The Sport of Kings

Grey Wolf

Grey Wolf

1975

1975

Nicholas Churchll, Elite Guard commander and commander-in-chief for Hispaniola, opens up the island for "Repopulation" with contracts to be bid for at Williamsburgh, implying the end of the "enslavement and annihilation" phase of operations

Emperor Frederick IV creates Nicholas Churchill Duke of Hispaniola and formal governor of the island as a colony within the ViceRoyalty of the Caribbean. He also ratifies the vast land grants that Churchill has made to himself across the island

At the Three Realms Congress of Madrid, plans are put forward for the 'merger' of the Realm of Navarre with conquered Spain under the name of the Realm of Iberia as third Realm of the Empire

Backed by two of the most powerful Navarese noble families, in the persons of First Minister Ignacio Mendoza, the Duke of Menorca and Paolo Rocaberti, Spanish commander-in-chief and brother of the Duke of Benidorm, the suggestion passes the United Cortes at Saragossa and the Realm of Navarre petitions the Imperial Senate at Gloria Regis to accept the proposal

Russian armies enter Poland and Bessarabia as Tsar Alexius II presses his claim to the Polish throne. Thrown onto the defensive, Moldavian forces retreat before the Russian advance in Bessarabia

Three Realms ViceRoy of The Caribbean, Deucalion Mordaunt, Duke of Miami, agrees peace with the Republics of Venezuela and Guyana, who denounce the "Free Caribbean Alliance" and accepts the decisions of the Treaty of Guadalajara

The Empire of the Three Realms begins to rebuild the infrastructure of the reacquired colony of Belize, part of the ViceRoyalty of The Caribbean

Explosion of an Ottoman nuclear bomb in the Arabian Desert by scientists from the Dar ül-Fünun-ü Sâhâne (Imperial House of Sciences) of Istanbul

The Russian Ambassador to Istanbul hastily agrees a demarcation treaty with the Ottoman Empire, seeing the Ottoman assumption of the autonomous Principality of Bessarabia as the 5th Rumanian principality, a blow to the ambitions of Moldavia, and the creation of a 'neutral zone' on the borders of Galicia

By "new tradition" William Adonis (b 1972), heir to the heir to the Three Realms throne is created Count of Gibraltar in the Nobility of Iberia to go with his titles Earl of Chester and Count of Bordeaux, both in the Nobility of England

Creation of a new ViceRoyalty within the Empire of the Three Realms. Named, prosaically, North-West Africa it incorporates Western Sahara, Morocco, Western and Central Algiers plus the Canary Islands, with its capital at Rabat. Sebastian Stanhope, Duke of Portsmouth & Spitsbergen is created the first ViceRoy.

Constantine and Eastern Algiers is annexed to the ViceRoyalty of Tunis & Tripoli

Paolo Rocaberti, Three Realms commander-in-chief in Spain is created Duke of Madrid in the new Nobility of Iberia by Emperor Frederick IV

Ottoman Emperor Mehmet V (Shezade Mehmet Nizameddin) lets it be known he favours the adoption of primogeniture for imperial succession, his successes in Poland and in nuclear science giving him the political muscle to try to push this through

As a first step in the process Mehmet V lets it be known that he would support moves from Egyptian Viceroy Farouk to formally institute the practice there, where in unofficial practice it has already been in place a while


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Grey Wolf

Grey Wolf

1976

1976

Russian forces enter Warsaw, causing the flight of Wisniewski partisans - some flee to Sweden, some to Galicia and Hungary, and others to neutral Brandenburg-Silesia or Prussia. Tsar Alexius II enters the Polish capital as 'king' and sees all the correct form observed. Prince Wisniewski himself seeks refuge in Stockholm

At Madrid, the Three Realms Congress decrees the incorporation of Spain into a unity with the Realm of Navarre as the new Realm of Iberia

Supplementary treaty between Felipe IV's empire and the Three Realms, includes the opening of proper and full diplomatic relations

Three Realms elections to the Imperial Senate occur immediately afterwards. The Party of Progress comes across as old and tird, reflected in the person of the nearly 70-year-old Aimee Dupreys. It loses ground to a new and exciting Radical Party, which has few links to any previous groupings of that name as it favours policy even more 'direct' than does the ruling coalition of the Imperial Party. The Radical Party holds up Nicholas Churchill, Duke and Governor of Hispaniola, as a New Hero of the Empire. Party leader Barthelemy Mandeville takes on the mantle as official opposition to First Minister the Duke of Menorca, as Aimee Dupreys recedes into the background

