>Alaskans, Kazakhs, and Finns used to be fellow countrymen
>the last mammoths died while the pyramids were being built
>mongolians were fighting both crusaders and samurai at once
>the filing cabinet was invented the same year as the remote control boat, 30 years before sliced bread
>When pilgrims were landing on Plymouth Rock, you could visit Santa Fe, New Mexico to stay at a hotel, eat at a restaurant and buy native american silver.
>1912 saw the tragic voyage of the Titanic as well as the birth of vitamins, x-ray crystallography, and MDMA
>The last inmate to die by firing squad in the US did so the day Toy Story 3 came out
>The first wagon train of the oregon trail headed out the same year the fax machine is invented
>Shakespeare was still alive when the British began colonizing America
>The Eastern Roman Empire fell only forty years before Columbus reached the Americas. Romans heard news of the discovery of a new continent
>Pablo Picasso died the year Pink Floyd released "Dark Side of the Moon"
>Genghis Khan and King John were contemporaries. Khan sacked Beijing (then called Zhongdu) the year the Magna Carta was signed, 1215
>Prisoners began to arrive to Auschwitz a few days after McDonalds was founded
>John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley all died on the same day
>Coca-Cola is only 31 years younger than Italy
>Aldous Huxley was George Orwell's French teacher in high school
>Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth II were born in the same year.
>John Quincy Adams knew both Washington and Lincoln
>Spain was still a fascist dictatorship when Microsoft was founded
>Karl Marx was a supporter of Abraham Lincoln
>Mozart was entering the height of his career at the same time that America was declaring independence as a nation
>Galileo died the same year Newton was born
>Nintendo was founded in 1888. Jack the Ripper was on the loose in 1888. The Washington Monument was finished in 1888.
>Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the exact same day
>>363657
w-what.... saved
>>363657
>Socrates was born 469 BC, 10 years after the death of Confucius
>The Ottoman empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won the world series
>The last use of the guillotine was in France the same year Star Wars came out
>Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Junior were born on the same year
>While General Custer was fighting native tribes on the frontier, the Brooklyn Bridge was being built
>The pyramids of Giza were as old to the ancient romans as the ancient romans are to us
>The Inauguration of the Eiffel Tower, and the wall street journal, Starry Night, Coca-cola, Nintendo, birth of Adolf Hitler, and Thomas Midgley Jr. all began/happened on the same year
>Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire
>Late actor Christopher Lee was present at the last public guillotine execution in France
>Guns had been in use in China for about 200 years when the English defeated the French at Crécy through the novel use of the longbow
>Winston Churchill fought in the Zulu war
>The USA was invaded and the White house was burned down at the same time the French had conquered continental europe
>9/11 is now closer to the fall of the Berlin Wall than the current year
>The Home Insurance Building and castle Schloss Neuschwanstein were built at the same time
>When World War II happened, there were still ex-slaves living in the US
>We put a man on the moon before we put wheels on suitcases
>Harriet Tubman died when Rosa Parks was just over one month old.
>Today's oldest tree was 1000 years old when the last Wooly Mammoth died.
>Yellowstone National Park was established the year after Germany officially became a country
>Earnest Hemmingway knew Picasso
>Orville Wright and Niel Armstrong were alive at the same time
>The first Sherlock Holmes story was published the same year Basketball was invented
>Lenin died the same year George H W Bush was born
>Socrates taught Plato who taught Aristotle who taught Alexander the Great
>>363657
quality pasta right here
>>363657
The ones that always surprise me are famous composers. I always have an image of them in the distant past, but a lot of them were around after the declaration of independence/french revolution what have you. I also forget how early the new world was discovered.
