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Ummm. I'm not really sure where this should go, but I'm putting it here as I only pick up the main story in 1900AD. The actual PoD, however is back around 1200ADish. So tell me if I should put this somewhere else. The usual disclaimer: I'm still not very good at timelines, so there may be some blatant mistakes or silly cliches here, just point them out and I'll try and rectify them. Anyway, here goes.
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This is a continuation of my previous TL, which was overlooked by most people, so, in an attempt to create a more popular one, I have picked it up again in the year 1987, just after the Great War. My PoD was that Genghis Khan's wife was not kidnapped by the Merkit tribe, leading to his survival. He finally died at the seige of Guang, the last refuge of the Song Emperor. This indirectly lead to the Mongol conquest of Europe, and I will give a breif outline of the following centuries here.
1200s 1240 - Death of Genghis Khan. Division of his empire and succession of Jochi Khan. 1250 - Mongol conquest of Europe initiated. 1257 - Mongol Empire conquers mainland Europe up to the Pyrenees. 1262 - Indian invasion of Mongol Empire by Jalal ud Din at the head of a 200,000 strong Indian army. 1263 - Jalal ud Din brought to battle by Subutei, a mongol general. Complete destruction of Indian army. Jalal ud Din flees with 200 horsemen. 1278 - Death of Jochi Khan. His second son, Altai Khan succeeds him. 1279 - European rebellion. 1280 - Europe reconquered. France depopulated. Munich, Antwerp, Warsaw razed. Byzantium becomes a Mongol ally.
1300s 1303 - Europe invaded by Iberian Alliance (Catalonia, Aragon, Castilla, Leon, Galicia, Navarre). 1305 - Mongols invade Europe. Iberian Alliance dreiven back through the Pyrenees and destroyed in detail. Mogols withdraw back to France. Slaughter of populations of Italy, Germany and Poland. 1307 - Almohads conquer the whole Iberian Peninsula. 1312 - Mogols under Altai Khan invade India. Subutei is left to protect the Empire. 1313 - Mongol army destoryed. Altai Khan killed. Dissolution of the Mogol Empire. The eastern empire is Known as Mongolia, covering most of East Asia. Subutei saves a remnant around the Russian cities, known as the Rus Khanate. 1325 - Britain and Sweden invade mainland Europe. Britain occupies Northern France, the Low Countries, and Western Germany. Sweden occupies the Baltic coast and much of Poland. 1330 - Almohads invade Southern France and Italy. 1337 - Byzantines conquer Balkans. 1339 - Collapse of Mongolia. China becomes a group of warring states. Temuge Khan holds the Mongol heartlands. Tibet becomes independent. 1350 - Beginning of European Wars between the Rus Khanate, Byzantium, Sweden, and Britain. 1379 - Black death strikes Europe much more contagious than OTL, reducing the mainland population to less than two million directly and indirectly. 1389 - Khwarezm reunited by Shah Ala ud Din II.
1400s 1415 - Sweden conquers Iceland. 1448 - Treaty of Copenahgen signed, restoring prewar borders in Europe. 1453 - Recolonisation of Europe begins. 1457 - Swedish fishermen discover Greenland. 1463 - Firs Swedish settlements established in Greenland. 1493 - Abyssinian War between Mamluk Egypt and Oman.
1500s 1502 - Oman defeats Mamluks and conquers Abyssinia. 1507 - British and Swedish fishermen sight lands to the west of Greenland. 1515 - Western Wars between Britain and Sweden over the ownership of West Greenland (OTL Newfoundland). 1517 - West coast of North America explored by John Drake. Continent named Drakia. 1528 - First British and Swedish colonies on Drakia. 1537 - Contact made with the Iroquois League. Technology traded. Iroquois begin westward invasions. 1559 - Nipponese Empire unites the Nipponese Archipelago. 1598 - Nipponese Empire discovers Western Drakia, and names it Taiyana Tocha.
1600s 1609 - Tibet conquers Burma. 1615 - Iroquois complete their conquest of the Mississipi valley. 1616 - First Nipponese colonies in Taiyana Tocha. 1625 - Irouquois conquest of Florida. 1653 - Britain claims western Drakia but does not back up the claim. 1657 - Sweden claims Christiana (the area around OTL Husdon Bay). 1683 - Iroquois Empire becomes the Federation of Native Drakian Tribes (FNDT). 1697 - Nippon colonises Ni'ihau (OTL Hawaii).
1700s 1702 - Ch'ang dynasty unites China. 1705 - Aztec Federation declared (an Aztec federal empire which survived and overthrew its monarch in the late 1600). 1718 - European nationalism begins to re-emerge. 1727 - Mumbai Pact signed by all of the Indian nations, binding them together. The Pact is led by the Delhi Sultanate. 1739 - Khwarezm pacifies the east coast of the Caspian Sea. 1745 - Byzantium begins its policy of setting up small, nominally independent states to protect it from the strengthening, warlike, European states beginning to rise out of the darkness. 1748 - Sweden makes Livonia a Dominion of the Empire. 1757 - The Treaty of London splits Sub-Saharan Africa between Britan, Swede, the Almohad Empire, and the Sultanate of Oman. 1783 - Nippon conquers Kamchatka and OTL Alaska. 1795 - Nippon invades Indochina. 1799 - Mumbai Pact begins expanding into the Eastern Indian Ocean.
1800s 1803 - Nippon and the Mumbai Pact split Indonesia between them. 1805 - Nipponese sailors discover Sainantanoriku (OTL Australia and surrounding islands). 1808 - Mumbia Pact ships discover Sainantanoriku. 1817 - Sweden, Britain and the Mali Empire divide Sothern Drakia between them. Sweden and Britain get the lion's share,as the already had colonies there. 1818 - Inka Empire claims Patagonia. 1825 - Midwestern Tribes join the FNDT as they are under pressure from Nipponese settlements to the west. 1827 - Nipponese-Drakian war. FNDT wins a quick victory over Nippon at To-Kyo. 1833 - Anglo-Swedish war begins over North Drakian posessions. 1834 - Iroquois confederacy joins the Anglo-Swedish war, with two Iroquois nations on each side. 1835 - FNDT mediates a peace settlement between Britain and Sweden. 1857 - Five Nations of Sainantanoriku join the Mumbai Pact. 1883 - Baden-Württemberg begins to unite Germany as the Grossdeutschland Reich. 1887 - Anglo-German war. Germany takes the Low countries. France rebels against the Almohads and the British. 1892 - Independence of France recognised. 1893 - League of Italian States (LEI) formed, comprising most of Northern Italy. LEI claims Genoa and Central Italy from the Almohads, but in unable to enforce this. 1895 - Rus Khanate forcibly removes Byzantine influence in Rumania, seeing it as a threat. 1897 - Chin League formed, comprising most of ancestral China along with Koryo and Manchuria.
Now, in 1900, the world is no longer a war-torn hellhole, but is beginning to pull together in groups of nations, and it is finally beaing recognised that all people are equal. However, technology is moving on, and as newer, better weapons are being developed, and Europe wants to be free of it's external overlords once more, this peaceful world is marred by the war clouds gathering on the horizon...