Pre-1900 TLs you've never had the time to write

What if the 1846 revolution in Spain ends with a balcanized Spain and Galicia, Cataluña and Basque Country become independent?. Right now i'm writing a timeline about it centered in Galicia but i'm very slow.
 
I've had ideas for a no-Norman Conquest England/Britain TL for at least 2-3 years now, but something about being a Brit makes that seem very... parochial, so I keep putting it off in favour of less Anglocentric ones...

What if the Pythagoreans had avoided or resisted their early 5th century BCE purge?

What if the Dalmatian Romance language had survived to the present day?

What if the Phoenicians had colonised more of Greece in the 9th century BCE?

What if the Tocharian languages had survived to the present day?

What if the Celtic speaking peoples of the Po Valley had had time to form a complex state like the OTL Kingdom of Noricum?

What if the Achaemenids had actually physically extended their power to South Arabia?

What if the Kingdom of Toulouse had survived to the era of the international state system in Europe?

What if the Lombards had left more of a Germanic-language influence behind?

What if the Assyrians had been able to carve out their own state in Late Antiquity?

What if the Sards had retained their trade and naval importance into the later classical era?

What if the Siciliotes had managed to wrest the island away from the Greeks and/or Carthaginians?

That's my list of 'oh if only I had time'.
 
Ive always liked the idea of a longer lived Edward VI of England. The path of the Church of England without the issues caused by Mary becoming queen is interesting, as is the lack of James VI of Scotland getting the English crown.

Other people taking the place of Columbus is also an interesting idea, especially slightly earlier and or discovering different locations.
 
Ive always liked the idea of a longer lived Edward VI of England. The path of the Church of England without the issues caused by Mary becoming queen is interesting, as is the lack of James VI of Scotland getting the English crown.

Other people taking the place of Columbus is also an interesting idea, especially slightly earlier and or discovering different locations.

I actually started, though never finished, a TL in which Basque sailors land in Florida in the 1200s.
 
A timeline set in post-norman invasion Ireland, but sometime before the English start trying to regain control over Ireland around the time of Queen Elizabeth.

Instead of having any set goals like an independent Ireland, or a Cromwell-style ruled Ireland, I'd just try to have events diverge plausibly and see what happens.

Just took a class on Ireland during the early modern era, I have access to over a dozen books from the period, and there are a few ideas in my head over what could happen.

Sadly I am busy with other Classwork, so I probably don't have the time to give it the attention it deserves.
 
I've always loved the idea of a surviving Mughal Empire. The Mughals are my favourite Indian empire, not in the least because of the sheer cultural syncretism between Indian and Persian culture that happened in the time, and the great art forms that were created in the time period include works such as the Taj Mahal, and their wonderful miniature paintings. If its overexpansion under its Padshah Aurangzeb had been avoided, the Mughals probably would have survived, making the cultural bloom, as well as the art forms, of the Mughals permanent entities in India.

My other big idea is the Kushan Empire spreading Buddhism to the Roman Empire. The Kushan Empire were tremendously powerful, and were an Indo-Iranic empire as well, with many cultures existing in it, including Hellenic culture in Bactria. One Kushan god was Oesho, a syncretism between the Indian Shiva, the Persian Vata-Vayu, and the Greek Heracles. All in all, the sheer syncretism of the Kushan is amazing. They are also recorded as having traded with Rome tremendously, as shown by the high amount of Roman coins in this time period. The Kushan emperor Kanishka the Great is also responsible for sending Buddhism across East Asia. If he had sent missionaries to Rome, I think Buddhism would mesh well with Neopythagoreanism and Neoplatonism on the upper levels. On the lower levels, it would convert poor people due to the Buddhist emphasis on charity, and as a result, Buddhism would become a prominent Roman religion.
 
The Kushans would have been on my list but I've already ended up with a western Buddhism timeline... Speaking of, the implied Buddhist community of Alexandria would be an excellent ATL focus if we knew anything concrete about it.
 
I'd love to see a thread about the viking in newfoundland reaching far enough into north america to spread most of the eurasian diseases that then spread through north and south america, so that by the time europeans come several hundred years later, the wave of death has come and gone and the people have recovered enough that they aren't wiped out by european diseases

I'd also love to see a timeline where suleiman the magnificient doesn't kill his firstborn, which means there aren't a long time of incompetent, indolent and insane sultans ( I checked it out, there are just what seems to an endless line of terrible sultans being ruler, with the exception of about 1 of them. Its impressively unbelievable.

I'd love to see a timeline where the ming don't burn all of zheng he's ships and turn their back on their navy

If madam ching, the female pirate who 20 000 pirates under her control didn't retire but want out hunting in the atlantic & indian ocean that would be interesting
 
Not sure if anyone did it, but...

In 1600 at the battle of Nieuwpoort, Maurits van Nassau captures Albert von Habsburg, the then-co-ruler of the Netherlands (with his wife, a Spanish Habsburg). He is ransomed, but the result is that:
1) Maurits and Johan van Oldenbarneveldt remain on the same page for far longer (vastly reducing the statist/orangist split) due to the Nieuwpoort expedition being less of a costly stalemate
2) The Spanish/Habsburg position in the Netherlands decays so strongly that the Netherlands have to figure out a constitutional way to incorporate new States without grinding into gridlock. This being (eventually) succesful, Flanders/Brabant and other regions like East Frisia, Lingen, Cleves and so on are slowly added until in the 1800's the Netherlands as a concept stretches into half of Germany (rough guess, Hamburg to Frankfurt as limits), rather than being a separate Rhine-mouth idea from the vastly larger Germany.
 
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