I don't see why a post-Julian Christian Emperor would destroy a third Temple - the second was destroyed during the pagan era. I'd imagine it creates some odd dynamics within Judaism though.
Giving Julian another couple of decades (or more) would not de-Christianise the Empire, in the sense of...
*After* 1914 becomes more likely. It just wouldn't be via election.
Have Britain lose the First World War in ugly circumstances, and have that simmer over into something nasty. Throw in the Irish mess. Have the government try to send in the tanks, and matters escalate.
It's ASB with a POD between 1900 and 1914.
With a nineteenth century POD, you could potentially pull it off via messing around with the Reform Act, and basically turning reformers into outright revolutionaries. But it would be an extremely odd flavour of revolution, quite different from...
Apartheid had two levels of problematic:
The earlier issue is that South Africa objected to Maori and Pacific Island players coming as part of touring teams. The 1928, 1949, and 1960 New Zealand tours to South Africa were all-white. By the 1960s, you had a "No Maoris, No Tour!" movement in New...
It took until the mid-1990s for real-life rugby union to turn professional.
Scotland was not trivial at the time, and in fact was the most successful rugby nation of the nineteenth century (Wales would take over prior to the First World War). Moreover, one imagines that the elite amateurs of...
Problem: I think you still get a split. Scottish Rugby at the time was incredibly anti-professional, to the point where they frowned on touring players getting pocket money to live off. If England endorses professionalism, Scotland's going to throw a hissy fit.
Not sure Roman ships were good enough to pull off a Trans-Atlantic voyage (Mediterranean waters are much calmer). But Plato's Atlantis was (1) clearly presented as metaphorical, (2) explicitly destroyed, and (3) located just beyond the Straits of Gibraltar - once you find the Canary Islands or...
Prosperity? Delay of Execution, perhaps. The issue with the Severans is that this is the point at which Grim Military Dictatorship becomes the order of the day. To get and maintain power, it was a matter of "enrich the soldiers, and scorn all other men."
Put Commodus away (or give Pertinax more...
Ted Kennedy had little real interest in the Presidency. He only ran in 1980 to spite Carter.
Without Nixon getting discredited (though he might still be, with another scandal), no-one outside the South ever hears of Carter. The forces that pushed the Honest Outsider are no longer there, and...