"Top 10 Important Historical Events You've Never Heard Of" - naturally, in all the history of all the world, nearly all of these historical events are North American
Watchmojo really is never really a channel to watch for deep dives into things especially education things, but still an enjoyable channel to watch nonetheless.
Rosa Parks was chosen as the face of the early Civil Rights struggle as she was found to be as close to having no skeletons in her closet as any human could be. She's almost created a standard no one else can live up to. We want our historical heros flawless, she's one of the few who's met the expectation.
We have Viola Desmond on our $10 bill now, and it took from 1946 till 2009 to pardon a downstairs movie theatre ticket in the whites only section she didn't know was there in New Glasgow, because she was from Halifax. But she decided to fight it anyways, and was thrown in jail overnight and convicted without legal representation for an obscure tax of $0.01, because the ticket seller handed her the balcony ticket because of the rules she wasn't aware of in that town. She continued to fight her court battles starting in '47, and ultimately not achieving a pardon and getting a $25 fine as well, and dying in New York in 1965.
I'd love some more research into the mass graves at Canadian residential schools. Because I can't find any confirmation of this. To my understanding, they used ground-penetrating radar to come to these conclusions. Excavations thus far have turned up no bodies. And one previous instance of excavating bodies "found" by ground-penetrating radar turned out to be rocks, not human remains. I'm genuinely interested in learning the truth.
except their music ones. worst of all any list pertaining to best guitarists or anything related to metal music. oh man those ones are off. fair though, it's a niche subculture that doesn't really like to work with big time companies like watchmojo as a rule.
I find them really poor. I wish this guy would react to some proper documentaries, instead of low effort RUclips content. Maybe there are copyright issues.
Re: Stonewall, NYC and a lot of other places had bans on wearing articles of clothing associated with the opposite sex and the police raids used these laws as a pretext to raid gay bars. The delineation between trans/drag/gay was much murkier back then because LGBTQ people were just trying to survive an oppressive system back then. The police raids mostly aimed at capturing higher profile people like gay bankers or intellectuals in hopes of embarrassing them publicly. This is how they helped keep gay people from connecting with other gay people. Interestingly, the real “unknown” gay riot took place a half decade earlier in San Francisco at the Compton Cafeteria Riots. I think those first riots are often erased from history because the crowd was blacker and much more gender expansive than Stonewall, and further from the nations media capital (New York City).
7:34 Whoever translated this did an awful job 😂 This is what she really said: "Since Mexico lost half of its territory in an unfair war, there's always been an enormous resentment towards the United States."
@@Donut-fr7is Well she says half but the subtitles say all, and they (conveniently) omit that she said it was an unfair war. Those two change the meaning of what she said quite a bit
Re: Toba and the ability to estimate how long the eruption lasted ... when a volcano errupts, you get hot magma from inside of the earth spewing out. You can estimate the general temperature. As magma cools off, depending on the rate of cooling, it will form different types of rocks and crystalline structures. A geologist can examine this and determine the length of the eruption (within a certain margin of error, provided that a certain amount of sample has been collected).
As a german football fan this Hoffenheim Shirt hurts my heart 😄 need to get you a traditional club jersey like Kaiserslautern 😁 But love the videos! Keep up the good work 🤘
One of the biggest we most in America don’t know about is the mosque takeover in Mecca. It was overshadowed by the Iranian hostage crisis. It profoundly altered the course of Middle Eastern history. Saudi Arabia had been reforming and modernizing its society until it happened. They reversed course and went more stricter on women, human rights etc
A story that most Americans outside the city of boston might not know of is the 3 kiloton explosion that decimated Halifax in 1917, and how the people of Boston came to give aid before anyone else, and why there is a giant christmas tree from Nova Scotia lit up every year in Boston.
This story is crazy I went to Halifax a few years ago and had never heard about this but learned all about it in this museum there I remember it talked about the Christmas tree thing as well really nice gesture by Halifax to remember what Boston did for them all those years ago
Yeah, there was a French cargo ship (SS Mont-Blanc) carrying a huge load of explosives intended to be taken to Europe to manufacture artillery shells and grenades for use in the ongoing First World War. Another ship (SS Imo), sailing on the wrong side of the channel, crashed into it, creating sparks, causing a fire and then an explosion. Nearly 2000 people died and another 9000 were injured.
"Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald's initiative for the final result of residential schools was to 'take the Indian out of the child'" I Don't about you guys in the US, but for us in Canada, that's exactly what the government at the time wanted to do.
It was the same here. I’ve studied a bit about Canadian residential schools and they were very similar to our “Indian Boarding Schools”. Most often government supported but run by Christian clergy. They forced assimilation through a combination of teaching and punishment. The children were not not allowed to practice their culture or speak that language on pain of corporal and other forms of punishment. They were forcibly removed from their families and often suffered physical, psychological and sexual abuse. There was nothing benign about it. I love VTH and I think Chris is a great guy but I think it’s overly generous to suggest any benign intention with these schools, even if you look at it with the perspective of the time. They also lasted well into the 20th century in both countries.
It sounds bad till you realize that around 8000 natives blocked the intercontinental railway by killing an enormous number of railway workers and stopped economic development for decades. Most of those natives were not even native to Canada but refugees from the US. 8000 people on a land as big as Germany blocking the economic development of a whole continent could not continue. The Canadian railway company pays rent for the land to this day and could have made those natives really rich.
The original individual want to make schools to help the natives with getting work. Unfortunately another person was tasked with implementing this went to the United States to find out how the schools should run and it was wrong. Add in the Churches role of not stopping pedophiles and it turn out really bad.
@@motionpictures6629You clearly do not know much about Indigenous cultures in Canada if you think most Indigenous people came from the US. I am from Alberta and having talked with elders, looked at the archaeological evidence, and indeed looked at colonial records, your statement is false and very uninformed. Unless you think the 200k people in Alberta alone who have traditions dating back centuries or more are talking out of their butts and that their history is fake. It is not, and all the evidence we have historical and archaeological supports the fact that Alberta was a cross-road for cultures and heavily populated. Alberta is home to Cree, Blackfoot, Dene, Chipewyan, Stoney, and Sarcee people.
@@johnf-americanreacts1287 Yeah our government did a great job of sort of sweeping it under the rug as far as public opinion. Even by the standards of the time the abuse those kids received was awful and if you look deep enough you do find some people who try to speak out against it but they do not make the front page of any sort of media. The government simultaneously wanted to assimilate these children but also wanted to rid themselves of as much responsibility as they could. The RCMP had been informed of the abuses but they did nothing to stop it either. Of anything, they enabled it by going out and arresting kids who tried to escape once it became illegal to do so. I do think the general public probably thought they were a good thing given the way the media kept spinning the narrative and keeping what was really going on quiet but everything from the application of eugenics, to the underfunding of the schools, and the abuse the children received all confirms that there were lots of bad intentions at play here. There is evidence that well into the 20th century, biased IQ tests were done with the intention of maintaining the narrative that Indigenous people are inferior. Essentially they knew full well the education system was flawed and so they used that to their advantage to have these kids take tests they often could not even read properly due to language barriers and damage to cognitive development in the schools so that they could claim these kids were stupid and inferior based on their culture and race.
The biggest tragedy of the Residential School system issue is that because it is only now coming to wider public knowledge, so almost no one is still alive that put the system in place. So there is all this anger directed at a government composed of people who had no part of the tragedy but are still technically on the hook for it.
The last one was closed in 1997 so there is still hope some people can pay for their crimes. But you are largely correct. We still have lots of survivors which gives you perspective of just how recent this was. But the teachers and officials back then were just old enough to escape punishment.
@@Subutai_Khan yes because they were children. The people responsible are either gone or 80+ years old. It's a tragedy on top of a tragedy because there will be no true justice.
@@shaggycan Moreover, the government is not known for taking actual responsibility when it comes to Indigenous issues. Regardless of party the trend has always been for the feds to rid themselves of as much responsibility as possible. This was true with residential schools and is true today as well.
@@Subutai_Khan it's kind of the "problem" of democracy; how can a government of completely different people truely take actual responsibility for something that happened when they were in highschool. They can apologize but it's hollow. Every decade or so they throw money around, but it never seems to get to the people that need it.
Contrary to what has been presented they have not found any bodies at the residential school sights, not to say what happened there was good, it was horrible and shouldn’t have happened but they have not found any bodies that part is false
I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate how well spoken and articulate that you are in all of your videos. Even when you don't agree with something personally, you do an incredible job at not letting your biases influence how you speak about a topic. You try and succeed at having a channel that is a safe space for people of all different political viewpoints. You also make your bias is very clear by telling us about them in multiple videos and making it very clear to tell us that we all have biases and that we need to all be aware of how they influence our lives especially with the media. Once again, thank you for this content that you make, it is some of my favorite on RUclips because of how entertaining it is with how much incredible and interesting information that you add to every single reaction! You seem like a genuinely great guy and I think I speak for all of your subscribers when I say that we can't wait till you reach a million subscribers!
One event that I would add would be the Mount Tambora eruption of 1815. It is the most powerful eruption in recorded history, and is estimated to have released the equivalent energy of 33 GIGATONS of tnt. That is over 600 times larger than the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated. The eruption is thought to have lowered the temperature globally by 0.4-0.7 degrees Celsius throughout the decade, leading to 1816 sometimes being called the year without summer. The death toll is somewhat disputed but the initial eruption is thought to have killed around 10,000 people, with at least another 50,000 deaths caused by disease and famine. The climax of the eruption was so loud that it was mistaken for gunfire over 1,600 miles away, and ash could be found as far as 810 miles away.
