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  1. AHC/PC: 20th/late 19th century Catholic schism

    I'm wondering if it's even remotely plausible for the Roman Catholic Church to schism in the 20th or late 19th century, and what could drive such a schism. It's a silly idea I'm considering for the timeline I'm sort of working on.

  2. AHC: Ethiopian Meiji

    Just as it says on the tin. Preferably, with a point of divergence no earlier than 1906, and no later than 1920 or thereabouts.

  3. Alternate names for the Central Powers

    I don't like the term Central Powers. It's clunky, and the acronym (CP) is a bit unfortunate. Futhermore, it seems kind of like a lame monicker that could only arise in a timeline where Germany and friends are defeated. So, what are some alternate names for the Central Powers, that could...

  4. What's the latest the Soviet Union could be avoided?

    Just as it says on the tin. I'm puttering away at a timeline that may have a divergence in 1917. I would like for the Russian Republic to be saved, with either Lenin and friends never being allowed passage into Russia to make trouble, or them going back into exile after a failed revolution...

  5. AHC: Independent Scotland

    Not a thread about the 2014 referendum. Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to have Scotland become an independent country with a p.o.d. no earlier than the start of World War I, and ideally no p.o.d. later than, say, 1950. Because reasons. But ignore the latter requirement if...

  6. No U.S. involvement in WWI; do the Roaring Twenties still occur?

    Just as it says on the tin.

  7. AHC/WI: German Peasants' War Succeeds

    I know zilch about medieval Europe, but this question momentarily interests me. How could it have succeeded, or at least not totally failed, and what would've happened in such a case?

  8. Earliest possible "modern day"

    The earliest, chronologically, we could have post-industrial, technologically advanced societies like today. For example, if the Song industrial revolution happens, we could have at least early 20th century technology by somewhere between 1400 and 1700, assuming everything goes at a smooth...

  9. "YL" instead of "AD"?

    Old-timey dates are often prefixed with "Year of our Lord". Like "Year of our Lord 1790". Is it possible that, at least in the Anglosphere, the convention for dates, rather than BC and AD, could be BC and YL? Or something similar to that?

  10. Alfonso XIII of Spain assassinated, 31 May 1906

    On 31 May 1906, on the day of the king's wedding with Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Catalonian anarchist Mateu Morral threw a bomb disguised as a bouquet of flowers at the couple. They survived, but a few people were killed. What if Morral didn't miss? I'm mostly wondering what the deal...

  11. Alternate Drugs

    Just as it says on the tin. With a divergence around the turn of the century. I'm looking more for synthesized drugs -- things that might pop up instead of LSD for example, or drugs that exist IOTL but are sort of "obscure," that might be popular IATL.

  12. PC: A Kuro-Araxian civilization

    Not long ago I brought up the idea, in a thread about alternate cradles of civilization, of a civilization contemporary to Sumeria and Egypt developing along the Kura in Georgia and Azerbaijan, perhaps with the Arax river being the Euphrates to the Kura's Tigris. I'd imagine the civilization...

  13. Latest Imperial China could've rebounded?

    China was once militarily and technologically superior to Europe, but by the 19th Century China was being kicked around by the mostly Western imperialist powers. What's the latest date China could have become a great power, ideally in the 19th Century, no later than like 1900, and without...

  14. Weirdest plausible European migrations?

    For example (I'm not asking for the plausibility of these; I'm just giving examples), Turks migrating into continental Europe and Christianizing, or Germanic peoples migrating to Asia Minor and setting up a state there, or the Slavs taking over Western Europe. What are some weird/interesting...

  15. Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!

    I saw this book by Richard Ned Lebow at my local library, and I want it. But I want to ask: has anyone here read it, and if so, is it any good? Or is it typical Sealion-level mainstream AH?

  16. [DBWI] WI: Entente wins the Great War

    Considering how this year includes the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War, I felt it appropriate to post a WI: Without any PODs before August of 1914, how could the Entente have won the Great War, rather than the Alliance (OOC: Central Powers)? How would history have gone, had...

  17. A Black Rebellion in the Early 20th Century

    The segregationist South was an immensely brutal place if you were black, more brutal than most people seem to be aware of. Black women, and black girls as young as eleven, were raped by white men with impunity; black men and boys were mutilated, lynched, and sent to the electric chair for...

  18. WI: Matt Gonzalez wins the 2003 SF mayoral election

    In 2003, San Francisco came very close to having a Green mayor, Matt Gonzalez. But Gavin Newsom, who ran as a moderate against the leftist Gonzalez, managed to win by a 52-47 margin. What would have happened, if Gonzalez won the election? How would a Green running The City by the Bay effect...

  19. AHC: More Reps or < getting elected president

    IOTL, most presidents have been governors or senators. Your challenge is to, with no POD before 4 March 1881, have more presidents elected directly from the House of Representatives, and/or even have at least one president who has only been mayor or in some other "lower" office before being...

  20. Plausibility: Harmonic telegraph instead of the telephone

    Research into the harmonic telegraph, a telegraph that could transmit multiple messages down the same pair of wires, led to the invention of the telephone IOTL. Is it possible that the harmonic telegraph could have been widely adopted, delaying the invention of the telephone significantly...
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