Historical Events You Won't Believe Happened at the Same Time

[We Never Know]

Some seem a little wild.
I only posted the main title of each. A story can be read on each in the link.


1. The Fax Machine Was Invented The Same Year The First Wagon Crossed the Oregon Trail (1843)

2. NASA Was Exploring Space By The Time Scientists Could Agree On Plate Tectonics (1965)

3. Woolly Mammoths Were Still Alive While Egyptians Were Building The Pyramids (2660 BCE)

4. You Could Take The London Underground To The Last Public Hanging In The UK (1868)

5. Prisoners Arrived At Auschwitz Just Days After McDonald's Was Founded (1940)

6. The Ottoman Empire Existed The Second To Last Time The Chicago Cubs Won The World Series (1908)

7. Nintendo Was Founded When Jack the Ripper Was Still On The Loose (1889)

8. By The Time The Pilgrims Made It To Plymouth Rock, There Was A 'Palace of the Governors' In New Mexico

9. Star Wars Came Out The Same Year As The Last Guillotine Execution In France (1977)

10. Swiss Women Got The Right To Vote The Same Year The US Drove A Buggy On The Moon (1971)

11. Microsoft Was Founded While Spain Was Still A Fascist Dictatorship (1975)

12. The Brooklyn Bridge Was Being Built During The Battle Of Little Bighorn (1876)

13. Orville Wright Was Still Alive When Hiroshima And Nagasaki Were Bombed (1945)

14. Ecstasy Was Invented The Same Year The Titanic Sank (1912)

15. Oxford University Existed For Hundreds Of Years Before The Aztec Empire Was Founded (1428)

16. Buffalo Bill Cody Was Alive At The Same Time The Germans Were Bombing With Zeppelins (1916)

Historical Events Happening Around the World at the Same Time

 

[Mock Turtle]

Three Great Men Died That Day: JFK, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley (thedailybeast.com)

 

[Heyo]

Some seem a little wild.
I only posted the main title of each. A story can be read on each in the link.


1. The Fax Machine Was Invented The Same Year The First Wagon Crossed the Oregon Trail (1843)

2. NASA Was Exploring Space By The Time Scientists Could Agree On Plate Tectonics (1965)

3. Woolly Mammoths Were Still Alive While Egyptians Were Building The Pyramids (2660 BCE)

4. You Could Take The London Underground To The Last Public Hanging In The UK (1868)

5. Prisoners Arrived At Auschwitz Just Days After McDonald's Was Founded (1940)

6. The Ottoman Empire Existed The Second To Last Time The Chicago Cubs Won The World Series (1908)

7. Nintendo Was Founded When Jack the Ripper Was Still On The Loose (1889)

8. By The Time The Pilgrims Made It To Plymouth Rock, There Was A 'Palace of the Governors' In New Mexico

9. Star Wars Came Out The Same Year As The Last Guillotine Execution In France (1977)

10. Swiss Women Got The Right To Vote The Same Year The US Drove A Buggy On The Moon (1971)

11. Microsoft Was Founded While Spain Was Still A Fascist Dictatorship (1975)

12. The Brooklyn Bridge Was Being Built During The Battle Of Little Bighorn (1876)

13. Orville Wright Was Still Alive When Hiroshima And Nagasaki Were Bombed (1945)

14. Ecstasy Was Invented The Same Year The Titanic Sank (1912)

15. Oxford University Existed For Hundreds Of Years Before The Aztec Empire Was Founded (1428)

16. Buffalo Bill Cody Was Alive At The Same Time The Germans Were Bombing With Zeppelins (1916)

Historical Events Happening Around the World at the Same Time

We have a game here named "Anno Domini" (which apparently wasn't translated, yet). You get some cards with historical events on them. You take turns to place the cards on the table, in the right order. You can place a card or you can question the existing order. If the order was right, you have to draw two extra cards, if its wrong the last to place a card has to draw. Winner is the first to have no cards.
Anno Domini (Spiel) – Wikipedia

 

[exchemist]

Some seem a little wild.
I only posted the main title of each. A story can be read on each in the link.


1. The Fax Machine Was Invented The Same Year The First Wagon Crossed the Oregon Trail (1843)

2. NASA Was Exploring Space By The Time Scientists Could Agree On Plate Tectonics (1965)

3. Woolly Mammoths Were Still Alive While Egyptians Were Building The Pyramids (2660 BCE)

4. You Could Take The London Underground To The Last Public Hanging In The UK (1868)

5. Prisoners Arrived At Auschwitz Just Days After McDonald's Was Founded (1940)

6. The Ottoman Empire Existed The Second To Last Time The Chicago Cubs Won The World Series (1908)

7. Nintendo Was Founded When Jack the Ripper Was Still On The Loose (1889)

8. By The Time The Pilgrims Made It To Plymouth Rock, There Was A 'Palace of the Governors' In New Mexico

9. Star Wars Came Out The Same Year As The Last Guillotine Execution In France (1977)

10. Swiss Women Got The Right To Vote The Same Year The US Drove A Buggy On The Moon (1971)

11. Microsoft Was Founded While Spain Was Still A Fascist Dictatorship (1975)

12. The Brooklyn Bridge Was Being Built During The Battle Of Little Bighorn (1876)

13. Orville Wright Was Still Alive When Hiroshima And Nagasaki Were Bombed (1945)

14. Ecstasy Was Invented The Same Year The Titanic Sank (1912)

15. Oxford University Existed For Hundreds Of Years Before The Aztec Empire Was Founded (1428)

16. Buffalo Bill Cody Was Alive At The Same Time The Germans Were Bombing With Zeppelins (1916)

Historical Events Happening Around the World at the Same Time

Most of these are not events happening at the same tine, though. Bill Cody being alive, or the University of Oxford existing, are not events.

I agree some of the juxtapositions are not what one would instinctively expect, e.g. the last guillotine execution being so recent. But many of the others are not that much of a surprise to someone with a sense of history, e.g. construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the cut-and-cover lines of the London Underground are typical Victorian era engineering projects. It's easy to underestimate the achievements of the Victorians.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

We have a game here named "Anno Domini" (which apparently wasn't translated, yet). You get some cards with historical events on them. You take turns to place the cards on the table, in the right order. You can place a card or you can question the existing order. If the order was right, you have to draw two extra cards, if its wrong the last to place a card has to draw. Winner is the first to have no cards.
Anno Domini (Spiel) – Wikipedia

Hah! That's the same basic premise as 'Stuff Happens'. Which is a PG rated version of another game called...Poop Happens, but replace poop for an sh word...lol

Stuff Happens: The Card Game (theodysseyonline.com)

Various unfortunate incidents are rated for their level of how bad they are, and players need to try and work out where their event fits in the continuum. Like...jamming your finger in a door is better or worse than getting sprayed by a skunk.