Count to 10,000 and Down to -10,000

[Petrarch's Love]

1251-Hope you find one then :nod: . Does that mean you're living with the folks now, or do you just mean you need a different apartment from the one you're now in?

[kathycf]

1252, coming straight at you! :brow:

[RobinHood3000]

1253 - Robin mourns for his not-so-worthy opponent.

[RJbibliophil]

hey all....1254

[Petrarch's Love]

1255--Robina completes an ornate tapestry of the epic shuffleboard match between her father and the Sheriff. Meanwhile Robin Jr. and his sister Azeema who are now 25 and 23 years old respectively, ride off in search of adventure.

(Hi there Piglet :))

[RobinHood3000]

1256 - Robin drapes the magnificent tapestry from the branches of the great oak of Sherwood, for all to see.

[Petrarch's Love]

1257-Robina is very proud that her handiwork is displayed so prominently. Meanwhile, she gets a letter from Azeema that Robin Jr. has fallen madly in love with a woman on trial for witchcraft in York.

[RobinHood3000]

1258 - Robin rides post-haste to Robin, Jr. Upon arrival, he asks him a simple question. "Does she weigh more...or less...than a duck?"

[Petrarch's Love]

1259-Robin Jr. is unsure and goes to find a duck to make perfectly certain of this point. After weighing his lady-love against the duck he is aghast to find that the woman weighs less. He still loves her though, and they run off hand in hand pursued by an angry rabble.

