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

#OTD 1508 Andrea Palladio, fundamental #Italian #Renaissance architects,born in Padova, #Venice known for his 24 Palladian villas of the Veneto, Churches (San Giorgio Maggiore, Il Redentore, Tempietto Barbaro) part of "Venice and its Lagoon" UNESCO World Heritage Site and others.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Remarkable bit of contemporary US #history by David Simon telling the tragic story of America's youngest mayor ever elected in 1987, Nick Wasicsko in Yonkers. #quotes #QOTD #showmeahero

@FolkloreThurs St. Sava, born in Dacia in 334 AD, near the Buzau river, where he would be killed by drowning by the Goths who at the time were in conflict with the Byzantines. He became a local martyr and his remains where taken to Cappadocia. #FolkloreThursday

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

As a huge fan of Geoffrey Parker's work on Philip II of Spain and how it impacted Europe and its military revolution I have to say his work on Charles V is that prequel we've all wished for. Few chapters in, yet a great comprehensive read. #History

#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

#Onthisday 1799 Second Battle of Zurich was fought between #France led by André Masséna and allied forces of #Russia and Austria led by Alexander Korsakov(who was expecting aid from Suvorov). The French won forcing the Russians to withdraw from the Second Coalition. #OTD #History