Europe 1430 (Map Game)

This is a new map game that takes place in Europe in 1430. This map game will regulated and controlled.

Rules

 * Just like the original Map Game, a turn is a year.
 * Another person must go again before you can take a turn.
 * Take a turn by adding new plausible events to the timeline and then editing the map.
 * Use paint to edit you map and save it as a .png and add it to your new post
 * You need to add a map to your post, if you are unable to then please request that someone make a map for you
 * Don't be ridiculous! (i.e. Finland cannot dclare independence and then invade the entire world, all in a year)
 * WE WILL ADD MORE YEARS ONCE WE GET THERE!
 * If you have a problem with a post say a bit on the talk page about it, and the community (or I) will decide.
 *  IT MUST BE PLAUSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!! 

1430

 * Joan of Arc is captured by Burgundians

1431
Cardinal Beaufort dies, just before (in OTL) he convinces the Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, abandon the war in France. Humphrey, as Lord Protector while Henry VI is still a minor, makes plans for another siege of Orleans.

Humphrey begins initating several reforms to ensure his power as governer of England's affairs.

Humphrey makes plans to take the throne of England.

Humphrey's future plans:

Reduce the power of Parilament by the following actions: Rig the elections for the House of Commons to ensure only the top one thousand richest people in the kingdom vote. Humphrey also has ideas of setting the tradition of the Crown directly appointing the Speaker of the Commons

Reduce the power of the bishops and nobles, cutting down on their privileges.

Start accumlating a lot of wealth of his own, and he soon is richer and more powerful then any noble or bishop in the kingdom.

Forcing Parilament to grant him the rights to levy, collect, and use taxes and duties at will, under his own control, and under his heir's control, "for as long as time lasts".

Create a Series of Merchant Codes.

''I needed to change this in order to keep the timeline realistic. This whole ordeal just proves that we need to do our research before we post.''

1432
A Danish botanist modifies the traditional three-crop rotation to include a fourth crop, clover which increases soil fertility, and is an excellent fodder crop. this increases both the production of each acre of land in Denmark, and the amount of livestock. this causes a population boom, and allows more Danes to take jobs as artisans or soldiers, increasing Danish productivity as a whole

1433
More later
 * Due to increased production and population in this timeline, the OTL event of Erik losing his power as king will never happen. Erik of Pomerania remains king of the Kalmar Union, under his policy the Sound Dues, Danish trade in the Baltic flourishes. The Hanseatic League loses power.

1434

 * England sells French territories to Navarre and Burgundy to increase their wealth and to concentrate on manipulating the countries to the North of them. They did this by first solidifying their gains as claims to the Kingdom of England not territories within the Kingdom of France as it had been before.
 * English mercenaries help the Shetlanders annex Orkney and help expand the Lordship of the Isles.
 * Venice annexes Ragusa.
 * Humphrey's plans fall into place. He arranges for Henry to be married to the daughter of King James I of Scots. James accepts. This enrages the French who have not only lost a swathe of territory but lost a link to Scotland, a prospective ally. In return the English cede control of areas North of the river Tweed, as well as an area of Ireland. The Anglo-Scottish Alliance is born.
 * Genoa secures control over Crimea.
 * The United Kingdom of Shetland and Orkney contemplates annexing further islands to the North.
 * France hires Swiss and Genoan mercenaries to annex Britanny, Provence and Avignon
 * The Byzantine Emperor is relocated to one of the Greek islands for fear of Ottoman aggression. At the same time Athens is absorbed and made the capitol of the new Athenian Roman Empire. Known simply as the Athenian Empire.
 * Genoan influence creates the Republic of Ukraine. Their Doge is also Doge of Genoa.

1435
The Khanate of the Golden Horde is attacked by Georgia, Ukraine, the Principality of Novgorod, Muscovy, and Ryzan. The pressure causes the Khanate to loose controll over most of it's land.

Poland-Lithuania Anxes Pskov.

The Habsburgs loose power and their lands are divided between the Swiss, The HRE, Bohemia, Hungary, and Venice.

Castile attacks Granada.



1436



 * Florence and Siena enter in war. Florence overwhelms and conquers Siena. The pope makes Lorenzo I di Medici (a different one from the one on OTL) the Doge of Tuscany.


 * Several kingdoms break out from the Ottoman Empire. They are: Epitus, Croatia and Bosnia.


 * A greek takes over the latin Athenian Empite, moving it's capital back to Byzantium and transforming the Athenian Empire into the Byzantine Empire.

1437


Ottoman forces march to Bosnia, only to rind that Muslims have already overthrown the Christian Kings

Albania falls to the Ottomans

The pope saves Eipurus, by claiming it for the Papacy

Poland and Lithuania split

The two brothers who rule Poland and Lithuania attack the Teutonic Knights

England, supported by the Scots, invade western France

1438



 * Both Greek Orthodox and Catholic churches call a crusade (independently) against the Ottomans.


 * The Christian armies make amazing success. Epirus, Albania and Bosnia are liberated again.


 * Mass conversions of Muslims on Bosnia succeed.


 * Byzantines, Croatians and Knights of St. Jhon make great advances, conquering and converting large pieces of Turk land.

