Commons:Featured pictures/Historical

Gallery of Historical Events This page is a gallery of featured pictures that the community has chosen to be highlighted as some of the finest on Commons. Other galleries containing featured pictures of historical photographs: Historical portrait photos Space exploration This gallery is for photographs of big and small events before 1970, and major events after 1970. Historical events Before 1600 1600-1699 Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman ("Starting for the Hunt") MET DP146442 TianqiZhe 1615 The Siege of Osaka Castle 1625 Trier Meisner (1625) 1625 Justino de Nassau rindió la ciudad de Breda 1649-1653 Battle at Lanka, between the armies of Rama and the King of Lanka. 1665 Trade lodge of the VOC in Hooghly, Bengal 1692 Nicolas de Fer, map of Trier and surroundings 27 mai 1694 Bataille de la rivière Ter Battle of Scheveningen (Slag bij Ter Heijde)(Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten) Top See also: 17th century (category) Galleries   1700-1799 L'execution de Maximilien de Robespierre a la guillotine 1767 Benjamin Franklin 1785 Thomas Rowlandson - Vaux-Hall - Dr. Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Mary Robinson, et al 1787 Stucco relief at the Palace, Maya ruins at Palenque. 1787 Constitution of the United States, page 1 14 juillet 1790 Fête de la Fédération au Champ de Mars 1792 Aztec sun calendar 20 septembre 1792 Bataille de Valmy 1794 Portrait of John Jay 1798 Gravure voorstellende de kapitein J.G. Stedman TMNo. 3728-544b-1 edit Btv1b69449573 Defaites des Anglois à l'Ance de St Caste restored The Naval Battle Near Ecnomus (256 BC) Top See also: 18th century (category) Galleries   1800-1849 L'Exécution de la Punition de Fouet et Negres ao Tronco by Jean-Baptiste Debret 1812 Jacques-Louis David - The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries 30-31 October 1813 Bataille de Hanau 1818 Declaration of Independence (Trumbull) 1822 Pedro Américo – Independência ou Morte (Independence of Brazil) 1826 View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce 1838 Boulevard du Temple 1839 Neuhauser Straße, Munich by Franz von Kobell and Carl August von Steinheil 1840 The Anti-Slavery Society Convention by Benjamin Robert Haydon 1840 Watercolor portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (Ada Lovelace) Science & Society Picture Library By Alfred Edward Chalon 1850-1870 Palais de l'Industrie - Édouard Baldus El Tres de Mayo, by Francisco de Goya, from Prado thin black margin Korean art-Donggwoldo-Changdeokgung and Changgyeonggung-Dong-A University-01 Francisco de Goya - Escena de Inquisición - Google Art Project Franeker. Stadhuis. 03-08-2021. (actm) 02 The Burning of the USS Missouri in Gibraltar Edward Duncan - The Explosion of the United States Steam Frigate Missouri Top See also: 19th century (category) Galleries   1850-1899 Hughes & Mullins after Cundall & Howlett - Heroes of the Crimean War - Joseph Numa, John Potter, and James Deal of the Coldstream Guards 1851 Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, MMA-NYC 1851 San Francisco during the Gold Rush 1854 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1854-56 Family George V of Hanover 1855 Embarkation of sick persons at the harbor in Balaklava 1855 Cavalry at the battle of Balaklava December 16th, 1856 The visit of her majesty Queen Victoria to the Arctic ship Resolute 1856 Gustave Le Gray, Brig upon the Water 1857 Ancien pont Saint-Michel, Paris, France 1859 Nouveau pont Saint-Michel, Paris, France 1859 Gustave Le Gray, Pavillon Mollien ca.1860 Samurai with sword 1862 Centreville, VA, Quaker Guns in the fort on the heights 1862 William McIlvaine, The Chickahominy, Sumners Upper Bridge, American Civil War September 17th, 1862 Battle of Antietam November 29, 1863 Battle of Fort Sanders November 30, 1864 Battle of Franklin 1864 Democratic presidential ticket 1864 Republican presidential ticket 1864 Episode of the retreat from Dannevirke, 5 - 6 February 1864 - Battle of Sankelmark and Oeversee 1865 Lincoln assassination ca. 1865 Charles Marville, Urinoir en ardoise à 3 stalles, Chaussée du Maine ca. 1865 Charles