The Sultan announces the first-ever elections to be held in the Ottoman Empire, and the declaration of a National Constitution. He has willingly given up his authority over almost all of the functions of the state to the Newly-Elected Chancellor Cevdet Ankuap, now appointed as Grand Vizier.
O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drop
Once Tsar Aleksandr took the throne, he had planned to reform Russia. Tsar Nikolas I had freed the Serfs due to the Radicals, but that was not enough to bring Russia unto the modern era. Tsar Aleksandr had pushed for the Great Reforms and with great success. Russia will strive for higher heights!
After a month of heated debates between Party Leaders in Houston, the Constitutional Convention has come to a close. Some constitutionally protected rights have been abrogated, others have been altered. The Republic of Texas has been reorganized into the Federal Republic of Texan Columbia.
The multiple nationalities of the Austrian Empire have long conflicted with each other - with most of the political power resting in the hands of the German and Hungarian populations. In an attempt to address the disparity, advocates for federalization have finally proposed a viable solution.
The death of Tsar Nikolas left the Winter Palace speechless. Tsar Aleksandr had been crowned and he set out to reform Russia into a true modern European State. A new Economic model, new trade laws, removing noble based bureaucrats, and tax laws. The Imperial Army is soon to be reformed as well.
The recent publication of the Treaty of Copenhagen, along with the minutes of the farcical Palmero Summit, has resulted in an eruption of fear, disgust and rage in Lisbon. The President of the Ministers, in an address to Parliament, explained his position in a speech published later that day.
Five years ago, the Ottoman Empire began debating the final abolition of Slavery - after 15 years prior having restricted the import of new slaves. The Council has been unable to come to a reasonable conclusion after all this time, and the Sultan will remind them of who they really work for.
South Carolina announces her secession from the Union; Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee follow her soon after.
Lincoln is inaugurated and soon after, Fort Sumter is bombarded into surrender. Cry "Havoc"!
♫ He's gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord ♫
♫ He's gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord ♫
♫ He's gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord ♫
♫ His truth is marching on! ♫
After a bureaucratic mishap led to Portuguese customs agents being handed over control of the 'Penhelm', it was revealed that the ones behind the recent spate of piracy off of Lisbon's coast were none other than the perfidious Danes!
Following rapid economic reforms over the past ten years, the Emīr has begrudgingly embraced the new economy and permitted the formation of the Emīrate's first corporation: the Anjuman-e Damdārān-e Bukhārā.
Tsar Nikolas' final moments and regrets are shown to his son. While the Tsar was often angry and hated change, he was a man of duty and honor. Regardless time moves on and Russia begins to change.
A hunting competition event held in the Cape Colony near the town of Durban to facilitate economic investment and to draw talent from around the globe to the Cape to further grow the colony.
After thirty years of peace, it seems that Portugal may once more be on the brink of war. The King and his pliant government insist that it is through war that Portugal will Regenerate, but certain naysayers declare doom on the horizon, and argue for different paths forward.
A scathing review of Minister Courtenay's response to the Boer movement and the Cape's supposed support for all ethnicities as well as it's hands-tied attitude in serving Queen Victoria from newspaper magnate Wessel Bernardus Ollewagen of the Cape Times.
The Tanzimat Reforms completed - A Sick Man no longer! What had originally begun with the Gülhane Edict of 1836 as an attempt to preserve the imperial state through administrative reform, has become a near-complete reorganization of Ottoman political, legal, and social life.
The King Pinklao Chalkri is visibly angry with the bankruptcy and the open acts of piracy of the sultans of Perak and Selangor and has threatened war over the issue of repayments and piracy.
Pinklao Chakri, the Modernizer King, has promised a significant modernization of Siamese economy. Pinklao Chakri seems to have been motivated by the awful condition of Siamese serfs and by the current massive arrival of new Sikh people into the lands. The new modernizer cabinet seems to endorse them
A combination of demilitarization and diplomatic outreach to what are seen as hostile states are causing the armed forces to grow dissatisfied with the Liberal Party.
Alfred Courtenay had an interview with a reporter from the Cape Town Express, expressing the Boer Cultural movement to be a small minor group of radicals. The majority Boers work and live side-by-side alongside their Afrikaan and English fellow citizens.
Ascension of the tuberculosis having Milan to the Serbian throne; the heir Mihailo provides a light at the end of the tunnel despite the dark times signalled by war with Egypt.
A Great Revolt had broken out in Riga due to a fermentation of many factors. The final straw for these thousands of radicals was Governor-General Pahlen's dirty laundry...
