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OP: Arvenia
Co-OP 1: Kelmet
Co-OP 2: Benuty
Co-OP 3: Revlona
The world changes so quickly nowadays. Nothing can compare to what happened in the past and why that did happen. It was such a long time ago. No records could explain further and people are often subject to history-based manipulation.
The year is now 1914 and it is time to continue the history from where it left off. However, with great power comes great responsibility. No one knows when everything comes crashing down. A war is brewing among us all. It is coming faster than ever. Are you all willing to take big risks right now?
Intro
Welcome to "The Forthcoming War", a RP set in an alternate WW1. The world is very much different from our own as evident by various changes, such as absolute monarchy still in control over the British Isles, the US being non-existent, Japan being still feudal and a political unification between the Austrian Empire and it's Slavic territories into a single multi-ethnic great power, as well as civil rights such as women's rights being existent since the German Revolution. The POD is in the 1500s when the Russians made an expedition into the Ottoman-controlled parts of southeastern Europe, resulting in these parts being freed from Ottoman rule. Your quest is to head a country and make decisions on diplomacy, warfare, economy, law, culture and other aspects of our society. In other words, the RP will use Interwar-era technology, since the technological advancement was a little bit faster here. The RP begins on January 1, 1914.
Significent Events (WIP)
1510-1514: The Carpathian Expedition occurs, which sees Russia liberate Ottoman-controlled parts of southeastern Europe.
1517: Martin Luther starts the Reformation, thus Protestantism is born.
1521: Norway and Sweden breaks away from Danish rule, thus forming the Scandinavian Union and adopting Rosenthalism, which had existed before Protestantism as a heretical sect of Catholicism, yet was later adopted into it as a denomination.
1534: King Henry VIII secedes England from the Catholic Church and creates the Church of England with him as it's head, thus creating Anglicanism.
1540: Following the total Protestantization of many German states, the Catholic Church and it's German loyalists initiates the Counter-Reformation, which immediately leads to the Lutherna Rebellion, which Martin Luther leads alongside his German allies. The Jesuits are founded by the Catholic Church.
1544: Martin Luther is captured and executed by the Catholic forces, making him a Protestant martyr.
1546: The Habsburgs buys Klein-Venedig from the Welsers.
1580: The Netherlands secedes from Spain and the Lutheran Rebellion ends with the Treaty of Trent.
1580-1618: Minor conflicts between Catholics, Protestants, other Christian denominations and non-Christian groups occurs.
1588: The Spanish Armada attacks England, but to no avail.
1600: The Tokugawa Shogunate is created after the Battle of Sekigahara.
1618: The Thirty Years' War breaks out between Catholics and Protestants.
1620: English Puritans arrives in North America.
1637-1638: The Shimabara Rebellion occurs, pitting Christian rebels against both the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Netherlands.
1642: The English Civil War breaks out between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists. The Royalists were supported by Scotland while the Parliamentarians were supported by Scandinavia, Ireland and Wales.
1646: The English Civil War ends with both Royalists victory and the division of Ireland between England and Scandinavia. The English Parliament is abolished and the Parliamentarians form a government-in-exile in New England.
1648: The Thirty Years' War ends with the Treaty of Westphalia. The Holy Roman Empire is greatly weakened and many European countries become great powers.
1652-1654: The First Anglo-Dutch War occurs between England and the Netherlands.
1655-1660: The Little Northern War occurs between the Scandinavian Union (aided by Brandenburg-Prussia, Transylvania, Moldavia, Wallachia and the Cossack Hetmanate) and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (aided by Russia, Austria and the Netherlands).
1665-1667: The Second Anglo-Dutch War occurs between England and the Netherlands.
1670: The Commonwealth of the English Americas (aka the Commonwealth) is formed as a successor to the Parliamentarian government-in-exile, therefore lets go of territorial claim on the British Isles.
1672-1674: The Third Anglo-Dutch War occurs between England and the Netherlands.
1688: King James II is overthrowed by the so-called "House of Canterbury", whose head, William Canterbury, takes over England as King William III.
1688-1697: The Nine Years' War occurs, pitting both France and the Jacobites (supporters of King James II) against England, Scotland, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal, Savoy, the Netherlands and the Holy Roman Empire. The war didn't nothing for the Jacobites to overthrow King William III.
