September 2022: Events and Anniversaries Preview

Welcome to your akg-images September preview tool, covering September to December. Each date links to an album of imagery and brief text. ​

Whether September is bringing you Autumn or Spring, we hope you're ready to welcome the change. If you'd like to explore some Christmas image ideas, you can find a recent cards feature in our Newsroom, along with other interesting stories.

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Anne-Katrin Purkiss - People, Art, and Environment

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 Haeckel - 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

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

28 October: Canaletto - 325th anniversary of his birth

31 October: Halloween


November 2022

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

4 November: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - 175th anniversary of his death

5 November: Ida Tarbell - 165th anniversary of her birth

8 November: Bram Stoker - 175th anniversary of his birth

10 November: William Hogarth - 325th anniversary of his birth

14 November: King Charles III - 74th birthday

15 November: Georgia O'Keeffe - 135th anniversary of her birth

18 November: Marcel Proust - 100th anniversary of his death

23 November: Agnolo Bronzino - 450th anniversary of his death

27 November: Jimi Hendrix - 80th anniversary of his birth

29 November: Jacques Chirac - 90th anniversary of his birth


December 2022

2 December: Hernán Cortés - 425th anniversary of his death

2 December: St Paul's Cathedral opens in London - 325th anniversary

5 December: Great Smog of London - 70th anniversary

6 December: The Everglades National Park is established - 75th anniversary

10 December: Cesar Franck - 200th anniversary of his birth

13 December: Nicholas Roerich - 75th anniversary of his death

21 December: Robert Seldon Duncanson - 150th anniversary of his death

21 December: HMS Challenger Expedition begins - 150th anniversary

24 December: Ava Gardner - 100th anniversary of her birth

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

28 December: Stan Lee - 100th anniversary of his birth

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

 

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