1571 – an early modern timeline

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1571 – an early modern timeline



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Broken Betrothal

Princess Kandarapa's betrothal to one of the Saludongese nobles fell apart in the late 1560's due to what the Luzones are treating the ethnic Saludongese in the areas that are conquered by Bolkiahs and in this time the people would not support the alliance between the Muslims in Saludong and the the people of Manila who are scions of the Bruneians aka the Luzones, the alliance between the Spanish and Lakandula in 1570 would case conflict between Rajah Sulayman and Rajah Lakandula because Rajah Sulayman would remain a vassal of the Bruneians and Tarik Sulayman would keep Rajah Sulayman as an ally and buffer against the Spanish which would buy time for the people of Saludong to unite and form their own domain. [1]

The Spanish would fight with the Luzones after the break of the peace treaty Sambali/Saludongese with the Luzones and some of the Luzones or the Bruneian Scions would fight against the Spanish led by Rajah Sulayman which would be defeated by Lakandula.

When Lopez de Legazpi died in 1572, his successor, Governor-General Guido de Lavezaris, did not honour their agreements with Sulayman and Lakan Dula. He sequestered the properties of both kings and tolerated Spanish atrocities, however the friars and Juan de Salcedo would easily be able negotiate peace with them, Juan de Salcedo marries Dayang Kandarapa.

Limahong

Born to a poor family in the city Raoping of Chaozhou, Limahong had an early start in criminal activity and progressed to piracy, becoming leader of around 2000 pirates. His activities and attacks on ports and ships throughout South China increased and a warrant was issued by the authorities to capture him alive and send him to the city of Tay Bin. He was married to Nataracy.

He shifted his activities to piracy on the high seas and out of reach of China's power. He was able to accumulate up to 40 ships, whereupon he once again raided cities and ports in South China. Limahong attacked a city occupied by Vintoquián (Lin Daoqian), another Chinese pirate, but Vintoquián was able to escape along with 5 of Limahong's ships. However, Limahong was able to capture 55 of Vintoquián's fleet and thus increased his own to 95 ships. He was now a veritable king of the high seas of South China.

In late 1573, he gathered an army of 3,000 Chinese warriors, renegades and vagabonds and fled to the island of Saludong. There, he and his band of outlaws sought refuge.

By this time, a force of 40,000 soldiers and 135 ships was sent by the Wanli Emperor to kill and capture the pirates.

After learning the strength of the new Spanish colony in the South, he would decide to conquer it but he would fail to conquer it, however he would fail and he would go back to Pangasinan wherein he was able to talk with Kasikis and Tarik who said would give him troops.

He would conquer the Spanish held Kumintang and establish a short-term domain there but the Spanish troops led by Salcedo would defeat him.

The Spanish would establish Cebu again as a temporary capital of the Spanish East Indies, but the Spanish would still plan to get Manila, this would mean the Spanish would have a conquest campaign against Manila.



Spread of Islam

The alliance between the North and Sulayman would break due to the Pagans and the Muslims reconciling which would mean that the Spanish would attack Sulayman’s territory and while Kasikis, Malang and Tarik’s troops would conquer Sulayman’s lands, however Sulayman would surrender to the Spanish, the Spanish would defeat the Troops of Kasikis, Malang and Tarik and for that the Spanish would gain the territories of Sulayman and all the lands in Bruneian orbit, the Spanish would not venture further north, realizing that the Northern half of the island is unvaluable to them, the Spanish would not touch the lands of Tarik, Malang and Kasikis of Kaboloan in the North, which would develop into the Sultanate of Saludong in the North like Brunei in the south is ignored.

The Islam religion would penetrate the lower Kayakayam on the Bannag River valley region although the upper Bannag/Karayan river or the Irraya would remain Hindu/Pagan.

Tarik Sulayman would be considered as the first Sultan of Saludong after his win against the Spanish, however is more as a legendary ruler not as a ruler recognized by others.

decades after the Spanish got the Bruneian scions in Saludong, the newly born Sultanate of Saludong under the rule of Sultan Mahmud I which would jumpstart the Sultanate’s outside affairs to the other states.

Meanwhile the lands in the south would be strongly under the Spanish due to the Bruneian scions and the Visayan nobility being under Spanish alliance and Spanish rule and have given up their independence completely to the spanish.


