A Point Of Divergence, or POD, is a point in a timeline where history begins to change from our timeline. Prior to the POD, history runs the same as in our timeline. This page is intended as a summary of the PODs of all the alternative histories covered on this website.
Background[]
Points of Divergence often centered around wars, as it is in these moments that history turns one way or another. Series of books written by Harry Turtledove and others pick these times, as one change in the result of even the smallest of battles can have a great effect on the outcome of the war and in turn, the future of those involved.
BCE to 900s[]
- 4.6 Billion BCE
- Maximum Systema - A different solar system starting with a greater gravitational field being owned by our Sun.
- 4.56 Billion BCE
- White Star Jupiter - Jupiter is formed into a white dwarf star instead of a gas giant. This enables the habitation of all planets in our solar system.
- 4.5 Billion BCE
- Luna: Earth II - The Moon's core is 960 km in diameter instead of a mere 480 km. This led to a stronger gravity, a magnetic field and eventually, its own lifeforms.
- 3.70 Billion BCE
- A World Apart - Life forms on an entirely different continental system than that of traditional earth, causing human society to develop an entirely different history.
- 500 Million BCE
- Habitable Mars - Mars retains a thin but breathable atmosphere, as well as a protective radiation belt. Plant and insect life soon develop on the planet.
- 251 Million BCE
- Permian Extinction: Civilization - Sapient lifeforms and civilization emerge just in time for the Permian extinction.
- 65 Million BCE
- Tooth and Claw - A large meteorite fails to hit the Earth, instead hitting the Moon.
- The British Ain't Coming - A large asteroid hits the landmass that would have become the British Isles, destroying the landmass and triggering a mass extinction.
- Age of Dinosaurs - The meteorite which would have triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, misses the Earth
- 40 Million BCE
- Santa Clara - OTL Juan Fernández Hotspot cracks to open a rift valley that divides the Nazca plate, thus allowing the formation of a big volcanic island on the coasts of South America.
- 5 Million BCE
- Jaredia - The world is tilted, Eurasia and America are connected by a land bridge, and most of them have tropical climate.
- 200,000 BCE
- Zera - A small group of Homo Erectus crosses the Bering land bridge and develops in the Americas.
- 20,000 BCE
- Great White South - The climate around the Earth's South Pole warms significantly, enabling humans inhabiting the Antarctic continent.
- 13,000 BCE
- Blank Slate - The would-be first Amerindians to cross the Bering Land Bridge turn around, leaving a pristine continent until it is later discovered and settled.
- 9000 BCE
- The Green North - The glaciers retreat to the poles. However, instead of staying on the Arctic Circle, the ice melts into the ocean, enabling future human colonization.
- 4004 BCE
- No Supernatural Intervention - Adam and Eve leave a suddenly inhospitable rainforest to begin civilization in the fertile plains. They had never encountered the Creator God who chose to remain aloof from his creation.
- 2000 BCE
- No Abraham - Biblical Abraham dies as a young boy, never inspiring the Abrahamic Religions.
- 800 BCE
- A World without Rome - A young Latin Rome is destroyed by the Ligures and Etruscans, with profound influence on human history.
- No Rome - Amulius' orders to have Romulus and Remus executed to secure his rule over Alba Longa is successful.
- 405 BCE
- Athenian Legacy - The Athenians decisively defeat the Spartans in the infamous Peloponnesian War, forever changing the course of democracy's founding father.
- 380 BCE
- Plato Succeeds - Plato's Republic is put into practice by Alexander the Great after a near fatal accident causes his teacher Aristotle to promote his own teachers work on statehood.
- 331 BCE
- Nothing Changes - The philosopher Anaxarchus is injured in the battle of Gaugamela. He and Pyrrho temporarily stay in Babylon before moving to Alexandria - bringing the concept of the number zero with them.
- 323 BCE
- Alexander Empire - Alexander the Great does not die, but instead lives to be 86 and unites the Middle East and Europe under his dynasty.
- Whims of Fortune - Alexander the Great survives longer and the Empire stays together centuries longer.
- 200 BCE
- Ahtobiton - Germanic tribes unite and conquer much of Europe.
- 57 & 48 BCE
- Cupiditate Regni Adductus - A change in a minor Parthian dynastic struggle leads to the survival of a certain Surena, who, assisted by the untimely death of Julius Caesar, leads to a humbled and very different Rome, and a Parthian empire stretching from Illyricum to China.
- 30 BCE
- Ætas ab Brian - An Egyptian historian of the 1950's fell through time to influence Ptolemaic Egypt into seriously contesting Roman expansion.
- 12 BCE
- Roma Invicta - Augustus successfully colonizes Germania, Arminius is betrayed.
- 32 CE
- Christ Dynasty - Jesus Christ takes a less peaceful approach, but still emphasizing himself as the Messiah and son of God. He leads a rebellion establishing an Empire.
- 33 CE
- No Christianity World - Jesus of Nazareth is not crucified. In fact, he is released. Christianity lasts for less than 100 years.
- 79 CE
- Savior of Pompeii - An explorer rescues the people of Pompeii, saving over 20,000 people.
- 173 CE
- Superpowers - Marcus Aurelius encounters an intelligent young Greek boy in his tour of the provinces, and he is made his successor over Commodius.
- 282 CE
- The Kazakhstan Meeting - A deadly disease wipes out the Huns.
- 324 CE
- Seven Roman States - Roman Emperor Constantine fails to reunite the Empire, leaving the East divided in half and separate from the West.
- 355 CE
- Roman Superiority - The Roman Empire splits into thirds, creating the Western Roman Empire, Eastern Roman Empire and the Southern Roman Empire.
- Rise of Rome - Diocletian refuses demands to split Rome into East and West.
- 375 CE
- Germanic Power - The young catechumen Ambrose dies.
- 394 CE
- Superpowers - Quich'en Ch'onle Mayapan is born in the Mayan city-state of Calakmul and later discovers the wheel, gunpowder, cement and joins the Mayan cities together into a Conglomerate.
- 411 CE
- Germanic Power - Theodosius, son of the Imperial Princess Gallia Placida and Athaulf, King of the Visigoths, is born and survives to a ripe old age.
- 451 CE
- Hunnica: The Barbarian Rome - The Huns decisively defeat the Romans at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, and establish a new empire in the ashes of Rome.
- 488 CE
- The Rise of Avaria - The Avar Khanate survives collapse and becomes a world superpower, becoming the largest nation in the world.
- 548 CE
- Basileus' Interference - After years of war, disease, loneliness and an abusive boss, the mighty Byzantine Basileus buries the hatchet with his long time enemy Totila, to build a new kingdom from the ashes of Italy.
- 560 CE
- They Are Protected - The Kingdom of Cambria is formed.
- 632 CE
- Fidem Pacis: Emperor Heraclius converts to Islam. The rest of the Roman Empire and Europe soon follow, creating a slightly more peaceful and tolerant world.
- Without Muslims - After Mohammad´s death, the Muslims break apart and Islam doesn't last, because Europeans conquer them quickly.
- 642 CE
- Penda Dies - Oswald of Northumbria defeats and kills Penda of Mercia at the Battle of Maserfield.
- 755 CE
- Easternized World - The Tang Dynasty lasts into the late 10th century. After a new dynasty takes over, China takes over much of Asia.
- 776 CE
- New Wessex 776 - A group of West Saxons follow their bishop's dream and settle in southern Maryland.
- 812 CE
- Papatlaca - A Mayan farmer catches a disease which ultimately spreads to the entire world.