Do think they should have replaced the prehistoric tambora eruption with the 1815 one you've mentioned, and also possibly krakatoa around about the same time!
I didn't know anything about the Sultana until I did research on an ancestor who was a Union P.O.W at Andersonville (formerly in the 46th Ohio Infantry Regiment before his capture). He was put onto the ship after he was released from the prison camp, and already weakened by being at Andersonville, somehow managed to cling on to a small floating piece of wood and survive after the explosion. He died a couple of decades later, but I am glad that I became aware of such a disaster that went largely unnoticed.
I think the Jefferson Bible and the Deism of many of the founding American fathers doesn't get talked about much, perhaps because so many historians try to avoid discussions on the easily heated topic of religion. Also, add to that topic of diverse views of Christianity in early Christianity.
I would have NEVER thought to see you wear a Hoffenheim shirt. That's straight up incredible. Don't listen to the other Germans in the comments. They're just jealous. Greetings from Germany!
@@Taxisch Unseren Platz in der Bundesliga? Weiß nicht wie viel Spaß die Hamburger, Schalker, Herthaner, Lauterer und sonstige in der zweiten Liga so haben.
😂😂😂😂😂 Best comment, if you are from the Rhein Neckar Region please do us all a favour and support some team with a little more tradition like Stuttgart, KSC, Lautern, Mannheim, etc.
Fun fact about Pancho Villa, he was very close friends with US Army Chief of Staff Hugh Scott. There’s pictures of them at meeting and enjoying a dog track in El Paso. General Scott even wrote in his memoirs that he praised Villa and spoke greatly about him
@@jeffslote9671 there were several, actually, but those came WAYYYYY after the time of the Kingdom of Kush and even Egypt came to an end with the Roman conquest. it's just that the OP made it sound like the Nubians in the time period mentioned in the video were christians and spoke latin, especially if you're unfamiliar with history.
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping. Around 2000 the GM of the Hotel where I was working talked about when he was young and working in New York City, he participated in those riots.
It wasn’t just Rosa Parks who was chosen as an ideal black pioneer. In the 40’s there were better ball players in the Negro leagues than Jackie Robinson (not that he wasn’t legitimately good) but Branch Rickey wanted someone strong enough to weather the inevitable taunts.
Kalen from Oregon here! I've been a silent but continued fan of your content and takes on all things history for quite some time now. Love the channel. If you continue the fan service route of top 10 react videos, I think adding an 11th take at the end of these videos would be awesome. The video itself is already great, but seeing you add one based on your knowledge would really bring that authentic piece into the mix. Plus you seem to know all sorts of history so I'm sure you'd have great additions to these lists!
something that is generally not well known is the level of sophistication of bronze age civilizations. Greece to egypt to Mesopotamia and India, the way of life was way more advanced than most people would speculate
I'm not sure the Stonewall Riots qualify as a lesser known historical event. It seems to be widely referenced and commemorated worldwide. If I was making such a list, in no particular order, it would be: - The McMahon family murders (Belfast, 1921) - The use of 'Rock Around the Clock' in the film Blackboard Jungle, helping to spark the Teddy Boy moral panic (London, 1955) - Gresford disaster (Gresford, 1934) - Ottoman Bank Siege (Constantinople, 1896) - The White Ship sinking (Barfleur, 1120) - The Famine (Ireland, 1740-1741) - The Limerick boycott (1904) - Devo form in response to the Kent State shootings (Ohio, 1970) - Notting Hill race riots (London, 1958) - Chilean Civil War (1891)
Oct 8, 1871 was the most deadly fire in US history, which occurred in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. This fire claims around 1200 lives, and most of these were incinerated in the fields. But no one ever heard of it because it happened the exact same night as the Great Chicago Fire, which killed far less.
The last successful horse cavalry charge in a war - the Australian Light Horse charging on Beersheeba in World War One. Women in South Australian women got the vote in 1894 when a sufragette challenged a conservative politician to put the suggested motion for the vote to the SA State Parliament. He was so incensed with the idea that he mockingly added that women should be able to be elected too. Both motions passed. 😂 4 women stood as candidates in 1895 but the first female politician was elected in Australia in 1921, before women in the US and UK and most of the world had the vote. Sadly, Indigenous Australian women didn't get the vote until 1962. (New Zealand was the first country to give women the vote nationally ❤). But it was an Australian protectorate that was first, where female descendants of the Bounty mutineers were allowed to vote for their ruling councils on Pitcairn Island from 1838, and on Norfolk Island after they settled there in 1856.
Many indigenous Canadians have Colonizer names because it was one more way to take the "Indian" out of indigenous Canadians. The idea of residential schools was to remove the "Indian" out of the children.
VTH "separating people from there culture is never whats best for them." Ummm my brother in Christ yeah it is. Often the best thing one can do is sever people from there less successful ancestors. Look at the data regarding assimilated Indians vs those still on reservations today, and if the material facts are not sufficient to quell your bleeding heart then please consider that your your bleeding heart being pulled from your chest is exactly the kind of thing that happened (sometimes by the tens of thousands) before white conquerors arrived and said "NO" with bayonet and bullet. You claim to not only be a historian but also a Christian so please do not speak as though there are better or worse cultures. Oh and on a related note the "mass graves" they claimed to have found full native children in Canada recently was a lie (of course) and you can check.
I only found out about the Sultana disaster a couple of years ago because I'm a direct descendant of a survivor. My third great-grandfather managed to make it out alive and was one of the last living survivors when he passed away in 1938, just a little less than two weeks shy of his 98th birthday.
The Canadian school graveyards have no evidence and are likely a lie. The story came about from ground penetrating radar but no mass graves were found. Some graves may exist in the areas due to church graveyards.
Canada has a lot of German ancestry, especially in southern Ontario as many German and dutch immigrants from Pennsylvania and New York who came to Canada during the late 1700s and into around the 1880s. Many of whom are/were mennonite. My family included.
The 1902 volcanic eruption of Mt Pelee on Martinque that totally obliterated the town of 30,000 at the base of it, with the only survivor being a prisoner locked up in an underground cell.
When I heard about the Canadian schools, I checked the death rate at German schools at the same time. 20% sounds terrible, but East German boarding schools had a death rate of up to 30% till the 1970s. Polio, tuberculosis and smallpox killed thousands in some epidemics. You don't need a genocide to reach death rates of up to 30%. Medicine has come a long way in the last 60 years.
The Haitian Revolution occasionally gets referred to but I didn’t learn about it until my last year in college. Fully understanding the Civil War and why the South was so afraid of emancipation requires some level of knowledge about Haiti.
Actually there was another women racing Nelllie Bly...Elizabeth Bisland and she did it in 76 and a half days....Book, "Eighty Days: Nellie Bly And Elizabeth Bisland's History Making Race Around The World." By. Matthew Goodman.
I always felt Claudette Colvin didn't get enough credit. Don't get me wrong, Rosa Parks was still brave, but I felt Parks still kind of stole Colvin's glory.
Good intentions doesn't lead to 30000 deaths. Again, look at ones own reasons to come up with intentions. Love the content, but you really do have a habit of only talking about intentions for people you can relate to. Sometimes you can just let the fact speak for itself.
Not sure there's evidence of 30,000 deaths. Confirmed 4100 was the last number I saw. Many of whom would have died regardless of where they were. That's just the reality of child mortality in that time. Also, exactly how is it that you think I relate to the people in this case that I'm speaking about intentions?
@@VloggingThroughHistory When was the last time you made up intentions for Japanese atrocities? What about Chinese? What about any non Caucasian perpetrators?
Claudette Colvin (and Rosa Parks!) deserve tremendous credit for their work advancing civil rights, but the REAL forgotten forerunner would be Elizabeth Jennings Graham, who fought against New York City’s segregated streetcars as early as 1853! She, too, refused to give up her seat on a segregated streetcar (though not to another passenger) and SUCCESSFULLY sued the city for her civil rights, leading to the desegregation of NYC streetcars in 1865! And her lawyer was Chester Arthur!
If whiskey rebellion isn’t on here or nullification crisis then I’d be truly shocked 😂 granted it’s US history but I doubt any of them are well known in the general population
I believe that the scandal involving my great grandfather's sister-in-law's father MacKenzie Bowell was his opposition to these Native American assimilation boarding schools, and his removal as Prime Minister in 1896. The Bowell Holtons moved to Brooklyn, and my remarried great grandmother's (Augusta Ross Holton Bourne) family moved to Quincy, Illinois following the scandal.
I think a major historical event that's always overlooked is the Mass lynchings in New Orleans in 1891. It was the largest mass lynching in the US (at least that we know of)
💥💥Your opinion about the Toba eruption and how do they know, i be saying the same thing about these astronomers. They say earth is 4 billion years old. Or that a star far away is 80 times the size of our sun. I've been thinking to myself how the heck do they come up with. Those scientists don't really know how big the star Beetlejuice is compared to sun. Astronomers be saying the universe is 13.7 billion years old like how the heck do they know that? They just be guessing pr making stuff up.
