History Game

arbilad · Head Chef

History Game

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

You people are wearing me OUT!

Alright, I'll go look something up for 1575...

October 10 - Battle of Dormans: Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.

I like it cuz it links to DaVinci Code stuff.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

year 490

Euphemius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

There's a 167 AD Silver Roman Coin of Lucius Verus & Aequitas that you can buy on eBay right now.

Oh, whoops.

arbilad · Head Chef

In the year 495 AD Cerdic of Wessex raided Hampshire.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Year 1590

August 18 1590- John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

174 BC

Rome
In Rome, Quintus Fulvius Flaccus and Aulus Postumius Albinus become censors, and expel nine men from the Senate.

Asia
The Hsiung-nu attack the Tocharians, and force them from Gansu.

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

2056

2056 A.D.
Having baptised the last holdout in Washington D.C., the Church announced that the whole Earth had been converted to the gospel in the 26th year of the millennial era.

Okay, let's try:

56 B.C.
Pro Caelio is one of the most famous surviving speeches by the Roman orator, Cicero. It is Cicero's defence, delivered on April 4, 56 BC, of Marcus Caelius Rufus on a number of obscure charges, including sedition, theft, the murder of the Alexandrian diplomat Dio, and the purchasing and use of poison against Clodia. Of these the primary charge is that of political violence, the murder of Dio.

Caelius had been the lover of the notorious Clodia, sister of Publius Clodius Pulcher, Cicero's enemy, who may have brought the prosecution. Cicero represents the charges against Caelius as the revenge of a woman scorned, and carries out a skillful character assassination of Clodia.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

390 AD- Jerome, having finished the Latin translation of the New Testament, begins translating the Old Testament.

arbilad · Head Chef

In 519, Cerdic becomes king of Wessex

arbilad · Head Chef

In 1606, January 27 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins.

Roper · Senior Bucketkeeper

For Arbi's 1607 posts:

Year 1607: About 100 men and boys sailing from England landed in what is now Virginia and founded Jamestown under the patent of the London Company.

Also, Captain John Smith met Pocahontas in 1607.

-- Edited by Roper at 20:15, 2007-05-22

arbilad · Head Chef

In 647 (Roper's post count), A stone tower named Cheomseongdae is constructed in Silla around this time.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Hey, I got to post this one some where else too:

Year 1609

August 25 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. He is the first to perform observational astronomy as he observes the moons of Jupiter, after the manner of the ancient Egyptians who named the stars (astro-nomers), at the Edfu temple, over 2000 years earlier.

I already remember that from some stuff we did with Son1, we love the stars, and live in a GREAt place for stargazing still... I did look up the details...

Roper · Senior Bucketkeeper

184 - Lucius Artorius Castus, commander of a detachment of Sarmatian conscripts stationed in Britain, led his troops to Gaul to quell a rebellion. This is the first appearance of the name, Artorius, in history and some believe that this Roman military man is the original, or basis, for the Arthurian legend. The theory says that Castus' exploits in Gaul, at the head of a contingent of mounted troops, are the basis for later, similar traditions about "King Arthur," and, further, that the name "Artorius" became a title, or honorific, which was ascribed to a famous warrior in the fifth century. From Arthurian Timeline

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

The first emperor of the Tang dynasty, Tai-tsung (597 - 649 A.D.), united China under his royal family. Tai-tsung was very open-minded, brave and intelligent. Under his powerful leadership, China was entering another great period, and Chinese control again reached over Central Asia. As in the Han dynasty, goods and ideas flowed across the silk route during the Tang dynasty.

Being cosmopolitan and tolerant, Tang dynasty was confident in itself and curious about the world. Foreign visitors were welcomed to trade with the Tang Chinese. At the time many foreign merchants came to China, and the art in China was greatly influenced by foreign art. In order to keep on trading with foreign merchants, The Chinese kept on producing art works such as ceramic, pottery and porcelain. As a matter of fact foreigners were often depicted in the art of that period.

One example is this ceramic statue of a camel carrying a troupe of musicians reflects the Tang fascination with the Turkic cultures of Central Asia. The two musicians with beard are Central Asian, and the rest are Tang Chinese. The motif of the musicians on the back of the camel is very popular in Tang dynasty. Foreigners were always depicted in Chinese art as great nose and hairy faces. The statue reveals a new interest in nationalism, an important trend in both painting and sculpture. Compared to the rigid, staring ceramic soldiers of the first emperor of the Qin dynasty, the Tang Chinese in ceramics have lively gestures and expressions. Ceramic statues like this had shown a gorgeous variety of Tang life. Also, there is another Tang ceramic technique of using a three-color-glaze, which is also a specialty of Tang ceramists. This technique somehow symbolizes the cosmopolitan and colorful life of Tang Chinese.
http://www.silk-road.com/artl/tang.shtml

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Year 1089

Northumbria was divided by the Normans into the counties of Northumberland, County Durham, Yorkshire, Westmorland and Lancashire

(There weren't any good predictions for 2089... I looked briefly..)

