Rebuilding and War**

* 1918: US troops turn the tide of stalemate against Sweden.
* 1919: the First World War ends in a victory for the US and its allies.
* 1920: Christian Democrat Ross Mahoney narrowly elected President.
* 1922: President Mahoney is impeached. House Speaker Victor Aaronson becomes president.
* 1924: Republican Calvin Coolidge elected President.

### **Post-War World**

* 1988: Republican Jack Evans elected President and is endorsed by Reagan.
* 1992: President Evans wins re-election.
* 1996: Republican Steve Owens elected President.
* 2000: President Owens wins re-election.

### **New Millenium**

* 2001: October 10th Attacks, US declares war on the Iranian Islamic State. Britain, Meridia and Australia join the US in its war effort.
* 2002: The Coalition of Freedom invades Iran.
* 2003: Iran falls, Islamic government overthrown, Saddam Hussein is executed.
* 2004: Republican Edison Lott wins the presidential election.
* 2008: President Lott wins re-election.
* 2012: Democrat Andrew Lodge narrowly wins the election, the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter.
* 2016: President Lodge is defeated in his re-election effort by Republican Donald Trump.
* 2020: President Trump wins re-election.
* 2021: Project Red Dust, a project to land on Mars by 2030, is announced.