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Post by Catsmate on Aug 24, 2020 20:44:50 GMT
24AUG
In 394CE the last known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, is written in the temple of Isis at Philae in southern Egypt. Unless there is a hidden meaning....
In 410 the Sack of Rome by the Visigoths under Alaric I begins. A good, if extremely dangerous time, to pick up some antiquities.
As is 1185 during the Norman Sack of Thessalonica.
In 1200 King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, is married to Isabella of Angoulême in Angoulême Cathedral.
In 1349 in Mainz in Germany Jews blamed for an outbreak of bubonic plague are massacred. At least six thousand died.
In 1482 the town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by English forces.
In 1516 the Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.
In 1643 a Dutch expedition establishes a new colony in the ruins of Valdivia in southern Chile. The previous Spanish city had been destroyed by the native population.
In 1662 in the Act of Uniformity all Christians in England are legally required to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
In 1682 William Penn receives an area 0f land (the modern state of Delaware), and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
In 1690 Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a 'factory' (trading post) in what is now Calcutta, by some considered the founding of the city.
In 1812 during Peninsular War the Siege of Cádiz, which had lasted two-and-a-half-years, is broken by a coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces.
In 1814 British troops invaded Washington DC and burned much of the city, including the White House and the (unfinished) Capitol.
In 1816 the Treaty of St. Louis between the US Federal government and various Native American tribes is signed in St. Louis.
In 1857 the Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
In 1870 the Wolseley expedition reaches Manitoba and ends the Red River Rebellion, Riel's Provisional Government and threat of American expansion into western Canada.
In 1898 with the consent of the Tsar, Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia, starts the First Hague Peace Conference.
In 1909 workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
In 1914 during World War I the Battle of Cer in Serbia ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
In 1931 Britain's second Labour Government resigns and the National Government if formed.
In 1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop, from Los Angeles to Newark.
In 1933 after the Anacostia Bridge is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane the luxury Crescent Limited train, an expensive service catering to wealthy individuals, derails as it crosses the bridge. The locomotive and some of the passenger cars drop forty metres into the Anacostia River.
In 1941 due to popular and religious protests Adolf Hitler orders the T4 euthanasia programme of the mentally ill and the handicapped to cease. Though in reality the killings continue for the remainder of the war.
In 1954 Getúlio Vargas, the popular president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
In 1963 in Vietnam the US State Department encourages the Army of the Republic of Vietnam to launch a coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm who was reluctant to remove his brother Ngô Đình Nhu and end the Buddhist Crisis
In 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. And the Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
In 1992 Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Homestead in Florida as a Category 5 hurricane, causing vast damage.
In 2006 Pluto formally ceases to be a planet when the International Astronomical Union redefines the term 'planet' due to the number of dwarf planets known to exist.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 24, 2020 23:17:30 GMT
Berwick upon Tweed is a food pure historical,William Penn is a good celebrity historical,Pluto could easily be a story with aliens, Treaty of St. Louis is a good ah with someone trying to stop it from happening,Panama Canal is a good alien or torchwood base, and the battle of cer could be a good pure or psuedo hnistorical.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 25, 2020 21:25:51 GMT
25AUG
In 766 CE Byzantine Emperor Constantine V humiliates nineteen high-ranking officials, after discovering a plot against him. He executes the two leaders, Constantine Podopagouros and his brother Strategios Podopagouros. The conspirators were publicly paraded and humiliated at the Hippodrome of Constantinople after which Strategios and Constantine were beheaded at the Kynegion, while the others were blinded and exiled. A few days later other officials were dismissed and/or exiled. Curiously the exact nature of the plot, those involves, their intentions and motivations are unknown to us. Time for some on-site research. Remember there's a good reason that 'Byzantine' is a synonym for complicated.
In 1270 Philip III becomes King of France following the death of his father Louis IX, during the Eighth Crusade.
In 1530 Ivan the Terrible ruler of Russia is born.
In 1543 António Mota and companions become the first Europeans to visit Japan. Officially that is.
In 1580 during the War of the Portuguese Succession the Battle of Alcântara is a Spanish victory and brings about the Iberian Union.
In 1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian dignitaries and lawmakers.
In 1758 during the Seven Years' War the Battle of Zorndorf ends inconclusively for Frederick II of Prussia.
In 1814 the Burning of Washington by British forces continues. This would be a good time to loot the Library of Congress, before it's destroyed.
In 1819 Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish born American revolutionary, detective, spy and strikebreaker is born.
In 1830 unrest breaks out in the Southern Netherlands, this willl become the Belgian Revolution begins. Yes Belgium had a revolution, as part of the struggle for independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and formation an independent Kingdom of Belgium.
In 1835 the The New York Sun publishes a story announcing the discovery of life and civilisation on the Moon. It's better known as The Great Moon Hoax.
Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, pioneer of immunology, Nobel Laureate and occultist is born. Richet devoted many years to the study of paranormal and spiritualist phenomena (he coined the term 'ectoplasm') and to the support of eugenics (he was president of the French Eugenics Society). He was noted proponent of the scientific basis for the inferiority of Africans.
In 1875 Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover to Calais in 21 hours and 45 minutes. Despite the best efforts of certain creatures to stop and/or eat him.
In 1894 the Japanese physician and bacteriologist Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of bubonic plague while working in Hong Kong and publishes his findings in The Lancet. In 1898 Kitasato and his student Shiga Kiyoshi isolated and describe the organism that caused dysentery. Kitasato and Emil von Behring would later, working together in Berlin in 1890, announced the discovery of diphtheria antitoxin serum. Von Behring was awarded the 1901 Nobel Prize because of this work, but Kitasato was not.
In 1898 during rioting by Turks in Heraklion more than seven hundred Greek civilians, along with seventeen British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed.
In 1911 Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician is born. He is most remembered fro his logistic brilliance that defeated the French forces at Dien Bien Phu.
In 1914 during World War I German forces deliberately burn the library of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
In 1916 the United States National Park Service is created. What other secrets, hidden in plain sight in huge expanses of park, do they protect?
In 1920 during the Polish–Soviet War, the Battle of Warsaw ends with a humiliating defeat for the Red Army's defeat. See 13AUG.
In 1933 the Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County in Sichuan in China and kills over nine thousand peoplee.
In 1944 during World War II Paris is liberated by the Allies. The chaos of Allied forces, retreating Germans and payback for 'collaborators' is the kind of utter chaos that would suit a certain type of scenario.
In 1948 the House Un-American Activities Committee of the US congress holds its first-ever televised congressional hearing.
In 1981 the Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn. Nine years later in 1989 Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune, then the outermost planet of the Sol System. Pluto (which was still a planet back then) has an eccentric orbit that dips inside that of Neptune.
In 1991 Linus Torvalds publicly announces the first version of what will become the Linux operating system.
In 1997 former East German leader Egon Krenz is convicted of bearing responsibility for the shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
In 2012 the Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so. Officially.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 25, 2020 21:51:34 GMT
Egon Krenz is a good celebrity historical,the House Un-American Activities Committee could be a good alternate history/psuedo historical one where someone uses them to his or her advantage,Galileo Galilei, Allan Pinkerton and Ivan the Terrible could be good people to meet. the NPS could protect alien hideouts/bases or historical sites covered up. And the Library of Congress could be Looted by Time Meddlers.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 26, 2020 19:22:20 GMT
26AUG
In 683 during and after the Battle of al-Harrah the Syrian army of Yazid I massacres approximately eleven thousand people in Medina after decisively defeating the Medinese rebels. The pillaging of the city comprises three days of murder, rape, arson and looting.
In 1071 the Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert and soon gain control of most of Anatolia.
In 1278 the combined forces of Ladislaus IV (Hungary) and Rudolf I (Germany) defeat Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle on the Marchfeld near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia.
In 1303 the Delhi Sultanate capture the fortress of Chittorgarh in the Mewar region of north-western India, seat of the Guhila dynasty; the Delhi general Alauddin ordered a general massacre of Chittor's population. More than thirty thousand 30,000 Hindus were killed.
In 1346 an outnumbered English army inflict a severe defeat on the French at the Battle of Crécy; this is as much due to disorganisation and mud as archery.
In 1542 Francisco de Orellana crosses South America from Guayaquil on the Pacific coast to the mouth of the Amazon River on the Atlantic coast.
In 1676 Robert Walpole, English scholar and politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is born.
In 1743 Antoine Lavoisier the French chemist and biologist is born. Without his work on nitrate production the American Revolution would have failed.