- 838 CE
- Imperium Cascadia - Zhangxin Qaghan never commits suicide and lives longer than in OTL. The Uyghurs attack the Yenisei Kyrgyz and force them to flee east. As a result, the Uyghur Khaganate lasted longer than in OTL, and the Kyrgyz migrate to the New World and settle in OTL's Washington by the turn of the 1st millennium CE. American history is drastically changed forever.
- 850 CE
- China's industrial-age space program - Instead of discovering gunpowder, the Chinese discover explosives, beginning a series of events culminating into an early space age.
- 889 CE
- Ard Marjhoola - Ibn Aswad, a Muslim navigator brings definite proof of discovery, leading to Muslim expansion into the Americas.
- 933 CE
- Burgundy Survives - Rudolph II cedes his claims to the Kingdom of Italy to Hugh of Arles. In return, he gains the Kingdom of Provence, thus reuniting the two territories of Burgundy.
- 934 CE
- The Kalmar Union - Norway falls apart permanently after the death of Harold Fairhair. The ensuing chaos there causes wide repercussions in Scandinavia, Europe and North America.
- 937 CE
- Burgundy Survives - Battle of Brunanburh - the allied forces of Dublin, Scotland and Strathclyde defeat the English.
- 960 CE
- Chinese World - Zhao Kuangyin is defeated in his attempt to take the throne of Northern China. No Song Dynasty gets control of China.
- 962 CE
- Vegetarian World - Muslim invaders were never able to establish a foothold in the Indian Subcontinent. India prospers and becomes stronger, and is more Vedic in religion.
1000s to 1700s[]
1000s[]
- 1000 CE
- Greater Britain - All territories - Aethelgwythr founds the Kingdom of Britannia from eight smaller Kingdoms.
- 1003 CE
- Ericson's Vinland - Leif Ericson encourages Greenlanders to settle Vinland after he discovers the island and stays there for a winter. After the Greenlanders create several successful settlements, word gets out to Iceland that a more hospitable land than Greenland has been found. This encourages Icelandic settlement and the establishment of a permanent colony.
- 1013 CE
- Vikings in the New World - In OTL, the settlement in Vinland was stopped because the natives had begun to get aggressive. But what if the Vikings were willing to fight for what they had conquered?
- 1014 CE
- The Clontarf Split - After the Battle of Clontarf, Sigtrygg Silkbeard is gifted land north of Dublin, the Orkney Isles and the Isle of Man.
- 1066 CE
- The Battle of Caldbeck - Harold Godwinson sends his brother Gyrth to strengthen his left flank at the battle of Hastings.
1100s[]
- 1100 CE
- Henry II Dies In 1100 - Henry II of England dies less than a day after his crowning.
- 1176 CE
- The Eagle Lives - The Byzantines defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Myriokephalon.
- 1185 CE
- Superpowers - Temujin prevents the Merkits from kidnapping his wife Borte, leaving no doubt in the father of his son Jochi.
1200s[]
- 1200 CE
- Chaos & Total Chaos - Genghis Khan dies from a very unlucky fall from his horse.
- 1209 CE
- Vegetarian World - The Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of Languedoc is a failure, eventually making vegetarianism in Europe stronger, and strengthening Occitanian areas, which would become part of the free nation of Catatonia.
- 1210 CE
- Assassins - The Hashshashin leader, Hassan III of Alamut comes to power. He develops the order to include any individual who is deemed worthy, not just Muslims. The sect survives into the modern era.
- 1212 CE
- Of Lions and Falcons - The Christian armies of Castile, Portugal, Navarre and Aragon defeated by the Almohad army at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa.
- 1242 CE
- Knightfall - Odegei Khan of the Mongol Empire does not fall to alcoholism, prolonging his life. The horde on campaign in Europe proceeds westward burning Vienna to the ground. The hungry warriors now look toward the far horizon determined to find the Great Western Ocean- to conquer, until they find the end of the world. Knights and peasants alike make a last stand for their homes and their lives.
- 1254 CE
- Age of Asia - Marco Polo dies at birth, and increased bandit activity along the Silk Road leaves it closed, dramatically changing history.
- 1282 CE
- Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum - After delaying their invasion for one year, the Mongols invade Japan, resulting to the collapse of Bakufu government (the Shogunate) and the extinction of the samurai military class and butterflying away Japanese militarism.
1300s[]
- 1306 CE
- What Habsburgs? - Stephen of Poland, the son of Wladyslaw the Elbow, survives and marries Elisabeth of Bohemia.
- 1307 CE
- Le Fleur de lys - The engagement between Princess Isabella of France and Prince Edward is canceled.
- 1331 CE
- Plowce et Crecy - Prince Casimir of Poland dies in the battle of Plowce, causing Poland to be in union with Bohemia again and the English are defeated in the Hundred Years War.
- 1368 CE
- Ming Blitzkrieg - The Manchu conquest of China never happens, leading to the continuation of the existence of the Ming Dynasty.
- 1398 CE
- Muar Kingdom (Alternate) - Parameswara established his kingdom in the city of Muar instead of Malacca.
1400s[]
- 1402 CE
- All Under Heaven - China manages to subdue the Mongols and brings them under Chinese rule.
- 1403 CE
- House of Percy - Henry 'Hotspur' Percy is not killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury.
- 1408 CE
- Welsh History Post Glyndwr - Owain Glyndwr leads his people with craftiness and cunning to secure freedom from the English. His crowning as king starts the long history of Modern Wales.
- 1411 CE
- A Kirby Earth - The Planet Popstar crashes into the Earth, creating an earth-Kirby universe.
- 1415 CE
- An East-West Reformation - Jan Hus refuses the invitation to the Diet of Constance.
- 1429 CE
- Joan of Arc Beaten - The clash of English and French arms at Orleans ends with Joan of Arc beaten.
- 1448 CE
- The Purple Mantle - The sudden assassination of Murad II and his son Mehmet II prior to the Second Battle of Kosovo, causes a great defeat to the Ottoman State, and prevents the future fall of Constantinople in Turkish hands (during 1453).
- 1478 CE
- Italia! - Aragon never forms Spain with Castile, and Granada is fighting them to stay Muslim. Later in 1485, Italy is reunited, and in 1492, Italy helps Christopher Columbus with The New World Discovery, instead of Spain. Sneaking through the Caliphate of Granada unharmed, Italy replaces The Spanish Empire, claiming all of OTL Spain's claims, making a bigger and better Italian Empire.
- 1485 CE
- A Kingdom and a Horse - Richard of York wins at Bosworth, ending the Wars of the Roses with a Yorkist Victory.
- 1492 CE
- Cabotia and Brasil - Isabella of Castile is not convinced by Christopher Columbus' proposal to reach the Indies by sailing westward.
- Via Latina - The lands discovered by Columbus become known as the Columbias instead of the Americas.
- 1493 CE
- The Andean Wars - The Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria become caught in a force five hurricane and all perish.
1500s[]
- 1503 CE
- Fidei Defensor - Henry, son of Henry VII dies of tuberculosis contracted from his brother Arthur; this leaves the succession of the English throne to Margaret, wife of James IV of Scotland.
- 1524 CE
- Nordic Empires - King Gustav I of Sweden exploits negativity toward Danish rule in Norway, aiding rebel forces to expel Denmark. A war ensues between the crowns of Sweden and Denmark.
- 1521 CE
- Aztec Empire - At the last moment, thousands of tribesmen arrive at Tenochtitlan to save the Aztecs from Cortes' hungry Conquistadors. The best days of the Mexica peoples lie in the distant future as a long uphill battle to survive 'The Easterners' ensues.
- Alliance City - The Portuguese win the War of Tsuen Mun, causing the colonization of Hong Kong earlier.
- 1527 CE
- Vicuña of the East - Some of Francisco Pizarro's horses fall ill with colic, leading to a failure in his expedition to Peru.