1. Point of Divergence
 
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Miguel Lopez de Legazpi's expedition

In 1564, López de Legazpi was commissioned by the viceroy, Luis de Velasco, to lead an expedition in the Pacific Ocean, to find the Spice Islands where the earlier explorers Ferdinand Magellan and Ruy López de Villalobos had landed in 1521 and 1543, respectively. The expedition was ordered by King Philip II of Spain, after whom the Philippines had earlier been named by Ruy López de Villalobos. The viceroy died in July 1564, but the Audiencia and López de Legazpi completed the preparations for the expedition.

On November 19 or 20, 1564, five ships and 500 soldiers, sailed from the port of Barra de Navidad, New Spain, in what is now Jalisco state, Mexico (other sources give the date as November 1, 1564, and mention 'four ships and 380 men'). Members of the expedition included six Augustinian missionaries, in addition to Fr. Andrés de Urdaneta, who served as navigator and spiritual adviser, Melchor de Legazpi (son of Adelanto de Legazpi), Felipe de Salcedo (grandson of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi), and Guido de Lavezarez (a survivor of the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan).

López de Legazpi and his men sailed the Pacific Ocean for 93 days. In 1565, they landed in the Mariana Islands, where they briefly anchored and replenished their supplies. There they fought with Chamorro tribes and burned several huts.



Arrival in the Philippines

A chief of Bohol island named Catunao gave information to Miguel Lopez of Cebu, and accompanied Lopez as a guide. López de Legazpi's expedition anchored off the Indianized Rajahnate of Cebu on February 13, 1565, but did not put ashore due to opposition from natives.



On February 22, 1565 the expedition reached the island of Samar and made a blood compact with Datu Urrao. The Spaniards then proceeded to Limasawa and were received by Datu Bankaw, then to Bohol, where they befriended Datu Sikatuna (or Catunao) and Rajah Sigala. On March 16, Legazpi made a blood compact with Datu Sikatuna.



On April 27, 1565, the expedition returned to Cebu and landed there. Rajah Tupas challenged the Spaniards, but were overpowered by them. The Spaniards established a colony, naming the settlements "Villa del Santisimo Nombre de Jesús" (Town of the Most Holy Name of Jesus) after an image of Sto. Niño in one of the native houses.



Panay and Mindoro

In 1569, due to a scarcity of food provisions in Cebu, Legazpi transferred to Panay where they were peacefully welcomed by the people in Madja-as and they founded a second settlement on the bank of the Panay River. In 1570, Legazpi sent his grandson, Juan de Salcedo, who had arrived from Mexico in 1567, to Mindoro to punish the Muslim Moro pirates who had been plundering Panay villages. Salcedo also destroyed forts on the islands of Ilin and Lubang, respectively South and Northwest of Mindoro.



Luzon and the capture of Manila

In 1570, having heard of the rich resources in Luzon, Legazpi dispatched Martín de Goiti to explore the northern region. Landing in Batangas with a force of 120 Spaniards, de Goiti explored the Pansipit River, which drains Taal Lake. On May 8, they arrived in Manila Bay. There, they were welcomed by the natives. Goiti's soldiers camped there for a few weeks while forming an alliance with the Muslim leader, Rajah Ache, who was a vassal under the Sultan of Brunei. Legazpi wanted to use Manila's harbor as a base for trade with China. In Manila, López de Legazpi formed a peace pact with the native councils as well as the local rulers, Rajah Sulayman and Lakan Dula, Lakan and Rajah are same title of the native royalty. Both groups agreed to organize a city council, consisting of two mayors, twelve councilors and a secretary. López de Legazpi established a settlement there on June 24, 1571, and he also ordered the construction of the walled city of Intramuros. He proclaimed the town as the island's capital, and the seat of the Spanish government in the East Indies.

However the Northern Half of the island of Selurong or Luzon would remain independent and free of Spanish rule.





A report to the King of Spain

The Spanish would report what have happened to the Philippines and Saludong to Philip II however, Philip II has his own concerns.

Anna of Austria would marry Philip II and provide him with the needed children namely Ferdinand (1571), Diego (1575) and Philip(1578) and Philip himself has two daughters named Isabella Clara Eugenia(1566) and Catherine Michelle (1567), he would make Ferdinand as the King of Spain, Diego or James as the ruler of the Burgundian inheritance and Philip would become a priest.
 
