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| ====== Look to the West : The Timeline ====== | ====== Look to the West : The Timeline ====== |
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| | This is the eighth page of the simplified timeline overview for //**[[timelines:Look to the West]]**//. |
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| ==== Part 8: The Popular Wars (1829-1834) ==== | ==== Part 8: The Popular Wars (1829-1834) ==== |
| An informal peace sets in in the Ottoman Empire, with the Balkan Party (led by Sultan Mehmed V and Grand Vizier Ferid Naili Pasha) holding Turkey-in-Europe (including Cyprus) and Constantinople, and everything else being held by Sultan Murad VI and Grand Vizier Abdul Hadi Pasha, with their capital in Bursa. Initially most European countries regard the Balkan Party regime as the 'real', legitimate Ottoman Empire; it will not be until the disparity in power becomes more apparent that recognition shifts to the latter faction and the Balkan Party's regime becomes known as the "Janissary Sultanate". | An informal peace sets in in the Ottoman Empire, with the Balkan Party (led by Sultan Mehmed V and Grand Vizier Ferid Naili Pasha) holding Turkey-in-Europe (including Cyprus) and Constantinople, and everything else being held by Sultan Murad VI and Grand Vizier Abdul Hadi Pasha, with their capital in Bursa. Initially most European countries regard the Balkan Party regime as the 'real', legitimate Ottoman Empire; it will not be until the disparity in power becomes more apparent that recognition shifts to the latter faction and the Balkan Party's regime becomes known as the "Janissary Sultanate". |
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| A brig reports to the Portuguese and Castilians that a New Spanish fleet is approaching, including troop ships low in the water. Admiral Ferreira is sent to intercept with the entire remaining Portuguese and Castilian fleet, and wins a victory at the Third Battle of Cape Finisterre. However, it then emerges that the fleet was a Meridian fleet under false flag (controversially) with faked troopships artificially weighed down, and it was all a feint as part of the secret provisions of the Treaty of Lima. Almost simultaneously, the real New Spanish fleet sails into the Bay of Biscay and, led by King-Emperor Charles IV in person, the //Nuevo Ejército// descends on Santander. The 'Reconquista' has begun. | A brig reports to the Portuguese and Castilians that a New Spanish fleet is approaching, including troop ships low in the water. Admiral Ferreira is sent to intercept with the entire remaining Portuguese and Castilian fleet, and wins a victory at the Third Battle of Cape Finisterre (future Admiral Francisco Insulza, then a captain, distinguishes himself). However, it then emerges that the fleet was a Meridian fleet under false flag (controversially) with faked troopships artificially weighed down, and it was all a feint as part of the secret provisions of the Treaty of Lima. Almost simultaneously, the real New Spanish fleet sails into the Bay of Biscay and, led by King-Emperor Charles IV in person, the //Nuevo Ejército// descends on Santander. The 'Reconquista' has begun. |
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| In Austria, the disgrace of Perrier helps dampen the francophobic tensions he had raised up among the ordinary people, and Francis II decides it is time for the seclusion of himself and the Empress in the Schönbrunn Palace to end. On the 13th he appears in public for the first time in months to attend the opera, but he and the Empress are attacked by assassins bearing a "MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN" banner and using clockwork grenades possibly developed in Swabia. Though they are not seriously injured, an infected wound (inflicted deliberately by a poisoned bullet) causes Francis to sicken and die several days later. On his deathbed he insists that the Regent to his young son Rudolf be his wife Henrietta Eugenie and not any of the Hapsburg princes, as he has talked over his plans for Germany only with her. With the help of Chancellor Warthausen, Henrieta Eugenie gives the "Caroline Gate Speech" that wins over the formerly hostile people of Vienna, and tries to pin involvement in the attack on Saxony. | In Austria, the disgrace of Perrier helps dampen the francophobic tensions he had raised up among the ordinary people, and Francis II decides it is time for the seclusion of himself and the Empress in the Schönbrunn Palace to end. On the 13th he appears in public for the first time in months to attend the opera, but he and the Empress are attacked by assassins bearing a "MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN" banner and using clockwork grenades possibly developed in Swabia. Though they are not seriously injured, an infected wound (inflicted deliberately by a poisoned bullet) causes Francis to sicken and die several days later. On his deathbed he insists that the Regent to his young son Rudolf be his wife Henrietta Eugenie and not any of the Hapsburg princes, as he has talked over his plans for Germany only with her. With the help of Chancellor Warthausen, Henrieta Eugenie gives the "Caroline Gate Speech" that wins over the formerly hostile people of Vienna, and tries to pin involvement in the attack on Saxony. |
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