What happened in the year 1771?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This is my 1771st time translating the thoughts inside my head into text and sharing them with all of you. I have always looked at my post count every now and then just to think about how many times I have posted, but for some reason, the number 1771 seems particularly notable for me. Maybe it is because it’s the same backwards as it is forwards. Maybe it’s because it’s only five away from 1776, the year of American independence. Who knows. But the point is, 1771 is a special number for me right now.

So what happened in 1771?

Well:

Oxygen was discovered as a chemical element.

57,000 people were killed by a plague in Moscow.

Russian forces occupied the Crimea in the Russo-Turkish war.

Sir Walter Scott was born.

The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sank near the coast of Finland.

Development was begun on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and Duke Nukem Forever.

Anything else?

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Hah! Good one.

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The year 246 is much more boring than yours. So I will do BC and AD.

BC:

  • In Rome, the number of praetors is increased from one to two.
  • Seleucus II Callinicus becomes King of the Seleucid dynasty.
  • Ptolemy III becomes King of Egypt.
  • An irrigation canal approximately one hundred miles long was built across the current-day province of Shenxi in China, greatly adding to the agricultural productivity of the area and to the military potency of the Qin dynasty.
  • Queen Arsinoe III of Egypt of the Ptolemaic Dynasty (or 245 BC) is born.
  • Ptolemy II, king of Egypt, dies.
  • Antiochus II Theos, King of the Seleucid dynasty, dies.

AD:

  • Philip the Arab fights the Germans along the Danube.
  • The Korean Baekje kingdom, under King Goi, attacks the Chinese command of Daifang.
  • Cao Huan, last emperor of the Kingdom of Wei, is born.
  • Jiang Wan, leading official of the Shu Kingdom, dies.

…like I said, not too exciting. Now how do you make bullets again?

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Events in the year

715 C.E.

-August 11 - Germanus is translated from the bishopric of Cyzicus to the Patriarch of Constantinople
-September 26 - Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne
-Umayyad caliph al-Walid I ibn Abd al-Malik succeeded by Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik
-End of the reign of Empress Gemmei of Japan, she is succeeded by Empress Gensho.
-May 19 - Pope Gregory II succeeds Pope Constantine as the 89th pope.
-Saint Boniface sets out on a missionary expedition to the Frisians
-Grand Mosque of Damascus, was built over the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
-Saint Winnin, an Irish monk, landed at the mouth of the River Garnock, where he established a community or cell of monks, termed cella or “Kil” in Gaelic
-King Nechtan extended an invitation to the Northumbrian clergy to establish Christianity amongst the Picts.
-Major earthquake hits Turkey

715 B.C.E.

-Start of the reign of Roman King Numa Pompilius.

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We just did this not too long ago. I had 1776 posts at the time. I don’t think anything important happened in that year.

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1771 was also the year that—

=the Procastinator’s Boston Massacre occurred (nobody was actually shot since the British sentries had been withdrawn but the late arrivals to harassing them had just gotten the news and around to acting on it in some order)

=the first “2 Years Until the Boston Tea Party” advent calendar was sold

=the Sons of Liberty began training wild hens to chase, corral and brutally peck Loyalists to King George III in the famous “Chicken Catch a Tory” project

=Wilford Brimley was born, went through puberty and a veegan phase and wed his first three wives

=Betsy Ross saw that little red, white and blue flag on a hamburger at her local Adonijah’s Big Boy and said “I could make that bigger and out of scrap cloth”

=a Shawnee wife in the Ohio Territory gave birth to a son named Tecumseh, a man so diligent in seeking new territory for his people that he is often regarded as the first Search Injun

=Four year old Andy Jackson played his first game of COWBOYS AND FORCED REMOVAL

=Yet more attempts of the young bride Marie Antoinette to consummate her marriage to her erectile challenged husband Prince Louis failed due to his deformed foreskin, causing her prophetic utterance “only when that head is cut off will he be good for anything”

=The Jews™ convinced the Tay Son Brothers to begin a war in Vietnam

=An African slave born Kunta Kinte in Gambia but known as Toby on the Maryland plantation where he was sold astonished all onlookers when he transformed from Levar Burton into John Amos, leading to rumors of witchcraft and really lazy casting directors

=A tree fell in the forests of what is now Des Moines and was heard by several witnesses, thus sparking no real interest

=Helen Keller first appeared on a state quarter even though there were no states and she would not be born for another 110 years

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C. Montgomery Burns scared his first small child.