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  1. WI: No Hannoverian Dynasty, or Queen Anne of Great Britain has surviving children

    Queen Anne famously had 17 pregnancies, with none of her children surviving her. Only five of her pregnancies resulted in a live birth, and only three children lived longer than a few minutes or days after their birth. The remainder were stillborn or miscarriages. So here is the POD, Queen Anne...

  2. WI: Universal Monarchy, Valois edition - One King for England, Spain, France, the Netherlands and Italy

    One of the things I find interesting in history was OTL's Charles V and the idea of a universal Christian monarchy. Charles V is often considered closest to this idea in the early modern era, with him having ruled the Hapsburg lands, much of the Burgundian inheritance, Spain, and parts of Italy...

  3. Henry VIII of England never gets his son (a.k.a Edward VI dies in childbirth with Jane Seymour)

    We often see in PODs Henry VIII getting his desired son from one of his earlier wives, be she Katherine of Aragon or Anne Boleyn. You also see PODs with Edward surviving his teenage years, or his mother suriving his birth. All our interesting, but how would it play out if Henry's search for a...

  4. Ideal location for capital of United South America

    So I was pondering the geography of South America, and I thought of something that interested me. With a PoD in the 1400s or going forwards, say one colonial power eventually puts all of South America under its control. Barring that, they put the vast majority of the continent under its...

  5. Britain captures Havana in War of Jenkins Ear/ No Cartagena disaster. Effects?

    So, reading about forgotten/unappreciated people in another thread, I came across the utter disaster/crushing victory that was the Battle of Cartagena de Indias. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cartagena_de_Indias I mean, the Spanish under Admiral Blas de Lezo crushed the British...

  6. American/French Revolutions put off. What is the next conflict in Europe?

    So, I was just thinking about a little scenario, but I kinda came up short. So the scenario goes like this: The American War of Independence is killed in its cradle rather early on. There are skirmishes, but what went American OTL did not and it dies early. Early enough that the French...

  7. Princess Charlotte of Wales gives birth to healthy boy, but dies. Leopold does what?

    What it says on the tin. Say Princess Charlotte gives birth to a boy in 1817. Say the boy lives but Charlotte still dies. What will the boys name be? What role will his father have in his life? The boy would be around thirteen at the death of his grandfather. Would there be a regency and...

  8. What were Alexander I of Russia's plans for Poland?

    What it says on the tin. What were Alexander's plans for Poland? I know he wanted more of it. How much did he want? Did he want Posen? If he had got all of his claims, what would the borders of his Polish kingdom resemble?

  9. With Sword or with Tankard in Hand

    Węgier, Polak, dwa bratanki, Tak do szabli jak do szklanki. Magyar és lengyel jó barát, Karddal s pohár közt egyárant. The Pole and Magyar like brothers stand Whether with sword or with tankard in hand. -Polish and Hungarian Proverb[1] It is often rare to find in European history, at least...

  10. Polish Hungarian Union under the Angevins: Timeline Planification

    Hey everyone, I've been a member of this board for years, and I've never really written a timeline (I did once for a timeline contest a couple years back, but it was not really all that well thought out). Recently, I have felt inspired enough to try my hand at a new timeline. It was in fact...

  11. Creating a FAAHQ: Frequently Asked Alternate History Questions

    I'm not if something like this exists, but if not I was wondering if people would be interested in creating one. It occurs on this website with a fair amount of frequency that certain AH questions pop up time and time again. Questions such as : What if Islam didn't exist? What if Christianity...

  12. WI: No Saint Augustine of Hippo

    I was wondering what would be the effects on History if Saint Augustine died young or at least before his conversion to Christianity. From what I've read, he had a rather large influence on the Early Catholic Church and its theology. What would the effect on Christianity be without him?

  13. When did the Isis cult really die out?

    Just curious, and I am having trouble finding the answer on the internet. When did the Isis cult die out? At whatt point did it start losing serious amounts of followers? Was it during Theodosius's persecutions?

  14. WI: Theodric the Great has a legitimate son

    So here is my question. I was doing some light reading and came across the Ostrogothic kingdom of Italy and Theodric the Great, who seemed to me to be an interesting fellow. Unfortunately, his legacy was undermined by his heir being his ten year old grandson. What if his daughter...

  15. Alexander the Great conquers India; What are the effects of a Hellenic India

    So lets say that Alexander lives longer. He does not have to conquer India on the first try, but eventually he does, replacing the Mauryan dynasty as the would be conqueror of India. Eventually of course, Alexander dies and even if he left a viable heir I doubt that heir would have been able...

  16. Cool vs Awesome; Alexander the Great vs Emperor Ashoka

    I was reading up on Kandahar on wikipedia, when I came across the fact that the city had been founded/visited by both Alexander and Ashoka just decades apart. Now, looking at Wikipedia I know its a huge stretch, but say lets have a POD at the time of Alexanders conception, keeping him the same...

  17. AHC: Keep Islam out of North Africa

    So, here is my question/challenge. With a POD before (or after) the birth of Mohammed, but without butterflying away his birth nor Islam itself, how can North Africa remain Christian? Islam can spread anywhere else like Persia, East Africa, India, etc. Is this possible? What are the effects?

  18. Louis the Great of Hungary has a son (a Hungarian-Polish realm)

    I've always been interested in Eastern European history, but I've only had any real contact with Polish history (at the insistence of my Polish Grandmother who hero worships Jan Sobieski:D), and even then, it still is sometimes weak on the ground since it is sometimes hard to find good English...

  19. Louis II of Hungary survives Mohacs, then inherits Poland Lithuania

    In OTL, the Jageillion dynasty through the male line went extinct in 1569 when Sigismund August of Poland died without heirs. Now, in OTL there was also the second branch of Jagiellons who ruled Bohemia and Hungary. Their line male line went extinct in 1526 when Louis II of Hungary died at...

  20. Behemoth: Steampunk Germany with tesla cannons, Russian bear cavalry, British Biopunk

    Well, having read the first book in the series, Leviathan, I decided to pick up the next book. Right now from initial impressions, I've gotta say, the Germans are getting all the cool stuff. I mean, right in the first couple chapters, they unleash a TESLA cannon on the Brits. They also have...
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