Historical Events You Won't Believe Happened At The Same Time

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[@TheMasonK]

Fun fact; there’s actually a movement in the scientific community to clone woolly mammoths to repopulate parts of Siberia with. Its not just for the sake of a bringing an extinct animal back either. There would actually be a legitimately practical reason for it. I’d highly recommend looking it up. It’s fascinating stuff.

[@bakthihapuarachchi3447]

That would be really amazing!!

[@Taskicore]

How do we support this initiative? I want Mammoths back!

[@TheMasonK]

Unfortunately with the war in Russia and Ukraine going on I doubt Putin is gonna let any western research teams in at the moment.

[@idontknow8935]

We are only getting closer to a real life Jurassic park

[@oddiethefox5832]

What's the practical reason? I assume so we have another cattle animal to farm for food, but I can also imagine there may be some environmental reasons. Definitely gonna look this up because it sounds awesome!

[@ferdinandfoch7816]

My grandmother passed away almost two years ago at the old age of 92. After she died, I was reflecting on how long her life was and all the history she lived through. What kinda blew my mind when I thought about it is that my grandmother, who lived until 2021, was actually older than both Anne Frank and MLK. All of them were born within a year of each other, but the seem to belong to completely different eras in my mind, and it broke my heart to think about all the life that both Anne Frank and MLK missed out on.

[@GiordanDiodato]

my great-grandfather lived longer than Richard Nixon

[@TheRiehlThing42]

My great grandma lived to be 101, she passed away in 1998. She almost made it to living in 3 centuries. Was a pall bearer for her my senior year in high school.

[@UnlicensedOkie]

My great grandma is currently 97. She was born in 1925, a year before Queen Elizabeth II. Still living by herself, and has for the last 15 years.

[@sphjinx1448]

My Great Grandmother was born in 1916, and my Great Grandfather in 1911.

[@mikeblaze7424]

My grandmom was born during the First World War. I could only imagaine the history she lived through I barely know besides her having to flee Italy during ww2

[@Supernova2464]

I’m always a little skeptical of channels like this, since they have a huge array of content it’s very easy to get something incorrect, not saying it can’t be done, it’s just hard

[@untruelie2640]

Yes, channels like this one tend to be quite superficial and often use stereotypes instead of actual research.

[@divingdave2945]

True. They just slap stuff together without a second of research. It's only about the clicks.

[@Erionar]

And having words like "You won't believe that...!" in the title is basically a classic clickbait

[@Supernova2464]

I won’t say they do no research, more the look to Wikipedia

[@llamallama1509]

Just judging by the number of obvious errors that are in the video, I doubt they're doing much better on catching subtle errors. Never watched their channel, and if this is their level of quality I doubt I ever will

[@TheHistoryGuy45]

Actually Galileo was born in 1564. He died 1 year and 4 days before Isaac Newton was born.

[@wasneeplus]

Was just about to comment that. Galileo lived in a completely different time from Newton. When Galileo was doing his work he was basically the only real scientist in his field in Europe. He had to make his own equipment and keep some of his findings secret. He famously got into trouble with the Catholic church. Meanwhile Newtown worked within a by then established scientific community, with research going on all around him. The scientific revolution had happened, and Newton, with his genius, made full use of its fruits.

[@rajeshfrommicrosoft]

On any other youtube video 16 people would reply with 🤓

[@fcolli8889]

Also, since England had not adopted the Gregorian calendar, Galileo died and Newton was born in the same calendar year, 1642, even though the two events were 369 days apart.

[@Sandzy]

Knew it sounded off in my ears, had to google it to fact check. Glad I wasn't the only one who reacted haha.

[@Hannibalian]

Titanic was never called unsinkable, not until the ship had actually sunk. The term "the Titanic is unsinkable" was misinterpreted from a builder who said something like "this has to be the hardest-to-sink ship we've ever built."

[@bakthihapuarachchi3447]

Your love for history is truly inspiring

[@kathyastrom1315]

When I was at Skara Brae in Orkney (a village of small houses built from stone and lived in from 3200 BCE to 2500 BCE), the path from the museum to the actual site had stones marking various events in history going back in time the closer you got to the village. Passing the stone that said “Pyramids erected in Egypt” was an eye-opener-this Neolithic village actually predated the pyramids!

[@faeembrugh]

And older than Stonehenge too. It is an amazing place and actually looked quite cosy for its ancient inhabitants.

[@untruelie2640]

I once visited a reconstructed wooden palisade/henge in Goseck (in Germany) that was used for astronomical and religious purposes (these two concepts were not separate back then). It was build around the year 4900 BCE. 2000 years older than Stonehenge and 3000 years older than the Nebra Sky Disc, the earliest known depiction of the night sky.

[@_KMD]

We loved visiting Skara Brae!

[@kathyastrom1315]

@@_KMD Orkney is definitely on my list of places to revisit! It was my favorite region we saw on my first trip abroad ten years ago. Next time, I’m going to be sure to be there when the dig at the Ness of Brodgar is open, as well as get off of Mainland and onto some of the other islands like Rousay or Hoy.

[@andrewp8284]

I believe the Newgrange tomb in Ireland also predates the Pyramids.

[@CinemaKnight]

I think one interesting subsection I was looking into around the time of Elizabeth II's passing were the notable people who were alive at some point during her life. A couple incredible ones: 1. Robert Todd Lincoln, son of President Lincoln (died in 1926, three months after Elizabeth was born) 2. Wyatt Earp, gunfighter famous for the shootout at the OK Corral (died in 1929) 3. Frederick Abberline, lead inspector in the Whitechapel murders (died in 1929) 4. Claude Monet, influential impressionist painter (died in 1926, eight months after Elizabeth was born) 5. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Civil War veteran and Supreme Court Justice (died in 1935) There are plenty of others to name, but it really is fascinating to think that a monarch who only just this year, 2022, passed away, was alive at the same time as Wild West gunfighters, Civil War veterans, and Victorian detectives.

[@Kevin-ct1id]

Galileo died in 1642, whereas Newton was born in 1643. This means that they weren't actually born on the same year, but rather one major contributor to science died right before another had been born into the world.

[@Zitsanrael1117]

That's not quite accurate. Newton was born Christmas day of 1642 while Galileo died early January of the same year. It was really close though, Newton was born 2 weeks before the one year anniversary of Galileo's death.

[@raikbarczynski6582]

coincidence? i think NOT.

[@edwardwright8127]

John Wayne's first "A" film was "The Big Trail", which featured 20,000 extras, 1400 horses, and 185 wagons that traveled over 1,000 miles during the filming. Many of the extras driving the wagons had driven the original Oregon Trail decades earlier.

[@heatherrobertson6110]

13:14 The video that you refer to was of the execution of Eugene Weidmann, the last person to be publicly executed by guillotine in France (in 1939). In keeping with the theme of this reaction, it is interesting that the actor Christopher Lee witnessed it. He was 17 years old at the time, and I think just came across it by chance while staying in Paris.

[@mikeblaze7424]

Sir Christopher lee

[@scottyjdog8308]

On a cold Shropshire morning in Shrewsbury, England, 12th February 1809; a child was born who would become one of the most influential scientists of all time. On the other side of the world, in a log cabin in Kentucky, 12th February 1809; a child who would become one of the most influential and important politicians in history was born. They are Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln respectively.

[@markkeegan2137]

I have actually used that World Series comparison before. My uncle is a history teacher and a die hard cubs fan and I’m a white Sox’s fan. Before their win in 2016 I used to tease my uncle by telling him the last time the cubs won the World Series the Ottoman Empire still existed.

[@SamSam-qk5zr]

Another event: Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea and grandfather of current north korean leader Kim Jong Un was born on the exact same day the Titanic sank, april 15, 1912.

[@ericdavis3879]

As a performer of classical music, I'm always fascinated by where some of the most famous works fit historically with world events. For example: Mozart's last, and most famous operas (Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Magic Flute) were all written, and premiered around the same time the US Constitution was first ratified. And when Mozart died, the US was only 2 years old.

[@alans98989]

One thing I've been interested in thinking about is alternative histories where certain composers live till over 90 and witness musical trends and historical events that they missed. For instance: 1. If Mozart and Beethoven had lived well into the Romantic era. 2. If Brahms, Mahler, and Debussy lived well into the 20th century and saw the rise of atonality and other modernist trends. 3. If Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Scriabin lived to see the Bolshevik Revolution and the rise of Stalin. 4. If Schostakovich lived to see the collapse of the USSR.

[@philhatcher9072]

This topic makes me think about people who were the Forrest Gumps of history, who met all sorts of people you wouldn't have expected. I just read Mike Duncan's book about Lafayette, and he is definitely one of those people.

[@chipsonhughes1369]

They’re developing a tv series based on that book. Cant wait

[@steveclarke6257]

The oldest known mechanical computer was probably invented by Archemedes, before the city of Syracuse was destroyed by the Romans in 212BC. Today we know this as the Antikythra mechanism, after the island closest to where it was found. It was used to calculate calendar events and other astronomical events.

[@hariharpuri1362]

It is true but archimedes did not invented the antikythra mechanism cuz we still don’t know who made it since there no written documents of it left to confirm its origins

[@steveclarke6257]

@@hariharpuri1362 hence why I said "probably" and I will qualify why by adding that Archemedes was a renowned mathematical genius and inventor and that Roman reports state that a number of "his" inventions were taken when the city was sacked. The Roman's were renowned for using and copying technology they took from other civilizations - Ship design from Carthage, Pilum from the Eritruscan's etc. Given we have found exactly one such device, means it was probably uncopyable- as they had killed the inventor who could explain how to dismantle and reassemble the device.

[@hariharpuri1362]

@@steveclarke6257 that’s a very good theory but it is still a theory

[@benjamindurkin]

When you were talking about Cleopatra being closer to us than to the building of the pyramids, it got me thinking of Jericho. The fact that it has existed so long is absolutely mind-blowing... Would love to see you do a video on it

[@_Daniel_Plainview]

Fun fact: A man died in 2018, whose father had personally met with President Abraham Lincoln in the White House during the civil war. This man's name was Frederick Upham (1921-2018) and his father was William Upham (1841-1924) and Upham sr was also governor of wisconsin. So even just five years ago Fred Upham could say that his father met president Lincoln, who had been dead for 150 years at the time.

