Introduction/Notice[]
Note: This is a continuation of my alternate history timeline 'Imperial Americana' on the althistory wiki. You can read about that here, and I'd recommend you do otherwise you might be confused.
Link: https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/Imperial_Americana_Timeline
Point of Divergence[]
America became an empire in 1787 under the rule of the Price Dynasty. It became a global superpower and forged a completely different future then anything previously expected.
Timeline[]
2021: Emperor John Charles the Fifth dies from an unexpected heart attack at the age of 24. His children, all triplets of five months old are too young to ascend the throne, even if one of them has a regent. So, John Charles' sister becomes the Empress of the First American Empire. She is coronated in June as Empress Josephine the Second. Without any children of her own, due to her paralysis, she is only to reign and then upon her death be succeeded by one of John Charles' children.
2022: The Holy Roman Army enters Moscow and razes it to the ground. The Soviet government flees to Irkutsk. The Empires of Ruthenia and Ukraine are declared and recognized by the Holy Romans.
2023: Sweden realizes this is its chance to conquer Uralia and finally defeat Russia. They invade in late summer and conquer Archangelsk by the end of the campaigning season. The Holy Romans conquer Volgograd and cuts off the Soviet 8th-13th armies in the southern Caucasus. Arabia begins gearing up for its great jihad against Mecca, America, Persia and Turkey.
2024: Caucasia joins in the fray and by May the armies of Ukraine, Germania and Caucasia crush the Soviets. By September the coalition reaches the Urals and signs a peace deal with the Soviets. Sweden takes Uralia, Ruthenia takes most of Central Russia, Ukraine takes the Don, Volga and Astrakhan regions, as well as Soviet Kazakhia. The Holy Romans do not gain any land, but instead Ukraine and Ruthenia as allies. The Americans commend their German brothers on their hard earned victory.
2025: Emperor Sato of Japan dies at age 77, the nationalistic and imperialistic Mikoto takes the throne and sets in place a plan to seize all of Asia under the might of the Rising Sun.
2028: The African Congress is formed between Central Africa, Kongo, Ethiopia, Tanganyika and Eritrea. It is an independent alliance for nations in Africa. Shah Bahman of Persia comes down with an unknown illness.
2029: Bahman dies and his mother becomes Shahbanu Victoria of Persia. Supported by the people, but not the nobility, the Persian Civil War begins.