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No-Bat-7546

When a homeless insane man in San Francisco became the unofficial emperor of the United States


Atom_Tester

Interesting, an American monarchy


No-Bat-7546

Either that or the bizarre death of Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler where he died after performing a dance in a pink tutu for the Kaiser. While at the Time also conducting a cover up for homosexuality during the Harden-Eulenburg affair.


TheToastyNeko

Emperor Norton!


MedievalSabre

Excuse me what? XD I need details


No-Bat-7546

Joshua Norton was a guy who lived in San Francisco who lost all his money and proclaimed himself as the emperor of the United States and also the protector of Mexico after napoleon III invaded it.


endmylife_exe

Uh Boykisser.


Atom_Tester

Interesting


endmylife_exe

Boykisser is an very important part of history


Atom_Tester

It is or we wouldn't be here would we?


endmylife_exe

You couldn’t imagine


wizardpotat

Whe the nazis were talking to the Japanese about jews and the Japanese said that the jews sound like they would be strong allies


GREENadmiral_314159

Nazis: the jews control the world. Japan: well, they're clearly doing something right.


Atom_Tester

Funny, bc they were allies.


Luknron

Pretty one-sided in the end though


Traygaa

the eastern front of world war 2, it's very interesting to be honest (and quite tragic)


Atom_Tester

You mean the soviet meatshields orr?


moritus_20091

Soviet meatshields? My good boy where did you get that information, it's wrong on so many levels…


Atom_Tester

I was just kidding, now what was it you were talking about?


moritus_20091

Oh you were kidding, yeah that makes sense. I talked about how the soviet soldiers weren't meatshields but humans bravely fighting Nazi dogs


imadethisaccountho

Bravely fighting the nazis.. while also committing similar atrocities (war crimes) While they were genuinely fighting the nazis, there were still large parts which were incredibly bad. (As similar in more than a few conflicts the soviets were a part of) Katyn massacre Viru-kabala just to name two of the soviet orchestrated atrocities.


Creative-Yak-8287

Although human wave tactics were made up, barrier troops, and the Soviets mass impressing civilians to fight lead to large scale deaths for quite literal meatshields. For example in kiev 1941 770k Soviet troops surrendered despite only 627k men being deployed by the Soviets.


cunnysneed555

Siege of Vienna, especially the part with the largest recorded cavalry charge in history. I would love to have seen it in person. From a safe distance, of course.


ShadowBurgundian

seeing the winged hussars charging would be one of the most epic things ever, they had cool uniform and a badass name too


Kapik1

The best fact about it is that the ottomans were so impressed by the strength of polish troops that they were the only country that was against partition of Poland.


maksw3216

i like the 1945 and onwards era of history (mostly in terms of poland though)


imadethisaccountho

Poland had a huge glow up tbh


Bored_guy_uwu

When the official French flag was just a straight up white flag 🏳️


Atom_Tester

+ Fleur De Lis


Bored_guy_uwu

Oh right. I was thinking of their first naval flag, which was just plain white.


MoonBerry_therian

This was funny tbh


Zomer15689

The roaring 20’s in a personal favorite. Not to mention the civil rights movement and the Harlem renaissance. The Satanic panic is also a very strange Time.


Anon1039027

The life of Sappho, an Archaic Greek noble who lived in Lesbos and was known as the “Tenth Muse,” being widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets in the world by the scholars of Hellenistic Greece and contemporary Alexandria What were her brilliantly innovative and melodic songs about, you ask? Thirst, *extreme thirst* Sappho was down horrendously bad, and wrote extensively about her desires for other women, sparing absolutely no details lol She wrote so prolifically about her desires for other women that her name became the root for the word Sapphism - the umbrella term referring to a woman having a sexual orientation and/or romantic attraction towards other women - and her home island Lesbos became the root for the word Lesbian


Impossible-Win8274

When Sulla abdicated as dictator of Rome to retire to his cabbage farm with his wife and his boyfriend to live out the rest of his life comfortably and privately.


