Alright, this is all for a timeline I'm thinking of starting about the world without an America...or at least without an American Revolt.
That said: What's the earliest point of divergence to avoid the American War for Independence? I'm thinking maybe 1756...avoid the Seven Years' War and there's no need for the taxes that drove the Colonists to revolt. However, that means having to get rid of it...so I'd have to adjust the War of Austrian Succession somewhat too I'd imagine, with a POD somewhere in teh course of that war. That said, just what woudl it be?
And besides a somewhat obvious butterflying of the French Revolution (or at least its debilitating effect on France...there'd still likely be a peasent's revolt over the rye rot and all), what other major changes do you see in the 18th Century, especially in the 10-15 years immediately following hte POD/end of the Seven Years' War/its analogue?