9
Arminius, Chieftan of the Cherusci, hands the Roman army their largest defeat at the Battle of Teutoborg Forest, 9 CE, by Peter Janssen (1844–1908), painted 1870-73, Kunstmuseen Krefeld.10339 10
55
Zenobia is found on the banks of the Araxe after being stabbed by her husband Rhadamistus, 55 CE, painted in 1850 by Paul Baudry (1828-1888) Location TBD7861 56
79
Mount Vesuvius erupts, destroys Pompeii and Herculaneum, 79 CE7863
Pompeii is destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, 79 CE, by Karl Briullov (1799-1852) Location TBD7864 80
211
Septimus Severus reproaches Caracalla for plotting to kill him, 211 CE, by Jean Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) Location TBD7865
Caracalla Murders his brother Geta, in his mother's arms, December 211, painted by Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou (1766-1828) Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart10594 212
249
Murder of Philip the Arab, Roman Emperor in the wake of the rise of Decius near Verona, September 249, painted ca. 1430-1445 by Gabriel Angler, Tegernsee Abbey, Bavaria.10592 250
312
Battle of the Milvian Bridge, Constantine victorious - has vision of cross, October 28, 312, painted by Giulio Romano (1499-1546) Apostolic Palace, Vatican City, Rome10571 313
337
Death of Constantine and Baptism by Bishop Eusebius in Nicodemia, May 22, 337, tapestry woven 1623-1625 by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1959-78-511750 338
381
First Council of Constantinople, May-July 381, from the Paris Gregory Manuscript, Manuscript BnF Grec 510, folio 355 recto, Bibliothèque nationale de France.10597 382
390
Ambrose forbids entry to Theodosius I after the Massacre of 7000 at Thessalnika, 390 CE, by Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) Location TBD.7867 391
The Burning of the Library at Alexandria, 391, painted by Ambrose Dudley for Hutchinson's Story of the Nations, 1915, pg. 5310606 392
393
The Western co-Emperor Honorius recently elevated by his father emperor Theodosius I after the death of Valentinian II, January 23rd 393 CE, painted in 1880 by Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921) Location TBD7868 394
410
Emperor Honorius receives news of the Visigoth Alaric's Sack of Rome, 410 CE, painted in 1883 entitled The Favorites of Emperor Honorius, by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) Art Gallery of South Australia.7869 411
451
Fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon, 451, October 8-November 1, painted 1876 by Vasily Surikov (1848-1916) Location TBD11054 452
Pope Leo meets Attila the Hun in Mantua, 452 C.E., painted by Hendrick Bloemaert (1601-1672) Chiswick House, London10572 453
Death of Attila, 453 C.E., painted by Joseph Villeclère, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nice10567
Death of Attila, 453 C.E., painted by
Ferenc Paczka (1856–1925) Location TBD10568 454
455
Sack of Rome under Vandal leader Gaiseric, 455 C.E., painted by
Karl Bryullov (1799–1852) Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow 10569 456
561
Death of the rebellious Chramn, at the hands of his father Chlothar I, 561, by Guillaume Crétin, in Chroniques Françaises, after 1515, Rouen, France. Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
10399 562
567
Marriage of Sigebert I and Brunhilda, ca. 567, Grandes Chroniques de France BNF Fr2610 f31r10401 568
Fredegund watches the marriage of Chilperic I and Galswintha, 568, By Lawrence Alma Tadema (1836-1912), painted in 1878, Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna.10406 569
573
Chilperic I strangles his wife Galswinthe, sister of Brunhilda (both Visigoth Princesses), 573. From a manuscript of the Grandes Chroniques de France, Paris, BNF, Fr. 2813, fol. 31r.10404 574
575
Fredegund arms the murderers of Sigisimund I, 575, by Emmanuel Herman Joseph Wallet (1771-1855)10403 576
752
Childeric III gets tonsured and loses his kingship - becoming the last of the Merovingians, 752 CE, by Evariste-Vital Luminais (1822-1896) Musee des Beaux Arts Carcassonne7872 753
877
Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, and his Longships defeat the Danes, 877, painted by Colin Unwin Gill (1892–1940)
Parliamentary Art Collection, UK10647 878
884
Carloman II dies in Yvelines Forest, December 12, 884 CE, by Jean Charles Joseph Remond (1795-1875) Musee du Louvre. 7874 885
Northmen Siege of Paris, Count Eudes (Odo) defends, 885-886, painted 1836 by Jean Victor Schnetz (1787-1870) Château de Versailles, MV 2673.10645 886
