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Rosa Parks was chosen as the face of the early Civil Rights struggle as she was found to be as close to having no skeletons in her closet as any human could be. She's almost created a standard no one else can live up to. We want our historical heros flawless, she's one of the few who's met the expectation.
We have Viola Desmond on our $10 bill now, and it took from 1946 till 2009 to pardon a downstairs movie theatre ticket in the whites only section she didn't know was there in New Glasgow, because she was from Halifax. But she decided to fight it anyways, and was thrown in jail overnight and convicted without legal representation for an obscure tax of $0.01, because the ticket seller handed her the balcony ticket because of the rules she wasn't aware of in that town. She continued to fight her court battles starting in '47, and ultimately not achieving a pardon and getting a $25 fine as well, and dying in New York in 1965.
Rosa parks wasn't the first black woman to ride at the front of the bus. She was just the one that got the press.
The famous part of Bly's trip is that a newspaper editor congratulated her for beating a fictional record that no one cared about.
7:34 Whoever translated this did an awful job 😂 This is what she really said:
"Since Mexico lost half of its territory in an unfair war, there's always been an enormous resentment towards the United States."
There isn't that big of a difference. 🤷♂️
@@Donut-fr7is Well she says half but the subtitles say all, and they (conveniently) omit that she said it was an unfair war. Those two change the meaning of what she said quite a bit
Oh I didn't even notice since I didn't read the subtitles. Yeah it's a little eyebrow raising that they didn't include that part.
Aka Mexican lost causers
A story that most Americans outside the city of boston might not know of is the 3 kiloton explosion that decimated Halifax in 1917, and how the people of Boston came to give aid before anyone else, and why there is a giant christmas tree from Nova Scotia lit up every year in Boston.
Ooooh, that’s a good one
I only know of it from The Longest Johns song “Fire and Flame”.
This story is crazy I went to Halifax a few years ago and had never heard about this but learned all about it in this museum there I remember it talked about the Christmas tree thing as well really nice gesture by Halifax to remember what Boston did for them all those years ago
Yeah, there was a French cargo ship (SS Mont-Blanc) carrying a huge load of explosives intended to be taken to Europe to manufacture artillery shells and grenades for use in the ongoing First World War. Another ship (SS Imo), sailing on the wrong side of the channel, crashed into it, creating sparks, causing a fire and then an explosion. Nearly 2000 people died and another 9000 were injured.
WatchMojo has fine lists if you consider them "in no particular order"
except their music ones. worst of all any list pertaining to best guitarists or anything related to metal music. oh man those ones are off. fair though, it's a niche subculture that doesn't really like to work with big time companies like watchmojo as a rule.
And also from a US-American point of view.
I find them really poor. I wish this guy would react to some proper documentaries, instead of low effort TH-cam content. Maybe there are copyright issues.
Re: Toba and the ability to estimate how long the eruption lasted ... when a volcano errupts, you get hot magma from inside of the earth spewing out. You can estimate the general temperature. As magma cools off, depending on the rate of cooling, it will form different types of rocks and crystalline structures. A geologist can examine this and determine the length of the eruption (within a certain margin of error, provided that a certain amount of sample has been collected).
One of the biggest we most in America don’t know about is the mosque takeover in Mecca. It was overshadowed by the Iranian hostage crisis. It profoundly altered the course of Middle Eastern history. Saudi Arabia had been reforming and modernizing its society until it happened. They reversed course and went more stricter on women, human rights etc
"Top 10 Important Historical Events You've Never Heard Of" - naturally, in all the history of all the world, nearly all of these historical events are North American
With their channel watched primarily by an American audience, this shouldn't be a surprise.
Watchmojo really is never really a channel to watch for deep dives into things especially education things, but still an enjoyable channel to watch nonetheless.
@@VloggingThroughHistory Do you mean that Americans aren't interested in the history of other parts of the world?
@@felipegianelli5241 Yes.
@@felipegianelli5241theres a rest of the world?
I didn't know anything about the Sultana until I did research on an ancestor who was a Union P.O.W at Andersonville (formerly in the 46th Ohio Infantry Regiment before his capture). He was put onto the ship after he was released from the prison camp, and already weakened by being at Andersonville, somehow managed to cling on to a small floating piece of wood and survive after the explosion. He died a couple of decades later, but I am glad that I became aware of such a disaster that went largely unnoticed.
