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

[Boris239]

7!+7!+4!+4!+3!+3!+1!=1501

[RJbibliophil]

1502 - 2 + 2 = 1502

[Shakira]

http://www.rw-sport.de/Bekleidung/1503.jpg

[Kelly_Sprout]

1504 -- John MacDonald II of Sleat, having died in 1498, was succeeded by his Grandson, Donald "Gorm" ("The Blue", probably a reference to his eyes) MacDonald as Chiefton of the Clan Donald. Gorm began consolidating his power among the clans and tenants of the Isles of Scotland and the northwestern Highlands.

[Kelly_Sprout]

1505 -- Donald "Gorm" MacDonald is arrested for treason against King James IV of Scotland for attempting to reclaim the lost title of Lord of the Isles. King James, realizing that hanging Gorm will only lead to another rebellous MacDonald becoming the Chief of the Clan, chooses instead to imprison Gorm in the dungeons of the Edinburgh Abbey on King's Row in Edinburgh.

[Hyacinth Girl]

1506 - The Swiss Guard of the Vatican is created

[Madhuri]

1507..........................

[Hyacinth Girl]

1508 - Ludovico Sforza dies, and Milan is thrown into chaos

[papayahed]

1509.............

[Jay]

1x10^3 + 5x10^2 + 10^1 = 1510

[Petrarch's Love]

1511- Michelangelo's still busy painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. (We're in my favorite century in history now, Hoorah!

[RobinHood3000]

1512 - The Pope's suggestion of putting nude mermaids on the ceiling (as a continuance of a long-standing Vatican tradition) becomes the subject of much to-do and controversy in Rome. The subsequent cover-up turns the mermaids to men (which are apparently far more acceptable to the ladies of Rome) and places the blame on the allegedly-perverted mind of Michelangelo.

[Jay]

1513... nothing disastrous happened as we're all still around ;)

[Petrarch's Love]

1514- The year Bramante died, and one year after the publication of Machiavelli's The Prince--which succeeded in creating enough of a stir to temporarily distract the Italians from looking at the nude men on Michelangelo's ceiling.

[kathycf]

1514....Michelangelo stubs his toe a total of 35 times this year.

[Petrarch's Love]

1516--Utopia (in some ways the original never land;)) is published.

[kathycf]

1517...ooops I messed up. :blush:

[Jay]

1514 sheep, 1515 sheep, 1516 sheep, 1517 sheep, 1518 sheep... zzz :p

[Kelly_Sprout]

1519 - Donald "Gorm" MacDonald's son, Donald the Grim (Donald Grumach), comes of age: 16 years old! Gorm is still in prison in the dungeon of the Abbey of Edinburgh.

[Petrarch's Love]

1520- Raffaelo Sanzio, the painter, dies.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e386/LeonardoD/3libera.jpg

[amanda_isabel]

hi
hi
hi
hi

:)

1521

[Pendragon]

1522: September 6 - The Vittoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

[Boris239]

1523: Gustav Vasa becomes King of Sweden, establishing finally its full independence from Denmark

[Madhuri]

1524.........................

[RJbibliophil]

1525.June.27 - Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora.

[Jay]

1526 - the Habsburg dynasty succeeds to the throne of Bohemia (Czech rep and around) - the formation of a multi-national empire

[RJbibliophil]

1527, July 31 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, is born

[Jay]

1528 - Albrecht Dürer died this year

[AimusSage]

1529 - The first illegal aliens land on Earth, supposedly led by Phil Collins.

[Jay]

1530 bottles of beer on the wall (or wherever they're supposed to be), add one and there's...

[AimusSage]

1532 bottles of beer on the wall, what, everybody just stopped drinking? Give me one!

Heehee :D 1531 bottles of beer on the wall!

[Jay]

1531 beer on the wall, give one to Aimus, you've got 1530 bottles of beer on the wall, sneak two out of Aimus's bag, and there's 1532 bottles of beer on the wall.

