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Henry IX (born Henry Hastings; 1535 – December 14th 1610) was King of England and Ireland and Governor-General of the United Provinces from March 24th 1603 to his death on December 14th 1610.
Prior to his ascension to the throne, Henry had held the title of Earl of Huntingdon and pursued a political career during the reign of his predecessor, Elizabeth I, serving as President of the Council of the North. Owing to his descent from the House of Plantagenet, Henry was seen by many as a potential successor to the throne upon the death of Elizabeth, who was unmarried and had no children of her own. Eventually, largely at the persuasion of her favourite (and Henry’s brother-in-law), Robert Dudley, Elizabeth named Henry as her heir and, when she passed away on March 24th 1603, Henry ascended to the throne without issue. Henry also succeeded Elizabeth, in accordance with the Treaty of Nonsuch, as Governor-General of the United Provinces.
Henry ascended to the throne at the late age of sixty-eight and, as a result, only reigned for seven years. However, in that time, Henry oversaw several achievements. As King, Henry, alongside Archbishop Laurence Chaderton, presided over several reforms to the Church of England, which, as a Puritan, Henry held a keen interest [1]. Henry’s reign also saw the continuation of the English Renaissance and the flourishing of literature in England which had begun during the Elizabethan era. William Shakespeare would publish some of his best-known plays during Henry’s reign, including Alfred the Great [2].
Upon his death at Hampton Court on December 14th 1610, Henry would be succeeded as King and Governor-General by his son, who ascended to the throne as George I.
[1] These reforms largely consist of the proposals made by the Puritans to James in the Millenary Petition in our timeline.
[2] With James VI of Scotland never becoming King of England in this timeline, Shakespeare never writes MacBeth. Instead, when sitting down to pen his next history, Shakespeare instead writes a vastly different play, centred around Alfred the Great, depicting his struggle against the Vikings and culminating in his victory at the Battle of Edington.
[2] With James VI of Scotland never becoming King of England in this timeline, Shakespeare never writes MacBeth. Instead, when sitting down to pen his next history, Shakespeare instead writes a vastly different play, centred around Alfred the Great, depicting his struggle against the Vikings and culminating in his victory at the Battle of Edington.
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Either I'm struggling with the math, but how are the NDP and Liberals up a total of 70 seats while the Tories, Bloc, and Greens are down just 26? And the ~14-seat disparity between the amount won at the previous election compared to leading up to the election in the infobox?
My thinking was that, with England becoming more Puritan under Henry IX, ideas such as the Norman Yoke gain steam earlier, thereby facilitating Shakespeare to write a play praising Anglo-Saxon England. But, now that you mention it, praising Harold Godwinson in particular might be seen as questioning the monarchy's legitimacy.
I'll change it to a play about Alfred the Great instead.
Between 2011 and 2015 an additional thirty seats were added to parliament.
No worries.
You could even have it about Becket and Henry II, friends who become estranged due to the Catholic Church vs the Crown.
Door-to-door Morslim proselytizers are so annoying.This is memery for the most part, based on the idea that Joseph Smith's enemies called him a "second Mohammad". The premise is: what if he went "okay then I'll just combine my church with Islam"?
The first one I've done in a while, so starting small while I get back into it
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All the Way with LBJ 2.0: The Election of 1972
After the catastrophic Goldwater and Reagan campaigns, nobody had been surprised to see the Republican party swing to the left. Nobody had expected anything other than a decisive victory by Senator Percy either, particularly with George Wallace declining to enter the race (likely due to his narrow failure to retake the governorship two years previously). Sure he was probably overstretching trying to pander to Udall-cautious African Americans while at the same making inroads with the law and order crowd, but he was a handsome face facing a Mormon Representative whose party had been in power for twelve years. Then his campaign was hit with the double whammy. The Agnew corruption story dominated the news at a point when it was certainly too late and self destructive attempting to drop him from the ticket. That was bad. Then Percy's comments on Israel and the Middle East were leaked right at the same time as Sadat's intention to go to war became public. With his lead evaporating Percy went all in on the Midwest, hoping that his strength in the region and Udall's liberalism would be enough to counter a very bad October. It wasn't. America had elected its very first Mormon president.
After the catastrophic Goldwater and Reagan campaigns, nobody had been surprised to see the Republican party swing to the left. Nobody had expected anything other than a decisive victory by Senator Percy either, particularly with George Wallace declining to enter the race (likely due to his narrow failure to retake the governorship two years previously). Sure he was probably overstretching trying to pander to Udall-cautious African Americans while at the same making inroads with the law and order crowd, but he was a handsome face facing a Mormon Representative whose party had been in power for twelve years. Then his campaign was hit with the double whammy. The Agnew corruption story dominated the news at a point when it was certainly too late and self destructive attempting to drop him from the ticket. That was bad. Then Percy's comments on Israel and the Middle East were leaked right at the same time as Sadat's intention to go to war became public. With his lead evaporating Percy went all in on the Midwest, hoping that his strength in the region and Udall's liberalism would be enough to counter a very bad October. It wasn't. America had elected its very first Mormon president.
