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Defender of the Faith Part I A Royal Prince I Duke of Albany [1] On Wednesday, 19 November 1600, shortly past midday, in the grim confines of Dunfermline Palace, ‘the fort on the crooked Linn,’ a second son and third living child was born to James VI of Scotland by his...

I'm currently working on a TL with a strong focus on an alternate 30 Years' War (probably won't be 30 years long, but has similar qualities to OTL's conflict). Since the POD takes place over a decade before the outbreak of war in OTL, I'm thinking about giving this TL's *Thirty Year's War a...

In the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), Marx and Engels make the following statement: So your goal, then, is to make the 1848 revolutions in Germany develop into a proletarian revolution along Marxist lines. Good luck! (Incidentally, this happens to be the fourth thread I've started...

The thread on better decisions in the Congress of Vienna made me interested in considering the worst Congress of Vienna that could have happened. What do you think is the worst plausible way the Congress of Vienna could turn out, with multiple failings that would pave the way for future wars...

Based on the recent polls on Russia and Italy: Imperial (any dynasty, except for foreign dynasties) Nationalist (Republic of China) Communist (People's Republic of China) Divided (into 2 or 3 separate states: Three Kingdoms, Jin and Southern Song, PRC and ROC) Balkanized (into several states...

So, I've been musing on different possible outcomes for 1848 for a while, but most of them have either been used before or are too hard to work out. But now I've got another idea, inspired by this old thread. From Wikipedia: What if, instead of aiding Austria to put down the Hungarian revolt...

So, no Miracle of the House of Brandenburg. Russia and Austria follow up their victory at Kunersdorf with a successful attack on Berlin. Prussia loses the 7 Years War, and any chance of being a major German power, in 1759. But I'm interested in what the results of this might be. What might the...

Exactly what it says on the tin. Find a way to have a liberal unified Germany and a liberal unified Italy following the revolutions of 1848. But the Hapsburg Empire must remain in place. The unified Germany must be along the Kleindeutchland model (excluding Austria and Bohemia), but the unified...

Basically, I want to know how to get the ACW to start in the early 1850s, possibly due to the failure (or non-existence) of the Compromise of 1850. So, three questions for such a scenario: 1) What could lead to the *ACW occurring at this point? Would it work if I butterflied away Zachary...

I just had a bunch of ideas for a alternate history scenario. Basically, the POD is in 1848, where the Frankfurt Parliament offer the crown (earlier) to a Frederick William who accepts it partially out of fear of revolutionary power, and partially because this Frederick William sees it as an...

I was looking through the wiki, and I found this article, which grabbed my interest: So, my question is, what other such PODs can you think of? Very vague question, I know, but I just want to see what everyone can come up with (or what's already been used in timelines).

What if Henry the Pious is not killed in 1241 during the Mongol conquests (which are butterflied away due to the early death of Genghis Khan in 1214) and manages to unite Poland? What does this entail? What might this united Poland look like? How might it relate to the other countries in the...

In 1216 OTL, due to their dislike of King John, the English barons invited the prince who would later become King Louis VIII of France to become King of England. He met very little opposition, and was proclaimed king in St. Paul's cathedral. By June 1216, over half of England was under his...

Or, what to do in Europe before it becomes directly affected by my main POD... Well, this is for my Empires of the East timeline, in which I have Genghis Khan dying in 1214. Now this doesn't have too much of an effect on Europe until 1237, when the lack of the Mongol invasions of Eastern Europe...

Well, in my timeline I'm working on, the Fourth Crusade is butterflied away, as Henry VI has already taken Jerusalem by that time. I'm wondering about the effects of not having the Fourth Crusade, particularly on the Byzantine Empire. In OTL, The Fourth Crusade was a severe blow to the...

Well, in the timeline I'm working on, one of the major PODs is that Temujin (Genghis Khan) gets killed in 1201 from an arrow-wound. (He got this arrow-wound in OTL, but survived it.) Jamukha takes advantage of this situation by absorbing the tribes under Temujin into his own force. (He also...

In my TL, Temujin (Genghis Khan) dies in 1201. So he doesn't unite the Mongols. (Jamukha does, but is quickly defeated by the Jurchens after he starts raiding their border cities.) And so China isn't conquered by the Mongols, either. But I was wondering what the consequences of having the...

This is one of the PODs that I was thinking of using for my TL. Basically, when Richard I of England dies, both John and Arthur (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_I,_Duke_of_Brittany) claim the English throne. John is crowned in Westminster with the support of Eleanor of Aquitaine. He then...

NOTE: This idea went through several radical changes since I started the thread. If you want to see what I'm working on now, start reading from here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?p=5737389#post5737389 And the actual timeline begins here...