- 1527 CE
- Vicuña of the East - Some of Francisco Pizarro's horses fall ill with colic, leading to a failure in his expedition to Peru.
- 1549 CE
- Domus Iagiellonica - King Sigismund II and Barbara Radziwill gave birth to Stephan Jagiellon, heir of the Polish Crown.
- 1552 CE
- Ottoman World - The Ottoman Empire conquers the fort of Eger in Hungary.
- 1557 CE
- Samrat - In the Battle of Panipat, Samrat Hemu manages to defeat the Mughal armies in the Second Battle of Panipat and changes the course of Indian history forever.
- 1573 CE
- Sea Dragons - The Chinese pirate Limahong and his outlaw fleet successfully storm Manila, overrunning the Spanish Philippines. From Limahong's dreams of being a king the era of Asian beasts on the water; Sea Dragons are born.
- 1582 CE
- Gurētooda - The Honno-ji Incident ends with Akechi Mitsuhide retreating from the temple. The failure of the assassination attempt allows Nobunaga to unite Japan.
- 1592 CE
- A Better Korea - Toyotomi never considers invading Korea, leading into many more years of peace to Joseon.
- Toyotomi Japan - Yi Sun-sin dies in an accident. His death allows Toyotomi's invasion to succeed.
- 1593 CE
- Chinese America - China begins colonizing America, leaving a very different continent in its wake.
1600s[]
- 1601 CE
- An Mhaidín Mhaith sá Chionn tSáile - A storm delays the arrival of British troops to battle the Spanish in Kinsale in Cork. The Irish army of Hugh O'Neill and Hugh (The Red) O'Donnell meet up with the Spanish first and defeat the English at Kinsale. This leads to the Anglo-Hibernian War and severely reduces Britain's ability to forge a colonial Empire for quite some time.
- 1607 CE
- Dragon Awakens - A young Xu Hongzu was abducted by pirates along the coast of Jiangsu after a last-ditch attempt by the pirates to get enough slaves before returning to their island outposts. However, a storm destroyed the pirate's flotilla and Xu, along with the other survivors, were saved by a Portuguese merchant ship.
- 1635 CE
- Pragfreden - Sweden withdraws from (what we know as) the Thirty Years' War much earlier. The war ends much earlier, and Sweden moves on to conquer much of Prussia. The international precedents of the Treaty of Westphalia do not take place.
- 1643 CE
- Empire of Forever - The Spanish Tercios win the battle of Rocroi against the French, thus avoiding the decline of Spanish dominance on Europe.
- 1652 CE
- Vereenigde West-Indische Provinciën - The Dutch Republic wins a resounding victory in the Anglo-Dutch War and not only continues, but also expands its colonization efforts in the "West Indian" lands; giving birth to a very Dutch America.
- 1658 CE
- Cromwell the Great - The English Protectorate survives and thrives. The goals of the British Civil Wars, no king, no bishop, no lords are achieved. The Interregnum (1649–60) becomes permanent.
- 1678 CE
- Dutch Superpower - Mary Stuart gives birth to a live son, William. Making sure that the House of Orange remains the ruling house of England.
- 1683 CE
- 1683: Fall of Vienna - Austrian and Holy Roman Empire forces are defeated at the Battle of Vienna and the city falls to the Ottomans. The House of Habsburg is forced to flee Westward to escape the advancing Ottoman forces.
- 1688 CE
- Jacobite Glory - James II does not arrest the Seven Bishops, meaning no Glorious Revolution, and the preservation of the Jacobite Monarchy.
1700s[]
- 1702 CE
- No Great Britain - In response to the English “Act of Settlement” of 1701 to bar Catholics from the throne of England, Scotland enacts the “Act of Succession” that allows only Catholics to ascend to the throne of Scotland.
- 1709 CE
- Louisiana Revolution - During the Great Frost of 1709, word reaches war-torn, famine-ridden France of a plentiful harvest and milder weather in the colony of Louisiana, leading to the exponential growth and development of the colony into a territory that can rival Britain's American claims.
- 1713 CE
- Unbalance - The Treaty of Utrecht is signed in March, ending the War of Spanish Succession. However, France refuses to cede Newfoundland to Britain, sparking tensions between the two great nations.
- 1735 CE
- USA Kingdom - A third son is born to James Francis Stuart (the Old Pretender); James Maria Robert Stuart. His mother, Maria Clementina Sobieska, dies two days after giving birth.
- 1753 CE
- Washington Shot at Murdering Town! - George Washington killed in his very first military mission on the Monongahela. The coming of American Revolution cannot stand without its natural commander and chief.
- 1754 CE
- Here we go again - The British Government accepts the terms of the Albany Congress, making sure that America remains British.
- 1754 CE
- Spanish Commonwealth - Fernando VI de España denounced the treaty of Madrid or 'Permuta' signed shortly before with Portugal, which inaugurated a period of strength in real decisions about the other European powers.
- 1757 CE
- It All Started with Rossbach - The Franco-Austrian army is more organized, leading to a victory in the Battle of Rossbach.
- 1760 CE
- Day of Glory - Montcalm waits for reinforcements and manages to hold on to Québec.
- 1762 CE
- British Louisiana - The British fail to capture Cuba during the Seven Years War. Spain does not lose Florida and Louisiana is handed to the United Kingdom instead.
- 1775 CE
- The American Empire: The Stars and Stripes - The Battle of Quebec ends with an Thirteen colonies victory, leading to the Canadian rebellion with the Colonies and a united North American Nation by 1783.
- 1776 CE
- A More Perfect Union - The Iroquois Confederacy join the 13 Colonies in the War for Independence.
- 1776 CE
- Changed Destiny - Alternate Founding Fathers leads to an America with a changed destiny.
- 1777 CE
- No Destiny - Thirteen colonies dreaming of independence, fight without French, Spanish, Dutch or any other help. They gain independence in 1786, but war is hard and the government of the States and its citizens do not agree on the idea of Manifest Destiny. They also don´t migrate to the West Coast, so the original United States are still on the East Coast of North America and does not attempt to offend the Treaty of Paris in 1783, so Florida, Canada and the land west of the Mississippi river go uncolonized. A world with a real peaceful and not militarist USA.
- Howe's March - British General William Howe decides to go with John Burgoyne's plan of attacking Saratoga, instead of attacking Philadelphia.
- The Third British Empire - The British are aided by Native Americans at the battle of Princetown, and George Washington is surrounded and killed.
- 1778 CE
- USA Kingdom - George Washington is captured by the British during the Battle of Monmouth. He is later tried and executed for treason. Congress asks James Roberts to take command of the Continental Army.
- 1783 CE
- No Manifest Destiny - The United States agrees to the French proposal of the peace treaty, and they don't gain any new territory.
- 1784 CE
- Divergence Factor -0.229 - Thomas Jefferson's proposal to ban slavery in all new territory after 1802 is ratified by a narrow margin. Expansion of slavery is not an issue. The Republican Party is never formed. New England secedes, leading to civil war.
- 1786 CE
- King of America - The offer made to Prince Henry of Prussia is not revoked before he can make a decision. The prince, after numerous attempts to become a monarch of different nations in Europe, agrees, leading to the United States becoming a constitutional monarchy.
- 1787 CE
- Federal States of America - At the Philadelphia Convention (25 May to 17 September 1787), slavery and the slave-trade were outlawed in the new constitution, leading to three states (Georgia and the two Carolinas) not joining the new union and thus remaining governed by the 1777 Articles of Confederation.
- 13 Fallen Stars - A convention fails, a new country dies in infancy. The stars who made a dream now lie set against each other on the coast of America. From shattered pieces how will the stars rise again without a house to guide them?
- Liberty Lives - The US Constitutional Convention opts to go with a three-man executive branch as opposed to a single president.
