1516 Economy 52.7d Treasury 522d Stab +3
January-- The Italian flag is rehoisted atop the fortress of Savoy. The short lived liberation movement there did little to hurt unification with Italy.
July-- France annexes Navarra in their war against England and Austria, (forgot to say earlier that navarra was also in the war ) so now navarra is not in the war and is a part of France
August-- Mamelukes give Judea to turkey for peace in their long war.
September-- Piero under increased pressure from senators to act in matters of state such as the orthodox christians in cyprus , corfu, cyclades and crete. Also to restart the italian explorations and Piero also rejected senator Fournieris idea of reforming the papacy.
By October Doge Piero had very few supporters, he had let the chance of conquest in austria slip by. He let huge opportunities for exploration fade away. He refused to tackle religious issues in rome or the mediterranean. he also refused to break from the french alliance and work to ally with Poland.
Fearing he was near to being ousted from power. Piero took action and his friend the general of the HOly army in rome, invaded the kingdom of Naples, who is a vassal of spain. This didnt go over well at all in Italy, the senate, in spain or in naples. Infact the only support Piero got from this invasion was from the french nobles who delighted in seeing spanish supporters taken down. Piero was fast becoming a vassal of france himself and it meant trouble. Luckily the Italian republic was set up that no man could hold the position of doge for more than eight years. So at years end he was relieved of his position and the senate elected a new Doge to continue Pieros war on naples.
Though Piero was fast becoming too pro-french, he did help to further the Italian unity cause. He just began to outlive his usefullness and others eagerly wanted power in the growing power of Italy. Italy if it were to take Naples surely would become a great power in europe.
1517 Economy 53.4d Treasury 705d Stab 0
The senate was intensely split in the elections that december. However it would be the charisma and influence of Ludovico of Milan who would win the position of Doge of Italy.
The siege of Naples began on november 23, 1516 by the holy army. Naples mighty fortress would fall three months later in feb23, a lightning quick siege and one that obliterated the naples army but not their peoples will to fight.
July--The holy army would then carefully begin sieging Apulia. Fear of attrition bogged the army down. Furthermore neopolitan resistance severely hampered the siege until september that year. (((i couldnt even start the siege until sept because two white flag naples armies went back and forth from naples to apulia, so i couldnt move all my troops down to apulia, this is caused as most of you know because when there is a battle all my troop movement is lost, so i start over only to be in battle again by the two little defeated naples units, sheesh what a pain)))
May-- Poland annexes Pskov in their war against russia and allies.
July--Agricultural revolution in Italy gives +1 tax
Sept-- naples resistance is destroyed, all the dirty rats are sent to Styria for torture at Meershchaums hands, muahahaha.
The refinery for senator storey is completed in Verona, it begins to pump out some mighty fine brew that helps lift trade expansion for Italy. Way to go senator!
Apulia holds on agianst the awesome siege power of the holy army.
1518 Economy 55d Treasury 900d Stab +1
The siege in Apulia continues, draging on and on. Ludovico promises naples will be a part of Italy by end of the year....
July-- Revolt in emilia which is easily crushed another revolt that just slows progress and costs lives.
ENCYCOPEDIA PUBLISHING OF CURRENT WARS....
FRANCE IS AT WAR WITH ENGLAND AND AUSTRIA
RUSSIA AND CRIMEA ARE AT WAR AGAINST GOLDEN HORDE AND ASRAKHAN
ITALY IS AT WAR AGAINST NAPLES
NOv-- just after the encyclopedia of current wars is published, to the publishers disgust a new war begins as Persia invades Russia and Crimea.
Doge Ludovico is pressured for not ending the war in naples by years end. He is at a loss as to why the mighty army cant break through the apulia fortress. perhaps because he has forced his commanders to keep attrition to minimum there by having too few men to do the job.
1519 Economy 55.6d Treasury 1020d Stab +2
March-- revolt in nice that is crushed by september
also in march Russia annexes the golden horde and ends that war.
December Hansa and the Order declare war on Poland who is now without allies. Ludovico is pressured to break alliance with france in favor of supporting and beginning relations with poland. However he balks at the chance and Poland allies with hungary instead.
Senators and nobles become fed up with Ludovicos crack war in naples, all year he let foolish leadership continue to siege apulia and get no results. Now he was being told by senators to either finish the job or step down from power or we will force you out of power. It was becoming an extemely tense time in Italy. Ludovico however had that last bit of charm and political pull to get himself out of trouble and last into next year. He said just as the revolt in nice was easily and quickly crushed so the final steps will be taken in apulia and naples will be ours.
