The Great Invasion of 1898

Event
On March 29th 1898 Martian spaceships crash landed near Woking (UK), Nice (France), and the bohemian forest in the German Empire. Many took the crashes as a metro shower but then reports came in of octopus looking creatures near the crash sites. Many flooded the crash sites and 2 days later monstrous 100ft high war machines rose up from the crash sites and started destroying everything and everyone with their Heat-Ray that shot white hot fire and chocked people to death with a shot of a black chemical weapon. The Martian machines were met with the British royal army but it was like using a bow and arrow against a tank. The British managed to kill a few of the war machines but the Martians steam rolled London and Berlin in a matter of days. With the British and Germans out of the war almost immediately, the French evacuated Paris and the French government fled to their North African colonies leaving the rest of Europe to fend for themselves as the Martians advanced onto Rome, Athens, Madrid, Lisbon, Stockholm, Moscow and many more of the great capitols of the world. By 4/7/1898 the Martians had occupied all of Europes capitols. The Martians had succeeded in their goal of taking over Earth as a second home because of Mars rapid decline, but something the Martians didn't see were the bacteria floating in the air. The Martian invasion force began dying very rapidly and by the 16th of April no living Martian stood on Earth.

The Aftermath
After all the Martians had fallen to the bacteria, angry Europeans took back their countries and ripped open the fallen Martian war machines and took the dead Martians and preformed a autopsy and concluded their fall was caused by Earth's bacteria as the scientists didn't find an immune system. In the following year Martians went extinct because they could find a second home as Mars was dying and Humans reverse engineered Martian technology propelling Humanity into 200 year more advanced technology.