Alternative History:List of Althists

This is a list of Alternate histories existing on this site. Feel free to add your own!

See also a historical list of alternate histories, ordered by historical moment of POD or main difference.



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 * 1763: France defeats Great Britain
 * In the course of the Seven Years' War, a few events propel the French to victory over the British and the eventual domination over the North American continent.


 * 1901: A Space Odyssey


 * 1916: Year of Peace
 * Situation in the beginning of World War One creates a victory for Germany in the west and evantually in the east without the entrance of the US and Italy on the allied side.


 * 1951: A Third World War
 * The United States declares war on China and North Korea following the defeat of UN forces at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.


 * 1975 without Fraser
 * Explores the Australian Dismissal crisis without Malcolm Fraser to lead the Liberals into power. Whitlam's budget is never blocked and he is allowed to govern until the 1977 election.


 * 1983: Doomsday
 * Stanislav Petrov is not the officer on duty at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow. On September 26, 1983, Soviet early warning satellites report a series of American missiles launched at the Soviet Union. The duty officer reports it, and due to escalated Cold War tensions, the Soviets launch what they think is a counter-strike of their full nuclear arsenal.


 * 1991: Longer Gulf War


 * 2006: US Stays Red
 * "Abramoff-gate" and "Foley-gate" fail to emerge and the Republicans keep Congress in the 2006 midterms.

A

 * Australian World
 * A series of events leads to an australian dominated world.


 * Alexander Empire
 * Alexander the Great died at age 86 and unified most the known world including Rome Republic and Carthage. He cemented an empire spanning from Atlantic Ocean to Indian Ocean.


 * All the Way with JFK
 * Describes the Vietnam War, the 1964 election and the Kennedy dynasty, all as a result of Oswald missing his target in 1963.


 * Along The River Marne
 * A German victory along the Marne River changes the outcome of World War I and leads to a different Europe during World War II.


 * Alternate New World
 * Anti-Depression
 * The failed assassination of Austria-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand enables the Central Powers to avoid a two front war by facing Russia alone.


 * A Peoples’ History of the Third Great Patriotic War
 * USSR wins Cold War and is faced with a war on terror


 * A Spectre is Haunting Texas
 * A United Front
 * The Spanish Civil War spills out to the rest of Europe.


 * 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.


 * A World in Chaos (The Great World Wide Earthquake of 1977)
 * A World In Crisis
 * Bill Clinton dies in a car crash before Election Day, 1992 after taking the role of Democratic Party candidate and selecting Al Gore as vice presidential candidate. Al Gore assumes candidacy, loses the election and the world ends up differently... Made by WhatIf.


 * An Earlier War on Terrorism


 * 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...


 * As A Glass Darkly
 * George Willett, Jr.'s twin brother survives, allowing George Sr. to disinherit Jr. when he runs off to join the Barnum & Bailey Circus.


 * Australian-Japanese War of 1941-44
 * Germans invade and conquer Britain in 1940. The Japanese, who remain content with Manchuria in this timeline rather than trying to conquer all China (and who do not attack Pearl Harbor), seize British Empire in southeast Asia. Part of British fleet ends up in Australian harbors. Japanese seize New Guinea, starting a HUGE build-up for invasion of the island continent. Roosevelt, hampered by an America Firster Congress, sends lend lease, including aging submarines. Australian government declares total mobilization, crash industrialization to produce at least a trickle of tanks and fighter planes. With help of British and American engineers, the Australians create and mass produce new anti-tank weapons and other artillery. Two American Army officers, Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton, resign their commissions (at secret urging of Marshall and Roosevelt) and lead a volunteer force of Americans and Canadians (the Washington-Macdonald Brigade, later the North American Volunteer Army Group) to help bolster the defense of fortress Australia. Can seven million people, if all adults of both sexes are armed and trained, defeat the expeditionary forces of Imperial Japan? Can Ike outwit MacArthur (who is trying to interfere from the Philippines), the Japanese General Staff, and German spies, while also restraining the egomania of Patton, "Free British" leader Montgomery, and young volunteer Lieutenant Pierre Trudeau? And what will be the fate of Captain Ronald Reagan, Lieutenant John Kennedy and Corporal Isaac Asimov? And which young volunteer officer (or non-com) will win the heart of nurse Jane Russell (who in this timeline did not sign a seven-year contract with Howard Hughes in 1940)?...


