32 1808 Hundreds of British ships captured or sunk by American private navies, thousands of English seamen desert; first oceangoing steamship, Confederation (Stevens), sinks British warship; Gallatin re-elected (fourth term).
35 1811 Jefferson wounded in assassination attempt, kills assailant.
36 1812 Gallatin announces retirement; Edmond Genêt elected president.
37 1813 Privateers’ League lawsuit overthrows doctrine of sovereign immunity.
38 1814 Gallatin publishes Principles of Liberty, systematic expansion on philosophies of Paine, Jefferson.
39 1815 Privateer Admiral Jean LaFitte publicly denounces slavery.
40 1816 Genêt re-elected (second term), proposes abolition of slavery, reparatory land grants to slaves in West.
41 1817 Slavery abolished for children born after A.L. 44.
42 1818 Gallatin publishes Rule of Reason, advocating nonbinding voluntarist legislature; in England, Guy Fawkes Day explosion of Parliament believed precipitated by Gallatin’s works; British government falls.
43 1819 Collier-Shaw percussion revolver; patent system breaks down under Gallatin’s criticism of government enforcement of monopolies.
44 1820 Jefferson elected President; all slavery abolished; Jefferson publicly rejects offers of presidency for life, threatens resignation.
45 1821 Mexico grants land to American settlers in Texas.
47 1823 Monroe drafts “Jefferson Doctrine”: political isolationism, elimination of trade barriers, moral support for colonies asserting “fundamental right to secede.”
48 1824 Jefferson re-elected (second term) internal combustion engine; mechanical calculators.
50 1826 Jefferson dies in office; Monroe assumes presidency.
52 1828 Monroe elected.
54 1830 First steam railroad (Philadelphia).
55 1831 Monroe dies in office; John C. Calhoun assumes presidency.
56 1832 Calhoun elected; Nathan Turner first Negro Congressman; Britain experiments with Gallatinist legislative system; Calhoun’s new Indian policies denounced by Gallatin.
57 1833 Britain abolishes slavery, exempts Ireland; British government falls.
59 1835 Colt’s double-action revolver; Gold discovered in Georgia.
60 1836 Gallatin comeback defeats Calhoun; Texicans declare independence; Santa Anna defeated and killed at San Antonio.
64 1840 Gallatin retires again; Sequoyah Guess elected president.
65 1841 Mexico declares war on Old United States, Republic of Texas.
66 1842 U.S. forces in Mexico; Sequoyah’s “Reading” of Gallatin at Buena Vista causes massive Mexican desertions; Mexico City surrenders itself; Sequoyah felled by sniper; Osceola assumes Sedency.
68 1844 Osceola elected.
69 1845 Jonathan Browning Arms Company established, Nauvoo, Illinois.
70 1846 Revolution in California; Hamiltonian “republic” declared under “Emperor” Joshua Norton.
71 1847 Self-contained cartridges for revolvers.
72 1848 Gold discovered in California; Gallatinite uprisings throughout Europe; Jefferson Davis elected president.
73 1849 Gallatinite revolution in Canada.
74 1850 Gallatinite revolutions in Mexico, China.
75 1851 News of pogroms against Gallatinists in California; air conditioning; Lucille Gallegos born, San Antonio.
76 1852 Albert Gallatin dies; mourning observed throughout world; rumors of celebrations in Prussia, California; Gifford Swansea elected president.
79 1855 First all-steel steamship crosses Atlantic.
80 1856 Arthur Downing elected president.
81 1857 Gallatinite revolt suppressed in India; British government falls.
82 1858 Joint paper on evolution by Darwin, Wallace.
83 1859 Downing dies in office; President Harriet Beecher advocates banning alcohol.
84 1860 Lysander Spooner elected president; Gallatinite revolts in Italian states; Chinese Gallatinists overthrow Hamiltonians in California.
85 1861 Great Northern Pacific railroad begins transcontinental operations, opens extension into Republic of California.
88 1864 Spooner re-elected (second term); Moray automatic pistol.
89 1865 Actor John Wilkes Booth murdered by obscure Illinois lawyer.
90 1866 Mexico, U.S. negotiate Confederation.
91 1867 Elisha Gray invents telephone; smokeless powder; Alaska purchased by Texas consortium.
92 1868 Spooner re-elected (third term), proposes Gallatinist legislature in U.S.; telephone service established, Atlanta to Philadelphia.
93 1869 Litigation establishes women’s vote; Gallatinist legislature adopted, Articles revised.
95 1871 Great Chicago Fire: official explanation ridiculed in press.
96 1872 Spooner re-elected (fourth term).
99 1875 Electric Street Railway (Chicago).
100 1876 Centennial; Giant “Statue of Gallatin” erected in Lake Michigan; Spooner re-elected (fifth term).
101 1877 Hovercraft; A. G. Bell invents mechanical larynx for chimpanzees.
102 1878 Manhattan “war” between private security companies.
104 1880 Spooner retires; Jean-Baptiste Huang elected president.
108 1884 “Moving pictures” popular, Chicago; Huang reelected (second term).
109 1885 Canada joins U.S.-Mexico negotiations.
110 1886 Geronimo, a Mexican national, becomes first congressman to represent others, but not himself; wireless telephony; simian suffrage.
112 1888 Great Eastern Blizzard; first electrically heated streets (Edison); Frederick Douglass elected president.