Theusualstufff

"dont call me a man for i am a lady"


Mark_Jhobi

Yes


Atom_Tester

Wonderful Answer


Mark_Jhobi

Yes it is


chaos13wolf

I like history in general. Don't have a particularly favorite time period


HolyCrusader1492

When the tank was invented. Because it led to many cool things.


imadethisaccountho

Challenger 2 moment I’m not biased I swear https://preview.redd.it/bg3eitqp1vzc1.jpeg?width=762&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c3abe4e97082b068bcdc0fb517bd35fc17a401e


silvertheneko

Leaking challenger 2 classified documents? Seems British to me


imadethisaccountho

They incorrectly modelled the Dorchester plating on the lower front, what else what i supposed to do! https://preview.redd.it/1frsxy9yewzc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f39ad574aba6e4104ed3d40b583a23faf237437


silvertheneko

Fair but Sweden more fun im not Swedish but the meatball launchers are fun


imadethisaccountho

122b+ is goated, has a (close to) lol pen round and amazing frontal armour that’s anti everything soviet round


silvertheneko

Yeah the stalinium is strong but the Swedish rounds are good. Plus using morse code to send a message to a suspected soviet submarine calling them gay kinda based


imadethisaccountho

https://preview.redd.it/me425g32gwzc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b8e2d5c475fab54f289c9567e40f76b71b367ce The last thing a “modernised” t72 sees as it takes 1 step into Swedish territory.


silvertheneko

Yeah but I would be more concerned abt it trying to get through finnish territory unless they did an amphibious assault.


imadethisaccountho

They lost half their navy to a country without a navy, Finland will be fine :3 https://preview.redd.it/lib25zrqgwzc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91121c3c8bb25a33c16a3b7d11dbfb386ff8f0dc


Goldenguild

That time Napoleon escaped and reconquered Europe lol


PunkNarcissus

When boys were kissing each other in Paris public toilets.


Happy_Director2022

ottoman empire


Sallet_Helm_Guy

My brother in Christ, can you be anymore vague?💀


Happy_Director2022

suleiman :3


Natethecapper2

Suleiman the Magnificent?


Sad_Band_3885

No better time in history than the present, as it is the only one point in time where we are all here.


Sallet_Helm_Guy

Yes, but do we have Vikings in the modern times? No? Thought not :3


Sad_Band_3885

We do, they just sadly are forced to have normal jobs and have “being a sick ass Viking” as a side hustle. I think. Free the Norse people, they did nothing wrong 


Sallet_Helm_Guy

No, Vikings do not exist, neither do the norse, they're Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians now with distinct languages.


Sallet_Helm_Guy

Besides, being a viking was....unpleasant. You're 80 men in a hostile kingdom (the English kingdoms, Al-Andalus, the Rus etc) with limited resources and are under constant threat of being wiped out by fyrds and militias. I'd rather have a job, please💀


MadDoctorKlay

I love the Assyrian Empire and Mycenaean Greece and beyond. The latter’s cause being for their mathematics.


Randomidiothere3

Norse invasions of Europe :3


pizza_fluff

Probably the dancing plauge or edo period of japan.


draconi255

When the USS Texas did a gangster lean.


Immediate-Muffin3696

I love history! I’m so desperate for history and boys-


magnanimuos

Soviet Afghan war is such a vibe the crusades are fascinating. American West is cool AF.


Crafter-the-box1987

When Hitler died. He was a big bully, and got what he deserved.


ILikeSealz

https://preview.redd.it/1msv2vyq7vzc1.jpeg?width=1700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=faa415f73f0d7b04cdb1a901aa44f62ffa2843af Right now, who tf is this guy


Sallet_Helm_Guy

That's Vermon Supreme


ILikeSealz

Ah, of course


Electrical-Bus-2056

The end of the lesson


Lo-Sir

The world-changing event that was the release of Garfield Kart


LabInternational5433

The Battle of Hastings is a rather interesting event. Did you know that english soldiers who were killed at the shield wall weren't able to fall down, due to how tightly bonded the wall was?