First Minister Ignacio Mendoza, Duke of Menorca, meets with Emperor Frederick IV and agrees a working agreement for the Imperial Senate. An agreement is also reached on his successor, as Ignacio Mendoza looks to the future and a luxurious retirement to his estates

Death of ViceRoy Farouk of Egypt, succeeded by his son as Fuad II (b 1952), the Ottoman Empire having formally ratified primogeniture as the means of succession to the hereditary position

As Polish refugees flock into Berlin, the local branch of the moribund Pan-Germanic League experiences a resurgence as new members join in droves, anti-Polish xenophobia as much a driver as any real desire to see a unified German state


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Grey Wolf
 

Timmy811

Grey Wolf said:
The Sport of Kings
I've used this in my 'Mad Timeline' which will one day hopefully see the light of day.

But, what if Henry VI dies aged 2 or 3 ? It was hardly uncommon for infants to die at that age in that period.

It would make his uncle John, Duke of Bedford King John II.

IMHO John and his brother Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester are going to end up at blows, and I wouldn't be surprised if John doesn't end up having to have him killed, although he is his heir presumptive.

If John does this, there is going to be a succession crisis between Somerset and Richard, Duke of York. It may depend on who John gives his backing to, but if Richard is effectively Regent in France, then York is going to have a stronger case because with his military skills he is probably busy saving Normandy and smashing the French

So, let's say John II dies on time in 1435, Richard and Somerset fight out the succession, and Richard wins, becoming King Richard III in his mid twenties, and f

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I thought this was going to be about Horse Racing.
 

The Gunslinger

Finally!

I just discovered this timeline this week, and have been reading like mad to try and finish it so I could comment. I would like to heartily applause you on this colossal undertaking Grey Wolf. This is an exceleent timeline and I'm looking forward to reading more.
 
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The Gunslinger said:
I just discovered this timeline this week, and have been reading like mad to try and finish it so I could comment. I would like to heartily applause you on this colossal undertaking Grey Wolf. This is an exceleent timeline and I'm looking forward to reading more.
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Thank you very much :)

I'm looking forward to writing more - its kind of sorted to 1981, then it went a little bit weird and I need to pull it together ! I do have a map of North America in 1977 to try to scan in tonight, presuming I survive that long. I seem to be having a very stressful week...

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Grey Wolf
 
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Grey Wolf

Timmy811 said:
I thought this was going to be about Horse Racing.
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I thought that war made a better analogy for the sport of kings, but I did wonder how many people would make that mistake ! Then again could I have filled this many pages with a horse-racing-based timeline ?

I'm embarassed, I've never actually mentioned horse-racing among the sports sections in the yearly rundowns...

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Grey Wolf
 
Grey Wolf

Grey Wolf

1977

1977

Opening of the Burgundian Spaceport at Pernambuco, first unified centre for more than experimental space launches. Emperor Louis III visits the facility in person to see the launch of a rocket carrying the first human to go into space. The name of Lucien Daluege goes down in history as he circles the Earth

Treaty of Warsaw as Russia-Poland, the Ottoman Empire and the other neighbours of Poland face up to the reality that they can either recognise Russia's pre-eminence or go to war. Sweden, Brandenburg-Silesia, Prussia and the Hungarian-led Central European Alliance all reluctantly sign the treaty, telling themselves that protocols denying a foermal merger, or reserving powers to the Sejm at Warsaw, mean that Russia has NOT effectively annexed the Kingdom of Poland. Looking to the past, many hope that the union will fall apart on Alexius II's death, or that Poland will easily conserve its identity and can never be subsumed by the Russia giant

Retirement of Ignacio Mendoza, Duke of Menorca as First Minister of the Three Realms. By arrangement with Emperor Frederick IV he is succeeded by Paolo Rocaberti, Duke of Madrid and former commander-in-chief of the Three Realms forces in Spain. In the Imperial Senate, disgruntled voices led by Aimme Dupreys, leader of the Party of Progress, condemn the handover from one traditional Navarese noble family to another as making a mockery of democracy

Full treaty between the Empire of the Three Realms and Felipe IV's empire in the Americas. Signed at Williamsburgh it see the involvement of Three Realms Ambassador-Plenipotentiary Rudolph Beaufort (created afterwards Count of Guantanamo in the Nobility of the Americas), Deucalion Mordaunt, Duke of Miami and ViceRoy of The Caribbean, and for the signing Crown Prince Alexander Hector of the Three Realms coming in on the brand new Imperial Airship Dominator with an escort of Ajax Elixir fighters.