[@occam7382]

Great video as always, Chris. Here's another interesting thing I recently found out: The Solomonic Dynasty of Ethiopia was founded in 1270, around the same time William Wallace of Scotland was born, and it only ended in 1974, just half a year after the release of Blazing Saddles (Which is a great movie, by the way). That's some weird stuff to think about.

[@kplewisvox]

If only they lasted 21 more years to see the release of Braveheart!

[@davidfoarde558]

It’s just a slip up but kind of crazy to make that mistake 1943 for 1843 in the very first line in your video! Kinda makes you think about their attention to detail moving forward

[@angrynoodles4293]

Love Mr. Beat's content, both of you provide absolutely wonderful insight and perspective. Thank you for that!

[@rickwiles8835]

The last witness to Abraham Lincoln's assassination was still alive when Elvis Presley released "Heartbreak Hotel", January 27, 1956. Mr. Samuel J. Seymour (March 28, 1860 - April 12, 1956), the last living eyewitness to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. was the mystery guest on the February 8, 1956 episode of the I’ve Got a Secret game show. He passed just 2 months later. You can checkout the episode on youtube.

[@sirdavidoftor3413]

I like how you mix things up, and you try different channels. Keep doing what your doing!

[@Vault13canteen924]

Got to love when VTH posts

[@jordanwhite8567]

Christopher Lee (Saruman actor, amongst countless other amazing roles) was in the crowd at the 1939 Guillotine that you were saying was videoed. He was 17 years old. Pretty crazy fact there. Fact Verse could’ve used that one in his video!

[@CreeperthanPasta]

Thats like one out of a thousand fun facts about christopher lee. He was an extremely accomplished man

[@mikeblaze7424]

Sir Christopher lee

[@ericdavis3879]

Mentioning your birth in 1977 made me think of an interesting fact about my own birth. I'm slightly older than you, born in 76. As of this moment, I am 46 years, 9 months old. The market crash of October 1929 happened 46 years, 5 months before my birthday. This means that my birth was closer to the start of the Great Depression than it is to right now.

[@burningspirit7874]

The American Civil War and Dostoevsky's peak creative period happen simultaneously. This has always interested me.

[@MajoraZ]