897
The Cadaver Synod - Pope Stephen VI has predecessor Formosus exhumed and put on trial in Rome, January 897, by Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921)10402 898
1066
Battle of Stamford Bridge - England led by King Harold Godwinson defeats the Norse army and kills King Harald III Hardrada, September 25, 1066, Monday, painted in 1870 by Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831-1892)
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum Tromso10589 1067
1077
Road to Canossa, Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, journeys to seek absolution from Pope Gregory VII, 1077, painted ca. 1855 by Eduard Schwoiser (1826-1902) Stiftung Maximilianeum, Munchen.10574 1078
1095
Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, November 18-28, 1095, by Jean Colombe and Sebastian Mamerot, from Passages d'Outremer ca. 1475.7877 1096
1097
Anselm of Canterbury, exiled by William II, travels to Rome, meets Urban II (and Matilda of Tuscany?), ca. 1097-1098, painted by Giovanni Romanelli (1610-1662) between 1637-1642, Galleria dei Romanelli, Vatican, Roma10583 1098
Baldwin of Bologne enters Edessa, February 1098, painted in 1840 by J. Robert Fleury, Location TBD.7878 1099
1120
White Ship Disaster - William Adelin, only son and heir to Henry I King of England drowns along with 300 passengers (except a butcher) in English Channel, November 25, 1120, from the Chronicle of Peter of Langtoft, ca. 1300, Royal MS 20 A II, f. 6v10586
Sinking of the White Ship, November 25, 1120, from the 1321 Cotton Claudius D. ii, fol. 45v, British Museum10587 1121
1148
Raymond of Poitiers welcomes Louis VII to Antioch, 25 March, 1148 CE, by Jean Colombe and Sebastian Mamerot, from Passages d'Outremer ca. 1475-1490.7879 1149
1218
La presa di damietta, 1218, by Cornelis claesz van wieringen ,ante 1628 10366 1219
Battle of Lyndanisse, 1219 CE June 15th, painted in 1809 by Christian August Lorentzen (1749-1828) Statens Museum for Kunst Copenhagen7883
Francis of Assisi meets with al-Kamil, 4th Ayyubid sultan of Egypt during Fifth Crusade, 1219, ca. September-October, painted in 1452 by Benozzo Gozzoli (1420-1497) Museum Complex of San Francesco (Montefalco) Apsidal Chapel10585 1220
1265
Battle of Evesham, Simon de Montfort killed and dismembered - effectively ends Second Baron's War, August 4, 1265, British Library Cotton MS Nero D ii, f. 177 - late 13th cent.10588 1266
1270
Death of Louis IX, 1270, August 25, by Ary Scheffer (1795-1858), painted ca. 1817, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, 81.210563 1271
1272
In Acre, a member of Syrian Order of Assassins attempts to kill Edward I, but is overpowered and killed by the soon-to-be King of England (r. 1272-1307), June, 1272, illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) 11870 1273
1274
Death of St Bonaventure in Lyon, 1274 July 15th, by Zurbaran10367 1275
1286
Flight of the Assassins of Erik V King Of Denmark, November 22, 1286 CE, by Otto Bache (1839-1927) painted in 1882, Frederiksborgmuseet, Copenh7885 1287
1288
Battle of Worringen, 1288, by Peter Janssen (1844-1908) painted in 1893, Stadtmuseum Dusseldorf.7886 1289
1302
Battle of Courtrai (or the Golden Spurs), 11 July 1302, painted 1836 by Nicaise de Keyser (1813-1887) Kortrijk Museum.7888
Andronicus II Palaeologus receives Roger de Flor and his "Catalan Army" in Constantinople, 1302, September, painted by Jose Moreno Carbonero (1858-1942) Palacio del Senado, Madrid10565 1303
1347
Philippa of Hainault intercedes with her husband on behalf of the burghers of Calais, recently fallen after long siege, 1347, painted by James Doyle Penrose (1862-1932) painting print from Cassell's History of England, Vol. I10600 1348
1355
Beheading of Doge Marin Faliero, 17 April, 1355, by Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) Wallace Collection.7890
Murder of Ines de Castro, lover of Pedro I of Portugal, January 7, 1355, painted by Karl Bryullov (1799-1852) Location TBD10570 1356
1389
Isabeau Queen Consort of France enters into Paris, August 23, 1389, by Jean Froissart, painted between 1470-1472, Chronicles BL Harley 4379.7892 1390
1402
Ottoman Sultan Bayazid I imprisoned by Tamerlane after the Battle of Ankara, 1402, by Stanislaw cheblowski 1835-1884) painted in 1878, Location TBD.7893 1403
1431
Joan of Arc interrogated in her cell by Cardinal Winchester, 1431, by Paul Delaroche (1797-1859) painted in 1824, Musee des Beaux-Arts Rouen.7895 1432
