Timeline (Caroline Era)

Nineteenth Century
27th June, 1806 - Augustus De Morgan, potential future logician and mathematician, is born in Madras, British Raj.

1820 - Point Of Divergence 1 - Although the fourteen year old De Morgan shows interest in Euclid, this goes unnoticed by the family friend and he eventually becomes a humourist and Unitarian minister instead.

10th September, 1839 - Charles Sanders Peirce (Caroline Era) is born in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Twentieth Century
28nd March, 1907 - Lucia dos Santos is born in Aljustrel, Portugal.

1907 - Point Of Divergence 2 - Charles Murray Spangler successfully markets the domestic vacuum cleaner.

9th July 1913 - Isaac Blank is born in Germiston, South Africa.

1910s - Point Of Divergence 3 - Isaac Blank's parents having stayed together, he is not radicalised by his mother's lodgers and neither becomes a Marxist nor emigrates to the UK. This means there will be no Militant Tendency in the UK and the nature of British hard left politics is very different.

13th March, 1917 - Lucia dos Santos, Jacinto Marto and Francisco Marto, while tending sheep, are understood to have witnessed the first of several apparitions of the Virgin Mary, during which she imparts a number of prophecies and visions to them.

June 1917 - Beginning of the Spanish 'flu' pandemic.

1919 - Point of Divergence 4 - Lucia dies of influenza.

20th February 1920 - Jacinta Martos dies of influenza. With her death, the details of the "Three Secrets Of Fatima" will remain unknown and have no influence on the Roman Catholic Church.

22nd January, 1946 - Malcolm McLaren is born in North London.

1948 - Point Of Divergence 5 - Pete McLaren does not leave Emmy Isaacs and Malcolm is not raised by his maternal grandmother. He becomes a cafe proprietor in Stoke Newington, though quite a creative one at quite a trendy cafe.

21st April, 1960 - Point Of Divergence 6 - Edwina Mountbatten does not die of a heart condition in Borneo.

14th December 1973 - UN Resolution 3160 recommends that the Argentinian and UK governments enter into negotiations regarding the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands/Malvinas.

1974 - Point Of Divergence 7 - The UK Government negotiates a co-dominion with Argentina, to last for 99 years.

1st January, 1975 - South Atlantic Co-Dominion is founded - a joint governorship of the Falklands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands between the UK and its successor state the Federated Kingdom to last for ninety-nine years. This means there will be no war between the UK and Argentina in this timeline.

27th August, 1979 - Lord Louis Mountbatten's wife persuades him not to take the boat out while on holiday in County Sligo and he is not assassinated. His daughter Amanda goes on to marry the Prince of Wales.

30th March, 1981 - Point Of Divergence 8 - Ronald Reagan is assassinated by John Downey Jr in Washington DC. George Bush Sr. takes over the presidency.

13th May, 1981 - Pope John Paul II is assassinated by Mehmet Ali Agca at the behest of the KGB. The Vatican has been less cautious about his protection as a result of their lack of knowledge of the Three Secrets Of Fatima, though whether this has supernatural tendencies or not is a different matter.