The Aztec-Oxford fact is misleading, speaking as somebody who helps History/Archeology channels with vids on Mesoamerica (Aztec, Maya, etc): Firstly, "Aztec Civilization" did not start in 1325: that's when Tenochtitlan was founded by the Mexica, who were the latest of a few Nahuatl speaking nomadic groups who had been migrated into Central Mexico from up north and were founding cities. "Aztec" CAN refer to just the Mexica, but if we're talking "Aztec Civilization", then it'd include the Nahuas generally who had been settling down and founding cities for a century or two already. More importantly though, complex civilization in Mesoamerica is WAAAAAY older then the arrival of the Nahuas: Cities, Rulers etc pop up by 1400-900BC, over 2500 years prior the Nahuas entering Mesoamerica. So, yes, Oxford predates Aztec civilization, but that's not particularly meaningful knowing that the Aztec are one of the absolute latest, most recent civilizations in Mesoamerica. It's a bit like saying "Oxford University is older then Germany": Well yeah, because Germany is just a pretty recent nation forming in Central Europe, but there were plenty of precursor states and earlier civilizations in Europe in the same area. Similar idea. The issue is most people aren't taught about Mesoamerica enough to know this: Mesoamerica in World History classes is usually an afterthought to get out of the way to focus on European colonization, instead of what it actually is, as it's own Cradle of Civilization with 3000 years of cities, kings, wars, political states, art, philosophy, etc. I also can't help but feel like part of the observation plays into the common notion of the Aztec being primitive, like them only first becoming a thing when Europe already had universities. Again, in reality, the region had sophisticated governments, theology, poetry, courts and law, and other intellectual institutions for millennia by this point. So, to give people more of a sense of the progression and development of different Mesoamerican civilizations and states over time, here is my (very summarized) overview of Mesoamerican history from it's first cities around 1400BC, to the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century. Try googling "Arquitectura Prehispánica Mesoamericana Filiberto Investigador" to find a map that shows colored divisions for different parts of Mesoamerica and with notable cities on it to use as a geographic reference: The Preclassic/Formative Period (2000BC-100AD) In 1400 BC, around the Gulf Coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the Olmec site of San Lorezno becomes the region's first urban center in 1400 BC, and becomes abandoned by 900 BC, where the more properly urban and socially complex city of La Venta rises to prominence, which is also when our sole example of Olmec writing dates back to. In the following centuries, urban, state societies continue to pop up, notable ones being the early Maya cities such as El Mirador and Kaminaljuyu; the Zapotec city of Monte Alban in Oaxaca, and the rise of the Epi-Olmec culture out of the ashes of the Olmec: All 3 of these civilizations develop their own writing scripts, with many other independent towns and some cities popping up all over, another notable example being Tlatilco in the Valley of Mexico in Central Mexico. In Western Mexico, during the same period as the Olmec the Capacha are a culture that developed independently from them, with far reaching examples of pottery and likely trade, but we don't know much about them or Western Mexican cultures in general. The Classic Period (100-900AD) Around this time, urban cities with state governments had become the norm in Mesoamerica (aside from West Mexico): The Maya have dozens of metropoli and hundreds of other towns and cities, In Oaxcaca, The Zapotec have formed many city-states, with Monte Alban in particular rising above as the capital of a large kingdom or empire. In Central Mexico, in the Valley of Mexico a volcanic eruption displaces much of the population, including the largest in the valley, Cuicuilco, causing migrations into the next largest, Teotihuacan. It grows into a huge influential political and religious center, with population of 100,000+, almost all of whom lived in fancy palace compounds with painted frescos and plumbing, and a massive planned urban grid covering over 20 square kilometers and eclipsing Rome in physical area: This is one of the largest cities in the world. Teotihuacan's artistic influence reaches far across the region, such as the Talud-tablero architectural style, with political ties to Maya cities 1000 kilometers away, some of which Teotihuacan may have even conquered. In Western Mexico, around the end of the preclassic and start of the classic, the Teuchitlan tradition, the first of Western Mexico's complex societies, emerges (maybe, again, Western Mexico's cultures are very understudied), though less so then the rest of the region In the latter half of the classic period, you see the rise of El Tajin as a notable influential center among the cities around the Gulf Coast in what's now the State of Veracruz (the cities/culture there now referred to as the "Classic Veracruz"). Teotihuacan suffers a civil uprising in 600AD, and steepily declines (Cholula being a notable power in the area in the afermath) with Monte Alban having a similar fate not long after and Mitla becoming the most prominent city in Oaxaca. In the Maya area, the cities of Tikal and Calakmul become essentially two super-power city-states, centralizing Maya geopolitics around them. Eventually Tikal and it's allies are able to put down Calakmul, shortly thereafter, you have the Classical Maya collapse, probably caused by political instability following the wars, climate issues, and other factors: Many of the large powerful Maya urban centers in the southern Yucatan decline between 700 and 800 AD. Throughout the Late Classic and Early-Postclassic, West Mexico develops many different city-states with increasing influence from the rest of Mesoamerica The Postclassic Period (900-1521 AD) While many key Classic period sites declined, others such as El Tajin, Mitla, and Cholula survive, as do many large Maya metropoli to the north in Yucatan, such as Uxmal and Chichen Itza. The Mixtec civilization in Oaxaca and Guerrero starts to overtake many Zapotec cities, in particular a Mixtec noble, , 8-Deer-Jaguar-Claw conquers nearly 100 cities: 8-deer had the blessings and support of the Toltec lord in Cholula. The Toltec are described in Nahua chronciles as a massively influential and far reaching power (as far as Chichen Itza) in the region, maybe operating out of the city of Tula, though these accounts of they and their rulers (such as Ce Acatl Topiltzin) are heavily mythologized (and also have distortions from latter Spanish attempts to twist this history to justify their rule), and there is much debate and increasing skepticism if they really had a large empire (and were just one of a few in Central Mexico, along Xochicalco etc) or existed at all. In any case, as the annals go, around 1100 AD, the Toltecs fall, and 8-deer is overthrown and killed in an ironic twist of fate where the one boy in his rival dyansty's family he left alive grows up to overthrow him, fracturing his empire, Tututepec, a city he founded, would grow into a major state of it's own In the 1200's, The Maya city of Mayapan forms the largest Maya state to exist, the head of a league of many of the city-states in the northern Yucatan. Due to droughts, you begin to see some groups of Chichimeca (nomadic tribes of Northern Mexico), such as the Nahuas move south into Mesoamerica and transition into urban societies. Notably many settling around the Valley of Mexico and the surrounding areas, ldisplacing local Otomi cities/towns. In particular, the city of Azcapotzalco, which claims descent from Xolotl, a key figure in the migrations, eventually dominates the valley. During the same time in western Mexico, a Nahua group moved down into the Lake Pátzcuaro region, and (maybe? it's unclear) integrates into the ruling class of Purepecha city of of Pátzcuaro, which allied with the city of Tzintzuntzan and others, becomes a dominant local power. In the 1420's, due to a succession crisis in Azcapotzalco, one of it's two heirs assassinates the other, as well as the then king of Tenochtitlan (one of Azcapotzalco's subjects) as he was birthed from a political marriage between the two, representing succession threat. War breaks out, and Tenochtitlan, along with the city-states of Texcoco and Tlacopan (all Nahuas) join forces and overthrow them, forming the Aztec triple alliance. Over the next 100 years, they rapidly expand and conquer almost all of Central and Southern Mexico, including Otomi cities/towns in Central Mexico, Totonac and Huastec ones along the Gulf Coast (who now inhabit that area), Mixtec, Zapotec, and Tlapanec ones in Oaxaca and Guerrero, and many others. Back to Western Mexico, in the 1450's, a man named Tzitzipandáquare preforms a coup, centralizes power in Tzintzuntzan, and forms the Purepecha Empire, who would be the Aztec empire's only real competition and crush attemped Aztec invasions, preventing their expansion further west (which had kingdoms such as Colmia and Jalisco). With the Aztec and Purepecha unable to make each other budge, the Aztec, as the Spanish arrive, are in the process of expanding to the east, as well as trying to besiege and blockade Tlaxcala, a Nahua kingdom (headed by a city of the same name, a republic with a senate) (complete with senate) also allied with Cholula, and Huextozinco, all in a Aztec enclave and had been able to escape conquest due to their defensible position (other notable unconquered enclaves being the Mixtec kingdom of Tututepec, the Tlapenec kingdom of Yopitzinco, and the Otomi kingdom of Metztitlan. This is the state of things when the Spanish arrive

