History Game

arbilad · Head Chef

History Game

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

I love history, so I'll play...

In the year 1502 (Arbi's current post count)

Peter Henlein [b. Nuremburg (Germany), c. 1485, d. Nuremburg, September 1542] builds a spring-driven watch, one of the first clocks ever built that is intended to be carried about (called a watch because it was first used by watchmen). The Henlein clock, nicknamed "the Nuremburg egg," is about the size of a softball and has only one hand. Sometimes called a pocket watch, it is on a chain like a pocket watch but worn with the chain around the neck.

ETA: Y'all are going to have fun with MINE!!! tee hee

-- Edited by PollyAnna at 15:07, 2007-05-12

arbilad · Head Chef

In the year 104 (PollyAnna's current post count)

In India, figures of Buddha replace abstract motifs on decorative items.

fear of shiz · Profuse Pontificator

1504 is Arbi's current

In 1504 B.C. Thutmose I starts his reign in Egypt.

In 1504 AD Michelangelo completes his sculpture of David.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

In the Year of 348 (where Fear of Shiz was last), in tibet, a yak yakked...

--Ray

nitasmile · Senior Member

OK, what a fun game idea!! I am posting after Ray, who has a post count of 1863 at the time of his last post and my last post. Since Ray lives in Washington State, here is a good factoid dealing w/the state of Washington & the year 1863:

1863	Idaho Territory was created from part of the Washington Territory

info is from this website: http://www.ofm.wa.gov/databook/facts.asp

arbilad · Head Chef

Nitasmile's last postcount was 48, so
Year 48: The Silures, with the help of Caratacus, revolt against the Romans in Britain.

-- Edited by arbilad at 20:09, 2007-05-13

historian · Senior Member

In 630 a.d. (Mahonri's last post count) Heraclius was the ruler of the eastern Roman empire, and during his reign he defeated the Persians who had become a danger to Constantinople, after conquering Damacus in 613 and Jerusalem in 614. Heraclius pushed the Persian armies back to their capital. He also largely discontinuted the official use of Latin, preferring Greek.

"In 630 he reached the height of his power, marching barefoot as a pious Christian pilgrim into Jerusalem and restoring the True Cross to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre."

In 634 Jerusalem was conquered by the Arab Muslims.

-- Edited by historian at 22:54, 2007-05-13

glumirk · Senior Member

Historian's count: 24

Christ was growing "grace by grace" as we must follow suit.

fear of shiz · Profuse Pontificator

In 166 AD, the first official contact between Rome and the Han Dynasty of China occurs, as emisarries sent by Marcus Aurelius arrive in South China.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

In 350 (fear of shiz's last count) that yak ray referred to sadly passed on.

arbilad · Head Chef

Cocobeam's count: 439

Year 439: Vandals conquer Carthage

historian · Senior Member

arbilad snuck in while I was researching, so you get the 439 stuff anyway. smile

In 444 BC, Nehemiah was appointed governor of Judaea.

In 439 AD, the Anglo-Saxons were gradually taking over Roman Britain and the records are very sketchy about the next two centuries. Coins minted past 402 are rare.

In 421 AD, the Book of Mormon ends.

Exactly in 439 AD, Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) died.

And arbi's current post count is 1509.
In that year Martin Luther, then a Catholic priest, received a second bachelor's degree, the first in Biblical Studies, and the second in a 12th century religious work called Sentences. He received his Doctor of Theology in 1512.

-- Edited by historian at 14:51, 2007-05-14

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

In the year 28 AD, Jesus's third son was born.

historian · Senior Member

In 1886 AD, Emile Berliner "began working on the invention that was to prove his most important contribution to the world. This was the development of the gramophone, the recording and reproduction of sound by means of disc records.

