The Counting Game

[Ferdack]

Come on burner, posts like these are getting old, and they add nothing of substance or interest to the game.

1741 marked the deaths of two important composers: Johann Joseph Fux, who wrote the most influential treatise on counterpoint, Gradus ad Parnassum; and Antonio Vivaldi, who is also known as "The Red Priest".

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1742 The first Silesian War ended with the peace of Breslau; Prussia took Silesia from Austria (and here in Diplomacy, we know how bad this is!)

[DarthPorg36]

1743
January 1 – The Verendrye brothers, probably Louis-Joseph and François de La Vérendrye, become the first white people to see the Rocky Mountains from the eastern side. (the Spanish conquistadors had seen the Rockies from the west side).

October 21 – Benjamin Franklin's view of a lunar eclipse from Philadelphia is spoiled by a rainstorm; several days later, he learns that residents of Boston received the same storm hours after the eclipse, demonstrating that weather moves from west to east.

Probable date – The last wolf in Scotland is shot, in Killiecrankie.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1744 The Second Silesian war starts.

[JustAGuyNamedWill]

The Jacobite rising of 1745, also known as the Forty-five Rebellion or simply the '45, was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart.

[burner]

Come on burner, posts like these are getting old, and they add nothing of substance or interest to the game.

1746

The number of tears which flowed from my eyes after reading this post.
(I'll stop now )

[Hanging Rook]

1747 Wright is a stony asteroid and a sizable Mars-crosser, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter

[JustAGuyNamedWill]

The 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, sometimes called the Treaty of Aachen, ended the War of the Austrian Succession, following a congress assembled on 24 April 1748 at the Free Imperial City of Aachen.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1749 One of the greatest poets is born, Goethe.

[Ferdack]

1750 One of the greatest composers dies, J.S. Bach.

[JECE]

1750 One of the greatest composers dies, J.S. Bach.

Last words: "I'll be Bach!"

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1751 Britain adopts the Gregorian Calendar
1752 Messier 83 (M83), the "Southern Pinwheel Galaxy" and the first to be catalogued outside the "Local Group" of galaxies nearest to Earth's galaxy, the Milky Way, is discovered by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille. Lacaille, who observes M83 during a research voyage in the Southern Hemisphere, is the first to identify the body as a nebulous object rather than a star. M83, 15 million light-years away, is the most distant object to be identified up to that time.

[JustAGuyNamedWill]

Error Message 1753 means that the RPC client (destination DC) could contact the RPC Server (source DC) over port 135, but the EPM on the RPC Server (source DC) couldn't locate the RPC application of interest and returned server-side error 1753.


Nerd speak goes over many heads

[dargorygel]

1754,,. the Seven Years' War began in Europe... although some say it began a few years later. It is complicated... but the American Colonies already wanted their own version of everything (leading to gridiron, dicitionaries, and coffee) fought their version as the French and Indian War... because the BritColonies fought against the French and Indians. Descriptive, although not imaginative name.

[dargorygel]

1755 (apparently, according to internet sources...pronounced seventeen fifty-five) is an Acadian band formed in 1975 by Saulnier, Robichaud, Gauvin, Boudreau and Dupuis. The band chose the name to commemorate the Deportation (Called the Great Expulsion) of Acadians from British Canadian provinces of the east. Many folk tragically died. The Expulsion was part of British policy during the French and Indian War.

[Ferdack]

1756: Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart is born on Jan 27. Despite the prevalence of "Amadeus" today, the Latin form was rarely used during his lifetime, he himself preferring to go by "Wolfgang Amadé".

[Hanging Rook]

1957: „Berliner Husarenstreich“ during the seven years war an imperial small light cavalry riding party found itself behind the enemies lines and the enemies armies too far away. So they rushed for Berlin, camping for a night before the city pretending to be a larger force by lightning camp fires. The next day the stormed the city overrunning the defenders. The city was pressed for war contributions and the queen of Prussia hat to flee town. They occupied the city for a single day and before Prussian reinforcements arrived, they left the town during the night to rejoin the main forces. Today in German „Husarenstück“ means to do succeed doing something daring.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

You mean 1757.

1758 Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) published in Stockholm the first volume (Animalia) of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, the starting point of modern zoological nomenclature, introducing binomial nomenclature for animals to his established system of Linnaean taxonomy.

[damo666]

1759 Annual Mirabilia (7 year war stuff)

Guinness brewery founded
Wedgwood pottery founded
Kew Gardens founded
Voltaire's Candide published
Robert Burns born
Mary Wollstonecraft born
William Wilberforce born

What a year!

It's also almost 6pm

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1760, King George III became king of Britain; his reign was lengthy (until 1820) and full of major historical events.