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| New Year's Revolt | |||
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| Date | 27 December 2015 – 29 March 2016 (3 months and 2 days) | ||
| Location | Sydalon (primarily northwestern Royal Domain) | ||
| Caused by | Opposition to unresponsive government, overreach and interference in the criminal justice system, royal spending, and broken promise on the re-creation of an elected, lower house of Parliament. | ||
| Goals | Various goals, including electoral reform, more responsive and transparent government that was responsible to a national electorate, release of Adeodatus du Caeseti, and abolition of the Monarchy in some cases. | ||
| Resulted in | Dissent quashed by the Royal Army, and Order of the Holy Lance; trials for revolutionary leadership and activists; re-introduction of the National Assembly within 5 years. | ||
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| Casualties | |||
| Death(s) | Unknown | ||
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| Charged | at least 7,000 | ||
The New Year's Revolt, also known as the Insurrection of 2016, was nearly 3 months of strikes, protests and demonstrations, and general unrest in Sydalon, lasting from 26 December 2015 to 29 March 2016. The insurrection began innocuously as a minor protest in Ostracine against the extravagant royal spending brought on by Queen Melisende III's marriage to Prince Michael of Dakmoor. By New Year's Day, the demonstrations grew to encompass groups calling for political reforms that ranged from the re-creation of an elected lower house of Parliament to the abolition of the Monarchy.
A faction of the protestors also called for Queen Melisende to cease interfering in the trial of Adeodatus du Caeseti, and later became violent when protestors attacked a police convoy transporting Caeseti from the Ostracine Royal District Court and [jail/prison for political prisoners here]. The insurrection was the largest and most widespread of its kind in Sydalon since the signing of the Yarden Accords in 1973.