What are some of the saddest moments in history?

inb4 OP's birth

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When you got squirted out of your mum's pussy.

>>2413874

2016 trump victory.

>>2413880
>>2413878
rekt

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That one time some antsy fucking Macedonian dick head collapsed one of the largest empires the world had ever seen just so he could masturbate to the new maps with his name all over them.

>mfw didn't even unite conquered lands into a cohesive empire
>mfw his conquests accomplished nothing but destruction
>mfw he couldn't even stay alive long enough to finish shitting all over everything
>mfw "to the strongest"

Fuck that guy seriously

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The holocaust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGRBA1xrL7M
This.
For the Brasilianer at least.

>>2413883
Didn't realize that happened 25 years ago.

>>2414178
I dont think thats sad, I think it's super funny
>players who think they're hot shit for being rich and fucking hot women get BTFO
>fags who are more active in social media than on the pitch getting BTFO
>media that kept overhyping brazilian football as being the best when it hasn't been in the last 30 years gets BTFO

>>2413912
persiacucks BTFO

>>2414194
I loved it too. But there are hints that some people thought it was a very sad thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUSojCb193U

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Princes in the tower desu

>>2414215
Byzaboo detected

>>2414246

More like Euroboo.

>>2413874
1453

Destruction of Alexandria. That library had tons of great shit, like the other 4 books that went with Iliad and Odyssey, shitloads of writings by Ancient Egyptian scientists (they probably got a lot wrong, but it would be interesting to see what they did) shitloads of ancient Egyptian history and myths, all wiped out. I am 1 million percent sure we lost some good shit in there.

>Sack of Rome
You mean practically the tamest sack in all of antiquity where the leader of the invading forces had such a massive boner for Rome that he forced his soldiers to speak Latin and call him by a Latin transliteration of his name

Destruction of mesoamerican books by zealous christian fanatics.

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"...as we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return: with peace and hope for all mankind. Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17."

>>2413912
This.

>>2414289
This.

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146 BC, Romans destroy Carthage and Corinth.
Whatever happened to them afterwards, they had it coming.

Berlin wall coming down

>>2414289
> Destruction of Alexandria.
This, Caesar is a fucking monster.

The expulsion of the Greek communities of Asian Minor.

>>2414434
Sacking of baghdad

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>>2414447
Nice

Anglo hegemony

>>2414289
Agree 100% anon

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>>2414463
Based Spaniard disagrees

Newfag its still all out there push for transperwncy and access to information dissemination

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>>2414445
Accident lol

>>2414178

That was fucking epic though, and I am one of the only ones in my group of friends who doesn't watch football regularly.

>>2414289

I think that's the worst one, in the grander scale of things.

476

>>2414215
>>2414280
How is that sad it brought a new mix of east and west into the world which united shitload of different peoples.

States that joined the union as independent countries should have the right to secede

>>2413912
>te kratoi
for someone whose entire success stemmed from his father, he didn't seem to understand or care about the importance of building a dynasty. he should have knocked up roxanne straight away. or at the very least appointed a fucking successor. who am i kidding, there are an awful lot of things he should have done

>>2414690
if you can't enforce your rights you have none, stay cucked

>>2413874
Hitler not promoting rebellions in Islamic British/French protectorates

The American Civil War

French Revolution.

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>>2413874
Native American genocide.

>>2413874
When ur mom gave birth

>>2413874
Sandy Hook

>>2414178
7-1 was the defining moment in sports this century.

>>2414289
This. Also, similar destruction of the library at Babylon a few hundred years later.

>>2413874
When's your birthday

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>>2413874
Collapse of the Soviet Union

>>2414159
Historical events are supposed to be things that actually happened?

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The shot that ended western civilization

>>2413880
>>2413878
We're not supposed to talk about events that happened within the last 25 years guys

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>>2417004
Are you sure that's how it happened?

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>>2417061
The last 12 years*

>>2414219
Just forced myself through the White Queen, then read the Wikipedia article on this stuff. Richard is even more based than I thought. Shame the Tudors cock blocked him

1431

Armenian genocide.

>>2414215
Yeah what was the point of this again?