In 1767 the Jesuits from all over Chile are arrested and imprisoned as the Spanish Empire suppresses the Society of Jesus. This was part of a trend to suppress, control or expel the society from various states: the Portuguese Empire (1759), France (1764), the Two Sicilies, Malta, Parma, the Spanish Empire (1767) and Austria and Hungary (1782).
In 1768 Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour. He will not return home alive.
In 1778 the Slovenian scientist, industrialist and polymath Sigmund Zois leads the first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia. The party also included the surgeon Lovrenz Willomitzer, the Chamois [a kind of goat-antelope] hunter Štefan Rožič, and the miners Luka Korošec and Matevž Kos. And perhaps others.....
In 1789 National Constituent Assembly of France issues the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
In 1791 John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat, which he operated on the Delaware river for a few years.
In 1813 during the War of the Sixth Coalition an unplanned skirmish takes place when French and Prussian-Russian forces accidentally run into each other near Liegnitz in Prussia (now Legnica, Poland).
In 1883 the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, explosively climactic stage. A fun place for a party to become separated, and from their transport, whilist trying to figure out who caused the eruption and why.
In 1914 during the retreat from Mons, the British II Corps (commanded by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien) fights a vigorous and successful defensive action at Le Cateau. This battle is credited with saving the British Expeditionary Force from capture or annihilation, and enable the "Miracle at the Marne" that saved Paris and probably France.
In 1942 at Chortkiv in the Ukraine a force of Ukrainian police and German Schutzpolizei deport two thousand Jews to Bełżec extermination camp. Five hundred of the sick and children are killed on the spot. This continued for more than a day.
In 1944 during World War II Charles de Gaulle enters Paris. Unless someone kills him of course and utterly changes French and European history.
In 1978 the Papal conclave elects Albino Luciani pop; he takes the name Pope John Paul I. He will be found dead, in murky circumstances, on 28SEP1978.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 26, 2020 21:48:50 GMT
Antoine Lavoisier,Robert Walpole and Captain James Cook could be good people to meet,Charles de Gaulle getting killed is a good german victory divergence point,
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 26, 2020 23:06:28 GMT
Antoine Lavoisier,Robert Walpole and Captain James Cook could be good people to meet,Charles de Gaulle getting killed is a good german victory divergence point, Cook appeared in Transit of Venus; Walpole and Lavoisier have huge historical significance. Killing de Gaulle would have probably very little effect on WW2, however it would effect France and Europe afterwards to a significant scale; the Fifth Republic, Algeria, NATO, Quebec, the EEC, Gerboise Bleue, the Gold standard and much more.
BTW de Gaulle's entry to Paris wasn't uneventful; his convoy was machine-gunned (officially by Vichy militia) at the Place de la Concorde, there was sniper fire near Notre Dame and three gunmen inside the cathedral. Of couse this wasn't the only attempt to kill him; there was the "German" sabotage of his aircraft in APR43 for example.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 27, 2020 19:58:54 GMT
AUG27
In 410 CE the three day long sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends.
In 865 the brilliant Persian polymath, physician and scientist Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāz (often known as Rhazes) is born in Ray (in modern Iran). Known for his medical research into smallpox and the operation of the eye, his writings on obstetrics and pediatrics and experimental medicine in general as well as his writings in the field of philosophy, logic and astronomy. He's also credited with the first production of pure ethanol and sulphuric acid.
In 1557 the Battle of St. Quentin results in Emmanuel Philibert becoming Duke of Savoy.
In 1593 Henry IV of France survives and assassination attempt by Pierre Barrière when the latter's Dominican confessor denounces him. Barrière is executed on 31AUG by breaking on the wheel and dismemberment.
In 1770 the German philosopher and academic Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is born is Stuttgart.
In 1776 rebellious Americans are defeated in Brooklyn in the Battle of Long Island by British forces under General William Howe.
In 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets. This leads to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
In 1798 during the Irish rebellion of that year Wolfe Tone's combined United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, leading to the brief Republic of Connacht.
In 1810 during the Napoleonic Wars the French Navy is defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France to use as a base..
Also during the Napoleonic Wars in 1813 Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
In 1859 the world's first commercially successful oil well does into operation in Titusville in Pennsylvania.
In 1874 the brilliant German chemist and engineer, and Nobel laureate, Carl Bosch is born in Colonge. Without the Haber-Bsoch process Germany could not have fought the Great War.
In 1881 the Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah in Georgia; approximately seven hundred people will die.
In 1883 the final phase of Eruption of Krakatoa occurs; the massive explosion, over two hundred megatonnes, destroys most of the island of Krakatoa, kills 36,000 people and cause years of global climate change.
In 1893 Georgia in the United States is struck by another devastating hurricane; the Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah in Georgia, killing between 1,000–2,000 people.
In 1896 the shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40AM), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar occurs. Five hundred people are killed by a British naval bombardment.
In 1914 during World War I as part of the Great Retreat a rearguard action is fought by the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers known as the Battle of Étreux is fought. Only four officers and 240 other ranks of the 2nd Munsters survived (out of about 850) but the battalion delayed German pursuit, gaining time for the British Expeditionary Force to escape. The 2nd Munsters were outnumbered over 6:1 and when finally defeated, the survivors were congratulated on their bravery by the German soldiers they had fought.
In 1916 during World War I seeing the probably defeat of the Central Powers the Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
In 1918 the only battle considered part of World War I and fought on North American soil, the Battle of Ambos Nogales (part of the Mexican Revolution) is fought between the US Army and Mexican Carrancistas at Nogales on the US-Mexican border.
In 1922 during the Greco-Turkish War the Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece.
In 1927 the 'Famous Five' Canadian women file a petition with the Supreme Court of Canada seeking equality of voting and rights.
In 1939 the first jet aircraft, the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, has its first flight. orld's first jet aircraft.
In 1956 the nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
In 1962 the Mariner 2 space probe is launched to Venus by NASA. A near identical copy of the failed Mariner 1 the probe is far smaller than the Soviet Venera probes.
In 1979 twenty two people are killed in a surge of violence in 'The Troubles'.
In 1982 the Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawain Canada by Armenian extremists claiming to be be avenging the killing of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
In 2003 Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 55,758,005km away.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 27, 2020 21:45:34 GMT
'Famous Five is a good psuedo historical,Battle of Dresden. Henry IV is a good alien conspiracy one.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is a good person to meet.Mars could be a good ice warriors and terrorism one. Mariner 2 could be a good thing to meet in space. and the shortest war could be elongated by meddlera.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 28, 2020 20:42:27 GMT
28AUG
In 475 CE the Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee Ravenna, then the capital city of the Empire. Orestes, who'd been appointed magister militum by Julius Nepos, used his control of foederati to take control of the Empire and elevated his son Romulus to the rank of Augustus, so that the last Western Roman emperor is known as Romulus Augustulus Julius Nepos fled without a fight to Dalmatia
In 489 Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, is victorious at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy and inflicting his first defeat on Odoacer. The battle was fought on the banks of the Isontius River, not far away from Aquileia. The second battle was fought at Verona and ended with Theodoric victorious.
In 632 Fatimah, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, dies. Her cause of death continued to be a monumentally controversial one within Islan. The Shia views is that her death was the result of injuries sustained after the raid of her house by Umar ibn al-Khattab. While the Sunni accounts state that Fatimah died as a result of illness or grief following Muhammad's death. Time for some on-site reseach.
In 663 at the the Battle of Baekgang the Silla–Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from completely from Korean affairs.
In 1189 during the Third Crusade the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan.
In 1565 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine in Florida. He lands and founds the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States.
In 1609 Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
In 1619 Ferdinand II was elected Holy Roman Emperor. While the Thirty Years' War had begun in 1618, as a result of inadequacies of his predecessors Rudolf II and Matthias, Ferdinand's authoritarian Catholicism and acts against Protestantism caused the war to engulf the whole empire. The war left the Holy Roman Empire devastated, its cities in ruins, and its population took a century to recover.
In 1640 during the Second Bishop's War (part of the precursors to the English Civil Wars): English forces under Charles I lose badly Scottish Covenanter forces at the Battle of Newburn. It was fought at Newburn, a village just outside Newcastle, situated at a ford over the River Tyne. The warfare is ended by Treaty of Ripon (on 26OCT) which allowed the Scots to occupy large parts of northern England, and be paiid daily expenses of £850. Funding this forced Charles to recall Parliament, a key element in the events that ended in August 1642 with the First English Civil War. An interesting way to alter the later strife between King and Parliament.
In 1648 during the Second English Civil War the Siege of Colchester ends with the surrender of the Royalists forces after a two month siege.