 * Axis World
 * The Axis victory in the Second World War brought about the rise of four major superpowers - the Greater German Reich, the Neo Roman Empire, the Japanese Empire and the United States. As these four nations struggled for control of the world, society was altered irrevocably, but the Cold War between Fascism and democracy could not last forever...

B

 * Banana World
 * United Fruit (later Chiquita) and Standard Fruit (later Dole) maintained their strangleholds on the Latin American nations, bringing a quite literal definition to the term "Banana Republics"


 * Basileus' Interference Timeline
 * an extremely involved, far-reaching and complex timeline of human history from the times of Jesus onwards, to a newer, stimulating possibile scenario. Is development can be followed at http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=11464


 * The Battle of Caldbeck
 * North of Hastings, 1066. This neglected footnote in the early carreer of Harold Godwinson could have turned out very differently indeed. It is perhaps best remembered today for the comical name of Harold's opponent, William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy. Had William triumphed the horrors of the feudal system would have been visited on this island.


 * Between Iraq and a Hard Place
 * Political turmoil in the UK means that the US is forced to go it alone in Iraq. It is militarily more than capable, but is left politically isolated...


 * The Bishop Royal
 * Prince August Frederick (1773-1843) follows his youthful ambition of being ordained.


 * 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.


 * Borgian Empire
 * Pope Alexander VI and his son Cesare are more successful in building up a lasting presence in Italy.


 * British Empire Triumphant
 * The British do not enter World War One and remain the dominant power into the 21st Century.


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


 * Burgundy Survives
 * The kingdom of Burgundy survives to the present day, and becomes a colonial power.


 * Byzantine World
 * The conversion of Mohammed to Christianity prevents the Arabic conquests of Byzantine lands and allows the Eastern Roman Empire to flourish much longer. The shape of Western Europe is also changed considerably.

C

 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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 Capitol Burns
 * The September 11 attacks never take place. Instead, the Al-Qaida network chooses a bigger, and more deadly, target. On January 29, 2002, during George W. Bush's State of the Union address, an airliner dive-bombs into the U.S. Capitol building. 97% of the members of Congress are killed, and so are most of the cabinet, including the President and Vice President. The Presidency passes to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, who presides over the beginning of the end for American democracy.


 * Celebrity World
 * The election of Ronald Reagan as President in 1968 started the United States, and the world, off on a celebrity kick. From then on, every U.S. President has been an actor, musician or other non-political celebrity prior to entering politics, the entire U.S. Senate is made up of celebrities, and this craze has spread to other nations as well.

Note: this ALT is very, very silly.
 * Republic of China, circa 1970
 * The United States' George Marshall did not intervene to stop the Chinese civil war and there was no arms embergo on the Nationalists. Consequently the Chinese Communists, even with all the weapons of the Manchukuo Army and most of the Japanese Kwantung Army weapons and the increased size of its forces, was defeated in the Northeastern area in China in 1947.  The warlords gardually lost powers to Chiang Kai-shek and for the first time, central authority was established at Nanking that could lead the whole nation, and China modernizes - in the 1950s according to Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People.


 * China's industrial-age space program
 * Chinese World
 * A divided China partially resists the Mongol invasion, while the Mongols devastate western Europe. At the downfall of the Mongols, the Chinese states are ready to conquer the unknown world.


 * Clinton Who?
 * Bill Clinton's disastrous 1988 Convention speech does more harm than previously thought. His bid for the nomination in 1992 ends disastrously as well, when the Jennifer Flower tapes are released before Iowa and he ends up in single digits there and in New Hampshire. Paul Tsongas wins the nomination.


 * Codename: Mnemosyne
 * After Charles Babbage's Difference Engine is compleated, the progress of technology is accelerated. Cybernetics and Genetic Engineering technologies have changed the elite few into superhumans, who are far from tolerated by the massess.


 * 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.


 * Colonizing the Southern Sea
 * Several events led to a continuation of the early Ming era naval expeditions, and Ming China finally becomes a colonial power (which is actually counterfactual).


 * Colonial Powers
 * When the Colonial Powers in North America and Africa maintain their holds on the continent, what would happen? The British still lose America.


