The 1780’s, that is.
1. Throwing a killer dance party to celebrate America’s victory over the British in the Revolutionary War (1781):
2. Getting detention for reading What is the Third Estate? in French high school…and finding yourself in the process (1789):
3. Fighting Russian aggression in the Russo-Turkish War (1787):
4. Mozart, live in concert, jamming on the state-of-the-art fortepiano:
5. Storming the Bastille…and burning that mother to the ground (1789):
6. Riding with the calvary in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780):
7. Sir William Herschel discovering the planet Uranus (1781):
8. Reading Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason for the first time, and getting your mind totally blown (1781):
9. Benjamin Franklin inventing bifocals (1784), changing the history of eyewear forever:
10. Crimped hair, leggings, giant pointless belts, chunky necklaces, faux fur, jackets worn indoors as a fashion statement:
