Amusingly named historical events

[The Archregimancy]

The Parliament of Bats

The Diet of Worms

The Defenestrations of Prague

The Boston Tea Party

The Great Molasses Flood (what is it with Boston, anyway?)

The War of Jenkins' Ear

History is full of amusingly named events (whether due to mispronunciation, changes in meaning, or - in the case of Prague - just using a great word).

What are your favourites, and why?

Examples from languages other than English are very welcome, but please explain why they're amusing/cool in the other language.

Please remember that this is supposed to be a fun thread - it would be hypocritical in the extreme for me to discourage petty niggling over historical accuracy, but let's try and keep it fairly light-hearted.

Poll reset:

Poll was reset so as to include the War of Jenkins' Ear; feel free to vote again.

[Georgism]

Defenestration by a mile.

[Barringtonia]

The roundheads vs. the cavaliers.. I mean, I guess it's funny due to the connotations made afterwards but, still, made English civil war history a touch more amusing.

[Offenheim]

I always thought it was called the "Molassacre" up in Boston. Regardless of the truth, I think the one I know is superior.

Also, War of Jenkin's Ear is by far the most amusing name for a historical event.

[The Archregimancy]

Also, War of Jenkin's Ear is by far the most amusing name for a historical event.

Damn... I had that one on the tip of my tongue, and had enough space on the poll to include it; just slipped my mind.

I agree that it's certainly a strong candidate, and should have been listed in the OP. My apologies.

[Sun Aut Ex]

You bastards, I was going to say the War of Jenkins' Ear!

[Laerod]

Wow. I've never seen the Diet of Worms in that light...

[Munathanura]

I think I'll have to vote for War of Jenkin's Ear.

[Offenheim]

The people have spoken. Put it in.

[Vellosia]

Although, really, the War of Jenkin's Ear was more a prelude to a greater war than anything else.

[Chunc]

The Toyota War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

The Battle of the Bulge. When I first read about it, I thought it was a joke. With that name?! How couldn't it be? But I soon realized it was a real event, a battle fought during WWII.

[Villemaa]

Pork mutinity

[Risottia]

The Battle of the Bulge. When I first read about it, I thought it was a joke. With that name?! How couldn't it be? But I soon realized it was a real event, a battle fought during WWII.

Yep, but I don't think it's very aptly named. A lot of battles happen where frontlines form a bulge. After all it's full of healthy men in the vigour of their youth.

Anyway, win for the War of the Oaken Bucket. It even generated an epic poem.

[The Archregimancy]

The people have spoken. Put it in.

Done; Jenkins' Ear is in - though unfortunately this did mean resetting the poll.

Wow. I've never seen the Diet of Worms in that light...

That's because, as a German, you pronounce 'Worms' correctly

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

The Battle of the Bulge. When I first read about it, I thought it was a joke. With that name?! How couldn't it be? But I soon realized it was a real event, a battle fought during WWII.

Yep, but I don't think it's very aptly named. A lot of battles happen where frontlines form a bulge. After all it's full of healthy men in the vigour of their youth.

Must. Resist. Making. Joke. About. This.

._.

[Rambhutan]

The London Beer Flood of 1814
The Cod War

[Nazis in Space]

Reichskristallnacht.

[Meowfoundland]

I always liked the Pig War.

[Risottia]

Wow. I've never seen the Diet of Worms in that light...

That's because, as a German, you pronounce 'Worms' correctly

Huge flamey debate at the Diet: the last issue really opened a can of Worms.

[Laerod]

That's because, as a German, you pronounce 'Worms' correctly ;)

Huge flamey debate at the Diet: the last issue really opened a can of Worms. :blink:

Don't be silly. The only German city that comes in cans is Berlin.

[Risottia]

Huge flamey debate at the Diet: the last issue really opened a can of Worms.

Don't be silly. The only German city that comes in cans is Berlin.

...I thought it was only Berliner babies that came in cans and bottles. Now it's the whole city?

[The Archregimancy]

That's because, as a German, you pronounce 'Worms' correctly

Huge flamey debate at the Diet: the last issue really opened a can of Worms.

What, Charles V's closing declaration in the Edict of Worms that...

"Item. Furthermore, we declare in this ordinance that if anyone, whatever his social status may be, dares directly or indirectly to oppose this decree--whether concerning Luther's matter, his defamatory books or their printings, or whatever has been ordered by us--these transgressors in so doing will be guilty of the crime of lèse majesté and will incur our grave indignation as well as each of the punishments mentioned above."

A century later, that would take Europe into the Thirty Years War, so, yes, I suppose you're essentially correct.

You were trying to be funny? Don't you realise there's no room for humour in an NSG history thread?

[Laerod]

Don't be silly. The only German city that comes in cans is Berlin.

...I thought it was only Berliner babies that came in cans and bottles. Now it's :unsure: the whole city?

Well, the air. I'm not sure how much a can of Berlin air goes for these days, but it's a pretty typical souvenir to buy.

[Colombie-Britannique]

War of the Stray Dog?