February 2025: Events and Anniversaries Preview
3 February 2025
Welcome to your akg-images preview for February 2025, bursting with content ideas for the coming months and curated albums of supporting images.
February means it's Black History Month in the USA, and International Day of Women and Girls in Science also takes place this month. 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. You can find all the significant events in our timeline.
Our featured source for February is Peter Connolly - scholar, historian and illustrator of the ancient world.
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Featured Story - akg-images is proud to have represented the work of photographer Erich Lessing for over 30 years. We are pleased to announce that we are in the process of adding over 5,000 new images from Lessing's collections of reportage, fine arts, archaeology, religion and architecture photography to our website.
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
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March 2025
1 March: Women's History Month
4 March: Shrove Tuesday
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
25 March: John Logie Baird demonstrates moving visuals on television - 100th anniversary
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
April 2025
1 April: Battle of Okinawa begins - 80th anniversary
2 April: Pope John Paul II - 20th anniversary of his death
2 April: Giacomo Casanova - 300th birthday anniversary
5 April: Spencer Tracy - 125th birthday anniversary
5 April: Mistinguett - 150th birthday anniversary
10 April: The Great Gatsby is published - 100th anniversary
11 April: Liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps (graphic) - 80th anniversary
12 April: Josephine Baker - 50th anniversary of her death
12 April: Franklin D Roosevelt - 80th anniversary of his death
14 April: John Singer Sargent - 100th anniversary of his death
15 April: Liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (graphic) - 80th anniversary
16 April - 2 May: Battle of Berlin - 80th anniversary
17 April: Cambodian Genocide begins - 50th anniversary
17 April: Henry Fuseli - 200th anniversary of his death
18 April: Good Friday
20 April: Easter Sunday
22 April: Liberation of Sachsenhausen concentration camp - 80th anniversary
23 April: J.M.W. Turner - 250th birthday anniversary
25 April: ANZAC Day (Australia and NZ)
25 April: Al Pacino - 85th birthday
25 April: Soviet and U.S. troops meet at Torgau in Germany - 80th anniversary
26 April: Paul von Hindenburg is elected President of the German Reich - 100th anniversary
28 April: Death of Benito Mussolini - 80th anniversary
30 April: Saigon falls, ending the Vietnam War - 50th anniversary
30 April: Death of Adolph Hitler - 80th anniversary
30 April: Liberation of Ravensbrück concentration camp (graphic) - 80th anniversary
May 2025
1 May: May Day / International Worker's Day
1 May: Joseph Goebbels dies - 80th anniversary
1 May: George Inness - 200th birthday anniversary
4 May: Thomas Henry Huxley - 200th birthday anniversary
5 May: Liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp - 80th anniversary
6 - 11 May: Prague Offensive, leading to the liberation of Czechoslovakia - 80th anniversary
8 May: German Surrender and Victory in Europe (VE) Day - 80th anniversary
11 May: Mother's Day (Aus, NZ, USA, Can)
12 May: Helene Weigel - 125th birthday anniversary
13 May: Stevie Wonder - 75th birthday
13 May: Carlo Maratta - 400th birthday anniversary
13 - 17 May: Eurovision Song Contest
19 May: Malcolm X - 100th birthday anniversary
22 May: Naomi Campbell - 55th birthday
23 May: Heinrich Himmler dies - 80th anniversary
26 May: Memorial Day USA
31 May: Clint Eastwood - 95th birthday
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