In 1789 William Herschel discovers the Saturnian satellite Enceladus.
In 1810 the British attempt to blockade Mauritius ends in disaster at the Battle of Grand Port when French warships destroy, capture or force the surrender of a British Navy fleet during their attempt to seize the harbour of Grand Port on Isle de France (Mauritius) during the Napoleonic Wars.
In 1830 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car. The horse won after Tom Thumb suffered a mechanical failure.
In 1845 the first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
In 1859 the spectacular Carrington Event occurs, the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Amongst other effects the electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.
In 1867 the United States takes possession of the (then unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
In 1879 Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
In 1909 the Goudi coup is launched by a group of mid-level Greek Army officers in Athens. The coup was a pivotal event in modern Greek history, as it led to the arrival of Eleftherios Venizelos in Greece and his eventual appointment as Prime Minister. This brought the old political system to a sudden end and created a split in Greek political life between the liberal, republican Venizelism and conservative, monarchist anti-Venizelism, which would last decades.
In 1914 during World War I the British Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
In 1916 Italy enters World War I on the Entente side.
In 1921 the Red Army forcibly dissolves the Makhnovia or Free Territory in the Ukraine. The Black Army is forced out of out of the Ukraine.The territory was an attempt to create a stateless anarchist society that resulted from the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917 to 1921.
In 1955 Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
In 1963 the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom takes place; there the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
A year later in 1964 the Philadelphia race riot begins in the predominantly black neighborhoods of North Philadelphia. Fighting would last three days and leave hundreds injured.
In 1988 the Ramstein air show ends in disaster when three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy five people die are killed and 350 seriously injured.
In 1993 the NASA Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 29, 2020 1:55:02 GMT
Cetshwayo, William Herschel Henry Hudson, Orestes, and Emmett Till are good people to meet, March on Washington could be a good area for meddlers to try and stop it from happening or just kill all humans,the Carrington Event could be amplified to be more disastrous by nefarious agents, someone could make Tom Thumb win, and Italy could join the central powers in a ah story.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 29, 2020 17:25:42 GMT
Cetshwayo, William Herschel Henry Hudson, Orestes, and Emmett Till are good people to meet, March on Washington could be a good area for meddlers to try and stop it from happening or just kill all humans,the Carrington Event could be amplified to be more disastrous by nefarious agents, someone could make Tom Thumb win, and Italy could join the central powers in a ah story. Emmett Till is a good moral dilemma scenario; prevent his horrific, brutal and totally pointless murder, or derail the nascent Civil Rights movement? A good basis for a Rosa clone.
The Carrington Event is a fascinating basis for a scenario. Technically the main event didn't happen until 01-02SEP but the sunspots started appearing from 28AUG and the first effects on Earth were visible that evening; with strange, unusually bright and changing colours seen in the sky, especially at higher latitudes. It's possible there was a CME (coronal mass ejection, a 'burp' of plasma emitted from the sun) on 29AUG which led to the spectacular aurorae that night, and magnetometer measurements at some observatories suggest this also.
The 'main event; was probably due to a very energetic, fast moving, CME that struck that day and charged the Earths magnetosphere. The Northern Lights were visible in the Caribbean and were extraordinarily bight and colourful everywhere,
The new telegraph system was the most noticeably effected; the lines carries current and allowed transmission without the usual power supply. Some operators received electric shocks, while sections of the network were disabled.
For game purposes this could be the result of something other than a CME, or have weird effects like allowing things through fro elsewhere.
Another idea is a repeat of this event. Human civilisation is far more vulnerable to such events, that of 2012 being a near miss that could have serious effected human technological civilisation. There were smaller events in 1921 (when radio was in use), 1960 and 1989. The latter causes damage to parts of the electrical grid.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 29, 2020 21:53:28 GMT
29AUG
In 870 the city of Melite in Malta (on the site of present-day Mdina and Rabat) surrendered to an Aghlabid army following a siege, putting an end to Byzantine Malta. The city was founded in the Bronze Age settlement, developed into a city called Maleth under the Phoenicians, became the administrative centre of the island, fell to the Roman Republic in 218 BCE, and remained part of the Roman and later the Byzantine Empire until 870, when it was captured and destroyed by the Aghlabids. The city was then rebuilt and renamed Medina, giving rise to the present name Mdina. It remained Malta's capital city until 1530.
In 1009 during the inauguration of Mainz Cathedral in Germany fire breaks out and the cathedral suffers extensive damage. The cathedral had the main chancel on the west side, in the manner of the great basilicas in Rome. Reconstruction and repairs would take decades.
In 1315 in the Battle of Montecatini the army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.
In 1350 at the Battle of Winchelsea, part of the Hundred Year War, the English fleet under Edward III defeated a Castilian fleet. The fleets were each about fifty strong, though the Castilian vessels were larger. Between 14 and 26 Castilian ships were captured, and several were sunk while only two English vessels were sunk. The Castilian fleet had been hired by Philip VI of France, whose own ability to raise and support a fleet had been hampered by English piracy and raiding. The victory only provided a brief respite for the English.
In 1498 Vasco da Gama departs Calicut (Kozhikode) in India to return to Portugal.
In 1526 the Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent are victorious in the Battle of Mohács, defeating and killing the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia. The Ottoman victory led to the partition of Hungary for several centuries between the Ottomans, the Habsburg Monarchy, and the Principality of Transylvania.
In 1619 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances is born in Reims. Colbert served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 (under Louis XIV) drastically reorganised the finances of France and developed must of economic theory.
In 1632 John Locke, the English physician and philosopher known as the "Father of Liberalism" and one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers, was born in Wrington in Somerset. One of the first of the British empirical thinkers Locke engaged in thought and writing in many fields, from social contract theory to epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau as well as the American Revolutionaries.
In 1728 the first Danish settlement in Greenland, the city of Nuuk, is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss.His contingent of colonists consisted of twenty soldiers, three sergeants, and two officers from the Danish artillery corps, along with twelve military convicts, ten unmarried mothers, and two female convicts, who were to be wed to one another according to lots. He also proposed a scheme to populate Greenland with fallen Danish aristocrats and their households on the model of the French colonies in Canada. Most of his colonists died of scurvy and other complaints, leading to the abandonment of the colony. Another abandoned American settlement....
In 1756, with his attack on Saxony Frederick the Great begins the Seven Years' War in Europe.
In 1778 during the American Revolution, British and American forces clash indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
In 1786 Shays' Rebellion begins in western Massachusetts. This was a large scale, armed uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to a debt crisis among citizens. About four thousand rebels, led by American Revolution veteran Daniel Shays attempted to overthrow the state government, who raised funds for a private militia to prevent this. The rebellion demonstrated the impotence of the Federal government and led to the Constitutional Convention and the creation of the new government.
In 1807 British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesley defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge.
In 1831 Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
In 1842 the First Opium War is ended by the signing of the Treaty of Nanking, the first of the 'unequal treaties'. The treaty forcibly opened China to western trade, and allowed British opium to flood in.
In 1885 Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
In 1907 during its construction the Quebec Bridge, across the lower Saint Lawrence River, collapses, killing 75 workers. A total of 88 people die during the thirty year project.
In 1914 during World War I the Battle of St. Quentin begins as the French Fifth Army counter-attacks the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin.
In 1915 US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, one of the first US submarines which sank during submarine maneuvers off Honolulu on 25MAR with the loss of the entire crew.
In 1930 the last 36 inhabitants of Hirta (St Kilda) are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. This ended permanent habitation on the islands which had extended back two millennia.
In 1949 the Soviet Union detonates First Lightning (Joe 1), at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the country's first atomic bomb.
In 1965 the Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth landing safely in the Atlantic Ocean. This is the nineteenth human spaceflight, and the eleventh crewed American spaceflight. The capsule had been in space for just under eight days anc completed 120 orbits.
In 1982 transuranic element 109, now Meitnerium, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt in Germany.