By the Treaty of Williamsburgh :-

-1- Felipe IV is recognised as Emperor of a realm now termed New Spain, stretching from Mexico City to Rio de Janeiro
-2- The Three Realms is recognised as annexing Cuba and Hispaniola in the Caribbean
-3- The Three Realms is recognised as annexing ex-Spanish North-West Africa
-4- New Spain and the Three Realms agree to disagree on the question of Spain/Iberia and the Atlantic islands of the Canaries, Madeira and the Azores, all of which have been absorbed by the Three Realms but not recognised by Felipe IV
-5- The Three Realms recognises New Spain as the successor state to the Spanish Empire and as such sovereign over the colonies of Angola-Katanga, Spanish Terra Australis, the Spanish Coral Sea colonies, and Spanish India (Bengal)
-6- Spanish West African holdings are ceded to the Three Realms in return for a territorial guarantee of the above New Spain colonies

Upon the successful conclusion of the treaty, Deucalion Mordaunt, Duke of Miami retires as ViceRooy of the Caribbean and is replaced by Rudolph Beaufort, Count of Guantanamo
 
Grey Wolf

Grey Wolf

Map of North America 1977

A map of North America after the Treaty of Williamsburgh, 1977

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Grey Wolf

Grey Wolf

1978

1978

Death of Gerard Delgado, 3rd Duke of Gozo, in exile in Burgundy since 1951 and the murder of the then Chief of the Three Realms Secret Police by his brother.
Laurent Delgado, 4th Duke, born in exile in 1955, makes his peace with Emperor Frederick IV and returns to his family's holdings in the Empire

Three Realms Imperial Senate Opposition Leader, Barthelemy Mandeville, leader of the Radical Party, demands to know when the Empire will explode a nuclear bomb like the Ottoman Empire has done

First Minister Paolo Rocaberti, Duke of Madrid, replies, without saying so directly, that the Three Realms is pursuing Burgundy's achievements in putting a man into space as a priority

King Mohammed Abdul Moneim (b 1899) of Cyrenaica sees his kingdom begin to export oil, via both Three Realms and through Genoan and Austrian shipping, allowing him to develop the major cities of his kingdom to a modern standard

The Eastern-and-Central European motor racing circuit collapses in bamkruptcy as the Polish Grand Prix races fail to happen under Russian auspices. In a rescue package, the federation sells out to the Western-and-Southern circuit, bringing about a reunification of European motor racing for the first time since the 1920s. The competition in the first year is confused and patchy but great efforts are made to make the 1979 season one to remember...

The Spanish Viceroys of Angola-Katanga and Terra Australis acknowledge the sovereignty of Felipe IV and his Empire of New Spain. In Bengal chaos reigns as civil war breaks out between those who wish to accede to Felipe IV's empire and the partisans of the late Luis I, revolutionaries who had ruled in Bengal for the past decade

Incorporation of the "Association Football" teams of the ViceRoyalty of North-West Africa into the Home League of the Three Realms.
Before the Age of The Aeroplane, each Realm had its own league, then in the mid 1950s they were merged to create one European Home League for the Three Realms
Teams from the ViceRoyalty of Tunis & Tripoli were admitted in 1963
Now the League has extended to the newest ViceRoyalty, incorporating veterans' teams from Rabat and Marrakesh and newly-formed settler teams from the 3 new cities of the Western Sahara

Assassination of Diego Sanchez, ex-President and Dictator of revolutionary Mexico, in exile in the Republic of Floridia where he'd fled after the fall of Mexico City. Nobody claims responsibility though an investigation by Floridian authorities indicates that a clandestine unit of the Three Realms Imperial Guard is responsible. Three Realms Ambassador Carlos Berlioz is summoned by the president, but makes no comment and Floridia has no choice but to leacve the matter there


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Grey Wolf

1979

1979

Death of ex-Emperor Claudius I of Burgundy (b 1896, abdicated 1962 aged 66, died aged 85 after spending 19 years in retirement on Aruba writing critically-acclaimed novels)

Opening of the Three Realms Spaceport in Belize, under guard of the Elite Guard 'Defence Unit' of Manus Carter (aged 33), fresh from its successes in Madrid
The Spaceport announces its opening by blasting into space the giant Electra rocket with the Phoebus I capsule captained by Charles Ashley, 2nd Duke of Trichinopoly and Leon Pissaro, an aide. They circle the Earth and then return, a successful mission

Grand Opening of the 1979 United European motor-racing circuit with the first race at Aachen. Won by Rocaberti-Real, the competition moves on to Buda, then Gloria Regis, then Stockholm before completing the other 16 races of the year, ending with the 20th race at Munich, won by Adler of Austria. Overall, the Hungarian Karsa (Falcon) team comes out on top and are crowned champions amongst scenes of joyous celebration

Three New Spain cruisers from the Caribbean pass through the Nicaragua Canal, escorting a convoy of troopships carrying elite forces from the Captain-Generalcy of Guatemal. Arriving in the Bay of Bengal they precipitate a general rising against the remnants of the revolutionary government in Spanish India and are able to go ashore and take control in the name of Emperor Felipe IV

Death of King Mohammed Abdul Moneim of Cyrenaica at the age of 80. He is succeeded by his eldest son, primogeniture having replaced Islamic Succession law by royal edict. His son takes the regnal name of Husayn II

Full repoening of the 'Association Football' Caribbean League, long reduced to teams from the Grand Colony of Israel due to wars, and slowly rebuilding in the last few years to include teams from the newly-acquired colonies of Cuba and Hispaniola, as well as one whose home ground is the new Belize Spaceport

Death of Pope Robert II and election of a Roman cardinal as Pope Stephen XII.

In an effort to restore some sheen to the glory of the Papacy, Pope Stephen XII undertakes a Mediterranean tour, purchasing a new Papal yacht from Genoa, Espiritu Sanctu and visiting Three Realms Barcelona and Marseilles, Genoa, Cagliari, Messina, Epirus, Montenegro, Austrian Venice, and finally Rimini in the Republic of Italy where he meets with the recently-elected Italian President Fabrizio Spinelli and they agree a working Concordat


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Grey Wolf

Grey Wolf

1980

1980

Phoebus II blasts off from the Belize Spaceport, carrying Sir Alexander Monroe and Luis Siffuentes, a Highland Scot of settler descent and son of Admiral Carlos Siffuentes. They complete several orbits of the Earth and exchange visual greetings with Burgundian couterparts, blasted off from Perbambuco in the fourth such mission from Burgundy

Retirement of Leon Lockroy, Monsieur X, Chief of the Three Realms Secret Police. He is replaced by Monsieur Z, Felix de Lanessan, a career headquarters man, having spent his apprenticeship at Gloria Regis in the HeadQuarters building

Foundation of the Three Realms Space Institute under Charles Ashley, 2nd Duke of Trichinopoly, with Sir Alexander Monroe as Operations Director. With its HeadQuarters in Belize, there is an oversight committee of the Imperial Senate based at Gloria Regis, and satellite branches in Edinburgh, Paris, Saragossa, Valetta, Madras and York (OTL Toronto) in The Imperium

The self-proclaimed Khan of the self-proclaimed Empire of Hyderabad meets with the new pro-Felipe IV ViceRoy of Spanish India. They agree that ex-Spanish territories in Central India, which have long been conquered by Hyderabad, can be purchased for a nominal sum. The Khan of Hyderabad invites delegates from all of India's native states and colonial ViceRoyalties to a Congress of Hyderabad in the coming year

The United European Motor Racing Circuit is won by Rocaberti-Real of the Three Realms

Pope Stephen XII undertakes a central European tour in a further effort to resurrect the temporal influence of the Papacy. Travelling on the Papal train Gloria Patri he visits Ferrara, capital of the Italian Republic, Milan, Venice, Buda, Krakow (capital of Galicia), Berlin, Prague (capital of Bohemia), Dresden, Munich, Stuttgart (capital of Wurttemberg) and Kassel, before climaxing in a grand ceremony at Aachen where he is feted by Burgundy's Emperor Louis III

There, he oversees the handover of the state-of-the-art airship Agnus Dei, puchased by the Papacy from Burgundy's top aerospace company. As the Papal train makes its way back to Rome, Pope Stephen XII boards the airship

After a brief stop at Gloria Regis, where he is greeted courteously by the ageing Three Realms Emperor Frederick IV and Crown Prince Alexander Hector, the Agnus Dei crosses the Atlantic, visiting Rio de Janeiro (capital of the Empire of New Spain) and the republics of Chile, Patagonia-Araucania and Buenos Aires before crossing back and returning to Rome in time for Advent