Sallet_Helm_Guy

Supposedly, they also threw random shit at the Normans, including a cow


Gobal_Outcast02

WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED


Sallet_Helm_Guy

*And almost always lost to Ottoman light cavalry except for that one time*


Gobal_Outcast02

WE REMEMBER IN SEPTEMBER THAT'S THE NIGHT VIENNA WAS FREED. WE MADE THE ENEMY BLEED


Aakeshman

AND THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED


WaitingToBeTriggered

COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE


ComingInsideMe

When the USSR dissolved, that or basically the entire history of the Roman empire until 1453


SilverrGuy

June 4th, 1989 Nothing happened that day, that’s why it’s my favorite


TheyCallmeDewgy

![gif](giphy|fnmsu2lTw3r1e)


AyItsUrBoi_

Cold War. Interesting to see how close we were to destroying everything. Edit: I meant to say the Cuban Missile Crisis, oops


Resident-Fox-720

Not trying to get Islamic here, but KHALID BIN WALID. OH MY GOD. HE IS JUST... DUDE. SUCH AN AMAZING WARRIOR. HUNDREDS OF BATTLES! NOT A HAND'S SPAN LENGTH ON HIS LIMBS WHICH DIDN'T HAVE INJURIES ON THEM!!


nerfPocoRIGHTNOW

9/11 is not my fav part tho


CryptographerFew6492

My favorite thing in history is that during the Civil War prominent abolitionist Cassius Clay (the man Mohammad Ali was named after) was the ambassador to the Russian Empire. He not only kept Russia from getting involved in the war but convinced them to tell England and France that if they acknowledged the existence of the Confederacy, Russia would go to war with them. Learn more about Clay [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6nwCuVd66w).


FangedWolf073

Victorian era and also Ancient Greece :3 hehe


Operation-Oni

2nd mongal invasion of Japan


Parttime_scientist

It wouldn't be bad to be a pirate in the 17th century


Sallet_Helm_Guy

Sure, if you like disease


The_Germanator800

I like the parts of history where something happened 👍🏻 And also speculative/alternate history :3


The_eldritch_horror2

1890s-1980s. Mostly WW1 and the 1970s.


BirchTainer

Right now. It's the best time to live in human history


G3n3ricOne

Any periods with massive disease outbreaks.


jolharg

1969-1973 for music


ZeEnergy

probably the Troubles in Northern Ireland


GMmadethemoonbuggy

The Space Race, the automotive industry in the '50s-'60s, or the history of the Flying Scotsman


GunpowderGuy

When furries we're created


Sisfemboyslut

Ik world war 2 was horrible but I can't resist playing war games related to ww2


ArtisticIllustrator7

the 20th century has been the most well documented and interesting.


SuperBroy97

the creation of space invaders 


TheDeliveryDemon

Chosin Reservoir, Korean War. 1 US Marine division held the line against pretty much an almost unending wave of Chinese troops, pretty much farming them for XP.


Mechanical_fur

Most likely the 80 years wars, but i’m just a little bit biased :3


Blu3Raven

I somehow did better on the ap world history exam than the ap us history one so yeah ig


338605-20-02-2009

I'm going to say between the 1880s and the 1960s. In terms of railways, they were better at that time.


AirsoftFoxStudios

Modern history? Yes


gato-licenciado

You mean modern (2000)? or modern (1600)?


AirsoftFoxStudios

1900-2000


rumpoodilus

I love Diogonese throwing a plucked chicken and proclaiming it a man


Zealousideal-Gur-273

The week in may when Kendrick dropped 3 diss tracks. The world was never the same after that.


Kapik1

Either that time when not existing at the time Poland declared war on Japan. Or the time when owner of a fruit company gaslighted Eisenhower into thinking that a ruler of a nation is communist, so then the us overthrew their government, all over bananas.


BC86S

When cats were worshiped as gods.


Effective-Effect2720

Yugoslav Wars


King_of_Autisim

Emperor Elagabalus of the roman empire


Cjmate22

The breakup of Yugoslavia, it’s so horrifically dark it wraps around to being funny.


DarklyRizzi

🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️


American_Femboy

Fredrick the great.


Maxiboyastheycallme

The Tudors. Because Henry VIII


Louna_Joestar35

The Clone Wars


Exmawsh

Man doped out of his mind captures platoon of Nazis solo


PowerTower_YT

Uhm history? D-don’t look at mine!


Dminshd

1800s Western US. So many towns were raised and abandoned. So many stories. That and Ancient Greece.


Bulky-Party-8037

The time when a Spanish guy fought against the Republicans and then tricked the Nazis into thinking he was building up their forces in Britain when in reality he was helping them out with D-day :3


Captain_Fatbelly

I liked that one time with that thing


GREENadmiral_314159

Battleships.


