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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:53 pm
by Sorus
2363 - USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) is launched from the Utopia Planitia shipyards in Mars orbit, and becomes the Federation's new flagship.
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 11:26 am
by aTOMiC
2483 - The Earth colony in the Sack Lunch nebula is attacked by a swarm of flesh eating whatchamacallits that completely consume the colonists but ultimately the entire whatchamacallit race dies from spontaneous obesity caused by eating humans out of season.
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:50 am
by Sorus
930 - Establishment of the Althing, the parliament of Iceland, at ingvellir ("Thing Fields"). Chieftains from various tribes assemble for 2 weeks (at a thing) to settle disputes, arrange marriages - it continues in existence into the 21st century as the world's oldest parliament of the Icelandic Commonwealth.
(If anyone needs me, I'll be down the etymological rabbithole, following thing.)
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:31 am
by aTOMiC
1154 - Stephen, King of England dies at Dover, and is succeeded by Henry Plantagenet, the son of his cousin Matilda.
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 2:34 am
by Sorus
1574 - Battle of Mookerheyde: Spanish forces under Sancho de Avila defeat the rebel forces of Louis of Nassau, who is killed.
Probably not the most significant event of the year, but Mookerheyde is an awesome word.
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 6:30 pm
by dANdeLION
2017 - Xenophobia overwhelms my ficticious pet chicken.
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2017 11:49 pm
by Cord Hurn
In the year 1290: Upon the death of Magnus III, he is succeeded by his 10-year-old son Birger as king of Sweden.
In The Year Game - Part Deux
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2023 9:12 pm
by sgt.null
1492 Colombo in rumpled jacket said boo