What is the most 'groundbreaking' event to occur in Europe that many people don't know of?
>>985746
I don't know what you mean by groundbreaking, but the wars in Yugoslavia are rarely ever talked about and they are pretty much irrelevant to anyone living outside those countries. Which I find kind of sad because there was a lot of misery and suffering during those times that noone remembers, then again maybe it is better to forget.
Not too many people have heard of the Magna Carta which was a charter agreed upon by KIng John of England in 1215. The Magna Carta (Great Charter) essentially laid down what we know today as, "Rule of Law." Some of the physical document we have today is damaged but there are sections on the right of a fair trial, justice by jury and other civil liberties. Not only did it change Europe but it affected the entire world as parts of the document have been echoed in The United States Bill of Rights, The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the ECHR. I would say that not many people today know about it, but within the legal community it is treated as the holy grail.
The battle of Lepanto
Always get ignored in favor of Vienna
Finno-Korean hyperwar
>>986582
Everyone knows about the Magna Carta, and it was nowhere near as influential as you put it
>>985746
The son of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon dies. Their grandson from their older daughter dies.
Their son of their younger daughter inherits. The Habsburg empire happens.
>>986585
This
It prevented Ottoman Presence in either of the Western Med or The Atlantic/Indian Ocean
The introduction of new farming techniques to northern Europe.
Made the earths able to give a bigger yield to everyone, leading to a the places like Germany and Denmark being able to hold a far bigger influence on the great game than they earlier had.
>>985746
The Sanitation Movement is pretty unknown, but it revolutionized how cities were built and how people lived in them
>>986585
Or battles/sieges in Hungary.
>>985746
Treaty of Verdun
>>986585
Good choice, that battle basically annihilated the ottomans as a naval power. From the 17th century onward they were barely able to keep up with Venice, nevermind Spain and Britain.
Battle of Austerlitz. Most military buffs know it, very few others do.
It allowed for Napoleon to begin conquering other Euro nations, which led to the increase of nationalism which was a major cause for wwi and therefore wwii.So i guess in a dark twisted way then Austerlitz is the deadliest battle ever with a 100mil+ casualty count
>>985746
It's where we fucked Neanderthals
>>987129
>tfw the birth of napoleons mother killed hundreds of millions
That time a militia of communist Jews tried to take over Germany.
>Frederick III, German Emperor
>Professed a hatred of warfare and was praised by friends and enemies alike for his humane conduct.
>The office of Chancellor, responsible to the Emperor, would be replaced with a British-style cabinet, with ministers responsible to the Reichstag. Government policy would be based on the consensus of the cabinet.
>Upon Wilhelm's death at the age of ninety on 9 March 1888, the throne passed to Frederick, who had by then been Crown Prince for seventeen years. Frederick was suffering from cancer of the larynx when he died on 15 June 1888, aged fifty-six.
It could've been so different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_wine_press#Middle_ages_and_the_increasing_popularity_of_the_basket_press
Would later lead to the book press.
>>986589
I... the what now?
>>987147
So true xD
The Hodomolor, ask any random person ion the street whether they know what it was and they probably won't have a clue.
The Fall of Constantinople, or even the fact that the ERE was a thing that existed eludes a lot people. Consequently they also don't know that for a while there half of Europe was a Muslim domain.
Matter of fact almost anything related to Eastern Europe is pretty unknown to the first world countries of the West.
>>987175
>Eastern
>Roman
>Empire
>>987175
> random famine #139
> groundbreaking event
Are you Ukrainian by any chance?
>>987221
>Unprecedented horror
>not groundbreaking
>>987221
>>>/2ch/
>>987282
>The same shit happened every 10-20 years
>Unprecedented
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_and_famines_in_Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union
here is image of most important event in history
taken with ancient Greek camera
>>987294
>ignoring the fact that the famine was caused by the government taking away crops and letting people starve rather than a bad harvesting season
Are you a gommie by any chance?
