July 2022: Events and Anniversaries Preview

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July 2022

2 July: Pierre Cardin - 100th anniversary of his birth

4 July: Independence Day, USA

6 July: Frida Kahlo - 115th anniversary of her birth

7 July: Marc Chagall - 135th anniversary of his birth

8 July: Percy Bysshe Shelley - 200th anniversary of his death

11 July: George Gershwin - 85th anniversary of his death

14 July: Bastille Day

14 July: Gustav Klimt - 160th anniversary of his birth

15 July: Barbara Stanwyck - 115th anniversary of her birth

16 July: Roald Amundsen - 150th anniversary of his birth

20 July: Gregor Mendel - 200th anniversary of his birth

20 July: Max Liebermann - 175th anniversary of his birth

20 July: Carlos Santana - 75th birthday

24 July: Amelia Earhart - 125th anniversary of her birth

28 July: Marcel Duchamp - 135th anniversary of his birth


August 2022

2 August: Alexander Graham Bell - 100th anniversary of his death

2 August: Peter O'Toole - 90th anniversary of his birth

4 August: Marilyn Monroe - 60th anniversary of her death

10 August: Norma Shearer - 120th anniversary of her birth

12 August: William Blake - 195th anniversary of his death

22 August: Claude Debussy - 160th anniversary of his birth

25 August: William Herschel - 200th anniversary of his death

15 August: Independence of India - 75th anniversary

21 August: Aubrey Beardsley - 150th anniversary of his birth

25 August: Prince George, Duke of Kent - 80th anniversary of his death

30 August: Mary Shelley - 225th anniversary of her birth

31 August: Henry V of England - 600th anniversary of his death

31 August: Diana, Princess of Wales - 25th anniversary of her death


September 2022

5 September: Mother Teresa of Calcutta - 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

8 September: Leon Bonnat - 100th anniversary of his death

10 September: Otto Haekel - 150th anniversary of his birth

21 September: Stephen King - 75th birthday

23 September: Paul Delvaux - 125th anniversary of his birth

27 September: The Rosetta Stone is deciphered - 200th anniversary

29 September: Roy Lichtenstein - 25th anniversary of his death


October 2022

2 October: Paul von Hindenburg - 175th anniversary of his birth

3 October: Pierre Bonnard - 155th anniversary of his birth

4 October: Lucas Cranach the Elder - 550th anniversary of his birth

4 October: Jackie Collins - 85th anniversary of her birth

6 October: Le Corbusier - 135th anniversary of his birth

6 October: Yevgeny Khaldei - 25th anniversary of his death

12 October: Columbus reaches the Americas - 530th anniversary

13 October: Antonio Canova - 200th anniversary of his death

16 October: Cuban Missile Crisis - 60th anniversary

18 October: The BBC turns 100 years old

19 October: Umberto Boccioni - 140th anniversary of his birth

21 October: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 250th anniversary of his birth

26 October: Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin - 180th anniversary of his birth

28 October: Mussolini's March on Rome - 100th anniversary

28 October: Canaletto - 325th anniversary of his birth

 

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