Yeah, the Sultana is the type of event you only hear about if you’re already a Civil War nerd. It’s like Spoons Butler or Henry rifle.
Re: Stonewall, NYC and a lot of other places had bans on wearing articles of clothing associated with the opposite sex and the police raids used these laws as a pretext to raid gay bars. The delineation between trans/drag/gay was much murkier back then because LGBTQ people were just trying to survive an oppressive system back then.
The police raids mostly aimed at capturing higher profile people like gay bankers or intellectuals in hopes of embarrassing them publicly. This is how they helped keep gay people from connecting with other gay people.
Interestingly, the real “unknown” gay riot took place a half decade earlier in San Francisco at the Compton Cafeteria Riots.
I think those first riots are often erased from history because the crowd was blacker and much more gender expansive than Stonewall, and further from the nations media capital (New York City).
The biggest tragedy of the Residential School system issue is that because it is only now coming to wider public knowledge, so almost no one is still alive that put the system in place. So there is all this anger directed at a government composed of people who had no part of the tragedy but are still technically on the hook for it.
The last one was closed in 1997 so there is still hope some people can pay for their crimes. But you are largely correct. We still have lots of survivors which gives you perspective of just how recent this was. But the teachers and officials back then were just old enough to escape punishment.
@@Subutai_Khan yes because they were children. The people responsible are either gone or 80+ years old.
It's a tragedy on top of a tragedy because there will be no true justice.
@@shaggycan Moreover, the government is not known for taking actual responsibility when it comes to Indigenous issues. Regardless of party the trend has always been for the feds to rid themselves of as much responsibility as possible. This was true with residential schools and is true today as well.
@@Subutai_Khan it's kind of the "problem" of democracy; how can a government of completely different people truely take actual responsibility for something that happened when they were in highschool. They can apologize but it's hollow.
Every decade or so they throw money around, but it never seems to get to the people that need it.
Fun fact about Pancho Villa, he was very close friends with US Army Chief of Staff Hugh Scott. There’s pictures of them at meeting and enjoying a dog track in El Paso. General Scott even wrote in his memoirs that he praised Villa and spoke greatly about him
"Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald's initiative for the final result of residential schools was to 'take the Indian out of the child'" I Don't about you guys in the US, but for us in Canada, that's exactly what the government at the time wanted to do.
It was the same here. I’ve studied a bit about Canadian residential schools and they were very similar to our “Indian Boarding Schools”. Most often government supported but run by Christian clergy. They forced assimilation through a combination of teaching and punishment. The children were not not allowed to practice their culture or speak that language on pain of corporal and other forms of punishment. They were forcibly removed from their families and often suffered physical, psychological and sexual abuse. There was nothing benign about it. I love VTH and I think Chris is a great guy but I think it’s overly generous to suggest any benign intention with these schools, even if you look at it with the perspective of the time. They also lasted well into the 20th century in both countries.
It sounds bad till you realize that around 8000 natives blocked the intercontinental railway by killing an enormous number of railway workers and stopped economic development for decades.
Most of those natives were not even native to Canada but refugees from the US. 8000 people on a land as big as Germany blocking the economic development of a whole continent could not continue.
The Canadian railway company pays rent for the land to this day and could have made those natives really rich.
The original individual want to make schools to help the natives with getting work. Unfortunately another person was tasked with implementing this went to the United States to find out how the schools should run and it was wrong. Add in the Churches role of not stopping pedophiles and it turn out really bad.
@@motionpictures6629You clearly do not know much about Indigenous cultures in Canada if you think most Indigenous people came from the US. I am from Alberta and having talked with elders, looked at the archaeological evidence, and indeed looked at colonial records, your statement is false and very uninformed.
Unless you think the 200k people in Alberta alone who have traditions dating back centuries or more are talking out of their butts and that their history is fake. It is not, and all the evidence we have historical and archaeological supports the fact that Alberta was a cross-road for cultures and heavily populated.
Alberta is home to Cree, Blackfoot, Dene, Chipewyan, Stoney, and Sarcee people.