The Emperor's eldest son dies of a fever; his daughter Isabel emerges as heir apparent to the Imperial throne, sparking debate over a woman's claim to the throne.
a short verse published in a small published paper that was quickly cracked down on, for les mejest. unheard by the queen it was so called "offending".
The Supreme Court has ruled:
1. Persons of African descent cannot be and were never intended to be citizens under the U.S. Constitution.
2. Congress cannot ban slavery in the territories.
3. The Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional.
Has the Slavery Question been finally resolved?
The diplomatic relationship between the Khalsa Raj and its vassal Jammu has significantly worsened after Rajah Gulab Singh of Jammu unintentionally offended in public Rajah Kapur Nalwa of Khalsa Raj, his suzerain.
Date: August 21, 1846. A few months shortly after the outbreak of the Sicilian Subjugation Conflict, Kaiser Ferdinand abdicated in favor of Kaiser Franz Joseph. Only a few days later, Foreign Minister Metternich retired as well.
Mexican Catholics and humanitarians discuss how to help those suffering in Europe. President Farias argues the country must open welcome refugees, even those of differing faith.
True Vintismo, and true liberalism is not revolution, and it is certainly not anarchy. Vintist parliamentarian Paulo Vilela pens an opinion piece in his party's paper, the Luz, denouncing radicalism and declaring that it has no place in Portugal.
The Springtime of the Peoples spread to Southern Italy as the Murat Brothers successfully launched a coup against King Ferdinand II and proclaimed a Third Neapolitan Republic.
The Khalsa Raj's Rajah Kapur Nalwa considers unacceptable the creation of a Pashtun entity named Kabul, criticizes Persian leniency towards Pashtuns and repudiates the breach of previous Sikh-Persian deals, warning them that this will only lead to a worsening Sikh's relation with Persia.
Finally -after a thousand years of monarchist oppresion in the Holy Roman Empire and in the German Confederation- a call for revolution, a call for liberation, a call for the masses to break their chains, to break the glass Zelling has been sung with the chorus of thunderous applause.
The President of Texas makes dubious allegations that New Granada is harboring Venezuelan Terrorists. The legislature wants to annex New Granada, but isn't sure Lamar is fit to lead such an effort.
J. Balmes writes about an able defence of Catholicism on the ground that it represents the spirit of obedience or order, as opposed to Protestantism, that embraces the spirit of revolt or anarchy. in this he denounces and explains the happenings in the springtime as a natural outcome.
After the failure of the Bukharan War, Tsar Nikolas goes into a rage. Objects are thrown and plans for a new "retirement home" are made as the Tsar demands to reorganize the Army. However, news reaches the Tsar that radical revolts are spring up across Europe.
After five years out of power, Manuel Passos and the adherents of Vintismo are once again in government, narrowly snatching an electoral victory in '46. They promise a bold program of political reform, economic modernization, liberalization, and a more assertive stance abroad. Viva a Regeneração!
A newspaper reports on the expansion of the rights to vote, yet questions the fact that the aristocracy gets more vote and including only the factory owner and not the worker. They move to increasingly try to increase liberalism in the nation and expand the rights to vote even more.
The city of Merida, Yucatan celebrates the opening of the Universidad de Jeremy Bentham por Ley y Filosofía. The law, philosophy and liberal-arts college was founded in direct partnership with London University, and will specialize in the classics of English and Scottish Enlightenment thought.
A land sale to the United States splits the governing coaliton in two. The resulting ratification debate takes six years, two elections, several Constitutional ammendments, and nearly brings the country to civil war.
In the year of our Lord 1841 the common man saw that God and the nature that which He controls is a force that still exists to punish the hubris of man. A sudden tide of blights struck down the wheat farms of Europe like a tide.
The Tsar recognizes the slow hiring of the Russian Guilds. In an expected move, he bans the guilds in order to increase the hiring process for the rising economy and industry in Russia. Even if the fact that Serfdom is still in enforced and a growing modernization movement is brewing
The Hall of the Golestan Palace fell silent as Kamran Durrani, chained and guarded, was brought before the Sun Throne. The former ruler of Herat had already faced the Sharia courts of Tehran.
In which the traitor, Kamran Durrani, who had escaped justice from the slighted Abbas Mirza, is brought before Shah Mohammad Qajar by the Shah's brother, Bahram Mirza.
Brazil's first imperial decade was met with controversy abroad. But in Brazil, the collapse of the Andean neighbor, the liberal progress of Brazil, and the coronation of Pedro II formalizes Brazil into the the powerhouse of Latin America.
After the execution of Kenesary Khan and his attempted uprising, the Russian Tsardom pushed to project power down south into Turkestan. What the Tsar believed to be a quick incursion into Central Asia was met with logistic issues and intervention from the Ottoman Empire and the British.
