ahem

[Mad Willyum Bonney]

curses i miscounted and nothing noteworthy happened in 1647

seriously what did you guys think i was doing

So the first one wasn't a ham burgher from Calais ?

[DavidH]

Sorry, ADoS, I had no idea what you were intending. OK, I think it's 1642 now:



Good year - beginning of the English Civil War.

[Mad Willyum Bonney]

Oh . Sorry folks.
I thought we were supposed to either add a caption or search for the source as per usual.

HARR !

And besides my response was the first and I was just kidding , so I feel exempt from missing the pattern .

Where's an art historian when you need one , I only studied one year of it .

Argh !

[Almighty Doer of Stuff]

Post/Year 1648:


The Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers) is founded in England.

[Almighty Doer of Stuff]

Year/Post 1656:



Birth of scientist Edmund Halley, who calculated the orbit of the comet named after him.



The pendulum clock is invented by Christiaan Huygens.

[Rev. Rowan Redbeard]

That makes much more sense.

The thing being posted refers to the year which your post number matches.

[Mad Willyum Bonney]

It was obvious but I didn't want to give it away .

[black bart]

This is another thread I can't get the hang of.

[Almighty Doer of Stuff]

Year/Post 1667:


An impoverished John Milton sells the rights to his epic poem, "Paradise Lost", to a publisher, who licenses the right to sell the poem in printed form to Spiderman.


Jonathan Swift is born.

[Almighty Doer of Stuff]

Year/Post 1669:


Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin.


Rembrandt van Rijn dies.

[Almighty Doer of Stuff]

Year/Post 1681:


Adorable dodos become extinct.

[Almighty Doer of Stuff]

Year/Post 1682:


Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn.


Black Bart is born.

[Mad Willyum Bonney]

Dem dodos must a bin goode viddles.

[DavidH]

1683 - for the second time the invading Turks are stopped at the gates of Vienna.

[black bart]

What in the name of Kazakhstan is going on?

Is the answer: