Our avid readers will know how much we love memes here at Bored Panda, from science memes, viral 2020 memes, and very literal memes to more specific memes like jokes and memes for women to relate to and car memes to laugh at while you’re stuck in traffic. Because memes are the unofficial language of the internet and if you haven’t been off to the moon lately, you’ll surely know how to speak a word or two.
So this time, we have a special treat for your inner nerd or anyone who missed that once-in-a-lifetime chance to make their history teacher proud. Yep, we’re talking dates, events, and contexts that happened either far back or quite recently in the past.
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Welcome to the history memes fueled by the r/HistoryMemes subreddit, where a whopping 2.7M members and self-confessed history experts crack jokes about the old days. Scroll down and upvote your favorites!
#1 I See What U Did There
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#2 But At Least They Have The Cool Building With All The Flags In It
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#3 Selective Breeding
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#4 A Joke Book From 1940
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#5 History Repeats Itself
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#6 Not The Tea
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#7 Professionals Have Standards
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#8 A Toast To The Irish
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#9 So Much Spice!
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#10 Black Panther Flashbacks
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#11 I Dont Think You Want
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#12 Scientifically Proven
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#13 Just Make Up Your Mind!
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#14 Ah, Good Times
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#15 Enslaving People Because Of Color Skin? Absolutely Barbaric!
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#16 If You Don’t Believe Me Look At China Right Now
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#17 Life’s A Witch
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#18 They Here Cause You Dragged Them Her
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#19 What A Nice Little White Girl
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#20 Ratatouille’s Revenge
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#21 It’s Not Even Close Really
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#22 This Country Is Gonna Be Lit!
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#23 A Rare Glimpse Of A History Meme In The Wild
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#24 Coincidence? I Think Not
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#25 Belgian History 101
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#26 I’m So Lucky
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#27 Guten Tag, Polen
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#28 The Grand Tour Has A Lot Of Meme Potential
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#29 Literally Grave Robbers
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#30 Oh Well Its Not Like We Can Do Anything About That
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#31 God Is An Englishman
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#32 We See Through Your Disguise, Himmler
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#33 “George, I’ve Just Noticed Something…”
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#34 Manifest Destiny Be Like
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#35 Not Sure If This Has Been Done Before
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#36 The Madlad
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#37 It’s A Fact
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#38 All Road Lead To Rome
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#39 *laughs In Nazi Gold*
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#40 Oh No
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#41 Winner Of The 1446 Grammy Goes To
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#42 Faked Their Deaths
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#43 Sparta, This Is
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#44 UK Is Like Belgium
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#45 *cane Noises Intensify*
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#46 Yeah, Someone Definitely Used A Ruler To Draw Some Of These Borders
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#47 Threw This Together Real Quick But I Think It’s Pretty Solid
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#48 Quick Fake China Is Asleep! Up-Vote Flag Of Real China
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#49 This Is In The Book I’m Reading
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#50 Not Cool Andrew Jackson
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#51 Money Print Time
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#52 Also Forgot To Mention Hera Was His Sister…still A Classic Though
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#53 History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Often Rhymes
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#54 Respect The Facts!
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#55 Japan’s Capital Be Like:
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#56 One Of Our Fellow Scholars
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#57 My Hero!
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#58 Oh Boy, Here We Go
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#59 Hey Guys Remember In China When Nothing Happened At All
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#60 Yes, Sorta Funny
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#61 Don’t You Think?
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#62 So True
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#63 Caput Mundi Intensifies
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#64 Banning European Immigration In Order To Stop The Spread Of Deadly Viruses
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#65 How Many People Know What Happened In Tasmania For Example?
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#66 Happy Mlk Day!
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#67 Genghis Was A Chad
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#68 What’s That?
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#69 Found This
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#70 Nice Try, F.b.i.
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#71 At Least You Gotta Good Anthem Out Of It
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#72 Have We Forgotten?
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#73 ‘I’m Just A Legitimately Elected Consul 7 Years And Counting Guys!’
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#74 Both From A Metaphorical And Historical Pov
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#75 The Zimmermann Telegram Be Like
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#76 The British Are Wild
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#77 “Mr Watson, Come Here. I Want To See You”
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#78 Not Sure If This Is The Right Place To Post, But Whatever
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#79 No Laika No!
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#80 So You’re Telling Me They’re Not All Cowards??
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#81 Something Something Charles II
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#82 You’ll Be Back By Christmas, I Swear
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#83 There’s History Outside War Category You Know
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#84 Don’t Ever Say That Again
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#85 Even Then, We Lived In A Society
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#86 “Imagine Dying To Gunshots Lol”
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#87 Times Change
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#88 America Irl
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#89 Well, They Did Something At Least
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#90 Remember Kids, Don’t Start A Land War In Asia
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#91 Be Careful Everyone
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#92 Pretty Princess Palace
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#93 Are We The Baddies?
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#94 100% Legitimate Quote
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#95 Poor Yuri
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#96 Why?
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#97 He Got Plagued
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#98 Yeah, This Is Big Brain Time
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#99 All The Cool Kids Are Doing It!
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#100 Thought It Would Fit Here
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#101 Rebel Scum
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#102 It Was A Serious Thing Tho
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#103 Not A Story A Red Neck Would Tell You!
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#104 The Original Time Traveller Meme
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#105 The 80’s Were A Crazy Time
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#106 WWII And Rome Are Pretty Cool Though
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#107 Hold Up
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#108 Austrian Hungary Empire In A Nustshell
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#109 Not A Big Surprise
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#110 Absolute Insanity
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#111 Um… No, It’s Not Like That
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#112 Thematic
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#113 He Had A Pretty Sweet Mansion Tho
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#114 Haha France Surrender So Funny
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#115 Maybe It’ll Work?
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#116 Fly Me To The Moon
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#117 Hitler Was A Naughty Boy, He Wanted To Prank His Colleagues
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#118 Thank You Mr.gorbachev!
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#119 I Love Avatar
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#120 Them Soldiers Be Slacking Tho
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#121 Tanks For Nothing
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#122 Either That Or Joker Sent A D**k Pic To Charlie
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#123 Heh Heh Boy
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#124 I Am Surprised No One Has Made This Before
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#125 The Real Confederate Flag
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#126 Does Music History Count?
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#127 22 April, 2001, A Legend Entered Our World
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#128 Luther Shortened His 95 Theses Down To 1
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#129 Whatcha Lookin’ At?
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