Soulier, Panorama de Paris - Pris de la tour Saint Jacques 1865 Execution of Lincoln conspirators 1865 The burning of McPhersonville, South Carolina 1865 The burning of McPhersonville, South Carolina 1865 The burning of Columbia, South Carolina 1865 Prisoner of war, from Belle Isle, Richmond, at the U.S. General Hospital, Div. 1, Annapolis 1867-1899 Historical Panorama of Beirut ca.1867 La Tour St. Jacques La Boucherie à Paris 1868 The Peacemakers 1869 Railroad 1869 Union Pacific Railroad, Utah 1870 W. H. Kendal as Philamir and Madge Kendal as Zeolide in W. S. Gilbert's The Palace of Truth 1871 Paris Town Hall, after the great fire of the Commune 1876 B'nai B'rith membership certificate 1877 Famine in India Natives Waiting for Relief in Bangalore 1879 Agnes Booth in W. S. Gilbert's Engaged 1879 1880 Great presidential puzzle 1880 Verdi conducting Aida in Paris 1880 1881 Guiteau cartoon2 1883 The Brooklyn Bridge in the City of New York 1887 Rowland Buckstone and Cissy Grahame in the revival of F. C. Burnand's The Colonel 1887 Atelier Nadar - Fly scene from Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers with Jeanne Granier as Eurydice and Eugène Vauthier as Jupiter, 1887 revival, wide-angle shot 1880-1890 Cane cutters in Jamaica 1886 Joseph Ferdinand Keppler - The Pirate Publisher - Puck Magazine 1888 Construction of the Eiffel Tower 1889 Sachsenhausen at the beginning of the 17th century about 1890-1900 A Yeoman of the Guard (N.B. actually a Yeoman Warder), full restoration 1899 - 1901 Boxer Rebellion 1892 Martial Caillebotte - Gustave Caillebotte et Bergère sur la place du Caroussel, 1892 1893 Proclamation of the Brazilian Republic 1895 Train wreck at Montparnasse Image is also a Featured picture of rail vehicles 1897 Art Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 1887 Thure de Thulstrup - L. Prang and Co. - Battle of Gettysburg 1899 Temple Square, Salt Lake City 1890-1900 Dresden 1890-1900 Royal Avenue, Belfast 1890-1905 Amsterdam Centraal Station 1891–1903 Horse market in Lorenzkirch ca. 1899 Nikola Tesla, with his equipment, double exposure. Thaddeus M. Fowler - Penn'a R.R. Car Shop's, Altoona, Pennsylvania, 1895 F.O.C. Darley and Alexander Hay Ritchie - Sherman's March to the Sea Édouard Baldus, Pont Royal and Louvre - NYPL Digital Collections The Grand Congratulatory Ceremony to Celebrate the Fortieth Birthday of Queen Dowager Jo Exposition universelle - Paris, 1878 by Isidore Laurent Deroy - Gallica Lepsius-Expedition-Cheops-Pyramide (full) Edinburgh Castle from Grass Market Thure de Thulstrup - Battle of Shiloh Bandits Roost, 59 and a half Mulberry Street.jpg/2 Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina by George N. Barnard - crop Thure de Thulstrup - The Massacre of the Chinese at Rock Springs Wreck of the ship George Roper, Point Lonsdale (1883) by Fred Kruger First medical X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen of his wife Anna Bertha Ludwig's hand - 18951222 Bataille de Forbach, 6 août 1870 - Jean-Adolphe Bocquin et Jules Férat Portland, Oregon, in 1898 - Herbert A. Hale Top See also: 19th century (category) Galleries   1900-1909 Postkarte KG Heuschreck 1905 1900 Mulberry Street, NYC, USA 1900 Eastman Kodak HQ 1900 1902 Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower 1903 Wright brothers' first flight. ca.1905 COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM 'Het verslepen van de steen 'Darodaro' voor de gestorven Saoenigeho van Bawamataloea Nias TMnr 1000095b 1905 Night in Luna Park, Coney Island, N.Y. 1906 San Francisco Mission District burning 1906 San Francisco in ruins after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire 1906 Post-and-Grant-Avenue-Look 1907 The Steerage, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz 1908 A child laborer 1909 Manhattan Bridge Construction ca. 1909 Lucy Arbell as Queen Amahelli in Massenet's Bacchus, wide view ca.1909 Cheyenne dance4 Contorno da Torre Eiffel com o Dirigível Nº6 - 1-13651-0000-0000, Acervo do Museu Paulista da USP Watching the Dancers by Edward S. Curtis 1906 - restored Top See also: 1900s (category) Galleries   1910-1919 1910 A Brouhot car in Paris Sleeping, homeless