xvii century

LA GASTONNADE ___________________________________________ What if Gaston d'Orléans become King of France ? “ Jamais règne ne fut plus doux, plus tranquille, ni plus heureux que l'a été le sien ; et, en vérité, de semblables princes devraient naître un peu plus souvent, ou ne point mourir...

OTL Nobunaga dies Honno-ji Incident and become Isolationist. TTL Nobunaga never died and Escape Honno-ji Incident What happened Buddhist and Shinto? Would Nobunaga Converted Catholic Christianity? Would Sakoku Never Happened? Would Ecchi Never Existed? Would Manga and Anime Never Existed...

Assuming that both England and Scotland will stay catholic, and enter XVII century as major catholic powers (I think the best POD is to have Henry XVIII beign succeded by his son by Catherine of Aragon - that should also change James V's fate and), how different the balance of power in Europe...

How different history of British Isles would have been, assuming than Charles I Stuart after hearing news about his army beign destroyed at Naseby - suffered a shock so severe that it killed him few days later? Is is possible in this situation for his son - Charles II - soon be 15 at the time to...

Let's say that Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is able to overcome his health problems in February 1685 and is alive and well for another decade or more. So instead of problematic James II, England is rules until around 1700 by relatively skilled and pragmatic monarch. But on the...

I wonder is there any scenerio when Denmark with Norway is more ambitious player in colonial race. After all, they are not strangers to colonization - they had colonies in New World via Danish West Indies. Iceland and Greenland are at least in theory not bad places to support travel to North...

How different history of England, British Isles and and the entire Europa would have been, had William of Orange died before even reaching english shores? Let just say that in early november 1688, his ship named Brill was destroyed in terrible shipwreck, and instead of rulling England, Scotland...

The idea for a POD is simple - Charles I Stuart dies few months/years before 1642, leaving his oldest surviving -also name Charles as next king of England, Scotland and Ireland. So disastrous reign of King Charles was short, and England have (at least in theory) much more effective ruler...

Let just say that first English Civil War happened like OTL, but while Commonwealth is estabilished, leaders or anti-royalist opposition decide that Charles Stuart, former King of England should'nt be executed (let just say that they don't want to make martyr out of him) but instead he should...

The Sun of Rocroi- A better Grand Condé "The purple of the Prince or the sword in the service of the Prince... These two ideals of greatness can only be achieved if one or the other is chosen. " -Louis XIII on his deathbed addressing the Grand Condé before the latter's triumph at Rocroi...

Let's say that the wars of the 16-17th centuries weren't that much destructive and most of the depopulated territories could be resettled with the ethnically same population, which lived there prior by the end of the 18th century. By 1800, the population of Hungary (including Croatia) exceeds 10...

Chapter I: Of Good and Bad Luck In 1654 Te Deums were sung across the Holy Roman Empire for the recovery of Ferdinand IV, the King of Romans, from the smallpox. However, the illness left the face of the King horribly disfigured – so much that the King (and later the Emperor) covered his face in...