@@johnf-americanreacts1287 Yeah our government did a great job of sort of sweeping it under the rug as far as public opinion. Even by the standards of the time the abuse those kids received was awful and if you look deep enough you do find some people who try to speak out against it but they do not make the front page of any sort of media. The government simultaneously wanted to assimilate these children but also wanted to rid themselves of as much responsibility as they could. The RCMP had been informed of the abuses but they did nothing to stop it either. Of anything, they enabled it by going out and arresting kids who tried to escape once it became illegal to do so.
I do think the general public probably thought they were a good thing given the way the media kept spinning the narrative and keeping what was really going on quiet but everything from the application of eugenics, to the underfunding of the schools, and the abuse the children received all confirms that there were lots of bad intentions at play here. There is evidence that well into the 20th century, biased IQ tests were done with the intention of maintaining the narrative that Indigenous people are inferior. Essentially they knew full well the education system was flawed and so they used that to their advantage to have these kids take tests they often could not even read properly due to language barriers and damage to cognitive development in the schools so that they could claim these kids were stupid and inferior based on their culture and race.
“I just wanted people to come together” dam .. that pulls at your heart 😢 God Bless Her❤
I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate how well spoken and articulate that you are in all of your videos. Even when you don't agree with something personally, you do an incredible job at not letting your biases influence how you speak about a topic. You try and succeed at having a channel that is a safe space for people of all different political viewpoints. You also make your bias is very clear by telling us about them in multiple videos and making it very clear to tell us that we all have biases and that we need to all be aware of how they influence our lives especially with the media. Once again, thank you for this content that you make, it is some of my favorite on TH-cam because of how entertaining it is with how much incredible and interesting information that you add to every single reaction! You seem like a genuinely great guy and I think I speak for all of your subscribers when I say that we can't wait till you reach a million subscribers!
Very well put! Totally agree
Oct 8, 1871 was the most deadly fire in US history, which occurred in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. This fire claims around 1200 lives, and most of these were incinerated in the fields. But no one ever heard of it because it happened the exact same night as the Great Chicago Fire, which killed far less.
One event that I would add would be the Mount Tambora eruption of 1815. It is the most powerful eruption in recorded history, and is estimated to have released the equivalent energy of 33 GIGATONS of tnt. That is over 600 times larger than the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.
The eruption is thought to have lowered the temperature globally by 0.4-0.7 degrees Celsius throughout the decade, leading to 1816 sometimes being called the year without summer.
The death toll is somewhat disputed but the initial eruption is thought to have killed around 10,000 people, with at least another 50,000 deaths caused by disease and famine. The climax of the eruption was so loud that it was mistaken for gunfire over 1,600 miles away, and ash could be found as far as 810 miles away.
Do think they should have replaced the prehistoric tambora eruption with the 1815 one you've mentioned, and also possibly krakatoa around about the same time!
As a german football fan this Hoffenheim Shirt hurts my heart 😄 need to get you a traditional club jersey like Kaiserslautern 😁
But love the videos! Keep up the good work 🤘
die Schwarzgelben!!
I only found out about the Sultana disaster a couple of years ago because I'm a direct descendant of a survivor. My third great-grandfather managed to make it out alive and was one of the last living survivors when he passed away in 1938, just a little less than two weeks shy of his 98th birthday.
I would have NEVER thought to see you wear a Hoffenheim shirt. That's straight up incredible. Don't listen to the other Germans in the comments. They're just jealous. Greetings from Germany!
Neidisch auf was? xDDDD
i remember them being in the champions league but havent heard much about them lately. seems its all about leverkusen these days
@@Taxisch Unseren Platz in der Bundesliga? Weiß nicht wie viel Spaß die Hamburger, Schalker, Herthaner, Lauterer und sonstige in der zweiten Liga so haben.
😂😂😂😂😂 Best comment, if you are from the Rhein Neckar Region please do us all a favour and support some team with a little more tradition like Stuttgart, KSC, Lautern, Mannheim, etc.
Einen Platz, den man sich erkaufen musste? Ja, im Arbeiterland wie Deutschland ist man mega neidisch auf sowas xD@@Otto910
Kalen from Oregon here! I've been a silent but continued fan of your content and takes on all things history for quite some time now. Love the channel.
If you continue the fan service route of top 10 react videos, I think adding an 11th take at the end of these videos would be awesome. The video itself is already great, but seeing you add one based on your knowledge would really bring that authentic piece into the mix. Plus you seem to know all sorts of history so I'm sure you'd have great additions to these lists!
i love this idea!
never drink from the fountains in portland, consider yourself warned. (i live in portland)
Would enjoy seeing more off the "off brand" so to speak watchmojo vids on your extra channel, always enjoy those.