 * Commonwealth of America
 * The American Rebellion has failed. When Canada gains self-government in 1867, America follows suit as a free, democratic constitutional monarchy, consisting of the 134 original colonies plus the captured Louisiana territory. With no United States to threaten its existence, Mexico flourishes until torn apart by unrest and civil war.


 * Confederate Victory
 * What if the CSA won the Civil War? It leads to a very different today.


 * Cromwell the Great
 * Charles I was executed in 1649. He was Britain's last king. Following his death, Britain became a republic, known as the Commonwealth - governed ostensibly by Parliament but in reality by the dictator Oliver Cromwell. With the monarchy abolished, and the 'pretender' Stuarts never again to return to the throne, there is no revolution in the American colonies, and Cromwell and his successors lead a very different kind of British Empire.

D

 * Day of Glory
 * Starting with New-France never falling to the british, a domino effect create a timeline where the balance of power is held by the Republic of France and the United Royal Provinces.


 * Dead America
 * North America uninhabitable and Earth without superpower


 * Dixie Victorious
 * Jefferson Davis negotiates successfully with France and Britain that in return for ending the horrors of slavery, the European powers will secure Southern national sovereignty. Southern California, New Mexico and Arizona join the Confederate States in 1870, creating a Confederacy stretching from Miami to Santa Barbara.


 * Divided America
 * Britian never FULLY conquers america, and Spain and French devide America in thirds.

E

 * The End of the West
 * 1989 - the collapse of the United States sees it break apart and embrace Socialism and Communism. The Western world rises up to shake off the imperalistic Capitalist dogma that has stifled its growth, and the world embraces the True Way - the Soviet Way.


 * Eurasian Alliance
 * 1921 - one year after the successful Kapp Putsch. Disappointed how she was treated by the allies after World War I, an authoritarian Germany seeks new allies for her revenge: the Soviet Union and the Nationalist Republic of China.


 * Evania
 * Real world, unreal history


 * Eye of the Storm
 * The rise of the Confederate States of America following their victory over the Union in the American Civil War sees a new world order emerge without the presence of the United States.

F

 * 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".


 * Federalist Republic of Louisiana
 * Alexander Hamilton is never born, and thus is unable to stop Aaron Burr's plot to form a Federalist republic in the Midwest.


 * Field of Honor
 * Dueling still affects US politics in a parallel world.


 * Fields Family
 * The Fields Family is the ruling class in Antarctica and Austrailia.

Although the Battle of Gettysburg is seen as the turning point in the American Civil War, it was actually much closer than it might seem. If Jeb Stuart had not gone off on a glory-grabbing raid instead of providing intelligence to the Army of Northern Virginia, and if the Confederates had been successful on getting artillery to the summit of Big Round Top to enfilade the Federal lines, and if the second day’s plans had been executed properly on the Confederate side, then the battle -- and the war, and the world -- may have turned out differently. Here, then, is one way things might have gone.
 * Five Nations
 * Florida voted Blue
 * Some chads fell off in Florida and its 25 electoral votes went to Gore. Explores the first four years of a Gore Presidency - his responses to September 11, the invasion of Sudan and the prospect of four more years.


 * For I have seen many worlds
 * Essentially a compendium of my alternate timelines, simmilar to Transbellum, but with more althists.

G

 * Gate of Heavenly Peace:The Third Chinese Revolution
 * The Tienanmen Square massacre escalates into full-scale civil war.


 * George Bush Screws Up
 * After George Bush declares war on Iraq, The UN calls for the world to defend Iraq, and prevent an illegal war. The United States is defeated, and the UN headquarters moves to England.


 * 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.


 * The Gipper Goes Down
 * Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States, shot dead in 1981 by John Hinkley Jr. His Vice President, George Bush, assumes the Presidency and is bombarded from all sides by the Iran-Contra scandal, which brings him down and his administration with it.


 * 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.


 * God eu Mac̉
 * The languages and religions of Earth never split up, leaving a few (slightly) peaceful nations, such as Usic̉uw.


 * A_Good_Heart_-_Lighter_Than_Air
 * David Schwarz, a pioneer of airship development, does not suffer a fatal heart attack in 1897.

H

 * Hanover- the millstone around Britain's neck


 * 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.


 * Here we go again
 * The acception of the Albany Congress, and a renaiscance in China leads to a world somewhat diferent to our own.


