The Transformers Collection Count & Historical Events Game

[Raider]

Updated my count to 598:
*the year began on a Wednesday
*and really not a whole lot else... well nothing really worth mentioning anyway.

[GoktimusPrime]

1879:
* The Anglo-Zulu War begins. Napoléon IV (great-nephew of Napoléon Bonaparte and pretender to the French throne) is killed in this war.
* Albert Einstein is born.
* The Kingdom of Ryuukyuu is annexed by Japan, becoming the Prefecture of Okinawa. Ryuukyuu's last king, Shoutai, is exiled to Tokyo and stripped of his royal title, however is granted the title of marquis in compensation.
* Ned Kelly writes the Jerilderie Letter.
* The Torres Strait Islands are annexed by the British colony of Queensland, Australia.
* Thomas Edison invents the first practical light bulb.

[GoktimusPrime]

1887:
* Louis Pasteur establishes L'Institut Pasteur (The Pasteur Institute), a not-for-profit organisation which continues to dedicate itself to the study of micro-biology, diseases and vaccinations.
* Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile.
* Anne Sullivan begins to teach Helen Keller. They become life long friends.

[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

[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!