THE SECOND PARTITION OF FRANCE AND THE PAX HISPANICA
1751 Don Luis de la Vega patents the Roller Spinning Machine in Burgos. Soon the Spanish textile industry will produce cheap textiles of higher quality than those of Flanders.
A combined Franco-Dutch fleet attacks by surprise Spanish possessions in the Americas, some Caribbean islands, Pernambuco and parts of the coast of Brazil are seized. Cartagena de Indias is sieged and almost destroyed although it is not captured.
1752 Spanish forces invade France while a huge fleet is sent to the Americas where they chase the Franco-Dutch fleet although they are not able to destroy it. The Saboyans, the Irish and the Holy Roman Empire Side with Spain and invade France. The German Emperor and Scotland express their concern about the situation in France but apart from some secret help they do not participate in the war.
1754 The Tibetan king Babago Ilho signs a peace treaty with the Chinese Emperor and invades the Moghul Empire.
Pernambuco is retaken by Spanish Forces.
In Europe France is defeated and the United Provinces have to suffer a blockade.
1755 Earthquake in Lisbon, the town is utterly destroyed. Tidal waves cause havoc in the Spanish coast. The fleet blockading the United Provinces has to return.
The blockade has to be lifted and a Dutch fleet manages to reach France. There it defeats an allied fleet of Ireland and the HRE near Nantes.
The Chinese Emperor buys a Silk mill that will boost the chinese industry.
Fernando VII orders the creation of bigger shipyards in Santiago de Cuba, Salvador de Bahia, Santiago de Chile, Manila and New Toledo (OTL Wellington).
An imperial army takes some Maastrich and other dutch towns. The United Provinces fearing a collapse a full HRE invassion offers some territoris in the Americas as token for a peace treaty. Emperor Charles VII accepts, enraging Fernando of Spain.
1756 A dutch fleet is defeated in the Bahamas by admiral Don Alonso Martínez de Castro and another one is destroyed in the English Channel.
China invades and annexes the north of Vietnam, lands claimed since the Tang emperors.
Rebelion in Hungary. A tax problem between some hungarian noblemen and the ottoman authorities spark a bloody rebellion.
1757 France is occupied by the allies and the HRE, the coast of the United Provinces is in ruins after a terrible attack by the Spanish fleet the absolute ruler of the seas.
The Peace of Paris will impose harsh economic conditions over the United Provinces and will mean the second partition of France that disappears leaving only an independent Duchy of Aquitanie grouping most of the Huguenot population.
The Ottomans annex dutch possesions and capture the United Provinces fleet in the Indian Ocean. Feeling strengthened they invade Moghul territory. But against all odds and fighting in two fronts the Indians manage to cede small portions of their territory to Ottomans and Tibetans.
Fernando VII starts the reconstruction of Lisbon. The Spanish court is moved there temporally in order to boost the reconstruction. The Cortes and most of the Administration remains in Seville.
1758 The Hungarian rebels are defeated although they get help from the German Emperor and Bohemia that breaks its ties with the ottomans.
1760 Japan took advantage of an unusual peace period with China and of the Spanish war to expand in the coast of Alaska.
The Tsar Kyril II decides to take advantage of the wars in Moghul territory and starts to move south with the hope of acquiring some warm water coast.
1762 New Jesuitic reductions in Amanonia, Australia, North America and Africa.
The Moghul Sultan dies in the battle of Srinagar, but his General Jhang Khan destroys an ottoman army in Bam before news of the death of his Sultan reach him.
Civil war erupts in the Moghul Empire between different sons of the Sultan.
1765 Fernando VII abdicates in his son that is crowned as Miguel III and starts a voayage to the Americas in order to know his lands and see his shipyards. He will travel in the fleet of the Carrera de Indias.
Miguel moves the court back to Seville, by then Lisbon has been rebuilt and it hosts now the most beautiful palaces built by the Spanish Grandes and by most of the richest bankers and traders.
1766 The former king is received in Santiago de Cuba and in Mexico by crowds of subjects that never thought they would see a king. Some historians would consider later that this voyage boosted the cohesion of the Spanish Empire.
Some bankers remain in Lisbon that competes now with Seville for the possition of the first Atlantic port.
1767 Fernando "the voyager" will visit Panama, Cuzco, Potosí and Acapulco where he will wait for the Manila fleet.
The Russians enter the Moghul civil war. Russian troops fight the Tibetans and the Ottomans that fight each other trying to seize the biggest chunk in the former mighty empire.
Hiroshi Yamawata is appointed as Shogun in Japan, he is the first christian (calvinist) to reach the possition. However the christians (calvinists) are an small and silent minority growing slowly.
1768 The former spanish king visits the Vicekingdoms of the Miquelinas and the Austral lands. In between he visits China where he meets his cousin the Chinese Emperor.
