December 2021: Events and Anniversaries Preview
6 December 2021
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Moving into the final month of 2021 - welcome to the December Preview tool from akg-images.
Following are highlights of upcoming events for December through to March. We’ve also included a few topical features and a list of significant dates in 2022. Each date links to an album of imagery and brief text.
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We will be sending a preview of events up to 2025 in the new year for those, particularly in book publishing, who need to plan further ahead.
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December 2021
6 December: Signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty - 100th anniversary
7 December: Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour - 80th anniversary
10 December: Alfred Nobel - 125th anniversary of his death
10 December: First Nobel Prizes awarded - 120th anniversary
11 December: UNICEF is founded - 75th anniversary
13 December: Franz von Lenbach - 185th anniversary of his birth
16 December: Camille Saint-Saëns - 100th anniversary of his death
18 December: Steven Spielberg - 75th birthday
20 December: It's A Wonderful Life is released in New York - 75th anniversary
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
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Looking ahead to 2022, and some significant events and anniversaries
Barbarossa: 900th anniversary of his birth
Dead Sea Scrolls are discovered- 75th anniversary
4 May: Juan de Valdés Leal - 400th anniversary of his birth
18 May: Bertrand Russell - 150th anniversary of his birth
17 June: Watergate scandal - 50th anniversary
25 June: Jacques Cousteau - 25th anniversary of his death
16 July: Roald Amundsen - 150th anniversary of his birth
28 July: Marcel Duchamp - 135th anniversary of his birth
2 August: Alexander Graham Bell - 100th anniversary of his death
15 August: Independence of India - 75th anniversary
31 August: Diana, Princess of Wales - 25th anniversary of her death
5 September: Mother Theresa - 25th anniversary of her death
5 - 6 September: Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics - 50th anniversary
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
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January 2022
1 January Maurice Chevalier - 50th anniversary of his death
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
12 January: HMS Victory dry docked at Portsmouth - 100th anniversary
15 January: Molière - 400th anniversary of his birth
16 January: The Cavern Club opened in Liverpool - 65th anniversary
17 January: Muhammed Ali - 80th anniversary of his birth
20 January: Wansee Conference - 80th anniversary
23 January: Edouard Manet - 190th anniversary of his birth
25 January: Virginia Woolf - 140th anniversary of her birth
25 January: Ivan Shishkin - 190th anniversary of his birth
26 January: Kees van Dongen - 145th anniversary of his birth
27 January: Holocaust Memorial Day
30 January: National Storytelling Week
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February 2022
2 February: James Joyce - 140th anniversary of his birth
6 February: King George VI - 70th anniversary of his death
6 February: Queen Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant - 70th anniversary
7 February: Charles Dickens - 210th anniversary of his birth
8 February: Mary Queen of Scots - 435th anniversary of her death
11 February: Thomas Edison - 175th anniversary of his birth
14 February: St Valentine's Day
16 February: Francis Galton - 200th anniversary of his birth
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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March 2022
c. March: Harriet Tubman - 200th anniversary of her birth (exact date in March unknown)
1 March: Women's History Month
1 March: Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras / Pancake Day
3 March: Alexander Graham Bell - 175th anniversary of his birth
7 March: Piet Mondrian - 150th anniversary of his birth
8 March: International Women's Day
9 March: Carrie Chapman Catt - 75th anniversary of her death
10 March: Gandhi arrested for sedition - 100th anniversary
16 March: Rosa Bonheur - 200th anniversary of her birth
22 March: William I, German Emperor - 225th anniversary of his birth
22 March: Virginia Di Castiglione - 185th anniversary of her birth
25 March: Elton John - 75th birthday
31 March: Fritzi Massary - 140th anniversary of her birth
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