- 1788 CE
- Russian America Expansion - Sitting in bed after a thoroughly enjoyable birthday, a thought pops into Catherine II's head about expanding the Russian Empire. The next day she announces her plans to send an expedition into OTL Alaska. This expedition which was never held in OTL is extremely successful and Russian America starts beginning to be expanded almost immediately.
- 1789 CE
- World of Monarchies - George Washington becomes King George I, which leads to a civil war. The French revolution is crushed with the help of the victorious American monarchists and the world is still ruled mostly by monarchs until this day.
- 1790 CE
- Washington's Flu - George Washington dies of pneumonia.
- 1793 CE
- Long live the Qing! - Lord Macartney's diplomatic mission to China is a full success, leading to industrialization in Imperial China.
- 1795 CE
- Ahtobiton - The Grand Duchy of Lithuania does not fall.
- 1797 CE
- Adams Dies 1797 - US President Adams dies, leaving ascending VP Jefferson to ally with revolutionary France.
- No Napoleon - Napoleon I dies due to disease, a month before the end of the War of the First Coalition, causing the French Republic to continue to continue to be one of the most influential nations in the world.
1800s[]
- 1803 CE
- How we lost Louisiana and won Mexico - The United States fails to purchase Louisiana. Instead Napoleon cedes Louisiana to the British who block American advance beyond the Mississippi. The outcome is a hundred years of fierce enmity and wars between a USA much smaller than in OTL and a much bigger Canada.
- 1805 CE
- French Trafalgar, British Waterloo - The Battle of Trafalgar is won by the French, allowing the French Empire of Napoleon to prosper, and survive to this day.
1810s[]
- 1812 CE
- Napoleon's America - Napoleon never goes through with his attempt to invade Russia. Instead, he sends troops to America after winning the Peninsular War. The addition of New Spain, Louisiana, and Quebec to the French Empire enables him to conquer most of Europe.
- Irish and British Alliance - The Treaty of Dublin establishes an alliance between the British and Irish, leading to a British victory in the War of 1812, and a more prominent Irish culture than in our timeline.
- Finlandia - Swedish involvement in the invasion of Russia leads to a spiraling cascade of consequences - not least of them being a larger Sweden, an Imperial Federation, and a very different Great War and Cold War.
- 1814 CE
- 1812 closure - The British win the Battle of Plattsburg, allowing them to dictate terms ending the North American war of 1812.
- 1815 CE
- Short-lived US - The British win the Battle of New Orleans, and General Pakenham insists on occupying it even after word has reached him that the war is over. President Madison re-declares war in response.
- 1817 CE
- Russian Pacific - Georg Anton Schaffer receives information that the Tsar would be sending an entire fleet of warships to assist in the takeover of the Hawaiian Archipelago.
1820s[]
- 1820 CE
- Caroline Era - Augustus De Morgan is not discovered copying diagrams from Euclid by a family friend and as a result, Moore's Law does not apply.
- 1821 CE
- Russian America - The Czar gives pioneers licensee to expand claims in the Pacific Northwest of North America. The Spanish long set on dreams of a Catholic West Coast gamble on a war to extinguish their rivals. So is born in fire and cannons- the embers of a new nation; a Russian America.
- 1822 CE
- 1822: Brazil split - D. Pedro, Prince Regent of Brazil, goes back to Portugal, which leads to many wars of independence and the splitting of Brazil into several countries.
- Greater Colombia - Bolívar and San Marti agree on a common path to free South America.
- Mexican Empire - The nationalist freedom fighter Agustin de Iturbide continues to rule Mexico as an emperor. A centralized stable Mexico takes steps to be a world power.
- 1828 CE
- Zulu - Dingane, Mhlangana and Induna, are all killed by Shaka Kasenzangakhona when they attempt to usurp the Zulu throne.
1830s[]
- 1830 CE
- Chinese Meiji - China starts a modernization program in the 1840s, overthrows the Qing dynasty, and sets up a constitutional monarchy. The result is a drastically different 20th century, where Germany dominates Europe and the Middle East is one of the most stable regions in the world.
- 1831 CE
- No Belgium - The French do not intervene in the Belgian Revolution, causing the Dutch to officially suppress the revolution. The French annex Wallonia, the predominantly French-speaking region, and the World Wars (as with the world) would never be the same.
1840s[]
- 1840 CE
- No Gold Rush - James W. Marshall dies of malaria in Missouri.
- 1843 CE
- Viva California - John Tyler is impeached and replaced by the radical and pro-slavery David Rice Atchinson.
- 1844 CE
- Hurrah! Hurrah! - Henry Clay wins the 1844 election instead of James K. Polk.
- 1848 CE
- Nationalism 1848 - Otto von Bismarck joins the Frankfurt Parliament and champions for German unification. Franz Joseph I's invasion of Hungary fails spectacularly.
- Victorious 1848 - The Austrian Empire collapses when the Viennese revolution succeeds. Andrew I becomes the Spanish King.
- 1849 CE
- Homelands - Cuban revolutionary Narciso López convinces Col. Robert E. Lee to join his ultimately successful filibuster expedition in Cuba. Cuba will later join the Confederate States during the Civil War.
1850s[]
- 1850 CE
- Conflict in the SouthWest - After being defeated in the short but bloody Mormon War, the citizens of the Deseret region of Utah, Nevada, Western Colorado, Southern Idaho and Wyoming and South Eastern California, tempers simmer until they flare up in 2003, causing the Deseret Conflict.
- 1852 CE
- Taiping China - The Taiping rebel army marches on to Beijing instead of settling in at Nanking; the overthrow of the Qing dynasty brings about a Taiping China.
- Rebellion of 61 - "Stonewall" Jackson dies, Union forces win First Battle of Bull Run, ending the Civil War.
- 1853 CE
- The Right Blunder - Austria intervenes with Russia in the Crimean War, leading to a hard-won but tangible victory, changing the European alliance system forever.
- 1854 CE
- Under The Southern Cross - The rebels win the Battle of Eureka Stockade, starting a full-scale Australian independence war supported by the United States, Russia, and the Netherlands.
1860s[]
- 1860 CE
- World Without Science - Charles Darwin's trial begins. The sentencing for his "demonic" crime against the Bible is the death penalty. Supporters of evolution are persecuted and people fear any type of science in general.
- Cotton Party - Jefferson Davis wins the presidency leading to the free states seceding.
- 1861 CE
- A Southron World - General Ulysses S. Grant is repulsed in his attempt to capture Paducah, Kentucky by Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk. The mouth of the Tennessee River is under control of Confederate Forces.
- A House Divided but Strong - Following the First battle of Bull Run, the US congress makes a peace offering to the south and the CSA and USA stand side by side in the world.
- 1862 CE
- The Confederate Utopia - Abraham Lincoln is assassinated. After a much longer Civil War, the Confederacy is triumphant.
- Axis World - General George Meade dies from his injuries at the Battle of Glendale, depriving the Union of his talents at Gettysburg and leading to a Confederate victory, which in turn alters world history drastically.
- Confederacy wins Antietam - The Confederacy wins the Battle of Antietam, and is eventually granted independence, becoming a world power because of slavery and cotton.
- 1863 CE
- The First Stone - Braxton Bragg defeats William Rosecrans at the Battle of Stones River.
- Give Them the Bayonet! - General Thomas J "Stonewall" Jackson leaves Chancellorsville unscathed and leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to victory at Gettysburg.
- No Gettysburg - Confederate President Davis sends General Longstreet to reinforce the West, rather than approving Lee's plans for invading the North.
- Eye of the Storm - Confederate forces, under General Robert E Lee, wipe out the Union army at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- 1864 CE
- Rout at the Monocacy - Jubal A Early takes Washington.
