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: