The NAME THAT HISTORICAL EVENT game

[MOBIUS]

What did this event signify the end of - as well as the beginning of...?

I also want the name of the chief protagonist, and the year depicted.

For an ultra-super-gold-star, who is the artist of the painting and in which illustrious musée does it hang? (Clue: I was there recently... )

[Will9]

The end of the Christian control of the holy land and the beginning of muslim rule (and the crapy crusades). The general would be Salidin.

[MOBIUS]

On the right sort of lines - but off by location, period and leader...

[Buck Birdseed]

Is it the end/beginning of goth/moorish rule in spain, is the protagonist Tariq (Of Jabr Tariq = Gibraltar fame) and is the year 711, the year of the convenience store?

[BeBMan]

Fall of Constantinople, Mehmet II ("The Conqueror")?

Would be 1453 then....

[Addled Platypus]

"we brought the shrubbery"

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by BeBro
Fall of Constantinople, Mehmet II ("The Conqueror")?

Would be 1453 then....

Correctamundo!

I take it you're not going for the ultra-super-gold-star?

[BeBMan]

No, dunno who painted it. Or were it's today....

New question (probably easy):

What is the thing on the pic (that's just a model of course), when was the event related to it?

[MOBIUS]

Looks like the Montgolfier Brothers' balloon, which would be the first 'flight' by humans using an aircraft... 18th C sometime.

[BeBMan]

Thats right of course. 1783 was the first time it flew with humans onboard.

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by BeBro
No, dunno who painted it. Or were it's today....

Jean Joseph Benjamin-Constant and it is situated in the Musee Augustins in Toulouse.

[Addled Platypus]

Originally posted by MOBIUS
Looks like the Montgolfier Brothers' balloon, which would be the first 'flight' by humans using an aircraft... 18th C sometime.

first reported and or confirmed


There has been long term speculation about South American tribes using out air technology to "fly"

[MOBIUS]

What is happening here?

Name the ship and the battle it was involved in.

[Addled Platypus]

HMS Hood

vs "Bismark"

[MOBIUS]

Wrong engagement, right war