[@horrido666]

It wasn't really "children were lining up to see Star Wars". The movie was new. It was really an adult phenomena at first. The commercialism hadn't yet descended upon the franchise. I saw it opening weekend, and there was not a child in sight. It was a memorable experience; when Darth Vader appeared for the first time, someone in the audience vocalized 'hhhhsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss" loud enough for everyone to hear, and it was pure perfection. I was 17 years old.

[@ryanlargent9320]

With the Cubs, it’s even more fun when you consider that nearly all of recorded human history overlaps in the eras of: - Egyptian Empire - Roman Empire - Ottoman Empire - Cubs not winning a World Series

[@EmpressMermaid]

Hi, Chris! I work in an aviation museum with a WWI display, including French, German, British and American planes. I like to remind people that for those pilots, the existence of airplanes were newer to them than iPhones are to us. And,,BTW, I still have videos on KZbin I posted in 2006.

[@livrose3567]

As a child, I found out that Queen Victoria died in 1901, the same year the vacuum cleaner was invented. As an 8 year old conspiracy theorist I theorised that the government had covered up that the actual cause of her death was from being sucked up by the world’s first vacuum cleaner. It obviously made no sense but since then I’ve always remembered when those two historical event happened

[@kplewisvox]

And my favorite timeline fact: When Harriet Tubman was born, John Adams was alive, and when Harriet Tubman died, Ronald Reagan was alive.

[@kenskadra1532]

Hi, Chris. As for 1876, I always thought a more striking dichotomy was that the Battle of the Little Big Horn happened exactly the same month that Alexander Graham Bell presented the invention of the telephone at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

[@untruelie2640]

Which he didn't invent btw. A german teacher, Johann Philipp Reis, presented and demonstrated his own telephone in 1861. Bell basically copied him (similar to how Edison later copied the light bulb)

[@animatorofanimation128]

@@untruelie2640 pretty sure there was a huge court case about this and Bells company won. Also Edison didn't "invent" the first lightbulb technically. But his was the first to be actually useful and long lasting

[@untruelie2640]

@@animatorofanimation128 Every important invention or technology was developed by many people over a long period of time. There is almost never a single genius inventor. But there is little doubt that Reis was the first person who build and presented a working telephone (he even came up with the term telephone itself), at least his one is the earliest documented one. There are also claims by Antonio Meucci and others, but they can't really be proven. Reis demonstrated his apparatus to several people in 1861 and David Hughes even presented it to Emperor Alexander II. of Russia in 1865. But this first version was not yet very practical. It was further developed by Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell. The patent was given to Bell, but only because he had submitted his application shortly before Gray. And the telephone Bell later actually build (the patent was based on blueprints, not on a prototype) used Grays technical innovation. There was a long legal battle fought between Gray and Bell for this reason, that was the one you brought up (with Meucci also having claims). But regardless of the eventual outcome, Reis was still the first who undoubtedly build a working telephone. Both Gray and Bell used his work. One can say that Gray and Bell were the James Watts of the telephone, the people who build the final practical version of the invention. But that should not diminish Reis' achievement.

[@austin8775]

@@untruelie2640 now this is a Vlogging Through History video we need. What products do we credit to the false inventor

[@ericlanglois3782]

The Dominion of Canada was founded in the same year Emperor Meiji (best known for the Meiji Restoration and the end of the age of Samurai) ascended the throne of Japan.

[@Dive-Bar-Casanova]

Thumbs up. We'd love to see Chris in person do an onstage TED talk on forgiveness. Chris could easily fill an interesting, enlightening hour.

[@1anthonybrowning]

My oldest movie memory is being in the theater and watching the Death Star explode.

[@mokufreeman4692]

Good to see a new video. Always.

[@markjolliff3668]

Hello from Bellevue Ohio! Just found your channel and I'm having a good time thanks

[@scrubbs2442]

Good video Chris! Still loving the channel after 2 years!

[@Crazael]

3:40 When I was in highschool, I did a project on the history of cell phones and the way I described it was that "the first cellular telephone network was developed and implemented in the 1940s" and then went on to talk about how the first mobile phones weren't developed until later, and then it took even longer for them to be hand held.

[@jemiller226]

I've been to Boardman many times and I had no idea the first Arby's was there. I'm from not far across the border in Pennsylvania and I'm kind of grateful to have a semi-local KZbin channel like this one...and you're just a year older than me! Haha

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

What part of PA? I used to live in Mercer County.