1483
Edward V, King of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York held captive in the tower of London, 1483, by Jean-Paul-Laurents (1838-1921), painted in 1897 (as "Hostages"), Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon.7898 1484
1492
The capitulation of Granada, 2 January, 1492, by Francisco Pradilla Ortiz (1848-1921) painted in 1882 Bonhams Auction.7899 1493
1494
French troops under Charles VIII entering Florence, November 17th, 1494, by Francesco Granacci (1469-1543) Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze.7900 1495
1501
Columbus before Ferdinand and Isabella at the Alhambra, ca. 1501, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816-1868) painted in 1843, Brooklyn Museum, NY.7901 1502
1506
Juana of Castille holding vigil over the coffin of her husband Philip the Fair, September-October 1506, by Francisco Pradilla Ortiz 1848-1921, painted in 1877, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.7902 1507
1515
Francis, King of France, at Battle of Marignano during the War of the League of Cambrai, 13-15 September, 1515, painted by Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard (1780-1850) Versailles.7903 1516
1519
Death of Leonardo da Vinci, 2 May 1519, by Francois Guillaume Menageot, Clos Luce Museum.7904
Francis I at Leonardo da Vincis deathbed, 1519, by Jean Ingres (1780-1867) painted in 1818, Petit Palais.7905 1520
1525
Battle of Pavia, 24 February, 1525, Flemish School, Birmingham Museum of Art, Kress Collection.7906 1526
Battle of Mohacs, 29 August, 1526, by Bertelan Szekely (1835-1910) painted in 1866, Hungarian National Gallery, 2764.7907
Peder Sunnanvader's and Master Knut's ignominous entry into Stockholm, 1526, by Carl Hellqvist (1851-1890) Location TBD.7908 1527
1529
Trial of Catherine Aragon, 1529, by Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817-1880).7909
Trial of Queen Catherine of Aragon, 1529, by George Henry Harlow (1787-1819), painted in 1817, Location TBD. 10341 1530
Siege of Florence, 1530, by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) painted in 1558, Palazzo Vecchio Sala du Clemente VII.7910 1531
1539
"The Conversion of the Duke of Gandia" - 1539, May, Francis Bogia conveys the deceased Queen Isabel of Portugal, wife of Charles V, to Granada, her body had begun to decompose. due to the heat, painted 1884 by Jose Moreno Carbonero, Prado, Madrid10564 1540
1556
Execution of Lady Jane Grey, February 12th, 1556, by paul delaroche (1797-1859) painted in 1833, Location TBD.7912 1557
The poisoning of Queen Bona Sforza, November 19th, 1557, by Jan Matejko (1838-1893) painted in 1859, Location TBD.7913 1558
1572
Assassination of David Rizzio, with Mary of Scots present March 9th, 1572, by John Opie (1761-1807), painted in 1787, Guildhall Art Gallery.7915
Admiral Coligny impresses his murderers, August 24th, 1787, by Joseph-Benoît Suvée (1743-1807) Musée des Beaux Arts Dijon.7916
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, February 23-24, by Francois Dubois (1529-1584) Location TBD.7917
The morning after the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, Febrary 25th, 1572, by Edouard Debat Ponsan (1847-1913) painted in 1880, Location TBD.7918 1573
1574
Siege of Lieden - Burgomeister Van der Werff's self-sacrifice, 1574, painted in 1829 by Gustaaf Wappers (1803-1874) painted in 1829, Centraal Museum Utrecht.7919 1575
1579
Torquato Tasso in the madhouse, 1579, by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) painted in 1839, Private Collection.7920 1580
1581
Ivan the Terrible with his son Ivan, November 16th, by Ilya Repin (1844-1930) painted in 1885, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.7921 1582
Yermak's conquest of Siberia, 1582, by Vasily Surikov (1848-1916) Location TBD.7922
Entry of Francois, Duke of Anjou into Antwerp, February 19, 1582, painted by Monogrammist MHVH, Sotheby's Sale, February 6, 2025, NY Lot 31610596
Stephen Bathory at Pskov, 1582, by Jan Matejko (1838-1893), painted in 1872 Royal Castle in Warsaw
10343 1583
1585
Mancio Ito and the Japanese Tensho Embassy visits Pope Gregory XIII in Rome, March 23rd, 1585, Artist TBD, Location TBD.7923 1586
1587
Mary Queen of Scots before her Execution, February 8th, 1587, by Robert Herdman (1829-1888), painted in 1867, Glasgow Museums.10409 1588
Henry I, Duke of Guise assassinated, 1588 CE, by Unknown Artist, Location TBD7924
