W00t! We'll retire to the Caribbean. I'll bagsie the sunloungers if you order the drinkies.

It's ok, I emailed our order in half an hour ago.

 

The coconut-clad waitresses shall have them ready at our private sun-loungers for when we arive.

You think of everything! \o/

I have my secretary do it for me.

Um, the thinking, I mean.

Thanks for clarifying that :') 

Right, if you post any more in this thread you must include an interesting fact about the year corresponding to the post number.

 

So, I just want to say that I like vanilla.

 

* On March 3rd, 1875, the first performance of Bizet’s Carmen was at the Opéra Comique, Paris. *

I also like vanilla. Interstingly, did you know that music was sent down a phone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.

Pah. I reject your proposal. Much like Ottoman Turkey did with the proposals for internal reform and Balkan provisions in 1877.

It's all coming together now, because I once ordered Vanilla ice-cream over a telephone and 1878 is the year that the originator of this thread was born.

1879 ~ Rorke's Drift

And in December 1880 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers was founded, in NYC (apparently).

Bah!

1883 - Brooklyn Bridge opens.

1884 - Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.

1885 - Emmet Brown goes back in time to build the first clock tower, so he can send back Marty McFly in 1955 and get sent back in time to build the first clock tower, so he can send back Marty McFly in 1955 and get sent back in time to build the first clock tower, to...

He didn't build the clock tower you silly boy. He just got his picture taken in front of it, harnessed the power of the lightning that struck it and watched as Griff flew through the window of it.

 

Incidently, it wasn't until 1886 that an economically viable process was developed to extract aluminium.

Not a million miles away in India, baseball sized hailstones killed 246 people in 1888.