Renaissance man Bobby Mair takes us on his own personal tour of 1776, and introduces us to King Ekkathat of Thailand when the country is besieged by invaders from Burma, the Meermin Slave Mutiny when the captive Malagasy prisoners take the ship over, Mozart returns to Salzburg after a grand tour of Europe and Paper Entrepreneur, Henry Fourdrinier is born. Also Red is considering a holiday to Tulum in Mexico and Bobby paints his own inimitable picture of how Robert de Niro has ended up having so many children Sign up now to our Patreon for early access, bonus weekly episodes not available anywhere else, posters, cameo messages, free tickets to online shows and discounts to live shows and much more - https://www.patreon.com/theyearispod Please send us your suggestions for years to devote an episode of the podcast to and/or a story of your own for us to feature on our exclusive subscriber Patreon episodes - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yYq_k5DMjVnyDYKjjDJMHRSU3mB9KIcltJBIsAcsY0I/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.