Wednesday, 6 April 2016

10 Greatest Moments in White History

I was recently asked by someone in the Czech Republic what I thought were the ten greatest moments in white history.

This required some thought, because there are, of course, so many great moments. But after thinking about it a lot, I set up a basic guideline to determine the most significant moments, and the list is below.

The guideline I used is that the event (“moment”) must have been significant enough to have affected the present-day world, and not merely be of historical importance.

So for example, really great events, such as the Battle of Thermopylae, where the Spartans held off the Persians, while being incredible in themselves, did not directly affect the creation of the modern world, and therefore, they didn’t make it onto this list.

Having said that, here is my list of the ten greatest moments in white history, sorted by date, from earliest to most recent.

Anybody who can think of any others, feel free to add them in the comments.

1.  The Battle of Nedao, 454 AD. The Germans—and other Europeans—who had survived nearly 70 years of Hun rule, finally defeated the Huns and drove them back into the East. The Germans, as victors over the Huns, became famous among their racial cousins, with the Icelandic word for German “Thodthverdthur” still translating literally as “peoples’ defender.”

2. The Battle of Lechfeld 955 A.D. An Asiatic army organized by the Magyars (NOT to be confused with present-day Hungarians!) is halted in its attempt to invade Europe by a German army under Saxon King Otto I.

King Otto I.
3. The Battle of Kulikovo, 8 September 1380. White Russians under Prince Dmitri of Moscow defeat the Asiatic armies of the Golden Horde under the command of Mamai. This battle effectively broke the Mongol invasion and occupation of southern Russia, and prepared the way for the European reconquest of all those lands.

Prince Dmitry Donskoy.
4. 1436.  The German Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press, making the first breakthrough in mass communications upon which almost all inventions since then have relied upon.

Johannes Gutenberg and his printing press.
5. The Fall of Granada, January 2, 1492: The last Moorish stronghold in Spain surrenders to the victorious Spanish army, led personally by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. It was the first time in 770 years that all of Spain was once again under European control.

The Fall of Granada.
6. Christopher Columbus sights land in the Americas, October 12, 1492. Although looking for India, Columbus discovered the Americas, sparking off the settlement of North America which became the USA.

Christopher Columbus.
7. The Siege of Vienna, September 1683. The Turkish Ottoman invasion is defeated and prevented from overrunning all of Europe. The Turks are then pushed back south down the Balkans in an extended war involving almost all European nations, only ending in the early 19th Century when they are finally expelled from their last strongholds.

The Hero of Vienna, Jan Sobieski.
8. The Battle of Navarino, October 20, 1827, was a great European naval victory which gave birth to present-day Greece. This victory spurred on further victories for the European forces on land which culminated in the independence of Greece under European protection in 1830.

The Battle of Navarino.
9. 1948. American physicists Walter Houser Brattain, John Bardeen, and William Bradford Shockley invent the transistor, a device which laid the basis for the electronic device revolution—including computers—of the 20th and 21st centuries.

William Bradford Shockley.
10. The Apollo 11 Moon Landing in 1969. No technological feat has ever been greater, or more daring. 

The Apollo II crew.


Anonymous said...

Typo in Number 10. The moon landing occurred in 1969 NOT 1999.

Arthur Kemp said...

Thanks! Fixed!

Anonymous said...

11. The combustion engine.

Arthur Kemp said...

Yes, excellent. Invented by Belgian Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir, patented in 1860.

Anonymous said...

Interesting point about the Hungarians. Many people—and not least many Hungarians themelves—think that they are descendants of some Asiatic tribe who invaded Hungary. It is quite a popular myth, but a myth it is.
All of the archeological and DNA evidence shows that modern Hungarians are related to Europeans, and not any Asiatic tribe.
“Due to Pál Lipták we know, for almost half a century, that only 16.7 percent of 10th century human bones belong to the Euro-Mongoloid and Mongoloid races. Thus, the unambiguously established European characteristics in the genetic and serological composition of the recent Hungarian population and the lack of Asian markers are not solely due to the thousand years of blending but biologically the populations of the conquest period and St Stephen's Hungary were made up almost exclusively of peoples of European origin.”
(Csanád Bálint, "A történeti genetika és az eredetkérdés(ek)". 2008).

Anonymous said...

The greatest of all was the Roman Empire, all great empires in the modern world stemmed from this empire.
Spain would not have defeated the arabs if the Roman had never defeated Spain, the Germans would never have achieved very much either , neither would the rest of Europe.

Everything from our alphabet, architecture, cement, languages, philosophy, calender, the senate in the US, etc all stemmed from Rome.

Today most Jews & protestants detest Rome & the Vatican & this is why their countries are overrun by Islam, Zionism & the like.
The most malicious propaganda has been produced in these same stables against Rome by these same individuals & the further they collapse the more these morons blame Rome never looking inwards to their own chaos they have created.

Anonymous said...

I really miss the building of the theodosian walls. The byzantine empire in decline was the buffer that gave the west the Time to truly develop and resist islam. Without byzantine resilience most of europe would be muslim. The walls also preserved almost 80% of greek classical work and greek philosophy that inspired western renaissance.

Unknown said...

Please write a blog entry with your thoughts on Donald Trump. Thank you

Anonymous said...

Theodosian walls? They were the buffer that kept out islam just long enough.