>>2416953
>shitty backwards dictatorship collapsing
>sad
Should've collapsed in the 20s desu

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Burning the Library of Alexandria

>>2413883
Stay mad, bitch

>>2414463
>Hate me cause they ain't me

>>2416202
Yeah, it's really annoying how innocently the Natives are portrayed throughout most texts. Surely, they were wronged in many ways, but let's not forget how absolutely depraved and savage they were. They probably deserved a lot of what came to them.

>>2414683

> How is that sad it brought a new mix of east and west into the world which united shitload of different peoples.

By that you mean it brought destruction and stagnation to the entirety of southeastern Europe that lasts to this day.

>>2418164
Was it filled with the good kind of knowledge or the pagan kind of knowledge?

>>2414683
>muh multiculturalism
seriously kys you subhuman

>>2418228

you would not understand either way

The birth of Muhammed

>>2417004
The event in itself was funny as fuck though
>the assassin tries to kills himself immediately afterwards with a cyanide pill
>lol it's expired
>jumps in the river
>lmao only 4cm deep
>then immediately attacked by an entire crowd

>>2418296
And he wasn't even the only conspirator. Weren't there like three or four others who all failed or pussied out?

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>>2414473
Meanwhile...

>>2418322
Yeah. Most were too young to get executed so they got jailtime instead, but by the end of WW1 all of them were dead because of poor detention conditions

>>2414447
1922 still makes me cry

Greek occupation of Lemnos island, 1912. What was lost then can never be recovered.

>>2418227
Balkans are comfy mate

1945

>>2416202
>genocide

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>>2413874
That time Julius Caesar went full autist and ran into 23 different senator's daggers then blamed Brutus. Classic political set-up for his boy Augustus.

>>2413874
-The Bronze Age Collapse
-The destruction of the Library of Alexandria and the House of Wisdom in Baghdad
-The Roman persecution of Christians
-The persecution and destruction of Roman and Greek Pagans
-Fall of the Western Roman Empire
-The fourth crusade and sack of constantinople
-The turkic and nomandic invasions of Europe, China and India
-WWII
-The Holocaust
-Assassination of Huey Long
-The overthrow of Mosaddegh
-The communist purges of the 20th century reaching a high point in Cambodia
-The beginning of the war on terror
-The Arab and trans atlantic slave trade

Russian and Chinese revolutions, 50 million dead in a short amount of time.

1204

1776

>>2414289
Knowledge from the past and well documented history would've been exciting but it's only sad for people in the future such as us. The majority of people back in the day probably didn't give two shits about it.

The end of Western Civilization

>when De Gaulle learned that his daughter, who had Down's Syndrome, had passed away, he told his wife "Now she is like all the other girls"
I know this feel way too well.

>>2413874
-oldenbarnevelt getting executed by his countrymen after he faithfully served the dutch republic for thirty years.
-i think the norman conquest was sad because i think anglo-saxon culture was better. the same goes for the near-destruction of the remaining celtic cultures.
-collapse of the ummayad caliphate and the sack of cordoba and the destruction of its great library.
-the plague that wiped out the native americans and then inability to hold out against the spanish. the failure in general of any native americans to establish a modern state.
-dissolution of the ottomans and austo-hungarian empires.
-the soviet subordination of all those distinct cultures in eastern europe, so now we can only but imagine it as a monolithic easter bloc (though thats changing perhaps)
-the descent of the kongo kingdom into civil war
-ali's getting passed over for succession for like three decades after mohammed died when to me it seems like he was the most worthy of leading the muslims (though when he did reign he was a bit like a ned stark, too righteous for his own good). by extension, the betrayal/massacre that was the battle of karbala is also tragic. I'm not even muslim it just seems like the ummayads were downright nepotistic assholes.
-the dissolution of valois burgundy
-failure of the qing to reform themselves, thereby leading to a bloody twentieth century.
-germany not being divided after wwi (don't mean to be edgy but I'd prefer a multitude of german states with distinct cultures)
-czechoslovakia getting sold out to the nazis in munich
-fall of the swedish empire
-hashemites failing to fend off the retarded wahabbis from taking over arabia.
-Iran under the qajars failing to get its shit togetehr
-reza shah getting cucked when he was an very effective statebuilder (he was an idiot for not participating with the allies though). His son was ok too but he's also an idiot for failing to prevent such a big fuck up as the Iranian revolution.
-Saddam Hussein executed

>destroying rome
>bad
muh idolatry
>>2418164
muh meme lit
>>2421143
>-The Roman persecution of Christians
>-The persecution and destruction of Roman and Greek Pagans
Does not compute.