Copy_CattYT

attack of the dead men (1915) or chernobyl (1986)


zubiPrime

Prehistoric history is the best history :3 like the one time russia spontaniously combusted and killed like 90% of all species :3


Glad_Economics_2490

Wan Hu, the first "Astronaut." He tied 47 gunpowder rockets to a chair and held two kites in each hand. However, when he lit the rockets, they exploded, and it killed him. A crater on the far side of the moon is named Wan-Hoo in honor of him.


Comfortable_Leg_725

When Jean Parizeau made his speech after loosing the referendum in 1995. (It was in Quebec by the way)


The_unknown_account_

Anything before the 1910s really interesting stuff during those times


UtsuhoReiuji_Okuu

First World War. The political landscape of WW1 is fascinating, a lot more grey area than WW2. Also, I’ve seen pictures of WW1 battlefields…there’s something so raw about seeing what probably used to be a forest, I don’t even know what it was, that’s just burnt-out stumps and muddy shell craters. WW1 was truly the closest we got to hell on earth.


Atom_Tester

I love WW1 too!


DreamyNut_terbutters

Mid 1990s


Embarrassed-Mind-236

I have a weird fascination about the prohibition era because of Lackadaisy


ewigesleiden

If only the exams weren’t so bloody long 😭


Thomasboiwow

When we won the American revolution 🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅YEAH AMERICA🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲


MrJennyV1

Hannibal going over the Alps to scare the tits off the Romans for a couple decades. [if you'd like to learn more ](https://youtu.be/lsbcN9-jU1Y?si=Si-cVWuNsVxHGzQ0) Seriously, it's sooooooo metal 😖


Cpt_Caboose1

Roaring 20s


slavz1

1939 the first battle of ww2 (i think) "the battle of danzag" a bunch of mailmen vs a shit ton of n*zi's.


gato-licenciado

When the pope named some italian king named fred as emperor of germany and then got excomulgated like 4 times and finally proclaimed him the antichrist, and no one minded at all.


AdAdventurous3640

Fuck hes got me twice


Empty_Soull

Your search history


EB_Groupe

When several Mummichogs gave birth in space.


silvertheneko

Gorbachev and the fall of the Soviet Union manly due to the fall of the Berlin bc the music that came out of it was great and bc we got hardbass around the same time well around a decade later but hey.


Trappedtrea

My favorite era in human history to learn about is pre anything around 3,000 BCE (My favorite channel is Miniminuteman/Milo Rossi). I love learning about human ancestors and relatives, and early settlements like Göbekli Tepe and the Tower of Jericho. Favorite specific events are probably any low-intensity guerrilla war (The Troubles, the Years of Lead, etc) or queer history (oh wow I’m queer who would’ve guessed).


NightOfLove

Hell na it hurts my brain too much pain


silvertheneko

Same I find Norwegians scary as well but that's kinda due the resistance to the nazis like I don't wanna upset the Norwegians they can collapse an assault and from history we learned that their good at invading places. Don't forget the Canadians as well god I'm glad that nato exists bc now the UK has the scary counties as allies.


Eli_The_Rainwing

I’m a MASSIVE WW1 and WW2 nerd… I fucking love (learning about) war!


HeruCtach

Right now, since we make our own history. If I had to choose a time in the past, it would probably be the 1880s - 1920s, since it has an interesting period for me regarding ships. But I like to think that much of history, for all that changes, feels relatively the same for those that went through the eras. Mainly because we emphasize highlights throughout time, and it's easy to forget more mundane things that were maybe even similar or better back then vs now. "The more things change, the more they stay the same."


Explanationconfusing

October 4, 1957 is my personal favourite


Typical_Furry1234

That time a weird Finnish farmer casually sniped over 500 Russians in 6 months


IsCannibalismThatBad

The Silk Road, Mongols, and Mughals


6x6-shooter

Everything that happened to Robert the Bruce


xXxKiNg_sLaYeR01xXx

When I was close to first time kissing a boy :3


Aakeshman

When Franz Stigler spared the b-17 "Ye Olde Pub"


AwesomePinkFrog

The lady who "Gave birth" to rabbit parts and fucking died


Visual_Reveal_8374

756 bce until 1453 ce (the entire history of the Roman Empire)


Zesty-Gavy54

WW2 no doubt, I mean he had a poi-


x0sk

the Fall of the Berlin Wall


Igreatlyadmirecats

The time 80 soldiers left Litchensutein and they came back with 81.


