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Anonymous woodcut from 1557 of the 1529 Marburg Colloquy summoned by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. It tried to solve a disputation between Luther and #Zwingli over the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, while also aiming for the consolidation of a Protestant alliance.

#OTD 1789 At the Siege of Izmail (part of Russo-Turkish War 1787–1792) Suvorov led 31,000 Russian troops against the 40,000 Ottoman garrison. It ended with a crushing victory for Russia with the Ottomans losing the city, more than 25,000 (killed) and 9,000 captured. #History

#Onthisday 1467 Battle of Baia fought between the principality of Moldavia led by Stephen the Great and Hungary led by Matthias Corvinus ends with a decisive victory for the Moldavians, despite being heavily outnumbered.

Image from medieval Chronica Hungarorum #OTD #History

#OTD 1520 At the Elster Gate in Wittenberg Martin Luther burns a copy of Exsurge Domine, papal bull promulgated that year by Pope Leo X aimed at censuring most of #Luther's Ninety-Five Theses and threatening to excommunicate him(he did in 1521). Painting by Karl Aspelin #History

@FolkloreThurs The Wild Hunt is a #folklore motif present throughout European literature, usually represented as a harbinger of death, plague, war and thus are often seen as a villainous entity, despite being led at times by figures like Odin, Theodoric the Great or King Arthur.

Morning of the Battle of Agincourt, 25 October 1415 by English painter John Gilbert #Onthisday #History #French #English #Agincourt

Jörmungandr (Midgard Serpent), Norse mythological monster, son of Loki and archenemy of Thor. Painting to the right by Swiss Romantic painter Henry Fuseli (1790). @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday

#OTD 1827 Battle of Navarino was fought between allied Franco-Russian-British naval forces and the #Ottoman fleet assisted by the Egyptians, as part of the #Greek Wars of Independence. It was a decisive win for the allied forces against a decaying Ottoman Empire. #History #Greece

Second Peace of Thorn (Toruń) signed on 19th of October 1466 between #Polish monarch Casimir IV Jagiellon and the Teutonic Knights, ending the Thirteen Years War.

Painting by M. Jaroczyński, 1873. #OTD #History #art

#OTD 732 Battle of #Tours is fought between Western Franks led by Charles Martel and the Umayyad Caliphate. Leopold von Ranke felt that this Frankish victory "was the turning point of one of the most important epochs in the #history of the world".
#Painting by Charles de Steuben