If you could go back in time and witness any big event in history, which one would it be

[MyPithyCat]

For me it'd be the first commercial radio broadcast on 2nd November 1920. That's the best type of radio (even though it'd adverts every 15-20 minutes) but I'd love to see how it all began

The comet that killed the dinosaurs.

Also, the announcements of the endings of WW1 and WW2.

Weimar Republic - night out
The Wall Street Crash
The General Strike
The summer before World War 1
The Home Front of World War 1

Just stuff I've been reading about recently.

Queen at Wembley (with front row tickets)

Moon landing from take off to landing back.

Fly on the wall style voyeur for building of Egyptian Temples and Pyramids etc.

The Great Exhibition.

Vikings/Saxons/Norman times.

Woodstock. I’d love to have been there.

Same! I would like to see him at Hammersmith Odeon in 73 when he retired Ziggy, although I was there when he did the thirtieth anniversary show in the same place in 2003.

To have been present when the extraordinary Harriet Tubman first crossed the state line into Pennsylvania and realised that she was free.

To have been at Appomatox Courthouse to witness General Lee's surrender and the cessation of the American Civil War.

To have heard the first ever radio broadcast of Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milkwood'

I'd like to meet Jesus, figure out for good and all if he was the Son of God, a prophet, or just a bit of a guru and an agitator.

Before anybody starts, there is just as much historical evidence and often more for Jesus as Socrates, Herod Agrippa, Spartacus or Bodicca. I don't want a debate, thanks. Just saying I'd like to meet him to see for myself whether he was divine.

Not that long ago but the fall of the Berlin Wall. I bet that was so exciting.

Bethlehem , Jerusalem Jesus times

Bethlehem , Jerusalem , Jesus times

The Beatles at the Cavern Club.

Some of these answers are blowing my mind - why would you choose to witness executions or people dying of the plague?!

Exsctly! I want the vibes!

I’d either be hanging round Jesus’s tomb for the entire weekend after burial or be walking into the cave with Mohammed /reckon you could save the world a whole lot of pain if you could get the body snatchers or tripping out on camera

The construction of Hadrian's Wall.

Sitting in on the rehearsals is a great call. I think I’ll change mine to spending a whole day at the Globe on the day of the premiere.

Princes in the tower.

Not very cultural but Band Aid. I was 9 at tge time. It was a hot day and my parents had a band aid party and moved the tv into the garden. I vaguely recall Queen playing and that there was a sense the whole concert was a huge deal but would love to go back and be there....as an adult not a 9yo.

To be around to see what every wife of Henry Viii looked like in real life. To visit Elizabeth 1 court when she was grown up. To pop in and see all the Plantagenets. In fact, just take me back and show me everyone from the start of the Plantagenet line to the end of the Tudors😀. To go to an Elvis concert when he was in his heyday. I’d also like to witness Jesus in action. And see if Marilyn Monroe was really as attractive in real life as everyone said. I’d also tell her not to trust the Kennedys 😁.

How the Easter Island heads came to be.
Not sure if that's the correct name for them.

Pangea. If I could be a fly to see the early humans. And princes in the tower.

The 1951 Festival of Britain on the South Bank. The 50s were such an optimistic, progressive decade in many ways.

Mine wouldn’t be a famous event but I would love to go back to before the war and walk around the countryside and see what it was like before modern agricultural improvements. Just to see what it was
like when the fields were full of flowers and bees and corncrakes and skylarks and the skies were full of swallows butterflies and and insects.

To when Jesus was put on the cross, for proof really.

Oh snap! (Sorry HRTFT.)