1. Countries Without a King History 104 / January 23, 2013

3. Amsterdam in 1640 (south = top)

4. Amsterdam’s town hall

5. Amsterdam home (1615)

6. Amsterdam mansion on the Heerengracht (the city’s grandest street)

7. The old stock exchange in Amsterdam

8. The Dutch East India fleet returns, 1599

9. A Dutch vessel of the 17th Century

10. Dutch map of the East Indies

11. Batavia, the “capital” of VOC operations in Asia

12. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) Self-Portrait (1640)

13. Rembrandt, The Feast of Belshazzar (ca. 1635)

14. Rembrandt, The Shipbuilder Jan Rijcksen and his Wife Griet Jans (1633)

15. Rembrandt, The Syndics of the Clothmakers’ Guild (1662)

16. Rembrandt, the “night watch” painting (1642)

17. James I King of England, 1603-1625

18. The “gunpowder plot” (Nov. 5, 1605 = Guy Fawkes Day)

19. Charles I King of England, 1625-1649

20. A “cavalier”

21. “Roundheads” “Horrible Histories” perform The English Civil War

22. Charles I on trial (1649)

23. Charles I executed

24. Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector, 1653- 58