More about Berliner:

"In 1876, the year of the American centennial celebrations, and among the outstanding events that took place in Washington was a demonstration of the new telephone of Alexander Graham Bell. Berliner saw the instrument for the first time and was filled with enthusiasm. He commenced to study the telephone. To his inquiring mind one of the instrument's weaknesses was its transmitter. Working alone in his rooming house he fashioned a new type of transmitter which he called a "loose-contact" transmitter, a type of microphone, which increased the volume of the transmitted voice. That he was able to do this while still possessing only a rudimentary knowledge of electricity and physics was quite astounding. When the members of the newly-formed American Bell Telephone Company were advised that a young and entirely unknown man in Washington had submitted a caveat (Berliner wrote it himself without the aid of a patent attorney) to the Patent Office covering a new transmitter, they could hardly believe it. Thomas Watson, the Mr. Watson of telephone fame, was sent to Washington to make inquiries. He returned such a glowing report of the transmitter and of Berliner himself that the company offered to buy the rights to the invention and to hire Berliner as a research assistant. For the next seven years, Berliner was employed by the ABT Co., first in New York City and then in Boston. During those years Berliner worked on numerous problems associated with the fledgling telephone industry and developed into a first-class theoretical electrician."

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/berlsp.html

-- Edited by historian at 16:09, 2007-05-14

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

oh... this is a good one...

In the year 29 (historian's current post)

John the Baptist was beheaded by King Herod Antipas, perhaps at whim of Salomé, more likely for political reasons. weirdface

-- Edited by PollyAnna at 15:17, 2007-05-14

arbilad · Head Chef

PollyAnna's last post count was 106
In the year 106 Trajan annexes Nabataean Arabia (with its capital Petra) as a Roman province.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

The year is 1512 (Arbi's last post count)

The date is November 1 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel , painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

109:

Although not much is known outside of his famous revolt, some sources place 109 BC as the birth year of Spartacus, Roman slave and rebel leader.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

IN 641 BC a baby named Lehi is born near Jerusalem...

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

In 1900, my grandfather was born in Tetonia, Idaho.

arbilad · Head Chef

In 446, in Britain, The Cor Tewdws (Collage of Theodosius), Llantwit Major is burned down.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

In 1518, a "small group of distinguished physicians, led by the scholar and humanist Thomas Linacre, petitioned" King Henry VIII "to be incorporated into a College similar to those found in a number of other European countries." AKA: Royal College of Physicians

eta
FYI... my post number with this post is 1799...

-- Edited by Cat Herder at 13:06, 2007-05-15

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

The year is 1810 (Cat's most recent post count...)

And so on April 27 - Beethoven composes his famous piano piece,

Für Elise.

ETA... page turn party!!!

Second edit:The tin can was invented during the war with Napoleon in 1810.

-- Edited by PollyAnna at 19:45, 2007-05-15

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

ooooohhh I want to do my own...

115 BC (my newest post count)

The Kingdom of Sheba collapses.

arbilad · Head Chef

In 130, Basra becomes the capital of Arabia.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

In 1524 Columbus rotted on the ocean floor.

Hee... 1524 A.D. Cortés meets the Itzá people, the last of the Maya people to remain unconquered. The Spanish leave the Itzá alone until the seventeenth century.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

1934 (Ray's gianormous post count: edit... WELL it WAS when I first started looking!)

July 1 1934 - The world famous Brookfield Zoo opens.

-- Edited by PollyAnna at 09:21, 2007-05-16

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

(I'm trying to get past 2007... hee hee...)

--Ray

PS> Sextus Julius Severus, governor of Britain, is sent to Judea (after 135 renamed Palestine) to quell a revolt ...

-- Edited by rayb at 10:02, 2007-05-16

arbilad · Head Chef

In March 6, 1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

1528

November 6 - Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (his last name means Head of the Cow) and his companions become the first known Europeans to set foot on the shores of what is present-day Texas.

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

1066 The Battle of Hastings!!!!!

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Jason dear... Let's explain this again... You are SUPPOSE to use the post number of the person who LAST posted... Did someone with a post of 1066 post, and we all missed it???

Year 1294 (Jason's most current post number) This is a topic I can really get into, lot of links to Wales in MY genealogy...

Autumn 1294 - In response to the actions of new royal administrators in north and west Wales, Madog ap Llywelyn leads a revolt against his English overlords.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

In the year 141 AD "Halley's Comet" visited the Earth.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

In 1969 - RayB, the greatest Human Being to be born this century was born...

--Ray

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

PollyAnna wrote:

Jason dear... Let's explain this again... You are SUPPOSE to use the post number of the person who LAST posted... Did someone with a post of 1066 post, and we all missed it???

