Countries Without a King History 104 / January 23, 2013
Amsterdam in 1640 (south = top)
Amsterdam’s town hall
Amsterdam home (1615)
Amsterdam mansion on the Heerengracht (the city’s grandest street)
The old stock exchange in Amsterdam
The Dutch East India fleet returns, 1599
A Dutch vessel of the 17th Century
Dutch map of the East Indies
Batavia, the “capital” of VOC operations in Asia
Rembrandt van Rijn ( ) Self-Portrait (1640)
Rembrandt, The Feast of Belshazzar (ca. 1635)
Rembrandt, The Shipbuilder Jan Rijcksen and his Wife Griet Jans (1633)
Rembrandt, The Syndics of the Clothmakers’ Guild (1662)
Rembrandt, the “night watch” painting (1642)
James I King of England,
The “gunpowder plot” (Nov. 5, 1605 = Guy Fawkes Day)
Charles I King of England,
A “cavalier”
“Roundheads” “Horrible Histories” perform The English Civil War
Charles I on trial (1649)
Charles I executed
Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector,