Sure, that works. Add in an even worse Dust Bowl in there for good measure. I'd argue the conditions were already there in OTL, all that is needed is a spark to set the revolution ablaze. Maybe the Bonus Army incident escalates? Or Hoover is (somehow) reelected in 1932? Heck, in the occasion of a successful Business Plot (assuming it existed ITFP), could we maybe see a socialist counter-coup? Lots of possibilities to play around with.
Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread
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Sure, that works. Add in an even worse Dust Bowl in there for good measure. I'd argue the conditions were already there in OTL, all that is needed is a spark to set the revolution ablaze. Maybe the Bonus Army incident escalates? Or Hoover is (somehow) reelected in 1932? Heck, in the occasion of a successful Business Plot (assuming it existed ITFP), could we maybe see a socialist counter-coup? Lots of possibilities to play around with.
Mm'kay. As interested as I'd be in discussing this premise further, the fact that it's a post-1900 one probably makes it unfit to discuss here too much more. Perhaps the after-1900 counterpart to this thread would be a better place to do so, as a matter of fact.
I really wonder which of the two linguistic scenarios is more plausible:
- Primitive Gaelic transformed into P-Celtic.
- Gaulish remained Q-Celtic.
Possible matches for John Cabot and his three sons? I was thinking Catherine Woodville for John Cabot, but as for his sons, I have no clue. Maybe a match with Dorothy Grey for one of them? For context, this is for the far future of my TL, and the Cabots are far more successful than OTL. I'm basing the prestige of the matches on the contemporary Columbus family, so they might seem far fetched, but there's a precedent. Thoughts?
Question for you guys:
Ive been digging (albeit not that hard, as I'm at work), but does anyone had information on the population and demographics of Louisiana at the time of statehood?
I.e. How many Slaves, Free African-Americans, French-speakers, English speakers and Spanish speakers, etc?
I've always had an idea for a short timeline focusing on Louisiana during this time, but I can't find demographics to see what impact my POD would make.
Ive been digging (albeit not that hard, as I'm at work), but does anyone had information on the population and demographics of Louisiana at the time of statehood?
I.e. How many Slaves, Free African-Americans, French-speakers, English speakers and Spanish speakers, etc?
I've always had an idea for a short timeline focusing on Louisiana during this time, but I can't find demographics to see what impact my POD would make.
Currently scavenging for sources as I develop an Emperor Leopold II (son of Charles VI) TL, and would anyone know some good matches for him and his potential offspring? Preferably someone from the Catholic Nobility, as I do intend to have a conflict that's basically the Seven Years' War where old Catholic-Protestant tensions will be re-ignited as a side effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Possible candidates (born 1714-1727):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanta_Mariana_Victoria_of_Spain (Louis XV’s rejected bride, OTL Queen of Portugal)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanta_Maria_Teresa_Rafaela_of_Spain (her next sister, OTL Dauphine of France)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Amalia_of_Saxony (eldest daughter of his elder cousin)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Margaretha_of_Saxony (her next sister)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Antonia_Walpurgis_of_Bavaria (eldest daughter of his younger cousin)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Benedicta_of_Bavaria (her next sister)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Diane_d'Orléans (youngest daughter of the regent Orleans)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Élisabeth_d'Orléans (another daughter of the regent)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Elisabeth_of_France (Louis XV’s eldest daughter)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriette_of_France_(1727–1752)
I have searched only in the main Catholic states (France, Spain, Saxony, Bavaria, Portugal and Savoy).
Other possible candidates (minor but well connected catholic princesses) are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Anne_Charlotte_of_Lorraine (relative of both the Emperor and the King of France, sister of Francis Stephen) specially if for some reason Louis XV ended marrying her sister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Therese_of_Lorraine. (who would be a much appropriated replacement for Mariana Victoria as bride of a Louis XV than Marie Leczinska).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Augusta_of_Sulzbach and her sisters Maria Anna and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Francisca_of_Sulzbach (their father was a minor prince but heir presumptive and son-in-law of the Elector of Palatinate.
Many of them are relative of Leopold II (but was quite common at that time).
The princesses of Bavaria and Saxony are Leopold’s first cousins once removed (being granddaughters of his uncle Joseph I), the princesses of Spain and Sulzbach are his second cousins (as their mothers were first cousin of Charles VI), like the princesses of Lorraine (grand daughters of Leopold I’s half-sister), the Orleans girls are third cousins (I do not tithing they have a closer relation), while the French princesses (but please do not let a Louis XV made his idiotic OTL marriage arranged by the Duke of Bourbon for preventing the risk of an Orleans’ succession) must be third cousins twice removed
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Over the time that the Columbia District (a.k.a. Oregon Country for the Americans), was a condominium between the British and the Americans, several different splitting points were tossed back and forth between the two before the final resolution in 1846.
