This day in history

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Quote[/b] (solypsist @ May 22 2004,19:31)]May 22 337
Emperor Constantine dies. Although quite dead, his embalmed corpse continues to act as head of state, receving state dignitaries and daily reports from ministers as if nothing had changed. Constantine's macabre leadership continues through winter.

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Seriously? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif

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Quote[/b] (solypsist @ May 22 2004,12:31)]May 22 337
Emperor Constantine dies. Although quite dead, his embalmed corpse continues to act as head of state, receving state dignitaries and daily reports from ministers as if nothing had changed. Constantine's macabre leadership continues through winter.

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Sweeeett Dead Emperors are cool http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif

May 29 1453, Constantinople falls, ending the Byzantine Empire.

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Quote[/b] (Julius Caesar @ May 29 2004,01:43)]May 29 1453, Constantinople falls, ending the Byzantine Empire.

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End of the empire...

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Quote[/b] (Julius Caesar @ May 29 2004,01:43)]May 29 1453, Constantinople falls, ending the Byzantine Empire.

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End of the empire...

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a little more detail:

May 29 1453

Constantinople is taken by Ottoman Turks, after a fifty day siege led by Sultan Mehmet II. The city defense of 10,000 men was no match for a force of 100,000 armed with heavy artillery. It is the final gasp of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

I blame the Italians.

May 30 1431
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake in Rouen, France for relapsing into heresy. After having signed a confession a week earlier, Joan appeared in court wearing difformitate habitus -- degenerate apparel -- or more precisely, men's clothing.

ever notice in the MTW campaign she dies of old age on this year?

Lol Really?
How did she become a Saint, anyway?
-Capo

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Quote[/b] ]This Day In History | World War II

May 30

1942 Brits bombard Cologne in Operation Millennium


On this day in 1942, a thousand-plane raid on the German city of Cologne is launched by Great Britain. Almost 1,500 tons of bombs rain down in 90 minutes, delivering a devastating blow to the Germans' medieval city as well as its morale.

Air Marshal A.T. (later Sir Arthur) Harris, commander in chief of the Bomber Command, planned Operation Millennium. It was his goal to prevent significant losses of Royal Air Force bombers by concentrating air attacks in massive bomber raids, overwhelming the enemy by numbers and delivering decisive, crippling blows. Harris would need to beef up the relatively small number of 416 first line aircraft needed, though; to those he had to add second-line and training squadron bombers, thus creating an aircraft force of 1,046.

On the night of May 30, Cologne was besieged: 600 acres of the city sustained heavy damage, 45,000 Germans were left homeless and 469 were killed. The chemical and machine tool industries, the main targets of the raid, were rendered useless. The cost to the British: 40 bombers, or less than 4 percent of the total that participated.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who approved the raid, telegraphed President Franklin Roosevelt the next day: I hope you were pleased with our mass air attack ... there is plenty more to come.

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Quote[/b] ]Lol Really?
How did she become a Saint, anyway?
-Capo

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Capo I thought you were a good catholic? How do you think she became a saint? The same way as all the others became saints. The Pope makes them one.

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Quote[/b] ]On July 7, 1456, 25 years after Joan of Arc's execution, Charles the VII recognized Joan's service to France with a trial that annulled her verdict of guilt. On May 16, 1920, Joan of Arc became a saint when Pope Benedict XV canonized her.

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Jun 15 1409
Petros Philargos is elected Pope Alexander V by the Council of Pisa. This poses a certain amount of difficulty, as there already is a Pope in Rome, Gregory XII, and another in Avignon, Benedict XII. Ultimately, none of the three is willing to step down, leading the Chuch into a double schism.

June 15 1215: the Magna Carta is signed.