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A young Ferdinand VII is party to a conspiracy and rebellion in 1800 against his father, Carlos IV, amid uprisings against the alliance with France. This causes a protracted civil war in Spain. During this time, an urban rebellion in Valladolid, Mexico, following the example of the French Revolution, is stoked by the rhetoric of a young José María Morelos. A war of Mexican independence ensues, along with a wave of rebellions throughout Spain's colonies. The would-be Ferdinand VII is killed during the Peninsular War that would result from Napoleon's invasion of Spain, while at the close of the Napoleonic Wars Carlos IV, still alive, is returned to the throne.
The independent US fractured amid the failure of the Confederal government, and the states warred with one another over territorial disputes, natural resources, trade, and westward expansion, and many had become very poor and economically troubled. The UK bought out many of the former colonies and breakaway states, incorporating them into the British sphere of influence by gaining control over their economies and thus their militaries.
Many of the former colonies returned to UK control over the next decades under various arrangements to restore order, though many also went their own way successfully. Under these arrangements, indigenous peoples were also given protection from future settlement by the enforcement of the Proclamation Line. The UK administration wanted to retain valuable settlers in the coastal cities, and as a result native populations were allowed to flourish west of the Appalachians for decades. The independent Indigenous nations came to be dealt with by the Anglo littoral nations and by the UK as equal partners, and the native nations east of the Mississippi began to rebuild and stabilize.
During the Napoleonic Wars, most of Spain's colonies, with consciousness of the Cortes of Cadiz and the Mexican Revolution, managed to gain independence. The last of Spain's colonies in North America by 1818 were located in Florida and the Caribbean. During the Peninsular War, many Spanish liberals, fearing reprisals by the armies of Prince Ferdinand, fled to the Americas. A young Rafael Riego was one such person who fled to St. Augustine along with several other officers he had connections with, and with their help, the help of Yatsiminoli soldiers, and that of the free black soldiers of Fort Mose, instigated a successful rebellion against the Spanish authorities in San Agustin, sweeping through the roads of Florida and linking towns under the control of his new administration, which was organized as the First Republic.
Carlos IV, who formed a new Cortes in Spain after being restored to power, agreed to a deal with the rebels to form a monarchy under personal union with the Bourbon house, with the right to hold a Cortes in any form the people chose in Florida. The rebel government, after some infighting, agreed.
However, Carlos IV died soon after, and was succeeded by his younger son Carlos V, who under his father's law agreed to succeed him as King of Florida. The new monarch enacted harsh policies in Florida and began enslaving free black subjects in order to prevent future uprisings. Slavery began to grow from this time onwards, and with the invention of Cotton Gin free people all over the state found themselves forced into servitude to reap agricultural profits.
This led to a new rebellion instigated by the clergy and missionaries, that grew into a wider uprising against continental rule, with the help of General Riego, who had gone into hiding to escape probable arrest in the early 1830s. At the conclusion of the conflict to end Bourbon rule, Riego was acclaimed King of Florida by a Floridan Cortes dominated by a monarchist faction.
Rafael I ruled as a dictator for decades, remaining popular and centralizing control of the officers of the new Florida Army in his person. He established central control over the major roadways, missions, ports, and countryside, and used the army to repel slave-raids and filibusters originating from the Carolinas and points north that plagued the new nation from before its inception. He also established a military school, a central bank, took out foreign loans, and towards the end of his reign ordered the construction of a railway by a New England company connecting San Agustin to San Marcos. In 1846, he opened the Cortes to free black people and representatives from the indigenous peoples, while slavery continued to exist as Chicasa and Chocta settlers began to use enslaved Afro-American people to harvest cotton in the Alibama plains.
(The border with the Republic of Louisiana is at the Rio Perlero (OTL Pearl River, Mississippi-Louisiana), while the border with the modern Free Republic of Georgia is at the Flint River, and the northern border with the Cherokee Federation is at 32 degrees 25 minutes north, with the exception of the valley between the Black Warrior and Cahaba rivers, which is set one degree south of the main border.)
Rafael I's personal military power did not extend to his designated heir. With the support of free black members of the Cortes of Florida, the newly succeeded Rafael II put forward a decree to abolish slavery, and was overthrown in a military coup with the help of pro-slavery peninsulares and Indigenous elements of the Cortes. The new Second Republic set about enshrining slavery into a new constitution, while indigenous nations fractured and warred, slaves began to rebel, revolutionaries on both sides began to receive foreign and domestic support and the country descended into civil conflict.
