The Counting Game

[dargorygel]

(Aye, I know... I need a 'sarcastic darg humor' font.)

535 BC... A naval battle between Greek colonizers and the Carthaginians makes some sort of impact.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

536 AD The year of cold, a volcanic eruption sends so much ash in the atmosphere so to disrupt the heat from the sun resulting in low temperatures and unseasonal weather which destroys corps and brings famine. (so after all Sci-Fi destruction movies may not be such fictional!)

[dargorygel]

537... An almost prime number, only ALSO divisible by 3. Is there a name for that kind of number? It was always my favorite 'divisor-test,' that one that we add the digits and determine if THAT number is divisible by three.

[azcat1990]

538 ... number of electors in the United States electoral college, of which 270 are required to win the Presidency. The inspiration for fivethirtyeight website that focuses on sports, politics and opinion polling.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

539 AD An earthquake ravages Antioch.

[Sasanov]

540.
54, but cooler

[TheMadMonarch]

541 is the 100th Prime Number.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

542 AD Bubonic plague decimates the Byzantine Empire with over two million deaths.

[dargorygel]

542 AD Bubonic plague decimates the Byzantine Empire with over two million deaths.

(did they have masks?)

543 Part of a NASA countdown, interrupted by a sponsor commercial break.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

542 AD Bubonic plague decimates the Byzantine Empire with over two million deaths.

(did they have masks?)

No masks, no medicines, yet they survived. Are we getting soft, dear Dargo?

544 AD Belisarius defeats the Goths pressing them north of Rome.

[damo666]

545 the lowest palindromic composite centred square number

[dargorygel]

546 BC
Cyrus the Extremely Above Average defeated Croesus, Rich King of Lydia, consolidating his empire, AND ensuring that "Lydia" would be a popular girl's name in the 20th and 21st century.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

547 BC Thales of Miletus, one of the Seven Wise Men of ancient Greece dies at the age of 77 (not bad for these times).

[damo666]

548 death of Clotilde, wife of Clovis 1, first King of the Franks [you'd have thought that would've been Frank 1 but there you go]

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

549 AD Fifth Council of Orléans: Nine archbishops and forty-one bishops pronounce an anathema against the errors of Nestorius and Eutyches validating the decisions of Third Ecumenical Council in Ephesus.

[damo666]

550 the lowest primitive abundant number that is also a pentagonal pyramidal

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

Article 551 of the Greek Civil Code commands the matter of compensation in case of faulty goods sold.

[damo666]

552 the lowest pronic number that is both the sum of 6 consecutive primes and 10 consecutive primes

[dargorygel]

553
The Second Council of Constantinople was convened (one apparently not being enough...) under Eutychius. Whose unfortunate name MIGHT have added to the Pope (or Vigilius, Bishop of Rome) refused to attend. He sulked in his palace. Later, however, he acceded to the pronouncements of the Constantinopian Council.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

554 AD The second and larger of the two Buddhas of Bamyan is erected in central Afghanistan. They are to survive for almost 15 centuries until in 2001 the fanatic Taliban regime blew them up after the degree that they were idols which didn't become to a Muslim nation.