Sadly in the case of the American system the intent was very much to destroy their culture.... I highly recommend Extra HISTORY and their video on the subject as well as Jim Thorpe
For the #2 in the list, I find it fascinating that ancient Egypt were similar with Imperial China that they were ruled by foreigners twice. Egypt - Nubians and Greeks (Ptolemaic dynasty) China - Yuan (Mongols) and Ching (Manchus) dynasties
Great video Chris. I would've added the Triple Alliance War. I may be biased being Paraguayan, but I feel it has always been ignored (outside of our country) despite being the bloodiest war in the history of the Americas (North and South). Even in South America it usually never gets talked about-Brazil, one of the key players, often teaches it as if it were a minor event. It's a harrowing, riveting story featuring 4 countries, 5 if you include the British, who financed the whole thing, so you'd think a major picture would've been done about it by now, or something to make it well-known to the general public.
I did a presentation last year on Egypt at a Convention. I pointed out that to measure the lenght of the dynastic period, if we were living in the reigh of Cleopatra VII, the Dydnastic period would have started in the reigh of Ramsis II.
You can estimate the length of ancient volcanic eruptions based on the amount of material in deposits nearby compared to the same in sea deposits which are generally a constant. There's other ways too like comparing to similar eruption deposits from more modern times and working out the mineral make-up of the deposits which is what determines the type of eruption. Added together ancient volcanic eruptions can be worked out pretty accurately.
Talking of Krakatoa, it's actually 'west' of Jawa, contrary to the title of the classic film “Krakatoa, East of Jawa”. The producers simply thought 'East' sounded much better 😊
Fun Fact: The reason the Great Plains region in the US is so fertile and prime agricultural land is due to Yellowstone. Yellowstone is a massive supervolcano and it has had a Super Eruption 3 times in the last 2 million years.The amount of ashfall from the smallest of these eruptions was enough to bury Dallas, Texas in up to 10 feet of ash. Now, you may be asking "How does that make the Great Plains so fertile? Wouldn't the US just be a wasteland?" The truth is that volcanic ash is one of the most powerful and effective fertilizers in the world. Areas that surround Volcanoes are almost always the best land for agriculture, such as the Pacific Northwest and the Italian Peninsula around Mt Vesuvius. This is due to the MASSIVE amounts of minerals in the volcanic ash, so once the ash mixes with the soil, plant life explodes. Now, we all know how beautiful Italy and the Pacific coast is, now imagine a volcano has been dumping roughly 1000 cubic KILOMETERS of all-natural super fertilizer onto the Great Plains every 600K-800K years for several million years! Is it any wonder that we call the Great Plains "The Bread Basket"?
The title of the Watch Mojo video is quite misleading, all of these stories are very interesting and all should be much better known, but the Bly, Colvin, Sultana Explosion, Stonewall Riots, the first pride march and LA Chinese Massacre stories/events aren't even in the same ballpark as the Bronze Age collapse or the Zimmerman telegram, regarding historic significance. The simultaneous collapse of most of the most powerful civilizations in the world at the time and the United States entering WWI are far more historically significant. The Toba eruption is also wrong, but for a different reason. It may very well be the most important event on this list, but it is PREhistoric by 65,000 years, give or take. The list should be named ten very interesting, maybe even (for RUclips algorithm sake) The 10 most interesting historic events you never heard of. My list would look something like this, since I think the Zimmerman telegram is too well known to make the list and the 26th dynasty great as it is might not be one of the 10 most important events of human history most people never heard of: 10: The Hajj of Mansa Musa. Mansa Musa was by some forms of calculation the wealthiest man of all time. His net worth is estimated somewhere above 400 billion US dollars in today's money. He spent so much gold on his pilgrimage that the Mediterranean gold market collapsed. Just imagine that one guy spends so much money during a pilgrimage that he causes a hyperinflation in the countries he passes through. (That's the one I might switch out for the Nubian dynasty) 9th: Roosevelt signing of on the Manhattan Project on Saturday evening, December 6th 1941. Without this small event, WWII wouldn't have ended with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, because if Roosevelt had stopped working on this Saturday an hour earlier there wouldn't have been a Manhattan Project for quite some time due to the events of "... December 7th 1941, a date which will live in infamy..." 8th: The Battle of Solferino. It was the cause for Henry Dunant to found the Red Cross. How many million of people lived because this one battle was so terrible? 7th: The An Lushan rebellion. It was the beginning of the end of the Tang dynasty. The only dynasty that competes with the Han dynasty for the title of most important imperial dynasty of China. 6th: The Imjin War, because if Japan conquers Korea, China might very well have been next and instead of the Jurchen/Manchu Qing dynasty a Japanese dynasty could very well have ruled China. 5th: Majorian almost restoring the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. Imagine how different history would have looked if he succeeded. 4th: The Bronze Age Collapse. 3rd: The plague of Justinian. Without this plague killing a third of the Eastern Roman Empire's population including half of Constantinople's as well as about half of the army, Without it Justinian would have finished the Restauratio Imperii, he would have reconquered the whole Roman Empire. He came pretty close even with this handicap. 2nd: Cyrus II the Great. This guy by any right should be as famous as Alexander the Great. Except for Egypt, his conquests formed the Persian Empire that Alexander conquered more than 200 years later and this Persian Empire with some interruptions like a Greek period under the Seleucids reign after Alexander's conquest exist to this day as Iran or for over 2500 years with few hundred years of foreign occupation here or there. It was the place where the Arabs learned how to rule an Empire. In my opinion, Cyrus ranks higher as Alexander as a conqueror because as we have seen in the Americas with the Empires of the Incas and the Aztecs, it is much easier to conquer an existing Empire than to conquer many small states and tribes. Cyrus forged an Empire, Alexander conquered the one Cyrus created (and Alexander's Empire started collapsing as soon as he died whereas Cyrus' lasted for 200 years and from a certain point of view, that I happen to share, it exists to this day). 1st Sanheribs failed siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC. If Sanherib takes Jerusalem, Judea goes the way of the Dodo as did Israel a few years earlier, and we have no Jews and without them no Christianity and no Islam. In my opinion it was the most significant siege in world history, and except for bible scholars and historians specializing in the history of the ancient Levant almost nobody is aware of it.
20:00 They DID want to destroy Native culture AND they thought they were doing a good thing BY doing that. They viewed Native culture as backward and savage and European culture as civilized and advanced, and they explicitly wanted to turn Native Americans into Christians to help civilize them. In both Canada and the US virtually all Indian Residential schools were ruled by some church body or another, about half of them were Catholic boarding schools and the other half were various Protestant sects. White Supremacy was absolutely the driving force behind the Residential schools, and Christian Supremacy has always been a large part of White Supremacy, for as long as White people have been interacting with non-Christian cultures. Even nowadays many White people think of Muslims as inherently being backward and half-savage because they're not "proper Christians", when the Middle East has thousands of years of art and history behind it and are culturally very sophisticated.
15:40 It was "Indecency" laws. That's all the pretext which law enforcement and conservatives needed, or desired, in those days. Simply existing in public in a visibly gay way meant you could be, and usually were, arrested, especially in more conservative areas. Gay bars were public establishments where people could be visibly queer, so they were seen as inherently dangerous to the "moral fabric" of society at large, and were raided all the time. And that's just *being* a gay person. Actual gay relationships and gay sex were criminalized in many parts of the US until the 2000s - Texas' anti-sodomy laws were only struck down in 2003 by the US Supreme Court.
As a Canadian, we DEFINATELY were taught about the residencial schools and the horric history of them. To be fair though, we never learned about the Sultana Incident. Though we did learn about some stuff like the Harlem Riots.
I keep having to remind myself "VTH isn't using horrific clickbait thumbnails, it's a review of a channel that uses horrific clickbait thumbnails, it's okay to click and watch" lol
For me the "Little Ice Age" that happened between (1600-1850) is probably my favorite relatively unknown major historical event. The temperature of the earth dropped to such an extent it changed history. It contributed to major historical events like the American and French Revolutions, the unique sound of Stradivarius violins and the writing of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Much plague and famine resulted from shorter crop-growing seasons. The ice was so abnormally thick Frost Fairs were held on lakes and rivers in England in this period. A big part of this cooling of the earth involved some of the biggest volcanic eruptions in recorded history happening spaced out. The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 resulted in the only well-known part of the Little Ice Age referred to as "the Year Without a Summer" and the eruption of Krakatoa you mentioned is often thought to be the last volcanic event in this long chain that cooled the climate.
I'm from Germany so my perspective of what are overlooked or lesser known events in history (that should be known) is based on average German education… with that said my Top 3 would be: 1. The Battle of Diu The conquest of the Americas typically gets huge attention if people think and talk about this time period, but European dominance in the Indian Ocean and consequentially supremacy over the trade with India and Eastern Asia is arguably as important and often totally overlooked. 2. The Islamic Golden Age Generally people have heard of it but that’s often were the story ends. The massive implications this time period had not only for the region but for the developments in Europe afterwards and for science in general is completely underappreciated in my opinion. 3. The reign of Cyrus II Even if you would ignore the actual achievements of his reign (that we know about) and you would only look at the legacy he left behind, you would arguably talk about one of the most influential figures in history (at least for Europe and the Middle East)…for some of the most influential people in the Ancient World he was kind of the prototype for a great sovereign and a role model for a ruler which has implications deep into the Middle Ages (and even found it’s way into the Bible). When I was in high school (late 90’s) we kinda skipped over this time period (and region) and jumped from Egypt straight to Greece. Hmmm, kinda unintentionally centered these three in and around Mesopotamia… well, who knew that this region was kinda important historically ^^.
