Inappropriate Tweets from History

Twitter is a magical place where haters hate, lovers love, and nerds get their daily fill of pseudo-socialization. But sometimes those pesky trending hashtags meant to bring us all together only hurt our feelings, or incite internet wars where the only casualties are grammar and dignity.

So we had to wonder…what other historical events could have been even more controversial with just the right [wrong] hashtag?

The Black Death

HISTORYTWEETS blackplague

The Crusades

HISTORYTWEETS crusades

Wars of Scottish Independence

HISTORYTWEETS wallace

Spanish Conquest

HISTORYTWEETS conquest

Elizabethan Era

HISTORYTWEETS ophelia

The Revolutionary War

HISTORYTWEETS teaparty

The Civil War

HISTORYTWEETS gettysburg

World War I

HISTORYTWEETS ferdinand

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Hi, friend! I'm Vickie Toro. I'm the lesbian in Lesbros, the creator and one of the writers of BAMF Girls Club, and the Frumpy Girl who commiserates with your Style Ineptness. I'm a Potterhead, water-dancer, and overall TV junky. Also sports movies make me cry.

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