- 1865 CE
- Japanese Alaska - William H Seward is assassinated.
- A Better Tsar - Nicholas II is born.
- The Maxim - A shipment of steam boilers gets mixed up, resulting in the death of Hiram Maxim in 1865, and the survival of Anthony Duram, who advances naval technology greatly.
- 1866 CE
- Eastern Awakening - A worse outcome of the General Sherman incident had the Western powers react more brutally against Korea and had forced it to modernize, saving it from possible Japanese annexation.
- Rise of the Second Empire - Napoleon III's French Empire enters the Austro-Prussian War on Austria's side.
- 1867 CE
- The Watch on the Rhine - Despite stiff resistance from the Corps Legislatif, French minister of war Adolphe Niel successfully carries out far-reaching military reforms, leaving France much more prepared for the Franco-Prussian War.
- 1868 CE
- Rebellion of 61 - The Kōmon Emperor (Kōmei *here*) does not die. As a result, Japan's modernization takes place differently.
1870s[]
- 1870 CE
- The Legacy of the Glorious: Eusebio Salazar y Mazarredo's telegram detailing the time of his arrival to Madrid with Leopold zu Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen's confirmation of his candidacy to the Spanish Crown arrives correctly, stating his date of arrival as July 6th (In RL, it said July 26th).
- Vive L'Empire - Napoleon III manages to secure alliances with Bavaria and Austria-Hungary and in the subsequent Franco-Prussian War he emerges victorious over Prussia along with his Allies.
1880s[]
- 1881 CE
- Greater Russia - Alexander II of Russia is not killed by anarchists and the Russian Empire lasts to the present day.
- Russian Reversal - Tsar Alexander II of Russia is not killed by Narodnaya Volya and is able to change Russia into a constitutional monarchy.
- War Avoided - Tsar Alexander II survives the assassination attempt and reforms Russia to a democracy. He then continues improving relations with Germany, who doesn't get rid of Otto von Bismarck in 1890. As a result, Bismarck manages to retain good relations with other countries and thus the Great War doesn't happen.
- 1882 CE
- Central Italy - The Kingdom of Italy enters the alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary under more favorable conditions, ensuring her loyalty when the Great War breaks out.
- German Heritage - King George V learns German instead of French in his youth, and as a result makes different decisions down the line. This leads to the British monarchy being replaced in 1917 by a republic, which sues for peace with Germany, leading to a German Victory in April 1918.
- 1885 CE
- Long Live The Czar - Czar Alexander II is not assassinated. The Russian Empire survives to the modern day.
- 1887 CE
- Long Live Kaiser Friedrich III! - Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm is diagnosed with throat cancer. A risky and complicated procedure to remove the tumor is successfully completed.
- 1888 CE
- The Boulanger Era - General Georges Boulanger stages a coup d'état and becomes France's Head of State.
- 1889 CE
- Imperial Machines - Erich von Schweetz is born in Germany and Wreck-It Ralph franchise exits from 1889. Schweetz Publishers AB (Europalis) is founded in this year.
1890s[]
- 1890 CE
- Germany Didn't Drop the Pilot - Kaiser Wilhelm II is content to allow Otto von Bismarck to control the government, as Wilhelm I was.
- 1897 CE
- A Good Heart - Lighter Than Air - David Schwarz does not have a heart attack in 1897 and airship development progresses significantly.
- 1899 CE
- Second Sun - Philippine general Antonio Luna is not assassinated in the Philippine-American War, and Sun Yat-sen successfully sends infantry equipment to the Philippine Army.
1900s[]
- 1904 CE
- Early World War I - The Dogger Bank incident isn't solved diplomatically and it causes Britain to join Japan against the Russian Empire in the Russo-Japanese War; this eventually expands into a World War.
- 1908 CE
- London Event - A meteor destroys London and kills almost her entire population. The Pope claims it is a punishment of God. Europeans start sacking the London ruins and land occupation starts after a decree from German Emperor Wilhelm II.
1910s[]
- 1911 CE
- Agadir War - The Agadir Crisis, also known as the Second Morocco Crisis, is escalated by the German Empire, bringing on WW1 three years earlier, meaning that Germany wins the war.
- Not Revolution - Francisco I. Madero never rises up against Porfirio Díaz, avoiding the Mexican Revolution of OTL.
- 1912 CE
- Progressive USA - Roosevelt does much better in the 1912 Presidential election, not enough to win, but its enough to establish the Progressives as a viable party. This is in part due to a coalition with Eugene V Debs. From 1912 to 1916 the Progressives make step-by-step gains in the House and Senate and in both years get more votes then the Republicans, although they are defeated by the Democrats.
- 1913 CE
- Schlieffen's Plan - Instead of dying in this year, Alfred Graf von Schlieffen lives long enough to guide the German Army to victory in the Great War.
- 1914 CE
- 1914: Failed Plot - The unknown member of the Black Hand gun does not misfire, thus not causing Franz Ferdinand to take an alternate route. The members are arrested before they could do anything.
- 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.
- Princip Arrest - A terrorist named Gavrilo Princip is arrested before he assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. Tensions between major world powers continue and increase.
- Gavrilo Princip-World War - A terrorist named Gavrilo Princip is captured and killed before being able to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. Europe keeps peace and after years of stability, war breaks out in 1930.
- Imperial glory - Princip decides to eat his sandwich inside the food store instead of taking it with him.
- The Last Chance for Peace - Wilhelm withdraws his "blank check" offer to Austria Hungary. The Dual Monarchy is forced to fight Russia by themselves, resulting in a delayed WW-I with different alliances.
- A Different World War II and Cold War – Instead of wheeling east, Kluck's army drives into Paris, crushing the French, ending the war way earlier than normal.
- The War To End All Wars – The Great War plays out differently and has massive side effects that changed the world forever.
- Twilight of a New Era (1914-1964) – What could have happened if the Archduke hadn't been assassinated in 1914? This alternative history explores and develops that idea and the possible events that follow. This alternative history is on a limited timeline. It only develops events between 1914-1964.
- Allied Anarchy - Massive casualties at Alsace-Lorraine cause France to retreat farther- losing Paris. France surrenders, and the Central Powers win. Will it be better or worse for the world?
- Christmas Miracle - Instead of the Christmas truce being signed, a peace treaty is signed, ending World War One in 1914.
- 1915 CE
- Treaty of Sévres - Mustafa Kemal's life ends at Gallipoli, when a shrapnel hits his chest, destroying the Turkish War of Independence, leading to the Ottomans ratifying the Treaty of Sévres.
- 1916 CE
- For Want of an Inch - Shrapnel from an artillery shell ends the life of Adolf Hitler, eliminating his influence over post-war history.
- Kornilovshina - General Lavr Kornilov's coup succeeds.
- Red Scare World - Adolf Hitler dies when he gets struck by lightning.
- World War III-1956 - Lester Pearson, future Minister of External Affairs for Canada, dies in a bus accident.
- Casement Convinces - The Easter Rising is successful causing World War I to end in a stalemate.
- 1917 CE
- Kaiser's Age - Britain never cracked Germany's diplomatic code during World War I.
- EEC - The Pleß conference (Kaiser Wilhelm, Reichskanzler, Army and Navy leaders, Silesia, Germany) is delayed, thus delaying the resumption of Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare. A proposal for a peace conference by American President Wilson is then accepted by Germany and the Quadruple allies, but rejected by the Entente allies. The USA does not enter the War, Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare later in the year, resulting in a negotiated peace in mid 1918.
