History pop quiz!

[ciroccoj]

Quick! Without looking any of these up, see if you can name one major historical event that happened on each of these dates, which are in no particular order. And yes, it's hugely skewed towards European/North American history. That's cause these are all from my own history-geek knowledge, and I'm hugely skewed towards European/North American.

1867
1776
1912
1865
1917
1215
1939
1066
622
1914
1918
1929
79
1347
2001
1969
1861
1963
1973
800
1961
1492
410
1968

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Before Woff gets here and smokes our asses...

[culturevulture7.livejournal.com]

1867
1776 - American independence
1912 - Titanic sinks
1865 - end of the US Civil War, Lincoln assassinated
1917 - Russian Revolution, US enters WWI, Man O'War born ::g::
1215 - Magna Carta
1939 - Germany invades Poland, WWII begins
1066 - Normandy Invasion; William the Conquerer conquers England, Battle of Hastings
622 - death of Mohammed? Or his taking over in Arabia
1914 - Archduke Ferdinand assassinated, start of World War I
1918 - end of World War I
1929 - US stock market crashes, beginning of Great Depression
79 - destruction of the temple in Jerusalem
1347 - Constantinople falls? Crusaders leave the Holy Land?
2001 - 9/11
1969 - Man lands on the moon, I'm thinking Altamont is this year as well.
1861 - start of US Civil War
1963 - Kennedy Assassination
1973 - is this when Pinochet takes over? For me this year is Secretariat
800 - Charlemagne crowned as Holy Roman Emperor
1961 - Kennedy takes office, I think the Bay of Pigs
1492 - Columbus "finds" the New World
410 - fall of Roman Empire (Western)
1968 - MLK, Bobby Kennedy assassinated. I'm thinking this is also Woodstock

Before Woff gets here and smokes our asses...

[culturevulture7.livejournal.com]

Sorry to be flip about 1973...but that is how I remember it.

So do we get answers? I love how two of us are unsure about Woodstock and that haifisch
brought up Roe v. Wade, which I should've remembered!

Nixon resigned in 1974

Re: Before Woff gets here and smokes our asses...

[officerjudy.livejournal.com]

Woodstock was in 1969. I only remembered Roe v. Wade because the anniversary is tomorrow.

And yes, Woff certainly is going to smoke our asses! ; )

Re: Before Woff gets here and smokes our asses...

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Whoa... yeah. For almost all of them. Colour me very impressed!

Though 622 is the year Muslims count as the beginning of the Islamic calendar, as it's the year of hijra, when Muhammed went to Medina.

I get the destruction of the Temple as 70AD. Constantinople fell in 1453, and the Crusaders left in the 1291 or so... and I had to look all of the above up on Wikipedia, so you can take those dates with a grain of salt ;)

And yeah, 1973 is Pinochet, though I was actually thinking of two American events, because I am apparently not only a sucky Canadian and internationalist, I suck as a member of the Chilean Diaspora as well. ::sigh::

And Woodstock was 1969 ;)

Re: Before Woff gets here and smokes our asses...

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

I really, really wanted to put the destruction of the Temple as 79, but I knew it was 70,and then I was all annoyed that 70 wasn't on the list, b/c that's SOMETHING I knew!!

Re: Before Woff gets here and smokes our asses...

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Funnily, that was one date I had no idea about. And I just finished reading about Judaism in The Heathen's Guide to World Religions, too. ::facepalm::

Re: Before Woff gets here and smokes our asses...

[culturevulture7.livejournal.com]

I looked it up - 79 is Pompeii!! I knew I knew it, just didn't know...

So 1347 is the Black Plague?

I was a history major at one time ;-D (which is where I met woffproff

1973 for me is Secretariat and Watergate but since Watergate started in 1972 and ended in 74, I wasn't thinking 73...although that was the big Watergate year.