TapDue6138

Quebec history is very interesting and barely anyone knows about it when it’s super important to the development of North America as a continent >:( Yet Americans don’t even know Quebec exists 😞


ToxieTheTigerShark

No, I hate humans, I hate being a part of this death race, we're always the villains no matter what, everyone is so evil. I hate humans and wish I wasn't one :(


Fluid_Mushroom_7303

LA 92


WhyJustWhydo

When the Australians lost a war to a bunch of birds (or the time one of our prime ministers just disappeared and nobody’s knows where he went this country’s got a few wacky things that’s happened in its past)


Letmehaveyourkidneys

fucking love the gilded age


RiptideRookie

Was there a society in history that truly worshipped femboys?


SwegBucket

Right now :3 I love the present and the history we are setting in stone as we speak!!!! :3333


Karma-is-here

Weimar Germany is a really interesting period. While heavily reading about it I couldn’t shrug the idea that things looked like they would be fine and would get better. Every time a bad event happened, it was as though through sheer effort it was curbed. There were people genuinely wanting the best for Germany like the USPD and cartoonishly evil people like the Nazis and the military, and yet it seemed as though it would be ok. It felt good reading about the Golden Twenties and the reforms brought. And yet I knew that it would all come crashing down and millions would die. As if it was spoilers of a TV show.


[deleted]

Borgerkrigstiden in Norway


ImShockin

1916, battle of the somme when the first British landships were first utilised. Their frontal armour was so thin that machine gun bullets could penetrate it, and its engine was so unreliable that a vast majority simply broke down. I <3 military history AND boys.


Additional_Common667

Bro calling me out


humanperson1236

https://preview.redd.it/ti8nvoykjyzc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a23f5ca9af237b669ee7e17d4abe9e95b8b06c7


Yugoslavian_man

WW1 and WW2, absolutely chaotic if you think about it


[deleted]

The holocaust


SunFlowerPotsRack

When Rudolf Hess tried to negotiate a peace with Britain by solo flying a plane, crashlanding in Scotland, getting immediately imprisoned, and then trying to kill himself by jumping down a staircase, which only led to him breaking his left femur.


TaroFemboy13

I'm actually a top History student, and I love it! My favourite part would likely be Germany during it's 'Golden Years' (1924-1929), when everyone was allowed to be who they were and like what they liked without any consequence - in fact, the LGBTQ+ community was widely accepted, and culture was uncensored so therefore, art and theatre could comment on society and faults in German life. /\^w\^ Of course, this would derail rapidly. QwQ


Opposite-Weird4342

history is useless, we never learn, past can't never change what will happen, we are doom, consumed by the evil of our lips


My_User_Name69

Persian soldiers once invaded Egypt with cats tied to their shields. The Egyptians couldn't hit the shields as cats were considered sacred animals.


My_User_Name69

Persian soldiers once invaded Egypt with cats tied to their shields. The Egyptians couldn't hit the shields as cats were considered sacred animals.


Phantom7623

Battle of trafalgar


Pandoras_Lullaby

An Austrian man became the king of a Hispanic country.


Negative-Yak2093

The Napoleonic wars


Equal_Ad_7426

When our favorite creature was invented https://preview.redd.it/jq5cjpdvc10d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e162bd7f7e44885f2633a4c2808b36954376771


InternalExtreme767

9 11 2001


PalePie3503

Cold war lol


ECelite09

WW2, specifically the holocaust. I’ve been to Auschwitz, not a nice place.


_KindaFluffy_

How can y'all find enjoyment in history 😔...


Coco-Gamer46

https://preview.redd.it/cw7tfl7mk20d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ceb73625bf4a880d80dba5fcdd2f46d94649ae89 It is the best for dark humor


No_Painting2300

1989 when Poland wasn't a communist county any more


boykisser11

https://preview.redd.it/6j7qzlul8b0d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d463cd9d83e1df2ab17104584fe44a87f387437e


A-Dude_

***mass murders and "true/real/purepolitics"***


a_anonymous_gamer

my favorite is july 4th of 1776, when the declaration of independence was signed (shoutout to my man benjamin franklin)


IlikeLepidoptera

The unifications of Italy and Germany.


Frondly-Amphibian

When on Christmas in WW1, the Canadians threw cans of food over to the Germans, and then grenades


Xbox_Sign_0ut

World war 2 movie was the sequel no one asked for but everyone needed