In 1996 on Svalbard a charter flight, Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen killing all 141 aboard. The accident was caused by the cumulative result of a series of small navigational errors, which had placed the aircraft be 3.7 kilometres from where its crew believed them to be.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 29, 2020 23:15:43 GMT
John Locke, Michael Faraday Vasco da Gama,and Frederick the Great are goot people to meet.Svalbard could beh a good "escape" story,someone could stop Joe 1 from exploding and prevent the cold war. Shays' Rebellion is a good psuedo historical/ah one (you could actually crown Daniel as king like he did irl)Medina could be visited in a dark ages themed adventure.f Mainz Cathedral and Nuuk as well could be great places to visit. and Suleiman the Magnificent could be a good person to meet.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 30, 2020 12:10:53 GMT
John Locke, Michael Faraday Vasco da Gama,and Frederick the Great are goot people to meet.Svalbard could beh a good "escape" story,someone could stop Joe 1 from exploding and prevent the cold war. Shays' Rebellion is a good psuedo historical/ah one (you could actually crown Daniel as king like he did irl)Medina could be visited in a dark ages themed adventure.f Mainz Cathedral and Nuuk as well could be great places to visit. and Suleiman the Magnificent could be a good person to meet. Shay's Rebellion has the potential for destroying or severely altering the nascent United States. For example if staff and troops at the Federal Arsenal in Springfield had resisted Shepard's illegal seizure of the property by force or if the rebels had seized it. Historically the rebellion had some support in Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and from Lord Dorchester, the British governor of the Province of Quebec. With Sam Adams sticking his oar in, blaming British agitators for the tumult there's lots of opportunity for agitating things further.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 30, 2020 21:16:45 GMT
30AUG
The month of August is coming to an end.
In AD 70 the siege of Jerusalem ends after the destruction of Herod's Temple.
In 1282 Aragon forces under Peter III begin their intervention in the War of the Sicilian Vespers with a landing at Trapani.
In 1363 the five-week long Battle of Lake Poyang begins in China; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.
In 1594 king James of Scotland holds a magnificent, multi-day, party for the baptism of his son Prince Henry at Stirling Castle. The events owed much to the French Valois court festivals; including a tournament in exotic costume, a masque during which a range of exotic desserts were served. The total cost for the event was over Stg£20,000. Bring a suitable gift.
In 1791 HMS Pandora, a small British warship best known for the hunting down the Bounty mutineers in 1790 sinks off Australia after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
1797 Mary Shelley the English novelist and playwright and author of Frankenstein is born in London, daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
In 1799 the entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
In 1800 Gabriel Prosser delays a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
In 1813 at the First Battle of Kulm the French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
In 1813 during the Creek War 'Red Sticks' warriors kill over 500 settlers in Fort Mims, north of Mobile in Alabama.
In 1862 during the American Civil War Union forces are heavily defeated by Confederate troops under Edmund Kirby Smith at the Battle of Richmond in Kentucky.
In 1871 Ernest Rutherford the New Zealand physicist and chemist, the Father of Nuclear Physics and Nobel laureate, is born in Brightwater on the South Island.
In 1873 the Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
In 1909 the fascinating Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Walcott in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia. The fossils are the oldest yest found preserved soft tissue remenants of living creatures, dating back over half-a-billion years and exceptionally well preserved. Walcott, his family, students, and others would return to search for more samples until 1924 and he would die in 1927 with the cataloging of over 65,000 specimens unfinished.
In 1914 during World War I Germans forces inflict a severe defeat on the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg, woth over one hundred thousand prisoners taken. The follow-on battles (Masurian Lakes) destroyed most of the Russian First Army and kept the Russians on the defensive for six months or more. The German victory was greatly aided by fast rail movements, enabling them to concentrate against each of the two Russian armies in turn, and for ElInt; Russian radio messages were intercepted and used.
In 1916 explorer Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
In 1917 the Thái Nguyên uprising begins in French Indochina (Vietnam). An eclectic band of political prisoners, common criminals and insubordinate prison guards mutinied at the Thai Nguyen Penitentiary, with perhaps 750 involved. They managed to control the prison and the town's administrative buildings for six days, but were all expelled or killed on the seventh day by French government troops. Intermittent acts of rebellion continued for six months.
In 1918 Fanni Kaplan ellegedly shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
In 1922 the final battle in the Greco-Turkish War (or Turkish War of Independence), the Battle of Dumlupına, begins.
In 1936 the line RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
In 1963 the Moscow–Washington 'hotline' between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation. It should be noted that this link is not, and never was, a telephone but rather a textual system; initially Teletype, then fax and currently email. Nor is the American end located in the White House, but rather the Pentagon.
In 1984 the twelfth space shuttle mission, STS-41-D, lifts off. This is the first launch (of 39) for Space Shuttle Discovery
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 30, 2020 21:32:26 GMT
Burgess Shale is a good psuedo historical,RMS Queen Mary could be used in a "haunted location" story, Ernest Rutherford is a good person to meet,Battle of Richmond could be a good place to visit in a psuedo historical.Gabriel Prosser could be a good ah story. HMS Pandora could be a good "escape the ship" story.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 30, 2020 22:03:16 GMT
Burgess Shale is a good psuedo historical,RMS Queen Mary could be used in a "haunted location" story, Ernest Rutherford is a good person to meet,Battle of Richmond could be a good place to visit in a psuedo historical.Gabriel Prosser could be a good ah story. HMS Pandora could be a good "escape the ship" story. I see the Burgess Shale as a good 'educational' trip that a Time Lord or similar drags the humans off to see. Then things happen. Then again what else might be lurking in half-billion-year-old rocks?
The Queen Mary ("the most haunted place on Earth") featured in a (IMO rather poor) Telos novella. The plot from that is entirely usable and could be adapted to a better scenario. It's covered well in the 4th Doctor EU sourcebook. Personally I rather like the idea of multiple eras interconnected by a malfunctioning MacGuffin, with twenty-first century tourists mingling with passengers from the Golden Age of sea travel in the '30s, troops from World War 2 perhaps meeting themselves returning home after the war et cetera. Temporal and psychic ghosts. The perfect way to blend in the tropes of the thirties, wartime, fifties and (early) sixties; a murder mystery, Cold War espionage (the finale of Diamonds Are Forever was set on such a ship), wartime and a seance.
A trip to Virginia in 1800 could end with Prosser escaping, or the news of his rebellion never getting out, leading to a bloody insurrection. It's also an opportunity to meet time travelling researchers, as the event is still not well understood
Preventing or altering Rutherford's birth wold have dramatic effects on the development of nuclear physics.
The masque for Prince Henry is the perfect setting for a pure historical, with plenty of politics.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 31, 2020 20:57:41 GMT
31AUG
To some the last day of summer. An interesting day for monarchs; two accede to thrones, two are deposed or abdicate, seven are born and and seven die. Four countries gain their independence. Five aircraft crash.
In 12 CE the Roman emperor Caligula is born. It'll be a few years before he brings his unique take to the role.
In 1056 after lingering for a few days the elderly Byzantine Empress Theodora dies, without issue. Thus the two centuries of rule by the Macedonian dynasty ends. She had been sole ruler of the Empire since 11JAN1055, returning to the throne despite fierce opposition from court officials and the military. For sixteen months she was a strong and able ruler before being struck down by a sudden and mysterious illness, an intestinal disorder, and dying aged seventy-six. Her advisors pushed an aged civil servant named Michael Bringas onto the Imperial Throne as Michael VI.
A year later in 1057 Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas abdicated under intense pressure..
Nearly four centuries later in 1422 and another monarch suffers a sudden and rapidly fatal illness; this time it's Henry V of England who dies of dysentery while in France, at the Château de Vincennes, having just been victorious in battle. His son, Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of nine months. Henry V is remembered for both his significant military successes in the Hundred Years' War against France, which made England one of the strongest military powers in Europe, and the hagiography of William Shakespeare, who immortalised him in the "Henriad". His fatal illness is ascribed to "dysentery", despite having few of its symptoms.
In 1776 the first Governor of New Jersey, William Livingston, enters office.
In 1795 during the War of the First Coalition British forces capture Trincomalee (layer Ceylon now Sri Lanka) from the Dutch, to keep it our of French hands. It stays in British hands until 1948.
In 1813 as the Peninsular War approaches its end, British and Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastián) after a siege. The resulting intaking leads to a multi-day outbreak of murder, torture, rape, arson and looting that leaves more than a thousand people dead and the town destroyed.
Elsewhere, Spanish troops repel a French attack in the Battle of San Marcial.
In 1821 the brilliant German polymath Hermann von Helmholtz is born in Potsdam Von Helmholtz was mainly active in the fields of medicine and physics; he developed the model for the working of the human eye, including spatial perception and colour vision. This he later extended into auditory perception and other areas. As a physicist he developed the theoretical basis for the conservation of energy, worked in electrodynamics, and thermodynamics. He's also known for work in the philosophy of science; the relation between perception and the laws of nature.
In 1864 Sherman launches his attack on the Confederate port of Atlanta during the American Civil War.
