12 Pictures Illustrating Modern History

King Louis XVI of France giving the Edict of Versailles

Death of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, 1785

The Imperial Divan hears news of the capture of

The fall of Ochakiv Fortress to the Russians, 18th century

Meeting of Joseph II and Frederick the Great, 1770

Ernst Gideon von Laudon in the Austro-Turkish War

Kidnap attempt on Stanislaw II Augustus, King

The devastating earthquakes in Calabria, Italy, 1783

Dutch ambassadors with Frederick William II, King

Pope Pius VI at the Hofburg, Vienna, 1782

Stanislaus II Augustus at the Permanent Council, 1789

The enthronement of Selim III, 1789