1700-1721: The Great Northern War occurs, pitting the Scandinavian Union, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and various German states against the Tsardom of Russia. The war ends with Russian victory, thus causing both the breakup of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Lithuanian entry into the Scandinavian Union. The Russian Empire is born following the war.
1701-1714: The War of Spanish Succession occurs between the Habsburgs and the Bourbons.
1706: The Kingdom of Great Britain (KGB) is formed with George Canterbury as King George I. He turns the Church of England into the Anglican Church and establishes the Witenagemot as the country's de facto legislature (although the Witenagemot is similar to that of the modern-day Consultative Assembly of Saudi-Arabia). Anglicanism reigns supreme in the KGB and persecution against religious minorities (such as Catholics, Covenanters, Lutherans, Methodists, Jews, pagans and other Christian denominations), political dissidents (such as Levellers, Jacobites and Native American tribes), LGBT people and disabled people runs amok.
1739-1748: The War of the Cut Ear occurs between Spain, with support from New Spain and New Grenada, and the KGB, with support from the Dominion of Carolina, after a British captain gets one of his ears cut off by a Spanish captain.
1740-1748: The War of Austrian Succession occurs, pitting the Habsburg Monarchy, with support from Sardinia, Scandinavia, Hanover, the Commonwealth and the Netherlands, against France, Prussia, Naples, Genoa, Bavaria, Spain, Hesse-Kassel, Poland, Cologne, the Palatinate and the KGB. Both the Holy Roman Empire and the Russian Empire remained neutral during the war. The war ends with Maria Theresa retaining the thrones of Austria, Bohemia and Hungary.
1744-1748: The War of Rupert's Land occurs between the Rupert's Land, with support from the Commonwealth, and New France, with support from France. The French almost cut the Commonwealth in half when besieging New Amsterdam for 200 days.
1750: The Treaty of Detroit is held between the Commonwealth and New France. It results in the creation of the Northwestern Trust Territories, as well as New France being given the Rupert's Land.
1756-1763: The Seven Years' War occurs between the KGB, supported by Carolina, Hanover, Prussia, Portugal, Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Hesse-Kassel, Schaumburg-Lippe and the Iroquois Confederacy, and France, supported by New France, Scandinavia, Austria, Saxony, Russia, Spain, New Spain, the Abenaki Confederacy and the Commonwealth. It result in victory for the KGB and it's allies.
1768-1774: The Septinsular War, also known in the Ottoman Empire as the Great Retaliation War, occurs, pitting the Ottoman Empire against Armenia, Iran, Russia, Greece, Scandinavia, Austria, France, Spain, Bulgaria, Hungary, Venice, Naples, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, the Holy Roman Empire, the Papal States and the KGB. The war results in Ottoman defeat and various territorial changes, including Egyptian independence and Austrian annexation of Phoenicia (Lebanon).
1776: The Bavarian Illuminati, a secret society of freethinkers, is exposed and destroyed by the Catholic Church.
1778: The Delaware War breaks out following border skirmishes between Carolina and the Commonwealth. The British Army, alongside Carolinian militiamen, invades the Commonwealth via the Delaware, raiding towns and slaughtering civilians en masse. In response, the Commonwealth Army and the Iroquois Confederacy carries out guerilla warfare against the invading forces.
1779-1780: Spain, France, Scandinavia and the Netherlands, as well as New Spain, New Granada and New France, rushes in to aid the Commonwealth and the Iroquois Confederacy in the Delaware War. Naval battles are fought in the war, pitting the British Navy against the Commonwealth Navy (Samväldsflottan/Gemenebeste Zeemacht), the Spanish Navy (Armada Española), the French Navy (Marine Royale), the Scandinavian Navy (Örlogsflottan/Marinen/Marine/Laivasto/Stríðsfloti/Karo Laivynas/Flít Cogaidh/Marianne) and the Dutch Navy (Nederlandse Rijksvloot). Meanwhile, the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War breaks out between the KGB and the Netherlands elsewhere.
