GIA4709435: Balkan troubles - The major European powers represented by Britain, France (Armand Fallieres), Russia (Nicholas II), Germany (William II) and Austro-Hungary are trying to stifle conflicts in the Balkans by closing the lid of the boiling pot at the time of the crisis in 1912. English satirical cartoon from “Punch” 1912. / Bridgeman Images
ELD4867361: Heresie of the Templars: representation of a ceremony of entry of a knight into the order of the temple, the Templar being, according to the confessions published after their arrest and trial in 1307, forced to deny Christ and to trample the cross during an initiation rite of the order of the temple after the confessions of the templars published after their trial in 1307) Engraving from “Les mysteres de la Franc-Maconnerie” by Leo Taxil (1854-1907), 1887 Collection privee, Mejanel, Pierre (b.c.1850) / Bridgeman Images
ELD4850488: Jules Cesar crosses the river of Rubicon with his legions in arms on January 10, 49 BC in the footsteps of Pompee the Great (Gneo Pompeo Magno or Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, 106-48 BC) and violates the law of the Roman Senate which prohibited a Roman general from crossing the border river of Cisalpine Gaul - Crossing the river, Jules Cesar prononca The famous formula Alea jacta est”” (Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) Crossing the Rubicon in 49 BC from Cisalpine Gaul to Italy to make his way to Rome - Caesar uttered the famous phrase alea iacta est (“the die has been cast”)) Illustration by Tancredi Scarpelli (1866-1937) from “Storia d'Italia” (History of Italy) by Paolo Giudici, 1930 Private Collection, Scarpelli, Tancredi (1866-1937) / Bridgeman Images