Battle of Gravelines - English defeat the Spanish Armada near Calais, August 8th, 1588, by Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740-1812), painted in 1796, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Greenwich Hospital Collection, BHC0264.10410 1589
1596
Coronation of Christian VI of Denmark, 1596 August 17, by Otto Bache (1839-1927) painted in 18877925 1597
Duke Karl of Sudermania, future King Charles IX of Sweden, insulting the Corpse of his enemy Claude Flemming, Swedish general and statesman, 1597, painted in 1878 by Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905) Ataneum, Helsinki AI21210601 1598
1600
Prince Maurits of Nassau at the Battle of Nieuwpoort, 1600 CE, 2 July, by Paulus van Hillegaert (1596-1640) Rijskmuseum Amsterdam SK-A-664 part of the Eighty Years War (Seventeen Provinces -Burgundian Netherlands vs. Hapsburgs)7926
The Landing of Marie de Medicis at Marseilles, 1600, November 3rd, by Peter Paul Rubens10369 1601
1603
The Death of Queen Elizabeth I, 1603, by Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) Musee du Louvre, Paris, painted in 1828. 7927 1604
1605
Arrest of Guy Fawkes by the Royalist soldier Sir Thomas Knevet, 1605, 5th of November, by Henry Perronet Briggs (1793-1844) Laing Art Gallery, B8115, painted in 1823.7928 1606
1607
Battle of Gibraltar, Dutch surprise victory over Spanish Fleet, 1607 CE, part of the Eighty Years War (1568-1648), between the Seventeen Provinces and the Hapsburg Empire, by Adam Willaerts, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, SK-A-1387, painted in 1617.7929 1608
1609
Galileo Demonstrates the Telescope to Doge of Venice, 1609, 25 august, by Guiseppe Bertini (1825-1898) Villa Andrea Ponti7930 1610
1611
Last Voyage of Henry Hudson, set adrift after mutiny and disappeared, 1611 CE, by John Collier (1850-1934) Tate Britain, painted June 1881.7931
Shuysky Czars before Sigismund III, 1611, October 29th, by Dolabella 10370 1612
Scottish Invasion of Norway, aka Sinclairs Landing in Romsdal, 1612 CE, by Adolph Tidemand (1814-1876)7932 1613
The Arrival of Elector Frederick V of the Palatinate and Elizabeth Stuart, 1613, April 13th, by Hendrik Cornelisz. Vroom 10371 1614
1618
Defenestration of Prague, 1618 CE, 23 May, start of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), by Vaclav Brozik , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, P.316.1-17933 1619
1622
The Surrender of Julich, 1622 CE February 3, the Spanish army under Ambrosio Spinola took the Dutch-occupied fortress during the Palatinate Campaign of the Thirty Years War, by Jusepe Leonardo (1601-1653), Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, painted in 1635.7934
Batalla Fleurus, 1622 August 29th 10372 1623
1625
The Relief of Genoa by Marquis of Santa Cruz, 1625 CE, March 24 - April 28, by Antonio de Pereda (1611-1678) Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, painted in 1634.7935
The Surrender of Breda, 1625, 5 June, during the last stages of the Eighty Years War (1568-1648) between the Seventeen Provinces and the Spanish Hapsburg Empire, by Diego Velazquez (1599-1660), Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, painted 1634-5.7936 1626
1628
Cardinal Richilieu at the siege of La Rochelle, 1628, by Henri Mott (1847-1922) painted in 1881, Musée d'Orbigny Bernon.7937
Assassination of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, August 23, 1628, by David Wilkie Wynfield (1837-1887) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, p.307.12-110582 1629
1632
Battle of Lutzen, November 16 (Gregorian), 1632 Adolphus II, King of Sweden killed, by Carl Walbohm (1810-1858) Nationalmuseum, Stockholm NM102810578
Battle of Lutzen, November 6 (Julian), 1632, by Pieter Snayers (1592-1667) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien GG_182010579
Finding King Adolphus II's body after the Battle of Lutzen, November 16, 1632, by Carl Wahlbom (1810-1858) Nationalmuseum Stockholm, NM_124210580 1633
Galileo before the Roman Inquisition, 1633 CE, by Christiano Banti (1824-1904) Location TBD, painted in 1857.7938 1634
Battle of Nordlingen, Swabia, Bavaria, 1634 CE, August 27th (Julian Calendar), part of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) by Jacques Courtois (1621-1676), Westphalisches Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturseschichte Munster, painted in 1648.7939
Assassination of Wallenstein, 1634 CE, February 25, by Carl Theodore von Piloty, Neue Pinakothek.7940 1635
1641
Battle of Montjuic part of Catalan Revolt, 1641, painted by Pandolfo Reschi, Location TBD.10344 1642
