November 2021: Events and Anniversaries Preview

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akg-images has created a rolling monthly email resource listing events and anniversaries 1 - 4 months in advance. Our preview tool allows easy access to pictures and information without having to wade through loads of text. ​

Following are highlights of upcoming events for November through to February. ​ We’ve also included a list of significant dates in 2022. ​ Each date links to an album of imagery and brief text. ​ At the start of each month, we’ll send an updated preview list with new links to imagery to help you stay informed & inspired.

Scroll down and click the links to access your preview. ​

You can also find daily content on Instagram and in our Newsroom.

 

November, 2021

17 November: Catherine the great - 225th anniversary of her death

20 November: Dürer's Journeys - Travels of a Renaissance Artist opens at the National Gallery

24 November: Freddie Mercury - 30th anniversary of his death

25 November: Thanksgiving 2021

28 November: Hanukkah 2021 begins at sundown

 

December, 2021

1 December: Aids Awareness Day

2 December: Otto Dix - 130th anniversary of his birth

4 December: Wassily Kandinsky - 155th anniversary of his birth

4 December - The Pill became available on the NHS - 60th anniversary

5 December: Konstantin Korovin - 160th anniversary of his birth

6 December: Signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty - 100th anniversary

7 December: Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour - 80th anniversary

10 December: First Nobel Prizes awarded - 120th anniversary

13 December: Franz von Lenbach - 185th anniversary of his birth

16 December: Camille Saint-Saëns - 100th anniversary of his death

25 December: Christmas Day. ​ See our gallery of contemporary Christmas images

and our gallery of vintage Christmas images.

25 December: Collapse of the USSR - 30th anniversary

30 December: El Lissitzky - 80th anniversary of his death

31 December: New Year's Eve

 

Looking ahead to 2022, and some significant event and anniversaries

Barbarossa: 900th anniversary of his birth

Dead Sea Scrolls are discovered- 75th anniversary

16 July: Roald Amundsen - 150th anniversary of his birth

28 July: Marcel Duchamp - 135th anniversary of his birth

15 August: Independence of India - 75th anniversary

31 August: Diana, Princess of Wales - 25th anniversary of her death

6 September: Magellan's 'Victoria' circumnavigates the world - 500th anniversary

7 September: Independence of Brazil - 200th anniversary

10 September: Otto Haekel - 150th anniversary of his birth

12 October: Columbus reaches the Americas - 530th anniversary

16 October: Cuban Missile Crisis - 60th anniversary

2 November: Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's tomb - 100th anniversary

27 December: Louis Pasteur - 200th anniversary of his birth

 

January, 2022

3 January: Pola Negri - 125th anniversary of her birth

5 January: Sir Ernest Shackleton - 100th anniversary of his death

8 January: David Bowie - 75th anniversary of his birth

15 January: Molière - 400th anniversary of his birth

20 January: Wansee Conference - 80th anniversary

23 January: Edouard Manet - 190th anniversary of his birth

25 January: Ivan Shishkin - 190th anniversary of his birth

25 January: Burns Night

26 January: Kees van Dongen - 145th anniversary of his birth

27 Janurary: Holocaust Memorial Day

30 January: National Storytelling Week

 

February, 2022

1 February: Chinese New Year

6 February: King George VI - 70th anniversary of his death

6 February: Queen Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant - 70th anniversary

8 February: Mary Queen of Scots - 435th anniversary of her death

12 February: National Charles Darwin Day

14 February: St Valentine's Day

25 February: Abolition of Prussia - 75th anniversary

27 February: Elizabeth Taylor - 90th anniversary of her birth

28 February: Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence - 100th anniversary

 

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