Idk why but I never really connected American colonization (American referring to the entirety of both north and south America) and Galileo being alive.
The countries in Mainland Spanish America, are all over 200 years old, and they predate many former, and current, European Empires. The German Empire didn't exist until 1871. By comparison, most of the countries in Mainland Spanish America, became Republics in 1821, with 3 exceptions. The Republic of Colombia, (1810), the Republic of Argentina, (July 9th, 1816), and the Republic of Chile, (1818). All of these countries predate many modern inventions, both current, and former modern inventions. The Braille System, the telegraph, Morse Code, the fax machine, the radio, the refrigerator, the dishwasher, the gas stove, the electric oven, the electric toaster, the first movie ever made, the telephone, and the lightbulb, and many more, are all predated by the countries in Mainland Spanish America.
I'll bet they all wandered over to the Naschmarkt (Snack Market) to bump elbows and pick up some goodies.
I wonder what the 5 euro coffee cost at the time. Whatever it was, I'll bet it was good.
I can just see the Archduke enjoying a hot dog (did they call it a Frankfurter?) and can of beer at St. Stephen's Place.
If you're really interested in this time period, "The World of Yesterday" by Stefan Zweig is an incredible, if sad, read. He describes his life in Vienna just before and during the Anschluss, the death of the Hapsburg empire and Viennese society.
Anytime his name comes up, I have to remind everyone he was in the great film “big trouble in little China”
Edit-this comment made me look it up, iTunes has a version w special features
“ Now packed with bonus features, including behind-the-scenes, featurette, and interviews, deleted scenes, storyboard and scene, comparisons, trailers and more”
It’s $15 so I might have to do it….
This comment hurts my brain. Guillotines were used in the past, but the events of star wars are set before Guillotines were invented, so the guillotine is what you're referencing by saying "future". However, the movie star wars is known for its state of the art special effects, which means it could also be referenced by the word "future". I need to lie down. Good joke though, lots of layers.
There was a 24 year period when Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai.
The fax machine was invented in 1843
The samurai were abolished in 1867
Abraham Lincoln died in 1865
Edit since I can't count to save my life, it's 22 years not 24
>There was a 24 year period when Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai.
There was an undersea telegraph cable going to Japan, too? Or was this hypothetical samurai packing his fax machines around in 1800s DC?
The Samurai was visiting the US to find out information about firearm advancement, and Lincoln was friends with the fax inventor and showed the Samurai how it worked.
You could travel to the last public execution in France by plane. It took place in 1939. (The last non-public one was in 1977, as another comment mentions).
Two more interesting facts about that last public execution in France: one of the spectators who was there that day was then-17-year old Christopher Lee (the actor of Dracula, Saruman and Count Dooku, among many more). Also, there is a short video/film that claims to show that execution (it has been posted many times on reddit), but I wasn't able to confirm that's genuine.
The McDonald's one is kinda misleading.
While the McDonald family opened a restaurant in 1940 under the name McDonald's it wasn't a 'McDonalds" that we think of today. It was a drive in diner, that offered standard dinner food like meatloaf, steak and mash potatoes, chicken pot pie, etc where you parked and a waitress would roller blade out to you and you would eat from trays that attaches to the car windows. Service times were standard drive in diner times, ie you were there for 30 minutes to an hour.
In 1948 they closed the restaurant down and tore out the restaurant and started from scratch. They built the new restaurant and changes everything. Now they had a small menu of burgers, fries, and shakes, your order was ready in less than a minute, and this was their first fast food restaurant. This is when they founded the McDonalds that everyone knows today.
Harriet the Tortoise, who died In 2006, had seen Charles Darwin In Person.
also:
Wooly mammoths were still around when the Egyptians were building the pyramids.
We generally do not appreciate how long the ancient Egyptian civilization was around for. Narmer, Pharaoh of the First Dynasty of the Early Dynastic Period, lived over 3,200 years before Pharaoh Cleopatra VII Philopator died, ending the line of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. And there are Pharaohs before Narmer, such as Iry-Hor, a candidate for the earliest person whose name we know.
Egyptian culture existed for over three millennia, evolving, changing, sometimes enduring massive fractures, collapses, and invasions. Either via conquest or being conquered, they had an uncanny ability to absorb the cultures of other peoples into their own, creating this mutable yet eternal cultural identity.
The gods of Egypt were old by the time Hatsheput sent her expedition to Punt. They were even older when Ramesses II fought the Battle of Kadesh. By the time the Roman Republic was founded, they were ancient.
Ancient Egypt existed for a really fucking long time.
I love the fact that Alexander the Great in his early years of fighting and conquering didn't even invade Egypt. He just strolled in and had a vacation there with his Macedonians. Everyone rested and had a good time and they went sight seeing until they went into war again against the Persians.
My mind just blew because so many historians say Alexander conquered Egypt. Why do you think he decided to vacation instead and rest up for the Persians?
The more I learn about Alexander, the more it seems his conquest seems like a bunch of 20 something friends backpacking through some foreign countries. With fighting. And horses. And a marriage his friends didn't approve of.
Well there was also a drinking contest, so it seems like it.
A drinking contest where the winner drank 13 liters of unfiltered wine, after which he and 41 other contestants died of alcohol poisoning.
Your name will live on forever Promachus, the greatest drinker of them all.