[AimusSage]

Heehee, 1533, it's the number of empty bottles of beer on the wall. :D

[Jay]

Drink one more and now there's 1534 empty bottles of beer on the wall and one drunk-to-death Aimus under the table :cool:

[AimusSage]

Oh, that was a table, I thought it was the Giant Turnip that came to give me a ride home. He drank a beer he did and now there's 1535 empty bottles of beer on the wall. And a fly, but that doesn't count for anything. :)

[Jay]

After Aimus attempted to drink the fly under the table (poor thing, he lost to a fly), there's now one more empty bottle on the wall, making it a total of 1536 empty bottles of beer on the wall.

[AimusSage]

Me is still standing, and I's dares Jay to drink a beer through her noses. Now there are 1537 bottles of empty beer on the wall.

[Jay]

I accept and drink two, so now there's 1538 empty bottles of beer on the wall.

bottles of empty beer on the wall.??? :p

[AimusSage]

You said I was drunk, I was getting into character! :rolleyes:

All sobered up thanks to Jay I order a beer to get drunk again

1539 empty bottles of beer on the wall

[Jay]

Let's see in I can drink you under the table, eh?

I finish one off, and add the empty bottle of beer on the wall to the other 1539 emtry bottles of beer, so there's a total of 1540 empty bottles of beer on the wall.

[AimusSage]

You win, I think the table likes me because it jumped right on top of me.

1541 Empty bottles of beer on the wall

[Jay]

I give one beer to the next visitor who comes here.

1542 pending empty bottles of beer on the wall.

[AimusSage]

I'm getting tired from all this beer, it'll be the last one, and another one to even things out. 1543 bottles of beer on the wall.

[Jay]

1544 empty bottles of coke on the wall :p

[AimusSage]

Even worse, I destroy all the coke bottles, replace the entire wall with a tropical beach, and now there are 1545 sharks in the ocean! :D

[Jay]

A nuke goes off and now there's 1546 dead sharks floating belly-up in the ocean :p

[Kelly_Sprout]

1547 -- While Aimus and Jay were drinking themselves under the table, 1539 came and went. Still, I've got to tell you about 1539.

You see, in 1539, the saga of the MacDonalds and the struggle over the title of Lord of the Isles finally came to a head. Gorm MacDonald was still the imprisoned chief of Clan Donald. Rumor had it though that a conspiracy of lesser Lairds and tenants of the MacDonald territory were going to try to help Gorm escape. His son, Grumach, wanted to become The Donald (the name the MacDonalds used to denote the Clan chief.) Realizing that if his father returned, that his chances would fade considerably, he decided to take matters into his own hands with a pre-emptive strike.

Declaring himself to be "Lord of the Isles" (without a charter or being granted the title from King James V), he sailed to the northern shores of the Isle of Skye and demanded allegiance from the freetown of Trotternish. When they refused, he sacked the town and drove the inhabitants away. He then sailed to the western, seaward shores of the Isle of Skye and demanded that the MacLeods of Dunvegan pledge to him. They pledged under duress and were required to supply fifty sailing galleys to his army. (It should be noted, however, that although the sailing galleys were small, about 12 men each, 600 men from a single town seems unlikely, so the number of galleys was probably significantly less than 50.)

His next objective was to reclaim Highland lands on the mainland of Scotland lost to the MacKenzies when the title "Earl of Ross" and the shire of Ross-dom was stripped from John MacDonald II in 1468. Kenneth MacKenzie had a "summer home" on the sea lock of Lochalsh, near Dornie, in the form of a castle called Eilean Donan (meaning "Isle of Donan" or possibly "Isle of Anne"). Being late fall, with threat of winter snows, the castle was nearly unoccupied. Only the castle keep was still there.

On the day that Grumach's ships approached Eilean Donan, MacKinzie's Captain of the Guard and personal bodyguard, Duncan Macrae, had returned to Dornie. Seeing the approaching galleys, he raced them to castle Eilean Donan, just beating them there. His arrival doubled the defensive strength within the castle. The galleys, unable to approach close enough for a water-based seige, disgorged their warriors who attempted to approach the castle over the narrow bridge that linked island to mainland.

