History
The Register’s history covers a whole world across ten eras, and the United Kingdom of America is its largest subject rather than its boundary. The Realm’s own history is defined by settlement, contradiction, expansion, crisis and reform. The founding crisis of 1775 to 1783 does not end in a republic, it ends in a negotiated constitutional settlement. The Charter of 1783 constitutes the realm. The Civil War tests it. The American Rights Act (1866) enforces its promise. Two world wars prove it a global power. The May Day Bombings of 2006 reshape it for the modern security age.
The Ten Eras
| Era | Period | Key Events |
|---|---|---|
| I · The World Before Contact | to 1492 | Indigenous nations across the continent; the older orders of Europe, Asia and Africa before the Atlantic crossing |
| II · Contact, Empire and the Atlantic World | 1492 to 1775 | European contact and demographic catastrophe; colonial foundations; the Atlantic slave economy; the imperial crisis builds |
| III · The Age of Revolutions | 1775 to 1815 | The Olive Branch accepted; the Four-Year War and the Charter of 1783; revolution in France; the Napoleonic wars |
| IV · Crowns, Nations and Reaction | 1815 to 1861 | Victoria assassinated in 1840 and the Hanoverian succession; the revolutions of 1848; Texas by compact; the Mexican war; the slavery contradiction deepens |
| V · Wars of Nation and Emancipation | 1861 to 1878 | The UKA Civil War, emancipation and the American Rights Act; the Compromise of 1867; German unification |
| VI · Empire, Industry and the Long Peace | 1878 to 1914 | Industrial expansion and mass migration; the March of Arizona and Alaska; the Qing compact of 1912; the Progressive era |
| VII · The First Great War and the Broken Settlement | 1914 to 1929 | The First Great War and the Treaty of Berlin; the Arab Revolt and the Kingdom of Arabia; the Byzantine Federation; the Russian Republic |
| VIII · Depression, Fascism and the Second Great War | 1929 to 1945 | The crash and the reform state; fascist France; the Second Great War; the partition settlement and the atomic decision |
| IX · The Cold War and the End of Empires | 1945 to 1989 | The League reconstituted at San Francisco; the Atlantic Treaty Organization; the Treaty of Kalmar; Cuba; decolonisation; Indochina |
| X · The Present Order | 1989 to 2028 | The cold war fades; the May Day Bombings of 2006; the European Concert at Straßburg; the purchase of Loreto |
Browse History
- History section and ten-era overview, Landing page for all historical articles
- The Register Timeline, The full filterable chronology, all ten eras, filterable by thread and by region
- The Four-Year War, 1775 to 1779; the founding war that no one won, ending not in independence but in the Peace of Boston and the Charter of 1783
- The Declaration of American Grievances, 4 July 1776; the founding creed, our Declaration of Independence redirected to demand redress within the empire, a Declaration of Independence in every line but its last
- The Philadelphia Negotiations - 1779 to 1783; the four-year congress that turned the Peace of Boston into the Charter of Union of the American Colonies, and coined the name United Kingdom of America
- Treaty of Austin and Acts of Union, 1845 to 1846; the negotiated accession of the Republic of Texas, by treaty, reciprocal Acts of Union, and the Proclamation of Union that commenced Union on 21 April 1846
- Mexican-American War - 1846 to 1848; the expansionist conquest that annexed Alta California and New Mexico, concluded by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and followed by the constitutional crisis over slavery in the cession
- The American Civil War, The war of 1861 to 1863 that tested the Charter, ended slavery, and produced the Second Founding
- The First Great War, 1914 to 1918; the UKA entered in 1916 beside Germany and Britain, and came out a world power and a grieving nation
- The Second Great War, 1939 to 1945; the Allied monarchies against fascist France, and the war that built the postwar order
- The May Day Bombings (2006), The attack on the Province of New York that reshaped the Realm’s security state and divided a generation
- The Loggia, 12 May 2025; the first appearance of Peter II on the loggia of St Peter’s, a name announced in Latin, a short address that explained nothing, and one sentence in English heard first in Detroit