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Points of Divergence : The Habsburgs

Points of divergence pertaining to the history of the House of Habsburg, one of Europe's most long-lived and most famous ruling families.


No Habsburgs (1)

No Habsburgs (2)

Challenge: Habsburg France

Ottokar II wins at Marchfeld, Rudolf von Habsburg perishes

Challenge: Habsburg Byzantium

WI: An earlier Habsburg Hungary ?

How would an Austrian-ruled Germany differ from its OTL equivalent ?

Habsburgs keep Württemberg in 1520

Austrian Habsburgs losing Vienna in 1529. What are the effects on Germany ?

16th century Habsburg Empire without New World gold/silver

Plausibility check: Were there ever any Protestant Habsburgs ?

Challenge: Lutheran Austrian Habsburgs

WI: No Spanish Habsburgs

Anne of Austria does not suffer miscarriage in 1631

Wi the Habsburg branch of Further Austria survives past the 1670s ?

WI: Charles II isn't impotent

WI Maria Theresia were born male ?

Plausibility check: An earlier Mexican kingdom - with a Bourbon or a Habsburg ?

WI Maria Elisabeth of Austria married ?

Challenge: Superpower Habsburg Empire post-1849

No Emperor Franz Joseph

WI: Franz Joseph I. dead in 1853 ?

WI: Franz Joseph dies before Mayerling

Surviving Habsburg dynasty

Franz Josef dies in the spring of 1914

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See Also

Austrian PODs

Holy Roman Empire PODs

Austro-Hungarian PODs


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