The Great Revolution of 1875

Overview
The Great Revolution was a period of political and social revolution across the territory of the Principality of Gardenia, commencing with the abolition of the monarchy in 1875, and concluding after the death of Prince Petyr the Fourth and with the establishment of the Gardenian Confederacy.

It began on the night of October 5th, 1875 with the Revolutionaries focused in and around the Royal Palace in Champaign. The revolution erupted in the context of Gardenia's major national debt and period of heavy taxation, which resulted in much of the Royal Army being ready to mutiny. In the chaos, members of the Revolutionary Guard, assumed control of the country, forming the Gardenian Provisional Government. This was dominated by the interests of the noble aristocracy. The army leadership felt they did not have the means to suppress the revolution, and Prince Petyr IV was forcibly removed from his throne. Grassroots community assemblies called 'Confederaceries', which were dominated by soldiers and the urban industrial working class, initially permitted the Provisional Government to rule, but insisted on a prerogative to influence the government and control various militias, eventually voting for the Provisional Government to transfer into a loosely organized confederacy.