In 1869 the Irish polymath Mary Ward becomes the first human known to have been killed by a mechanically propelled vehicle when she's run by an experimental steam car built by her cousins. She had been known as a naturalist, astronomer, microscopist, author, and artist.
In 1876 the Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II, allegedly on the grounds that he was mentally ill.
In 1886 the city of Charleston is struck by a magnitude 7 earthquake; sixty people killed and much of the city is damaged.
In 1888 the person generally considered the first victim of the murderer known as 'Jack the Ripper', Mary Ann Nichols, is murdered.
In 1907 Britain and Russia sign the Anglo-Russian Convention, by which the UK recognizes Russian preeminence in northern Persia, while Russia recognizes British preeminence in southeastern Persia and Afghanistan. Both powers pledge not to interfere in Tibet.
In 1913 the English physicist and astronomer Bernard Lovel is born. For the purposes of Who gaming it is significant that Lovel established the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire and persuaded the University of Manchester to pay for his construction of what was the the world's largest steerable radio telescope (now called the Lovell Telescope). It's still in use. Lovel remained director until 1980 so he'd pop up in the UNIT eras. Interestingly part of the funding for the telescope was provided by the UK government as the device was used as part of an early warning system for Soviet nuclear attacks. This may have led to a Soviet attempt to kill Lovel during a 1963 visit to the Soviet Deep-Space Communication Centre (Eupatoria) in the Crimea, using a radio-toxin. Unless the attempt came from a different source....
In 1920 during the Polish–Soviet War the Poles achieve a decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
In 1936 Radio Prague, the official international broadcasting station of the Czechoslovakia, goes on the air. What sinister purpose could this transmitter be used for?
In 1939 in the run-up to the invasion of Poland azi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating a justification for the on Poland on 01SEP. Thus World War II in Europe began.
In 1940 a DC-3A aircraft flying as Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19, crashes near Lovettsville in Virginia. It is the first air-crash in the USA investigated by the e Civil Aeronautics Board who found the cause to have (probably) been a ightning strike. All twenty five people on board, including Senator Ernest Lundeen from Minnesota, died instantly.
In 1949 the Greek Civil War comes to an end with the retreat of the (communist) Democratic Army of Greece into Albania after its defeat in the Gramos mountain campaign
In 1986 two Soviet ships, the passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov and the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, collide in the Black Sea, The Admiral Nakhimov sinks after the collision; 423 people die..
In 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
In 2005 a stampede on the Al-Aaimmah bridge across the Tigris in Baghdad kills 953 people, mostly Shiite pilgrims.
In 2006 Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on 222004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 31, 2020 21:38:27 GMT
Atlanta is a good psuedo historical idea maybe with zombies.Mary Ward, Theodora,Hermann von Helmholtz,Michael VI Bringas,Henry V of England and Caligula are good people to meet.Peninsular War is a good pure historical.Gleiwitz could be a good ah and moral dilemma one in stopping WWII from happening. Diana and Dodi could be a good psuedo historical involving a government conspiracy. And the scream could have been stolen by alien crime lords or alien collectors.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 1, 2020 22:01:41 GMT
01SEP Ah, the beginning of a new month.
In 1173, according to rather dubiously reliable sources, the widow Stamira sacrifices herself in order to light a barrel of flammable materials thrown into the midst of the siege engines being used by the forces of HRE Frederick Barbarossa and delay the fall of Ancona sufficiently for a relief force to sav the city, Real incident or fiction? Only time travel can tell.
In 1420 the Atacama Region of what is now Chile is devastated by a Magnitude 9.4 earthquake, one of the most powerful ever recorded. Tidal waves strike coasts all around the Pacific, as far as Hawaii and Japan.]
In 1449 a relatively minor frontier conflict between the Oirat tribes of Mongols and the Chinese Ming dynasty escalates into Tumu Crisis when the Chinese army, outnumbering the Mongols more than twenty-to-one, is defeated Emperor Yingzong of Ming is captured.
In 1529 the Spanish fort/settlement of Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in what is now Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
In 1532 Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
In 1644 the nearly defeated Royalist cause is invigorated after the Battle of Tippermuir when James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, defeats the Earl of Wemyss's Covenanter troops.
In 1715 Louis XV becomes king of France at the age of five, succeeding his great-grandfather, King Louis XIV.
In 1763 Empress Catherine II ('the Great') of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow. This was one of those fascinating, idealistic, experiments of the Age of Enlightenment which (it was hoped) would create 'ideal citizens' for the Russian state by bringing up thousands of abandoned children in a controlled environment. Not at all a plan to create super-soliders or agents using alien technology. Probably.
In 1774 American colonists in Massachusetts Bay react to the news of the removal of gunpowder from a magazine by about 250 British soldiers under orders from General Thomas Gage, royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay by mobilising a militia to resist further such seizures, an event known as the Powder Alarm which acted as a 'dress rehearsal' for the mobilisations of militia for the Battles of Lexington and Concord months later. Gage, surprised by the size and scope of the colonial reaction, delayed and eventually cancelled a second planned expedition to the storehouse in Worcester. He also concentrated his troops in Boston, and called for reinforcements from London. This is the perfect event to alter the course of the American Revolution.
In 1804 the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovers Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, and the third to be discovered.
In 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War the Prussian armies are decisively victorious at the Battle of Sedan, capturing thousands of French troops and Emperor Napoleon III. The war effectively is at an end. Also present were Helmuth von Moltke ('the Elder'), Prussian King Wilhelm I and Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
In 1880 the Second Anglo-Afghan War ends when the army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar.
In 1894 a forest fire in Hinckley in Minnesota escalates greatly, becoming known as the Great Hinckley Fire Over 400 people die.
In 1897 the Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America. What strange things might have been disturbed by its construction?
In 1914 Martha, the last known passenger pigeon dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
In 1920 the enormous Fountain of Time sculpture opens within Washington Park in Chicago, Illinois, as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
In 1923 Tokyo and Yokohama in Japan are devastated by the Great Kantō earthquake. More than one hundred thousand people die.
In 1939 World War II begins with the invasion by Nazi Germany and Slovakia of Poland. Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Armed Forces. Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
Two years later in 1941 the Holocaust begins in the Ukraine with the murder of about 2,500 Jews in Ostroh. Within six months 300,000 will die and eventually 1,430,000 Ukrainian Jews will be murdered in the Holocaust.
In 1958 another war begins; the Cod Wars start when Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom.
In 1974 a USAF SR-71 Blackbird sets the record for flying from New York to London, in the time of one hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at an average speed of 2,310.353 km/h. The record still stands, officially.
In 1979 the American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres discovering the Pioneer Gap in the rings of Saturn.
In 1983 the Cold War warms up and almost turns very hot when Soviet interceptors shoot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 after passing through restricted Soviet airspace multiple times. All 269 on board, including US Congressman Lawrence McDonald, are killed. The background to the incident, itself a litany of errors, includes the heightened tensions over the deployment of new weapons systems in Europe, perceived as giving the US and NATO a 'first trike' advantage, US electronic espionage flights near the Soviet border and repeated incursions into Soviet airspace. These fears would worsen in the run-up to the Abel Archer 83 exercises in November, probably the closest to World War 3 breaking out.
In 1985 a joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
In 2004 the Beslan school siege begins when armed terrorists take schoolchildren and school staff hostage in North Ossetia in Russia; by the end of the siege three days later more than 385 people are dead,
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 1, 2020 22:26:58 GMT
Louis XV Catherine I, Anne Boleyn and Karl Ludwig Harding are good people to meet, KAL 007 could be a good WWIII divergence in a ah. Great Kantō earthquake is a good escape scenario or a pure historical witnessing natures awe,Cod Wars could be a fun alien story with ramifications for the world,RMS Titanic could have been lost or have been buried by a alien spaceship that they find instead.World War II beginning could be a good ah one with it being prevented.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 2, 2020 21:58:42 GMT
02SEP
In 44 BCE Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt (yes that Cleopatra) declares her son Caesarion (by Gaius Julius Caesar) co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. Meanwhile in Rome the politician and orator Cicero launches the first of his Philippicae (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. Cicero will make 14 of them over the following months. I'm sure Sixie will drag Peri along
Thirteen years later in 31 BCE, during the Final War of the Roman Republic the Battle of Actium is fought off the western coast of Greece. The navy of Octavian defeats the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra and brings the saga to an end. Unless something happens....
In 421 CE Constantius III, Roman emperor dies at the Imperial capital of Ravenna in Italy. Flavius Constantius had earned his position as Emperor due to his capability as a general under Honorius, suppressing the revolt of Constantine III, a Roman general who declared himself emperor in Gaul.
