If there was a way that we could go back and OBSERVE a specific event in time, what would it be?

For me, I would like to go back to the days of Sherlock Holmes. The late 19th century in England has always fascinated me.

It would have to be an Historical event for me.

But the trouble is there is so many to choose from.

I agree.. too many to choose from

i personally would go back to see if jesus really died on the cross or not, if i could find the true answer to that then we could settle a lot of arguments

you know sherlock holmes is fictitous right?
i'd go back to the 60's lol
man you know why

I couldn't pick a single event.
However, I've always had a thing for Ancient Rome.

Again, way too many to name. If I had a time machine I'd really abuse it.

I am an American history freak, so I would go back to the 1770-1780's, then back to the mid to late 1800's, see the expansion west. I'd also love to see the 1940's and 1950's era.

Hmmm, Maybe the Battle of Thermopylae? Salamis? I don't know, I wonder what it would be like to watch Rome in flames? I'd much enjoy to go back and watch the construction of the Pyramids. Perhaps go back in time and tell Hannibal a few things. How different would the world be if the Carthaginians found victory against Rome? I wouldn't mind standing side by side with Chamberlain at Little Round Top.

If I had to choose I would probably go crazy and kill myself.

Yeah I know Sherlock Holmes isnt real. But I have always liked the Victorian England. I wouldnt mind going to see The Battle Of Rorke's Drift .

I would want to go back to either see the Egyptian Empire at it finest or Ancient Greece.

edit: Or go back to america before us "white men" came and almost completely destroyed the Native Americans culture.

I'd go back to when Stonehenge was built....and used...just to see what really happened there. I am intrigued with Stonehenge and would have loved to see all of this first hand.

read Jack London's account of the time he spent in victorian london. His book is called 'People of the Abyss".
lol

id like to go back and check out the great library before it was ransaked.
ofcourse id nead a translator. it does boggles my mind" what kind anciant knowledge/ history did they recored"?

My top five:

1)Find out who wrote the bible. Then terminate him. Mwhahahahahahaha!
2)See Hitler comit suicide. Vengance is mine!
3)Battle of Gettysburg. Intrests me.
4)Watch the Berlin wall go down. I didnt see it.
5)Meet Confusios

Exactly what I was thinking. If he existed at all I do believe he was crucified, however, it would be more important to observe him in his day to day life to see exactly what he did as opposed to what was added to his deeds by later leaders of the church.

I'd go back to Anglo-Saxon England see how my ancestors lived, or back to the conquests of Alexander the Great.

1) Go back to the begginning of the universe to see what happens.

2) Go back to see if Jesus existed and was who the bible makes him out to be.

1)Seeing The Golden Hoarde in Action
2)Seeing WW2
3)Beginning of Time
4)Roman Empire
5)Tenochtitlan

I would go back to the day I was conceived, find my mother and father and yell STOP!

I would travel back to when the Universe began to see it all unfold, and then into the future, to watch it all draw to a close.

I would also like to travel back to September 4, 476 and witness Romulus Augutulus abdicate to Odoacer. Then I could laugh at him and throw rotten cabbage at him.

mmmm...cabbage

i'd go back to sumer and see if they were really as advanced as some people claim.

or i'd go back in time and become my own grandfather like fry on futurama lol