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The Dutch Revolt was a revolt of the northern, largely Protestant Seven Provinces of the Low Countries against the rule of the Roman Catholic King Philip II of Spain, hereditary ruler of the provinces. The southern provinces initially joined in the revolt but later submitted to Spain.
This is untrue and an anachronistic way of looking at the Dutch revolt. You have to keep in mind that the southern provinces, well at least Flanders and Brabant (especialy Antwerp), were as protestant as the northern provinces. Dutch protestantism actualy arose in Flanders. It was only when the Spanish recaptured Flanders and Brabant that it was reconverted to Catholicism, with a large part of the protestant population leaving north. Sothern cities lost 1/3rd or even more of the population, which took them decades (maybe even centuries) to recover. It was the Walloon provinces that remained mostly catholic (althogh a lot of Walloon protestants fled north).
Also the seven provinces leaves out Drenthe, which would probably be counted in this case, even if you would ignore Flanders and Brabant (and Mechelen).
 
This is untrue and an anachronistic way of looking at the Dutch revolt. You have to keep in mind that the southern provinces, well at least Flanders and Brabant (especialy Antwerp), were as protestant as the northern provinces. Dutch protestantism actualy arose in Flanders. It was only when the Spanish recaptured Flanders and Brabant that it was reconverted to Catholicism, with a large part of the protestant population leaving north. Sothern cities lost 1/3rd or even more of the population, which took them decades (maybe even centuries) to recover. It was the Walloon provinces that remained mostly catholic (althogh a lot of Walloon protestants fled north).
Also the seven provinces leaves out Drenthe, which would probably be counted in this case, even if you would ignore Flanders and Brabant (and Mechelen).
I just copy and paste it from the wiki so there might be changes.
 
I just copy and paste it from the wiki so there might be changes.
If you want to have a roughyly similar result as OTL, I would change it to something like this:

"The Dutch Revolt was a revolt of the northern, largely Dutch speaking Provinces of the Low Countries against the rule of the Roman Catholic King Philip II of Spain, hereditary ruler of the provinces. The provinces of Flanders and Brabant joined in the revolt but were largely recaptured by Spain and were reconverted to catholicism."
 
If you want to have a roughyly similar result as OTL, I would change it to something like this:

"The Dutch Revolt was a revolt of the northern, largely Dutch speaking Provinces of the Low Countries against the rule of the Roman Catholic King Philip II of Spain, hereditary ruler of the provinces. The provinces of Flanders and Brabant joined in the revolt but were largely recaptured by Spain and were reconverted to catholicism."
I actually decided to make it more ambiguous but the Protestantism remains in Belgium.
 
Revived this timeline after a long time I needed to remove some chapters to revive this..so please get tuned for the next update.
 
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Sebastián and Duarte


After attaining his majority in 1568, Sebastian dreamed of a great crusade against the kingdom of Morocco, where over the preceding generation several Portuguese way stations on the route to India had been lost.

A Moroccan succession struggle gave him the opportunity, when Abu Abdallah Mohammed II Saadi lost his throne in 1576 and fled to Portugal. After arriving, he asked for King Sebastian's assistance in defeating his Turkish-backed uncle and rival, Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi.

During the Christmastide of 1577, Sebastian met with his uncle King Philip II of Spain at Guadalupe. Philip refused to be party to the crusade as he was negotiating a truce with the Ottoman Empire, though he promised a contingent of Spanish volunteers.

Despite his lack of a son and heir, King Sebastian embarked on his crusade in 1578. The Portuguese army of 17,000 men, including a significant number of foreign mercenaries hired from the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, Spain, and the Italian States, and almost all of the country's nobility, sailed at the beginning of June from Lisbon. They visited Cádiz, where they expected to find Spanish volunteers who failed to appear, then crossed into Morocco.


King Sebastian was jealous of Duarte and several times showed disrespect for Duarte's rank. When the King didn’t invite Duarte to a royal bullfight, in Xabregas (Lisbon), Duarte was quite upset and, finally, he retired to Évora where he would wait and rise as the King of Portugal as Duarte II.


The Portuguese under King Duarte would establish shops in Saludong in order to help their missions in Japan in the towns of Faru, Macabebe and Binalatongan much like the Portuguese are In Ternate before.
 
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On 1580 the Portuguese and the Japanese would be allowed to stay in the Port cities of Faru, Macabebe and Binalatongan and the Portuguese would help expel the Bruneians in Bigan with the help of the Portuguese and Japanese, this would mark the formation of the country of Saludong and tolerated the pagans inside Saludong.


The Portuguese would respect Saludong as its own country like they did to Ternate and their other ally countries in the Malay Archipelago.


