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Europe, 1875.
In 1841, the revolt in the Netherlands terminated with the independence of the Rhineland and Flanders-Wallonia. The same year, Hanover became separated from Britain when Victoria of Kent ascended to the British throne. Under Salic Law still in place in Hanover, her uncle, Ernest Augustus, became the King of Hanover.
The Belgian Question was settled by the Convention of London, 1841. Emperor Ferdinand was made King of Lower Lorraine, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Grand Duke of the Lower Rhine, as well as counts of the traditional counties of Belgium, thus fulfilling the territorial claims of his Burgundian title. Prussia agreed to this only if the provinces of Westphalia and Julich-Cleves-Berg were ceded to Prussian control, which they were. The Kingdom of the Netherlands were greatly diminished. Ferdinand's brother, Franz Karl, was appointed Viceroy of these lands.
In September of 1843, Napoleon II finally succumbed to tuberculosis. His cousin, Prince Charles Louis Napoleon, took the throne as Emperor Napoleon III. He invested much time and power into removing France's dependency on Austria, and pursued the nationalist call for French national rule. In May of 1848, the Duke of Parma was assassinated, along with his children and brothers, in a bloody massacre perpetrated by Italian nationalists. The succession fell to Emperor Ferdinand, who subsumed the Duchy into his empire and title list. A month later, a similar occurrence befell Modena's Duke, Francis V, again by a band of Italian patriots. The Duchy, too, fell under the possession of Ferdinand.
Rumours were soon abound that the Italian "nationalists" were in truth assassins hired by the ageing Metternich, in an attempt to wrangle the Italian peninsula into Austrian direct rule. At his prodding, Ferdinand declared on March 17, 1849, the new Kingdom of Italy, and the dissolution of the individual duchies and the Kingdom of Venetia-Lombardy. He was crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown in Milan, 20 days later. However, he died the next year, choking on one of his favourite foods, apricot dumplings. His brother, Franz Karl, denied the throne, and instead gave it to his son, Francis Joseph, who took the style Francis III, Holy Roman Emperor, not even 20 years of age.
In 1853, a new conflict arose. Russia's Emperor, Nicholas I, acclaimed himself Protector of the Christians in the Ottoman Lands and the rightful Lord of Jerusalem and the Levant. This was an affront to not only the Ottoman Emperor, who considered himself the defender of the Christians, fellow "People of the Book", in his lands, and offended the Holy Roman Emperor, who was also the King of Jerusalem. Emperor Francis III had lived a courtly and intellectual life in the palaces with his brother Ferdinand Maximilian, and unlike his other brothers Charles Louis and Louis Victor, had never served in the military. He appointed progressive and experienced generals, who had served in the Succession War, to high commands. So, when he decided to go to war with Russia, his army was well-trained, well-armed, and destroyed the backwards Russian army in Poland.
In other fronts, a combined Franco-British army joined with the Ottomans in the Crimea, which saw some of the bloodiest sieges of the war. Additionally, the Aegean was a hotbed of conflict, as the Hellenic Republic sided with Russia against the Turks, which the more moderate Kingdom of the Hellenes stayed out of the conflict. The Greek republicans were crushed, and forcibly unified with the royal government, which transferred its administration of Athens, though the royal Winter Palace remained in Mycenae.
The Russo-European War ended in 1857, with a death toll of nearly 367,000 for the Alliance and over 500,000 for the Russians. A staggering number of casualties. After the Treaty of Paris, Russian control in Moldavia ended, leading the subsequent rebellion and unification of Romania in 1859, under Alexander John Cuza. Additionally, Poland was given independence from Russia. A new monarch was chosen in a referendum by the Polish people, but regulated so as to avoid Imperial entanglements. Poland became a Kingdom, under the hitherto-disenfranchised Wettin dynasty, represented in Frederick Augustus, the grandnephew of the last Wettin monarch of Saxony proper. He became King Augustus IV. A final corollary of the treaty made the Crimean Peninsula a demilitarised zone of Russia and gave Russian North Lebanon to the Ottomans.
