# 193 Franche-Comté - Principal cities: Besançon

owner = BUR
controller = BUR 
capital = "Besançon"
citysize = 5500
culture = burgundian
religion = catholic
hre = yes
base_tax = 5
trade_goods = salt
manpower = 4
add_core = BUR
fort1 = yes
discovered_by = eastern
discovered_by = western
discovered_by = muslim

1450.1.1   = { citysize = 6500 }
1477.1.5   = { owner = FRA controller = FRA add_core = FRA } # Charles the Bold dies and Louis XII of France takes Franche-Comté
1493.8.19  = { owner = HAB controller = HAB add_core = HAB remove_core = FRA } # Frederick III dies and Charles VII cedes Franch-Comté to Maximilian I von Habsburg
1500.1.1   = { citysize = 8000 }
1540.1.1   = { fort2 = yes }
1550.1.1   = { citysize = 10000 }
1519.1.14  = { owner = SPA controller = SPA add_core = SPA remove_core = HAB } # Karl V gets total control over his Burgundian inheritance
1580.1.1   = { marketplace = yes }
1600.1.1   = { citysize = 11000 }
1640.1.1   = { fort3 = yes }
1650.1.1   = { citysize = 13000 constable = yes }
1668.2.20  = { controller = FRA } # The Prince de Condé swiftly takes Franche-Comté in the War of Devolution
1668.5.2   = { controller = SPA } # Treaty of Aachen: Franche-Comté returned to Spain
1670.1.1   = { add_core = FRA } # Louis XIV lays claims through the Chambres de Réunion
1674.9.1   = { controller = FRA } # France captures Franche-Comté 
1678.9.19  = { owner = FRA remove_core = SPA } # Treaty of Nijmegen (FRA-SPA)
1685.1.1   = { fort4 = yes }
1691.1.1   = { university = yes } # University of Dole transferred to Besançon by Louis XIV
1700.1.1   = { citysize = 17000 }
1710.1.1   = { courthouse = yes }
1740.1.1   = { fort5 = yes tax_assessor = yes }
1750.1.1   = { citysize = 21000 }
1789.7.14  = {	owner = RFR
		controller = RFR
		add_core = RFR
		remove_core = FRA
	     } # The storming of the Bastille
1800.1.1   = { citysize = 24000 }
1806.7.12  = { hre = no } # The Holy Roman Empire is dissolved
1814.4.11  = {	owner = FRA
		controller = FRA
		add_core = FRA
		remove_core = RFR
	     } # Treaty of Fontainebleau, Napoleon abdicates unconditionally
1815.3.20  = {	owner = RFR
		controller = RFR
		add_core = RFR
		remove_core = FRA
	     } # Napoleon enters Paris
1815.7.8   = {	owner = FRA
		controller = FRA
		add_core = FRA
		remove_core = RFR
	     } # The French monarchy is restored