Charles I and Prince Rupert strategize on The Eve of the Battle of Edge Hill, 1642 CE, Saturday, October 22, pitched battle of the First English Civil War, by Charles Landseer (1799-1879) Walker Art Gallery WAG-126, painted in 1845.7941 1643
1645
The siege and capture of Hulst, 1645, November 5th, by Hendrick de Meijer 10373 1646
Mariage de l'Electeur de Brandebourg, 1646, December 7th, by Mijtens 10374 1647
1648
Ratification of the Treaty of Munster, 1648, May 15th, end of the Eighty Years War (1568-1648) and the Thirty Year's War (1618-1648), by Gerard ter Borch (1617-1681), Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, SK-C-1683.7942 1649
Oliver Cromwell with the corpse of Charles I, 1649 CE, end of the Second English Civil War, by Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), Kunsthalle Hamburg, painted in 1831. 7943 1650
1659
Treaty of the Pyrenees, Louis XIV and Philip IV meet at Isle of Pheasants, 1659 CE, November 7th, inconclusive end of the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659), by Jacques Laumosnier, Tesse Museum. 7944 1660
Mary Dyer being led to the gallows, Newport, RI, 1660, June 1st CE, by howard pyle (1853-1911) Newport Historical Society, painted ca. 1905.7945
Het vertrek van Karel II van Engeland, uit Scheveningen, 1660, June 2nd, Rijksmuseum SK-C-1224.10375
The arrival of King Charles II of England in Rotterdam, 1660 May 24th, Lieve Pietersz Verschuier 1665 10376 1661
1670
Vista del Alcazar Real y entorno del Puente de Segovia, 167010377 1671
1672
Corpses of the Dewitt brothers on the Groene Zoodje at Lange Vijverberg in the Hague, 1672 CE, August 20, attributed to Jan de Baen (1633-1702) Rijksmuseum Amsterdam SK-A-15.7947
Battle of Solebay - Burning of the Royal James, 1672, May 28th, by Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633-1707) National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London BHC03027948
Storming of Coevoorden, 1672 CE December 30 painted by Pieter Wouwerman 1623-1682 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, SK-A 4867949
Louis XIV crosses the Rhine at Lobith, 1672 CE, 12 June, by Adam Frans van der Meulen (1632-1690) Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, S-KA-375310292 1673
1676
Marriage Leopold of Austria to third wife Eleonore of Pfalz Neuburg, 1676, by Ferdinand Wagner, Grosse Rathaussaal in Passau7950
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Ottoman Sultan, 1676 CE, by Ilya Repin (1844-1930) Russian Museum St Petersburg, painted 1880-1891.7951 1677
1683
Battle of Vienna, 1683 CE, September 12th, King Jan III Sobieski meets Emperor Leopold near Schwechat, by Artur Grottger (1837-1867) Lviv Nationa Gallery, Ukraine.7952 1684
1685
Doge of Venice has audience with Louis XIV at Versailles, 1685 CE, May 15th, by Claude Guy-Halle (1652-1736), Versailles, painted in 1715. 7953 1686
Recapture of Buda, 1686 CE, by Gyula Benczur (1844-1920), Hungarian National Gallery, painted in 1896. 7954 1687
1698
Morning of the Streltsy Execution, 1698, by Vasily Surikov (1848-1916) Location TBD, painted in 1881.7955 1699
1700
Philippe de France (Bourbon) is proclaimed King of Spain as Philip V, November 16th, 1700, by François Pascal Simon Gerard (1770-1837) Location TBD.7956 1701
1704
Battle of Blenheim - Duke of Marlborough delivers dispatch to wife Sarah Churchill, 1704 CE, August 13, by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1825-1904).7958 1705
1710
Battle of Villaviciosa - Philip V and Louis-Joseph, Duke of Vendome, are victorious over Count Guido Starhemberg, 1710, December 10th, by Jean Alaux (1786-1864), Versailles, painted in 1836.7959 1711
1717
Eugene of Savoy captures Belgrade, 1717 CE, August 16th, by Jan van Huchtenburg (1647-1733) Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, painted in 1720.7960 1718
Carrying home the body of Swedish King Charles XII after being shot in the head while inspecting trenches at Fredriksten, November 30th, 1718, O.S., by Gustaf Cederstrom (1845-1933) Location TBD.7961
Peter the Great interrogating the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, February 18th, 1718, by Nikolai Ge (1831-1894) painted in 1871, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.7962 1719
1722
Annointing of Louis XV at Notre Dame, October 25th, 1722, by Pierre Subleyras (1699-1749) Musée des Augustins Toulouse.7963 1723
