This is a timeline of events for the New World Timeline, showing how this reality diverges from our own. * 1741 - Battle of Santiago de Cuba: the UK successfully invades Cuba and keeps a settlement there. * 1774 - Britain's King George III signs the Quebec Act which forbids French in British North America and the practice of Catholicism in all North American colonies. This provokes the Quebecers to join the Patriot cause. * 1783 - The United States and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Paris recognizing the independence of the US from the UK, with the USA including Bermuda, Bahamas, Quebec, Nova Scotia, St. John's Island, but excluding St. Pierre et Miquelon, Newfoundland Island, and Rupert's Land. * 1798-1800 - French-American War - French harassment of American shipmen