The MacDonald soldiers were able to approach only in small numbers of twos and threes because of the narrow bridge, so the two men inside the castle were able to successfully hold off the entire MacDonald army. Eventually though, they ran out of arrows and had to resort to dislodging rocks from the walls of the castle and throwing them down onto the heads of the attackers below. It was during this phase of the attack that the Castle Keep was killed, leaving Duncan Macrae the sole occupant of the castle.

Still, Grumach's casualties had been heavy and he was no closer to gaining access than he had been at the beginning of the day. In frustration, he tried one last tactic. He had the mast of his galley struck and lashed to the brow of the ship. He was able to thus advance toward the castle far enough that the mast made contact with the wall of the castle. He began to scuttle up the angled mast, intending to breech the wall and capture the castle.

Duncan, however, had saved back one arrow. This arrow had a barbed tip. Duncan shot his last arrow at Grumach, but the shot went wide. Instead of striking Grumach a lethal blow, the arrow struck him in the ankle. Grumach, knowing that Duncan was now defenseless, laughed and pulled the arrow out of his leg. The barbs on the arrowhead severed an artery and within minutes, Grumach bled to death. Seeing their Lord fall, the MacDonald men withdrew and the MacLeod men deserted.

This single-handed defeat was the final nail in the coffin of the MacDonald dreams of reviving the Lord of the Isles status. It also was the act that eventually led to castle Eilean Donan being transferred from the MacKenzies to the Macraes, although the honor was not bestowed on Duncan himself. Castle Eilean Donan remains to this day in the possession of the Macraes and, although destroyed two hundred years later during the 1745 Jacobite uprising, was rebuilt in 1912 and stands today as one of the few Scottish castles still occupied and in use. It can be rented for vacations or weddings and has been featured in several movies including Mel Gibson's Braveheart.

[RJbibliophil]

1548


Hello......

[RobinHood3000]

1548 (actually 1549)

And that's why you don't pull arrows.

[kathycf]

~~~1549~~~


Hmm, somehow we got off track so also

......1550

[Jay]

1551 came and went, too...

[RJbibliophil]

1552

sorry, I usually always check the numbers on the posts, but I guess I didn't

[Pendragon]

http://wwwold.utmc.com/products/1553/1553.jpg

[RJbibliophil]

1554

hey pen :D

[Jay]

!!1!5!5!5!!

[Boris239]

1556- Ignatius de Loyola died

[RJbibliophil]

1557

Robert Recorde's The Whetstone of Witte introduces an elongated version of the equal sign, =, into mathematics (asking what could be more equal than a pair of parallel lines); it also introduces the + and - signs for addition and subtraction into English.

[Jay]

.----/...../...../---..

[RJbibliophil]

1559

Morse code, eh?

[AimusSage]

1560 - It's the age of pirates! :D

[RJbibliophil]

.----/...../-..../.----

[Jay]

.----/...../-..../..---

[papayahed]

1563.......

[Jay]

.----/...../-..../....-

[kathycf]

fifteen sixty five :D
1565

[Jay]

one thousand five hundered and sixty-six

[AimusSage]

Oooooooone, Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiive, siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiix, Seeeeeeeeveeeeeeeeen!

1567 :D

[Jay]

8651 <- -> 1568

[RobinHood3000]

1569 - The rum market shows record growth when the ancestors of Captain Jack Sparrow make their way to the Caribbean.

[Kelly_Sprout]

1570 -- Hey, mon, eif you no gawna drink dat, kannya pawsit taw me?

[Petrarch's Love]

1571--Johannes Kepler and Caravaggio are born, Shakespeare turns seven, and John Donne is conceived. :brow:

[TheFemme]

...1572...

[RJbibliophil]

.----/...../--.../...---

wracking my brain to remember morse code, numbers are easy

[Kelly_Sprout]

1574 -- In two hundred years, a handful of discontented English citizens will gather in secret in Pennsylvania and begin drafting a document of rebellion that will turn the world upsidedown.

[Pendragon]

1575 (Decimal), 627 (Hexadecimal), 3047 (Octodecimal), 11000100111 (Binary)http://1000smilies.com/animated/surrendering.gif

[papayahed]

1576...................

[RobinHood3000]

1577. Whoo.

[kathycf]

~~~1578~~~

[Petrarch's Love]

1579--Spenser publishes The Shepheardes Calender

[RJbibliophil]

1580

In the year 1580, 3 little boys devoured the family cat, whereas 152 cats survived attempted eatations.

