1529 – French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac. 1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded. 1788 – New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the ninth state in the United States. 1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants...
Le Grand Teddy, 1918, glue distemper on canvas, 150 x 290 cm (6 ft x 10 ft) the largest of the three paintings commissioned from Vuillard in 1918 for the Paris café "Le Grand Teddy"
1119 – Charles the Good becomes earl of Flanders 1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreatfrom Wallachia. 1579 – Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California at Drakes Bay, names it “New Albion” 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal...
The Taj Mahal is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland 1779 – Spain declares war on Great Britain in support of the US, and the siege of Gibraltar begins. 1784 – Holland forbids orange clothes 1823 – King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp 1879 – Gilbert & Sullivan’s “HMS Pinafore” debuts at...
763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. 1215 – King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta. 1300 – The city of Bilbao is founded 1389 – Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians. 1502 – Christopher...
Rembrandt's Danaë (1636), from the collection of Pierre Crozat has resided in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia since the 18th century. Although the artist's wife Saskia was the original model for Danaë, Rembrandt later changed the figure's face to that of his mistress Geertje Dircx.
On June 15th 1985, the painting was damaged by Bronius Maigys, who threw sulfuric acid on the painting and slashed it with a knife twice. The painting has since been restored.
1158 – Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar. 1216 – First Barons’ War: Prince Louis of France captures the city of Winchester and soon conquers over half of the Kingdom of England. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United...
313 – The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia. 1381 – The Peasants’ Revolt led by Wat Tyler culminated in the burning of the Savoy Palace. 1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest...
Jacques Henri Lartigue was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and Parisian fashion female models
