The fax machine was invented almost 2 decades before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
Also an eyewitness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln talked about it on a TV game show.
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Galileo, the homeboy who discovered Jupiter’s moons and Saturn’s rings, was 43 years old when the first British settlers landed at Jamestown.
Nintendo was founded the same year that hitler was born.
The Brooklyn bridge was being built when Custer’s last stand took place.
The last one just feels like a docudrama
Although they are both stories based on historical events that have been embellished, the Trojan war and the Hebrews leaving Egypt very well could have been happening at the same time (around 1180 BCE)
The pyramids in Egypt were built before, during and after Noah's flood was supposed to be killing everyone.
Wasn't the 'exodus' just 5 families or something?
As far as I know there is no evidence for a distinct big event, but there were smaller migration movements over a longer time period.
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Picasso passed away in the 2 years time between when Soviet Union and US launched their first space station into space.
This feels surprising mainly because I thought Picasso lived in 1400s. But no he just lived a long life in early 20th century.
You thought the guy who invented clip art lived in the 1400s?
I think many people lump him in with the Italian Renaissance, because the name. And many people don't know quite when the Renaissance happened.
The Renaissance was in the 1980s, right?
All of this makes it more confusing, not less
There were humans who lived through both the final fall of the (eastern half of) the Roman Empire (May 29, 1453) and the European discovery of the Americas (October 12, 1492). The time between these two critical milestones in European history seems like it should have been much longer than 39 years, 4 months, and 13 days.
We were so close to a neo roman Republic but instead we got America. You've ruined my day fuck you
Yeah, fuck Mehmet the second amirite guys?
I blame pope innocent the third personally
Don't hate on my man Innocent III, he said he was against attacking Christians and excommunicated the crusader army for attacking Zara. The sore loser Alexios IV Angelos offered the crusader army too much to ignore (from Wikipedia):
There, Alexios IV offered to pay the entire debt owed to the Venetians, give 200,000 silver marks to the crusaders, 10,000 Byzantine professional troops for the Crusade, the maintenance of 500 knights in the Holy Land, the service of the Byzantine navy to transport the Crusader Army to Egypt, and the placement of the Eastern Orthodox Church under the authority of the Pope, if they would sail to Constantinople and topple the reigning emperor Alexios III Angelos, brother of Isaac II.
That fucker got ousted by the public one year later and didn't deliver anything so he essentially scammed the whole crusade. The other parts of the army not simping for Venetian and Thessalonian rat plans just went straight to Acre instead.
NO!!! MY NARRITIVE!!! HOW COULD YOU!!!
I was surprised too, I think there should be a twitch chat version for all history
Both of these points are common denominators for the end of the european middle ages, so it's not surprising they are close to each other
Romans saw the Americas
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were born in the same year, which made them 3 years younger than Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe
Julius Caesar and Cleopatra died 40-30 years before the birth of Jesus Christ
Well, Julius Caesar and Cleopatra were an item, so it is not that surprising they were contemporary.
I knew that Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe were less than two months apart with their birthdays (21 Apr 1926 vs. 1 Jun 1926), but it was always a bit surreal. Can you imagine a 80 year old Marilyn Monroe in 2006?
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