I rather think on the first subject if the Sea Peoples, the suggestion made that civilisations didn't really recover until the 650s is contradicted when they talk later about the Kushite dynasty ruling over Egypt. Doesn't that count as a civilisation? And yes, I know about Assyria, Babylon, and plenty of other less well known ones in the east and north of the Middle East who weren't really affected by the Sea Peoples so much. My "significant historical 'event' that people haven't heard of" is the Kushan Empire. Sometime in the 2nd century BCE the Yuezhi Confederation was defeated in a war by the Hsiung-Nu and some of them migrated westward (and set off a chain of other movements among other nomadic tribes that had effects in Greek Bactria, India and Parthia and probably also on the Don Steppe. About a century later one of the clan leaders united them into the Kushan Empire, taking over quite a large territory. They were arguably one of the four "Great Powers" of Eurasia through the first to third centuries CE, Eventually they got conquered by the Sassanid dynasty. But that's not why they're important. Empires rise and fall a lot. They're the First. The frst great tribal group to move from the eastern steppes to the western,, the pioneers of something that certainly has got attention from the world. Just three names for other groups who've done the same - Hun, Turk, Mongol. And we know about them.
As pop-history as it is, creds to WatchMojo for selecting the Bronze Age Collapse. It's literally the event that brought about the Iron Age. Not because of iron being superior (which it originally wasn't with the metalworking techniques of the time), but due to it being abundant, and not relying on international trade networks like bronze did, as bronze requires both copper and tin, and few places have both.
Number ten reminded me that the Egyptian defeat of the "Sea Peoples" probably should have been included in 20 greatest battles. Also, 4200 ya would have been when the events described occurred.
Not only was Claudete Colvin 15 pregnant and unmarried.... the baby's father was a married man and she knew this. Thought he would leave his wife if she got pregnant.
Honestly a historical event that the average person might not know is to me The Reconstruction Era of 1863-1877 in the US. I was one of those people who thought after Civil War and the ratification of 13th Amendment finally gave black people a little breathing room, I know racism was still there and strong, but after learning how Reconstruction went down from this channel and others I was horrified and depressed how awful black people were treated and made things arguably even worse for them. And the fact that not many people knows about it is shocking and sad to hear. Thank you, Chris, for bringing light to this very dark period in our country's history. People need to learn about Reconstruction if they haven't or know little. P.S. Reconstruction also taught me that Ulysses S. Grant may not been a great president, but he was a fantastic human being and that me a huge fan of him to this day.
I think Mansa Musa being the richest human in history is something that only recently has become more known or spoken about. In general the dominance of the Mali empire and other non-western culture empires aren’t widely discussed in great detail.
On the topic of anti-chinese sentiments during the late 1800s, I'm reminded of one of my favorite historical figures, His Majesty Emperor Norton I. There's a myth that he came across a mob assulting an immigrant and started shouting the Lord's Prayer at them until they dispersed. This likely is not true, but he was very outspoken against discrimination of any kind, issuing a proclaimation that recognized the basic human rights of the chinese, and even issuing an edict prohibiting an anti-chinese gathering as a disgrace to San Francisco, threatening the leaders with banishment if they violated his decree. Sadly, the police refused to abide this absolutely 100% legal proclaimation, and the meetings continued.
My great-great-grandf 6:08 ather survived the Battle of Sulpher Springs (captured by Forrest) Cahaba prison and the Sultana explosion. His back was so injured that he was left disabled for the rest of his life. He was still a teenager. His best friend who had joined up with him perished.
I’ve heard about the Sultana I’m from Memphis Tennessee and there’s a marker by the Mississippi River that talks about the sinking since it sank not to far from Memphis. There’s also another steamboat that sank near Memphis in 1925, it was called the M.E. Norman and about 75 people were on the ship,23 people drowned and 32 were rescued from the water by a black American man who was on his small boat working on the water when he became the only eyewitness to the sinking and didn’t even hesitate to save people even though he didn’t know how to swim,his name was Tom Lee and I believe more people need to know his name,there’s a state park named after him here in Memphis.
I think we are in a very niche fascination with history, that to us these seem like things most people know already. However AVERAGE people dont. I kid you not the majority of my high school graduating class could not name the 4 faces on Mount Rushmore.
Regarding the Residential schools - this is a topic I can speak on at length. I'll try to be brief. First, Native American is fine - at least to me. It refers to the people native to the Americas. We were here long before Europeans colonized and then attempted genocide on my people. Hell, where I live they were actually successful in wiping out the Beothuk. Secondly, let's not kid ourselves. This was an attempted - and largely successful - genocide. Children ripped from their families, abused in every way imaginable and then left to die of malnutrition if not from the injuries from the beatings and tortures they endured. Lastly - this still has lasting repercussions to this very day. An entire generation lost their culture, and their ability to pass that culture onto future generations. Those that survived residential schools grew up not knowing love.
The historical event that nobody talks about is the opening of the Pacific Ocean by Lopé Martin. He was the first person to sail from the Americas, to Asia, and back, thus opening the ocean for trade. Upon his return to Mexico, he was sent out on another mission where he was doomed to die at the end by the hangman’s noose. Go read conquering the pacific, and find your new favorite explorer ❤ ✊🏾
Kind of embarrassing that we as a society are still arguing and fighting over Racial issues and Gay rights.. feels like 50 years from now we’re still gonna be doing the same stupid thing🤦🏻♂️ can we just set our differences aside and just let people be happy and prosper.. we don’t have to understand everyone.. we just need to stop fighting and let people live and be happy regardless of what they are.. don’t take people right to be free and happy.. feels disgusting to still be doing this for so long.. 🤦🏻♂️
They're the team closest to where my family came from in Germany. That's usually how i pick teams to support. I'm aware of their unpopularity with other teams' fans.
Two 'wars' that come to mind since I live in Wyoming. The Bone Wars and the Johnson County War. Grandmas in Buffalo still remember what side your family was on for the latter.
Interesting that the Thera/Santorina eruption is not mentioned with the Bronze Age collapse. The eruption and subsequent tsunami damaged the surviving cultures to the point of collapse. Western Mediterranean tribes have been suggested to have come in to raid and some of the North African tribes that Egypt hired from as well. There was also an eruption even earlier than Thera/Santorini in the western Indian Ocean that might have been the source of the Biblical Flood. It was magnitudes stronger than Thera/Santorini. If those reading don’t know. India is a separate plate that collided with the plate above it causing the formation of the Himalaya Mountains.
okey, unrelated to video, but since i have seen the hoffenheim i have to say; last summer they sold baumgartner for 24 million euros and got attila szalai from fenerbahçe for 12.3 million, they also paid 14 million for berisha who is from augsburg but he was in also fenerbahçe just 2 months earlier and they sold him for 4 million. and now berisha scored zero goals and injured also they loaned attila to freiburg
"Top 10 Important Historical Events You've Never Heard Of" - naturally, in all the history of all the world, nearly all of these historical events are North American
With their channel watched primarily by an American audience, this shouldn't be a surprise.
Watchmojo really is never really a channel to watch for deep dives into things especially education things, but still an enjoyable channel to watch nonetheless.
@@VloggingThroughHistory Do you mean that Americans aren't interested in the history of other parts of the world?
@@felipegianelli5241 Yes.
@@felipegianelli5241theres a rest of the world?
Rosa Parks was chosen as the face of the early Civil Rights struggle as she was found to be as close to having no skeletons in her closet as any human could be. She's almost created a standard no one else can live up to. We want our historical heros flawless, she's one of the few who's met the expectation.
We have Viola Desmond on our $10 bill now, and it took from 1946 till 2009 to pardon a downstairs movie theatre ticket in the whites only section she didn't know was there in New Glasgow, because she was from Halifax. But she decided to fight it anyways, and was thrown in jail overnight and convicted without legal representation for an obscure tax of $0.01, because the ticket seller handed her the balcony ticket because of the rules she wasn't aware of in that town. She continued to fight her court battles starting in '47, and ultimately not achieving a pardon and getting a $25 fine as well, and dying in New York in 1965.
Rosa parks wasn't the first black woman to ride at the front of the bus. She was just the one that got the press.
I'd love some more research into the mass graves at Canadian residential schools. Because I can't find any confirmation of this. To my understanding, they used ground-penetrating radar to come to these conclusions. Excavations thus far have turned up no bodies. And one previous instance of excavating bodies "found" by ground-penetrating radar turned out to be rocks, not human remains. I'm genuinely interested in learning the truth.
WatchMojo has fine lists if you consider them "in no particular order"
except their music ones. worst of all any list pertaining to best guitarists or anything related to metal music. oh man those ones are off. fair though, it's a niche subculture that doesn't really like to work with big time companies like watchmojo as a rule.
And also from a US-American point of view.
I find them really poor. I wish this guy would react to some proper documentaries, instead of low effort RUclips content. Maybe there are copyright issues.
Re: Stonewall, NYC and a lot of other places had bans on wearing articles of clothing associated with the opposite sex and the police raids used these laws as a pretext to raid gay bars. The delineation between trans/drag/gay was much murkier back then because LGBTQ people were just trying to survive an oppressive system back then.
