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Grrr.

Hi piglet! Sorry to hear your rant on the other thread
Anyway, you're a winner here - or you WERE
Smiley Fest!!!

Go on - get the 1600th post - it'll make you feel better (if you haven't gone to sleep)

well, then I take it!

it is eight more to go! I thought 1600 was the next one

Sorry to have got your hopes up oz...

1595

January 29 or January 30 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
William Shakespeare writes A Midsummer Night's Dream.
May 18 - The Treaty of Tyavzino brings to an end the Russo-Swedish War (1590–1595).
May 24 - Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
June 9 - Battle of Fontaine-Française. Henry IV of France defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness.
October 28 - Battle of Guirgevo. Transylvanian forces under Sigismund Bathory, allied to the Habsburgs, defeat the Turkish army of Sinan Pasha, securing Transylvanian control over Wallachie.
Mehmed III succeeds Murad III as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
The Austrians incite a rebellion against the Ottomans in Bulgaria.
The Spanish navigator and explorer, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira leads the voyage that discovers (for Europeans), the first known islands of Polynesia, the Marquesas.

this thread still alive?

This thread and cockroaches are the only two things on Earth that can survive a nuclear disaster.

1598 started on a Thursday