Here's the preliminary first part. Any changes, corrections, additions, or other device is greatly appreciated.
Founding the German Empire: Part One
1815 – 1820: Escaping from Elba in March, Napoleon soon reaches France and marches on Paris. When the King Louis XVII sends troops to stop him, Napoleon wins over those same troops. Once in Paris, he promulgates a new and more democratic constitution. Veterans of his old campaigns flock to his side. Napoleon asks the allies for peace but they reject his offer, instead declaring his government illegal. He decides to strike first. Napoleon goes campaigning through Belgium, culminating in the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. Napoleon is defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian forces under Blücher. In Paris, crowds begged him to fight on, but the politicians withdrew their support. Napoleon fled to Rochefort, where he surrendered to the captain of the British battleship, Bellerophon. He was then exiled to Saint Helena, a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
In Vienna, the Congress tasked with ending the Napoleonic Wars and reconciling European differences is put in recess. It is agreed that when Napoleon is defeated once and for all, the Congress will reconvene. Meanwhile, Prince Klemens von Metternich, the Austrian Minister of State who acted as president of the Congress, dies in a freak horse-riding accident. When the Congress of Vienna reconvenes, several key delegates revoice their opinions on the future of the German states. Many of these delegates, including Prince Karl August von Hardenberg, Baron Heinrich von Stein, and Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia, as well as Alexander I of Russia advocate, once again, the unification of the German states. Without the main voice of opposition, that of Metternich, the Congress narrowily allows the unification of the many German states. As a sign of gratitude for the services rendered by Prussian soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars, the German nation is to be granted the French territory of Alsace-Lorraine.
By the end of the year, the German states are already convening in Berlin, which is to be the capital of the nation, to discuss the terms of unification. Early the next year, the German states of Prussia, Bavaria, Hannover, Mecklenberg, Nassau, Werten, Holstein, Saxony, and others, merge to form the German Empire. Aided by Chancellor von Hardenberg, Friedrich Wilhelm III becomes the Emporer of Germany, known as the Kaiser.
The Napoleonic Wars are finally brought to a close with the last colonies of the conquered nations being returned to their rightful owners (i.e. the East Indies are returned to Dutch possession) in 1816. In 1818, as the US-Canadian border is being agreed upon, the final allied troops leave France, returning home for the first time in at least three years. Meanwhile, the Ottoman Turks begin to give limited autonomy to their Serbian territories.
In South America, Brazil becomes a separate kingdom, equal to Portugal and ruled by a Portuguese monarch in Rio de Jainero. In 1820, a liberal revolution in Portugal brings the king back from Brazil, leaving his son Pedro as regent. On the rest of the continent, the series of wars for Latin American Independence rage. Revolution spreads from nation to nation as Spain’s tentative hold on their American possessions finally slips. Buenos Aires and nearby provinces declare their independence from Spain. Independence leader José de San Martín defeats royalist forces on February 12, 1817, in the Battle of Chacabuco near Santiago, Chile. Chile declares its independence on February 12, 1818. General Simón Bolívar defeats royalist forces in the Battle of Boyacá on August 7, 1819; the Republic of Colombia (also known as Gran Colombia) is proclaimed on December 17, consisting of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador.
With industry just beginning to develop under the guidance of Chancellor von Hardenberg, the English government decrees that it will no longer allow children under the age of nine to work in factories. Also, at this time, British dominance over the Indian subcontinent is assured while a small trading post, named Singapore, is established in southeast Asia by the British East India Company. In the German Empire, Austrian politicians and financiers constantly try to obstruct the development of industry in the nation. In the end, however, the efforts of the Austrians are not enough, as the German Empire industrializes rapidly, becoming second only to Great Britain by 1821.
In the Americas, Spain sells off another of its former colonies. This time, Florida is sold to the United States for a relatively small sum. The United States passes the Missouri Compromise the next year, allowing Missouri and Maine into the Union. Simon Bolivar becomes the President of the Republic of Columbia in 1819 while American interests found Liberia, designed for the repatriatation of former slaves to the African continent.