The police raids mostly aimed at capturing higher profile people like gay bankers or intellectuals in hopes of embarrassing them publicly. This is how they helped keep gay people from connecting with other gay people.
Interestingly, the real “unknown” gay riot took place a half decade earlier in San Francisco at the Compton Cafeteria Riots.
I think those first riots are often erased from history because the crowd was blacker and much more gender expansive than Stonewall, and further from the nations media capital (New York City).
7:34 Whoever translated this did an awful job 😂 This is what she really said:
"Since Mexico lost half of its territory in an unfair war, there's always been an enormous resentment towards the United States."
There isn't that big of a difference. 🤷♂️
@@Donut-fr7is Well she says half but the subtitles say all, and they (conveniently) omit that she said it was an unfair war. Those two change the meaning of what she said quite a bit
Oh I didn't even notice since I didn't read the subtitles. Yeah it's a little eyebrow raising that they didn't include that part.
Aka Mexican lost causers
The famous part of Bly's trip is that a newspaper editor congratulated her for beating a fictional record that no one cared about.
Re: Toba and the ability to estimate how long the eruption lasted ... when a volcano errupts, you get hot magma from inside of the earth spewing out. You can estimate the general temperature. As magma cools off, depending on the rate of cooling, it will form different types of rocks and crystalline structures. A geologist can examine this and determine the length of the eruption (within a certain margin of error, provided that a certain amount of sample has been collected).
As a german football fan this Hoffenheim Shirt hurts my heart 😄 need to get you a traditional club jersey like Kaiserslautern 😁
But love the videos! Keep up the good work 🤘
die Schwarzgelben!!
One of the biggest we most in America don’t know about is the mosque takeover in Mecca. It was overshadowed by the Iranian hostage crisis. It profoundly altered the course of Middle Eastern history. Saudi Arabia had been reforming and modernizing its society until it happened. They reversed course and went more stricter on women, human rights etc
A story that most Americans outside the city of boston might not know of is the 3 kiloton explosion that decimated Halifax in 1917, and how the people of Boston came to give aid before anyone else, and why there is a giant christmas tree from Nova Scotia lit up every year in Boston.
Ooooh, that’s a good one
I only know of it from The Longest Johns song “Fire and Flame”.
This story is crazy I went to Halifax a few years ago and had never heard about this but learned all about it in this museum there I remember it talked about the Christmas tree thing as well really nice gesture by Halifax to remember what Boston did for them all those years ago
Yeah, there was a French cargo ship (SS Mont-Blanc) carrying a huge load of explosives intended to be taken to Europe to manufacture artillery shells and grenades for use in the ongoing First World War. Another ship (SS Imo), sailing on the wrong side of the channel, crashed into it, creating sparks, causing a fire and then an explosion. Nearly 2000 people died and another 9000 were injured.
"Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald's initiative for the final result of residential schools was to 'take the Indian out of the child'" I Don't about you guys in the US, but for us in Canada, that's exactly what the government at the time wanted to do.
It was the same here. I’ve studied a bit about Canadian residential schools and they were very similar to our “Indian Boarding Schools”. Most often government supported but run by Christian clergy. They forced assimilation through a combination of teaching and punishment. The children were not not allowed to practice their culture or speak that language on pain of corporal and other forms of punishment. They were forcibly removed from their families and often suffered physical, psychological and sexual abuse. There was nothing benign about it. I love VTH and I think Chris is a great guy but I think it’s overly generous to suggest any benign intention with these schools, even if you look at it with the perspective of the time. They also lasted well into the 20th century in both countries.
It sounds bad till you realize that around 8000 natives blocked the intercontinental railway by killing an enormous number of railway workers and stopped economic development for decades.
Most of those natives were not even native to Canada but refugees from the US. 8000 people on a land as big as Germany blocking the economic development of a whole continent could not continue.
The Canadian railway company pays rent for the land to this day and could have made those natives really rich.
The original individual want to make schools to help the natives with getting work. Unfortunately another person was tasked with implementing this went to the United States to find out how the schools should run and it was wrong. Add in the Churches role of not stopping pedophiles and it turn out really bad.
@@motionpictures6629You clearly do not know much about Indigenous cultures in Canada if you think most Indigenous people came from the US. I am from Alberta and having talked with elders, looked at the archaeological evidence, and indeed looked at colonial records, your statement is false and very uninformed.
Unless you think the 200k people in Alberta alone who have traditions dating back centuries or more are talking out of their butts and that their history is fake. It is not, and all the evidence we have historical and archaeological supports the fact that Alberta was a cross-road for cultures and heavily populated.
Alberta is home to Cree, Blackfoot, Dene, Chipewyan, Stoney, and Sarcee people.
@@johnf-americanreacts1287 Yeah our government did a great job of sort of sweeping it under the rug as far as public opinion. Even by the standards of the time the abuse those kids received was awful and if you look deep enough you do find some people who try to speak out against it but they do not make the front page of any sort of media. The government simultaneously wanted to assimilate these children but also wanted to rid themselves of as much responsibility as they could. The RCMP had been informed of the abuses but they did nothing to stop it either. Of anything, they enabled it by going out and arresting kids who tried to escape once it became illegal to do so.
I do think the general public probably thought they were a good thing given the way the media kept spinning the narrative and keeping what was really going on quiet but everything from the application of eugenics, to the underfunding of the schools, and the abuse the children received all confirms that there were lots of bad intentions at play here. There is evidence that well into the 20th century, biased IQ tests were done with the intention of maintaining the narrative that Indigenous people are inferior. Essentially they knew full well the education system was flawed and so they used that to their advantage to have these kids take tests they often could not even read properly due to language barriers and damage to cognitive development in the schools so that they could claim these kids were stupid and inferior based on their culture and race.
The biggest tragedy of the Residential School system issue is that because it is only now coming to wider public knowledge, so almost no one is still alive that put the system in place. So there is all this anger directed at a government composed of people who had no part of the tragedy but are still technically on the hook for it.
The last one was closed in 1997 so there is still hope some people can pay for their crimes. But you are largely correct. We still have lots of survivors which gives you perspective of just how recent this was. But the teachers and officials back then were just old enough to escape punishment.
@@Subutai_Khan yes because they were children. The people responsible are either gone or 80+ years old.
It's a tragedy on top of a tragedy because there will be no true justice.
@@shaggycan Moreover, the government is not known for taking actual responsibility when it comes to Indigenous issues. Regardless of party the trend has always been for the feds to rid themselves of as much responsibility as possible. This was true with residential schools and is true today as well.
@@Subutai_Khan it's kind of the "problem" of democracy; how can a government of completely different people truely take actual responsibility for something that happened when they were in highschool. They can apologize but it's hollow.
Every decade or so they throw money around, but it never seems to get to the people that need it.
Contrary to what has been presented they have not found any bodies at the residential school sights, not to say what happened there was good, it was horrible and shouldn’t have happened but they have not found any bodies that part is false
Look up Battleford Industrial School
I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate how well spoken and articulate that you are in all of your videos. Even when you don't agree with something personally, you do an incredible job at not letting your biases influence how you speak about a topic. You try and succeed at having a channel that is a safe space for people of all different political viewpoints. You also make your bias is very clear by telling us about them in multiple videos and making it very clear to tell us that we all have biases and that we need to all be aware of how they influence our lives especially with the media. Once again, thank you for this content that you make, it is some of my favorite on RUclips because of how entertaining it is with how much incredible and interesting information that you add to every single reaction! You seem like a genuinely great guy and I think I speak for all of your subscribers when I say that we can't wait till you reach a million subscribers!
Very well put! Totally agree
One event that I would add would be the Mount Tambora eruption of 1815. It is the most powerful eruption in recorded history, and is estimated to have released the equivalent energy of 33 GIGATONS of tnt. That is over 600 times larger than the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.
The eruption is thought to have lowered the temperature globally by 0.4-0.7 degrees Celsius throughout the decade, leading to 1816 sometimes being called the year without summer.
The death toll is somewhat disputed but the initial eruption is thought to have killed around 10,000 people, with at least another 50,000 deaths caused by disease and famine. The climax of the eruption was so loud that it was mistaken for gunfire over 1,600 miles away, and ash could be found as far as 810 miles away.
Do think they should have replaced the prehistoric tambora eruption with the 1815 one you've mentioned, and also possibly krakatoa around about the same time!
I didn't know anything about the Sultana until I did research on an ancestor who was a Union P.O.W at Andersonville (formerly in the 46th Ohio Infantry Regiment before his capture). He was put onto the ship after he was released from the prison camp, and already weakened by being at Andersonville, somehow managed to cling on to a small floating piece of wood and survive after the explosion. He died a couple of decades later, but I am glad that I became aware of such a disaster that went largely unnoticed.
Yeah, the Sultana is the type of event you only hear about if you’re already a Civil War nerd. It’s like Spoons Butler or Henry rifle.
I think the Jefferson Bible and the Deism of many of the founding American fathers doesn't get talked about much, perhaps because so many historians try to avoid discussions on the easily heated topic of religion. Also, add to that topic of diverse views of Christianity in early Christianity.
I watch your videos because you’re a good person. But always like the reaction videos too. 😊
I would have NEVER thought to see you wear a Hoffenheim shirt. That's straight up incredible. Don't listen to the other Germans in the comments. They're just jealous. Greetings from Germany!
