Alternative History:Historical list of alternate histories

Timelines hosted here, or elsewere, ordered by historical period. This might either be the period in which the POD occured or the period in which the main changes are evident.

See also:
 * Alphabetical list of alternate histories, and
 * Chronological list of PODs.



Paleolithic

 * Zera
 * Some hominids reached the Americas before the modern Homo sapiens. This lead to a different fauna evolution in the Americas allowing later come Homo sapiens to domesticate suitable burden animals.

5th century BC

 * History of Balkanica
 * Romans have never come to the Balkan Peninsula, and the Illyrians were defeated by the Serbs in the Early Middle Ages.

Classic Era and Religions

 * No Christianity World
 * Jesus of Nazareth is released by the governor of Judea, Christianity dies out by around AD 100.

Roman-time barbarians

 * Germanic Power
 * The Franks and Visigoths hold more staunchly to their languages thus developing Frankish, Hispagothic, and other Germanic languages, eliminating Spanish, French and Portuguese, but allowing the Langue d'Occ and Catalan come to the fore as independent languages.

Medieval European kingdoms

 * Penda Dies
 * In 642, Oswald of Northumbria kills Penda of Mercia at the Battle of Maserfield. Northumbria remains under one king, Oswald does not become a martyr.


 * Henry II Dies In 1100
 * The early demise of Henry II causes a drastic change in succession and the royal houses of Scotland, England, France and greatly affects the politics of western europe.


 * The Western Empire
 * Geoffrey, Count of Brittany was the younger brother of Richard the Lionhearted. In Our Time Line (OTL), he pre-deceased Richard by dying in 1186 from a fall from a horse.  This left his young son, Arthur of Brittany, as Richard's legitimate successor, but Richard and Geoffrey's youngest brother, John Lackland, forced Arthur aside and eventually had him killed.  In this timeline, Geoffrey survives, and he is succeeded by Arthur.

Arab expansion

 * Pure Arabica
 * The Bubonic Plague decimates Europe, killing nearly 2/3 of the population and reducing the Renaissance to ashes. The world was ill prepared for the Arab aggression and resurgence.

Mongols

 * Chinese World
 * A divided China partially resists the Mongol invasion, while the Mongols devastate western Europe. When the Mongols fall, the Chinese states are ready to conquer the unknown world.

Discovery of the Americas

 * New England 776
 * A group of Anglo-Saxons cross the ocean in 776 and settle along the Wiko Miki River, in what would have been southern Maryland.


 * Papatlaca
 * A major fatal disease develops in precolumbian mesoamerica. As the New World is ravaged by smallpox, the Old World suffers from papatlaca.


 * The Andean Wars
 * Christopher Columbus had his journey to the New World delayed 6 months, and his ships are destroyed in a hurricane. Civil war is waiting in Spain and the Ottomans won't be very friendly...


 * Cabotia and Brasil
 * The Castilian queen does not support Christopher Columbus who is not lucky in France either. The English and the Portuguese discover the Americas before 1500, though.

American colonization

 * Montezuma's Revenge
 * Cortez and Pizarro fail in their conquests of the Americas and to this day the powerful Aztec and Incan empires exist. The Mississippian Mound-Builders remained strong, and with the support of a technologically vitalized Aztec Empire fended off the attacking western cultures.  Also, the enigmatic Anasazi exist to this day...somewhere in the Southwest.

Far East and Oceania

 * Toyotomi Japan
 * Japan did not become isolationist as it did here, and expanded to fill the Pacific Ocean, colonizing California.

Seven Years War

 * British Louisiana
 * Disease in 1762 prevents the British takeover of Cuba, preventing the Spanish loss of Florida. Britain takes Louisiana instead.


 * Alpha (Transbellum)
 * 8 uchronies (alternate earths) learn of the existence of one another after the event known as the Grand Unveiling. They discover that the central empire of one timeline is little more then a backwater in another. Wanting to restore what they perceive as the natural place of their religious, ethnic or political groups but unable to have more then a limited presence elsewhere, they wage a transdimensional cold war.

Napoleonic Wars

 * The Napoleonic Empire
 * Napoleon waited on his invasion of Russia, and instead turned his attentions to England, committing the 600,000 men that he sent to Russia in an attack across the Channel, effectively humbling the thorn in his side, and allowing a French Empire of Europe.

World War I

 * Bolshevik Bleeding
 * A wiser and more watchful Alexander Kerensky avoids the rise of the Bolsheviks and October Revolution never occured, making the way free for democracy in Russia.


 * Capitalists of the World, Unite
 * The German railroad car smuggling Lenin into St. Petersburg is intercepted by Tsarist forces. Russia bleeds itself dry by the end of the Great War, but Communism never takes root.  Equally pulvarized against the Russian anvil, Germany sues for peace in 1917.


