What's your favorite moment in history

Napoleon's first Italian campaign.
Napoleon's escape from Elba and subsequent march to Paris.
Battle of Waterloo.

Battle of Alesia between Caesar and Vercingetorix.

Baldassare Cossa becoming a pope in 1410.

 

Gettysburg address. Magna Carta. Discovery of wheel.

 

Christmas 1914. Although what happened for the next 3 years after that wasn't so great.

 

are you talking about the halt in fighting in the trenches during ww1? that was great. too bad they all just able to continue celebrating and just go home.the generals didn't like it much though.

 

Yeah. I was talking about that. My great uncle was there, though sadly he didn't live long enough to be able to tell me about it. I wish it could have just made everyone see how wrong the fighting was, but sadly, wars don't work like that

 

the French revolution is amazing to learn about, with like Marie Antoinette and Louis ...
but nothing beats the 60s

 

Oh yeah, the French revolution and other rapid consequences of the age of enlightenment are one of my favourite periods as well. I bet the sixties would be nothing special without the age of enlightenment :biggrin:

 

When Charles de Gaulle died and Satan forked his arse.

 

Are you trying to undermine my Ratheon and General Electric stocks?
(Just joking of course.)

 

I was around in the sixties. We knew goddam well we weren't in any age of enlightenment. We were just trying to stay free and stay out of the reach of pig oppression. Some of us succeeded and some didn't. I was personally able to flee pig military enslavement by emigrating from the Amerikan state.

Back to Great Moments in History. How about 30 April, 1945? The day Adolf Hitler put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Too bad he didn't do that twelve years earlier...

 

I think my most favorite historical time was in North America before the Europeans arrived. I would love to be able to see the Pueblo villages in the Southwest before the Spaniards, or the Plains tribes before the pioneers started pushing westward.

 

Sortez du Canada. Nous n'avons pas besoin de plus de lâches, vous cochon.

 

1989, the fall of communism in eastern Europe and the first definitive steps toward collapse of the Soviet Union. I once thought I would never live to see it.

 

These periods in North America seem great to me as well, especially the plain tribes appeal to me. Although when we're really talking about favourite moments or times in history I have to say the 20st century is roughly the most fascinating to me. Not in the least because of the developments in North America but also because of the involvement of the europeans in the whole world, from India til Africa (especially the middle-east and north Africa) and also how it shaped the present. Industrialisation and revolutions (especially in Europe) and so on. But yeah, I have been intrigued by the culture clash of white men and the indians (and chinese for that matter as well, although that realisation came later) since I was a child. Now that I think of it I didn't even picked sides. The cowboys and bountyhunters were immensly cool as well :cheers2:

 

I have been intrigued by the culture clash of white men and the indians since I was a child.

Me too, but I have a hard time reading books and articles about the culture clash now because it makes me so angry. It also irritates me that many modern historians seem to have the idea that Native history began when the Europeans "discovered" them. Most Native groups have an extensive oral history and mythology that is largely ignored.

Personally, I've studied the Southwest tribes the most because that's where I live, and their oral traditions are incredibly fascinating. It's amazing to me that the Hopi oral history, for instance, is given less credence than the early chapters of the Old Testament, which is also based on oral traditions passed down for thousands of years. I realize that oral traditions can't always be relied upon to be factually accurate, but just to give one example, if the Hopi people adamantly insist that their ancestors did not cross into North America via the Bering land bridge, why can't the anthropological community believe them?

Hmm ... sorry to drift off-topic. As a favorite period in history, I think it's hard to beat Pre-Columbian North America.

 

My understanding is that, as a farce, some American Indians (aka First Nations People) sailed east a few years back and 'discovered' Italy. A quick Google search I performed revealed no information about this, so I don't know if anyone really did this or not.

Most of us realize that from day one of their invasion, Spain set out to enslave every Arawak or other native they could lay their hands on. Columbus himself was shipped back to Spain in 1500, in chains, for gross incompetence and mismanagement of Hispaniola. It bothers me to see mountains, rivers, towns and an entire country named after this dirtbag.

According to Wikipedia, justice was served on the first expedition of Columbus.

There is increasing modern scientific evidence that this voyage also brought syphilis back from the New World. Many of the crew members who served on this voyage later joined the army of King Charles VIII in his invasion of Italy in 1495 resulting in the spreading of the disease across Europe and as many as 5 million deaths. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoper_Columbus
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Sorry, I made the mistake of trying to read through the above article start to finish, and I just can't go on right now.

 

You're saying that syphilis originated in the New World? Wow, I never heard that.

 

The greatest day in this countries history was the day O J Simpson was acquitted
in the death of Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson :cheers2:

My friends and I partied well into the night, because for the first time in american history
white people were given a brief glimpse into the struggle for justice in America



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Maybe so, but he still did it. The trial was more about the nincompoops in the LAPD and prosecutor's office than it was about guilt or innocence.

 

Of course he gave nicole that colombian neck-tie; but the lesson the
trial offered reverberated throughout the civilized world


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