The most important event in world history

What is history anyway? It's a human creation for sure, stories of happenings from our collective past. Given how old the Earth is our recorded history doesn't go back very far, a few tens of thousands of years, maybe a bit more. Most of the ancient stuff is due to discoveries by archeologists. One of the world's oldest human cultures, the aboriginals of Australia goes back about sixty thousand years, a matter of seconds in the long history of our planet.

But no matter, think yourself lucky because you may just have witnessed the most important event in world history - the funeral of Elizabeth II. Being 'interviewed' on Laura Kuennsberg's new show Sir Lindsay Hoyle, speaker of the HoC said:

"We should not let anything overshadow the most important event the world will ever see and that is the funeral of her majesty"

Wow! Where to start with that? Well, I guess it was predictable from a sycophantic groveller like Hoyle, who has been useless since he became commons speaker. And of course he was roundly mocked on social media - as he should have been.

So what was the most important event in history? Social media provided some contenders - the big bang, fall of the Berlin wall, the French revolution, Einsteins theory of relativity, VE day, the building of the pyramids - the list goes on. Take your pick but I would go with any of those before Lizzie's funeral.

In addition, the BBC had to tell us that vast numbers of Brits watched the funeral on telly. The figure for the average audience was 26.20 million according to Wikipedia. That's a fair bit lower than the 1966 World Cup final as you might expect (32.3) million. I'm not sure where the BBC got their figures from, but I know at least one episode of Eastenders has had a bigger audience - Den serving Angie with divorce papers (30.15 million) - and that was in a time when the UK population was a lot lower than it is now.

What was my most important telly moment? Watching the Moon landing live in 1969 with my Dad and a neighbour, who gatecrashed because he didn't have a TV. This is closely followed by the 1966 World Cup final and Manchester United winning the European Cup in 1968.

If the dinosaurs had been able to keep a record no doubt their most important event would be their demise due to an asteroid hitting the Earth 66 million years ago - the real life Don't Look Up. Thanks to climate emergency, and the failure of governments around the world to address it, maybe, one day soon we'll be able to watch our own demise live on TV. Now that will be the most important event in our world history......... watch this space.