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🇫🇷 Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France, ca. 1890s, photochrome. The abbey on this small tidal island was founded over 1000 years ago. This island remained unconquered during The Hundred Year's War.
🇸🇪 Gustav Vasa make his formal entry to Stockholm in 1523 and is celebrated as King. This was directly after the conquest of Stockholm, a battle in the Swedish War of Liberation that took place in Stockholm, Sweden on 17 June 1523. The Swedish forces had for a long time laid siege to Stockholm, which was the last Danish stronghold in Sweden. Initially of low standing, Gustav rose to lead the rebel movement against the Danes following the Stockholm Bloodbath, where his father was executed. Gustav's election as King on 6 June 1523 and his triumphant entry into Stockholm eleven days later marked Sweden's final secession from the Kalmar Union
🎶 Children singing Christmas carols to the strain of a violin outside a house. December 1924
🇬🇧 British children being evacuated from London to the countryside during the Blitz, 1940s
🇫🇷 A Coca-Cola delivery truck on the streets of Paris, with Notre Dame cathedral in the background, 1950s
May 19, 1536: Anne Boleyn, second wife of English King Henry VIII, is beheaded at the Tower of London on sketchy charges of adultery and treason after failing to produce a son and heir for the king. The king then went on to have four more successive wives in his quest for a son.
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🇵🇹 A man on the streets of Lisbon, Portugal with a performing goat 🐐 and monkey 🐒 c. 1930s
Viking seige of Paris (19th century illustration). The sack of Paris in 845 was the culmination of a Viking invasion of France led by a Norse chieftain named Ragnar, who pillaged the city.