Neidisch auf was? xDDDD
i remember them being in the champions league but havent heard much about them lately. seems its all about leverkusen these days
@@Taxisch Unseren Platz in der Bundesliga? Weiß nicht wie viel Spaß die Hamburger, Schalker, Herthaner, Lauterer und sonstige in der zweiten Liga so haben.
😂😂😂😂😂 Best comment, if you are from the Rhein Neckar Region please do us all a favour and support some team with a little more tradition like Stuttgart, KSC, Lautern, Mannheim, etc.
Einen Platz, den man sich erkaufen musste? Ja, im Arbeiterland wie Deutschland ist man mega neidisch auf sowas xD@@Otto910
Fun fact about Pancho Villa, he was very close friends with US Army Chief of Staff Hugh Scott. There’s pictures of them at meeting and enjoying a dog track in El Paso. General Scott even wrote in his memoirs that he praised Villa and spoke greatly about him
Fun fact the Nubians were a Christian country and used Latin
ah yes, Christians nearly 800 years before Christ and Latin about a century before Rome was founded...
@@blagageorge3824 A Christian Nubian kingdom did exist
@@jeffslote9671 there were several, actually, but those came WAYYYYY after the time of the Kingdom of Kush and even Egypt came to an end with the Roman conquest. it's just that the OP made it sound like the Nubians in the time period mentioned in the video were christians and spoke latin, especially if you're unfamiliar with history.
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping.
Around 2000 the GM of the Hotel where I was working talked about when he was young and working in New York City, he participated in those riots.
Would enjoy seeing more off the "off brand" so to speak watchmojo vids on your extra channel, always enjoy those.
It wasn’t just Rosa Parks who was chosen as an ideal black pioneer. In the 40’s there were better ball players in the Negro leagues than Jackie Robinson (not that he wasn’t legitimately good) but Branch Rickey wanted someone strong enough to weather the inevitable taunts.
Kalen from Oregon here! I've been a silent but continued fan of your content and takes on all things history for quite some time now. Love the channel.
If you continue the fan service route of top 10 react videos, I think adding an 11th take at the end of these videos would be awesome. The video itself is already great, but seeing you add one based on your knowledge would really bring that authentic piece into the mix. Plus you seem to know all sorts of history so I'm sure you'd have great additions to these lists!
i love this idea!
never drink from the fountains in portland, consider yourself warned. (i live in portland)
I'm still following you and watching your videos, Chris
From Iran 💚🤍❤️
Much appreciated. Glad you're here!
“I just wanted people to come together” dam .. that pulls at your heart 😢 God Bless Her❤
something that is generally not well known is the level of sophistication of bronze age civilizations. Greece to egypt to Mesopotamia and India, the way of life was way more advanced than most people would speculate
I'm not sure the Stonewall Riots qualify as a lesser known historical event. It seems to be widely referenced and commemorated worldwide.
If I was making such a list, in no particular order, it would be:
- The McMahon family murders (Belfast, 1921)
- The use of 'Rock Around the Clock' in the film Blackboard Jungle, helping to spark the Teddy Boy moral panic (London, 1955)
- Gresford disaster (Gresford, 1934)
- Ottoman Bank Siege (Constantinople, 1896)
- The White Ship sinking (Barfleur, 1120)
- The Famine (Ireland, 1740-1741)
- The Limerick boycott (1904)
- Devo form in response to the Kent State shootings (Ohio, 1970)
- Notting Hill race riots (London, 1958)
- Chilean Civil War (1891)
Oct 8, 1871 was the most deadly fire in US history, which occurred in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. This fire claims around 1200 lives, and most of these were incinerated in the fields. But no one ever heard of it because it happened the exact same night as the Great Chicago Fire, which killed far less.
I actually heard about this in church one day.
Napoleon marshals...
Comparing the Krakatoa eruption to Toba is like comparing a firecracker to military ordnance.
Your core fans love anything you do (especially US civil war), but we will watch everything! Play that algorithm like a fiddle!
The last successful horse cavalry charge in a war - the Australian Light Horse charging on Beersheeba in World War One.
Women in South Australian women got the vote in 1894 when a sufragette challenged a conservative politician to put the suggested motion for the vote to the SA State Parliament. He was so incensed with the idea that he mockingly added that women should be able to be elected too. Both motions passed. 😂 4 women stood as candidates in 1895 but the first female politician was elected in Australia in 1921, before women in the US and UK and most of the world had the vote. Sadly, Indigenous Australian women didn't get the vote until 1962. (New Zealand was the first country to give women the vote nationally ❤).
But it was an Australian protectorate that was first, where female descendants of the Bounty mutineers were allowed to vote for their ruling councils on Pitcairn Island from 1838, and on Norfolk Island after they settled there in 1856.
Hi Chris, you should visit Galena Illinois great place for everything Grant
Many indigenous Canadians have Colonizer names because it was one more way to take the "Indian" out of indigenous Canadians. The idea of residential schools was to remove the "Indian" out of the children.
VTH "separating people from there culture is never whats best for them." Ummm my brother in Christ yeah it is. Often the best thing one can do is sever people from there less successful ancestors. Look at the data regarding assimilated Indians vs those still on reservations today, and if the material facts are not sufficient to quell your bleeding heart then please consider that your your bleeding heart being pulled from your chest is exactly the kind of thing that happened (sometimes by the tens of thousands) before white conquerors arrived and said "NO" with bayonet and bullet. You claim to not only be a historian but also a Christian so please do not speak as though there are better or worse cultures.
Oh and on a related note the "mass graves" they claimed to have found full native children in Canada recently was a lie (of course) and you can check.
I only found out about the Sultana disaster a couple of years ago because I'm a direct descendant of a survivor. My third great-grandfather managed to make it out alive and was one of the last living survivors when he passed away in 1938, just a little less than two weeks shy of his 98th birthday.
The Canadian school graveyards have no evidence and are likely a lie. The story came about from ground penetrating radar but no mass graves were found. Some graves may exist in the areas due to church graveyards.
Canada has a lot of German ancestry, especially in southern Ontario as many German and dutch immigrants from Pennsylvania and New York who came to Canada during the late 1700s and into around the 1880s. Many of whom are/were mennonite. My family included.
Being a Hoffenheim supporter and fan of your channel, this is warming my heart greatly!😄
Lol, somehow we exist everywhere. Who would have thought.
The 1902 volcanic eruption of Mt Pelee on Martinque that totally obliterated the town of 30,000 at the base of it, with the only survivor being a prisoner locked up in an underground cell.
Krakatoa would be a drop in a bucket compared to the ocean that was Toba
When I heard about the Canadian schools, I checked the death rate at German schools at the same time. 20% sounds terrible, but East German boarding schools had a death rate of up to 30% till the 1970s. Polio, tuberculosis and smallpox killed thousands in some epidemics. You don't need a genocide to reach death rates of up to 30%. Medicine has come a long way in the last 60 years.
Growing up in the states I would add two things. I never learned about the Haitian revolution until I was in college. Also the English civil war
The Haitian Revolution occasionally gets referred to but I didn’t learn about it until my last year in college. Fully understanding the Civil War and why the South was so afraid of emancipation requires some level of knowledge about Haiti.
Actually there was another women racing Nelllie Bly...Elizabeth Bisland and she did it in 76 and a half days....Book, "Eighty Days: Nellie Bly And Elizabeth Bisland's History Making Race Around The World." By. Matthew Goodman.
There is a channel called "Call me Ezekiel" that makes great history videos. My favourite is his video on the boxer rebellion/ the 55 days in Peking
Didn’t the Canadian Mass Graves story turn out to be fake?
I think so, I vaguely remember seeing something here on RUclips about that story being proven false.
Shame that we're too lazy to go look something like that up.
It was completely false
It was
The most important moment in history was when VTH created his youtube channel (even though it was not called that originally)
Well in the interest of accuracy, this channel has always been called Vlogging Through History. It’s my gaming channel that has changed a few times.
@@VloggingThroughHistory I thought it was the history guy games or something. Lol my bad!
Top 10s are fine, but please no more Shapiro....the internet would be much better off w/o more of his crap on it!
Shapiro gives a voice to the disenfranchised and suppressed in America We need more like him
Is WM becoming even more US-centric?
hoffenhiem jersey? u know ball
I always felt Claudette Colvin didn't get enough credit. Don't get me wrong, Rosa Parks was still brave, but I felt Parks still kind of stole Colvin's glory.
First time I heard about the Halifax Explosion, I was absolutely shocked we weren’t taught about that in school.
Good intentions doesn't lead to 30000 deaths. Again, look at ones own reasons to come up with intentions. Love the content, but you really do have a habit of only talking about intentions for people you can relate to. Sometimes you can just let the fact speak for itself.
Not sure there's evidence of 30,000 deaths. Confirmed 4100 was the last number I saw. Many of whom would have died regardless of where they were. That's just the reality of child mortality in that time. Also, exactly how is it that you think I relate to the people in this case that I'm speaking about intentions?
@@VloggingThroughHistory When was the last time you made up intentions for Japanese atrocities? What about Chinese? What about any non Caucasian perpetrators?
