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World 1725-50

1725-75: Time of crisis in China: Their former tributaries broke away, the country stagnates - as is criticized, despite of the lack of real enemies.

1725: Portuguese uprising, which takes Spain until 1728 to defeat it completely.

1725-32: Egypt rises against Seljuk rule. Finally, sultan Kilij Arslan VI gives in and allows Egypt to transform into an allied, tribute-paying but otherwise independent sultanate.

1726: Germans and Italians agree to make the Ohio river border between their possessions in Atlantis.
Start of Olof Tiselius' first serve as First Minister of Sweden. After the Netherlands (which already have a constitutional government), during his time Sweden-Norway-Mecklenburg also sees a shift of power: Away from the king, to Riksdag (parliament) and First Minister.

1726-29: Border war between Novorossiya and muslim Choresm.

1727-30: Irish and Scottish uprisings defeated by Britain.

1728: Spain claims a good part of the Rocky Mountains (up to OTL Utah) for them, to stop the Russians from expanding even further.
France takes Sri Lanka.

1729: Dutch War of Succession (first war in Europe since the end of the Great War, or anti-French War) resolved. France takes Hainaut and parts of Flanders (again...), Luxembourg gets Namur.

1730-37: Uprisings in Mexico under a leader who claims to be the rightful heir of the old native rulers and calls himself Cuáutemoc II.

1731: The first commercial telegraph line is made between Yenisseisk and nearby (20 verst, about as many km) Pavlovskoye. Despite the difficult climate of Novorossiya, the new invention spreads through the country and transforms it.
France founds the Indochinese League with Bengal, Pegu, Thailand, Khmer, Champa and Melaka.

1732-34: Despite of the king's policy of religious tolerance, there's an uprising in Hungarian-occupied Serbia and Bosnia. News of these accidents reach Russia, whose sympathies are at the rebels' side.

1734-41: Spice Islands War. Britain fights Majapahit and some of the small kingdoms in Indonesia. Finally they win, but this makes them unable to interfere in the continental affairs.

~1735-50: Many new newspapers founded in Novorossiya.

1735: Ludwig XVIII, last Wittelsbach duke of the Rhine Palatinate, dies without heir. It's not completely clear whether France or Bavaria'll get it. New emperor Heinrich IX of Brandenburg lets the French unmisunderstandably know that he won't tolerate them taking it.

1736-42: Palatinate War of Succession. Although the German and Swedish-Dutch armies can't defeat the French armies, when Spain and Britain threaten France, peace is made. The Palatinate goes neither to France nor Bavaria, but to a grandson of the Bourbon king of Hungary. In case he and his brother will die without heir, the Palatinate will fall to Bavaria.

1738: Swedes take Sri Lanka, after defeating a stronger French fleet surprisingly.

1739: Uprising of the Albanians against Seljuk rule begins.
Johann Friedrich, grandson of Fredrick of Atlantis, comes to power in Franconia-Pomerania. Under his reign, lots of money is wasted for building palaces and cathedrals. He even tries to sell Farther Pomerania to Sweden or Prussia, which only doesn't happen because noone wants to buy it.

1740: Spain starts to build a stronger fleet in the Pacific, planning to take a part in East Asia too.

1740-44: Open war between the alliance of Novorossiya and Korea against Nippon. Novorossiya occupies the small islands in the Nipponese Sea, Korea takes Kyushu.

1741-46: Second Italian-Russian Seljuk War. The Seljuks lose again. Albania becomes an Italian protectorate, Georgia (excluding Armenia) becomes associated with South Russia, and the Cyrenaica becomes Italian too.
After this defeat, the conservative military finally gives up the resistance against its modernization.

1743: French king Philippe VI dies without heir, so his unpopular uncle Charles X becomes king.

1746-50: French-Atlantean war (also called War of the Great Lakes). Denmark-Braunschweig and Britain fight the native Atlanteans and the French immigrants in Quebec (OTL Ontario)

1746-48: Charles X starts the completely unnecessary war against Prussia, for which France has to make a costly expedition to the Baltic and strain its relation to Denmark-Braunschweig, only because the king feels has he to defend the pope against what he perceives as a Prussian heresy. The war gives the rationalist (comparable to OTL enlightenment) movement a boost.

1747: Uprisings against the Czar of Vladimir-Suzdal start after he tries to increase his power.

1748: Uprisings in Austria (religiously motivated) against the government of the unpopular dukes Eberhard XI and XII.

1749: Charles X dies too without heir. France calls the General Estates (300 men for every estate) to decide who'll become next king, since the successor situation is a bit unclear.
Madagascar War between Sweden and Persia. Persia takes the island.

~1750: Settlements of the Germans and Italians have reached the Mississippi river.

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