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I'm not knowledgeable about this era, so i need some help. Imagine a world with the following three PODs. Give me some direct consequences and predictable butterflies from these and how you think these events would affect the rest of the 19th century. Assume butterfly minimalism and that the...

What if there were no Great Trek? What would subsequent South African history look like without a Great Trek? The scenario this is for is a UK where the sugar barons remained powerful, the monarchs are a long string of the more reactionary male Hanoverians, the PMs are equally reactionary...

The challenge is for a war between Brazil on one side and Britain and/or France on the other. The war must occur sometime between 1835 and 1845. Slavery cannot be a factor in the war. The POD must be 1785 or later.

The challenge is to make Boulanger the leader of France. He can have whatever title you deem to be most plausible. A monarch or emperor can be the head of state, as long as executive power rests with Boulanger. It shouldn't be a particularly difficult challenge, since we were so close to a...

What if the North Koreans' Blue House Raid had been halfway competent and managed to assassinate President Park Chung Hee in 1968? Does the DMZ conflict become a full scale Second Korean War? Who becomes the new President? Does Korea become a more hard-line dictatorship? How does the US...

Okay, the title is a bit sensationalistic, but the challenge is to make Swedish-speakers demographically and economically dominant in North America analogous to anglophones. If you like insane speculation, also feel free to give your opinion on what such a society would be like.

The challenge is for a successful revolution in the Austrian Empire in the 19th century. It cannot be a series of nationalist/separatist revolutions. It can be a liberal or socialist revolution or one of any other political stripe as long as the ideology itself doesn't involve breaking up the...

The challenge is to slow and then halt French colonial expansion in northern, western, and central Africa after 1870 and which results in more independent African states. It cannot be due to the actions of other European powers in Africa. The POD must be after 1848.

The challenge is to create the conditions for a civil war in a surviving Second French Empire. By surviving, I mean the civil war must be after 1870 (preferably in the 20th century) and there must be a POD involving the survival of the Second French Empire. Explain who the combatant sides would...

The challenge is to minimise European colonial expansion after Leopold acquires the Congo Free State. I'm already thinking of having Britain undergo a revolution 1870-ish, so that should blunt one of the main actors. And Prussia will have been defeated in a Seven Weeks War with Austria and...

What if Britain took control of Haiti from France during the Napoleonic Wars (let's say 1800ish, perhaps 1803 if there's no problems with that) and decided to keep it? How would they deal with the slave revolt? What would happen to Santo Domingo? How would this change British politics and...

OTL, the British Slavery Abolition Act was passed in 1834. Your challenge is to delay this development until the mid-1860s with a POD after 1785. What are the consequences for Africa, the Caribbean, British-Brazilian relations, the Great Trek, British-Confederate relations, the general cause of...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the American Civil War and Mexican-American War happening at the same time. They don't have to start and finish at the same time obviously, but there should be considerable overlap. It doesn't matter whether you're delaying the...

Calling South America experts. The challenge is for the Riograndense Republic to take the region's larger cities and have the desire and wherewithal to completely, successfully, and permanently secede from Brazil.

Your challenge is to have the Hapsburgs deposed after 1864, but with the Austrian/Austro-Hungarian Empire remaining intact, at least until 1900. It cannot hinge on an Austrian loss in the Seven Weeks War, though you can hasten, delay, or prevent that war, as long as you account for it. The POD...

What are everyone's thoughts on the domestic politics of the USA and CSA in a TL where a Peace Democrat becomes president and ends the war? First is the issue of who gets blamed for what in the North. Are the Republicans to blame because they are viewed as precipitating a civil war they...

If Ernest Augustus gets on the British throne in 1817, what will British Imperial policy look like? Is it a High Tory victory which leads to less expansion and less of a standing army? What does it mean for the various parts of the Empire? For Ireland, I can guess it means bad. Have the Boers...

What are the repercussions for South American history if the Riograndense and Juliana Republics gain independence from Brazil? What are likely to be points of contention for future wars in the region and how does it affect the area's immigration and demographics?

The challenge is to have the British Empire go into major decline in the 19th century, ie. knock it off its perch at its strongest. This can mean the shrinking of the Empire, bankruptcy, decolonisation, a revolution in Britain, being crippled in a war, or, better yet, all of them!

Is it possible for there to be an American Civil War without the US gaining the Mexican Cession? Texas okay, but not the Mexican Cession. How? As plausible as possible please.