Also nobody called it that until the nineteenth century, and it has been suggested it was a piece of one-upmanship between Europe's historians as to which nation had the biggest war.
[List of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_extended_by_diplomatic_irregularity#Symbolic_peace_agreements)
Peloponnesian war lasted 2427 years.
The level of technology and destruction. The destruction of both space fleets, the sinking of Lemuria, and we've still yet to achieve the scientific brilliance of the time.
There's no other way to describe it than a hyper war.
It happened in 8500 BC, unfortunately all known records were destroyed when the last Hwan Emperor Kim Il-Sung activated the Giza Autism Ray and nuked the world.
Here is the most recent academic paper into the subject
[https://vixra.org/pdf/1809.0081v1.pdf](https://vixra.org/pdf/1809.0081v1.pdf)
Please note that information is limited due to the multiversal destruction caused by the war and the collapse of pre-diluvian Babylon thousands of years later.
> Responsibility for Weaponized Autism and the Collapse of Civilizations
Okay I’m gonna come back to this because I need to be in a better frame of mind before I start reading
From Wikipedia:
“Rome still exists as the capital of Italy; the ruins of Carthage lie 16 kilometres (10 mi) east of Tunis on the North African coast.[84] A formal peace treaty was signed by Ugo Vetere and Chedli Klibi, the mayors of Rome and the modern city of Carthage, respectively, on 5 February 1985; 2,131 years after the war ended.”
Not really, you don't need to sign a peace treaty with your enemy to end a war, fully destroying them also counts as peace since the other belligerant no longer exists.
Reconquista is also more of a revisionist court history as the Spanish monarchs repeatedly went to civil war with each other using emirates as proxies, allies, and later as vassals.
It's much more accurate that it wasn't until 300 years in when the Castillans began to consolidate power with good ol' incestuous marriage that they made true territorial gains and were able to roll south as many of the emirates were already falling apart from their own infighting that it was often more annexation than a succession of sieges or battles.
Well that’s why Americans call it the French and Indian war. It was *kind of* a different front but for us it was basically just an isolated war, that was in fact not 7 years
You’re not wrong, but every nation analyses history through their country’s lens. So in America, the French and Indian war is naturally viewed as its own completely separate war as the colonists didn’t care about what Frederick the Great was doing against France.
Not to mention the American frontier theater was way smaller, so it does make sense to start the war when the fighting in Europe began. I mean historians refuse to make the Japanese invasion of China the official start of WWII even though it was a huge theater, because Europe was bigger.
The various European powers’ colonial properties were in a near-constant state of low-level conflict with each other. It’s not like all conflict ceased after the signing of the Treaty of Paris either. Conflict in India, on the seas, and with France’s Native American allies continued for years afterwards.
The Seven Years War refers to the period of large-scale European conflict.
Nah it's actually just peak British sarcasm
"Oh yeah, we're gonna be stuck in this muddy trench getting shelled for at least 2 months"
"Sounds like a*great war* mate"
In a very technical sense, if you have stopped expecting to shoot at each other, there are working embassies and normalized trade relations, there isn't much need for a treaty.
Well if a war lasts for 7 years and 364 days (365 days in leap years) it would still qualify for lasting 7 years. That is an inaccuracy of 1/7*100%=14%.
For the 100 years war that actually lasted 116 years we have an inaccuracy of 16/100*100%=16%.
7 years war- the killed some guys war.
The 30 years war: killed most of the grandpas war.
The 100 years war, killed some great grandpas, lost of grandpas, lots of dads, and some husbands war.
And the 80 years war actually started in 1566, not 1568 as old Dutch history books claimed, so that would make it 82 years.
But it has nothing to do with "historians" being stupid or whatever you seem to imply here. The simple fact is that it's easier to speak of a 100 Years war than a 116 Years war. The wars were named by contemporary people and when the war lasted for a very long time, they simply rounded up the numbers because that's easier to remember.
I remember the first time I heard about the 100year war.
I was like, no way it was actually 100 years long, must just be a name for a very long war.
Looks it up, well... I was correct it didn't last 100 years.
It's not called the 100 years war. Its called the Hundred Years War which is pretty accurate, if it was called the One Hundred Years War there would be a point to make.
