Anniversaries

13th July 1793 (236 Years)

Jean-Paul Marat, political theorist and scientist best known for his career in France as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution, was assassinated.

13th July 1863 (166 Years)

Anti-draft mobs lynch black people in New York City; about 1,000 died.

13th July 1946 (83 Years)

Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and modern art promoter, dies.

13th July 1954 (75 Years)

Frida Kahlo, the Mexican artist known for her self-portraits, died.

13th July 1985 (44 Years)

The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.

14th July 1817 (212 Years)

Madame de Staël, French novelist, essayist, literary theorist, political propagandist, critic and poet, died.

14th July 1862 (167 Years)

Gustav Klimt, Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement, was born.

14th July 1862 (167 Years)

Gustav Klimt, Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement, was born.

14th July 1918 (111 Years)

Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter, was born.

14th July 1938 (91 Years)

Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.

14th July 1939 (90 Years)

Alphonse Mucha, the Czech Art Nouveau artist and illustrator, died.

15th July 1858 (171 Years)

Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist and academic, was born.

15th July 1892 (137 Years)

Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and art critic, is born.

15th July 1916 (113 Years)

In Seattle, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products, later renamed Boeing.

15th July 1918 (111 Years)

The Second Battle of the Marne, or Battle of Reims, the last major German offensive on the Western Front during WWI began. It will end the 6th Agust.

16th July 1216 (813 Years)

Pope Innocent III, one of the most powerful and influential popes, died.

16th July 1915 (114 Years)

Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War.

16th July 1941 (88 Years)

Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.

16th July 1945 (84 Years)

World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

Anniversaries on the Move (14 Years)

Bridgeman Footage selection of important and quirky anniversaries for which we can provide archive footage. Discover history in motion...

17th July 1717 (312 Years)

King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.

17th July 1793 (236 Years)

Charlotte Corday, murderer of Marat, was executed by guillotine.

17th July 1917 (112 Years)

Andrew Wyeth, American artist, is born.

17th July 1917 (112 Years)

King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor.

17th July 1918 (111 Years)

Assassination of the Romanov Family: the Tzar and Tzarina together with their 5 children and all those who chose to accompany them into exile were shot dead.

17th July 1959 (70 Years)

Billie Holiday, American jazz and blues singer, dies aged 44.

18th July 1610 (419 Years)

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the Italian painter, dies aged 38.

18th July 1817 (212 Years)

Jane Austen, the English writer known for her six major novels which critique the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century, died.

18th July 1918 (111 Years)

Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate, was born.

18th July 1918 (111 Years)

Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate, was born.

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