17th century

How did the Dutch lost Taiwan http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/december2012/articles/features/andrade.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Dutch_conflicts Society and culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Taiwan#Dutch_and_Spanish_rule...

IOTL, during the Polish royal election of 1697, there were two (of a total of eighteen) candidates of most importance among the Sejm. One of them was Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony, who converted to Catholicism to make a run for the crown, and the other was François Louis, Prince of...

Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about French North America, other than that they caused a great a deal of distress for the Thirteen Colonies in the 18th century. Is there a time before 1700 when England could have colonized the St. Lawrence, or could have taken it from the French early on...

In some earlier threads I'd made discussing early discovery of sandalwood in Oceania and Aborigine equivalents to the Native American horse culture developing, other posters suggested that the location of OTL's Perth would have made a useful colony for the Dutch, and that it could have been a...

So I was wondering: what would have happened had Zheng Chenggong survived his malaria and continued leading the fleet he had based in Taiwan? Would he have successfully been able to take Manila, and if so, would he have been able to keep it? Would he have been able to continue being a perennial...

Suppose that the irish rebel forces and their spanish assistants manage to defeat elizabethan England at the Battle of Kinsale, in 1601 AD. What happens next? Could we see a spanish-friendly independent Ireland, even if for a short period of time? Who would become the King of Ireland?

While I doubt their naval dominance can last indefinitely, I wonder what needs to be changed so that the Dutch don't go from major power to completely minor at the start of the 19th century. From what I understand a lot of funding went to maintaining the land force to protect against French...

Suppose that the christian Shimabara Rebellion (1637) in OTL southern Japan either never happens or is crushed earlier (no Amakusa Shiro?), and the Tokugawa Shogunate's plan to invade the Spanish Philippines with support from the dutch goes through. Could the japanese and dutch succeed in...

Hi, I'm new to the Alt History site and want to get my feet wet in TL writing by writing a TL about an obscure event and time that I feel would have... interesting effects on the history of North America, if not the world. All constructive criticism is welcome, and I hope I don't make a complete...

From a thread about Spanish Hawaii: So if something like this were to happen, how would it affect history? (As for the POD, 17th century is fine, but 16th century would work too if it's at all plausible.) Would Hawaii retain Spanish as a spoken language, a Spanish-Hawaiian Creole, or perhaps...

I'm talking about Kazimierz Siemienowicz. This 17th century artillery officer and engineer was the very first in Europe to create the theory and schematics for military rockets, going as far as to create one of the first sketches of a multi-stage rocket. Siemienowicz worked in the army of the...

What if in the 16th (or maybe 17th) century Spanish ships, on their way between New Spain and the Philippines, were blown off course and landed on the Hawaiian islands? Let's say the people on board end up stranded on the islands, completely cut off from New Spain. How might they adapt to life...

As I'm sure many of those knowledgeable about Russian History knows, Peter the Great was (arguably) one of Russia's most important leaders, ranging from his massive modernizations to the establishment of Russia as not only a major player in European politics, but an Imperial Power as well...

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So, according to Readings in Philippine History by Horacio de la Costa, the early 17th century was a dire time for the Spanish East Indies. The Dutch East India Company's economic warfare, combined with Moro raids in the Visayas, had driven the Spaniards to Manila alone. Many feared that the...

Eden and Empire Preface What follows is an excerpt from this timeline’s thirteenth volume of the eleventh edition (1910) of The Encyclopædia Britannica taken from pages 864-867 (1)... HUGUENOTS, the name given from about the middle of the 16th century to the Protestants of France. It was...

One thing that's always quite interested me in terms of allohistorical potential is post-Sengoku early modern Japan developing in a different manner than OTL. Primarily by way of the OTL Tokugawa shogunate not coming into existence, and Japan's developments up until the 19th century taking on a...