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Did you know that the Swiss reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli was killed in 1531 during the Battle of Kappel when Swiss Roman Catholic cantons beat protestant forces of Zurich? This image comes from our Zwingli Bible that we sold at TEFAF Maastricht this spring.

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2019-10-11

2010 , the last of the Type 45 Destroyers was launched Govan 213 years to the day since Admiral Duncan defeated the Dutch at the Battle of Camperdown in HMS VENERABLE

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2019-10-11

732AD The Battle of Tours (France) where Charles Martel wins a battle against Muslim Invaders stopping any further expansion of the Muslim Caliphate into Europe.

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2019-10-10

1871
Millions of acres are razed by firestorms in & lakeside towns, including Peshtigo, where over a thousand died. These disasters have been eclipsed by Great Fire that began the same day.

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2019-10-09

19 years ago, October 7, 2000: the episode "Big Time" aired on television.
Directed by
Story by &

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2019-10-08

in 1895, actor and entertainer Buster Keaton was born.

https://t.co/b0o045KFAG

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2019-10-04

1927
Kenojuak Ashevak was in what is now
"There is no word for [in Inuktitut]. We say it is to transfer something from the real to the unreal."

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2019-10-04

Cartoon portrait of artist and writer William Morris, who left this "earthly paradise" 123 years ago More caricatures of leading (male!) 19th-century figures featured in Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (1873): https://t.co/OqsHCIBeYv

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2019-10-03

Today in Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. (331 BCE)

Read more: https://t.co/eGngpKrLsE

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2019-10-01

Happy birthday Cervantes, author of one of the most frequently illustrated books of all time, Read Rachel Schmidt on how the varying approaches to illustrating it have reflected + impacted its reading through the centuries: https://t.co/LdPjxQXuTI

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2019-09-29

Remembering one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, Miles Davis. Died on this day, 28 September 1991. Read more at https://t.co/NK7qPEaAPQ

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2019-09-28

1810 Viscount Wellington fought and won the Battle of Bussaco. It was the 1st decisive battle that included the reconstructed Portugese Army both as intergrated Brigades and a independent Division, against the devastating French invasion. 🇵🇹

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2019-09-27

1799 Second Battle of Zurich was fought between led by André Masséna and allied forces of and Austria led by Alexander Korsakov(who was expecting aid from Suvorov). The French won forcing the Russians to withdraw from the Second Coalition.

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2019-09-26

fans! Check out these cute parodies of John, Paul, George & Ringo on released in 1969.

Shop Beatles Art: https://t.co/KYuOgAHjbc

🎨 - “Come Together” by Amit Shimoni
“Abbey” by CHAN-CHAN
“Puggy Road” & “Sloth Abbey Road” by Big Nose Work

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2019-09-26

1926
Sonia Gechtoff was in
"I was deliberately introducing the female figure to a lot of things...I was really trying to do forms of self-portraits."

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2019-09-25

Thread:
Sept 25, 1839:
The ships and of the set sail on their incredible voyage to Captains & would make discoveries in oceanography, magnetism, geography, botany, zoology and more.

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2019-09-25

Arthur Wellesley's army won a decisive victory at
Hugely outnumbered, using the ground (a trademark) AW led from the front, directing aggressive flanking attacks.
Later on when asked his greatest victory Wellington replied "ASSAYE"
https://t.co/yaQK8UManC

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2019-09-23