This game is educational for newbies and the “middle aged” Dopers amongst us, and fun/predictive for long-serving members.
Take the number of your next post and convert it to the year, and tell us what happens. (Common Era is not mandatory!)
So, 1468: Here in Britain, the War of the Roses continued apace. Edward IV’s sister Margaret married the Duke of Burgundy. The Duke of Warwick, angry at Edward’s secret marriage, begins the plot to overthrow him.
In Europe, Johannes Gutenburg, inventor of the printing press, dies in Mainz.
Ah, in the year 2305, President Arnold Schwarzeneggar IX declared that the colony on Saturn’s moon Titan was no longer recognized as a part of the United Properties of America due to their desire to keep the Titan natives as pets.
By the year 5612, dial-up connections will be no slower than 112k and household computers will have 4GHz processors! The world population will have shot up to 6.5 billion, and we’ll be sending fully twice as many things into space per year as we are now! Digital photography will be almost indistinguishable from film photography! Cars will get 35 miles per gallon fuel efficiency! Futuristic stoves will cook minute rice in 50 seconds! Window blind technology will have improved allowing you to open and close the blinds with somewhat reduced effort!
In 53 AD, Roman emperor Claudius removes Agrippa II from the tetrarchy of Chalcis, Euodius succeeds Saint Peter as Patriarch of Antioch, and future Roman Emperor Marcus Ulpius Traianus was born on September 18th.
A few weary souls gather around a small firepit, huddled against the swirling, dust-laden wind. In the distance, they hear the sounds of shrieks, growls, and much flinging of feces. They look at one another, sadly shake their heads, and repeat their mantra: “It’s taking longer than we thought.”
Erm… Marcus Aurelius (Yes, Commodus’ dad) died of natural causes (even more natural than being brutally, savagely, accidentally murdered by a member of his own family - the norm in those days) in 182. The senate, disliking Commodus’ people skills, had him peacefully replaced by Publius Helvius Pertinax who died of slightly less natural causes, 87 days into his reign, by the hand of the Praetorian army on March 28th 183.
…I’ll need a couple hundred more posts before I can squeeze Iceland into this, somehow. Is it against board rules to start a new thread and post 199 times to it?
Well, let’s see. In AD 205, Plotinus is born. Plotinus was a Greek Philosopher that believed man should reject material things and should purify his soul and should seek to commune with a “higher spirit.”
He eventually became the founder of the neo-platonic school of thought, which became the most formidable rivalry to the Christian movement in ancient culture. So sez the HyperHistory site.
And since you said AD / BC not an issue and nobody else seems to have taken up the gauntlet:
Also from HyperHistory, Livius Andronicos (Andronicus), founder fo Roman epic poetry and drama, dies in circa 204 BC.
He was an educated Greek slave in Rome. He translated Greek literature into Latin, as well as introducing Greek ideas to the Romans. He translated Homer’s epic “Odyssey”. His work became the first major Latin poem. He produced a play as part of a festival in 240BC, which became the first dramatic performance ever given in Rome.
In India, Vidyaranya Madhav, the ruler of the Vijayanagar, defeated the Muslims.
Gao Ming, the composer of one of the finest Chinese opera’s, The Lute Song, died.
And, with a special meaning for us Dopers, among the Jagatais the Khan is overthrown by his prime minister, Timur, better known in the West as Tamerlane, who goes on to conquer most of Central Asia, and furthermore initiate one of the most brilliant periods of Islamicart.
In AD 6097, the United Cockroach Tribes have mastered Mathematics and Map Making, and are sending a band of Warriors, Archers, and Catapults out across the radioactive wastes to conquer the neighboring Wasp People before they complete the Pyramids.
2100 **BC ** - The last dynasty of Sumer is founded by Ur-Nammu; Ur is an empire and Ur-Nammu writes a rule of law (perhaps the first) [Now why isn’t that on a courthouse wall somewhere??]
2100 **BC ** - Egypt moves south to establish the Middle Kingdom (7th Dynasty)
Er… something to do with a Mars station and hyper warp drive? Or, mankind has annihilated itself and the entire earth’s ecosystem, and the earth spins round the sun in mute barren silence. Or something.
It is 1874. Infants by the name of Robert Frost and Winston Churchill are born. Ulysses S. Grant is the president in the United States. Strauss began marketing blue jeans. Bell was working on basic telephone ideas (thank goodness!) Ice cream sodas debuted.
It is the year … 11744? I think. Something like that. Zager and Evans, with the assistance of HG Wells, delight to inform you that sentient giant squid now control most of the private sector due to their willingness to use deadly stingers on anyone who pisses them off. Wall Street, naturally, is located off the coast of Florida. The Church of the Invisible Pink Unicorn holds a world-wide revival of the ancient festival Saturnalia, during which the average person consumes ten gallons of alcohol.
