45 (yes, I am one of the oldies here). I started playing diplomacy 28 years ago. A friend of mine was a fan of the strategy games depicting battles in detail (back then, all in tabletop, no PC games yet) and got me involved as I was always deep in history study. Looking for a game on WWI, we found d...

I am an accountant; I have studied and what I am doing as a job. I am an author too. I am writing for years, and I have been putting my stories in fora and my blog. Last May, I published my first novel officially. My genres are mostly fantasy and action. Now I am preparing my second novel for publis...

I had seen this feature in many fora with a similar build. I think it is a standard and I find it just a curio, never gave it a second thought and I believe most people do the same.

686 AD King Cædwalla of Wessex establishes overlordship over Essex and invades Kent for a second time. King Eadric is expelled, and Cædwalla's brother Mul is installed in his place. The sub-kings Berthun and Andhun are killed, and Sussex is subjugated by the West Saxons. Cædwalla conquers Surrey and...

684 AD Halley's comet pays Earth a visit.
(we are to see the comet returning in the summer of 2061, it is now about the farthest from the earth)

679 AD Dagobert II, King of the Franks, is murdered (officially, it was a hunting accident, yes the deer fight back some times!)

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-20 in Northern Greece. Not something unheard of but it is not the usual either. We experience a low barometric coming from the far north.

What is the "-20" here? Celsius or the archaic units used in North America?

-20 Celsius, and we had the worst snowstorm of the last decades.

-20 in Northern Greece. Not something unheard of but it is not the usual either. We experience a low barometric coming from the far north.

677 Slavs attack Thessaloniki, fall to take the walls and establish a siege which will go well into the next year.

(does the "Frankish" Kingdom imply a "Less Frankish" Kingdom, or a "Fully Frank" Kingdom? They were called Franks, it was called Kingdom of France much later 676 AD Arabs lay siege to Constantinople, it will last for two years and will end with a defeat to Arabs halting their expansion and the empi...

673 AD Childeric II becomes sole king of the Frankish Kingdom.

669 AD King Ecgberht of Kent loses Surrey's overlordship to King Wulfhere of Mercia during the everlasting battle for dominion over England (this struggle of the Saxon Eptarchy lasted from the 6th to the late 10th century).

Apocalypse 13,18 and the number of the beast shall be 666.

Article 667 of the Greek Civil Code is referring to the right of every employee to leave for resting.

664 AD A plague devastates the British isles.

662 On the 13th of August saint Maximus the Confessor dies in exile (he was exiled by Heraclius, and while the emperor was dead for more than 20 years the decision was never recalled).

659 Code 659 in the Greek tax report is for amounts of income that need not be taxed as the tax is already withheld before the individual receive the income.

657 AD In the battle of Siffin Muslim forces under Ali ibn Abi-Talib fights an inconclusive battle against Muawiyah ibn Abu Sufyan, on the banks of the Euphrates, near Raqqa (Syria), this poor city has suffered all the wars erupting at the area from the dawn of history to present day.

654 AD On the 1st of June patriarch of Constantinople Pyrrhus dies, he's revered as a saint honoured on the day of his passing.

Το add a province at the north of Greece would be historically correct. At 1901 Greece and Bulgaria or Greece and Serbia had no common borders. Macedonia and Thrace were still Turkish soil.

649 Infantry Battalion is a Greek army unit in which I served nine months as a sergeant.