Queen Victoria Assassinated!

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=[http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Queen_Victoria_Assassinated!_(1840) Queen Victoria Assassinated! (1840)] Timeline.= 10th June 1840, Constitution Hill, London.

Queen Victoria and her new husband Prince Albert were riding by Constitution Hill on the way to visit Victoria`s mother, as it was a beautiful summers day the couple had the roof down on the carriage. Suddenly out of nowhere a young man named Edward Oxford leapt at the carriage and fired two shots, the first shot hitting Prince Albert in the chest and the second hitting the Queen in the head. The man then hijacked a horse and rode away leaving the couple dead. The public are outraged and later find Oxford and beat him, they think he is dead but he lives and escapes. With the Queen and her husband dead with no children the crown must go to the next in line to the throne which is King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover, Victorias uncle. Ernest is very unpopular and the public resent him, many politians say that if he comes to the throne riots will ensue all over the country.

11th June 1840, Houses of Parliament, London.

Lord Melbourne (the Prime Minister) calls an emergency metting with the cabinet, to resolve the issue of the sucession. The cabinet can find no way to stop Ernest from becoming King and later that day they annoucne to the Houses of commons and Lords that Ernest will become King. Messengers are sent to hannover to tell Ernest the good news. Meanwhile in London the news gets out anfd the public are outraged and want th e popular but aging Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex to become King.

15th June 1840.

The new King Ernest Augustust I by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, King of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick is informed that he is now The King of the united kingdom also he is delighted and agrees to go to London for his coronation, but says he will rule from Hanover in the futre. Meanwhile in England news has traveled fast and riots in the east end of London are soon crushed by local malitia garrisons.v The cities of Birmingham, Leeds, and Cardiff are all showing dislike to the idea of the new King. Whilst the cities of Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin are showing a liking to the idea.

7th July 1840.

Edward Oxford is captured in the hostile city of Cambridge and is sentenced to death by the Crown courts in London five days later. He is hung publicly. The old rumours of Enest wanting to murder Victoria rearise and the southern cities have a growing resentment towards him. The Coronation date is fixed at 17th October 1840 but in York cathedral, as the cabinet think it would be too dangerous too take Ernest to London.

18th January 1841.

After Enests coronation in York the people of southern England are angry at Parliament for letting this happen some people in the cities of London and Manchester take up arms and form the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). The PLA riots are soon crushed by forces of the Army.

21st January 1841.

Lord Melbourne and his cabinet are dragged from Downing street by the PLA and face a mock trial [[File:Uk.png|thumb|Green- United Kingdom of Northern England, Scotland and Ireland.

Red- Peoples Rebulic of Southern England and Wales.]]in front of the Peoples Court in London they are later Hung in Trfalgar square. The leader of the PLA is captured and hung by loyalist forces in London two days later. It takes two Army battalions to stop the riots in London which continue for two more years and later invlove the cites of Birmingham, Leeds and Cardiff.

14th July 1843.

After growing unrest in the south the PLA storm the houses of parliament and take over the country they form the Peoples Republic of Southern England. Whilst Enest now only rules the Northern half of the counry from York upwards and Ireland, this forms the new United Kingdom of Northen England, Scotland and Ireland (Hanover had dclared independence in January of that year). The PRSEW is goverened by the peoples commitee in London and the UK is Goverened by Parlaiment in Edinburgh.