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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 1549 Pope Paul III (born Alessandro Farnese), died. His pontificated lasted from 1534 until 1549, saw the development of 2 Italian Wars (1536-38 & 1542-46) & the emergence of the Counter-Reformation started by the Council of Trent in 1545. #OnThisDay #History #Papal
#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 &
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
#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