What in you opinion is the most depressing event in history?

Siege of Leningrad

>Caesar burnt down the Library
>Not some soldiers accidentally burnt down a section.
Marc Antony raided the 2nd largest library in the ancient world and donated 40,000 books to Cleopatra.

The actual destruction came under the Muslims. 'Amr ibn al-'As under the order of the Caliph Omar.

must have been horrifying

1000 times this. While their fall did help spur the renaissance, it feels bitter sweet. Turkey shouldn't hold Constantinople. It should belong to Greece.

This is an idiotic way of looking at things. You can't demand a country to give away territory they captured 500 years ago.

So how long are the Palestinians supposed to wait?

>As a small and precarious population, Moriori embraced a pacifist culture that rigidly avoided warfare, substituting it with dispute resolution in the form of ritual fighting and conciliation.[citation needed] The ban on warfare and cannibalism is attributed to their ancestor Nunuku-whenua

>A hui or council of Moriori elders was convened at the settlement called Te Awapatiki. Despite knowing of the Māori predilection for killing and eating the conquered, and despite the admonition by some of the elder chiefs that the principle of Nunuku was not appropriate now, two chiefs — Tapata and Torea — declared that "the law of Nunuku was not a strategy for survival, to be varied as conditions changed; it was a moral imperative."[19]

>A Moriori survivor recalled : "[The Maori] commenced to kill us like sheep.... [We] were terrified, fled to the bush, concealed ourselves in holes underground, and in any place to escape our enemies. It was of no avail; we were discovered and killed - men, women and children indiscriminately." A Māori conqueror explained, "We took possession... in accordance with our customs and we caught all the people. Not one escaped....." [20] The invaders ritually killed some 10% of the population, a ritual that included staking out women and children on the beach and leaving them to die in great pain over several days. The Māori invaders forbade the speaking of the Moriori language. They forced Moriori to desecrate their sacred sites by urinating and defecating on them.[21]

>After the invasion, Moriori were forbidden to marry Moriori, or to have children with each other. All became slaves of the Ngati Tama and Ngati Mutunga invaders. Many Moriori women had children by their Māori masters. A small number of Moriori women eventually married either Māori or European men. Some were taken from the Chathams and never returned. In 1842 a small party of Māori and their Moriori slaves migrated to the subantarctic Auckland Islands, surviving for some 20 years on sealing and flax growing.[22] Only 101 Moriori out of a population of about 2,000 were left alive by 1862.[23]

fuck that sucks

Black Plague.

Smallpox killing most of the american indians.
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Like a million small towns in America having their populations reduced by 90%

That's a blow human cultures don't recover from. You've killed the young, you've killed the competent adult, you've killed the skilled middle aged person who teachs the kids, you've killed the chief and the shaman who are responsible for performing sacred rites...

It's insult to injury that they metabolize alcohol in a different way than other people. As in gets them fucked up for 12 hours and addictive.

The weak must fear the strong.

Stone age hippies BTFO

The Turk WOULD think it stupid for people to demand an apology.

>Armenian Genocide

>know their odds are against them but stays in command until the end
>instead of retreating when all hope was lost, led a final charge and died along with the City
Constantine XI was a true hero.

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The second siege of vienna.
We were so close to uniting europe.

The closing of the Platonic Academy in Athens by Justinian.

The Second Mexican Empire was really sad desu.

Get fucked roach.

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Its even worse when you read about the gay commander not ordering a General charge when they took or blew up a Bastion

He just slowly kept Sending men in instead of all at once.

Atleast he got his fuckjng punishment and was strangled to death

If it had happened.

More like the most glorious moment in history tbqhf

-library of Alexandria
-Failure of the Michael offensive
-4th Crusade
-Magellan's death
-Invention of television
-Armenian genocide
-Iranian Revolution 1979

Captain Cooks death was pretty sad, but not the most depressing.

Please tell me that modern day Maori are a dying joke of a people, like the native Americans.

