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Born in 1798, French Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix. Not only a dab hand with a paintbrush but dashingly handsome according to his, ahem, self-portraits

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2018-04-26

Book of Durrow is a medieval illuminated manuscript gospel book in Insular art style, created 650-700 AD. Feast Day of Mark the Evangelist-here's beginning of Gospel of Mark & it's symbol, an eagle (unlike Book of Kells=John)! In .

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2018-04-25

The first execution (of highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier) took place in 25 April 1792 https://t.co/OZVM5xlMOn

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2018-04-25

24 April 1608, Gaston de France, third son of Henri IV and his second wife Marie de Médicis is born at Fontainebleau.

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2018-04-24

Peace -- Burial at Sea. Scottish painter David Wilkie, returning from trip to Smyrna & Jerusalem in 1841, dies aboard ship & is buried at sea off Gibralter. Fab commemoration here by J.M.W. Turner, born OTD 1775.

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2018-04-24

1922
Artist, poet & occultist Marjorie Cameron was in
“Into the blazing vault of the night of nights, we go forth as light.
Dark star I seek you in all the endless rooms of the

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2018-04-23

in 1989, the Canadian Bank Note Co. printed Canada’s last $1 banknotes, which were from the Scenes of Canada series, the fourth banknote series issued by the Bank of Canada. https://t.co/h42wIdqxxw

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2018-04-21

Henry Fuseli d. 1825. Many believe (myself included) “The Nightmare” inspired a scene in Mary Shelley’s

“She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down, and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair."

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2018-04-17

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, nació en París un día como hoy de 1766. Tras el estallido de la Revolución, abandonó Francia con destino a Italia. El conserva un par de retratos de esta etapa https://t.co/yfFCVG5mjJ

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2018-04-17

Hans Sloane, whose collection formed the foundation of the British Museum, was born in 1660. Here, engraved plates from his beautiful Voyage to Jamaica, documenting plant and animal life on the island https://t.co/5IP5qSQDZl

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2018-04-16

Sir Robert Sibbald, Edinburgh university’s first Professor of Medicine, co-founder of , personal physician to the king, Scottish Geographer Royal and founder of (and one impressively busy man) was born 1641

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2018-04-15

in 1861 the US Civil War started at Fort Sumpter in South Carolina - it was fitting that I have just interviewed Damian Shiels about Irish involvement in the conflict. That show will be out in about 2 weeks. You can find Damian's work at https://t.co/AnDHzGqHge

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2018-04-12

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert's tale of marital disillusionment and infidelity was published in novel form in 1857. When serialised the previous year, public prosectuors attacked the novel for its apparent obscenity.

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2018-04-12

in 1782, the Battle of Les Saintes takes place. The British fleet commanded by Admiral George Rodney defeats the French under de Grasse and prevents a Franco-Spanish invasion of Jamaica. Naval illustration by Charles Dixon. Cartoon by James Gillray

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2018-04-12

in 1900, accepted its 1st USS Holland (SS 1), marking the start of Silent Service

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2018-04-12

1996 the 1st Salts Walk from the 1st Information Centre with Clive Woods & students. Another

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2018-04-11