The Countdown to locking thread...

Posted By: Dev-Em The Countdown to locking thread... - 08/27/11 02:48 AM

2000

1999

1998

Okay, I know I've been participating in the inane threads as much as anyone recently, but surely THIS is a step too far...

1996 - It's never too far.

1995 (I love it!)

1994 - truly shameless.

1993 - Yes I am!

1992 - I was taking about me as well.

1991 - All of you are. ;-)

1990 - welcome my friend.

1989-- my little sister was born, and I graduated high school...

1988 - I graduated from High School.

1987 - my sophomore year at college - became 18 years old and partied way too much and managed to stay on Dean's List. ugh!

1986 - The year I got my License, and started to drive the 77 Monte Carlo.

1985 - The year I did...something.

1984 - Big Brother is watching you.

1983 - Big Brother is getting ready.

1982 - I was not a diabetic yet. btw, liking the way this thread has turned out...I guess we'll be doing random facts once we get far enough out.

1981 - I was 12 years old and we moved to Florida.

1980 - The Empire Strikes Back.

1979 - still living in Naval housing

1978 - Loved watching the Super Friends on Saturday mornings.

1977 - Fractured my wrist.

1976 - Bicentennial!

1975 - Kindergarten

1974 - Three years prior to Peebs.

1973 - Mom got the yellow lemon Thunderbird 73!

1972 - Too young for comics

1971 - I was 6 and still had a slight Greek accent. We moved to Canada the year before.

1970 - my young sister was born! then moved south to Florida.

1969 - I was a pre-schooler in Athens, Greece.

1968 - my parents got married.

1967 - The Summer of Love!

1966 - A Man for All Seasons won the Best Picture award.

1965- Sir Winston Churchill passed away.

1964 - The film version of Mary Poppins debuted.

1963 - Martin Luther King delivers the "I Have a Dream" speech.

1962 - John Lennon marries Cynthia Powell.

1961 - My parents marry. They divorced 49 years later.

1960 - World population recorded as 3,021,475,000

1959 - Was the Year of the Dog. My guess would be poodles.

1958 - Started on a Wednesday.

1957 - IGY

1956 - On September 9, Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.

1955 - The radio serial Perry Mason ended its run. The cast and serial format continued on television the next year as The Edge of Night and the characters premiered on television two years later with Raymond Burr in the title role.

1954 - My Uncle was born, and would go on to leave comics for his nephew to read...turning him into a vomiv geek,

1953 - Queen Elizabeth II crowned queen of England

1952 - Lucy and Linus Van Pelt make their first respective appearances in "Peanuts".

1951 - Dennis the Menace comic strip begins appearing in newspapers. The Pill is introduced. Coincidence?

1950 - Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts is first published

1949 - The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, airs on NBC.

1948 - My parents are born. Big deal for this guy.

1947 - US television channels exist in New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago and Schenectady.

1946 - MCMXLVI

1945 - My sister was born.

1944 - D-Day (the Battle of Normandy).

1943 - World War II raged on and the copper penny changed from copper to silver.

1942 - The year my mother was born.

1941 - ". . . a date which will live in infamy . . ."

1940 - Was a leap year!

1939 - Grace Slick was born.

1938- Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" is first released in the United States.

1937 - The first science fiction convention is held in Leeds, England.

1936 - Jesse Owens in Olympics in Berlin, Germany

1935 - Donald Sutherland was born.

1934 - Jul 4 Joe Louis wins first professional fight.

1933 - Average Cost of new house in the USA $5,750.00

1932 - The Unsinkable Molly Brown, famous Titanic survivor, passes away.

1931 - William Shatner is born March 22 in Montreal. Leonard Nimoy is born four days later in Boston.

1930 - The Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.

1929 - Hope you don't have money in the Stock Market!

1928 - Steamboat Willie, the legendary Mickey Mouse short, is released by Disney.

1927 - The U.S. Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.

1926 - Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece.

1925 - The year Paul Newman, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Angela Lansbury, Johnny Carson, and Sammy Davis Jr are all born. Neat!

1924 - Mercedes-Benz is formed by the merging companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz.

1923 - Jean Stapleton (Edith Bunker) is born. Loved her in All in the Family, because she reminded me of my Grandma.

1922 - DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.

1921 - Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.

1920 - "Not a woman here could vote, no matter what age. Then the Nineteenth Amendment struck down that restrictive rule!"

1919 - Prohibition in the United States is authorized by Congress

1918 - wow a lot of interesting things happened but I chose two things:

#1 - World War I Ends!

#2 - May 20 – The small town of Codell, Kansas is hit for the third year in a row by a tornado. Coincidentally, all three tornadoes hit on May 20, 1916, 1917, and 1918 respectively.

1917 - Mata Hari is arrested for spying.

1916 - The Boeing company is founded by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington.

1915 - Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.

1914 - World War I. Nuff said.

1913 - The US Constitution is amended twice: The sixteenth legalized the federal income tax; the seventeenth established the direct election of US Senators.

1912 - New Mexico and Arizona became 47th and 48th State respectively, while the tragedy struck as the Titanic sunk.

1911 - The first Monte Carlo races (Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo) are held.

1910 - Mark Twain, who said he would go out with Halley's Comet, remained true to his word.

1909 - The city of Barcelona experienced a workers' uprising that became known as "Tragic Week."

1908 - the end of the Penny Indian (1 cent penny)

1907 - Oklahoma is admitted to the union as the 46th state. It was another 36 years before it opened on Broadway.

1906 : the Great Earthquake struck San Francisco on April 18, resulting in Fires and many deaths. (of course I am from the Bay Area and they are doing the celebration on that every year. )

1905 - Albert Einstein formalizes his theory of special relativity. Thank you, Wakko Warner.

1904- The Russo-Japanese War begins, in which Russia's loss surprised and shocked the Western world.

1903 - Kitty Hawk. Wright Brothers. Nuff said.

1902 - The first ever Rose Bowl (that's for American football, y'all) is hosted in Pasadena.

1901 - Assassination of President William S. McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.

1900 - a milestone before the millennium - and - The first electric bus becomes operational in New York City.

1899 - A peace treaty is ratified following the Spanish-American War.

1898 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital city.

1897 - Bram Stoker publishes Dracula

1896 - X-rays were discovered.

1895 - Oscar Wilde's last play, The Importance of Being Earnest, is first shown in London.

1894 - Argon was discovered and Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister.

1893 - New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote.

1892 - the basketball was invented.

1891 - Springhill, Nova Scotia suffers a serious mining disaster.

1890 - Idaho and Wyoming are admitted as the 43rd and 44th states in the United States respectively.

1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

1888 - Jack the Ripper began stalking/killing women in England.

1887 - Leonard "Chico" Marx, eldest of the Marx Brothers, is born.

1886 - The Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

wow a lot of milestones in 1885 -

Washington Monument was dedicated. The first automobile (Benz Patent Motorwagon).The first skyscraper (the Home Insurance Building) is built in Chicago, Illinois, USA (10 floors).
Bicycle Playing Cards are first produced.

Sure love that year!! Makes me want to go timetravel to that year and celebrate them all.

I love that this has become a "this year in history" thread (and I'm being serious!). It's a lot of fun to do some research. My contribution:

1884 - The Washington Monument is completed.
or
100 years before Future was born.

1883 - First run of the Orient Express.

1882 - Outlaw Jesse James is shot and killed. Also, appropriate for today, the first Labor Day Parade is held in NYC.

1881 - The most recent year of three Presidents: Hayes, Garfield and Arthur.

1880 - The University of Southern California opens its doors to 53 students and 10 faculty.

1879 - My great-grandfather arrives in the United States from England. He is my first ancestor to arrive on American shores.

1878 - The Salvation Army "foundation deed" is signed

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as 19th U.S. president. Called "Rutherfraud" by opponents who charge that he stole the election, Hayes won the electoral but not the popular vote (a phenomenon that will be repeated in 2001).

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful call by saying, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you..."

1875 - Georges Bizet's opera Carmen premieres in Paris. Bizet dies three months after the opening.

1874 - New York annexes the Bronx and the first U.S. public zoo opens in Philadelphia.

1873 - The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police (which is renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920).

1872 - Artist Aubrey Beardsley is born in Brighton, England. He died at the age of 25 of tuberculosis.

1871 - The first Canadian census was held finding a population of 3,689,257

1870 - Rome becomes the capital of unified Italy.

1869 - My great-grandfather was born in Doniphan County, KS.

1868 - The first popular bicycle race is held at Parc de Saint-Cloud, Paris.

1867 - Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million from Alexander II of Russia by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this "Seward's Folly".

1866 - Tennessee 1st state to be readmitted into the Union after the Civil War. and the Congress approved that no more half dime....changed to a Nickel using "5" cents, not "half dime"/"V".

1865 - End of the Civil War; assassination of Lincoln.

1864 - Gallaudet University established! the first college for the deaf - still the only one in the whole world in 125 years plus.

1863 - American history aplenty. Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation and declares an official holiday at the end of November called Thanksgiving.

1862 - Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America.

1861 - The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

1860 - The Pony Express begins its first run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California.

1859 - "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens is published.

1858 - 100 years before the LSH! Also, Macy's Department Store opens its doors in New York.

1857 - James Buchanan is inaugurated as President of the United States. Buchanan is to date the only President never to have married. His niece served as White House hostess during his tenure.

For 15 years, he had lived with Alabama Senator William Rufus King, who was known in Washington circles as "Miss Nancy".

1856 - November 4 – Democrat James Buchanan defeats former President Millard Fillmore, representing a coalition of "Know-Nothings" and Whigs, and John C. Frémont of the fledgling Republican Party, to become the 15th President of the United States.

Dallas, Texas being established; the Last Island of Louisiana were split into many small islands left by Hurricane; and 500 left Iowa City, Iowa to set up a settlement in Utah.

1855 - The Daily Telegraph begins publication.

1854 - The Republican Party (United States) is founded in Ripon, Wisconsin.

...and we all know how that turned out.

1853 - The first public aquarium opens in London while in New York the first potato chip is prepared.

1852 - Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.

1851 - Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramenthramaha Mongkut Phra Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua (Rama IV) is crowned King of Siam. His life is later fictionalized as Anna and the King and The King and I.

1850 - Harriet Tubman becomes an official conductor of the Underground Railroad.

1849 - California Gold Rush.

1848 - Welcome Wisconsin, US President Zachary Taylor, and the Communist Manifesto.

1847 - Charlotte Brontë publishes Jane Eyre under the pseudonym Currer Bell.

1846 - One year before the birth of Jesse Woodson James, who grows up to rob banks, kill people, and die with bullet in the back of the head.

1845 - Florida and Texas join the U.S. fray.

1844 - The great auk goes extinct.

1843 - Tivoli Gardens opened in Copenhagen, Denmark, the oldest amusement Park. and Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol is first published.

1842 - The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina, opens.

1841 - Another year of three presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison and John Tyler.

1840 - The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.

1839 - British naturalist Charles Darwin marries his cousin Emma Wedgwood. Um...

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Originally posted by Future:
1839 - British naturalist Charles Darwin marries his cousin Emma Wedgwood. Um...

1838 - The people of the Cherokee Nation are forcibly relocated during the Trail of Tears.

We're one off now.

1837. Michigan is admitted to the Union.

1836. Houston is founded; The Republic of Texas is declared.

Now we're back in sync.

1835 - Mark Twain came into the world with Halley's Comet.

1834 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.

1833 - The city of Chicago is established at the estuary of the Chicago River by 350 settlers.

1832 - Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands.

1831 - The previously mentioned Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle.

1830 - The Port of Manila is opened to the world market.

1829 - Birth of Huang Kuan, first Chinese to study medicine abroad

1828 - Andrew Jackson is elected U.S. President.

1827 - Greek War of Independence: The Treaty of London between France, Britain, and Russia, demands that the Turks agree to an armistice in Greece.