1439
The Danes launch two invasions of the Teutonic Knights, one from Sweden and one from Finland, taking much of the Teutonic territory. These victories help spur a growing spirit of nationalism among the diverse peoples of the Union of Kalmar



European Front

 * Great lands on OTL Eastern Greece are conquered by the Byzantines.


 * The Byzantines create the Kingdom of Bulgaria

Asian Front

 * Ottomans are able to capture all of the Anatolian Christian lands excepting for the Aegean Isles.



1441

 * Princess Margaret, now 18, is wed to the twenty year old King Henry VI of England. Scotland and England split off parts of their respective Realms. The Scottish part becomes the Duchy of Tweed, directly under the control of Queen Margaret. The English part becomes the Principality of Northumbria, directly under the control of the Lord Protector Humphrey. The idea is that Henry VI is suzerain of the Duchy of Tweed and James II, brother of the Queen of England, is suzerain of the Principality of Northumbria. This draws the two kingdoms closer together even more.
 * Castile completes the conquest of Granada.
 * The conquest of European Ottomans is completed.
 * Muscovy annexes Tyver and Rostov.
 * England sells sections of English France to Navarre and Burgundy, then gives half of the remainder to Scotland.
 * Venice expands along the coast and annexes a large section of the Balkans. They change their name to the Most Serene Republic of Venezia.
 * United Kingdom of Shetland and Orkney annexes some more islands.
 * The Zayyanids collapse after losing Granada and are conquered by the neighbouring Maranids and Hafsids.
 * Aragon takes control of the Kingdom of Cyprus.
 * Burgundy takes areas of the Holy Roman Empire and Luxembourg.

1442

 * The duke of Burgundy dies with no heir, under the laws of the empire the Burgundian territories fall to the liege lords of various vassal states. This essentially splits the land between the Holy Roman Emperor, currently the King of Bohemia since the fall of Luxembourg, and the King of France. The lords of Brittany owing only allegiance to the duke of Burgundy, elect a Grand Duke of Brittany.
 * The King of Bohemia, now Holy Roman Emperor gathers the dukes of the Empire to strike back at those who attacked the Empire's Teutonic Knights, attacking Poland and the Kalmar Union. During the war planning sessions talks begin of establishing a more stable and modern governmental model for the Empire.

1443

 * With English help, the Scots begin forcing the Lordship of the Isles to accept the King of Scotland as suzerain.
 * The Holy Roman Empire continues to expand into Kalmar and Polish territory.
 * Venezia grows along the coast.
 * The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Byzantine Empire push into the Asian Ottoman Empire.
 * The Holy Roman Emperor breaks the power of the various principalities in a fashion similar to what has happened in England. The Holy Roman Empire becomes a united if mildly fractious (caused by dissenting nobles) entity. More powerful nobles like those of Brandenburg and Bohemia are virtually unaffected however. Indeed, with even less nobles, these Kings become even more powerful.

1444

 * The Kalmar Union and Poland sign the Treaty of Danzig. Poland cedes conquered territory to the Kingdom of Bavaria, the Margraviate of Brandenburg, and the newly created Duchy of Prussia within the Holy Roman Empire. Kalmar Union cedes territory to the Duke of Holstein within the Holy Roman Empire, and is allowed to keep Estonia. The Teutonic Knights are disbanded and the Duchy of Livonia is established in their stead.
 * The merchants of Ukraine elect a new Doge, breaking the Doge of Genoa's hold on the Republic.

1445

 * Scotland vanquishes the Lordship of the Isles. Scotland, England, Navarre and Britanny, all nations with competent sailors make fishing settlements on Iceland.
 * Castile and Aragon unite into the Kingdom of Spain. The King of Castile annd the Queen of Aragon share the throne of Spain.
 * Venezia conquers more land in the Balkans.
 * The Byzantine Empire and the Spanish complete the crusade against the Ottomans. The Spanish create the Kingdom of Anatolia.
 * Queen Margaret gives birth to a child, Prince Charles. For now, he is heir to the thrones of England and Scotland.

1446
France and England, fearful of the Holy Roman Empire's growing might, join in the alliance of Danzig, and attack the Holy Roman Empires northwestern border. this gives the Union of Kalmar a chance to regain the offensive, and they launch an attack on the Holy Roman territories in Denmark

1447

 * Using the breach of the Treaty of Danzig and agression against its hanseatic allies as casus belli, Novgorod invades Swedish Karelia.


 * Holy Roman Empire members Switzerland, Savoy, and Livonia make gains against the Kalmar Union and France


 * The Pope condemns the unprovoked attacks on the Holy Roman Empire by England and France and warns that further agression may lead to excommunication.


 * The Kalmar Union demands Brittany, Scotland, England, and Navarre halt their intrusions on the Norwegian lands of Iceland.

1448

 * England, Scotland, Britanny and Navarre agree not to expand further but retain their existent settlements.
 * England withdraws from continental Europe not wanting the war to become to expensive or risk excommunication.
 * Livonia recaptures the remainder of the former Teutonic possessions.
 * Switzerland and Savoy continue to expand into France.
 * Scotland begins a war against the Shetlanders. It soon gets bogged down so they offer the Calmar Union Orkney in return for military assisstance. Tragically, James II is killed by an Orcadian assassin, leaving his sister Margaret as heir to the throne. The bond between England and Scotland is strengthened further.
 * Muscovy intervenes on the side of Calmar.
 * Libya expands to the coast.