[kathycf]

~~~1260~~~

[RobinHood3000]

1261 - Robin fends off the mob with ease, mostly because they recognize him and flee from him as soon as he nocks his bow.

[Petrarch's Love]

1262-Robin Jr. and his lighter-than-a-duck girlfriend elope to Bohemia. Back in England Azeema accompanies her Grandfather back to Sherwood.

[Kelly_Sprout]

1263 - Eric the Redneck rows to the New World in a Viking longship. Stepping off his ship at the mouth of the Hudson River, he immediately goes into a tourist shop and buys a postcard which he sends to Azemma saying, "Having a wonderful time. Wish you were here."

[Shakira]

http://www.naturgut-ophoven.de/Bilder/GE/1264.jpg

[RobinHood3000]

1265 - Robin intercepts the postcard and, though he does pass it along to Azeema, also sends his own reply: a photo of himself, bow drawn full, pointed straight at the camera.

[Shakira]

http://peeron.com/pics/inv/setpics/1266-1.1126566898.thumb2.jpg

[RJbibliophil]

1

2

6

7

[grace86]

1268 - How was your birthday?

[Hyacinth Girl]

1269 - - - -

[Petrarch's Love]

1270- Eric the Redneck sails to England with the intention of kidnapping Azeema. Being a skilled swordswoman like her mother, she deftly fends him off, and ends up falling in love with his brother, Leif the Looker instead. After the gentlemanly Leif asks Azeem and Robina for their daughter's hand in marriage, the family starts getting ready for the big wedding.

[RobinHood3000]

1271 - Robin, with Friar Tuck's help, stockpiles several thousand kegs of ale in preparation of libations for the celebration.

[papayahed]

1272..........

[tainaprincess]

1273...hey!

[Kelly_Sprout]

1274 - Robin is found snoring under an Oak tree with a bad case of hiccups and 486 kegs of Ale lying empty around him.

[RobinHood3000]

1275 - The hangover finally wears off.

[Petrarch's Love]

1276-Robina and Azeem celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary by taking a cruise around the known world courtesy of the Skandanavian cruise line started up by Azeema's husband, Leif the Looker.

[RobinHood3000]

1277 - Robin, feeling the Empty Nest, attempts to follow in a rowboat, but falls behind, is caught in a storm, and is stranded on a deserted tropical island.

[caesar]

1278 - Having lost his boat and his bow and his chance of escape being low, he wanders aimlessly for many days. His ramblings bring him to the other end of the island and he beholds with despair the endless ocean. The divide between the ephemeral life and eternal death seems narrow on the brink of the island. The last embers of hope are doused in cold hopelessness and he obligingly approaches the dark waves beckoning him to cross the last threshold. As he comes closer to the periphery he witnesses a sight previously hidden behind a pile of rocks. His heart leaps with joy at the sight of something which is better than what he had hoped for. Women! Naked women, sunbathing! He swiftly ducks behind the rocks and crawls slowly toward them until there is only a single rock which keeps him out of their sight. He listens intently to their talking, but it sounds like gibberish. He becomes impatient and decides to ask for help. As he comes out from behind the rock into their view, they shriek in terror and before he can utter a word they turn into mermaids and plunge in to the ocean.

[RobinHood3000]

1279 - Robin spends most of the year screaming in frustration, pausing for breath, and screaming some more. He fashions a bow out of saplings wound together and a string out of bark. Attaching coconuts and leaves to the ends of sticks, he manages to create a deadly arsenal of Coconut Arrows. Striking the island animals unconscious with his new arrows, Robin becomes the scourge of the isle. Fortunately, he has the foresight not to hunt the island bare. He also occasionally stops by the beach to flex his ancient muscles, hoping the mermaids will be drawn to him.

[Kelly_Sprout]

1280 - At midnight on December 31, 1279, a single mermaid swims up to a rock jutting out of the waves. She flips something flat toward Robin who came to the shore immediately. (Does he watch for the mermaids day and night? Apparently so!) The flat object sails like a pie tin although, since pie tins haven't been invented yet, Robin decides to call it a "frizz be" for reasons known only to himself. When he picks it up, he sees that it once was a flounder. Now, the skin, dried and stretched taut, has become a canvas upon which the mermaid has drawn Robin.

It seems that Robin is holding an arrow in the drawing at roughly hip level....

[RobinHood3000]

1281 - Robin, vaguely shocked, scribbles on the canvas in blood (lacking any other ink) and tosses it back.

The message:

Can I have a ride back to England?

[caesar]

1282 - He hopes that one of the mermaids will take pity on him. But to Robin’s misfortune, the stench of blood on the canvas attracts hundreds of sharks. The canvas is swallowed by one unlucky shark. And what followed was bloody mayhem. The hitherto harmless herbivorous sharks turn cannibalistic and attack the one which swallowed the blood stained canvas, tearing away chunks of meat until the canvas is once again out in the agitated waters turbid with blood. The blood bath continues until only a few fatally injured and lame ones, unable to fight any more, retreat.