The Battle of Waterloo. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...evalcheers.gif

Jun 24 1374
In a sudden outbreak of Dancing Mania (aka St. John's Dance), people in the streets of Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia experience terrible hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion. Many of the sufferers are afflicted with frothing at the mouth, diabolical screaming, and sexual frenzy. The phenomenon lasts well into the month of July. Nowadays, ergot madness is suspected as being the ultimate cause of the disorder.


wonder if this is programmed into MTW as a plague outbreak

Ergot madness?

Dr Rory?

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Quote[/b] (BDC @ June 24 2004,22:19)]Ergot madness?

Dr Rory?

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Ergot is a fungus found in grain. It causes a disease called St. something's fire, Antonius I think. The disease causes horrible itching in the limbs, and they eventually fall off.

I think that's it, anyway.

In 1202, people who have gathered at Venice at the behest of Pope Innocent III for the Fourth Crusade cannot raise 85,000 marks to pay the Venetians who will transport them. In lieu of money payment, the Venetian doge orders Crusaders to attack the city of Zara, one of Venice's vassel states (and Christian).

Later that year (1202), Pope Innocent III excommunicates the Crusaders who sacked Zara. The same group of excommunicated Crusaders, figuring they have nothing to lose, march on Constantinople.

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And not MTW-related: June 25 is Little Big Horn Day in the US; the day Custer & the 7th Cav bit the dust.

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Quote[/b] (Caporegime1984 @ May 30 2004,17:02)]Lol Really?
How did she become a Saint, anyway?
-Capo

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No no, I meant why the heck( http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif ) did a Pope ever make the woman saint? She heard voices telling her to kill. The Son of Sam heard voices telling him to kill too, but he ain't a Saint.
Must have been a French Pope.
-Capo

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Quote[/b] (Caporegime1984 @ May 30 2004,17:02)]Lol Really?
How did she become a Saint, anyway?
-Capo

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No no, I meant why the heck( http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif ) did a Pope ever make the woman saint? She heard voices telling her to kill. The Son of Sam heard voices telling him to kill too, but he ain't a Saint.
Must have been a French Pope.
-Capo

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She wore men's clothes too...

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1826 Death of the founding fathers
john adams & thomas jefferson
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Jul 6 1415
Jan Hus is burned at the stake for various heresies by the Council of Constance. Among other things, Hus had incited the citizens of Prague to protest against antipope John XXIII and his policy of granting indulgences.

1957 Paul McCartney meets John Lennon

Jul 22 1376
The Pied Piper of Hamelin makes off with the town's rats and children.

Aug 15 1057
Macbeth is killed in the Battle of Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire. He had been king of Scotland for 17 years

Aug 18 1227
Genghis Khan dies in his sleep, after a fall from his horse. His old age and drinking probably contributed to his death, which the Mongols manage to keep secret for some time.

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Aug 20 1191
Crusaders massacre 3,000 bound Muslim prisoners at Acre, after a breakdown in negotiations over payment of their ransom. The killings take place in full view of the army from which they were taken.

On the night of August 20, 1968, approximately 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring"--a brief period of liberalization in the communist country. Czechoslovakians protested the invasion with public demonstrations and other non-violent tactics, but they were no match for the Soviet tanks. The liberal reforms of First Secretary Alexander Dubcek were repealed and "normalization" began under his successor Gustav Husak.

The seeds of the United Nations are planted

Representatives from the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China meet in the Dumbarton Oaks estate at Georgetown, Washington, D.C., to formulate the formal principles of an organization that will provide collective security on a worldwide basis-an organization that will become the United Nations

On August 21, 1831, slave Nat Turner leads a violent slave insurrection in Virginia after reportedly seeing visions and hearing voices. Going house to house the slaves kill 55 whites in their sleep, including women and children, before the insurrection is finally put down by the local miltia. Nat Turner was hanged and skinned on November 11th of the same year.

ON THIS DAY IN 1939

The Hitler-Stalin Pact
Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact, stunning the world, given their diametrically opposed ideologies. But the dictators were, despite appearances, both playing to their own political needs.