I mean it worked fine to split up the Anglo Dutch Wars, Carlist Wars, Boer Wars, Punic Wars and a couple really obscure ones called the World Wars!
‘My grandpa died in the third Anglo-French War of Dynastic Aggression.’
Considering the primary combatants in the 100 Years War were England and France, I’ve always wondered why it’s not called the Anglo- French war or the Franco- English War.
Little known fact, the Second World War actually took place on the same world as the First World War, not on a secondary planet as they want you to believe.
The war of jenkins ear also didn’t take place in the ear of some mister Jenkins, there just wouldn’t be enough room! Instead the deployed their fleets and armies in the cap of one of the largest portobello mushrooms they could find. They even named a real town after it to honour the mushroom for its service, Porto Bello.
history is amazing, especially in my head
7 Years War was actually closer to 9 years long… it just took about 2 years for the colonial fighting in North America to set off a general war between the colonial powers abroad.
Sure thing, buddy. And the Cold War wasn't actually cold, right?! Lol, OP is a joke.
It's called Cold War because it was so cold that the nuclear weapons froze and neither country could launch them. Do your own research SHEEPLE! WAKE UP!
Ah, but it's not called "the 100 Years' War", it's called "the Hundred Years' War". I know that sounds dumb, but it's actually important - the idea that "hundred" exclusively means 100 is a relatively modern one, with the differentiation between a long and short hundred remaining in English until the 16th century. And there's the caveat that the long hundred system still crops up today from time to time, such as Tolkien's use of the word "eleventy" in the Fellowship of the Ring.
Some examples of hundreds from the start of the 14th century; kippers - 120 fish, canvas/linen cloth - 120 yards, pounds (bulk goods) - 100 lb, fresh herring - 100 fish, sugar/pepper/cumin/almonds - 108 lb, garlic - 225, cod - 160 fish.
The American colonies called it 'the French and Indian war', because we were shooting at Frenchmen and Indians.
Granted we did that anyways, but this time we did it *more*.
That’s because during the 100 Years War, we switched to the modern calendar adding both months of July and August. Converting 100 years on the 10-month scale to twelve months
equals 116 of course.
Or so I’ve heard.
The 30 Years and 100 Years Wars are a good example of a "War Complex": a multitude of wars that revolved around a similar issue or goal. It's not like the war was continuous.
It wasn't even 1 single war either, it was a metric shit load of small wars, namely between England and France, that would start so soon after the previous one ended that it might have just as well not have ended at all
And it wasnt even a single war. Would be like calling it the Napoleonic War.
Yeah the 100 years war is more like several little wars during 116 years
The 116 year long fuck ton of wars between England and France doesn’t sound right
It's better than "Ho mon dieu les anglais attaque ! Ho... anyway Jeanne d'Arc is eating their face"
If we let the english name it it would be called something like "The minor Kerfuffles"
The disagreements
The Spot of Bother
The war of the throne
And the Cold War wasn’t a single war, but it’s a useful term nonetheless
The Cold War wasn’t even a war! It was a collection of related wars!
Yeah. It was more like a multitude of plotlines in an HBO series revolving about the conquest of the throne of France.
Like a game of thr... nevermind
Also nobody called it that until the nineteenth century, and it has been suggested it was a piece of one-upmanship between Europe's historians as to which nation had the biggest war.
If it was a dick meassuring contest between historians, than why not just call it the 116 years war? 116 years is longer than 100 years after all
Think of it in marketing terms. You want a snappy, attention-grabbing name that will spread virally.
Neither was the 30 years war, though.
If you're calling time out for barely a year before going to war again like six times in a row, is it really six or so wars?
Might as well call it "the long as fuck" war
The Reconquista and Roman-Persian wars lasted for more than 500 years. What would you name them?
The ancient long as fucks
ALFs if you will
But the Reconquista was late medieval to Early Renaissance
The medieval long as fuck
Yes, I love MILFWs: Medieval Intelligence about Long as Fuck Wars
Those campaigns already have a name. Reconquista. It doesn't need any time span attached to it.
Technically speaking the Third Punic war ended in 1985 which last over 2 centuries as well Edit: I’m a retard. 2 millenia not centuries
[List of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_extended_by_diplomatic_irregularity#Symbolic_peace_agreements) Peloponnesian war lasted 2427 years.