1520 Economy 53.7d Treasury 1000d Stab +3
The first part of the year Ludovico vigourously poured resources into apulia army to end the siege. Apulia finally fell to Italian control in March and Italy breathed a sigh of releaf, as did Ludovico.
Naples was formally annexed and its navy of 6 ships sent to admiral grimani in venice. Fortresses in Italy were upgraded as well after the war.
Sept-- a revolt in savoy is put down by 33,000 italians.
Senator Fournieri in an act of aggression in the council of ten, convinced Ludovico , no he basically forced Ludovico to begin improving relations with Poland and Hungary and others. Senators were tired of Ludovico and saw him increasingly as a threat to the stability of the Republic. So it was in classic Italian style that Ludovico was given the cerimonial boot by the council of ten in Venice by the end of 1520. they no longer trusted the man and his charm did him little good now.
Theobaldo Fournieri had won the support of the senate at this point. He had some radical ideas but none the less charged forward to power.
1521 Economy 59.1 Treasury 837 Stab +3
Theobaldo Fournieri was elected Doge of Italy and he continued his policiy of mixing it up with poland and hungary. He also began to improve relations with england, and even turkey.
Jan-- Fournieri put into place the persecution of all orthodox christians in corfu, cyprus, crete and cyclades in hopes of making them catholic. it wasnt the most popular idea among the senators but it was worth a shot.
March-- corfu revolts, again, and again , and then again.
That year riots and revolts sprang up all over the islands. luckily only corfu had orginized revolts that were slow to take control of the island, giving Italy time to deal with them.
August --- crimea cedes kouban and kalmuk to persia for peace, persia was becoming the little powerhouse downunder.
Sept-- revolt in naples crushed
Senator Andra Gritti begins to speak against the policies of Fournieri mainly the persecution of orthodox. Another power struggle begins in the senate.
1522 Economy 59.3 Treasury 1017 Stab +3 taxes collected 217d
March-- ragusa becomes vassal of hungary
may-- emilia revolts but is crushed easily, the italian army split into three groups, the 1st army, savoy army and holy army each of about 30,000 men supported by about 50 cannon are becomming powerful forces.
July-- Fournieri abolishes the traditional papacy in rome and replaces it with his own Holy Italian Papacy led by his appointed pope , Pope Nephew (dont know name
) Pope Nephew begins to further persicute orthodox christians and completely banishes german reformists from Italian soil as well as hipociritical spanish and portugese catholics.
The holy italian papacy would try to emerge as a strengthened catholic church of europe, however poor relations between italy and other nations severly hampers the new churches efforts.
Due to the problems Pope Nephew had because of bad relations Italy had. Doge Fournieri nearly emptied the treasury in reestablishing good and normal relations with many countries.
Poland +133 turkey -61 england -26 and others improved also, but still Italy was the badest of all the boys and it would take much more time and effort to normalize relations in europe.
Fournieri would spend the last days of his term beating off another revolt in Emilia which he did without hassles.
In december the senate voted again to elect a new doge due to splits in the council of ten of Italy.
1523 Economy 58.2 treasury 477 Stab +3
Andrea Gritti was voted as new doge and emediately he stops the persicusion of orthodox christians then sends his fleet and army to stop the revolts in corfu.
Once that was completed he reduced spending on the military in favor of beefing up the trade and economy.
This however would begin to haunt his first years of power as a new revolt in Naples went from small to huge in just the year of 1523. Italy literally lost control of Naples due to this revolt which Gritti was slow to react to. Infact he didnt even send an army to stop it because he was in the process of reforming the army.
Though Corfu was retaken and the rest of Italy was at peace. Gritti was under assault by opponents in senate on his handling of Naples. Gritti responded in excuse like fashion by signing a non aggression treaty in Vienna with other nations to improve Italies relations with all other countries (+10 with all random event) he used this proactive event to help him during the naples crisis.
The whole year of 1523 was spent dealing with corfu and the Vienna treaty while Naples went ablaze and Spain was beginning to rear its ugly head in the region once again.
********* thats the end of another 10 year period. i encourage anyone to get involved and tell me what ideas for the next 10 years. i do listen to what senators have to say and sorta put it all together with my own ideas. the game is great fun so far, help me make it even better. BE A SENATOR NOW and have a chance at being the next doge