1781-1783: The Delaware War intensifies as the British Army and the Carolinian militiamen suddenly invades New France. Meanwhile, the invading forces are pulled out of Commonwealth territory while the combined fleets of the Commonwealth and it's allies proceeds to attack British territory in the Caribbean.
1784: The Delaware War ends with the Treaty of Annapolis, restructuring the Mason-Dixon Line. The Commonwealth and it's allies are considered to have won the war (although this is disputed as of 1914). Meanwhile, the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War ends wih British victory.
1789: While the Enlightenment makes it's way across Europe, Asia and the Americas, revolution is brewing within the German states. The Prussian National Assembly is created by the Frederickers. The Königstein Fortress is ultimately stormed by people on July 14, starting the German Revolution. Shortly after, the National Constituent Assembly is formed once the citizens of other German states joined the Frederickers.
1790: The NCA, upon sending demands to various German monarchs, is replaced by the Federal Convention.
1790-1792: Despite the successful efforts of the German Revolution, various German states, as well as Poland, France, Spain, Portugal, Russia, the HRE and the KGB, cracks down on revolutionary politics.
1792: The German Revolutionary Wars breaks out once the Frederickers and the Federal Convention encourages Germans to revolt against their oppressive leaders.
1792-1794: German revolutionaries insurrects violently against both their governments and foreign powers. They successfully overthrow some governments.
1794: Once every German monarchy was overthrown, the German Republic was officially established by the newly-formed Federal Assembly in Berlin. This did not stop various European countries from constantly opposing the German Revolution.
1794-1795: The German Republic relentlessly invades Poland while Scandinavia jumps in to aid other European countries.
1795: Poland offically collapses, splitting it between Germany, Austria and Russia. Just months later, the Committee of Public Safety is formed under Max Ribbenstrop and his political group, the Brutes, starting the infamous "Reign of Terror".
1796: The Holy Roman Empire collapses. Meanwhile, Max Ribbenstrop and his government gets overthrown by the Fervidorians, with support from the German Army, ending the Reign of Terror. The German government is reformed under the Directorate, who is aided by the bicameral Legislative Assembly.
1798: Germany loses Bavaria to Austria.
1799: Napoleon Bonaparte carries out coup d'etat against the French monarchy, but fails and flees to Germany, where he sets up a political career and, upon becoming the country's "First Consul", replaces the Directorate with the Consulate.
1799-1820: Under Napoleon's leadership, the German Republic achieves various victories against it's foreign enemies, gaining territory in Poland and Denmark, as well as taking Alsace-Lorraine from France.
1800: Napoleon replaces the Legislative Assembly with the tricameral German Parliament.
1808-1834: The Latin American Wars of Independence breaks out between Spain and it's American colonies. The colonies ultimately gains their independence and also supports the German Republic.
1820: The German Revolutionary Wars ends with eventual German victory and the ensuing Treaty of Frankfurt.
1821: Napoleon passes away and is given a honorary funeral by the German population. Following his death, the German government reforms into it's current form.
1822: Spain and Portugal merges into the Iberian Union, although this new state is heavily dominated by the Spanish, which disappoints the Portuguese. As a result of this, the Portuguese colony of Brazil secedes to become the Federal Empire of Brazil under Emperor Pedro I.
1828: The train is invented.
1830: The French Revolution breaks out, resulting in the House of Bourbon being ousted by the House of Orléans, who turns France into a constitutional monarchy. In response to this, the KGB invades northern France and turns it into a client state called the Grand Duchy of Normandy.
1835: The Republic of Louisiana is formed after gaining independence from France.
1836: Korea secedes from China upon Western effort in achieving it's independence.
1836-1840: Alta California revolts against the Mexican Empire before eventually seceding as the Republic of California.
1838-1898: The Mormon Rebellions occurs, pitting Mormons against Louisiana, Mexico and California (formerly Alta California).
1839-1861: The Opium Wars occurs between China and the KGB, with the latter being supported by Korea and Iberia.
1840: The KGB establishes the Calcutta Inquisition to strengthen Anglican supremacy within British colonies.
1846: The Oregon Country declares independence as Cascadia.
1846-1848: The Hungarian War of Indepence occurs.
1848: The Apostolic Kingdom of Hungary is proclaimed amid Hungarian independence from Austria.
