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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Golden Age of Anglo-Portuguese Empire? 1487 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Elizabeth of York crowned Queen of England alongside her husband the future King Manuel I of Portugal after his nephew Alonso died in an accident www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Golden Age of Anglo-Portuguese Empire? 1487 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Elizabeth of York crowned Queen of England alongside her husband the future King Manuel I of Portugal after his nephew Alonso died in an accident www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif first Thanksgiving had been a disaster? #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Wampanoags Drive Pilgrims into the Sea
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November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif first Thanksgiving had been a disaster? #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Wampanoags Drive Pilgrims into the Sea
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Spanish Conquistadors had been repulsed by the Aztecs? 1519 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Moctezuma's Success
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November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Spanish Conquistadors had been repulsed by the Aztecs? 1519 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Moctezuma's Success
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#tweetfromalternatehistory 1720 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Great Britain dispatched a naval force under the "Black Lion of the Caribbean" Admiral Edward Teach (OTL Blackbeard) to prevent the rise of the Black Caribbean League a trans-Caribbean Maroon Alliance www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory 1720 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Great Britain dispatched a naval force under the "Black Lion of the Caribbean" Admiral Edward Teach (OTL Blackbeard) to prevent the rise of the Black Caribbean League a trans-Caribbean Maroon Alliance www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Kingdom of Palmares survived? 1694 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory after repelling the bandeirantes one last time, Palmares becomes a semi-recognized frontier state after negotiating a treaty of mutual non-aggression with Portugal, like maroon communities elsewhere
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Kingdom of Palmares survived? 1694 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory after repelling the bandeirantes one last time, Palmares becomes a semi-recognized frontier state after negotiating a treaty of mutual non-aggression with Portugal, like maroon communities elsewhere
#vss @robbietaylor.bsky.social #Blackbeard 1718 #diedonthisday the most talented officer in the Royal Navy Captain Edward Teach, lost off the coast of North Carolina. He was called Black Lion of the Caribbean referencing his dark beard & ferocity in action
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November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
#vss @robbietaylor.bsky.social #Blackbeard 1718 #diedonthisday the most talented officer in the Royal Navy Captain Edward Teach, lost off the coast of North Carolina. He was called Black Lion of the Caribbean referencing his dark beard & ferocity in action
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#tweetfromalternatehistory Khrushchev had a heart attack during crisis? 25 October, 1962 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory in a tit-for-tat retaliation for Kennedy's quarantine of Cuba, Khrushchev's hardline successors blocked corridors into the "island of freedom"
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November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory Khrushchev had a heart attack during crisis? 25 October, 1962 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory in a tit-for-tat retaliation for Kennedy's quarantine of Cuba, Khrushchev's hardline successors blocked corridors into the "island of freedom"
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif #Confederacy exhorted lofty war aims after victory at #BattleofGettysburg? 1863 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory #POTCS #ConfederatePresident Jefferson Davis delivered the #Gettysburg Prayer www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif #Confederacy exhorted lofty war aims after victory at #BattleofGettysburg? 1863 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory #POTCS #ConfederatePresident Jefferson Davis delivered the #Gettysburg Prayer www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif neutral GB during WW1? 1964 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory bookended by imperial history, Queen Elizabeth, Peter Gabriel & Winston Churchill join joyous Festival of Britain celebrating fifty years of equity, peace and prosperity
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November 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif neutral GB during WW1? 1964 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory bookended by imperial history, Queen Elizabeth, Peter Gabriel & Winston Churchill join joyous Festival of Britain celebrating fifty years of equity, peace and prosperity
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#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social #whatif Upper Canada Rebellion had been more successful? 7th December, 1837 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Rebel Victory at Montgomery's Tavern turns the tide
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November 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social #whatif Upper Canada Rebellion had been more successful? 7th December, 1837 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Rebel Victory at Montgomery's Tavern turns the tide
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#tweetfromalternatehistory 636 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Sassanid Victory at al-Qadisiyyah halts Muslim Advance
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November 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory 636 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Sassanid Victory at al-Qadisiyyah halts Muslim Advance
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#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social #whatif Assassin Charles Guiteau killed by Stonington collision? 16th January 1883 #OnThisDay #alternatehistory Civil Service Reform Act signed by President Garfield who set his sight on a Reconstruction Revival
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November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social #whatif Assassin Charles Guiteau killed by Stonington collision? 16th January 1883 #OnThisDay #alternatehistory Civil Service Reform Act signed by President Garfield who set his sight on a Reconstruction Revival
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif John Constable had gone to Paris in person - rather than simply sending The Hay Wain? Louvre - 25 August, 1824 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory an underrated English landscape painter journeyed to the Salon biennial art exhibition
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November 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif John Constable had gone to Paris in person - rather than simply sending The Hay Wain? Louvre - 25 August, 1824 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory an underrated English landscape painter journeyed to the Salon biennial art exhibition
