Count down year by year with real world facts!

[ShinkanPo]

That didn't sound like 1874 talk to me

My Great grand pa was born in 1874!

 

[chubbman]

1874: party time as English chemist C.R Alder Wright synthetizes heroin for the first time.

Britain’s greatest PM Winston Churchill was born November 30

 

[Medulla Omoplata]

Here comes 1873!

 

[Clippy]

Here comes 1873!

You're right!

1873

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

 

[Medulla Omoplata]

You're right!

1873

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

Oh yeah, bunch of dudes with big moustaches hanging out together for long periods of time in a cabin in the Canadian wilderness. Sounds fun.

 

[chubbman]

You're right!

1873

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

I sometimes look at these old time gun slingers and wonder... should I grow a moustache.

 

[chubbman]

2002

(January 2002, Croatia) A Croatian was killed while trying to open a hand grenade with a chainsaw. He wanted to retrieve the explosive to make firecrackers for the New Year's holiday.

That’s a more manly way to die than el macho, who died riding a shark, into a volcano, wearing dynamite

 

[RockstarChris]

i have a writing desk that is like 200 years old. to think it was around when my great great great grandparents were around.....

 

[Clippy]

1872

Great Boston Fire of 1872

was Boston's largest urban fire, and still ranks as one of the most costly fire-related property losses in American history. The conflagration began at 7:20 p.m. on November 9, 1872, in the basement of a commercial warehouse at 83-87 Summer Street. The fire was finally contained 12 hours later, after it had consumed about 65 acres (26 ha) of Boston's downtown, 776 buildings and much of the financial district, and caused $73.5 million in damage. At least 30 people are known to have died in the fire.

 

[Clippy]

1871

More fires!

Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan. The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous of these, leaving nearly 100,000 people homeless, although the Peshtigo Fire kills as many as 2,500 people, making it the deadliest fire in United States history.

 

[Clippy]

1870

Good news! Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States!! By the 1870s, putting up a Christmas tree had become common in America.

They put piles of lit candles on dried out trees! Can you imagine?

See years 1871 and 1872 for more

 

[Clippy]

1869

The First Transcontinental Railroad in North America is completed at Promontory, Utah, by the driving of the "golden spike".

LOOK HOW GOLD IT IS!!!

 

[PG29 red0 Jr]

1868
14th Amendment adopted

 

[Clippy]

1867



My home, Canada, officially becomes a country!

@Medulla Omoplata @choke you

 

[ShinkanPo]

1866

The Chincha war ended in the Americas, an Island war where Spain operated some Iron clads.

 

[Milgrim]

1865 - Abraham Lincoln goes to the theater for the last time & doesn't see how the show ends.

 

[Clippy]

1864



The United States Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864, which mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.

 

[dog y]

1884, 100 years before dog, the gw meridian was defined as earths zero mark.

This thread is great. Ill add info And pics asap.

 

[Clippy]

1884, 100 years before dog, the gw meridian was defined as earths zero mark.

This thread is great. Ill add info And pics asap.

You were suppose to post 1863 ...

 

[irish_thug]

You were suppose to post 1863 ...

January first 1863. US president and catch wrestler Abe Lincoln signs the emancipation proclamation. Helping to bring an end to one of the darkest periods in American history.