Maximilian II declares himself Protestant

[FONT=&quot]Since the end of The Schmalkaldic War, 1947, Maximilian II has been planning to declare himself Protestant, and has been training competent leaders & soldiers & has definitive battle plans.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]In 1560, he declares it.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]With Max's help, Huguenots succeed in releasing Francis. Guises had been lightly poisoning him to keep him weak & malleable. Francis lives & declares himself Protestant.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Habsburg Netherlands, all seventeen Provinces of the Low Countries, declare for Max. Hungary joins him.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Ferdinand takes HRE control from Charles & declares himself Protestant.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Spain & Papal forces attack NRR.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Elizabeth attacks Spain in the New World & wins control of them. She gives NRR aid & money. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Seizing on this great opportunity, the Ottomans attack at the Spanish garrison of Oran again. This time, it's successful.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Phillip forms a treaty with Max and allies with NRR to fight Ottomans. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Papal forces make alliance with NRR.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]NRR and its allies attack Ottoman Empire and drive it back to Arabian Peninsula boundaries plus Iran.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]What happens (including literature & art & science) between then & Present Day? [Yes, I have bunches of ideas, but would love to brainstorm with you all! Thanks!]
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Felipe II wouldn't ally himself with a Protestant. Nor would it go over well with Max II's wife, since when she returned to Spain during her widowhood, she expressed how glad she was to be in a country free of heretics.
 
Felipe II wouldn't ally himself with a Protestant.

Felipe II allied himself with Protestants with a regularity that would astonish the casual reader of history. Hell, he was Bess' biggest foreign supporter before he became her archnemesis.

That stated, no, he wouldn't be happy about his cousin/brother-in-law converting.
 
Felipe II allied himself with Protestants with a regularity that would astonish the casual reader of history. Hell, he was Bess' biggest foreign supporter before he became her archnemesis.

That stated, no, he wouldn't be happy about his cousin/brother-in-law converting.

Oh, he'd be FURIOUS! He'd want to kill him!
 
Spain

After Battle of Lepanto (7 October 1571) when a fleet of the Holy League decisively defeated the main fleet of the Ottoman Empire in five hours of fighting on the northern edge of the Gulf of Corinth, off western Greece, Philip II turned the fleet on Max.

Philip & the Church lacked the resources to fight Max and Philip raised taxes. In 1572, the Spaniards revolted against Philip.

The Spanish Citizen Revolt lasted until 1580 when Philip was assassinated and they set up a republic. 1582, on the point of collapse, Max was asked to be Constitutional Monarch. His consent gave the other countries to request the same. He spent his remaining years having his talented staff sent up one fiscally sound currency that all NRR used.

A believer in the merchant capitalism practiced by the Protestant countries of North-Western Europe, especially the Netherlands and England, he developed laws to enhance its growth.

By 1590, the NRR was using one currency. Taking recommendations from Max not to bloat their government like his royal court was, NRR Central was constructed to oversee those few items [war, commerce, & transportation] that needed efficiency.

As a result, many technologies were developed.

In the 400+ years, the languages merged forming what came to be called Neromic.
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Does that work? It still gets NRR to be a major country by Present Day. :)
 
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