Art: • Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721): La danse champêtre (c.1706-10)
Category: Year
1705
Deaths: • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705)
1704
Art: • Giordano, Luca (1634-1705): Giuditta mostra la testa di Oloferne (1703-04)
1702
1701
1762
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) Events: • Pinacoteca Nazionale founded in Bologna. Births: • María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba (1762-1802) Music: • Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) Art: • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Mercure et Argus (1761-62) •…
1137
Architecture: • The Église Notre-Dame de l’Assomption is built in Auvers-sur-Oise (1137-1227).
183 BC
Deaths: • Scipio Africanus, Publius Cornelius (236-183 BC)
236 BC
Births: • Scipio Africanus, Publius Cornelius (236-183 BC)
1612
Rulers: • James I, King of England and Ireland (1603-1625) • James VI, King of Scotland (1567-1625) Births: • Post, Frans (1612-1680) • Uylenburgh, Saskia van (1612-1642) Deaths: • Rudolf II (1552-1612) Literature: • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): The Tempest (1612) Architecture: • Jardin du Luxembourg (Paris) Art: •…