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Originally Posted by Renegade334
The latest tidbit in date from the Code Geass universe (the source is the DVD-1 extra where Teacher!Lelouch makes (for a short moment, though...very short) Student!Suzaku revise Britannian history) states that the ATB ("Ascension Throne Britannia" - and not "After the Battle" as some put it) calendar started when Caesar tried to invade Britain but was met by a strong resistance from the local tribes, who elected a super-leader of their own - a king that eventually started the Britannian royal line.
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If the Celtic tribes of Britain reacted to Caesar by appointing a strong unified leadership, then it's likely the conditions the infighting and anti-Roman attitudes of the dominant tribes that provoked Claudius to try again hundred years later never came about. The failure to conquer Britainnia would have had only a minor effect on Roman power, as Britain was only ever a minor backwater province during Roman times. But, a unified, independent and heavily Roman influenced Britannia (consisting of modern day England and Wales) would have emerged as a major power once the Roman Empire collapsed. The Anglo-Saxon invasions would certainly never have happened.
Beyond that we don't know much. Britannia must have conquered (or united with) Scotland at some point, given the reference to Edinburgh in episode 12. If Britannia gained control of Scotland before or during Tudor times as a result of these changes then the Civil War would either of never happened or would have been won by the royalists. No Cromwell, would mean no invasion of Ireland, which would mean no American Independence as described by Onizuka-GTO. I'm also liable to agree that Britannia lost Trafalgar because they didn't have Nelson, but don't ask why he wasn't there. All we know is that the seat of Britannian power shifted as a result from Britain to America, to the point where we don't even know if Britannia even control the British Isles.