1493 Early 1520s Retro

[Glen]

1521:

Scotland:

1521 - 1530: The Scots work to consolidate their outposts in Norasia and Bermuda, focusing on competing with the Anglo-British for the fur trade. They sell their wares through France and the Lowlands to the continent.

France:

1521 - 1525: Wealthy citizens of Bordeaux, hearing of great trade with the east, form the La Compagnie française des Indes orientales, the French East India Company. The main purpose of the company was to establish trade and monopolize the trade with the East Indies. The ships land on Java in 1522, and from there they begin exploration of Les Indies de le n'est portugaises, the Non Portugese Indies. Their expedition founds trading posts along the coastal mainland, until they come in contact with the Siamese. The expedition sails to Siam, where they are well recieved in the Ayutthaya court*. Upon return with diplomatic promises of trade and friendship, one Frenchmen remarked the size and wealth of the Siamese capital with that of Paris! ** The tales of the splendor of Indochina quickly led to more investment in the company, followed by a second visit in 1526.

[Glen]

1522:

Spain:

The beginning of the "great reforms" in Spain. King Juan calls a cortes heavily dominated by the communeros and more liberal (Salamancan-influenced) members of the clergy. Juan, following up on the ideas of Mendez, decides to open Spain fully to foreign trade, particularly from the French, Hanseatic League, Navarrese and Neapolitans. All edicts forbidding the practice of Judaism in Spain are repealed, though Islam remains forbidden. Above all, Juan delegates power to the cortes, and calls for this body to create a uniform code of laws to foster trade and create an opportunity for "wealth creation". Raphael Mendez is named finance minister of Spain.

Mediterranean Sea:

1522 - 1523: A small group of Portuguese privateers begin attacking Ottoman shipping in the Mediterranean. The Ottomans bring down the full weight of their navy in searching the Portuguese raiders out, until all of them are destroyed. Surviving men are sold to the Crimea and boys are impressed into the janissary system.

Ottoman Empire & Rhodes:

Jacob of Rhodes, most senior of Gregory of Mantua's disciples, returns to Rhodes, where he preaches a form of Wettinism that allows its practitioners to keep a great deal of their religious customs.

Subsaharan Africa:

The Luba revolt against the Ndongolese, capturing the infant Princess Maria-Iosephina, sole grandchild of their last emperor, and declare her "Empress Iosephina I of the Catholic Lubas." Meanwhile, viceroy Prince Sebastio in the Jaga Cassangi declares himself the true King of the entire empire, and due to his immense popularity and the support of the equally popular former Regent Captain Benedeto, he gains support from imperial loyalists throughout the realms. By now, all of the kindoms are in full revolt against each other and the Portugese.

Siam:

A French expedition lands in Siam and are well received in the Ayutthaya court.

Norasia:

It is ten years since the first outbreak of smallpox in the New World, and this first wave has finally burned itself out, but it has left the Northeast transformed. What were once trading outposts have turned into the nucleus for new settlements along the Cabot Waterway, Atlantic Seaboard, and the Meryk River. A small core of Hospitalers have remained behind, mostly those who took local wives or to run the small orphanages established by the Order. A slightly larger contingent of trappers and traders of English and British extraction now stay permanently, using Norasian knowledge gained from survivors to live off the land or plant native crops around the settlements. Several Norasian survivors of the first plague stay near the settlements that succored them, their tribes shattered by disease. They instead plant and gather for the outposts, and begin to form a new identity, neither wholy Norasian nor wholy Anglo-British. Several mixed race children now fill the dirt streets of these settlements.

Incan Empire:

1522-1530: Washkar recovers and begins putting renewed energy into his projects. it is at this time that he begins funding large paintings and murals, along with more elaborate tapestries. Other nobles around cuzco begin following his lead, creating a cultural renaissance as each noble competes to have the best artist and poets. Waynu Capac tries to stop this from happening, but he is Ineffective due to his distance.

Washkar begins funding art classes at the Cheray'eqay. Attawalpa begins feeling jealousy from his brother's success, and thinks that he is so successful because of the Cheray'eqay. He begins secret negotiations to open up hi one in Quito with nobles from Chinchay suyu.

[Glen]

1523:

Need events

[Glen]

1524:

Trent:

Michael Gaismayr leads a successful rebellion against the inept Bishop of Trent. The Trentinos ally themselves with the Swiss Confederation.

Eastern Europe:

Radu of Wallachia and Bogdan of Moldavia both die in this year. Radu's daughter Sarah and Bogdan's son Christian inherit the thrones. As they were married to one another, their successions unite the two principalities into the United Principalities of Carpathia.

Incan Empire:

The Cuzco metalsmithes declare that bronze makes an excellent weapon material. Attawalpa begins ordering bronze in large quantities, causing a massive search for metals throughout the empire that will last for many years as the army does a massive overhaul of it's equipment.

South Asia:

1524 January - March: Orissan and Bharatan diplomats work tirelessly to rebuild the “everlasting promise” of peace between the two nations that has been shattered in recent years. The recent battles have given the respective rulers a profound respect for each other’s military skills, so this time the peace sticks.

1524 April: Crown Prince Jayadeva of Orissa marries Indira, Princess of Bharata. The marriage helps cement the accommodation between the two nations, and convinces the always bellicose Jagannath to forswear war against Bharata for the rest of his life.

[Atom]

1521: An assassination is attempted on Washkar. The assassin is killed in the attempt and Washkar only suffers a badly broken limb and cuts on his face and chest. This later turn into his famous scars. The Inca sends his condolences and begins an immediate investigation. Washkar also begins investigating. neither results turn up much. Attawalpa continues advancing through the Jungle, encountering fierce resistance from the natives. It is clear from this experience that copper is a bad material for fighting. Attawalpa sends word that they need to find a stronger material than copper for their axes.

[Atom]

1523: Washkar's investigation comes to the conclusion that Nina Cuyuchi funded the attempted assassination, but his father over rule him and finds a small noble responsible. he and his family are put to death.

[Atom]

1522-1530: Washkar recovers and begins putting renewed energy into his projects. it is at this time that he begins funding large paintings and murals, along with more elaborate tapestries. Other nobles around cuzco begin following his lead, creating a cultural renaissance as each noble competes to have the best artist and poets. Waynu Capac tries to stop this from happening, but he is Ineffective due to his distance.


1522: Washkar begins funding art classes at the Cheray'eqay. Attawalpa begins feeling jealousy from his brother's success, and thinks that he is so successful because of the Cheray'eqay. He begins secret negotiations to open up hi one in Quito with nobles from Chinchay suyu.

[Atom]

1524: The Cuzco metalsmithes declare that bronze makes an excellent weapon material. Attawalpa begins ordering bronze in large quantities, causing a massive search for metals throughout the empire that will last for many years as the army does a massive overhaul of it's equipment.

[Glen]

1521:

Scotland:

1521 - 1530: The Scots work to consolidate their outposts in Norasia and Bermuda, focusing on competing with the Anglo-British for the fur trade. They sell their wares through France and the Lowlands to the continent.

France:

1521 - 1525: Wealthy citizens of Bordeaux, hearing of great trade with the east, form the La Compagnie française des Indes orientales, the French East India Company. The main purpose of the company was to establish trade and monopolize the trade with the East Indies. The ships land on Java in 1522, and from there they begin exploration of Les Indies de le n'est portugaises, the Non Portugese Indies. Their expedition founds trading posts along the coastal mainland, until they come in contact with the Siamese. The expedition sails to Siam, where they are well recieved in the Ayutthaya court*. Upon return with diplomatic promises of trade and friendship, one Frenchmen remarked the size and wealth of the Siamese capital with that of Paris! ** The tales of the splendor of Indochina quickly led to more investment in the company, followed by a second visit in 1526.

Incan Empire:

1521: An assassination is attempted on Washkar. The assassin is killed in the attempt and Washkar only suffers a badly broken limb and cuts on his face and chest. This later turn into his famous scars. The Inca sends his condolences and begins an immediate investigation. Washkar also begins investigating. neither results turn up much. Attawalpa continues advancing through the Jungle, encountering fierce resistance from the natives. It is clear from this experience that copper is a bad material for fighting. Attawalpa sends word that they need to find a stronger material than copper for their axes.

[Glen]

1522:

Siam:

A French expedition lands in Siam and are well received in the Ayutthaya court.

Norasia:

It is ten years since the first outbreak of smallpox in the New World, and this first wave has finally burned itself out, but it has left the Northeast transformed. What were once trading outposts have turned into the nucleus for new settlements along the Cabot Waterway, Atlantic Seaboard, and the Meryk River. A small core of Hospitalers have remained behind, mostly those who took local wives or to run the small orphanages established by the Order. A slightly larger contingent of trappers and traders of English and British extraction now stay permanently, using Norasian knowledge gained from survivors to live off the land or plant native crops around the settlements. Several Norasian survivors of the first plague stay near the settlements that succored them, their tribes shattered by disease. They instead plant and gather for the outposts, and begin to form a new identity, neither wholy Norasian nor wholy Anglo-British. Several mixed race children now fill the dirt streets of these settlements.

Incan Empire:

1522-1530: Washkar recovers and begins putting renewed energy into his projects. it is at this time that he begins funding large paintings and murals, along with more elaborate tapestries. Other nobles around cuzco begin following his lead, creating a cultural renaissance as each noble competes to have the best artist and poets. Waynu Capac tries to stop this from happening, but he is Ineffective due to his distance.

1522: Washkar begins funding art classes at the Cheray'eqay. Attawalpa begins feeling jealousy from his brother's success, and thinks that he is so successful because of the Cheray'eqay. He begins secret negotiations to open up hi one in Quito with nobles from Chinchay suyu.

[Aussey]

1521:

Anglo-British Empire:

1521 - 1530: Prince Henry of Ireland, Lord Champion of the Anglo-British Empire, fights a series of campaigns to bring to heel rebellious Irish nobles. By the end of the decade, Ireland is tightly in the grip of the auburn haired Prince.

Scotland:

1521 - 1530: The Scots work to consolidate their outposts in Norasia and Bermuda, focusing on competing with the Anglo-British for the fur trade. They sell their wares through France and the Lowlands to the continent.

France:

1521 - 1525: Wealthy citizens of Bordeaux, hearing of great trade with the east, form the La Compagnie française des Indes orientales, the French East India Company. The main purpose of the company was to establish trade and monopolize the trade with the East Indies. The ships land on Java in 1522, and from there they begin exploration of Les Indies de le n'est portugaises, the Non Portugese Indies. Their expedition founds trading posts along the coastal mainland, until they come in contact with the Siamese. The expedition sails to Siam, where they are well recieved in the Ayutthaya court*. Upon return with diplomatic promises of trade and friendship, one Frenchmen remarked the size and wealth of the Siamese capital with that of Paris! ** The tales of the splendor of Indochina quickly led to more investment in the company, followed by a second visit in 1526.

Subsaharan Africa:

1521: News of the Portuguese victory reaches Ndongo and Matamba- via the Portuguese. The Portuguese successfully overthrow the King with support of the Matambans and disgruntled Ndongolese poor. The King's next eldest brother by his wife Maria, the Marquis of Cotombo Prince Marcos, and a strong Lusophile, is crowned King. King Marcos replaces all the anti-Portuguese ministers of his fathers with his own acquaintances, and begins to support the spread of the voudou forms of Catholicism being preached by the Matamban priests in the hinterlands of Matamba. King Emmanuel II is executed shortly after.

