I have to state that while I studied the time period between 1900 and 1914 extensively - most of the crucial changes your POD caused is going too take place in the 1890's. Some of the things caused to be earlier I feel confident to comment on - like OTL russo japanese war, the boxer rebellion...
AFAIK one of the main causes was the sino-japanese war so I would say yes.
Would Germany be interested in this at this time? Probably yes but im not sure. I dont think France had much interest in the North of China but again im not sure. If indeed only Russia and Germany goes forward how much...
The alliance was mainly a reaction to russian expansionism in the Far East, specifically russian refusal to withraw from Manchuria after the boxer rebellion. In this sense possibly. Depends on if Russia still refuses to withdraw from Manchuria after an earlier boxer rebellion.
OTL the...
I would argue that the Russo-Japanese war wont be earlier. There is a number of factors for that:
1. One of the main reason Japan decided that if there is to be war it should be before the completion of the transsiberian railway. That wont likely change because of the japanese events
2. The...
...im not a Naval expert, but you are telling me, that building completely new Dreadnought, some of the most expensive ships to be ever built in human history, is supposedly less expensive than maintaining already existing ones?
How about we get around the monetary problems by still cancelling the new british ships, but we avoid the scuttling of the german fleet at Scapa Flow, and the british getting such a number of german capital ships that the two power standard would be maintained without any new builds?
My guess is Russian protectorate and possibly annexed. OTL one of the reasons for the Russo-Japanese war was russian enroachment in Korea. Without Japan there to oppose it I dont think the british will wage war to stop them, so I think its going to be russian in some form.
On hungarian sucession law: more or less. Hungary elected an individual, and than after him as long as he had male descendants the throne had to go to one of them (not necesserily primogeniture in theory but in practice at this point it was). But other members of the dynasty - brothers, cousin...
So im no expert but if I really wanted to screw the place have some European power intervene on the side of the CSA - best would be the british. Have the fighting be as brutal as possible and the CSA be victorious. Add in a large scale slave revolt somewhere before that point massacring a lot of...
What about a muslim conquest of Europe?
Constantinople falls in 718 (It also becomes the capital of the kalifate). The Frank Empire is taken int the mid / second half of the 8th century? The Kievan Rus adapts Islam, and so do the slavs in the balkans, the norse and the hungarians, finally all...
If Japan doesnt modernize with naval dominance and machine guns any of the great powers could take it. My guess is late 19th century, maybe even early 20th century. The US and the UK are most likely, possibly France, if we are that late Russia will have developed its fleet and railways or even...
Yep, the hungarians lost in the fall of 1848. I mean dont mind the spring champaign of 1849, when the hungarian revolutionary army, even in a numerical disadventage kept defeating Windisch-Grätz and the austrian main army, retook the Capital and completely drove out the austrian main force from...
The best would be to start the invasion a few years earlier than OTL. Yi Sun Sin only got his post a year before the invasion. He served earlier in the army and while he was a brilliant commander even on land but there I think the japanese would have a much better chance to defeat him than on...
Actually I would also go at it from the Russian angle - Im fairly certain that without russian (or some other) intervention a total victory of the austrian forces was IMO very unlikely. Meaning either Hungary wins and becomes independent or some compromise is made.
Could getting rid of Nicholas...
To help you understand take a look of a topographic map of the Kingdom of Hungary (in 1914). I think it makes it very easy to understand why the northern and eastern borders basically didnt change (with some minor exceptions) for a millennia. You can also see that the basin is most open from the...