Liberty, Egality, Fraternity

Liberty, Egality, Fraternity
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Genre	Alternate history
Established	2023
Creator	WaterlooSunset
Progress	Work in progress
Status	active

Welcome to Liberty, Egality and Fraternity, a timeline where Napoleon is victorious in the Napoleonic Wars and the face of Europe is changed forever. This timeline may not be strictly a conworld per se, however in some aspects it fits some definitions of a conworld. Anyways, this project is currently open for anyone to help out with, as creating a fictional universe single-handedly is not an easy job(!). Anyone is welcome to edit, but please do consult with the author(me) for lore details. The entire point of this timeline is to explore the consequences of a French-dominated Europe, so most of the events in this timeline from about 1810 onwards will be largely fictional. However, some OTL tropes will carry over, particularly the occurrence of two world wars and a Cold War. But foremost this timeline is an experiment, and so fictional occurrences and peoples are encouraged.

Please enjoy what I’ve written so far, and don’t vandalise, for the love of god!

- WaterlooSunset

Timeline

A brief description of events in LEF.

1789: French Revolution begins. Louis XVI overthrown.

1792: Robespierre institutes the Reign of Terror. War of the First Coalition begins. First Republic declared.

1793: Royal family executed.

1795: Netherlands invaded; Batavian Republic established. France annexes the left bank of the Rhine in the Peace of Basel.

1796: Thousands of troops land near Bantry in Ireland. Irish War of Independence begins.

1797: Treaty of Campo Formio. Cisalpine, Ligurian and Piedmontese Republics established. War of the First Coalition ends.

1798: Swiss Confederation invaded. New Helvetic Republic set up. More troops sent to Ireland.

1799: War of the Second Coalition. Ireland secured by the French. Coup of 18 Brumaire sees Napoleon take full power as First Consul.

1801: Treaty of Luneville. Status quo restored, bar Ireland becoming independent. War of the Second Coalition.

1802: Italian Republic created.

1803: Louisiana sold to the US to fund further development of the military.

1804: Napoleon crowned Emperor of France. Austrian Empire created.

1805: War of the Third Coalition begins. Battle of Trafalgar. Piedmont divided between France and Italy. Kingdom of Italy proclaimed.

1806: War of the Third Coalition ends. HRE dissolves, replaced by the Confederation of the Rhine. Austrian territory reduced. War of the Fourth Coalition begins.

1807: War of the Fourth Coalition ends. Treaties of Tilsit see the Duchy of Warsaw created. Peninsular War begins, with Spain and Portugal being invaded.

1808: War of the Fifth Coalition begins.

1809: War of the Fifth Coalition ends. Treaty of Schonbrunn sees Illyria ceded to France and bits of Galicia ceded to Warsaw. Salzburg ceded to Bavaria.

1810: Russia agrees to stay in the Continental System through the Monetary Assistance Treaty, which sees the country get industrial aid in return for Russian support of France.

1811: Portugal is divided by France but the local monarchy is allowed to continue ruling. Catalonia becomes independent from Spain at the behest of France.

1812: War of the Sixth Coalition begins.

1813: The United Kingdom is invaded. London falls by November. The War of the Sixth Coalition effectively ends following the fall of London.

1814: The Congress of Frankfurt is held to establish the new European status quo, formally ending the Napoleonic Wars. France is now the undisputed power of Europe.

1810s-1820s: Spanish South American possessions are lost to independence movements, creating multiple new countries.

1820s-1840s: The Industrial Revolution sees multiple countries become thriving economic centres. Railways begin to come into operation, becoming the favoured transport of the masses.

1822-30: Greek War of Independence. France heavily supports the Hellenic rebels, leading to the establishment of the Hellenic Republic.

1830s-1850s: Many countries begin to set up Asian and African colonies.

1858-63: The American Civil War sees the Confederate States win an unprecedented victory over the Union. The CSA becomes a French client states, leading America to align more with the old empires, before realigning with France. Conversely, the CSA begins to drift towards the British, becoming dependent on them for weaponry.

1866: Prussia and Poland-Lithuania fight a brief war, which Prussia wins, gaining Poznan in the process.