Incan Empire:

1521: An assassination is attempted on Washkar. The assassin is killed in the attempt and Washkar only suffers a badly broken limb and cuts on his face and chest. This later turn into his famous scars. The Inca sends his condolences and begins an immediate investigation. Washkar also begins investigating. neither results turn up much. Attawalpa continues advancing through the Jungle, encountering fierce resistance from the natives. It is clear from this experience that copper is a bad material for fighting. Attawalpa sends word that they need to find a stronger material than copper for their axes.

[Aussey]

1522:

Subsaharan Africa:

1522: The Luba revolt against the Ndongolese, capturing the infant Princess Maria-Iosephina, sole grandchild of their last emperor, and declare her "Empress Iosephina I of the Catholic Lubas." Meanwhile, viceroy Prince Sebastio in the Jaga Cassangi declares himself the true King of the entire empire, and due to his immense popularity and the support of the equally popular former Regent Captain Benedeto, he gains support from imperial loyalists throughout the realms. By now, all of the kindoms are in full revolt against each other and the Portugese.

Siam:

A French expedition lands in Siam and are well received in the Ayutthaya court.

Norasia:

It is ten years since the first outbreak of smallpox in the New World, and this first wave has finally burned itself out, but it has left the Northeast transformed. What were once trading outposts have turned into the nucleus for new settlements along the Cabot Waterway, Atlantic Seaboard, and the Meryk River. A small core of Hospitalers have remained behind, mostly those who took local wives or to run the small orphanages established by the Order. A slightly larger contingent of trappers and traders of English and British extraction now stay permanently, using Norasian knowledge gained from survivors to live off the land or plant native crops around the settlements. Several Norasian survivors of the first plague stay near the settlements that succored them, their tribes shattered by disease. They instead plant and gather for the outposts, and begin to form a new identity, neither wholy Norasian nor wholy Anglo-British. Several mixed race children now fill the dirt streets of these settlements.

Incan Empire:

1522-1530: Washkar recovers and begins putting renewed energy into his projects. it is at this time that he begins funding large paintings and murals, along with more elaborate tapestries. Other nobles around cuzco begin following his lead, creating a cultural renaissance as each noble competes to have the best artist and poets. Waynu Capac tries to stop this from happening, but he is Ineffective due to his distance.

1522: Washkar begins funding art classes at the Cheray'eqay. Attawalpa begins feeling jealousy from his brother's success, and thinks that he is so successful because of the Cheray'eqay. He begins secret negotiations to open up hi one in Quito with nobles from Chinchay suyu.

[AJNolte]

1521: King Juan sends to the University of Salamanca, requesting aid in setting right the finances of the kingdom. As a result, a young converso scholar named Raphael Mendez publishes his "theory of wealth and trade", which argues that wealth is not finite but can actually be created by trading items which Spain has in plenty to regions where they are scarce, and that open trade will foster economic growth. Mendez attacks the "phalacious mercantilist theory that a nation must horde gold and silver to be prosperous." King Juan is entranced by the idea, and sends a copy of Mendez's work, translated into Itallian, to the Abrabenal finance minister of Naples and the king. (note: closely mirrors Louise DeMolena's theory of money and defense of usury published twenty years later OTL. ITTL circumstances have brought it to the fore earlier).

[AJNolte]

1522:
The beginning of the "great reforms" in Spain. King Juan calls a cortes heavily dominated by the communeros and more liberal (Salamancan-influenced) members of the clergy. Juan, following up on the ideas of Mendez, decides to open Spain fully to foreign trade, particularly from the French, Hanseatic League, Navarrese and Neapolitans. All edicts forbidding the practice of Judaism in Spain are repealed, though Islam remains forbidden. Above all, Juan deligates power to the cortes, and calls for this body to create a uniform code of laws to foster trade and create an opportunity for "wealth creation". Raphael Mendez is named finance minister of Spain.

[Keenir]

1521:

Anglo-British Empire:

1521 - 1530: Prince Henry of Ireland, Lord Champion of the Anglo-British Empire, fights a series of campaigns to bring to heel rebellious Irish nobles. By the end of the decade, Ireland is tightly in the grip of the auburn haired Prince.

Scotland:

1521 - 1530: The Scots work to consolidate their outposts in Norasia and Bermuda, focusing on competing with the Anglo-British for the fur trade. They sell their wares through France and the Lowlands to the continent.

France:

1521 - 1525: Wealthy citizens of Bordeaux, hearing of great trade with the east, form the La Compagnie française des Indes orientales, the French East India Company. The main purpose of the company was to establish trade and monopolize the trade with the East Indies. The ships land on Java in 1522, and from there they begin exploration of Les Indies de le n'est portugaises, the Non Portugese Indies. Their expedition founds trading posts along the coastal mainland, until they come in contact with the Siamese. The expedition sails to Siam, where they are well recieved in the Ayutthaya court. Upon return with diplomatic promises of trade and friendship, one Frenchmen remarked the size and wealth of the Siamese capital with that of Paris! The tales of the splendor of Indochina quickly led to more investment in the company, followed by a second visit in 1526.

Spain:
King Juan sends to the University of Salamanca, requesting aid in setting right the finances of the kingdom. As a result, a young converso scholar named Raphael Mendez publishes his "theory of wealth and trade", which argues that wealth is not finite but can actually be created by trading items which Spain has in plenty to regions where they are scarce, and that open trade will foster economic growth. Mendez attacks the "phalacious mercantilist theory that a nation must horde gold and silver to be prosperous." King Juan is entranced by the idea, and sends a copy of Mendez's work, translated into Itallian, to the Abrabenal finance minister of Naples and the king.

Ottoman Empire:

1521: Gregory of Mantua, still proclaiming himself a student of Wettin, sends his more-trained disciples out to establish the Wettinite faith in the east.

1521-1524: All but one of Gregory's disciples die variously from plague, exposure, and martyrdom at the hands of non-Wettinite Christians. Gregory himself, remaining in the Ottoman lands, survives, as does Jacob.

Subsaharan Africa:

1521: News of the Portuguese victory reaches Ndongo and Matamba- via the Portuguese. The Portuguese successfully overthrow the King with support of the Matambans and disgruntled Ndongolese poor. The King's next eldest brother by his wife Maria, the Marquis of Cotombo Prince Marcos, and a strong Lusophile, is crowned King. King Marcos replaces all the anti-Portuguese ministers of his fathers with his own acquaintances, and begins to support the spread of the voudou forms of Catholicism being preached by the Matamban priests in the hinterlands of Matamba. King Emmanuel II is executed shortly after.

Incan Empire:

1521: An assassination is attempted on Washkar. The assassin is killed in the attempt and Washkar only suffers a badly broken limb and cuts on his face and chest. This later turn into his famous scars. The Inca sends his condolences and begins an immediate investigation. Washkar also begins investigating. neither results turn up much. Attawalpa continues advancing through the Jungle, encountering fierce resistance from the natives. It is clear from this experience that copper is a bad material for fighting. Attawalpa sends word that they need to find a stronger material than copper for their axes.

[Keenir]

1522:

Spain:

The beginning of the "great reforms" in Spain. King Juan calls a cortes heavily dominated by the communeros and more liberal (Salamancan-influenced) members of the clergy. Juan, following up on the ideas of Mendez, decides to open Spain fully to foreign trade, particularly from the French, Hanseatic League, Navarrese and Neapolitans. All edicts forbidding the practice of Judaism in Spain are repealed, though Islam remains forbidden. Above all, Juan delegates power to the cortes, and calls for this body to create a uniform code of laws to foster trade and create an opportunity for "wealth creation". Raphael Mendez is named finance minister of Spain.

Mediterranean Sea:

1522 - 1523: A small group of Portuguese privateers begin attacking Ottoman shipping in the Mediterranean. The Ottomans bring down the full weight of their navy in searching the Portuguese raiders out, until all of them are destroyed. Surviving men are sold to the Crimea and boys are impressed into the janissary system.

Ottoman Empire & Rhodes:

Jacob of Rhodes, most senior of Gregory of Mantua's disciples, returns to Rhodes, where he preaches a form of Wettinism that allows its practitioners to keep a great deal of their religious customs.

Subsaharan Africa:

The Luba revolt against the Ndongolese, capturing the infant Princess Maria-Iosephina, sole grandchild of their last emperor, and declare her "Empress Iosephina I of the Catholic Lubas." Meanwhile, viceroy Prince Sebastio in the Jaga Cassangi declares himself the true King of the entire empire, and due to his immense popularity and the support of the equally popular former Regent Captain Benedeto, he gains support from imperial loyalists throughout the realms. By now, all of the kindoms are in full revolt against each other and the Portugese.

Siam:

A French expedition lands in Siam and are well received in the Ayutthaya court.

Norasia:

It is ten years since the first outbreak of smallpox in the New World, and this first wave has finally burned itself out, but it has left the Northeast transformed. What were once trading outposts have turned into the nucleus for new settlements along the Cabot Waterway, Atlantic Seaboard, and the Meryk River. A small core of Hospitalers have remained behind, mostly those who took local wives or to run the small orphanages established by the Order. A slightly larger contingent of trappers and traders of English and British extraction now stay permanently, using Norasian knowledge gained from survivors to live off the land or plant native crops around the settlements. Several Norasian survivors of the first plague stay near the settlements that succored them, their tribes shattered by disease. They instead plant and gather for the outposts, and begin to form a new identity, neither wholy Norasian nor wholy Anglo-British. Several mixed race children now fill the dirt streets of these settlements.

Incan Empire:

1522-1530: Washkar recovers and begins putting renewed energy into his projects. it is at this time that he begins funding large paintings and murals, along with more elaborate tapestries. Other nobles around cuzco begin following his lead, creating a cultural renaissance as each noble competes to have the best artist and poets. Waynu Capac tries to stop this from happening, but he is Ineffective due to his distance.

Washkar begins funding art classes at the Cheray'eqay. Attawalpa begins feeling jealousy from his brother's success, and thinks that he is so successful because of the Cheray'eqay. He begins secret negotiations to open up hi one in Quito with nobles from Chinchay suyu.

[Glen]

....(note: closely mirrors Louise DeMolena's theory of money and defense of usury published twenty years later OTL. ITTL circumstances have brought it to the fore earlier).

No problem with the event that this note relates to (removed it from the actual event). However, was the term merchantilism coined yet?:confused: The concept is around, so that is fine to rail against, just not the actual term I'm thinking.

[Glen]

Question the repeal of the Explusion of the Jews. Seems a bit out of the blue. A more 'laissez-faire' approach to enforcement, however, may be in order. Especially if Juan redirects the Inquisition towards ferreting out sympathizers of Wettinism....

[Glen]

1524:

Trent:

Michael Gaismayr leads a successful rebellion against the inept Bishop of Trent. The Trentinos ally themselves with the Swiss Confederation.

Eastern Europe:

Radu of Wallachia and Bogdan of Moldavia both die in this year. Radu's daughter Sarah and Bogdan's son Christian inherit the thrones. As they were married to one another, their successions unite the two principalities into the United Principalities of Carpathia.