Love the videos! Keep em coming Chris
I think the Jefferson Bible and the Deism of many of the founding American fathers doesn't get talked about much, perhaps because so many historians try to avoid discussions on the easily heated topic of religion. Also, add to that topic of diverse views of Christianity in early Christianity.
It wasn’t just Rosa Parks who was chosen as an ideal black pioneer. In the 40’s there were better ball players in the Negro leagues than Jackie Robinson (not that he wasn’t legitimately good) but Branch Rickey wanted someone strong enough to weather the inevitable taunts.
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping.
Around 2000 the GM of the Hotel where I was working talked about when he was young and working in New York City, he participated in those riots.
That opening green screen you did looked so good
Great video, Chris. Thanks for sharing
I watch your videos because you’re a good person. But always like the reaction videos too. 😊
I'm not sure the Stonewall Riots qualify as a lesser known historical event. It seems to be widely referenced and commemorated worldwide.
If I was making such a list, in no particular order, it would be:
- The McMahon family murders (Belfast, 1921)
- The use of 'Rock Around the Clock' in the film Blackboard Jungle, helping to spark the Teddy Boy moral panic (London, 1955)
- Gresford disaster (Gresford, 1934)
- Ottoman Bank Siege (Constantinople, 1896)
- The White Ship sinking (Barfleur, 1120)
- The Famine (Ireland, 1740-1741)
- The Limerick boycott (1904)
- Devo form in response to the Kent State shootings (Ohio, 1970)
- Notting Hill race riots (London, 1958)
- Chilean Civil War (1891)
I love when you cater to the masses and when you do more neash less known things and your originals as well you just one of my go to video's to rewatch
Haven’t watched this yet but I already know this is going to be a great video chris
Love the German Jersey! Great video as always 🥳
something that is generally not well known is the level of sophistication of bronze age civilizations. Greece to egypt to Mesopotamia and India, the way of life was way more advanced than most people would speculate
Being a Hoffenheim supporter and fan of your channel, this is warming my heart greatly!😄
Lol, somehow we exist everywhere. Who would have thought.
Great video, Craig
Craig? His name is Sam Nixon, an expert on Indian history 😅
Comparing the Krakatoa eruption to Toba is like comparing a firecracker to military ordnance.
I'd love some more research into the mass graves at Canadian residential schools. Because I can't find any confirmation of this. To my understanding, they used ground-penetrating radar to come to these conclusions. Excavations thus far have turned up no bodies. And one previous instance of excavating bodies "found" by ground-penetrating radar turned out to be rocks, not human remains. I'm genuinely interested in learning the truth.
Your core fans love anything you do (especially US civil war), but we will watch everything! Play that algorithm like a fiddle!
That Sultana explosion was a turning point for boiler safety too. That event brought people together to form the National Board commission for boiler safety, leading to ASME and boiler/pressure vessel code as well as regular inspections of those objects. It's kind of fascinating, and thankfully led to my current job, lol
First time I heard about the Halifax Explosion, I was absolutely shocked we weren’t taught about that in school.
Great commentary Chris, as always! I might’ve added another event to this list: The Worst Year to be Alive-Year 536! A little more recent than 70,000 years ago, it at least occurred in recorded history. Yet another volcanic eruption destroyed crops, in turn causing a slew of issues for people alive back then. Thanks for the commentary on this video, Chris! Looking forward to the next one.☕️
536 was bad, no ifs and buts about it, the plague of Justinian tough (its spread maybe related to the 536 eruption and consecutive climate impact) killed way more of the population of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Loved the video as always, I would love to see you react to more of Roaming History's videos covering the Civil Rights Movement!❤
The 1902 volcanic eruption of Mt Pelee on Martinque that totally obliterated the town of 30,000 at the base of it, with the only survivor being a prisoner locked up in an underground cell.
I did a presentation last year on Egypt at a Convention. I pointed out that to measure the lenght of the dynastic period, if we were living in the reigh of Cleopatra VII, the Dydnastic period would have started in the reigh of Ramsis II.