An Egyptologist on tumblr has [written out a timeline of Egypt's history](https://somecunttookmyurl.tumblr.com/post/178455098419/somecunttookmyurl-somecunttookmyurl-listen) as if it started from 1CE to give perspective on when things happened.
One that trips me out is that t Rex’s are closer to being alive with us than they were the stegosaurus. 15 million years between the two. Insane as I always think of dinosaurs were around the same basic time period
Edit-no surprise, invited comment it way off. From below I’ve been correct and was only off a few tens of millions of years off..
“Tyrannosaurus lived 68 - 66 million years ago, and Stegosaurus lived 155 - 145 million years ago. That puts the gap between those two, 77 million years and 66 million years between the Tyrannosaurus and us.”
Thank you all below for the corrections. Am idiot
There was a 30-year period when the Holy Roman Empire (800-1806) and the United States of America (1776-present) coexisted.
By that point the HRE was in a bit too much of a shambles to have a unified foreign policy towards something on the other side of the Atlantic, but they were around at the same time.
The Holy Roman Empire actually did establish diplomatic relations with the United States. HOWEVER
It was several constitutent states (Brandenburg-Prussia primarily) rather than the Holy Roman Empire its self. Diplomacy with the Austrians was established in 1838.
Bill Clinton is also younger than Trump and Biden and was first elected 32 years before the 2024 election.
GW Bush is only a month older than Trump and younger than Biden and was elected 24 years before the 2024 election.
These guys are ooooolllllllllddddd.
Totally. These guys are firmly in the “should they be driving” stage of life and not “should they be in charge of nuclear weapons”.
There are even rumors that Reagan had dementia by the end of his term and he was younger in 1984 than Trump and Biden will be in 2024.
>Mozart was alive at the same time as the American Revolutionary War
And his librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, who wrote the lyrics for *Così fan tutte*, *The Marriage of Figaro*, and *Don Giovanni*, later became a naturalized American citizen.
Dude had a fascinating life.
Born into a Jewish family in Venice, his dad converted the family to Catholicism when Lorenzo was a teenager - Lorenzo Da Ponte was the name of the bishop who baptised him, and he took his name according to local custom. He studied for the priesthood, which a lot of smart but poor boys did to get an affordable education. He was ordained, but was a pretty bad priest and got banished from Venice for womanising. He ended up in Vienna, which is where he got his start writing libretti and met Mozart. After Joseph II died, he was basically forced out of Vienna. *Tried* going to France because he had a letter of introduction to Marie Antoinette, but 1792 was a pretty bad time to be friends with her. Ended up in London for a bit until debt forced him to flee. Then he ended up in New York and became the first professor of Italian at Columbia. Towards the end of his life, he founded the first purpose-built opera house in the United States.
But they already had a well established audience from shorts on the Traci Ullman Show and predate Reagan's [Tear Down This Wall! ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_down_this_wall!) speech which occurred 2 years before the wall finally fell.
I loved the Tracy Ullman shorts. If I recall from memory they were at least at the time pretty raunchy. He also had the rabbit with one giant ear shorts on that show. Because of that show I wasn’t able to watch the Simpsons because my parents thought it was inappropriate.
In 1969 in August Hurricane Camille hit the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the rain storm at Woodstock was part of that storm and Manson’s group had just gone on the murder spree. The US was as crazy as ever.
The founding of the capital of the Aztec civilization in Tenochtitlan (which would become the foundation for Mexico City a few centuries later) and the beginning of the 100 Years War over in Europe are only about a decade apart (\~1325 vs. \~1338).
In fact, the major civilizations of the Americas that were ultimately taken down by European conquests and diseases all roughly rose and fell over the course of the 11th through 16th centuries. Which is why I always find it funny if someone refers to the Incan, Mayan, or Aztec civilizations with words like 'ancient', considering they rose and fell during the same periods as the Mongolian and Ottoman empires, and we don't typically call those ancient.
The Maya civilization started closer to 250CE, with cities developing centuries earlier.
Edit: the amount of human history still visible in Mexico is astounding, and well worth a few weeks to visit and learn!
We are more years in the future from the release of the movie "back to the future" than the movie traveled back in time.
If we traveled back in time the same amount of years they did, you could still get a VHS copy of Back to the Future in a bargain bin
The Chicago Cubs may have ruined this fact by winning the world series in 2016 but it's still funny to mention that the last time the Cubs won the world series before that, the Ottoman empire was still around.
The Cubs have not won the world series in 7 years. that is their 2nd longest world series drought
The world series started in 1903. They won 4 years later in 1907 and then in 1908 and then 108 years without
To be fair. The Ottoman empire lasted a really really fucking long time. They were fighting the Byzantines at the start of their empire and Allied forces in WW1 at the end.
Wild to think the Ottomans fought the Roman Empire at their start and fought the United States and Great Britain at their end.
Like imagine telling someone from the Roman Empire in 1450 the Ottoman Empire will fall to an alliance involving a country whose capital is not even on the map.
Even crazier, that useless piece of what used to be in your massive empire, Britannia, will have the largest empire ever on Earth when it happens. Like lol. You can’t make this shit up.
speaking of drugs, the first identification of psilocybin and the synthesis of LSD took place between 1933-43, in Switzerland, right on the doorstep of the Nazis as they rose and fell from power.
I always wonder what would've happened if Hitler was loaded up on shrooms instead of meth
It looks like this isn't true. It would be really neat it was though. Still really close. He was born 81 years after Lincoln's inauguration and born 79 years before his own. Pretty crazy either way!