The Seat of Justice in the Parliament of Paris with Louis XV, February 22nd, 1723, by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743)10398 1724
Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III receives the French ambassador Vicomte d'Andrezel, October 17th, 1724, painted by Jean Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737) painted in 1724, Musée des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux.7964 1725
1734
James Oglethorpe presents Tomo-chi-chi and other Yamacraws to the Georgia Trustees, July 3rd, 1734 by William Verelst (1704–1752) painted in 1734, Location TBD.7965
The Welcome by the Mayors of Rotterdam of William IV, Prince of Orange and his Consort Anne of Great Britain, 1734, by Jacob Spoel (1820-1868) painted in 1867, Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam. 11821 (MK)10566 1735
1745
The Battle of Fontenoy, with Maurice de Saxe, May 11th, 1745, part of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748), by Horace Vernet (1789-1863) painted in 1828, Location TBD.7967 1746
The Battle of Culloden, 1746, by David Morier.7968 1747
Battle of Lawfeld - Louis XV points to the Village for Maurice de Saxe, July 2nd, 1747, by Auguste Couder (1790-1873), Château de Versailles.7969 1748
1749
Watson and the Shark in Havana Cuba, 1749, by John Singleton Copley (1746-1825) Boston Museum of Fine Arts.10380 1750
1759
Battle of Quebec (The Plains of Abraham) - pivotal battle of the Seven Years' War - Death of General Wolfe, September 13th, 1759, by Benjamin West (1738-1820), Location TBD.7970
Departure of Charles III from Naples, 1759 October 6th10381 1760
1764
Election of Stanislaw August Poniatowski as King of Poland, September 7th, 1764, by Canaletto (1721-1780), painted in 1778, Royal Castle in Warsaw (detail).7971 1765
Inauguration of the Russian Academy of Arts, presided by Catherine The Great, July 7th, 1765, by Valery Ivanovich Jacobi (1834-1902) painted in 1889, Musée du Louvre, Paris.7972 1766
1770
Captain James Cook lands at Botany Bay in Australia, April 29th, by E. Phillips Fox (1865-1915), painted in 1902, National Gallery of Victoria.7973 1771
1775
Daniel Boone and party cross the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, April 1775, by George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) painted in 1852, Location TBD.7974
Battle of Bunker Hill - the 52nd regiment marches up Breed's Hill, June 17th, by Howard Pyle, painted ca. 1907, Location TBD.7975 1776
The Abduction of Daniel Boone's daughter Jemima and the two Callaway girls, July 14th, 1776, by Karl Ferdinand Wimar (1828-1862) painted in 1855-6 (detail), Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, 19657976
The passage of the Delaware, 25-26 December, by Thomas Sully (1783-1872), painted in 1819, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.7977
George Washington Crossing the Delaware, December 25th, 1776, by Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868), painted in 1851, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.7978
Continental Congress votes for independence, 1776, July 2nd10382 1777
1779
The Salon of 1779, by Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin.10383 1780
The Gordon anti-Catholic Riots, London September 2-9, 1780, by John Seymour Lucas (1849-1923) Art Gallery New South Wales.7979 1781
1782
Siege and relief of Gibraltar, 1782, by John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) Tate Britain, London.7980 1783
Treaty of Paris, 1783, September 3rd, by Benjamin West10384 1784
1789
Inauguration of the Estates General at Versailles, May 5, 1789, by Auguste Couder (1789-1873) Musée National du Château et des Trianons, Versailles 10554 1790
1791
The Death of Colonel Moorhouse at the Storming of the Pettah Gate of Bangalore, March 7th, 1791, by Robert Home (1752-1834) National Army Museum, London.7981
Adoption of the Polish Constitution, May 3rd, 1791, by Jan Matejko (1828-1893) painted in 1891, National Museum of Poland.7982 1792
Death of the Princess De Lamballe, Marie Louise of Savoy, during the September Massacres, September 3rd, 1792, painted in 1908, by Léon Maxime Faivre (1856-1941), Location TBD.7983
The Reception of the Mysorean Hostage Princes by Marquis Cornwallis, 26 February 1792, Robert Home (1752-1834), National Army Museum, London, NAM. 1976-11-86-17986 1793
Massacre de Machecoul, March 11, 1793, by Francois Flameng (1856-1923) Musée d'Art at d'Histoire de Cholet.7984
Henry Rochejacquelin at the Battle of Cholet, October 17th, 1793. 7985
