A Little GG Fun, History Lesson!

[FunkyVapes]

Ok so, this is my first attempt at a fun GG thread and I hope it hasn't been done. Here's what you have to do, feel free to use as a template...

GG Model:
Serial Number:
What Happened That Year/ Famous People that were born/died (Wikipedia Works):


If your date happens to be in the future, make something fun up!


Here's Mine:

GG Model: GGTS
Serial Number: 1293
What Happened That Year (Wikipedia Works):


In the year 1293...

An earthquake in Kamakura, Japan kills an estimated 30,000.

The Isle of Wight is sold to King Edward I by Countess Isabella De Fortibus for six thousand marks.

Dante Alighieri completes the book of verse La Vita Nuova.


Not too exciting for me

 

[Huffelpuff]

Ok... I'm game:

303
Year 303 (CCCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Valerius. In 303, the Emperors Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius and Constantius issued a series of edicts rescinding the legal rights of Christians and demanding that they comply with traditional Roman religious practices
1503
Feb 18th - Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)Apr 28th - Battle at Cerignalo: Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France May 10th - Columbus discovers Cayman Islands

 

[Moshmarr]

GG Model: GGTS-SS
Serial Number: 33
What Happened That Year:

- Death of Jesus of Nazareth, (possible year of crucifixion)

- Emperor Tiberius founds a credit bank in Rome.

- A financial crisis hits Rome, due to poorly chosen fiscal policies. Land values plummet, and credit is increased. These actions lead to a lack of cash, a crisis of confidence, and much land speculation. The primary victims are senators, knights and the wealthy. Many aristocratic families are ruined.

- Although the usurpation of Wang Mang and the Chimei Rebellion are behind him, Emperor Guangwu now faces a new threat to the Han Dynasty: the Rebellion of Gongsun Shu in the Sichuan province. Gongsun's naval forces are unsuccessful against Han General Cen Peng, so Gongsun decides to fortify his position by blockading the entire Yangtze River with a large floating pontoon bridge, complete with floating fortified posts. He erects forts on both banks of the river for further missile fire and protects his barrier with a large boom. After Cen Peng is unable to break through, he constructs several "castle ships" with high ramparts and ramming vessels known as "colliding swoopers", which break through Gongsun's lines and allow Cen to quell his rebellion. Gongsun Shu is totally defeated three years later.

Whoa..

 

[buGG]

so this only works if your GG's have a number?

 

[martinc]

Nickel GGTS #985

July 6 – Barcelona is sacked by troops of Al-Mansur.[1]
Greenland is colonized by Icelandic Viking Erik the Red (the date is according to legend but has been established as at least approximately correct – see History of Greenland).
Lady Wulfruna founds the town that later becomes the city of Wolverhampton.
Henry the Wrangler is restored as Duke of Bavaria.

The others spam too much stuff

 

[FunkyVapes]

Nickel GGTS #985


Greenland is colonized by Icelandic Viking Erik the Red

YES! Awesome score

so this only works if your GG's have a number?

Yours don't?

Ok... I'm game:

303
Year 303 (CCCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Valerius. In 303, the Emperors Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius and Constantius issued a series of edicts rescinding the legal rights of Christians and demanding that they comply with traditional Roman religious practices
1503
Feb 18th - Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)Apr 28th - Battle at Cerignalo: Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France May 10th - Columbus discovers Cayman Islands

Score!

Whoa..

Whoa indeed, haha

 

[Ariel_MX]

1183:

Three-year old Emperor Go-Toba ascends to the throne of Japan after the forced abdication of his brother Emperor Antoku during the Genpei War.

Joseph of Exeter writes the first account of a sport resembling cricket.

Saladin conquers Syria and becomes sultan.

1502:

May 11 – Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain for his fourth and final trip to the 'New World'. He explores Central America, and discovers St. Lucia (possibly),[1] the Isthmus of Panama, Honduras, and Costa Rica.

Aztec ruler Auitzotl dies; Moctezuma II is elected emperor.

In Germany, Peter Henlein of Nuremberg uses iron parts and coiled springs to build a portable timepiece.

In Greece Imeo's ancestors start thinking in building a personal vaporizer, but at that time the battery had not been invented (at least not a usable one), so they abandoned the project.

The first African slaves brought to the New World arrive at the island of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and Dominican Republic).

Ivan III of Russia and Meñli I Giray of Crimea attack the Grand Duchy of Lithuania without much success.

 

[Killjoy1]

GGTS #882

882 AD in history:

--Carloman, King of the West Franks, becomes sole king upon the death of his brother.

--Louis the Younger, king of Saxony, dies, leaving his territory to his brother, the emperor Charles the Fat.

--Oleg of Novgorod takes Kiev and makes it his capital.

--December 16 – Pope Marinus I succeeds Pope John VIII as the 108th pope.

 

[Tgoode]

972
By place

Europe
The city of Satu Mare, Romania is founded.
Otto II marries Theophanu, Byzantine princess.
Battle of Cedynia: Polish duke Mieszko I defeats the Germans.
Boleslaus II the Pious succeeds Boleslav I in Bohemia.
The monastery at the site of Peterborough Cathedral is rebuilt.
Emperor John Tzimisces makes eastern Bulgaria a Byzantine dependency.
A battle between Estonian and Icelandic Vikings in Saaremaa is described in Njál's saga.
Yaropolk of Kiev succeeds Sviatoslav I in Kiev.

Africa
Buluggin ibn Ziri is appointed viceroy in Ifriqiya, starting the Zirid Dynasty.

