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More wikiboxe from my Decembrist Victory TL
Same wolrd as these:
Europe in 1840
First Russian Republic
Alexander, prince-consort of the UK
Second French Republic
August V of Poland, Konstantin Fredrik I of Finland, Friedrich Eugen of Livonia
Mexican-American War (1829-1831) and USA Presidental elections of 1832
The Jewish Republic
List of presidents of the Jewish Republic

and now - one of the most important events of TTL XIX century

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Liberation War, also called Italian War of 1843 (though the main battles was fight outside Italy) or the Great War – until the really Great World War started – was the successful attempt of Russian Dictator Mikhail Orlov and French Emperor Napoleon III to broke out the Holy Alliance Europe. It was the greatest conflict in Europe since the times of Napoleonic Wars and stayed these until the World War.
War started August 1843, when the so-called Milan Revolution started in the Austrian lands in Northern Italy. Lombardian rebels were supported by other Italians, which led to Carl Albert of Sardinia declaration of war against Austrian Empire in August 16, followed by other Italian states, include even Habsburgs of Tuscany. It seems, that Italy would crush the I talian armies easy, but Emperor of the French Napoleon III took part in the party, and French army invade Lombardy.
But in was not all. After Milan fall to the French and Sardinians in February 1844, Poland-Lithuania, officially member of the Holy Alliance, and secret ally of France and Russia, invade Austrian Galicia. Prussia goes to a help to Austria and Prussian army invade Poland. Then, Russian State Army (according to a pre-agreed with France and Poland plan of the campaign) goes to Poland to fight Austrians and Prussians. Russo-Polish army, lead by Alexey Orlov (brother of the Russian Dictator Mikhail Orlov) and Józef Chłopicki, could stop Prussians in the epic Battle of Plock (which Russian and Polish Propaganda compared with Tannenberg Battle of XV century). From that time, it was not only war in Italy, but a Global Conflict. UK soon support Prussia and Austria in the war, and even Ottoman Empire declares war to Russia, in attempt to took a revanche for the previous defeats.
It was the last Revolutionary War in Europe and the first war of the new Industrial Era. There was not only millions of soldiers, fight each other over the Europe, but new Rifles, new Cannons, mitrailleuses [invented TTL early than OTL]. Also in was Railways, sea mines, first invented in Prussia and the French fleet new sea super-weapon – the ironclads [10 years early than OTL], that horrors British. All it leads to the enormous number of death and wounded – arts of war did not keep pace with the development of technology, and officers often did not now what to do to keep the lives of their soldiers.

Finally, war ends with the Holy Alliance defeat. Therritorian changes was not so great, mostly because Napoleon III did not support the Orlov’s Idea to dismember the Austria and create independent Ungary and Czehia. Austria lose Lombardo-Venetia to Sardinia (which give Nice and Savoy to France as pay for the support in the war), Bessarabia da the Danube Estuary to Russia, Galicia to Poland (western part – in Lviv, Ruthenian [OTL Western Ukrainian, TTL they would developed into a separate nation] nationalists from the Golovna Ruthenian Rada had time to took power and declare an independent Republic of Ruthenia. Russia officially supported Ruthenia, and after a long negotiations, Poland agree to waive claims to Lviv in exchange to a Prussuan port of Memel in the Baltic). Danbbian principarties, which was under Austrian protection since 1829, was divided – Moldova was annexed by Russia, and Wallachia became a member state In the Danubian Union – new constitutional and federative version of the Habsburgs empire. Prussia lose Duchy of Poznan and Memel to Poland and Neuchâtel in Switzerland to France. Ottoman Empire lose Kars region where the new independent Armenia was proclaimed, Christian Mount Lebanon, which gain independence under the French Protectorate, and was forced to secede all Syria to Ibrahim, son of the Mohammed Ali of Egypt, which can came to a play in time.
An Era was ended in Europe – Era of Revolutions and Reaction. New Era starts.
 
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The Nepalese Revolution broke out in March 19, 1923 initially as a student and dissident march against the Rana Regime of Nepal. Chandra Shumsher Rana, the autocratic Rana ruler of Nepal at the time, ordered the Nepalese Gendarmerie to open fire at the protestors. Nepal had long been dissident against their autocratic Rana rulers, however the influx of Nepalese soldiers who had fought for the Entente in World War I led to a rise in national consciousness and support for democracy.

After a series of similar protests being stamped down upon, several former WW1 veterans formed militia groups advocating for democracy in the nation and began to conduct hit and run raids against the Royal Nepalese Army, which at the time fell under the command of the Ranas. This state of affairs continued over until the end of May when the bloodletting escalated after the Nagarkot Massacre which saw 100 protestors killed. At this time, one Shukraraj Shastri, a young democratic advocate and worker in Nepal, began to lead peaceful marches in Kathmandu and Lalitpur against the Rana Regime. He began to propagate a mock constitution that he and a group of other Nepalese students had written down in 1922 as the basis for the first constitution of Nepal. This movement truly became a force to be reckoned with when King Tribhuvan of Nepal defected over to the democratic movement and took his royal treasury with him to fund the movement. The democratic militias grouped up with one another and with a united front attacking the Rana Regime, the Royal Nepalese Army turned against the Ranas, and conducted a palace coup against Chandra Shumsher, which deposed him from power.

