The World's Weirdest Calendar

Mind-Blowing Monday #1: The World's Weirdest Calendar
Introduced in 1793 during the French Revolution, the French Republican Calendar was a radical attempt to create an entirely new calendar and measure for time.
The calendar was used during the French Revolution, however it was later rejected by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Find out more about the French Republican Calendar here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_....
Find out today's date according to the French Republican Calendar here:
www.windhorst.org/calendar/.
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[@HistoryTime]

Good to see fellow British historians on KZbin :)

[@MrDumbdumbman]

Finally this channel is back! This is a great start, looking forward to more videos!

[@maxding5692]

History Bombs isn't dead, MINDBLOWN

[@Budisa35]

The Anglo-Zanzibar war was one of the shortest wars in history and it lasted betwen 38-45 minutes. It started because the pro British Sultan died but they got over it quickly and ended the war.

[@obaiahmed3784]

SerbianMajor-NB yo thats what i just wrote and i didnt even see what you wrote.

[@bobthegreat3627]

@@obaiahmed3784 LOL REALLY

[@youcantchangeyouryoutubeus6065]

did you know white chocolate is harmless to dogs😱

[@treecultleader970]

😲😲😲😲😲😲

[@warracutback]

yea cause there's no coco i think

[@youcantchangeyouryoutubeus6065]

right,

[@kristenpascoe7959]

Well of course

[@PositiveVibesz]

Glad you're back, and excellent video! Keep up the amazing work History Bombs!!

[@stpat7614]

The republican calendar is actually considerably less weird than the Gregorian calendar

[@namonaite]

Yeah what pope names days after heritic gods? Just stick to saints or something Gregory you nerd

[@singularityguy9566]

I have never been more excited for Mondays EVER

[@Steamed]

Great to see this channel having a fresh start!

[@ammarhamdi4943]

the middle finger curse was actually a sign by the french army to tell the British that they still had that finger to use it for archery. mind blowing

[@sean7714]

Awesome! I honestly can’t wait for weekly history bomb vids! I love the one take bombs and I’m super excited for extra content!

[@treecultleader970]

My schoolmate has christmas today MINDBLOWN

[@Budisa35]

martikrpo 6 Not realy Mindblown the Catholic 25 December and 7th January Ortodox Christmas

[@treecultleader970]

SerbianMajor-NB it was a joke that is MINDBLOWING

[@dainn0668]

Hooray, a video

[@supermarioplayersmp]

I'm posting this from France on the September 18, and in 4 days it will be the anniversary of the Declaration of the First French Republic on September 22, 1792 - or as they call it, _1er Vendémiaire An I_

[@arianaisboss]

The weirdest calendar is the one we use

[@orbital6911]

The last battle of the Texas revolution lasted 19 minutes with only 2 or 3 casulties for the the Texans.

[@zaxtheanarchist6181]

I’m here daddi

[@UnoriginallyChrisLPs]

Look forward to seeing this channel grow! Awesome first real video back.

[@friedatheiling598]

Bricks are actually just domesticated rocks.

[@loganhobby4510]

In ww2 a hole battalion of German troops wear almost crippled by 5 U.S marines with the French under ground.

[@anramin4936]

Night is still day and on plant earth is still runing 2 days at same time.

[@irmuusanaa4227]

Mongolia has a navi it being a fishing boat ! 😂

[@yasserzariff]

If you clean a vacuum cleaner you become the vacuum cleaner Dun dun dun...................

[@obaiahmed3784]

The shortest war in history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War, lasted between 38-45 minutes. Now that is mind blowing.

[@Sirfishy42]

Space once threatened to declare war on the USA and USSR

[@jammig007]

On 15th of July 1469 there was a war for a cow between now Polish cities of Belgrad (Białograd) and Świdnin. After a minor conflict between local farmers, involving unkept cow-leasing agreement and thievery of said cow, a battle was fought. The brave citizens of Świdnin emerged victorious, allegedly killing 300 enemies and capturing between 50 and 300 loot wagons. Since 1969, the 500th anniversary of the war, the cities annualy prepare together celebrations of this mind-blowing conflict.

[@Ghostinvades911]

Yes

[@a.dennis4835]

Gotta disagree with you, the Coligny calendar, a lunisolar calendar found in France, is weirder. The calendar has 12 months: six months of 30 days, five of 29 days and one month, Equos, that alternates between 30 or 29 days. It’s believed that Equos normally would have thirty days but every 61 years it would only be 29 days. In addition, every 2.5 years or so, an extra month of 30 days, Sonnocingos, was added.

[@zaia1776]

Mind Blowing Fact: When the Assyrian empire was still around, they killed goats and took their skin and used it to make snorkels so they can sneak attack the enemy. They also had the idea of Longitude and Lagnitude, and mathametics. They invented the first iron weapons and conquered most of the middle east.

[@nolinlinencripple3267]

Keep up with the good work

[@gerritsevereid4657]

uhhh the Australian military lost to emus in its first attempt

[@rampage3390]

Happy New year!!! or is it... *Vsauce music plays*

[@CiekawyŚwiata2024]

Glad you're back HB! But what happened to the rhyming videos? I don't mean I don't like Mind Blowing Mondays but videos about WW1 and WW2 were so cachy I can't get out of my head :-)

[@nickgula6512]

I had a triple take when I saw history bombs

[@rayyankhan343]

All the planets in the solar system could fit between the distance from earth to the sun

[@coltonbruza6957]

Rajo Devi, an Indian woman gave birth to a child at 70 years old; making her the oldest to ever give birth to a child.

