Kim Lim
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Global
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Benjamin West
Jacob Bogdani
Antonio Verrio
Europe
Isaac Oliver
Hans Eworth
Marcus Gheeraerts II
Anthony van Dyck
Britain
Peter Lely
Willem van de Velde
Alexander Keirincx
Jan Griffier
Benedetto Gennari
Jan Siberechts
Jacob Epstein
Alfred Wolmark
John Singer Sargent
Francesco Zuccarelli
Louis Francois Roubiliac
Simon du Bois
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Giovanni Batista Cipriani
Francesco Bartolozzi
Canaletto
Angelica Kauffman
Agostino Carlini
Dominic Serres
Joseph Van Aken
Johan Zoffany
Alphonse Legros
Jacob Kramer
László Moholy-Nagy
Mona Hatoum
Naum Gabo
Peter Peri
Siegfried Charoux Oskar Kokoschka
Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky Jankel Adler
Gustav Metzger Kurt Schwitters
James Tissot
Hans Feibusch
William Rothenstein
Keith Piper
Europe
Piet Mondrian
Zineb Sedira
Sonia Boyce
Black Audio Film Collective
Steve McQueen
Rosalind Nashashibi
Donald Rodney
Isaac Rosenberg
David Bomberg Mark Gertler
Nathaniel Dance-Holland
Cornelius Johnson
Global
Francis Alys
Britain
Religious refugees
expelled from Catholic
Flanders for heresy
The Spanish Armada defeated
by the English fleet
Re-imposition of
Catholic Habsburg
rule in the
Netherlands
Peace of Westphalia
ends years of European
religious wars
Anglo-Spanish War
French Wars of Religion
1500
80 Years War between Spain and Dutch Republic
Protestant
Reformation
1525
1550
HENRY VIII
EDWARD VI
MARY I
PHILIP
American Declaration
of Independence
30 Years War
1575
ELIZABETH I
1600
JAMES I (JAMES VI OF SCOTLAND)
1625
1650
CHARLES I
Hans Holbein appointed
court painter
RICHARD CROMWELL
CHARLES II
Revocation of the
Edict of Nantes
JAMES II
1700
1725
WILLIAM III
MARY II
GEORGE I
War of Austrian
Succession
GEORGE II
1750
Seven Years' War.
The first global conflict
1775
Execution of Louis XVI
of France
Treaty of Amiens
French Revolution
French
Revolutionary Wars
British victory for
Wellington over
Napoleon at the
Battle of Waterloo
1800
Napoleonic Wars
England becomes a
refuge for Protestants
Union of the Crowns
Migrant artists
commissioned
by Charles I as
court painters
Rubens commissioned by
Charles I to paint the ceiling
of Banqueting House
Catholic nobility
flee to France Execution of Charles I.
England becomes a
republican commonwealth
Restoration of
the monarchy
Exiled nobility
returns to England
Charles II offers
sanctuary to French
Huguenots
Glorious Revolution. James II
flees England. Establishes
court in France
Great Britain formed
after Acts of Union
William Hogarth publishes
a defence of English art
against foreign rivals
Franco-Prussian
War
Irish potato famine
Seige of Paris
1825
GEORGE III
Revolutions in
Belgium, France,
Greece, Poland
Series of political upheavals
throughout Europe
1850
Crimean War
American
Civil War
1875
VICTORIA
English Civil War
Dissolution of
the monasteries
Act of Supremacy. Henry VIII
declared supreme head of
the Church of England
OLIVER CROMWELL
1675
American
Revolutionary War
Hitler becomes
Chancellor of
Germany
British victory for
Nelson over
Napoleon at the
Battle of Trafalgar
Foundation of the
Royal Academy of Arts.
A third of the founding
members are migrants
Aliens Act regulates
immigration
Slave trade
abolished in Britain
Period of famine and chronic unemployment
following Napoleonic Wars
Launch of first
public steam
railway service
Launch of first
British Atlantic
crossing steamship,
SS Great Western
Commonwealth
founded
1900
First World
War
EDWARD VII
Great Exhibition showcases the
technological advancements of
Britain and the wealth of its empire
Refugees flee to Britain.
Monet and Pissaro take
refuge in London
Rise of the British Empire.
Queen Victoria becomes
Empress of India
GEORGE V
Aliens Act introduces
immigration controls
1925
Nazi Degenerate Art
exhibition in Munich
condemns avant-garde
artists’ work
Collapse of Lehman
Brothers helps trigger
global financial crisis
United Nations
founded
Germany invades
Poland
Germany occupies
much of Europe
Second World
War
EDWARD VIII
GEORGE VI
Artists Refugee Committee
formed to help artists
escape from Nazi Germany
Tim Burners-Lee
invents the
World Wide Web
Indian
Independence
from Britain
1950
Berlin Wall erected,
dividing East and
West Germany
Neil Armstrong
is the first man
on the moon
Fall of the
Berlin Wall
1975
Al-Qaeda attacks the
World Trade Centre,
New York City and The
Pentagon, Washington
Dissolution of
the Soviet Union
2000
Barack Obama is the
first African-American
to become President
of the United States
Revolution and protest
across the Middle East
and North Africa
ELIZABETH II
British Nationality Act gives
British citizenship to people
from the Commonwealth
First terminal at London
Heathrow airport to handle
long-haul flights opens
Empire Windrush brings
first large group of
Caribbean immigrants
Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’
speech objects to the number
of immigrants arriving in Britain
Margaret Thatcher
becomes Britain’s first
female Prime Minister
Racial and social
tension spark riots
in Brixton (London)
Riots in Handsworth
(Birmingham), Southall
(London), Toxteth (Liverpool)
and across the country
Riots in Brixton
Economic recession
leads to over 3
million unemployed
Riots and looting in
London and other
cities in Britain
Inaugural
Black Art
Convention
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