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Re: The Counting Game

#1581 Post by Octavious » Wed Mar 01, 2023 2:08 pm

In the early 1580s... feck all happened
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#1582 Post by Jamiet99uk » Wed Mar 01, 2023 2:38 pm

@Wusti why did you skip 1578 to 1587?
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#1583 Post by dargorygel » Wed Mar 01, 2023 3:24 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2023 2:38 pm
@Wusti why did you skip 1578 to 1587?
and why did the rest of us not notice? lol
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#1584 Post by damo666 » Wed Mar 01, 2023 4:04 pm

1578 - last outbreak of sweating sickness in England
1580 - Dover Straits Earthquake
1581 - designation of asteroid Abanderada named after Eva Peron
1584 - death of Ivan the Terrible of Russia
1585 - death of Thomas Tallis, English composer
1586 - Mary Queen of Scots found guilty of treason and sentenced to death
1587 - the above mentione d MQoS loses her head

1579, 1582, 1583 to fill
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#1585 Post by PRINCE WILLIAM » Wed Mar 01, 2023 5:29 pm

1578 - last outbreak of sweating sickness in England
1579 - William of Orange is proclaimed ruler of the Dutch territories of the Spanish crown (an end to Spanish rule there and cause for 80 years of war).
1580 - Dover Straits Earthquake
1581 - designation of asteroid Abanderada named after Eva Peron
1582 - Implementation of the Gregorian Calendar, this year actually had only 355 days as ten days were skipped to balance the difference (but not the same ten days for all countries that changed the calendar!), a number that raised to 13 for countries that made the change as late as the 20th century.
1583 - Savoy implements the new calendar starting from the 1st of January
1584 - the death of Ivan the Terrible of Russia
1585 - the death of Thomas Tallis, English composer
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#1586 Post by PRINCE WILLIAM » Wed Mar 01, 2023 5:30 pm

And we are back in order
1586 (as already mentioned), Mary Queen of Scots was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death making a terrible historical precedent that someone can execute a monarch as a criminal
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#1587 Post by damo666 » Wed Mar 01, 2023 5:38 pm

1587 - Mary Queen of Scots beheaded
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#1588 Post by PRINCE WILLIAM » Wed Mar 01, 2023 7:28 pm

1588 The Spanish armada (the Invisible Armada as the Spanish called it) is defeated by the English; bad weather and storms complete the destruction.
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#1589 Post by PRINCE WILLIAM » Wed Mar 01, 2023 7:38 pm

Invincible Armada, I am really in need of being more careful when I write.

1589 England retaliates with an armada of its own. while it doesn't end in disaster as the Spanish effort, little is achieved in terms of naval dominion.
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#1590 Post by Wusti » Thu Mar 02, 2023 2:12 am

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2023 2:38 pm
@Wusti why did you skip 1578 to 1587?
Shiit - so sorry, I think I'm becoming Lysdexic in my dotage.
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#1591 Post by JECE » Thu Mar 02, 2023 2:49 am

[quote="PRINCE WILLIAM" post_id :lol: =332421 time=1677698926 user_id=237]
1588 The Spanish armada (the Invisible Armada as the Spanish called it) is defeated by the English; bad weather and storms complete the destruction.
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Invisible? :lol: You may want to reread what you wrote there!
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#1592 Post by JECE » Thu Mar 02, 2023 3:13 am

PRINCE WILLIAM wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2023 7:38 pm
Invincible Armada, I am really in need of being more careful when I write.

1589 England retaliates with an armada of its own. while it doesn't end in disaster as the Spanish effort, little is achieved in terms of naval dominion.
There you go!

The counter-armada was a total disaster, with even greater losses than those suffered by the Spanish Armada. And it was a military disaster, unlike what happened to the Spanish Armada, which barely lost any ships to the English navy before the ill-fated attempt to sail around the British Isles.
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#1593 Post by PRINCE WILLIAM » Thu Mar 02, 2023 9:26 am

Ι guess this unfortunate decision to go around the British Isles was due to the appointed commander not being a seaworthy captain but just a noble (to get the command because you are a friend of the ruler, be it, king, emperor or otherwise, has destroyed many armies in history)

1590 AD The Roanoke Colony is mysteriously gone. Until our days no one can tell what happened to some 110-120 people there.

1591 AD Pope Innocent IX succeeds Pope Gregory XIV, becoming the 230th pope (it was not for long, Innocent died on December 30!)

1592 AD Pope Clement VIII succeeds Innocent (this one will stay for a long period!)

1593 AD Giordano Bruno is brought to the Inquisition to be judged. Even if his opinions weren't considered the fact that he left Romeocatholism for Calvinism was enough to condemn him as a heretic. The trial takes seven years and ends in execution.
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#1594 Post by Jamiet99uk » Thu Mar 02, 2023 11:46 am

DA FORM 1594 is the reference number given to the US Army template DAILY STAFF JOURNAL OR DUTY OFFICER'S LOG.
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#1595 Post by PRINCE WILLIAM » Thu Mar 02, 2023 8:14 pm

1595 ΑD Battle of Calugareni: The Wallachians, led by Michael the Brave, accomplish a great tactical victory against a vast army of Turks led by Sinan Pasha. They repeated this two months later in the battle of Giurgiu. Understandably Sinan Pasha falls out of Sultan's favour. Luckily though, his successor died three later, so Sinan returned to his position as Grand Vezir.
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#1596 Post by dargorygel » Fri Mar 03, 2023 1:10 pm

15.96 is what lunch cost at Burger King yesterday. Not that long ago it cost a lot less.

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#1597 Post by dargorygel » Fri Mar 03, 2023 1:12 pm

in 1597, Galileo invented the geometric and military compass, his first commercial scientific instrument. This device, which resembled two rulers that moved over a third, curved piece, acted as an early calculator. Merchants could use it to work out monetary exchange rates.

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#1598 Post by PRINCE WILLIAM » Fri Mar 03, 2023 2:11 pm

Alas, prices are going up and up all around the globe. Is a lunch of 16 dollars a considerable one, at least?

1598 AD, Tycho Brahe publishes a catalogue of known constellations naming 1004 of them.
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#1599 Post by dargorygel » Fri Mar 03, 2023 9:47 pm

2 years and 4 days ago (I had the receipt, which is why I noticed the difference) the same meal cost 7.65.

1599 the Bard (if it was him) was very busy. Four of his most famous plays were written in that year: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and Hamlet.

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#1600 Post by DarthPorg36 » Fri Mar 03, 2023 9:57 pm

The square root of 1600 is 40.
In 40 AD, Caligula starts on a campaign to conquer Britain, which fails miserably. He declares himself victorious regardless. So in 1600, naturally, Caligula starts a campaign to conquer Britain and Ireland, succeeds, but declares himself the loser.
To be more realistic with our recounting of history, in 1600 AD Sebald de Weert makes the first recorded sighting of the Falkland Islands. The Huaynaputina volcano in Peru erupts, in what is still the worst recorded volcanic eruption. William Shakespeare's plays Henry IV, Part 2, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing are published in London.
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