Vincenzo DMさんのイラストまとめ

#OTD in 1929, Hergé´s Tintin / Kuifje, the curious Belgian journalist, was born as he appeared for the first time in the Belgian newspaper ´Le Vingtième Siècle´.

#OTD in 1677, Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and later Duke of Lorraine and Bar was born. He died 88 years later after a freak accident during which his silk attire caught fire while the he was asleep near a fireplace at the Castle of Lunéville

Japanese artists have re-imagined countries as anime figures for the #Tokyo2020 #Olympics2021 . Here is a rather cool Belgium #bel https://t.co/xKvsIUsHd8

#OTD in 1566, approx. 200 nobles marched to the Coudenberg Palace in Brussels and presented a petition - Smeekschrift - asking Regent Margaret to moderate the herecy laws in the land. Dispite a suspension religious tensions would lead to the Iconoclastic Fury in August 1566.

Miniature depicting Margaret, Regent of the Habsburg Netherlands. In: bréviaire du XVIe siècle. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.)

Philip Francis, Duke of Arenberg (1625-74), Stadtholder and Bailiff of the County of Hainaut inspecting his troops during the Franco-Spanish War.

Manifesto of the People of Brabant, written by Hendrik van der Noot in 1789. VdN argued Joseph II could be deposed a Duke of Brabant as he breached the terms of the 1356 Joyous Entry charter. VdN would become Prime Minister of the United Belgian States (1790).