ITT: Moments when things came full circle.

>>2790093
The first great power on great power fighting since WW1, and sorta the unofficial first fighting of WW2, took place between the Soviets and Japanese on the border of Manchuria and Mongolia.

The last fighting of WW2, after six years of theaters all across the world, also took place between the Soviets and Japanese in the same region.

>>2790093
The first major battle of the American Civil War (First Battle of Bull Run) began on Wilmer McLean's farm in Manassas, Virginia, on July 21, 1861. During the war, McLean moved south to the quiet community of Appomattox Court House, Virginia. On April 8, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee finally decided to surrender his forces, having been outmaneuvered and surrounded, and he sent out a messenger to find a place at which to meet General Ulysses S. Grant. The house the messenger found was Wilmer McLean's. Afterwards, McLean reportedly said, "The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor."

>>2790093
The first and last rulers of Rome were both named Romulus.

The Medieval Era in Europe began with the fall of Rome (476) and ended with the fall of Rome (1453).

The Roman Republic began and ended by the rebellion of a noble named Brutus.

>>2790093
The first unified Chinese empire was the Qin, the last one was the Qing

>>2790119
Cool

>>2790093
first pic is a lot more poetic

>France's foreign policy was keeping the HRE fractured
>Germany gets created in France

>Continent invades England through Normandy
>England invades the Continent through Normandy

>>2790093
>Great Britain was a colonizer
>Great britain is now colonized

>>2790304
Applies to all of Western Europe

itt: humans like symmetry

>1893: Yakov Sverdlov is forced to hide in a pile of hay during a pogrom
>1918: Yakov Sverdlov signs the execution of the Tsar

>>2790119
Did anyone else read this in David McCullough's voice?

>>2790093
>Bismarck was a strict monarchist like Hidenburg
>He didn't usurp the crown and run things like it was suppose to be.
Why the fuck was he such a traitor to the German people?

>>2790130
>not the sack of rome in 1526
1453 is an odd cutoff point for the middle ages imo

>>2791035

Fall of Constantinople, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire and opening up the rest of Europe to Ottoman invasion.

The monolithic threat of the Ottomans would force the Eastern European states to centralize power and change their governments to more resembling early modern governments. The refugees from Constantinople would also settle in Italy, bringing with them their knowledge and skills, and thus kick start the renaissance.

It's as good a date as any to mark the end of the middle ages and the start of early modern history.