The Republic of Haiti at this time was building up an impressive navy by which the nation had helped to end slavery by force of arms across the Western Hemisphere. The Spanish had been humbled at Tobago a decade before, and the campaigns were attracting significant attention in Europe, as some nations regarded Haiti as a pirate state while others extended arms of recognition and cooperation. As the Floridan anti-slavery uprisings progressed, the Haitian military was authorized to conduct an invasion of Florida to put an end to the institution and help to install a new government.
The Haitian army successfully helped the revolutionaries gain control of the whole of East Florida by 1865, while the west remained under the control of Chocta and Cherokee rebels until 1873. A new constitution abolished chattel slavery, with exceptions for native institutions, and the occupation left a permanent cultural mark on the peninsula. Debt slavery and indentured servitude continued to be a problem into the 20th century, however.
At the end of the 19th century, the population began to rapidly expand as immigrants from around the world flocked to the country to find work. One of the largest of these groups came from the Great Migration, a series of pulses of immigration from the north following conflict among the slave-ocracies, the native nations, and the free nations of the north and west, sending large populations of escaped slaves towards freer soil. With slavery legally curtailed and being culturally rejected by both peninsular and indigenous societies, Florida was a major destination. The new arrivals dealt with xenohobia, however, from the peninsulares, indigenous cultures, and existing populations of free black people, while the Yatsiminoli and other peoples dealt with issues of racism within their cultures. -
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A young Ferdinand VII is party to a conspiracy and rebellion in 1800 against his father, Carlos IV, amid uprisings against the alliance with France. This causes a protracted civil war in Spain. During this time, an urban rebellion in Valladolid, Mexico, following the example of the French Revolution, is stoked by the rhetoric of a young José María Morelos. A war of Mexican independence ensues, along with a wave of rebellions throughout Spain's colonies. The would-be Ferdinand VII is killed during the Peninsular War that would result from Napoleon's invasion of Spain, while at the close of the Napoleonic Wars Carlos IV, still alive, is returned to the throne.
The independent US fractured amid the failure of the Confederal government, and the states warred with one another over territorial disputes, natural resources, trade, and westward expansion, and many had become very poor and economically troubled. The UK bought out many of the former colonies and breakaway states, incorporating them into the British sphere of influence by gaining control over their economies and thus their militaries.
Many of the former colonies returned to UK control over the next decades under various arrangements to restore order, though many also went their own way successfully. Under these arrangements, indigenous peoples were also given protection from future settlement by the enforcement of the Proclamation Line. The UK administration wanted to retain valuable settlers in the coastal cities, and as a result native populations were allowed to flourish west of the Appalachians for decades. The independent Indigenous nations came to be dealt with by the Anglo littoral nations and by the UK as equal partners, and the native nations east of the Mississippi began to rebuild and stabilize.
During the Napoleonic Wars, most of Spain's colonies, with consciousness of the Cortes of Cadiz and the Mexican Revolution, managed to gain independence. The last of Spain's colonies in North America by 1818 were located in Florida and the Caribbean. During the Peninsular War, many Spanish liberals, fearing reprisals by the armies of Prince Ferdinand, fled to the Americas. A young Rafael Riego was one such person who fled to St. Augustine along with several other officers he had connections with, and with their help, the help of Yatsiminoli soldiers, and that of the free black soldiers of Fort Mose, instigated a successful rebellion against the Spanish authorities in San Agustin, sweeping through the roads of Florida and linking towns under the control of his new administration, which was organized as the First Republic.
Carlos IV, who formed a new Cortes in Spain after being restored to power, agreed to a deal with the rebels to form a monarchy under personal union with the Bourbon house, with the right to hold a Cortes in any form the people chose in Florida. The rebel government, after some infighting, agreed.
However, Carlos IV died soon after, and was succeeded by his younger son Carlos V, who under his father's law agreed to succeed him as King of Florida. The new monarch enacted harsh policies in Florida and began enslaving free black subjects in order to prevent future uprisings. Slavery began to grow from this time onwards, and with the invention of Cotton Gin free people all over the state found themselves forced into servitude to reap agricultural profits.
This led to a new rebellion instigated by the clergy and missionaries, that grew into a wider uprising against continental rule, with the help of General Riego, who had gone into hiding to escape probable arrest in the early 1830s. At the conclusion of the conflict to end Bourbon rule, Riego was acclaimed King of Florida by a Floridan Cortes dominated by a monarchist faction.
