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| Year | Births | Deaths | Scientific Discoveries | Timeline Events and Comments |
| 1893 | Royal Marines begin experimentation with amphibious steam powered landing boats. | |||
| Worlds’ Columbian Expo | Barcelona Worlds’ Fair This is the first major European Expo since the discovery of spaceflight and contact with other planets. Pedro uses the Fair to showcase the advances his nations have made since the end of their conflict with France. | |||
| British Army forms first experimental unit for fighting machines | ||||
| Johnstown Flood . This flood sees the first major relief effort conducted by aerial vehicles, with supplies being brought in and survivors being evacuated via aerolyth vessels. Aerial photographs of the devastation are published in newspapers around the world and this is the first time the technologies of mass media, aerial photography and air transport of photographs have come together. The results are stunning. | ||||
| Hive arrives in England | ||||
| Worlds’ Fair Opens in Paris. Napoleon IV uses the fair to showcase French aerospace adventures and off world colonization efforts | ||||
| First Battery of Brennan Aerial Torpedoes is emplaced to defend London. | ||||
| Hive begins active operations in local area | ||||
| Fall of Exeter. The Duke of Cambridge leading a large field force is cut off while conducting a holding action against the Hive. He and his body guard as well as a company of Canadian female soldiers are trapped in the centre of Exeter and annihilated. | ||||
| Lord Chlemsford is appointed acting commander and chief of the British Army | ||||
| Hive stopped at Taunton Line | ||||
| Lord Chlemsford leads unsuccessful Christmas day Assault on Devon Hive. British Army takes severe casualties to several infantry regiments and Royal Engineer companies | ||||
| General Garnet Wolseley is appointed Commander and Chief of the British Army | ||||
| Highlighting the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the New World as well as the 15th of the landings on other worlds this exposition was designed to show the United States as entering the realm of the Great Powers in terms of industrial might and off world involvement. |