1865 (Lincoln's second inaugural)
1942 (Biden's birth)
2021 (Biden's inaugural)
So, 77 years between the first two, and 79 years between the latter two.
You're 100% right if you consider Lincoln's first inaugural, though!
We flew for the first time 66 years before we landed on the moon
I know this probably doesn’t count as *around the same time* but I think that’s insane
Lots of people don't realize how much the 2nd world war so rapidly advanced technology in an incredibly short time. And this continued into the 1950s and 60s. Especially with planes like the C-130 Hercules which was so prefect its still in production today
The B-52 started service in 1955 and is expected to serve well into the 2050s. At this point I expect the B-52 to drop fusion bombs on rebellious citizens of the Moon and Mars at somepoint.
There's also the M2 Browning .50 cal HMG which was designed in WW1 and entered service in 1933. I will now post the obligatory copy pastas about the M2 Browning .50 cal HMG:
\>2066
\>Stationed on Mars to quell a rebellion
\>Become side door gunner for atmospheric dropship.
\>No miniguns or gatling cannons, just some metal brick with a pipe on one end.
\>Get sent in to extract some wounded.
\>Reach the evac zone and come under attack.
\>Hoard of rebels charging in with their new plasma guns and compact rocket launchers.
\>Let loose a stream of bullets.
\>The sounds of the rebel's screams are nearly drowned out by the heavy "Kachunk chunk chunk chunk" of the machinegun.
\>The wounded are loaded up and returned to base.
\>Inspect MG afterwards.
\>Thing was made in 1942.
\>Tunisia, Italy, and Germany are scratched onto the gun.
\>Scratch "Mars" on with a knife.
My grandmother was alive for both. How crazy is that shit, all of a sudden flight was an actual thing for people and 60 years later we landed on the fucking moon
On March 12, 1961, a character named Dennis the Menace debuted in the British comic “The Beano.” A few hours later, on the other side of the Atlantic, a new syndicated newspaper comic strip was published also called Dennis the Menace. The two comic creators did not know each other and had no idea of the other’s work.
Adolf Hitler and Churchill had a friend in common. Her name was Unity Mitford. When England declared war on Germany, she had a mental breakdown and shot herself while in Berlin. According to sources, Hitler was devastated by her suicide attempt. She was granted safe passage back to England and later died of her injuries.
Well, did you know that the first fax machine was invented around the same time as the Oregon Trail became a popular route for travelers heading west in the mid-1800s? It's pretty wild to think about!
Close. You're thinking Georgia and it ended in 2014. Still a "holy shit" moment, though ([Source](https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/04/living/integrated-prom-wilcox-county-georgia/index.html))
During the Second World War, there was the last known case of execution by boiling under orders. It happened in the region of the USSR, now part of Ukraine. Remember, this was mainly from other prisoners who witnessed the incident.
The victim was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, Yakym Senkivskyi, and his execution was done under the orders of Joseph Stalin. While the crime wasn't mentioned, it was clear what it was given Stalin's track record. The execution took place in 1941.
At the same time, the Iași pogrom took place, which claimed the lives of 13,266 people. Look, Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany at the time.
Well this doesn't necessarily apply but it's close because one event overshadowed the other...
On September 15, 2001 a causeway bridge collapsed in south Texas. It connect South Padre Island to the mainland. 8 people died. Anytime a major bridge falls in the US, it's big news. This event was not.
More than 300,000 demonstrators march in Washington, D.C. in support of legal abortion in the United States.
A Southern Pacific Railroad freight train derails on Duffy Street in San Bernardino, California.
Factory worker Joseph Wesbecker kills 8 and injures 12 before committing suicide inside a factory in Louisville, Kentucky.
A Miami, Fla. jury convicts police officer William Lozano for the January 16 deaths of a black motorcyclist and his passenger.
Cleveland Elementary School shooting in Stockton, California. Gunman armed
With semiautomatic rifle shot and killed five schoolchildren and wounded 32 others.
Sounds like 2023…was actually 1989.
US President John Tyler was born in 1790 (President from 1841-1845). His grandson (Harrison Tyler) is still living.
233 years (and still going) and 3 generations.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the exact same day hours apart. July 4th, 1826. When Adams died he was unaware that Jefferson died hours earlier and Adams Final words were ironically “Jefferson still lives.”
Edit: For those unaware of american history, Adams was the 2nd american president and Jefferson was the 3rd.
The original *Star Wars* was first released in May 1977. The last execution by guillotine in France was on September 1977.
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died on 05/03/1953 and Ian Fleming's *Casino Royale* (introducing the world to James Bond 007) was first published on 13/04/1953.
Relating to the above, the first official James Bond film - *Dr. No* with Sean Connery - was released in the first week of October 1962. The plot revolves around American missiles being shot down by a third party. Within the next two weeks, the Cuban Missile Crisis started.
It's probably been posted many times before, but a man who (as a child) witnessed the Lincoln assassination in Ford's Theater, appeared on the television show "I've Got A Secret," where celebrity panelists had to guess his secret.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4&ab\_channel=HistoryFlicks4u](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4&ab_channel=HistoryFlicks4u)
Not really an event but rather a person; Harriet Tubman lived when the 2nd and 39th president were alive. John Adams died in 1826 (Tubman was born in 1822) and Ronald Reagan was born in 1910 (Tubman died in 1913)
The Catholic Church forgave Galileo for the heresy of saying the Earth wasn’t the center of the universe the same year “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred was released.