Incan Empire:

The Cuzco metalsmithes declare that bronze makes an excellent weapon material. Attawalpa begins ordering bronze in large quantities, causing a massive search for metals throughout the empire that will last for many years as the army does a massive overhaul of it's equipment.

[Glen]

1523:

Incan Empire:

Washkar's investigation comes to the conclusion that Nina Cuyuchi funded the attempted assassination, but his father over rule him and finds a small noble responsible. he and his family are put to death.

[AJNolte]

Navarre:
1523: After extensive study of the doctrines of Wettin, young king Andrew of Navarre converts to Wettinism. He begins instituting the Mosarabic rite in Wettinite churches, and translates both the Bible and the mass into Basque. This serves not only to promote the new faith in Navarre, but also tie the country together and make Basque the most prominent official language.

HRE:
1523, January: Emperor Maximillian dies.
1523, March: Duke Frederick of Saxony dies, to be succeeded by his twenty-five-year-old son, the procotious ErnstFrederick.
1523, August: Meeting in Vienna, the Protestant electors elect ErnstFrederick Holy Roman Emperor.

[Keenir]

Navarre:
1523: After extensive study of the doctrines of Wettin, young king Andrew of Navarre converts to Wettinism. He begins instituting the Mosarabic rite in Wettinite churches, and translates both the Bible and the mass into Basque. This serves not only to promote the new faith in Navarre, but also tie the country together and make Basque the most prominent official language.

just wondering...is there a single Basque language, or is one dialect of Basque promoted & the other Basque dialects suppressed?

HRE:
1523, January: Emperor Maximillian dies.
1523, March: Duke Frederick of Saxony dies, to be succeeded by his twenty-five-year-old son, the procotious ErnstFrederick.
1523, August: Meeting in Vienna, the Protestant electors elect ErnstFrederick Holy Roman Emperor.

would they be called "Protestant"? why not "Wettinite", at least until there is more than one schism west of Vienna.
;)

[Tom Veil]

1521:

Anglo-British Empire:

1521 - 1530: Prince Henry of Ireland, Lord Champion of the Anglo-British Empire, fights a series of campaigns to bring to heel rebellious Irish nobles. By the end of the decade, Ireland is tightly in the grip of the auburn haired Prince.

Scotland:

1521 - 1530: The Scots work to consolidate their outposts in Norasia and Bermuda, focusing on competing with the Anglo-British for the fur trade. They sell their wares through France and the Lowlands to the continent.

France:

1521 - 1525: Wealthy citizens of Bordeaux, hearing of great trade with the east, form the La Compagnie française des Indes orientales, the French East India Company. The main purpose of the company was to establish trade and monopolize the trade with the East Indies. The ships land on Java in 1522, and from there they begin exploration of Les Indies de le n'est portugaises, the Non Portugese Indies. Their expedition founds trading posts along the coastal mainland, until they come in contact with the Siamese. The expedition sails to Siam, where they are well recieved in the Ayutthaya court. Upon return with diplomatic promises of trade and friendship, one Frenchmen remarked the size and wealth of the Siamese capital with that of Paris! The tales of the splendor of Indochina quickly led to more investment in the company, followed by a second visit in 1526.

Spain:
King Juan sends to the University of Salamanca, requesting aid in setting right the finances of the kingdom. As a result, a young converso scholar named Raphael Mendez publishes his "theory of wealth and trade", which argues that wealth is not finite but can actually be created by trading items which Spain has in plenty to regions where they are scarce, and that open trade will foster economic growth. Mendez attacks the "phalacious mercantilist theory that a nation must horde gold and silver to be prosperous." King Juan is entranced by the idea, and sends a copy of Mendez's work, translated into Itallian, to the Abrabenal finance minister of Naples and the king.

Ottoman Empire:

1521: Gregory of Mantua, still proclaiming himself a student of Wettin, sends his more-trained disciples out to establish the Wettinite faith in the east.

1521-1524: All but one of Gregory's disciples die variously from plague, exposure, and martyrdom at the hands of non-Wettinite Christians. Gregory himself, remaining in the Ottoman lands, survives, as does Jacob.

Subsaharan Africa:

1521: News of the Portuguese victory reaches Ndongo and Matamba- via the Portuguese. The Portuguese successfully overthrow the King with support of the Matambans and disgruntled Ndongolese poor. The King's next eldest brother by his wife Maria, the Marquis of Cotombo Prince Marcos, and a strong Lusophile, is crowned King. King Marcos replaces all the anti-Portuguese ministers of his fathers with his own acquaintances, and begins to support the spread of the voudou forms of Catholicism being preached by the Matamban priests in the hinterlands of Matamba. King Emmanuel II is executed shortly after.

Incan Empire:

1521: An assassination is attempted on Washkar. The assassin is killed in the attempt and Washkar only suffers a badly broken limb and cuts on his face and chest. This later turn into his famous scars. The Inca sends his condolences and begins an immediate investigation. Washkar also begins investigating. neither results turn up much. Attawalpa continues advancing through the Jungle, encountering fierce resistance from the natives. It is clear from this experience that copper is a bad material for fighting. Attawalpa sends word that they need to find a stronger material than copper for their axes.

South Asia:
1521 January-March: Orissa and Bharata engage in a fairly pointless border war, best remembered for the evenly matched tactics on each side that lead to a quick stalemate.

[Tom Veil]

1523:

Navarre:

After extensive study of the doctrines of Wettin, young king Andrew of Navarre converts to Wettinism. He begins instituting the Mosarabic rite in Wettinite churches, and translates both the Bible and the mass into Basque. This serves not only to promote the new faith in Navarre, but also tie the country together and make Basque the most prominent official language.

Holy Roman Empire:

1523 January: Emperor Maximillian dies.

1523 March: Duke Frederick of Saxony dies, to be succeeded by his twenty-five-year-old son, the procotious Ernst Frederick.

1523 August: Meeting in Vienna, the pro-Wettinite Electors choose Ernst Frederick as Elected King of the Romans.

South Asia:

1523 September-December: Orissa and Bharata engage in another minor war. The war climaxes in November with the naval Battle of Varuna Puri in which each side loses over 2,000 men – widely believed to be the bloodiest all-naval battle in Orissan history.

Incan Empire:

Washkar's investigation comes to the conclusion that Nina Cuyuchi funded the attempted assassination, but his father over rule him and finds a small noble responsible. he and his family are put to death.

[Tom Veil]

1524:

Trent:

Michael Gaismayr leads a successful rebellion against the inept Bishop of Trent. The Trentinos ally themselves with the Swiss Confederation.

Eastern Europe:

Radu of Wallachia and Bogdan of Moldavia both die in this year. Radu's daughter Sarah and Bogdan's son Christian inherit the thrones. As they were married to one another, their successions unite the two principalities into the United Principalities of Carpathia.

Incan Empire:

The Cuzco metalsmithes declare that bronze makes an excellent weapon material. Attawalpa begins ordering bronze in large quantities, causing a massive search for metals throughout the empire that will last for many years as the army does a massive overhaul of it's equipment.

South Asia:

1524 January - March: Orissan and Bharatan diplomats work tirelessly to rebuild the “everlasting promise” of peace between the two nations that has been shattered in recent years. The recent battles have given the respective rulers a profound respect for each other’s military skills, so this time the peace sticks.

1524 April: Crown Prince Jayadeva of Orissa marries Indira, Princess of Bharata. The marriage helps cement the accommodation between the two nations, and convinces the always bellicose Jagannath to forswear war against Bharata for the rest of his life.

[marl_d]

1521:

Anglo-British Empire:

1521 - 1530: Prince Henry of Ireland, Lord Champion of the Anglo-British Empire, fights a series of campaigns to bring to heel rebellious Irish nobles. By the end of the decade, Ireland is tightly in the grip of the auburn haired Prince.

Scotland:

1521 - 1530: The Scots work to consolidate their outposts in Norasia and Bermuda, focusing on competing with the Anglo-British for the fur trade. They sell their wares through France and the Lowlands to the continent.

France:

1521 - 1525: Wealthy citizens of Bordeaux, hearing of great trade with the east, form the La Compagnie française des Indes orientales, the French East India Company. The main purpose of the company was to establish trade and monopolize the trade with the East Indies. The ships land on Java in 1522, and from there they begin exploration of Les Indies de le n'est portugaises, the Non Portugese Indies. Their expedition founds trading posts along the coastal mainland, until they come in contact with the Siamese. The expedition sails to Siam, where they are well recieved in the Ayutthaya court. Upon return with diplomatic promises of trade and friendship, one Frenchmen remarked the size and wealth of the Siamese capital with that of Paris! The tales of the splendor of Indochina quickly led to more investment in the company, followed by a second visit in 1526.

Spain:

King Juan sends to the University of Salamanca, requesting aid in setting right the finances of the kingdom. As a result, a young converso scholar named Raphael Mendez publishes his "theory of wealth and trade", which argues that wealth is not finite but can actually be created by trading items which Spain has in plenty to regions where they are scarce, and that open trade will foster economic growth. Mendez attacks the "phalacious mercantilist theory that a nation must horde gold and silver to be prosperous." King Juan is entranced by the idea, and sends a copy of Mendez's work, translated into Itallian, to the Abrabenal finance minister of Naples and the king.

Ottoman Empire:

1521: Gregory of Mantua, still proclaiming himself a student of Wettin, sends his more-trained disciples out to establish the Wettinite faith in the east.

1521-1524: All but one of Gregory's disciples die variously from plague, exposure, and martyrdom at the hands of non-Wettinite Christians. Gregory himself, remaining in the Ottoman lands, survives, as does Jacob.

Subsaharan Africa:

1521: News of the Portuguese victory reaches Ndongo and Matamba- via the Portuguese. The Portuguese successfully overthrow the King with support of the Matambans and disgruntled Ndongolese poor. The King's next eldest brother by his wife Maria, the Marquis of Cotombo Prince Marcos, and a strong Lusophile, is crowned King. King Marcos replaces all the anti-Portuguese ministers of his fathers with his own acquaintances, and begins to support the spread of the voudou forms of Catholicism being preached by the Matamban priests in the hinterlands of Matamba. King Emmanuel II is executed shortly after.

Incan Empire:

1521: An assassination is attempted on Washkar. The assassin is killed in the attempt and Washkar only suffers a badly broken limb and cuts on his face and chest. This later turn into his famous scars. The Inca sends his condolences and begins an immediate investigation. Washkar also begins investigating. neither results turn up much. Attawalpa continues advancing through the Jungle, encountering fierce resistance from the natives. It is clear from this experience that copper is a bad material for fighting. Attawalpa sends word that they need to find a stronger material than copper for their axes.

South Asia:

1521 January-March: Orissa and Bharata engage in a fairly pointless border war, best remembered for the evenly matched tactics on each side that lead to a quick stalemate.

Muscovy/Russia:

1521: Ryazan Principality is annexed after it is found out that the Prince of Ryazan is flirting with joining with the Khans against Russia.

[pompejus]

1521:

Anglo-British Empire:

1521 - 1530: Prince Henry of Ireland, Lord Champion of the Anglo-British Empire, fights a series of campaigns to bring to heel rebellious Irish nobles. By the end of the decade, Ireland is tightly in the grip of the auburn haired Prince.

Scotland:

1521 - 1530: The Scots work to consolidate their outposts in Norasia and Bermuda, focusing on competing with the Anglo-British for the fur trade. They sell their wares through France and the Lowlands to the continent.