>>363708
>9/11 is now closer to the fall of the Berlin Wall than the current year
since the Chicago Cubs last won the World Series
>Fall of the Ottoman Empire
>The Titanic sank
>2 World Wars
>First trans-Atlantic flight
>Hindenburg disaster
>Digital watches
>Microwaves
>Color television
>Harry Caray was born...and died
>Theory of general relativity
>Commercial aviation
>British Empire dissolved
>Quantum mechanics
>Nuclear power
>Mickey Mouse
>Haley's Comet 2passed...twice
>Man went to the moon
>The NBA, NHL, & NFL were formed
>Chicago teams from each of those sports leagues have won championships
>4 states were added to the Union
>3 US Presidents died while in office, 1 was impeached & 1 resigned
>Soviet Union forms...and falls
>Every current MLB ballpark has since been built
>The Red Sox began, and ended, their curse
>The Boy Scouts were founded
>Pluto became the ninth planet...and then had the planet label revoked
>The moving assembly line is introduced
>League of Nations was founded...and eventually replaced by the United Nations
>Talkies
>First World Cup is played
>Women's suffrage
>Segregation ended
>the last moas and haast eagles died around the time the Gutenberg Bible was first printed
>The time periods represented in Gone With the Wind, Anne of Green Gables, and Little House in the Big Woods were all within 10 years of each other
>Shirley Temple and Philip Seymour Hoffman died in the same month.
>William Shakespeare (Who lived through the mobilization of the spanish armada) and Miguel Cervantes (Who fought in the battle of Lepanto) died within 2 days of each other
>The sushi roll and sandwich were created in the same century. Both were made by noblemen, one in Japan and one in Europe, who loved playing games (Go and Chess, respectably) so much that they demanded their chefs make a meal that they can eat with one hand so they didn't have to stop playing.
>Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landings than she did to the building of the Pyramids of Giza
>Doctor Who premiered the day after the Kennedy Assassination.
>Oreos were invented the same year the titanic sank
>Oxygen was discovered during the American Revolution
>Some of the people who watched the last public hanging in London likely traveled there on the underground
>Mississippi abolished slavery the same year NASA put Curiosity on Mars.
>Baseball in St. Louis and the Little Big Horn happened at the same time
>The U.S.A. and the Holy Roman Empire were contemporaries
>When Kublai Khan became the Mongol Emperor, the first humans were setting foot on New Zealand.
>Newton came up with gravity about the same time Massachusetts became a colony.
>The Swedish mining company Stora Kopparberg (shut down in 1992) was founded in the same century as lions became extinct in Europe
>The Taj Mahal was built during the 30 Years War
>The first commercial radio station was founded the same year slavery was abolished in China
>Joseph Smith died the year Nelson Mandela was born
>The last american slave died in 1971
>Mountain Dew was invented when the Nazis invaded Belgium
>The last widow of a US Civil War veteran died after the release of the iPhone 3G.
>George Washington Carver lived to be filmed in color.
>>363759
>Joseph Smith died the year Nelson Mandela was born
This is wildly wrong.
>Mississippi abolished slavery the same year NASA put Curiosity on Mars.
HOW THE FUCK DID I MISS THIS?
>the last Confederate soldier's widow died in 2008 (the last widow's pension was paid out to a different women until she died in 2004)
>>363657
>in the late 1800s the passenger pigeon was the most numerous bird in the world; the last one died in 1914
>>363759
>>The sushi roll and sandwich were created in the same century. Both were made by noblemen, one in Japan and one in Europe, who loved playing games (Go and Chess, respectably) so much that they demanded their chefs make a meal that they can eat with one hand so they didn't have to stop playing.
The Sushi roll was invented by Nip fishermen as a way to preserve fish meat, tard.
>The Simpsons and the Soviet Union existed at the same time.
>People who fought alongside General Custer saw the moon landing
>Plate armor, guns, and cannons were invented at the same time
>The last Shogun of Japan knew of both Bloody Sunday and the building of the Panama canal
>Buenos Aires was found the same year that Ann Boleyn was beheaded
>J.J. Thompson discovered the electron six years after the battle of Little Big Horn.
>The first bicycle was built 3 years after the first steam locomotive
>Tchaikovsky died the day before Colorado women were allowed to vote.
>Al Capone was born the same year a car first reached 100 km/h
>You could buy a Ford Model T and visit the Ottoman Empire at the same time.
>Elvis and Groucho Marx died 3 days apart.
>The Greek Civil War took place about the same time as the French decolonization of Africa
>The pilgrims landed in America less than 100 years after the Aztec empire fell.
>The Mughal Empire was dissolved by the British at the time the American Civil War was going on.
