What’s Your Favorite Event in History?

[Bear Stearns]

Stalin assumed in power in an already established dictatorship, so it's not quite as dramatic.

What was the Duma?

I think you're confusing dates. The Duma was already gone by the time the Soviet state was declared. Are you think of the Politburo?

[Dangine]

I do not have one main favorite but here are some that I find interesting.
The French Revolution
The American Revolution
Civil Rights Movement
The Industrial Revolution in America
Progressive Era
The Spanish civil war
The Mongols invasions and the Mongols in general
The American civil war
Japanese migration to Brazil
The Norwegian Black Metal scene
Viking and Gothic invasions
A bunch of awesome Thrash Metal albums being released in 1986

[Kowani]

What was the Duma?

I think you're confusing dates. The Duma was already gone by the time the Soviet state was declared. Are you think of the Politburo?

...I need more sleep, that’s the second time today.

[Xmara]

WWII is pretty interesting to read about. Probably because several of my family members served in the US military during that time. My grandpa was in the Navy and was present at the Battle of Okinawa, where he lost the tip of one of his fingers (but gained a Japanese sword). A couple of his brothers also served. I know for a fact that one was in the Army on the European front because he came back with some of Hitler's silverware.

I've also recently become fascinated with the Victorian and Edwardian Eras.

[Sundiata]

The transfiguration.

Basically, Jesus takes two of his disciples to a mountainside to pray. Everything is going pretty normal until Jesus starts to morph, his face as bright as the sun, his clothing lit aflame. Two men appear!

These men were the prophets Moses and Elijah. After that, the face of God appears in the clouds. God says from the sky, "This is my son who I am pleased with, listen to him." I would give my left arm to actually see that you guys.

It looked something like this.

[Forsher]

Norman Conquest. It's got it all... except the compelling television/movie adaptation. Which is weird when you think about it. Great action climax, fake climax via Stamford Bridge, complex characters who are open to interpretation. Seems ready made, right?

In terms of the thing that happened that I'm most pleased happened? No idea.

[The Huskar Social Union]

WW2's eastern front, fascinating stuff. Always been one of my top historical interests.

[Diopolis]

The Spanish civil is particularly fascinating for me, mainly because of revolutionary Catalonia.

I just like the ending.

[Nea Byzantia]

Rome (27 BC - 1453 AD)

[Ifreann]

Rome (27 BC - 1453 AD)

Never heard of it.

[New Bremerton]

Victorian Britain, especially London, in the midst of the Industrial Revolution, particularly the Second Industrial Revolution in the mid-to-late 19th century, would have to be my favorite period, followed closely by America, especially NYC and Chicago, in the 1920s-1930s.

Countless movies, TV shows and video games are partly or wholly set in these places and time periods, or loosely inspired by them. When I think of Victorian London, I think of Charles Dickens, Shanghai Knights, Peter Pan (in the "real" world), The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (in the "real" world), The Chronicles of Narnia (in the "real" world), Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and Sherlock Holmes, and more loosely Harry Potter, and others I may have missed. Interwar NYC conjures up images of King Kong (the remake) and the mafia, while Chicago is centered around Al Capone. Doctor Who (2005 series) episodes have been set in interwar NYC and Victorian London, or clones thereof.

A snowy Christmas theme enhances my appreciation tenfold, especially in the case of Victorian Britain. Dickens' A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms and at least one Doctor Who Christmas special are partly or wholly set in Victorian London around Christmas time.

[Sundiata]

The Spanish civil is particularly fascinating for me, mainly because of revolutionary Catalonia.

I just like the ending.

Not the worst ending.

But then again, I'm biased, Spain is a Catholic country.

[Hammer Britannia]

The Greek conquest of Europe, 2040

[Diopolis]

The Greek conquest of Europe, 2040

We’ll be toast when they figure out how to weaponize their debt.

[Sycar]

The development of self loading firearms (1880-late 1940s). The way politics and the technology of the time both hindered and sped up development is super interesting, and there are some crazy actions that were made up to bypass patents.

[Marxist Germany]

World War I, followed by World War II, and thirdly the 19th century.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

The Christmas truces in 1914.

[Luziyca]

Possibly the fact Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital in the first place.

[Arumdaum]

me being happy w my ex

[Costa Hermosa]

Everything to do with the Mayan civilization.

[Nazis in Space]

7:1

8th July 2014. Never forget~

Literally listed as a historical event (when the 1982 match that crippled a Frenchman and the 1990 WC win in Rome aren't).

[Samadhi]

Alexander and the Gordian knot.

[Ifreann]

Possibly the fact Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital in the first place.

While drunk.

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7:1

8th July 2014. Never forget~

Literally listed as a historical event (when the 1982 match that crippled a Frenchman and the 1990 WC win in Rome aren't).

There was a bar here that ran an offer where by every time Brazil scored in that match they'd reduce the price of Brahma, and every time Germany scored they'd reduce the price of Erdinger Heffe.

The Erdinger was going for 50c a pop by the end.

[Fartsniffage]

Possibly the fact Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital in the first place.

While drunk.

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7:1

8th July 2014. Never forget~

Literally listed as a historical event (when the 1982 match that crippled a Frenchman and the 1990 WC win in Rome aren't).

There was a bar here that ran an offer where by every time Brazil scored in that match they'd reduce the price of Brahma, and every time Germany scored they'd reduce the price of Erdinger Heffe.

The Erdinger was going for 50c a pop by the end.

1st September 2001. Germany 1 England 5. I was in a bar overlooking the Menai Straits with a free bar and bbq funded by the British Army. Heaven.

[Arevastan]

The Norwegian Black Metal scene

What an interesting choice! It wasn't that long ago, too. There's nothing like some drama that ends in death to kickstart a fine genre of quality, extreme music.

I find it difficult to choose a particular event, myself; anything related to ancient Iranian civilizations or Mesoamerican ones is welcome. And the discovery of metallurgy - that's some mad shit right there. The High Medieval period of Europe isn't too shabby of an era either.