In 1859, at the same time as the Romanian War of Independence, the Lithuanian people rose in revolt and gained liberation, inspired by the Poles two years earlier. Boguslaw Fryderyk Radziwill, a Lithuanian noble sponsored by Prussia, was elected Grand Duke of Lithuania by the Lithuanian Parliament.
The same year, Metternich died, leaving Francis III to rule the Empire absolutely. Throughout the 1860s, nationalism spiked and revolts tore parts of Europe asunder. The Grand Duke of Tuscany was overthrown and the revolutionaries demanded Tuscany's admittance as a province of the Kingdom of Italy under Emperor Francis, in 1861. That year saw the spark of another war. The American Civil War began, and Franco-British involvement on the side of the Confederacy led to Confederate independence and victory in early 1864. From 1865-1872, the Ottomans struggled against the combined forces of the Balkan Alliance, which strove for independence. Bulgaria achieved liberation, as did Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia. Bosnia, however, joined the Habsburg Monarchy and the HRE in 1873, when disagreements with Serbia led them to search for a different monarch. Greece and Albania seized more territory from the Ottomans.
As of 1875, Europe itself is at peace, though the external struggle for vast colonies is only just begun...
In 1841, the revolt in the Netherlands terminated with the independence of the Rhineland and Flanders-Wallonia. The same year, Hanover became separated from Britain when Victoria of Kent ascended to the British throne. Under Salic Law still in place in Hanover, her uncle, Ernest Augustus, became the King of Hanover.
The Belgian Question was settled by the Convention of London, 1841. Emperor Ferdinand was made King of Lower Lorraine, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Grand Duke of the Lower Rhine, as well as counts of the traditional counties of Belgium, thus fulfilling the territorial claims of his Burgundian title. Prussia agreed to this only if the provinces of Westphalia and Julich-Cleves-Berg were ceded to Prussian control, which they were. The Kingdom of the Netherlands were greatly diminished. Ferdinand's brother, Franz Karl, was appointed Viceroy of these lands.
In September of 1843, Napoleon II finally succumbed to tuberculosis. His cousin, Prince Charles Louis Napoleon, took the throne as Emperor Napoleon III. He invested much time and power into removing France's dependency on Austria, and pursued the nationalist call for French national rule. In May of 1848, the Duke of Parma was assassinated, along with his children and brothers, in a bloody massacre perpetrated by Italian nationalists. The succession fell to Emperor Ferdinand, who subsumed the Duchy into his empire and title list. A month later, a similar occurrence befell Modena's Duke, Francis V, again by a band of Italian patriots. The Duchy, too, fell under the possession of Ferdinand.
Rumours were soon abound that the Italian "nationalists" were in truth assassins hired by the ageing Metternich, in an attempt to wrangle the Italian peninsula into Austrian direct rule. At his prodding, Ferdinand declared on March 17, 1849, the new Kingdom of Italy, and the dissolution of the individual duchies and the Kingdom of Venetia-Lombardy. He was crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown in Milan, 20 days later. However, he died the next year, choking on one of his favourite foods, apricot dumplings. His brother, Franz Karl, denied the throne, and instead gave it to his son, Francis Joseph, who took the style Francis III, Holy Roman Emperor, not even 20 years of age.
In 1853, a new conflict arose. Russia's Emperor, Nicholas I, acclaimed himself Protector of the Christians in the Ottoman Lands and the rightful Lord of Jerusalem and the Levant. This was an affront to not only the Ottoman Emperor, who considered himself the defender of the Christians, fellow "People of the Book", in his lands, and offended the Holy Roman Emperor, who was also the King of Jerusalem. Emperor Francis III had lived a courtly and intellectual life in the palaces with his brother Ferdinand Maximilian, and unlike his other brothers Charles Louis and Louis Victor, had never served in the military. He appointed progressive and experienced generals, who had served in the Succession War, to high commands. So, when he decided to go to war with Russia, his army was well-trained, well-armed, and destroyed the backwards Russian army in Poland.