The sunlight can no longer penetrate the opaque waters, now, almost, saturated with blood. The beautiful mermaids who dwell on the ocean floor soon become aware of the untimely darkness that has engulfed their heavenly abode. They not only see that their surroundings are now illuminated in pallid red but also sense a mild but intensifying stench of death. The crimson fluid soon pervades their entire dwelling and the nauseating stench forces them to leave the waters. With fear and curiosity they take to their tails and swim hastily towards the surface where they are greeted by mutilated bodies of dead sharks floating all around. There being no other refuge, they swim towards the shore and notice that several dead sharks have been washed ashore. They also notice a fire burning on the seashore.

The mermaids having turned into women upon setting their tail on the shore, make their way towards the fire. On reaching there, as one would have already guessed, they come across our friend, Robin, who is fast asleep, after feasting on a dead shark and emptying a bottle of rum which he had found amongst a ancient ship-wreck. The mermaids notice the pile of fish bones next to him and conclude that he is the miscreant who has caused the defilement of their abode. One of them nudges him awake. Robin, who is still in a inebriated condition, slowly opens his eyes. He is dumbstruck with awe at the sight of unclad women, whose wet bodies gleam in the twilight with the crimson hue cast by dancing flames. Blood continues to drips from their long golden hair. One of them holds out a tattered canvas before his face which he recognizes.

[Madhuri]

1283........a loooooooong pause............

[Nightshade]

1284
The mermaids finally leave robin for dead on the island and go off to play with bubble balls.

[RobinHood3000]

1285 - NOOOOO!!!

Robin gets up and staggers towards the water with the intent of diving in after the mermaids, but is so horribly hammered that he falls forward, planting his face in the dirt. Using his fingers and toes, he slowly crawls towards the sea across the thankfully-no-longer-hot sand.

[Nightshade]

1286 what he didnt realise is it would take him a YEAR to crawl in this fashion but finally like a very lucky newly hatched turtle he reached the sea. But by then the mermaids had migrated due to global warming.

[caesar]

1287 - But before he can get to the water the mermaids once again return; each carrying a bag full of jewels. They walk past him without sparing him a glance. Several uneventful days pass and Robin gets tired of looking at the mermaids who continue to ignore him. In addition to the relentless jabbering, all that the mermaids did was wear their jewellery, sun bathe and remove the jewellery before going to sleep.

[Madhuri]

1288 - Robin was looking for this opportunity and he decamped with all the jewellery.

[caesar]

1289 - Only to be taken prisoner by Caesar who was returning with his fleet after plundering Atlantis.

[Madhuri]

1290 - Robin thought, it's just a matter of time and he would soon be out of prison to take his revenge.

[caesar]

1291 - However noble Caesar has no plans to keep Robin alive for long. He intends to offer him as sacrifice to mighty Poseidon to secure a safe passage home.

[Pendragon]

1292 Robin finally finished his shiv, and stabbed his jailor when he brought him his so-called daily meal. Robin has now escaped from prison, and exits the cell joyfully, only to trip over the beard he grew during his long incarceration! :brow:

[Hyacinth Girl]

1293. . . Robin, back in his cell after his foiled escape attempt, is miserable. In the meantime, Caesar manages to pick up a priest stranded on a shipwrecked galleon. Not knowing what else to do with him, he throws the priest in with Robin. . .

[Petrarch's Love]

1294--The priest turns out to be Pietro del Morone, the reclusive monk who is attempting to flee rather than be elected Pope. He befriends Robin while hiding out in Caesar's jail cell (what Caesar's doing still alive in 1294 is a mystery...but then Robin's getting up there in years too :lol: ), and when the King of Naples comes along to escort him back to Rome, he takes Robin with him. Robin gets to shoot off an honorary golden arrow when Morone becomes Pope Celestine V in August. Robin gets to drinking too much Vatican wine in the company of a fat cardinal. Unfortunately for Robin, by the time he's fully sober again, Pope Celestine V has started abdication procedures. By December he's out and Boniface VIII is in.

[RobinHood3000]

1295 - Robin wonders why on earth things keep happening to him in spite of his not posting anything. At any rate, Robin barters sketches of naked mermaids for safe passage back to England. And a shave (he tries to only make his mistakes once). The Pope, as it happens, is his primary trade partner.

[kathycf]

...1....2...9...6

[Petrarch's Love]