[@jemiller226]

@@VloggingThroughHistory Somehow missed this reply. I'm from Lawrence County, now live in Butler County, and spend most of the time I'm not at home in Allegheny County (like pretty much everyone else around me).

[@Dawnrim]

To me the Mary Rose ship sinking in 1545 and its contents reminds me how technological adoption works in reality. Especially as someone enjoying historical video games you can easily get the impression that once you have access to new and shiny tech, suddenly every previous technology in that field is obsolete and will be replaced. Still Henry VIII’s ship still goes down with large stocks of warbows, the same year the Spanish establishes their mining settlement in Potosi in Bolivia - so after they have firmly established their dominance and colonial overlordship in the New World, much due to their use of European firearms.

[@AnnieVanAuken]

As a former New Havener, I've known for years that the first SUBWAY was an insignificant shop with a hand-painted large window in nearby Milford, CT. To look at it you'd never imagine this hippieish hole-in-the-wall would one day be an enormous worldwide corporation. That's a story, like the Ray Kroc one, I'd love to know more about.

[@katholmes7112]

Love this. I know you've reacted to Blue Jay before, but if you haven't seen it, he has a great video out about insane duels that make the wild west seem tame. 😊

[@Bigdog5400]

VTH, I think it'd be interesting if you reacted to some videos that talk about the Tesla, Edison feud.

[@castielthebestangle1615]

Yes definitely do a vid about the broklen bridge

[@quentinanderson8456]

"Oh yeah? I was born the same week as Tom Brady", had me dieing of laughter. Great video as always.

[@themaincharacterinthebible8815]

Love videos like these. Keep it up 👍

[@juannunez1929]

Herbert Hoover passed away the same year The Beatles crossed over to the USA. They did their first American tour a few months before the President at the end of the Roaring 20's and the start of the Great Depression passed away.

[@vmob7039]

I love it chris when you just own people!

[@terrydawson2728]

The original Arby's was in Boardman?! That's crazy to think of. I spent a good part of my childhood holiday seasons shopping there at the Boardman Mall

[@HailCrimsonKing]

The ottoman Empire didn't officially become Turkey until 1922 after the War of Indepdence.

[@caboplays]

Another cool link between between the last guillotine execution in France and star wars is that Christopher Lee, who would later go on to play Count Dooku, was present during the execution.

[@MS-io6kl]

The Ottoman Empire was, in German-speaking countries at least, referred to as Turkey for centuries. The wars between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans were and still are called Österreichische Türkenkriege. Similar to the UK being called England. A better comparison for 1908 would have been the Annexation of Bosnia by Austria-Hungary, which was one of the roots of WW1.

[@informateq7891]

Fun fact: While Switzerland nationally allowed women to vote in 1971, some cantons (states) took much longer to allow women voting in local elections and votes. The last canton only allowed women to vote in 1990

[@HavianEla]

I always thought it was super goosebump-inducing to realize how OLD the pyramids are (and how the Great Sphinx is likely even older!) in relation to today. Saying Cleopatra and/or the Roman Empire is closer to the moon landing than either of those were to the point in time of the pyramids’ construction really drives home the point of just how ancient humanity is. On that note, there’s debate amongst many archeologists about whether or not a small woolly-mammoth like animal entombed in a pyramid with some mummies is in fact, a Woolly Mammoth

[@BrittonJOrwin]

My two oldest Great-Grandparents were born in the 1890s. They are husband and wife. My Great-Grandfather is Joseph W. Benzon. He was born July 23, 1893. Which makes him older than Amelia Earhart. And, Tchaikovsky was still alive (Tchaikovsky passed away in November 1893). Joseph passed away in November 1950. My Great-Grandmother is Birdie Williamson. She was born February 14, 1898. So, she lived through the Great Depression, both World Wars, she was alive during the sinking of the Titanic, the Civil Rights era, the JFK assassination, the Watergate scandal and she passed away three days before the inauguration of Jimmy Carter.

[@mikeblaze7424]

Shits crazy to think about my great grandparent we’re also born in the 1800s(don’t know exact dates) and grandmom was born in the middle of the first ww

[@noemitellez3098]

Love the video today Sam ! Learned some new things about Indian history that I never knew before !

[@kingofdash9175]

His name is Chris lol

[@noemitellez3098]

@@kingofdash9175 it’s a joke from his “reading about myself on the internet” video :)

[@noemitellez3098]

@@AnnieVanAuken cool opinion , I’ll keep doing as I please though !

[@noemitellez3098]

@@AnnieVanAuken The name calling if anything is definitely a sign of immaturity & I would be ashamed to have that trait at your mature age . what does it matter if they’re a little confused about a random comment ? They will have enjoyed his content the same anyways . Please find other things to be bothered about .

[@AnnieVanAuken]

@@noemitellez3098 You win.

[@arifhossain9751]

Hey Chris, great video as always. I don't know if you've heard, but there is a new version of The Oregon Trail out right now. Maybe you'd do a little playthrough of it?