Year 1294 (Jason's most current post number) This is a topic I can really get into, lot of links to Wales in MY genealogy...

Autumn 1294 - In response to the actions of new royal administrators in north and west Wales, Madog ap Llywelyn leads a revolt against his English overlords.

1970 Kevin Arnold had his heart broken by Winnie Cooper. Is that better Polly? biggrin

fear of shiz · Profuse Pontificator

1299....

King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo, and builds Akershus fortress in Oslo. Norway is ruled from this fortress the next 500 years.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Year 363

The Council of Laodicea, which dealt with constricting the conduct of church members, is held. The major canon approved by this council was canon 29, which prohibited resting on the Sabbath (Saturday), restricting Christians to honoring the Lord on Sunday.

Very nice Jason... except... who ARE they???

Edit: Never mind, googled it...
We never watched the show. I was raizing my kids back then. That was probably on while we were reading at bedtime. (Nightly, couldn't get out of it, didn't want to anyway, ritual...)

-- Edited by PollyAnna at 19:09, 2007-05-16

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

154 BC -

Outbreak of the Lusitanian War and Celtiberian War.

Births

Gaius Gracchus, brother of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus the Roman tribune.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

679 B.C: political events

Assyria's king Esarhaddon uses severe measures to suppress a rebellion by the combined forces of Sidon, Tyre, and other Syrian cities. When he learns that Egypt's Cumetrice king Tarku (Taharqa) is planning to intervene in Syria he stations a garrison on his Egyptian border to thwart the plan (see 671 B.C.).

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

147 Festivities began marking the 900th aniversary of the founding of Rome.

I'm shocked Polly that you never watched the Wonder Years!!!!!

-- Edited by salesortonscom at 10:25, 2007-05-17

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

The original mausoleum over Imam Reza's tomb was destroyed by Sabuktagin, the Ghaznevid sultan in 993 AD but was rebuilt and extensively enlarged by his son Mahmud of Ghazni in 1009 AD. During this time the shrine was ornamented with tiles, some of which are still visible in the innermost dome chamber. In 1220 AD, the Mongols plundered the city and shrine. A century later the Mongol ruler of Iran, Sultan Muhammad Khudabandeh converted to Shi'ism, and during his reign (1304-1316 AD) again renovated the shrine on a grand scale. The celebrated Moorish traveler Ibn Battuta visited Mashhad in 1333 and reported that it was "a large town with abundant fruit trees, streams and mills. A great dome of elegant construction surmounts the noble mausoleum, the walls being decorated with colored tiles. Opposite the tomb of the Imam is the tomb of Caliph Harun al-Rashid, which is surmounted by a platform bearing chandeliers. Whenever a Shi'ite enters to visit he kicks the tomb of al-Rashid with his foot, and pronounces a blessing on ar-Riza. "

arbilad · Head Chef

In the year 10 (last three digits of Ray's post count), The Greek dynasty in Bactria is extinguished.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Arbi - You can be such a stick in the mud...

however in the year 1551... in the month of July - Ottomans and Barbary pirates invade the Mediterranean Island of Gozo, enslaving all inhabitants (est. at 5,000 to 6,000), and transporting them to Tarhuna Wa Msalata.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

In the year 2017, Ray undergoes a radical new medical procedure in which he shares a portion of his laugh box via transplant with a friend, whose own laugh box broke through overexertion due to lack of use, not once but twice.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

1859- The Civil War was getting ready to start...???

I mean, what the heck, people!!! This is a google game, you can't tell me you know all this stuff off the tops of your heads!!!!

arbilad · Head Chef

In the year 479, End of the Song Dynasty and beginning of the Southern Qi Dynasty in southern China. Qi Gao Di is the first ruler of the Qi Dynasty.

Coco, actually for me my source is Wikipedia. But the fun part is not showing who knows more - the fun part is looking stuff up and discovering bits of history, seeing bits of history that other people post, etc. In other words, there is no winning or losing. It's just fun.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Coco!? I can't believe you'd think we didn't know this stuff off the top of our heads!?

Okay fine... not good to lie...

Coco, you're totally correct it's a google game... still it's pretty amusing... I'm curious if one could google my number... and get some future predictions or something... hehehe... like Social Security goes bankrupt... heaven knows we've enough computer models about global warming, and oil reserves and whatever else...

so let'see in 1552...

