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Title: Most important year in history.
Post by: afleitch on August 08, 2009, 06:33:55 PM
Yes just one


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: they don't love you like i love you on August 08, 2009, 06:39:47 PM
1917


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: Хahar 🤔 on August 08, 2009, 06:41:09 PM
ca. 2380 BC (short chronology)


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: 12th Doctor on August 08, 2009, 06:48:20 PM

Urukagina being a figure that we have all heard of.


Anyway, I say 1944.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: Alexander Hamilton on August 08, 2009, 06:52:37 PM
1775


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: Хahar 🤔 on August 08, 2009, 09:45:50 PM

Urukagina being a figure that we have all heard of.

His not being remembered doesn't make him any less important.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: 12th Doctor on August 08, 2009, 10:12:10 PM

Urukagina being a figure that we have all heard of.

His not being remembered doesn't make him any less important.

But not being remembered because your civilization was wiped out does.  I really don't think much of a direct link exists between the rights he granted and the rights we have now.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자) on August 09, 2009, 12:04:41 AM
Years are like potato chips, you can't have just one.  Let me start by picking the most important year of each of the past twenty-five centuries.

20th - 1917
19th - 1848
18th - 1763
17th - 1648
16th - 1517
15th - 1453
14th - 1347
13th - 1291
12th - 1171
11th - 1066
10th - 919
9th - 843
8th - 732
7th - 622
6th - 534
5th - 406
4th - 330
3rd - 212
2nd - 132
1st - 30
1st BC - 49 BC
2nd BC - 146 BC
3rd BC - 221 BC
4th BC - 336 BC
5th BC - 480 BC

Group this into blocks of five centuries:
16th to 20th - 1648
11th to 15th - 1347
6th to 10th - 732
1st to 5th - 330
5th to 1st BC - 221 BC

And the winner is: 221 BC: Unification of the disparate peoples of China under the Qin State to forge one nation out of many.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: ?????????? on August 09, 2009, 06:13:36 AM
1066 set the stage for the state of the modern world IMHO.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! on August 09, 2009, 09:05:22 AM
There's not such thing as most important single year.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: k-onmmunist on August 09, 2009, 09:07:13 AM
21st (so far) - 2001
20th - 1929
19th - 1815
18th - 1776
17th - 1648
16th - 1517
All time - 1929


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: JSojourner on August 09, 2009, 09:59:12 AM
I'm not sure if it was 33 A.D. or not, but I would say the year Jesus Christ was crucified and risen from the dead. 



Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: Stranger in a strange land on August 09, 2009, 01:47:42 PM
There's not such thing as most important single year.

Agreed. Also, I have difficulty deciding whether the American, French, or Russian Revolution was most important. It's further complicated by the fact that the Russian Revolution almost certianly wouldn't have occurred without the French, and the French probably wouldn't have occurred without the American.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: Tetro Kornbluth on August 09, 2009, 01:51:05 PM
Whatever year Writing was invented. Or whatever year someone first came up with the idea of Private Property. Either will do.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: Mechaman on August 09, 2009, 01:56:15 PM
64,998,665 BC, the year the dinosaurs were wiped off the planet by a bigass asteroid.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: ChrisJG777 on August 09, 2009, 02:12:16 PM
I say 1991 is the most important year in history.  :P


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: afleitch on August 09, 2009, 03:30:42 PM
1764 and the invention of the spinning jenny


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: Lief 🗽 on August 09, 2009, 03:36:42 PM
4000 BC (or so) when God created man.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: big bad fab on August 09, 2009, 04:08:45 PM
I'm not sure if it was 33 A.D. or not, but I would say the year Jesus Christ was crucified and risen from the dead. 

I second.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: Associate Justice PiT on August 10, 2009, 03:11:52 AM
     1844


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: Democratic Hawk on August 10, 2009, 05:22:51 PM
31 BC


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: k-onmmunist on August 10, 2009, 05:41:25 PM

Out of interest, why?


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: Associate Justice PiT on August 11, 2009, 03:14:54 AM

     It is the year Nietzsche was born. I was thinking about putting another Nietzsche-related year, but I couldn't decide between 1882, 1885, & 1886, so I just went with the year of his birth.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: Хahar 🤔 on August 11, 2009, 11:34:45 AM
I find it hard to imagine that Nietzsche is so much more important than anyone else that his birth alone makes the most important year.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: Vepres on August 11, 2009, 12:57:13 PM
6,499,997,991 B.C. give or take a few hundred million years.

This was when the Earth was formed, without which none of us would exist.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: Filuwaúrdjan on August 11, 2009, 04:03:13 PM
I don't think you can really narrow things down in this way. So let's get all parochial; 1708, the year that Abraham Darby I moved to Coalbrookdale and changed the iron industry (and ultimately everything else) forever. I spent much of my childhood near Coalbrookedale.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: dead0man on August 12, 2009, 05:09:00 AM
I say 1991 is the most important year in history.  :P
Agreed.  Me graduating High School was an amazing feat.

My answer is 1788 (or 1791).


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: Psychic Octopus on August 12, 2009, 09:59:08 PM
480 BC was the year Themistocles truly saved the West. Without his victory at Salamis... I shudder to think of the consequences. The ideas we take for granted would be utterly destroyed, or would have taken a much different form.


Themistocles: Savior of the West



Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: RScannix on August 20, 2009, 04:26:24 PM
21st C. = 2001
20th C. = 1945
19th C. = 1815
18th C. = 1776
17th C. = 1629
16th C. = 1529
15th C. = 1492
14th C. = 1302
13th C. = 1206
12th C. = 1127
11th C. = 1054

Rome's apex and collapse are important as is the rise of the Tang Dynasty, but I don't feel like doing anymore.


Title: Re: Most important year in history.
Post by: rebeltarian on August 20, 2009, 06:28:26 PM
1981