>>987153
>It could've been so different.
Could it? Bismarck's influence was it its apex and the Emperors anyways were largely figureheads of the junker junta.
Gothic wars.
>>987650
>caused by the government taking away crops and letting people starve
The exporting grain meme is a joke; the government exported far less grain than in previous years.
Moreover, the Soviet government gave a massive amount of agricultural aid to the Ukrainian SSR.
>>987650
> government taking away crops
to export it,
> letting people starve
because there were no crops left in the country, because it was
> bad harvesting season
The same shit happened during the empire many times and in 1921. The same shit happened in Ireland in 1846 and in Bengal in 1943, and in China in 50s. There noting "groundbreaking" or "unprecedented" here, this is how agriculture worked before.
>>985746
All of them. People generally don't know shit and most people don't live in Europe or the America's
>>987639
olive oil can't melt iron bars
>>985746
Defenestration of Prague (second one)
>>987639
top lel
The battle of Tours
There are exactly 9 people that don't know about it. And they all live in Canada.
>>988334
>The battle of Tours
the fucking true. pretty sure Germanistan would have happened in 1400s instead of 2015
>>987190
>was geographically the eastern half of the Roman Empire
>spoke Greek, but generally considered themselves to be Romans in all other ways
>definitely an Empire
What's the meme here?
>>987158
It's a shitty meme that people won't stop spouting because they think they are being clever by mentioning "le hyperwar". I wish it would die already.
>>987175
>Hodomolor
Good lord, you butchered that spelling. But yes, it's a tragedy that no one cares about it.
>>987158
The conflict between the ancient Finnish Empire and Hwan Dynasty. Other belligerents included the We, Wuz and Kang dynastic technocracies of the African continent.
>>986603
>falling for the joke
The Earthquake of Lisbon in 1755.
Wiped out Portugal from the Colonial game, and also turned European social attention to rationalism and empiricism away from religious explanations to the world.
Also, wasn't it one of the first major news stories to be spread almost instantly across the whole of Europe, marking the beginning of international mass media?
>>990373
Huh? I never knew it was called the Holodomor until now but I certainly knew it happened. We learned about it way back in High school curriculum, and every anti commie every points to it for gods sake.
>>990489
This. one of the most important moments in history that everyone seems to overlook.
>>990198
The fact that none of your greentext is correct
Not exactly "groundbreaking", but the Peshtigo fire is relatively unknown yet insane.
A massive fire tornado that couldve been as large as almost 2 miles in diameter, that took out an area two times the state of rhode island.
>>990538
>>990396
great joke
>>987113
Bullshit, the turks built another fleet few years later, and conquered Cyprus and Crete anyway.
Lepante just delayed the ottoman conquest of venetian territories for few years.
It was a epic battle yes, but to quote the ottoman vizir :
>You come to see how we bear our misfortune.
>But I would have you know the difference between your loss and ours. In wresting Cyprus from you, we deprived you of an arm; in defeating our fleet, you have only shaved our beard. An arm when cut off cannot grow again; but a shorn beard will grow all the better for the razor.
Lepante is a meme.
>>991288
Actually not even few years, they built more than 150 galleys six months after the battle.
>>991288
>>991293
This is actually a meme. Yeah, the wood was easy to replace, but the manpower wasn't. The ottoman navy after Lepanto lacked both in training and leadership, and was barely a match for the venetian fleet, nevermind a coalition of mediterranean navies like it was required to fight Lepanto.
Results speak for themselves: Lepanto was the last naval battle the ottos fought as a superpower.
>>991293
>they built more than 150 galleys six months after the battle
Is that supposed to be impressive? The venetian arsenal alone could match that rate. Building galleys is cheap.
>Groundbreaking event
The invention of the heavy plow allowing the cultivation of previously unlovable land allowing growth of population and subsequent colonization of previously unusable land.
>>987715
You could explain some of it
>>987639
Oh god I'm dying over here.