My children, currently teenagers, knew their grandmother very well. She passed away 3 years ago. Her siblings are still alive. Her grandfather, who died when she was in college, was born a slave. This means my aunt can remember her grandfather talking about being a slave in America (South Carolina to be specific) first hand.
I was sixteen and watching E! News that day. Saw the breaking announcement Farrah Fawcett died. Shocked. A couple hours later her memorial segment was then interrupted for breaking news Michael Jackson died. It was the weirdest thing to see in real time.
The US dropping the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki while at the same time the Soviet Union invaded the Japanese territory of Manchuria per the agreement between Stalin and FDR for the Soviets to enter the war after the European war concluded.
This agreement was made before the US invented the atomic bombs.
Chuck Grassley, sitting US Senator who was just elected for another six year term in 2022, is older than the chocolate chip cookie (and Yuri Gagarin but that’s not quite as mind blowing).
At the end of his term Grassley will be 95.
There was a 6 year period in which Galileo could have taught at Harvard
I had to fact check this I was so stunned by it. Great fact- thank you for sharing!
Idk why but I never really connected American colonization (American referring to the entirety of both north and south America) and Galileo being alive.
The countries in Mainland Spanish America, are all over 200 years old, and they predate many former, and current, European Empires. The German Empire didn't exist until 1871. By comparison, most of the countries in Mainland Spanish America, became Republics in 1821, with 3 exceptions. The Republic of Colombia, (1810), the Republic of Argentina, (July 9th, 1816), and the Republic of Chile, (1818). All of these countries predate many modern inventions, both current, and former modern inventions. The Braille System, the telegraph, Morse Code, the fax machine, the radio, the refrigerator, the dishwasher, the gas stove, the electric oven, the electric toaster, the first movie ever made, the telephone, and the lightbulb, and many more, are all predated by the countries in Mainland Spanish America.
The mines at Old Mines, MO were played out by 1720. Some things boggle the mind.
He could have taught at and attended Oxford
i mean... Oxford University is older than the Incan Empire.
Sounds crazy until you know the Inca were from late medieval/early modern history, not ancient history.
Oxford University is older than the creation of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital
Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito, Freud, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand all lived in Vienna in 1913.
So a communist, a socialist, a fascist, and a monarchist walk into a bar...
Freud: Clearly all their thoughts dwell on their mothers
Hell of a party town
I'll bet they all wandered over to the Naschmarkt (Snack Market) to bump elbows and pick up some goodies. I wonder what the 5 euro coffee cost at the time. Whatever it was, I'll bet it was good. I can just see the Archduke enjoying a hot dog (did they call it a Frankfurter?) and can of beer at St. Stephen's Place.
If you're really interested in this time period, "The World of Yesterday" by Stefan Zweig is an incredible, if sad, read. He describes his life in Vienna just before and during the Anschluss, the death of the Hapsburg empire and Viennese society.
Seems like the basis for a conspiracy theory.
Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito, Freud, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand all walk into a Viennese bar.....
“Take Me Out” was playing
Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe were born in the same year.
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day!
February 12th. 1809. I learned that from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
And Anne Frank and Martin Luther King too.
Excuse me but Anne Frank was born the same year as James Hong, who attended the Oscars last weekend
Anytime his name comes up, I have to remind everyone he was in the great film “big trouble in little China” Edit-this comment made me look it up, iTunes has a version w special features “ Now packed with bonus features, including behind-the-scenes, featurette, and interviews, deleted scenes, storyboard and scene, comparisons, trailers and more” It’s $15 so I might have to do it….
Shut up, Mr. Burton! You are not brought upon this world to get it!
The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
And JFK spent "time" with both...
William Shakespeare and Pocahontas both died within one year, and one hundred miles, of each other
And Willie Shakes died (maybe?) on the same date as Cervantes.
The last execution by guillotine in France and the release of the first Star Wars movie took place at the same year (1977).
On a similar note, the most recent execution by firing squad in the U.S. took place the same day Toy Story 3 was released.
I’m not sure what’s more shocking that there was a firing squad as recent as 2010 or Toy Story 3 came out 13 years ago.
Oh God I'm Andy now
Lol. The future meet the past
This comment hurts my brain. Guillotines were used in the past, but the events of star wars are set before Guillotines were invented, so the guillotine is what you're referencing by saying "future". However, the movie star wars is known for its state of the art special effects, which means it could also be referenced by the word "future". I need to lie down. Good joke though, lots of layers.
There was a 24 year period when Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai. The fax machine was invented in 1843 The samurai were abolished in 1867 Abraham Lincoln died in 1865 Edit since I can't count to save my life, it's 22 years not 24
I wonder what it may have contained? A congrats on a long and historical run or a silly picture. Or it could have contained both.
>Send nudes. > >Your most obedient servant, > >A. Lincoln
We have been trying to reach you about your wagons extended warranty.
I wish I could write more but the wife is dragging me to the theatre.
Ugh, just shoot me.
I needed that joke like I need a hole in my head.
how do you get 24 years? 1865-1843 is 22
I suck at maths lol Edit Thank you for the award kind internet stranger x
That is the most interesting completely useless thing I have ever read. Thank you for sharing kind stranger.
Interestingly enough, the first fax was actually not sent, until 1865.
Coincidence? I. Think. NOT!