For anyone planning a sequel to The Crusaders, in 1192 the Third Crusade ends when Richard I of England and Saladin sign the Treaty of Jaffa.
In 1649 the the Wars of Castro end when the Italian city of Castro is utterly destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X.
In 1666 London is devastated by the infamous Great Fire of London, which burns for three days, destroying ten thousand buildings (including the old St Paul's Cathedral; the fourth on that site), leaving seventy thousand homeless and killing at least six people (and probably many more). History is silent on the involvement of aliens and time travellers, or the recovery of strange artefacts from the extreme heat developed in Pudding Lane. It's also an interesting time for a spot of looting (or 'artefact recovery') especially regarding the aforementioned St. Paul's. You see when the 1666 fire began to spread people brought valuables to the crypts beneath for safe-keeping. This was especially true for the booksellers whose stalls already occupied much of the crypts and shrines in the churchyard moved all of their stock into the crypts beneath the cathedral for safe keeping. Unfortunately for them, the fire proved no respecter of sanctity. Those are in addition to the cathedral's own library, an enormous one by period standards.
In 1752 Great Britain and its overseas possessions adopts the Gregorian calendar. Hence in that year tomorrow is Thursday 14SEP1752. The stories of riots and people demanding "Give us our eleven days" are of course utterly untrue. Probably.
In 1791 the Czech violist, double bassist and composer (most notably of The Battle of Prague) Frantisek Kotzwara (or František Kočvara) died in......interesting circumstances. On his last evening Kotzwara visited a prostitute he knew named Susannah Hill (who worked at a number of premises in London) at 5 Vine Street in Westminster. After dinner with her Kotzwara paid her two shillings and requested that she cut off his testicles. Hill refused to do so. Kotzwara then tied a ligature around the doorknob, the other end fastened around his neck and, well he became the first recorded death from erotic asphyxiation.
- Kotzwara had frequented the 'White House' the famous and opulent establishment run by Therese Berkeley at 21 Soho Square and may have met Hill there (she was not one of the regular staff) but Berkeley did not include what was known as 'amorous strangulation' amongst the services there.
- This is as good a place to mention that after Berkeley's death (on a date in SEP1836) her extensive and detailed diaries disappeared. Many historians would be interested in their contents.
- Miss Hill was tried on 16SEP at the Old Bailey for the murder of Kotzwara but rapidly acquitted as the jury accepted her testimony (and other evidence) about the nature of Kotzwara's death and his eclectic sexual tastes. The court records of the case were supposedly destroyed in order to avoid a public scandal.
In 1792 during the French Revolution rampaging mobs slaughtered three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers. This became known as the September Massacres.
In 1806 the Swiss town of Goldau is destroyed by a massive landslide. 457 people die.
In 1807 the British Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with mortar bombs and rockets carrying phosphorus warheads rockets to destroy the Danish fleet and prevent it being used by Napoleon.
In 1856 in China during the Taiping Rebellion the leadership of the rebels is severely damaged by the Tianjing Incident in the Taiping capital of Nanjing. This was a major political internal conflict within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Several key leaders of the rebellion were killed and perhaps thirty thousand others died. This was one factor in the eventual failure of the Taipings.
In 1865 the physicist William Rowan Hamilton died in Dublin. Unless someone intervenes to cure his gout.
In 1867 Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, who is thereafter known as Empress Shōken. The 122nd Emperor of Japan he presided over the Meiji era, a time of rapid and immense change, seeing Japan's transform from an isolationist, pre-industrial, feudal state to an industrialized world power.
In 1885 about 150 miners in Rock Springs in Wyoming who were attempting to organise a union so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers. Hundreds are forced to flee and perhaps thirty are killed in the Rock Springs massacre.
In 1898 British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen at the Battle of Omdurman and establish British dominance in Sudan.
In 1901 US Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair. Who was there to record this?
In 1935 the Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, hits the coast at Long Key in Florida, killing at least 400. The coast is battered by 300km/h winds and tidal surges of six metres; catastrophic damage is caused to the upper Florida Keys. The town of Islamorada is obliterated.
In 1939 as the Second World War enters it's second day fighting continues in the Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk). The Polish Military Depot on the Westerplatte peninsula in the harbour will hold out for five more days, against thirteen assaults, dive bombing and naval shelling. The Polish Central Post Office, defensed by a few dozen civilian Post Office employees, is still holding out (though not for much longer; on their surrender the defenders were executed).
In 1945 World War II formall ends with the signing of the Instrument of Surrender by the Japanese and Allies governments aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Meanwhile Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. This is not accepted by it's colonial masters, France.
In 1946 the Interim Government of India is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as vice president with the powers of Prime Minister.
In 1958 a USAF RC-130 electronic reconnaissance aircraft is shot down by Soviet fighters over Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a SigInt (Signals Intelligence) mission. All seventeen crew members were assumed killed. The reason for the intrusion into Soviet airspace is unknows; it may have been deliberate, a Soviet entrapment using a radio navigation beacon or an accident.
In 1970 NASA announced the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19. Of the planned ten landings only six will happen. Though this may differ in the Whoniverse as six additional missions may have been mounted.
In 1984 in Australia nineteen people are shot, seven fatally, in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney.
In 1992 the west coast of Nicaragua is severely damaged by a Magnitude 7.7 earthquake and accompanying tsunami. At least 116 people are killed, mostly by the waves that ranged up to eight metres high.
In 2013 the Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens at 10:15 PM (local). The project to replace the sections damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake has taken 24 years and about 6.5 billion dollars. Which probably wasn't a cover for stabilising the Bay Area Temporal Rift.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 2, 2020 23:36:30 GMT
Emperor Meiji,Theodore Roosevelt (the phrase could have been recorded by time traveling historians)Constantius III and Caesarion are good people to meet. Frantisek Kotzwara could be a interesting person to investigate his death,William Rowan Hamilton could be saved by meddlers or aliens. The missing eleven days could be a good pocket or bubble universe adventures. And There are theories out their that the Apollo missions were covered up for alien sightings.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 3, 2020 9:50:54 GMT
Emperor Meiji,Theodore Roosevelt (the phrase could have been recorded by time traveling historians)Constantius III and Caesarion are good people to meet. Frantisek Kotzwara could be a interesting person to investigate his death,William Rowan Hamilton could be saved by meddlers or aliens. The missing eleven days could be a good pocket or bubble universe adventures. And There are theories out their that the Apollo missions were covered up for alien sightings. My takes. 1. Caesarion is probably (like Richard III in The Kingmaker) aware of time travellers due to past encounters with them. He'll be aware, suspicious and prepared. He may have created the Vigiles Umbrum, though that was more likely Julius Caesar.
2. When visiting the In 1901 Minnesota State Fair to hear Roosevelt utter the famous phrase, the party notice that someone is intently studying the crowd and seems to focus on them? What's s/he up to?
- S/he's a stranded time traveller who's been using famous events, which might attract other time travellers, to try and get a trip home. Or else to steal their transport...
3. The Battle of Actium is a classic turning point in middle Roman history. And you don't need to introduce steam and gunpowder to alter it. Prevent Quintus Dellius (a defector who brought Antony's plans to Octavian), ensure Cleopatry doesn't retreat with the Egyptian ships, prevent the malaria that weakened Antony's forces (his ships were badly under-manned). Or, for the less subtle option, a few Gustavs and radios. Quite possibly there's a Warrior-Historian from New Ultonia around too.
4. The Treaty of Jaffa, and the events around it, are probably a good historical research plot, and an excellent opportunity for meddling. Richard and Saladin both need an end to the war for domestic reasons.
5. The September Massacres, the destruction of Goldau, the battle of Danzig and the bombardment of Copenhagen are good for the 'get out of here quick' plot. The party is separated from their transport and needs to leave, quickly, though the destruction.
6. The Great Fire has an interesting possibility; there's an excellent Pelgrane scenario (for Trail of Cthulhu) called The Long Con concerning a legend amongst rare book dealers that, occasionally, a portal opens in time back to the destruction of Old St. Paul's where books can be taken. This could be modified easily for AITAS; it's already got strange alien creatures infesting books and infecting people. Perhaps a previous time traveller had the idea of rescuing the books and was killed; his Vortex Generator was damaged and buried. But, at the right time and place, it can be triggered to open a gateway back to the crypts.....
7. The death of Frantisek Kotzwara was a minor detail of history, though Susannah Hill's trial was a cause célèbre in the time. In one of my own campaigns the PCs landed in Mrs. Berkley's establishment (the White House on 21 Soho Square) and didm't realise quite where they'd ended up. This led to some problems retrieving their craft... Her diaries and correspondence would be an utterly fascinating insight into high society of the time; they were lost, presumed destroyed, by her executor.