King Tribhuvan re-entered the royal palace in triumph and declared the Rana Regime over. He formed the National Recovery Commission consisting of Nepal's greatest minds who came together and formed the 1st Constitution of Nepal, and promulgated it in October 27, 1923 and slated the first general election of Nepal to take place in January 1924.



 
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The 1924 Nepalese General Elections took place on the backdrop of the Nepalese Revolution of 1923 and took place between January 13 and February 12, 1924. The election took place after the National Recovery Commission divided the country into 258 lower constituencies and 100 upper constituencies. The lower house was named to become the National Assembly of Nepal whilst the upper house was named to become the Senate of Nepal. Taking inspiration from the Westminster System of Great Britain, the commission formed the lower house on the basis of the Westminster System.

The election, the first in Nepalese history, was competed between Nepal Democratic Party (NDP) formed by young and charismatic Shukraraj Shastri in October, 1923 and the Nepali Social Democratic Party (NSDP) led by Mohan Shrestha formed in November, 1923. The NDP was mostly a center right political party that espoused democratic conservatism and favored economic protectionism whilst the NSDP was a center left party that espoused left wing liberalism and favored trade unionism within economics. A highly illiterate country as Nepal was during this time, votes were largely given sporadically and illogically outside of the urban centers. The voting franchise was universal for everyone above the age of 22 within the country as per the new constitution.

Shastri's personal fame came through in the elections and his party won the election and won the majority of the seats in both the National Assembly and the Senate. The NSDP managed to win around a third of the total electorate and formed the opposition government. Independents managed to win a tenth of the total electorate. After the clear victory, King Tribhuvan invited the 30 year old Shastri to form the first democratically elected government of Nepal.























Previously in Series:-
1923 Nepalese Revolution
 

164522

More wikiboxe from my Decembrist Victory TL.
Same wolrd as these:
Europe in 1840
First Russian Republic
Alexander, prince-consort of the UK
Second French Republic
August V of Poland, Konstantin Fredrik I of Finland, Friedrich Eugen of Livonia
Mexican-American War (1829-1831) and USA Presidental elections of 1832
Liberation War
The Jewish Republic
List of presidents of the Jewish Republic

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Mikhail Orlov was a controversial figure. Many contemporaries and historians. Some seen Russian State regime the brutal Military dictatorship, when all power was concentrated in the hands of the Orlov Family, Censorship and police control was not less hard, that in the Imperial times and the new Political Police – Komissia Gosudarstvennogo Blagochinia, (Commission of the State Order), known as KGB [it was OTL name for projected Political Police in the Pestel Documents], fight dissent much more effective, than the Secret Chancery of the Tsar Alexander, and even many heroes of the December Revolution ended in Siberia or at the gallows.

Others name Orlov Father of the New Russia and compared him with Peter the Great. Orlov became a face of the so-called “Preobrazhenye” (“Trasformation”) period of the Russian history, when the young Republic, born from ruins of the Russian Empire and in flame of the Civil War and Intervention, not only survived – the first successful revolutionary regime in XIX century – but developed into a strong Nation and return the status of the Great Power after the Liberation War.

In fact, Orlov regime give Russia one great thing – stability. Orlov’s Dictature effectively ended the permanent political crisis of the First Republic, and concentration of powe in one hands allow to make reform more quickly and more radical. But Orlov Russian State mostly reaped the fruits of what was sown during the First Republic period.
First was a peasant soil question. Orlov do what Provisional government could not dare. Most part of the landowner’s lads were confiscated (lands of that who was convinced to be an “White Counter-Revolutionary” were confiscated without compensation) and given to a peasants – and not to communities, but to families. That starts the new volume in the Agrarian History of Russia – era of “Yedinolichniki”, individual peasants-farmers . That ended the peasent’s unrest.

And that finished off the era of Russuan Manors. Many Manors were destroyed during Civil war, and now, when State did not subsided Nobles more, they did not have money to rebuild their county houses. Since 1830’s, a lot of Nobles go to cities and goes business or civil service.

It was the second element of “Preobrazhenye”. Revolution abolished estates privileges. Now every son of every father can get an education he wanted, can do business he wanted – if he had a money for that.
Anciet regime, when all high posts was occupied by the Nobility, ends. Now a lot of so-called “raznochintsy” (“commoners”) – mostly sons of the country priests, who had basic education, and who now could not necessarily make only a Church career, goes to universities (Russian State era was also era of the 10 new universities was open in Russia), and later became: journalists, scientists, clerks, advocates, officials and.. politicians. Russia would elect the first raznochinets – Ivan Bulgakov, son of the priest from Orel – to President in 1876.


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Third element was Capitalism and Industrialization. Orlov’s Minister of Finances, Nicolay Turgenev, managed to made the maintain the stability of the Russian economic system. Society transformation lead to creation of the new Hight class – Businessmans, growth prom the Anchient Regime merchants. The wealthiest man of the Russian State was textile magnate Vasily Vargin, son of serf form Serpukhov, who became the key supplier of the uniform to the Army during the Civil war. After war, Vargin, personal friend of the President Orlov, became the first Russian Railroad Magnate, take the share in the first Russian railroad Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod, build in 1840.
 