>The Book of Ruth in The Bible documents the Persian side of the Battle of Thermopylae, or at least the Persians preparations for the war against Greece that contained it.
>The Aztec empire was founded the same year Joan of Arc started hearing voices
>John Travolta was born on the day that the first church of Scientology was established
>There were people born during the Samurai era that saw the Atom bomb
>The Summer of Love and the peak of Cultural Revolution in China were happening at the same time
>Michelangelo was an apprentice sculptor when Columbus landed in the Americas
>The last armed Native American conflict was happening when the last American soldier left Vietnam, the first MLB designated hitter was used, the first mobile phone call happened, and Dark Side of the Moon was released
>Tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer in time to Humans than to Stegosaurus
>Socrates died on the same day as the Buddha
>Homer's Iliad was made the same year as the birth of Rome
>Bach produced his first composition on the same day the Declaration of Independence was signed
>Coca-Cola was invented the same year as the end of the Crimean War
>Dante's Inferno was finished on the same date as Paradise Lost, just different years
>Chaucer's Canterbury Tales were made during Caesar's Gallic Campaigns
>The battle of Thermopylae was on the same date, but different year, as the American invasion of Iraq
>Abraham Lincoln died the day Alice in Wonderland was published
>>363803
>>Chaucer's Canterbury Tales were made during Caesar's Gallic Campaigns
>>363803
Topkek
ITT the only actual use for a history degree
>>363801
>Tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer in time to Humans than to Stegosaurus
It's thought that some stegosaurs might have survived until the end of the Cretaceous on the then-island-continent of India. Some are definitely dated to the early Cretaceous so would be closer to T-rex than to us.
>>363810
That ones's off by over a thousand years
>>363820
...although strictly speaking of the genus Stegosaurus (not the larger family) it's correct.
At this exact moment, you are all now conscious of your own breathing because of some asshole sitting in a chair in nothing but his underwear, in Indiana.
>the heavies animal species known to have ever existed is alive today
>>363801
>>The Book of Ruth in The Bible documents the Persian side of the Battle of Thermopylae, or at least the Persians preparations for the war against Greece that contained it.
Never heard of this before, just looked into and it's the Book of Esther not Ruth
>>363844
>>363771
I'm drunk as fuck right now, apologies
>there are still uncontacted tribes alive in the world today.
>>363777
No
>>363876
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Martin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maudie_Hopkins
>>363886
Ah a strange technicality. I was thinking some one widowed by the war not a may December romance.
>>363708
>Winston Churchill fought in the Zulu war
He also took past in the last (notable) calvary charge in British history (in Sudan)
>>363803
>Socrates died on the same day as the Buddha
What day is anyone's guess, but surprisingly it's plausible.
>Phoenicians circumnavigated Africa nearly 2000 years before any European
>The Norse discovered and settled the the New World almost 500 years before Columbus
>Austronesians were navigating across whole oceans a over thousand years before the European Age of Discovery
>>363972
>The ancestors of Australian Aboriginals were able to cross at least 90km of ocean over 50000 years ago.
>>363816
It's a fucking shame.
>>363801
>The battle of Thermopylae was on the same date, but different year, as the American invasion of Iraq
that must of been intentional
>>363657
>Karl Marx was a supporter of Abraham Lincoln
Not really at all, but the way their stories intertwine is really wonderfully told by Kevin Peraino in "Lincoln in the World"
An small example:
>Marx [despite losing his newspaper job and in bad health] remained obsessed with the with the Civil War. He continued to shift through newspapers at an American coffeehouse in London. The conflict was such a part of his daily life that his children began to share his enthusiasm. Marx’s daughter Eleanor.. later recalled, ‘I had the unshakeable conviction that Abraham Lincoln could not succeed without my advice.’ The six-year-old wrote the American president long letters, which Marx promised to take to the post office.
Lots of good stuff in that book.
>>363708
>>Late actor Christopher Lee was present at the last public guillotine execution in France
Does his bad-assness never end?
>>364234
how can someone be so arrogant.
>>364615
it ended on June 7, 2015
>>364667
Rip in peace
>>363657
t-that's bullshit but i believe it
