POD Timeline

August 16, 1840: The failure of the HMS Britomart to reach Akaroa eventually leads to the South Island being permanently colonized by France. (New Zealand)

September 16th, 1884: After negotiations to diplomatically resolve the border dispute fail, Guatemala invades Mexico. (Mexico)

November 9th, 1889: The coup against Pedro II of Brazil is foiled. (Brazil)

July 7, 1896: James B. Weaver is nominated as William Jennings Bryan's running mate, helping him secure a narrow victory over William McKinley in the 1896 Presidential Election. (United States)

April 21, 1898: William Jennings Bryan refuses to recognize the USS Marine as having been intentionally sunk by the French, preventing the Spanish-American War from beginning until eight years later, in 1906. (Spain)

June 26th, 1907: Ioseb Jughashvili is mortally wounded by a bomb fragment during the Tiflis bank robbery of Erivansky Square. (Soviet Union)

May 19, 1911: Emiliano Zapata revolts against Porfirio Díaz with the support of Mayan rebels in Yucatan. (Chan Santa Cruz)

February 2nd, 1919: Soviet forces fail to neutralize Julius Kuperjanov, leading to his survival and a stronger Estonian victory in the Estonian War of Independence. (Estonia)

May 19th, 1919: The Turkish War of Independence is prevented by the success of the Misak-ı Millî. (Anatolia)

May 27, 1940: The evacuation of Dunkirk is a failure. (Great Britain)

January 3rd, 1941: Noting the relative ambivalence of the Long presidency towards the Pacific War, Isoroku Yamamoto decides against attacking Pearl Harbor on December 7th, instead launching the attack in 1942. (Japan)

July 31, 1944: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry never dies in a plane crash. (France)

August 30th, 1945: Bảo Đại does not abdicate from the throne of Vietnam, as Japan is winning the Pacific War. (Vietnam)

March 2nd, 1947: Antoun Saadeh never returns to Lebanon and is never executed. (UAR)

April 9th, 2012: Following a security breach from hacktivists in Kazakhstan, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is implicated in a corruptions scandal and loses in the 2012 presidential election to Ari Trausti Guðmundsson. (Iceland)