- Oystralia (State of Sion, Australian Confederacy) - The Balfour Declaration of 1917 had been intended as a formal but classified statement of policy by the British government on the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the World War I. The letter stated the position that the British government supported Zionist plans for a Jewish "national home" in Palestine, with the condition that nothing should be done which might prejudice the rights of existing communities there. However, in the aftermath of the First World War, with the British commitment to establishing Arab successor states in the former Ottoman domain, the Declaration was not accepted by the Cabinet. Chaim Weizman and other Zionists found their further settlement blocked in the Holy Land. The formerly dismissed Uganda Plan and other territorial schemes under the protection of the British Empire were dusted off for new consideration. Balfour and Lloyd George were amenable, and the colonization scheme that led to the State of Sion was born.
- Goddard's legacy - Mexico declares war on the USA, thus allowing Robert Goddard a chance for rocketry to make an earlier appearance on the battlefield.
- Capitalists of the World, Unite - The German railroad car smuggling Lenin into St Petersburg is intercepted by pro-Tsarist forces and Lenin is executed along with his compatriots. A battered Russia remains in World War I and Communism never takes root.
- WWII Backwards - The October Revolution fails and Lenin is executed. Russia is still forced to leave WWI early, earning the ire (and extreme financial punishment) of the other allied powers. The remaining Bolsheviks are exiled to Germany, where they assist the Sparticist League in forming a German communist state. Russia becomes a republic. In 1933 Russia elects Josef Dzhugashvili as Prime Minister on the platform that communists are to blame for all of Russia's trouble. Russia invades Poland en route to Germany to wreak vengeance on the communists. WWII begins.
- 1918 CE
- Ready for the Mother Country - Prince Alexei and Alexandria Romanov escape from their prison, and Alexei takes full command of the White Army.
- Armistice Forever - World War I ends as usual on November 11. This time, however, at the decisive Treaty of Versailles, the Allied Powers decided to invite Germany, Austria, the Ottoman Empire, Serbia, Poland, Mexico, and Japan to the negotiations. Only Russia, which is still engulfed in a revolution, is excluded from the conference.
- Temporal Incursion 1918 - 1st Lieutenant John Nichols was supposed to die at the Battle of Belleau Wood, but instead he was rescued by what he later called an 'angel.' This angel is in fact a time traveler from an unspecified time period in a possible future. Nichols' survival ultimately changes America and the world in various ways.
- The Kaiser Triumphant - The German Empire pulls almost its entire army to the western front and launches the largest offensive in history and Entente forces are overwhelmed and defeated leading to a German Victory.
- 1919 CE
- Red Germany - Hitler dies in World War I. Following the war, the Communists make a strong showing in the first-ever German democratic elections and quickly take control of Germany, leading to major changes in World War II and a strong alliance with the USSR.
- The American Empire - FDR and Mitchell Palmer are killed by a bomb planted by an anarchist in Palmer's library.
- To Comrade Trotsky, The World - Stalin dies of Tuberculosis. Mikhail Kalinin is appointed by Lenin in his place. Lenin is assassinated by anti-Communist White Russians while inspecting the units of the Red Guard in 1921 just outside Moscow. He is succeeded by Leon Trotsky.
1920s[]
- 1921 CE
- Nein - Promising German theoretical physicist Albert Einstein dies during his first visit to the USA. He never makes contact with Ernest Rutherford or Leó Szilárd and the Manhattan Project is never born. A world without useful atomic energy, a world without the Person of the Century.
- The Hammer of America - FDR dies from accelerated polio, which leads to Al Smith becoming president, resulting in a Second American Civil War, and the creation of a socialist state in America.
- 1923 CE
- Trotsky Succeeds Lenin - Lenin’s papers criticizing Stalin are published and Stalin never comes to power.
- 1925 CE
- Pink Money Power - The Society for Human Rights is not financially destroyed by a series of trials in Chicago.
- 1926 CE
- Free Catalonia - Riccioti Garibaldi is not a fascist spy, so the conspiracy organized in southern France to proclaim Catalan independence from Spain is not discovered in time to avoid it.
- Gramsci Lives - Antonio Gramsci seeks asylum after the Comintern convention and sets residence in Mexico.
1930s[]
- 1932 CE
- Red South - The Chilean Socialist Republic gains recognition and support from the USSR, eventually being manipulated into becoming an SSR. During the Cold War, the Americas are a fierce battleground between the USSR and the USA (plus its allies).
- Blood Stained Wattle - Civil unrest breaks out in the Australian state of New South Wales after a failed coup attempt by premier Jack Lang. From 1932 to 1935, Australian politics breaks down into a violent and sectarian conflict known as the Bad Years, before boiling over into civil war in 1935.
- 1933 CE
- No FDR - Franklin Roosevelt, not Anton Cermak, is struck and hit in the lung by Giuseppe Zangara and killed. John Nance Garner, his Vice-President, takes over but without Roosevelt's leadership, the Depression lingers for years longer and there is no impetus to become less isolationist.
- 1936 CE
- Close Encounters of the Third Reich - The crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft gives Nazi Germany a crucial advantage in the war to come.
- Intervention: Road to Armageddon - The Allied nations and the Axis nations both intervene in the Spanish Civil War, creating an earlier and much bloodier version of World War II.
- Nationalist China - Mao Zedong along with much of the Chinese Communists are killed when Nationalist forces assaulted the town that Mao was in, killing much of the Communist leaders and leading to the downfall of the Communism in China.
- New England Secession - Alf Landon surprisingly defeats Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 Presidential Election, with far reaching consequences, culminating in the secession of New England.
- No Keynes - John Maynard Keynes neglects to publish General Theory, eventually abandoning economics altogether, with far-reaching consequences.
- 1937 CE
- No Rape of Nanking - General Tang Sheng-chi of the Chinese Republican Army ignores Chiang Kai-shek and agrees to a three day ceasefire with Japanese forces besieging Nanking on December 9, 1937. The result is a relatively peaceful occupation of the city and few atrocities committed by the invaders. There is no world-wide outrage and small, if any impact on Japanese-American relations.
- 1938 CE
- Woody Guthrie, the Singing Sidekick - With the success of his local Los Angeles radio show with Lefty Lou, Woody Guthrie's life was Bound for Glory in song. Instead, his life took a different turning: Hollywood called.
- Cambridge Computing - Mathematician Alan Turing extends his visit to America and builds the world's first electronic computer. Back in England, he is able to complete his dream of producing human-like artificial intelligence by the year 2000.
- Fall Grün - The Czechoslovak government refuse to abide by the Munich Agreement, sparking a German (and later Hungarian) invasion of Czechoslovakia on October 1, 1938.
- 1939 CE
- Nuclear Realisation - Albert Einstein changes his mind over his support for Nuclear Weaponry.
- The Unlikely Alliance - On September 1st, 1939 - the eve of World War II - Hitler decides not to invade Poland, and to wait until his army is more prepared.
1940s[]
- 1940 CE
- How many Sixes does Adolf Nazi have to Roll? - The Wehrmacht attacks and defeats the Allied troops incl. the BEF near Dunkirk.
- 1941 CE
- Unternehmen Seelöwe - Hitler chokes to death on an apple, leaving Hess to lead Nazi Germany.
- Seeing Red (Army, that is) - The Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia provokes Stalin to mount a preemptive attack on Germany lest Russia becomes Hitler's next victim.
- Red victory - The Axis powers never engage in Operation Barbarossa and invade the Soviet Union.
- The Raging Bear - Stalin heeds Allied warnings of an imminent German attack, Barbarossa is a catastrophic failure for the Germans the second it is launched.
- See Paris and Die - Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben successfully assassinates Hitler on May 1941 during a military parade in Paris.
- Unternehmen Seelöwe, 1941 - Nazi Germany succeeds in invading the British Isles. This POD triggers several alternative timelines.
