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Casimir IV was the King of Poland from 1382 to 1400, following the death of Louis I of Poland, who was also King of Hungary. Though Louis had united Hungary and Poland through personal union, and had brought great victories to the nation, the Poles wished for their own country, and so Louis's...

The Year is 1886... What happened?

The Khanate of the Golden Horde, IIRC, began to fall apart in the late 1300s when it lost lands to successor Khanates in Crimea, Astrakhan, and others. This resulted in a steep decline that resulted in a rump horde being taken by the Crimean Giray dynasty in the end. Now, how can we prevent the...

What would it take for Scotland to not become Protestant during the Reformation? I suppose we have to get rid of John Knox somehow... What consequences would this have for the Auld Alliance with France (which, IIRC, ended after the Scottish reformation) and later relations with England? With...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_of_Russia "A fortnight later he (King Frederick of Prussia) wrote to Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, "The sky begins to clear. Courage, my dear fellow. I have received the news of a great event." The great event which snatched him from destruction was the...

What if the Moors had prevailed over Pelayo in Asturias, and managed to wipe out his fledging Kingdom? Without Asturias, which later became Leon, is the Reconquista stillborn?

The challenge is, with as late as a POD as possible, have Ireland be the dominant nation of the British Isles, at least as much as England has generally dominated them. Bonus points for finding a way to have them be called the "Irish Isles".

What if Peter the Great had not decided to move the capital of his Empire out of Moscow, or built St. Petersburg, but somewhere else?

732 - An Arab army attacks the Frankish city of Tours. Charles Martel leads an army outside the city, however, in an unexpected accident near the beginning of the battle, he falls from his horse and is killed. The Christian line falls apart, and Arabs raid Tours and Poitiers, carting off...

Is there anyway the Wampanoags could have done better in King Philip's War? I don't know if they could have won completely (i.e., driving the Puritans into the sea).... Hm, what if, on March 12, 1676, the Indian attack on Plymouth Plantation itself managed to break the city's defenses, and...

The Battle of Kadisiya was the battle that resulted in the eventual collapse of Sassanid Persia, and the Caliphate's occupation of that nation. Here's a quote from Wikipedia, which I believe shows the WI present here: At daybreak, a sandstorm began blowing in the faces of the stubborn...

What If Jesus was a fundamentally different person? Rather than what we eventually got in OTL (Jesus loves you), what if Jesus became a preacher of a milittaristic semi-Judaism and a military leader against the Romans? I suppose something like a Hebrew version of the Caliphate is unlikely, but...

Your challenge is to have the Caucasian Albanians survive as a distinct political entity up to at least 1300. They may become Muslim, though extra points is accorded for Albanian Christianity.

What if, during the last war between Alba Longa and Rome, the Curiatii triplets of Alba Longa managed to defeat the Roman Horatii? Or, if we don't want to go off of history that could simply be Roman myth, Alba Longa defeats Rome. Would Alba Longa do to Rome what Rome did to Alba in OTL? If...

I have to admit to getting some inspiration from NomadicSky's Republic of Canada thread... Anyway, here's a scenario I've been thinking a bit about. I'm not confident enough to add dates to it yet. - In 1837, Lower Canada manages to successfully expel the British, cutting the British from...

What if the Latin Empire had remained stronger, and managed to hold off from Greek Reconquest? (Or alternatively, you can have Eprius or Trebizond do the reconquering) How does this affect the Empire of Nicaea? Assuming it manages to remain a somewhat strong state, can it fight off the Turks...

Your challenge is the following: Unite Wales, England, Cornwall, and Scotland into one nation (it need not be ethnically the same, but there should be one government) by 1900, your POD can be as early as the first Anglo-Saxon invasions, though I suppose it could be much later. Bonus points for...

If I remember my OTL correctly (always an iffy thing) Novi Pazar, along with Bosnia-Herzegovina, was occupied by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but unlike Bosnia-Herzegovina, it was returned to the Ottomans after B-H was annexed. It later, IIRC, became part of Serbia after the Balkan Wars. Now...

What if the system of marriages that eventually brought Charles I/V to the Spanish throne had never happened? Instead, Spain continues with it's own dynasty, and is not linked with the Habsburg Empire in Austria and Burgundy. How does this affect things? With Spain less embroiled in Habsburg...

What sort of POD could result in a loss of Byzantine Egypt and Palestine, but continued holdout of the Exarchate of Africa? How might a long Byzantine rule over Africa turn out?