16th century

Chapter 1 - The tragedy of 1502 1502, began as a promising year for all of England. The King Henry VII saw his eldest son Arthur, Princes of Wales marry the beautiful Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon. Catherine was the daughter of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Queen Isabella of Castile...

So we all know about Juana la loca, the middle child of Queen Isabell and King Ferdinand and her husband Philip and how Philip died in 1506 while Joanna lived and was effectively robbed of her crown. So what if it was Joanna who died in 1506 instead of Philip? Would Philip just go home, since he...

"It was in 1502 that England almost lost one of their most important Kings. This was none other than Arthur Tudor, Prince Of Wales. Arthur was the eldest son of King Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth of York, who had spent years trying to help England recover from the Wars Of The Roses. Arthur was...

So despite only having joined this site yesterday, I have written timelines before for fun. So I thought that I might tackle the idea of Arthur Tudor surviving his fight with the sweating sickness back in 1502 and how things would change. I have some ideas already planned out but could do with...

y'all know what this is about aka the Mary becomes queen in 1536 TL ___________________ Equal and Indivisible - A Tudor Timeline Sketch of the Lady Mary, daughter of King Henry, done by Hans Holbein in 1536 “No one could have disproved that this august Lady was the daughter of Kings.” –...

Sebastião I de Portugal, attributed to Cristóvão de Morais. Since he was very young, the subject of the marriage of King Sebastian I of Portugal was one of much discussion at the court of the Paço da Ribeira. Shortly after his birth, which happened two weeks after the death of his father...

The old menace is haunting me again, and by the old menace, I mean that one line in Wolf Hall where after the disastrous 1536 joust and everyone thinks Henry’s dead from falling off his horse, Cromwell immediately sent for Fitzwilliam to fetch Mary because, in his own words, he “cannot hold the...

St Germain-de-Laye, May 1514 They don’t make the most prepossessing of couples as they emerge from the chapel door, blinking in the bright May sunlight. Oh, the groom is striking enough. His complexion might be a little swarthier than is held to be ideal, his nose a little too hooked, but his...

In OTL, the Battle of Mohács was a huge disaster to Hungary. The king, Louis II died alongside many of the notables of the country, which offset a line of events, which ultimately culminated in the tripartition of Hungary. What if things would had gone differently? What if instead of facing the...

POD: John Szapolyai achieves early victory against Ferdinand in 1527, who has to retreat from the country. An agreement is reached, which (once again) garantuees Habsburg succession upon the childless death of the hungarian king. This does not occur. Mostly focusing on Austria and the...

During the OTL early phase of the struggle for the Hungarian throne between Ferdinand von Habsburg and John Zápolya, the Battle of Tarcal was fought in September 1527, which was won by the Habsburg-party. Historically, Zápolya fled the battlefield, then sent envoys to the Ottoman Empire( and...

What if the Kingdom of France had torn itself apart during the Wars of Religion, with the territories south and west of the Loire river being assigned to a Huguenot Calvinist "Kingdom of Aquitaine" under the Bourbons while the remaining territories end up in the Catholic League's indefinite...

This is a separate thread for the same POD - but with different butterflies (you don’t need to read the other one to read this one). The main butterfly: what if William Tudor (male!Margaret) butterflied away the death of Arthur, Prince of Wales? Some plausible reasons for this: William Tudor...

I know the issue of Salic Law makes this tricky, but... is there any way the Kingdom of France, with a PoD after 1500, could end up ruled by the Scottish-born Stuart Dynasty? Both France and Scotland have had close ties as a result of the ages-old Auld Alliance, after all, and that translated to...

Suppose the Catholic missionaries decide on converting the Japanese people during the 16th century, at the heyday of the Nanban trade. Since it is difficult to convert the Japanese people due to strong attachment of Buddhism and Shintoism as well with the daimyos. So, the Catholic missionaries...

In 1528, the leader of Augsburg loaned the Habsburg Emperor Charles V a large sum of money. The emperor, however, did not have the money to pay back so, instead of giving a cash settlement, he gifted Augsburg the colony of Venezuela (which was renamed Klein-Venedig). Unsurprisingly, they were...

Şehzade Mehmed, widely considered favored son of Suleiman the Magnificent, died in 1543. While it's not clear how he died, what is clear is that his father deeply mourned his death, since he built the Şehzade Mosque as a memorial to him and composed an elegy for him. This has led many to believe...

Ugama Cathay is a religion practiced by Amarelos, Asian slaves brought by the Iberian Union to Benoa Taixei (The Americas) from the 16th century to the early 19th century. Many of the Amarelos originate from several parts of Asia, some far as Mongolia, Tibet and Persia. Forbidden from...

I'm creating and designing a slave creole used by the Amarelos, who are Asian slaves in America. In the ATL, the language is descended from a pidgin language used for communication between Amarelos and their Iberian masters. The language is a mixture of Iberian languages and languages from...

Louis II of Hungary was the only son of the previous Vladislaus II Jagiellon. He's mostly notable for his unfortunate reign, during which Hungary suffered from feudal chaos and foreign meddling, ultimately resulting in a military defeat at the hands of the Ottomans in 1526 at Mohacs and the...