8. The Taiping Rebellion hasn't appeared in Who yet, strange given it's immense scope and influence.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 3, 2020 21:57:40 GMT
03SEP
In 36 BCE resistance to the rule of the Roman Republic by the Second Triumvirate (Octavian [Augustus], Mark Antony, and Lepidus) by the Pompeian faction, led by Sextus Pompey (son of Pompey the Great) ends with the defeat of their forces in the Battle of Naulochus (off Sicily) by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian.
In 301CE the oldest surviving republic, San Marino is founded by Saint Marinus. Not a lot is known about Marinus; he's said to have been a stonemason from Arba (now Rab in Croatia) fleeing persecution for his Christian beliefs. Heentered the priesthood being ordained was ordained by Gaudentius, the Bishop of Rimini. He may have then fled to Monte Titano to evade his wife; he seems to have intended to live as a hermit. Eventually he acquired, probably was gifted Mount Titano.
In 863 the Battle of Lalakaon (in northern Turkey) ends in a major Byzantine victory against Arab raiders.
In 1189 Richard I of England ('the Lionheart') is crowned at Westminster.
In 1120 the Blessed Gerard, founder of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitaller) dies. Damn all is known about Gerard's life, including his nationality, date and place of birth. He was probably a Benedictine lay brother, served at the abbey of St Mary of the Latins and was placed in charge of the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem. During the Siege of Jerusalem in 1099 Gerard and a few others remained behind to tend to the sick in the hospital. After the First Crusade captured Jerusalem the hospital received rich grants. By 1113, when the pope recognised the order as a sovereign entity, the hospital was a wealthy and powerful organisation. Remnants of the Order exist today, including the fascinating Sovereign Military Order of Malta, who are probably not cover for a group investigating outré threats.
In 1260 the expansion of the Mongols comes to an end when they're decisively defeated by the Mamluks at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine.
In 1411 the Treaty of Selymbria is concluded between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice.
In 1650 the complicated mess that was the multiple English Civil Wars approaches its end when the Parliamentarian New Model Army, under Oliver Cromwell, defeats the royalists in the Battle of Dunbar and opens the way to Edinburgh. The Third English Civil War was triggered by Scotland's acceptance of Charles II as king of Britain after the execution of his father, Charles I, on 30JAN1649. And more importantly began recruiting an army to support Charles.
Cromwells attempts to draw the Scots out into a set piece battle were resisted and the campaign was stalemated until Cromwell withdrew to the port of Dunbar. Besieged there a combination of surprise and tactical acumen led to a decisive Parliamentarian victory.
A year later in 1651 the Battle of Worcester is the last significant action in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (the English Civil Wars). Cromwell's Parliamentarian New Model Army (of about 28,000) defeated Charles II's 16,000 Royalists.
Seven years later in 1658 Oliver Cromwell dies suddenly, his son Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England. Less than a year later he will renounce the position and in 1660 the monarchy will return to great acclaim. Cromwell's death is an interesting event; he is thought to have suffered from malaria and from kidney stones and his death may have been due to the latter effecting him during a bout of malarial fever. Then again his death may not have been quite so natural, certainly some (including the Venetian ambassador) were suspicious. Did someone plan to replace him with his more pliable son?
In 1777 during the American Revolution the Stars and Stripes glag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time at the the Battle of Cooch's Bridge.
Sin years later in 1783 the war is formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain. In fact a lot of odd stuff happened that year; earthquakes, volcanoes, fireballs, men floating through the air, the Newburgh Conspiracy, aurorae and a certain rector with interesting ideas. The Strange Events of 1783
In 1798 the week long skirmish between Spain (forced led by Don Arturo O'Neill Tirone) and Britain at St. George's Caye off the coast of Belize. The main engagement occurred on 10DEP.
In 1812 twenty-four settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.
In 1838 the future abolitionist, writer and speaker Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery by boarding a train of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad dressed as a sailor and carrying borrowed identity papers (supplied by his future wife). During the journey he passed through Delaware a slave state where he could be arrested, and by steamboat to Philadelphia an anti-slavery stronghold.
In 1855 during the American Indian Wars a force of US troops "avenge" the Grattan massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children.
In 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War the Siege of Metz begins; it will end in a decisive Prussian victory on 23OCT.
In 1878 the river Thames sees a horrific accident at Gallions Reach when the crowded pleasure steamboat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames. At least 650 people die (there was no passenger list or headcount made) when the ship breaks apart and dumps passengers into the river, which contained about a third of a billion litres of recently released raw sewage.
In 1879 in Kabul the brief siege of the British Residency ends with the death of most of those inside; British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari, some aides and 72 men of the Guides regimen are massacred by Afghan troops. This begins the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The previous day the over-confident (and frankly clueless) Cavagnari telegraphed his last message to Lord Lytton; "All is well in the Kabul Embassy".
In 1889 the brilliant Australian virologist Frank Macfarlane Burnet is born in Traralgon in Victoria. In decades of work he made numerous contributions to immunology, predicted acquired immune tolerance (for which he was awarded the Nobel prize) and developed the theory of clonal selection. He also discovered the causative agents of Q-fever and Parrott fever and developed assay techniques for the isolation, culture and detection of influenza virus and much more. His techniques for growing influenza vaccines are the basis for the methods used today.
In 1914 another biologist is born; Dixy Lee Ray an American biologist, enthusiastic supporter of nuclear energy and the 17th Governor of the state of Washington. A woman described both as "idiosyncratic" and "ridiculously smart".
In 1916 during World War I the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 is shot down over Cuffley ( north of London) by Leefe Robinson; this is the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
Nine years later another airship is destroyed; in 1925 the USS Shenandoah, the first American-built rigid airship, is destroyed in a squall line over Noble County in Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.
In 1933 Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, in Tajikistan; then called Communism Peak and now called Ismoil Somoni Peak.
In 1941 Karl Fritzsch, deputy commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B (a commercial cyanide compound used as a pesticide) in the gassing of Soviet POWs. This will significantly spped up the mass murder programme.
A year later in 1942 the Ghetto of Lakhva (now in Belarus) explodes into uprising led by Dov Lopatyn when words reaches them of its imminent liquidation.
Two years later in 1944 Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
In 1954 the Chinese People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.
In 1967 it's Dagen H in Sweden as traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight and with few problems.
In 1976 the American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars. Though in the Whoniverse several British manned missions have been there already.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 3, 2020 22:17:15 GMT
Dixy Lee Ray Frank Macfarlane Burnet Oliver and Richard Cromwell,Frederick Douglass Richard I of England and Anne Frank are good people to meet.Battle of Worcester could be a good pure historical or one involving the sontarans.Zyklon B could be used for nefarious purposes in a adventure. Treaty of Paris could have been altered or averted by meddlers. And Yevgeniy Abalakov could be a good person to meet with in a unique adventure.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 4, 2020 21:15:46 GMT
04SEP
In 476CE the Roman Empire formally ends, after 1,229 years, with the deposing of Romulus Augustulus by Odoacer who proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire.
In 626 Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the Tang dynasty of China. Taizong subsequently played a major role in defeating several of the dynasty's most dangerous opponents and solidifying their rule over China; he is typically considered to be one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history.
In 929 Slavic forces attempting to prevent the expansion of Henry I of Germany are defeated at the Battle of Lenzen in Brandenburg. The Saxon army under Bernhard destroyed the Slavic army and resulted in the ending of effective Slavic resistance to German rule along the Elbe for the rest of Henry's reign.
973 Al-Biruni the Persian physician and polymath was born. He is noted as the founder of several scientific and engineering disciplines including Comparative Religion, Geodesy and Anthropology, as well as distinguishing himself as a historian, chronologist and linguist.
In 1455 Henry Stafford, later second Duke of Buckingham, was born. A member of the English nobility, he was a faithful retainer of Richard III and the (possible) leader of Buckingham's Rebellion, a failed uprisings against Richard III in OCT1483. He is also considered one of the primary suspects in the disappearance and presumed murder of the Princes in the Tower. The truth is, of course, rather more complicated.
In 1588 Robert Dudley, first Earl of Leicester, English statesman and favourite of Elizabeth I died. He had a varied political career, eing in and out of royal favour, and was a suitor for the Queen's hand for many years. His death was sudden and rather unexpected; on his way to Buxton in Derbyshire to take the baths there, he fell ill and died at Cornbury Park near Oxford. Malaria and stomach cancer are considered possible causes of his death; his health had been poor for some time. Of course chronic poisoning, for example with arsenic, would also match those symptoms.
