⚜️History In Art & Photos 🖼

2021-07-18 22:32:07 A wedding procession, Eidfjord church, Norway, ca 1915. Colourized. The bride wears a traditional Norwegian wedding crown. Open / Comment

2021-07-18 16:59:57 18 July 64 AD: The Great Fire of Rome begins during the reign of Emperor Nero, and ultimately destroys two thirds of the city. According to the Roman historian Tacitus, Emperor Nero blamed the devastation on the Christian community in the city, initiating the empire's first major persecution against the Christians. (Painting by Hubert Robert, 1785) Open / Comment

2021-07-18 02:32:22 A street in Algiers, Algeria, c. 1900-1920s. Open / Comment

2021-07-17 20:18:04 Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square, London, c. 1890s, photochrome Open / Comment

2021-07-17 17:20:47 17 July 1918: Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov royal family (and several of their retainers) are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, Siberia, following the Russian Revolution which began the previous year. Open / Comment

2021-07-17 04:21:44 A neighborhood in Seoul, Korea, c. 1880s-1890s Open / Comment

2021-07-16 20:26:31 Relaxing on the beach at Scheveningen, the Netherlands, 1890s, photochrome Open / Comment

2021-07-16 18:08:19 Open / Comment

2021-07-16 15:00:43 King Milan I of Serbia with his wife Queen Natalie and son Prince Alexander, 1880s Open / Comment

2021-07-16 04:50:51 Portuguese soldiers on the western front during WWI, c. 1914-1918. Colourized. Open / Comment