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  1. Felice Orsini kills Napoleon III and Eugénie in 1858

    14 January 1858: The Emperor and Empress of the French are killed on the way to the theatre when a bomb thrown by the Italian radical Felipe Orsini explodes in their carriage. The official heir to the imperial throne, Prince Napoleon (IV) is not yet two years old. The senior male of the...

  2. Sloveno-Croatian language

    just found the article on the wikipedia about the Kajkavian dialect. a central sentence seems to be: "Although speakers of Kajkavian are Croats, and Kajkavian is considered a dialect of Serbo-Croatian, its closest relative is the Slovene language, followed by Chakavian and then Shtokavian...

  3. No American Civil War: Minimal number of new states

    Assumption: There is no ACW, but the conflict between slave states and free states remains strong. Possible PoD: Lincoln isn't nominated, either for havong died before or because he is unavailable. The Republican candidate manages to lose in 1860, and his successor in 1864, while the main...

  4. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    I looked for a map with the search words "Germany 1648". Lo, I found this. I knew that the Thirty Years' War was bad, but did not know that Germany was molten. But the Napoleonic Wars had left it in bad shape, as well: Argl ....

  5. The UK stays out of the Great War

    I am sure that there have been many TLs where the UK does not enter the Great War; either because Germany does not invade Belgium or for other, TL-specific reasons. But I cannot find them. So I would like to ask you for links to such threads. It does not matter if the Central powers win in the...

  6. 1830: Revolution in the Western Provinces of Prussia

    When recently reading about the history of Cologne, I was reminded how unpopular Prussian rule was in their new possessions along the Rhine and, to a lesser degree, Westphalia. Basically there were two influential and dissatisfied groups: a) The catholics did not like the fact that the monarch...

  7. Iberian Republic in ~1800 ?

    I dimly remember reading a timeline (might have been on old SHWI) where the French Republic remained republican in name und style longer, ie Napoleon remained First Consul Bonaparte. In it, the French did not install Joseph B. as new king of Spain, instead a leading Spanishg politician (I think...

  8. Königin Viktoria I. von Hannover

    In a German-language article on the Danich Kungeloven of 1662 there is an aside about Sophie Amalie von Braunschweig-Calenberg, the wife of King Frederik III. of Denmark-Norway. Apparently she insisted in the prenuptial contract that she would keep all rights to inherit the Welf lands of...

  9. Prussia buys Alaska in 1867

    Since people tend to think Bismarck wanted to enlarge Prussian possession by any means: Prussia and Russia are close buddies in 1867 when the latter looks for a buyer for Russian America. Prussia and the US are on relatively good terms at that time as well. Alaska was technically covered by the...

  10. Incredible map of Italy

    When looking for something else, I stumbled over this site. Its presentation of 19th century European history is quite weak, but the maps really are the most remarkable part. Behold one example: What would it take to make this map correct, with PoD not earlier than 1848?

  11. 1878 Congress of Berlin creates different Balkan borders

    Background: In December 1876 and January 1877, the Great Powers (UK, Russia, France, A-H, Germany and Italy) held the Constantinople Conference as an attempt to create political reforms in Ottoman Bulgaria. The Bulgarian people were to enjoy substantial autonomy in two new Ottoman Provinces, the...

  12. Hellenistic conquest of the Roman Republic?

    Under which circumstances could a Hellenistic power (beginning with a longer-lived Alexander the Great himself) defeat and subjugate the Roman Republic, perhaps even giving the city of Rome the Carthage or Thebes treatment; ie destruction of the buildings and enslavement of the surviving...

  13. Acts of Union of 1800 delayed: A Britannic Empire?

    PoD: Due to internal troubles and intensive debates in the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of Ireland the Acts of Union do not pass before fall of 1804. Meanwhile, on the continent Napoleon still declares in May of 1804 that the French Republic wil become the French Empire, and in...

  14. Dutch Uruguay or Argentine

    When sailing to the East Indies, the Dutch merchantmen did not hug the African coast, but swung wide to the west, sailed along the South American coast and then caught the Roaring Forties to sail eastwards to the Cape of Goed Hope and New Holland (Australia), from there northward to Batavia on...

  15. Rivalries and alliances between American states

    Assuming that the Union of the American states fails and the 13 states become independent countries: What are the obvious enmities between them? For example, the southern states from Maryland and Deleware to georgia seem to have had little or no overlapping territorial claims as reason for...

  16. A boy instead of Archduchess Elisabeth Marie

    AD Elisabeth Marie (*2nd Sep. 1883) was the only child of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary and his wife Stephanie of Belgium. Suppose that the child was born a boy, who would be named Leopold Franz Joseph (after his paternal and maternal grandfathers and many important Habsburgs over the...

  17. Nomenclature for a male "Queen Victoria"

    PoD: The first and only child of Duke Edward of Kent and wife Victoria is a son, born on May 24th, 1819. The Prince regent denies the use of the name George, so the little boy (fifth in the line of succession) receives the names Alexander Victor. Tsar Alexander of Russia is his godfather. a) am...

  18. France demands her colonies back in the ARW

    PoD in 1777: The royal court of France after different infighting than OTL, decides that spending billions of livres just to stick it to les rosbifs is a bad idea. So they inform the US minister Benjamin Franklin, that they will only openly enter the war if the Treaty of Alliance contains the...

  19. 1871: Germany takes French colonies in the Americas

    Due to some unforeseen circumstances (Bismarck feeling ill, King William having read some rousing pirate novels, whatever), Prussia demands and receives the French colonies in the New World: Martinique, Guadeloupe (with St.M and St.B), Guyana. What happens? Pro-French uprisings when the new...

  20. No German colonies in Africa nor Oceania

    Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle — that's my map of Africa. Otto von Bismarck Bismarck wanted no overseas colonialism because in his opinion Germany should focus on countering expected...
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