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  1. Stuart King of Spain

    I was going through the archives of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the Torre do Tombo archives and they have records, including correspondences and letters of ambassadors, envoys, kings etc that are all quite fascinating and are combined into volumes. One thing that I ran...

  2. Mary I marries Luis of Portugal

    It seems that in 1537 Charles V proposed that Infante Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja (3 March 1506 – 27 November 1555), son of King Manuel I be married to Henry VIII of England's daughter, future Queen Mary I. Luís had been considered a bright young prince and considered, at least in the...

  3. Portuguese North America - The Unlikely Colony

    A while back I started doing some research on a little known, but short-lived Portuguese settlement in North America. In 1520, João Álvares Fagundes, with the backing of Miguel Corte-Real (who's uncles had visited Newfoundland in 1502), set sail on a voyage to the New World, where he visited...

  4. A Jewish Homeland in East Africa

    I wanted to create a TL about the creation of a Jewish Homeland in East Africa that nearly came into fruition. The assassination of Czar Alexander II of Russia would unleash a series of anti-Semitic violence affecting the world's largest Jewish community. The result was a series of violent...

  5. Portuguese America and Southern Africa the Redux

    As I had mentioned earlier in my Portuguese Southern Africa thread, I had failed to really consider any major butterflies from the effects of Portugal colonising the tip of Southern Africa in the early 16th century. I had created that TL in response to a thread without much forethought...

  6. Portuguese Southern Africa - a TL

    Bartolomeu Dias had reached the Cape of Storms (Cabo das Tormentas) in March of 1488 signalling an important turning point for Portugal's maritime expansion. There he encountered a pastoral people the Khoi (Hottentot) which he described as "beach walkers" who lived by keeping sheep and catching...

  7. Spanish North Africa & Spanish Congo

    I was wondering if there would be anyway Spain could expand its colonial holdings during the 19th century after losing most of America. The smaller powers of the Netherlands and Portugal were able to expand their colonial holdings during this time whilst Spain simply got the small and resource...

  8. Earlier Permanent Settlement of New France

    Though Cartier reached North America in 1534, the first permanent settlements were not built in New France until seventy years later, and even then these were small trading posts. The real settlement of New France would not begin until 1663 and this was short-lived, with few immigrants arriving...

  9. Right Wing Coup in Portugal December 1973

    By December of 1973, Portugal's prime minister Marcello Caetano had become increasingly unpopular. For those on the left, he hadn't gone far enough in democratizing the regime. For those on the right, he was a weak technocrat who was incapable of ruling in the way Salazar had done. Around...

  10. CSA Economy

    I had always been under the impression that cotton was relatively unimportant to the U.S. economy and figured that and independent CSA would be a relatively poor country where cotton was the main export. I decided to do some research looking at old bulletins published by the U.S. Department of...

  11. Socioeconomic effects of no world wars

    I saw a thread not too long ago about the effect of no world wars on technology and I thought it would be more interesting to see the socio-economic effects of no world wars on our world. It seems that very often the effects of history on the lives of everyday people is ignored so I thought I...

  12. Nouvelle France

    Here is my very long POD for a successful New France. I tried to use as many primary documents as possible instead of relying on secondary sources including newspapers, treaties, censuses and other documents that I found at my university library. I tried to avoid using basic textbooks or the...

  13. Alternate Colonial Powers

    After 1834, Greece's merchant marine grew steadily and by from 1901 to 1914 grew four fold in size so that by 1914 totalled over 1,000,000 gross tons. What if this focus on trade had led to the creation of a colonial empire? Let us assume that in the 1880s Greek merchants begin establishing...
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