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  1. Charles II had legitimate childern

    The POD is that Catherine of Braganza gives Charles II a number of children and the oldest surviving son succeeds Charles II to the throne of England. The children would be raised as Anglicans and the heir would be likely a High Church Anglican. The heir to Charles II would be called either...

  2. Australia develops nuclear weapons

    In OTL Prime Minister John Gorton gave the go-ahead for Australia to develop nuclear weapons, namely by giving the green light for the development of a nuclear reactor at Jervis Bay which would be used to make weapons grade plutonium. In OTL after John Gorton was replaced by William McMahon as...

  3. Attaturk lives until 1958

    Mustafa Kemal Ataturk died of cirrhosis of the liver, the POD is he does not drink as much as he did in OTL. Therefore; he does not get cirrhosis of the liver and died at the age of 57 in 1938, instead he lives for another twenty years until 1958. How would the Turkey develop with Attaturk at...

  4. Iran developed nuclear weapons in the 1970's

    The POD is that Iran under the rule of Mohammad Reza Shah starts a nuclear weapons development program, in the years just before the Iranian revolution as a way of defending Iran in case of a Soviet Invasion. Although the exact time when Iran developed nuclear weapons could be either before the...

  5. Kevin Rudd WI

    Kevin Rudd Australian Prime Minister from 2007-2010 and in 2013 was the member for the Queensland House of Representatives seat of Griffith in Brisbane from 1993-1996 and 1998-2013. He was defeated in the 1996 federal election in Griffith by the Liberal party candidate Graeme McDougall. In OTL...

  6. The Coalition win the 1990 Australian Federal Election

    The POD is the Coalition run a more negative campaign, focusing on the extremely high interest rates at the time. This would be broadly similar to the campaign that was employed in the South Australian state election in the previous year. The result on the election held on the 24th of March is...

  7. Australia Automotive WI - WA Kingswood

    The POD is that Holden in the late 1970's does not introduce the Commodore which was based off the based loosely on the four-cylinder Opel Rekord bodyshell with the front grafted on from the Opel Senator A. Instead they release the full-size WA Kingswood in 1978, which would have looked like...

  8. Australia Double Dissolution election in 2010

    On the 30 November 2009 the Australian Senate fail the pass the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation, which would have establish a carbon trading emissions scheme. The POD is then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd introduces the legislation into the Senate again and gets rejected a second time...

  9. Buddhist Indonesia and Malyasia

    The POD is that what is now present day Indonesia and Malaysia don't convert to Islam on anywhere on the scale they did in OTL. The main factor being that state that became the Malacca Sultanate in OTL did not convert to Islam instead becoming Theravada Buddhist. Therefore in the present day...

  10. Ottoman victory at the first siege of Vienna

    The POD is that the Ottomans break the first siege of Vienna in 1529, particularly by lot better weather occurring than in OTL. The way I see it, The Ottomans would control Vienna for maybe a decade if that. Then the Holy Roman Empire reconquers it. However in the longer run the Ottomans would...

  11. Malagasy settlement of the Mascrene Islands

    The distance between the Mascrene Islands and Madagascar is only a few hundred kilometres, there it is a mystery why the Malagasy did not settle these islands. The POD is sometime during the earlier part of the 2nd millennium AD the Malagasy settle both of these islands. The settlement could...

  12. Alternative siege of Vienna in 1683

    In OTL Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha decided not to destroy the various castles in Haspburg Hungary on the Ottoman Army offensive towards Vienna. The POD is that the Ottoman forces destroy the castles in Hapsburg Hungary on the offensive towards Vienna. The The Polish-Holy Roman would still...

  13. No Second Iraq war, instead a possible war with Iran

    Please forward me to some TL's regarding this, the POD I was proposing that is that the Administration of George W Bush decide not to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime. Because they come to believe there was no concrete evidence that linked Saddam Hussein's regime to Al Qaeda...

  14. Australian federal double dissolution election in 2009

    In Australia's federal parliament the lower house (House of Representatives) is elected to a maximum three year term and the Upper House (Senate) is elected to a six term. Usually with every election half of the senate is elected, however sometimes the a Double Dissolution election is held where...

  15. Normans in Spain

    What if in the 11th Century more Norman barons and knights went to Spain and served for the Christian Kings (along with the various rulers of the Muslim Taifas) and manage to create states (mostly nominally vassals to the Kings of Leon, Castile, Navarre and Aragon) out of the various Taifas of...

  16. Spanish Australia

    According to this article King Charles IV of Spain in the 1790's planned to invade Australia and invade the British colony in Sydney Cove with a fleet of 100 ships...

  17. Arab conquest of Spain was a failure

    If anybody can forward me past discussions , my POD is that the Visigoth King Wittiza lives for another thirty years (he was probably in his 20's when he died). OTL Wittiza's death triggered a succession crisis which weakened the Visgothic Kingdom, which very likely allowed for the Arab conquest...

  18. Islam prohibited polygamy

    Instead of allowing polygamy the Quran forbids a man taking more than one wife at a time. This could have happened with the New Testament limiting Church elders to just one wife and the Jewish Essene's were not fans of polygamy. Also monogamy would be a important differentiation between...

  19. The Fatimids were more successful in converting the Egyptians to Ismailism

    The Fatimid Caliphate were Shia Muslims of the Ismaili sect and they ruled over Egypt from 969-1171. However as far as I know the conversion efforts of the Fatimids over the Egyptians were not terribly success. Therefore the Muslims of Egypt stayed overwhelming Sunni to the present day. The POD...

  20. Israel conquered the West Bank and Gaza in 1949

    Essentially the POD is that Israel conquerors both the West Bank and Gaza in 1949. The result would be that would be even more Arab refugees going into neighboring countries (700,000 refugees out of a total Arab population of 1.3 million refugees in OTL), likely exceeding 1 million. It could be...
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