The Counting Game

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1881 End of the first Boer war.

[Pengwinja]

11101011010, (1882 in binary), was the year that the Triple Alliance was formed. Nothing wrong could come of an alliance!

Right?

[JustAGuyNamedWill]

1883 (TV Mini Series 2021–2022)
The post-Civil war generation of the Dutton family travels to Texas, and joins a wagon train undertaking the arduous journey west to Oregon

[DarthPorg36]

1884 - November 15 – The Berlin Conference, which carved up Africa for European colonization and trade, begins (ends February 26, 1885).

[DrFidelis]

1884 - November 15 – The Berlin Conference, which carved up Africa for European colonization and trade, begins (ends February 26, 1885).

1885 - February 26 - The Berlin Conference finishes discussion and carves up Africa for European colonization and trade, causing many conflicts over native land continuing to the modern day.

[wintergreen]

1886 – An American mastermind mixes cocaine with caffeine to make Coca-Cola.*

* Not entirely accurate.

[Wattsthematter]

1887 - Schrodinger is/isn't born

[kingofthepirates]

1888-1888 North Canterbury earthquake in new zealand happens. the incredibly creative name is inspired by the location of the epicenter of the earthquake (the North Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand, approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of Hanmer), and, get this, the year the earthquake took place, the aforementioned 1888. Motion to award the prestigious and most creatively named "Creative Name Award For Naming Something Creatively In A Creative Fashion, Just Like This Award's Name" award to this earthquake?

[damo666]

1889

Charlie Chaplin, Adolf Hitler and Ludwig Wittgenstein all born in April

[DarthPorg36]

January 15, 1890 – Ballet The Sleeping Beauty, with music by Tchaikovsky, is premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.

[Hanging Rook]

1891 January 29 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii. Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893

[damo666]

1892

Samoa changes it's time, crossing the international date line, having two consecutive days as July 4th and a 367 day year.

[FlaviusAetius]

1893

France and Russia created their defensive pact, which would later become the Triple Entente once Britain joined a little over a decade later. Below is the original text of the agreement, 1893 is when it was finalized and publicized.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/frrumil.asp

(since the classic map of this game is based on WWI, until we hit 1914 we should find stuff that lead to the outbreak of that war)

[Wattsthematter]

1892

Samoa changes it's time, crossing the international date line, having two consecutive days as July 4th and a 367 day year.

This is the most American thing I've ever heard

[Wattsthematter]

1892

Samoa changes it's time, crossing the international date line, having two consecutive days as July 4th and a 367 day year.

This is the most American thing I've ever heard

Sorry for messing up the post count. I'll do two.

Also wanted to note I did not know about Charlie Chaplin, Hitler, and Wittgenstein all being born in the same month of the same year. That's very... cosmically epic.

1894 - Aforementioned Franco-Russian alliance encircles Germany. Letters detailing the alliance state that, in the event of an attack by Germany on Russia or France, Russia is to send 700,000 troops to fight, and France is to send 1,300,000 troops to fight.

In trying to find more information leading to the events of WWI....

1895 - Japanese and Chinese conclude Treaty of Shimonoseki among various European powers expressing self-interests and resulting in recognition of Korean independence and surrendering Port Arthur and Liaotung Peninsula to Japan; Russians upset over Japanese gains

[damo666]

1896 - first modern Olympics is held in Athens

USA topped the table with 11 golds but Greece amassed the most medals with 47 dwarfing USA's 20.

[wintergreen]

1897 - first Dos Equis beer is brewed

[CaptainFritz28]

1898 - Charge of Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Battle of San Juan Hill.

[wintergreen]

1899 - beginning of Second Boer War

[Hanging Rook]

The states of former Yugoslavia use the 1900 Trieste gauge to measure altitudes, labeling hights as meters above the Adriatic