December 2024: Events and Anniversaries Preview
2 December 2024
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Welcome to your akg-images December preview, brimming with content ideas for the coming months and curated albums of supporting images.
The final month of 2024 brings us AIDS Awareness Day, World Wildlife Conservation Day, and St Nicholas Day, as well as the festive season.
Our featured source for the month is Science Source, with an impressive and diverse collection of scientific and medical images in all fields, images from the natural and life sciences and social history.
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Christmas and New Year hours: our office will be closed from 6pm on 24th December and reopen at 9am on 2nd January 2025 (GMT).
Featured story - Gustav Caillebotte: Painting Men
The Getty Museum presents a major exhibition from 25 February - 25 May 2025. The exhibition focuses on Gustav Caillebotte's depiction of male figures, painting them with an exceptional, modern approach, distinguishing him from his Impressionist peers.
December 2024
2 December: John Cobb - 125th birthday anniversary
7 December: Mario Soares - 100th birthday anniversary
9 December: Dame Judi Dench - 90th birthday
13 December: Wassily Kandinsky - 80th anniversary of his death
14 December: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - 200th birthday anniversary
14 December: George Washington - 225th anniversary of his death
16 December: Battle of the Bulge begins - 80th anniversary
16 December: Noël Coward - 125th birthday anniversary
17 December: Domenico Cimarosa - 275th birthday anniversary
23 December: Karl Bryullov - 225th birthday anniversary
24 December: Vasco da Gama - 500th anniversary of his death
25 December: Christmas Day - contemporary or classic
25 December - 2 January: Hannukah
25 December: Annie Lennox - 70th birthday
26 December: Julie Wolfthorn - 80th anniversary of her death
28 December: Léon Bakst - 100th anniversary of his death
31 December: New Year's Eve
January 2025
(Exact date unknown) 1225: - Thomas Aquinas - 800th birthday anniversary
2025: Bauhaus moves to Dessau - 100th anniversary
1 January: Public Domain Day
13 January: Jan Brueghel the Elder - 400th anniversary of his death
15 January: Yves Tanguy - 70th anniversary of his death
20 January: Ernesto Cardenal - 100th birthday anniversary
20 January: John Ruskin - 125th anniversary of his death
20 January: Jean-François Millet - 150th anniversary of his death
25 January: The Ardennes Offensive (Battle of the Bulge) ends - 80th anniversary
27 January: Liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp - 80th anniversary (graphic content)
27 January: Holocaust Memorial Day
27 January: Johann Gottfried Schadow - 175th anniversary of his death
29 January: Chinese New Year - Year of the Snake
29 January: Tom Selleck - 80th birthday
February 2025
4 February: Yalta Conference begins - 80th anniversary
6 February: Bob Marley - 80th birthday anniversary
8 February: Peter I of Russia - 300th anniversary of his death
9 February: Gerrit Dou - 350th anniversary of his death
10 February: Arthur Miller - 20th anniversary of his death
12 February: Darwin Day
13 February: Bombing of Dresden commences - 80th anniversary (graphic content)
14 February: Valentine's Day
16 February: Keith Haring - 35th anniversary of his death
19 February - 26th March: Battle of Iwo Jima
21 February: Malcolm X - 60th anniversary of his death
22 February: (Jean-Baptiste) Camille Corot - 150th anniversary of his death
22 February to 4 March: Venice Carnival
24 February: Battle of Pavia - 500th anniversary
24 February: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor - 525th birthday anniversary
28 February – 30 March: Ramadan
28 February: Friedrich Ebert - 100th anniversary of his death
March 2025
1 March: Women's History Month
6 March: Michelangelo - 550th birthday anniversary
6 March: World Book Day
7 March: Selma to Montgomery March begins - 60th anniversary
7 March: Maurice Ravel - 150th birthday anniversary
7 March: Tomáš Masaryk - 175th birthday anniversary
8 March: International Women's Day
10 - 11 March: Bombing of Tokyo
11 March: Heinrich Mann - 75th anniversary of his death
14 March: Holi Festival
15 March: Aristotle Onassis - 50th anniversary of his death
16 March - 15 April: Vienna Offensive
17 March: St Patrick's Day
26 March: Pierre Boulez - 100th birthday anniversary
30 March: Mother's Day UK
30 March: British Summer Time begins - clocks go forward one hour.
30 March: Eric Clapton - 80th birthday
31 March: Bernhard Heisig - 100th birthday anniversary
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