1826 - John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both pass away on July 4th! Weird...

1825 - The British introduce opium to China, setting in motion the weakening of the Chinese government, an unfavorable balance of trade with India, two Opium Wars, and the 1911 "death" of Imperial China.

1824 - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is established in Great Britain.

1823 - William Webb Ellis "invents" Rugby football.

1822 - The Graham Cracker is developed in Bound Brook, New Jersey by the Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham.

1821 - The U.S. takes possession of Florida from Spain.

1820 - The HMS Beagle (the ship that later takes young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage) is launched.

1819 - Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia.

1818 - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published.

1817 - Beginning of the reign of King Manthatourat of Laos

1816 - Argentina gains independence from Spain.

1815 - The first commercial cheese factory is founded in Switzerland. (and there was great rejoicing)

1814-- The Battle of New Orleans

1813 - A good year for over-the-top opera composers: Both Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner were born.

1812 - The War of 1812 begins between the United States and the British Empire.

1811 - Napoleon II is born! Yes, I'm not making that name up. Paraguay and Venezuela declare their independence from Spain.

1810 - Outbreak of the Anglo-Dutch Java War, which would end in 1811 with Java and several other territories being ceded to the British until 1816.

1809 - Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln are born on the same day, February 12th. Nine days earlier, Felix Mendelssohn was born.

1808 - William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects tap dance

1807 - The municipality of Mogpog in Marinduque, Philippines is founded.

1806 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition reaches St. Louis, Missouri, ending a successful exploration of the Louisiana Territory and the Pacific Northwest.

This is the most inane thread ever. Of course I can't resist participating.

1805 - The Battle of Trafalgar is fought, and Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Ocean. Good for them. Also, Jefferson was sworn in for his second term.

1804 - Lewis and Clark start their expedition, Napoleon becomes emperor of France, morphine is developed, and Aaron Burr shot first.

1803 - The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.

1802 - Martha Washington passes away.

1801-Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tie in the Electoral College, causing the House of Representatives to elect Jefferson president.

1800 - U.S. President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).

1799 - 12-year-old Conrad John Reed finds what he describes as a "heavy yellow rock" along Little Meadow Creek in Cabarrus County, North Carolina and makes it a doorstop in his home. Conrad's father John Reed learns that the rock is actually gold in 1802, initiating the first gold rush in the United States.

1798 - The Mississippi Territory is organized from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina and is later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the U.S. and Spain.

1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft gives birth to the future Mary Shelley, and dies eleven days later.

1796 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York, Jane Austen writes her first draft of Pride & Prejudice, and John Adams is elected US President.

1795 - Louis XVII of France dies at the age of ten, having never actually reigned as King of France.

1794 - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.

1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent for his cotton gin. Marie Antoinette is condemned to death and executed.

1792 - A new capital of North Carolina and county seat of the newly formed Wake County is established after North Carolina State Senator and surveyor William Christmas submits his design for the city.
A few months later the capital is officially named Raleigh in honor of Sir Walter Raleigh.

1791 - The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published. The Bill of Rights is ratified in the USA.

1790 - U.S. President George Washington gives the first State of the Union Address.

1789 - Vive la revolution! The storming of the Bastille is one of the many events of the French Revolution.

In the United States, the Bill of Rights is proposed to be added the US Constitution, upon which North Carolina becomes the twelfth state to ratify it.

The Episcopal Church is officially formed as a separate church from the Church of England.

1788 - The Great New Orleans Fire kills 25% of the population and destroys 856 buildings, leaving most of the town in ruins.

1787 - New Jersey becomes the third U.S. state.

1786 - Caroline Herschel becomes the first female astronomer recorded to have discovered a comet.

1785 - Birth of Jakob Grimm, half of the Grimm Brothers.

1784 - Elisabeth Thible is the first woman to ride in a balloon, at Lyon, France.

1783 - American Revolutionary War: Britain acknowledges the United States independence.

1782 - The U.S. chooses the bald eagle as its national symbol.

1781 - Bank of North America is chartered by the Continental Congress.

1780 - The Canadian province of Manitoba is created in response to Louis Riel's Red River Rebellion.

1779 - Fort Nashborough, later to become Nashville, Tennessee, is founded.

1778 - The term "thoroughbred" is first used in the United States in an advertisement in a Kentucky gazette to describe a New Jersey stallion called Pilgarlick.

1777 - Morocco becomes the first nation to formally recognize the American colonies thereby beginning Morocco – United States relations.

- The Stars and Stripes is adopted by the Continental Congress as the Flag of the United States

1776 - Some guy named Jefferson writes these words:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

1775 - American Revolutionary War, anyone?

1774 - Louis XVI becomes King of France following the death of his grandfather, Louis XV.

1773 - The Boston Tea Party (the real one).

1772 - The Watauga Association (sometimes referred to as the Republic of Watauga) was created. It was a semi-autonomous government created by frontier settlers living along the Watauga River in what is now present day Elizabethton, Tennessee. Although it lasted only a few years, the Watauga Association provided a basis for what later developed into the state of Tennessee and likely influenced other western frontier governments in the trans-Appalachian region.

While there is no evidence that the Watauga Association ever claimed to be outside the sovereign territory of the British Crown, historians have often cited the Association as the earliest attempt by American-born colonists to form an independent democratic government.

1771 - The first recorded town cricket match is played at Horsham.

1770 - Marie Antoinette marries the French Dauphin, Louis-Auguste.

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She likes cake.

1769 - James Cook lands in New Zealand at Poverty Bay.

1768 - In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus, with acrobats on galloping horses.

1767 - Birth of "Ole Hickory," Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. president, in the Waxhaws settlement of either North Carolina or South Carolina.

1766 - Sweden introduces its Freedom of the Press Act, becoming the first country of the world to protect freedom of the press in the Constitution, and the first country in the world to grant a wide-ranging freedom of information.

1765 - The first chocolate factory in the United States is established by Dr. James Baker at Dorchester, Massachusetts.

1764 - The English-language Quebec Gazette is established in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. As of 2008, it was the oldest surviving newspaper in North America.

1763 - The Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War!

1762 - Prince George Augustus Frederick is born to King George III and Queen Charlotte. In 1820, he would ascend the British throne as George IV.

1761 - June 6 – A transit of Venus occurs, and is observed from 120 locations around the Earth *raising eyebrow* never knew that we can see Venus...hmmmm.

1760 - The Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings.

1759 - British Museum opens in London

1758 - Halley's Comet appears for the first time after Halley's discovery of it.

1757 - Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Louis XV of France.

1756 - The Burmese sack the capital of the Thai kingdom Ayutthaya, which at that time was an amazingly large and sophisticated city. Its ruins and temples are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site (one which I plan to visit March 2012).

1755 - – French and Indian War – Braddock Expedition: British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat inflicted by French and Indian forces. During the battle, British General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded. Colonel George Washington survives.

1754 - Hudson's Bay Company Anthony Hendry to upper South Saskatchewan River, to Ft. La Jonquierre region with presents and trade goods.

1753 - Species Plantarum is published by Linnaeus (adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as the formal start date of the scientific classification of plants).

1752 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity, using a kite and a key.

1751 - The Academy and College of Philadelphia, now known as the University of Pennsylvania, is founded.

1750 - Typhus epidemic sweeps through London, killing thousands.

1749 - The naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded and while in debtor's prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill.

1748 - The ruins of Pompeii are discovered.

1747 - John Paul Jones, future American Naval hero and Led Zeppelin bass player (

) is born.

1746 - The College of New Jersey is founded (it becomes Princeton University in 1896).

1745 - For 5 days, fire destroys buildings in Istanbul on December 28.

1744 - The third French and Indian War, known as King George's War, breaks out at Port Royal, Nova Scotia.

1743 - Thomas Jefferson was born.

1742 - Handel's Messiah is first performed in Dublin.

1741 - The population of China reaches 143 million.

1740 - The Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse François) was born.

1739 - The first Bible in Estonian is published.

1738 - The excavation of Herculaneum, a Roman city buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, begins.

1737 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, dies and with him the direct male line of the Medici family goes extinct.

1736 - Ben Franklin builds the first volunteer fire company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1735 - Georg Brandt becomes the first person to discover a metal not known in ancient times, when he isolates cobalt.

1734 - Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop, set sail for the British Colony of Georgia, in America.

1733 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.

1732 - Birth of George Washington on Feb. 22 (Feb. 11 Old Style Calendar).

1731 - The birth of Mrs. George Washington, Martha Washington! Also, Benjamin Franklin starts the Library Company of Philadelphia.

1730 - Pope Clement XII succeeds Pope Benedict XIII as the 246th pope.

1729 - Treaty of Seville is signed between Britain, France and Spain

1728 - I wasn't born yet. And neither were you.

1727 - The first Amish move to America.

1726 - Voltaire begins exile in England.

1725 - John Newton, author of "Amazing Grace", is born.

1724 - If I were true to my original He Who Wanders name, I'd have been 761 years old this year and still in the Stasis Zone.

1723 - The Four Seasons, a set of violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, was composed.

1722 - Benjamin Franklin writes a series of letters to his brother's newspaper under the name Mrs. Silence Dogood.

1721 - Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.

1720 - Mrs Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard, setting in motion the chain of events that would lead to mustard's astounding popularity today

1719 - Andrew Bradford publishes the American Weekly Mercury, Pennsylvania's first newspaper.

1718 - France declares war on Spain, joining the War of the Quadruple Alliance. Britain, Austria and the Dutch Republic were France's allies.

1717 - Voltaire is sentenced to the Bastille for a year because of his satirical writings.

1716 - the first lion is exhibited in America, in Boston

1715 - A total solar eclipse is seen across southern England, Sweden and Finland (the last total eclipse visible in London, UK for almost 900 years).

1714 - The Ottoman Empire declares war on Venice.

1713 - Alexander Pope, historian and life long friend of Sir Isaac Newton announces that he is to begin a definitive translation of the works of Homer.

Honestly, these are starting to get boring!

The world is less interesting as it goes backwards thru time!

^ I'm sure it seems boring because we are far removed from the actual events.

Personally, I find this interesting:

1712 -- Sweden, apparently not happy with the Gregorian Calendar, reverts to the Julian Calendar by adding February 30.

If Sweden's reversion to the Julian calendar (temporary, as it turned out) had caught on, we would all be celebrating our birthdays about 13 days earlier.

1711 - The Town of Needham, Massachusetts, is incorporated from part of nearby Dedham.

I am also finding this very interesting, especially in seeing what individuals find noteworthy for a given year.

1710 - The Church of San Agustin in Paoay, Ilocos Norte, the Philippines, is completed. It is one of 4 churches in the Philippines on the UNESCO World Heritage List; their collective name is "The Baroque Churches of the Philippines.

I have been to this, and two others: San Agustin Church in Intramuros, Manila; and the Church of Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion in Ilocos Sur. I'm only missing the Sto. Tomas de Villanueva Church in Miag-ao, Iloilo; I actually could have visited it last October, but didn't know about it yet.

1709 - Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

1708 - Murder of Tekle Haymanot I, emperor of Ethiopia.

Tekle had been in power just over two years but had incurred the wrath of others by murdering his own father, Iyasu the Great, who had abdicated the throne. Iyasu's death is considered the beginning of the "Era of Princes", a time of disorder in Ethiopia.

1707- The Acts of Union take effect, joining the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England together as the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1706 - Death of Tsangyang Gyatso, the Sixth Dalai Lama. He was an "improper" one, enjoying women and drinking. He was deposed in 1705.

He wrote poetry which is still being recited today in Tibet.

^^ So much for history being boring.

1705 - (from Wikipedia): "The Shogunate confiscates the property of a merchant in Osaka "for conduct unbecoming a member of the commercial class". The government seizes 50 pairs of gold screens, 360 carpets, several mansions, 48 granaries and warehouses scattered around the country and hundreds of thoudands of gold pieces."

