Today is the anniversary of...

[salty mud]

What..? Have a guess.






591 years...

 

[Gelion]

Battle of Agincourt!!!!

 

[salty mud]

Battle of Agincourt!!!!

Well done!

So, what do we do now?

 

[Dachs]

The "591 years" gave it away. Nothing else of import happened in 1415 anyway.

 

[salty mud]

Yes it did! In 1760...

 

[Dachs]

...almost time for Torgau. Didn't George II die around this time?

 

[salty mud]

...almost time for Torgau. Didn't George II die around this time?

Indeed! And George III took the crown!

Clever boy.

Meh, ran out of good things to say. Boring day!

 

[Dachs]

Not so much. My favorite poem is based on something that happened today; so is thetrooper's name (well, it's based on something that's based on something that happened today).

Hint: Cardigan.

 

[thetrooper]

^

The Battle of Balaclava!

 

[MCdread]

The "591 years" gave it away. Nothing else of import happened in 1415 anyway.

- Conquest of Ceuta: kickoff to the portuguese over seas expansion, hence Europe's, hence the beggining of the western imperialism.

- John Huss burned: precursor of protestantism condemned by the Catholic Church, hence a precursor of the Reformation, Counter Reformation and european religious struggles for centuries to come.

 

[salty mud]

October 28: Anniversary of...?

 

[Bast]

Indeed! And George III took the crown!

And then he married the Mecklenburger princess.

 

[Dachs]

October 28: Anniversary of...?

The Battle of Saxa Rubra (aka Milvian Bridge)?

That's my favorite, anyhoo. It's also Okhi Day, but since I'm only a little Greek that's not so important.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

John Huss Burned

Oh yes wonderful stuff: that's what happens when you try and reform the Church without the use of printing press! (I think we can all learn from that) As I'm sure a Morrissey Lyric goes "The whispering may hurt you, but the printed word might kill you"

 

[Plotinus]

There was the Council of Constance in general, which did a lot more than just burn Hus. Its main task was to do something about the fact that there were three Popes at the same time.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

Talking about Protestantism and Printing press... Today is the 489th Anniversary of the Posting of the 95 Theses on the door of Wittenburg Catherdral! Woo! A much more worthwhile cause for celebration than hallowe'en (or at least that's what i tell the trick or treaters)

 

[Plotinus]

You know, of course, that it's not certain that Luther did post the 95 Theses on the church door! In his short biography of Luther, Melanchthon mentioned that the Reformer "attached" the theses to the church without specifying where or how, and I suppose this is the origin of the claim. It's perfectly plausible that he did it (the church door was used as a notice board) though still uncertain.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

In fact, the date of the 31st is even uncertain- it just appears to be the most widely accepted date

Well I am working on the logic that he had to do something to start an intellectual debate (which is what he wanted, hence writing them in Latin) and since that posting them on the Church door was the accpeted means of stimulating debate. Also it had to be somewhere fairly popular for the 2 German publishers (who's names convienently escape me- we've since had to return the textbooks we used) to notice it and recreate it in German (without Luther's permission) so that the ordinary people could understnd what Luther had to say...

Like I say that may be utter tripe, but my textbooks on Reformation Europe have been replaced with those of Imperial Spain...

 

[Dachs]

Nobody likes Imperial Spain.

The battle of Pusan (1592, I think) and Graf Spee's defeat of the Brits at Coronel in 1914 are both excellent things to happen today in history. Oh yeah, and the Ottoman Empire officially died in 1922, which is (personally) a cause for celebration.

 

[North King]

Oh yeah, and the Ottoman Empire officially died in 1922, which is (personally) a cause for celebration.

A cause for mourning. There would not be, and still is not, an instrument for Muslim unity to yank Islam into the modern world.