France:

1521 - 1525: Wealthy citizens of Bordeaux, hearing of great trade with the east, form the La Compagnie française des Indes orientales, the French East India Company. The main purpose of the company was to establish trade and monopolize the trade with the East Indies. The ships land on Java in 1522, and from there they begin exploration of Les Indies de le n'est portugaises, the Non Portugese Indies. Their expedition founds trading posts along the coastal mainland, until they come in contact with the Siamese. The expedition sails to Siam, where they are well recieved in the Ayutthaya court. Upon return with diplomatic promises of trade and friendship, one Frenchmen remarked the size and wealth of the Siamese capital with that of Paris! The tales of the splendor of Indochina quickly led to more investment in the company, followed by a second visit in 1526.

Spain:

King Juan sends to the University of Salamanca, requesting aid in setting right the finances of the kingdom. As a result, a young converso scholar named Raphael Mendez publishes his "theory of wealth and trade", which argues that wealth is not finite but can actually be created by trading items which Spain has in plenty to regions where they are scarce, and that open trade will foster economic growth. Mendez attacks the "phalacious mercantilist theory that a nation must horde gold and silver to be prosperous." King Juan is entranced by the idea, and sends a copy of Mendez's work, translated into Itallian, to the Abrabenal finance minister of Naples and the king.

Ottoman Empire:

1521: Gregory of Mantua, still proclaiming himself a student of Wettin, sends his more-trained disciples out to establish the Wettinite faith in the east.

1521-1524: All but one of Gregory's disciples die variously from plague, exposure, and martyrdom at the hands of non-Wettinite Christians. Gregory himself, remaining in the Ottoman lands, survives, as does Jacob.

Subsaharan Africa:

1521: News of the Portuguese victory reaches Ndongo and Matamba- via the Portuguese. The Portuguese successfully overthrow the King with support of the Matambans and disgruntled Ndongolese poor. The King's next eldest brother by his wife Maria, the Marquis of Cotombo Prince Marcos, and a strong Lusophile, is crowned King. King Marcos replaces all the anti-Portuguese ministers of his fathers with his own acquaintances, and begins to support the spread of the voudou forms of Catholicism being preached by the Matamban priests in the hinterlands of Matamba. King Emmanuel II is executed shortly after.

Incan Empire:

1521: An assassination is attempted on Washkar. The assassin is killed in the attempt and Washkar only suffers a badly broken limb and cuts on his face and chest. This later turn into his famous scars. The Inca sends his condolences and begins an immediate investigation. Washkar also begins investigating. neither results turn up much. Attawalpa continues advancing through the Jungle, encountering fierce resistance from the natives. It is clear from this experience that copper is a bad material for fighting. Attawalpa sends word that they need to find a stronger material than copper for their axes.

South Asia:

1521 January-March: Orissa and Bharata engage in a fairly pointless border war, best remembered for the evenly matched tactics on each side that lead to a quick stalemate.

Muscovy/Russia:

1521: Ryazan Principality is annexed after it is found out that the Prince of Ryazan is flirting with joining with the Khans against Russia.


Duchy of Cleves:

1521:

Jan II of Cleves passes away. His son succeeds him and is now Duke of Cleves, Julich and Berg, Count of Mark and Ravensburg.

[Psychomeltdown]

1521:


Anglo-British Empire:

1521 - 1530: Prince Henry of Ireland, Lord Champion of the Anglo-British Empire, fights a series of campaigns to bring to heel rebellious Irish nobles. By the end of the decade, Ireland is tightly in the grip of the auburn haired Prince.

Scotland:

1521 - 1530: The Scots work to consolidate their outposts in Norasia and Bermuda, focusing on competing with the Anglo-British for the fur trade. They sell their wares through France and the Lowlands to the continent.

France:

1521 - 1525: Wealthy citizens of Bordeaux, hearing of great trade with the east, form the La Compagnie française des Indes orientales, the French East India Company. The main purpose of the company was to establish trade and monopolize the trade with the East Indies. The ships land on Java in 1522, and from there they begin exploration of Les Indies de le n'est portugaises, the Non Portugese Indies. Their expedition founds trading posts along the coastal mainland, until they come in contact with the Siamese. The expedition sails to Siam, where they are well recieved in the Ayutthaya court. Upon return with diplomatic promises of trade and friendship, one Frenchmen remarked the size and wealth of the Siamese capital with that of Paris! The tales of the splendor of Indochina quickly led to more investment in the company, followed by a second visit in 1526.

Spain:

King Juan sends to the University of Salamanca, requesting aid in setting right the finances of the kingdom. As a result, a young converso scholar named Raphael Mendez publishes his "theory of wealth and trade", which argues that wealth is not finite but can actually be created by trading items which Spain has in plenty to regions where they are scarce, and that open trade will foster economic growth. Mendez attacks the "phalacious mercantilist theory that a nation must horde gold and silver to be prosperous." King Juan is entranced by the idea, and sends a copy of Mendez's work, translated into Itallian, to the Abrabenal finance minister of Naples and the king.

Ottoman Empire:

1521: Gregory of Mantua, still proclaiming himself a student of Wettin, sends his more-trained disciples out to establish the Wettinite faith in the east.

1521-1524: All but one of Gregory's disciples die variously from plague, exposure, and martyrdom at the hands of non-Wettinite Christians. Gregory himself, remaining in the Ottoman lands, survives, as does Jacob.

Subsaharan Africa:

1521: News of the Portuguese victory reaches Ndongo and Matamba- via the Portuguese. The Portuguese successfully overthrow the King with support of the Matambans and disgruntled Ndongolese poor. The King's next eldest brother by his wife Maria, the Marquis of Cotombo Prince Marcos, and a strong Lusophile, is crowned King. King Marcos replaces all the anti-Portuguese ministers of his fathers with his own acquaintances, and begins to support the spread of the voudou forms of Catholicism being preached by the Matamban priests in the hinterlands of Matamba. King Emmanuel II is executed shortly after.

Incan Empire:

1521: An assassination is attempted on Washkar. The assassin is killed in the attempt and Washkar only suffers a badly broken limb and cuts on his face and chest. This later turn into his famous scars. The Inca sends his condolences and begins an immediate investigation. Washkar also begins investigating. neither results turn up much. Attawalpa continues advancing through the Jungle, encountering fierce resistance from the natives. It is clear from this experience that copper is a bad material for fighting. Attawalpa sends word that they need to find a stronger material than copper for their axes.

South Asia:

1521 January-March: Orissa and Bharata engage in a fairly pointless border war, best remembered for the evenly matched tactics on each side that lead to a quick stalemate.

Muscovy/Russia:

1521: Ryazan Principality is annexed after it is found out that the Prince of Ryazan is flirting with joining with the Khans against Russia.


Duchy of Cleves:

1521: Jan II of Cleves passes away. His son succeeds him and is now Duke of Cleves, Julich and Berg, Count of Mark and Ravensburg.

Portugal

1521:Vasco de Gama is granted a charter to begin a trading company in India and Asia. Upon hearing that de Gama is to be granted trading rights to India, merchants flood to buy shares in the company before its even officially recognized.

The ports of Porto are the first things to be rebuilt after the Great Fire. They exceed Lisbon’s ports in size and grandeur, devoted wholly from the beginning to support massive amounts of ships. Porto is being designed from the ground up to be a trading city, with large ports, massive warehouses and markets to cater to the trade that comes to it’s shores.

1521-1530:The Portuguese Military Academy is built in Porto, due to the poor effectiveness of the Portuguese army in the battle with Spain, Manoel is determined to make it as effective as the naval arm of it’s military.

Trade with England is increased; the always needed iron, tin, wool, wood, and other materials are purchased in bulk. Manoel openly courts English, Spanish, and French settlers and merchants to set up shop in Portugal. The manpower is desperately needed and Manoel is looking to cut his dependence upon importing raw materials.


Portugal: State of India

De Albuquerque returns to India, resuming his Viceroy duties.

The elder de Almeida dies of Malaria. Lorenco de Almeida is made the Military Governor of the Far East, situated out of Malacca and in charge of keeping the Spice Islands in the hands of the Portuguese.

Another attempt to liberate Hormuz by Muslim forces from the Portuguese is made, but the attack is successfully beaten back.

The King of the Kotte accepts a Portuguese advisor. The Portuguese expand their base in Kotte and help put down rebellions and revolts.

[AJNolte]

1521: Hansa traders from Fredericksberg travel to the lands of the Muisca, and establish trade contacts.

Malta:

1521: The fortress of Sanmaria is finally completed, makinhg it one of the most difficult cities to besiege in the Mediterranean.

[AJNolte]

Question the repeal of the Explusion of the Jews. Seems a bit out of the blue. A more 'laissez-faire' approach to enforcement, however, may be in order. Especially if Juan redirects the Inquisition towards ferreting out sympathizers of Wettinism....


Well, looking for Portuguese agents, which many Wettinites are assumed to be.

[AJNolte]

1522: King Andrew of Navarre converts to Wettinism, and begins translation of the Bible into Basque and promulgation of the Mosarabic rite throughout Navarre.

[Glen]

1521:

Anglo-British Empire:

1521 - 1530: Prince Henry of Ireland, Lord Champion of the Anglo-British Empire, fights a series of campaigns to bring to heel rebellious Irish nobles. By the end of the decade, Ireland is tightly in the grip of the auburn haired Prince.

Scotland:

1521 - 1530: The Scots work to consolidate their outposts in Norasia and Bermuda, focusing on competing with the Anglo-British for the fur trade. They sell their wares through France and the Lowlands to the continent.

France:

1521 - 1525: Wealthy citizens of Bordeaux, hearing of great trade with the east, form the La Compagnie française des Indes orientales, the French East India Company. The main purpose of the company was to establish trade and monopolize the trade with the East Indies. The ships land on Java in 1522, and from there they begin exploration of Les Indies de le n'est portugaises, the Non Portugese Indies. Their expedition founds trading posts along the coastal mainland, until they come in contact with the Siamese. The expedition sails to Siam, where they are well recieved in the Ayutthaya court. Upon return with diplomatic promises of trade and friendship, one Frenchmen remarked the size and wealth of the Siamese capital with that of Paris! The tales of the splendor of Indochina quickly led to more investment in the company, followed by a second visit in 1526.

Spain:

King Juan sends to the University of Salamanca, requesting aid in setting right the finances of the kingdom. As a result, a young converso scholar named Raphael Mendez publishes his "theory of wealth and trade", which argues that wealth is not finite but can actually be created by trading items which Spain has in plenty to regions where they are scarce, and that open trade will foster economic growth. Mendez attacks the "phalacious mercantilist theory that a nation must horde gold and silver to be prosperous." King Juan is entranced by the idea, and sends a copy of Mendez's work, translated into Itallian, to the Abrabenal finance minister of Naples and the king.

Ottoman Empire:

1521: Gregory of Mantua, still proclaiming himself a student of Wettin, sends his more-trained disciples out to establish the Wettinite faith in the east.

1521-1524: All but one of Gregory's disciples die variously from plague, exposure, and martyrdom at the hands of non-Wettinite Christians. Gregory himself, remaining in the Ottoman lands, survives, as does Jacob.

