Eduran Revolution

The **Eduran Revolution** was a period of radical change and civil war in Edury which began with the Eduvesting bread riot and ended with the treaty of blulafoo. Some consider many of its founding ideals to be integral to liberalism and democratic governance, and many of these ideas would play a part in other revolutions and social movements.

While the Eduran state had proven mostly stable, being able to withstand the nearly 160 year long tumult of the Senatorial Wars, the causes of the Revolution are generally agreed to be a series of natural and man made disasters which the state proved unable to manage. There had been a period of heavy precipitation in Edury for nearly 10 years by 1799, with little sunshine and overly wet ground many harvests were beginning to fail. Floods became more common, and disease began to flow down the Edu river. Compounding this, 1798 would be the *Rampjaar* (or year of disasters), with a major flood following the breach of a levee in Ontergoden and the collapse of a coal mine in Nordenfjaal, which together left hundreds to thousands dead. Both the levee and the mine were owned by prominent noblemen.

These events would lead to the Eduvesting Bread Riot, in which soldiers ordered to fire on the crowd refused to. Many see this as the beginning of the Revolution.

Context
Notes to flesh out later: --Following Senatorial Wars, nobility had gone from merchants who owned land, to major landowners who had merchant fleets --Formation of standing army --centralization of power under the senate and the Daar --Election of Duuras as Daar

Causes
--Flooding, lots of precipitation, etc --The flood of blablabla and the mine collapse --Harvest failures and famine

Revolution begins
--Bread riots --Soldiers refuse to fire on civilians --Daar and senate move out of Eduvesting --Daar declares the Assembly an illegal group, Assembly declares Daar deposed

Conduct of the Revolution
--Daar forms an army, Assembly institutes conscription --Daar is defeated relatively quickly, he and his supporters are executed --Instrument of the Executive is signed and becomes the basis for the new Eduran constitution --Napolioni starts to rise; a brilliant military mind, but just an OK political one --Lord Magistrate is founded and elected along with new government; power is still equally split between the petit merchants, craftsmen, and peasantry/commoners --Foreign intervention begins

Foreign Intervention
--Ecoralia is probably biggest foreign intervention --Napolioni gets elected as Lord-Magistrate, leads the army --These wars maybe extend beyond 1806?? --Foreign intervention is defeated, but no Eduran empire in East Altrua --Napolioni is made irrelevant when he tries to abolish the Daar while on campaign; the new opposition sees the staying power the Daar and the Senate have, and so seize their moment to stop Napolioni. He is eventually electorally defeated, and retires, where he dies with no political influence.