Update 3 - Year 1863
Non-Military Events:
The Californian rebellion is echoed by growth of Republican sentiments throughout the French Empire (-1 French Confidence). The Federate colonies in North and South America (note that I don't mean the American kingdoms - though they were affected, only to a lesser extent) also feel a large amount of dissent, partially inspired by the Californian and Gaelic risings; at home, too, the continued rebellion causes public disappointment in their government (-1 Federate Confidence).
The Incan Empire of Peru purchases the eastern coast of holy Lake Titicaca from the Federated Kingdoms (+1 Culture).
Both sides in the Gaelic Rebellion (already called the "British Civil War" by some) get volunteer brigades and partisans, the Federates from Scottish loyalists and Ulstermen, the Gaels - from the Gaelic Patriots (+5 Federate, Gaelic irregular divisions). Propaganda is used by both sides in large amounts, with not much result apart from further polarizing the population (which is to say that very few opinions changed, they were only fortified if anything) (+1 Gaelic, Federate Confidence).
Similarily, public opinions in Denmark-Norway are also polarized between three ideas about the kingdom's prefferable political situation - the people are split between remaining a part of the FK, gaining independence and, surprisingly if one remembers the bad blood between Denmark-Norway and Sweden, forming a "Scandinavian Union".
Strange, uncommonly large ships appeared at Gibraltar and promptly left it westwards after they noticed the suspicion aroused by them.
The conflict between the Kaiser and the Reichstag has reached its culmination. Since 1862, the Kaiser was amassing a fairly large, elite force whose officers were specially picked by their loyalty to the Kaiser, and the Kaiser alone. With the truce in Italy (see below), the Reichstag grew ever more alarmed by that force, the sturmtruppen, and so when the Kaiser proposed a further increase in the size of what Reichstag member Hans Guttler alleged to be "herr Habsburg's private army", the Reichstag opposed it bitterly. Exasperated by the continued Reichstag opposition to all and any of his reforms and decrees, the Kaiser, citing the thorough inefficience of the Reichstag that has harmed the Holy Roman Empire for too long, had said Reichstag dismissed and abolished. The constitution was revised, and all power in the Empire fell to the Kaiser and his 12 ministers. The Ministry, as the new regime was called by some, soon started lots of reforms, mostly in the sphere of education (it was standardized and "patriotized"), to the dismay of the regionalists and the conservatives (-1 Confidence).
Cease-fire in Italy has been achieved, but not more yet as the Carlists are yet to sign the French-proposed Treaty of Turin. The Holy Roman troops withdrew back to Venice, and the French handed over the territory they have occupied to Carlo Emanuele IV. Only the Pope remains (see military events)...
Pro-Muscovite riots take place in Novgorod and Pskov.
The Ottomans hire veteran officers from Turkey and Europe alike to help train their troops (+1 Army Training) and commanders (+1 Military Leadership), in imitation of the similar Persian programs.
A program of radical reforms and public works is initiated in Tukulor, amidst a meteoric rise of dissent and the collapse of economy (-2 Confidence, -1 Economy). On the other hand, Hambdullahi has turned into a center of trans-Saharan trade (+Hambdullahi trade center).
The city and trade center of Kanji arises, with generous Sokotan investment (+Kanji trade center).
The Turkmens desperately gear up for the final battle (+5 irregular divisions).
The Persian army is becoming rather difficult to maintain (-1 Economy)...
Already desperate, the Sikhs have gained sudden relief - the new Federate government, in spite of the prophesized "hardline stance", decided that it is best to have the Sikhs as allies. A peace treaty was signed - the Sikhs gave up some of the ground they gained in their rebellion, but received complete independence from the Federates. An alliance was signed and supply routes were established, saving van Derhuyt's Army of Afghanistan. Admittedly, this peaceful resolution caused some problems as separatists in other Indian princely states, Muslim and Hindu alike, saw a good opportunity, but mystiriously, the most vocal enemies of the Federates died in a series of accidents, while the more moderate, even pro-Federate, leaders rose to prominence.
The French colonial efforts in Oceania continue: Fort Nouvelle-Marseilles [1] is built, and some lesser outposts are established all over the region. Some older ones cease to exist, on the other hand, due to bad conditions (problems with food, water) and incidents with natives.
Military Events:
Californian rebel forces, in spite of getting into a conflict with the Amerinds, advanced eastwards and secured much ground before the French army arrived; when it did, the Californians did their best to harass it, but failed to prevent the crossing of Colorado river and the landing of French troops in Sent-Francois. The Californians defended their cities fiercely as they came under dual assault, and the French suffer many casualties, but gradually, the rebels were pretty much rooted out, and would have been destroyed altogether if not for a sudden rebellion in Mexico itself...
(-16 Californian divisions, -2 Californian Irregular divisions, -5 French divisions, -2 French Garde Imperiale divisions)
In spite of the French political concessions and the destruction of the Fraternidad, many people in Mexico still were quite separatist. Regrouping around a new, thus far mostly anonymous charismatic leader, the Mexican rebel movements decided to use the French distraction in California and raised the banner of rebellion. Even though not all the Mexicans supported this, the rebellion quickly got off the ground in Veracruz, Acapulco and Mexico City, a rebel junta was assembled in the latter and the rebels soon took over the core regions of Mexico. Yucatan was thrown into chaos, as Mexican rebels clashed with local Spanish regionalists and religious Mayan rebels, with a small loyalist pro-French force holding out in the north-east. As French troops were redeployed from California, the Mexican advance northwards was stopped and the pro-French ultraconservative partisans put the rebellion in a most precarious position, only rivaled in precariousness by that of the French position itself.
