1,000,000

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

550

[Heid the Ba]

549 = 3*3*61

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

548

[Major Domo]

547



Posted by: Arneb (UID: 153)

[Arneb]

546

[Lianachan]

U545.1

The first mortality called bléfed*, in which Mo-Bí Clárainech died

* Very likely talking about the arrival of the Justinianic Plague.

[Мастер]

544 == 2*2*2*2*2*17

[Heid the Ba]

543 = 500 + 43

[Arneb]

5The answer to the Question of Life the Universe, and Everything. Or something.

[Heid the Ba]

541 is primety prime prime. The king of Primetown.

[Мастер]

540 == 2*2*3*3*3*5

[Heid the Ba]

539 AD, the Byzantines are at war with everyone in the West. Belisarius takes Ravenna but loses Milan, Justinian rampages up and down the Danube trying to keep the Barbarians at bay. To paraphrase Foch, the situation was catastrophic, but not serious.

[Lianachan]

538 AD - Gabrán mac Domangairt becomes king of Dál Riata. Probably dies 20 years later during whatever led to what’s described as "the flight of the Scots before Bruide son of Máelchú". This is the great Bridei I, king of the Picts, of St Columba’s famous (but probably failed) Christianisation attempts.

[Heid the Ba]

It says something about the History Department of Edinburgh University that I studied Byzantine history but not Scottish.

The A537 road runs through Darkest Brexitshire and is claimed to be Britain's Most Dangerous Road, but fuck 'em.

[Lianachan]

Indeed.

The A536 is in Cheshire, Brexitshire, is 7.2 miles (11.6 km) long, and links Congleton and Macclesfield.

[Heid the Ba]

535 is as BMW as fuck.

[Lianachan]

534 AD - Muirchertach Mac Erca (son of Muiredach son of Eógan son of Niall Naígiallach) is drowned in a vat full of wine on the hilltop of Cleitech above Bóinn.

There are worse ways to go for sure. Insert your own drunken Irishman joke about how he got out for a pee 4 times here.

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

533

[Heid the Ba]

5 - 3 = 2

[Arneb]

5:3>1

[Lianachan]

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

529

[Arneb]

528

I'm one late, but I think it bears mentioning that 529 AD was the year in which the first monastery was founded by St. Benedict of Nursia at Monte Cassino and in which the teaching of philosophy at the Academy of Athens ended under Emperor Justinian.

My late father liked to say that for him, 529 marked the end of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages.

[Heid the Ba]

Your father was a wise man.

527 = 5 and a 2 and a 7.

[Lianachan]

526 AD - “The falling asleep of St Brigit in the 70th year of her age.”

Except, she never really existed. A Celtic goddess, repurposed as a Christian saint.