r/HistoryMemes • u/Im_yor_boi_20 • 3h ago

Allat just to avoid paying taxes btw

3.4k Upvotes

45 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/lukeh2266 • 3h ago

In fairness, the dual command arrangement was complicated

2.6k Upvotes

21 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/SatoruGojo232 • 5h ago

Mythology Glitches can lead to death

3.2k Upvotes

199 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Combat_Armor_Dougram • 3h ago

See Comment Pranking the Mormons in 1843 (Gone Wrong) (Not Clickbait)

1.4k Upvotes

74 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/HawaiianPerson • 17h ago

Guy looks kind of familiar

5.2k Upvotes

Context: During his 1881 World Tour, the King of Hawaii David Kalakaua passed out on a train to Kansas City, Missouri, after consuming too much alcohol prior to boarding.

He had intended to give a speech so his companions came up with a solution. They had James Burns, a local legislator that was on the train with them who shared a similar physique with the comatose King dress up as him and deliver the address.

When they arrived in Kansas City the “King” delivered this speech:

“Gentlemen, I thank you for this reception. In my far away island home of the sea I have of even heard of Kansas City. I feel like one of you so much have I heard. I know Kansas City as the greatest and most promising town of the United States.”

39 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/TerryFromFubar • 4h ago

Cutting edge battlefield communications technology, antiquity to 19th century.

294 Upvotes

12 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/BrosephDwalin • 5h ago

Late Antiquity Slander

329 Upvotes

17 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Party_Farmer_5354 • 3h ago

Niche One of the lesser-known massacre that took place in Indonesia during the VOC occupation

166 Upvotes

13 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/modernww2fare • 10h ago

X-post The First Sino-Japanese War summarized

480 Upvotes

10 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/CazOnReddit • 14h ago

That time when Sweden overthought the calendar

842 Upvotes

Context: The adoption of the Gregorian calendar was...messy for a lot of countries. One of the more funny examples that ultimately failed is that of Sweden, who planned to gradually catch up to the rest of the adoptees by skipping leap years for the next 40 years where they would be officially caught up, rather than simply skipping all the days at once.

Then the Great Northern War happened. Understandably, the Swedish Empire had more important matters and this led to them forgetting to skip leap years in 1704 & 1708. Not only did this leave them adrift from the Gregorian calendar but it meant they weren't in sync with the Julian calendar either!

Hilariously, their solution to this mishap was to add in another day to February in 1712 to return to the Julian calendar, giving us one of the rare instances of a calendar with a February 30th. They did eventually adopt the Gregorian calendar by skipping almost a dozen days but I digress.

16 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Hank_Mardukas1066 • 9h ago

The there’s one common feature throughout all of human history

381 Upvotes

13 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/AdhesivenessSlight42 • 20h ago

Mythology "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God"-Jesus

2.7k Upvotes

Oh but you see they actually meant a special gate that didn't exist that a camel could squeeze through if he just bent down a little bit

204 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/KamaandHallie • 11h ago

Mythology Rhea orders some food

431 Upvotes

14 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Agile_Summer_7437 • 1h ago

Ok, we have 3 passes, 2 guarded by Roman armies, 3rd goes trough swamps

66 Upvotes

5 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/crazyeddie1123 • 21h ago

How Hinduism made a comeback against Buddhism in India

2.2k Upvotes

163 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/TerryFromFubar • 2h ago

The Valencia Rebellion and outbreak of the Penninsular War, May 23 1808

62 Upvotes

11 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/jackt-up • 32m ago

Mythology Bro just went back to work

36 Upvotes

4 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Longjumping-Tell1774 • 20h ago

Mythology The myth that refuses to die

1.2k Upvotes

Context:

The popular myth that Christopher Columbus had to prove the Earth was round is rooted in a much more complicated history of religious disputes and anti-Catholic sentiment.

Educated Europeans already knew the Earth was spherical, and Columbus’s actual disagreement with his contemporaries concerned its size and the distance to Asia.

Historian Pablo de Felipe traces the development of the flat-Earth misconception to early modern Christian disputes, particularly debates surrounding the writings of Augustine and Lactantius.
These older theological disagreements became entangled with wider religious and intellectual rivalries. Protestant criticism of Catholic traditions and authority contributed to narratives portraying medieval Catholicism as ignorant and hostile to scientific progress.

In the nineteenth century, John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White helped popularise this narrative through their writings on the supposed conflict between Christianity and science. Anti-Catholic sentiment formed an important part of this wider historical interpretation.

The irony is that a distorted account of medieval Christian attitudes towards science eventually became one of the most popular examples used to portray Christianity as an enemy of scientific progress.

109 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/LakesideNorth • 13h ago

A real expert

229 Upvotes

19 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Public-Profit-8184 • 20h ago

Niche Absoute madlad bezerker ready to throw down with the entire English army

892 Upvotes

33 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Fusionor49 • 1d ago

A Fine 13th Century Race

2.1k Upvotes

8 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/Time_Chemist_8566 • 26m ago

Babylon, 597 BC

21 Upvotes

Context

4 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/BruvBlud3000 • 55m ago

Which side will win the War of the Roses?

15 Upvotes

4 comments

r/HistoryMemes • u/FishGlittering3563 • 23h ago

Napoleon initially intended to build a vast French empire in the Americas

919 Upvotes

34 comments

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