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PoD is 1) Albert I of Habsburg being successful in taking the Counties of Holland and Zeeland for the Habsburgs following John of Hollands death as he planned IOTL and more importantly 2) his son Rudolph surviving as King of Bohemia. What happens next?

What if the Holy league followed up on their victory at the battle of La Motta during the third Italian war? What would have been the ramifications of taking advantage of Venice's blunder? Considering Maximilian and Ferdinand wanted to install a relative in the Duchy of Milan rather than...

Catherine was daughter of Czech King George of Poděbrady and wife of Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus, who died in childbirth in 1464. Lets assume she survived and her son too. What is going to happen then? Matthias and George were allied at the time, but eventually Matthias turned against...

The League of Cognac was an alliance between France, the Papal States, the Republic of Venice, the Kingdom of England, the Duchy of Milan, and the Republic of Florence against the Habsburgs under Charles V, who recently became Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. However, it did not fair too...

Edward, Prince of Wales dies of quartan fever/malaria in October 1541,and King Henry VIII is dead by 1542 along with James V due to shock/grief/infected leg ulcer. Anyway, with no male heirs sired by Henry left, Mary seizes the throne and in 1543, marries Philip, King of Naples and Sicily...

PoD is vert easy-some unfortunate accident happens to Emperor Charles V, resulting in his premature death in summer 1527, ending personal union between Spain and Holy Roman Empire much earlier than IOTL. So baby Felipe II is heir of Spain and Burgundy (with Isabella of Portugal as regent in...

I love alternate unifications of Italy, but based on my research, it seems that next to the Savoyard state, the only Italian polity both willing and able to unify Italy was the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, led by Leopold II of Habsburg-Tuscany (a local Italian branch of the Habsburgs, much like the...

What if the German Basic Law adopted in 1949 would have allowed the Bundesländer to decide their own form of government and consequently Bavaria would have restored its monarchy? I read the idea of Wittelsbach restoration was very popular at the time, and it only didn't materialise because of...

Like it says on the tin. Could Austria be the one to unify Germany in the 19th century, rather than Prussia? The elephant in the room in this scenario is the fact only a quarter or so of their empire's population is German, could that be handled somehow? Perhaps by giving Hungary and other...

The pregnancy of Queen Marie Louise of Spain surprised herself most of all: she knew she was not a virgin, but she had thought she would die without ever having had any children. She had quietly bore the criticism of the childless state of her marriage, even when she wanted to scream that it was...

Whenever I see people pondering what would've happened had the Jagiellonian Dynasty survived past Sigismund II Augustus it involves him fathering children. For all we know Siggie could've been infertile (he was married 3 times and had no children), although that is just a personal opinion. I've...

Let's say that rather than being a populist merely seeing religion as a tool, Hitler remains a devout Catholic loyal to the Habsburgs while still a pan-germanic anti-Semite? Would Hitler be able to restore the German monarchy under the Hapsburgs or would he have to remain in Austria and settle...

What it says on the title. In OTL The Great Turkish War was the Ottomans' first significant and it is fair to say they never truly got back to where they were before the Second Siege of Vienna but they nonetheless managed to recover well enough from it and remained very much a great power until...

In 1395 a pregnant Mary of Anjou, The first wife of Sigismund I of Luxembourg and the couple's unborn son would die as the result of a hunting mishap. Sigismund would later remarry, but only have a single daughter, Elizabeth of Luxembourg who would marry Albert Habsburg Duke of Austria. Upon...

Quite some time passed since I posted this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/demographics-of-a-surviving-austria-hungary.488463/ Since then, I kept revisiting the topic starting from scratch every time. At this point, I finally reached a point where I'm more or less...

Don't think it's possible but it could be a fun scenario. Napoleon II does not catch pneumonia in 1832 and lives. Archduke Franz Karl, in a fit of rage following the birth of yet another daughter on July 30th 1833, dies in a freak accident by falling down the stairs and breaking his neck...

After the WW1 the Austro-Hungarian empire collapsed with new countries emerging from its corpse. Two of them were Austria and Hungary. I propose a two scenarios where it is reformed (though not in its original state) in the interwar period. First is, that at the second attempt of Karl I. to...

This is part of a larger timeline I called "Habsburg Concord" which explores a world where the Habsburgs won the 30 Years' War, in this thread I want to explore how the Habsburg victory in the war would influence royal marriages in the 17th century and XVIII PoD takes place in November 1630...

One subject that I think hasn't been covered very much in this forum is the next day after a victory of the First Coalition: what would be the settlement after the end of the fighting. For a scenario, let's say that the Royal children, including the Dauphin, manage to abscond, while Louis XVI...

I'm working on a potential Grossdeutchland (TM) timeline idea that revolves around the idea that the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 is not successful and resulted in the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. I imagine that the empire would be divorced with similar borders to OTL's...