Actualités ac261/1651

Images about ac261/1651

Interregnum (1649-1660)

Sat, 09 Apr 2016 05:06:00 GMT

Cromwell's convincing military successes at Drogheda in Ireland (1649), Dunbar in Scotland (1650) and Worcester in England (1651) forced Charles I's son, Charles, into foreign exile despite being ...


The Finding of Moses

Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:39:00 GMT

Two of these paintings were in the collection of Louis XIV and are now in the Louvre, Paris. Painted in 1651 for Benardin Reynon (1613–1686), a Lyon silk merchant, this is the last and most ...


Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 05:00:00 GMT

In 1651, Hobbes' best-known work 'Leviathan' or, 'The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil' was published. For Hobbes, the only way for man to lift himself out of his ...


The English Civil Wars: History and Stories

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 22:13:00 GMT

Charles II and the Royal Oak Find out how the future king escaped from Parliamentarian forces after the Battle of Worcester in 1651, giving English history one of its greatest adventure stories. The ...


The Great Assembly of 1651, Bartholomeus van Bassen, c. 1651

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:30:00 GMT

When Stadholder William II, son of Frederick Henry, dies at the end of 1650, most of the provinces decide after lengthy deliberations not to appoint a new stadholder on 21 August 1651. The war is over ...


The English Civil Wars

Wed, 19 May 2021 04:02:00 GMT

Find out how the future king escaped from Parliamentarian forces after the Battle of Worcester in 1651, giving English history one of its greatest adventure stories. Visit Boscobel House, where ...


Charles II (r. 1660-1685)

Sat, 16 Apr 2016 07:11:00 GMT

On 1 January 1651, the Scots crowned Charles II at Scone (this turned out to be the last such Coronation at Scone). In July, the English army marched into Fife and then captured Perth, while the ...


Diego Velázquez, 'The Toilet of Venus ('The Rokeby Venus')', 1647-51

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:25:00 GMT

It does seem to be the painting listed in a household inventory of 1651 of the Spanish painter and art dealer Domingo Guerra Coronel, where it is not said to be by Velázquez and is described simply as ...


The Navigation Laws

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:10:00 GMT

Until the middle of the 17th century, English overseas trade was negligible. Spanish and Dutch merchants dominated the markets in Europe and across the Atlantic, and controlled imports of goods into ...