April 30:
A.D. 311: Emperor Galerius legally recognizes Christianity in the Roman Empire.
A.D. 711: Iberia is conquered by the Moors.
A.D. 1803: The U.S. purchases Louisiana from Napolean.
A.D. 1900: Hawaii becomes part of the U.S.A.
May 1:
A.D. 1328: The Wars of Scottish Independence end and England recognizes Scotland as an independent state.
A.D. 1704: The first newspaper advertisement is published in the Boston Newsletter.
Now, ads make up half the paper. Ugh.
A.D. 1753: Carol Linnaeus publishes Species Plantarum, the first taxonomic classification of plants.
May 2:
A.D. 1497: Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) departs from Europe for North America.
A.D. 1536: King Henry VIII accuses his wife, Anne Boleyn, of adultery and incest.
A.D. 1776: France and Spain agree to provide arms to American rebels.
A.D. 1833: Czar Nicolas bans the public sale of serfs.
May 3:
A.D. 1494: Columbus discovers Jamaica and names it St. Iago.
A.D. 1791: The first modern constitution in Europe is proclaimed by the Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
A.D. 1802: Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
A.D. 1830: The first regular steam train passenger service is begun.
May 4:
A.D. 1415: John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
A.D. 1493: Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain and Portugal.
A.D. 1715: The first folding umbrella is presented in public in Paris.
A.D. 1814: French Bourbon rule is restored.
May 5:
A.D. 553: The Second General Council of Constantinople (fifth ecumenical council of the RCC) opens.
A.D. 1260: Kublai Khan becomes the ruler of the Mongol Empire.
A.D. 1762: Russia and Prussia sign a peace treaty in St. Petersburg, ending the Seven Years' War.
A.D. 1809: Mary Kies becomes the first woman to be issued a U.S. patent (for weaving straw).
May 6:
A.D. 1527: Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome.
A.D. 1642: Ville Marie (later Montréal) is established.
A.D. 1682: King Louis XIV moves his court to Versailles.
A.D. 1833: John Deere makes the first steel plow.
May 7:
A.D. 558: The dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses.
A.D. 1429: St. Joan of Arc and the French army end the siege of Orleans by the English army.
A.D. 1824: Beethoven's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna.
A.D. 1832: Greece becomes independent.
May 8:
A.D. 1847: The rubber tire is patented.
A.D. 1879: George Selden applies for a patent for the first gasoline-driven vehicle.
A.D. 1933: Mahatma Ghandi begins a 21 day fast in protest of British oppression in India.
A.D. 1942: The U.S.S. Lexington, an aircraft carrier, is sunk by Japanese fighter pilots.
May 9:
1457 B.C.: The Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III's Epyptian forces and a Canaanite army. This is the earliest battle that has been recorded in reliable detail.
A.D. 328: St. Athanasius is appointed bishop of Alexandria.
A.D. 1386: The Treaty of Windsor between England and Portugal. This is the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world that is still in force.
A.D. 1502: Columbus leaves Spain on his fourth voyage to the New World.
May 10:
A.D. 1534: Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland.
A.D. 1559: Scottish Protestant uprising against the queen mother Mary.
A.D. 1570: Czar Ivan IV becomes Protestant.
A.D. 1752: Benjamin Franklin's famous kite and lightning experiment.
RicOlie_2 - What are some of your favorite historical time periods to study? Mine are the Roman Empire, French Revolution/Napoleonic era, the mid to late 1800s in the U.S. and the World Wars and the Cold War. Everything during and after the 1980s is interesting too but it's getting dangerously close to my birth year so I don't like to think of any of it as history ;)
The Person in Question
March 10:
A.D. 2015: RicOlie2 suddenly realizes how long it's been since he last updated this thread.
DominicCobb said:
March 10:
A.D. 2015: RicOlie2 suddenly realizes how long it's been since he last updated this thread.
LOL, I stopped after awhile because there was almost no interest in this thread and I things were getting busy.
RicOlie_2 said:
DominicCobb said:
March 10:
A.D. 2015: RicOlie2 suddenly realizes how long it's been since he last updated this thread.
LOL, I stopped after awhile because there was almost no interest in this thread and I things were getting busy.
I'm interested! If this thread didn't exist then I would have created my own. Not necessarily about specific events tied to the date, but a history discussion thread nonetheless.