- Fatherlands - UK, China join Axis, defeat the Soviet Union in 1943, and then Axis wins WW-II. The Communist Party never controls China and establishes the PRC.
- Germanica - With the RAF destroyed, Operation Sealion goes ahead- and Britain falls to German rule.
- 1942 CE
- Rising Sun - The Japanese manage to secure a victory at the Battle of Midway, thereby crushing the US Pacific Fleet.
- The Undead World in 1943 - A Soviet soldier during the Battle of Stalingrad contracts a horrifying infection, and begins a war for the very survival of the human race which will span years and continents, and take the lives of hundreds of millions ...
- 1943 CE
- 1942 Stress - The USA suffers so much from the War, that it turns into a civil war!
- Morgen die ganze Welt - Nerve gas used at Kursk turns the tide of the war.
- 1944 CE
- Failed D-Day Invasion - The Nazis intercept Allied intelligence, and are better prepared for the D-Day invasion.
- Ceasefire 1947 - Fearing bad weather, General Dwight Eisenhower postpones Operation Overlord until June 19th.
- One Small Step for a Socialist... - Wernher von Braun is arrested and executed by the Gestapo for treason.
- 1945 CE
- Divided Japan - Harry S Truman does not argue as forcefully for possession of Japan as he does in OTL, and he does not order the dropping of the Bomb in 1945. The war ends the next year and Japan is partitioned like Germany.
- Superfortress - Truman does not use nuclear weapons against Japan and instead relies on Operation Downfall. Japan attempts to scare the allies into stopping the attack by causing chaos in China.
- No Nuclear Weapons - No one had ever thought an idea of nuclear weapons so the Allies invaded Japan and the US broke into a Second Civil War over the occupation.
- Patton Lives - Patton doesn't die in 1945.
- 1948 CE
- President Gaitan - No assassination attempt on Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, permits him to become president in 1950, with repercussions on Cuba and the Cold War.
- President Welles - After the failure of The Lady from Shanghai, Orson Welles decides to end his career in movies and turn to politics.
1950s[]
- 1950 CE
- One Nation, Under Kim - The USSR ends their boycott in the UN and vetoed Resolution 82.
- The Hammer, The Sickle, The Earth - Choi Yong-kun asks Stalin and Mao to aid in the Korean War.
- Indeed a different world - The US discovers the Chinese crossing the Yalu River and ambushes them.
- Fast Continents - Mysteriously the plate tectonics accelerate, disfigurating the world and killing almost all life in the planet. (Obviously an ASB)
- 1951 CE
- 6-2-5 Upheaval - Korea is reunited after the Korean War, creating a new power in Asia, and altering the Cold War by the lack of a Vietnam War, and the People's Republic of China becoming the Republic of China.
- 1952 CE
- Election 1952 - Adlai Stevenson becomes President of the United States after Robert Taft wrestles the Republican Nomination from Eisenhower.
- 1956 CE
- Suez War - Great Britain, France and Israel invade and occupy Egypt, removing Nasser and beginning the resurgence of the British and French Empires.
- 1958 CE
- Perez Jimenez's Venezuela - The Coup that overthrew Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez fail transforming Venezuela forever.
1960s[]
- 1961 CE
- Russia Ruins Stuff - The Soviet Union starts producing more bombs and annexing countries, only to have itself collapse 22 years later.
- 1962 CE
- Wounded Eagle]] - A chain of events leads to the victory of the Soviet Union in the Cold War and partial fragmentation of the U.S, while the Sino-Soviet split escalates into a second spree of proxy wars between the Soviets and China.
- 1963 CE
- Onward, Malaysia - To achieve independence from UK, Tunku Abdul Rahman established Malaysia as a loose Tribal Confederacy consisting of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah. Brunei later joins Malaysia, creates what would become the Greater Malaysia.
- November Tragedy - A tragedy puts John McCormack in the White House and Carl Hayden just a heartbeat away from the presidency.
- The Bullet Misses! Kennedy's Second Term - Lee Harvey Oswald fails in assassinating John F Kennedy.
- 1967 CE
- Revolutionary Front - The United States' influence in Asia collapses due to the Cuban Missile Crisis now encompassing all of Europe leaving Asian communists and democrats rushing to fill the void.
- 1968 CE
- Robert Kennedy Survives - Robert Kennedy is not assassinated.
- 1969 CE
- World X002 - Richard Nixon does not declare his Nixon doctrine and completes a second term.
- Retrofuture World - After the Apollo 11 astronauts return, there is a massive explosion of retro-futuristic technology.
1970s[]
- 1970 CE
- President Hendrix - Jimi Hendrix survives a fatal drug overdose, and meets Ron Paul, who puts him on the path to the presidency.
- Eternal Viacomflict - Due to new FCC regulations preventing television networks from owning broadcast syndication companies, a group of investors with ambitions far above the broadcast syndication market purchase CBS Enterprises from the Columbia Broadcasting System, transforming it into a separate company named Viacom.
- 1973 CE
- Peak Oil 1996 - OPEC convinced not to cut the supply of oil, thus averting an oil shock.
- Nixon's Early Resignation - President Nixon's lawyers convince him to resign, before a successor to Vice President Spiro Agnew has been named. Democratic House Speaker Carl Albert becomes President due to this.
- República Popular Argentina - President Perón is assassinated by a Military Junta, causing the Argentinians to shift to the Left and Under the Soviet Union, uniting to the Warsaw Pact.
- 1978 CE
- Congressman Milk - Supervisor Dan White fails to assassinate Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone on November 27, 1978 in San Francisco, California.
- Operation Cedar - Celebrity child molester Jimmy Savile dies of a heart attack at the age of fifty-two, causing the revelations of child sexual abuse in the entertainment industry to be revealed decades earlier than in our timeline.
- 1979 CE
- 1983: Saskatoon Blues NHL - The St. Louis Blues move to Saskatoon, Canada in 1983. The point of divergence is in 1979, when Bill Hunter (who founded the World Hockey Association, Edmonton Oilers and Western Hockey League) decides to use his marketing skills to lure companies and industries to Saskatoon before deciding to want to be an NHL governor.
1980s[]
- 1980 CE
- 1980: CBI Outbreak - A mutated form of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis develops to infect humans. The result? A global pandemic that drives humanity to the brink of extinction.
- 1981 CE
- The Gipper Goes Down - The short-lived Presidency of Ronald Reagan is ended by a disturbed gunman, as his assassination is successful.
- 1982 CE
- Argentine Victory - Decisive Argentinean military victory in the Falklands.
- 1983 CE
- 1983: Doomsday - Stanislav Petrov is not the officer on duty at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow, resulting in a nuclear holocaust.
- The Watershed - The Able Archer Crisis of 1983 results in a very different outcome. The USSR blockades Berlin, then invades West Germany, forcing NATO to use tactical nuclear weapons and like in the previous timeline also results in a nuclear holocaust, but not by accident.
- 1984 CE
- President Mondale - Walter Mondale proves all doubters wrong and defeats Ronald Reagan in the Presidential election.
- Capitalistic Republic of Canada - William Fredrickson and Sylvia Smith create the Capitalistic Republic of Canada.
- Successful Brighton Bombing - Margaret Thatcher does not survive the Brighton Hotel bombing.
- 1988 CE
- Biden vs. Bush - Joe Biden wins the Democratic Nomination for President, and beats George H. W. Bush in the Presidential Election.
- 1989 CE
- Gate of Heavenly Peace:The Third Chinese Revolution - The students at Tiananmen Square are as mad as hell and they're not going to take it any more!
- Michael Moore for President - After the release of his successful film Roger & Me, Michael Moore decides to run for public office.
- Impact - The 300 meter Apollo asteroid 4581 Asclepius doesn't miss the Earth, resulting in a massive collision.
