WWI Alt Hist Starting Year Poll

I can't think of pre 1900 because it eliminates certain countries.

Gaius Julius Caesar probably would give a different set of countries if it's pre-1900. There was some more states available in earlier years (like Poland, but who wants to play the twilight years of Poles being absorbed by three different empires at the same time?).

Gotta go Poland. THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED.

That's when WWI starts. We need some time to warm up before the war hits us badly.

agreed

Plox a list, gib yes? Desoball ask-eth second occasioned.

I could go ahead and list the ones I think probably was more important to consider for the starting dates, maybe... then if you don't mind editing to include that into your first post if you don't mind?

Using a quick summary page from Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900s_(decade) )

Wars
    Second Boer War ends.
    Philippine–American War takes place (1899–1902).
    Russo-Japanese War establishes the Empire of Japan as a world power.
Internal conflicts
     The Russian Revolution of 1905.
    Demand for Home Rule for Ireland
    Herero and Namaqua Genocide in German South-West Africa (modern Namibia).
Decolonization
     May 20, 1902 – Cuba gains independence from the United States.
    June 7, 1905 – The Norwegian Parliament declares the union with Sweden dissolved, and Norway achieves full independence.
    October 5, 1908 – Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
The 1900s were marked by several notable assassinations and assassination attempts:
    July 29, 1900 – King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
    March 6, 1901 – In Bremen, an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
    September 6, 1901 – American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later.
    June 16, 1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
    February 1, 1908 – Carlos I of Portugal is assassinated in Lisbon, Portugal.
    October 26, 1909 – Itō Hirobumi, four time Prime Minister of Japan (the 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th) and Resident-General of Korea, is assassinated by Ahn Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.


And then from 1910 up to 1914... ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910s )

The Mexican Revolution spearheaded the trend in November 1910, which led to the ousting of dictator Porfirio Diaz, developing into a violent civil war that dragged on until mid-1920, not long after a new Mexican Constitution was signed and ratified.
Italo-Turkish War (1911–1912)
First Balkan Wars (1912–1913) – two wars that took place in South-eastern Europe in 1912 and 1913.
Xinhai Revolution causes the overthrow of China's ruling Qing Dynasty, and the establishment of the Republic of China (1912-1949).
    The Republic of China is established on 1 January 1912.
The 1910s were marked by several notable assassinations:
    18 March 1913: George I of Greece
    11 June 1913: Mahmud Şevket Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
    28 June 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo leads to World War I