History of the United Kingdom of America

The Register documents the history of a whole world, of which the United Kingdom of America is the largest subject rather than the boundary. Its ten eras run from the older continent and the orders that preceded the Atlantic crossing, through the founding crisis that ended in settlement rather than separation, across revolutions, unifications, emancipations and two world wars, to the present order of the 2028 baseline.

The Ten Eras

EraPeriodCharacter
I · The World Before Contactto 1492Indigenous nations across the continent; the older orders of Europe, Asia and Africa before the Atlantic crossing
II · Contact, Empire and the Atlantic World1492 to 1775European contact and demographic catastrophe; colonial foundations; the Atlantic slave economy; the imperial crisis builds
III · The Age of Revolutions1775 to 1815The Olive Branch accepted; the Four-Year War and the Charter of 1783; revolution in France; the Napoleonic wars
IV · Crowns, Nations and Reaction1815 to 1861Victoria 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 Emancipation1861 to 1878The UKA Civil War, emancipation and the American Rights Act; the Compromise of 1867; German unification
VI · Empire, Industry and the Long Peace1878 to 1914Industrial 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 Settlement1914 to 1929The 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 War1929 to 1945The 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 Empires1945 to 1989The League reconstituted at San Francisco; the Atlantic Treaty Organization; the Treaty of Kalmar; Cuba; decolonisation; Indochina
X · The Present Order1989 to 2028The cold war fades; the May Day Bombings of 2006; the European Concert at Straßburg; the purchase of Loreto

Articles & Resources

  • Interactive Timeline, All ten eras, filterable by thread (Crown, Parliament, Rights, Federation, War & Security, People, Economy, Culture & Society, Faith, Science & Industry) and by region (The Realm, Europe, The Americas, Asia & the Pacific, Africa & the Middle East, World Institutions)
  • The American Civil War, Era VI: the 1861 to 1863 rebellion of five slaveholding polities, the Lincoln ministry, emancipation, and the American Rights Act of 1866
  • The May Day Bombings of 2006, Era IX: the coordinated attacks across New York Province that killed 2,158 people and reshaped the realm’s security and civil liberties

Further historical articles are added as the canon record is expanded.