December 2021: Events and Anniversaries Preview

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. ​

We apologise if you see a few links to missing imagery. We're in the midst of a hardware update at akg-HQ. ​ If you come across a problem, try logging in to your akg-images account, or get in touch and we will provide the missing imagery. Thanks for your understanding while we sort it out.

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.

Featured stories:

Then and Now - A Journey Through the Centuries ​ ​

The Psychology of Colours

Oil - Blessing and Curse

 

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

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

31 December: New Year's Eve

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

 

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

25 January: Burns Night

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

27 January: Holocaust Memorial Day

30 January: National Storytelling Week

 

February 2022

1 February: Chinese New Year

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

12 February: ​ Darwin Day

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

 

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: World Book Day

3 March: World Wildlife 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

17 March: St Patrick's Day

18 March: Holi Festival

22 March: William I, German Emperor - 225th anniversary of his birth

22 March: Virginia Di Castiglione - 185th anniversary of her birth

22 March: World Water Day

25 March: Elton John - 75th birthday

31 March: Fritzi Massary - 140th anniversary of her birth

 

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