50 More Alternate History Divergence Points

First installmentTHE TROUSERS OF TIME HAVE SPLIT AGAINAleister Crowley successfully summons his guardian angel at Boleskine House; it immediately reduces him to constituent atoms and irradiates over a hundred square kilometers of Scottish countryside by presence alone.A confederation of eastern hunter-gatherers and surviving neanderthal tribes successfully blocks Yamnaya migration into Europe.Brief but peaceful contact is made with a team of alien academic observers in Australia c. ~14,000 BCE.The excavation of Troy is handed off to literally anyone besides Heinrich Schliemann.Five volumes of Emperor Claudius’ Tyrrhenika are discovered in a Lombard monastery, April 1378.H.P. Lovecraft is drafted into the US army and dies on March 29, 1918 during the Battle of St. Quentin.The Indian Plate migrates slower than in baseline, and has not yet collided with Asia by the time humans evolve.Basque sailors discover a chain of islands west of the Azores in the early 1400s, which is swiftly called…