The Counting Game

[Ezio]

555

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

556 AD Romanus the Melodist, one of the greatest composers of Ecclesiastical hymns dies, he left behind him a rich opus from which many hymns are still in use. He's venerated as a saint on October's First.

[dargorygel]

557: A grand prime number, which when extended through Fibonaccing, results in: 113928037680978527777140672732116305813154440303874734475431
773320488593551486986201473617910150485189153870299086037.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

558 AD Conall mac Comgaill is crowned king of Dál Riata, a Gaelic kingdom on the western coast of Scotland (predecessor of the Scottish kingdom, at this point, ruling only half the country as the rest is Pictish land).

[dargorygel]

5:59 the worst time in the world. One minute before the alarm wakes me up.

[Matticus13]

February 16, 600 – Pope Gregory the Great decrees "God bless You" as the religiously correct response to a sneeze.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

You leap 40 numbers, my friend. After 559 comes 560!

560 AD Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem and saint, is born.

[dargorygel]

You leap 40 numbers, my friend. After 559 comes 560!

560 AD Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem and saint, is born.

And no one else noticed....

562 BC: Anet-Marduk (not to be confused with the cartoon dog, "Marmaduke,") replaced Nebuchadnezzar II as Supreme Leader of Babylon.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

And you, my dear friend, missed 561!
561 AD King Klothair dies, leaving the Frankish kingdom once more to be divided.

And to continue:
563 Infantry Battalion was an infantry unit of the Greek army into which I served my last seven months in the army. Unfortunately is now disbanded.

[damo666]

564 bc the year Aesop was born.

Or this could be a fable.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

565 AD Justinian dies at 14th of November after 38 years on the throne.

[Maniac]

Stagecoach 567 runs from New Road, Kirkby Lonsdale to Kendal and back again.

[damo666]

568 the sum of the the first 19 prime numbers

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

566 is the number Maniac forgot to take in consideration.

566 AD Ainmuire mac Sétnai becomes High King of Ireland.
569 AD The aforementioned king dies.

[dargorygel]

570 AD
Muhammed born in Mecca.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

571 AD Wuffa becomes the first king of East Anglia starting the dynasty of the Wuffings.

[dargorygel]

572
Not only did King Alboin (Lombard) successfully complete the three-year siege of Ticinum (better known as Pavia) but he was murdered in his palace (in Verona) via the conspiracy of his wife, Rosamund. Proving that a rose by any other name does NOT smell as sweet.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

573 AD King Sigibert I goes to war against his half brother Chilperic I of Neustria at the urging of his wife, Brunhilda (one is killed one goes to war with his wife's encouragement, woe to married kings!)

[damo666]

574 AD death of Pope John III

[hthefourth]

5-7-5: The syllabic pattern for haikus.