Rafael I ruled as a dictator for decades, remaining popular and centralizing control of the officers of the new Florida Army in his person. He established central control over the major roadways, missions, ports, and countryside, and used the army to repel slave-raids and filibusters originating from the Carolinas and points north that plagued the new nation from before its inception. He also established a military school, a central bank, took out foreign loans, and towards the end of his reign ordered the construction of a railway by a New England company connecting San Agustin to San Marcos. In 1846, he opened the Cortes to free black people and representatives from the indigenous peoples, while slavery continued to exist as Chicasa and Chocta settlers began to use enslaved Afro-American people to harvest cotton in the Alibama plains.
(The border with the Republic of Louisiana is at the Rio Perlero (OTL Pearl River, Mississippi-Louisiana), while the border with the modern Free Republic of Georgia is at the Flint River, and the northern border with the Cherokee Federation is at 32 degrees 25 minutes north, with the exception of the valley between the Black Warrior and Cahaba rivers, which is set one degree south of the main border.)
Rafael I's personal military power did not extend to his designated heir. With the support of free black members of the Cortes of Florida, the newly succeeded Rafael II put forward a decree to abolish slavery, and was overthrown in a military coup with the help of pro-slavery peninsulares and Indigenous elements of the Cortes. The new Second Republic set about enshrining slavery into a new constitution, while indigenous nations fractured and warred, slaves began to rebel, revolutionaries on both sides began to receive foreign and domestic support and the country descended into civil conflict.
The Republic of Haiti at this time was building up an impressive navy by which the nation had helped to end slavery by force of arms across the Western Hemisphere. The Spanish had been humbled at Tobago a decade before, and the campaigns were attracting significant attention in Europe, as some nations regarded Haiti as a pirate state while others extended arms of recognition and cooperation. As the Floridan anti-slavery uprisings progressed, the Haitian military was authorized to conduct an invasion of Florida to put an end to the institution and help to install a new government.
The Haitian army successfully helped the revolutionaries gain control of the whole of East Florida by 1865, while the west remained under the control of Chocta and Cherokee rebels until 1873. A new constitution abolished chattel slavery, with exceptions for native institutions, and the occupation left a permanent cultural mark on the peninsula. Debt slavery and indentured servitude continued to be a problem into the 20th century, however.
At the end of the 19th century, the population began to rapidly expand as immigrants from around the world flocked to the country to find work. One of the largest of these groups came from the Great Migration, a series of pulses of immigration from the north following conflict among the slave-ocracies, the native nations, and the free nations of the north and west, sending large populations of escaped slaves towards freer soil. With slavery legally curtailed and being culturally rejected by both peninsular and indigenous societies, Florida was a major destination. The new arrivals dealt with xenohobia, however, from the peninsulares, indigenous cultures, and existing populations of free black people, while the Yatsiminoli and other peoples dealt with issues of racism within their cultures. -
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That is an absolutely bonkers lookin North America and I cannot wait to see more
Following the Anglo-Ottoman War of the 1920s, the long-held European dream of reconquering the Holy Land was finally achieved when the British laid claim to former Ottoman vilayets of Syria, Jerusalem and Beirut as part of the Treaty of Athens. As soon as the British colonial authorities set up shop, the question became "what now?" Zionist groups in London, the Empire and across Europe lobbied for Britain to declare Palestine to be a Jewish state, which did not sit well with the local Arab population. The Colonial Office recommended caution, based off the British experience in the Indian sub-continent. The Governor of Palestine was forced to balance the competing interests of the local Arabs and both Christian and Jewish settlers. Settlement cooled in the '40s during the Continental War, only to surge again the '70s, mostly from the American kingdoms. The Sinai-Dead Sea corridor became a hot bed for tourism as resorts and casinos sprung up, driving population and economic growth. It was decided, then, that Palestine would become a self-governing constituent kingdom of the British Empire.
The Kingdom of Palestine would be federal in nature, with four autonomous tetrarchates. At first, there would be one King who would shepherd the system of government into the 21st century before allowing the four tetrarchs to take over. London decided on Philip, Duke of Kent, to be the new King of Palestine and the Grand Tetrarch. Philip was the youngest son of the late St. Henry XII, and had four sons--the perfect candidate for the position. It was hoped that the people of Palestine would sort themselves into essentially two Arab-majority states (Samaria and Transjordan), one Jewish-majority state (Judah) and one Christianity-majority state (Israel). That has been achieved to some degree, but not without sectarian violence in the '80s and '90s--sporadic violence still takes place from time to time, particularly in Jerusalem. Philip died suddenly in 1997, leaving his four teenage sons to take over as tetrarchs. The end result of such a sudden transfer of power to inexperienced rulers has seen the civil governments assert themselves, and there has been a fracturing the kingdom as the constituent tetrarchates largely operate on their own without assistance from the other three.
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