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#OnThisDay 1688 William of Orange's invasion army landed at Brixham in Devon.
It took some time for the intelligence to reach James II & the next day it was still reported variously that William was expected at Yarmouth, Colchester or Bridlington
#twitterstorians #HistParl
Born #onthisday1667 Christoph Agricola German #landscape #painter primarily in oils & gouache & produced several etchings painted idealistic landscapes & nature scenes mainly cabinet pictures with remarkably skillful representation of weather like thunderstorms & nocturnal scenes
Born #OnThisDay in 1592: Dutch painter #GerardvanHonthorst (1592-1656)
Portrait of a Woman, 1655
#Honthorst #DutchBaroque
Happy 8th Anniversary of Steven Universe 💎💖🎉 the series premiered on @CartoonNetwork in November 4, 2013 🌟💕🎊 It's Created by @RebeccaSugar and We Met The Crystal Gems before in first episode but it ended back in 2020. 🌹🌸⭐ #StevenUniverse #OnThisDay https://t.co/7nBBQVdMCU
Died #OnThisDay in 1739: Irish painter #CharlesJervas (ca. 1675-1739)
Portrait of Lavinia Fenton, later Duchess of Bolton (1710-60)
#Jervas #CharlesJarvis #IrishArt
Channel 4 began broadcasting #OnThisDay 39 years ago. I immediately got hooked on Brookside and the Comic Strip Presents.
Died #OnThisDay in 1739: Irish painter #CharlesJervas (ca. 1675-1739)
Portrait of Brigadier-General, the Honourable Thomas Paget (d.1741), Governor of Minorca
#Jervas #CharlesJarvis #IrishArt
Born #onthisday1837 Émile Bayard, French #artist & #illustrator Signature work was illustration of Victor Hugo’s Cosette from Les Miserables Worked in #drawing charcoal #lithographs #engravings #watercolours #woodcuts & #paintings from 1857 to 1864 Illustrated books 1880s – 1890s
Today in #history: The Strait of Magellan, the passage south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific & the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered & navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage. (1520 CE) #OnThisDay
Today in #history: The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time. (1512 CE) #OnThisDay
Read more: https://t.co/nSBsnW9ivu
On this day in 1814, 1,600 British and Indian soldiers clashed with 600 Goorkhas at the battle of Kalunga. Read the full story of the famous battle of the Anglo-Nepal war below 👇https://t.co/Ke5cNGgRKQ #gurkha #Goorkha #OTD #history #militaryhistory #onthisday #kukri
Born #onthisday1883 Marie Laurencin French #painter & #printmaker Influential artist in Paris’ #avantgarde movement & #Cubists associated with Section d'Or Worked with #painting #watercolour #drawing & prints Distinctive style of #abstraction around groups of women & animals
#OnThisDay in 1973 the first Australopithecus afarensis fossils (AL 128 & AL 129; age 3.3 million-year-old) were found by Donald Johanson and his team in Hadar, Ethiopia. Its functional morphology was interpreted as evidence of adaptations to bipedalism.
This Day in Anthrax..
Oct 30th 1985 #Anthrax released the GREAT album "Spreading the Disease" #Madhouse #TheEnemy #ArmedAndDangerous #LoneJustice #ThisDayInMetal
Did you know...
It was the band's first album to feature vocalist Joey Belladonna and bassist Frank Bello.
Died #OnThisDay 29Oct1872 famous Irish actress, Elizabeth O'Neill who was 12 years old when she made her acting debut. The first time she stepped onto her father’s stage, she achieved resounding success. https://t.co/1hAY66K4ta #actress #theatre #19thcentury
Premiering #OnThisDay in 1979,
The Halloween That Almost Wasn't
🇪🇸 #OnThisDay in 1492, Christopher Columbus landed at the northeastern coast of modern day Cuba and claimed the island for the Kingdom of Spain, naming it Isla Juana after John, Prince of Asturias — the only son of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon.
‘A grotto in an Imaginary Landscape’ is Hendrick Cornelisz. van der Vliet’s only known landscape.
347 years ago #OnThisDay, this artist was buried. While he died in poverty, and is still not very famous, his works are admired by experts today. We can see why – they’re magical!
Released #OnThisDay in 1989,
Wes Cravens' The Shocker
#80sMovies #HorrorMovies