January 2024: Events and Anniversaries Preview

Welcome to your akg-images January preview, full of content ideas for the coming months through to April 2024, with albums of supporting images. 

Happy New Year to everyone! Best wishes for the year ahead, and we look forward to seeing the wonderful ways in which you use our images this year. In case you missed it, here is our full year of events and anniversaries for 2024.

You can find the preview in our Newsroom along with other stories, and you can connect with us on Instagram and LinkedIn where we regularly share useful content.

 

Featured Story: Marco Polo - 700th anniversary of the death of the Venetian traveller.


January 2024

1 January: Public Domain Day: see our list of works entering the public domain

7 January: Francis Poulenc - 125th birthday anniversary

7 January: Jozef Israëls - 200th birthday anniversary

8 January: Marco Polo - 700th anniversary of his death

12 January: Jean Beraud - 175th birthday anniversary

13 January: Roland Petit - 100th birthday anniversary

17 January: Al Capone - 125th birthday anniversary

17 January: Michelle Obama - 60th birthday

21 January: Vladimir Lenin - 100th anniversary of his death

23 January: Salvador Dali - 35th anniversary of his death

23 January: Edvard Munch - 80th anniversary of his death

25 January: Burns Night

26 January: Théodore Géricault - 200th anniversary of his death

27 January: Siege of Leningrad ends - 80th anniversary (graphic content)

27 January: Holocaust Memorial Day

27 January: National Storytelling Week


February 2024

1 February: Piet Mondrian - 80th anniversary of his death

3 February: Gertrude Stein - 150th birthday anniversary

3 February: Woodrow Wilson - 100th anniversary of his death

6 February: Ramon Novarro - 125th birthday anniversary

8 February: Fern Andra - 50th anniversary of her death

10 February: Chinese New Year - Year of the Dragon

10 February: Shirley Temple Black - 10th anniversary of her death

12 February: Darwin Day

13 February: Shrove Tuesday

14 February: Valentine's Day

15 February: Sir Ernest Shackleton - 150th birthday anniversary

19 February: Lee Marvin - 100th birthday anniversary

20 February: Gloria Vanderbilt - 100th birthday anniversary

21 February: Dirck van Baburen - 400th anniversary of his death

24 February: Franz Skarbina - 175th birthday anniversary


March 2024

1 March: Women's History Month UK

2 March: World Book Day

2 March: Bedrich Smetana - 200th birthday anniversary

8 March: International Women's Day

9 March: Yuri Gagarin - 90th birthday anniversary

10 March: Mother's Day UK

10 March: Ramadan begins

17 March: St Patrick's Day

22 March: World Water Day

24 March: Harry Houdini - 150th birthday anniversary

25 March: Yehudi Menuhin - 25th anniversary of his death

25 March: Holi Festival

27 March: Sarah Vaughan - 100th birthday anniversary

29 March: Terracotta Army unearthed in Xian, China - 50th anniversary

29 March: Good Friday

31 March: Easter Sunday

31 March: British Summer Time begins - clocks go forward by one hour


April 2024

1 April: April Fool's Day

2 April: Georges Pompidou - 50th anniversary of his death

3 April: Marlon Brando - 100th birthday anniversary

4 April: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating NATO - 75th anniversary

6 April: ABBA win Eurovision Song Contest with "Waterloo" - 50th anniversary

9 April: Frank Lloyd Wright - 65th anniversary of his death

14 April: Louis Sullivan - 100th anniversary of his death

17 April: Peter Doig - 65th birthday

19 April: Lord Byron - 200th anniversary of his death

22 April: Immanuel Kant - 300th birthday anniversary

22 April: Passover begins

22 April: Richard Nixon - 30th anniversary of his death

25 April: ANZAC Day

29 April: Zizi Jeanmaire - 100th birthday anniversary

 

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