1681, exactly 300 years later my brother was born :)
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1681, exactly 300 years later my brother was born :)
1682 Halley's comet makes an appearance, and is observed by Edmond Halley himself
1683 - Halley's wife asks, "So what?"
1684 - er, can't remember :D
1
6
8
5
1686...........
1687- Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published
1 6 9 0 :)
1691 - Something happened, but nobody remembers what exactly, because everybody was too drunk to remember.
1 6 9 2
1*6-9=-3 (here there be greetings to my maths teacher :D)
1 - 6 + 9 = 4
Fun!
1695 December 31 - A window tax is imposed in England causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
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6
9
6
1+6=7+0 (Numbers do rule the world, for those who still can't see :D)
1698 - The laws of mathematics and counting shift utterly.
1699...........
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7
0
0
1701
Ack, I should pay better attention, I read the 1670 and 1671, and naturally asumed we were at 1672.
1702. . . . .
1
7
0
3
Well, Aimus, maybe you could consider changing the numbers? :lol:
1704. . . .
1705--Ben Franklin is conceived.
1706 -- The Franklin family, not knowing any better, gets a cat.
1706
Little Ben begins his plans for cat-eating
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?
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
1710
The Franklin family cat devises a terrible revenge for the key incident....
1711 - The Franklin family cat scratches young Benjamin horizonally across the eyes. This event will later inspire him to invent bi-focal glasses.
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"
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.
1714 August 1 - George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain.
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.
1716
Pirate Edward Teach the "Blackbeard" raids shipping in the Caribbean
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.
1718 - The cat finally has enough and runs away permanently. ben is heartbroken.
1719 - The Franklin family gets a fish.
1720
The Franklin ex-family cat returns for revenge and eats the family fish. Ben is heartbroken.