As the 18th century comes to a close and the bell strikes midnight the entire world celebrates as the dawn of a new century comes. The world has changed greatly over this century with it being quite possibly the most eventful one in human history. Many old powers have fallen and many new and resurgent powers have strived to fill their place. Throughout this tumultuous century very few things have stayed the same but one thing is true now and one thing will be true forever Britannia rules the waves. Britain's century has been glorious as it has vanquished many long standing foes and its glory and territorial expanse has exceeded even the Queen's wildest ambitions. Here are a Few of the many many major events in the queen's reign. These accounts do not go over the industrial events but mostly matter pertaining to the British state exclusively. 

 

August 1 1834: By royal decree the British Empire abolishes slavery with 1.2 million slaves in the Carribean being set free. The government agrees to give former slave owners compinsation and former slaves our given some money to help build there lives. 

June 20, 1837 Queen Victoria ascended the British Throne in a Grand ceremony at Westminster Abbey. Although she is one of the younger queens ever to take the throne she has a clear goal in mind to make Britain the greatest power on earth. 

May 7, 1828 The People's Character Movement in a march to the parliament ​turned violent. Martial law is declared by the Queen in her first major crisis. The uprising is squashed and in its wake the Queen is given sweeping new powers to keep this from happening again.  

 

February 13, 1840 Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert.

September of 1845, The Irish Potato famine strikes. The queen, sensing the gravity of the situation by royal decree, orders that the Irish receive food from other parts of the empire. The Irish were then given the entire debt of the food cost and as a way for payment to be received, large amounts of new taxes were imposed. 


November of 1845,

There is a small-scale revolution in Ireland over the new taxes. The revolution is crushed and large amounts of Irish lands that used to be owned by Irish revolutionaries are transferred over to the British crown. 

April 4 1854,
The British join the Crimeania war. The Ottomans and Russians take massive losses weakening them both considerably. The French have a disastrous battle around present day Yalta which leads to 45% of their army killed or captured before a combined Anglo Sardinia force can break them out and allow them to retreat. The British narrowly win but the French army is crippled. The Russians nor the Ottomans end up losing any land as both sides are too weak to attempt to press claims on the other side. 

March of 1856,
The Second Opium War begins. The Qing Empire face off with the British and the United States. The Qing empire at the battle of Peking is squarely defeated with Senglingqin and the entire army being captured or killed. This leads to the collapse of the quing empire. As many regional powers and global powers attempt to gain colonies they edge towards the brink of war. The British hold what will later be called the London conference as leaders from the nations of Japan, Russia,Britain, The United States, and France divided up china. The Japanese gained vessels in Korea and Manchuria. The British gained Hong Kong and Tibet with Tibet being incorporated into the British Raj. France gains land that is contiguous with French Indochina. Russia gains Outer Mongolia and the North west parts of Xinjiang. The United States, do to troubles at home is not able to gain colonies and instead piggybacks off the British

 

June 1862-

The North In the American Civil War is close to losing as Lee's army is at the gates of Washington and Chicago. As a last ditch effort Abraham Lincoln agrees to allow the North to become a British vassal state so the South can be defeated. British troops from the Caribbean and Canada break the siege of both Washington DC and Chicago. Both sides settle into a stalemate until the spring of 1863 when with British troops from across the Empire numbering at around 2 million “mostly from colonies” such as India and the remaining Northern troops mount a general offensive smashing through the South and the war is over by November 1863. The United States along with Canada and the Caribbean colonies are merged into the mega colony known as British North America 

 

1865/1880

With the Monroe Doctrine now dead the British empire begins to move through Central and South America bringing it under the British boot. Internal British documents have shown correspondence within the upper tiers of British governments planning for what they called “The Final Empire”. The British, throughout these 15 year conquered all of Latin and South America which is not under a European powers rule. Mexico is added to “British North America. From what is today's Guatemala to today's Panama” is formed British Central America. From modern day Columbia down to Argentina was formed British South America

 

1870,
The Franco-Prussian war is stopped,  after the British intervene in the Spanish crown's line of succession and broker a compromise which allows a third party king who would side with neither the Prussians or French.   

 

February 1879,
Rorke's Drift. At the battle of Rorke's Drift, the British defeat the Zulus and inflict mass casualties upon them. The British were able to push them back and annex all of the Zulu territory. Riding off of that victory. 

1885,
The  Anglo Spanish war commences which leads to the loss of all Spanish colonies and they are transferred to the British.

 

1890 The Berlin conference is finished with the only difference from reality being the British gaining control over and colonizing Madagascar.

December 31 1899  January 1 1900
As the century came to a close only one thing is certain: Britain is a big fish in a small pond. The rest of the world is now peaceful as no one can even touch Britain's power. The new world is almost entirely British and within the coming years the last few European holdings look to be either bought or taken by force. The British plan to launch a "Great War" by which they plan to Conquer the rest of the modernized world in one fell swoop and form what they call “ The Imperial Union” or in official government speak British World one. But that is for later, now we relish in celebration for the fact that the British rule the waves and the sun shall soon revolve around Britain alone.