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#OTD 1476 Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan from 1466, was assassinated by Lampugnani, Olgiati & Visconti (shown in Francesco Hayez's #painting entitled Lampugnani's Conspiracy). Sforza was known for his notorious cruelty & callousness. #Art #History

The Magi going to Bethlehem, by Dutch Painter Leonaert Bramer (born #OTD 1596 in Delft). #History #OnThisDay #art #painting

Happy #Christmas & Holidays to everyone!

#OTD 1553 Şehzade Mustafa, son of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I, prince-governor of Manisa (1532-1542), of Amasya (1542-1549), Konya (1549 to 1553) & heir apparent to the Ottoman Throne was executed. His path to the throne was blocked by the fact that Hürrem Sultan's sons (Bayezid &

#OTD 1534 Pope Clement VII (Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici), whose pontificate saw the brutal sacking of Rome in 1527 by mutinous forces of Charles V during the War of the League of Cognac & the accelerated spread of Protestantism throughout Europe, passed away in Rome. #History

his brother & French King Charles IX in 1574 made that Henry III left Poland-Lithuania in a state of crisis with a vacant throne, which was eventually taken by Stephen Báthory in 1576. #History #OTD #OnThisDay

Escape of Henry III from Poland, by Artur Grottger, 1860

Map of Venice by Ottoman cartographer, geographer and admiral Piri Reis. #History #maps

#OTD 1499 First encounter of the Battle of Zonchio (part of the Second Ottoman-Venetian War 1499-1503) took place. The Venetian fleet was commanded by Antonio Grimani, the Ottoman one by Kemal Reis. #OnThisDay #History

#OTD 1607 Bohemian illustrator & engraver Wenceslaus Hollar was born in Prague. #History #OnThisDay

Panorama of Prague in 1636

The island of Crete is deeply rooted in ancient Greek mythology as the Diktaean Cave at Mount Dikti was believed to be the place of Zeus' birth. In Crete Hercules captured the Cretan bull & where the labyrinth of the Palace of Knossos was built. Map by Piri Reis #FolkloreThursday

#OnThisDay 1249 Jacopo Tiepolo, Venetian Doge (1229-1249), first Venetian Duke of Crete & Podestà of Constantinople (twice) passed away and was buried in the church of San Zanipolo. #OTD #History #Venetian #medieval