children - Jacob Riis Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, Leader of the Women's Suffragette movement, is arrested outside Buckingham Palace while trying to present a petition to King George V in May 1914. Q81486 1914-1918 Message by carrier pigeon Mai 1919 Kur-Trier 19 July 1916 British wounded Bernafay Wood 1911 Monroe Street Bridge 1914 The assassination of Archduke heir of Austria and of the Duchess his wife in Sarajewo 1914 - 1918 Das Motorrad mit den Skiern von der Seite 1909-1915 Early color photograph from Russia 1915 The Camel Corps at Beersheba 1916 Cheshire Regiment trench Somme 1917 World War I era poster in Yiddish to encourage food conservation. 1918 Egyptian camel 1919 The Siberian War The White House by James Craig Annan Top See also: 1910s (category) Galleries   1920-1929 1920 Working man 1921 Agence Rol, L’éclipse, gare Saint-Lazare, 1921 1921 Agence Rol, 24.4.21, concours de machines - BnF 1921 La chaleur à Paris, fillette prenant de l'eau à une borne-fontaine, 1921 - Gallica 1923 A smoky day at the Sugar Bowl, Hupa 1923 Auto wreck, Maryland, USA. 1925 Li Fu Lee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's radio experiment station, 1925 (MIT Museum) - Restoration Top See also: 1920s (category) Galleries   1930-1939 1931 Manhattan, New York City 1935 Soba-Noodles-Deliveryman-Tokyo-1935 1936 Dust bowl, Texas Panhandle 1936 Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm 1937 Metropolitan Opera House, a concert by pianist Josef Hofmann - NARA 541890 - Edit 1937 "Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!" - Dorothea Lange's photo of a Missouri family of five in the vicinity of Tracy, California Grocery-store-widtsoe-utah- Toward Los Angeles, California LOC 3549663710 Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas Dust storm, Amarillo, Texas, 8b27554a Top See also: 1930s (category) Galleries   1940-1949 1940–1945 Douglas DC-3 of BOAC at Gibraltar 1940 Card puncher - NARA - 513295 1940 Soviet prisoners of war at Rovaniemi 1941 Maori Battalion performing a haka in Helwan, Egypt ca.1942 Steeplechase2 1942 Infantryman with M1 Garand, Fort Knox, KY 1942 A package for Hitler 196462 edit 1942 M3 tank 1942 Steam locomotives of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway in the roundhouse 1942 Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shops 1942 Woman worker in the Douglas Aircraft Company 1942 Turret lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, USA 1942 Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California 1942 Assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company 1942 Assembling the North American B-25 Mitchell at Kansas City, Kansas (USA) 1942 Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shop fsac 1942 Shasta dam under construction, California. 1943 Dr. Schreiber giving a typhoid innoculation 1943 Roundhouse wipers, 1943 1943 Japanese Family serving dinner to War Relocation Authorities at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, in their barracks home at Block 7 - 21. 1943 Rosie the Riveter (Vultee) DS 1943 Burning Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of VF-2 aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) 1943 Chicago Union Station 1943 Farm Workers at Manzanar Relocation Center, California (by A. Adams) 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943 Gary Plant Tubular Steel Corporation 1944 Warriors of Lapland 1944 General Douglas MacArthur at Leyte, Philippine Islands 1944 Into the Jaws of Death 23-0455M edit 1944 Crew of a Sherman-tank Image is also a Featured picture of vehicles 1944 Patriots in the Champs Elysees 1944 witness of V2 damage on main intersection in Antwerp 1944 2Fi02473 Pont national US Army retouchée 1945 Raising a flag over the Reichstag 1945 Flag on Iwo Jima 1945 Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender 1945 USS BUNKER HILL hit by two Kamikazes 1945 Attack on aircraft carrier USS Franklin 1945 Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar 1945 Buchenwald concentration camp 1945 Nagasaki before and after the atomic bombing 1945 Nagasaki temple destroyed 1945 Warning sign in