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#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif #TheTenthCrusade saved Byzantium? Sarzana, Republic of Genoa - 1397 #BornOnThisDay in #alternatehistory Tommaso Parentucell later Pope Nicholas V, the Pontificate who broke the siege of Constantinople
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November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif #TheTenthCrusade saved Byzantium? Sarzana, Republic of Genoa - 1397 #BornOnThisDay in #alternatehistory Tommaso Parentucell later Pope Nicholas V, the Pontificate who broke the siege of Constantinople
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#tweetfromalternatehistory 4th April, 1841 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory after recovering from a serious illness believed to be pneumonia, President William Henry Harrison, elected on a Whig platform, signed a new twenty year charter for the Third National Bank www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
#tweetfromalternatehistory 4th April, 1841 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory after recovering from a serious illness believed to be pneumonia, President William Henry Harrison, elected on a Whig platform, signed a new twenty year charter for the Third National Bank www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif the Pre-Columbian plague never happened? 1527 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Mississippians welcome de Vaca Expedition, the first Europeans to set eyes upon the great American city of Cahokia www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif the Pre-Columbian plague never happened? 1527 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Mississippians welcome de Vaca Expedition, the first Europeans to set eyes upon the great American city of Cahokia www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social #whatif Jeb wins, Dubya loses? Part 2 of the Great Bush Flip of '94. Cincinnati, Ohio - December 19, 1955 #BornOnThisDay in #alternatehistory 44th US President Rob Portman
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November 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social #whatif Jeb wins, Dubya loses? Part 2 of the Great Bush Flip of '94. Cincinnati, Ohio - December 19, 1955 #BornOnThisDay in #alternatehistory 44th US President Rob Portman
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#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social #whatif Jeb wins, Dubya loses? Florida - Oct 1994 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Bush campaign catches fire, Cuban-American turnout surging & a stronger push in I-4 corridor, beating Lawton Chiles by 2 points www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 AM
#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social #whatif Jeb wins, Dubya loses? Florida - Oct 1994 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Bush campaign catches fire, Cuban-American turnout surging & a stronger push in I-4 corridor, beating Lawton Chiles by 2 points www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Shirley Chisolm's act of radical empathy ushered in a second reconstruction? 1974 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Mississippi became the 38th state to ratify the Civil Rights Amendment sponsored by the late President Johnson
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November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory #whatif Shirley Chisolm's act of radical empathy ushered in a second reconstruction? 1974 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Mississippi became the 38th state to ratify the Civil Rights Amendment sponsored by the late President Johnson
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#tweetfromalternatehistory 1814 #OnThisDay #alternatehistory U.S.A. celebrates a glorious victory at New Orleans, marked as a National Celebration Day (replacing Thanksgiving) paired with the Fourth of July in the American calendar
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November 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory 1814 #OnThisDay #alternatehistory U.S.A. celebrates a glorious victory at New Orleans, marked as a National Celebration Day (replacing Thanksgiving) paired with the Fourth of July in the American calendar
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#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social 1872 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory with equine influenza pandemic crossing the Canadian border & jumping species to humans, the Boston Fire Department is overwhelmed by the Great Fire outbreak www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social 1872 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory with equine influenza pandemic crossing the Canadian border & jumping species to humans, the Boston Fire Department is overwhelmed by the Great Fire outbreak www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
#tweetfromalternatehistory Rome - 1962 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory under the diplomatic mediation of Pope John XXIII, a far-reaching tri-party agreement was signed that significantly reduced the risk of future nuclear confrontation between the super-powers www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory Rome - 1962 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory under the diplomatic mediation of Pope John XXIII, a far-reaching tri-party agreement was signed that significantly reduced the risk of future nuclear confrontation between the super-powers www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social #whatif Appomattox had been a final desperate Confederate last stand? April 9-12, 1865 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia tries to fight its way west rather than surrender www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory @robbietaylor.bsky.social #whatif Appomattox had been a final desperate Confederate last stand? April 9-12, 1865 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia tries to fight its way west rather than surrender www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
#tweetfromalternatehistory #Whatif #comet #deepimpact in 1720? @Tanada1945 1720 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory day before New Moon, a new unseen comet with a nucleus 20 miles long and 12 miles wide shaped like a lumpy potato hit the far side of the moon
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November 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory #Whatif #comet #deepimpact in 1720? @Tanada1945 1720 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory day before New Moon, a new unseen comet with a nucleus 20 miles long and 12 miles wide shaped like a lumpy potato hit the far side of the moon
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#tweetfromalternatehistory 2025 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory the three devolved governments in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast passed parallel independence motions asserting that their democratic authority is derived directly from their citizens, not Westminster www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
#tweetfromalternatehistory 2025 #OnThisDay in #alternatehistory the three devolved governments in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast passed parallel independence motions asserting that their democratic authority is derived directly from their citizens, not Westminster www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?st...