1310
May 11 – In France, 54 members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake for heresy.
Abu al-Fida becomes governor of Hama.
The first purpose-built accommodation for students (the Mob Quad) is completed in Merton College, Oxford, England.
Basarab I, after the battle against the Tatars, is named "big prince" of Wallachia by the feudal lords of the region. The country remains under Hungarian domination until the Battle of Posada on 12 October, 1330.

 

[FunkyVapes]

May 11 – In France, 54 members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake for heresy.

That's a dinger

 

[MrKrinkle]

GG Model: SSGGTS
Serial Number: 773 & 605

What Happened in 773: In Europe-At request of the Pope Adrian I, Charlemagne crosses the Alps and invades the kingdom of the Lombards headed by the king Desiderius... In Asia-The concept of the number zero is introduced to the city of Baghdad. King Khongtekcha's reign ends; during his reign, the Manipuri language script first appeared.

Angel Number 773: http://sacredscribesangelnumbers.blogspot.com/2011/12/angel-number-773.html

What Happened in 605: In Asia-As a result of a quarrel between Numan III, the Lakhmid ruler, and the Persian Chosroes, the Persian border with Arabia is no longer guarded. Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty orders the capital to be transferred from Chang'an to Luoyang, and orders the Grand Canal to be built. Amshuvarma becomes king of Licchavi. The Chinese Zhaozhou Bridge is completed under the Sui Dynasty, the earliest known fully stone open-spandrel segmental arch bridge in the world. Although the earlier Roman era Trajan's Bridge featured segmental arches, they were built of wood on top of stone piers. In America-Aj Ne' Yohl Mat becomes ruler of Palenque.

Angel Number 605: http://sacredscribesangelnumbers.blogspot.com/2011/10/angel-number-605.html

Well that was fun.... A little Funky, but fun...

 

[Chinner]

GG stealth #500

Was looking pretty boring until I found this:

500 AD

Possible date for the Battle of Mons Badonicus: Romano-British and Celts defeat an Anglo-Saxon army that may have been led by the bretwalda Aelle of Sussex or possibly Cerdic of Wessex (approximate date; suggested dates range from 490 to 517). This battle may have influenced the legend of King Arthur.

 

[FunkyVapes]

This battle may have influenced the legend of King Arthur.

Cha-ching!

 

[wfarrar33]

DUUUDE nice idea. Im in the process of getting a half sleeve tattoo of some things that were going on in and around the year i was born. I should have it finished this weekend or close enough to post pics. I was born in 1983 and the sleeve has Ronald and Nancy Reagan, an A-Team reference, the space shuttle challenger, the death star (return of the Jedi was the #1 movie that year. and theres tons of other stuff all through it.

Ok so, this is my first attempt at a fun GG thread and I hope it hasn't been done. Here's what you have to do, feel free to use as a template...

GG Model:
Serial Number:
What Happened That Year/ Famous People that were born/died (Wikipedia Works):


If your date happens to be in the future, make something fun up!


Here's Mine:

GG Model: GGTS
Serial Number: 1293
What Happened That Year (Wikipedia Works):


In the year 1293...

An earthquake in Kamakura, Japan kills an estimated 30,000.

The Isle of Wight is sold to King Edward I by Countess Isabella De Fortibus for six thousand marks.

Dante Alighieri completes the book of verse La Vita Nuova.


Not too exciting for me

 

[FunkyVapes]

DUUUDE nice idea. Im in the process of getting a half sleeve tattoo of some things that were going on in and around the year i was born. I should have it finished this weekend or close enough to post pics. I was born in 1983 and the sleeve has Ronald and Nancy Reagan, an A-Team reference, the space shuttle challenger, the death star (return of the Jedi was the #1 movie that year. and theres tons of other stuff all through it.

Now that is a hell of an idea. If you don't tell them, people will go nuts trying to connect the dots between the different things on it

 

[PaulieD]

SSGGTS # 693

693 - Death of Bishop Eorcenwald of London. He is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, London and later revered as a saint. Death of King Oshere of Hwicce. He is succeeded by four apparent joint-kings: Aethelberht, Aethelweard, Aethelric and Osred.

c.693 - King Ine of Wessex establishes his West Saxon Law Codes.

 

[SkeetS]

GGTS #267

Roman Empire

First Gothic invasion: The Goths, originally from Scandinavia, with the Sarmatians (from modern Iran), invade the Balkans and Greece. They ravage Moesia and Thrace.
The Heruli invade the Black Sea coast, they unsuccessfully attack Byzantium and Cyzicus. The Romano-Byzantine fleet defeats the Herulian fleet (500 ships) but allows them to excape into the Aegean Sea, where they raid the islands of Lemnos and Skyros.
The Goths sack several cities of southern Greece including Athens, Corinth, Argos and Sparta. An Athenian militia force (2,000 men) under the historian Dexippus, pushed the invaders to the north where they are intercepted by the Roman army under emperor Gallienus. He wins an important victory near the Nestos River, on the boundary between Macedonia and Thrace.
Aureolus, charged with defending Italy, defeats Victorinus (co-emperor of Gaul), is proclaimed emperor by his troops, and begins his march on Rome.

Near East

King Odaenathus of Palmyra makes plans for a campaign in Cappadocia against the Goths. He is assassinated along with his eldest son, evidently on orders from emperor Gallienus. His wife Zenobia succeeds him, and rules with her young son Vaballathus the Palmyrene Empire.

 

[Morrisam]

SSGGTS #666,777
Apparently nothing happened yet.

 

[loganmt]

SS GGTS # 796

December – Coenwulf becomes king of Mercia.
Charlemagne defeats the Avars.
Tō-ji is established in Kyoto, Japan.

 

[SCOTT-3]

model SS-GGTS
serial number 452
year 452 june 8th italy invaded by attila the hun ruler of the huns from 434 until death in 453, sadly missed