May 2022: Events and Anniversaries Preview
29 April 2022
Welcome to your May preview tool, covering May to August, 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.
May brings us National Pet Month, the Eta Aquariids meteor shower and, of course, the Eurovision Song Contest!
As an addition to our preview, we would like to share the second, third and fourth parts in our series of Contextualising the War in Ukraine.
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Featured Story:
Hervé Champollion- French photographer of the historical and contemporary.
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May 2022
1 May: May Day/International Worker's Day
4 May: Juan de Valdés Leal - 400th anniversary of his birth
6 May: Sack of Rome - 495th anniversary
10 May: Mother's Day - US, Australia, Canada and other countries
12 May: Coronation of George VI and Elizabeth - 85th anniversary
13 May: Georges Braque - 140th anniversary of his birth
14 May: Thomas Gainsborough - 295th anniversary of his birth
18 May: Bertrand Russell - 150th anniversary of his birth
20 May: Amelia Earhart completes first solo transatlantic flight by a woman - 90th anniversary
20 May: Charles Lindbergh completes first solo transatlantic flight - 95th anniversary
28 May: Edward, Duke of Windsor - 50th anniversary of his death
30 May: Lincoln Memorial - 100th anniversary of its dedication
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June 2022
9 June: Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia - 350th anniversary of his birth
11 June: Dame Millicent Fawcett, English suffragist and feminist - 175th anniversary of her birth
14 June: Charles Babbage 'Difference Engine' - 200th anniversary *New
14 June: Johann Heinrich Vogeler, German painter/architect - 80th anniversary of his death
17 June: Watergate scandal - 50th anniversary
19 June: Salman Rushdie, Indian/British writer - 75th birthday
20 June: Queen Victoria's accession to the throne - 185th anniversary
20 June: Kurt Schwitters, German painter/poet - 135th anniversary of his birth
25 June: Jacques Cousteau - 25th anniversary of his death
25 June: Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect - 170th anniversary of his birth
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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: 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
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August 2022
2 August: Alexander Graham Bell - 100th anniversary of his death
2 August: Peter O'Toole - 90th anniversary of his birth
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
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2022 full-year preview of significant events and anniversaries
Barbarossa: 900th anniversary of his birth
5 September: Mother Theresa - 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
10 September: Otto Haekel - 150th 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 *New*
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 *New*
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