Ideas for PODs that would be good ATLs but you don't have time for

1. The Vikings who attacked and subjugated the Emirate of Nekor in Morocco in 859 stay around and become the nucleus to an Islamic counterpart to the Normans of France.
 
1. Nanny of the Maroons isn't killed in battle in 1733, and unites the Maroon colonies of Jamaica into a lasting state.

2. The bourgeois revolution in Louisiana in 1768-69 is more successful - possibly, they fight Alejandro O'Reilly rather than letting him walk in.

3. Toussaint is warned of Napoleon's double-cross and doesn't walk into captivity, remaining as the Haitian leader in the post-revolution era.

4. Jean Pierre Boyer tells the French to go pound sand rather than agreeing to pay a crushing indemnity in return for recognition.
 
I've thought of writing an Egypt TL in which the subjugation of Egypt by the Kush doesn't happen, but the butterflies scared me, and I'm busy as all hell with my two timelines already.
 
I've recently been playing around with the idea for A Dutch colonisation of Tasmania.

First off the most likely POD (still pretty unlikely though), The VOC actually acts on Abel Tasmans claim he placed on the island. Dutch claims in the 17th century required the claiming power to settle the claimed area. So IOTL the Dutch claim was voided soon, but what if the VOC decided to adopt the Patroon system of the WIC (sold large areas of land to investors, who were then required to settle at least 50 families in the sold piece of land within 4 years. If succesfull they would recieve ownership of the land feudal style. If unsuccesfull the investors would lose their investment). The colony remains small throughout much of its history untill the Tasmanian gold is discovered leading to a short population boom. Though i'd need to know what kind of cash crops might be viable on Tasmania. Would be interesting though to have a sort of Feudal colony with inland fiefdoms selling their goods through a VOC controlled port.

Second even less likely POD, the storm preventing Abel Tasman from landing is delayed or Abel Tasman is delayed, sets foot on the island and makes contact with natives, notices a golden decorative piece, concludes he has found what he was looking for (some mythical island called Beach rich in gold) reports back and the VOC begins a serious attempt at colonising the island.


Forget cash crops, they could begin by hacking into the old growth forrests for the shipbuilding industry.....possibly alongside fishing
 
I've always been intrigued by the Saite Period (26th Dynasty) in Egyptian history and how that may have panned out had it avoided Persian conquest... But one Egyptian TL is enough for me at the moment. :p
 
Margaret Nicholson successfully stabs/kills George III in August 1786.
George IV dismisses Pitt as P.M. and appoints Fox, on the eve of the
French Revolution.

Senator Henry Foote (D-MS) accidentally shoots/kills V.P. Fillmore
during a pistol-waving incident on the Senate Floor in 1850, leading
to a crisis when President Taylor also dies that summer.

Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovers nitroglycerine in 1781. Lavoisier and
Du Pont refine this into dynamite by 1791, also on the eve of the
French Revolution.
 
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