The Person in Question
moviefreakedmind said:
RicOlie_2 - What are some of your favorite historical time periods to study? Mine are the Roman Empire, French Revolution/Napoleonic era, the mid to late 1800s in the U.S. and the World Wars and the Cold War. Everything during and after the 1980s is interesting too but it's getting dangerously close to my birth year so I don't like to think of any of it as history ;)
It varies, but I take a frequent interest in ancient Middle Eastern history, particularly Egypt and Babylonia. I'm also interested in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Other things I'm interested mostly because one hears relatively little about them, such as Ancient China/Japan (and the rest of the Far East), or what was happening around the world during periods when we tend to focus a lot on one area--usually Europe. Most of the time it's because there isn't really much to be told, but sometimes it's simply because it's less relevant or considered less interesting. For instance, I've hear a fair bit about the colonization period of America, but far less about that of Australia, or South America, or Africa.
moviefreakedmind said:
RicOlie_2 said:
DominicCobb said:
March 10:
A.D. 2015: RicOlie2 suddenly realizes how long it's been since he last updated this thread.
LOL, I stopped after awhile because there was almost no interest in this thread and I things were getting busy.
I'm interested! If this thread didn't exist then I would have created my own. Not necessarily about specific events tied to the date, but a history discussion thread nonetheless.
Well, it's nice to have someone taking interest for a change. Of course, I've had several people pop by, but none have really been interested in a real conversation about the history.
I only began to take a serious interest in history a couple years ago, having been failed entirely by the public school system in that regard, and did an overview of world history during my two years of homeschooling. It's amazing how little I knew before then. Over those two years, I made a colour-coded timeline of history in Excel, covering several thousand years and organized further by continent. It has its biases, but it touches on most important things (and I believe has almost 7000 different events, with brief descriptions).
RicOlie_2 said:
moviefreakedmind said:
RicOlie_2 - What are some of your favorite historical time periods to study? Mine are the Roman Empire, French Revolution/Napoleonic era, the mid to late 1800s in the U.S. and the World Wars and the Cold War. Everything during and after the 1980s is interesting too but it's getting dangerously close to my birth year so I don't like to think of any of it as history ;)
It varies, but I take a frequent interest in ancient Middle Eastern history, particularly Egypt and Babylonia. I'm also interested in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Other things I'm interested mostly because one hears relatively little about them, such as Ancient China/Japan (and the rest of the Far East), or what was happening around the world during periods when we tend to focus a lot on one area--usually Europe. Most of the time it's because there isn't really much to be told, but sometimes it's simply because it's less relevant or considered less interesting. For instance, I've hear a fair bit about the colonization period of America, but far less about that of Australia, or South America, or Africa.
The colonization of Africa is particularly overlooked. During the late 1800s and early 1900s European empires colonized the vast majority of the continent, and it was a real bloodbath at times. I remember reading about how over 5 million Congolese people died during Belgium's first attempt to colonize the Congo. It's sad that it doesn't get a lot of attention today, it's skimmed over to an extreme.
The Person in Question
Not much history gets attention today. Not in schools, anyway. I knew very little besides Canadian history before grade 8 thanks to the wonderful curriculum used in Alberta (which is similar throughout Canada, I'm sure). The only reason I know any now is because I stopped going to school. :P
RicOlie_2 said:
Not much history gets attention today. Not in schools, anyway. I knew very little besides Canadian history before grade 8 thanks to the wonderful curriculum used in Alberta (which is similar throughout Canada, I’m sure). The only reason I know any now is because I stopped going to school. 😛
We didn’t have any real history in the curriculum but state history and a few really random social studies based on continents. I think we randomly started learning about American history in 5th grade and then in 9th we did Ancient History which I think was the origin of man up to the beginning of the Renaissance. After that I started taking college history classes so I’m not sure what they did from then on
The Person in Question
RicOlie_2 said:
moviefreakedmind said:
RicOlie_2 said:
DominicCobb said:
March 10:
A.D. 2015: RicOlie2 suddenly realizes how long it's been since he last updated this thread.
LOL, I stopped after awhile because there was almost no interest in this thread and I things were getting busy.
I'm interested! If this thread didn't exist then I would have created my own. Not necessarily about specific events tied to the date, but a history discussion thread nonetheless.
Well, it's nice to have someone taking interest for a change. Of course, I've had several people pop by, but none have really been interested in a real conversation about the history.
I only began to take a serious interest in history a couple years ago, having been failed entirely by the public school system in that regard, and did an overview of world history during my two years of homeschooling.
hmm, I didn't think you'd be a in a public school or be homeschooled. I assumed you being a Catholic, would be going to a Catholic school.