Claudette Colvin (and Rosa Parks!) deserve tremendous credit for their work advancing civil rights, but the REAL forgotten forerunner would be Elizabeth Jennings Graham, who fought against New York City’s segregated streetcars as early as 1853! She, too, refused to give up her seat on a segregated streetcar (though not to another passenger) and SUCCESSFULLY sued the city for her civil rights, leading to the desegregation of NYC streetcars in 1865! And her lawyer was Chester Arthur!
If whiskey rebellion isn’t on here or nullification crisis then I’d be truly shocked 😂 granted it’s US history but I doubt any of them are well known in the general population
That opening green screen you did looked so good
I believe that the scandal involving my great grandfather's sister-in-law's father MacKenzie Bowell was his opposition to these Native American assimilation boarding schools, and his removal as Prime Minister in 1896. The Bowell Holtons moved to Brooklyn, and my remarried great grandmother's (Augusta Ross Holton Bourne) family moved to Quincy, Illinois following the scandal.
I've heard of Claudette Colvin from an episode of the Newsroom, great show
Watchmojo is so terrible
I think a major historical event that's always overlooked is the Mass lynchings in New Orleans in 1891. It was the largest mass lynching in the US (at least that we know of)
💥💥Your opinion about the Toba eruption and how do they know, i be saying the same thing about these astronomers. They say earth is 4 billion years old.
Or that a star far away is 80 times the size of our sun. I've been thinking to myself how the heck do they come up with.
Those scientists don't really know how big the star Beetlejuice is compared to sun.
Astronomers be saying the universe is 13.7 billion years old like how the heck do they know that? They just be guessing pr making stuff up.
Sadly in the case of the American system the intent was very much to destroy their culture.... I highly recommend Extra HISTORY and their video on the subject as well as Jim Thorpe
For the #2 in the list, I find it fascinating that ancient Egypt were similar with Imperial China that they were ruled by foreigners twice.
Egypt - Nubians and Greeks (Ptolemaic dynasty)
China - Yuan (Mongols) and Ching (Manchus) dynasties
Great video Chris. I would've added the Triple Alliance War. I may be biased being Paraguayan, but I feel it has always been ignored (outside of our country) despite being the bloodiest war in the history of the Americas (North and South). Even in South America it usually never gets talked about-Brazil, one of the key players, often teaches it as if it were a minor event. It's a harrowing, riveting story featuring 4 countries, 5 if you include the British, who financed the whole thing, so you'd think a major picture would've been done about it by now, or something to make it well-known to the general public.
I did a presentation last year on Egypt at a Convention. I pointed out that to measure the lenght of the dynastic period, if we were living in the reigh of Cleopatra VII, the Dydnastic period would have started in the reigh of Ramsis II.
You can estimate the length of ancient volcanic eruptions based on the amount of material in deposits nearby compared to the same in sea deposits which are generally a constant. There's other ways too like comparing to similar eruption deposits from more modern times and working out the mineral make-up of the deposits which is what determines the type of eruption. Added together ancient volcanic eruptions can be worked out pretty accurately.
Talking of Krakatoa, it's actually 'west' of Jawa, contrary to the title of the classic film “Krakatoa, East of Jawa”. The producers simply thought 'East' sounded much better 😊
Watchmojo...too american, too anecdotic...Chris, you need to comment real history that few americans know: for example, the 2 wars of opium....
"Toba? Not familiar with that one.."
"74,000 years ago..."
"Ah, thats why"
Good laugh thank u
Fun Fact: The reason the Great Plains region in the US is so fertile and prime agricultural land is due to Yellowstone. Yellowstone is a massive supervolcano and it has had a Super Eruption 3 times in the last 2 million years.The amount of ashfall from the smallest of these eruptions was enough to bury Dallas, Texas in up to 10 feet of ash. Now, you may be asking "How does that make the Great Plains so fertile? Wouldn't the US just be a wasteland?" The truth is that volcanic ash is one of the most powerful and effective fertilizers in the world. Areas that surround Volcanoes are almost always the best land for agriculture, such as the Pacific Northwest and the Italian Peninsula around Mt Vesuvius. This is due to the MASSIVE amounts of minerals in the volcanic ash, so once the ash mixes with the soil, plant life explodes. Now, we all know how beautiful Italy and the Pacific coast is, now imagine a volcano has been dumping roughly 1000 cubic KILOMETERS of all-natural super fertilizer onto the Great Plains every 600K-800K years for several million years! Is it any wonder that we call the Great Plains "The Bread Basket"?
The title of the Watch Mojo video is quite misleading, all of these stories are very interesting and all should be much better known, but the Bly, Colvin, Sultana Explosion, Stonewall Riots, the first pride march and LA Chinese Massacre stories/events aren't even in the same ballpark as the Bronze Age collapse or the Zimmerman telegram, regarding historic significance. The simultaneous collapse of most of the most powerful civilizations in the world at the time and the United States entering WWI are far more historically significant.
The Toba eruption is also wrong, but for a different reason. It may very well be the most important event on this list, but it is PREhistoric by 65,000 years, give or take. The list should be named ten very interesting, maybe even (for RUclips algorithm sake) The 10 most interesting historic events you never heard of.
My list would look something like this, since I think the Zimmerman telegram is too well known to make the list and the 26th dynasty great as it is might not be one of the 10 most important events of human history most people never heard of:
10: The Hajj of Mansa Musa. Mansa Musa was by some forms of calculation the wealthiest man of all time. His net worth is estimated somewhere above 400 billion US dollars in today's money. He spent so much gold on his pilgrimage that the Mediterranean gold market collapsed. Just imagine that one guy spends so much money during a pilgrimage that he causes a hyperinflation in the countries he passes through. (That's the one I might switch out for the Nubian dynasty)
9th: Roosevelt signing of on the Manhattan Project on Saturday evening, December 6th 1941. Without this small event, WWII wouldn't have ended with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, because if Roosevelt had stopped working on this Saturday an hour earlier there wouldn't have been a Manhattan Project for quite some time due to the events of "... December 7th 1941, a date which will live in infamy..."
8th: The Battle of Solferino. It was the cause for Henry Dunant to found the Red Cross. How many million of people lived because this one battle was so terrible?
7th: The An Lushan rebellion. It was the beginning of the end of the Tang dynasty. The only dynasty that competes with the Han dynasty for the title of most important imperial dynasty of China.
6th: The Imjin War, because if Japan conquers Korea, China might very well have been next and instead of the Jurchen/Manchu Qing dynasty a Japanese dynasty could very well have ruled China.
5th: Majorian almost restoring the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. Imagine how different history would have looked if he succeeded.
4th: The Bronze Age Collapse.
3rd: The plague of Justinian. Without this plague killing a third of the Eastern Roman Empire's population including half of Constantinople's as well as about half of the army, Without it Justinian would have finished the Restauratio Imperii, he would have reconquered the whole Roman Empire. He came pretty close even with this handicap.
2nd: Cyrus II the Great. This guy by any right should be as famous as Alexander the Great. Except for Egypt, his conquests formed the Persian Empire that Alexander conquered more than 200 years later and this Persian Empire with some interruptions like a Greek period under the Seleucids reign after Alexander's conquest exist to this day as Iran or for over 2500 years with few hundred years of foreign occupation here or there. It was the place where the Arabs learned how to rule an Empire. In my opinion, Cyrus ranks higher as Alexander as a conqueror because as we have seen in the Americas with the Empires of the Incas and the Aztecs, it is much easier to conquer an existing Empire than to conquer many small states and tribes. Cyrus forged an Empire, Alexander conquered the one Cyrus created (and Alexander's Empire started collapsing as soon as he died whereas Cyrus' lasted for 200 years and from a certain point of view, that I happen to share, it exists to this day).
1st Sanheribs failed siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC. If Sanherib takes Jerusalem, Judea goes the way of the Dodo as did Israel a few years earlier, and we have no Jews and without them no Christianity and no Islam. In my opinion it was the most significant siege in world history, and except for bible scholars and historians specializing in the history of the ancient Levant almost nobody is aware of it.
20:00 They DID want to destroy Native culture AND they thought they were doing a good thing BY doing that. They viewed Native culture as backward and savage and European culture as civilized and advanced, and they explicitly wanted to turn Native Americans into Christians to help civilize them. In both Canada and the US virtually all Indian Residential schools were ruled by some church body or another, about half of them were Catholic boarding schools and the other half were various Protestant sects. White Supremacy was absolutely the driving force behind the Residential schools, and Christian Supremacy has always been a large part of White Supremacy, for as long as White people have been interacting with non-Christian cultures. Even nowadays many White people think of Muslims as inherently being backward and half-savage because they're not "proper Christians", when the Middle East has thousands of years of art and history behind it and are culturally very sophisticated.
15:40 It was "Indecency" laws. That's all the pretext which law enforcement and conservatives needed, or desired, in those days. Simply existing in public in a visibly gay way meant you could be, and usually were, arrested, especially in more conservative areas. Gay bars were public establishments where people could be visibly queer, so they were seen as inherently dangerous to the "moral fabric" of society at large, and were raided all the time. And that's just *being* a gay person. Actual gay relationships and gay sex were criminalized in many parts of the US until the 2000s - Texas' anti-sodomy laws were only struck down in 2003 by the US Supreme Court.
As a Canadian, we DEFINATELY were taught about the residencial schools and the horric history of them.
To be fair though, we never learned about the Sultana Incident.