(+5 French irregular divisions)
(-2 Mexican divisions, -6 Mexican irregular divisions, -1 French division, -1 French Garde Imperiale division, -2 French irregular divisions)
A diplomatic incident devolved rapidly into a war between the Incan Empire of Peru and the Kingdom of Portugal. In spite of the far superior training of the Portuguese and their possession of the initiative, the Incans fared quite well - their "black ghosts" harassed the invaders, their troops defended the well-prepared positions fanatically, tropical diseases devastated the Portuguese ranks and finally, and most importantly as well, the Portuguese had major logistical problems, in both their maritime invasion and their Amazon attack. Still, with lots of casualties, the Portuguese did make some gains.
(-4 Incan divisions, -1 Incan Black Ghost corps, -11 Portuguese divisions)
The new Prime Minister of the FK has pledged to grant autonomy to the Gaelic regions within the Kingdom of Great Britain, but also to eliminate the frustrating rebel movement there; soon enough, the reorganized Federate military has resumed the winter-halted operations against the rebellion. A blockade of rebel regions, in spite of some difficulties, has been established; the rebellion in Wales has briefly cut off the garrison there from supply routes, but Federate reinforcements arrived and the rebels themselves were dispersed; the Federates were briefly repulsed from Glasgow, but soon managed to break the Gaelic resistance and seize the city, later advancing into the Scottish Lowlands; in Ireland, the Gaels were hindered by Ulster irregulars and failed to take Belfast, while the Federates secured all the coastal regions of note. On another level, the Federates went on an assassination spree as numerous notable Gaelic leaders were killed by snipers, died from food poisoning or fell out of the window (-1 Gaelic Military Leadership). Gradually, the people begun to turn away from the losing Gaels, though the Irish and the Highlanders still support them (and happen to form practically all of the population still under Gaelic control...). But their leaders fight on despite all, resorting to guerrila warfare.
(-5 Gaelic divisions, -8 Gaelic irregular divisions, -3 Federate divisions, -1 Federate UU, -2 FK irregular divisions)
After the Holy Roman forces pulled back to Venice, the Franco-Carlist forces in Italy pressed on to combat the Ultraclericalist forces and, ofcourse, routed them on the outskirts of Rome; Benedict XV himself has perished in battle. Thrown into disorder, the Ultraclericalists soon turned to fighting each other, especially in Sicily, and that made the reunification of Italy under the banners of Carlo Emanuele even easier.
(-1 French Garde Imperiale division, -3 Carlist divisions, -Ultraclericalists as a faction)
It all started when, on a fine summer day in the year of 1863, the Cossacks rose up once more against the Turkish yoke. As the Ottoman armies were waiting for a serious rebellion for quite some time now, they enthusiastically went to help their Tartar subjects defeat the rebels. Yet while the Cossacks were being defeated, while the Ottomans weren't watching too closely, another ethnic minority altogether started its rebellion. The Hungarians have declared their independence and rose up within the Turkish parts of Hungary (the Holy Roman side of the border saw some minor outbursts of revolutionary violence, but they were easily put down). After a heated battle, the Ottoman forces were pushed out of Budapest, while other rebel armies took over most of the rest of the Crown Lands of St. Stephen (again, the Ottoman portions only). However, a Turkish counteroffensive soon came from two fronts, and only a craftful guerrila campaign has prevented the Turks from crushing the young republic.
(-8 Hungarian divisions, -3 Hungarian irregular divisions, -1 Hungarian Nemzeti Hoyslor Divsions -6 Ottoman divisions)
Tukulorans had to put down several rebellions.
(-1 Tukuloran division)
The French Protectorate over the Merina kingdom (on Madagascar) is overthrown was overthrown in a coup d'etat by the queen, Ranaval I. The top French administrators were put under arrest, the miniscule French garrison was wiped out. No ships were to be found for the further operations intended, but the island itself was quickly consolidated under true royal rule without too much bloodshed.
The Great Central Asian War comes to a bloody end.
(see spotlight)
(-Greater Turkmenistan as an independent nation, -6 FK divisions, -1 FK UU, -4 Dalnorossian divisions, -9 Dalnorossian irregular divisions, -8 Persian divisions, -6 Persian irregular divisions, -11 Qing Chinese divisions)
The Chinese have commenced their reconquest of Japan. First, the powerful Qing fleet built up throughout the century (and, much more prominently, this very decade) has asserted naval supremacy. A daring night raid of several squadrons devastated the shipyards of Nagasaki (-Nagasaki economic center), destroying much of the new Japanese fleet in the process. The attacks on Edo and Kobe were less succesful, but there, too, the Japanese docks were severely damaged and the fleet, in spite of giving the Chinese a real fight (especially with the kamikaze fireship attacks), was almost neutralized. Finally, the major shipyard in Kagoshima was burned down by the Chinese garrison there, as the city was being overran by the Japanese who took no prisoners; the heroism of Kagoshima's defenders was immediately overblown and formed a vital part of Chinese propaganda (+1 Culture). Meanwhile, a series of seaborne landings took place; the Chinese were invading Kyushu in force. Responding to Emperor Hitsuji's calls, the people of Kyushu took up arms and assisted the defense of their native island, and combined with the equally-fanatical Japanese soldiers in Kyushu, they slowed down the Chinese advance badly. In the end, superior training, superior disciplinne and superior leadership managed to give the Chinese something resembling a victory, but at a heavy cost and incomplete (a small amount of Japanese troops held out in northeastern Kyushu).
(-7 Chinese divisions, -3 Chinese ships, -2 Japanese divisions, -9 Japanese irregular divisions, -16 Japanese ships)
Tribal wars among Maori tribes in Ile d'Tocqueville and Nouvelle-Sardagne intensify, as the French sell lots of firearms to whoever will buy them.
I'm going to kick some Portuguese behind until they realize that my lands are just not worth the trouble to conquer... and MjM has fallen neatly into my trap. 