It's amazing how little I knew before then. Over those two years, I made a colour-coded timeline of history in Excel, covering several thousand years and organized further by continent. It has its biases, but it touches on most important things (and I believe has almost 7000 different events, with brief descriptions).
Interesting.
Warbler said:
RicOlie_2 said:
moviefreakedmind said:
RicOlie_2 said:
DominicCobb said:
March 10:
A.D. 2015: RicOlie2 suddenly realizes how long it's been since he last updated this thread.
LOL, I stopped after awhile because there was almost no interest in this thread and I things were getting busy.
I'm interested! If this thread didn't exist then I would have created my own. Not necessarily about specific events tied to the date, but a history discussion thread nonetheless.
Well, it's nice to have someone taking interest for a change. Of course, I've had several people pop by, but none have really been interested in a real conversation about the history.
I only began to take a serious interest in history a couple years ago, having been failed entirely by the public school system in that regard, and did an overview of world history during my two years of homeschooling.
hmm, I didn't think you'd be a in a public school or be homeschooled. I assumed you being a Catholic, would be going to a Catholic school.
Actually, I did go to a Catholic school for two and a half years, but the Catholic schools were the public schools in the city I was in, up until a couple years ago. I have homeschooled for a total of six years, for various reasons, but it's fairly common for Christians who are serious about their religion, being that the Catholic schools are only superficially so most of the time. I also lived in a tiny village for the first ten years of my life, and regular school wasn't easily accessible (and we knew/were related to the people running the homeschooling organization in the area).
RicOlie_2 said:
Warbler said:
RicOlie_2 said:
moviefreakedmind said:
RicOlie_2 said:
DominicCobb said:
March 10:
A.D. 2015: RicOlie2 suddenly realizes how long it's been since he last updated this thread.
LOL, I stopped after awhile because there was almost no interest in this thread and I things were getting busy.
I'm interested! If this thread didn't exist then I would have created my own. Not necessarily about specific events tied to the date, but a history discussion thread nonetheless.
Well, it's nice to have someone taking interest for a change. Of course, I've had several people pop by, but none have really been interested in a real conversation about the history.
I only began to take a serious interest in history a couple years ago, having been failed entirely by the public school system in that regard, and did an overview of world history during my two years of homeschooling.
hmm, I didn't think you'd be a in a public school or be homeschooled. I assumed you being a Catholic, would be going to a Catholic school.
Actually, I did go to a Catholic school for two and a half years, but the Catholic schools were the public schools in the city I was in, up until a couple years ago. I have homeschooled for a total of six years, for various reasons, but it's fairly common for Christians who are serious about their religion, being that the Catholic schools are only superficially so most of the time. I also lived in a tiny village for the first ten years of my life, and regular school wasn't easily accessible (and we knew/were related to the people running the homeschooling organization in the area).
Yeah, it's like that a lot of times in the states too. Christian schools (probably catholic schools too, I'm not sure) are rarely very immersed in the religion other than a Bible class. Usually christian families homeschool or just send their kids to public school; there are a few exceptions of course but that has been my experience for the most part.
The Person in Question
This may be an interesting site for some.
I was just looking through some of my families old heirlooms and found a series of letters written by my great uncle from when he was in France during the first World War.
The Person in Question
moviefreakedmind said:
I was just looking through some of my families old heirlooms and found a series of letters written by my great uncle from when he was in France during the first World War.
That's super cool. I wonder if he knew my great grandfather - he was an American who drove ambulances in France in WWI, and we still have his journals from that time.
You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm.
Episode 9 Rewrite, The Starlight Project (Released!) and ANH Technicolor Project (Released!)
NeverarGreat said:
moviefreakedmind said:
I was just looking through some of my families old heirlooms and found a series of letters written by my great uncle from when he was in France during the first World War.
That's super cool. I wonder if he knew my great grandfather - he was an American who drove ambulances in France in WWI, and we still have his journals from that time.
That'd be neat if they did, they were probably both there at the same and for about the same amount of time since the US was only in the war for about a year. My uncle was actually wounded in battle, maybe he rode in one of those ambulances. Sadly we don't know which family member still has his purple heart medal, if it even still exists, but to my knowledge we have all the letters he wrote, plus two pictures of him taken while in France, he looks miserable in the photos but I can't blame him given how brutal that war was.
Was your great grandfather a volunteer, or was he in the military?
The Person in Question
I recently found a nearly 120 year old anthology book of historical primary documents that was being given away for free at my local library. It's pretty interesting to read, and the footnotes are pretty cool since they come from historians of a time when the Spanish-American War (which they refer to as the "Spanish War") was a current event
The Person in Question