ELD4872759: Barons Humphrey (VI) of Bohun (circa 1249-1298) and Roger Bigot opposing the policy of King Edward I of England concerning the financing of military campaigns by taxes, 1297 (Humphrey de Bohun and Roger Bigod (1245-1306), Earl of Norfolk, Lord Marshal of England, confront Edward I (1239-1305), had drawn up a series of complaints known as the Remonstrances, objecting to Edward's right to demand military service and the levels of taxation he was imposing - The confrontation threatened to plunge the kingdom into civil war, but both sides reunited against the threat from Scotland after the king's army was defeated by William Wallace at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, 1297) Illustration from “” A Chronicle-of-England”” by James Doyle, 1864 Private collection / Bridgeman Images
ELD4873130: War of roses: “” The meeting of King Edward IV and Elisabeth Woodville whom he will marry secretly in 1464” (War of roses: King Edward IV calls in at Grafton, the residence of the Duchess of Bedford and her second husband, Richard Wodeville (lord Rivers) during a hunting excursion in the forest of Wychwood - There he meets and falls in love with Lady Elizabeth Grey, the widow of Sir John Grey, a Lancastrian noble - They were later married in secret, 1464) Illustration from “” A Chronicle-of-England”” by James Doyle, 1864 Private collection / Bridgeman Images
ELD4870064: Day of the Barricades: the regente Catherine de Medicis (1519-1589) meeting Duke Henry I of Guise (1549-1588) head of the Holy League, 12/05/1588” (Henry I, Duke of Guise meets catherine de Medici on the day of the barricades, to challenge the authority of king Henry III, May 1588) Engraving from “” Les Rues-de-Paris” Pierre Zaccone 1859 Private Collection / Bridgeman Images
ELD4870878: Economic system: the speculative bubble at the time of the Law system, the agiotors of Rue Quincampoix - Under Louis XV, some brokers set up on Rue Quincampoix, under the name of bankers, to trade public papers and to make prices play up or down for their profits, around 1720 (View of the rue Quincampoix with the speculators at the time of the system of John Law, Scottish economist, developed between 1716 and 1720 in Paris) Engraving from “Les Rues-de-Paris” by Pierre Zaccone, 1859 Collection privee / Bridgeman Images
NWI4873509: Second English Revolution (Glorious Revolution of England): William III, Prince of Orange (1650-1702) (William III of England) leading the Dutch army at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland in 1690. William of Orange, later King William III of England, leading the Dutch army in England's Glorious Revolution. Hand-colored engraving / Bridgeman Images