Challenge:the smallest change

Cortes punishing Pedro de Alvarado for his atrocities against the Maya of Cozumel Island and depriving him of command.
 
Any of the multitude of assassination attempts on Hitlers life is successful. The smallest possible difference would be a working igniter on the bomb hidden in a Cognac bottle placed on Hitlers plane before its start in Smolensk by Major General Henning von Tresckow and his supporters on March 13 1943. Another very small difference would have been Colonel Heinz Brandt pushing Colonel von Stauffenbergs briefcase with the primed bomb on July 20 on the other side of the conderence table leg, thus directing the blast towards Hitler instead of deflecting it away from him and killing the dictator instead of himself.
 
During a ride in 1131, the eldest son of Louis VI of France, Prince Philippe, accidentally died: a dog appeared in front of his horse, the horse panicked and reared and Prince Philippe fell on his head. Suppose the dog hadn't moved or had been slower...

The story that I heard was that it was a pig, not a dog, and the horse actually tripped over it, and that this was the instigation for Parisians to pave their streets. So at a minimum, Parisian cobblestones have just been butterflied away...:D
 
Well, LTTW, with the divided Australia, balkanized Prussia, and Loyalist Empire of North America, (Not to mention the Popular Wars, Churchill, and the French Revolution...from hell on crack on LSD) all began because George II of Britain tripped on his coronation rug.

In my TL, East Resurgent, Lewenhaupt accidentally leaves a load of vodka behind in Sweden during the Great Northern War. Although still in it's first steps, I have a Nationalist Maratha Empire, An Exiled Kingdom of France in Louisiana, an Independent Matetwa, and Three Russias planned so far.
 
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