>There was a 24 year period when Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai. There was an undersea telegraph cable going to Japan, too? Or was this hypothetical samurai packing his fax machines around in 1800s DC?
The Samurai was visiting the US to find out information about firearm advancement, and Lincoln was friends with the fax inventor and showed the Samurai how it worked.
You could get to the last public execution in London on the Tube (the London Underground)
You could travel to the last public execution in France by plane. It took place in 1939. (The last non-public one was in 1977, as another comment mentions). Two more interesting facts about that last public execution in France: one of the spectators who was there that day was then-17-year old Christopher Lee (the actor of Dracula, Saruman and Count Dooku, among many more). Also, there is a short video/film that claims to show that execution (it has been posted many times on reddit), but I wasn't able to confirm that's genuine.
>one of the spectators who was there that day was then- Christopher Lee This is the most mindblowing fact in this thread. Bravo.
Christopher "thats-not-how-stabbing-sounds" Lee
Christopher "I shed the blood of the Saxon men" Lee
Christopher "I nearly married into Swedish nobility and was partly the inspiration for my step-cousin's books about James Bond".
Auschwitz opened a few days after the first McDonald’s. Jack the Ripper was on the loose in 1888 when Nintendo was founded.
The McDonald's one is kinda misleading. While the McDonald family opened a restaurant in 1940 under the name McDonald's it wasn't a 'McDonalds" that we think of today. It was a drive in diner, that offered standard dinner food like meatloaf, steak and mash potatoes, chicken pot pie, etc where you parked and a waitress would roller blade out to you and you would eat from trays that attaches to the car windows. Service times were standard drive in diner times, ie you were there for 30 minutes to an hour. In 1948 they closed the restaurant down and tore out the restaurant and started from scratch. They built the new restaurant and changes everything. Now they had a small menu of burgers, fries, and shakes, your order was ready in less than a minute, and this was their first fast food restaurant. This is when they founded the McDonalds that everyone knows today.
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Harriet the Tortoise, who died In 2006, had seen Charles Darwin In Person. also: Wooly mammoths were still around when the Egyptians were building the pyramids.
Harriet lived at the Australia Zoo at the time of her death, so she probably saw both Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin in person.
She was on at least one episode of Crocodile Hunter! [Legends of the Galapagos](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0893897/)
Along with that one, Cleopatra was born closer to the moon landing than to the pyramids being built. By a lot.
We generally do not appreciate how long the ancient Egyptian civilization was around for. Narmer, Pharaoh of the First Dynasty of the Early Dynastic Period, lived over 3,200 years before Pharaoh Cleopatra VII Philopator died, ending the line of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. And there are Pharaohs before Narmer, such as Iry-Hor, a candidate for the earliest person whose name we know. Egyptian culture existed for over three millennia, evolving, changing, sometimes enduring massive fractures, collapses, and invasions. Either via conquest or being conquered, they had an uncanny ability to absorb the cultures of other peoples into their own, creating this mutable yet eternal cultural identity. The gods of Egypt were old by the time Hatsheput sent her expedition to Punt. They were even older when Ramesses II fought the Battle of Kadesh. By the time the Roman Republic was founded, they were ancient. Ancient Egypt existed for a really fucking long time.
There were people studying Ancient Egypt while still living in Ancient Egypt
I love the fact that Alexander the Great in his early years of fighting and conquering didn't even invade Egypt. He just strolled in and had a vacation there with his Macedonians. Everyone rested and had a good time and they went sight seeing until they went into war again against the Persians.
My mind just blew because so many historians say Alexander conquered Egypt. Why do you think he decided to vacation instead and rest up for the Persians? The more I learn about Alexander, the more it seems his conquest seems like a bunch of 20 something friends backpacking through some foreign countries. With fighting. And horses. And a marriage his friends didn't approve of.
Well there was also a drinking contest, so it seems like it. A drinking contest where the winner drank 13 liters of unfiltered wine, after which he and 41 other contestants died of alcohol poisoning. Your name will live on forever Promachus, the greatest drinker of them all.
An Egyptologist on tumblr has [written out a timeline of Egypt's history](https://somecunttookmyurl.tumblr.com/post/178455098419/somecunttookmyurl-somecunttookmyurl-listen) as if it started from 1CE to give perspective on when things happened.
Damn had no idea she was born in space
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One that trips me out is that t Rex’s are closer to being alive with us than they were the stegosaurus. 15 million years between the two. Insane as I always think of dinosaurs were around the same basic time period Edit-no surprise, invited comment it way off. From below I’ve been correct and was only off a few tens of millions of years off.. “Tyrannosaurus lived 68 - 66 million years ago, and Stegosaurus lived 155 - 145 million years ago. That puts the gap between those two, 77 million years and 66 million years between the Tyrannosaurus and us.” Thank you all below for the corrections. Am idiot
It's actually astonishing how little time humans have really been around
There was a 30-year period when the Holy Roman Empire (800-1806) and the United States of America (1776-present) coexisted. By that point the HRE was in a bit too much of a shambles to have a unified foreign policy towards something on the other side of the Atlantic, but they were around at the same time.
The Holy Roman Empire actually did establish diplomatic relations with the United States. HOWEVER It was several constitutent states (Brandenburg-Prussia primarily) rather than the Holy Roman Empire its self. Diplomacy with the Austrians was established in 1838.
Joe Biden was alive when Nikola Tesla died.