VTH your an amazing entertainer and teacher ,you deserve millions of subscribers hope to see you get that one day
I'm still following you and watching your videos, Chris
From Iran 💚🤍❤️
Much appreciated. Glad you're here!
19:05 The shock you visibly showed in reaction to the estimated deaths of Kids that attended the Canadian Residential schools really highlights how devastating those schools were
Stop it
Great video Chris. I would've added the Triple Alliance War. I may be biased being Paraguayan, but I feel it has always been ignored (outside of our country) despite being the bloodiest war in the history of the Americas (North and South). Even in South America it usually never gets talked about-Brazil, one of the key players, often teaches it as if it were a minor event. It's a harrowing, riveting story featuring 4 countries, 5 if you include the British, who financed the whole thing, so you'd think a major picture would've been done about it by now, or something to make it well-known to the general public.
I've heard of Claudette Colvin from an episode of the Newsroom, great show
Hi Chris, you should visit Galena Illinois great place for everything Grant
I think a major historical event that's always overlooked is the Mass lynchings in New Orleans in 1891. It was the largest mass lynching in the US (at least that we know of)
any collabs coming soon that you’re able to let us know about? love the content recently as always❤
Nothing major planned, though I have some events coming up with JD from the History Underground and with the American Battlefield Trust.
@@VloggingThroughHistory looking forward to it! can’t get me enough of american history (coming from a canadian studying my undergraduate)
When I heard about the Canadian schools, I checked the death rate at German schools at the same time. 20% sounds terrible, but East German boarding schools had a death rate of up to 30% till the 1970s. Polio, tuberculosis and smallpox killed thousands in some epidemics. You don't need a genocide to reach death rates of up to 30%. Medicine has come a long way in the last 60 years.
Two 'wars' that come to mind since I live in Wyoming. The Bone Wars and the Johnson County War. Grandmas in Buffalo still remember what side your family was on for the latter.
As pop-history as it is, creds to WatchMojo for selecting the Bronze Age Collapse. It's literally the event that brought about the Iron Age. Not because of iron being superior (which it originally wasn't with the metalworking techniques of the time), but due to it being abundant, and not relying on international trade networks like bronze did, as bronze requires both copper and tin, and few places have both.
Growing up in the states I would add two things. I never learned about the Haitian revolution until I was in college. Also the English civil war
The Haitian Revolution occasionally gets referred to but I didn’t learn about it until my last year in college. Fully understanding the Civil War and why the South was so afraid of emancipation requires some level of knowledge about Haiti.
Just watched the first two episodes of Shogun and it's really good. Can't wait for more.
There are geological markers within the cooled rock that shows how long it took to cool, initial heat, etc. but they are pretty good markers that we've been able to test with modern event erruptions and well as constant eruption, think St Helena and Hawaii reapectively
Claudette Colvin (and Rosa Parks!) deserve tremendous credit for their work advancing civil rights, but the REAL forgotten forerunner would be Elizabeth Jennings Graham, who fought against New York City’s segregated streetcars as early as 1853! She, too, refused to give up her seat on a segregated streetcar (though not to another passenger) and SUCCESSFULLY sued the city for her civil rights, leading to the desegregation of NYC streetcars in 1865! And her lawyer was Chester Arthur!
You can estimate the length of ancient volcanic eruptions based on the amount of material in deposits nearby compared to the same in sea deposits which are generally a constant. There's other ways too like comparing to similar eruption deposits from more modern times and working out the mineral make-up of the deposits which is what determines the type of eruption. Added together ancient volcanic eruptions can be worked out pretty accurately.
Many indigenous Canadians have Colonizer names because it was one more way to take the "Indian" out of indigenous Canadians. The idea of residential schools was to remove the "Indian" out of the children.
I'm from Oregon and yrs ago I was camping in the Wallowa Mountains near Joseph Eastern Oregon and picked up a book in a gift shop about Cheif Joseph and the Nez Perce wars. This was his I never learned in school, even though I took some American history in college.
It would be interesting to learn more about various historic volcanic eruptions. Until this video I did not know about the Krakatoa eruption but I have been reading about it this evening and it is really fascinating.
I believe that the scandal involving my great grandfather's sister-in-law's father MacKenzie Bowell was his opposition to these Native American assimilation boarding schools, and his removal as Prime Minister in 1896. The Bowell Holtons moved to Brooklyn, and my remarried great grandmother's (Augusta Ross Holton Bourne) family moved to Quincy, Illinois following the scandal.
