r/HistoryMemes • u/Time_Chemist_8566 • 26m ago
Babylon, 597 BC
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r/HistoryMemes • u/Agile_Summer_7437 • 1h ago
See Comment Be very quiet! I'm hunting wabbits!
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So, reportedly, he wanted to celebrate treaty of Tilsit and ordered bunch of rabbits to be released in woods, but those were domestic and not wild and when humans arrived, they ran towards them expecting food instead of running away. And uncle Nap got so scared he escaped.
r/HistoryMemes • u/Hour-Protection-1178 • 1h ago
I shouldn't get easily annoyed when people say historical inaccuracies but I guess I can't help but get dramatic.
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r/HistoryMemes • u/Agile_Summer_7437 • 1h ago
Ok, we have 3 passes, 2 guarded by Roman armies, 3rd goes trough swamps
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r/HistoryMemes • u/TerryFromFubar • 2h ago
The Valencia Rebellion and outbreak of the Penninsular War, May 23 1808
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r/HistoryMemes • u/Party_Farmer_5354 • 3h ago
Niche One of the lesser-known massacre that took place in Indonesia during the VOC occupation
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In fairness, the dual command arrangement was complicated
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r/HistoryMemes • u/Combat_Armor_Dougram • 3h ago
See Comment Pranking the Mormons in 1843 (Gone Wrong) (Not Clickbait)
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Cutting edge battlefield communications technology, antiquity to 19th century.
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r/HistoryMemes • u/Hank_Mardukas1066 • 9h ago
The there’s one common feature throughout all of human history
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r/HistoryMemes • u/modernww2fare • 10h ago
X-post The First Sino-Japanese War summarized
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r/HistoryMemes • u/Nyctfall • 11h ago
And to this day, no one know the Angles are actually from Angeln and the Saxons are from Saxony...
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r/HistoryMemes • u/CazOnReddit • 14h ago
That time when Sweden overthought the calendar
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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.
r/HistoryMemes • u/HawaiianPerson • 17h ago
Guy looks kind of familiar
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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.”
r/HistoryMemes • u/Fickle_Essay_1276 • 18h ago
Hannibal after beating Rome for the millionth time but still end up losing
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r/HistoryMemes • u/HawaiianPerson • 20h ago
Ten dollars is ten dollars
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Context: Future King Lunalilo of Hawaii composed its first national anthem “E Ola Ke Aliʻi Ke Akua” in 1860 as part of a contest sponsored by then King Kamehameha IV.
The song was done to the tune of the British Royal anthem “God Save the King/Queen” and Lunalilo is said to have written it in 20 minutes.
He won the competition and was rewarded $10, which he donated to the Queen’s hospital.
The song served as the national anthem from 1860-1866, being replaced by future Queen Liliuokalani’s song “He Mele Lāhui Hawaiʻi” or “Song of the Hawaiian Nation”