Can't have those pesky merchants acting like they're rich or something!

"Several" mansions? How wonderfully opulent!

1704 - Sabah is "given" to the Sultan of Sulu for his help in stopping the Brunei civil war. Currently, Sabah is a state in Malaysia, and contains such landmarks as Mount Kinabalu (my uncle almost passed out from oxygen deprivation there) and Sipadan (fantastic dive spot; Shark Lad would be at home here)

1703 - The Man in the Iron Mask dies in the Bastille.

1702 – William III dies; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Anne is the mother of 17 children by her husband Prince George of Denmark but none of them will survive childhood and she will die without heir to enable the Hanoverian Succession.

1701 - The Great Peace of Montreal was signed, ending 100 years of war between the Iroquois Confederacy and New France and its Huron and Algonquian allies.

1700 - Louis XIV accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou, who becomes Philip V of Spain (to 1746), thus triggering the War of the Spanish Succession in 1701.

1699 - Peter I "the Great" changes New Year's to January 1st, instead of September 1st, perhaps reasoning that the winter chill will be a good excuse to drink lots and lots of vodka.

1698 - Steam engine technology advances after an improved water pumping device is patented by English engineer Thomas Savery.

1697 - The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.

1696 - Peter the Great becomes sole tsar of Russia, upon the death of Tsar Ivan V.

1695 - A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid it.

1694 -- Princess Anne of England is summoned back to court to serve as hostess following the death of her sister, Queen Mary II. Mary's death has left her husband, William III, as sole ruler, sans heir. This paves the way for Anne to become queen eight years later.

Anne had previously been banished after an "unseemly row" with the queen (Wikipedia).

I think it's safe to say that Wikipedia is the source for a lot of these, if not most.

1693 - The College of William and Mary is chartered.

1692 - The Salem Witch Trials lead to hanging of 19 men and women between June and September.

I use Brainy History for a lot of my posts. But often, I google the year and the country whose history I'm interested in.

1691 - Prey Nokor, an area in the Khmer Empire, is occupied by the Vietnamese. Prey Nokor would eventually become Saigon.

Prey Nokor was an important seaport, and its loss rapidly accelerated the weakening of the Khmer Empire by cutting of access to the South China Sea.

1690 - The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany.

1689 - William III and Mary II are crowned as King and Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Ireland does not recognise them yet, while the Estates of Scotland declare King James VII of Scotland deposed.

1688 - Aurangzeb of the Mogul Empire conquers the last remaining free sultanates of India. His empire now stretches over the entire subcontinent of Afghanistan.

However, he overextends his empire, and after his death in 1707, none of his successors would be able to hold on to power for more than a few years.

1687 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, ushering in a tidal wave of changes in thought that would significantly accelerate the already ongoing scientific revolution by giving it tools that produced technologically valuable results, which had theretofore been otherwise unobtainable.

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Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
I think it's safe to say that Wikipedia is the source for a lot of these, if not most.

Yes, but I like to cite a source when I quote it directly.

IB - Thanks for the link to Brainy History. It lists a few things Wikipedia does not, such as:

1686 - Fictional date of Robinson Crusoe's rescue from his island, after being shipwrecked for 28 years.

1685 - Of all the executions and battles of the year, I was most intrigued by Adam Baldridge discovering a pirate base in Madagascar. I am perhaps 5, but now going to go learn a surely awesome historical story.

1684 - The Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary (not particularly grammatically correct huh?), a community of vowed religious women, is founded in Manila. The group still administers schools in the Philippines, and also in California and Hawaii.

1683 - The River Thames freezes, allowing a frost fair to be held.

1682 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.

1681 - Amangkurat II recaptures the throne and capital of the Sultanate of Mataram from Trujanaya with help from the Dutch. This would come at a heavy price - Dutch involvement in Javanese politics.

1680 - The first documented tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1679 - European explorers discover Niagara Falls.

1678 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to receive a university degree when the doctorate of philosophy is conferred upon her at the University of Padua.

1677 - Lots of goings on in Paris. Michel le Tellier becomes Chancelor of France, Jules Hardouin-Mansart begins la place Vendôme, the population first exceeds 500,000, and for some reason Wikipedia mentions that in this year "ice cream becomes popular in Paris." Who knew?

1676 - – Providence, Rhode Island is attacked and destroyed by the Indians.

1675 - Greek Constantine Phaulkon becomes an official at the court in Thailand; he allows the French to station soldiers in the country.

1674 - England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster.
A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renames it New York.

1673 - French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet reach the headwaters of the Mississippi River and descend to Arkansas.

1672 - The Kingdom of England declares war on the Dutch Republic.

1671 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He is later condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II.

**now that could be made into a movie...hmmm

1670 - Pope Clement X succeeds Pope Clement IX as the 239th pope. Excitinnn...zzzz.

1669 - Bugis and Dutch forces destroy Fort Benteng Somba Opu in Makassar, on South Sulawesi. This would lead to the fall of the Makassar Kingdom.

1668 - Isaac Newton invents the reflecting telescope.

1667 - Trinh Tac, one of the greatest Trinh Lords of Northern Vietnam, drives the Mac Dynasty out of Cao Bang province, and by extension, Vietnam.

1666 - The Great Fire of London

1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published; and The Great Red Spot on Jupiter was discovered.

1664 - The British establish a trading port in Guangzhou, China. This was the first such trading port, and led to the development of Pidgin English for trade.

1663 - The Turks declare war against Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I.

1662 - The Church of England issues its most recent revision of The Book of Common Prayer.

1661 - Narai of Ayuthaya (Thailand) briefly recaptures Chiang Mai City from the Burmese

1660 - Restoration of the throne of England after 11 years as a Commonwealth and Protectorate under the Cromwells; Charles II becomes king, succeeding his father, Charles I, who had been executed when the monarchy was abolished.

1659 - Jan van Riebeeck produces the first South African wine at the Cape of Good Hope.

1658 - The area of Aurora in the Philippines is given to the charge of the Agustinian and Recolect friars, due to a shortage of available Franciscans.

1657 - The first autopsy and coroner's jury verdict is recorded in the colony of Maryland.

1656 - oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins in Haarlem, Netherlands

1655 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens. Appropriate for Legion fans!

1654 - Birth of Kangxi, who would become the second Qing emperor to rule all of China. He would be known as one of the greatest emperors and politicians of China.

During his reign, he annexed Taiwan and the Chakhar Mongols, put down the revolt of the Three Feudatories, improved flood control on the Yellow River, repaired the Grand Canal, compiled a dictionary (The Kangxi Dictionary) and invented a Chinese calendar.

1653 - Oliver Cromwell expels the Rump Parliament in England.

1652 - Death of Wu Youxing, Chinese doctor who hypothesized that diseases were transmitted via germs.

1651 - Baroque-era composers Domenico Gabrielli and Johann Krieger are born.

1650 - Henry Robinson opens the first marriage bureau (in England)

1649 - King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded.

1648 - The Taj Mahal is completed.

1647 - Santiago earthquake rattles Chile.

1646 - Massachusetts is a wonderful place to live. This year, Roger Scott is tried for falling asleep in church and the death penalty is enacted for having a rebellious child.

That scared me, since I can fall asleep just about anywhere.

1645 - death of Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. Widely considered a Kensei (sword saint), or legendary swordsman, he was said to have killed his first foe at 13 years old. He went undefeated for 17 years in a row. He wrote the Book of Five Rings, a book on strategy and philosophy that is still read by martial artists and business leaders alike.

1644 - A rebellion in China prompts Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, to commit suicide. Li Zicheng claims himself as the emperor of China in what I'd call a "Starscream" moment.

1643 - Birth of Alfonso VI of Portugal. He suffered from paralysis and mental instability, and thus had little direct contribution to the rule of Portugal during this time. His mother, Luisa of Medina-Sidonia, ruled as Queen Regent.

During his reign, Portugal's independence from Spain was recognized; and peaceful means were increasingly used to settle conflicts between the then-world powers, which included Spain and Britain. Marriage became a popular tool for forming alliances.

1642 - Isaac Aboab da Fonseca is appointed rabbi in Pernambuco, Brazil, thus becoming the first rabbi of the Americas.

1641 - the Dutch capture Malacca from the Portuguese.

1640 - - King Charles I of England summons the Short Parliament in an attempt to fund the second of the Bishops' Wars.

1639 - Colonists in Barbados establish a House in Assembly. It would be only the 3rd ever Parliamentary Democracy in the world.

1638 – Anne Hutchinson is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy and goes to Rhode Island.

1637 - Shimabara Rebellion: Japanese peasants led by Amakusa Shiro rise against daimyo Matsukura Shigeharu.

1636 - Harvard University is established by the colonial Massachusetts legislature.

1635 - Thomas Parr is buried in Westminster Abbey, which is noteworthy because his unproven but claimed death age is "152." Hmmm...

Jeepers! Maybe he found the fountain of youth.

1634 - expatriate Drukpa monk Ngawang Namgyal defeats invading Tibetans in Bhutan, leading to his recognition as the "lord" of Bhutan from Nepal, West Bengal and Tibet.

1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.

1632 - Shah Jahan, of the Mogul Empire, begins a policy of strict interpretation of Islam. He destroys all recently built Hindu temples in his kingdom. Only temples which were built prior to conquering the lands remain.

1631 - Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.

1630 - the Native Americans introduce the pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving

1629 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan abdicates the throne in favour of his daughter, who becomes Empress Meishō.

1628 - Dutch admiral Piet Hein captures a Spanish treasure fleet. To his credit, he gives the prisoners ample supplies with which to survive a march back to Havana.

1627 - The aurochs, a type of large, wild cattle, are hunted to extinction.

1626 - The beginning of the Würzburg witch trial, which led to the mass executions of hundreds of people until 1631.

1625 - the Dutch attack the Philippines a third time. Hostilities would not end until 1648 with the Treaty of Munster

1624 - Mail service begins in Denmark.

1623 - 11 Dutch ships depart to conquer Peru

1622 - In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25.

1621 - Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony

1620 - The first merry-go-round is seen at a fair in Philippapolis, Turkey and the Mayflower arrives at Cape Cod.

1619 - A captain in Mexico reports to Spain that a Filipino community has formed in Mexico City. The community seemed to be a combination of exiles from Tondo and shipmen from the Manila-Acapulco galleons who fell in love with Mexico.

Looks like Filipino have been globetrotters for a long, long time.

1618 - Pluto reaches, according to sophisticated mathematical calculations, its second most recent aphelion.
The next one occurs in 1866, and the following one will occur 2113.

Dang! We missed the aphelions. Oh well. Just goes to show how SLOOOOOOW Pluto is in orbiting around the

1617 - Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Stolbova to end the Ingrian War. The English and the Dutch contributed a lot during the negotiations.

1616 - After overwintering with the Huron Indians, Samuel de Champlain and Recollect Father Joseph Le Caron visit the Petun and Ottawa Indians of the Great Lakes.
This is Champlain's last trip in North America before returning to France.
Having secured Canada, he helps create French America, New France, or L'Acadie.

1615 - The end of the Sengoku, or Warring States Period, in Japan. The period lasted about 150 years, and only ended when the Tokugawa Shogunate pacified all other factions from 1603 to 1615.

1614 - Pocahontis marries John Rolfe.

Meanwhile, in Europe, Countess Elizabeth Bathory de Ecsed passes away. Known today as the "Blood Countess" and "Countess Dracula," she was rumored to have murdered 650 young women and, though neither tried nor convicted, she spent the last four years of her life imprisoned in a bricked-in series of rooms in a castle in what is now Slovakia.

1613 - Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga sets out on his ambassadorial journey from Japan to Rome and the Christian West. He converts to Christianity during his journey.

His journey would take him to California, Mexico, Cuba, Spain, France, Rome, and the Philippines.

