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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 * 1901: A Space Odyssey


 * 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.

A

 * 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.


 * 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 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.


 * 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...


 * 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

 * 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...


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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"

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.


 * 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.
 * 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 disasterous 1988 Convention speech does more harm than previously thought. His bid for the nomination in 1992 ends disasterously as well, when the Jennifer Flower tapes are released before Iowa and he ends up in single digits there and in New Hampshire. Mario Cuomo wins the nomination.


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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.

E

 * 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".


 * 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.

G

 * 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 Jnr. 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.

H

 * 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.

I

 * 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.

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.


 * 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.

K

 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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

 * 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

 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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.


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


 * 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?


 * 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.

O

 * 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...

P

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


 * 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.


 * 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 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.


 * 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

 * 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.


 * 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.

S

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


 * 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.


 * 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.


 * 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 VII 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 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.


 * 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.


 * 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.

U

 * 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 faver as a child. No one from the DFL party is able to step up and soon Revolution is in place...

V

 * 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.


 * 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.

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.


 * 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.

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.

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