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Year of the Roman (Posted on 2009-08-21) Difficulty: 2 of 5

Select from the English alphabet only those letters, and just once each, which represent Roman numerals. Place them in a special order to represent a year in history that holds significance.

What is that year, and what are at least two reasons for that significance?

  Submitted by brianjn    
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1666

MDCLXVI = 1666
* Each Roman numeral is used only once, in order from the biggest to the smallest value.
* L'Académie des sciences is founded by Louis XIV.
* The Great Fire of London destroys most of the City.
* Dutch-English wars.
* Isaac Newton develops what is today known as classical mechanics.
* Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal, dies in India

Note: The links above may not explicitly yield the information as written but should be found with a little research. That said, the links also provide other instances which are not noted above.

This was prompted by an exchange within the forum of a non-problem site with the solution text essentially being a precis from that source; that site has no value for Perplexus and so I will not link.

Comments: ( You must be logged in to post comments.)
  Subject Author Date
Some ThoughtsMy two cents (spoiler)Steve Herman2009-08-22 13:23:53
re: an answer to start withbrianjn2009-08-21 23:30:51
re: another interpretationCharlie2009-08-21 14:20:17
another interpretationDaniel2009-08-21 12:07:17
an answer to start withDaniel2009-08-21 11:33:55
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