Tricky.
If Britain gained it before 1776 then it may well butterflied away one of the main reasons for the ARW i.e. Western Expansion was stopped by the British Government. I guess Britain could have got it at the same time as Canada if that bit of the Severn Year War had been more successful...
Assuming that Fitzroy, Mary and Elizabeth are all "illegitimate" then the crown would pass to the eldest daughter of Henry VII, i.e. Margaret Tudor wife of James IV of Scotland or their son James V so creating the Stuart House a generation before it actually came to power.
I am not so sure. The steam engine was first created in 1st century Egypt / Greece, yet it was not until the 1700's that metallurgy had reached a point where safe mass production made the use of steam a viable solution.
It may be the same for electricity. Glass working and metallurgy would need...
If a stronger Austria looked east towards the Balkans and Constantinople rather than towards Italy and France then I think France would not worry so much.
What if we saw the creation of the AHE earlier with Austria pushing the Muslims back out of eastern Europe in a series of battles in the...
Napoleon stops at the Russian boarder in 1811 and doesn't invade, however he forces Sweden and Russia to join the anti-British trade blockade.
Britain has a reverse or two in Spain and sues for peace.
I am not sure the French could have refused. Their economy was in tatters and not helped by the British blockade of many of their ports, their army and navy was roundly defeated and their allies were unable to help.
That said, what if Bute offered concessions in Europe. I am thinking...
I am thinking about writing a time line that explores Britain keeping its American territories and the effect that will have on the British Empire if it can call on the resources and markets of the OTL USA as well as the effect that remaining British will have on America. In particular I want to...
Mary's problems started AFTER the birth of her son, i.e. once there was an heir.
If she didn't have a child in 1566 then Darnley would not have been killed and everything would have continued until she DID have a child.
If she died childless then the crown would probably have passed a...
The British tried and failed at Baltimore, but IF the Americans had more success in Canada then the British could have responded with much greater force.
Cochrane's fleet had 19 ships, mainly smaller ships (such as the rocket and mortar ships). At the time Britain had 113 ships of the line...
I have always thought that two things lead to the Industrial Revolution being "born" in Britain rather than elsewhere. These were the Enlightenment and the British Agricultural Revolution (BAR).
As it is less complex lets start with the agricultural revolution. Wiki points to the following...
I can only envisage something like this happening if England didn't have a Norman king and remained linked somehow to Scandinavia rather than France.
I have been trying to think of a reason why England / GB would WANT to invade however and am coming up blank, excepting a for a king who didn't...
The best I can come up with is just nibbling round the edges.
All the allies had troops in Paris, it may be that something like what happened to Berlin after WWII could (ok streaching here) come about.
The only other thing that I could think of are those areas which really suffered under the...
One of the things that Columbus counted on was the trade winds, these blow from Africa to the America's if you head south, but blow from America to Europe in the north. He would be told this by every French and English sailor he talked to.
It is also the middle of the "Little Ice Age" so the...
Constantine basically created the Pacacy via various gifts and it grew into temporal power.
What would Europe look like if the Pope just stayed as the Bishop of Rome, retaining the spirital power of being the "Prince of Bishops" without the temporal power that being a head of state brought...