One variation proposed by both at different times (and rejected by the other) was the use of the Columbia River as the border which would have made most or all of what is now Washington state end up in British hands and probably eventually in Canada.
How many Americans who headed west OTL and crossed the Columbia River do you think would still cross if it meant leaving the USA? Or would they stay on the US side?
One variation proposed by both at different times (and rejected by the other) was the use of the Columbia River as the border which would have made most or all of what is now Washington state end up in British hands and probably eventually in Canada.
How many Americans who headed west OTL and crossed the Columbia River do you think would still cross if it meant leaving the USA? Or would they stay on the US side?
I was wondering if there was any semi-plausible way the Second French Empire doesn’t collapse following the Franco-Prussian War.
Maybe Napoleon III creates a slightly different deal with the Prussians whilst simultaneously the Metz garrison is still fighting. Perhaps Napoleon III abdicates and his son becomes Napoleon IV with a regency council headed by his mother.
Now following the war there would great unrest following the Bonaparte family remaining in power but Napoleon IV and his family play on the Imperial family’s popularity with the populace pre-war and all the reforms Nap III did for the people’s welfare and greatly increasing France’s overseas Empire. Perhaps a short but bloody civil war.
So there’s a surviving Second Empire when WW1 comes around. I’m brainstorming ideas as I’m currently writing a story set in the late 18th/early 19th centuries and I want to see if I can somehow have a French Empire survive until the 1910s.
How plausible is this?
Maybe Napoleon III creates a slightly different deal with the Prussians whilst simultaneously the Metz garrison is still fighting. Perhaps Napoleon III abdicates and his son becomes Napoleon IV with a regency council headed by his mother.
Now following the war there would great unrest following the Bonaparte family remaining in power but Napoleon IV and his family play on the Imperial family’s popularity with the populace pre-war and all the reforms Nap III did for the people’s welfare and greatly increasing France’s overseas Empire. Perhaps a short but bloody civil war.
So there’s a surviving Second Empire when WW1 comes around. I’m brainstorming ideas as I’m currently writing a story set in the late 18th/early 19th centuries and I want to see if I can somehow have a French Empire survive until the 1910s.
How plausible is this?
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Have Felice Orsini be successful in his attempt to assassinate Napoleon III and his wife on 14 January 1858? The likely regent would like be Jérôme Bonaparte, the Emperor's uncle, with some combination of N3's cousin Napoleon-Joseph Charles Bonaparte ("Plon-Plon"), the N3's half-brother Charles de Morny, and Eugène Rouher and Adolphe Billault as president of Senate, president of Council of State and Corps, Minister of Finance, and Minister of State. Much of N3's royalist/legitimist/conservative and pro-Catholic hankerings came as a result of trying to please Eugènie where as Jérôme, Plon-Plon, and Charles were his more liberal aides. Rouher would be there as the sop to the conservatives but he was a competent minister and N3 reportedly liked him personally. Billault was republican who came be a strong imperial supporter and was part of the cabal that eventually resultedin N3 becoming emperor.
What if John, Earl of Kent, brother-in-law of Black Prince and uncle of Richard II, was still alive in 1399? He should be very influental person during his nephews' rule.
Another semi-related question...
What if Bolingbroke-otl Henry V's Dad-died in exile?
Also, assume that he has kids with his Julich wife and their oldest son marries Philippa of Clarence, who'd be of similar age?
Had an idea for a dystopian America TL...
The main point of departure being that the slaves states actually managed to outnumber the Northern free states. Causing a reverse civil war with the Northern free States breaking off from the primarily slaver US. Something that left the United States with a bitter desire for revenge, causing them to industrialize and expand Latin America in preparation for the next war with the Yankee Traitors.
The main point of departure being that the slaves states actually managed to outnumber the Northern free states. Causing a reverse civil war with the Northern free States breaking off from the primarily slaver US. Something that left the United States with a bitter desire for revenge, causing them to industrialize and expand Latin America in preparation for the next war with the Yankee Traitors.
Does anyone know how or why the title of duke came to out rank the title of count?
Bytor
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The Dux was the military commander of a province, and provinces contained counties, not the other way 'round. So when such military positions evolved in to hereditary nobility in the early Middle Ages, the duke was higher than the count.