BACKGROUND
1812 - The French Revolutionary Wars come to a close with the fall of Paris to Austria. Many attribute the country's defeat to a costly slave revolt turned independence revolution in Santo Tomas. Austria gains dominion over the Rhineland at the Congress of Vienna.
1820 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain, partly due to help from Atlantean volunteers.
1852 - Atlantean Servile Insurrection, known as the Great Insurrection during the Progressive Era. Atlantean slaves successfully defeat the militias of the slave-holding states, and negotiate the manumission of all Atlantean slaves.
1861 - Atlantean Consul Jeremiah Stafford organizes the purchase of Suriname from the Netherlands in what comes to be known as "Stafford's Hothouse" until Gold is discovered there near the end of the Century.
1875- With no end in sight to the Long Depression, the Atlantean government begins a series of National Projects popularly known as Reconstruction. Many of these projects are targeted efforts to improve the economy, but the most significant are political reforms designed to turn Atlantis into a more united nation-state. This includes direct election of Senators, voting rights to non-whites, and the establishment of a professional Army and modern Navy.
1881- After reaching a ceasefire in the Franco-Austrian War, Austria establishes the German Empire under the Hapsburg crown.
1889- Spanish-Atlantean War - After the sinking of the USS Penzance the United States of Atlantis declares war on Spain's crumbling empire. The conflicts serves both to unite the USA a generation after the Atlantean Servile Insurrection, and gives Atlantis dominion over Spain's colonies in the Atlantic.
1905- The first of a series of Canals are dug through Atlantis' central American protectorate.
1910 - The Hapsburg royal family are harassed during a tour of Budapest by a mob of Hungarian Nationalists. The German Empire maintains an unsteady union by plying non-German Kingdoms with tithes. This has soured many Germans on the very idea of Monarchy, and the only thing keeping this Empire together is their mutual loathing for their neighbors.
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