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Slavery was already phased out by the Brits, they were the ones pressuring the states to abolish. You would need an earlier POD, perhaps 70 years back, where slavery was confirmed in a court case in England.

As we all know, Thomas Paine was executed for treason, he attempted to incite rebellion among England. I am sure if he were alive he'd give Napoleon his six hours. I think a republic of England would be a nice idea. But Cornwall failed, and Paine failed. Moderator's note: This user was...

Well, he did get involved in politics in his later life, even had a failed bid to become a congressman for the democrats. He forced to republicans, in his state at least to become more progressive in order to defeat a celebrity candidate.

BNA: A tale of commercialism The vikings return from their raids in the middle east bringing back Islam to the Scandinavian regions. Vikings wage Jihad on Britain and Normandy, the HRE responds with a counter-invasion turning Europe into some weird soupy mixture of religions.

The night of the living ASB The French retake Quebec after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, and the French win the race across the Atlantic to resupply troops. There is a naval battle in the gulf of St. Lawrence, once again the French are victorious. At the conclusion of the war, Quebec is...

I will once again plug What If Sports, good site for simulated fantasy matchups. What if the Chargers drafted Peyton Manning and the Colts received Ryan Leaf?

I can see that happening if the Russians venture ventures far enough inland to find the Klondike. All of the Czar's Gold The Spanish (when they had control of California) venture up to San Fransisco and find gold there.

To be fair, it was only a few monarchs later, that they finally dissolved the throne. Remember the referendum? I could not imagine how anyone could have done better in that position, France backed themselves into a hole helping the Americans in their long and bloody war. Louis may have stopped...

The red tide at the wall The revolution in 1790's France is put down, all the conspirators are executed and the monarchy survives until the last King of France abdicates by a referendum.

It was a good thing that Louis put a stop to it, and beheadded all of those treasonous traitors.

The ways of the fairer sex (let me try this one again without the error in timing) Napoleon was born when his island was still under control of Genoa, missing out on french citizenship.

I read somewhere that days after General Napoleon was born, the island he was born on came under French control, he missed out on a French citizenship by that much. I am pretty sure that his father would have still pushed him into joining the military. I doubt that the Two Sicilies and Naples...