 * Hitler awake, Panzercorp attack, Sarin massacres)
 * The D-Day Invasion, the major part of Operation Overlord, turns into a total disaster for the Allies with Hitler actually not sleeping and intelligence actually doing what it's supposed to do.

I

 * The Impeachment of William J. Clinton
 * Self-explanatory really; Al Gore ascends to the Presidency following the 1999 impeachment of President Clinton and his subsequent conviction by the U.S. Senate.


 * Imperial States of America
 * 1776: The Continental Congress declares independence from Britain. Following a bloody war between the colonies and the mother country, Britain is defeated and America, under the iron-fisted rule of Emperor George and his heirs, becomes an imperial power to rival Britain herself.


 * Industrial Revolution, 350 BC
 * Democrates who in OTL had created a steam engine in the Greek Colony of Marsille, manages to bring the technology back to Athens and a new technological revolution ensues.


 * Italy Victorious
 * A Genoese officer transforms a region of divided city-states into a world power during the french revolutionary wars. The Latin Empire eventually rules the Mediterranean and finds its place in the sun.

J

 * Japanese Alaska
 * William H. Seward does not survive the assassination attempt, April 14, 1865. As a result, the United States does not buy Alaska from the Russians, and it ends up in Japanese hands.


 * Joan of Arc Beaten
 * What if Joan of Arc lost, leading to the rise of Burgundy? Started at This Day in Alternate History, where User:Tom Veil also maintains the timeline.


 * Jazz Greats Who Didn't Die Young
 * Five legendary figures in jazz history did not die in their 20s or 30s. Instead, they went on to ever greater achievements, sometimes not in jazz.


 * Julius Caesar is Defeated by Ganymedes
 * (From Wikipedia): Ganymedes (1st century BCE) Highly capable adviser & general of Cleopatra VII's sister & rival, Princess Arsinoe. Defeated & almost killed Julius Caesar in battle at Alexandria, capturing his cloak in the process. Could have changed the history of Rome and of the eastern Mediterranean if he had not been displaced through Egyptian court intrigue.

K

 * The Kaiser's New Order
 * With a German victory in 1915, Germany slowly begins economic domination of Europe. Russia avoids the Communist revolution and remains a monarchy and a power bloc opposed to the Kaiser's expansionist policies. Impotent Britain has little choice but to co-operate with Germany's plans, leading to a more united Europe and the Great World War fought between the European powers, Japan, and the United States.


 * The Kazakhstan Meeting
 * A disease kills off the Huns during the rule of Diocletain, and the Eastern European tribes never have to move. The Roman Empire expands until they come into contact with China.


 * The King and US
 * Elvis Aron Presley does not die in 1977, and kicks the drugs, gets in shape and stages another comeback. But this time, the comeback leads him into a political career, winning the White House but finding the business of government harder than he thought...


 * The Knights Resurgent
 * Korea Supreme
 * Korea conquers the much barbarian Japan in the 3rd century A.D. The current Japan never exists, and the history of Southeast Asia changes forever.


 * 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.

L

 * La Republique Populaire
 * Victor Hugo leads France into Socialism and intensive industrialization in preparation for Revanche against the imperial Germans...


 * Lest the darkness fall again
 * A new darkness threatens the world of the future.


 * Long Live Kaiser Friedrich III!
 * Friedrich III lives, leading to a very different Great War.


 * Long live the Qing!
 * Lord Macartney's diplomatic mission was a great success- enamored with Western technology and innovation, Qing China modernises... but not politically. A powerful military could resist the Western powers, yet nontheless, Great Qing is bound to fall. Various domestic tensions accelerate the process of the Chinese Revolution.


 * 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.

M

 * Maailma ilman koneita (World without machines)
 * A Finnish-language alternativehistory about world where is no machines.


 * The Many Nations of North America
 * After a victorious civil war for the South and a mysterious plague, United States and CSA crumble during the 30's into a wide arrays of countries.


 * Mega Fuana
 * A comet is diverted from its path and burns up in the atmosphere and dumps 20% more Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere. This increase stops all ice ages after 2 million years ago.


 * Menzies Defeated
 * Arthur Calwell defeats Robert Menzies at the 1961 Australian election. Gough Whitlam comes to power at the head of cultural reforms in the 1960s, transforming Australian society into a multicultural melting pot.