Cologne 1945 Infantrymen move down a street in Waldenburg 1946 Operation Crossroads, Baker explosion, Micronesia 1946 Max Dupain - Adelaide 1947 Weeki Wachee spring, Florida 1948 A Bukharan dance performed by members of the Rina Nikova ballet in the citadel of Jerusalem - Restoration 1948 Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. R-1830 engine on C-47 at factory 1942 Top See also: 1940s (category) Galleries   1950-1959 1950 Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea (Original) 1956 Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested for boycotting public transportation 1957 Unmanned blimp felled by a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site Image is also a Featured picture of aircraft 1957 Airliner SAS DC 7 in the air 1959 Mary Martin in The Sound of Music Top See also: 1950s (category) Galleries   1960-1969 1960 Joseph Kittinger's record-breaking skydive from 102,800 feet 1961 Monument to Prussian army 1961 Finnish soldiers in NBC gear, 1961 1963 Thích Quảng Đức self-immolation 1963 Robert Kennedy CORE rally speech2 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd.) 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson Signing of the Immigration Act of 1965 (02) - restoration1 1966 Long khanh fallen 1967 Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - Soldiers Shower Near Eilat 1967 Paratroopers at the Western Wall 1968 Artistas protestam contra a Ditadura Militar - Tônia Carreiro, Eva Wilma, Odete Lara, Norma Bengell e Cacilda Becker - Restoration 1968 My Tho, Vietnam. A Viet Cong base camp being. In the foreground is Private First Class Raymond Rumpa, St Paul, Minnesota - NARA - 530621 edit 1969 Luis Alvarez with a magnetic monopole detector - Restoration 1969 A girl holds The Washington Post of Monday 1969 Margaret Hamilton standing next to the navigation software that she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo Project. 1960s or 1970s Saturn V and Wernher von Braun US Marshals with Young Ruby Bridges on School Steps Top See also: 1960s (category) Galleries   1970-1979 1970 Presley, West and Schilling meeting Nixon 1973 Legal hashish-shop, Kathmandu (Nepal) 1973 Yom Kippur War 1973 Päästetööd merel 73 (08) 1976 The Shuttle Enterprise Top See also: 1970s (category) Galleries   1980-1989 1982 Stefan Heym, by Marcel Antonisse 1989 Juggling on the Berlin Wall 1 Top See also: 1980s (category) Galleries   1990-1999 1994 King Hussein of Jordan lights P.M.Yitzhak Rabin's cigarette at royal residence in Akaba, shortly after signing the peace treaty at Arava border-crossing 1994 The Nobel Peace Prize laureates for 1994 (Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin) in Oslo Top See also: 1990s (category) Galleries   2000-2009 2001 September 11 World Trade Center attacks, New York 2001 Satellite view of September 11 World Trade Center attacks, New York 2001 South tower of the WTC, New York City, New York (USA, 14 Sept 2001) 2001 Debris on surrounding roofs at the site of the World Trade Center on September 28. 2008 Riots after the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, Sina Street - Faculty of law, Athens, Greece. 2009 Sydney Harbour Bridge during a red dust storm Top See also: 2000s (category) Galleries   2010-2019 2010 Polish newspaper headline "The President is Dead" 2011 NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 905 (front) and 911 (rear) flying in formation for the first time together. 2012 2012 inauguration of French President François Hollande. 2018 Isabella Lövin signing climate law referral. 2018 Penutupan Para Asian Games 2018. 2019 Spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral engulfed in flames. Top See also: 2010s (category) Galleries   2020-now 2023 Gaza envelope after coordinated surprise offensive on Israel, October 2023 Wreckage from Key Bridge Collapse (240326-A-SE916-9511) State visit by King Frederik X of Denmark in 2024 03 Top See also: 2020s (category) Galleries   Unsorted The FPCBot will place images here, they can manually be sorted into more specific sections. When moving away images do not remove the gallery itself and let this section be the last on the page.