There is a lot of history yet to come.
I've always wanted to read a timeline without a Russia (or at least a balkanized / reduced version). It offers so many possibilities for Eastern Europe and Asia. But yes I agree with your assessment of the Romanovs. They will be the most "Eastern" of the...
The Last Tsar: 1565 - 1577
Ivan IV has been declared Grand Prince of Moscow in 1533 and nearly fifteen years took the title of Tsar. The early years of the young Ivan’s reign were relatively benign. He oversaw the revision and relative modernisation of the legal code - resulting in the Sudebnik...
Just because they are down now - doesn't mean they will always be so..
Austria will indeed focus more on the HRE without the Turks at the backdoor. Central Europe will be very different ITTL.
Russia next, then Austria. Then prep for the big war.
My understanding is that it was precisely because there were no male descendants of Sigismund II (plus the Russian threat) that forced the Lithuanians (and even then not all of them) to accept the Union. Here Sigismund does still make the effort it is just unsuccessful. It is obviously...
He refused it in real life - but it was only a small minority of Lithuanian nobles who offered it to him. He does have two sons will cover Russia next. The Russians will have a tough time for the foreseeable future.
Unions Old and New: Poland and Lithuania (1540-1575)
Sigismund II succeeded his father as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania in 1548. Sigismund’s father, Sigismund I “The Old”, had reigned for over forty years overseeing the gradual cemention of royal power in both Poland and Lithuania...
Thanks! Huh. I never knew that. You know what let's keep him alive. I might have some fun with that at some point.
Next update will be on Poland/Lithuania hopefully today but if not tomorrow.
Thanks! Yes hopefully going to be on a weekly schedule now. Was going to do Austria next but might do Poland/Lithuania then swing back.
Cheers. Been absolutely loving your Maps btw for yours!
Well France is still majority Catholic but yes I'm going to be moving east now to Austria/Bohemia then Poland & Lithuania then Russia. So lots to come.
The French Civil War (1564-1578)
In 1547 Francis II succeeded his father Francis I as King of France, as his wife Marie Bourbon was crowned Queen. The stability of the House of Valois, joined as it was in marriage to their great domestic rivals the Bourbons, seemed beyond doubt. The country...
I toyed with an idea like this way back in the day for the first draft of Disaster at Leuthen. The problem than as now with your scenario is Corsica lacks anywhere near the military capabilities to take on a major power like Spain or its Sicilian branch. So if Napoleon even tried to expand his...