1612 - – Four women and one man are hanged following the Northamptonshire Witch Trials in Northampton, England.

1611 - The word "telescope" is first used, by Prince Federico Cesi at a banquet held to honor Galileo. The telescope was used to view Jupiter's moons.

1610 - The previously mentioned Galileo Galilei first observes the four Galilean moons of Jupiter: Ganymede, Callisto, Europa and Io.

1609 - Bermuda becomes an English colony. Sadly, I doubt whether Galileo was able to observe it through his telescope.

1608 - Quebec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.

1607 - Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as what would become the first permanent English colony in North America.

1606 - the first definite sighting of Australia by European explorers. The man was Willem Janszoon of the Dutch East India Company.

1605 - Pope Leo XI succeeds Pope Clement VIII as the 232nd pope.

1604 - First presentation of William Shakespeare's Othello, at Whitehall Palace, London.

1603 - Elizabeth I of England dies at Richmond Palace and is succeeded by her cousin's grandson, King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.

1602 - Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold

1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, longtime favorite of Queen Elizabeth I of England, rebels against the queen; his revolt is quickly crushed.
He is beheaded 16 days later.

1600 - the Battle of Sekigahara is waged. Also known as the Battle for the Sundered Realm, it was one of the largest and most important battles in Japanese history. It paved the way for the rise of the Tokgawa shogunate, the last shogunate to rule Japan.

1599 - The first performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Globe Theatre in London, is reported by Swiss traveller Thomas Platter the Younger.

1598 - Tycho Brahe's star catalogue listing the positions of 1,004 stars is published.

1598 - Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, granting religious freedom to the Huguenots.

1597 - Jesuit priest John Gerard and fellow Catholic John Arden make a daring escape from the Tower of London

Oops! We're off track.

1596 - René Descartes, French philosopher and Mathematician ("I think; therefore, I am"), is born.

1595 - First probable performance of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Thanks for fixing it, HWL!

1594 - Philip II ordered that the honor and privilege to rule pertaining to native Filipino nobles should be retained and protected. He also ordered the Spanish governors in the islands to show these native nobles good treatment, and even ordered the natives to pay respect and tribute due to these nobles as they did before the conquest without prejudice to the things that pertain to King himself or to the encomenderos.

1593 - The killing of playwright Christopher Marlowe by Ingraham Frizer. Attending a private dinner, Marlowe and Frizer argued over the bill when Marlowe reportedly grabbed Frizer's dagger and was stabbed in self-defense. Frizer was later pardoned by Queen Elizabeth I.

1592 - Pope Clement VIII (born Ippolito Aldobrandini) succeeds Pope Innocent IX, who died one month earlier, as the 231st pope.

1591 - The city of Hyderabad is founded by Quli Quub Shah.

1590 - John White returns from a supply trip to England to find the Roanoke Colony deserted, with only the words "Croatoan" carved into a palisade around the settlement.

The mystery has been unsolved until now; the missing settlers weren't found on Croatoan Island.

1589 - Hiroshima, Japan is founded.

1588 - the datus of Manila, Pampanga and Bulacan engage in the Tondo Conspiracy to overthrow the Spanish colonizers of the Philippines. Unfortunately,they are betrayed and arrested. The ringleaders are executed while the rest are exiled to Mexico.

In Europe, the "invincible" Spanish Armada sails to overthrow Queen Elizabeth of England, but are defeated soundly.

1587 - Virginia Dare, the first baby born to English settlers in America, is born.

Also, massive famine rocks the Ming Dynasty in China.

1586 - Treaty of Berwick is signed between Elizabeth I of England and James VI of Scotland. The two predominantly Protestant countries pledge to mutually defend one another against aggressors like the Catholic Spain and France.

1585 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in his quest for the Northwest Passage.

1584 - Bohemia and the Holy Roman Empire abandon the Julian Calendar. Bohemia adopts the Gregorian calendar instead.

1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert, in what is now the city of St John's, Newfoundland, claims the island of Newfoundland on behalf of England, marking the beginning of the British Empire.

1582 - William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway. Looks like someone discovered time travel... oh, wait.

1851 - English parliament passes laws against Catholicism

1850 - Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.

1849 - The California Gold Rush experiences a boom as word spreads of the discovery of gold in 1848. Migrants would come from Latin America, China, Europe and Australia, hoping to strike it rich. A state constitution was written that very year for California.

1848 - The Washington Monument is established.

1847 - end of the Thai-Vietnam War, which began in 1833 when Thai King Rama III sent troops into Cambodia to expel the Vietnamese troops there.

Yikes! We've jumped forward in time.

[HWL gets in the Wayback Machine and sets it for the appropriate year.]

1576 - End of the Fifth War of Religion in France and beginning of the Sixth.

whoops, my bad! Thanks, HWL!

1575 - University of Leiden Netherlands opens

1574 - Manila gains cityhood.

Cool, a tidbit of Philippine history. Thanks FK

1573 - Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy

1572 - Pope Gregory XIII succeeds Pope Pius V as the 226th pope.

1571 - Manila is founded by the Spanish

1570 - Abraham Ortelius publishes Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas, in Antwerp.

1569 - 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St. Paul's Cathedral

1568 - Queen Elizabeth I of England arrests Mary, Queen of Scots.

1567 - The second War of Religion in France breaks out.

1566 - Pope Pius V expels all the prostitutes from Rome.

1565 - Miguel Lopez de Legazpi claims Cebu and Manila (in the Philippines) for Spain

1564 - Birth of Galileo and probably birth year of William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.

1563 - the prospering Kingdom of Dapitan in Bohol is abandoned for fear of Portuguese forces. That same year, the Portugeuse would plunder Bohol and surrounding islands, and enslave over 1000 inhabitants

1562 - Maximilian of Bohemia is elected King of the Romans.

1561 - the 19-year-old Prince Srisin of Ayuthhaya (in modern day Thailand), who was ousted from the throne by his natural mother, mounted a rebellion on King Chakrapat. He was killed by the men of Prince Mahin, son of King Chakrapat.

1560 - A total eclipse of the sun is observable in Europe.

1559 - Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey

1558 - Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Francis II of France.

1557 - 1st Russian Embassy opens in London, Russia and U.K. sign trade agreement

^^ This surely refers to a trade agreement between Russia and England. The U.S. did not exist in 1557.

1556 - The deadliest earthquake in history hits Shaangxi province, China, killing perhaps 830,000.

^^ edited above above - that'll teach me to copy pasre

1555 - Spanish law declares that universities be established for Philippine natives. Schools would teach religious doctrines, art, music, reading, writing and arithmetic

1554 - São Paulo, Brazil is founded.

1553 - Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England

1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.

1551 - San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens

1550 - The first grammatical description of the French language is published by Louis Maigret.

1549 - A Portuguese expedition establishes a large colonial presence in Brazil

1548 - A marriage treaty is signed between Scotland and France, whereby 5-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, is betrothed to the future King Francis II of France.

1548 - Catherine Parr, sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII dies at Sudley Castle, Gloucestershire. She is the wife who survived ("divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived"), but actually survived Henry by less than two years.

1548 was significant so it was worthy of two entries.

1547 - Edward VI becomes King of England and Ireland upon the death of Henry VIII.

1546 - Peace of Andres signed between England and France. It ended a two year war between the two. Under its terms England received indemnity from France and was allowed to retain the French port of Boulogne for eight years.

1545 - Not a lot this year, but this was slightly cool (and creepy):

"During the Ming Dynasty, a large failure of the harvest in Henan province, China occurs due to excessive rainfall, which drives up the price of wheat and forces many to flee their rural counties; those who stay behind are forced to survive by eating leaves, bark, and human flesh."

1544 - Rats make their first appearance in North America.

^^ 1545 was a scary year, brrrrrr.

1543 - Ruy López de Villalobos led an expedition to Samar and Leyte and gave them the name "Las Islas Filipinas" - after the fifteen year old heir apparent of Spain, Philip.

and thus, the Philippines got its name.

1542 - – Queen Mary, Queen of Scots, becomes queen at the age of only one week.

1541 - the founding of Santiago, Chile

1540 - The musket is introduced into Japan from Europe.

1539 - Tabinshwehti unifies Burma by finally annexing the Pegu area

1538 - Bogotá, Colombia is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, who is probably not related to future Marvel EiC Joe Quesada.

1537 - Asuncion, Paraguay is founded

1536 - Henry VIII has a busy year. His first wife, Catherine of Aragon dies. He executes his second wife, Anne Boleyn, and marries his third, Jane Seymour. And, oh yes, he closes at least eight abbeys and priories as part of his Dissolution of Monasteries.

1535 - The Münster rebellion ends after Munster falls. It would have ended badly either way - the rebellion's leaders legalized polygamy (one took 16 wives) and instituted adult baptism and community of goods.

To get us back on track...

1534 - Cambridge University Press is given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII and becomes the first of the privileged presses.

1533 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne Boleyn, who becomes his second queen consort.

Nice to see ya again Dev!

1532 - Civil war between the Huáscar and Atahualpa (of the Inca empire) ends.

1531 - Henry VIII is recognized as Supreme Head of the Church of England.

1530 - St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands.

1529 - Ayutthaya (in present day Thailand) and Burma start a war that will last forty years. This would mark the first time the two countries saw such hostilities.

1528 - The Maya peoples drive Spanish Conquistadores out of Yucatán.

1527 - The first known letter is sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

1526 - the powerful Mughal Empire is founded. At its height, it controlled most of the Indian subcontinent - including regions that now belong to India, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Iran

1525 - The last Aztec Emperor, Cuauhtémoc, is killed by Hernán Cortéz.

1524 - Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest

1523 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Atahualpa.

1522 - 18 men on the Victoria manage to return to Spain after "discovering" the Philippines. The voyage started with five ships and more than 300 men.

Its leader, Ferdinand Magellan, was not among the 18.

Still, the voyage was a success because they managed to circumnavigate the globe, proving the Earth was round.

1521 - Protestant reformer Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X and then declared an outlaw by Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor).

1520 - The Spaniards defeat the Aztecs at Otumba near Lake Texcaco.

1519 - Panama City is founded

1518 - The African slave trade begins.

1517 - the Turks conquer Cairo

1516 - Leonardo da Vinci accepts Francis I's invitation to France.

1515 - Havana, Cuba, is founded.

1514 - Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor are married.

1513 - Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida

1512 - Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
Two days later he joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.

1511 - the Portuguese invade and conquer Malacca

1510 - Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals himself.

1509 - Earliest known pocket watch made at Nuremberg, Germany by Peter Henlein.

1508- Some painter dude started on the Sistine Chapel. Wonder whatever happened to him?

1507 - the Portuguese (boy, these guys get around) enter the Gulf of Oman, sack Muscat, and establish control of the surrounding region.

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Originally posted by rickshaw1:
1508- Some painter dude started on the Sistine Chapel. Wonder whatever happened to him?

I KNEW you would put your own spin on things when/if you ever joined this thread! YOU ARE AWESOME .... and also make me pee my pants!

1506 - Pope Julius II lays the foundation stone of the new (current) St. Peter's Basilica, replacing the Old Saint Peter's Basilica.

1505 - The Portuguese (them again?? what the hell??) establish a friendly trading relationship with the King of Kotte (present day Colombo, Sri Lanka). They would eventually come to take over Sri Lanka.

1504 - What I found interesting: "In Florence, Leonardo da Vinci and Machiavelli become involved in a scheme to divert the Arno River, cutting the water supply to Pisa to force its surrender: Colombino, the project foreman, fails to follow da Vinci’s design, and the project is a major failure."

1503 - Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands, which he names Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there.

1502 - Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro

1501 - Michelangelo returns to his native Florence to begin work on the statue David.

1500 - the Treaty of Granada is signed by France and Spain. Spain was to support France in claiming the Kingdom of Naples.

Once again, to get us back on track...I'm looking at you FK...

