Name That Historical Event

**Sir Adrian** · February 12, 2021, 04:15 PM

The burning of the church at Lantin by Charles the Bold?

**Muizer** · February 12, 2021, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by Sir Adrian

The burning of the church at Lantin by Charles the Bold?

Alas no. Bit further north and decade or two later.

**Flinn** · February 15, 2021, 05:54 AM

I suppose that a hint would be appreciated at this stage

**Muizer** · February 16, 2021, 03:28 AM

It concerns an incident that happened during the Utrecht wars (1481-83). It wasn't of any particular historical consequence, but is remembered because it was popularized in historical fiction in the 19th century.

**lolIsuck** · February 20, 2021, 05:52 PM

Jan van Schaffelaar jumping off the tower of Barneveld's church so his besieged troops would be spared. Never heard of the story but wasn't that hard to find with the hints. According to the story he even survived the fall but was quickly beaten to death by his opponents.

**Muizer** · February 21, 2021, 03:30 AM

That's it.

**lolIsuck** · February 21, 2021, 01:27 PM

**Muizer** · February 21, 2021, 04:19 PM

It's the battle of Worringen. But this one's been posted before (by me) in the Name that Battle thread, so perhaps you should pick another one?

**lolIsuck** · February 21, 2021, 05:07 PM

Don't really want to but ok:

**Muizer** · February 22, 2021, 06:47 AM

Ok ..... Well that the distinctive profile of Joop den Uyl, then Minister of economic affairs of the Netherlands. This photo was taken in 1965, in Heerlen, where he held a speech announcing the closing of the coal mines.

**lolIsuck** · February 22, 2021, 04:38 PM

It is indeed Den Uyl's historic speech announcing the closure of the coal mines in the Stadsschouwburg in Heerlen. In that speech a promise was made that no job would be lost, a promise which was broken as they only created a fraction of the estimated 75,000 jobs lost. The region fell from one of the wealthiest in the 1950s to one of the poorest and has never fully recovered.

**Muizer** · February 23, 2021, 03:10 AM

Solution should include who the people on the left of the image are.

**Abdülmecid I** · February 23, 2021, 04:12 AM

Bonaparte presents the Treaty of Campo-Formio to the Directory (on the left). Its members were Barras, Reubell, Neufchâteau, Merlin and Révellière-Lépaux.

**Muizer** · February 23, 2021, 05:22 AM

Aye, your turn.

**Abdülmecid I** · February 23, 2021, 05:33 AM

**skh1** · February 23, 2021, 10:06 AM

The execution of the 26 Baku commissars.

**Abdülmecid I** · February 23, 2021, 10:27 AM

Indeed! Quite a controversial affair that soured the relations between Britain, suspected to be responsible for the mass execution, and the Soviet Union.

**skh1** · February 23, 2021, 10:34 AM

Thank you!
What rather adorable incident is depicted here?

**Grymloq** · February 23, 2021, 11:02 AM

USS Independence and Italian Navy Training Ship Amerigo Vespucci in 1962?

**skh1** · February 23, 2021, 11:22 AM

Correct! In 1962, while the USS Independence was on patrol in the Mediterranean, it encountered the Italian sailing ship the Amerigo Vespucci. The ensuing conversation was conducted by signal lamp:

USS Independence: "Who are you?"
Amerigo Vespucci: "Training ship Amerigo Vespucci, Italian Navy."
USS Independence: "You are the most beautiful ship in the world."

Commissioned in 1931, the Amerigo Vespucci remains on active duty to this day while the USS Independence, commissioned in 1959, was struck from the lists in 1998, moth-balled, and finally scrapped in 2019.