Count down year by year with real world facts!

[Jesus X]

2003

America tries to make everyone call French Fries "Freedom Fries" and it does not take at all

Basically USA was pissy because France would not support the Iraq invasion, so all the fatties were like "We're still gunna eat French fries but we're not gunna call em French fries"

lol that was hilarious I actually heard people say freedom fries.

 

[ShinkanPo]

We are still stuck in the 1700s I thought we are already fighting the Romans by now!

1744


The Great Comet of 1744, one of the brightest ever seen, reaches perihelion. March 15 – France declares war on Great Britain. April – The Female Spectator (a monthly) is founded by Eliza Haywood in England, the first periodical written for women by a woman.

 

[Clippy]

1743

A British expeditionary fleet under Sir Charles Knowles is defeated by the Spanish in the Battle of La Guaira.

^^ Engraving of the attack by the British fleet on La Guayra (1743)

-- further reading:

The Battle of La Guaira or La Guayra, took place on 2 March 1743 in the Caribbean, off the coast of La Guaira, present day Venezuela. La Guaira was a port of the Royal Gipuzkoan Company of Caracas, whose ships had rendered great assistance to the Spanish navy during War of Jenkins' Ear in carrying troops, arms, stores and ammunition from Spain to her colonies, and its destruction would be a severe blow both to the Company and the Spanish Government. A British expeditionary fleet under Sir Charles Knowles was defeated, and the expedition ended in failure. 600 men were killed , among whom was the captain of HMS Burford, and many of the ships were badly damaged or lost. Sir Charles was therefore unable to proceed to Puerto Cabello until he had refitted

 

[Milgrim]

1742 - Handel's Messiah was performed for the first time, in Dublin.

 

[Clippy]

1741

Spain wins an impressive victory over Great Britain in the Battle of Cartagena de Indias.

The Battle of Cartagena de Indias was an amphibious military engagement between the forces of Britain under Vice-Admiral Edward Vernon and those of Spain under the Admiral Blas de Lezo. It took place at the city of Cartagena de Indias in March 1741, in present-day Colombia. The battle was a significant episode of the War of Jenkins' Ear and a large-scale naval campaign. The conflict later subsumed into the greater conflict of the War of the Austrian Succession. The battle resulted in a major defeat for the British Navy and Army.

The defeat caused heavy losses for the British. Disease (especially yellow fever), rather than deaths from combat, took the greatest toll on both the British and Spanish forces.

 

[Clippy]

1740

The University of Pennsylvania is officially established.

THEN:

NOW:

 

[elreece]

1739

• Apr 7 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing

That crafty dick hole stealing fucking horses.

 

[Clippy]

1738

The military phase of Cresap's War between the British North American Provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania is ended when King George II of Great Britain negotiates a cease-fire.

 

[Happy Man]

1737

The line of the house of Medici goes extinct.

 

[Clippy]

1736

A fire in St. Petersburg, capital of the Russian Empire, destroys 2,000 buildings, the city's post office, and several palaces.



Podnovinskoe suburb surrounded the large (for that time) Novinsky Monastery, which before the fire of 1736 was situated in the area of today’s Novinsky Boulevard, not far from the center of Moscow.

 

[Clippy]

1735

Witchcraft Act 1735

This was a law passed by the Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1735 which made it a crime for a person to claim that any human being had magical powers or was guilty of practising witchcraft. With this, the law abolished the hunting and executions of witches in Great Britain. The maximum penalty set out by the Act was a year's imprisonment.

 

[GSP_37]

2017-2019

Alternative facts. Truth is not truth.

 

[Kaybee]

1734

American pioneer, folk hero, and hat connoisseur Daniel Boone was born

 

[HUGHPHUG]

1733 Joseph Priestly was born, dude credited for discovering oxygen though he prolly didn't

 

[Milgrim]

1732 - Covent Garden (Royal opera house) opens in London. @Grave Buster attends opening night.

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

1732 was kind of boring. I remember it rained a lot ... was also a leap year . Ben Franklin ( human not cat) started publishing his poor Richards Almanack ...

Damn just saw guy above do 1732 when I was writing this

 

[Milgrim]

Damn just saw guy above do 1732 when I was writing this

1731's all yours, champ.

 

[Clippy]

1731:

The oldest known sports score in history is recorded in the description of a cricket match at Richmond Green in England, when the team of Thomas Chambers of Middlesex defeats the Duke of Richmond's team by 119 to 79.

Sports scores bro what a year before they just guessed who won I guess

 

[HUGHPHUG]

1730

French bloke invented temperature scale with freezing at 0c and boiling at 80c, the Reaumur scale