1499 - September 22 – Treaty of Basel: Maximilian is forced to grant the Swiss de facto independence

1498 - Christopher Columbus lands on the shores of Cuba.

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Originally posted by Dev - Em:
Once again, to get us back on track...I'm looking at you FK...

Huh??

...and again...getting the counts back on track while others keep posting without numbering...

1497 - Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation,

1496 - Christopher Columbus forcibly subjugates the island Hispaniola, enslaves the Amerindians and lays the basis for a system of land grants tied to the Amerindians' labor service.

*scratches head*

I don't get it - oh NOW I get it. You mean to retrack us when someone replies without mentioning a year?

1495 - 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller

1494 - Christopher Columbus first sights Jamaica.

1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his first voyage of discovery and embarks on a second, landing on what he called San Juan (aka Puerto Rico).

1492 - Columbus "discovers" America. Besides the USA, he also landed on Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and Cuba.

In other news, Queen Isabella of Castilia and Ferdinand of Aragon expel the Jews from Spain, and King Henry VII of England invades France.

1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.

1490- Leonardo da Vinci develops an oil lamp: the flame is enclosed in a glass tube placed inside a water-filled glass globe.

1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.

1488 - Rathborne Candles, the oldest candle manufacturer in the world, is established in Dublin.

1487 - The Netherland province of Friesland's largest city, Leeuwarden, bans all foreign beer. One innkeeper, pressured by his patrons, keeps serving Haarlem beer. Officials confiscate said beer and arrest all drinkers, causing their friends to rescue them and start a riot.

1486 - Tízoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies. Some sources suggest that he was poisoned, others that he was the victim of "sorcery" or illness.
He is succeeded by his brother Auitzotl.

1485 - November 2 – The Peace of Bourges freezes the Mad War.

I wonder if there was a Slightly Irritated War?

1484 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River, Walvis Bay, south of Namibia.

1483 - November 10 – Martin Luther, German monk and Protestant reformer was born

1482 - The Kingdom of England captures Berwick from the Kingdom of Scotland, resulting in the only permanent change to the Anglo-Scottish border from the signing of the Treaty of York in 1237 to the present day.

1481 - Battle at Westbroek: Dutch army beats Utrecht

1480 - Consorts and co-rulers Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile initiate the Spanish Inquisition. Gotta catch all those heretics.

1479 - – Treaty of Istanbul between Ottoman Empire and Republic of Venice according to which Venice will cede Argo, Negroponte, Lemnos and Scutari, and pay an annual tribute of 10,000 golden ducati.

1478 - Soltan Yaghub takes over the Ak Koyunlu tribe. They were an Oghuz Turkic tribal federation, that ruled parts of present-day Eastern Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, northern Iraq, and western Iran from 1378 to 1508. He would, unfortunately, be the last leader - in his first year of rule, he had to put down no less than seven pretenders to the throne. After his death, civil war would case the Ak Koyunlu to destroy themselves from within.

1477 - The Swedish University of Uppsala is founded, becoming the first university in Sweden and all of Scandinavia.

1476 - The Swiss overcame Burgundy’s Charles the Bold at the Battle of Murten.

1475 - The oldest recorded game of chess is played, between Francesco di Castellvi and Narciso Vinyoles

1474 - Isabella crowns herself queen of Castile & Aragon

1473 - Possible discovery of Bacalao (possibly Newfoundland

, North America) by Didrik Pining and João Vaz Corte-Real.

1472 - Orkney and Shetland annexed to the crown of Scotland as security for the dowry of Princess Margaret, daughter of Christian 1, King of Norway and Denmark, and wife of James 111 of Scotland

1471 - Pope Sixtus IV succeeds Pope Paul II as the 212th pope.

1470 - Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle.

1469 - The Battle of Nibley Green in England is the last fought between the private armies of feudal magnates.

1468 - The Emerald Buddha is finally moved to Chiang Mai.

The Buddha was first discovered in 1434 when lightning struck a pagoda in a temple in Chiang Rai, revealing a hidden statue. The king wanted it moved to his capital in Chiang Mai, but thrice the elephant carrying it insisted on going to Lampang. This was taken as a sign, and the Buddha was kept there until 1468.

1467 - Pope Paul II arrests and tortures some of the abbreviators, among them Filip Callimachus

1466 - Dainagon Ashikaga Yoshimi, brother of the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, was promoted to the second rank of the second class in the Imperial court hierarchy.

Yoshimi's political aspirations would lead to him opposing his brother during the Onin War; the war would end with the Ashikaga family becoming puppets of the rival Hosakawa family.

1465 - Henry VI is captured by Yorkist forces and imprisoned in the Tower of London.

1464 - Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.

1463 - French poet François Villon is banished from Paris. He had been arrested multiple times for theft and street violence.

It is unknown what his ultimate fate really was.

1462 - The Portuguese first settle in the Cape Verde Islands. It remains under Portuguese rule until 1975.

1461 - The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmet II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.

1460 - Roman (that is, Byzantine) general Constantine Graitzas Palaiologos defeated Turkish forces at Salmenikon.

1459 - Rao Jodha founds the city of Jodhpur. It is known as the Sun City for enjoying sunny weather all year. At present, it is also a popular tourist destination for its forts, palaces and temples that stand out amidst the stark Thar desert.

1458 - The Turks issue a decree to protect the Acropolis after they conquer Athens.

1457 - Edo Castle is built by Ōta Dōkan in what is now Tokyo.

1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible. Gutenberg had recently introduced a revolutionary new printing method that could mass-produce books.

1455 - The Wars of the Roses begin.

1454 - The Treaty of Lodi is signed by Milan, Naples and Florence. The Treaty of Lodi established permanent boundaries between Milanese and Venetian territories in Northern Italy, and established a balance of power among the most powerful states while blocking the ambitions of smaller ones such as Genoa and Savoy.

1453 - Epibatos and Selymbria also fall to the Turks after the final fall of Constantinople

1452 - Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Roman German Emperor.

1451 - Murad II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his son Mehmed II.

1450 - French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War.

1449 - Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mistra.
He will be the last in a line of rulers that can be traced to the founding of Rome.

1448 - Death of Saint Kabir. He contributed widely to the Bhakti movement in India. Contributions included several compositions, and his concept of love as a path of suffering.

1447 - Vlad II Dracul, ruler of Wallachia, and his eldest son Mircea are assassinated.

1446 - The Hangul Alphabet is published in Korea. It was created because Chinese script wasn't working for the Koreans; the Hangul Alphabet was the first alphabet to encode the mechanics of vocal sound production into its characters. For example, there was one visual element for “teeth together”, one for “tongue on the roof of the mouth”, and one for “tongue against the front teeth”.

1445 - A year so boring it doesn't show up on BrainyHistory! Wikipedia, at least, lists two battles (the Battle of Mokra and the Battle of Gomit, both of which sound like Legion planets), the discovery of Senegal and Cape Verde by Dinas Diaz, and a few birth and death dates.

1444 - The first year to include all the letters commonly used in Roman numerals--and each one only once: MCDXLIV.

1444 - Vlad II Dracul begins his second term as ruler of Wallachia, succeeding Basarab II.

Two years to keep us on track:

1443 - Birth of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII.

1442 - Birth of Edward IV

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Originally posted by He Who LSHes:
1445 - A year so boring it doesn't show up on BrainyHistory!

I use Brainy history too, to identify events, but then I always end up doing further research to find out WHY the event was significant.

Brainy history also occasionally has errors, such as with the entry below - it says Eton College was founded in 1441, but other sources say Eton was founded in 1440.

1441 - King's College, Cambridge, founded by Henry VI. "King Henry founded the College to advance education, religion, learning, and what we now in a later age call research." It was meant as a sister college to Eton, but lack of funds stalled its development until 1508, when King Henry VII began to take an interest.

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Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
1444 - The first year to include all the letters commonly used in Roman numerals--and each one only once: MCDXLIV.

We must have posted at exactly the same time!

1440 - Sir Richard Molyneux is appointed constable of Liverpool Castle.

1439 - Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)

1438 - The Incas established an imperial state in the Andes (Peru) and Cusco was rebuilt. They went on to build over 25,000 miles of roads.

1437 - Edinburgh is made the capital of Scotland.

1436 - Beginning of the Luchuan–Pingmian Campaigns, undertaken by China's Ming Dynasty against Tai chieftains on their border near present day Burma.

The four campaigns were disastrous: the Chinese forces were ill-supplied, and the Tai had a huge home-court advantage. The economies of several areas in southwestern China were disrupted, and many tribal allies of the Ming Dynasty were disgusted at how wasteful and inept the Ming army was. In the years to come, several tribal uprisings would occur.

The Ming would favor diplomacy over warfare in the years to come.

1435 - The Kingdom of Naples passes to Aragon.

1434 - a great frost hits London, causing the Thames River to freeze. Supplies were brought into the city via ice travel.

1433 - Much of the English town of Alnwick in Northumbria is burnt by a Scottish raiding party.

1432 - King Ponhea Yat of the Khmer Empire moves the capital from Angkor to Phnom Penh, after a seven-month Thai siege on Angkor. The capital would move a couple more times after that, before finally settling in Phnom Penh again in 1866.

1431 - Joan of Arc is burned at the stake.

1430 - Portugal colonizes the Azores

1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.

1428 - Treaty of Delft signed between Jacqueline of Bavaria and Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Jacqueline loses nearly all her power, but retains her title. Philip becomes heir and administrator.

1427 - The first witch hunts begin, in Switzerland.

1426 - Christian of Oldenburg, who at one point or other reigned as King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, was born.

1425 - The Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium is founded.

1424 - Masolino da Panicale completes his Pietà.

1423 - Byzantine-Ottoman Wars – The Ottoman governor of Thessaly, Turakhan Beg, breaks through the Hexamilion wall and ravages the Peloponnese peninsula.

1422 - Henry VI, becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.

1421 - Mehmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his son Murad II.

1420 - Catherine of Valois marries Henry V of England.

1419 - The First Defenestration of Prague occurs. A mob of radical Czech Hussites is incited to violence when town council members refuse to exchange their Hussite prisoners. While marching, a stone is thrown from the town hall window at the mob leader; the mob is so angered that they storm the town hall and throw the judge and several council members out of the windows.

1418 - The first Portuguese settlers move to the Madeira Islands.

1417 - Birth of Sejo of Joseon, seventh king of Joseon Dynasty in Korea. He proved himself one of the most able rulers and administrators in Korean history. Contributions included strengthening the monarchy by bringing staff under the monarch's control, encouraging the publication of educational books, and compiling the Grand Code for State Administration.

1416 - The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic.

1415 - The Ars moriendi, or "Art of Dying", is promulgated. It offers advice on how to "die well" according to Christian precepts.

1414 - Sayyid dynasty starts to rule Delhi.

1413 - King Ladislaw of Naples occupies Rome

1412 - Emperor Go-Komatsu abdicates and Emperor Shoko accedes to the throne of Japan.

1411 - Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place. The battle was fought to resolve competing claims to the Earldom of Ross, a large region of northern Scotland. The ferocity of the battle gave it the nickname "Red Harlaw". It is commemorated by a 40 foot (12 m) high memorial on the battlefield near the town of Inverurie, supposedly by the church at Chapel of Garioch, and by ballads and music.

1410 - Jan Hus is excommunicated by the Archbishop of Prague.

1409 - Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as Pope Alexander V. The Pope was elected because of his efforts in ending the schism of the Roman Catholic Church - his election also deposed Popes Gregory XII and Benedict XIII. Unfortunately, neither of the other two were willing to step down, resulting in THREE popes.

Alexander V received wider support than the other 2, partly due to his reputation. However, he only ruled 10 months before dying suddenly. The Vatican has not made any official pronouncements on whether he is considered a true pope.

1408 - An American psychological horror film with John Cusack and Samuel Jackson based on the Stephen King short story of the same name.