 * Mexican Empire
 * Agustin de Iturbide never abdicates and Mexico remains a monarchy that later goes on to become a major world power.


 * Mission Un-Accomplished
 * President Bush dies in a plane crash on his way to the USS "Abraham Lincoln". Dick Cheney becomes President and runs for re-election with Condi Rice as his Vice-President.


 * Mongol Crusades
 * Abaqa Khan succeeds finally in allying himself with the Crusaders. A large Christian Army joins with the Ilkhan's hordes, to carve out a new Empire in the Middle East. The defeat at Ain Jalut is finally avenged.


 * 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.


 * Morgen die ganse Welt


 * Mosley's Britain
 * Explores the rise and fall of the British Fascists under Sir Oswald Mosley. Examines in detail their rise to power in 1935, the London Pact between Hitler, Mosely and Mussolini,the Anglo-German invasion of France and the carving up of Europe between London, Berlin and Rome. Describes the disintegration of the Empire, the American invasion of England and the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbour and San Fransisco. Witness the downfall of Mosely at the hands of the United States and the crumbling of Europe in the face of a Soviet invasion. Visit England today, defeated but proud, carved up into her component parts and subjected to the whim of the United States.

N

 * 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.


 * Nations and Allegiances
 * New Albion
 * The British find San Francisco Bay in the 1590s, and their west coast empire expands. They judge their claim to be very valuable, and take the Mexican cession in 1848.


 * New Wessex 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.


 * Nineteen Eighty-Four
 * Nixon's Early Resignation
 * Nixon's lawyers talk him into resigning before he has chosen a replacement for Spiro Agnew.


 * No 1906 San Francisco Quake
 * No Christianity World
 * Jesus of Nazareth is released by the governor of Judea, Christianity dies out by around AD 100.


 * No Gold Rush
 * James Marshall dies of malaria in the early 1840s, and there is no one to discover gold in California.


 * Not-so-Slick Willy
 * President Bill Clinton is impeached by the Senate in 1999. Al Gore assumes the Presidency but can he avoid the taint that destroyed Clinton?


 * Nothing Changes
 * The Greeks adapt positional math notation and the number zero from the Babylonians.


 * New England, Republic of
 * Following a loss in the War of 1812, the New England states see their chance to break free come. This is the history of the Republic of New England.


 * No Gettysburg
 * The Confederacy successfully sues for peace after Gen. Lee remains on the defensive, rather than invading the North and meeting the Union Armies at Gettysburg. It survives into the present day.


 * November Tragedy
 * A 1963 plane crash changes the course of American history.

O

 * One Small Step for a Socialist...
 * Werner von Braun is executed by the Gestapo in 1944; while Sergei Korolyov survives his hemorrhoid operation and leads the Soviets to a lunar landing in July 1969.


 * 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...


 * The Other Romanov
 * 1985: Upon the death of Konstantine Chernenko, the leadership of the Soviet Union passes not to Gorbachev but to Grigory Romanov. Perestroika and glasnost never happen, and the U.S.S.R. enters the 1990s and beyond as a strong, but internally troubled, superpower.


 * Ottoman Empire
 * The Ottoman Empire lasts to the present-day as a major power.

P

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


 * Peak Oil 1996
 * In 1956, Marion King Hubbert predicted that the peak of global oil production would occur shortly after the start of the 21st century. Unforeseen at that time was the tremendous economic growth in Asia. Thus, the Oil Peak occurred in 1996. More than 10 years later, civilization is in danger of becoming but a memory, as people now agree that Peak Oil was more momentous than the Black Death, Black Thursday, or the World Wars in human history, and much more devastating.


 * 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.


 * Permian Extinction: Civilization
 * Sapient, or intelligent, life evolves shortly (some 90,000 years) before the Permian Extinction, which wipes out 95% of all life on Earth, like that extinction does in OTL (it is the biggest extinction ever to strike Earth). Civilization arises 11,000 years before the extinction, starting near the mountains in the middle of the Pangaean supercontinent. By the time of the extinction, airplanes ply the Tethys Ocean from and to the lands surrounding it and the larger Panthalassic Ocean is being explored, and there is a high level of technology. Then the Siberian Traps eruptions begin anew, releasing great clouds of methane (thus triggering the extinction)... how will the people react?