Most of the ones I'd say are already mentioned, so I'll chuck in another.

1916 Easter Rebellion in Ireland

>Feeling of optimistic patriotism amongst the members, young and old
>Despite a few critics amongst the populace of Dublin, the mood toward the Rising is generally positive and enthusiastic
>Suddenly, the Rising is "cancelled" on the day via a falsely spread signal by anti-rebels
>Disarray amongst the members as seniors desperately try to round them all up
>Moment of brief hope during seizing of the post office when they almost seem legitimate
>Very quickly outnumbered and outgunned
>They hold out long enough for their cause to be recognized as legitimate
>The realization amongst the young men in the cause that they aren't going to win
>The eventual loss
>The mass executions
>Only the bravest of them stayed strong till the end, with most of the rebels breaking down or begging forgiveness from families who had shunned them as they were maimed by prison wardens

The general outcome was such a fucking downer that most of Ireland collectively necked itself off from the UK.

Poor Maximiliano
i cry everytime

>France had just conquered all of Europe under Napoleon I
>His nephew takes power
>Maybe we'll relive the days of Napoleon and the Grand Army! Maybe we'll show those anglos who dominates the continent! Maybe we'll conquer Germany in 19 days again!

:'(

How did that work out for poland ?

I also read sonewhere that the tatars were to hold back the relief force but because the ottoman messenger didn't get of his horse the tatar commander got offended and left with his army I don't know how accurate this story is though.

The Carolean Death March.
>Be a proud soldier in the mighty Swedish Carolean Army, 1719
>Have almost half of your army wiped out in a failed siege
>It's the middle of December in Norway, one of the coldest places in Europe
>Uniform has been reduced to rags at this point, and because of bad weather you receive no supplies
>Suddenly you learn that your king, Carolous Rex, has died in battle far away, and your morale drops significantly
>Be forced to march back to Sweden, in the cold harsh weather
Of course, that's not the end of it
>A violent blizzard hits your barely clothed and poorly equipped army
>Soldiers try to make camp, literally burning their own rifles for any warmth or light in the biting cold
>In one night, 200 men die, and many are scattered around the snowy mountains, lost and cold
>Pretty much all of your horses die, and after several days of trying to wait out the storm, you attempt to make your way back home with what's left of your army.
>You're forced to abandon all of your equipment left in the mountains, along with 3,000 of your comrades who froze to death, their frozen bodies scattered across the mountains to this day
When they finally made it back to Sweden, only 2,100 soldiers from an army of 10,000 actually made it back alive. 600 of those 2,100 were crippled for life. This was the fall of the Swedish Empire, and it couldn't have met a more depressing, almost poetic end.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolean_Death_March

wasnt there a french village which got flattened by the Waffen-SS during the last years of Nazi France because the commander got the name of the village mixed up with another one where Partizans where?

oradour sur glane?

yeah thats it

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>Palestine
>country
Take your faggot ass shawl and gtfo

T. Goyboy

>Swedish empire
Kek, poorfags borrowing money to play with dem bik bois, sell country to pay debt

What was the rebellion about?

>palestinians
>not former vasals of the ottoman empire

agreed with fall of Constantinople, but Turkey isn't really Western so they shouldn't apologize as a political entity and we shouldn't expect them to. Taking over other people and cultures is normal in history. The reason we feel so strongly about this particular event is because contrary to the Greeks, the Turks have been one of the most destructive civilizations ever while not contributing anything of notable intellectual value to the West. Their most prized achievement is the conquest of their arch enemies' capital, to this day. Unfortunately for them, they stood on the wrong side of history.

Also "Turkey" isn't really a hivemind, it's not like every Turk goes around yelling about the conquest of Constantinople and other nationalist bullshit in their everyday life.

Rape of the Nanking

Seriously there has not been a more depraved and evil massacre.

