2173CE: the year that Woody Allen's "Sleeper" film is set in.
2173 is also the postcode for the Holsworthy Army base in Sydney, NSW.
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2173CE: the year that Woody Allen's "Sleeper" film is set in.
2173 is also the postcode for the Holsworthy Army base in Sydney, NSW.
Oh dear my history is very ancient.
In 25BC, Rome was estimated to become the largest capital city in the world.
In 25AD, the Han Dynasty was restored in China. Many Solo's rejoiced. (hurr hurr)
When I was 25, which is 12 years ago, I was working for Adam Internet and still single. I hadn't started my collecting resurgence yet, but had started on Simon Furman's IDW run in TPB form (the -ations series and Stormbringer, as well as Spotlights). I remember that the modern take on classic characters reallly appealed to me.
2182CE: the Deltans make first contact with the Andorians
2193BCE: Nomads invade the Mesopotamian city of Akkad.
2202C.E.: Philippa Georgiou is born.
2205BCE: The Xia Dynasty begins in China.
2205CE: The USS Kelvin (NCC-0514) is launched from Tranquility Base
2217C.E.:
* The USS Valiant makes first contact with Eminiar VII. Contact is lost with the ship when they become a casualty in the war between Eminiar VII and Vendikar.
* The USS Enterprise on a return flight via a time warp to the year 2267 starts to decrease its momentum through the use of "engineering brakes". Spock reported braking at fifty years, forty, and then thirty, before being told by Captain James T. Kirk to discontinue his reports.
2225 C.E. = the U.S.S. Kelvin (NCC-0514) is commissioned.
2230 C.E. = Spock is born on the planet Vulcan
One problem with getting several Transformers at once is that I bypass certain numbers, but here are years that I passed along the way to 2235...
2235 C.E. = Vulcan children begin bullying Spock for being half-human.
* 2240BCE = Akkad, capital of the Akkadian Empire, surpasses the Egyptian capital of Memphis as the largest city in the world.
* 2241CE = Montgomery Scott joins Starfleet and Pavel Chekov is born (Kelvin timeline).
2286 - NSW postcode for West Wallsend, Holmesville and Seahampton?!? :eek:
2286BCE - Enheduanna, a Sumerian high priestess and the world's oldest named poet, was born a year ago.
2286CE - James T. Kirk and his crew take a Klingon Bird of Prey and travel back to the year 1986CE to retrieve some whales.
2300BCE:
* The Indus Valley Civilisation flourishes in modern-day Eastern Pakistan
* Northern Europeans begin using metals
* The waterway from the Nile to Lake Moeris is widened and deepened to create the Bahr Yusuf Canal
Got my 666th Transformer today. :cool: Happy that's it's not only a Decepticon, but also my favourite Decepticon. Thank you Gok for grabbing him for me! :D
https://i.ibb.co/n6WS9cn/666.jpg
The year 666 in Europe:
Duke Lupus of Friuli revolts against King Grimlock -- er, Grimoald I, with allied Avars. Grimoald takes and devastates Friuli, tracks down Lupus's son Arnefrit (allied with the Slavs), and kills him in battle at the castle of Nimis. Grimoald appoints Wechtar as the new duke of Friuli.
2323CE: Jean-Luc Picard enlists in Starfleet
2353BCE: 3rd anniversary of the destruction of the city of Mari
2353CE: William T. Riker and Geordi LaForge enter the Starfleet Academy. Jonathan "Jack" Crusher, husband of Beverly and father of Wesley Crusher, is killed in an away mission while serving aboard the USS Stargazer.
2386CE
* Cpt Christine Vale, Cmdr Dalit Sarai and Lt Ethan Kyzak are promoted as captain, executive officer and operations officer respectively of the U.S.S. Titan.
* The U.S.S. Titan's former captain, William T. Riker, is assigned as acting sector commander in the Alpha Quadrant frontier zone.
2390CE: A robot known as MACC travels back to 1987 and helps the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles defeat Krang and his henchmen.
2392CE: While in a simulated mental prison, Miles O'Brien murders Ee'char. Although this character only existed in O'Brien's simulation, he is later haunted by this "murder."
Okay, so this is a historical historical TF count post. Retroactive!
(27/2/2011)
1453C.E.:
* 6/4~29/5: siege and fall of Constantinople. Combatants are able to see a lunar eclipse on 22/5.
* 17/7: the French defeat the English at the Battle of Castillon (re: Hundred Years' War), leaving the English only retaining Calais in France
* 10/11: Grand Prince Suyang kills General Kim Jong-Seo, ending the Gyeyujeongnan coup d'?tat. Two years later Prince Suyang was crowned King Sejo.