 * Populist USA
 * After George W. Bush invaded Iran in 2006, the Democrats fell apart. They were replaced by a new socialist-leaning party, the Populist Party. They are elected in 2008 and become a major party


 * 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.


 * President Gary
 * After the tragic death of Vice President Al Gore when Air Force Two crashes in 1997, President Clinton appoints a new VP. When Clinton resigns in 1999, that man is elevated to the presidency.


 * President Kerry
 * In the wake of a pointless, illegal war, George W. Bush is defeated for re-election in November 2004. Explores the American political climate six months into the Kerry Presidency.


 * President Quayle
 * The press expects that it won't have Dan Quayle to kick around anymore after he is dumped from George Bush's re-election ticket in 1992, but it turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to him.


 * The President is a Commie!
 * Henry A. Wallace is retained as Roosevelt's VP at the 1944 election. When Wallace becomes President in 1945, he sets about a US foreign policy that results in greater Soviet domination of Europe, and is nearly impeached for appointing Russian agents to his cabinet!


 * Psychic America
 * In 1865, a psychic predicted and prevented President Lincoln's assassination. As a result, Lincoln created a Cabinet post called Harbinger-General. This Harbinger-General's job was to predict natural and man made disasters and he ended up being so successful that Americans came to believe in psychic abilities. Thus, the US of this world has averted the disasters that befell alternate Americas and the so-called "harbingers" are highly regarded.


 * 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.

R

 * The real Invincible Armada
 * The Invincible Armada left Spain but it was the English fleet the one which was destroyed by cannons and storms. The Spanish army managed to conquest England. English people had to find another land to live.


 * 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.


 * Red Napoleon
 * In a world without Adolf Hitler, Stalin's Soviet Union becomes powerful and aggressive, triggering a Second World War as the USSR grapples with the European Alliance over the fate of the Old World. Stalin's defeat does not discourage the USSR's new leader, and decades later, a Soviet invasion of the continental United States triggers a Third World War. As the Allies and Soviets battle across the globe, a terrifying movement grows in Russia, built on dark technologies and headed by a psychotic genius bent on world domination...


 * Rise of the South
 * The Confederacy wins the American Civil War. America is torn asunder by the Southern Secession. Gradually, more Northern states are brought into the Confederate fold until the two nations are recombined in the late 1800s. But this new, Southern-dominated America soon faces international condemnation for its continuation of slavery, leading to an isolationist, xenophobic Confederate States. In the twentieth century, the world is plunged into conflict as the Confederacy goes to war with Europe and Japan.


 * Roman Printing
 * A lead pipe manufacturer invents single letter printing. This practice is taken up by Augustus and printing acquires an association with the Roman Imperium.


 * Rising Sun
 * The Japanese manage to secure a victory over the Americans at the Battle of Midway in 1942, thereby crushing the American Pacific Fleet.


 * Royal Prerogative
 * A timeline with many points of difference, beginning with James VI of Scotland being raised Catholic, continuing through Frederick the Great's unification of Germany, Alexander II surviving the attempt on his life and the Dutch failure to give independence to its Far East possessions. The world becomes a very different place, with different wars and the forging of new nations.

S

 * Sacrifice of Angel's


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


 * Seeing Red(Army,that is)
 * The Soviets go pre-emptive and attack Germany in late April of 1941.


 * Shadows of Roswell
 * Aliens exist! In 1948 they came to Earth in a blaze of glory. The survivors of the Roswell Crash become international celebrities and, in time, create both hope and fear as their technology and knowledge is put to use, yet their very presence divides the world.


 * Shock and Awe: The Second Korean War
 * Clinton makes up his mind to teach Kim Jong Il the hard way that developing a nuclear weapons program isn't as easy as it looks.


 * Socialist America
 * Marx moves to America instead of France, and authors his Manifesto with Charles Dickens. The rise of the communist movement in the New World.


 * Socialist World
 * Various PODs lead to a Socialist USA and continent bestradling Soviet Union.


 * Southern Victory
 * After the South wins independance, North and South face off again in two World Wars.


 * Soviet Invasion
 * Communism sees a significant rise during the 1980s, which enables the Soviet Union to increase its military power. In 1988 Ted Kennedy is elected president and then eventually surrenders the United States to a Soviet invasion, which allows the Soviets to dominate most of the world.