1297- Robin has just sat down after arriving home, when Robina and Azeem come in from their 'round the world cruise. Figuring that he probably hasn't been up to much, they tease Robin that he must not have moved the whole time they were gone, since he's sitting in the same spot as when they left.

[Shakira]

http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/January2006/FridayWEBimages/1298.jpg

[Shakira]

http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/January2006/FridayWEBimages/1299.jpg

[literaturerocks]

1300~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[Nightshade]

1301


:d

[Shakira]

http://www.xhongda.com/imge1/1302.jpg

[literaturerocks]

1303~~~~~~~~~~~$%^&*(

[Petrarch's Love]

1304--Petrarch is born! :banana:

[grace86]

1305 - Happy first birthday Petrarch

[RobinHood3000]

1306 - Robin, who is NOT in the mood for lip right now, shoots each Robina and Azeem in the foot.

[caesar]

1307 - Their feet being firmly stuck to the wooden floor by Robin’s arrow, Robina and Azeem scream in pain. Robin calmly takes out a couple of deadly blood-sucking leeches from a small metal container and pops one each into their open mouths. These are no ordinary leeches. While Robin was the honoured guest of Pope Celestine V, he had illicitly procured these mutant leeches, from the well-known V.S.L. (Vatican Secret Laboratory) where they were created. The clergy used them to murder anyone who claimed that Jesus had fathered a child with Mary Magdalene. Robin had obtained them to silence stupid people who said annoying things, whom he often encountered.

[caesar]

1308 -Robin, who had the last laugh, was about to disappear from the crime scene, when the cops, having been alerted by the neighbours who had heard the screams, came along and took Robin into custody. They seize from his possession a bow, 4 arrows, 8 leeches in a metal box and 12 sketches of nude mermaids. The post-mortem report of Robina and Azeem conclusively link the cause of death to the presence of deadly leeches, similar to the ones found in Robin’s possession. The sketches of naked mermaids are linked to the sensational scandal which shook the Vatican in 1295. The scandal had concluded with the conviction of Robin’s friend and disgraced Pope Celestine V, under Section. 292 of the Vatican Penal Code, for corrupting the clergy by selling pornography. The pope was sentenced to serve life term in solitary confinement at the Chateau D'if. The prison guards think he is mad because of the strange stories he tells them.

[caesar]

1309 - At the trial, Robin takes the plea of insanity. Luckily for Robin, the Judge is an atheist who despises the ways of the church. The Judge’s parents had died along with hundreds of others in a mysterious fire accident while attending a congregation of the Opus Dei. There were rumours about the hand of the church in origin of the conflagration which incinerated the entire congregation. The Judge acquits Robin holding that the actus reus was not backed by mens rea as he had lost his mind on the island where he had been marooned. The judge commits him to a mental asylum.

[caesar]

1310 - The clergy who were instrumental in sending Pope Celestine V to the Chateau D'if are infuriated by the acquittal. Determined to make him suffer, they hatch a conspiracy to kidnap Robin from the asylum. On the night of 23rd July 1310, Robin mysteriously disappears from the asylum. Robin wakes up at 3.59 AM on the following day and finds himself in a dungeon. He feel like he has been asleep for a year.
His head hurts terribly. He feels the back of his head and grimaces with pain as his fingers sense a lump and clotted bood. He tries to remember what had happened, but is interrupted by a strange noise. Scrape..........scrape.........scrape.......

[Madhuri]

1311 - Robin staggers towards the door holding his head and listens. The noise seems to be that of a shovel. He thought "Who could that be?"

[Shakira]

http://www.bildrallaren.com/Sverige/Ellok/Rc4/Rc4-bilder/rc4%201312.JPG

[literaturerocks]

1313~~~~~cool

[RobinHood3000]

1314 - Robin wakes up from his alcohol-induced nightmare and pays a phone call to Friar Tuck to heal his offspring-in-law Robina and Azeem before passing out again.

[Petrarch's Love]

1315--Robina and Azeem, having had their feet nicely healed by Friar Tuck, finally manage to wake dear old Dad and ask him why he was so cranky. He tells them the whole long story and they are amazed. Robina refuses to let him hang a large naked mermaid picture over the mantle, so Robin and Azeem take it out to their workshed and hang it over the spot where they mark the days of the year. Thus the precurser to the modern swimsuit calender is born. Meanwhile Robin Jr.'s witchy wife, Astra, steals all the leaches Robin brought with him and discovers that not only was their lethal quality a dream, but they won't even suck blood like normal leeches. They're vegetarian leeches that suck juices from plants. Astra decides to keep them as pets.

[grace86]

1316 - I think that this has become a story telling thread instead of the count...but it is quite entertaining.

[boatswain]

1317 - no problem

[RobinHood3000]

1318 - I don't mind :D.

[literaturerocks]

1319...it is quite entertaining:)

[caesar]