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CBC News said:
Princess Margaret and future PM John Turner may have 'nearly married', letters reveal, CBC News, February 21, 2015:

A dashing lawyer and a princess — the foundations of a royal romance?

A future prime minister John Turner and Britain's Princess Margaret may have "nearly married," according to a recently unearthed cache of letters written by the princess from 1950 to 1966.

The letters, provided to CBC News by Andrew Pierce of the Daily Mail newspaper, were written to Margaret's lifelong friend, American socialite Sharman Douglas.

"John Turner is here & we meet on Thursday," Margaret wrote from Kensington Palace on May 16, 1966.

"It will seem so funny as we haven’t met since I nearly married him & he’s bringing his wife!"
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2021 Socialist Alliance leadership election

A leadership election was triggered by the announcement in December 2020 that Socialist Alliance leader and incumbent Chancellor of the European Federation Bernhard Sanders of the Commonwealth of Poland would not stand for another term and would not lead his party into the 2022 European Parliament elections. It will be held at the Socialist Alliance's annual convention, from late April to early May. This will be the second leadership election for a major party in 2021, after the European Greens selected Sean Casten of the United Kingdom to replace longtime leader Hans Kohn.

Declared candidates
  • Alexandre Boulerice (France), Minister without portfolio, Chair of the Socialist Alliance
  • Thomas Mulcair (United Kingdom), Deputy Leader of the Socialist Alliance, Minister for Justice
  • Ronald Reagan, Jr., 2nd Earl of Tipperary (United Kingdom), Minister for Social Services and Welfare
  • Jószef Sestak (Yugoslavia), Deputy Minister for Defence
  • Martin Heinrich Cordes (Württemberg), Minister for Science
  • Fernando Ferrer (Catalonia), Leader of the European Parliament
 
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Plus Debris - Part Five


By the early 1990s, Doctor Who was in a sorry state. After a period of declining quality and constant threats of cancellation from BBC's higher-ups, the show had come onto something of a creative renaissance in the late 1980s following the regeneration of Colin Baker into Chris Jury in 1987's Strange Matter. A young, fresh new script editor by the name of Andrew Cartmel brought in similarly young, fresh writers who gave the show new life and relevance, saving it from being shunted opposite football finals and Coronation Street. But under Jury and his more popular successor Richard Griffiths, the show continued to slowly decline in the ratings. As the thirtieth anniversary approached, there was not nearly as much anticipation as for the twentieth. A gamble had to be made to ensure the show's survival.

As barrier-breaking as it was at the time, there wasn't quite as much controversy surrounding the casting of Lenny Henry as might have been presumed at the time. In fact, many of the papers and the ever-complaining Doctor Who appreciation societies were more focused on Henry's background as a comedian and comedy actors, the latter declaring him obviously unsuitable for the role. Much of this criticism had a distinctly chauvinistic subtext and ignored both Henry's own successful forays into drama and the comedic antics frequently employed by many of his predecessors in the role. And overall the reaction to his casting was positive: Henry was a popular, big name figure who could draw in viewers for the nineties.

While moderately popular at the time, the Henry era has since been re-evaluated more positively, with the Ninth Doctor scoring highly in fan polls. The Ninth Doctor is more human and romantic than his immediate predecessors, with a stronger moral code and ambition; his relative optimism regularly tested by the evils of the universe. His series started off with a bang, with the thirtieth anniversary special "Alixion" giving the Doctor a globetrotting adventure across history and space, stretching BBC budgets far past their limits. A more cerebral entry was Paul Cornell's Human Nature, which stranded the Doctor minus his memories in run-up to the First World War, subject to the worst of British Imperial chauvinism and jingoism as he and his companions attempt to hide from the galactic highwaymen known as the Aubertides. At the time this episode was derided by the tabloids as the show "turning PC" and trying to teach false history to the nation's youngsters but has since come to be regarded as a classic.

But these successes were not enough. After a ratings boost at the start of Season 30, viewership steadily declined through Seasons 30 and 31, with more casual viewers put off by increasingly complex plotting (attempting to emulate more successful and well-resourced American sci-fi shows) and being constantly moved around in TV schedules. In 1994, with ratings bottoming out at around three million the BBCas quietly let it be known that Season 31 would be the last. The original run of Doctor Who ended with the Doctor successfully defeating villainous Corporation manipulating the news and society of 51st Century Earth. As the Doctor, Ian and Benny departed in the TARDIS, the Doctor promised his companions a relaxing holiday back before their next fight against "the wrongs of the universe."

This would not be the last of Doctor Who.

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I was thinking about a very different Japan TL where Japan turned out differently in the 17th century and never went fascists in the 20th century. Some samurai clan turned toward big business.

Here, is what happened to the Fujiwara/Konoe clan.
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Here, is what happened to the Tokugawa clan.
Bonus Easter egg to Metal Gear solid game series.
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