1850: Austria and it's Slavic neighbors signs the Treaty of Vienna, thus creating the Austroslavian Empire.
1853: The Crimean War breaks out, pitting the Ottoman Empire, who started the conflict by invading Thrace and Crimea, against Austroslavia, Russia, Sardinia, Greece, Armenia, S and the KGB.
1853-1856: While Russia and it's allies are desperate to protect Crimea and Thrace from Ottoman invasion, the Imperial Austroslavian Navy carries a surprise attack against coastal parts of the Ottoman homeland, terrorizing towns and destroying fortresses while naval infantry made landfall on Turkish beaches and occupied various towns with ease.
1856: The Crimean War ends with total Ottoman defeat, resulting in the imminent collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Austroslavian annexation of Cyprus.
1859: The New Roman Empire is formed out of Italy, Switzerland and parts of France.
1860: Airships are invented. Both Malta and Sicily are purchased by the Austroslavian Empire. The telephone is invented.
1863-1864: The Learning War is fought between the Seohak movement and the Donghak movement. The Seohak emerges victorious in the conflict and eventually creates the Korean Empire.
1865: Korea annexes the Ryukyu Islands and the Gatling Gun is invented.
1867: New France changes name to Canada.
1870-1910: The Scramble for Africa occurs with countries such as Iberia, France, Germany, Austroslavia, the NRE and the KGB acquiring various colonies across the continent. Meanwhile, Egypt annexes Sudan.
1872-1876: Austroslavia colonizes the Austroslavian North Africa and .
1873: Austroslavia colonizes the Francis Joseph Land.
1876: New Carthage is colonized by the NRE.
1877: Austroslavia purchases northern Borneo and renames it to Overbeckland.
1877-1901: Thomas Edison starts inventing things like film and lightbulb.
1883-1895: Austroslavia invaded the Merina Kingdom twice and annexed it as the Merina Protectorate.
1885: The Austroslavian Empire invades southern China and colonizes the Austroslavian Indochina.
1884: The Maxim Gun is invented.
1886: SMGs are invented in Austroslavia. More SMGs are manufactured in France, Germany, Korea, Scandinavia, Russia, Iberia, the NRE, the KGB and the Americas. Meanwhile, Karl Benz invents the car.
1896: An European invasion of Ethiopia is ultimately thwarted.
1898: The Austro-Iberian War breaks out, pitting the Iberian Union against the Austroslavian Empire, the Korean Empire, Filipino rebels and Cuban rebels. Austroslavian victory ensues, resulting in the Treaty of Incheon. Cuba and the Philippines achieve independence from the Iberian Union while both Rio de Oro and the Mariana Islands (Guam and Northern Marianas) are respectively ceded to the Austroslavian Empire and the Korean Empire. Meanwhile, the Wright Brothers invents the airplane.
1899-1901: The Boxer Rebellion occurs, pitting China against Korea, Russia, Scandinavia, Iberia, France, Austroslavia, Germany, the Netherlands and the KGB. Territorial changes are made, such as Northeast China being ceded to Korea and Shanghai being ceded to Austroslavia.
1902: Tanks and LMGs are invented.
1904-1905: The Russo-Korean War occurs between Russia and Korea.
1905: A wave of mass unrest, both political and social, occurs throughout Russia.
1908: An assassination attempt is made on Francis Joseph I by Polish nationalists.
1910: The Edo Expo is initiated in Japan.
1910-1912: Revolution occurs in Mexico, resulting in much of the country being governed by Emilio Zapata and his ideology, as well as the House of Iturbide, the Mexican imperial family, being executed by the new government. In the ensuing takeover, the supporters of the previous government flees to the northernmost part of the country, forming a government-in-exile under General Porfirio Díaz.
1912: Titanic, the biggest ship in history, sinks after hitting an iceberg.
Rules
1. No godmodding or metagaming
2. No flaming
3. No toxicity
4. Listen to OP and his Co-OPs
5. Reservations lasts for a week
6. Be a little bit realistic
7. Bad grammar ain't nice
8. Inactive nations will be removed after two weeks while players can revive them within a month
9. No WMDs (they don't exist yet)
10. Have Fun!
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