In other fronts, a combined Franco-British army joined with the Ottomans in the Crimea, which saw some of the bloodiest sieges of the war. Additionally, the Aegean was a hotbed of conflict, as the Hellenic Republic sided with Russia against the Turks, which the more moderate Kingdom of the Hellenes stayed out of the conflict. The Greek republicans were crushed, and forcibly unified with the royal government, which transferred its administration of Athens, though the royal Winter Palace remained in Mycenae.
The Russo-European War ended in 1857, with a death toll of nearly 367,000 for the Alliance and over 500,000 for the Russians. A staggering number of casualties. After the Treaty of Paris, Russian control in Moldavia ended, leading the subsequent rebellion and unification of Romania in 1859, under Alexander John Cuza. Additionally, Poland was given independence from Russia. A new monarch was chosen in a referendum by the Polish people, but regulated so as to avoid Imperial entanglements. Poland became a Kingdom, under the hitherto-disenfranchised Wettin dynasty, represented in Frederick Augustus, the grandnephew of the last Wettin monarch of Saxony proper. He became King Augustus IV. A final corollary of the treaty made the Crimean Peninsula a demilitarised zone of Russia and gave Russian North Lebanon to the Ottomans.
In 1859, at the same time as the Romanian War of Independence, the Lithuanian people rose in revolt and gained liberation, inspired by the Poles two years earlier. Boguslaw Fryderyk Radziwill, a Lithuanian noble sponsored by Prussia, was elected Grand Duke of Lithuania by the Lithuanian Parliament.
The same year, Metternich died, leaving Francis III to rule the Empire absolutely. Throughout the 1860s, nationalism spiked and revolts tore parts of Europe asunder. The Grand Duke of Tuscany was overthrown and the revolutionaries demanded Tuscany's admittance as a province of the Kingdom of Italy under Emperor Francis, in 1861. That year saw the spark of another war. The American Civil War began, and Franco-British involvement on the side of the Confederacy led to Confederate independence and victory in early 1864. From 1865-1872, the Ottomans struggled against the combined forces of the Balkan Alliance, which strove for independence. Bulgaria achieved liberation, as did Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia. Bosnia, however, joined the Habsburg Monarchy and the HRE in 1873, when disagreements with Serbia led them to search for a different monarch. Greece and Albania seized more territory from the Ottomans.
As of 1875, Europe itself is at peace, though the external struggle for vast colonies is only just begun...
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m2thet5678
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Wait: why are we stalling right now? We should be firing along to Map Thread 4, not sitting on page 293! Just about 160 posts is all we need!
Thande
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Poland's not that odd, it's just Congress Poland plus sea access...
Lithuania I agree with.
I like bananas, coconuts and grapes!
I like bananas, coconuts and grapes!
I like bananas, coconuts and grapes!
And that's why they call me Tarzan of the Apes!
...Sorry.
On topic: good maps people.
It's the future.
I don't know what happened I think the United States split into two, California and Cascadia rebelled agianst both, the northern half voted to be annexed by Canada, and the southern half became the American Empire..... or Thande.
Thande
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Sigworthy."Hapsburg's Hapsburgwank" sounds like it could be the name of a children's TV series (well...not really, but sort ofOh Hapsburg, you know I do enjoy your Habsburgwanks so
)m2thet5678
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"Hapsburg's Hapsburgwank" sounds like it could be the name of a children's TV series (well...not really, but sort of
You know, if this is what the world is coming too, I'm glad the only shows around when I was young were Barney and Mr. Rogers.
i request a map... and one i think Thande may be able to help me with...