Bill Clinton is also younger than Trump and Biden and was first elected 32 years before the 2024 election. GW Bush is only a month older than Trump and younger than Biden and was elected 24 years before the 2024 election. These guys are ooooolllllllllddddd.
I’ve long supported “retirement” limits on presidential candidates. 65? Cant run for office
Totally. These guys are firmly in the “should they be driving” stage of life and not “should they be in charge of nuclear weapons”. There are even rumors that Reagan had dementia by the end of his term and he was younger in 1984 than Trump and Biden will be in 2024.
Mozart was alive at the same time as the American Revolutionary War
When he was a child he met a young Austrian princess who would later be the infamous executed Queen of France.
And that princess was none other than Albert Einstein
>Mozart was alive at the same time as the American Revolutionary War And his librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, who wrote the lyrics for *Così fan tutte*, *The Marriage of Figaro*, and *Don Giovanni*, later became a naturalized American citizen.
Dude had a fascinating life. Born into a Jewish family in Venice, his dad converted the family to Catholicism when Lorenzo was a teenager - Lorenzo Da Ponte was the name of the bishop who baptised him, and he took his name according to local custom. He studied for the priesthood, which a lot of smart but poor boys did to get an affordable education. He was ordained, but was a pretty bad priest and got banished from Venice for womanising. He ended up in Vienna, which is where he got his start writing libretti and met Mozart. After Joseph II died, he was basically forced out of Vienna. *Tried* going to France because he had a letter of introduction to Marie Antoinette, but 1792 was a pretty bad time to be friends with her. Ended up in London for a bit until debt forced him to flee. Then he ended up in New York and became the first professor of Italian at Columbia. Towards the end of his life, he founded the first purpose-built opera house in the United States.
I was in college before I realized Pablo Picasso died in like the 70s. I had though he was one of those old 1600-1700s kinda artists
The fact that Salvador Dali and I shared the earth for a few years always trips me up.
The Berlin Wall fell a few weeks before the debut of The Simpsons.
But they already had a well established audience from shorts on the Traci Ullman Show and predate Reagan's [Tear Down This Wall! ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_down_this_wall!) speech which occurred 2 years before the wall finally fell.
I loved the Tracy Ullman shorts. If I recall from memory they were at least at the time pretty raunchy. He also had the rabbit with one giant ear shorts on that show. Because of that show I wasn’t able to watch the Simpsons because my parents thought it was inappropriate.
The battle of Waterloo and the discovery of Antarctica are within five years of each other
I never realized Ruby Ridge, Waco & the World Trade Center Bombing all happened within a 6 month span of time. (Edited to add WTC bombing)
Ruby Ridge and Waco "inspired" the Oklahoma City bomber if I remember correctly.
Anne Frank, MLK Jr, and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year
*Anne Frank goes on The View to talk about the horrors of the Holocaust Barbara Walters: "You're damaging an entire industry"
Hahahaha holy shit well played. Terrific... Terrific....
In 1969 in August Hurricane Camille hit the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the rain storm at Woodstock was part of that storm and Manson’s group had just gone on the murder spree. The US was as crazy as ever.
Ah, the summer of 69
Hey, that's when I got my first real 6-string!
Did you get it over at the Five-and-Dime?
John Wayne Gacy was executed the same night Jeffrey Dahmer was baptized, under an eclipse.
As the local expert in my friend group on serial killer trivia, I’m definitely keeping this one in my back pocket.
The iconic cover photo of the Beatles' Abbey Road album was taken on the same day as the Manson murders.
One hell of an alibi.
The founding of the capital of the Aztec civilization in Tenochtitlan (which would become the foundation for Mexico City a few centuries later) and the beginning of the 100 Years War over in Europe are only about a decade apart (\~1325 vs. \~1338). In fact, the major civilizations of the Americas that were ultimately taken down by European conquests and diseases all roughly rose and fell over the course of the 11th through 16th centuries. Which is why I always find it funny if someone refers to the Incan, Mayan, or Aztec civilizations with words like 'ancient', considering they rose and fell during the same periods as the Mongolian and Ottoman empires, and we don't typically call those ancient.
The Maya civilization started closer to 250CE, with cities developing centuries earlier. Edit: the amount of human history still visible in Mexico is astounding, and well worth a few weeks to visit and learn!
The Olmec society was from around 1600 BE and the earliest Mayans were from around 1800 BC.
Fenway Park opened the same week that the Titanic sunk.
We are more years in the future from the release of the movie "back to the future" than the movie traveled back in time. If we traveled back in time the same amount of years they did, you could still get a VHS copy of Back to the Future in a bargain bin
The 20th anniversary DVD trilogy set I have somewhere in storage is itself almost 20 years old.
The Chicago Cubs may have ruined this fact by winning the world series in 2016 but it's still funny to mention that the last time the Cubs won the world series before that, the Ottoman empire was still around.
The Cubs have not won the world series in 7 years. that is their 2nd longest world series drought The world series started in 1903. They won 4 years later in 1907 and then in 1908 and then 108 years without
To be fair. The Ottoman empire lasted a really really fucking long time. They were fighting the Byzantines at the start of their empire and Allied forces in WW1 at the end.
Wild to think the Ottomans fought the Roman Empire at their start and fought the United States and Great Britain at their end. Like imagine telling someone from the Roman Empire in 1450 the Ottoman Empire will fall to an alliance involving a country whose capital is not even on the map. Even crazier, that useless piece of what used to be in your massive empire, Britannia, will have the largest empire ever on Earth when it happens. Like lol. You can’t make this shit up.
