Let's play a game Veeky Forums
Let's say important events counting down, at a max of 25 years at a time. Let's see how far back we can go.
Example, I say 2017, you can say something within the last 25 years and so on and so on.
>2017
USA backs out from the Paris Agreement
>2016
America elects a fascist cretin with the IQ of a rodent to the highest office of government.
>2011
American and French cowards stage a violent coup against Muammar Gaddafi, destabilizing the entire region and fucking up Libya
Let's at least pass the 25 year barrier
>1986
Baby Doc exiles himself to France after revolts in Haiti.
>1975
Last African States (Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea Bissau) become independent from European Powers (Portugal).
>2001
The twin towers are destroyed by two planes being flown by terrorists, sparking a complete rethink on security in the western world.
>1980
comedian Richard Pryor is badly burned trying to freebase cocaine.
>1955
Winston Churchil resigns as Prime Minister, 60 years later he is placed on the 5£ note, one of the most commonly traded in Britain.
We missed the Cold War
>1953
Coup in Iran leaves the shah as absolute monarch
>1945
The U.S. unnecessarily drops two nuclear bombs on major civilian population centers
>1920
treaty of Trianon puts the eternal bozgor in his place
>1914
World War I begins.
>1910
the first ever public radio broadcast takes place in new york
>1908
Belgium takes control of the Free Congo State from king Leopold II
1885
Benz builds the first automobile
>1962
Algeria gains independence after negotiations with French President Charles De Gaulle.
>1871
The Germanic hordes finally (after 2 millennia) unify under one nation just for their haplo group
>1860
South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the Union.
>1848
numerous abortive liberal and nationalistic revolts and revolutions sweep europe
>1830
Louis Philippe becomes king of France in what comes to be known as the July Monarchy
>1812
A corsican manlet leads a band of frogs to freeze and starve in slav lands.
>1804
A slave revolt leads to the Independence of Haiti
>1793
French Revolution begins
>1780
Tupac Amauru II leads an indigenous rebellion in Peru against Spain
>1776
A North American British colony revolts and declares a democratic government known as the "United states of America"
...
>1760
King George the IIIrd becomes King of Great Britian
>1740
War of Austrian Succession begins when Prussian Imperialists do what is in their nature
>3,600,000 BC
The first Australopithecus appears.
drumpf BTFO
>1718
This smug retard writes his first play
>1720
The South Sea Company crashes, ending a scheme to keep the indebted British treasury afloat with a bubble financed by greedy and gullible idiots buying worthless shares on credit.
>1697
England, the HRE, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands lose the None Years War to France
History is important also fuck Behind the Meme
>1688
Glorious Revolution
>1670
the Hudson's Bay Company, now the world's oldest continuously operating corporation, is founded to control the Canadian fur trade
> 1648
Treaty of Westphalia, forming the basis of the idea of the nation-state
>1642
Charles I raises his royal standard at Nottingham, beginning the English Civil War
>1618
the Second Defenestration of Prague begins the Thirty Years War
>1603
Elizabeth I queen of England dies after 45 years on the throne
Ah yes the None years war that lasted none years
1589 Henry 4th becomes king of France
>1588
Queen Elisabeth defeats the Spanish Armada with a mystical rain dance
>1571
Battle of Lepanto
>1560
Oda Nobunaga crushes the superior invading forces of the Imagawa at the battle of Okehazama
>1543
Copernicus publishes his theories about heliocentrism and the movements of the celestial bodies
>1519
Cortés begins his campaign against the Aztec Empire
>1515
Switzerland gets eternally neutralized
>1508
War of the League of Cambrai, also known as "the Pope is an ass" war
>1492
Columbus fucks everyone over by rediscovering burgerland
>1492
Nebrija´s becomes the first Grammar of a Romance language.
>1467
Start of the Ōnin War
>1453
TUMBLING DOWN TUMBLING DOWN TUMBLING DOWN
>1448
The town of Mondragon is burnt during the War of Bands in the Basque Country.
>1444
Crusade of Varna fails
>1422
Penultimate siege of Constantinople
>1410
Battle of Grundwald
>1394
King Charles VI of France orders the expulsion of all Jews from France.
>1385
Poland and Lithuania are united in marriage
>1365
Crusaders manage to capture Alexandria
>1347
The Black Death is peaking in Europe, killing almost half the continent's population
>The U.S. drops only two nuclear bombs on major civilian population centers.
fixed
>1333
The Kenmu Restoration: fall of the Kamakura shogunate and rise of the Ashikaga
Technically it's more the restoration of direct imperial rule, the Ashikaga shogunate came a short while after
have an upboat :--------DDDDDDDD
>1320
Poland is reunited under the rule of Władysłąw I Łokietek
>1314
Phillip IV the Fair, the Iron King of France, dies
>1308
Dante starts writing the Divine Comedy.
>1298
some dude named Rintfleisch has a vision of god and claims he was ordred to kill all jews. he and his rabid mob kill over 20000 jews.
>1273
The 6-year-long battle of Xiangyang ends, as the commander of the Song Dynasty's forces surrender to Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty. The battle is the first in which firearms are used in combat.
>1261
The Greek emperor and his friends retake Constantinople from the Eternal Venetian
>1244
Jerusalem sacked by muslims
>1227
Genghis Khan dies.
>1203
4th crusade conquers Constantinople.
>1198
Start of the Livonian crusades against Balts.
>1944
The Allies invade Normandy
delet this
>1066
Normandy invades the Allies
Seljuk Turks and other Asian nomads capture Baghdad
>1055
>1040
Macbeth murders the King of Scotland
>1020
Cnut the Great codifies the laws of England.
>1009
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is destroyed
You fuckers skipped over a hundred years of history.
>1178
Chinese custom official Zhou Qufei writes of an island far west in the Indian Ocean from where people with skin "as black as lacquer" and with frizzy hair were captured and purchased as slaves by Arab merchants.
>1154
The French family Plantagenet takes over the English throne
>1135
The domination of Baghdad by the Seljuk Turks ends.
>1110
Sidon and Beirut are captured by the crusaders, effectively capitulating Lebanon
>1095
Start of the first Crusade for the Holy Land
>1066
The Eternal Anglo is BTFO'D by William the Great
kek
*buys dlc*
>1054
The Catholic Church in Rome and the Orthodox in Constantinople go through a schism, remaining separate to this day
oh shit just realized hours later it was supposed to be important events
still interesting though
1041-Typewriting invented by chinese
im dying at this for some reason
>1035
King Cnut dies, effectively ending the Viking Age.
>1024
The world's first paper-printed money originates in China.
>1018
Bulgarians conquered by the Byzantines
>1000
Leif Ericson lands in Vinland
>982
Erik the Red discovers Greenland