The Counting Game

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1384 AD Taking advantage of the Portuguese political crisis, Castillian forces invade and lay siege to Lisbon. It will take 4 months but the defenders helped by a plague will repel the invaders.

1385 AD The crisis ended with the coronation of John the I of Portugal. Later he will defeat the Castilians securing Portugal's independence.

1386 AD After the battle of Sempach Switzerland secures its independence from Hampsurg rule (and anyone else's for this matter to the present day).

[DarthPorg36]

1387 - Elizabeta Kotromanic, mother of Mary, Queen of Hungary and the former regent of Hungary, is murdered in prison by the Croatian rebels (her daughter is liberated on 4 June).

Maghan II succeeds his brother, Musa II, as Mansa of the Mali Empire

1388 - April 9 – Battle of Näfels: Glarus, in alliance with the Old Swiss Confederacy, decisively defeat the Habsburgs, despite being outnumbered sixteen to one.

Goryeo Revolution: General Yi Seong-gye begins a four year revolution in Goryeo (modern-day Korea), after being ordered by King U of Goryeo to attack the superior Chinese army. King U is forced from power, and replaced by his son Chang.

What are we going to do after we get to 2023?

[Jamiet99uk]

What are we going to do after we get to 2023?

Keep counting, obviously.

Like I keep saying, you don't need to use years all the time.

[GracchusBabeuf]

What are we going to do after we get to 2023?

Keep counting, obviously.

Like I keep saying, you don't need to use years all the time.

I propose all non-year submissions be treated as the most egregious form of in-game cheating.

[Jamiet99uk]

What are we going to do after we get to 2023?

Keep counting, obviously.

Like I keep saying, you don't need to use years all the time.

I propose all non-year submissions be treated as the most egregious form of in-game cheating.

Then you are a very silly person.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1389 AD The Battle of Kosovo heralds the dawn of slavery to the Ottomans for Serbs. Because of the number of their people that died there, Serbs consider the area sacred and that's why it is difficult to recognise it as an independent state nowadays.

1390 AD The Ottomans take Philadelphia, the last Byzantine enclave of any significance in Anatolia. A siege is coming...

1391 AD Manuel II Palaiologos becomes Byzantine emperor after his father, John V Palaiologos dies.

1392 AD Turkish forces lay siege to Constantinople, the siege will last for eight years and will be lifted by the most unexpected power...

1393 AD Turks subdue Bulgaria and annexe Thessaly from Byzantine rule.

[azcat1990]

1394 is the world record for the most people dressed as Ninja Turtles achieved by the Nickelodeon Suites Resort (USA) in Orlando, Florida, USA on 9 August 2014.

[Jamiet99uk]

1395 Days Without Red is a 2011 short film by Šejla Kamerić.

[Wusti]

1396

The Ottomans capture the Bulgarian fortress of Vidin and Tsar Ivan Sratsimir, ending the Second Bulgarian Empire. The Bulgarian state won't rise again until 1878 as the Principality of Bulgaria.

1397

Dick Whittington becomes Lord Mayor of London for the first time, we don't know if he already had his cat or if it is to come.

[Tolstoy]

What are we going to do after we get to 2023?

Obviously, we will need to invent a possible future timeline(s).

[Tolstoy]

1392 AD Turkish forces lay siege to Constantinople, the siege will last for eight years and will be lifted by the most unexpected power...

How could you fill 1392 with one sentence on the umpteen-bajillioneth siege of Constantinople when you could have written about the King of France going batshit crazy (while on campaign against the Duke of Brittany who was harboring the attempted-murderer of the French Constable) and murdering several members of his retinue, then wasting 1393 by not describing the Ball of Flames... Come on, where's your sense of drama?

[Wusti]

1392 AD Turkish forces lay siege to Constantinople, the siege will last for eight years and will be lifted by the most unexpected power...

How could you fill 1392 with one sentence on the umpteen-bajillioneth siege of Constantinople when you could have written about the King of France going batshit crazy (while on campaign against the Duke of Brittany who was harboring the attempted-murderer of the French Constable) and murdering several members of his retinue, then wasting 1393 by not describing the Ball of Flames... Come on, where's your sense of drama?

No post shaming buddy - look at the numpties who just put a number - then complain

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1398 AD Johannes Gutenberg is born, he will be one of humanity's benefactors making the creation of books so much easier.

1399 AD Henry the IV is crowned King after Richard the II is forced to abdicate.

1400 AD The Turks lift the siege of Constantinople to face the advancing Timur army. They are crushed in the following battle, giving Byzantium an extension of life.

1401 AD Timur raids Bagdad.

1402 AD At the Battle of Ankara, an invading Timurid Empire force defeats the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, who is captured. He is placed in a cage where he'll die from the shame of what he had become.

[Ferdack]

The IBM 1403 line printer was introduced as part of the IBM 1401 computer in 1959 and had an especially long life in the IBM product line.

Anno 1404, known as Dawn of Discovery in North America, is a city-building and economic simulation game with real-time strategy elements, part of the Anno series.

1405 AD: Ming Dynasty fleet commander Zheng He sets sail from Suzhou with his fleet of 317 ships on the first of seven large scale expeditions.

[Jamiet99uk]

1408 is a 2007 American psychological horror film based on Stephen King's 1999 short story of the same name. It is directed by Mikael Håfström and stars John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson.

[Jamiet99uk]

James I was King of Scots from 1406 until his assassination in 1437.

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid, is an EU regulation dealing with horizontal State Aid.

[GracchusBabeuf]

James I was King of Scots from 1406 until his assassination in 1437.

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid, is an EU regulation dealing with horizontal State Aid.

1408 is a hyperbolic number used by Gracchus Babeuf to jokingly refer to the number of times Jamiet99uk said too many of the numbers in The Counting Game were being correlated with a historical year.

[GracchusBabeuf]

1392 AD Turkish forces lay siege to Constantinople, the siege will last for eight years and will be lifted by the most unexpected power...

How could you fill 1392 with one sentence on the umpteen-bajillioneth siege of Constantinople when you could have written about the King of France going batshit crazy (while on campaign against the Duke of Brittany who was harboring the attempted-murderer of the French Constable) and murdering several members of his retinue, then wasting 1393 by not describing the Ball of Flames... Come on, where's your sense of drama?

No post shaming buddy - look at the numpties who just put a number - then complain

Clearly the criticism was facetious. Is internet humor dead? And even if it wasn't meant to be funny I found it funny. So no post shaming buddy!

[DarthPorg36]

1409 - Cheng Ho (or Zheng He), admiral of the Ming empire fleet, deposes the king of Sri Lanka.

1410 - July 15 – Battle of Grunwald (Žalgiris), also known as Battle of Tannenberg: Polish and Lithuanian forces under cousins Jogaila and Vytautas the Great decisively defeat the forces of the Teutonic Knights, whose power is broken.

1411 - Under the Yongle Emperor of Ming China, work begins to reinstate the ancient Grand Canal of China, which fell into disuse and dilapidation during the previous Yuan Dynasty. Between 1411 and 1415, a total of 165,000 laborers dredge the canal bed in Shandong, build new channels, embankments, and canal locks. Four large reservoirs in Shandong are also dug, in order to regulate water levels, instead of resorting to pumping water from local tables. A large dam is also constructed, to divert water from the Wen River southwest into the Grand Canal.

July 24 – Battle of Harlaw in Scotland: Domhnall of Islay, Lord of the Isles, and an army commanded by Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar battle to a bloody draw.

[Jamiet99uk]

1412 are the numbers either side of 13 if you are counting down.