Though we did learn about some stuff like the Harlem Riots.
Haven’t watched this yet but I already know this is going to be a great video chris
I keep having to remind myself "VTH isn't using horrific clickbait thumbnails, it's a review of a channel that uses horrific clickbait thumbnails, it's okay to click and watch" lol
For me the "Little Ice Age" that happened between (1600-1850) is probably my favorite relatively unknown major historical event. The temperature of the earth dropped to such an extent it changed history. It contributed to major historical events like the American and French Revolutions, the unique sound of Stradivarius violins and the writing of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Much plague and famine resulted from shorter crop-growing seasons. The ice was so abnormally thick Frost Fairs were held on lakes and rivers in England in this period. A big part of this cooling of the earth involved some of the biggest volcanic eruptions in recorded history happening spaced out. The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 resulted in the only well-known part of the Little Ice Age referred to as "the Year Without a Summer" and the eruption of Krakatoa you mentioned is often thought to be the last volcanic event in this long chain that cooled the climate.
I'm from Germany so my perspective of what are overlooked or lesser known events in history (that should be known) is based on average German education… with that said my Top 3 would be:
1. The Battle of Diu
The conquest of the Americas typically gets huge attention if people think and talk about this time period, but European dominance in the Indian Ocean and consequentially supremacy over the trade with India and Eastern Asia is arguably as important and often totally overlooked.
2. The Islamic Golden Age
Generally people have heard of it but that’s often were the story ends. The massive implications this time period had not only for the region but for the developments in Europe afterwards and for science in general is completely underappreciated in my opinion.
3. The reign of Cyrus II
Even if you would ignore the actual achievements of his reign (that we know about) and you would only look at the legacy he left behind, you would arguably talk about one of the most influential figures in history (at least for Europe and the Middle East)…for some of the most influential people in the Ancient World he was kind of the prototype for a great sovereign and a role model for a ruler which has implications deep into the Middle Ages (and even found it’s way into the Bible).
When I was in high school (late 90’s) we kinda skipped over this time period (and region) and jumped from Egypt straight to Greece.
Hmmm, kinda unintentionally centered these three in and around Mesopotamia… well, who knew that this region was kinda important historically ^^.
I rather think on the first subject if the Sea Peoples, the suggestion made that civilisations didn't really recover until the 650s is contradicted when they talk later about the Kushite dynasty ruling over Egypt. Doesn't that count as a civilisation? And yes, I know about Assyria, Babylon, and plenty of other less well known ones in the east and north of the Middle East who weren't really affected by the Sea Peoples so much.
My "significant historical 'event' that people haven't heard of" is the Kushan Empire. Sometime in the 2nd century BCE the Yuezhi Confederation was defeated in a war by the Hsiung-Nu and some of them migrated westward (and set off a chain of other movements among other nomadic tribes that had effects in Greek Bactria, India and Parthia and probably also on the Don Steppe. About a century later one of the clan leaders united them into the Kushan Empire, taking over quite a large territory. They were arguably one of the four "Great Powers" of Eurasia through the first to third centuries CE, Eventually they got conquered by the Sassanid dynasty.
But that's not why they're important. Empires rise and fall a lot. They're the First. The frst great tribal group to move from the eastern steppes to the western,, the pioneers of something that certainly has got attention from the world. Just three names for other groups who've done the same - Hun, Turk, Mongol. And we know about them.
As pop-history as it is, creds to WatchMojo for selecting the Bronze Age Collapse. It's literally the event that brought about the Iron Age. Not because of iron being superior (which it originally wasn't with the metalworking techniques of the time), but due to it being abundant, and not relying on international trade networks like bronze did, as bronze requires both copper and tin, and few places have both.
Number ten reminded me that the Egyptian defeat of the "Sea Peoples" probably should have been included in 20 greatest battles. Also, 4200 ya would have been when the events described occurred.
Not only was Claudete Colvin 15 pregnant and unmarried.... the baby's father was a married man and she knew this. Thought he would leave his wife if she got pregnant.
Honestly a historical event that the average person might not know is to me The Reconstruction Era of 1863-1877 in the US. I was one of those people who thought after Civil War and the ratification of 13th Amendment finally gave black people a little breathing room, I know racism was still there and strong, but after learning how Reconstruction went down from this channel and others I was horrified and depressed how awful black people were treated and made things arguably even worse for them. And the fact that not many people knows about it is shocking and sad to hear. Thank you, Chris, for bringing light to this very dark period in our country's history. People need to learn about Reconstruction if they haven't or know little.
P.S. Reconstruction also taught me that Ulysses S. Grant may not been a great president, but he was a fantastic human being and that me a huge fan of him to this day.
I think Mansa Musa being the richest human in history is something that only recently has become more known or spoken about. In general the dominance of the Mali empire and other non-western culture empires aren’t widely discussed in great detail.
I'd like to add the 1939 worlds fair of San Francisco, but many knew the about the New York Worlds Fair
Forgot to mention the assassination of Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party in the 60s...
On the topic of anti-chinese sentiments during the late 1800s, I'm reminded of one of my favorite historical figures, His Majesty Emperor Norton I.
There's a myth that he came across a mob assulting an immigrant and started shouting the Lord's Prayer at them until they dispersed.
This likely is not true, but he was very outspoken against discrimination of any kind, issuing a proclaimation that recognized the basic human rights of the chinese, and even issuing an edict prohibiting an anti-chinese gathering as a disgrace to San Francisco, threatening the leaders with banishment if they violated his decree.
Sadly, the police refused to abide this absolutely 100% legal proclaimation, and the meetings continued.
My great-great-grandf 6:08 ather survived the Battle of Sulpher Springs (captured by Forrest) Cahaba prison and the Sultana explosion. His back was so injured that he was left disabled for the rest of his life. He was still a teenager. His best friend who had joined up with him perished.
I’ve heard about the Sultana I’m from Memphis Tennessee and there’s a marker by the Mississippi River that talks about the sinking since it sank not to far from Memphis. There’s also another steamboat that sank near Memphis in 1925, it was called the M.E. Norman and about 75 people were on the ship,23 people drowned and 32 were rescued from the water by a black American man who was on his small boat working on the water when he became the only eyewitness to the sinking and didn’t even hesitate to save people even though he didn’t know how to swim,his name was Tom Lee and I believe more people need to know his name,there’s a state park named after him here in Memphis.
I think we are in a very niche fascination with history, that to us these seem like things most people know already. However AVERAGE people dont. I kid you not the majority of my high school graduating class could not name the 4 faces on Mount Rushmore.
Regarding the Residential schools - this is a topic I can speak on at length. I'll try to be brief.
First, Native American is fine - at least to me. It refers to the people native to the Americas. We were here long before Europeans colonized and then attempted genocide on my people. Hell, where I live they were actually successful in wiping out the Beothuk.
Secondly, let's not kid ourselves. This was an attempted - and largely successful - genocide. Children ripped from their families, abused in every way imaginable and then left to die of malnutrition if not from the injuries from the beatings and tortures they endured.
Lastly - this still has lasting repercussions to this very day. An entire generation lost their culture, and their ability to pass that culture onto future generations. Those that survived residential schools grew up not knowing love.
The historical event that nobody talks about is the opening of the Pacific Ocean by Lopé Martin. He was the first person to sail from the Americas, to Asia, and back, thus opening the ocean for trade.
Upon his return to Mexico, he was sent out on another mission where he was doomed to die at the end by the hangman’s noose.
Go read conquering the pacific, and find your new favorite explorer ❤ ✊🏾
Kind of embarrassing that we as a society are still arguing and fighting over Racial issues and Gay rights.. feels like 50 years from now we’re still gonna be doing the same stupid thing🤦🏻♂️ can we just set our differences aside and just let people be happy and prosper.. we don’t have to understand everyone.. we just need to stop fighting and let people live and be happy regardless of what they are.. don’t take people right to be free and happy.. feels disgusting to still be doing this for so long.. 🤦🏻♂️
Why the Hoffenheim jersey tho? :D the club with the least fanbase in the Bundesliga.
They're the team closest to where my family came from in Germany. That's usually how i pick teams to support. I'm aware of their unpopularity with other teams' fans.
@@VloggingThroughHistory as a german who lives in Mannheim it is cool to know that you have relatives in Germany. Support your local team 👋🏼
Two 'wars' that come to mind since I live in Wyoming. The Bone Wars and the Johnson County War. Grandmas in Buffalo still remember what side your family was on for the latter.
Interesting that the Thera/Santorina eruption is not mentioned with the Bronze Age collapse. The eruption and subsequent tsunami damaged the surviving cultures to the point of collapse. Western Mediterranean tribes have been suggested to have come in to raid and some of the North African tribes that Egypt hired from as well.
There was also an eruption even earlier than Thera/Santorini in the western Indian Ocean that might have been the source of the Biblical Flood. It was magnitudes stronger than Thera/Santorini. If those reading don’t know. India is a separate plate that collided with the plate above it causing the formation of the Himalaya Mountains.
okey, unrelated to video, but since i have seen the hoffenheim i have to say;
last summer they sold baumgartner for 24 million euros and got attila szalai from fenerbahçe for 12.3 million, they also paid 14 million for berisha who is from augsburg but he was in also fenerbahçe just 2 months earlier and they sold him for 4 million.
and now berisha scored zero goals and injured also they loaned attila to freiburg