The beatification of the Catholic Social Worker Pablo Escobar, occured in 2000 during the Papacy of John Paul II. The beatification was granted in recognition of an apparition of the Virgin Mary witnessed while he was preaching peace to an encampment of FARC militants.
The common name for the influx of Eastern European immigrants to Italy in the 90's, following the fall of the Communist Bloc. The rise of Xenophobic regimes in Germany and France prevented them from becoming popular spots for immigration, and the 1993 United States Economic Recession also scared away many potential immigrants.
The 1987 Utah general election was held on December 4, 1987. The first election after the destructive Deseret War, the incumbent Corporate-Labour Alliance won, in a contest described by international observers as corrupt and unfair.
,,I won that Election, by a lot!"
The unification of eventually became the Illyrian People's Democratic Republic, between 1987 and 1995. It wasn't the smoothest transition, but at least it wasn't what happened in Yugoslavia during that time.
AH board slang for the Montreal Campaign of the Seven Years War, during which the British forces under the First Baron Amherst were mismanaged to an impossible degree. Their defeat in detail by the remaining French forces under the Duke of Levis not only prevented the capture of Montreal but up-ended the balance of power in the St. Lawrence Valley so much that the French were able to liberate Quebec the following Spring.
Marcus Julius Crassus famously saved the Roman empire from collapsing in 200 ad, resulting in his being worshipped as a god shortly after his death. But when Emperor Octavian II tried to declare himself a divinely conceived son of Crassus with no mother (an obvious reference/reversal of how Yeshua the Nazerene was seen as born, in a failed attempt to sway christians), the people of rome were angered and he was deposed. His reign ultimately lead to a quickening of the abandonment of Romano-Hellenic Paganism.
The Third World War began in 1983, and ended with a nuclear exchange between the Soviets. One state that emerged from the ruins of the United States was the Federal Republic of Appalachia, which led a very fortified hermit kingdom for decades. internally, the government took steps to sponsor a cultural renaissance, including publically broadcasted TV events, which were often shown at government run shelters and theaters across the Appalachians.
The nickname for a brief conflict between Germany and Italy - who had had long border tensions in the Alps - after a search and rescue operation for a lost hiker got mistaken by Italian border guards as smugglers bringing in illegal contraband. Things escalated for several days, and 27 people died, 145 were wounded and in the end, the United Nations slapped both nations with sanctions and fines to force a resolution, which was mediated by the Kingdom of France.
The Republic of the Union of America, the Union of the Republic of America, the Republic of American Unions, the Union of American Republics, the American Union of Republics, and the American Republic of Unions were all United States successor states. Relations were good at first, but as it came time to determine who was the true successor to the United States, things got heated. Does the real successor need Cheyenne Mountain, the army's loyalty, the most nuclear weapons, Washington, D.C., the remnants of the government, or the most flags? War began -- the War of Yankee Succession.
The Cajun Genocide refers to a horrifying series of events done by the Confederate States of America starting from the late 1860’s onwards. As the CSA had struggled heavily to secure its independence, the government restored to heavy taxes, forced enscription, and other highly unpopular policies to prevent slave revolts. This led to quite a few revolts, especially in the Appalachian’s and the Cajun region of Louisiana. Enraged, the CSA government sent military units to brutally put down these rebellions, especially in Louisiana where the Cajun language and religion made them targets for a CSA sponsored ethnic cleansing campaign, which brutally reduced the Cajun population and culture.
During the period of Japanese exploration of the Pacific in the 12th and 13th centuries, Japanese sailors often hired various clans from the Pacific Northwest to join their fleets.
The five Catholic churches created after the CoN collapse were not friends. One may be gone now, but the other four are here to stay.
Event that occurred in 1659, during the War of the Grand Alliance when a group of 100 Scots who were trying to invade the Faroe Islands, invaded an entire fleet of Norse Battleships and took them without bloodshed, after poisoning the ships' food with sleeping pills and throw all the sleeping sailors into the sea
An unlikely convergence of events (MGM Interactive successfully launches Rollerball: The Video Game in 1998, the 1999 Yeonpyeong incident snowballs into a full-scale war between North and South Korea which throws the East Asian electronics & software market into turmoil, etc.) results in the 1975 movie tie-in game becoming the most widespread team e-sport in the early 2000s.
