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#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

Rudolf II was also a notable patron of arts (especially of Northern Mannerist art), humanities & sciences.

Rudolf painted as Vertumnus, Roman God of the seasons, by one of his favourite artists Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1590–91).

#History #OTD #OnThisDay #Art

and in opposite seasons, so that both of them can never be seen in the sky at the same time. 2/2 #FolkloreThursday

Johann Bayer's Uranometria (courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory Library)

Scorpius as depicted in Urania's Mirror (1825)

#OTD 1415 Jan Hus, Bohemian theologian, reformer and inspiration of the Hussite movement, was executed in Konstanz after his trial ended with a condemnation for heresy. In 1419 the Hussite wars would commence. #OnThisDay #History

My attires when I go to Tesco's to conquer it https://t.co/3YgQM9lUGZ

#OTD 1622 Battle of Höchst, part of the early stages of the Thirty Years' War, was won by a combined catholic effort led by Tilly ( Up.R) against Mansfeld & Christian of Brunswick (low. R) #History #OnThisDay

Charles V announcing the capture of Tunis to Pope Paul III in 1535. #OTD #OnThisDay #History

#OTD 1573 Naval Battle of Haarlemmermeer, part of the Eighty Years' War, ends with a Spanish victory against the Dutch who tried to break the Siege of Haarlem (which ended on 13 July 1573). #History #earlymodern

Painting (ca. 1621) of the battle by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom