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Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog (1580-1621) made landfall on the Eendracht on 25 October 1616 at Shark Bay on Australia’s west coast, 850 kilometres (528 miles) north of Perth. He nailed a pewter dish at Cape Inscription to announce he and his...

Chart of the Malay Archipelago and the Dutch discoveries in Australia by Dutch cartographer Hessel Gerritsz (1581–1632).

Map of the route of Willem Janszoon's (c. 1570-c. 1630) expedition 1605-1606. The Dutch explorer made landfall at Pennefather River, near modern-day Weipa on the west coast of the Cape York peninsula (northern Queensland, Australia) on 26...

Willem Janszoon's (c. 1570-c. 1630) ship, the Duyfken, in the Gulf of Carpentaria (northern Queensland, Australia). Artist impression 19th century.

Maximilian Simonischek as the Swiss reformer Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) in the movie Zwingli (2019). © Ascot Elite

A 17th-century portrait of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) leader of the Parliamentarians during the English Civil Wars (1642-51) and Lord Protector after the execution of Charles I of England (r. 1625-1649). (Private collection)

A map of the local geographic features and initial troop dispositions of the battle of Preston in August 1648. The running battle, one of the key engagements of the English Civil Wars (1642-51), occurred over several days and ended in the...

The Neo-Assyrian Empire emerged out of a renewed phase of Assyrian state-building in northern Mesopotamia, transforming an earlier regional kingdom into a powerful, expansionist empire. Beginning with rulers such as Adad-nirari II (reign...

The Sealed Knot re-enactment group firing a cannon type typical of the artillery in the English Civil Wars (1642-51).

An early 17th-century illustration by Johann Jacob von Wallhausen showing the tactics of batteries of siege artillery to fire upon a specific point in the defensive fortifications.