January 2023: Events and Anniversaries Preview
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Happy New Year, and welcome to your akg-images January preview tool covering January to April 2023. Each date links to an album of imagery and brief text.
There are a lot of interesting anniversaries and events happening in 2023 and you can see a list of them here. If you need to look even further ahead we have lists for 2024 and 2025 - please contact us directly for these.
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Tony Vaccaro - Celebrated photographer dies aged 100.
January 2023
(exact date unknown) 2023: Pietro Perugino - 500th anniversary of his death
4 January: Myanmar (formerly Burma) gains independence - 75th anniversary
7 January: Nikola Tesla - 80th anniversary of his death
8 January: Alfred Russel Wallace - 200th anniversary of his birth
9 January: Gracie Fields - 125th anniversary of her birth
14 January: Lewis Carroll - 125th anniversary of his death
19 January: Janis Joplin - 80th anniversary of her birth
20 January: Audrey Hepburn - 30th anniversary of her death
22 January: Chinese New Year - Year of the Rabbit
22 January: Roe vs Wade, landmark case in the USA - 50th anniversary
24 January: Vasily Ivanovich Surikov - 175th anniversary of his birth
24 January: Sharon Tate, American actress - 80th anniversary of her birth
25 January: Burns Night
26 January: Australia Day
27 January: Holocaust Memorial Day
29 January: Elihu Vedder - 100th anniversary of his death
30 January: Mahatma Gandhi - 75th anniversary of his death
30 January: National Storytelling Week UK
30 January: Hitler's seizes power - the end of the Weimar Republic - 90th anniversary
February 2023
2 February: The Battle of Stalingrad ends - 80th anniversary
2 February: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed - 175th anniversary
4 February: Alice Cooper - 75th birthday
7 February: George Washington Wilson - 200th anniversary of his birth
12 February: Darwin Day
13 February: Chuck Yeager - 100th anniversary of his birth
14 February: St Valentine's Day
16 February: Carter enters the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - 100 years
18 February: Louis Comfort Tiffany - 175th anniversary of his birth
19 February: Nicolaus Copernicus - 550th anniversary of his birth
20 February: Blaine Act ends US Prohibition - 90th anniversary
22 February: Sophie Scholl - 80th anniversary of her death
25 February: Enrico Caruso - 150th anniversary of his birth
27 February: Reichstag fire - 90th anniversary
March 2023
1 March: Women's History Month UK
2 March: World Book Day
5 March: Joseph Stalin - 70th anniversary of his death
8 March: Sir Christopher Wren - 300th anniversary of his death
8 March: International Women's Day
8 March: Holi Festival
12 March: Karl Hagemeister - 175th anniversary of his birth
14 March: Michael Caine - 90th birthday
14 March: Karl Marx - 140th anniversary of his death
16 March: Aubrey Beardsley - 125th anniversary of his death
17 March: St Patrick's Day
18 March: German revolutions of 1848-1849 - 175th anniversary
19 March: Mother's Day UK
22 March: World Water Day
22 March: George Benson - 80th birthday
22 March: Marcel Marceau - 100th anniversary of his birth
26 March: Sarah Bernhardt - 100th anniversary of her death
26 March: Daylight Savings begins, UK - clocks go forward one hour
30 March: Vincent Van Gogh - 170th anniversary of his birth
April 2023
1 April: April Fool's Day
3 April: The Marshall Plan is signed into law by President Truman- 75th anniversary
3 April: Washington Irving - 240th anniversary of his birth
5 April: Passover begins
7 April: Good Friday
7 April: James Garner - 95th anniversary of his birth
8 April: Pablo Picasso - 50th anniversary of his death
9 April: Easter Sunday
12 April: Ann Miller - 100th anniversary of her birth
18 April: Gustave Moreau - 125th anniversary of his death
19th April: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - 80th anniversary
21 April: Spanish-American War begins - 125th anniversary
22 April: Earth Day
22 April: HMS Erebus and HMS Terror are abandoned in an expedition to find Northwest Passage - 175th anniversary
23 April: St George's Day
25 April: ANZAC Day
26 April: Eugene Delacroix - 225th anniversary of his birth
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