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  1. Bouvet Island (in South Atlantic close to Antarctica) not annexed by Norway in 1927

    In OTL, Bouvet Island was annexed by the Norwegians at the end of 1927 in the wake of the Norvegia expedition, which was the first to make an extended stay on the island. But until then, it was the British who had possessed that island, ever since George Norris (the captain of a whaling...

  2. alternate capital for Argentina (ctd.)

    The following is from an old thread (edit: the link to that is https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-capital-for-argentina.439186/): On three occasions (in 1868, 1869, and 1873), Rosario was declared the federal capital by the Argentine government, only for the president to...

  3. more solid Christian majority in Lebanon (and stronger sense of Lebanese nationality)

    What would it have taken for Lebanon to have a more solid Christian majority (Maronite and otherwise; at least up until the 1930s-1940s), and hence its citizens having a stronger sense of Lebanese nationality, other than having just Mount Lebanon as an independent state (something that wasn't...

  4. no 1982 Falklands War - fate of Margaret Thatcher in 1983 UK election in that TL

    If the Falklands War in 1982 didn't happen at all, would Margaret Thatcher still have won the 1983 UK general election, albeit by a much narrower majority - if only because of the improving economy following the early 1980s recession? Or would she have lost, most likely to either Michael Foot of...

  5. no Islam...instead, a more widespread Buddhism in the Middle East, North Africa, etc.

    I've just read in a new book by the famed historian Peter Frankopan, The Earth Transformed: An Untold History, that if there had been a different set of climatological and ecological conditions in the late 620s/early 630s CE (e.g. no volcanic eruption in 626), then the kaghan...

  6. Iran from 1950s onward goes more exactly like Chile from 1970s onward

    Is it possible for Mossadegh to be in power in Iran for just a little bit longer than iOTL, such that when the US and the UK help overthrow him in, say, 1954 or 1955 (instead of 1953), he isn't replaced by the Shah exactly, but rather by someone who is allied with the Shah and the traditional...

  7. keeping Venezuela prosperous (by Latin American standards)

    What would it take for Venezuela to not decline precipitously the way it has since the 1990s/2000s, to not have Hugo Chavez and then Nicolas Maduro in power, to more properly manage its oil revenues and so forth (I'm not saying like Norway though), and to keep its relatively high rankings in per...

  8. United States of the Southern Cone/Estados Unidos del Cono Sur

    I recently came across a thread that discusses an alternate Argentina that doesn't fall victim to post-independence political instability and civil wars the way OTL Argentina did. The thread - along with an accompanying map/chart - can be found at the following link: According to its creator...

  9. make Karaite Judaism as popular as Hasidic Judaism

    What POD would it take to make Karaite Judaism as attractive among the Jewish masses anywhere in the Diaspora in the early Middle Ages (when it first started) as Hasidic Judaism among the Jewish masses in Eastern Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (when that got its start), such...

  10. British defeat in 1811 invasion of Java

    If the British had lost their 1811 invasion of Java to the Dutch that had already been occupying that and many other islands in the East Indies (present-day Indonesia), what would have happened to the subsequent course of history in Java and in the rest of the East Indies? For example, would...

  11. POD for a more modern/stable, less corrupt Lebanon?

    Considering that Lebanon - just like Cyprus and Israel - is a small Eastern Mediterranean country with an overall Western outlook (much more than, say, Syria or Egypt or Iraq), and considering that before the outbreak of the civil war in 1975 Lebanon was a pretty modernized country: What would...

  12. WI Salta/Jujuy in Bolivia, not Argentina?

    Suppose that Manuel Belgrano and his Army of the North (on behalf of the United Provinces of La Plata) had lost the Battle of Salta in early 1813 to the Royalists, such that the latter became the occupiers of what are now Salta and Jujuy provinces in northwestern-most Argentina. Thus, in that...

  13. permanent Oriental Exodus from present-day Uruguay

    The OTL exodus from the Banda Oriental (now Uruguay) led by José Gaspar Artigas in 1811-12 that led ultimately to the other side of the Uruguay River, in Entre Rios (now part of Argentina), lasted only for a number of months. Suppose that ITTL it's allowed to continue in the longer term, such...

  14. Had Argentina Been Anglophone, Would It Have Been More Prosperous & Populous Today? (ctd.)

    I want to comment on some posts from a thread from almost two years ago, found here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/had-argentina-been-an-anglophone-country-would-it-have-been-more-prosperous-and-populous-today.409100/. But there's a rule against replying to threads over 1 year...

  15. Israeli-Palestinian peace soon after 1967 Six Day War

    As it was just the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War, I think it's appropriate to reflect on the following: A Palestinian Christian lawyer from Ramallah and originally from Jaffa, Aziz Shehadeh, proposed the creation of a Palestinian state out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the days...

  16. best way for Iran to be better-off country not lead by Islamists

    These days, most probably, Iran would be at the very least more secularized, more democratic, more respectful of religious minorities, and economically better off, if the Islamic clerics weren't in charge. At least on the level of Turkey (notwithstanding the present-day increased Islamization...

  17. Argentine Unitarists rather than Federalists win in Cepeda in 1820 + no Cisplatine War of 1825-28

    If the Buenos Aires-based Unitarists, under Jose Rondeau, had beaten the Federalist caudillos Estanislao Lopez of Santa Fe and Francisco Ramirez of Entre Rios in the Battle of Cepeda in early 1820, rather than the other way around, would the Constitution of 1819 have lasted longer? Would it...

  18. Rosario as capital of Argentina

    If Rosario had become the capital of Argentina, as was proposed (but then vetoed) in 1868, 1869, and 1873, would it have kept "Rosario" as its name or would it have changed its name (e.g. something like "San Martin" or "Rivadavia", the Argentine equivalents of "Washington", "Jefferson", etc.)...

  19. French Canada located in Nova Scotia/Acadia and not Quebec

    If Quebec and Nova Scotia (hereafter, Acadia) were reversed in the sense that Quebec became mostly anglophone (due to the expulsion of the Quebecois) and Acadia's French were allowed to remain upon British conquest, would Acadia have become its own British dominion in 1867? (This is assuming...

  20. British Argentina/Southern Cone - more gradual takeover than thought

    For the past month or two, I've been sort of re-evaluating the recent iteration of my British Southern Cone theory. In other words, I'm still very much thinking about Uruguay and at least pockets of Patagonia and the far south that get colonized by the British before other parts of the...
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