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Grey Wolf

Grey Wolf

1981 Part 1 (short on time)

1981

Congress of Hyderabad, hosted by the Khan of Hyderabad, sees full delegations from the Sikh Empire of the Punjab, the Mughal Empire, and Mysore, ViceRoys with plenipotentiary powers from Russian India, Three Realms India and Spanish India and observers from Tibet (suzerain of Nepal, though itself a vassal of the Chinese Empire), Burmah, Denmark and Burgundy

In the Mughal Empire, a distant cousin of the Khan whose reign collapsed in disaster over Lahore eventually emerged. A military genius, he gathered to himself astute political advisors, and by the mid 1970s had emerged as paramount ruler of Delhi. In the ensuing 5 years he has strengthened his hold on the Empire and made treaties with the Sikh Empire, Hyderabad and the Russians

The Congress of Hyderabad serves to end the decades of warfare across the Indian sub-continent. The 'disputed' central Indian provinces are 'sold' by New Spain to Hyderabad for a nominal price, the realisation of which is found in the delivery of two modern light cruisers to Bengal; built in Three Realms yards for Hyderabad, the vessels are state-of-the-art and a prestige acquisition for the Spanish colony

All the signatories to the Treaty of Hyderabad recognise and guarantee one another's territory, thus seeing aceptance of Sikh gains in the North and Nepalese claims in the North-East, as well as Hyderabad's status as an empire on an equal footing with the Mughals of Delhi

The Phoebus III mission blasts off from Belize Spaceport captained by Luis Siffuentes and manned by two Navarese astronauts. Phoebus IV follows before the close of the yea, captained by Rudolph Beaufort's second son, Richard, and carrying an Indian from Madras and a Spaniard from Madrid, in a mission that critics within the Imperial Senate dub "Operation Gesture", refering to the appearance of political correctness in crew selection

PART TWO TO COME !

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Jammy

Looking very good;
Could you clarify the two Spains a bit more please, i don't fully understand also is the land of Spain in Europe under the control of the Three Relms or been restored to whoever the Three Relms wanted in power?

Loving the way the pope travels around :D could this lead to younger popes being elected so they can travel easier or medicine being pushed to the front of queue for research so the popes can be in more comfort on the airships.

All in all looking very good
 
Grey Wolf

Grey Wolf

Jammy said:
Looking very good;
Could you clarify the two Spains a bit more please, i don't fully understand also is the land of Spain in Europe under the control of the Three Relms or been restored to whoever the Three Relms wanted in power?

Loving the way the pope travels around :D could this lead to younger popes being elected so they can travel easier or medicine being pushed to the front of queue for research so the popes can be in more comfort on the airships.

All in all looking very good
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European Spain has been annexed by the Three Realms, merged with the Realm of Navarre and both now constitute the Realm of Iberia (which together with the Realms of England and of France make up the Three)

New Spain is South and Central America in a sort of diagonal swathe from Rio de Janeiro up to Mexico City. It is seen as the legitimate continuation of empire, and as such exercises authority over Angola-Katanga, Spanish Terra Australis (basically Western Australia) and Spanish India (Bengal)

The rest of the old Spanish empire got carved up - the Three Realms took NW Africa and Spanish West Africa, Russia took Mozambique and Bombay, Hyderabad took Central India, Tejas took NE Mexico and Russia's ViceRoyalty of Kalifornia took NW Mexico

Hope that makes some sense of it !

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Grey Wolf
 
Grey Wolf

Grey Wolf

wannis said:
That would be Gloria Patris.
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Really ? I got the form from an article on Catholicism I read, supposed to mean something religious... It wasn't actually my first choice but without raiding the church to remember the bit of the liturgy I wanted as the first choice I had to make do with what I could find

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Grey Wolf
 

Jammy

Grey Wolf said:
European Spain has been annexed by the Three Realms, merged with the Realm of Navarre and both now constitute the Realm of Iberia (which together with the Realms of England and of France make up the Three)

New Spain is South and Central America in a sort of diagonal swathe from Rio de Janeiro up to Mexico City. It is seen as the legitimate continuation of empire, and as such exercises authority over Angola-Katanga, Spanish Terra Australis (basically Western Australia) and Spanish India (Bengal)

The rest of the old Spanish empire got carved up - the Three Realms took NW Africa and Spanish West Africa, Russia took Mozambique and Bombay, Hyderabad took Central India, Tejas took NE Mexico and Russia's ViceRoyalty of Kalifornia took NW Mexico

Hope that makes some sense of it !

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
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It does thanks :)
 
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