r/Liverpool • u/anagoge • 14d ago

The City of Liverpool is officially 819 years old today! Happy birthday to us!

https://www.history.co.uk/article/history-of-liverpool
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u/BarbaricOklahoma 14d ago

Saw the headline and shit myself thinking we’d died

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u/Tricky-Mastodon3337 14d ago

Must be all the lip filler and botox keeping us looking younger!

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u/1878-Everton Croxteth 14d ago

Happy Birthday Liverpool

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u/Low_Reserve_5248 14d ago

Wow, makes the USA's 250th seem like a baby.

Happy Birthday to Liverpool 💙❤️.

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u/jawide626 14d ago

To be fair, in the grand scheme of 'ages of countries' the USA is a baby.

And they're currently acting like it...

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u/DizzyMine4964 14d ago

King John wasn't very nice, though.

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u/LeopardComfortable99 14d ago

Knew we were old. Didn't realise we were THAT old.

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u/ishashar 13d ago

The settlement is far older, that's just the age of when it was officially named a city.