Subsaharan Africa:

News of the Portuguese victory reaches Ndongo and Matamba- via the Portuguese. The Portuguese successfully overthrow the King with support of the Matambans and disgruntled Ndongolese poor. The King's next eldest brother by his wife Maria, the Marquis of Cotombo Prince Marcos, and a strong Lusophile, is crowned King. King Marcos replaces all the anti-Portuguese ministers of his fathers with his own acquaintances, and begins to support the spread of the voudou forms of Catholicism being preached by the Matamban priests in the hinterlands of Matamba. King Emmanuel II is executed shortly after.

Incan Empire:

An assassination is attempted on Washkar. The assassin is killed in the attempt and Washkar only suffers a badly broken limb and cuts on his face and chest. This later turn into his famous scars. The Inca sends his condolences and begins an immediate investigation. Washkar also begins investigating. neither results turn up much. Attawalpa continues advancing through the Jungle, encountering fierce resistance from the natives. It is clear from this experience that copper is a bad material for fighting. Attawalpa sends word that they need to find a stronger material than copper for their axes.

South Asia:

1521 January - March: Orissa and Bharata engage in a fairly pointless border war, best remembered for the evenly matched tactics on each side that lead to a quick stalemate.

Muscovy/Russia:

Ryazan Principality is annexed after it is found out that the Prince of Ryazan is flirting with joining with the Khans against Russia.

Duchy of Cleves:

1521: Jan II of Cleves passes away. His son succeeds him and is now Duke of Cleves, Julich and Berg, Count of Mark and Ravensburg.

Portugal

Vasco de Gama is granted a charter to begin a trading company in India and Asia. Upon hearing that de Gama is to be granted trading rights to India, merchants flood to buy shares in the company before its even officially recognized.

The ports of Porto are the first things to be rebuilt after the Great Fire. They exceed Lisbon’s ports in size and grandeur, devoted wholly from the beginning to support massive amounts of ships. Porto is being designed from the ground up to be a trading city, with large ports, massive warehouses and markets to cater to the trade that comes to it’s shores.

1521-1530: The Portuguese Military Academy is built in Porto, due to the poor effectiveness of the Portuguese army in the battle with Spain, Manoel is determined to make it as effective as the naval arm of it’s military.

Trade with England is increased; the always needed iron, tin, wool, wood, and other materials are purchased in bulk. Manoel openly courts English, Spanish, and French settlers and merchants to set up shop in Portugal. The manpower is desperately needed and Manoel is looking to cut his dependence upon importing raw materials.

Malta:

The fortress of Sanmaria is finally completed, making it one of the most difficult cities to besiege in the Mediterranean.

Middle East:

Another attempt to liberate Hormuz by Muslim forces from the Portuguese is made, but the attack is successfully beaten back.

Portuguese State of India:

De Albuquerque returns to India, resuming his Viceroy duties.

The elder de Almeida dies of Malaria. Lorenco de Almeida is made the Military Governor of the Far East, situated out of Malacca and in charge of keeping the Spice Islands in the hands of the Portuguese.

The King of the Kotte accepts a Portuguese advisor. The Portuguese expand their base in Kotte and help put down rebellions and revolts.

South America:

Hansa traders from Fredericksberg travel to the lands of the Muisca, and establish trade contacts.

[Glen]

1522:

Navarre:

King Andrew of Navarre converts to Wettinism, and begins translation of the Bible into Basque and promulgation of the Mosarabic rite throughout Navarre.

Spain:

The beginning of the "great reforms" in Spain. King Juan calls a cortes heavily dominated by the communeros and more liberal (Salamancan-influenced) members of the clergy. Juan, following up on the ideas of Mendez, decides to open Spain fully to foreign trade, particularly from the French, Hanseatic League, Navarrese and Neapolitans. All edicts forbidding the practice of Judaism in Spain are repealed, though Islam remains forbidden. Above all, Juan delegates power to the cortes, and calls for this body to create a uniform code of laws to foster trade and create an opportunity for "wealth creation". Raphael Mendez is named finance minister of Spain.

Mediterranean Sea:

1522 - 1523: A small group of Portuguese privateers begin attacking Ottoman shipping in the Mediterranean. The Ottomans bring down the full weight of their navy in searching the Portuguese raiders out, until all of them are destroyed. Surviving men are sold to the Crimea and boys are impressed into the janissary system.

Ottoman Empire & Rhodes:

Jacob of Rhodes, most senior of Gregory of Mantua's disciples, returns to Rhodes, where he preaches a form of Wettinism that allows its practitioners to keep a great deal of their religious customs.

Subsaharan Africa:

The Luba revolt against the Ndongolese, capturing the infant Princess Maria-Iosephina, sole grandchild of their last emperor, and declare her "Empress Iosephina I of the Catholic Lubas." Meanwhile, viceroy Prince Sebastio in the Jaga Cassangi declares himself the true King of the entire empire, and due to his immense popularity and the support of the equally popular former Regent Captain Benedeto, he gains support from imperial loyalists throughout the realms. By now, all of the kindoms are in full revolt against each other and the Portugese.

Siam:

A French expedition lands in Siam and are well received in the Ayutthaya court.

Norasia:

It is ten years since the first outbreak of smallpox in the New World, and this first wave has finally burned itself out, but it has left the Northeast transformed. What were once trading outposts have turned into the nucleus for new settlements along the Cabot Waterway, Atlantic Seaboard, and the Meryk River. A small core of Hospitalers have remained behind, mostly those who took local wives or to run the small orphanages established by the Order. A slightly larger contingent of trappers and traders of English and British extraction now stay permanently, using Norasian knowledge gained from survivors to live off the land or plant native crops around the settlements. Several Norasian survivors of the first plague stay near the settlements that succored them, their tribes shattered by disease. They instead plant and gather for the outposts, and begin to form a new identity, neither wholy Norasian nor wholy Anglo-British. Several mixed race children now fill the dirt streets of these settlements.

Incan Empire:

1522-1530: Washkar recovers and begins putting renewed energy into his projects. it is at this time that he begins funding large paintings and murals, along with more elaborate tapestries. Other nobles around cuzco begin following his lead, creating a cultural renaissance as each noble competes to have the best artist and poets. Waynu Capac tries to stop this from happening, but he is Ineffective due to his distance.

Washkar begins funding art classes at the Cheray'eqay. Attawalpa begins feeling jealousy from his brother's success, and thinks that he is so successful because of the Cheray'eqay. He begins secret negotiations to open up hi one in Quito with nobles from Chinchay suyu.

[Glen]

1523:

Navarre:

After extensive study of the doctrines of Wettin, young king Andrew of Navarre converts to Wettinism. He begins instituting the Mosarabic rite in Wettinite churches, and translates both the Bible and the mass into Basque. This serves not only to promote the new faith in Navarre, but also tie the country together and make Basque the most prominent official language.

Holy Roman Empire:

1523 January: Emperor Maximillian dies.

1523 March: Duke Frederick of Saxony dies, to be succeeded by his twenty-five-year-old son, the procotious Ernst Frederick.

1523 August: Meeting in Vienna, the pro-Wettinite Electors choose Ernst Frederick as Elected King of the Romans.

South Asia:

1523 September - December: Orissa and Bharata engage in another minor war. The war climaxes in November with the naval Battle of Varuna Puri in which each side loses over 2,000 men – widely believed to be the bloodiest all-naval battle in Orissan history.

Incan Empire:

Washkar's investigation comes to the conclusion that Nina Cuyuchi funded the attempted assassination, but his father over rule him and finds a small noble responsible. he and his family are put to death.

[Glen]

1524:

Trent:

Michael Gaismayr leads a successful rebellion against the inept Bishop of Trent. The Trentinos ally themselves with the Swiss Confederation.

Eastern Europe:

Radu of Wallachia and Bogdan of Moldavia both die in this year. Radu's daughter Sarah and Bogdan's son Christian inherit the thrones. As they were married to one another, their successions unite the two principalities into the United Principalities of Carpathia.

Incan Empire:

The Cuzco metalsmithes declare that bronze makes an excellent weapon material. Attawalpa begins ordering bronze in large quantities, causing a massive search for metals throughout the empire that will last for many years as the army does a massive overhaul of it's equipment.

South Asia:

1524 January - March: Orissan and Bharatan diplomats work tirelessly to rebuild the “everlasting promise” of peace between the two nations that has been shattered in recent years. The recent battles have given the respective rulers a profound respect for each other’s military skills, so this time the peace sticks.

1524 April: Crown Prince Jayadeva of Orissa marries Indira, Princess of Bharata. The marriage helps cement the accommodation between the two nations, and convinces the always bellicose Jagannath to forswear war against Bharata for the rest of his life.

[Psychomeltdown]

1522:

Navarre:

King Andrew of Navarre converts to Wettinism, and begins translation of the Bible into Basque and promulgation of the Mosarabic rite throughout Navarre.

Spain:

The beginning of the "great reforms" in Spain. King Juan calls a cortes heavily dominated by the communeros and more liberal (Salamancan-influenced) members of the clergy. Juan, following up on the ideas of Mendez, decides to open Spain fully to foreign trade, particularly from the French, Hanseatic League, Navarrese and Neapolitans. All edicts forbidding the practice of Judaism in Spain are repealed, though Islam remains forbidden. Above all, Juan delegates power to the cortes, and calls for this body to create a uniform code of laws to foster trade and create an opportunity for "wealth creation". Raphael Mendez is named finance minister of Spain.

Mediterranean Sea:

1522 - 1523: A small group of Portuguese privateers begin attacking Ottoman shipping in the Mediterranean. The Ottomans bring down the full weight of their navy in searching the Portuguese raiders out, until all of them are destroyed. Surviving men are sold to the Crimea and boys are impressed into the janissary system.

Ottoman Empire & Rhodes:

Jacob of Rhodes, most senior of Gregory of Mantua's disciples, returns to Rhodes, where he preaches a form of Wettinism that allows its practitioners to keep a great deal of their religious customs.

Subsaharan Africa:

The Luba revolt against the Ndongolese, capturing the infant Princess Maria-Iosephina, sole grandchild of their last emperor, and declare her "Empress Iosephina I of the Catholic Lubas." Meanwhile, viceroy Prince Sebastio in the Jaga Cassangi declares himself the true King of the entire empire, and due to his immense popularity and the support of the equally popular former Regent Captain Benedeto, he gains support from imperial loyalists throughout the realms. By now, all of the kindoms are in full revolt against each other and the Portugese.

Siam:

A French expedition lands in Siam and are well received in the Ayutthaya court.

Norasia:

It is ten years since the first outbreak of smallpox in the New World, and this first wave has finally burned itself out, but it has left the Northeast transformed. What were once trading outposts have turned into the nucleus for new settlements along the Cabot Waterway, Atlantic Seaboard, and the Meryk River. A small core of Hospitalers have remained behind, mostly those who took local wives or to run the small orphanages established by the Order. A slightly larger contingent of trappers and traders of English and British extraction now stay permanently, using Norasian knowledge gained from survivors to live off the land or plant native crops around the settlements. Several Norasian survivors of the first plague stay near the settlements that succored them, their tribes shattered by disease. They instead plant and gather for the outposts, and begin to form a new identity, neither wholy Norasian nor wholy Anglo-British. Several mixed race children now fill the dirt streets of these settlements.

