History A-Z III

[LadyVer]

If someone has already created a new history thread, let me know. Don't want to step on anyone's toes.

Dedicated to all the history lovers and those who appreciate a thread that isn't geared towards the hot and heavy. :0

Austin, Stephen F.

 

[1sickbastard]

If someone has already created a new history thread, let me know. Don't want to step on anyone's toes.

Dedicated to all the history lovers and those who appreciate a thread that isn't geared towards the hot and heavy. :0

Austin, Stephen F.

Starting the new History Thread with a Texas figure!
Good Choice!

Battle of San Jaciento

 

[jacktar48]

Cuneiform script is one of the earliest known systems of writing, distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus.

The name cuneiform itself simply means "wedge shaped", from the Latin cuneus "wedge" and forma "shape," and came into English usage probably from Old French cunéiforme.

 

[1sickbastard]

Delian League: Alliance of hellenic city-states to combat further encroachment by the Persian Empire under the leadership of Athens.

 

[TexasWild]

Edison, Thomas

 

[1sickbastard]

Frederick Barbarossa

 

[NCincestlover]

Genghis Khan

 

[Deprived_in_AZ]

Hadrian

 

[mamasota]

Invention of the Internet

(The Internet was invented in the United States during the late 1950s to the 1970s by a group of researchers and scientists at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
On October 29, 1969, computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time using the network then called ARPANET.)

*I did not know this

TY, Lady Ver

 

[jacktar48]

Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era.

Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. As the first major league team to play a black man since the 1880s, the Dodgers ended racial segregation that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades.

 

[1sickbastard]

Krakatoa erupts (explodes), 27 August, 1883, killing over 36,000 people

 

[LadyVer]

Lady Godiva

 

[1sickbastard]

Mason-Dixon Line

 

[mamasota]

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Napoleon Bonaparte

 

[BradBigBrain]

Oskar Schindler

 

[Deprived_in_AZ]

Perikles

 

[1sickbastard]

Orange Free State.

M

 

[LadyVer]

Pocahontas (1595 – 1617)

 

[jacktar48]

Quicksilver (Mercury) was found in Egyptian tombs that date from 1500 BC.

In China and Tibet, mercury use was thought to prolong life, heal fractures, and maintain generally good health, although it is now known that exposure to mercury vapor leads to serious adverse health effects.

The first emperor of China, Qín Shǐ Huáng Dì—allegedly buried in a tomb that contained rivers of flowing mercury on a model of the land he ruled, representative of the rivers of China—was killed by drinking a mercury and powdered jade mixture formulated by Qin alchemists (causing liver failure, mercury poisoning, and brain death) who intended to give him eternal life.

 

[mamasota]

Rembrandt Van Rijn - (a "portrait" artist considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and the most important in Dutch history)

 

[BeachBum25]

Sundiata

 

[papadoc19]

Thirty years' war

 

[mamasota]

the Underground Railroad - (a network of secret routes and safe houses used by African slaves in the 19th Century, in the United States, to escape to safety)

 

[Sandman63]

World War 2 December 7 1941. Attack on Pearl Harbor US enters the war.

 

[jacktar48]

You skipped "V"

Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day,VE Day, or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.[1] It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.

On 30 April, Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leader, committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin. Germany's surrender, therefore, was authorized by his successor, Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz. The administration headed by Dönitz was known as the Flensburg government. The act of military surrender was signed on 7 May in Reims, France and on 8 May in Berlin, Germany.