Roper · Senior Bucketkeeper

In a.d. 190, Pope Victor I, the first Latin Pope, excommunicated Eastern churches for celebrating Easter on the wrong day. He convened a council to determine the "official" date of Easter.

From Roper's small stash of useless trivia: We now determine Easter as the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. Weird, huh.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

year 706

Umayyad Caliph al-Walid I begins the Great Mosque of Damascus

arbilad · Head Chef

In 206 bc, Scipio Africanus Major returns to Rome, while his soldiers found the Spanish town Italica.

arbilad · Head Chef

In 1663, collectively the ten clan-districts of the Nochiya Region contained some 65 villages that eventually became known as the Nochiya Tribe.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Year 1670

January 21 ~ Highwayman Claude Duval is executed in Tyburn, Middlesex

Neckerchief ~ anyone, anyone...???

-- Edited by PollyAnna at 15:17, 2007-06-02

historian · Senior Member

263 BC (301 BC to 198 BC)

The Ptolemies rule Jerusalem (and have since they got that part of Alexander's empire in 301 B.C.) That must have been a fairly peaceful century for Jews; a sizable Jewish population settled in Egypt. Also there is little history of that era, unlike the time following 198 BC, when Antiochus III, a Seleucid, took over the Palestine area and tried to eliminate traditional Hebrew worship. Part of this program led to defiling the temple and requiring pagan sacrifice, which led to the Maccabean revolt.

263 AD (260 AD)

"And it came to pass that the wicked part of the people began again to build up the secret oaths and combinations of Gadianton." 4 Nephi 1:42

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PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Year 61

Celtic revolt in Britain led by Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni. She is defeated in the Battle of Watling Street and killed by the Roman governor, Suetonius Paulinus.

(That was really weird... while I was looking up the year... I came back to post and I couldn't find where I had been, it's like all the pages got eaten...)

-- Edited by PollyAnna at 15:17, 2007-06-02

Roper · Senior Bucketkeeper

For Euph:

Pappus was born in Alexandria, Egypt around 290 AD. He wrote a book called the Synagoge or Collection which included sections on most of the branches of Greek mathematics, as well as some physics.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Year 711

Philippicus incites a revolt against Justinian II, and upon the latter's death declares himself Byzantine emperor.

Convert · Veteran Member

781AD

In 781 A.D., a debate on the Christian and Muslim faiths took place over a period of two days between Mar Timothy I (780-823), Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East and the Abbasid Caliph Mahdi (775-785) in Baghdad. The record of this debate survives in an original Syriac version and later Arabic versions. This book contains the text of the Syriac version and an English translation by Alphonse Mingana. This debate is significant for a number of reasons. It provides a very early witness to the relations between Islam and Christianity. It is characterized by an open and honest sharing of ideas and beliefs that is often sadly lacking in later similar encounters, even in the present day. The participants demonstrate a high degree of respect for each other that extends to their often opposing beliefs. They tend to look for common ground but never ignore or trivialize their differences.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

42-

The Roman Catholic Church has chosen January 25, 42, as the official conversion date of the apostle Paul to Christianity.

fear of shiz · Profuse Pontificator

602 A.D.

Emperor Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus of the Byzantine Empire, always dealing with the lack of money, decreed that the Byzantine army should stay for winter beyond the Danube, which would prove to be a serious mistake. The exhausted troops mutinied against the emperor. Probably misjudging the situation, Maurice repeatedly ordered his troops to start a new offensive rather than returning to winter quarters. After a while, his troops gained the impression that Maurice no longer mastered the situation, they proclaimed Phocas their leader and demanded Maurice to abdicate. Phocas entered Constantinople in November, where he was crowned emperor, while his troops captured Maurice and his family.

Maurice was brutally murdered on November 27, 602. It is said that the deposed emperor was forced to watch his three sons executed before his eyes, before he was beheaded himself (he is worshipped as a saint in the Orthodox Church). Empress Constantina and her three daughters were spared and sent to a monastery.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Year 402

The Pure Land school of Buddhism founds a monastery upon the top of Mount Lushan.

Randy · Senior Member

305 AD

San Gennaro, patron saint of Naples, was martyred.

He gets the last laugh, though, every year on the anniversary of his death his crusted up blood turns to liquid.

fear of shiz · Profuse Pontificator

142 B.C.

First stone bridge over the River Tiber in Rome completed.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Year 415

The Jews are expelled from Alexandria.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Year 356

Beginning of construction on the first basilica of Saint Peter in Rome.

