The Transformers Collection Count & Historical Events Game

[GoktimusPrime]

1890:
* Banjo Paterson's The Man From Snowy River is published
* Vincent Van Gogh moves to the outskirts of Paris where he received medical care from Dr. Paul Gachet. Under his care, Van Gogh produces over 70 paintings. Despite Gachet's effort, Van Gogh shoots himself 2 months later.
* Convicted murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed via the electric chair, after intense lobbying from Thomas Edison in his attempt to showcase direct current. The execution goes horribly wrong as Kemmler is slowly cooked; Edison's attempt to curry favour for his DC fails and major contracts for powering New York City instead go to his rival, George Westinghouse (who said that it would have been more humane to execute Kemmler with an axe).

[GoktimusPrime]

1891:
* Shearer's strike in Queensland, which would lead to the formation of the Labor Party. This also inspired Banjo Paterson's bush ballad, Waltzing Matilda.
* The United States Congress passes the International Copyright Act.
* Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator. Nathan Ames had previously patented a similar "revolving stairs" machine in 1859, but never actually built it. Reno would patent his 'escalator' in 1892.

[GoktimusPrime]

1893:
* Federal Bank collapses, starting the 1893 Banking Crisis
* Queensland is devastated by the Great Brisbane Floods
* Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand travels to Australia to hunt kangaroos and emus.

[GoktimusPrime]

1895:
* German mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel patents the diesel engine
* Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposes the idea of a space elevator
* Waltzing Matilda is performed for the first time at the North Gregory Hotel, Winton, QLD

[GoktimusPrime]

1899:
* A decision is made that Australia's capital should be located between Sydney and Melbourne.
* The United States makes peace with Spain and goes to war with the Philippines.
* Edward William Barton-Wright, founder of the English Victorian martial art of Bartitsu, begins publishing a series of magazine articles about the fighting form that he'd created the year before.

[GoktimusPrime]

Bought 3 toys... sold 2 toys... total net gain: 1! And with that, my Transformers collection count has entered the 20th Century.

3 fun facts about 1900:
* FC Bayern is founded in Munich.
* Australian Naval forces arrive in China to reinforce international efforts to quell the Boxer Rebellion
* Britain signs the Treaty of Friendship with the Kingdom of Tonga, allowing Tonga to become a British protectorate without absolving the Tongan monarchy.

[GoktimusPrime]

1902:
* Brisbane is declared a city
* Most Australian women are granted the right to vote under the Commonwealth Franchise Act.
* Japanese Karate is created with many forms simplified for children. These are the forerunners for today's pre-black belt katas.

[Jaxius._]

2000 (well 1999 and a headmaster head)

I was born
the Olympics were in Sydney
Car robots was aired in japan
Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon align

[GoktimusPrime]

So you're just 15 years old and you have a collection of 2000 Transformers?!? It's taken me 31 years to amass my current collection of 1940! Wow!

[GoktimusPrime]

Okay, recently acquired a few more toys, but also decided to remove some toys that I'm currently selling from my count. So now I'm on: 1941 (UCM)!

1941:
* The Holocaust begins.
* Japan bombs Pearl Harbour.
* You think Australian politics is crazy now? Australia had three Prime Ministers within one year! Robert Menzies, Arthur Fadden and John Curtin!