Belgium's Foreign Minister, Felix Blomme, has been called a fool and a petulant baby by Metternich in private correspondence. The former has stalled and jeopardized the London Conference on the issue of Belgium's sovereignty.
It always comes down to religion, dose it not? Otto cannot say he is the most pious of individuals indeed for a monarch such things had passed long ago as a necessity. Yet the people still cared, or at least some do amongst them. Greece was no different in this than in Bavaria, yet perhaps in some ways it was even worse. A people long oppressed by the Turks both for their culture and religion, it is no wonder they are so protective of both.
Now with their freedom gained its clear some would do anything to protect their heritage. Otto himself was a catholic and with his prior ministers attempts to close their monasteries it seems it will always be a problem. He could take any steps he likes in their favour, give them representation, power, wealth, revenge yet he would always be treated as suspicious as he was neither Greek nor Orthodox.
Honestly it was a bit depressing all around for Otto, he fully believed that as a monarch it was his duty to guide and rule his people well, but it seems his religion will always be a barrier to this. So, what is he to do? How must he choose between his religion and his duty to his people and kingdom? How could any man make such a choice? Yet he was not just any man. He was Otto von Wittelsbach. He was a king, and kings made the hard decisions, so others did not, this was the price of rulership. He must make a decision and soon, though in the end was there really much of a choice? The people only want the public appearance of an Orthodox king, it does not mean he has to really believe it, nor does it mean he must abandon any of his past relationships. In truth any future heir would have to be orthodox anyway or this reign would never last, he knew that. No more stalling, no more waiting. Time calls for action and Otto will not be found wanting.
In the days that followed Otto was seen publicly at multiple monasteries and temples speaking to their priests. Discourse around it in the Greek press was hopeful if not outright positive though some where just suspicious that it was for appearances. All discussion stopped a few days later when Otto von Wittelsbach publicly was anointed into the orthodox faith. Fully endorsed by the head of the religious party Iraklis Rallis who is said to have pushed most heavily for this outcome, it was inevitable that the church would accept. The church had previously already been declared independent of the Turk occupied Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1833, so it was this new autocephaly of Greece that formally recognised king Otto was a member of the faith. The people rejoiced at the news, and while some doubted it was a true conversion, the vast majority chose not to care for they finally had the orthodox king they had always wanted.
From 1838 to 1843, the Cape Colony of the British Commonwealth engaged in a series of military conflicts with the native tribes and the Boer Rebellion of the Natal Coast region. First with the Anglo-Basuto War, then with the Pacification of the Boer Rebellion and lastly the Anglo-Zulu War.
King Otto von Wittelsbach thinks on the current desire of the Greek people to have a say in government. Ultimately deciding to try giving them some representation in the hopes of both calming them down and winning over support for himself.
President Jackson has decided to follow Washington's tradition of only serving 2 terms. The brokered Democratic convention that followed resulted in the unexpected nomination of Richard M. Johnson, a Kentuckian scandal-ridden slaveholder as party nominee, while the Whigs remain scattered.
War correspondance on Khalsa Raj and Persia's invasion against the Emirate of Kabul. A brief war report on the Khalsa Raj and Persian Empire's war (s) against the Emirate of Kabul; and a diplomatic briefing on the breach of the partition agreement between Persia and Khalsa Raj.
James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution", has passed away at his Montpelier estate, not wanting to prolong his life a few painful days until the 4th of July, to die the same day as his fellow presidents: Adams, Jefferson and Monroe. He was the last of the Founding Fathers.
Sublime Sultan summons Serbian subject; support, stability & security stipulated. Succulent sweets sway sentiment. (player)
The Ottoman Sultan has called upon the Serbian throne to pledge their fealty to Istanbul. The heir apparent of Serbia is sent to Istanbul to represent the Serbian Crown.
Interim Secretary of War Lamar confirms that a letter from La Paz amounted to an ultimatum to end the defensive alliance with Brazil or face down against a Peru-Bolivian-Venezuelan alliance.
In a shocking diplomatic coup, the Passos government has announced Britain's intent to pay off the entirety of Portugal's debt and, furthermore, the King of Greece's impending wedding to Queen Maria II. Is this the start of a return of Portugal's fortunes?
The opening of an exhibit in Riga of fossils found during the Great Polish Uprising attracts British Palaeontologists, who are promptly arrested for political reasons.
Following Armansperg's mistakes as head of the privy council and his increasingly independent and borderline treasonous actions had King Otto writing to his father seeking his recall, which was granted forcing him back to Bavaria in disgrace.