Incan Empire:

1522-1530: Washkar recovers and begins putting renewed energy into his projects. it is at this time that he begins funding large paintings and murals, along with more elaborate tapestries. Other nobles around cuzco begin following his lead, creating a cultural renaissance as each noble competes to have the best artist and poets. Waynu Capac tries to stop this from happening, but he is Ineffective due to his distance.

Washkar begins funding art classes at the Cheray'eqay. Attawalpa begins feeling jealousy from his brother's success, and thinks that he is so successful because of the Cheray'eqay. He begins secret negotiations to open up hi one in Quito with nobles from Chinchay suyu.

Portugal:

1522:Manoel entertains delegates of the Wettinite faith, but there is no real attempt to join them. Though he does send them money and vague mutterings of support.

There are religious rumblings in the more rural areas of Portugal, as the question of what to do now that the king is no longer Catholic. People are too scared to actually rise up and seek his replacement, but they are also ill at ease that he’s been excommunicated.

Hernan Lopes becomes the first Jew to be granted a trading company under Manoel's Compact. This opens the door for more Jews to begin plying the Indian Trade.

5000 west African slaves are imported to speed up the work on the ports and government buildings in Porto. This causes some scandal and outrage as they're taking jobs from Portuguese and are technically Catholic.

With the revolution in West African nations, traders begin hiring mercenaries to ensure their safety.

Portugal: State of India

Lorenco de Almeida, 8 ships and 400 troops land on the Banda Islands, they defeat the local forces and begin building a fortress on the island. They are continually attacked by the inhabitants, forcing de Almeida to slaughter hundreds of islanders before things settle down.

Kilwa rises up in rebellion, but is brutally put down. The city is nearly depopulated by the end of the year. Instead hundreds of Indian slaves and workers are imported to work the mines and textile factories.

Hundreds of more political prisoners are set up in S. Africa. The new towns of Fort de Gama and Port Diaz are set up.

[Psychomeltdown]

1523:

Navarre:

After extensive study of the doctrines of Wettin, young king Andrew of Navarre converts to Wettinism. He begins instituting the Mosarabic rite in Wettinite churches, and translates both the Bible and the mass into Basque. This serves not only to promote the new faith in Navarre, but also tie the country together and make Basque the most prominent official language.

Holy Roman Empire:

1523 January: Emperor Maximillian dies.

1523 March: Duke Frederick of Saxony dies, to be succeeded by his twenty-five-year-old son, the procotious Ernst Frederick.

1523 August: Meeting in Vienna, the pro-Wettinite Electors choose Ernst Frederick as Elected King of the Romans.

South Asia:

1523 September - December: Orissa and Bharata engage in another minor war. The war climaxes in November with the naval Battle of Varuna Puri in which each side loses over 2,000 men – widely believed to be the bloodiest all-naval battle in Orissan history.

Incan Empire:

Washkar's investigation comes to the conclusion that Nina Cuyuchi funded the attempted assassination, but his father over rule him and finds a small noble responsible. he and his family are put to death.

Portugal:

1523:

A sickness spreads in the poor section of Lisbon, causing fear and panic that a plague is coming. Thousands of poor riot as they are forced to stay in the poor quarter and the rich flee the city. Manoel sensing a way to win more favor with the people, sends his heir, Henrique, to peacefully quell the riots. Henrique is proclaimed to love the people and the act of showing the crown does care for the poor goes a long way.

Soldiers occupying the Canary Islands are attacked. The Governor overacts by massacring 100 people. Manoel immediately sacks the governor.

New settlements are set up in Brazil. They are mostly there to collect wood and other resources.

Porto is opened to trade, even though much of the city has yet to be rebuilt. The ports are done and the government buildings are nearing completion. Porto becomes a port where resources are traded, timber, wool, iron, etc. whereas Lisbon becomes a port where luxuries are traded, gold, silver, silks, spices. Manoel openly welcomes traders from all parts of Europe.


Portugal: State of India

Revolt of Mogadishu, six month long bloody rebellion. Another nickname is given to de Albuquerque: “The Butcher of Africa” as thousands are put to death and thousands more are forced into slavery.

The Vijayanagara Empire opens up more ports to the Portuguese.

Portuguese trade with Orissa are put on hold as they engage in war with the Bharata Empire.

Malacca rises up in rebellion under the local Muslims, de Alburquerque knowing full well that the trade city cannot fall into another nation’s hands launches a massive assault upon the city, recapturing it and viciously putting to death the last remaining Muslims there.

A series of brutal campaigns under Lorenco de Almeida are launched against small sultanates around Malacca, they are forcibly made to ally themselves with the Portuguese or have their ports shelled and cities raided.

Thousands more Indian slaves are imported to East Africa, there they set up factories and begin making Indian style textiles and artwork to be used for trade and importing back to Portugal.

Portuguese trading ships enter the Chinese market, selling spices, textiles from India and Europe, etc. They are only allowed to operate in a few port cities.

Raids against the Yemen and Oman are launched when it is discovered that they have been the ones who had funded the revolt of Mogadishu.

[Keenir]

1523:

Portugal:

1523:

Soldiers occupying the Canary Islands are attacked. The Governor overacts by massacring 100 people. Manoel immediately sacks the governor.

um...why are the same overreactions dealt with differently by the same King? (Portugese soldiers in India get attacked, they retaliate & aren't punished; Portugese soldiers in the Canaries are attacked, they retaliate & get punished)

[Glen]

1523:

Portugal: State of India

First, are the Portuguese considering all their possessions on the Indian Ocean as the "State of India"?


Revolt of Mogadishu, six month long bloody rebellion. Another nickname is given to de Albuquerque: “The Butcher of Africa” as thousands are put to death and thousands more are forced into slavery.

Fine.


The Vijayanagara Empire opens up more ports to the Portuguese.

Was this cleared with our Vijay participant?


Portuguese trade with Orissa are put on hold as they engage in war with the Bharata Empire.

Malacca rises up in rebellion under the local Muslims, de Alburquerque knowing full well that the trade city cannot fall into another nation’s hands launches a massive assault upon the city, recapturing it and viciously putting to death the last remaining Muslims there.

How many Muslims are there in Malacca, and what percentage of the population do they comprise? Is putting them all to the sword a realistic possibility? It may be, I'm just asking. Who will keep Malacca going after this carnage?

A series of brutal campaigns under Lorenco de Almeida are launched against small sultanates around Malacca, they are forcibly made to ally themselves with the Portuguese or have their ports shelled and cities raided.


Thousands more Indian slaves are imported to East Africa, there they set up factories and begin making Indian style textiles and artwork to be used for trade and importing back to Portugal.

Did this happen OTL? What would be the purpose of importing them to East Africa for this purpose?? Why wouldn't they just be used in the Portuguese controlled part of India? A lot cheaper that way. Also just a note that the 'factories' will not be the same as the modern concept of factory, I assume.

Portuguese trading ships enter the Chinese market, selling spices, textiles from India and Europe, etc. They are only allowed to operate in a few port cities.

Did you get clearance from GP on this with regard to China and which ports are the Portuguese trading out of?

Raids against the Yemen

Yemen was overrun by the Ottomans in 1518. Are you raiding the Ottomans?

and Oman are launched when it is discovered that they have been the ones who had funded the revolt of Mogadishu.

Hmmm....

[Psychomeltdown]

um...why are the same overreactions dealt with differently by the same King? (Portugese soldiers in India get attacked, they retaliate & aren't punished; Portugese soldiers in the Canaries are attacked, they retaliate & get punished)
These are Catholics and Spanish. Not pagan barbarians at the edge of the world, therefore their deaths are more horrible in the eyes of the Portuguese (and rest of Europe).

The Far East and Africa are conquered lands, if they so much as try to rebel, they'll be bloody consequences.

First, are the Portuguese considering all their possessions on the Indian Ocean as the "State of India"? Yup, though that'll change as things get more settled down and expansion comes to a halt.

Was this cleared with our Vijay participant? DQ is MIA it seems. Plus prior to his leaving it was agreed that Portugal would be handling it's European trade. As the trade grows, so does the amount of ports that need to be accessed...

[/quote]How many Muslims are there in Malacca, and what percentage of the population do they comprise? Is putting them all to the sword a realistic possibility? It may be, I'm just asking. Who will keep Malacca going after this carnage?[/quote] There is a mixture of Muslim, Asiatic, Buddhist, Hindu, etc. Muslims do tend to make up the majority of the population, in OTL de Albuquerque did put to death a lot of the Muslims after he conquered Malacca.

It'll hurt the trade somewhat, but in the end there'll always be people to fill the gaps, people from other nations or people that weren't killed off by the Portuguese (hindus, buddhists, etc) who'll actually be benefiting from the 'purging'. Plus it sends a resounding message to the rest of the sultanates in Indonesia.

Did this happen OTL? What would be the purpose of importing them to East Africa for this purpose?? Why wouldn't they just be used in the Portuguese controlled part of India? A lot cheaper that way. Also just a note that the 'factories' will not be the same as the modern concept of factory, I assume.
Also, these are factories in a sense that there's a set aside place where all they do is make things. Not the high industrial types we see today, but more primitives centralized areas. Portugal set up a few in India in OTL at this time to make textiles and trade goods.

As for importing slaves, limited number of slaves did get exchaned from India, Arabia, and Africa, but in TTL, there's more a need for large numbers. There's a lack of local labor in East Africa as a lot of them are being killed off for revolting. There's a huge amount of labor from India, but there's only the tiny spot of land that the Portuguese can call their own. Therefore places to expand are in Africa, as it's along their trade route back to Europe and there's also some gold trading with the interior of Africa.

Did you get clearance from GP on this with regard to China and which ports are the Portuguese trading out of? GP said that the Portuguese would be allowed into China, but not as it happened in OTL. No grabbing land and setting up shop, etc. As in the Bharata Empire, they're just there to trade not grab land and force their will.

Yemen was overrun by the Ottomans in 1518. Are you raiding the Ottomans? Yemen ships and it's more pirating than actual open warfare. There has been no declaration of war, but Portugal has been raiding Yemen for years before this.


Portugal is taking more of a hardline consolidation approach to East Africa. It's a main supply route on their trade with India and Asia and if they allow it to slowly wring it's way out of their grasp, then it'll be harder for them to supply their ships.

[Psychomeltdown]

1524:

Trent:

Michael Gaismayr leads a successful rebellion against the inept Bishop of Trent. The Trentinos ally themselves with the Swiss Confederation.

Eastern Europe:

Radu of Wallachia and Bogdan of Moldavia both die in this year. Radu's daughter Sarah and Bogdan's son Christian inherit the thrones. As they were married to one another, their successions unite the two principalities into the United Principalities of Carpathia.

Incan Empire:

The Cuzco metalsmithes declare that bronze makes an excellent weapon material. Attawalpa begins ordering bronze in large quantities, causing a massive search for metals throughout the empire that will last for many years as the army does a massive overhaul of it's equipment.

South Asia:

1524 January - March: Orissan and Bharatan diplomats work tirelessly to rebuild the “everlasting promise” of peace between the two nations that has been shattered in recent years. The recent battles have given the respective rulers a profound respect for each other’s military skills, so this time the peace sticks.

1524 April: Crown Prince Jayadeva of Orissa marries Indira, Princess of Bharata. The marriage helps cement the accommodation between the two nations, and convinces the always bellicose Jagannath to forswear war against Bharata for the rest of his life.

