50 Alternate History Divergence Points

Alternate history exists in the orange zone for me - the constant need to stay on the alert for bad actors swiftly drains the fun from the exercise. But the concept is fun, so I dabble on my own from time to time. Here's a bunch of dabbling - while writing it popped into my head that these are some excellent backdrop events for Esoteric Enterprises games.

THE TROUSERS OF TIME HAVE SPLIT

1. Successful rebellion of the enslaved in colonial America.
2. Venera probes discover life on Venus.
3. Christianity takes root in Japan, syncretizes.
4. Near complete works of Sappho's poetry found, translated and printed.
   
5. Linear B deciphered.
6. Fred Hampton dies of natural causes at the age of 102.
7. Yeshua ben Yosef writes a short ethical treatise.
8. Human-elephant communication achieved.
9. Tunguska meteor devastates Moscow.
10. Wow! signal confirmed as an accidentally-intercepted alien message.
11. George Lucas discovers a love of anime; Star Wars is animated.
    
12. Judaism takes strong root in Central Asia.
    
13. Britain hires a non-idiot to draw the borders of their colonial territories.
14. Mid-Atlantic Ridge is already rising above the surface.
15. Chinese colony in the Americas thrives for a time, and then falls apart.
16. Battle of the Spanish Armada ends in mutual defeat.
17. Electoral college abolished.
18. Sea Peoples identified.
    
19. Neanderthal populations and cultures survive to the modern day.
    
20. English spelling reform takes off
21. A large number of remarkable works are properly written and preserved this time.
22. Treaties made with First Nations are upheld.
23. American film industry remains on east coast.
24. Shakespeare's adaptation of Don Quixote survives.
    
25. Columbus' ships are lost in transit.
    
26. French Revolution spawns one in England.
27. The bear at the Duluth Sector Direction Center is not discovered in time.
28. Humans able to resist smallpox virus.
    
29. Who imported all these hippos as food god damn it!
30. Hays Code is never put into practice.
31. Jacobite Rebellion succeeds.
32. Nuclear weapons never deployed.
33. Augustus dies of an infection and fever at 23.
34. Electric wind turbines adopted before oil becomes popular.
35. Some non-avian dinosaurs manage to survive.
36. Mark Zuckerberg's parents succeed at instilling a moral conscience in their son.
37. East India Company suffers a catastrophic early collapse.
38. Dodo is domesticated and spreads worldwide.
39. Bison are domesticated in the Americas
40. Women's suffrage in America adopted during the Second Great Awakening.
41. Taping Rebellion able to form breakaway nation from Qing China.
42. A natural waterway links the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean; Gibraltar is closed.
43. The Sahara remains verdant up through the modern day.
44. Mars is slightly larger than Earth.
45. Earth is a moon of a temperate gas giant.
46. Northern Europe has spices now.
47. Antarctica is sitting out in the South Pacific.
48. An esperantido is adopted as Euro-auxillary language.
49. Doggerland remains above sea level.
50. Chernobyl meltdown avoided. 

Or all of them at once.