Greece signed a peace treaty with itself after 2500 years, nice.
That's even longer than the Finno-Korean Hyper War.
What makes it a hyper war?
The level of technology and destruction. The destruction of both space fleets, the sinking of Lemuria, and we've still yet to achieve the scientific brilliance of the time. There's no other way to describe it than a hyper war.
Can you provide a link?
It happened in 8500 BC, unfortunately all known records were destroyed when the last Hwan Emperor Kim Il-Sung activated the Giza Autism Ray and nuked the world.
Here is the most recent academic paper into the subject [https://vixra.org/pdf/1809.0081v1.pdf](https://vixra.org/pdf/1809.0081v1.pdf) Please note that information is limited due to the multiversal destruction caused by the war and the collapse of pre-diluvian Babylon thousands of years later.
> Responsibility for Weaponized Autism and the Collapse of Civilizations Okay I’m gonna come back to this because I need to be in a better frame of mind before I start reading
That's still over two centuries, still counts.
1985?
From Wikipedia: “Rome still exists as the capital of Italy; the ruins of Carthage lie 16 kilometres (10 mi) east of Tunis on the North African coast.[84] A formal peace treaty was signed by Ugo Vetere and Chedli Klibi, the mayors of Rome and the modern city of Carthage, respectively, on 5 February 1985; 2,131 years after the war ended.”
So... Over 20 centuries, or over 2 millenia you mean?
Ah yes millenia I mean. I’m a retard that browsing reddit at 4am instead of sleeping
Holy shit
Not really, you don't need to sign a peace treaty with your enemy to end a war, fully destroying them also counts as peace since the other belligerant no longer exists.
r/technicallycorrect
Those weren't singular wars though
Neither was the 100 years war
Yeah the eighty years’ war is the longest contiguous conflict I can think of.
There were truces
The 100 years war wasn't a singular war either
Long as five fucks war 1 and 2. Or LFFW1 and LFFW2
The Five Century War or should it be Six Century war ?
The Reconqusita lasted for 781 years actually. So it would be the 7.81 Century War.
It's not like they were always at war, in fact most of the time it was just christians attacking other christians and muslims attacking other muslims
The Roman-Persian wars lasted for 681 years, so it should be 6.81- centuries wars.
The cent war
At least Roman-Persian wars and Punic wars etc. aren't referred as one war like 100 year war
Reconquista is also more of a revisionist court history as the Spanish monarchs repeatedly went to civil war with each other using emirates as proxies, allies, and later as vassals. It's much more accurate that it wasn't until 300 years in when the Castillans began to consolidate power with good ol' incestuous marriage that they made true territorial gains and were able to roll south as many of the emirates were already falling apart from their own infighting that it was often more annexation than a succession of sieges or battles.
335 years war vibes
nah that's my name
When the war of roses wasn't fought with roses🤨
When Rocky didn't participate in the boxer rebellion 😞
When the American civil war wasn't civil at all 😤
I dont think the "war to end all wars" quite lived up to its name. 🧐
Wym? Everything sinse then is just fiction made by big cinema
Every single other war after that is part of the war to end all wars
He was too scared to go against Jackie Chan
Tbh that wasn't so far off. Yorks vs Lancasters and both had a rose (white or red) as their house symbol.
I think he was sarcastic
This is incorrect. The rose symbols were largely a post-war invention by the Tudors.
Are we including the American front (French and Indian War) in the Seven Years War? Because if so it was actually closer to 9.
Well that’s why Americans call it the French and Indian war. It was *kind of* a different front but for us it was basically just an isolated war, that was in fact not 7 years
But for the 2 main belligerents, France and Britain, it was very much the same war, concluded with the same Treaty.
You’re not wrong, but every nation analyses history through their country’s lens. So in America, the French and Indian war is naturally viewed as its own completely separate war as the colonists didn’t care about what Frederick the Great was doing against France. Not to mention the American frontier theater was way smaller, so it does make sense to start the war when the fighting in Europe began. I mean historians refuse to make the Japanese invasion of China the official start of WWII even though it was a huge theater, because Europe was bigger.