The Death of Jean-Paul Marat, July 13th, 1793, by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium7987 1794
King George III and Charlotte visit Howe's flagship, the Queen Charlotte, June 26th, 1794, by Henry Perronet Briggs (1793 – 1844).7988
Distribution of milk at Saint Lazare prison, 1794, by Hubert Robert (1733-1808) painted in 1794, Sothebys Old Masters Sale, New York, 5 June 2014, Lot 89.7989
Battle of Fleurus, French army defeats the First Coalition, June 26th, 1794, painted by Jean Baptiste Mauzaisse (1784–1844), Versailles.7990 1795
The Pacification of La Vendee by the 9th Regiments of Hussards, 1795, by Charles-Alexandre Coessin de la Fosse (1829-1910) painted 1882, Musée international des hussards.7991
Phillippe Pinel unchains inhabitants of Salpetriere asylum in Paris, 1795, by Anthony Robert Fleury (1838-1912), Location TBD.7992 1796
Execution of Charette, March 26, 1796, by Julien le Blant (1851-1936) painted in 1883, Location TBD.7993 1797
1798
Battle of the Pyramids, July 21st, 1798, by François-Louis-Joseph Watteau (1758-1823), Location TBD.7957
Death of Stanislaw August Poniatowski King of Poland, Februery 12th, by Marcello Bacciarelli (1731-1818) painted after 1798.7994 1799
Napoleon Bonaparte in the coup d'etat of 18 Brumaire in Saint-Cloud, by François Bouchot (1800-1842) Château de Versailles.7995
2nd Battle of Zurich, September 25th, 1799, by Francois Bouchot (1800-1842) painted in 1837, Versailles, Galerie des Batailles.7996
Death of Tipu Sultan, May 4th, 1799, painted by Henry Singleton (1766-1839) Location TBD.7997
Bataille de Aboukir, July 25th, 1799, by Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835), painted in 1806, Château de Versailles10345
Napoleon Bonaparte visitant les pestiferes de Jaffa, 1799, March 11, by Antoine-Jean Gros10385 1800
Assassination of Kleber in Cairo, June 14th, 1800, by Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835) Strasbourg Historical Museum, MH941.7999 1801
Battle of Copenhagen, 1801 April 2.10386 1802
1803
The Last Flag Raising Ceremony - Cession of New Orleans, 1803 December 20th 10356 1804
The Coronation of Napoleon at Notre Dame Paris, December 2nd, 1804, by George Rouget (1783-1869), painted 1805-1807, Musée du Louvre.8000
First Remittance of the Legion of Honor in the Les Invalides, July 14th, 1804, by Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768-1848) painted in 1812, Château de Versailles
10346 1805
Death of Admiral Horatio Nelson, October 21st, 1805, by Arthur William Devis (1762-1822) National Maritime Museum , Greenwich.10355 1806
The Marriage of Eugene de Beauharnais and Augusta of Bavaria, January 14th, 1806, by Francois-Guillaume Menageot (1744-1816) Location TBD.8001 1807
Battle of Freidland June 14th, 1807, by Ernest Messonier (1815-1891,) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 87.20.1.8002
Meeting between Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia at Tilsitt, July 9th, 1807, by Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768-1848), Versailles.8003
The Persian Envoy Mirza Mohammed Reza Qazvini meets Napoleon at Finkenstein Castle, April 27th, 1807 by François Mulard (1769–1850), painted in 1810.8004
The Chesapeake-Leopold Affair - British ship fires on American frigate killing four, June 22, 1807, by an Unknown Artist, Location TBD10412 1808
1809
Porvoon valtiopaivat, 1809, March 15th by Emanuel Thelning10357 1810
Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise of Savoy, March 11, 1810, by Georges Rouget (1783-1869) painted in 1811, Château de Versailles, Inv. 1455.8005 1811
Battle of Tippecanoe, November 7, 1811, Lithograph printed by Kurz and Allison10413 1812
The Burning of Moscow as Napoleon's Army reached the Russian capitol, September 14th, 1812, by an unknown German artist, Location TBD10411
Brig. General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit to the British, August 16th, 1812, by Augustus Robin (active mid 19th cent.), Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1997-56-1.10414 1813
1814
Signing of Treaty of Ghent, December 24th, 1814, by Amédée Forestier 1845-1930, Smithsonian American Art Museum.8006
Napoleon returns in defeat from the Battle of Laon, March 9th, 1814, by Jean-Louis Ernest Messonier (1815-1891) Location TBD.8007
La Barriere de Clichy, 1814 March 30th, by Horace Vernet10387 1815
1816
Bombardment of Algiers, August 27th, 1816, by George Chambers Senior (1803-1840), painted in 1836 , National Maritime Museum, London, BHC0617.