However in the North the Portuguese would start to trade with Japan and find a place which is good to find a colony, a place they call as Formosa and find their trading hub in Saõ Salvador near the Ryukyus.



“The Portuguese Formosa is said to be a gateway to Japan by the Portuguese.”

Henry IV of France writing to King Duarte II of Portugal on 1593.
 
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On 1581, Duarte II would arrange a marriage with Infanta Catalina Micaela of Spain, Archduchess Margaret of Austria the young daughter of Empress Maria of Spain would be sent to Savoy as the replacement bride for Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy.


The marriage of Duarte II and Infanta Catalina Micaela would produce many children, namely, Mary of Portugal b. June 4, 1583 b. , Duarte III b. November 2, 1585 and Henriques b. May 4, 1591.
 
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On 1588, the Spanish Armada would defeat Elizabeth I and detain her in a nunnery in order to restore England in the rule of the Catholic Church, Elizabeth of England is seen as a martyr of the Protestant Faith.


James VI is married to Isabella Clara Eugenia and crowned as the King of England and Arabella Stuart would be sent to Spain to marry the future Ferdinand VI of Spain.


The new King of England would now be ambitious to reclaim the Kingdom of France or just possibly the Duchy of Brittany of his now wife Isabella if her uncle has no male heirs and he would be mesmerized by seeing her face, although he himself is said to prefer another man rather than a woman.



Ferdinand VI’s marriage to Arabella Stuart would have said saved the Spanish Habsburgs from near extinction and she would introduce new blood.
 
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On 1 August 1589, Henry III lodged with his army at Saint-Cloud, and was preparing to attack Paris, when a young fanatical Dominican friar, Jacques Clément, carrying false papers, was granted access to deliver important documents to the king. The monk gave the king a bundle of papers and stated that he had a secret message to deliver. The king signaled for his attendants to step back for privacy, and Clément whispered in his ear while plunging a knife into his abdomen. Clément was then killed on the spot by the guards.


At first, the king's wound did not appear fatal, but he enjoined all the officers around him, in the event that he did not survive, to be loyal to Henry of Navarre as their new king. The following morning, on the day that he was to have launched his assault to retake Paris, Henry III died.


Chaos swept the attacking army, most of it quickly melting away; the proposed attack on Paris was postponed. Inside the city, joy at the news of Henry III's death was near delirium; some hailed the assassination as an act of God.


Henry III was interred at the Saint Denis Basilica. Childless, he was the longest-living of Henry II's sons to have become king and also the last of the Valois kings. Henry III of Navarre succeeded him as Henry IV, the first of the kings of the House of Bourbon.


Henry's first marriage was not a happy one, and the couple remained childless. Henry and Margaret separated even before Henry acceded to the throne in August 1589. Margaret lived for many years in the Château d'Usson in the Auvergne. After Henry became king of France, it was of the utmost importance that he provide an heir to the crown to avoid the problem of a disputed succession, Henry IV would have would have a problem regarding Brittany as the legitimate heirs to Brittany are the Queens of England and Portugal.


On 1590, after the death of Henry III, Henry IV of France would be forced to convert to Catholicism and granted recognition to rule in France but not Brittany by Philip II of Spain, Isabella Clara Eugenia and Philip II would require Henry IV to give up Brittany and Pale of Calais to England in a treaty.


As France would be in problem of religious turmoil during the rule of the late Valois Kings, giving up Brittany and Calais in exchange for his divorce and remarriage to Anne Stanley, an English Princess of blood and descendant of a former Queen of France, Mary Tudor, she is just 11 in 1591 on their marriage and the treaty would have restored France from a face of Turmoil and Chaos.
 
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On the late 1580’s Burgundy and Netherlands would be spun off from the Spanish Habsburgs under Infanta Anna of Spain.


Anna of Spain would marry Archduke Albert on 1589, the marriage would have attached the Formerly Spanish Netherlands and Burgundy to Germany as the line of Anna of Spain and Archduke Albert would inherit the Holy Roman Empire.


The marriage would itself mean that Burgundy and Formerly Spanish Netherlands would be Crown Germany lands, however, Switzerland would stand in the middle, the Republic of Netherlands would be in trouble as the Germans would be wanting to get the rebelling Netherlands provinces.


Anna of Spain herself would provide three children namely Rudolf(1589), Ferdinand(1592) and Catherine, Queen of Poland(1596)(wife of Wladyslaw IV).
 
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