Little Willy, who ate his sister's favorite tabby one evening, commented the next morning, "Tummy.... ache". This remark has since become a common household phrase.

[thingamajig]

1581

http://www.dargate.com/220_auction/220images/1581.jpg

[aeroport]

1582 - William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway

[Petrarch's Love]

1583--The Shakespeares are the parents of a baby girl, Suzanna, and I bow off this stage for the next ten days since I'm going off on vacation. Happy counting folks. :wave:

[RobinHood3000]

1584 - Susanna Shakespeare eats the family cat, Yorick. The subsequent inspiration is obvious.

[aeroport]

1585 - The prophetic William Shakespeare, foreseeing a day when every detail of his life and career becomes fodder for online game-forums, begins the task of wiping out as many records of his life and career as he can.

[RJbibliophil]

1586

Susanna Shakespeare nicknames her favorite doll Sue.

[aeroport]

1587

number of stanzas in Rustaveli's poem "King in the tiger skin"

[ShoutGrace]

~~~1588~~~

The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.

[RobinHood3000]

1589 - Spaniards make a very important, very thoroughly-highlighted note to self not to do that again.

[miss tenderness]

1590
I dunno what's going on above :D

[aeroport]

1591 - birth of Robert Herrick, British poet

"Ah woe is me, woe, woe is me,
Alack and welladay!
For pity, sir, find out that bee
Which bore my love away."

poor fella

[kathycf]

fifteen hundred and ninety two

[aeroport]

1594 - first publication of "Titus Andronicus"

[Kelly_Sprout]

1593 - First copyrighting of the 1594 edition of "Titus Andronicus"

[aeroport]

1595 - the number in the "Count to 10,000" forum where the absentminded Jamesian realized he did not know how to count.

[RJbibliophil]

1596

A kitten with orange stripes is born in Bristol.

[Madhuri]

1597............................

[RJbibliophil]

1598

An orange cat dies in Bristol

[Madhuri]

1599.....................

[AimusSage]

1600 Slag bij nieuwpoort.

[Nightshade]

1601 title of somthing by mark twain


:D
hello :wave:

[RJbibliophil]

.----/-..../-----/..---

[AimusSage]

1603 drie jaar na de slag bij Nieuwpoort.

[Nightshade]

1604 I dont understand dutch trasnlasion please!!1

:D:D

[AimusSage]

1605 - 5 years after the battle of Nieuwpoort

[Kelly_Sprout]

1606 -- The Union Jack was adopted as the national flag of England

[Pendragon]

1607--English colony of Jamestown established in Virginia

[aeroport]

1608 - John Milton born in London

[kathycf]

~~~1609~~~

[aeroport]

1610 - Death of Caravaggio

[grace86]

1611 - Shakespeare's The Tempest premiered.

[ShoutGrace]

http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/January2006/SaturdayWebimages/1612.jpg

[Schokokeks]

.... M D I X III ....

[Pendragon]

1614 April 5 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.

[RJbibliophil]

Good Morning Pen! :wave:

.----/-..../.----/.....

[Kelly_Sprout]

sixteen sixteen equals equals four four squared squared

[RJbibliophil]

M D C X V I I

[literaturerocks]

1618..i havent been on the forums in a while..its good to be back!:)

[AimusSage]

1619 - Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being accused of treason. (Which was highly doubtful, the trial being a facade basically people just wanted him dead.)

[kathycf]

1620 Pilgrims land on Plymouth Rock

[RJbibliophil]

1621

I just happened to be reading page 103 of this thread.....

[AimusSage]

1622 - someone did something, somewhere.

What's on page 103 that validates a re-read?