1407 - the lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded with the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma.

1406 - Pope Gregory XII succeeds Pope Innocent VII as the 205th pope.

1405 - The recorded consumption of whiskey. It was distilled by Irish monks. Slainte!

1404 - Peace is declared between Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights after they agree to exchange land and form an alliance against Muscovy.

1403 in military time is 2:03 pm in everyday time

1402 - The Error number for a "could not open key" message.

1401 - The Lollards are declared heretics in England.

1400 - Richard II of England dies by means unknown in Pontefract Castle. It is likely that King Henry IV ordered the death of Richard by starvation to prevent further uprisings

1399 - The Teutonic Hochmeister Konrad von Juningen (1394-1407) encouraged the Grand Duke Vitautas to wage war against the Golden Horde to the East. He assembled a great army of Lithuanian and Ruthenian Boyars along with exiled Tartar Khan (Lord), Toktamish and 500 Teutonic Knights. Edegey Khan (Lord) slaughtered 2/3 of Vitautas army pursuing him mercilessly over the steppes.

1398 - The Teutonic Knights recommence their raids of Lithuania.

1397 - Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as when the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury starts.

1396 - Temporary peace is declared between England and France with the marriage of Richard II of England and Isabella of Valois, the daughter of Charles VI of France.

1395 - the station known as Big L International!

1394 - The IEEE 1394 interface is a serial bus interface standard for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer, frequently used by personal computers, as well as in digital audio, digital video, automotive, and aeronautics applications. The interface is also known by the brand names of FireWire (Apple), i.LINK (Sony), and Lynx (Texas Instruments).

1393 - The number of miles in Nawlage's song "1,393 miles away," which I never heard of until I looked up something for this post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIgGtlqDDwk&noredirect=1

1392 - Willem Cuser, earl Albrecht of Beierens, is murdered

1391 - Gedun Drub, the First Dalai Lama, was born in Gyurmey Rupa, in central Tibet.

1390 - Gene ID 1390 apparently helps during sperm production. That's as far as I read before my brain exploded.

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/1390

1389. Queen Margaret of Norway and Denmark defeats Albert of Sweden in battle and becomes ruler of all three kingdoms.

1388. The United Parcel Service's store #1388 is located in Syracuse, NY.

1387:HK - the ID for Renhe Commercial Holdings Co Ltd

1386. Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi is (probably) born. He is better known as Donatello, one of the early artists of the Renaissance (not the Ninja Turtle).

1385 - Battle of Aljubarrota. Crown of Castile (allies Aragon, France and Italy) vs. Portugal (allied with the British). The Portuguese enjoyed a decisive victory and thwarted Castilian designs for the throne.

Portugal still exists as an independent state, while Castile would enter into a union with Aragon and be formally abolished in the 18th Century.

1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, though she is a woman. "King" was chosen to reflect that she was an independent sovereign and not just a royal consort; it had nothing to do with her sex, you sillies!

She also happens to be a Saint.

1383 - The Löwenbräu Brewery is founded in Munich.

1382 - Article of French civil law which requires a man to repair any damage he causes another.

1381 - Sonam Drakpa deposes Drakpa Changchub as ruler of Tibet.

1380 - The last islands of Polynesia are discovered and inhabited.

1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.

1378 - a number divisible by 13 and 106.

1377 - Pope Gregory XI returns the Papacy to Rome from Avignon.

1376 - the reference number on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list of Historic Bridgetown in Barbados

1375 - Margaret I of Denmark becomes regent upon death of her father, Valdemar IV.

1374 - Aachen, Germany experiences an outbreak of the dancing mania. It is a mass psychogenic illness with no obvious physical cause that made large crowds dance, sing and shout uncontrollably.

^ = proof that Lash can time travel (or will someday)!

1373 - the Sept 2001 UN resolution against terrorism, calling for member states to strengthen anti-terrorism laws.

1372 - 1372 Overton Park is an album by the band Lucero.

1371 - Bill 1371 is a bill to regulate and tax the cannabis industry in Massachusetts

1370 - Bastille begins being built in Paris in response to the English threat during the Hundred Years War.

1369 - a coffeehouse in Massachusetts

1368 - start of the Ming dynasty

1367 - The Philippine Presidential Decree titled,
FURTHER AMENDING CERTAIN IN PROVISIONS OF BOOK V OF PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 442, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE LABOR CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES, AS AMENDED.

1366 - Henry II deposes his half-brother, Pedro of Castile, to become King of Castile.

1365 - University of Vienna founded

1364 - Charles V becomes King of France

1364 - Magnus IV, King of Sweden, is deposed by Albert of Mecklenburg.

1363 - Margaret, at the age of ten,is married to Haakon VI, the 23-year-old king of Norway. This eventually paved the way to a united Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

Whoops! I posted an event of 1363, but wrote 1364.

To catch us up:

1362 - Under Edward III, English begins to replace French as England's official national language, when Parliament is addressed in it for the first time

1361 - Edward, the Black Prince, marries Joan, the "Fair Maid of Kent".

Carry on!

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Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
Whoops! I posted an event of 1363, but wrote 1364.
Carry on!

Which was why I was wondering if it was 1364 or 1363!

1360 - French Franc is created

1359 Prieska - an asteroid!

We're almost halfway there, let's keep going!

1358 - Isabella of France, queen of Edward II of England, is born. It's also six-hundred years before the debut of our Legion of Super-Heroes.

1357 - Peace of Ath is signed to end the question of the Brabant Succession. Brabant's territory consisted essentially of the three modern-day Belgian provinces of Flemish Brabant, Walloon Brabant and Antwerp, the Brussels-Capital Region and most of the present-day Dutch province of North Brabant.

1356- Battle of Poitiers! An important English victory over the French during the Hundred Years' War.

1355 - Florida House Bill on Elections; it:

Expands list of responsibilities of Secretary of State when acting in his or her capacity as chief election officer; requires that third-party voter registration organizations register with Division of Elections and provide division with certain information; requires that division or supervisor of elections make voter registration forms available to third-party voter registration organizations; requires that such forms contain certain information, etc.

1354 - Cola di Rienzo, self-proclaimed "tribune" of Rome, is killed by an angry mob.

1353 - Giovanni Bocaccio finishes The Decameron.

1352- The Earldom of Kent becomes extinct.

1351 - Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.

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Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
1352- The Earldom of Kent becomes extinct.

But aren't you the rightful heir?

1350 - The Black Death first appears in Scotland.

1349 - A Norwegian black metal band from Oslo, Norway.

1349 - Sad year for the Jews as they're massacred in Switzerland, Germany, Silesia, Austria

1348 - Charles University is founded in Prague.

1347 - The Byzantine civil war ends with Kantakouzenos entering Constantinople (long time gone...).

1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Holy Roman Emperor

1345 - Eight years into the 100 Years War, everybody!

1344 - Adolf van der Mark, prince-bishop of Liege, dies at 56

1343 - Pope Clement VI issued the bull Unigenitus which is used as the basis for indulgences.

Quote

Originally posted by Future:
...entering Constantinople (long time gone...).

Thanks for the earworm, Future!

It's what I'm here for, Rocky.

1342 - Pope Clement VI succeeds Pope Benedict XII as the 198th pope. That ... is a lot of popes.

1341 - The Queen's College is founded at the University of Oxford.

1340- 1340 AM is better known as WSTV!

1339 - Florence is the first city in Europe to pave its streets.

1338 - From the ever-lovely Urban Dictionary:
1338 is superior to 1337.
Used as an adjective to describe superb, unreachable, incredible power or skill in any particular sector.
Meant as a superlative to the term 1337.
Often used in gaming-language.

Very 1338 indeed.

1337 - 1337, or Leet, is an alternative alphabet for the English language that is used primarily on the Internet. It uses various combinations of ASCII characters to replace Latinate letters. (taken from Wikipedia)

1336 - Petrarch climbs Mount Ventoux, later claiming that he was the first person in centuries to climb a mountain for the view.

1335 - Error 1335 is the Windows error message that appears when the system has failed to install some software.

1334 - The first recorded outbreak of the Black Death occurs in the Chinese province of Hubei.

1333 - Famine strikes in China and in Southern Europe.

1332 - Richard FitzRalph of Dundalk appointed chancellor of Oxford University; holds post till 1334

1331 - In addition to being a numeral palindrome, it had very little going for it historically. Ta da!

1330 - the amount of cash (in our local currency) that I have in my wallet right now.

Too bad that ain't in Euros

1329 - Braganstown massacre, County Louth, Ireland: over 160 killed.

1328 - King Philip VI of France, crowned

We were doing so well, too!

1327 - Microsoft error that means you have an Office Setup error

1326 - Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark

1325 - UN Security Council Resolution 1325 called for the adoption of a gender perspective that included the special needs of women and girls during repatriation and resettlement, rehabilitation, reintegration and post-conflict reconstruction. It was the first formal and legal document from the United Nations Security Council that required parties in a conflict to respect women's rights and to support their participation in peace negotiations and in post-conflict reconstruction. The preceding was shamelessly copied from Wikipedia.

1324 - Marco Polo dies in Venice.

1323 - Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time

1322 - Jews are expelled from France for the third time

1321 - Another death of a famous Italian: Dante Alighieri dies in Ravenna.

1320 - Scots reaffirm their independence

1319 - Upon the death of his maternal grandfather, King Haakon V, three-year-old Magnus Eriksson becomes King of Norway.

1318 - Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English.

1317 - Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France

1316 - Jan I becomes king of France, dies 4 days later

1315 - Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged for sorcery.

1314 - Scotland regains independence from England

1313 - death of Henry VII

1312- 2nd council of Vienna

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Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
1313 - death of Henry VII

That would the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII. Henry VII of England died about two centuries later.

1311 - Lincoln Cathedral is completed,which, with its central tower, surpasses the Great Pyramid at Giza as the world's tallest artificial structure. It holds that record until the tower collapses in 1549.

1310 - Shoes were made for both right & left feet

1309 - Clement V moves the seat of the Pope to Avignon.

1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins.

1307 - Duke Henrik van Karinthie chosen king of Bohemia

1306 - Before the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murdered John Comyn, his leading political rival sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence

1305 - Franco-Flemish War ends with the Treaty of Athis-sur-Orge. The treaty recognized Flemish independence, but at the cost of the cities of Lille, Douai and Béthune, which were transferred to France, and the paying of exorbitant fines to King Philip IV.

1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war.

1303 - the apartment number in the 2007 ghost/horror film Apartment 1303.

1302 - The Sunspot number that, in September 2011, caused a geomagnetic storm, which caused aurora sightings in both poles and several US states

1301 - Emperor Go-Nijō succeeded Emperor Go-Fushimi on the Japanese throne.

1300 - an AM sports radio station in Austin, Texas.

Whoops, didn't notice the double post, sorry.

1299 - this gene "encodes one of the three alpha chains of type IX collagen, the major collagen component of hyaline cartilage. Type IX collagen, a heterotrimeric molecule, is usually found in tissues containing type II collagen, a fibrillar collagen. Mutations in this gene are associated with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia type 3. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2010]"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/1299

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Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
Whoops, didn't notice the double post, sorry.

1299 - this gene "encodes one of the three alpha chains of type IX collagen, the major collagen component of hyaline cartilage. Type IX collagen, a heterotrimeric molecule, is usually found in tissues containing type II collagen, a fibrillar collagen. Mutations in this gene are associated with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia type 3. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2010]"

1299 - Collagen, collagen, and lots of collagen!

1298 - Duke Albrecht von Habsburg chosen Roman Catholic German king

1297 - King Denis of Portugal and King Ferdinand IV of Castile sign the Treaty of Alcanizes, fixing the boundaries of Portugal.

1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England

1295 - The first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".

1294 - the number of the immigration form to apply for a study permit in Canada (as I know three times over).

