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!!!!!!!!!!! 

1430-1460
See Europe 1430, 1430-1460

1461-1491
See Europe 1430, 1461-1491

1492-1522
See Europe 1430, 1492-1522

1523

 * Morocco Revolts from Portugal
 * The King of Sweden died
 * Islam spreads throughout the Balkans

1524
Frederick II of Prussia became Duke of Mecklenburg and Prince of Anhalt, uniting both into the Kingdom of Prussia. In his new lands, he began building houses for the noblity and establishing Prussian porcelain factories.

Calvinist missionaries spread out among the native americans, and gain many converts among Pacific Northwest and Plateau tribes. Calvin himself moves from Switzerland to Prussia. Many burguois among the Baltic nations convert, as do a sizable minority of tradesmen (carpenters, smiths, ferriers, etc.)

1525
Frederick II of Prussia is alarmed at the growth of Calvinism. He has John Calvin arrested, tortured, and executed. Frederick II then closes off Prussian borders to any further Calvinists and arrests those already living in Prussia.

Calvinist merchants, angered at the death of Calvin, close trade with Prussia over his death. Switzerland cuts off diplomatic contact with Prussia, as does Livonia and the Haneastics. Navarre becomes majority Calvinist, and the religion spreads among the nobility of Iberia. The Portuguese king Pedro III converts, and much of the merchant class follows.

1526
Frederick II of Prussia has the remains of John Calvin defiled by ripping out his heart and feeding his bones to the dogs. He made sure no one, not even the court, found out. Besides that, he begins his considerable reforms:

Frederick encouraged internal trade, by removing most trade barriers, building the Frederick Road, and by establishing merchant houses. Frederick made the economy of Prussia self-sufficent by introducing the use of tulips as a crop, introducing the Danish crop-rotation system, and liberating serfs from feudalism. Frederick also established mines and blacksmith houses.

Sweden almost completely converts to Calvinism.

1527
Frederick II established the Prussian Municipal Policing Force, the first of it's kind in Europe. The force's job was to "maintain order in the localites, to make sure the laws were executed in a organized manner, and to execute the orders of the local courts". Frederick II also established a fire-fighting department and a local lawyer's department, allowing people for the first time to seek legal counsel in civil trials.

Calvin's son, Anthony, publishes his (at this time radical) views on religious freedom and government. Quoting the chapter on religious freedom, he writes, "While my faith in God is absolute, so is my belief that the only way to truly come to be one one of his saved is to come to it under one's own total free will. Anything else is a falacy, and an insult to the omniprescent power of the Word." On economics, he writes, "While many believe that donating money to the poor is a direct path to the Lord, this is false. This only stagnates the progressive development of the human condition. If welfare is removed, then poor people will seek jobs, expand the economy, and foster the coming of Him. This, in the long run, improves the human condition more than any charity. Nay, this self-improvement is the only true charity." His reforms are enacted throughout Calvinist Europe, and it's traders quickly gain ground against the Prussian rivals due to the improvement of the economic basing, although Prussian trade and commerce remain strong.

1528
Sweden annexes Livonia, and establishes the General Staff, which greatly improves logistics and tactics for Sweden. They also sign a non-agression pact with Prussia, due to the growing fears of a Continental war.

Frederick II reorganized the Prussian army. He created a reserve of 50,000 soldiers, initated Prussian discipline and organization codes, and reformed the Prussian professional army. He introduced modern European military technology and also introduced more comfortable uniforms. His reforms made Prussia's army the most feared in Europe. Frederick also banned the publication of Anthony Calvin's heretical book on welfare. The death penalty was imposed on anybody who even smuggled in a copy.

Anthony publishes a phamphlet on the proper role of government. It is widely circulated and re-printed across Europe. It states that the only role the government should have is courts, police, enforcing citizen's rights against the government, and the military. It calls for complete free speech, religion, etc. Shipments of the pamphlets are smuggled in to Prussia, and many peasants and merchants across Europe feel they have been short-changed by the nobility.

==1529= Frederick II of Prussia imposed tariffs on trade with all countries except Sweden, whom he opened free trade with. Frederick also established the Prussian Navy, building 3 galleys and 10 warships. Frederick's spies also found out about the smuggling in of the pamphlets, and he has all people who have read or even bought the pamphlets tortured (by raping them or beating them) and executed.