The Hawaii islands are discovered and named as Fernandine Islands and incorporated to the Spanish crown.
1770 The first steamships are tested in Ireland. But the idea is soon copied in Spain and Scotland.
Fernando de Trastamara, the voyager king reaches Buenos Aires where he dies and is buried in the Cathedral.
Miguel III continues the naval policy of his father and soon the spanish fleet controls most of the trade in Western Europe, the New World and the Hispanic (OTL Pacific) Ocean.
1772 The new Russian Tsar provides help to exiled Hungarian rebels that invade ottoman Hungary.
1775 Kyril III of Russian rides his horse into the Indian Ocean near Karachi and proposes the Tibetans and the Ottomans the partition of the Moghul empire.
The ottomans facing rebellions in the Caucasus and Hungary accept, the Tibetans also agree as they have problems on their own part of the booty.
1778 Kyril III attacks Sweden in order to reach the Baltic but he is defeated. He will concentrate in the consolidation of his new possessions. He will move his court to Karachi, renamed as Kyrilgrad where he plans to build a huge port.
1779 The Ottoman Sultan acknowledges the Hungarian independence.
The Spanish heir Enrique marries an English princess, Elizabeth. His father Miguel III declares the beginning of the Pax Hispanica.
1780 Rebellion in Tripoli against the ottomans that is put down althogh some Spanish troops support it.
The new Spanish Navy shows again an active presence in the Indian Ocean harassing ottoman trading trafic there.
The Free Republic of Mali continues its expansion in Central Africa. The Staatsholder Guus Vrijkeens leads an army that invades Morocco. The Sultan asks for spanish help. Vrijkeens is defeated at a huge cost and finally some territories in the south of Morocco rebel and join the Free Republic.
1783 Earthquake in Calabria. Following the example of his father, the king Miguel of Spain moves his court to Naples in order to lead the reconstruction.
Rebellions in Poland and Lithuania that are put down by Germany, Sweden and Russia.
1785 First naval battle between an small russian corsair fleet and spanish line ships. Kyrilgrad is bombed by Spanish warships. This causes the russians to ally with the ottomans.That attack spanish possesions in India. The Spanish fleet proves to be the mightiest in all the Oceans and saves them.
The Irish expand west in North America. The HRE sends colonists and african slaves to their North American territories.
1787 First settlements in Africa of Germany and the HRE.
1789 Dinastic crisis in Tuscany that causes a crisis between Savoy and the HRE. The German Emperor sides with the Saboyans, while the Holy Roman allied to the Bohemians support the Hapsburg candidate.
The Papacy and the Trastamara nations are not happy with neither of the candidates.
The Germans are defeated when entering Bavaria and then the Hapsburg go on the offensive invading Germany and occuping vast areas. Magdeburg is taken and the emperor Hans Christian flees to the Hamburg.
The Papacy and Spain threat the HRE with excommunion and war if they do not retreat.
1790 Peace talks are held in Rome. The HRE will give back most of the occupied lands to Germany that will lose the rank of Empire.
The Prince of Tuscany will be finally the Papal candidate the Duke of St. Pietro de Galatina: Gian Carlo Castriota-Scanderbeg.
1792 The Russians invade the Kingdom of Tibet. The King Migorayan Ilho ask the Chinese emperor for help and the Russian troops are pushed back.
Kyril III will have to lick again the wounds, but this time he plans to create an alliance with the Japanese and the Ottomans.
1794 Scotland expands in south Africa. Ireland will follow in order to consolidate possitions in Africa.
The situation in North America seems to announce a conflict between the european powers competing for expansion to the west.
Kyril III will not have the opportunity of avenging of the Spanish and the Chinese as he dies. His son Svietislav is crowned in Moscow but he returns to Kyrilgrad where he plans to consolidate his fathers conquests and populate those lands with russian peasants.
1795 High pressure steam engines developed in La Plata Vicekingdom.
Miguel III returns to Seville where he proclaims a reorganization of the Spanish Empire, many towns in the Americas, Asia and Oceania get representation in the Cortes.
1798 The HR Emperor Charles VII trying to cause problems to the Saboyans and the Spanish Monarchy supports an extremist rebellion in Aquitanie. The Duke is beheaded and the revolutionaries proclaim the Aquitanian Republic of God. The Emperor will regret having supported them but he will not send any help to the Spanish, Irish and Saboyan forces that will invade Aquitanie to reinstall the son of the Duke in the throne.
1799 The situation in Aquitanie is still unstable but the allies retreat leaving some small garrisons in the main towns.
One sixth of the Chinese population is already catholic. The Cathedral of Beijing is visited by the Imperial family some of whose members have converted.