1320 - Couldn't agree more :nod:

[literaturerocks]

......1321......

[Adelheid]

1322 only.... *sigh*

[boatswain]

1.323 - still only 8.677 to go

[Madhuri]

1324..............Hey has the story ended......What was THE END?????

[caesar]

1325 - Robin has been reunited with his offspring-in-law (whatever that means). And all his adventure was a mere dream induced by intoxication.

[RobinHood3000]

1326 - I was too lazy to write "daughter and son-in-law," so I just compacted it. If it's not genealogically correct, sue me (no, not really).

Robin awakens and goes to check what date it is (to make sure he didn't pull a Rip Van Winkle), and his eyes boggle when they see one of his naked mermaid sketches. Maid Marian marches over and drags him away by the ear once again.

[Nightshade]

1327 shouldnt they be dead yet?

[Madhuri]

1328.............Ya I thought the story has ended and was enquiring about the end.....Do you think they should be shot or poisoned???? I can do any of the either.....he he he :D

[Nightshade]

1329 why dont they suddenly realise they've been alive too long a fall to dust a la buffy.

[RobinHood3000]

1330 - Death? Bah - humbug!! Robin Hood is timeless! Ageless!

[literaturerocks]

1331-palindrome!!!

[RJbibliophil]

1

3

3

2

[grace86]

1333 - Maybe Robin hasn't died because he has found some sort of immortality mixture.

[RJbibliophil]

1334

or some witch repaid him for a past deed

[RJbibliophil]

1335

slavery is abolished in Sweden

[Madhuri]

1336........................

[Nightshade]

1337- an equation
1+3+3=7

[Hyacinth Girl]

1
3
3
8
moving right along. . . .

[RobinHood3000]

1339

Something special about it, not sure what.

Robin kicks the bucket. Alack, alas.

[Madhuri]

1340...................there can be no more 1340's only this one.....that is unique......he he he :p

[Petrarch's Love]

1341--Two years later there is still universal mourning for the fallen Robin. Petrarch is crowned Poet Laureate in Rome. What history does not know is that the honor was prompted by the composition of an elegy for our dead hero, which, alas, has long since been lost to the sands of time.

[Adelheid]

1342.... *double sigh*

[RJbibliophil]

1343

Geoffrey Chaucer is born

[Petrarch's Love]

1344--little Geoff turns one and says his first word, "pilgrimage." His mum is overjoyed by the pious inclinations of her little tot until he says his second word, "cuckhold."

[Kelly_Sprout]

September, 1345. A street brawl occurs in Caffa.

[RJbibliophil]

1346 Battle of Crecy, little Geoff tries to eat the family cat

[grace86]

1347 - Hey Piglet!!! I put my picture in the photo album. Do you still need questions for the Tin Soldier quiz?

[RJbibliophil]

1348

I am on my way right now! I did see the picture of you! It is very pretty. :D

[Hyacinth Girl]

1349 - little Geoffry writes his first poem: The Lillie

[grace86]

1350...........

[Hyacinth Girl]

1351. . . little Geoff first meets John o'Gaunt

[grace86]

1352 - Little Geoff gets into an argument with John at school and gets a black eye.

[Hyacinth Girl]

1353 - Geoff notices girls for the first time and is especially drawn to a young lady with a gap between her two front teeth

[grace86]

1354 - Geoff gets the courage to bring her flowers. The little girl's name is May.

[Hyacinth Girl]

1355 - Geoffrey is put into the stocks for "lewd acts and wontonnesse" May was not charged

[Madhuri]

1356..................................

[AimusSage]

1357, A large object fell from the sky, it was little Johnny! He was quick to climb back up to his home, but not before creating what is now known as lake michigan, he really had to go you see.

[Hyacinth Girl]

1358 - Geoffry is a page for Lionel, Duke of Clarence. He sees Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster for the first time and thinks to "gyld the lillie" in poem

[Shakira]

http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/January2006/FridayWEBimages/1359.jpg

[Hyacinth Girl]

1360 - Geoffrey spills pie on King Edward's mistress, Alice Perrers

Hi Shakira :wave:

[Shakira]

Hiya HG :wave:

http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/1361-1.jpg

[Hyacinth Girl]

1362 - Geoff invents a new dance performed at courts everywhere

[Madhuri]

1363............................

[RJbibliophil]

1364

Geoff turns 21, and now being an official adult, goes by Geoffrey. Geoffrey meets Philippa Roet, a lady-in-waiting to the Queen. He is immediately smitten with her, and determines to win her hand.

[grace86]

1365...that's not all Geoffrey does when he turns 21....hmmm

[RJbibliophil]

1366

Geoffrey finally marries Phillippa.


(use this (http://www.answers.com/topic/geoffrey-chaucer) for approximate date ideas)

[RJbibliophil]

1367

Geoffrey is the proud father of Thomas Chaucer, better known as Little Tommy.

[Adelheid]

1368.... would you like to be teleported back to this date? :D

[Hyacinth Girl]

1369- Geoffrey finishes The Book of the Duchess, much to Phillipa's displeasure.

[Madhuri]

1370 -- Take a short break, the storytellers would be right back.........:D :D

[RJbibliophil]

1371- Little Tommy tries to eat the family cat :D

[kathycf]