1293 - Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed

1292 - Edward I, "Longshanks," installed John Balliol as a puppet king of Scotland, a figure so useless that Mel Gibson did not even bother with dealing with him in Braveheart.

1291 - what we know today as Switzerland is formed via the Federal Charter. With the somewhat romantic name of the Eternal Alliance, this "alliance" would grow through the centuries, adding more members to the original three. Much like a Legion of Superheroes, no?

1290 - Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I

1288 - Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV. During his term, Pope Nicolas IV would grant to the cardinals one-half of all income accuring to the Holy See and a share in financial management, allowing the College of Cardinals to become more independent

oops! missed one

1289 - Qalawun, sultan of the Mamluks, captured Tripoli.

on to 1287!

1287 - Construction of the Uppsala Cathedral begins.

Whoops. Note to self - double-check typing.

1286 - Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim

1285 - Italian style restaurant in Old Town Florence featuring Seafood, Pizza, Pasta, and grill

Sounds yummy

1284 - title of a song by Twilight Train, a rock band from Cologne, Germany

I knew you'd like that too

1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta

1282 - Sicily falls under Spanish rule

1281 - Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV

1280 - a model of Nokia phones.

1279 - The Mongol Empire reaches its greatest extent.

1278 - 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins

1277 - Australian government form for "Application for sponsorship
under general skilled migration"

1276 - John XXI elected Pope

1275 The writings of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas came under severe censure at the University of Paris by Roman Catholics.

1274 - 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens

1273 - Australian government form for "Application for a Maritime Crew (Temporary) visa"

1272 - a bistro in Montreal.

1271 - Marco Polo departs from Venice with his father and uncle on his famous journey to Kublai Khan's China.

1270-- The Condemnation of 1270 was the second of the Catholic Church's three major condemnations of the teaching of Aristotelian and Averroist natural philosophy in medieval universities.

1269 - King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame.

1268 - The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch.

1267 - the first of a series of UN anti-Al Qaeda resolutions.

1266 - Number of resolutions passed by the Davao City Council in 2011

1265 - MySQL truncation error

1264 - House Bill 1264 of Howard County, Maryland, is the bill for "Massage Establishment, Pawnbroker or Secondhand Dealer Establishment, and Taxicab Licenses"

1263 - Founding of Balliol College at Oxford.

1262 - UFCW Local 1262 is New Jersey's largest local union.

1261 - Bela IV of Hungary repels a Tatar invasion.

1260 - Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.

1259 - Section on "Constructive Sales Treatment for Appreciated Financial Positions" of the US Internal Revenue Code

1258 - Llywelyn the Last declares himself Prince of Wales, the last ruler of an independent Wales before it is conquered by England.

1257 - Pope Alexander IV withdraws to Viterbo because of the strength of the Ghibelline faction in Rome

1256 - The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.

1255 - 1255 Sheridan Road is the address of the Lake Shore Country Club in Glencoe, Illinois

1254 - Marco Polo is born.

1253 - Presidential Decree 1253 of the Republic of the Philippines incorporated the Orient Airlines Association

1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.

1251 - Kublai Khan's eldest brother Möngke became Khan of the Mongol Empire. Kublai is given stewardship over several Chinese territories.

1250 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.

1249 - a wine bar in Connecticut

1248 - Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun.

1247 - Resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe condemning female genital mutilation

1246 - With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.

1245 - IBEW Local Union 1245 represents utility workers in California, Nevada, Idaho and Oregon

1244 - Chwarizneense Turken defeats Jerusalem.

1243 - number assigned to the Lavaux Vineyard Terraces on the UNESCO World Heritage List

1242 - Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights.

1241 - The Mongols defeat Hungary in the Battle of Mohi, and kill about half of Hungary's population

1240 - Mongols under Batu Khan occupy & destroy Kiev.

1239 - 1239 First Street was previously owned by Anne Rice. It's the setting of her novel, The Witching Hour.

1238 - Peterborough Cathedral is consecrated.

1237 - is apparently the smallest 4-digit prime number that doesn't repeat any digits.

1236 - The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Battle of Šiauliai.

1235 - The Ghana Empire, which boasted a strong military, rich economy and a complex society, comes to an end. It shared no territory with the modern nation of the same name.

1234 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan dies.

1233 - The number of calories in fifty ounces of boiled potatoes.

1232 - The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki.

1231 - Jalaladdin Kharazmshah is assassinated, thus ending the Kharazmian Empire in what is modern-day Iran

1230 - Treaty of San-Germano between Emperor Frederik II & Pope Gregory IX.

1229 - "Abraham the Municher" is the first resident of Munich, mentioned in a deed

1228 - Saint Francis of Assisi is canonized by Pope Gregory IX.

1227 - the UN Security Council Resolution that demanded an immediate cessation of hostilities between Ethiopia and Eritrea

1226 - The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.

1225 - In the U.S. style of writing dates, 12/25 is Christmas Day.

1224 - A new Anglo-French war begins and the French take English lands between the Loire and the Garonne.

1223 - Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River - Mongol armies of Genghis Khan lead by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus and Cumans.

1222 - The Golden Bull is issued by King Andrew II of Hungary. The law establishes the rights of the Hungarian nobility, including the right to disobey the King when he acts contrary to law (jus resistendi).

1221 - Restaurant in Latvia! Always wanted to try Latvian cuisine (and Swedish, and Peruvian, and Nepalese...)

1220 - St. Francis of Assisi resigns from the leadership of the Franciscans.

1219 - King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark.

1218 - Genghis Khan has a busy year: His troops destroy the Kara-Khitan Khanate and conduct a campaign against the Kyrgyz while Genghis himself proposes to the Shah of Persia that he accept Genghis' overlordship.

1217 - French prince Louis & English king Henry III sign peace treaty.

1216 - Henry III becomes King of England. Henry III's reign was the longest of all pre-Union kings of England, but besides rebuilding Edward the Confessor's abbey church at Westminster, he was though to have achieved little of merit partly due to his belief in absolute kingship. His reign would end with greater legal limitations being placed on the monarchy, and the creation of the first English parliament.

1215 - King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III.

1214 - UNESCO World Heritage number of Sewell Mining Town, Chile. From the official description - " It is an outstanding example of the company towns that were born in many remote parts of the world from the fusion of local labour and resources from an industrialized nation, to mine and process high-value natural resources. "

1213 - English king John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury.

1212 - Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain

1211 - The Welsh uprising of 1211 was a rebellion by the people residing in Wales against King John of England. Although technically defeated, this uprising resulted in increased independence from England for the Welsh.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_uprising_of_1211

1210 - Pope Innocent III excommunicates German emperor Otto IV

http://www.brainyhistory.com/years/1210.html

Good going Blaze, citing sources

1209 - Pope Innocent II crowns German king Otto of Wittelsbach

http://www.historyorb.com/date/1209

Let's give credit where it is due.

1208 - the UNESCO World Heritage List number of the medieval town of Bam, in Iran.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1208/

1207 - John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.
http://www.historyorb.com/date/1207

1206 - German submarine U-1206 was involved in World War II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-1206

1205 - Error that occurs when Microsoft® SQL Server™ encounters a deadlock.
-http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa258770%28v=sql.80%29.aspx

1204 - The Siege of Constantinople led to the capture of said city by Crusaders and the creation of the Latin Empire.

1203 - Nokia phone

1202 - number of Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos (Cuba) on the UNESCO World Heritage List. From the site, "Cienfuegos is the first, and an outstanding example of an architectural ensemble representing the new ideas of modernity, hygiene and order in urban planning as developed in Latin America from the 19th century."

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1202/

1201 - 1201 Kitchen is independently owned and operated and located in the heart of downtown Erie, featuring the exciting and vibrant flavors of contemporary latin / asian cuisine.

http://1201restaurant.com/

1200 - Byzantium 1200 is a project aimed at creating computer reconstructions of the Byzantine Monuments located in Istanbul, TURKEY as of year 1200 AD. http://www.byzantium1200.com/

1199 - Republic Act of the Philippines that govern the relations between landholders and tenants of agricultural lands.

1198 - the Ducati 1198 was made by Ducati from 2009 to 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducati_1198

1197 - Crusaders wound Rabbi Elezar ben Judah

http://www.historyorb.com/date/1197

1196 - Telstra 1196 Weather Services are provided by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology

http://www.bom.gov.au/other/dialit.shtml

1195 - Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isaak II as Byzantine emperor.

http://www.historyorb.com/date/1195

1194 - the end of the Seljuk Empire in what is now modern-day Iran

http://pinterest.com/missparsa/10291194-ad-seljuq-saljuq-dynasty-persian-iranian-/

1193 - Saladin, Kurdish sultan, dies

http://www.historyorb.com/date/1193

1192 - beginning of the Kamakura Period of Japan, the first period in which the shogun ruled and the warrior class became powerful, at the expense of the nobility

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2133.html

1191 - 85-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III.

http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1191

1190 - Radio 1190 is a student-run radio station in Colorado.

http://www.radio1190.org/

1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England.

http://www.information-britain.co.uk/famdates.php?id=564

1188 - Missouri house bill allows a school nurse or other trained employee to administer asthma-related rescue medication to a student experiencing an asthma attack

http://www.house.mo.gov/billsummary.aspx?bill=HB1188

1187 - Alberto de Morra elected as Pope Gregorius VIII.

http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1187

1186 - birth of Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod. Novgorod is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and was Russia's very first capital.

1185 - Uberto Crivelli of Milan elected as Pope Urban III

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_election,_1185

1184

http://www.lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1977/pd_1184_1977.html

Philippine Presidential Decree 1184 is the INTEGRATED NATIONAL POLICE PERSONNEL PROFESSIONALIZATION LAW OF 1977

1183 - Campaign and Battle of Al-Fule.

1182 - The Confrères de la Paix ("Confraternity of Peace") is formed in France. They actively fought against invading barbarians in the effort to maintain peace and order.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confr%C3%A8res_de_la_Paix

1181 - Vancouver Premiere Gay Lounge

1180 - AM 1180 is Chattooga County Radio!

http://www.chattoogainfo.com/

1179 - 3rd Lateran Council

http://www.legionofmarytidewater.com/faith/ECUM11.HTM

1178 - Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works' number on the UNESCO World Heritage List. This site celebrates the brave Chileans, Peruvians and Bolivians who braved a hostile desert to produce salt. Sadly, this site is on the Heritage List in Danger... but hopefully not for long.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1178/

1177 - Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I & Pope Alexander III.

http://www.historyorb.com/date/1177

1176 - Battle at Legnano: Lombardi League beats Frederik Barbarossa

1175 - Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince, dies.

http://www.historyorb.com/date/1175

1174 - Presidential Decree 1174 amended the Philippine's "COAL DEVELOPMENT ACT
OF 1976" to grant additional incentives for investing in coal.

1173 - Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket Absp of Canterbury.

www.brainyhistory.com/years/1173.html

1172 - Henry II of England arranged for the Irish bishops to attend the Synod of Cashel and to run the Irish Church in the same manner as the Church in England.

1171 - Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies.

http://www.historyorb.com/date/1171

1170 - Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, is murdered. He would later become a saint.

1169 - Norman invasion of Ireland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1169_in_Ireland

1168 - Giovanni of Struma elected Anti-Pope.

$11.67 - (U.S.) The average starting hourly wage for a political call center employee, according to Seattle Craigslist.

1166 - a 600-feet skyscraper located in 1166 Avenue of the Americas in New York City.

(almost half-way there!)

1165 - Microposit Remover 1165 is "a mixture of pure organic
solvents specifically formulated to remove all Shipley
MICROPOSIT and MEGAPOSIT® PHOTORESISTS"

http://www.first.ethz.ch/infrastructure/Chemicals/Photolithography/Data_Remover1165.pdf

1164 - Henry II publishes the Constitutions of Clarendon, in an attempt to limit the power of the Church. This would lead to conflict between Henry II and Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, which would end in Bekcet's murder.

