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  1. American Revolution without one or more leaders

    History can often turn on single events. - A young Lieutenant George Washington almost got himself killed during the French and Indian War. - Benjamin Franklin sailed many times to Paris to gain and maintain royal French support. The British were looking for him at sea. What if he were killed...

  2. Lenin assassinated in Switzerland

    Yes, sorry, I was thinking of the Kerensky government and the Duma. Would Trotsky be as successful? Would the Bolsheviks split into factions? And what would Stalin do?

  3. Lenin assassinated in Switzerland

    What would be the effects if a Russian Socialist Revolutionary made it into Switzerland and assassinated Lenin before the Germans allowed him to return to Russia? Would the Bolsheviks be as successful in disrupting the Empire under Trotsky as they were under Lenin? Would Trotsky strike a deal...

  4. 1812 La Palma Event

    Interesting. I wonder what some of the Native American groups that were starting to ally together to fight US encroachment west of the mountains would do. Also, which historical figures might have had their lives cut short and not be able to contribute to events that took place in our timeline.

  5. 1812 La Palma Event

    Actually, I was wondering what the actions of the European powers might be after seeing most of the coastal US suddenly destroyed and depopulated within a few days. Would any of them be tempted to either expand or reassert control, perhaps under the guise of reconstruction? Would surviving...

  6. 1812 La Palma Event

    All right then, if not caused by a volcanic event, how about a small asteroid strike in the North Atlantic in 1812 with the same effects - with the added "bonus" of having megatsunamis racing out in all directions? What would happen when a 200ft tall wave a mile wide and a thousand miles long...

  7. 1812 La Palma Event

    Thanks for the comments. Other factors I was looking at were: Effects on the US population which was at the time still concentrated on or near the coasts. Effects on coastal agricultural land poisoned by sea water. Effects on coastal cities like Boston, New York, Philidelphia, Washington...

  8. 1812 La Palma Event

    The volcano on the island of La Palma in the Canaries erupts causing a massive landslide into the ocean as almost all of the island collapses. A megatsunami is created that races primarily north, east and south with a wall of water several hundred feet high and several miles wide. It reaches...

  9. Minimax methods for creating ATLs

    In Asimov's End of Eternity time technicians use methods to create alternate time lines to fit the grand plan of Eternity. They are trained to create the most minimal change to cause the greatest possible effect in creating an ATL. In the ATLs on this site which would be some of the most...

  10. Queen Victoria assassinated

    I was reading through the Wikipedia entry on Queen Victoria and found this: The Queen married Prince Albert on 10 February 1840 at the Chapel Royal in St. James's Palace; four days before, Victoria granted her husband the style His Royal Highness. Prince Albert was commonly known as the...

  11. Christianity Falls, 10th Century

    Christianity falls in 10th Cent. Hello, Poul Anderson wrote a short story called Eutopia in which one of the parallel worlds the main character visits is one in which Christian Europe falls to Muslim, Madyar and Viking. Pagan Europeans make contact with Native Americans in the 11th Cent and...

  12. Turks convert to Greek Orthodoxy before entering Asia Minor

    What would be some of the consequences if Greek Orthodox missionaries had reached the Turkic groups before they made contact with Islam? Would the newly Christianized Turks eventually amalgamate with the Greeks, infusing Rome in the East with new vigor and go on a crusade into the Holy Land and...

  13. Native American AH source

    Hello, I was browsing in Borders and came upon a book that would be useful for those researching AH Native American timelines. It is titled "The Americas That Might Have Been" by Julian Granberry, published in 2005 by the University of Alabama Press for $29.95. The author discusses aspects...

  14. Britain returns Canada to France 1760

    France gets Canada back Very interesting posts here. Here is another possible twist. France gets Canada back for whatever reason in the 1760s. The French Revolution occurs but the Royalists manage to get at least the Dauphin out of the country and safely transport him to Canada to set up a...

  15. Great personages versus great events

    Which version of historical reality do you believe holds sway? Either a great person will arise to be at the right time and place to do great deeds, for good or ill; or, if one particular person had not been at that time and place, another person would have taken his/her place as dictated by the...

  16. Thera explodes later in history

    Thera Thera to me is the best explaination for the Atlantis myth.

  17. Britain returns Canada to France 1760

    Canada reverts back to France 1740 Thank you for the corrections. What do you think the consequences of France getting back Canada would have had on the American colonies' independence movements?

  18. Thera explodes later in history

    Thera I was also wondering what effect, Fates forbid, a Toba level of eruption would have had if it had occured in any recorded historical period of your choice. Toba was a mega volcano whose explosion dwarfed Krakatau and Thera and whose effects actually created a genetic bottleneck in...

  19. What if . . . the Vikings had STAYED in Vinland (North America)

    Vikings in America Just an additional comment. Skandinavia at the time of the Norse colonization was undergoing a change in political/religious makeup. Relatively loosely organized pagan chiefdoms in Norway and other areas were being replaced by centralized Christian kingdoms, a process many...

  20. Thera explodes later in history

    In 1650 BC the island of Thera exploded, devastating the eastern Mediterranean and changing the course of history. Considering that a period of thousands of years is but an eyeblink in geologic time, what would be the consequences of an explosion at a much later date? I would like to find out...
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