The various European powers’ colonial properties were in a near-constant state of low-level conflict with each other. It’s not like all conflict ceased after the signing of the Treaty of Paris either. Conflict in India, on the seas, and with France’s Native American allies continued for years afterwards. The Seven Years War refers to the period of large-scale European conflict.
Close enough. You lose count after a few generations
I Guess the last 16 years were filler arcs
Sauna / Beach Volleyball-episodes, probably.
Wait till you find out about WW1
What about it? Really I don't get it and curious as fuck right now
It was called "the war to end all wars"
It was called the Great War. I don't think anyone involved found it great.
"Frankly, I enjoyed the war" - Adrian Carton de Wiart
Clearly the rest of the soldiers just didn't lose enough body parts to really appreciate it.
Nah it's actually just peak British sarcasm "Oh yeah, we're gonna be stuck in this muddy trench getting shelled for at least 2 months" "Sounds like a*great war* mate"
Great means large in this instance
They first pitched “the super cool depression” first too
Ah I didn't know that thanks
It isn't even the first world war
I also wasn't the first "world war", the 7 years war also fits that description.
It was actually ww4.
The 80-years war lasted for 82 years with a 12 year-long ceasefire in the middle.
In a very technical sense, WWII is going on 90 years right now, as Japan and Russia have yet to sign a final treaty.
In a very technical sense, if you have stopped expecting to shoot at each other, there are working embassies and normalized trade relations, there isn't much need for a treaty.
And then there's the whole War of 1812 thing....
War of 1812 to 1815 is a bit of a mouthful
As is the 116 Years War
Well the One Hundred and Sixteen Year War is not as marketable and doesn't score well with our target demographic.
Well if a war lasts for 7 years and 364 days (365 days in leap years) it would still qualify for lasting 7 years. That is an inaccuracy of 1/7*100%=14%. For the 100 years war that actually lasted 116 years we have an inaccuracy of 16/100*100%=16%.
The real annoying part is it wasn't a war for 116 years straight. They'd fight, stop, fight, stop, fight, stop.
The second world war lasted more than a minute
Europeans when an American talks about the "Civil War" (there are hundreds of wars this could be referring to)
The 7 years war lasted 9 years.
7 years war actually lasted 9 years
7 years war- the killed some guys war. The 30 years war: killed most of the grandpas war. The 100 years war, killed some great grandpas, lost of grandpas, lots of dads, and some husbands war.
People got better at counting.
🎶 This is the war that doesn’t end 🎵
13 Year war that lasted 12 years
And the 80 years war actually started in 1566, not 1568 as old Dutch history books claimed, so that would make it 82 years. But it has nothing to do with "historians" being stupid or whatever you seem to imply here. The simple fact is that it's easier to speak of a 100 Years war than a 116 Years war. The wars were named by contemporary people and when the war lasted for a very long time, they simply rounded up the numbers because that's easier to remember.
I remember the first time I heard about the 100year war. I was like, no way it was actually 100 years long, must just be a name for a very long war. Looks it up, well... I was correct it didn't last 100 years.
That's close enough for me
It's not called the 100 years war. Its called the Hundred Years War which is pretty accurate, if it was called the One Hundred Years War there would be a point to make.
Meanwhile Denmark had a three year war that only lasted for two.
The 7 years’ war also lasted 9 years. Or 6. Or possibly more than 20 depending on how you count it
Easier to make it that than the three seperate wars
I mean it worked fine to split up the Anglo Dutch Wars, Carlist Wars, Boer Wars, Punic Wars and a couple really obscure ones called the World Wars! ‘My grandpa died in the third Anglo-French War of Dynastic Aggression.’
Guess how long Six day war lasted
Alcatraz means Pelican!
The guy who was counting the years died before the war ended and so they had to take a guess.
The 100 years war wasn't really a single war. There were peace periods sometimes for entire years
The 100 year and some change war
Oh you poor innocent child. The 7 years war lasted ~13 years.
Considering the primary combatants in the 100 Years War were England and France, I’ve always wondered why it’s not called the Anglo- French war or the Franco- English War.
Because we said so
Or the century of humiliation, which lasted for 93 years
I’d say cause that’s when the commies and nationalists started civil war and kicked most of the Europeans out either by force or by moneys
Don't tell him about the 80 year war
Doesn’t the Great Turkish War imply the existence of the Almost-There-But-Not-Quite-There-Yet Turkish War?