[@51WCDodge]

Great fun! Going to become essential watching for quiz teams. How about Jersey owning England?

[@Julia-uh4li]

If you haven't yet covered Josef Stalin's insane calandar, can you cover that one also, please? That was particularly bizarre as it gave their national work different colour coded days off work. Large families where many of the older children worked weren't likely to have the same days off as each other to be able to do things together. Man, communism is whacked for the most part, although I very much approve of one aspect of it, where governments abolish all forms of churches, religions, and faith-based organisations. But that's solely down to me being raised in an incredibly destructive and highly controlled cult masquerading as a religion with tax-free exemption given by the US government. Like I said, my opinion is firmly set for that reason alone 🤷‍♀️ If you're curious as to the type of "church" in which I speak, look no further than the "church" of Scientology! But you really should be prepared for a deep dive down the proverbial rabbit hole with them. The "church's" use of 'fair-game tactics' was created by the prolific sci-fy writer, Hell Ron Hubbard, is enough to prove they aren't into the well-being of their members or communities. Just know that the prefaces of their doctrin is based on the "Galacric Federation" & a lovely communist overlord named Lord Xenu. Yeah, I shit you not 😬 That's one hell of a rabbit hole, folks! Holy Crap, I seriously digressed. Sorry 😉

[@francescoazzoni3445]

I seriously think that it is a more rational calendary and should be used, wrote in at 8:69 of the tenth day (decadí) of snowy 226

[@liamwiner9192]

Do a history bomb in one take video on Napoleon

[@jakestuff5246]

i loved it!

[@dragnow_236]

In the 1920's Canada had a plan for a surprise invasion of the United States in the event of war. The plan was to move troops as far south as possible then as soon as serious resistance was met retreat to the border using scorched earth tactics. All this was to buy time for assistance from Britain and Japan.

[@1949MrPaul]

My dad cook for the queen, that’s all I got probably won’t win but eh

[@franksiciliano3822]

Heh, Rosh Hashaha tends to fall in Sept (lunar calendar obviously doesn't sync with solar), and Hebrew Days are just "day 1, day 2..." Sounds like they were just going back to basics Please note, though, the Hebrew Calendar does not have a "snowy"

[@Opalisk_]

George Washington's favourite breakfast meal was pancakes

[@irmuusanaa4227]

The catholic church tried to make the Mongols look like cannibals !

[@jimmywalker7381]

The first ever assault rifle was the Federov octerov, and was created by the Russians when the Tsar was still in power. It was created in the year 1917.

[@Nathan-he9hs]

wooooooooooooooo first mind blowing Monday ever!

[@datboihf5259]

Awesome

[@MRB16th]

If they made it 12 or 13 months of 30 days (the 13th month happening every five or six years), and also kept the names of the months and days (with new names for the three new days), as well as a three-day weekend with a mid-week day off, I think they would have nailed it.

[@arianaisboss]

But the days would be incredibly off each year if they removed the 5 day stuff

[@arianaisboss]

Also you’ll have to take leap year into account so the extra month will be 31 instead which would kinda ruin it

[@MRB16th]

@@arianaisboss The idea of having the 13th month of 30 days every five or six years would be to serve as the additional five days (and a shade under six hours) over time. Of course, some may balk at having a 390 day year (particularly in the case of any year as horrible as 2020).

[@Ninjamagics]

Mind blowing fact: Australia had a civl war over Rum! THe rum rebellion

[@Elonmuskasseater69]

Nice

[@kristenpascoe7959]

Mind blowing fact is only kinda mind blowing but it is!!!!!!! In the battle of the bulge the German forces sent a letter to the Americans asking them to surrender and the American general wrote back to the Germans and it said “NUTS” and that’s all he said.

[@brennonkraft2504]

You got that from oversimplified

[@thecrusherbro7912]

Quality content

[@raoul9389]

America is the only country to lose against Vietnamese farmers

[@scaryanarchist1260]

Mind blowing fact: People in Uganda now de wey.

[@TheDankBoi69]

Anyone here in 30th of croppy 229

[@bruleebois2046]

Spain is infact a country

[@raffibarsoumian1075]

Did you know clear cola was made for the USSR in WW2

[@zanel4195]

Um this is different

[@labpman7227]

Wide laws acrseed the wold

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

100th comment on the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI almost

[@saidemajou6600]

why dont u have 30M subs?

[@nolinlinencripple3267]

1st comment

[@Carftymk]

how dense are you? it's literally less weird than what we currently use

[@clawtimes864]

I’m 12 comment

[@raiyan3348]

second

[@johnrushton5293]

312th

[@internotstellarers6282]

nah this aint it champ

[@formerunsecretarygeneralba9536]

Weird? Weird? Our calendar is 7 days a week, 30 or 31 days a month or 28 days for February or somethimes it's 29 days, 12 months a year and is based on the birth of someone that has nothing to do with the creation of this calendar. How is ours not the weird one? Damn it, Napoleon why couldn't you just keep that calendar system and maybe it'd actually be the universal calendar system for today. Also something doesn't add up, if this calendar starts ar the exact birth of Christ then how is he born on the 25th December when the 1st day adter the birth of Christ is the 1st of January. Also, I want a new calendar system. Adopt the french one but the 1st year of earth would be the actual estimation for when the earth exist.

[@arianaisboss]

I’ve made a version of the French calendar but I use the year of the republic since that’s an actual event from when they started counting the years so it feels better

[@Runpei_]

@@arianaisboss I made mine's too. I also call colors, numbers, days and months differently. Today is Veneplei 15° Grushiuka 8567

[@Runpei_]

Also cool! :)