Portugal:

1524:Manoel adds Jewish advisors to his privy council.

Henrique is enrolled into the Portuguese Naval Academy, showing all the direction in which the fortunes of Portugal lie. His brothers are enrolled in other military academies.

Princess Ana dies of a sickness. Manoel has hospitals built in her honor.

A large garrison is established on the Canary Islands. The islands begin a rapid expansion as they become the first stop out of Europe and the last stop back into Europe by Portuguese ships. The island becomes the center of black market enterprises for spices and luxuries.

Portual: State of India

Sebastian Wallace, an English immigrant to Portugal, with Permission from Viceroy de Albuquerque, begins overhauling the administrative practices in the State of India.

Shipyards are built in Kilwa along with opening new mines and setting up plantations. A new Military Township is set up in Kilwa.

An expedition to conqueror Zimbabwe is undertaken, but fails as there are little resources to extend into the interior of eastern Africa. Instead there are several campaigns that mostly involve slave capturing.

Lorenco de Almeida is made the Governor-General of the Far East, situated out of Malacca and in charge of keeping the Spice Islands in the hands of the Portuguese.

Delegates are sent to the nations of SE Asia, opening up trading ports to the Portuguese.

[Glen]

These are Catholics and Spanish. Not pagan barbarians at the edge of the world, therefore their deaths are more horrible in the eyes of the Portuguese (and rest of Europe).

The Far East and Africa are conquered lands, if they so much as try to rebel, they'll be bloody consequences.

Noted.

Yup, though that'll change as things get more settled down and expansion comes to a halt.

Okay, maybe then put those under Indian Ocean then State of India for clarification.

DQ is MIA it seems. Plus prior to his leaving it was agreed that Portugal would be handling it's European trade. As the trade grows, so does the amount of ports that need to be accessed...

Fair enough.

There is a mixture of Muslim, Asiatic, Buddhist, Hindu, etc. Muslims do tend to make up the majority of the population, in OTL de Albuquerque did put to death a lot of the Muslims after he conquered Malacca.

It'll hurt the trade somewhat, but in the end there'll always be people to fill the gaps, people from other nations or people that weren't killed off by the Portuguese (hindus, buddhists, etc) who'll actually be benefiting from the 'purging'. Plus it sends a resounding message to the rest of the sultanates in Indonesia.

Okay, just wanted to make certain you weren't running a trade empire out of a ghost town.

Also, these are factories in a sense that there's a set aside place where all they do is make things. Not the high industrial types we see today, but more primitives centralized areas. Portugal set up a few in India in OTL at this time to make textiles and trade goods.

As for importing slaves, limited number of slaves did get exchaned from India, Arabia, and Africa, but in TTL, there's more a need for large numbers. There's a lack of local labor in East Africa as a lot of them are being killed off for revolting. There's a huge amount of labor from India, but there's only the tiny spot of land that the Portuguese can call their own. Therefore places to expand are in Africa, as it's along their trade route back to Europe and there's also some gold trading with the interior of Africa.

Note that other than coastal areas and Southeast Africa, expanding in Africa will be very difficult in this era. Also for textiles your raw materials are also in India not Africa, so again there's not much sense in moving your workforce to there.

You want your workforce either need the raw materials, or near the end market (Portugal). Putting them in East Africa just doesn't make practical sense to me.

GP said that the Portuguese would be allowed into China, but not as it happened in OTL. No grabbing land and setting up shop, etc. As in the Bharata Empire, they're just there to trade not grab land and force their will.

Okay, but did he specify which cities they'd be allowed to trade in? That would be useful information.

Yemen ships and it's more pirating than actual open warfare. There has been no declaration of war, but Portugal has been raiding Yemen for years before this.

Noted.

Portugal is taking more of a hardline consolidation approach to East Africa. It's a main supply route on their trade with India and Asia and if they allow it to slowly wring it's way out of their grasp, then it'll be harder for them to supply their ships.

Noted.

[Glen]

Portual: State of India

Sebastian Wallace, an English immigrant to Portugal, with Permission from Viceroy de Albuquerque, begins overhauling the administrative practices in the State of India.

Woah there cowboy. Who is Sebastian Wallace (OTL or new person?) and why is he English? You should clear the use of any English personages through me first.

Shipyards are built in Kilwa along with opening new mines and setting up plantations. A new Military Township is set up in Kilwa.

Sounds a bit ambitious. Maybe give like a decade range for these activities?

An expedition to conqueror Zimbabwe is undertaken, but fails as there are little resources to extend into the interior of eastern Africa. Instead there are several campaigns that mostly involve slave capturing.

This is good.

Lorenco de Almeida is made the Governor-General of the Far East, situated out of Malacca and in charge of keeping the Spice Islands in the hands of the Portuguese.

Good.

Delegates are sent to the nations of SE Asia, opening up trading ports to the Portuguese.

Too vague. Need to know which specific nations so that we can gauge the magnitude of these activities and the likely response.

[Tom Veil]

1522:
***
Portugal: State of India

Lorenco de Almeida, 8 ships and 400 troops land on the Banda Islands, they defeat the local forces and begin building a fortress on the island. They are continually attacked by the inhabitants, forcing de Almeida to slaughter hundreds of islanders before things settle down.

Kilwa rises up in rebellion, but is brutally put down. The city is nearly depopulated by the end of the year. Instead hundreds of Indian slaves and workers are imported to work the mines and textile factories.

Hundreds of more political prisoners are set up in S. Africa. The new towns of Fort de Gama and Port Diaz are set up.

1. Isn't Kilwa in Africa (specificially modern-day Tanzania) not India?
2. Why are you shipping prisoners from India to Africa?
3. Factories?!? In 1522?!?

[marl_d]

1522: The Russian Navy continues to expand, now consisting of 10 carrack’s including the Ivan, and over 100 smaller ships. More and more Russian’s are taking to the sea, particularly those from the former Livonian area. Many boyar sons are joining the Navy as officers and the foreigners are being replaced. The Merchant fleet has grown as well, with ships traveling as far as Portugal.


1523: The Kazan Khanate breaks away from Russia with a mutual aid treaty with Crimea, Astrakhan and Nogai Horde. In response Russia grows closer to Sibir Khan, also agreeing to a mutual aid treaty, and tensions start to grow.

Tsesarevich Ivan is Knighted into the Knights of St Andrew, during his stay with the Knights, he and his father have been writing back and forth, and a growing respect and admiration builds between them

[AJNolte]

1523:

Need events


1523: Thomas Docwra dies, and is succeeded by John Wettin, the last Catholic scion of the house of Wettin.
HRE:
1523: over half of the Teutonic order elects to side with Wettinism. John Wettin opens up negotiations with the rest of the order to merge them with the Hospitalers. The negotiations will last five years.

[AJNolte]

No problem with the event that this note relates to (removed it from the actual event). However, was the term merchantilism coined yet?:confused: The concept is around, so that is fine to rail against, just not the actual term I'm thinking.

Feel free to change it to:
He rails against "the falacious yet all-too-common theory that a nation's wealth and prosperity is entirely dependent on the gold and silver it can horde."
Please also add: "Mendez also offers a theological justification for mild usury, arguing that interest-bearing loans are a method of wealth creation, and can be separated from the injurious practices of biblical times."

[Psychomeltdown]

Okay, maybe then put those under Indian Ocean then State of India for clarification.
Okay.

Note that other than coastal areas and Southeast Africa, expanding in Africa will be very difficult in this era. Also for textiles your raw materials are also in India not Africa, so again there's not much sense in moving your workforce to there. True, but there's a sudden decrease in the available workforce in Africa. either they've been killed or they've fled into the interior of Africa or are already in bondage or working for the Portuguese. Therefore manpower is needed. in this case you're starting from scratch and building things solely for trade. That means a concentration and focus of items that will be used mainly for trade to locals or to other places they contact. Like plantations that grow only one crop because it makes money, here you have slaves or hired folk making items that will be used as trade goods.

it cuts down the necessary transporting of manufactured goods from Portugal and places it in a relatively secure area near the trade. That way more luxury items from Europe can be brought to be traded and sold in India and the less quality items made at these factories can be used as trade for items in the interior of Africa or in Asia.

Resources are not really the problem since they have basically all of Africa for resources and they can trade for it, as they are trading for gold. It will probably take a while, but the resources can be gathered, this is not an overnight thing, but something that'll be lasting a couple of decades.

You want your workforce either need the raw materials, or near the end market (Portugal). Putting them in East Africa just doesn't make practical sense to me.

There are also other raw resources in East Africa that can be used to make trade goods. Kilwa and other ports were centers of trade for ivory, gold, and whatnot. There's mineral resources in the area, there's building materials, etc.

Again, it's becoming easier to get labor from India as the Portuguese force a lot of the easily accessible labor force to flee into the interior.

Woah there cowboy. Who is Sebastian Wallace (OTL or new person?) and why is he English? You should clear the use of any English personages through me first.
It's a new person. Butterflies and all that, plus Portugal's wooing of foreign merchants and the types to come and work for Portugal causes some people to immigrate. Lucky breaks let them rise to positions where they're able to make a difference. Nationality doesn't matter, hell he could be German or Irish or Scottish, identifying him as English is non-consequential. Also there has been pretty much decades of trade between England and Portugal, therefore I'm sure some more enterprising Englishmen would figure that they could make it rich in Portugal than in England, and volla, you got immigration.

[Keenir]

1524:

Trent:

Michael Gaismayr leads a successful rebellion against the inept Bishop of Trent. The Trentinos ally themselves with the Swiss Confederation.

Eastern Europe:

Radu of Wallachia and Bogdan of Moldavia both die in this year. Radu's daughter Sarah and Bogdan's son Christian inherit the thrones. As they were married to one another, their successions unite the two principalities into the United Principalities of Carpathia.


1517: Bartolomeo Beretta and his family flee Venice with much of the Venetian Diaspora; they were one of the few families who largely settled in the Ottoman Empire, figuring they could profit there without the Council or the Doge middlemanning them to death.

1520: Emperor Isa of the Ottoman Empire grants Bartolomeo a sum of money and a plot of land adequate to test his ideas about projectile weapons. If there are no results after two years, the inventor is warned, the Beretta family will owe those funds to the Sublime Porte...no matter how long it takes to repay.

1522: Ottoman Emperor Isa is informed that the initial tests were satisfactory -- satisfactory enough to keep Bartolomeo Beretta employed in the service of the Porte.

The Beretta family is granted a residence along the Bosphorus, where their neighbors are Armenian bankers.

Bartolomeo Beretta and some members of his family - immediate family and other relatives wishing for advancement - convert to Sunni Islam.

1524: In reaction to the unification of the two kingdoms within his realm, Emperor Isa of the Ottoman Empire calls his army to him, as well as calling on loyalists in the newly-unified realm -- Isa asks that those loyal to voyvodas Radu and Stephen not allow the voyvodas' murder to go unchallenged. While most of the army is armed with the usual allotment of weapons, two cadres** are equipped with the new Beretta weapons. While there are a number of accidents involving the weapons injuring and killing Ottoman soldiers, they - like the local loyalists*** - are enough to turn the tide against Christian and Sarah, who are taken into custody and brought to Constantinople.

