POD: 1890

This is a collaborative timeline project with a POD of Jan 1st 1890. Similar to XXth Century and 50 years this will be a community project. Please post your events witha date in the form Month/Day/Year (as above) and at least one event per month is requested. I'm not yet sure when this will stop, but a date of Jan 1st 2010 is the latest possible date.

A couple of notes: WWI and the Russian Revolution will happen, but not necessarily at the same time as OTL.

Your starting events are

Mar 5th 1890: Hermann and Jacob Einstein start promoting AC current lighting. Their company will become very sucessful.

[insert date here]: Albert Einstein killed at the battle of the Somme (put this before the 1916 publication of Relativity in OTL).

[insert date here]: Russian Grand Duchesses Olga, Marie, Tatiana and Anastasia arrive in London with the Crown Jewels, Amber Room, fabergé eggs and many other treasures of the crown after being smuggled out by Royalist sympathisers in the revolution.

[insert date here] Marcel Longuet leaves Britain for Canada, first destroying the gravestone of his grandfather Karl Marx to prevent its defilement by fascists.
 
problems: Einstein a) didn't want to do military service and b) was rejected from both the german army and navy because of his numerous slight bodily defects(flat feet, etc.)
 
This is a collaborative timeline project with a POD of Jan 1st 1890. Similar to XXth Century and 50 years this will be a community project. Please post your events witha date in the form Month/Day/Year (as above) and at least one event per month is requested. I'm not yet sure when this will stop, but a date of Jan 1st 2010 is the latest possible date.

A couple of notes: WWI and the Russian Revolution will happen, but not necessarily at the same time as OTL.

Your starting events are

Mar 5th 1890: Hermann and Jacob Einstein start promoting AC current lighting. Their company will become very sucessful.

[insert date here]: Albert Einstein killed at the battle of the Somme (put this before the 1916 publication of Relativity in OTL).

[insert date here]: Russian Grand Duchesses Olga, Marie, Tatiana and Anastasia arrive in London with the Crown Jewels, Amber Room, fabergé eggs and many other treasures of the crown after being smuggled out by Royalist sympathisers in the revolution.

[insert date here] Marcel Longuet leaves Britain for Canada, first destroying the gravestone of his grandfather Karl Marx to prevent its defilement by fascists.
Jesus Christ man, you need better recruitment for this!
ArKhan posted a recruitment thread before he started in the NPC-section. I'll do that for you.
 
Einstein could be killed in a war due to forced conscription, or be a civillian casualty. WWI dosen't have to be in 1914-1918. Also this timeline could see E=MC2 delayed in publishing or several other major developers of the A-bomb killed.

Thanks for the recruitment thread Vultan, wasn't aware that that was in place in other threads.

Oh and the fascists aren't necessarily NAZIs.
 
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Just a quick note, I think that the first things to be sorted out are the start dates for WWi and the Russian Revolution

Replacement for
[insert date here]: Albert Einstein killed at the battle of the Somme (put this before the 1916 publication of Relativity in OTL).

is

[insert date here] during a dogfight/zeppelin bobing run over Ulm, physicist Albert Einstein is killed when a plane/bomb hits his house. The resulting fire destroys all copies his unpublished works.
 
Just a quick note, I think that the first things to be sorted out are the start dates for WWi and the Russian Revolution

Replacement for
[insert date here]: Albert Einstein killed at the battle of the Somme (put this before the 1916 publication of Relativity in OTL).

is

[insert date here] during a dogfight/zeppelin bobing run over Ulm, physicist Albert Einstein is killed when a plane/bomb hits his house. The resulting fire destroys all copies his unpublished works.
Einstein was in Switzerland all during WWI (on purpose). Unless war breaks out before 1905, he's not likely to be in Germany during the/a war.
 
Could we get WWI to be France-Italy-Ottomans plus small powers vs. Britain-Germany-Russia plus small powers (A-H neutral) if Fashoda erupts into a full Anglo-French war in the Sudan
 

Onyx

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problems: Einstein a) didn't want to do military service and b) was rejected from both the german army and navy because of his numerous slight bodily defects(flat feet, etc.)

And don't forget the fact he was Jewish so.............
 
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