June 2022: Events and Anniversaries Preview

Welcome to your akg-images June preview tool, covering June to September, as well as featured stories and a list of significant dates in the year ahead. ​ Each date links to an album of imagery and brief text. ​

June brings the most daylight hours in a month in the northern hemisphere and the fewest in the southern hemisphere. June also brings World Environment Day.

As an addition to our preview, we would like to share the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth parts in our series of Contextualising the War in Ukraine.

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Featured Stories:

Attacks on Art

Frida Kahlo and The Suicide of Dorothy Hale

 

June 2022

2 June: Trooping the Colour

9 June: Peter I, emperor and tsar of Russia - 350th anniversary of his birth

10 June: Judy Garland - 100th anniversary of her birth

11 June: Queen's Birthday

11 June: Dame Millicent Fawcett - 175th anniversary of her birth

14 June: Charles Babbage 'Difference Engine' - 200th anniversary ​

14 June: Johann Heinrich Vogeler - 80th anniversary of his death

17 June: Watergate scandal - 50th anniversary

18 June: Paul McCartney - 80th birthday *New

19 June: Father's Day- UK

19 June: Juneteenth National Independence Day, USA

19 June: Salman Rushdie - 75th birthday

20 June: Queen Victoria's accession to the throne - 185th anniversary

20 June: Kurt Schwitters - 135th anniversary of his birth

21 June: Summer Solstice

24 June: Walther Rathenau - 100th anniversary of his death

25 June: Jacques Cousteau - 25th anniversary of his death

25 June: Antoni Gaudi - 170th anniversary of his birth

 

July 2022

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

 

2022 full-year preview of significant events and anniversaries

Barbarossa: 900th anniversary of his birth

12 October: Columbus reaches the Americas - 530th anniversary

16 October: Cuban Missile Crisis - 60th anniversary

18 October: The BBC turns 100 years old

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

4 November: Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's tomb - 100th anniversary

27 December: Louis Pasteur - 200th anniversary of his birth

30 December: Founding of the Soviet Union - 100th anniversary

 

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