I am just waiting for the moment when instead of breaking the personal union between France and Spain works out.
A man can dream.
A man can dream.
very impressive, I had completely forgotten about the Rhineland confederation and Hanover is also less big than I thought and I thought my card was working it seems not and also maybe highlight the HRP borders to see that it still exists because it looks like there has been a balkanisation
Schleswig is a duchy directly controlled by the monarchy of Denmark. The Duchy of Holstein is dynastically controlled by Denmark, but officially distinct. As tensions are high between Sweden and Prussia over Pomeranian territories, so too are they high between Denmark and Prussia over Holstein. Scandinavia (particularly Denmark) is relatively stronger ITTL without a strong Prussia and without the Napoleonic Wars. Sweden has clashed with both Prussia and Russia, pushing it closer to France. Denmark may be trending that way as well. It will ultimately depend on how Prussian aggression evolves as they regain their military footing. Remember that Prussia ITTL is a shadow of its OTL self due to its losses in the Six Years War and the depression/suicide of Frederick thereafter. They're finding their regional ambitions again but are cozying up to the Russians to accomplish it.could you talk about Denmark and its German territories
A question: Who rules the Lombardy?
And who is the Duke of Parma?The Duke of Parma
And who is the Duke of Parma?
It's going to be a mess if there isn't a liberal revolution led by the Orleans I'd be disappointed. Anyway excellent chapter
February, 1836 | Vienna-Krakow Railway Opens After several years of experiments with steam engines on railways for connecting industry with natural resources, Austria opens up its first major line between Vienna and Krakow in the winter of 1836. Operated by the Kaiser Franz Nordbahn, the rail line precipitated stations being built in Brunn, Ostrau, and Kattowitz. The 1840s would see the expansion of rail across the Habsburg realm. |
March, 1836 | Treaty of Areosa By the mid-1830s the British are still seeking new grounds to settle their population. While birth rates remain flat since 1815, the population pressures on resources in Britain and fears of unrest continue to plague the government. The American Dominion is unable to absorb large numbers of immigrants and settlers in the colonies on the Gold Coast of Africa struggle with tropical diseases. North Australia is increasingly developed but expensive and distant. Britain is also constantly seeking new markets for its industrial output. Prime Minister Lucas Cameron lays the matter at the feet of his Foreign Minister, the liberal Thomas Grosvenor, Lord Westminster. By the mid-1830s, Grosvenor has identified Portugal as the best partner for a broad agreement. After over two years of intermittent negotiations, Grosvenor travels to Areosa in the north of Portugal in September, 1835. The resulting agreement is ratified by both countries in March, 1836. The Treaty of Areosa includes a number of provisions:
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May, 1836 | Chemin de fer du Saint-Laurent Opens The first long-distance railway opens in French Quebec with the linkage of Quebec City, Montreal, and Vaudreuil by the Saint-Lawrence Railway Company. In general, adoption of railways in French America is slower than in Europe, as settlement patterns generally follow navigable natural waterways and built canals. The Saint-Lawrence Railway runs to Toronto by 1845 and Detroit by 1850. |
August, 1836 | Dominion Negro Industry League Founded In the 1830s social and economic problems for the freedmen in the British Dominion continue, with widespread poverty, vagrancy, and racial violence. In the summer of 1836 several prominent black businessmen and a number of liberal white allies hold a conference in Philadelphia at which they found the Dominion Negro Industry League. This advocacy and philanthropic organization dedicated itself to black businesses and participation in industry. Over time they increasingly become leading voices in opposition to the Repatriation Movement sending black Americans to Sierra Leone. The League headquartered itself in an old meetinghouse in Baltimore, Maryland and grew to become one of the largest advocacy groups for freedmen in the British Dominion. |
Oct, 1836 - 5, 1837 | France Seaport Revolts French Succession Crisis: By the fall of 1836, Henri V has postponed the Estates General twice since his July Proclamation. French liberals have become increasingly fearful of backsliding under the new king, clamoring in the press for the convocation to be held in fidelity with Louis XVII's January proclamation. Premier Marçeau makes public assurances that the meeting will be held, but the more time passes, the more hollow his promises ring among the liberals. Port communities in northern France halt many luxury shipments in protest of Henri's continued postponement of the Estates General. The Véristes Normandes, among the most radical reformists in France, use their power on local councils to whip discontent among their constituencies. Sailors and stevedores at Le Havre, Rouen, and Cherbourg engage in work stoppages to protest the continued postponement of the Estates General. After a bloody clash at Le Havre in November between government marshals and the striking workers, the protests spread throughout northern ports, including in Flanders and Brittany. Attempts in the late-autumn to expand the reach of these labor protest to French colonial ports in Quebec and Louisiana are unsuccessful, but they do spark much conversation going forward in colonial society about rights and self-determination from the top-down governance in French America. Several more violent clashes take place in northern ports while government forces secure western and southern ports and shipping traffic is successfully redirected by the spring of 1837. When the Estates General is finally scheduled for May 1837, the wind is taken from the sails of the work-stoppage protests. All Truthist delegates from Normandy, Flanders, and Brittany are barred from the convocation and resulting protests are authoritatively crushed. |
1836 | Reclusionism Takes Root in New England Throughout the 1830s, liberal countercultures begin to emerge in the British Dominion, particularly in conservative New England where a generation of youth find themselves living in factory campuses under the economic foot of floor leaders and the moral foot of boarding supervisors. The overarching name of the counterculture movement is known as "Reclusionism" after an essay written in 1836 by Andrew Edwards Baldwin of Northampton, MA. Under reclusionist thinking, industrialization breeds autocratic pollution of the body, soul, and environment, and reclusionists seek to create a "quilted economy" of independent, self-sufficient communities that trade among one another, independent of the machinists and penny pinchers of the booming factory towns. The movement is considered an organic one, largely without leadership, and it rapidly becomes a popular escape for factory toilers. Reclusionists seek to replicate the "simpler times" before the advent of industry. Although critics would often conflate them, reclusionism is markedly distinct from break-away religious communities such as the Seraphim in Meredith, NH. What both movements have in common are their found roots in the backlash against industrialization. One of the most successful founders of a reclusionist community is Robert Emerson Bliss of Concord, MA who purchases land on the outskirts of Lancaster, MA and, with his extended family and followers, builds a sprawling farm called Chocksett Fields. Chocksett Fields is among the first and largest of the so-called "patchwork towns" on the "quilted map" of New England. Other patchworks pop up throughout New England in the late-1830s, some small farms, others growing communities. Chocksett Fields succeeds at incorporating as a town of its own by 1850. By the late-1840s several long-established municipalities have also adopted the ideology of reclusionism. The movement produces numerous sub-cultural trends in fashion and literature well into the mid-19th Century. |