[@adamrousek2200]

Hey Chris. Really hoping to see The Napoleonic Wars by Epic History TV. Won't stop requesting till we see it! Keep it up.

[@theinsanepumpkincarver]

Hey Sam*

[@coffeedrop122]

he did... over a year ago

[@adamrousek2200]

@@coffeedrop122 He did like 1/3 of the series…over a year ago

[@otaconz1147]

Are you planing any new Videos on your Mini Series "Historic Photos You May Have Never Seen" or "AMAZING old video footage from History". Loving those!!!!!!

[@DJ118USMC]

20:40 - This thing really bothers me. The Titanic took two hours and 40 minutes to sink! Titanic had 20 lifeboats and the crew of Titanic barely managed to get all 20 away with the last lifeboat floating off the ship as water rushed over the boat deck. Even if there was enough lifeboats there is no way they would of had time to load everyone on them and launch them. By the way 14 was the legally required amount of lifeboats for a ship of Titanics size at the time.

[@virginiarogers6034]

Galileo Was born in 1564, and only died 1642

[@BackWhereYouStarted]

He listed the year the jack the ripper murders happened off the top of his head & i was impressed, then he dropped all the victims first and last names off the top of his head and my jaw hit the floor

[@trinaroe5132]

Loved The Founder movie. So interesting. I understand why he linked Orville Wright being alive when the atomic bomb was dropped because of the link of both to planes.

[@danadnauseam]

Washington Roebling's father, John Roebling, actually pioneered the use of steel cables in construction and designed the Brooklyn Bridge. He died of injuries suffered in an accident early in the construction. Washington Roebling developed the bends during the project and ended up having to view the construction from his sickbed.

[@josephparisi1458]

One thing that I always found interesting was that the Holland tunnel, connecting New York and New Jersey, was opened before the George Washington Bridge even began construction. The GWB is one of the busiest bridges is the world and is a vital connection between the NYC and its greater metropolitan area. I can't imagine a time where the only way to get across the Hudson river was by boat or by the relatively low capacity Holland tunnel.

[@jamesfetherston1190]

I am always amazed that the Bear Mountain bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world for 18 months. I mean it was 1928 iirc, but it really isn’t long at all.

[@mikeblaze7424]

That holland tunnel sucks. So much traffic

[@lukiosity8907]

Loved your reaction, even though the original Video was kinda weird at times. Also, Sir Christopher Lee was present at the last Guillotine Execution. That Man had one Hell of a Life. I don't know much about the Invention of Planes, but wasn't there around the same time that the Wright Brothers did it also a guy in Romania who did the same?

[@timothyhall7433]

A thing I find interesting that was happening at the same time is that Shakespeare was writing plays as the Americans were beginning to be settled. As a history buff, I knew this as a fact, but I really didn't wrap my mind around it until I watched a cinematic depiction of "Othello" and saw someone carrying a matchlock musket. I thought, "that's right they would have had early firearm technology them." I guess Shakespeare's works seem so timeless that feel that they must be older.

[@edwardwright8127]

Of course, they had firearms. The Globe Theatre burned down because of an accident with one of the guns they fired off during a play.

[@chrisj.9882]

Orville Wright was alive when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. That's a better one than the A-bomb. Yeah, the bomb was dropped by a plane, but the sound barrier is more directly about aviation.

[@nicholasramezzano8346]

I hear that about a 3-1 lead. I'm an SF Giants fan and the 2002 world series still hurts me. I know it's different circumstances, but still

[@JedForge]

My Texas Rangers just needed Nelson Cruz to catch a ball ... not a difficult one either. Make that catch and we finally have a WS championship ... but no ... extra innings, Cardinals win it with walk off homer sending it to a game 7 and the Rangers seemed to have nothing left in the tank for that.

[@bradball]

2:20 Donner Party took the standard western trail through Nebraska and Wyoming... but they famously broke away near Fort Bridger, Wyoming to take the shortcut "Hastings Cutoff" route. This led them through the Salt Lake Valley and into the brutal salt flats and unforgiving Nevada desert. Few would consider their route the "Oregon trail".

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

By the time they got stuck in California they'd returned to the main route on the California Trail, which many do consider an extension of the Oregon trail.

[@bradball]

@@VloggingThroughHistory I stand corrected... the Hastings Cutoff did reconnect with the California trail. Thanks... I enjoy your content.

[@StoryTimeZE]

Fun fact about the wright brothers and the first airplane, is that it is still contested out here in Steuben county by Glenn Curtis

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

8:34 If Arby’s was founded near where I live, I would do everything in my power to bury that history and make sure that no one ever knew.

[@eric5r]

2:16 I thought he was gonna say _dump_ for some reason 😭🤣

[@aldbgbnkladg]

I believe they refer to Aztecs as ancient civilization to refer as they would belong to Antiquity age by European standards. I've read a French historian that claimed and explained that and I found it a fascinating idea. That makes that comparison between a still existing university and people from Antiquity one of my favorite.

