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#OTD 1673 Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian prince, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, geographer and writer of "Descriptio Moldaviae" was born in Silisteni (now Dimitrie Cantemir, Vaslui County). #History #OnThisDay 1/

Portrait of João de Barros, important early modern #Portuguese historian & author of Décadas da Ásia (Decades of Asia), a #history of the Portuguese in India, Asia & southeast Africa, who passed away #OnThisDay 1570. #OTD

#OnThisDay 1568 Battle of Jodoigne, important moment of the Eighty Years' War, ended with a Spanish victory led by the Duke of Alba over the forces of William of Orange. #OTD #History

Second Peace of Toruń (signed #OnThisDay 1466 between the Polish king Casimir IV Jagiellon & the Teutonic Knights, which ended the Thirteen Years' War), painting by M. Jaroczyński, 1873

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#OTD 1599 Battle of Şelimbăr was won by Michael the Brave against the forces of Báthory András in what was a defining victory for the brief unification of the 3 Romanian kingdoms under one ruler. Beforehand Michael obtained Emperor Rudolf's support for attacking Transylvania 1/

Casimir Jagiellon, Prince of Poland, Duke of Lithuania & saint, was bor #OnThisDay 1458 in Kraków. He passed away in March 1484 at the age of only 25.

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#OTD 1520 Suleyman the Magnificent succeeds his father Selim I and becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Within the first decade he had won important campaigns in Belgrade (1521), Rhodes (1522) & Mohács (1526), with the Siege of Vienna in 1529 representing one of the very few

Almost forgot about #OTD Albrecht von Wallenstein (born #OnThisDay 1583 in Heřmanice, Bohemia), imperial generalissimo & hugely influential military figure during the Thirty Years' War. #History

Painting of the Battle of Poitiers (fought and won by the English against the French #OnThisDay 1356), by Eugène Delacroix, 1830

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#OnThisDay 1575 Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss Reformer, the successor of Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Church of Zürich & important figure of 16th century Protestantism, passed away in Zürich.

Portrait by Hans Asper, c. 1550

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