 * Kornilovshina
 * General Lavr Kornilov begins his coup earlier, and is succesful. Russia fights on to the end of World War One, with various changes major and minor throughout the world.

World War II

 * Cold Phoney War
 * Allied partial victory on Norway convince Hitler on the near imposibility of invading the British Isles, keeps Chamberlain in power and gives the Allies a position to directly fight the Soviet Union over Finland.


 * See Paris and Die
 * Field Marshal Erwin von Witzelen successfully assassinates Hitler on May 1941 during a military parade in Paris.


 * Der Rumänische Krieg
 * Romania enters into a nonaggression pact with the USSR and becomes one of the Allies.

American Civil War

 * Eye of the Storm
 * This realities POD occurs during the Battle of Gettysburg in which Confederate forces, deciding against the infamous Picket's Charge and instead choosing to flank Union forces eventually going on to rout the Northern army.


 * Rebellion of 61
 * This althist has two primary PODs. In the first, the nascent Confederate States of America is defeated at the (First) Battle of Bull Run, ending the brief Rebellion of '61.  In the second, the Komei Emperor of Japan lives several decades longer than in our time line.

Spanish Civil War

 * A United Front
 * The Spanish Civil War spills out to the rest of europe.

War of 1812

 * United States of New England
 * The War of 1812 goes from being a war against Britain to a full-flung civil war.

Mexican-American War

 * Viva California
 * The Mexican-American War was a bust. The California Gold Rush causes a rush of American population to the valleys of California. The Mormons are all Spanish speaking and the US's sentiment of Manifest Destiny is turned Northward, at least at first.

American Revolution

 * Failed Continental Congress
 * The 13 English colonies in North America manage their independence but they cannot agree on a common government.


 * Federalist Failure
 * The Federalists lose in their attempts to ratify the new Constitution, and the United States falls apart, leading to the rise of a Virginian "Empire".


 * The State of Canada
 * The Canadians answer the call of the Americans Rebels for revolt. After the American Revolution the state of Canada is created and nearly all British influence on the east coast of North America have been eliminated.


 * USA Kingdom
 * In order to replace the faulty Articles of Confederation, the Constitutional Convention chooses a king to head the government.

South American independence

 * Greater Colombia
 * San Martin manage to convince Bolívar he still has a role to perform in South America, letting Bolívar more room to prevent Venezuela seceeding from Colombia, and concentrate in freeing the Caribbean.

Technology

 * Cambridge Computing
 * Computing visionary Alan Turing and iconoclastic philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein establish an interdisciplinary program in Mind, Machine and Mathematics at University of Cambridge. By the year 2000 robots with human-like intelligence are common.

The Americas

 * Oswaldia
 * John F. Kennedy wasn't assassinated, the shot missed and killed Governor Connally instead. Because JFK was around to see the Space Race to completion, and it took a very different route...


 * President Gaitan
 * In 1950, Gaitán is elected president of Colombia. A populist leftish government, but supported by the CIA as a way to prevent true comunism to become a major power in Latin America, Gaitan is neither one of the best or worst presidents.  But butterflies from him surviving 1948, also prevented Castro to become leader in Cuba.

Eurasia

 * A World Divided
 * After Mikhail Gorbachev is killed just prior to him assuming power in the Soviet Union, the Cold War continues until today and many people meet a different fate.

Unclasified

 * The Loose Bandage Timeline (LBTL)
 * What if William McKinley was not assassinated in September of 1901? The story departs from our own when the bandage concealing the assassin's .38 caliber revolver slips off his hand, revealing the gun in time for a bystander to knock the failed assassin to the ground, thus sparing McKinley's life and delaying the years of progressivism which began under the tutelage of McKinley's Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt.


 * The Third Rome
 * The Russian royal family didn't intermarry with the English, and thus didn't have the hemophiliac genes that produces Tsar Nicholas II. Because this family had such a shift, Russia continued its expansion into Asia, remaining strong.  The Communists weren't able to take control of the Government of Russia and instead came to power in Marx's native Germany.


 * Here we go again
 * A world formed from several PODs:


 * The British Parliament agrees to the terms of the Albany Congress, ensuring that America remains British.
 * The Emperor Qianlong of China institutes modernising reforms in China, which leads it to becoming one of the Great Powers.
 * Símon Bolívar holds Gran Colombia together, and forms the League of Latin American States, which leads becomes a regional power in Latin America.
 * Germany is formed by the treaty of Erfurt in 1850, with Austria at its head. Prussian manipulations lead to dire consequences in the future.
 * Alexander III of Russia has a diferent tutor, thus instituting the reforms of his father, and democratising Russia. Thus Lennin and co. become a political party (the Red Army becomes a paramilitary organisation).
 * Charles Babbage's Diference Engine is compleated, thus accellerating technology.