My great-great-grandf 6:08 ather survived the Battle of Sulpher Springs (captured by Forrest) Cahaba prison and the Sultana explosion. His back was so injured that he was left disabled for the rest of his life. He was still a teenager. His best friend who had joined up with him perished.
I named my cat after Nellie Bly! She was one of my childhood heroines. When I brought the cat home from the shelter, instead of hiding, she explored my apartment. I immediately thought, “Around the apartment in 72 minutes,” and Nellie she became.
For me the "Little Ice Age" that happened between (1600-1850) is probably my favorite relatively unknown major historical event. The temperature of the earth dropped to such an extent it changed history. It contributed to major historical events like the American and French Revolutions, the unique sound of Stradivarius violins and the writing of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Much plague and famine resulted from shorter crop-growing seasons. The ice was so abnormally thick Frost Fairs were held on lakes and rivers in England in this period. A big part of this cooling of the earth involved some of the biggest volcanic eruptions in recorded history happening spaced out. The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 resulted in the only well-known part of the Little Ice Age referred to as "the Year Without a Summer" and the eruption of Krakatoa you mentioned is often thought to be the last volcanic event in this long chain that cooled the climate.
There is a channel called "Call me Ezekiel" that makes great history videos. My favourite is his video on the boxer rebellion/ the 55 days in Peking
Krakatoa would be a drop in a bucket compared to the ocean that was Toba
For the #2 in the list, I find it fascinating that ancient Egypt were similar with Imperial China that they were ruled by foreigners twice.
Egypt - Nubians and Greeks (Ptolemaic dynasty)
China - Yuan (Mongols) and Ching (Manchus) dynasties
The historical event that nobody talks about is the opening of the Pacific Ocean by Lopé Martin. He was the first person to sail from the Americas, to Asia, and back, thus opening the ocean for trade.
Upon his return to Mexico, he was sent out on another mission where he was doomed to die at the end by the hangman’s noose.
Go read conquering the pacific, and find your new favorite explorer ❤ ✊🏾
Actually there was another women racing Nelllie Bly...Elizabeth Bisland and she did it in 76 and a half days....Book, "Eighty Days: Nellie Bly And Elizabeth Bisland's History Making Race Around The World." By. Matthew Goodman.
Sultana was talked about on the podcast Ship Hits the Fan. There was also cargo on the ship. It was sugar.
This man has taught me more than my history teacher. Idk if it’s the way he talks but he makes me PAY attention to him. idk if he’s a teacher but he would be a good one
Canada has a lot of German ancestry, especially in southern Ontario as many German and dutch immigrants from Pennsylvania and New York who came to Canada during the late 1700s and into around the 1880s. Many of whom are/were mennonite. My family included.
The most important moment in history was when VTH created his youtube channel (even though it was not called that originally)
Well in the interest of accuracy, this channel has always been called Vlogging Through History. It’s my gaming channel that has changed a few times.
@@VloggingThroughHistory I thought it was the history guy games or something. Lol my bad!
I would add the Tulsa Race Massacre on there. I remember seeing it on HBO’s Watchmen and thinking, since the entire show takes place in an alternate timeline, it was just another fictional event in that timeline.
I would have added the 1891 New Orleans lynchings against Italian Americans. Great video 👍
I’ve heard about the Sultana I’m from Memphis Tennessee and there’s a marker by the Mississippi River that talks about the sinking since it sank not to far from Memphis. There’s also another steamboat that sank near Memphis in 1925, it was called the M.E. Norman and about 75 people were on the ship,23 people drowned and 32 were rescued from the water by a black American man who was on his small boat working on the water when he became the only eyewitness to the sinking and didn’t even hesitate to save people even though he didn’t know how to swim,his name was Tom Lee and I believe more people need to know his name,there’s a state park named after him here in Memphis.
As a Canadian, we DEFINATELY were taught about the residencial schools and the horric history of them.
To be fair though, we never learned about the Sultana Incident.
Though we did learn about some stuff like the Harlem Riots.
I think Mansa Musa being the richest human in history is something that only recently has become more known or spoken about. In general the dominance of the Mali empire and other non-western culture empires aren’t widely discussed in great detail.
