Timeline

Date	Event
1571	Sweden conquers Morovia.
1700	Beginning of the Great Northern War. Sweden fights against Russia, Denmark, and Prussia.
1721, April	Treaty of Nystad officially ends The Great Northern War ensuring Morovian Independence. Signed by Prussia, Russia, Denmark, Morovia, and Sweden.
1837, June 20	King William IV dies leaving his niece, Princess Alexandrina Victoria as ruler. Queen Victoria is crowed at Westminster Abbey on 28 June 1838.
1840, February 10	Queen Victoria weds her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Together they bore nine children - four sons and five daughters: Victoria, Bertie, Alice, Alfred, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold, and Beatrice.
1846	Lord John Russel (Whig) becomes Prime Minister.
1846	The Irish Potato Famine begins and lasts until 1850. Information.
1851	Dr. Pietr Brainerd premiers the Steam Powered Ostrich at the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace.
1852, February 23	Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1852, November	Second Empire established in France. Louis Napolean named Emperor Napolean III.
1852, December 19	George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (Peelite/Coalition) becomes Prime Minister
1854	The Crimean War. (1854-1856) Britain and France jointly declare war on Russia to prevent expansion into the Ottoman Empire. By war's end over 20,000 British troops are dead. Wikipedia.
1855, February 6	Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (Whig) becomes Prime Minister.
1856	Fossils of "Neanderthal man" were found in Neanderthal valley in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, near the city Mettmann.
1856	Lord John Russel appoints Dr. Harold Davis as Minister of Invention.
1856, March 30	The Treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War.
1857	The Indian Mutiny (1857-1858). Uprisings in Northern India lead to military revolt, which is eventually put down by the British military. Results in direct British governmental rule of India, supplanting the East India Company
1857, October	Dr. Harold Davis and a young assistant from Cambridge unveil the Pneumatic Hounds, the latest in crime-fighting technology for use by Scotland Yard.
1858	"The Great Stink" from the backed up Thames caused thousands to flee the City, while Parliament remained in session. Windows of the parliament building were draped with curtains soaked in chloride of lime, to prevent closing of the Government. Upper class residents fled the city or drenched sheets with perfumes to mask the odor from the outside.
1858	Christian Kreuz (age 12; son of Lord Colonel Armand Kreuz) singlehandledly defends his house from a mob of rioting Indians, killing 30.
1858, January 14	Paris, France. While Napoleon III was on his way to the theatre, Felice Orsini and his accomplices threw three bombs at the imperial carriage. The intended victims were unhurt, but several other persons were killed or wounded. Orsini himself was wounded, and at once arrested.
1858, February 20	Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1858, November 1	The Govenor-General of India, Viscount Charles John Canning, 3rd son of George Canning, is made the first Viceroy of India and year later he is raised to earldom.
1859, April	The Brunel Company tunnels under the Thames. Dr. Harold Davis, working with them, disabled the safeties on a prototype steam engine. The resulting explosion collapsed the tunnel, killing 3 men and injuring 6 more including Dr. Davis, and young Ismebard Brunel. Dr. Davis is relieved of his post as Minister of Invention.
1859, May	Edmund Beckett Denison finishes Big Ben and it chimes for the first time.
1859, May	In part in response to the Brunel tunnel incident, the group "Common Cause" has its first organizational meeting and issues a short pamphlet decrying the rampant spread of technology at the cost of human lives.
1859, June	Lord Palmerston appoints Edmund Denison as Minister of Invention.
1859, June 12	Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister again.
1861	Gatling Gun invented by Richard Gatling, a North Carolina Dentist.
1861, November 18	Viceroy Earl Canning dies in Calcutta of jungle fever and is buried in a garden at Barrackpore. He is survived only by his wife, Charlotte Elizabeth Canning, daughter of Lord Stuart de Rothesay.
1861, December 14	With the help of Dr. Pietr Brainerd, King Albert makes a "miraculous recovery" from Typhoid.
1862	Bismarck becomes Prime Minister of Prussia
1864	Edmund Cromley, the Earl of Leardon was arrested for attempted Regicide. He commits suicide in his prison cell.
1864, September 10	Robert Napier holds the first annual Napier Steam Derby, attracting a field of four contestants with their custom designed steam motorcars.
1865, October	Lord Palmerston dies suddenly and John Russell becomes Prime Minister. Russell appoints Pietr Brainerd as Minister of Invention, infuriating Edmund Beckett Denison. All future Prime Ministers, regardless of party lines, continue to appoint Brainerd Minister of Invention. Some say they are coerced by Victoria and Albert.
1866, June 28	Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister again.
1867, July 2	First airship flown over Lake Constance: the LZ-1 developed by Count Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Zeppelin.