[RJbibliophil]

1623

actually, it was an accident, but anyway, page 103 is the drunk dialogue between Jay and Aimus :lol:

[AimusSage]

1624

Uhoh, It's a bit off a black page in this thread. :goof:

[ElizabethBennet]

.----/-..../..---/.....
sixteen hundred and twenty-five
I think page 103 is really funny :lol:

[RJbibliophil]

1626

that's why I'm laughing :brow:

[AimusSage]

1627

I'm glad you enjoyed it, I'm sure the girl that tried to get me drunk liked it too. I still haven't figured out why she tried that. :confused: :)

[RJbibliophil]

1628

you're fooling yourself, and you know it

[AimusSage]

1629

I'm Glad I am fooling myself, I've been told on numerous occasions that I'm not fooling anybody, did I prove them wrong or what :nod:

[RJbibliophil]

.----/----./...--/-----


haha. very funny aimus. :brow:

[Kelly_Sprout]

1631 - You really ARE fooling yourself, Aimus, if you think you've reached 1929 already! <chortle, snarf, guffagh>

[aeroport]

1632 - Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" is published.

[RobinHood3000]

1633 - Galileo receives rave reviews, although the first two people to give him "Two thumbs up!" get said thumbs amputated by the Church.

[Shakira]

http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/January2006/SaturdayWebimages/1634.jpg

[AimusSage]

1635 -

Sorry about that Mr. Sprout, it will probably happen again, but just point it out and I'll be glad to correct the mistake. :)

[Kelly_Sprout]

1636 - No need to apologize. And I'm certainly not the number police!! I just thought it was funny, particularly in the context in which it happened!

[AimusSage]

1637 - just make sure you keep pointing out mistakes, because I will probably not notice them myself. :)

[BlueRose]

1638- I'm back

[RJbibliophil]

.----/-..../...--/----.

Hi BlueRose! :wave:

[Hyacinth Girl]

1640. . . .

[aeroport]

1641 - Irish Catholic uprising against the Protestants, who get evicted from their homes, murdered, and so on, at the instigation of the Catholic priests

[RJbibliophil]

.----/-..../....-/.----

[Pendragon]

1643 Roger Williams, a co-founder of Rhode Island, publishes A Key Into the Language of America

[RJbibliophil]

1644

William Penn and Antonio Stradivari were born

April - A popular Chinese rebellion led by Li Zicheng sacks Beijing, prompting Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, to commit suicide.

June - The invading Manchu army, with the help of Ming general Wu Sangui, captures Beijing, China. This marks the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the last imperial dynasty of China.

[aeroport]

1645. John Milton's “Il Penseroso” and “L’Allegro” published

[RJbibliophil]

1646

Little Tony and Little Willy both try to eat the family cat, Little Willy manages to devour the tail, but the rest got away, whereas all Little Tony got was a spanking from his older sister.

[Schokokeks]

1647 (I wonder how long this will take us :D)

[RJbibliophil]

1648

It will take less time if you're back for another number in a few minutes ;)

[aeroport]

1649

And perhaps a bit less if I hang around as well

[RJbibliophil]

1650

why not?

[aeroport]

1651 - The rather unfortunately-named Rump Parliament passes the first Navigation Act, leading to the First Anglo-Dutch War.

[RJbibliophil]

.----/-..../...../..---

[Schokokeks]

1653 - your command! ;)

[RJbibliophil]

1654

:lol:

[miss tenderness]

1655 :)....

[RJbibliophil]

1656,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[RobinHood3000]

1657 - Family cats are eaten.

[RJbibliophil]

1658

All attempts at eating family cats are foiled by cat-loving older sisters

[kathycf]

1659


There was just about 52 weeks in the year 1659!!!!

[RobinHood3000]

1660 - anagram for 1066, a red-letter year for William the Conqueror

[Kelly_Sprout]

1661 - which is the correct number for this post, but to read it correctly, you have to read it backwards.

[Pendragon]

1662 May 3/May 2 - Catherine of Braganza marries Charles II of England – as part of the dowry, Portugal cedes Bombay and Tangier to England.

[AimusSage]

1663 - Just 2 years before the start of the second Anglo-Dutch war.

[Madhuri]

1664...........................

[AimusSage]

1665 - Guess what, it's war between England and the Dutch, but not during tea time! :)

[Boris239]

1666- 300 hundred years later England will win the World Cup

[BlueRose]

1667- hi RJ....

