Mind the Gap No. 1 · Monday, November 9, 2026

The five gaps

Any two events in the pool that far apart made the train. Here are a few that hit each gap exactly.

5 years apart

1Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ↔ Augustus dies9 to 14

2Peasants' Revolt ↔ Henry V of England born1381 to 1386

3Battle of Agincourt ↔ Forbidden City completed1415 to 1420

4Nicolaus Copernicus born ↔ Thomas More born1473 to 1478

1Cicero dies ↔ Cleopatra dies43 BC to 30 BC

2John, King of England born ↔ Hildegard of Bingen dies1166 to 1179

3Marco Polo dies ↔ Hundred Years' War begins1324 to 1337

4Thomas More born ↔ Henry VIII born1478 to 1491

1Peloponnesian War begins ↔ Aristotle born431 BC to 384 BC

2Zheng He's first voyage ↔ Leonardo da Vinci born1405 to 1452

3Joan of Arc dies ↔ Thomas More born1431 to 1478

4Florence Cathedral consecrated ↔ Raphael born1436 to 1483

1Cleopatra born ↔ Augustus dies69 BC to 14

2Hildegard of Bingen born ↔ Francis of Assisi born1098 to 1181

3Kublai Khan dies ↔ Edward III dies1294 to 1377

4Ibn Battuta dies ↔ Richard III of England born1369 to 1452

1Avicenna dies ↔ Geoffrey Chaucer dies1037 to 1400

2Hildegard of Bingen dies ↔ Akbar born1179 to 1542

3Edward I born ↔ Dutch East India Company founded1239 to 1602

4Tenochtitlan founded ↔ Glorious Revolution1325 to 1688

Five new gaps every day at midnight.