1868, February 27	Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1868, April	Castle Ballencrieff, near Edinburgh, burns down. No cause is determined.
1868, December 3	William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister.
1869	Suez Canal opens.
1869, April	Thomas Fellowes, then Grand Master of the London Masons is arrested for Blasphemy and Heresy (planning to commit an act of treasonous magic). His trial is judged by Chadwick Pierce, who sentences Fellows to hang. Fellowes is executed two weeks later.
1869, July	A Scarlet Fever epidemic sweeps through London, killing hundreds.
1869, August 17	Professor Caspian, a heretofore unknown criminal mastermind, holds the Parliament building hostage for two days with the threat of his "Atomic Engine of Destruction". Police are able to capture Caspian without incident. The Atomic Engine is revealed to be a hoax. The LDG was instrumental in stopping him.
1869, September 18	Professor Caspian is found guilty of high crimes and is hanged from the neck publically a week later.
1870, July 19	Franco-Prussian war begins. It lasts until May 10, 1871. Wikipedia
1870, September 4	Third Republic established in France; end of French monarchy
1871, January 18	Bismarck proclaims the German Empire at the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. Germany is now united.
1871, March	Paris Commune established. The Paris Commune was a mass (anarchist) revolt. The workers took control of Paris itself via democratic election and violent resistance to those who attempted to undo what the council had done. The council declared the city autonomous. The French army failed to reclaim it. Instead of firing on the crowds, they turned their guns on their officers.
1871, May	The Airship Bismark (LZ-12) presented to King Wilhelm I for his coronation.
1871, May	Paris Commune crushed
1871, May 3	First Brassy's Man unveiled.
1871, May 10	Treaty of Frankfurt: France cedes to the Prussians Alsace and part of Lorraine and has to pay five billion francs in indemnity.
1872, February 10	Doctor James Howard Harris, 4th Earl of Malmesbury, dies after a period of illness due to complications related to his scientific research. He is survived by his wife, Cassandra Harris, and their only child, Benjamin. Prime Minister Gladstone personally expresses the government's sympathies to the family.
1873	Former French Emperor Napolean III dies in exile in Kent, England. Buried at Farnborough, Hampshire.
1873, April	Jeremy Walker is chosen by Gladstone as Archbishop of Cantebury. This infuriates Bishop Thomas Cathcart who speaks out against Gladstone and Walker in a sermon.
1873, April 3	Famed industrialist and inventor Robert Napier and his wife Louisa are killed in a fire at Napier's home laboratory, which also destroys the laboratory and much of the family estate. Foul play is suspected, but no leads are forthcoming. Robert and Louisa are survived by their son James, 11.
1873, May	The Airship LZ-16 was presented to Louis Adolphe Thiers, President of the Third Republic of France to celebrate the second anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Frankfort.
1873, November	Revolution in Morovia, a small eastern European country. With the death of the old king, the two sons Vladimir and Alex struggle for control of the throne. Fighting will continue through January of 1874, at which time Alex, the younger son, and his revolutionaries win the day.
1874, February	The RMS Republic is attacked from the air. Reports vary as to the nature of the attacker.
1874, February 12	Strange apelike creature appears near Hyde park and attacks a Vicar. It is subdued by Christian Kruez and an American.
1874, February 13	Prime Minister Gladstone found murdered in his room at 10 Downing Street.
1874, March 8	In the scheduled elections, Lord Ripon is elected Prime Minister.
1874, March 23	Another creature attack in Hyde park. This one is said to more closely resemble a Neanderthal. It puts one woman in the hospital, but is taken down by three Bobbies.
1874, March 23	Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and second son of Albert and Victoria, weds Marie Alexandrovna, Her Imperial Highness, the Grand Duchess of Russia, and daughter of Tsar Alexander II, in a ceremony in St. Petersburg, Russia. Neither King Albert nor Queen Victoria are able to attend.
1874, April 14	Benjamin Disraeli is arrested for the murder of William Gladstone. Public shock resounds through London.
1874, April 17	A third creature attack. This time the military is ready for it. A strike force, led by Captain Kruez, attacks the creature as it shambles into Hyde Park. This creature is a humanoid mass of muscle and fur. It fights back ferociously, injuring one man and putting another in the hopital. It is finally taken down with an experimenal weapon weilded by Captain Kruez.
1874, May 13	King Albert and Queen Victoria are happy to welcome their fellow sovreign, Tsar Alexandar II, to England for an extended visit.
1874, May 20	There is a break in at the British Museum. The curator is injured; it is unknown at this time if anything was taken.
1875, January 29	French President MacMahon is killed by a bomb.

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