[RobinHood3000]

1668 -- Hi, Laila -- long time, no see.

[RJbibliophil]

.----/-..../-..../----.

[Pendragon]

1670 Blaise Pascal's Pensées is posthumously published.

[RJbibliophil]

1671


:wave:

[BlueRose]

1672- hi Robin... from time to time, one must disappear!!

[RJbibliophil]

1 6 7 3

[RobinHood3000]

1674

Poof!!

[Shakira]

http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/January2006/SaturdayWebimages/1675.jpg

[Monica]

1676
I just want to slide away and come alive again

[Pendragon]

1677 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek observes spermatozoa under the microscope

[RobinHood3000]

1678 - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek unsuccessfully applies for a name change.

[kathycf]

1679, and who could blame Antoni?

[caesar]

1680 - I wouldn't.....

[Monica]

1681, exactly 300 years later my brother was born :)

[Pendragon]

1682 Halley's comet makes an appearance, and is observed by Edmond Halley himself

[RobinHood3000]

1683 - Halley's wife asks, "So what?"

[Schokokeks]

1684 - er, can't remember :D

[RJbibliophil]

1

6

8

5

[papayahed]

1686...........

[Boris239]

1687- Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published

[Logos]

http://www.granta.com/shop/product-file/99/aglo299/product.jpg

[Logos]

http://www.coinoftheyear.com/images/1689halfcrownwilliamandmaryrev240.JPG

[Morad]

1 6 9 0 :)

[AimusSage]

1691 - Something happened, but nobody remembers what exactly, because everybody was too drunk to remember.

[BlueRose]

1 6 9 2

[Schokokeks]

1*6-9=-3 (here there be greetings to my maths teacher :D)

[RobinHood3000]

1 - 6 + 9 = 4

Fun!

[Pendragon]

1695 December 31 - A window tax is imposed in England causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.

[RJbibliophil]

1

6

9

6

[Schokokeks]

1+6=7+0 (Numbers do rule the world, for those who still can't see :D)

[RobinHood3000]

1698 - The laws of mathematics and counting shift utterly.

[AimusSage]

1699...........

[RJbibliophil]

1

7

0

0

[AimusSage]

1701

Ack, I should pay better attention, I read the 1670 and 1671, and naturally asumed we were at 1672.

[Hyacinth Girl]

1702. . . . .

[RJbibliophil]

1

7

0

3

Well, Aimus, maybe you could consider changing the numbers? :lol:

[Hyacinth Girl]

1704. . . .

[Petrarch's Love]

1705--Ben Franklin is conceived.

[RobinHood3000]

1706 -- The Franklin family, not knowing any better, gets a cat.

[RJbibliophil]

1706

Little Ben begins his plans for cat-eating

[Kelly_Sprout]

1707 - How come no one mentioned Star Trek back six posts ago? Does no one know that the Enterprise's hull number is NCC 1701? Oh well. Better late than never, eh?

[Hyacinth Girl]

1709 - While unable to masticate the family cat, little Ben does his best to traumatize it by tying a key to its tail and pushing it outside in a lightning storm

[kathycf]

1710

The Franklin family cat devises a terrible revenge for the key incident....

[Kelly_Sprout]

1711 - The Franklin family cat scratches young Benjamin horizonally across the eyes. This event will later inspire him to invent bi-focal glasses.

[Hyacinth Girl]

1712 - in reaction to the famed cat-scratching incident, young Ben writes his first little homily in preparation for the Almanac to follow: "Pain is gain"

[RJbibliophil]

1713
Ben is seven years old.

while experimenting with swimming techniques, Ben gives the family cat a good wetting, especially when Ben tied the family cat to a little raft floating on a lake during a thunderstorm.

[Pendragon]

1714 August 1 - George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain.

[Kelly_Sprout]

1715 - Exiled King James Stuart and his followers, called Jacobites, make the first attempt to place James back on the combined Scottish-English throne. The Jacobite rising of 1715 fails.