10347
La Balsa de la Medusa, 1816, July 5th, by JEAN LOUIS THEODORE GERICAULT - Museo del Louvre 1818-19 10358 1817
1820
Trial of Queen Caroline, 1820 by Sir George Hayter, NPGL 999.8008 1821
Napoleon dies on Sainte Helene Island, May 5th, 1821, by Charles de Steuben (1788-1856), Location TBD.8034 1822
1830
Battle for Town Hall, Paris, July 28th, 1830, by Jean-Victor Schnetz (1787-1870) Musée du Petit Palais Paris.8009
Episode from the September Days sur la place de l'Hotel de Ville de Bruxelles, 1830, by Egide Charles Gustave Wappers (1803-1874) Royal Museum of Fine Arts Belgium.8010
Henri d'Artois inspecting royal troops, August 2nd, 1830, Musée de la Legion d'Honneur.10348 1831
Abdication of Pedro I of Portugal, April 7th, 1831, by Aurelio de Figueiredo (1854-1916) painted in 1911, Location TBD.8011 1832
1833
British House of Commons meets in St. Stephens Chapel for first session after Reform Bill passes, February 5th, 1833, by Sir George Hayter, National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG54.8012 1834
1836
Coronation of Ferdinand V as King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia in Prague Cathedral, 1836, painted by Eduard Gurk (1801-1841)8013
Surrender of Santa Anna to Sam Houston after Battle of San Jacinto, April 21st, 1836, by William Henry Huddle (1847-1892), painted in 1886, Location TBD .10349 1837
Louis-Philippe of France opening the Galerie des Batailles, June 10th, 1837, by François-Joseph Heim, Versailles.8014 1838
1840
World Anti-slavery Convention, June 12-23 1840 by Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) National Portrait Gallery, London, 599.8015
Coronation of Christian VIII of Denmark and Caroline Amalie, June 28th, 1840, painted in 1841 by Joseph-Désiré Court (1797-1865) Statens Museum for Kunst KMS606. 10350 1841
1842
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert attend a costume ball, May 12th, 1842, by Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) Royal Collection, Windsor.8016 1843
1848
Battle at Soufflot Street, June 24th, 1848, by Horace Vernet (1789-1863), Location TBD.8017
Lamartine in front of Town Hall in Paris Rejects the Red Flag, February 25th, by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux (1815-1884), Carnavalet Museum P.258.jpg8018 1849
The Battle of Novara, March 22-23rd, 1849, by Albrecht Adam (1786-1862), painted in 1858, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin.8019
The Battle of Novara, March 22-23rd, part of the First Italian War of Independence, Artist TBD, Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento, Torino.8020 1850
1854
Florence Nightingale receiving the wounded at Scutari in October, 1857, by Jerry Barrett (1824-1906) National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 6202.8021 1855
Queen Victoria's first visit to wounded soldiers at Brompton Hospital, Chatham, with Prince Albert and their sons, March 5th, 1855, by Jerry Barrett (1824-1906) painted in 1856, National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 6203.jpg8022 1856
1857
Relief of Lucknow, November 17th, during of Indian Rebellion of 1857, by Thomas Jones Barker, National Portrait Gallery, London. NPG 5851.8023 1858
Lionel de Rothschild introduced in the House of Commons, July 26th, 1858, by Henry Barraud (1811-1874), painted in 1872, The Rothschild Archive.10351 1859
1860
Lord Palmerston addressing the House of Commons during the debates on The Treaty Of France, February, 1860, by John Philip, painted in 1863, Location TBD.8024 1861
1863
The landing of Princess Alexandra at Gravesend, spouse of future Edward VII, March 7th, 1863 by Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817-1880) National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, BHC1257.8025 1864
1867
The execution of Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico, June 19th, 1867, by Edouard Manet (1832-1883), painted in 1868, Kunsthalle Mannheim.8026
Coronation of Franz Joseph and Elisabeth as King and Queen of Hungary, June 8th, 1867, by Eduard van Engerth (1818-1897) and Edmund Tull (1870-1911), Location TBD.8027 1868
1869
The Last Spike is Driven Home, completing the Transcontinental Railroad, Promontory, Utah, May 10th, 1869, by Thomas Hill, painted in 1881.8028 1870
Captured French Napoleon III with Otto von Bismarck after defeat at the Battle of Sedan September 2nd, 1870, by Wilhelm Camphausen (1818-1885), painted in 1878.10408 1871
Proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, January 18th, 1871 by Anton von Werner (1843-1915), Bismarck Museum, (3rd version 1885).8029 1872
1926
The opening of the Modern, Foreign, and Sargent Galleries at the Tate Gallery, June 26th, 1926, by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941), Tate Britain, London.8037
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