A Brief Historical Outline

(Compiled from the Encyclopedia of North America, TerraNovaCom Channel 485-A, by Edward William Bear of Denver, with the kind permission of the editors.)

In 1796 C.E., with Revision of the Articles of Confederation underway again, Thomas Jefferson proposed a new calendar to mark Albert Gallatin's ascension to the presidency. Gallatin protested that the real Revolution was in 1776, that the Federalist period should be regarded as an aberration, and that commemorating, even by implication, the execution of George Washington might set a hideous precedent.

In its final form, the Jefferson-Gallatin compromise utilizes 1776 as its "Year Zero." Dates prior to the Declaration of Independence continue numbered as they were before, sometimes followed by C.E. for "Christian Era."

A.L. [C.E.] EVENTS

0 [1776] Declaration of Independence (July 2); Revolution begins.

7 [1783] Treaty of Paris (Sept. 3); Revolution ends.

11 [1787] Federalists under Hamilton, Jay, Madison meet in Philadelphia, illegally adopt new "Constitution" creating strong central government.

12 [1788] Ratification by ninth and last necessary state (New Hampshire).

13 [1789] Constitution in force; Hamilton Secretary of Treasury to George Washington.

15 [1791] Hamilton's Excise Tax passes; angry Pennsylvania farmers rally at Brownsville for beginning of' countercoup.

16 [1792] Pittsburgh Convention of antitax forces; Washington issues warning proclamation; farmers tarring and feathering tax collectors.

18 [1794] 15,000 federal troops ordered against farmers; Albert Gallatin joins rebellion; Washington shot in Philadelphia; Constitution declared null and void; Gallatin proclaimed President; Hamilton disappears.

19 [1795] Caretaker government organized; Gallatin declares general amnesty; all taxes repealed; property and rights restored to Federalists, Tories.

20 [1796] Gallatin confirmed by Congress; calls for neutral stance between England and France, humane Indian policies, and revision of Articles.

21 [1797] New Articles ratified with emphasis on civil and economic rights; Northwest Territory "land certificates" liquidate war debts; governments otherwise forbidden to coin or print money.

24 [1800] Gallatin re-elected (second term); Jeffersonian weights and measures.

27 [1803] Gallatin and Monroe arrange Louisiana Purchase, borrowing from private sources against value of land.

28 [1804] Gallatin re-elected (third term): Hamilton killed in Prussian duel; Stevens invents steamboat.

30 [1806] England attempts to restrict shipping; Gallatin commissions privateers to defend American vessels.

31 [1807] French uphold American sea rights; Chesapeake drives off British war vessels; Forsyth invents percussion system for firearms; English outlaw slave trade; Jefferson begins antislavery crusade.

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 Genet 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] Genet 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 presidency.

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 Califomia; 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 re-elected (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 (Liflienthal); 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 re-elected (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; heart-lung 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 elected.

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.