[RJbibliophil]

1716

Pirate Edward Teach the "Blackbeard" raids shipping in the Caribbean

[RobinHood3000]

1717 - Not yet having graduated the torturing-small-animals stage, Benjamin Franklin ties a long, metal pole to the tail of the family cat, thereafter tying a kite to the end of the long, metal pole.

[Hyacinth Girl]

1718 - The cat finally has enough and runs away permanently. ben is heartbroken.

[RobinHood3000]

1719 - The Franklin family gets a fish.

[RJbibliophil]

1720

The Franklin ex-family cat returns for revenge and eats the family fish. Ben is heartbroken.

[kathycf]

1721 a secret society of anti feline fish is formed, led by the cousin of the Franklin Family Fish. (FFF).

[Petrarch's Love]

1722--Easter Island is discovered by Jakob Roggeveen. Meanwhile young ben is observing the activities of his revolutionary fish and taking notes for future reference.

[RJbibliophil]

1723

FFF takes its' first big move, it lures and drowns an innocent young family cat who didn't know any better.

[mir]

1724

FFF takes over the world but fails to inform anybody and so goes unnoticed

[Madhuri]

1725...........................

[Pendragon]

1726 Jonathan Swift publishes Gulliver's Travels.

[RJbibliophil]

1727

Little Tommy reads Gulliver's travels for the first time. He later becomes an explorer.

[Hyacinth Girl]

1728 - Pope publishes The Dunciad

[Schokokeks]

1 * 7 + 2 = 9

[RJbibliophil]

1730

Little Tommy runs away and becomes a sailor.

[Hyacinth Girl]

1731. . . . Tommy gets a bad case of dysentery, and is forced to sleep in the fo's'cle

[thingamajig]

:idea: 1732, http://1732.ru/images/title.jpg

[Hyacinth Girl]

1733 - Tommy begins to sing "Yo, ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me"

[RJbibliophil]

1734

Tommy edits his song to "Yo, ho, yo, ho, a piratey life o' exploring, dat be da life for me! Arg....! "

[Hyacinth Girl]

1735- Tommy is taken captive by Blackbeard and forced to become his cabin boy

[thingamajig]

1734

http://www.fastcoin.com/images/1734-treasure-coin.JPG

Sorry but I just love pic's!!!!!

:lol:

[RJbibliophil]

1737

Tommy gets elevated to lowest ranking pirate, because Blackbeard lost one man in a fight, one ran away on an island, and Blackbeard kidnapped a new cabin boy.

[AimusSage]

1738 - Blackbeard is now dead for 20 years, I don't know who Tommy is sailing with, but it's not Edward Teach! :D

[RJbibliophil]

1739

out of necessity, Tommy stages a coup, and kills the imposter Blackbeard. After a great fight, Tommy emerges from among the men as their leader, and takes the name, Red Barn. (pirates don't know any better)

[Hyacinth Girl]

1740 - Tommy is killed when Robin, having heard of hitting the broad side of a barn with an arrow, shoots Red Barn by mistake (archers don't know any better :D)

[RJbibliophil]

1741

Robin laments after spending a year in an english jail for manslaughter, and he still has 3 more years left of his sentence.

[RobinHood3000]

1742 - Robin learns to play the harmonica and remove tattoos while in jail.

[Nightshade]

1743


And the numbers keep rolling:eek:

[RJbibliophil]

1744 And Robin is released from the dungeon a day early, pale, gaunt, thin, with 12 rat-bite scars, but merrily playing his harmonica.

[Schokokeks]

Oooh, piglet was faster, and my beautiful equation didn't work anymore :)

... 1745 ...

[RJbibliophil]

1746 New Bern replaces Edenton as North Carolina's Capital

[Schokokeks]

1747 (that's "siebzehnhundertsiebenundvierzig" in German :D)

[RJbibliophil]

1748



oink

[Pendragon]

1749 While in debtor's prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). Released from prison, the book was published in London. Immediately, the Church of England asked the British Secretary of State to "stop the progress of this vile Book, which is an open insult upon Religion and good manners." As a result, Cleland was arrested and charged with "corrupting the King's subjects."

[Pendragon]

1750 Jonas Hanway is the first Englishman to use an umbrella