115 1891 First transatlantic wireless relays betting on American horseraces; Manfred von Richthofen born, Silesia.
116 1892 Benjamin Tucker elected president.
117 1893 North American Confederacy includes Alaska, California, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Newfoundland, Old United States, and Texas; first heavier-than-air powered flight (Lillienthal); British Gallatinists propose Confederation with North America; British government falls.
120 1896 Tucker re-elected (second term); dirigible invented.
124 1900 Capital moved to center of continent; Tucker reelected (third term).
125 1901 First transcontinental aeroplane flight.
127 1903 Dirigible City of Akron flies nonstop, length of continent and return; first all-talking movie (Ragtime Dance) premiers, New Orleans.
128 1904 Nicaragua Canal; Tucker re-elected (fourth term).
130 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Fire, and Barbecue.
132 1908 Tucker re-elected (fifth term).
133 1909 First transatlantic aeroplane flight; first transpacific dirigible flight; “Sydney Tea Party”: all government officials thrown in harbor.
136 1912 Albert Jay Nock elected president.
138 1914 Prussia attacks bordering countries; Continental Congress declares neutrality; Confederate volunteers launch Thousand Airship Flight.
140 1916 Nock re-elected (second term).
141 1917 Goddard rockets decimate Prussian air squadrons; revolt sparked by heavy broadcasting of Gallatin’s works.
142 1918 Influenza epidemic; round-the-world dirigible flotilla dispenses experimental vaccine.
144 1920 Nock re-elected (third term).
146 1922 Nuclear pile demonstrated (Chicago).
148 1924 Nock re-elected (fourth term).
151 1927 Television; dolphin communications; fission power plant (Chicago).
152 1928 Cancer linked to malnutrition; H. L. Mencken elected president; lasers.
153 1929 Fusion power plant (Detroit); Ooloorie Eckickeck P’wheet born, somewhere in Pacific; heartlung machine.
156 1932 Jet aeroplane; fusion-powered dirigibles; Mencken re-elected (second term).
157 1933 Mencken assassinated; Continental Congress chooses F. Chodorov successor; cetaceans join Confederacy; heart transplants.
160 1936 Gallatinite revolution in Spain; Chodorov e
lected.
161 1937 Artificial satellite launched, southern Mexico.
163 1939 Edward William Bear born, Saint Charles Town, N.A.C., and Denver, U.S.A.
164 1940 Rose Wilder elected president.
165 1941 First simian in orbit reads works of Gallatin, plays chess with porpoises at Emperor Norton University (loses); Hamiltonian coup in Hawaii; 3-D television.
168 1944 Wilder re-elected (second term); F. K. Bertram born, Boston.
170 1946 Clarissa MacDougall Olson born, Laporte.
172 1948 Wilder re-elected (third term); limb-regeneration demonstrated.
173 1949 Lunar expedition establishes colony; laser pistol sights.
176 1952 A. Rand elected, becomes first president to travel to Moon.
177 1953 Gallatinist and Hamiltonian revolutions rock Africa.
178 1954 Jennifer Ann Smythe born (stasis delay).
179 1955 Eugene Guccione invents power cell.
180 1956 Russians fire on Antarctican colonists; Continental Congress issues warning; Czar declares war; Rand re-elected (second term).
181 1957 Russians attack Alaska, aid Hamiltonians in Hawaii, invade Japan; Admiral Heinlein wins decisively at Bering Straits; Russians suffer huge losses in Antarctica, Japan, Hawaii.
182 1958 “Operation Sequoyah”: heavy wireless and television, tons of written propaganda employed against Russian homeland.
183 1959 Lunar colonists beam continuous transmissions into Russia; government collapses; Czar disappears.
184 1960 Hamiltonians attempt Lunar coup, survivors are “spaced;” Robert LeFevre elected president.
188 1964 LeFevre re-elected (second term); Dora Jayne Thorens born, San Francisco.
192 1968 Mars colony, Coprates Canyon; “None of the Above” wins election.
194 1970 Probability Broach discovered in search for faster-than-light drive.
196 1972 John Hospers elected president; asteroid colonies established.
197 1973 First stable Broach.
200 1976 Bicentennial; Dissolutionist Faction; Hospers re-elected (second term).
201 1977 First “large-sample” Broach.
202 1978 John Jay Madison founds Alexander Hamilton Society, Laporte.
203 1979 Hamiltonians lose final foothold in Uganda.
204 1980 Hospers re-elected (third term); Extrasolar radio signals detected.
208 1984 Jennifer A. Smythe elected president.
210 1986 First contact with human (V. Meiss) on other side of Broach.
211 1987 First human travels through Broach (E. W. Bear, Denver); Hamiltonian conspiracy; Seventh Continental Congress convened.
About the Author
L. Neil Smith is the Prometheus Award-winning author of twenty books, including The Probability Broach, The Crystal Empire, Henry Martyn, The Lando Calrissian Adventures, Pallas, and Bretta Martyn. A Life member of the National Rifle Association since 1973, founder and National Coordinator of the Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus, and publisher of an online magazine, The Libertarian Enterprise, he has been active in the libertarian movement for thirty-nine years and is its most prolific and widely published living writer. Smith is an enthusiastic competition shooter (NRA Hunter’s Pistol) and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife, Cathy, and their daughter, Rylla.
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