Excellent video. Maybe because it’s Lent and my mind is more focused on forgiveness I often think of what can we learn today when we study past injustices such as what was done to the native Americans.
Honestly a historical event that the average person might not know is to me The Reconstruction Era of 1863-1877 in the US. I was one of those people who thought after Civil War and the ratification of 13th Amendment finally gave black people a little breathing room, I know racism was still there and strong, but after learning how Reconstruction went down from this channel and others I was horrified and depressed how awful black people were treated and made things arguably even worse for them. And the fact that not many people knows about it is shocking and sad to hear. Thank you, Chris, for bringing light to this very dark period in our country's history. People need to learn about Reconstruction if they haven't or know little.
P.S. Reconstruction also taught me that Ulysses S. Grant may not been a great president, but he was a fantastic human being and that me a huge fan of him to this day.
I’d like to see more of your historical photo videos.
Napoleon marshals...
The eruption of Mt Tambora (also in Indonesia) in 1815 led to a cold wet year that spurred a housebound Mary Shelly to write Frankenstein and arguably led to the wet weather that delayed Napoleon at Waterloo.
Interesting video
7:34 spanish speaker here, the translation is misleading, she acutally said; "As Mexico lost half of its territory to the US in an unfair war there was always an enourmous (fancy word for huge) resentment to the US (by mexico)
"Toba? Not familiar with that one.."
"74,000 years ago..."
"Ah, thats why"
Good laugh thank u
Two things:
1. Krakatoa and Vesuvius were pop-guns compared with Toba. The global cooling from Toba lasted centuries.
2. The persecution and death Alan Turing was over a decade before Stonewall.
Talking of Krakatoa, it's actually 'west' of Jawa, contrary to the title of the classic film “Krakatoa, East of Jawa”. The producers simply thought 'East' sounded much better 😊
On the topic of anti-chinese sentiments during the late 1800s, I'm reminded of one of my favorite historical figures, His Majesty Emperor Norton I.
There's a myth that he came across a mob assulting an immigrant and started shouting the Lord's Prayer at them until they dispersed.
This likely is not true, but he was very outspoken against discrimination of any kind, issuing a proclaimation that recognized the basic human rights of the chinese, and even issuing an edict prohibiting an anti-chinese gathering as a disgrace to San Francisco, threatening the leaders with banishment if they violated his decree.
Sadly, the police refused to abide this absolutely 100% legal proclaimation, and the meetings continued.
Empress of Ireland ship disaster. Oceanliner Desigs did a great video on the topic. Not as bad as the Titanic in terms of lives lost I think, but worse in other ways.
I'm from Germany so my perspective of what are overlooked or lesser known events in history (that should be known) is based on average German education… with that said my Top 3 would be:
1. The Battle of Diu
The conquest of the Americas typically gets huge attention if people think and talk about this time period, but European dominance in the Indian Ocean and consequentially supremacy over the trade with India and Eastern Asia is arguably as important and often totally overlooked.
2. The Islamic Golden Age
Generally people have heard of it but that’s often were the story ends. The massive implications this time period had not only for the region but for the developments in Europe afterwards and for science in general is completely underappreciated in my opinion.
3. The reign of Cyrus II
Even if you would ignore the actual achievements of his reign (that we know about) and you would only look at the legacy he left behind, you would arguably talk about one of the most influential figures in history (at least for Europe and the Middle East)…for some of the most influential people in the Ancient World he was kind of the prototype for a great sovereign and a role model for a ruler which has implications deep into the Middle Ages (and even found it’s way into the Bible).
When I was in high school (late 90’s) we kinda skipped over this time period (and region) and jumped from Egypt straight to Greece.
Hmmm, kinda unintentionally centered these three in and around Mesopotamia… well, who knew that this region was kinda important historically ^^.
Extra History did a series on the Fall Bronze age and sea people!!!
My 2nd great grandfather died on the Sultana. His brother in law was one of the few survivors.
I think it's more to do with the algorithm than what people actually want to see. The algorithm loves top 10 videos because they always have the most watch time. Something every single youtuber who has gone through a burnout period says is that you need to make content that you enjoy making instead of catering to the algorithm.
With the volcano, much of their estimates on times and amount is based on sediment layers that were left behind. It's inexact...but that is why they use ranges in the first place.
Chris would love to see you react to history with Cy or Epimetheus ancient history