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The Morning of 10 Thermidor Year II depicts a wounded Maximilien Robespierre on the last morning of his life, jaw shattered, lying on the centered table. He and his allies would be executed later that day. Oil on canvas...

Uprising of 1 Prairial Year III (20 May 1795) against the policies of the Thermidorian Reaction during the later stages of the French Revolution (1789-1799). Here, the insurrectionists wave the severed head of Jean-Bertrand...

Boissy d'Anglas saluting the head of deputy Féraud, 1st Prairal Year III (20 May 1795), during the Prairial Uprising. Although d'Anglas is depicted in this painting, the president...

New Year's Image, Persepolis

Insurrection on 1 Prairial Year III (20 May 1795), engraving by Isidore Stanislas Helman and Jean Duplessis-Bertaux after Charles Monnet, 1796. National Library of France, Paris.

Revolt of 13 Vendémiaire Year IV (5 October 1795), the battle between royalist insurrectionists and French Republican soldiers under General Napoleon Bonaparte is taken to the Saint-Roch...

General Napoleon Bonaparte's guns fire into a mob of royalist insurrectionists during the Revolt of 13 Vendémiaire Year IV (5 October 1795), the famous "whiff of grapeshot". Drawing by Felician...

This map depicts the boundaries of all major civilizations in East Asia at the beginning of the Three Kingdoms Period of China, with italics indicating nomadic bands and other tribal...

This map shows the boundaries of all major civilizations in East Asia at the beginning of the first millennium, with italics indicating nomadic bands and other tribal societies.

This fragment of a clay tablet mentions certain formulas of naming years depending on major historical events. From Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. Early dynastic period, 2800-2300 BCE. The Sulaimaniya Museum...