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Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2020 6:44 pm
by Ezio
555

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 1:58 pm
by PRINCE WILLIAM
556 AD Romanus the Melodist, one of the greatest composers of Ecclesiastical hymns dies, he left behind him a rich opus from which many hymns are still in use. He's venerated as a saint on October's First.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:05 pm
by dargorygel
557: A grand prime number, which when extended through Fibonaccing, results in: 113928037680978527777140672732116305813154440303874734475431
773320488593551486986201473617910150485189153870299086037.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:41 pm
by PRINCE WILLIAM
558 AD Conall mac Comgaill is crowned king of Dál Riata, a Gaelic kingdom on the western coast of Scotland (predecessor of the Scottish kingdom, at this point, ruling only half the country as the rest is Pictish land).

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 3:00 am
by dargorygel
5:59 the worst time in the world. One minute before the alarm wakes me up.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 3:45 am
by Matticus13
February 16, 600 – Pope Gregory the Great decrees "God bless You" as the religiously correct response to a sneeze.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:55 pm
by PRINCE WILLIAM
You leap 40 numbers, my friend. After 559 comes 560!

560 AD Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem and saint, is born.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 2:43 pm
by dargorygel
PRINCE WILLIAM wrote:
Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:55 pm
You leap 40 numbers, my friend. After 559 comes 560!

560 AD Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem and saint, is born.
And no one else noticed....

562 BC: Anet-Marduk (not to be confused with the cartoon dog, "Marmaduke,") replaced Nebuchadnezzar II as Supreme Leader of Babylon.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:15 pm
by PRINCE WILLIAM
And you, my dear friend, missed 561!
561 AD King Klothair dies, leaving the Frankish kingdom once more to be divided.

And to continue:
563 Infantry Battalion was an infantry unit of the Greek army into which I served my last seven months in the army. Unfortunately is now disbanded.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 9:03 am
by damo666
564 bc the year Aesop was born.

Or this could be a fable.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:37 am
by PRINCE WILLIAM
565 AD Justinian dies at 14th of November after 38 years on the throne.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 12:58 pm
by Maniac
Stagecoach 567 runs from New Road, Kirkby Lonsdale to Kendal and back again.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:38 pm
by damo666
568 the sum of the the first 19 prime numbers

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:43 pm
by PRINCE WILLIAM
566 is the number Maniac forgot to take in consideration.

566 AD Ainmuire mac Sétnai becomes High King of Ireland.
569 AD The aforementioned king dies.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 3:22 pm
by dargorygel
570 AD
Muhammed born in Mecca.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 4:05 pm
by PRINCE WILLIAM
571 AD Wuffa becomes the first king of East Anglia starting the dynasty of the Wuffings.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:58 pm
by dargorygel
572
Not only did King Alboin (Lombard) successfully complete the three-year siege of Ticinum (better known as Pavia) but he was murdered in his palace (in Verona) via the conspiracy of his wife, Rosamund. Proving that a rose by any other name does NOT smell as sweet.

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2020 4:16 pm
by PRINCE WILLIAM
573 AD King Sigibert I goes to war against his half brother Chilperic I of Neustria at the urging of his wife, Brunhilda (one is killed one goes to war with his wife's encouragement, woe to married kings!)

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:56 pm
by damo666
574 AD death of Pope John III

Re: The Counting Game

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2020 7:10 pm
by hthefourth
5-7-5: The syllabic pattern for haikus.