(We CAN'T let this thread die... it is one of my favorites)

arbilad · Head Chef

Year 362 Julian gathers an army of 60,000 men, a fleet of fifty warships and a thousand transport boats. He secures the co-operation of the king of Armenia, Arsacès, and goes on Persia. Achieving success after success, he pushes on to Ctesiphon. Shapur II sues for peace, but Julian refuses. Soon, harassed by Persian guerrillas, the Roman army is forced to retreat.

Roper · Senior Bucketkeeper

1804:

- Beethoven angrily renames his Third Symphony from the Napoleon to the Eroica after Napoleon crowns himself emperor.

- Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton have their famous duel.

- Lewis and Clark depart from Illinois on their expedition to the Pacific coast.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Year 781

The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).

Roper · Senior Bucketkeeper

384 BC: Aristotle is born.

arbilad · Head Chef

This one is too good to pass up:
Year 800 December 25, Rome, coronation of Charles the Great (Charlemagne) as emperor by Pope Leo III. This also marked the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire.

arbilad · Head Chef

Year 1884, August 30 - Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate was born

Roper · Senior Bucketkeeper

A lot of significant things happened in 1885:

- To escape a federal crackdown on polygamy, hundreds of Mormon families fled to Mexico and established the first of five Mormon colonies in the state of Chihuahua. (I wonder how many of those descendants have now come back here as "illegal immigrants".)

- J.R. McCulloch wrote his book "Taxation and the Funding System." In it he stated that: "The moment you abandon the cardinal principle of exacting from all individuals the same proportion of their income or their profits, you are at sea without a rudder or compass and there is no amount of injustice of folly you may not commit." (Should be required reading for every member of congress.)

- Anna Pavlova Russias premier ballerina, was born.

- Grover Cleveland entered the White House as a bachelor.

- The 1st Japanese arrived in Hawaii.

- Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published.

- The Washington Monument was dedicated.

- American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) incorporated as a subsidiary of Bell Telephone to build and operate a long distance network.

- The Eastman Film Co. of Rochester, N.Y., manufactured the first commercial motion picture film. George Eastman had perfected a method for bonding photographic emulsion onto thin strips of celluloid.

- The Salvation Army was officially organized in the U.S.

- Texas was the last Confederate state readmitted to the Union.

- Boston Pops Orchestra formed.

- "Good Housekeeping" magazine was 1st published.

- Victor-Marie Hugo (b.1802), French novelist (Les Miserables) and poet, died.

- French scientist Louis Pasteur successfully tested an anti-rabies vaccine on a boy bitten by an infected dog.

- Gottlieb Daimler received a German patent for a motorcycle.

- The 1st gasoline pump was delivered to a gasoline dealer in Ft. Wayne, Ind.

- Nils Bohr, Danish physicist who won the 1992 Nobel Prize for physics and later worked on the first atom bomb, was born.

- George Patton, U.S. Army commander in World War II, was born.

- The soft drink Dr Pepper was introduced.

- California in response to the yellow menace passed legislation that allowed districts to create separate schools for Asian Americans.

- Carl Friedrich Benz invented the first operable auto with an internal combustion engine.

- America's 1st recorded serial murders took place in Austin, Texas.

- English scientist Francis Galton proved that no two 2 fingerprints were identical.

- Dr. Lazarus Ludwig Zamenhof (1859-1917), Polish ophthalmologist, invented the artificial language known as Esperanto.

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Year 900

In the field of Medicine:

Persian scientist, Rhazes, distinguished smallpox from measles in the course of his writings. Holding against any sort of orthodoxy, particularly Aristotle's physics, he maintained "the conception of an 'absolute' time, regarded by him as a never-ending flow".

arbilad · Head Chef

Year 404 January 1 Last gladiatoral competition in Rome.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

In 1944 there was this world war... and stuff... :)

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Year 1549

July - Agricultural workers stage Kett's Rebellion in East Anglia.

Roper · Senior Bucketkeeper

408

The Visigoths attacked Rome and demanded 3,000 pounds of pepper as part of the city's ransom.

Britain endured devastating attacks by the Picts, Scots and Saxons.

-- Edited by Roper at 13:31, 2007-07-12

arbilad · Head Chef

Year 924

King Athelstan succeeds to the throne of Mercia

arbilad · Head Chef

In the year 54, in the Roman empire, Two centurions are sent to the south of Egypt to find the sources of the Nile, and possible new provinces. They report that while there are many cities in the desert, the area seems too poor to be worthy of conquest.

fear of shiz · Profuse Pontificator

In the year 2056, Arbilad finally admits that Shiz is right, and votes Republican.

Roper · Senior Bucketkeeper

505 b.c. Cleisthenes starts what will become democracy in Athens