When those 10,000 rifles didn't work in the battle of Bajukai. If it weren't for that, Ly Mantok wouldn't have been kicked out of the Imperial military, and if weren't for THAT, the Rebellion never would have gotten anywhere. He was the only guy who could stand up to Barca in a fleet engagement, even if he did need the Helian Drug to keep up.

Is it true they weren't cowards at Sedan?

Poor guy, would've loved to talk to him about life and other stuff with a pot of stew cooking away on his kickass stove.

Anytime a glorious sedentary civilization is overrun by the barbaric eternal stepnigger.

For a more modern example, it's gotta be either the Holocaust or some of the sick shit the Japanese did.

Why was ww2 so fucking barbaric.

>illegitimate "emperors" and their delusional followers getting btfo by a proper traditional monarchy
>depressing

youtube.com/watch?v=sbsklflPTGQ

Read the "memoirs of sergeants bourgogne". War diaries of a sergeant in napoleon's imperial guard during the invasion and retreat from russia

well said. a group of Asiatic barbarians that never rose above their squalid origins. Unlike the Germans and Slavs.

My birth. Fuck I just want to die

The Rwandan Genocide.
Imagine your own neighbors suddenly taking up arms in order to rape, mutilate and slaughter you and your immediate family because of pumped up historical frivolities, some even having been on friendly terms with you just a few months or even weeks back.

I feel even worse for Franz Josef desu

>coronated pretty young
>watch your empire slowly lose ground in Germany and Italy
>France approaches your brother to put him on the throne of Mexico
>your brother agrees as a form of detente so you might be able to beat up on Prussia together
>you see that the French are already beginning to lose ground in Mexico and beg him not to go
>he gets executed
>Prussia kicks you out of Germany and France refuses to help so your brother died in vain
>You submit to the Magyars and practically lose control over half of your empire
>your son kills himself in a suicide pact a little over two decades later and leaves you heirless
>your wife gets assassinated by an Italian anarchist faggot the next decade
>a little less than two decades later the whole kit and kaboodle comes crashing down
JUST

destruction of aztec history by the spanish.

Defeat of Rhodesia

Not quite as bad as native americans but definitely have much higher rates of crime and disease than whites. They are also pretty low economically. They also got fucked hard and had a lot of land taken in the 1800s. Only in the last 30 years have they started not being seen as complete shitters.
T. Nz fag

Germany losing WWI

>be a google
>think that other google that looks just as ugly as you is another race because of tribe bullshit and kill him for that

Pretty depressin desu

Freedom, obviously.

>implying implications, little cut-cock.

You can play that game all day
>Italians
>not former vassals of the Roman Empire

>England
>not former vassals of a Danish king

>Americans
>not former vassals of the British empire

>Russia
>not former vassals of a few Viking and Balto-Slav chiefs

>China
>not former vassals of mongolian steppe-nig warlords

There surely has, the only difference is cameras.

That's what centuries of inbreeding and hubris gets you. SERVED.

F

The fall of the empire could well have been a farce, he made it a tragedy.

>England
>not former vassals of a Danish king

At least it was a king
A century later they became vassals of a French duke

How is this any worse than what happened to the french grand armée? Only there it was a matter of hundreds of thousands.

Second, most of those soldiers were probably mercs anyway...

Wounded Knee, the visible end of 400 years of resistance to Leviathanic monsters. It was already a glimmer in the eyes of Moses, as was Auchwitz, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Vietnam, & the Crusades were. A darkling plain of history, of confused alarms of struggle & flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

>The actual destruction came under the Muslims

That's considered to be an interpolation made by Christian scribes to demonize the Muslims. The Library of Alexandria was already gone by the 3rd century, and only the Serapeum remained, and it was destroyed by Christian mobs in the 4th century, at the insistence of Theophilus the Bishop.

The day the British completely crushed Napoleon all on their lonesome.

everything is always from the French side, but what about the Russians? I'd love ti read about a Russian soldier who got to laugh his ass off as he took on the job professional farm burner for six months.