At first it was called the "Yet to begin War"
Sig Figs.... technically the 30 years war lasted 30 years, 5 months and 1 day.
The war of 1812 ends in 1815
Wait until they find out what went down in 1813
The 30 Years Peace that only lasted 8 years, SMH
The Thirteen years war fought between Poland and the Teutonic order lasted almsot exaclty thirteen years but only if you factor in the months
The seven years war lasted 9 years
Well it wasn’t consistent, there was on and off periods so you can scalp a year here and there so 100 is good enough
Little known fact, the Second World War actually took place on the same world as the First World War, not on a secondary planet as they want you to believe. The war of jenkins ear also didn’t take place in the ear of some mister Jenkins, there just wouldn’t be enough room! Instead the deployed their fleets and armies in the cap of one of the largest portobello mushrooms they could find. They even named a real town after it to honour the mushroom for its service, Porto Bello. history is amazing, especially in my head
7 Years War was actually closer to 9 years long… it just took about 2 years for the colonial fighting in North America to set off a general war between the colonial powers abroad.
Sure thing, buddy. And the Cold War wasn't actually cold, right?! Lol, OP is a joke. It's called Cold War because it was so cold that the nuclear weapons froze and neither country could launch them. Do your own research SHEEPLE! WAKE UP!
Ah, but it's not called "the 100 Years' War", it's called "the Hundred Years' War". I know that sounds dumb, but it's actually important - the idea that "hundred" exclusively means 100 is a relatively modern one, with the differentiation between a long and short hundred remaining in English until the 16th century. And there's the caveat that the long hundred system still crops up today from time to time, such as Tolkien's use of the word "eleventy" in the Fellowship of the Ring. Some examples of hundreds from the start of the 14th century; kippers - 120 fish, canvas/linen cloth - 120 yards, pounds (bulk goods) - 100 lb, fresh herring - 100 fish, sugar/pepper/cumin/almonds - 108 lb, garlic - 225, cod - 160 fish.
The thing is All these wars lasted longer than their names, lasting 9 and a half, 31 and fourish months, and 116 years respectively
Wasn't there a 16 year truce in the middle?
Yeah an engineer probably named this one
When the Great War was actually pretty shitty
TBF the Cod wars were aptly named.
In 3 distinct phases
I mean... It was a hundredish years. Although "the hundred sixteen year war" doesn't sound as bad as I thought.
Pigs getting geared up to go breach the enemy trenches or smt idk I think that’s what the Pig war was about
They rounded down
The American colonies called it 'the French and Indian war', because we were shooting at Frenchmen and Indians. Granted we did that anyways, but this time we did it *more*.
That’s because during the 100 Years War, we switched to the modern calendar adding both months of July and August. Converting 100 years on the 10-month scale to twelve months equals 116 of course. Or so I’ve heard.
Thought this was a Last Podcast on the Left meme lol
Didn’t the seven years wars last for like 6 years and 8 months or something
I lasted 30 seconds
People came and went. 100 years was just the average. /s
Did the seven year war really last 7 years though?
*Do you not find that suspicioussssss?!*
7 years war was 9 years rho
I personally call it The 3 Generations War.
The 80 years war last for 68 years
Technically speaking the 30 yeats war isnt even one war itself. As its common census that its a two-parter.
I think it would be infinitely funnier if we named wars at the start of them instead of at the end of them.
The 30 Years and 100 Years Wars are a good example of a "War Complex": a multitude of wars that revolved around a similar issue or goal. It's not like the war was continuous.
It wasn't even 1 single war either, it was a metric shit load of small wars, namely between England and France, that would start so soon after the previous one ended that it might have just as well not have ended at all
It rolls of the tongue better than “*The 116 Years War*”
I couldn’t laugh just because I don’t like the rock
The 7 years war was 9 years
Wasn't the 7 years war really 9?
By wikipedia the war lasted from 1756-1763. (Kinda rounded up to 7 years by a few months)
It doesn't roll off the tongue
Shhh don't tell the French they might defend their lands again.
I think when they got to 100 they just stopped counting at that point