Wonderer's History Podcast 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺さんのイラストまとめ

Icarus (1588) from the series The four disgracers (Low. R)

Horatius Cocles, from The Roman Heroes, 1586 (Up. R)

By German-born Dutch printmaker & early Baroque painter Hendrick Goltzius (self portrait on the left & passed away #OnThisDay 1617)

#History #art #OTD

#OnThisDay 1585 Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, important Spanish commander in the Eighty & Thirty Years' Wars, was born in Cabra. He was part of the Spanish Palatinate Campaign along with Spinola & Tilly. #History #OTD

#OTD 1355 Stefan Uroš IV Dušan, one of the most important military figures and leaders in medieval Serbian #History, founder of the Serbian Empire and author of a compilation of several legal systems known as Dušan's Code (low.R), passed away.

1355 map of the Balkans (Up. R)

#OTD 1467 Battle of Baia was won by Stephan the Great's Moldavian army against the Hungarian forces of Matthias Corvinus, despite a substantial numerical inferiority & the Hungarians having ~400 cannon). It was the last Hungarian attempt to conquer the Moldavian Kingdom. #History

#OTD 1520 Martin Luther burned a copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine which condemned & threatened him with excommunication. Luther would state:

"Since they have burned my books, I burn theirs. The canon law was included because it makes the pope a god on earth.

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Still Life with Glass Flask and Fruit, ca. 1728 (left) by #French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin who passed away #Onthisday 1779 ( Self-portrait, 1771, on the right)

#History #OTD #art

of Saint George in 1500, part of the second Ottoman-Venetian War (1499-1503). His impressive military record earned him the nickname of El Gran Capitán. #OTD #History #Spanish

El Gran Capitán battling the Moors at the Siege of Montefrío by José de Madrazo, 1838

#OTD 1640 João IV/John IV (the Restorer) becomes King of Portugal thus ending the Iberian Union between the Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal under the Spanish Crown which started in 1580 under Philip II. #History #earlymodern

Painting by Veloso Salgado, Military Museum, Lisbon

#OTD 1632 Frederick V (the Winter King), Elector of the Palatinate (1610-1623), King of Bohemia from 1619 to 1620 & controversial figure of the early stages of the Thirty Years' War, passed away in Mainz, after spending most of his life in exile between 1620 and 1632. #History

#OTD 1626 Peter Ernst, count of Mansfeld, important German military commander during the early stages of the Thirty Years' War, passed away in Rakovica, then part of Rumelia. #History #OTD