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  1. Consequences of No Restoration of the French Parlements?

    What it says on the tin. Louis XVI made the "mistake" at the outset of his reign of restoring the French provincial parlements. After the praise which his grandfather had received for finally abolishing them just a few short years earlier, this was very much a regressive move. My question is...

  2. PC: More Battenberg-type families?

    By this I mean that the children/descendants of a morganatic marriage manage to climb their way back to marrying into the highest levels of the royal hierarchy. I'm unaware that any other fruit of a morganatic marriage managed to do this to the extent that the Battenbergs were able to do this...

  3. How Would an Ottoman 1848 Look?

    OTl, the Ottomans avoided the spate of revolutions that hit the rest of Europe in 1848, although there was significant opposition to the Tanzimat period's policy of centralization and modernization. But what if there had been one? The cholera epidemic of 1847-1848 that swept across the empire...

  4. WI: Poland and Lithuania Remain Separate

    By this question, I don't mean that Wladyslaw Jagiello never becomes king of Poland, but rather that the thrones remain independent of one another rather than in the PU of OTL. There were several instances where this could've happened, but fortunately/unfortunately in all the instances, the...

  5. Oliver Cromwell Lives Until December 1660: Effects on Europe

    Inspired by rereading this thread. Much as I don't like Ole Olly personally, it seems that delaying his death would add a significant wrinkle to European matters. So what if he'd lived to die in the same smallpox epidemic that carried off Mary, Princess Royal and Henry, Duke of Gloucester in...

  6. WI Napoléon II: Bourbon Hostage?

    this is a rather random idea that I had in the shower. What would've happened if the young Napoléon II had wound up being the hostage of Louis XVIII instead of his grandfather. I'm not exactly sure how this would happen, but presumably, he and his mother being separated/intercepted en route to...

  7. WI: Ibrahim Pasha's Health Hadn't Been Ruined?

    The Ibrahim Pasha I'm talking about is this guy,the son of Muhammad Ali, first ruler of an independent Egypt. However, there doesn't seem to be much on the type of policies he would've favored had he lived. In fact, most things I can find online quote the Wikipedia article and say "his health...

  8. WI: No Magna Carta?

    Given the importance of this document to the history of the English speaking world, I imagine this will unleash a butterfly storm but here goes. What if King John actually manages to defeat the Barons- despite what the common thought says, John was actually a capable military commander, plus he...

  9. How Similar Would Methodism and Hussitism Be?

    Forgive the ASB'ish sounding title, but I asked this questions in the miscellaneous thread, but it got no answers. So I decided to create a separate thread for it (and couldn't think of a better way to phrase it). Out of curiosity how "recognizable" would Methodism/Pietism be to a Hussite...

  10. How Recognizable Would The Methodists Be To a Hussite?

    Forgive the ASB'ish sounding title, but I asked this questions in the miscellaneous thread, but it got no answers. So I decided to create a separate thread for it (and couldn't think of a better way to phrase it). Out of curiosity how "recognizable" would Methodism/Pietism be to a Hussite...

  11. WI: Crown Prince Umberto Is Assassinated in October 1929

    I'll admit I'm not to clued up about the scenario, since it was only by zooming in on a newspaper in a youtube video that I found out about it. Seemingly what happened was that, in October 1929, Crown Prince Umberto paid a visit to Brussels. He laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...

  12. PC: Napoléon's "Lycée/École des Princes"

    In my sig'd TL, Frankie Goes To The Hofburg, a dying Hortense de Beauharnais mentions that Napoléon planned to establish a school- similar to what Frankie does- in Paris. Where the princes of the empire would come/send their sons to be educated. The proposed location was- from what I could find-...

  13. AHC: Wettin Spain in the 16th Century? War of the Spanish Succession?

    This is a random idea I had. Suppose George the Bearded's line in Saxony survives- either his eldest son marries the other Elisabeth of Hesse (OTL Countess of Zweibrücken) or his younger son isn't retarded, marries and leaves issue- and George's lands remain Catholic (like Bavaria or Cleves)...

  14. WI: George III Died in 1804?

    OTL, in the same year that Napoléon crowned himself emperor, George III suffered from what would be his final mental collapse. It was triggered, not by the threat of a French invasion, but rather by discord in his own family- namely the betrayal of both Queen Charlotte and the Prince of...

  15. Late POD Rescue for the HRE?

    I was curious. Say the French Revolution doesn't happen or doesn't explode as OTL (the why's aren't really important) and Leopold II/Franz II are able to implement their reforms for the Holy Roman Empire. How would it be received? Among these reforms were: annexation of Bavaria (Austria had...

  16. Realistic Borders of the Spanish Netherlands (Post-Split)

    Excuse the weird sounding title. But let's assume that Felipe II's son Diego survives- both of his sons by his fourth wife who died had pretty butterfliable deaths- and OTL Felipe III inherits the Netherlands (as was the original plan). How much of the former Spanish Netherlands could he...

  17. WI: The Papacies of Alexander VI and Julius II Are Switched?

    By this, I mean that Julius II (Giuliano della Rovere) is elected as pope in 1492, dying in 1503. While Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) is elected in 1503 (he'd be 72 years old) and dies in 1513 (his uncle, Calixtus III, made 79, and, Rodrigo's namesake great-grandfather made an equally impressive...

  18. Honoria and Attila Are Married, What Happens Next?

    Not my usual area of expertise, but I found this situation intriguing: Assuming that Valentinian does not discover Honoria's proposal and that it is carried out covertly with the assistance of Galla Placidia in the summer of 450, what happens next? We'll assume that, Honoria and Galla Placidia...

  19. Consequences of a Successful Cellamare Conspiracy

    Another pre-Revolution French POD for you that I was discussing with a friend of mine and thought I'd share: So, the Cellamare Conspiracy was going full guns ahead and was close to succeeding, when correspondence between the conspirators was intercepted by police leading to events of otl...

  20. Results of a Successful Flight to Varennes

    was discussing this with @The_Most_Happy and was considering what the "results" of this would be. To start with, the OTL flight was essentially an illustration of "for want of a nail". The royal family's coach was delayed- ICR the reason- so the escort they should've had thought they'd taken...
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