A Better Philippines - with AustroPrussian twist

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Verse 1

By 1662, the Maniago revolt and the Koxinga invasion of Manila was prevented however the Saludongese nobility and the pagan tribes would increase at this point and the restlessness of the tribes would be a threat to the Spanish and the Saludongese Nobles which are related to the Majapahit nobility and their followers which included the rump remnants of the Kingdoms of Sapa/Saludong and Kaboloan and the others who want to expel the Spanish which are Tungning, the moro kingdoms south of the Philippines plan to expel the Spanish, the threat would be lost because the Qing would conquer Tungning, losing one of the pieces of the puzzle and conquered by the Qing Chinese.

The Irraya and the other pagan/hindu tribes in the Upper reaches of Cagayan Valley and Pampanga river valley would recover from the battles and earlier famine in the beginning of the 18th century[1], Peace with the Spanish would be a possibility at this point due to the hostilities starting to cease to happen.

On the early decades of 1700's The Spanish would start to make peace with the Northern nobles of Saludong which included the rump remnants of Kaboloan and Sapa in the North which are the Saludongese nobles.


1. Point of Divergence

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Verse 2

The Kings of Spain, Philip V would start to rule the Philippines from Spain and made his neoplanta decrees and the Split of the colony by the nobles in the North would start as well the conversion of the tribes under them would prosper since the early part of 18th century.

The language of Gaddangs, Irrayas, Yogad, Karaklans and Buquids and the minor tribes of Upper Cagayan Valley and Pampanga river valley would start to merge into one forming a new language which would be predominantly based on Irraya, the other languages would start to lose their individuality since 1730's as their populations are boosted and the new language would later be a linguafranca of the Northern Island Half of Saludong.

The merger of this languages would be the lingua-franca of the Northern half Luzon.

The boost of the population of the former pagan tribes would double their population and would be loyal to the Spanish crown and their nobles

The Tagalog and Ilocano settlers in Upper Cagayan River and Upper Pampanga river valley would gradually be absorbed by this new merger, mishmash and mixture of languages and these people have started to be prolific since the second decade of the 18th century.

The Spanish prosetylization to the Pagan/Hindu tribes would be complete except for the tribes of Bontoc, Kankanaey and Tinguians by 1730's.

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Verse 3

On 1736 Maria Theresa would marry Frederick of Prussia and Frederick Stephen marries Maria Anna of Austria, the marriage between Prussia and Austria would unite the two countries, the unification between Prussia and Austria would mean that both Silesia and Brandenburg as well as Austria and Prussia would be united in union after 1736.

The unification of Germany would be complete at this point, the marriage would cause a brief Austrian war of succession but Britain would support the Austrians, this would mean that France and the new united Germany would be the worst enemies and Frederick had converted just to unite the country of Germany against its enemies.

Frederick of Prussia would convert to Protestantism and Maria Theresa would declare toleration to protestants, once they would succeed as the rulers of Germany.

Frederick of Prussia would say that as Henry IV of France said "Paris was worth the mass" Frederick said "Vienna and Germany is worth the Mass."

The two would have a child named Maria Elizabeth of Austria on the mid part of 1737.

The two would give birth to the following children;

Maria Elizabeth of Austria b. June 4, 1737

Frederick of Austria b. September 4, 1739

Leopold of Austria b. June 16, 1740

Ferdinand of Austria b. August 4, 1745

Catherine Dorothea of Austria b. 1755

Maximilian Frederick of Austria b. 1757

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Verse 4

On 1740 the Prussians would inherit the thrones of Bohemia, Austria and Hungary via Maria Theresa of Austria and Frederick of Prussia would be crowned as Frederick IV of HRE, the Saxons and Bavarians would lay claim to Austria which would cause a war of Austria succession and ally with the French causing the German faction who favor the union of Austria and Prussia aka the Austro Prussian faction to war with France and their allies in the HRE.

The Austrian-Prussian faction would ally with the Portuguese and the English and the AustroPrussian faction would occupy Burgundy, French flanders and Artois which are taken by the French in the earlier treaties as well as Alsace with the help of English and the Portuguese, the Germans who support the Prussian-Austrian union would win this war.

On 1742 a treaty is signed marrying Marie Adelaide of France and Frederick of Austria according the treaty and the lands ceded in the treaty of Nijmegen would be returned to Germany or the Holy Roman Empire, the treaty is known as the Treaty of Vienna.

The French would be very much revanchist about the Burgundian and Alsatian areas they lost later on and it would be one of the reasons for the 7 years' war to erupt a few decades after even if the later Frederick V is married to the princess of France.

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Verse 5
Spain allied with France during the Seven Years' War, in opposition to Great Britain which is allied with the Holy Roman Empire. The British in response sought to diminish the Spanish Empire. The seizure of Manila by British naval forces in October 1762, and the subsequent surrender of the Spanish Philippines to Britain during the British occupation of the Philippines, inspired uprisings in the farthest north of Ilocos Norte and Cagayan, where anti-Spanish sentiments festered. Though Silang initially wanted to replace Spanish functionaries in the Ilocos with native-born officials and volunteered to head Ilocano forces against the British, desperate Spanish administrators instead transferred their powers to the Catholic Bishop of Nueva Segovia (Vigan), who rejected Silang's offer. Silang's group attacked the city and imprisoned its priests. He then began an association with the British who appointed him governor of the Ilocos on their behalf and promised him military reinforcement.
The British would help the Ilocano revolt in 1762; however, the other people of Northern Luzon and their nobles would be against the Ilocanos and supported the Spanish against the minority Ilocanos, the other people of Northern Luzon would send armies supporting the Spanish against the Ilocanos, this would end in the failure of the revolt of Diego Silang despite the fact that he lives and dies in relative anomimity, his wife Gabriela Carino would have a liason and relationship with a man from the lineage of Balagtas and became the grandmother of the poet Francisco Baltazar y Dela Cruz, one of the greatest poet in the new lingua franca of Northern Luzon which is a form of Gaddang which had absorbed the languages near it, Diego Silang would be remembered as a traitor of the Saludongese nation later on.
The Sepoys that mutinied with the British in their wars in the Philippines would resettle in the Northern half of Luzon and blend and intermarry to the native population, the people from Saludong would welcome the Sepoys that mutinied in Northern Luzon in open arms.
The 7 years war would end in 1763 with the war being a stalemate between the British-Austrians and the French-Spanish.

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Verse 6
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America. In alliance with France and others it defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War, however the Germans would ally with the British in the American Revolution war.
Starting with the Stamp Act Congress in 1765, members of American colonial society, arguing the position "No taxation without representation", rejected the authority of the British Parliament to tax them because they lacked representation in Parliament. Protests steadily escalated to the Boston Tea Party in 1773, during which patriots destroyed a consignment of taxed tea. The British responded by closing Boston Harbor, then followed with a series of legislative acts which effectively rescinded Massachusetts Bay Colony's rights of self-governance and caused the other colonies to rally behind Massachusetts. In late 1774, the Patriots set up their own alternative government to better coordinate their resistance efforts against Great Britain, while other colonists preferred to remain aligned to the British Crown and were known as Loyalists or Tories.
The Jacobite sympathizers would trickle to the American colonies even before the 7 years' war making the Jacobites more accepted in the American colonies, Bonnie Prince Charlie would be crowned as monarch of the new country named the Kingdom of New England on 1780, however he and his brother would die without legitimate issues the new kingdom would end up under the control of the Bourbon-Parma under Marie-Beatrice of Savoy, (a descendant of Marie Adelaide of France and Emperor Frederick V) and her husband Charles II duke of Parma on 1815.