Today in Cimmerian History
Second Edition
2 March 1850 | The Kingdom of Burgundy, after 1,118 years of self governance, is finally annexed into the Cimmerian Empire as a constituent kingdom following the enactment of the Act of Union 1850. This region strayed away from the events that were happening in Cimmeria, including its civil war that lasted until 1492, as well as avoiding being colonized by the Cimmeria during its colonization period in the 1700's. However, in 1832, tensions started to rise within this region as its people started to rebel against King Sébastien XV, the monarch and sovereign of Brugundy at the time. Several insurgants started to rebel against the king after he made several actions that put the Brugundian Royal Family in poor standing with their subjects. The kingdom was losing finances after thier recent civil conflict that first started in 1825, and didn't end until 1830, five years later. To make matters worse, the king was planning to establish relations with his Cimmerian counterpart, Gottleib II, to the extent of forming a personal union with Cimmeria in order to help alleviate the debts incurred in Burgundy. This action was to be done on 6 December 1844, but the people of Burgundy began storming the Royal Palace at Bettembourg, the capital of Brandenburg. This would later be known as the Bettembourg Rebellion, it would be chain events that would lead to the Second Burgundian Civil War. This war would be between the four rebel states (Ansembourg, Winseler, Derenbach, and Surré) and the insurgants, and the rest of the loyalist states (Insenborn, Rambrouch, Larochette, Erpeldange, Lorentzweiler, and Gosseldange), that would eventually be supported by Cimmerian forces sent by Gottleib II. The war would start by the end of the year, and would continue until four years later when the rebels were defeated at Kockelscheuer-Ansembourg on 24 April 1849. King Sébastien XV, seeing the devastation of the nation, and the fact that they can no longer function as a nation, abdicated the throne as the last Burgundian monarch. On 12 August 1850, the loyalist states had all sworn fealty to the Emperor of Cimmeria for helping them put down the rebellion. The Imperial Reichstag, like all of their constituents, allowed Brugundy to keep many of their establishments, and their assemblies, which continues to exists on this day.