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1415 was a cataclysmic and transformative year for many folks
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Date: November 5th, 2025 2:58 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK yuge, violent shakeups in England happened that year, culminating in the Battle of Agincourt. But a lot of shit got wrecked in Central Europe too that year.
Controversy in Germany involving people you never heard of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_John_XXIII
Wars erupting, cataclysmic for the losers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussite_Wars
Imagine if the DailyMail was around that year. This would be 1000x bigger than Mamadani winning in NYC. People would talk about 1415 the way we talk about 9/11, but in multiple places for multiple independent reasons. For a lot of folks that was Year Zero
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Date: November 5th, 2025 3:01 PM Author: cell phones what post ww2 year will even rate?
even the "fall" of "communism" seems pretty fake and gay right now |
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Date: November 5th, 2025 3:10 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK WWII is nothing compared to the Thirty Years War. All these countries we imagine being on the map before and after WWII were all creations of the Thirty Years War.
The Thirty Years War also gave us much better intellectual output. It gave us Hobbes, Grotius, Locke, and many other greats who became FOUNDATIONAL to western political thinking. The only other person who was ever in the discussion was Marx, and he never engaged those earlier thinkers on any substantive level. Marx's sources are almost ENTIRELY written in the 18th or early 19th centuries, and he never knew shit about war.
WWII generated no intellectual revolutions. No real border transformations. The survivors left us no real wisdom. |
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Date: November 5th, 2025 3:02 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK This all went down in 1415:
In March, John escaped from Constance disguised as a postman.[10] According to the Klingenberger Chronicle, written by a noble client of Frederick IV, Duke of Austria, John XXIII traveled down the Rhine to Schaffhausen in a boat, while Frederick accompanied him with a small band of men on horseback. There was a huge outcry in Constance when it was discovered that John had fled, and Sigismund was furious about this setback to his plans for ending the Schism. The King of the Romans issued orders to all the powers on the Upper Rhine and in Swabia stating that he had declared Frederick to be an outlaw and that his lands and possessions were forfeit. In due course this led to a great deal of political upheaval and many Austrian losses in the region, notably in Aargau to the Swiss Confederation.
In the meantime, Antipope John XXIII and Frederick fled further downriver along the Rhine to the town of Freiburg im Breisgau, which recognised the duke of Austria as its lord. There Sigismund's lieutenant Ludwig III, Elector Palatine caught up with them. He convinced Frederick that he stood to lose too much by harbouring the fugitive pope, and the Austrian duke agreed to give himself and John up and return to Constance.[11] Deposition During his absence, John was deposed by the council, and upon his return he was tried for heresy, simony, schism and immorality, and found guilty on all counts. The 18th century historian Edward Gibbon wrote, "The more scandalous charges were suppressed; the vicar of Christ was accused only of piracy, rape, sodomy, murder and incest."[12] John was given over to Ludwig III, Elector Palatine, who imprisoned him for several months in Heidelberg and Mannheim. |