Beginnings

The Assyrian Church of the East (hence forth ACE), whose official name is the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, was established in 33 A.D. by the apostles Thomas (Toma in Assyrian), Theodos (Addai in Assyrian), and Bartholomew (Bar Tulmay in Assyrian). The first Patriarch of ACE was Addai, although Thomas and Bartholomew are also officially listed as the first Patriarchs (see Table of Apostolic Succession below).

ACE spread from the Assyrian city Arbela (in North Iraq; Arbela means "Four Gods" in Assyrian) to the surrounding areas of Persia, Syria, and Iraq, and later became centered in Seleucia-Ctesiphon (just south of Baghdad). Through an incredible missionary enterprise, ACE became the largest Church in the world by the 12th century, extending from Syria to China, Korea, Japan, and the Phillipines. ACE was overwhelmed by the Mongol Timurlane and after the thirteenth century could never recover its past glory. It was reduced to a small church in the Assyrian heartland in North Iraq.

The significant achievements of ACE include the first University in the world (Nisibis), and the incredible translation movement of its clergy and laity, which saw the translation of all the major Greek works of science, philosophy and religion into Assyrian (then into Arabic), and which produced original Assyrian thinkers who wrote extensively and diversely

The First Division

ACE was centered in the Sassanid empire, which was rival to the Byzantine empire to the west. Political tension between the two empires separated Eastern from Western Christians, and doctrinal disputes over the nature of Christ (monophysites/diophysites) further distanced the Christian communities. The monophysitic movement gained a stronghold in the Byzantine realm and the Church of the East divided along these geopolitical/doctrinal lines by 450 A.D. -- The Syriac Orthodox Church (SOC) was born. The term "monophysite", although widely used, is incorrect; the correct term is henophysite.

The Second Division

In 780 A.D. there occurred a division in SOC, and Mar Maron took his followers from Syria and settled in Mount Lebanon, founding the Maronite Church. The Christians of Lebanon are known as "Maronites", after Mar Maron. The Maronite Church has since become a Roman Catholic Uniate.

The Third Division

In 1552 A.D. there arose a debate over how the Patriarch of ACE should be chosen. The Patriarch had been elected, but a faction in the Church desired that the Patriarchate become hereditary. The Hereditary faction lost its dispute and as a result sough allegiance with the Catholic Church of Rome. The Roman church made the hereditary faction Roman Catholic Uniates and called the new church the Chaldean Church of Babylon (CCB), to distinguish it from ACE. But in an interesting reversal, the hereditary faction returned fifty years later and took control of ACE, and the election faction took control of CCB.

-- Edited by rayb at 15:58, 2007-05-18

historian · Senior Member

Ray's current post count is 2026 --

About 2026 BC, Terah was probably getting his life in order so that he could become Abraham's daddy, who was born sometime around 2000 BC.

And arbilad provided for the large post count problem by specifying that we could tinker with the first digit, but I'm taking a liberty and playing with the first two.

In 1526 AD, Martin Luther became a daddy for the first time.

He nailed the 95 theses to the church door in 1517 and was excommunicated from the Catholic Church in 1521. In 1523, he and some others helped twelve nuns to escape from a convent in herring barrels. One of the nuns wanted to marry him, but he didn't think himself a fit husband, excommunicated by the Pope and outlawed by the Emperor, so he hesitated until 1525. Together, they had three boys and three girls.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Year 43 (for historian)

The long Roman conquest of Britain begins. Aulus Plautius lands with four legions and an equal number of auxiliaries and defeats the Britons, led by Caratacus and Togodumnus, in battles on the rivers Medway and Thames. He halts at the Thames and sends for the emperor Claudius, who leads the march on Camulodunum. Meanwhile, the future emperor Vespasian begins to subdue the south-west. The Romans found the cities of London, then known as Londinium, and Peterborough, and begin to construct a road that later becomes Ermine Street.

Year 2036 (for rayb)

According to Wikipedia the year 2036 will mark the 50th anniversary of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. It will also mark the 200th anniversary of the independence of Texas

OH... and, in April: the Asteroid 2004 MN4 might hit the earth.

-- Edited by PollyAnna at 18:50, 2007-05-19