1990s[]
- 1991 CE
- Blond Death - The Blond Death was a devastating plague pandemic that ravaged basically all of Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand in the late 20th century. It killed a quarter of the population of Europe, but was present in minus range in all the world. The disease was present like a flu in many people, but with the special that the flu infects and kills a high number of blond-haired, blue-eyed white people. The social scale of the world change forever.
- Ohga Shrugs - In the aftermath of Nintendo's betrayal, Sony decides to let it go, meaning the PlayStation brand is never created.
- 1992 CE
- No Perot - Ross Perot decides not to run for president and instead becomes a US senator.
- Clinton Who? - Paul Tsongas defeats Bill Clinton to become the Democratic Presidential nominee.
- President Quayle - President Bush dumps Dan Quayle from the ticket, giving him the figleaf of resigning to run in Indiana's gubernatorial contest against Democrat Evan Bayh. Quayle's seeming misfortune turns around, and eight years later he is president.
- 1993 CE
- Red Revival - The Soviet Supreme takes back power and restores a Russian Soviet State during the Russian Constitutional Crisis
- 1994 CE
- Shock and Awe: The Second Korean War - The Clinton Administration gives the world a crash course in the fine art of stopping nuclear weapons proliferation.
- President JEB - JEB Bush is elected governor of Florida.
- Rwandan Victory - The Rwandan government defeats the rebel RPF faction, winning the Rwandan Civil War and resuming the Rwandan genocide.
- 1997 CE
- President Gary - American Vice-President Al Gore is killed when Air Force Two, his official plane, crashes in California on his way back from a summit in China.
- 1999 CE
- No United States - Terrorists steal fifty-nine air force planes and bomb the capitals of each United States state, as well as Washington, D.C.
- Y2K Cascade - the Y2K bug infects computers around the world, causing detonations of nuclear weapons to random cities globally.
- Y2K Apocalypse - the Y2K scare turns out to be real, releasing thousands of nuclear weapons to target cities in several counties around the world.
- Year Two Thousand - Year Two Thousand is an actual scare, and the world goes into chaos as the year hits two thousand.
2000s[]
- 2000 CE
- President McCain - John McCain wins the 2000 Republican primaries thus securing the Republican nomination.
- Al Gore's 9/11 - Al Gore defeats George W. Bush for the 2000 Presidential Elections and would directly take the brunt of the 9/11 attacks a year later.
- Ecological United States - Al Gore defeats George W. Bush for that election, but unlike other elections, some right wingers become disillusioned with Republican Party and seeing Green Party as "Anti-Establishment Party", resulted eventually downfall of Republican Party and rise of Green Party in the next eight years. After that, Green Party (and first third party in long time) won 2008 election and very slowly transforms United States into semi-utopia multi-party nation with some downsides while United Kingdom and other nations may or not caught up with United States new political change.
- 2000: Y2K - Y2K actually is more severe, and even causes World War III.
- 2001 CE
- The Eagle Looks to the Right - The passenger revolt of United Airlines Flight 93 fails, resulting in the terrorists crashing the plane in the Capitol Building. Current President George W. Bush dies of a sudden heart attack, leaving VP Dick Cheney to take the helm of America to uncertain future.
- 9/11 Ends Differently - The 9/11 Attack is botched when both planes collide in mid-air and the incident is written off as a pilot error thus - the Invasion of Afghanistan never happens which subsequently means that the US Invasion of Iraq doesn't occur, and as a result the Ba'athist and Taliban Governments remain in power.
- 2002 CE
- The Capitol Burns - The September 11 attacks never take place. Instead, the Al-Qaeda 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 US capitol building. 97% of the members of Congress are killed, and so is 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.
- 2003 CE
- Between Iraq and a Hard Place - Leader of the House of Commons, Robin Cook, dramatically goes public with his opposition to the war in Iraq, by speaking at the London "Stop the War" rally (15/02/03). British troops take no part in the war, leaving George Bush.
- 2004 CE
- UKend - Six nuclear explosions blow up in the United Kingdom, only in biggest cities of England. An Empire without a King whose brother's nation presents herself to protected, the fall of the fifth economy and second military spender of the world.
- President Kerry - John Kerry narrowly defeats George W. Bush, sending American politics and policy in a different direction.
- H5N1Z - Avian Flu virus mutates in Western Europe, causing deadly effect to both population and politics, forming the H5N1Z outbreak.
- 2004/05 CE
- YouTubeLess - The Janet Jackson incident and tsunami never happen, so it never triggers the creation of YouTube.
- 2005/06 CE
- 2006: US Stays Red - Emily Miller, ex-fiancée of Michael Scanlon, doesn't implicate him to the FBI; also, Brian Ross of ABC News holds off on a story about Mark Foley and emails to pages. Failure of these scandals to emerge result in alternative.
- 2007 CE
- Sino-Australian Conflict - Kevin Rudd dies on the 4th of January 2007, without being elected as Prime Minister of Australia favorable to Sino-Australian relations, notably due to the fact that he could be the first Australian Prime Minister to speak fluent Mandarin and that closer engagement with Asia was one of the "Three Pillars" of his foreign policy.
- 2008 CE
- Georgia Mix-Up - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev orders preparations to invade the former Soviet Republic of Georgia however a critical mix-up in communications along the chain of command or a misunderstanding result in the Russian military believing the target is the U.S. State of Georgia.
- South Ossetia Escalation - Failure of the Sarkozy six-point peace plan on August 12, 2008, results in a continuation of the Russo-Georgian War lasting months instead of days like OTL and Russian troops occupying nearly the entire country. American military intervention in that conflict brings the world's superpowers to the brink of World War Three...
- Step in a Different Direction - Republican John McCain defeats the Democratic candidate Barack Obama in the US presidential election on November 4, 2008, and assumes the Presidency on January 20, 2009.
- 2009 CE
- Giant-Size Marvel Cinematic Universe - The extreme commercial and critical failure of X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009 (due to the work print that was leaked without any discovery by either FBI or MPAA) have forced 20th Century Fox to link the X-Men property with the more successful Marvel Studios.
2010s[]
- 2010 CE
- USA '22 - The United States would've gotten the 2022 World Cup, but Qatar stole it thanks to bribes. But what if Qatar never bribed FIFA? This timeline will go over What If.
- 2012 CE
- Romney's America - After his strong performance in the debates in October, Mitt Romney manages a narrow victory at the polls in November, defeating incumbent President Barack Obama. He is sworn in the following January 20th as 45th President of the United States.
- 2014 CE
- Scotland says "Yes" - majority of the Scottish populace votes for independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Scotland becomes fully independent a year later. This promotes massive independence movements around the world in regions where separatists are present.
- Atlantic Resolve - TBD
- 2016 CE
- The UK Stays - The United Kingdom's referendum in 2016 about its membership in the European Union returns with the result to "Remain". How does this affect the world?
- 2018 CE
- MAGA Revolution - During a private meeting at the 2018 Helsinki Summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to help make sure U.S. President Donald Trump remained in power regardless of the outcome of the 2020 election in exchange for getting the United States out of NATO to support Russia worldwide. This would lead to a very different January 6th Capitol attack.
2020s[]
- 2021 CE
- The Great Impact - A small asteroid collided with a much larger one called 1 Guinea; its new course is Earth.
- 2023 CE
- Twilight of the Capitol - The United States Capitol is bombed in a terrorist attack during the State of the Union Address, leading to the deaths of the President, Vice President, and almost the entirety of Congress.
See also[]
- Alternate trends
- Counterfactualities
- Hinge moments
- Today in Alternate History, a daily-updated blog, featuring "Important Events in History That Never Occurred Today" in several recurring timelines.