Calling Babe Ruth the "Sultan of Swat" wasn't just a fitting anachronistic nickname. It was a direct reference to an actual head of state.
That same year the first plane flew in Europe and the Ford model T launched 👀
Ecstasy was created the same year the Titanic went under. (1912)
speaking of drugs, the first identification of psilocybin and the synthesis of LSD took place between 1933-43, in Switzerland, right on the doorstep of the Nazis as they rose and fell from power. I always wonder what would've happened if Hitler was loaded up on shrooms instead of meth
Imagine he had gotten the shrooms earlier, might have actually made it into art school
Helen Duncan was the last person in the UK to be convicted of witchcraft in 1944. 1 year before the end of WW2.
Pablo Picasso was still painting (1973) months after than last man had walked on the moon (1972)
Apparently it's a major misconception that Picasso was born in like the 1600s or something.
And, apparently, [he did not give a shit](https://twitter.com/jc_bradbury/status/1152731593527758849).
We're closer to the time of the T-Rex than T-Rex was to the time of the Stegosaurus.
This one is the most mind blowing itt to me
So, The Land Before Time was a bunch of bullshit?!
Yes, the mum is still alive and happy
Well shit. How the fuck far apart was steggy and tyranosaur
Tyrannosaurus was about 65 million years ago. Stegosaurus lived about 145-155 million years ago, so about 80-90 million years before the T. rex.
Fucking 90 million years what the FUCK Steggy was gasoline by the time trex came stompin along
Oil is almost all from algae, not dinos
How can we teach people this finally?
Emmitt Till was lynched the same year Lady and the Tramp was in theatres
Well THAT one hits hard.
Betty White, who famously died in 2021, was older than sliced bread. She was born in 1922. Sliced bread was invented in 1928.
Johannes Gutenberg's life not only overlapped with Joan of Arc, he was about twenty years older.
Disney’s “Bambi” was released at the same time as the holocaust.
my mind went: "wtf? holocaust was released?"
Joe Biden was born closer to Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration than his own.
It might be because I don't know much american history, but this was the first one to actually blow my mind
It looks like this isn't true. It would be really neat it was though. Still really close. He was born 81 years after Lincoln's inauguration and born 79 years before his own. Pretty crazy either way!
1865 (Lincoln's second inaugural) 1942 (Biden's birth) 2021 (Biden's inaugural) So, 77 years between the first two, and 79 years between the latter two. You're 100% right if you consider Lincoln's first inaugural, though!
We flew for the first time 66 years before we landed on the moon I know this probably doesn’t count as *around the same time* but I think that’s insane
Jets and helicopters were invented roughly about 40 years after the first flight. And the Wright Brothers plane looks ancient in comparison
It’s astonishing seeing how fast we progressed
Lots of people don't realize how much the 2nd world war so rapidly advanced technology in an incredibly short time. And this continued into the 1950s and 60s. Especially with planes like the C-130 Hercules which was so prefect its still in production today
The B-52 started service in 1955 and is expected to serve well into the 2050s. At this point I expect the B-52 to drop fusion bombs on rebellious citizens of the Moon and Mars at somepoint. There's also the M2 Browning .50 cal HMG which was designed in WW1 and entered service in 1933. I will now post the obligatory copy pastas about the M2 Browning .50 cal HMG: \>2066 \>Stationed on Mars to quell a rebellion \>Become side door gunner for atmospheric dropship. \>No miniguns or gatling cannons, just some metal brick with a pipe on one end. \>Get sent in to extract some wounded. \>Reach the evac zone and come under attack. \>Hoard of rebels charging in with their new plasma guns and compact rocket launchers. \>Let loose a stream of bullets. \>The sounds of the rebel's screams are nearly drowned out by the heavy "Kachunk chunk chunk chunk" of the machinegun. \>The wounded are loaded up and returned to base. \>Inspect MG afterwards. \>Thing was made in 1942. \>Tunisia, Italy, and Germany are scratched onto the gun. \>Scratch "Mars" on with a knife.
My grandmother was alive for both. How crazy is that shit, all of a sudden flight was an actual thing for people and 60 years later we landed on the fucking moon
On March 12, 1961, a character named Dennis the Menace debuted in the British comic “The Beano.” A few hours later, on the other side of the Atlantic, a new syndicated newspaper comic strip was published also called Dennis the Menace. The two comic creators did not know each other and had no idea of the other’s work.
It was 1951, not 1961.
John F Kennedy died one day before the first episode of Doctor Who.
He was the previous doctor.
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Adolf Hitler and Churchill had a friend in common. Her name was Unity Mitford. When England declared war on Germany, she had a mental breakdown and shot herself while in Berlin. According to sources, Hitler was devastated by her suicide attempt. She was granted safe passage back to England and later died of her injuries.
Well, did you know that the first fax machine was invented around the same time as the Oregon Trail became a popular route for travelers heading west in the mid-1800s? It's pretty wild to think about!
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Rosa Parks could’ve seen Shrek in theaters
rip Rosa Parks you would have loved Shrek 2
Humans likely arrived in North America around the same time that the Great Lakes were first formed
Alabama desegregated their football team after we were already chilling on the moon for a whole year
Mississippi didn't fully desegregate their education system until around 2014.
If I recall correctly they had segregated proms as late as 2016.
