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Is 'Arthur' supposed to be 'Author?'

Fitting. The term makes me thinks of crowned republics, though.

I'm kind of drawing a blank on something: What appointment is it that Mary was given that her husband thought was to be his own?

All kinds of illnesses happen in that era. Surely, Mary's death under these circumstances would not be too suspicious... :evilsmile:

I do think John III is going to fuck himself over, but I wonder how big of a mess he'll leave behind (and who he'll leave it to). As noted, all the other current candidates have serious issues, themselves, and I'm not sure a Swedish Republic is even a plausible option, here (more plausible than...

... it's all going to Hell soon, isn't it?

Huh. Henri and Elizabeth, perhaps? Not sure how well that would work, but them both being Protestant would help.

Well, he has a few years before that happens, and he apparently never married IOTL. It would not be unreasonable for him to have two or three heirs of his body by 1578 ITTL.

In OTL, Major General Elphinstone ordered a disastrous retreat from Kabul in 1842, against the advice of his officers, who wanted to hole up in a nearby fort and wait for reinforcements. He didn't, and the illusion of British invincibility was shattered (and he got a whole lot of people...

Probably depends a fair bit on his experiences during his minority, but given that he grew up to become the Merry Monarch after twenty years in exile, he just might. Then again, finally getting to come home and be king after so long might have been a factor, there.

In mid-march, 1640, King Charles I's horse is spooked, throws him off, and kicks him in the head. His majesty dies soon after. The OTL Short Parliament has not yet been called, as this is at just about the end of the Eleven Years' Tyranny, and the young King Charles II is a couple months shy...

You'd have a better chance of making George Washington the King (though it would be very hard to get him to agree, IMHO, when he refused in OTL), which again leads to the question of who succeeds him. Another option is that Washington and maybe a couple of other people die during the...

The thing is, WWI was almost inevitable by 1914, and indeed well before 1914, due to the treaties everyone had with each other (IMHO, you'd need a PoD before 1900 to remove WWI). If the Greco-Turkish War some how did not set off the Great War, something else would have.

He might simply not run in '64. That doesn't mean LBJ will win, though. Goldwater doesn't stand a chance, but how certain is it that he'd have run? For that matter, might the Democrats have chosen a different candidate in TTL?

I take it you're using historical inertia, for Napoleon to still exist in a TL whose PoD is before his conception?

Unless Wikipedia is way off at the moment, I believe you mean the Landgraviate of Hesse. The Grand Duchy of Hesse didn't exist until 1806 IOTL, and after the first ten years, it was officially known as the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Rhine (though 'and the Rhine' was sometimes forgotten in...

Oh, and that isn't ominous at all... Good part.

Wel, he converted them to Christianity, IIRC, and there are quite a few people who would consider that quite evil, even though he likely did not intend it as such.

The latter used to have pages in a website on geocities until Yahell shut it down, and it has not been switched to reocities, yet. He might have another website, but If so, I don't know where.