1163 - A model of German U-boats.

1162 - form for Application for Certificate of Status for
New Zealand Citizens in Australia

1161 - Magic 1161 is a radio station in the UK.

1160 - The HP Laserjet 1160 printer series is commonly found in corporate offices everywhere

1159 - The Papal Election this year produced two popes, Alexander III and Victor IV. This led to a schism which lasted until 1178.

1158 - Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of North Italy

1157 - The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.

1156 - The Philippines' Republic Act 1156 is called "AN ACT AMENDING AND REPEALING CERTAIN ITEMS IN REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY, REGARDING PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS FOR THE PROVINCE OF BOHOL "

1155 (from wikipedia) - Pope Adrian IV issues the papal bull Laudabiliter, granting Henry II of England the right to rule Ireland,[1][2] after Henry convinced the Pope that he was needed "to proclaim the truths of the Christian religion" to the Irish people.[3]

1154 - The Papacy of Adrian IV, the only Englishman ever to reign as Pope, begins.

1153 - Tuninter Flight 1153 from Italy to Tunisia crashed into the Mediterranean

1152 - tune in to AM 1152 to get broadcasts from the Voice of Kerala!

http://tunein.com/radio/Voice-of-Kerala-1152-s157113/

1151 - Number to a really wierd proceedure I found on a website
SCP Foundation while looking for something relevant to 1151

1150 - Australian government form to apply for a working holiday visa http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/1150.pdf

1149 - A restaurant in Rhode Island

1148 - The Siege of Damascus, which led to the disintegration of the Second Crusade

1147 - The lovely and talented Hildegard of Bingen founds the convent of Rupertsberg.

1146 - Presidential Decree 1146 of the Philippines is also known as the Revised Government Service Insurance Act of 1977.

1145 - Construction begins on Chartres Cathedral.

1144 - Schedule number for a type of steel

1143 - Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II

1142 - With the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah, The Great Peacemaker, the Iroquois tribes establish the Confederation of the Haudenosaunee.

1141 - Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashed in 1988 upon take-off from Dallas.

1140 - A big year for Roger II of Sicily: He enacted the Assizes of Ariano and placed the practice of medicine under royal control.

1139 = MCXXXIX

1138 - THX 1138 is a feature film made by George Lucas

1137 would make a good song rhyme.

1136 - USS Mariner (SP-1136) sank in 1918.

1135 - A fire in London seriously damages St Paul's Cathedral and London Bridge.

1134 - spells "hell" if you typeit in a calculator and then flip it upside down

1133 - Code Page 1133 was created by IBM for representation of Lao script. Oh, those Laotians!

1132 - Barnwell Castle is erected in Northamptonshire, England.

1131 - Boy Scout Troop 1131 is based in Burke, Virginia at St. Stephen's United Methodist Church.

1130 - The IBM 1130 is a small (floor-standing desk size) computer released in the mid-1960s.

1129 - The Cosmos 1129 satellite was launched on September 25, 1979 and recovered in Central Asia on October 14, 1979. It was used to study the effects of space flight on biological systems - specifically rats, quail eggs and plants.

1128 - the year the Grimbergen Abbey waas established. The Abbey became famous for their home-brewed beer and hospitality. The beer is still being brewed today, though not by the Abbey.

1127 - Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.

1126 - Omar Khayyam, Persian poet and mathematician, died.

1125 - Republic Act which created the Court of Tax Appeals (Philippines)

1124 - David I becomes King of Scots.

1123 - A prime formed by concatenating the first four nonzero Fibonacci numbers in sequence.

1122 - Ilghazi, Artuqid ruler of Mardin, dies.

(True, but don't those names sound like Legion aliens?)

By Jove, you're right, LT! Maybe that's one of the aliases Lar Gand took when he was off gallivanting across the galaxy.

1121 - 1121.org Hosting offers quality web hosting at affordable prices!

Form 1120 is the U.S. Corporation Income Tax Return.

1119 - Knights Templar founded.

AF Form 1118 is the US Air Force's form for Notice of Hazard.

Form 1117 is a request to terminate a water's edge election.

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2010/10_1117.pdf

1116 Catriona is a main asteroid belt orbiting the Sun.

1115 - The Triple 1 Five restaurant in New Zealand specializes in NZ-Pacific rim fusion. http://1115.co.nz/

11/14 - If you were born that day, your sign is Scorpio.

1113 - 1+1+1=3

1112.net/lastpage/ claims to be the last page on the internet.

1111 = according to this site, "Once the 1111 is acknowledged, the number sequence changes to another combination along with new messages, life experiences, directions and opportunities."

11 10 ...then 9 8 7 would be like a little mini countdown in the larger world of countdowns.

1109 Tata is an asteroid belt orbiting the Sun.

In the film 1108, a couple's hopes and dreams are tested by a series of scary incidents.

The Case 1107 provided the main computing facility for Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland Ohio in the United States.

11:06 is a site that takes stills form movies at exactly...well 11:06.

1105 Media is a business that provides integrated business-to-business information and media.

A 13 1104 is a classification for second degree murder. >Gulp!<

Flight 1103 from Benghazi to Tripoli crashed on Dec.22, 1992.

On 11 02 1914 The Russian Empire declared war on the Ottoman Empire. Later, the Dardanelles are closed but doctors were confident that the pills would open it back up in due course.

1101.com is Shigesato Itoi's website. "Under the theme “creating good mood,” the website has been updated every day for the past fifteen years,[3] with Itoi’s own essays on lifestyle, interviews and articles, and merchandise sales"

AM 11:00 is a 2013 South Korean sci-fi thriller involving time travel experiments in an underwater base. Mess with the Time Trapper guys...

The Papal Election of 1099 gave us Pope Paschall II. The first bishop of America was appointed during his 20-year reign, which was considered quite long for the Middle Ages.

Countdown 10 9 8 ...

1097

THe Battle of Dorylaeum took place during the First Crusades.

1096 is a police code for a crazy person. Not something we see around these here parts.

The Messerschmitt P.1095 was a German military aircraft designed by Rudolf Seitz at the end of 1943.

1094 - Serbian and Byzantine forces fought a border battle at the town of Zvecan which eventually lead to peace between the two empires.

Minuscule 1093 (Gregory-Aland) is a 14th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment

P.1092 was an experimental aircraft designed by Messerschmitt, which was the surname of it's chief designer.

In 1091, a tornado strikes the heart of London, demolishing the then wooden London Bridge. Thankfully, despite the strength of the tornado and the amount of damage caused, only 2 were killed.

It's a little known fact that, due to dwindling populations, early Londinium was constructed entirely from Balsa wood. This enabled the inhabitants to carry their homes with them, if there was a better proposition elsewhere. It's where the phrase "up sticks" comes from as people would be seen carrying the rafter of their homes across the countryside. It's also why the tornado was seemingly so devastating. It was really a fairly minor tornado.

The Mullet, or, 1090, is characterized by short hair on the top, front, and sides of the head, followed by a long drape of hair on the back. 10% on top/ 90% at the back.

1089 is a special number. From the website:

"Take any 3-digit number, say, 732 and write it backwards: 237. Subtract the smaller of the two numbers (237 in our case) from the larger (732). With our selection, we obtain the number 495. Write this one backwards too and compute the sum: 495 + 594. Here comes the surprise: regardless of your original selection, the final result will always be 1089!"

1088 - The (U.S.) Federal Communications Commission form you fill out when filing a complaint about overly aggressive senders of junk faxes and/or obnoxiously persistent telemarketers. (Like there's any other kind.)

(link)

Louisiana Highway 1087 'was a state highway in Louisiana that served St. Tammany Parish. It spanned 2.31 miles (3.72 km) in a southwest to northeast direction. It was known locally as Monroe Street and Girod Street."

The Domesday Book was completed in 1086 by King William to get mittens on the taxes of his people. Except those who lived tax free or who had rights to raise their own taxes. Corrupted from the start really, hey, just like today.

1085 Artist Management in Cape Town is a model management agency.

The turks capture Antioch, where the Holy Hand Grenade originates, from the Byzantines in 1084

1083 people flee from clan warfare in one of the Philippines' southernmost provinces. Apparently, they had enough time to pause for a very accurate census.

1082: The year the Rochester Cathedral is finished being built.

Proclamation NO. 1081 was the declaration of martial law in the Philippines by then-president Marcos.

1080p - Part of the spec for screens marketed as Full HD.

The Messerschmitt P.1079 was a series of different experimental Messerschmitt fighters projected during the Second World War.

Earth 1078 was used in an unpleasant sounding Marvel story where the clone of Black Widow/ radioactive spider is impregnated with the DNA of Peter Parker giving birth to 123 offspring.

1077 The End is a radio station in Seattle.

It doesn't say much for our educational system when my horror film watching made the Synod of Worms in 1076 a terrifying prospect. Then Geography(southy-westy Germany) and History (usual tedious greed-fest between church and state) caught up.

My, there are a lot of radio stations with 1075...

1075theriver
KS1075 #1
1075 KZL

This iconic picture was the cover on what would apparently be the 1074th issue of National Geographic.

[Linked Image]

Magma of the X-Men once destroyed an Exonim Unit B-1073

Marantz Model 1072, a type of amplifier

1071: The Battle of Cassel was fought between Robert I of Flanders (or Robert the Frisian) and his nephew, Arnulf III (son of Baldwin VI of Flanders). The battle was a victory for Robert I of Flanders, Arnulf III was killed in the battle.

Robert became count of Flanders and ruled until 1093. He gained the friendship of King Philip I of France, by offering him the hand in marriage of his stepdaughter, Bertha of Holland.

BIOENG1070! - at the Swanson School of Engineering, you will learn about the principles of cell biology in higher organisms: structure, function, biosynthesis, and macromolecular organization with a focus on macromolecular organization and function from a quantitative systems perspective.

1069 - William the Conqueror begins a series of campaigns to subjugate the North of England. This is called the Harrying of the North.

Error 1068 - Windows error that goes, 1068: Dependency service or group failed to start.

1067 -- Year in which Eric and Eric warred against one another for the Swedish throne. Both died.

1066 - William of Normandy conquers Saxon England.

1065 - Westminister Abbey is consecrated in London

1064 - German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland

1063 - St. Anselm, who would eventually become Archbishop of Canterbury, was made Prior of Bec Abbey in La Bec-Hellouin.

1062 - the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Arizona

The Papal Election of 1061 gave us Pope Alexander II. Displeased with the process, a synod elected Antipope Honorius II. Pope Alexander II eventually was declared the rightful pope in 1964.

1060 - St. Anselm entered the Benedictine Abbey in Bec as a novice. He advanced fast.

1059- Pope Nicholas II becomes pope

1060 - 7 year old Philip is crowned king of the Franks

I guess history is repeating itself.

To catch us up where we should be:

1059 - Pope Nicholas II, with the agreement of the Lateran Council, issues the papal bull In nomine Domini making the College of Cardinals the sole voters in the papal conclave for the election of popes.

1058 - Antipope Benedict X is crowned pope, but later deposed.

1057 - King Macbeth of Scotland is killed in battle against Malcolm III of Scotland.

Oops, thanks Rocky!

1056 - Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire ends

1055- Ralph the Timid is defeated by the Welsh.

1054 - Cardinal Humbertus and Michael Cerularius excommunicat each other. This would eventually lead to the. Schism in the Catholic church

1053 - The last full year in which the eastern and western churches were in full communion.

Hawker P.1052 - experimental British aircraft built by Hawker Limited

1051 - Section 1051 of Title 15 of the U.S. Code concerns the application for registration for and verification of trademarks.

1050 - The brewery of Weltenburg Abbey is first mentioned, thus making it one of the oldest still operating breweries in the world.

NGC 1049 looks very pretty through a powerful telescope.

DEN 1048-3956 is a brown dwarf star about 13 light years from Earth.