2393CE: the crime lord Laurus rules Kariwak on Tropicana with an iron fist, jealously guarding control of the bitek trade ("Candy Buds," A Second Chance at Eden)
My latest acquisition is a Bot-Bot, which happens to be my 101st Bot-Bot, so...
101BCE:
* 30/7 - The Roman consuls Gaius Marius and Manius Aquillius defeat the Cimbri tribe at the Battle of Vercellae.
* Ptolemy Apion inherits the Kingdom of Cyrenaica (in Modern day Libya).
101CE:
* Plutarch writes "Parallel Lives of Famous Men" containing fifty biographies comparing Greek and Roman celebrities; e.g. Alexander the Great vs Julius Caesar. It's like Epic Rap Battles of History... only without the rap. Or YouTube.
* Begin the Dacian Wars has.
2402C.E.:
* Jean-Luc Picard retires and becomes an ambassador
* The Federation makes first contact with the Lorian aboard the USS Voyager
* The Klingon Empire blockades the Gorn homeworld
2410B.C.E.:
* Kings in Sumer have ceased to be automatically high priests of the city deity.
* Infiltration and conquest of Mesopotamia by ancient Semitic-speaking peoples begins.
2415BCE:
* It is the Year of the Wooden Pig. Oink.
2415CE:
* The planet Vrazon is hit by an asteroid. Starfleet delivers a massive shipment of vacuum cleaners for the residents to clean up the mess.
2416B.C.E. = Sa'umu is crowned king of the Mariotes. During his sixteen year reign he would launch multiple attacks on neighbouring city-states (predominantly in the middle Euphrates valley), leaving paths of destruction in his wake.
2416C.E. = Seven of Nine and a Starfleet away team are sent back to the year 2063, the night before First Contact, to covertly assist the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise in stopping the Borg.
UN2416 is the shipping number for trimethyl borate.
2417BCE = Year of the Fire Rat
2417CE = the USS Orville makes first contact with Regor 2
2421 = NSW postcode for Fishers Hill
UN2421 = shipping code for nitrogen trioxide
2423BCE = Year of the Water Goat
2423 = NSW postcode for Upper Myall
2430C.E.:
Earth has established a totally balanced and ecologically stable underground society. However one man, Cranwitz, regarded as a deviant and eccentric because he keeps a few animals as pets, refuses to get rid of these animals, the last non-human inhabitants of the planet. He is finally persuaded by his sector representatives to exterminate his pets, but also commits suicide. This leaves Earth in 'perfection', with its fifteen trillion inhabitants, twenty billion tons of human brain and the 'exquisite nothingness of uniformity'.
2447: postcode for Taylors Arm NSW
2450BCE:
* End of the Early Dynastic IIIa Period and beginning of the Early Dynastic IIIb Period in Sumer.
* Kish is lost to Hamazi tribesmen of the Kurdistan mountains.
* Elam under the Awan dynasty occupies parts of Sumer.
2450CE:
* The Star Triangle Advanced Guard reverse engineers and duplicates Borg transwarp coils
2450 = NSW postcode for Coffs Harbour
2453: Postcode for Billys Creek NSW. Population: 61
2-4-6-8, who do we appreciate?
1001 - woohoo cracked the 1000 barrier!
The Changbai Mountains volcano, located on the present-day Chinese-Korean border, erupts with a force of 6.5, the fourth largest Holocene blast (approximate date).
2480 = postcode for Lismore NSW
2490 = postcode for Tumbulgum NSW, a tiny town located just south of the NSW/QLD border.
2500 B.C.E.
* The rice crop is introduced to Malaysia.
* Scribe schools boom in Sumer.
* The Kingdom of Assyria is established, with its capital located in the city of Assur.
* The Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum in Paola Malta is abandoned and remain hidden until it would be accidentally discovered by builders in 1902C.E.!
* The Valley Temple of Khafra and Great Sphinx are built in Giza, Egypt, in honour of the Pharoah Khafra.
* Peruvians are relying predominantly on fish and mussels for food.
* The Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae in Scotland is abandoned after 600 years of occupation.
* Mohenjo-daro, one of the largest settlements in the Indus Valley Civilisation, is constructed in what is Sindh, Pakistan today.
2509:
NCC-2509, the registration number for the U.S.S. Callisto, a Constellation Class starship.
2550BCE: conflict erupts between the neighbouring Sumerian city-states of Lagash and Umma. King Mesilim eventually settles the dispute, ruling in favour of Lagash.
2558: postcode for Eagle Vale NSW