~~~~~~1372~~~~~~

[Hyacinth Girl]

1373 - Geoffrey travels to Genoa and Phillippa's native Picardy region on a mission for the crown. Phillippa is very upset that he doesn't take her with him. Tommy ate some dirt for fun.

[Petrarch's Love]

1374-- Beginning on St. George's day of this year Geoffrey receives a pitcher of wine every day from the King. People begin to note that he's a much merrier man but also a trifle less steady on his feet from here on.

[miss tenderness]

1375


I'd love to thank dear Piglet for the nicest prize I've ever had and I promise with more special numbers if I'll get prizes of the sort:D

[Kelly_Sprout]

1376
Wanting to leave a crowded and smelly crowd of royalty after a jousting tournament, Tommy invented the battle cry, "Free beer next door!"

[Madhuri]

1377................

[papayahed]

1378................

[grace86]

1379..............

[Madhuri]

1380.......................

[RobinHood3000]

1381 -- What, no more stories?

[Kelly_Sprout]

1382 - Tommy is able to escape from the jousting tournament when the entire crowd rushes out to free the miserable, trapped beer next door.

What stories, Robin? This isn't a story. It is factual, well-known history taught in every grade school! Hahahahaha!

[apple jiang]

1383---can any one tell me the meaning of this?

[Kelly_Sprout]

1384 -- we are playing. We are writers and we feel restless if we are not creating. So, we started finding different ways to represent the numbers as we count. Sometimes we post pictures with the number in them somewhere. Sometimes we find mathematical meaning in the number at hand. Sometimes we find genuine historical facts that happened in the year of that number. Sometimes we make puns or jokes or poems or... sometimes we write silly stories! The sillier, the better. And if I can find a way to tie my story to someone else's story, make the story longer or turn it in a different direction, that is even better still.

Other than that, we are counting to 10,000!

[apple jiang]

1385---woo,that's a really cool idea, and so is the starter!

[literaturerocks]

1386............

[Madhuri]

1387....................................

[RobinHood3000]

1388 - Robin rises from the grave and regales young Tommy with the dangers of alcohol abuse...

"Just look at Friar Tuck!! Have ya seen him?? He's prematurely BALD!!!"

[Kelly_Sprout]

1389 - Young Tommie loves being regaled and chortles with chubby glee.

[RobinHood3000]

1390 - "Pssst...don't tell my daughter this...but she's a too-much-ale baby..."

[Shakira]

http://www.nobelantik.dk/dj_bib/1391.jpg

[Shakira]

http://feathers.dlib.vt.edu/~etana/imageCollection/1392.gif

[Shakira]

http://e-shop.screambikes.tobulgaria.info/images/1393.jpg

[Petrarch's Love]

1394--Tommy asks his dad to stop writing in the details of his son's very successful love life into this Canterbury thing he's been writing. If anyone guessed who the young man who fooled around with the Carpenter's wife in that "Miller's Tale" really was...!

[Petrarch's Love]

1395--Thomas Chaucer gets married to Maude Berghersh.

[RJbibliophil]

1396

Thomas Chaucer is 32 years old.

Little Lewey, who has been insolated from society, makes his grand entrance on his 16th birthday.

[Petrarch's Love]

1397-Which is strange, since he was born in '67 and turns 30 this year. He's getting younger!

[literaturerocks]

1398 we are not even close to ten thousand!!

[RobinHood3000]

1399 -- we're working our way up there.

[Petrarch's Love]

1400--Geoffrey Chaucer dies. English literature goes into hibernation for awhile. :lol:

[Tinita09]

1401- Hello everyone!

[RobinHood3000]

1402 - Welcome, Tinita!!

[Adelheid]

1403... yay... getting somewhere.

[RobinHood3000]

1404 - the numbers are flying by...

[Shakira]

http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/January2006/SaturdayWebimages/1405.jpg

[Shakira]

http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/January2006/SaturdayWebimages/1406.jpg

[Kelly_Sprout]

1407 - We may not be very close to 10,000 yet, but we are well over 1,000 past the beginning!