 * 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 has been eliminated.


 * Stephen King of England
 * King Stephen's descendants maintain a grasp on the throne of England, while Matilda and the Angevins rule over Normandy, and later Aquitaine.


 * Successful German Socialist Revolution
 * Friedrich Ebert, the head of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), dies in an automobile accident. Germany ultimately becomes socialist and the USA (an Axis power) decides to nuke Berlin.


 * Swede Victorious
 * In 1708, the rising Swedish Empire led by Charles XII destroys Moscow and Russia falls into decline. Sweden soon becomes a rival to Britain to rule the OTLVictorian Era.

T

 * Taiping China
 * The Purtian Revolution is successful in China, in 1850 leading to a resurgance of Chinese power


 * The American Empire
 * Franklin Roosevelt is killed by a bomb planted by an anarchist in 1919. A new man, William Ritterman, arises during the thirties and spells the end of American democracy. Allied with the Third Reich and the Japanese and Italian Empires, Ritterman creats an empire stretching from Tasmania to Tierra del Fuego, from Manilla to Montreal, stopping on the way to implement a ethnic cleansing and a new Imperial dynasty.


 * The Eagle Lives
 * The Byzantines defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Myriokephalon and survive to the present day.


 * The First Stone
 * Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee decisively defeats William Rosecrans' Army of the Ohio at the Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro) and pursues them to Nashville, which he then besieges.


 * The Great Global War
 * The Central Powers win World War I, they ally with the new French Empire and the UK against the new USSR led by Trotsky, who becomes a close ally of the Japanese and Mao's Chinese Marxists. The USSR invade many countries, leading to a Great Global War. Resume of the events leading up to the war, and about the fronts of the war.


 * The Third Rome
 * Ivan the Terrible controls his temper, resulting in the birth of a grandchild, and the life and rule of his heir, Ivan V. Russian history is forever re-directed and The Third Rome rises in the East.


 * Theocracy in Europe
 * Pope Gregory VII is even more successful in fighting against the German king, Henry IV. The Papal States become a leading power in Medieval Europe.


 * Tooth and Claw
 * This timeline speculates what might happen if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs c.65,000,000 years ago failed to hit the Earth.


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


 * 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.

A group of my Alternate Histories, similar to Transbellum and For I have seen many worlds
 * Transmundi
 * Trotsky Succeeds Lenin
 * Lenin's testament is published while he is still alive and Stalin is discredited. Trotsky leads the Soviet Union into the post-war era.


 * Texas World
 * When Texas seceeds from Mexico, instead of joining the U.S. they manage to build a good form of government and get out of debt. Texas eventually becomes a superpower.

U

 * União de Sul África
 * A Portugese South Africa Rebels against England and the US buys Canada and Cuba. Hilarity ensues.


 * United Commonwealth
 * Australia,The Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and Tuvalu unite.


 * United Europe
 * A Napoleonic victory creates a United Europe in the early 19th century. Over time, Europe rises to become the greatest power of our modern age, despite tensions with a surrounded United States.

The Eureka Stockade incident in 1854 becomes a full-scale anti-British rebellion, tearing the colony of Victoria and soon afterwards all of Australia away from the British imperialist yoke. Australia becomes a republic modelled on the United States - the United States of Australia...
 * United States of Australia
 * United States of New England
 * The War of 1812 goes from being a war against Britain to a full-flung civil war.


 * United Socialist States of America
 * FDR dies of scarlet fever as a child. No one from the DFL party is able to step up and soon Revolution is in place...


 * Unternehmen Seelöwe, 1941
 * The annihilation of the BEF at Dunkirk, followed by a successful Battle of Britain enables Nazi Germany to invade the British Islands, just before the attack on the Soviet Union. This is an open timeline. There are several possible scenarios after the German conquest of Britain. You may contribute to the existing scenarios or add new ones.


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

V

 * Valley Forge
 * General Howe decides to leave Philadelphia and attack Washington at Valley Forge.


 * Vegetarian World
 * India becomes a major world power. The Cathars survive the crusades against them and vegetarian Catharism becomes a major religion in Europe and later elsewhere.  Many other non-vegetarian related events occur, and this leads to a world not completely unlike our own, but quite different in many ways, too.  The Vegetarian World has over 50 pages (and counting, as of November 2006) and is fully fleshed out (or "veggied out", as the case may be) with demographics info, maps, flags, and even some photos!