** = I didn't know what else to call them offhand.
*** = and I'm not saying how many there were. after all, they're not provinces I run.
1525: The Beretta family polarizes in the wake of a scandal which, while it didn't tear the family in two, did estrange them.

1527: While in Istanbul, Prince Francisco of Portugal is introduced to Romana Beretta*. When Francisco leaves the Empire, he takes Romana and her half of the family, who share Bartolomeo's designs for a new weapon; Bartolomeo himself remains in Ottoman hands.

* = yes, a new person. she's probably either Francisco's age or a year or two younger.

[Tom Veil]

1522 May: The Imperial Road from Diu via Chittor and Mathura to Chittagong is finally complete. Less audacious but similarly brick-laid roads connect Chittor via Bhopal to Chittagong and in a loop to Jodhpur, Amber, and Delhi.
1522 June: The first printing press not owned by the Bharata government opens in Mayapur in the Raj of Bengal. It is owned by the religious leader Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitanya_Mahaprabhu), who considers it his life mission to spread literacy far and wide, on the belief that the Hare Krishna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare_Krishna) Chant is more powerful when read than when memorized.

(Yes, that is the second religion whose founding I have altered. I can't help it; you can't swing a cat in 16th century India without hitting a prophet.)

[Keenir]

1522 June: The first printing press not owned by the Bharata government opens in Mayapur in the Raj of Bengal. It is owned by the religious leader Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitanya_Mahaprabhu), who considers it his life mission to spread literacy far and wide, on the belief that the Hare Krishna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare_Krishna) Chant is more powerful when read than when memorized.

(Yes, that is the second religion whose founding I have altered. I can't help it; you can't swing a cat in 16th century India without hitting a prophet.)

did Chaitanya Mahaprabhu really believe that the chant is more powerful when read? (and why didn't he think memorization was powerful? that's exactly what reading is, after all)

[AJNolte]

1524:

Trent:

Michael Gaismayr leads a successful rebellion against the inept Bishop of Trent. The Trentinos ally themselves with the Swiss Confederation.

Eastern Europe:

Radu of Wallachia and Bogdan of Moldavia both die in this year. Radu's daughter Sarah and Bogdan's son Christian inherit the thrones. As they were married to one another, their successions unite the two principalities into the United Principalities of Carpathia.


1517: Bartolomeo Beretta and his family flee Venice with much of the Venetian Diaspora; they were one of the few families who largely settled in the Ottoman Empire, figuring they could profit there without the Council or the Doge middlemanning them to death.

1520: Emperor Isa of the Ottoman Empire grants Bartolomeo a sum of money and a plot of land adequate to test his ideas about projectile weapons. If there are no results after two years, the inventor is warned, the Beretta family will owe those funds to the Sublime Porte...no matter how long it takes to repay.

1522: Ottoman Emperor Isa is informed that the initial tests were satisfactory -- satisfactory enough to keep Bartolomeo Beretta employed in the service of the Porte.

The Beretta family is granted a residence along the Bosphorus, where their neighbors are Armenian bankers.

Bartolomeo Beretta and some members of his family - immediate family and other relatives wishing for advancement - convert to Sunni Islam.

1524: In reaction to the unification of the two kingdoms within his realm, Emperor Isa of the Ottoman Empire calls his army to him, as well as calling on loyalists in the newly-unified realm -- Isa asks that those loyal to voyvodas Radu and Stephen not allow the voyvodas' murder to go unchallenged. While most of the army is armed with the usual allotment of weapons, two cadres** are equipped with the new Beretta weapons. While there are a number of accidents involving the weapons injuring and killing Ottoman soldiers, they - like the local loyalists*** - are enough to turn the tide against Christian and Sarah, who are taken into custody and brought to Constantinople.

** = I didn't know what else to call them offhand.
*** = and I'm not saying how many there were. after all, they're not provinces I run.
1525: The Beretta family polarizes in the wake of a scandal which, while it didn't tear the family in two, did estrange them.

1527: While in Istanbul, Prince Francisco of Portugal is introduced to Romana Beretta*. When Francisco leaves the Empire, he takes Romana and her half of the family, who share Bartolomeo's designs for a new weapon; Bartolomeo himself remains in Ottoman hands.

* = yes, a new person. she's probably either Francisco's age or a year or two younger.


Couple of questions:
1. Just how advanced do you want these guns to be? Four years is a really short time for that much R and D, so it should be a very small improvement.
2. Have you taken into account possible support of Poland/Lith, Russia and the HRE for Carpathia? This could be important.
3. Did you clear Prince Francisco with Psychomeltdown?

[Tom Veil]

did Chaitanya Mahaprabhu really believe that the chant is more powerful when read? (and why didn't he think memorization was powerful? that's exactly what reading is, after all)

In OTL, there were no printing presses in India during Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's lifetime. I am implying that he changed his philosophy after witnessing the use of the Raj of Bengal's printing press (which was installed in 1506 ITTL). I didn't post interim events spelling that out, because I thought it might be getting too detailed. If you think that my explanation makes sense and you want interim events, though, I'll draft some.

[Keenir]

In OTL, there were no printing presses in India during Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's lifetime. I am implying that he changed his philosophy after witnessing the use of the Raj of Bengal's printing press (which was installed in 1506 ITTL). I didn't post interim events spelling that out, because I thought it might be getting too detailed. If you think that my explanation makes sense and you want interim events, though, I'll draft some.

I think it makes sense...though I also think he's going to get grief from all the people who will be demanding to know "what about our ancestors, who neither had nor needed the chants written, and knew them by heart?"

if you want to draft them, please do; if you don't, no worries.

[KineticBots]

Ryukyu

1520: In an effort to keep the restless navy occupied, King Shoshin commissions a voyage to the east. This purpose of this voyage is officially said to be discovery of new lands (resources and trading partners) but the real reason is thought by many to keep the navy away from Naha, so they can pose no threat to Shoshin's authority.
Later that year, the voyage departs, discovering the (Bonin) Kazemoto and (Volcano) Kazan islands. These are annexed for Ryukyu with the intention of establishing colonies on those islands. The fleet follows the archipelago as far as the (Mariana) Seiza islands but do not claim these, as they dot not wish to stretch their resources too thin.

1521: The exploration navy return to Naha for an even more ambitious project: a circumnavigation of the globe. After some debate as to whether an eastern or a western voyage would be better, the western option is eventually chosen, as the Chinese trading posts scattered across south Asia would prove useful for supplies for the voyage. The voyage is planned for later in the year.
The fleet departs Naha, stopping on Taiwan, then travels south to Sumatra and onwards to Sri Lanka, where they stop for supplies at the Chinese trading post. They stop here for some time, taking on supplies, making routine repairs, etc. They then depart headed for relatively unknown lands.
They travel as for as Somalia before stopping for more supplies.
Colonies are established on the recently discovered Kazemoto and Kazan islands.

1522: The circumnavigation of the globe continues along the coast of Africa. When the fleet reaches Senegal, they first encounter Europeans. The fleet continues as far as North Africa, and stop at Morocco. They cross over to Spain, and are met by shocked but curious locals. At this point many among the fleet's leadership are undecided as to whether they should continue the voyage or pursue another course of action with the Spanish. They eventually decide to return home and report their findings to the King, recommending that pursuing the commercial possibilities here would be far more beneficial than pursuing a global circumnavigation or other such voyage of discovery.

1523: The exploration fleet returns to Naha. On reporting their discoveries to the King, he is convinced that trade with this new power is indeed a better course of action. More money than ever is poured into the colonies on Taiwan and the archipelagos.
A change to the fleet is proposed: changing its purpose from exploration to an embassy. It will no longer search out new lands, but new powers with which to establish treaties, primarily for trade.

1524: The fleet departs from Naha once more, bound for Europe, intent on establishing diplomatic relations with many European nations.
Soon after the fleet departs, a fire sweeps through the heart of Naha. The palace and most of the surrounding buildings are lost, although King Shoshin manages to escape unharmed.

[Psychomeltdown]

Um...

You're deep into Portugal Territory there, Bud.

Setting up colonies, strange new ships, all point to conflict with Portugal. Plus by this time it's already known that Europe lies to the West.

There are no Chinese trading posts in Sri Lanka, that is land divided amongst the Vijay empire and Portugal (Kotte). At that point you'd have met the Portuguese, as they've already control Malacca, which is the main trading point in SE Asia.

I'm gonna have to say that much if not all of that will have to be done away with...

[Keenir]

1521:
Holy Roman Empire:
The Elector Palatine sets up East Frisia as an electorate* headed by his son Ludwig.

Ludwig establishes himself as a firmly Catholic elector.

* = the Emperor's family, so why would he object? ;D

[KineticBots]

Um...

You're deep into Portugal Territory there, Bud.

Setting up colonies, strange new ships, all point to conflict with Portugal. Plus by this time it's already known that Europe lies to the West.

There are no Chinese trading posts in Sri Lanka, that is land divided amongst the Vijay empire and Portugal (Kotte). At that point you'd have met the Portuguese, as they've already control Malacca, which is the main trading point in SE Asia.

I'm gonna have to say that much if not all of that will have to be done away with...

Psychomeltdown,

Are talking to me? If so let's clarify a few things.

1) Setting up new colonies. The only colonies Ryukyu have are in Taiwan, and OTL Bonin and Kazan islands. I don't think you can object to that.

2) Strange new ships. What strange new ships? The ships used for the embassy are more or less the same ones used for the exploration. Portugal may have a monopoly in Atlantic or Indian oceans (I don't really know), but she has little in the Pacific AFAIK.

3) Conflict with Portugal. No conflict - on the contrary Ryukyu has peaceful intentions. This point will be worked out last, I think.

4) It's known that Europe lies to the west, yes, but Ryukyu is searching for commercial powers, not new lands. Maybe you're right there, I need to change the wording.

5) Chinese trading posts. Sorry, last time i checked they were there. If they've been retconned out, I'll change my post.

6) Portuguese in Malacca. Sorry, I must have missed that. If Ryukyu bumps into the Portuguese there things will definitely change.


Let me re-submit the post. Contact at Malacca will be a certainty, I think.

Regards,
KineticBots

[BlackMage]

I'm sorry, I haven't updated my segments lately, falling rapidly behind. But most of the changes which have taken place over the last decade(s) have been cultural, not military or political, and so need to be viewed in this context.

Gowa and Yolgnu

1520

The Sulawesan trade with Marege continues to diversify. This year is the first where art becomes a major commodity.

The Sulawesan nobles gain a taste for Maregan paintings, whereas the growth of syncretic spirituality (Alcheringa Hinduism) in Marege sparks a drive for the purchase of religious artefacts.

As such, the previously trepang-based economy gains a new commodity.

1522

By now, over 20 powers have had contact with Marege, and trading settlements have been set up all across the coast.

In this year, the Gowan trading port of Nhulumbuy reaches a population of 5000--mostly Maregan labourers.

1523

The Gowan karaeang decides to embark on an ambitious project--the circumnavigation of Marege. He offers a vast royal bounty to the first ship to encircle Marege (thought to be, at most, a large island of less than a thousand miles circumference) and to return.

1524

The first three ships sail. None return, although one gets as far as the Great Barrier Reef before being destroyed.

A brief war is fought between Maros and Siang. Maros is destroyed, and its Maregan territories are annexed.

1525

Another five ships embark on the Great Navigation this year. Again, none return.