[RobinHood3000]

1408 - And we're almost halfway to 2,000!

[literaturerocks]

yes we are almost halfway robin that is true :)

1409

[Petrarch's Love]

1410--Prince Hal has a pint with Falstaff.

[Kelly_Sprout]

1411 - Make mine a Lowenbrau

[cruciverbalist]

1412 - Joan of Arc is born

[Petrarch's Love]

1413--Henry V becomes king of England. Sir John Oldcastle is arrested.

[Kelly_Sprout]

1414 -- The square root of 2

[Petrarch's Love]

1415--The Battle of Agincourt.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

[Kelly_Sprout]

1416 -- Minim Friars, a religious order founded by Francis of Paola (1416-1507)

[RobinHood3000]

1417 -- Stuff happened.

[Petrarch's Love]

1418--More stuff happened.

[RJbibliophil]

1419-Hundred Years' war: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England which brings Normandy under the control of England.

[Tinita09]

1420- Hello

[RJbibliophil]

1421-King Henry VI of England born

Tinita! You're back! How are you? And your sister?

[BlueRose]

1422 - an even number....

[RJbibliophil]

1423-Little Henry turns two, and like all little boys, tries to eat the family cat.

[soulsistachick]

1424- yay ya

[Kelly_Sprout]

1425 is not a Prime Number. It is, however, the square root of 2030625.

[Madhuri]

1426..........................

[caesar]

1427..........

[RJbibliophil]

1428-Little King Henry is seven years old, the Earl of Warwick is his tutor.

[Madhuri]

1429.....................

[RJbibliophil]

1430- May 23, Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne

[Kelly_Sprout]

1431 -- It will be twenty years yet before Christopher Columbus is born in Corsica.

[Hyacinth Girl]

1432 - The Orsini build yet another castle

AKKK! Can't work stupy computer. . . posted from wrong page!

[RJbibliophil]

1433 Little Johnny XXVI is born.

[Saint]

1434 I love to post numbers!

[RJbibliophil]

1435- Hi! Welcome to the forum Saint! :wave:

[Saint]

1436 Thanks.

[RJbibliophil]

1437

your avy is hilarious! :lol:

[RobinHood3000]

1438 - Welcome, Saint. March on in.

[Hyacinth Girl]

1439 - yes, I can count occasionally, but the gift is definitely sporadic! :D

[RJbibliophil]

1440-At age 19, King Henry VI founds Eton college

[RobinHood3000]

1441 - Palindromic year!!

[Petrarch's Love]

1442--Edward IV of England is born

[literaturerocks]

1443....................

[Kelly_Sprout]

1444 -- People still believe that the sun travels around the earth. Well, yeah, but... it does, doesn't it? <g>

[Adelheid]

1445.... hey! we've passed the year China was discovered! 1421(from the book by Gavin Menzies)

[RobinHood3000]

1446 - Five years before the geographically incompetent one makes his appearance on the large, round planet.

[caesar]

1447....................

[Hyacinth Girl]

1448---English discover the many uses of herring.

[RobinHood3000]

1449 - Someone in the middle of the woods says "Ni!" very loudly. A legendary secret society is born.

[Kelly_Sprout]

1450 -- The Scots are amused at the English, for the Scots have long held the herring nearly as sacred as Malt.

[Petrarch's Love]

1451 --Christopher Columbus is born.

N.B.--Since we somehow have two 1449's, I'm counting one as "1450."

[ktd222]

1452 - you get this number by multiplying 726 by 2.

[ElizabethBennet]

1453 - a long time ago!

[RJbibliophil]

1454- Welcome Elizabeth! :wave:

[Shakira]

http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/January2006/SaturdayWebimages/1455.jpg

[RobinHood3000]

1456 - The porcelain knickknack is born.

[kathycf]

~~1457~~

What happened this year in history? I haven't the vaguest. :p

[RobinHood3000]

1458 - Likewise.

[kathycf]

1459

Hi Robin! :)

[RobinHood3000]

1460 - Hello, Kathy; how are you?

[kathycf]

1461

A hot under the collar...it is very warm here! And you?