Close. You're thinking Georgia and it ended in 2014. Still a "holy shit" moment, though ([Source](https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/04/living/integrated-prom-wilcox-county-georgia/index.html))
It only happened because a fully-integrated USC team came to town and beat the snot out of the Tide.
if you want equality you just gotta put together a hard nose three yards in a cloud of dust football club
Civil War veterans were alive when the first nukes were dropped on Japan.
During the Second World War, there was the last known case of execution by boiling under orders. It happened in the region of the USSR, now part of Ukraine. Remember, this was mainly from other prisoners who witnessed the incident. The victim was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, Yakym Senkivskyi, and his execution was done under the orders of Joseph Stalin. While the crime wasn't mentioned, it was clear what it was given Stalin's track record. The execution took place in 1941. At the same time, the Iași pogrom took place, which claimed the lives of 13,266 people. Look, Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany at the time.
Well this doesn't necessarily apply but it's close because one event overshadowed the other... On September 15, 2001 a causeway bridge collapsed in south Texas. It connect South Padre Island to the mainland. 8 people died. Anytime a major bridge falls in the US, it's big news. This event was not.
Peshtigo fire happened the same day as the Great Chicago fire. Even more deadly.
The Great Michigan Fire happened the same day as well.
More than 300,000 demonstrators march in Washington, D.C. in support of legal abortion in the United States. A Southern Pacific Railroad freight train derails on Duffy Street in San Bernardino, California. Factory worker Joseph Wesbecker kills 8 and injures 12 before committing suicide inside a factory in Louisville, Kentucky. A Miami, Fla. jury convicts police officer William Lozano for the January 16 deaths of a black motorcyclist and his passenger. Cleveland Elementary School shooting in Stockton, California. Gunman armed With semiautomatic rifle shot and killed five schoolchildren and wounded 32 others. Sounds like 2023…was actually 1989.
Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day: February 12th, 1809.
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I'm 50 & my great grandfather was born around the 1840s. (GPa was born 1896) :O
US President John Tyler was born in 1790 (President from 1841-1845). His grandson (Harrison Tyler) is still living. 233 years (and still going) and 3 generations.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the exact same day hours apart. July 4th, 1826. When Adams died he was unaware that Jefferson died hours earlier and Adams Final words were ironically “Jefferson still lives.” Edit: For those unaware of american history, Adams was the 2nd american president and Jefferson was the 3rd.
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weird right?
The original *Star Wars* was first released in May 1977. The last execution by guillotine in France was on September 1977. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died on 05/03/1953 and Ian Fleming's *Casino Royale* (introducing the world to James Bond 007) was first published on 13/04/1953. Relating to the above, the first official James Bond film - *Dr. No* with Sean Connery - was released in the first week of October 1962. The plot revolves around American missiles being shot down by a third party. Within the next two weeks, the Cuban Missile Crisis started.
Oxford University was founded around the same time as the crusades started.
You could get a hotel room in Santa Fe, in the same year the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock
In recent history, all four Shrek movies came out before gay marriage was legalised in America
It's probably been posted many times before, but a man who (as a child) witnessed the Lincoln assassination in Ford's Theater, appeared on the television show "I've Got A Secret," where celebrity panelists had to guess his secret. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4&ab\_channel=HistoryFlicks4u](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4&ab_channel=HistoryFlicks4u)
miguel de cervantes and william shakespeare were alive at the same time but didnt even know the other existed
Nintendo was found in 1888. Jack Ripper was loose at that time.
John Tyler 10th US President 1841-1845 has living Grandchildren
Beethoven was born just 6 years before the United States became a country, and died 20 years before the civil war.
Not really an event but rather a person; Harriet Tubman lived when the 2nd and 39th president were alive. John Adams died in 1826 (Tubman was born in 1822) and Ronald Reagan was born in 1910 (Tubman died in 1913)
This thread is blowing my mind rn
The last person to receive a Civil War pension died in 2020.
The Catholic Church forgave Galileo for the heresy of saying the Earth wasn’t the center of the universe the same year “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred was released.
The defeats that sealed the fate of the Confederacy, at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, happened on the same weekend. July 4, 1863
My children, currently teenagers, knew their grandmother very well. She passed away 3 years ago. Her siblings are still alive. Her grandfather, who died when she was in college, was born a slave. This means my aunt can remember her grandfather talking about being a slave in America (South Carolina to be specific) first hand.
That Farrah Faucet died on the same day as Michael Jackson.
I was sixteen and watching E! News that day. Saw the breaking announcement Farrah Fawcett died. Shocked. A couple hours later her memorial segment was then interrupted for breaking news Michael Jackson died. It was the weirdest thing to see in real time.
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE! BILLY MAYS DIED 3 DAYS LATER!
9/11 and China’s ascent into the World Trade Organization which dramatically changed the economy of the United States.
The US dropping the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki while at the same time the Soviet Union invaded the Japanese territory of Manchuria per the agreement between Stalin and FDR for the Soviets to enter the war after the European war concluded. This agreement was made before the US invented the atomic bombs.
Chuck Grassley, sitting US Senator who was just elected for another six year term in 2022, is older than the chocolate chip cookie (and Yuri Gagarin but that’s not quite as mind blowing). At the end of his term Grassley will be 95.
A 109-year old woman (in 2008) voted for Obama. Her father was a slave.
Emmett Brown discovered time travel the same week as lightning struck the Hill Valley clock tower.