Highly underused PODs with great potential
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Stephen Douglas wins Presidency in 1860
Henry Clay becomes President anytime between 1836 and 1850
William Harrison serves a full term
John Jay 2nd Pres. not John Adams
John Jay first VP not John Adams
James Garfield not assinated or survives attempt
those are a few, I haven't seen done
Henry Clay becomes President anytime between 1836 and 1850
William Harrison serves a full term
John Jay 2nd Pres. not John Adams
John Jay first VP not John Adams
James Garfield not assinated or survives attempt
those are a few, I haven't seen done
Britain too far offshore for invasion by William the Bastard (Normans), the French and inconveniently so for Hitler...
That's an ASB PoD, and it would be sure to butterfly away at least Napoleon and Hitler.
1. Warren Harding gets his way and Irvine Lenroot becomes his running mate, with Lenroot then becoming President assuming Harding dies on schedule.
2. McKinley chooses anyone other than TR as his running mate in 1900.
3. Franz Josef is assassinated in 1853 instead of being saved by a high collar, an Irishman, and a butcher.
2. McKinley chooses anyone other than TR as his running mate in 1900.
3. Franz Josef is assassinated in 1853 instead of being saved by a high collar, an Irishman, and a butcher.
I had this idea for a TL...
Not sure if a change in geology about 4 million years ago is an ASB - we would need that for the British Isles to be so far offshore. I decided that the Romans might have got there (if Channel Islands strung out in a line) and probably the Anglian and Saxon invasions (with better ships) whilst the Vikings would sail anywhere.
Napoleon and Hitler would NOT be butterflied away, but major British involvement with Europe would be much reduced. (Mind you, is that such a bad idea
?)
I'm jotting down a few notes and this thread looked interesting. When I get the Four Islands in some kind of shape, do I put it here or the ASB?
Answers on a postage stamp, please.
Not sure if a change in geology about 4 million years ago is an ASB - we would need that for the British Isles to be so far offshore. I decided that the Romans might have got there (if Channel Islands strung out in a line) and probably the Anglian and Saxon invasions (with better ships) whilst the Vikings would sail anywhere.
Napoleon and Hitler would NOT be butterflied away, but major British involvement with Europe would be much reduced. (Mind you, is that such a bad idea
?) I'm jotting down a few notes and this thread looked interesting. When I get the Four Islands in some kind of shape, do I put it here or the ASB?
Answers on a postage stamp, please.
Oh, mixed the names up.
Anyhow, the Parthians could send raiding parties to Roman-held areas nearby, but would that be a stretch for their logistics?
@corditeman: Geographical/geological changes go in ASB.
As for myself...what about the Empress Dowager Cixi dying considerably earlier than OTL? IOTL, she served as a considerable block on the ability of the late Qing to reform and modernize China, even going so far as to overthrow the Guangxu Emperor when he instituted a series of reforms. She bears a lot of responsibility for the later ills China has suffered. So, what if, before she could do all that (say, sometime in the 1870s or 1880s) she died somehow?
As for myself...what about the Empress Dowager Cixi dying considerably earlier than OTL? IOTL, she served as a considerable block on the ability of the late Qing to reform and modernize China, even going so far as to overthrow the Guangxu Emperor when he instituted a series of reforms. She bears a lot of responsibility for the later ills China has suffered. So, what if, before she could do all that (say, sometime in the 1870s or 1880s) she died somehow?
Thanks, truth is life.
What about the Exeter ramming the Graf Spee, or the Graf Spee sinking Exeter, Ajax and Achilles ?
What about the Exeter ramming the Graf Spee, or the Graf Spee sinking Exeter, Ajax and Achilles ?
Penelope
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Mashed Pickle wrote an excellent timeline about this last year, but he hasn't gotten around to finishing it.
Susano
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Well, I must admit, even though those are in my "favourite era", I do avoid them because they can be so damn complicated. Same with the 30 Years War...