1867-71: War of German Unification. Crushing French and German victories see the formation of the German Federation under the Wittelsbachs.

1870-74: The Spanish Revolution sees Spain successfully kick out French influence and regain a Bourbon monarchy, but in the process loses their overseas colonies.

1871-73: War of German Unification. Crushing French and German victories see the formation of the German Federation under the Wittelsbachs.

1881: Second Polish-Prussian War sees another brief spat ending in status quo ante bellum.

1885: The Berlin Conference carves up Africa.

1890s-1914: Tensions rise in Europe as nationalism combines with an arms race to create a clear division between the countries of Europe: the Entente, comprising the old imperial powers and the Continentals, comprising the Napoleonic states.

1914-20: The First World War, or the Great War, begins due to a Polish nationalist trying to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II. The opposing sides are the Entente(Austria, Prussia, Sweden and the UK) and the Continentals(France, Ireland, Germany, Russia, Finland, the Ottoman Empire, Italy and others).

1918: The Russian Revolution knocks Russia out of the war, and a Civil War begins between the Whites(middle class, libertarians and democrats) and the Blacks(fascists, national republicans and nationalists). Eventually the Black's triumph, forming the Russian National Federation.

1921: Paris Peace Treaties formally end the “Great War”. Hungary and Galicia are made independent, Prussian territory is reduced and the United Kingdom broken up into Scotland, England and Wales.

1922: Illyria is granted independence, minus Dalmatia and Istria, given to Italy as a reward for their efforts in the Great War.

1923: Fascist Benito Mussolini marches on Milan and forms his own government there, beginning the period of Fascist rule in Italy.

1929: The New York stock crash sends the global economy spiralling into a deep recession.

1932: The Confederate States is involved in a coup d’etat, which sees white nationalists take power and create the Republic of the Confederate States of America, a nationalist, white supremacist, minoritarian republic that discriminates heavily against blacks and other non-whites.

1933: Wilhelm Kube takes power in Prussia, quickly transforming it into an authoritarian fascist state.

1934: Englebert Dolfuss seizes power in Austria during a coup d’etat.

1934-40: Russia supports nationalist groups in the Ottoman puppet states, such as Serbia, Moldavia-Wallachia, Bulgaria and Montenegro.

1936: Sweden is taken over by fascist nationalist leader Sven Olov Lindholm.

1938: The Danzig Crisis sees Prussia demand the return of the Danzig Corridor. Prussia eventually takes it by force in November.

1939: Prussia, Austria, Italy and Sweden form the Quadrennial Alliance. This will be the main aggressor of World War Two.

1940: Austria invades Germany, starting the Second World War.

1940-46: The Second World War between the Quadrennial Alliance and the Allied Powers.
1947: The Treaty of London is signed, ending the Second World War, dividing Prussia and Austria, as well as reducing Swedish and Austrian territory. Crucially, Russia is excluded, despite invading the Ottoman Empire, an Allied power.
1950: In the midst of increasing tensions between the US, France and Russia, PATO, the Pacific-Atlantic Treaty Alliance, is formed, with the US as its leader.
1951: France retorts, forming the Continental Defence League, comprising of most of the Napoleonic states.
1954: Russia forms the Republican Economic and Military Alliance, an organisation intended to unite the National Republican puppet states, and to crucially give more Russian control over their puppet states.
1957: The European Economic Community is formed.
1950-90: The Cold War between PATO, the CDL and the REMA.
1980s: The Confederate States democratise, becoming the Afroamerican Republic.
1989: The 1989 Revolutions see most National Republican states overthrow Russian rule in favour of democracy.
1991: The Treaty of Frankfurt sees the CDL members make a peace treaty with PATO, promising to cooperate with them but retaining their own organisation, equipment and structure.
1994: The Russian National Republic introduces multiparty elections. Gennady Zyuganov becomes its first democratically elected President.
1999: The EEC becomes the European Union with the Treaty of Helsinki.
2000s: Many Eastern European countries join the EU.
2010s: Rumours of a Second Cold War between the US, Russia and China begin to circulate. Ultimately China is excluded but as the 2010s progress relations between the US and Russia progressively deteriorate.