In 1607 the Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland.
In 1774 during the second voyage of Captain James Cook, New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans,
In 1781 a group of 44 Spanish settlers found a small settlement in California named El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels). It's still there, having grown a bit.
In 1797 the French Revolution moves into a dictatorial phase with the Coup of 18 Fructidor. Members of the French Directory (Three Directors, Paul Barras, Jean-François Rewbell and Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux and foreign minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord) seize power by force, with military support, i the face of their opponents, the Royalists, gaining strength in new elections. It was expected that the Royalists would win the next round of elections and assume control of the Directory.
In 1800 the French garrison in Valletta surrenders to British troops who had been called at the invitation of the Maltese. The islands of Malta and Gozo become the Malta Protectorate.
In 1812, and during the War of 1812, the Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire. The fort was a stockade constructed on high ground overlooking the Wabash River (now Terre Haute in Indiana) by forces under Harrison and used as a staging point for them. he battle was a US victory, the first significant one of the war, and would start Harrison's political career (he became the shortest serving US president).
In 1839 fighting in the First Opium War begins with the Battle of Kowloon when British vessels open fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community in China.
In 1850 Luigi Cadorna, Italian field marshal and commander-in-chief during World War One is born in Verbania Pallanza in Piedmont. He is widely considered one of the worst general officers of the war, if not of all time, and responsible for atrocious Italian casualties.
In 1862 during the American Civil War, Confederate General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
In 1870 the last French emperor, Emperor Napoleon III, is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
In 1882 the Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first commercial power plant, suppling electricity to paying customers.
In 1886 during the American Indian Wars Apache leader Geronimo and most of his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona, ending thirty years of fighting.
In 1912 the Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands for the establishment of Albanian schools, restrictions in military service, suspension of conscription and taxes and the appointment of government officials who speak the Albanian language.
In 1923 the first US constructed airship, the USS Shenandoah, has its maiden flight.
In 1941 during World War II the war in the Atlantic hots up when the German submarine U-652 makes the first attack of the war against a United States warship, the destroyer USS Greer. The circumstances are complex; the Greer was carrying mail and passengers to Iceland (a recent US occupation) when a British patrol aircraft warned it of the presence of a German submarine. The destroyer aggressively tracked the submarine and radioed its location and course (a breach of US neutrality) during which time the British aircraft dropped depth bombs. About an hour and a half later the the submarine changed course and closed the Greer, firing a single torpedo. This missed and the destroyer started searching for the submarine attacked with depth charges.
In 1949 the Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson Civil Rights benefit concert in Peekskill in New York when black and Jewish attendees are attacked and pelted with rocks.
In 1957 The governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out the National Guard (state militia) to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School, despite a US Supreme Court decision prohibiting racially segregated schooling. The Guard is taken under Federal control by President Dwight Eisenhower and the Little Rock Nine enter the school.
In 1964 Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.
In 1977 the Golden Dragon massacre, a gang-related shooting spree inside the Golden Dragon Restaurant at 822 Washington Street in San Francisco#s Chinatown. The attack left five people dead and eleven others injured; none of these were gang members.
In 1985 the novel and complex carbon structures called fullerenes were discovered.
In 1989 the first of a series of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place in Leipzig in East Germany
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 4, 2020 23:46:13 GMT
Orval Faubus, Al-Biruni,James Cook Emperor Napoleon III,Luigi Cadorna,Robert Dudley and Henry Stafford are good people to meet. The little rock 9 could be a good sequel to rosa. Forth Road Bridge could be a good base both good or evil. someone could stop the Leipzig protests and the f all of the USSR. Geronimo could be a good companion or historical figure to meet. Coup of 18 Fructidor could be a good reign of terror sequel. And taizong could be a great person to meet in a pure historical.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 5, 2020 22:57:55 GMT
05SEP
In 699CE the distinguished Iraqi scholar, theologian and jurist Abu Hanifa is born in Kufah.
In 917 Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China. There's a curious incident in his life in 922CE when, advised by a sorcerer that he needed to leave the capital (at Panyu/Xingwang) to avoid a disaster, Liu left to visit Meikou near the border with the Min state and was almost captured or killed in a raid by Min general Wang Yanmei.
In 989 Fan Zhongyan is born in Wu in Jiangsu Province. He would rise to become Chancellor of a Chinese empire at the zenith of its size and power in the 1040s, when China possessed the world’s largest economy and population. Fan's philosophical, educational and political legacy is one that changed the course of the Chinese history and continues to exert a significant impact on the Chinese civilisation today.
In 1187 the future Louis VIII ('The Lion') of France is born in Paris. While his reign was short, not quite three years as King of France, he was an active participant in political an military affairs even earlier, notably at Siege of Roche-au-Moine in 1214 but he also intervenes in the First Barons' War against King John of England. There he led an invasion of England, captured Winchester, controlled over half of the English kingdom and was proclaimed King of England by the rebellious barons (though never actually crowned). He also re-conquered Guyenne, the second last English possession in France. During his reign he used royal forces to intervene in the Albigensian Crusade in southern France.
In 1590 during the French religious wars Henry IV (of Navarre) is forced to end the siege of Paris by the intervention of international forces led by Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma.
In 1638 the future Louis XIV, king of France, is born in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Better known as the Sun King or Louis the Great he reigned for 72 years and ruled absolutely for most of that time, after the death of his chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin in 1661 (also see the next entry). Louis continued the programme of creating a centralised French state, governed from the capital, and with the nobility subserviant to the crown.
In 1661 Louis XIV finially rid himself of his powerful and immensely wealthy finance minister Nicolas Fouquet, having him arrested in Nantes by Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers. Yes that d'Artagnan. Fouquet was the Superintendent of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 and enjoyed a glittering career, which enabled him to acquire enormous wealth. When Louis was crowned he wanted to rid himself of Fouquet but was afraid to act openly against so powerful a minister.(Fouquet headed the wealthy and influential corps of partisans [tax farmers]).
When Fouquet was leaving the chamber of provincial council in Nantes, flattered with the assurance of the king's esteem, he was arrested by d'Artagnan on charges of misappropriation of funds. His trial lasted almost three years and public sympathy turned to support Fouquet. He was imprisoned for the rest of his life in the prison fortress of Pignerol. Interestingly there, Eustache Dauger, the man generally considered to be the Man in the Iron Mask served as one of Fouquet's valets. Officially Fouquet died on 23MAR1680.
In 1697 during the War of the Grand Alliance Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeats an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.
In 1698 this is a bad day for the bearded to visit Russia; as part of his efforts to Westernise his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
In 1774 the First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
In 1781 the British navy is defeated in the Battle of the Chesapeake during the American Revolutionary War by French warships, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
In 1791 Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
In 1793 during the French Revolution the Reign of Terror begins. The National Convention established the Committee of Public Safety under Maximilien Robespierre and a series of massacres and numerous public executions begins.
In 1812 during the War of 1812 the Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
In 1816 king Louis XVIII dissolves the Chambre introuvable ('Unobtainable Chamber') and assembly of hard-line Monarchists, zealous in favour of the aristocracy and the clergy, to avoid civil strife.
In 1817 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy the noted Russian poet, author, and playwright is born.
In 1836 Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
In 1862 during the American Civil War, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford and begins it's invasion of the North. Unless someone prevents this....
In 1887 a horrific fire at the Theatre Royal in Exeter begins backstage when gas lighting ignites some gauze.Inadequate exits and panic contribute to the 186 deaths.
In 1905 the Russo-Japanese War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
In 1914 during World War I the First Battle of the Marne begins northeast of Paris with a French attack on German forces who are advancing on the capital.
In 1945 of the early events of the Cold War occurs when Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America.
In 1954 KLM Flight 633 from Amsterdam to New York City crashes into the River Shannon immediately after takeoff from Shannon Airport in Ireland; 28 people (half those onboard) are killed
In 1972 'Black September', a Palestinian terrorist group, takes eleven Israeli athletes hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.
In 1975 in Sacramento Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate US President Gerald Ford.
In 1977 NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
In 1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David in Maryland. The discussions would end in the Camp David Accords.
In 1980 the Gotthard Road Tunnel the world's longest road tunnel (17km)from Göschenen to Airolo opens in Switzerland. What might have been found during it's construction?
In 1984 the US Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
In 2012 an accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon in western Turkey kills 25 soldiers. What might this have been a cover story for?
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