Within the next 24 hours, could you make a Sepia styles Map of Britain focusing on the all the areas mentioned in The War of the Worlds
My scifi teacher had one, but it was too crowded with roads and rails...
so, i would greatly appreciate it if someone could make this map.
and labeling of each area would be nice
Within the next 24 hours, could you make a Sepia styles Map of Britain focusing on the all the areas mentioned in The War of the Worlds
My scifi teacher had one, but it was too crowded with roads and rails...
so, i would greatly appreciate it if someone could make this map.
and labeling of each area would be nice
Hapsburg
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And now, the bittersweet conclusion to the Hapsburg's Hapsburgwank Scenario
Europe, December 24, 1899.
Napoleon III died in 1878. Childless, as his son had perished in a great cholera epidemic earlier that year, and without uncles or known cousins to succeed him, France plunged into chaos. Out of the depths, a young man claimed to be the hidden son of Napoleon II, born in the last year of that Emperor's reign, baptised Philippe-Auguste Napoleon. The Senate acclaimed him Philip Augustus, Emperor of the French. However, he was sickly with tuberculosis like his father, and without a wife as he was a lover of men. A succession crisis was inevitable, and he knew it. So, he declared that Francis III, Holy Roman Emperor, would be the designated heir of the French Imperial Throne, as he was the second cousin of Emperor Philip Augustus, and the closest relative of the Habsburg-Bonaparte line. Some collateral lineages, of Napoleon's brothers, had grown far enough from the Imperial tree to not be considered, though they would be guaranteed first choice as Viceroys.
In 1887, Philip Augustus succumbed to tuberculosis at age 37. He was succeeded by Francis III, who rewrote his primary title to Holy Roman Emperor of the Frankish and German Nation, and reorganised France as the Kingdom of the French, with him as King of the French. With this, peace reigned over Europe once more, as the two most bitter of rivals became one nation once again, under a universal monarch, whose aim was to discard nationalism in favour of peace, unity, and federalism. He allowed France vast autonomy, and it effectively ran itself as it had before, with a Bonaparte prince as the Viceroy in France.
However, his oversight was the rise of rabid pan-slavism in his own lands. In Bohemia, Yugoslavia, and parts of Hungary, Slavs conspired to revolt.
In 1892, this came to fruition in a bloody rebellion against Habsburg and Ottoman rule. In a war that lasted five years, Bulgaria and Serbia allied and ravaged the Balkans. The 1897 Treat of Budapest settled the conflict, with Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Albania greatly expanded, a recognised British protectorate over Egypt, and the recognition of Sardinia's and the Papal State's entrance into the Holy Roman Empire. The Papacy, however, was forced to give up Romagna to the Italian Habsburg dominion. The Pope was recognised only as a Prince in the Reichstag, and his religious duties were seen politically as purely coincidental. The Imperial Constitution forced him to give his state's people their due rights as citizens, and make democratic and constitutional reforms in the Papal State, although the city of Rome itself was exempt. The City soon became seen as the "Papal" part of the Papal State, and the administration of the remaining territory was centred on the outlying town of Villetri.
In 1898, the British Parliament granted Home Rule to Ireland, Aquitaine, the Isle of Mann, and the Channel Islands, and ceded their Aegean and Adriatic isles to Greece. The Treaty of Stockholm recognised Norwegian independence, and the coronation of Prince Carl of Denmark as King Christian Frederick II of Norway, after a referendum by the rioting Norwegians. In 1899, Queen Victoria crowned her son Albert Edward as Co-King Edward VII, as she herself was ageing and sickly. She was preparing him for his future task as King. That same year, in the summer, a treaty was signed by all major powers which divided Africa solidly between the colonial nations, and put an end to their squabbling. Peace finally settled in to the quiet year of 1899.
As that year's Christmas Eve slowly drifted along, many looked into the night sky for a sign of hope, to make a quick prayer, or to marvel at the stars as the turn of the Century edged that much closer. They saw more than just a field of twinkling stars peering at them. What they saw sent many in shrieks of horror, fear, and awe. Great glowing spheres shone brighter than the sun, their luminosity growing as they sailed, faster and faster towards the Earth's surface. As dawn broke on Christmas morning, the first rumbles shook the surface of the globe; though they did not know it quite yet, they heralded the wrenching of the civilised nations from their peaks of power, to be hurled the depths of collapse.