[@GFHC406]

Hey VTH! Just discovered your channel a few weeks ago. Love the content! Minor nitpick and it's only because I live in Montana, but you mentioned that Wyoming had a woman in Congress before the 19th Amendment. Pretty sure that was Jeanette Rankin from Montana. Wyoming had passed women's suffrage earlier, but unless you're referring to some state legislator of their's, I'm pretty sure Jeanette was first. Sorry if I'm wrong. Lol

[@big8dog887]

No, you're absolutely right. Rankin was the only member of Congress to vote against entry into both World War I and World War II. Interesting trivia about Wyoming: they haven't had a male in the House of Representatives since 1995.

[@GFHC406]

@@big8dog887 crazy. And I think they had their first female senator in...2019? Lol.

[@occheermommy]

I never knew Arby’s was from that area of Ohio. My mother grew up in New Castle, Pa which is a stones throw from Boardman and Youngstown. I have been to the area many times.

[@hasanok4172]

I would love to see a video about the Brooklyn Bridge!

[@divingdave2945]

Britain stopped public executions quite early. Christopher Lee (the guy who played Saruman) witnessed a public beheading in Paris in the year 1939.

[@TheNeonParadox]

Another interesting thing is that the Pyramids started their building within about 50 years of Stonehenge and several other stone monuments that have since been discovered.

[@michalkloucek4696]

I also had to stop the video for few seconds when he announced number 6 and thought to myself "wait, he was never caught". :-)

[@ThethomasJefferson]

It’s also not that they didn’t think about putting enough lifeboats about board the titanic, they origin design had a whole lot more lifeboats on her. They ended up removing a lot of them because it would block first class passengers view.

[@wwciii]

I loved an art critic whose review of a painting was "this painting shouldn't be hung it should be hanged".

[@CaribbeanHistory]

The battle of Arcole (one of Napoleon’s great victories in Italy) concluded the same day Catherine the Great died. Nov. 17, 1796 The 100 years war ended the same year Constantinople fell. 1453 Stonewall Jackson concluded his Valley campaign the same month as the French intervention in Mexico (the famed battle of Puebla, Cinco de Mayo) 1862 When the Aztecs were being conquered, the first circumnavigation of the globe was happening 1519-1521

[@oliverbach3011]

1864: Abraham Lincoln appoints Ulysses S. Grant as commander in chief of all Union armies. Gallaudet University is founded in Washington, D.C., as the first university for the deaf and hard of hearing. - Its like even within a few days/a week or two of each other. It's just interesting to think about that these things were being thought about during the American Civil War.

[@connarkent282]

There was a civil war vet who lived to late 1950s to 1960s. I remember that he was a drummer boy in the union

[@Letterman0412]

Another thing about the lifeboats on the Titanic is that having more of them probably wouldn't have mattered because they failed to even launch all of them before the ship sank. Wasn't really the fault of the designer either. Not all his specifications for the ship were followed. He wanted the bulkheads to be taller and he wanted more lifeboats but he was overruled on both.

[@dannyinoakpark9095]

Have you thought about doing reaction videos of video games in history? Like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Assassin's Creed? There's some deep historical stuff in these video games now our days I love history so it's really fun to play in a certain time period like the West in 1899 and see some of the weapons and tech in that time

[@renatotobar8012]

There is a similar video from another channel called VSauce called "Our narrow slice" which talks more philosophically on what these coincidences mean to our understanding. But still, it would be a nice video to react.

[@beminem]

hell yeah, fellow guardians fan

[@anitatereszczuk3967]

I think those facts about year 1000 AD are pretty cool 1. Congress of Gniezno takes place - very important event for early Polish history as this is when emperor Otton III came to Poland to meet with our then prince Bolesław Chroby (Brave) 2. Leif Eriksson becomes the first (known) European to reach modern-day Canada 3. First christian missionaries arrive to Iceland 4. Around this year Chinese people invent gun powder

[@Pktommy1]

Youngstown lol. Super close to me. I love south of Pittsburgh. Washington PA.

[@BumblebeeGage]

I didn’t know Arby’s was founded in Boardman, that’s cool. I’ll have to tell my manager that, she lives there lol

[@matthewpeterson5281]

I do enjoy when the phrase "he was hung" comes up in context like this video. I'm just like "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means".

[@maryloumawson6006]

I thought of one - The last movie Mae West starred in was released in March 1978, almost a year AFTER the original Star Wars episode IV A New Hope. I remember the marquee of the theater where I'd seen Star Wars emblazoned with her name. Even at the time, I thought I'd entered the twilight zone.

[@Zitsanrael1117]

I find it fascinating how much the world can change in such a relatively short time frame. I'm just a millennial, but even so I can't find my grandmother's country of origin on a map because it literally doesn't exist anymore. My grandma's family immigrated to the US from the country of Czechoslovakia, which today is now 2 separate countries. Another example is how there were 50 states when my mom was born, but when my dad was born there were only 48. None of these events really matter "that much" in the grand scheme of things, but they're just interesting to think about to me.

[@timnewman7591]

1209 AD. Genghis Khan leads his first invasion of Xi Xia, retreating when he's unable to take the heavily fortified capital. In the same year a group of Norwegians 'go viking', taking their ships and launching raids in the Hebrides and against the Holy Island of Iona (this is often considered the last Viking raid).