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Johann Jakob Wick dieD 1588. These are from his “Wickiana” which contains news & documents from 1505-1588

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Caricaturist James Gillray born in London 1756, famous for his etched political & social satires,

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Died in 1857, William Daniel Conybeare, described the marine reptile plesiosaurus found by Mary Anning https://t.co/Ci2cV4MFDP

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Celebrating Andrew Carnegie d.1919 whose legacy in libraries, education & scientific research still shapes our world.

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William Morton was born in 1819. Known for being the man who first publicly demonstrated the use of ether as a surgical anaesthetic

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Died in 1788: Thomas Gainsborough. We offer, in remembrance, his portrait of Frances Duncombe. https://t.co/ctCJNbjRVV

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US abstract artist Arthur Dove was born He's the missing link between & https://t.co/B78IB1P9bj

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died 1788 See two of his Irish sitters today Theodosia Magill and the Marquess of Donegall

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Edwin Austin Abbey died 1911. The first is “The Play Scene in (1897) from Act III, Scene 2

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“Little Prince” author Saint-Exupéry, who died OTD in 1944, on what the Sahara taught him about the meaning of life https://t.co/jyAhGEBrv6

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Robert Hooke, scientist, born 1635. Micrographia, 1665 https://t.co/IWOxYuXxKg

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The world's first woman to receive a PhD, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, died in 1684.
https://t.co/mara2epj9a

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1745 the first match took place between the villages of Hambledon & Bramley

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in 1603 James VI of Scotland was crowned James I of England [Prints 009/044]

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Alphonse Mucha, iconic Art Nouveau artist, was born 1860. While known for dreamlike neoclassical figures...more:https://t.co/LN0mPVYPW9

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