POD Timeline

1840: The South Island is permanently colonized by France. (New Zealand)

1889: The coup against Pedro II of Brazil is foiled. (Brazil)

1896: James B. Weaver is nominated as William Jennings Bryan's running mate. (United States)

1898: The Spanish-American War begins eight years later, in 1906. (Spain)

1907: Ioseb Jughashvili dies in the Tiflis bank robbery of Erivansky Square. (Soviet Union)

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

1920: The Turkish War of Independence is prevented by the success of the Misak-ı Millî. (Anatolia)

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

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

1947: Antoun Saadeh never returns to Lebanon and is never executed. (UAR)