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  1. Catherine of Aragon dies in 1502

    Catherine of Aragon, Princess of Wales, wife of the 15 year old Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, was with him at Ludlow Castle when the young prince mysteriously died. She also became ill at that same time, but recovered. But what if she had not? In OTL, she went on to marry Arthur's brother...

  2. Urien of Rheged not assassinated

    Urien of Rheged was one of the most successful of the early British kings resisting the encroachment of the Anglo-Saxon invaders. During the 580s A.D., he led a coalition of northern British kingdoms who were fighting the Angles of Bernicia and almost destroyed them. They had, by the year 590...

  3. French Revolution Precedes the American Revolution

    In another thread, Thande made an interesting statement. It occurs to me that this might make a very cool POD for a timeline, if someone with a good background in the 18th century would care to write it. What would the world look like today if the French Revolution had happened in 1759 (or...

  4. Russian Revolution Comes Early

    Let's assume that one of the droughts which periodically afflicts Russian agriculture begins in 1915, causing major crop failures and famine (we'll assume that this is localized to Russia and Ukraine, and doesn't affect the rest of Europe too much). By the spring of 1916, peasant revolts in the...

  5. Charlemagne Assassinated in 792

    King Charles of the Franks, popularly known as Charlemagne, had a son named Pepin the Hunchback, who was unhappy at being excluded from the succession to the throne in 780. Pepin, Charles' eldest son, plotted with various discontented nobles who planned to assassinate Charles and then place...

  6. A different Darth Vader...

    Was just reading a biography of George "Spanky" McFarland (Spanky of "Our Gang" fame) and found that he was apparently contacted by George Lucas in 1976 to audition for the role of Darth Vader in Star Wars. :D What do you think "Spanky Vader" would have been like, and how do you think this...

  7. AHC: Oldenburg Uber Alles!

    In OTL, the House of Oldenburg, which originated as the rulers of a tiny German County, managed to become one of Europe's most influential royal houses and ruled, at one time or another, Denmark, Russia, Greece, Norway, Schleswig, Holstein, Oldenburg and Sweden. Your challenge, should you...

  8. AHC: No Surviving Romance Languages

    It is one of the oddities of history that when the Roman empire fell in the West, in all of the former Roman provinces except one (Britannia), the Latin language of the conquered Roman provincial peoples survived and became dominant over the Germanic languages of their conquerors, leading to the...

  9. The Energy Security Act of 1980 is not axed.

    On June 30, 1980, President Carter signed the Energy Security Act. consisting of six major acts: U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation Act, Biomass Energy and Alcohol Fuels Act, Renewable Energy Resources Act, Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Act and Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Bank...

  10. "Bloody Ban" Sent to Command in America in 1812

    What if General Banastre Tarleton, the "Bloody Ban" of Revolutionary War infamy, had been appointed to command of British forces in America shortly after the outbreak of the War of 1812? --Might we see a more energetic campaign by the British from an earlier date, Tarleton being fond of...

  11. The World Hitler Never Made

    I was browsing on Amazon and came across The World Hitler Never Made by Gavriel David Rosenfeld. Has anyone here ever read it, and what do you think of it?

  12. John Churchill executed for treason in 1692

    In the early years after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the future Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill, tried to keep a foot in the camps of both William III and the ousted James II, ostensibly supporting William but all the while corresponding with James II. William was aware of this, and...

  13. AH Challenge: The Ku Klux Can!

    The picture below is from NATIONAL LAMPOON magazine's July 1976 issue. NATIONAL LAMPOON, for those of us old enough to remember it, used to be a magazine, and a damned funny one. Literally nothing was sacred and EVERYTHING was mined for laughs. Even the KKK. It occurred to me, as I was...

  14. A Failed Experiment at Daventry

    DAVENTRY, ENGLAND, 26 FEBRUARY 1935 Henry Tizard, chairman of Britain's Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defense, was furious. He had been contacted by Robert Watson-Watt, an eminent physicist, regarding his proposal to use reflected radio waves to detect aircraft from beyond visual...

  15. Early American Entry into World War II

    On October 11, 1941, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS KEARNEY was torpedoed by a German U-boat and damaged, killing eleven American sailors. Then, on October 31, the USS REUBEN JAMES was torpedoed and sunk with the loss of the lives of over 100 American servicemen. In OTL, the attacks on the KEARNEY...

  16. Virginia Never Ratifies the Constitution

    In OTL, Virginia was one of the last States to ratify the Constitution, finally doing so on June 25, 1788. It was the tenth State to do so (the ninth had ratified on June 20). The fact that it was the tenth State to ratify the Constitution is significant, because the Constitution states, in...

  17. Carthage Destroyed by Rebel Mercenaries after the First Punic War

    Let's assume the following events happen... 241 BC--The First Punic War ends with defeat for Carthage. The harsh treaty imposed by Rome requires Carthaginian withdrawal from Sicily and several other small island groups in the vicinity of Sicily, but leaves Sardinia and Corsica in Carthaginian...

  18. Effects of a Roman Industrial Revolution

    I've been toying with the idea of a timeline based on a Roman Industrial Revolution. Without igniting one of our trademark AH.com debates about whether such a thing is even possible...for the sake of this discussion, we are going to assume it is possible, without worrying about how, for the...

  19. AH CHALLENGE: Jews in...SPAAAAACE!

    With apologies to Mel Brooks, I present the following challenge. With any POD after the foundation of the State of Israel in 1948, create a plausible scenario...a timeline would be even more fun...in which the State of Israel develops a successful independent manned space program, including a...

  20. Mikhail Kalashnikov killed in 1941

    Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the famous AK-47 assault rifle which equipped Soviet and other communist forces during the Cold War...and which equips revolutionary and terrorist groups worldwide even today...was severely wounded during the defense of Bryansk in October 1941. At this time he...
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