alternate deaths

IOTL, Qianlong, despite an accomplished man in the first 30 or so years of his reign would grow old and weary, placing his trust in corrupt official Heshen and generally dicking around and squandering everything Yongzheng--Qianlong's father had worked towards. But what if Qianlong had died...

A Tudor POD I've thought about... Henry VIII, everyone's favourite royal egomaniac, loved taking part directly in jousting events. During his life, he suffered two serious incidents of injury while jousting, the first in 1524 and the second in 1536. The latter event seems to be more famous...

Roland Garros was a fairly important pioneering figure among early French aviators and WWI French fighter pilots. Bet you've heard of him. Like many aviation pioneers, there are a few PODs surrounding him that have intrigued me for a long time. Let's look at his OTL track record first: He was...