There has rarely been a time where Pagans have not deserved what they got, and this definitely is not one of those exceptions.

>>2421143
You forgot WWI and the Armenian genocide.

>>2417004
Con: Worst possible thing that could have happened to Serbia.
Pro: It ended absolute monarchism in Europe.

>>2421322
cont.
Kingdom of Naples failing to fix itself in the 19th century (despite murat showing that it had so much potential) and instead the austrians and the king of naples turned it into a reactionary shithole that collapsed the second garibaldi landed with a tiny force in sicily.
-napoleon's 100 days was dramatic but it ended up fucking over France when in the previous year the bourbons returned to rule with almost no punishment going to france.
-assassination of franz ferdinand
-the awful end to the taiping rebellion
-lincoln's assassination
-the black death, of course, and its decimation of pisa, siena, genoa and a bunch of other cool city-states so they went into permanent decline.
-napoleon's annexation of venice
-failure of the 1848 roman republic
-fall of spanish republic
-the failure of chile's democratic tradition (i'm not gonna say allende was good for that country even though i sympathize with him because the strong reactions that he provoked during a time of ideological tension polarized chile).
-porfirio diaz not stepping down in the early 1900s and fostering a peaceful transition of power, after which he would have gone down as a great leader in the history books.
-a slower transition of brazil from empire to republic
-paraguay cucking itself in the war of the triple alliance, when it could have been a good counterbalance in the region perhaps
-argentina's decline over the 20th century and peron destroying its liberal democratic tradition (i'm not saying these democratic traditions are the be all and end all of history but they're better than dictatorships with succession crises and no rule of law)
-soviet union collapsing as it did instead of gradually reforming itself as china did.
-turkey disowning its ataturk's legacy
-no kurdish, sikh, tibetan or manchurian state (the latter two are unfeasible at this point this they got zerg rushed by han settlers)
-failure of the first chinese republic and yuan shikai throwing a wrench in it

>>2413912
What do you expect from the douche that burned down the most beautiful city in the world at that time, just to piss at his enemies?

Bringing all that Hellenistic culture to the Middle East didn't do jackshit, Persia was already great at that time.

>>2414683
These retards don't realize the fall of Constantinople triggered the Renaissance with all the Greek scholars moving to Europe. Also be careful when talking about Muslims/Jews on /his/, because /pol/ is always lurking around.

>>2416330
Mine's today. Just turned 20 years old. Don't know how to feel...

>>2421443
>It ended absolute monarchism in Europe.
what a bunch of nonsense. Neither the german empire nor austria hungary nor the ottomans. Russia was maybe more authoritarian but even its system was by no means absolute monarchy, as the tsar didn't actually run the empire all that much nor executed people on a whim. The nazis and the soviets who succeeded these monarchs, though, were pretty fucking arbitrary and more closely resembled the ideal of absolute monarchy, just without the hereditary sovereign.

>>2421525
>Neither the german empire nor austria hungary nor the ottomans
were absolute monarchies*

9/11

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>>2413874

>>2414178
this shit is rigged, it always boild down to money

The Fall.

>>2422144
This by far

>>2414178
it was fucking glorious
Brazilian crowd would boo every nation i got such an erection watching the crowd squirm

>>2418218
Bullshit, the white man was more savage and vicious.

>>2421143
>-The Roman persecution of Christians
If it wasn't for christianism we would still be practicing sodomy and polygamy fuck jesus

>>2422144
/thread

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>>2422296

>>2421506
Western Europe should've remained the backwater it was.

1973

>>2421506

>the fall of Constantinople triggered the Renaissance

Petrarch, who, by the way, coined the concept of the Renaissance, and Dante would disagree with you

>>2422273
>>2416202
>>>/Reddit/

>>2416953
We were better off during the Cold War

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The Great Depression.