[RobinHood3000]

1462 - Feeling very :cool:.

[kathycf]

1463...

Feeling sad to say goodbye to thee....

See ya later, Robin. :wave:

[RobinHood3000]

1464 - Aww...au revior, kathy!

[BlueRose]

1465 - The algebric sum is 16!!

[Adelheid]

1466... I'm getting lost somewhere.

[RobinHood3000]

1467 - Did anything important happen? I haven't the faintest idea.

[Hyacinth Girl]

1468 - some peasants in England formed an autonomous society

[BlueRose]

1469 - Pensive was born!!!

[RJbibliophil]

1470- Charles VIII of France is born!

[kathycf]

1471....some people did some stuff. ;)

[Kelly_Sprout]

1472 -- Four more years....! :yawnb:

[TheFemme]

1473.....I have absolutely nothing clever to add to this :blush:

[The_pickler]

this seems like an interesting game... *cough*

[adilyoussef]

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/thomas/1474-m.jpg

[Kelly_Sprout]

1476 -- John MacDonald II, Lord of Parliment, Lord of the Isles, Earl of Ross, has his parlimentary Lordship, his Ross earldom, and his mainland land holdings stripped from him when King James III of Scotland learns that John had formed a secret alliance with King Edward III of England.

[RobinHood3000]

1477 - The song "Old MacDonald" is born, for he only "had" a farm.

[Petrarch's Love]

1478--The duke of Clarence gets drowned in a butt of malmsey.

[Shakira]

http://www.yumaoclub.com/shop/cpjs/images/jx_yy_1479.jpg

[RobinHood3000]

1480 - Christopher Columbus finally outgrows the "trying to eat the family cat" stage.

[Shakira]

http://peeron.com/pics/inv/setpics/1481-1.1121480541.thumb2.jpg

[kathycf]

1482
In ten years C. Columbus will sail the oceans blue.

[AimusSage]

1483 - Time travelling merchants from the Orion Nebula visit earth for the first time and start a very profitable turnip trade, spreading the vegetable across the universe.

[RobinHood3000]

1484 - For dispensing a plague upon the planet, the time-traveling merchants are hunted down and disposed of by torch and pitchfork.

[kathycf]

~~1485~~

the same batch of time travelling merchants come and hunt down with pitchforks and torches the ones who disposed of them earlier...the weird part of it is, somehow it was the same pitchforks that were used before. Are you confused yet? Don't be, it is just time travel. Enjoy the turnips!

[Shakira]

http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/January2006/SaturdayWebimages/1486.jpg

[RJbibliophil]

1487

We now have 100 pages!

[Jay]

10111010000

yep, I'm back with my binary numbers ;)

(1488)

[RJbibliophil]

1489

Yay! Jay!

[Jay]

10111010010

(1490)

Don't tell me that yay rhymes with jay ;)

[TheFemme]

...1491...

[Madhuri]

1492..........................

[TheFemme]

....1493....

[Jay]

10111010110

(1494)

[Kelly_Sprout]

1495 -- (I really wanted 1493, but I wasn't able to get online earlier today. Boo hoo!) Two years ago then, Clan Donald lost the title "Lord of the Isles" when King James IV of Scotland sailed from Edinburg around the northern coast of Scotland to the Isle of Skye where he engaged John MacDonald II of Sleat, chief of Clan Donald and defeated him. Stripped of his title, MacDonald was forced to abandon the MacDonald stronghold and live out the remainder of his days in Paisley Abbey, for all intents and purposes in a condition of house arrest. This unfortunate event will eventually lead to an interesting conclusion nearly fifty years later (a number still coming, which I certainly hope I am able to snatch when it comes up in this thread!!!)

[Pendragon]

http://www.peeron.com/pics/inv/setpics/1496-1.1105127482.thumb2.jpg

[Jay]

1000 + 400 + 90 + 7

[RobinHood3000]

1498 - Six years ago, an act of geographical incompetence led to the "discovery" of the New World by people that cared, proving that luck supercedes talent in terms of success and historical importance.

[kathycf]

1499............In 500 years, there will be one heck of a New Year's party.

[apple jiang]

1500 =6×250