Images Dated 2007 May

Celebrations at the Opera in Paris in honour of the Franco-Russian Dual Alliance, 1893. Artist: Henri Meyer

Celebrations at the Opera in Paris in honour of the Franco-Russian Dual Alliance, 1893. Dual Alliance was a political and military pact that developed from friendly contacts in 1891 to a Military Convention in 1892 and a formal Treaty in 1894. A print fro1;C:PROGRA~1MICROS~4Office

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Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria

Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria. Franz Joseph (1830-1916) became Emperor of Austria after the Revolution of 1848 which led to the abdication of his uncle, Ferdinand I. His ultimatum to Serbia in 1914 after the assassination of his heir, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, led to the outbreak of the First World War

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Archbishop Cranmer, (1816).Artist: J Chapman

Archbishop Cranmer, (1816). Cranmer (1489-1556) was the Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of the English kings Henry VIII and Edward VI. He declared the marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon void in 1533, paving the way for the king to marry Anne Boleyn. Cranmer was instrumental in pushing through Henry's reforms to the Church. After Henry's death, he was an influential adviser to his successor, the young Edward VI. After Edward in turn died the throne passed to Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, who was determined to return England to Catholicism. Cranmer was imprisoned and tried for heresy. In 1556 he became one of the first Anglican martyrs to be burned for heresy

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