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Hello everyone! Here, without further ado, is the rough beginning of my new timeline regarding the HRE. In it, the HRE Consolidates in Europe much more effectively than OTL, take a look at the first Chunk of Timeline below to see how!

Timeline Part One:
September 25, 1473-January 3, 1559

· September 25, 1473: After a string of successes in their wars against France, the Duchy of Burgundy is admitted by Friedrich I into the Holy Roman Empire.
· October 3, 1473: The Spider King Louis XI of France, deterred from inciting action against Burgundy because of his opponent’s new Imperial status and concerned about the English threat to the north, hesitates.
· October 4, 1473: Charles the Bold bears a healthy son, Phillip the Second.
· October 10, 1473: The Lois and his son Charles are poisoned by Burgundian agents. Lois son dies immediately, but he lives on.
· October 17, 1473: The Spider King Louis XI dies heirless in his palace.
· October 23, 1473: An Imperial initiative of Emperor Friedrich results in the invasion of France by Imperial forces in the hopes of placing an Imperial Prince upon the throne.
· August 12, 1477: After four years of conflict, Imperial forces successfully integrate France with the (Formerly Duchy) of Burgundy. Friedrich crowns Charles the Bold King of Burgundy, but Charles’ son Phillip dies in the struggle.
· August 14, 1477: The Valois and Hapsburg dynasties are united by the marriage of Maximillian I Habsburg and Mary the Rich of Valois.
· August 25, 1477-August 25, 1500: Maximillian and his Valois allies work with the Emperor Friedrich I to consolidate power in the Roman Throne. Several ‘brushfire wars’ erupt, and the territory of the empire is slowly dominated by the Hapsburg and Valois families. Several child marriages occur between the Imperial Hapsburg and Valois dynasties and the Ruling Elite of the Republic of Florence, the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily, and the Duchy of Montferrat, consolidating Imperial Power in the region, and creating Neapolitan and Florentine Electorates. Cristobel Colon 'discovers' America with Spanish support, and colonization of the New World begins.
· August 26, 1500: Carlos V Hapsburg of Spain is elected Holy Roman Emperor, and directly Inherits nearly all of the empire due to his Valois/Hapsburg heritage. This includes the Hispano-Portuguese Colonies in the New World.
· September 5, 1500: Emperor Charles V, supported by the throng of familiar electors planted by his predecessors Charles the Bold and Maximillian I, enacts sweeping reforms in the Empire, with his family members and several other Princes being paid in land and wealth from the New World in exchange for their power in Europe.
· September 13, 1500: Several Princes of the Empire, already exhausted from the Empire’s control grab, and devoted to the new Protestant Churches, wage a desperate war against Charles. This, however, moves the final straggling Catholic Factions in the Empire to devote their powers to Charles.
· September 14, 1500-June 21, 1504: Imperial Catholic Forces, funded by the Roman Church and by wealth from the New World, successfully lay low the Rebellion in the legendary Wars of Unification.
· June 23, 1504: Emperor Charles, having successfully united the Empire, works towards the ends of rebuilding his damaged country, ruined by the exploits of spastic mercenary armies on both sides. In order to ‘avoid such tragedies’ in the future, Charles presents several speeches to the masses and Princes on the merit of total personal union, with one Regular Imperial Army in the fashion of the True Roman Army. The motion passes easily, and the control of the Imperial Army is vested in the Holy Roman Emperor.
· June 30, 1504: The ambitious Charles V now declares that the lands of Spain and Portugal are Imperial Lands, and will remain Imperial in the future. The Principalities of New Spain and Brazil are declared.
· July 10, 1506: The Emperor inspects the completed Imperial Army. With a forced agreement from the Pope, Charles tests his new Army in Italy, uniting all of the Peninsula save the Republic of Venice and Papal States.
· July 11, 1506: The Swiss negotiate a writ of secession with Charles in exchange for a large sum of Swiss money. Charles is largely unconcerned, and accepts.
· July 12, 1506-August 2, 1520: During an era of Imperial Peace, the HRE begins to enact Latin as an Imperial language, to be spoken across the Empire in imitation of the Original Rome. The government is also organized to allow the people of the Empire some local power, but the Empire is never truly democratic. A new elective process is created: If neither the heirs of Hapsburg or Valois are chosen, one of them must always be elected to the now distinct position of King of the Romans, a subsidiary executive role.
· July 13, 1506-December 25, 1558: Money from the New World colonies of the Empire go towards the creation of a new capital on the Rhine river of the name ‘Roma Domina’ literally, The Supreme Rome.
  • January 3, 1559: Charles V dies. A New Imperial Election is organzed.
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