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4 giorni fa · Plan of the main floor ( c.1837, with north to the right), showing the Hall of Mirrors in red, the Hall of Battles in green, the Royal Chapel in yellow, and the Royal Opera in blue. The Palace of Versailles is a visual history of French architecture from the 1630s to the 1780s.
4 giorni fa · Signature. Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great ( Louis le Grand) or the Sun King ( le Roi Soleil ), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign. [1] [a] Although Louis XIV's France was emblematic ...
2 giorni fa · In numerous pamphlets and parliamentary speeches between 1675 and 1678, "popery and arbitrary government" were decried for fear of the loss of English liberties and freedoms. Charles was presented with the first pineapple grown in England in 1675. Painting by Hendrick Danckerts.
1 giorno fa · Solimano I, detto " il Magnifico " (tra gli occidentali) o Kanuni (tra i turchi ), ovvero il Legislatore [1] (in turco moderno: I. Süleyman; in turco ottomano: سليمان, Sulaymān; Trebisonda, 6 novembre 1494 – Szigetvár, 6 settembre 1566 ), fu sultano e padiscià dell' Impero ottomano dal 1520 fino alla sua morte, e uno dei monarchi ...
3 giorni fa · Gaspard Dughet (born June 15, 1615, Rome, Papal States [Italy]—died May 25, 1675, Rome) was a landscape painter of the Baroque period known for his topographic views of the Roman Campagna. He worked chiefly in Rome and its vicinity throughout his life, but, because his father was French, it is usual to class him among the French ...
5 giorni fa · In 1675, a dreadful pestilential disease, called "the jolly rant," raged in Newcastle and its vicinity, whereof 924 persons died. In 1676, Henry Cavendish succeeded his father William, in the title of Duke of Newcastle.
3 giorni fa · GLOUCESTER 1660–1720. The restoration of Charles II in May 1660 was celebrated at Gloucester with a display of official rejoicing. Wine ran out of the conduits and there were fireworks at night, (fn. 1) but the city had much to fear from the collapse of the parliamentary cause and the first years of the new reign were certainly inauspicious.