(Yes, it was a comet trail. Sucks, eh?)
Europe, December 24, 1899.
Napoleon III died in 1878. Childless, as his son had perished in a great cholera epidemic earlier that year, and without uncles or known cousins to succeed him, France plunged into chaos. Out of the depths, a young man claimed to be the hidden son of Napoleon II, born in the last year of that Emperor's reign, baptised Philippe-Auguste Napoleon. The Senate acclaimed him Philip Augustus, Emperor of the French. However, he was sickly with tuberculosis like his father, and without a wife as he was a lover of men. A succession crisis was inevitable, and he knew it. So, he declared that Francis III, Holy Roman Emperor, would be the designated heir of the French Imperial Throne, as he was the second cousin of Emperor Philip Augustus, and the closest relative of the Habsburg-Bonaparte line. Some collateral lineages, of Napoleon's brothers, had grown far enough from the Imperial tree to not be considered, though they would be guaranteed first choice as Viceroys.
In 1887, Philip Augustus succumbed to tuberculosis at age 37. He was succeeded by Francis III, who rewrote his primary title to Holy Roman Emperor of the Frankish and German Nation, and reorganised France as the Kingdom of the French, with him as King of the French. With this, peace reigned over Europe once more, as the two most bitter of rivals became one nation once again, under a universal monarch, whose aim was to discard nationalism in favour of peace, unity, and federalism. He allowed France vast autonomy, and it effectively ran itself as it had before, with a Bonaparte prince as the Viceroy in France.
However, his oversight was the rise of rabid pan-slavism in his own lands. In Bohemia, Yugoslavia, and parts of Hungary, Slavs conspired to revolt.
In 1892, this came to fruition in a bloody rebellion against Habsburg and Ottoman rule. In a war that lasted five years, Bulgaria and Serbia allied and ravaged the Balkans. The 1897 Treat of Budapest settled the conflict, with Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Albania greatly expanded, a recognised British protectorate over Egypt, and the recognition of Sardinia's and the Papal State's entrance into the Holy Roman Empire. The Papacy, however, was forced to give up Romagna to the Italian Habsburg dominion. The Pope was recognised only as a Prince in the Reichstag, and his religious duties were seen politically as purely coincidental. The Imperial Constitution forced him to give his state's people their due rights as citizens, and make democratic and constitutional reforms in the Papal State, although the city of Rome itself was exempt. The City soon became seen as the "Papal" part of the Papal State, and the administration of the remaining territory was centred on the outlying town of Villetri.
In 1898, the British Parliament granted Home Rule to Ireland, Aquitaine, the Isle of Mann, and the Channel Islands, and ceded their Aegean and Adriatic isles to Greece. The Treaty of Stockholm recognised Norwegian independence, and the coronation of Prince Carl of Denmark as King Christian Frederick II of Norway, after a referendum by the rioting Norwegians. In 1899, Queen Victoria crowned her son Albert Edward as Co-King Edward VII, as she herself was ageing and sickly. She was preparing him for his future task as King. That same year, in the summer, a treaty was signed by all major powers which divided Africa solidly between the colonial nations, and put an end to their squabbling. Peace finally settled in to the quiet year of 1899.
As that year's Christmas Eve slowly drifted along, many looked into the night sky for a sign of hope, to make a quick prayer, or to marvel at the stars as the turn of the Century edged that much closer. They saw more than just a field of twinkling stars peering at them. What they saw sent many in shrieks of horror, fear, and awe. Great glowing spheres shone brighter than the sun, their luminosity growing as they sailed, faster and faster towards the Earth's surface. As dawn broke on Christmas morning, the first rumbles shook the surface of the globe; though they did not know it quite yet, they heralded the wrenching of the civilised nations from their peaks of power, to be hurled the depths of collapse.
(Yes, it was a comet trail. Sucks, eh?
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