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#OTD 1632 After sustaining significant injuries during the Battle of Rain (15 April), Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly & one of the most important Imperial military figures of the Thirty Years' War, passed away in Ingolstadt.

#History #OnThisDay #earlymodern

The Death of Gaston de Foix in the Battle of Ravenna on 11 April 1512, which ended with a French victory over Spanish-Papal forces in what was a pivotal moment of the War of the League of Cambrai. #OTD #History #Italian #French

#Map of #Italy 1454 after the Peace of Lodi, Plate 68 from Reginald Lane Poole's Historical Atlas of Modern Europe.

Treaty of Lodi was a peace agreement between Milan, Naples & Florence that was signed #OnThisday 1454, ending the Wars in Lombardy started in 1423.

#History

You would expect when seeing this graph maybe some sort of Emergency meeting of governments, public statements etc. Researchers & scientists have been sounding the alarm for decades, now we have in a day 40 °C over the average in Antarctica, 30 in the Arctic regions & Siberia.

#OTD 1639 Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Zaporizhian Host in 1687–1708 & important commander who changed sides to the Swedish at the 1709 Battle of Poltava (part of the Swedish invasion of Russia & Great Northern War) was born. #History

#OTD 1472 Orkney & Shetland become integrated parts of Scotland as a result of the marriage (& subsequent dowry) between James III and Margaret of Denmark.

Willem Blaeu's map (1654) of Orkney & Shetland (public domain via commons & NLS).

#History #OnThisDay #Scottish

Illustration of Orion, legendary Greek hunter who was stung by a scorpion, died & was placed among the stars by the gods (along with the Scorpion who was slain at a later point leaving the gods to place them at opposite ends of the sky).

#FolkloreThursday

The Quack Doctor, 1652, painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Gerrit Dou (self-portrait on the left) who passed away #OnThisDay 1675.

#art #history

“Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.”

A #quote from Aesop's Fables (on the left depicted in F. Barlow's 1687 ed.), initially a cornerstone of the oral tradition of #storytelling with deep roots in ancient Greek #folklore. #FolkloreThursday

#OTD 1617 Fausto Veranzio, bishop from Šibenik, chancellor for Hungary and Transylvania at the court of King Rudolf II & author of Machinae Novae (published in Venice 1615) passed away in Venice. #History #OnThisDay