 * Vereenigde West-Indische Provinci&euml;n
 * The Dutch win the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652) and keep their colony of New Netherlands (VWIP) and expand it by capturing New England. In 1772 the 9 Colonies of New Netherland declare indepencence and that is the start of the war of independence. New Netherlands succeeds, renaming itself to 'de Vereenigde West-Indische Provinci&euml;n' (United West-Indian Provinces).


 * Via Latina
 * Various points of divergence in OTL lead to a world of airship-utilizing Latin-named countries.


 * Victoria's Heirs
 * POD: Victoria dies in childbirth in 1840, leading to strife in Britain


 * Vietnam Victory
 * What the world would be like if the United States had won the Vietnam War.


 * Vinland
 * Erik the Red refuses to adopt Christianity in 1000ce. Cut off from Europe, the Greenland colony relocates to Markland (Labrador) where they wipe out the Dorset peoples and befriend the Inuit.  By 1450, the pagan colonies of Markland and Vinland are strong enough to send ships back to Iceland and re-open trade relations.


 * 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.


 * Viva Mexico
 * Emperor Maximilian of Mexico's success in retaining power sees Mexico regain its US-captured territory by invading a United States exhausted after the Civil War, then expands into the Pacific, Caribbean and Central America to become a leading world power.


 * Vive Pommeragne!
 * While the Vienna Congress was on, a small part of french army that was staying in Pomerania established the new, independent Republic of Pomerania. Confused prussian army couldn't fight with a revolt. The new country was born.


 * Von Schlieffen plan

W

 * The Walrus Lives!
 * Mark Chapman's shots miss John Lennon and he survives to lead a 1980s Beatles reunion, culminating at Live Aid which helps the cause make significant inroads into fixing poverty.


 * Washington Shot at Murdering Town!
 * George Washington killed in his very first military mission. (An Open Time Line)


 * Watchmen
 * The rise of actual costumed heroes causes superhero comic books to decline in popularity. The creation of Dr. Manhattan in 1959 from a nuclear accident gives the United States the advantage over communist Soviet Union and the war in Viet Nam, leading to President Richard Nixon to successfully repeal the 22nd Amendment, allowing anyone to serve unlimited terms.  Nixon is still President by 1985, when the book's events take place.


 * 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.


 * Where is Everybody?
 * A combination of natural disasters and plagues has wiped out everybody on earth by the turn of the 21st century, except for 0.1% of the population. The planet therefore is home to six million people - but nationalism survives, leaving a severely depleted USA with just 300,000 people (including only 7,000 in New York City), a shattered China with only a million citizens - and the Vatican City with a population of one!


 * Whims of Fortune
 * Fates of nations, empires, religions and cultures are mere playthings to Fortune; some rise to greatness only to be brought low, and some fall, only to rise to breathtaking heights again. In this ATL, follow the successes of the Kushans, the Vandals, the Rus and the Turks, contemplate the lost glories of Carthage, Babylon and Khazar, and weep for Rome and Mecca, whose greatness was denied by Fortune's fickle hand.


 * The Wild Dream of Henry Parkes
 * 1894: Henry Parkes, leader of the Australian Federation movement, dies. With his death, the move to unite the six Australian colonies dies, and as the 20th century rolls around, Australia remains a continent divided. That is, until the Japanese come knocking...


 * With All My Heart
 * Hannibal succeeds in defeating the nacent republic. Thus ended the dream of Rome.


 * World War III-1956
 * Lester Pearson's UN solution fails and the Soviets aid Nasser repel the British, French, and Israeli forces. Escalation leads to World War-III.

Z

 * 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.

Alternate Histories hosted elsewere

 * Ill Bethisad


 * various alternate history timelines and links


 * http://www.althist.com/homepage.htm Timelines include "Empty America".


 * http://www.anthonymayer.net/ah/history.html Timelines include "Spinoza on Turkey".


 * http://www.wolfram.demon.co.uk/alternate_history_top.html Timelines include Clive-Less World, Monarchy World and Puritan World


 * http://www.changingthetimes.net Changing The Times - The Alternate History eZine