January 2025: Events and Anniversaries Preview
2 January 2025
Happy New Year, and welcome to your first akg-images preview for 2025, bursting with content ideas for the coming months and curated albums of supporting images.
January brings us World Braille Day, Penguin Awareness Day and for those feeling the effects of overindulging during the festive season, there is the option of Dry January.
Our featured source for the month is FAF Toscana - Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia managing the renowned Alinari archive, the oldest photographic collection still in existence.
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Featured story - You have undoubtedly seen our list of anniversaries and events for 2025, but if you're planning projects beyond this year you can make good use of our feature 2026 - Looking Further Ahead.
January 2025
(Exact date unknown) 1225: - Thomas Aquinas - 800th birthday anniversary
(Exact date unknown) 1425: Lorenzo Monaco - 600th anniversary of his death
2025: Bauhaus moves to Dessau - 100th anniversary
1 January: Public Domain Day - artists out of copyright in 2025
13 January: Jan Brueghel the Elder - 400th anniversary of his death
15 January: Yves Tanguy - 70th anniversary of his death
20 January: Ernesto Cardenal - 100th birthday anniversary
20 January: John Ruskin - 125th anniversary of his death
20 January: Jean-François Millet - 150th anniversary of his death
25 January: The Ardennes Offensive (Battle of the Bulge) ends - 80th anniversary
27 January: Liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp - 80th anniversary (graphic content)
27 January: Holocaust Memorial Day
27 January: Johann Gottfried Schadow - 175th anniversary of his death
29 January: Chinese New Year - Year of the Snake
29 January: Tom Selleck - 80th birthday
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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
March 2025
1 March: Women's History Month
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
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
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
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