>>2414691
Like what?

>>2413874
The great empire of China degenerating into communism

>>2418296
That was the first assassin, not Princip.

>>2424287

When China has been great it's really always been in spite of the Imperial government's retardation rather than because of anything good they've done.

>>2413874
Jesus' crucifixion
The extremely disappointing reign of commodus

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Oh Man

>>2421143
>assassination of huey long
This so much

>>2413912
>>2414691
Fucking idiots.
Alexander died unexpectedly early, his next campaign in Arabia was ready to start.
He also appointed a successor, Hephaistion, but he also died unexpectedly early just a few months before Alexander passed away.
History is gruesome.

The destruction of the Alexandrian library.

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>>2413874

The death of the first dog.

>>2425548
that was a couple days ago for me

>>2413874
1918

>>2422144
fall of what?

>>2414178
I actually wanted Brazil to win and then get rekt by Argentina. It would have been the ultimate humiliatiaon. Even worse than the 7-1

>>2417061
I dont think any mods go on small boards like /his/

>>2417004
>Sophie! Sophie don't die! Live for our children!

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>>2425909

The 3rd Reich probably.

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>>2414289
This.

If you don't think Alexandria was the saddest shit in history then get the fuck out of my face.

>>2413874
Execution of Maximilian I of Mexico. He was just a nice dude who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

>The sentence was carried out in the Cerro de las Campanas on the morning of 19 June 1867, when Maximilian, along with Generals Miramón and Mejía, were executed by a firing squad. He spoke only in Spanish and gave his executioners a portion of gold not to shoot him in the head so that his mother could see his face. His last words were, "I forgive everyone, and I ask everyone to forgive me. May my blood which is about to be shed, be for the good of the country. Viva Mexico, viva la independencia!". Generals Miramón and Mejía were shot after him. Both died shouting, "Long live the Emperor."

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>>2413874
>What are some of the saddest moments in history?
The occupation of Eastern Europe by the Soviets.

>>2418191
8 more years libtard! Hillary BTFO1!!one!!!

The end of the Syrian Republic and the formation of the United Arab Republic.

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The Revolution that Ruined Russsia

>>2414159
this is a good event
>>2416971
nigger it happened and its the reason why the 40s and 50s were so great, the jew count was down majorly

>>2426049
Corfu used to be Albanian??

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>>2426184
>nigger it happened and its the reason why the 40s and 50s were so great, the jew count was down majorly

>>2422144


>>>/pol/catalog

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For /his/ must be this

>>2414219
The worst part is that Edward, the rightful king, was old enough to know what was coming. While his uncle dithered over actually going through with it Edward already knew that the usurper only had one way out. According to what records there are, he spent most of his imprisonment in the tower praying.

he was twelve years old, and his brother eight.

>>2417350
Richard was an arrogant, overly ambitious idiot just like his father. Richard senior threw a tantrum because he overestimated his own importance (and tactical ability), and his son made exactly the same mistake. They made precipitous moves which left them with no way out and no realistic path to a future in which they stayed alive.

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Polish history after 1939. The death of "Generation of 1920".

>>2425909
The Fall of Man.

When death and sin entered the world.

>>2414289
maybe the hellenic world should have had more than 1 library

>>2426669
Yes, It's pretty stupid to put all eggs in one basket

>>2413874
The revision of Nazi Germany by brainwashed cucks into something that wasn't pants on head retarded

>>2426715
they took and continue to take nazi propaganda at face value.

FALL OF TROY

>>2413874
WWI

>>2414473
He failed to see how insidious this is. They are not a "sane oracle", their ruthless pragmatism is more an insane detachment from reality.

The conquistadors were a bunch of thugs but they had very human motivations. Someone otherwise consigned to being a peasant for the rest of their life would join a ship heading across the ocean and perhaps make their fortune. They would obtain a plot of land and find a qt Mayan waifu, more than they could have ever hoped for otherwise. Amoral perhaps but understandable.

