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  1. PC/WI: Proprietary government survived in Maryland

    Maryland was a proprietery colony during the entire colonial period, with the Calvert (Lord Baltimore) family holding hereditary authority over the colony's government. The legitimate Calvert line died out in 1771, with the Proprietorship initially being inherited by the last Lord Baltimore's...

  2. PC: Other "False Dmitri"s

    In 1605, an impostor claiming to be the (actually deceased) youngest son of Ivan IV successfully seized the Russian throne and held it for the better part of a year. From what I gather, he lost the throne not through being outted as an impostor, but rather for a combination of unpopular...

  3. Earl of Essex Rebellion

    In 1601, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex attempted a coup against Queen Elizabeth. He attracted a moderate amount of support among the aristocracy (including several people who would go on to be involved in the Gunpowder Plot), and had about 300 supporter with him during his coup attempt...

  4. WI George II has no surviving descendants

    In 1722, George Augustus, Prince of Wales, had had five children (Frederick, Anne, Amelia, Caroline, George William, and William), one of whom (George William) had died in infancy. In that year, the royal family decided to have Prince Frederick inoculated for smallpox. This meant deliberately...

  5. AHC: President Booth

    With a POD no later than April 13, 1861, have Edwin Booth (older brother of John Wilkes Booth, and widely regarded of the greatest American actor of the 19th century) become President of the United States or President of the Confederate States.
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