Unbelievable historical events that actually happened

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28th of December 2021

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History is boring to some of us and that is because our teachers wants us to know both the important and unimportant stuffs, especially the boring stuff. History is more than just dates and policies, there are some really interesting and weird events that has happened in history which your teachers wouldn't tell you about probably because they also have no idea that history could be this interesting

Join me in this adventure and we'd find out how amazing history could be.

1. Albert Einstein was almost president

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Isreal officially became a nation on the 14th of May 1948, since then the national legislature of Israel elects Israel's president who serves it's one-seven year term.

Surprisingly, the title of the second president of Isreal nearly went to Albert Einstein in 1952. Einstein who although Jewish was not an Israeli citizen. Still the government offered him the presidency but Einstein politely declined.

He felt he was not qualified enough to lead a nation, he decided that the combination of his old Age (73 at the time), terrible people skills and inexperience would hinder him from serving efficiently.

2. 6th century global cooling

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The year 536 CE was a dark time for the world literally. Historical documents from the 6th century describes a dark veil over the sky between Europe and part of Asia. Various records describes the bluish fog over China and summers full of frost and snow in European regions.

Researchers refer to this as the 536 event and it's not clear what caused these events to occur. These events lasted for about 18 months, bringing out cold temperatures, drought, famine and so on.

In Europe about 1/10th of the population was decimated while 80% of Chinese population perished from starvation.

Experts theorized that a massive Volcanic eruption caused the events or perhaps it was the result of a comet hitting the earth.

536 event

3. The Dancing plague

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Dancing all the time doesn't sound like a terrible illness but the dancing plague of 1518 ended up causing a lot of misfortune. The pandemic began in Strasbourg which is now known as France.

About 400 people showed signs of the disease which involved them dancing nonstop for days. Many people collapsed and passed away due to stroke, exhaustion and other causes.

The outbreak began with one woman and the majority of those infected later on were all females. This outbreak occurred in a few other regions of western Europe as well.

One explanation said the fungus in the weed was to blame while other experts think it must have been stress induced psychosis- people in these areas were often living in rough conditions, prone to starvation and disease, it makes sense that the stress and their quality of living caused such hysteria.

4. Exterminate the cat

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Pope Gregory IX served as pope in 1227 until his passing in 1241. One of the things people know him best for was his view of cats. Pope Gregrory IX declared that cats were involved in devil worship and witchcraft, and he called to have them all exterminated in 1233.

This depleted population of cats is believed to have allowed rats and mice to thrive therefore spreading the Black death more effectively.

Black death

5. Animals in court

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The above image is a perfection depiction of the title "animal in court" but it's not what you think- animals didn't take over the court of law. Here is what happened;

The first animal cruelty conviction occurred in 1822 at the trial of Bill Burns. Burns a British citizen was found beating his donkey and was taken to court. Prosecutor Richard Martin brought Burns's donkey to court as if to testify against it's owner.

That year the UK parliament passed the cruel treatment of cattle act. This law was enacted to prevent the cruel and improper treatment of cattle which includes animals such as Ox, cows, sheeps, and other cattle.

Tha parliament later created cruelty to animals acts 1849 because they forgot to include bulls in the original law.

Source- Cruel treatment of Cattle act 1822

There are so many events in history that serves as a marvel for those who are interested in past events. If you could go back in history to experience one of these events first hand; which would it be?

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History is fascinating and now we learn more about what has happened in our past, and there have been some strange things!

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2 years ago

Intersting article. Thanks for sharing sir.

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2 years ago

This quite cool and interesting. I never knew any of these things not until today. Thanks for sharing. Anyways, the dancing plague is really weird and unbelievable.

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2 years ago

I also find it weird myself but some things are better left as they are or thinking about it would simply be a source of stress.

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2 years ago

History seem good always i can't believe that beautiful moment that history checks in our own and i like post the 3rd one dancing plague or 5 animals in courts is it a history

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2 years ago

Sounds cool that funny thing animals in court, Einstein a good person,he made a very impressive start of science, History is filled with a lot of good ways we always feel better in it when we study history makes us awfull,there wprks are great in every moment

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2 years ago

Einstein should have taken the position and maybe it may have been a really wonderful experience to talk about in history as well.

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2 years ago

Dancing disease sounds awful.. Imagine the fatigue and exhaustion before passing out.. poor women.. and that cat's story, what a stupid pope lol... somebody should have slapped some senses in his stupid brain

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He believed they were fuelling witchcraft and people blindly followed him without thinking.

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2 years ago

I don't want to experience it, but the one that got my attention is The Dancing Plague, like really? There is? This is new to me:D About History, there are some topics that I'm interested, but most of it, it's hard for me to remember haha

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2 years ago

If there is any topic you're interested in, just tell me and I'd do the research and write about it for your entertainment.

The dancing plague gets almost everyone thinking but don't think too much about it..haha

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2 years ago

Thank you Kris, I am more on mysteries haha

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2 years ago

What kinds are you interested in?

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2 years ago

Horror(like scariest place in the world) mythology (Greek, Philippine, Norse, etc.), also mermaids:D Anything that's mysterious but we can gain knowledge :)

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2 years ago

Wow!!!! Awesome stuff...I knew about Einstein but I didn't know about the others... This is the most interesting thing of yours I've ever read...!!! Hope to see more of this from you friend!!!!

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2 years ago

Happy reading.

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2 years ago

Wow, history sure is interesting. Thanks for the information Kristofferquincy, I didn't know these before now.

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2 years ago

I'm glad you learnt something new. Thanks for reading.

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2 years ago

Yes, I did. Thank you!

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2 years ago

I laughed with those animals at the court, but I think there was a huge significance to that… history is fun and exciting and I got to know things I’ve never heard or seen before…

How are you now Kris and are you back from receiving treatment?”

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I'm glad you enjoyed reading this article. Well, I'm still struggling but getting better. Back from the hospital and been on bed for ever since.

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2 years ago

I agree with you, history seems boring just because we are always made to study about dates and policies. But now we can study something interesting by ourselves. Thank you for sharing some hidden facts with us.

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2 years ago

Our teachers don't teach us well but insist we know everything regardless of how boring they are.

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2 years ago

Its fun learning about history, and the dancing plague, just trying to imagine a whole city dancing all true the day, hell look like a pandemic to me

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2 years ago

That's like the weirdest thing ever.. lol.

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Hmm, I wonder how weird that dancing disease was; imagine everyone dancing for no reason! How is that even possible?

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2 years ago

Imagine people dancing skelewu or makosa in the name of a disease lol... I find it hard to believe myself.

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Lol, I am guessing maybe they were just a cult that got possessed or something.

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