By contrast the anglo didn't let the world change them. He didn't want to be a part of the world. To the anglo all that exists is their bubble, their private property, their "castle", everything outside exists solely to embellish their little world and might as well have been a dream as far as he is concerned. His "adventures" are external because the anglo is incapable of contemplating them being anything else.

Muslim conquest of Europe in 2030 AD

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the Spanish conquistadors

The end of the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba and the beginning of taifas.

>>2413874

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Ruff_O'Herne

>>2421837
Not sure about you Anon, but I hate this because Christians becoming part of the power structure of the Roman Empire kind of ruined them.

>>2421365
My bad

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The burning of mayan books by the spanish zealots, and just the destruction of so many cultures in the new world.

"Our knowledge of ancient Maya thought must represent only a tiny fraction of the whole picture, for of the thousands of books in which the full extent of their learning and ritual was recorded, only three have survived to modern times (as though all that posterity knew of ourselves were to be based upon three prayer books)."
—Michael D. Coe[

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>>2426024
Every time

>>2413874
Everything to do with the First World War. It was the greatest tragedy mankind has ever experienced.

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>it's a retarded persiboos get butthurt over Alexander episode

>>2413874
Repatriation of the Cossacks at Lienz desu

>>2421351

>2001

ya know

>>2413874

The Great Flush of 1906. So many promising lives, just washed away down the toilet. Terrible shame.

>>2413883
Grow up, /his/ of all places should know nearly everyone thats ever lived has been during far far worse times

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The defeat of Napoleonic France.
It would have saved Europe, indeed the world, from the Anglos.
Instead it was swept away by the most cruel Russians and the Anglo savages.

>>2414178

ah yes, the semi-final solution

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>>2428711

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Guillaume Le Gentil
>1761
>be a French astronomer
>travels to Pondicherry to observe the transit of Venus to accurately measure the distance of the sun from Earth for the first time.
>unfavorable wind delay his arrival and spends the day of the transit on sea
>boat too rocky to take measurements
>next transit is in 8 years
>the one after is in ~107 years
>decides to wait in Pondicherry rather than return home

>8 years later
>it's cloudy on the day of transit. He doesn't see the sky.

>return to France droven nearly insane by despair
>everybody thought he was dead
>family looted all his stuff
>his job was taken
>his wife remarried

>>2430632

Jesus...looks like a Fallout game

>>2431359
wow that is awful

>>2427578
Same thing happened at the library of alexandria

>>2431359
Goddamn that is one unlucky dude

>>2418328
None of that if not for Cawnpore.

>>2421511
Happy birthday anon, I'm turning 20 on April 16 and feel the same.

How does so much of this board believe the Library of Alexandria meme? This is embarrassing.

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>>2414219
I like this painting better, conveys uncertain danger better.

>>2421443
>implying this is a positive
>Implying Yuge Slavia wasn't based

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>>2421143
>holocaust
>sad

>>2432396
>when you completely topple the European old world order so you can have some shithouse makeshift monarchy that collapses within 20 years and piss off everyone you share it with so they hate your guts forever and the entire Balkans gets engulfed in an endless series of civil conflicts and atomized so hard you might as well start creating city states
Serbs, everyone.

>>2426631
Death entered the world way before man.

>>2432981
t. atheist who denies 6000 years

OP being born

>>2426618
>be american
>get shot

Armenian genocide
Rwandan genocide
Forced relocation of arctic peoples in canada to places with no food and no means to move around as was normal for them
Bosnian war

>>2433011
Get off this fucking site, creationist. And don't start posting your stupid fucking strawman comics.

WW I and WW II

>>2413874
Degeneracy of Greece
Degeneracy of Egypt
Degeneracy of old Mesopotamians
Degeneracy of China, Japan,
Degeneracy of Pagans
Degeneracy of Islam and Judaism

Things that make me happy:
Arrival of Christianity

>>2418242
There are about 6 different accounts on who destroyed it and when. It really depends on who you believe.

>>2427578
>he fell for the black legend

>>2414683
yeah that sure worked out for the balkans that united peoples thing

>>2431359
fuck me man that was a terrible tale. He chose his priorities though.

>>2427578
t.mestizo