The garden of Strandschloss (Beach Castle) in Kolberg c. 1900, Pomerania (photochrome)

25 October 1415: The outnumbered English defeat the numerically superior French army at the Battle of Agincourt in Northern France during the Hundred Years War. This victory boosted English morale and prestige, crippled France and started a new period of English dominance in the war. Illustration from a fifteenth-century miniature.

🇬🇧 On the 25th October 1854 members of the British light cavalry led a charge by mistake into the heart of the Russian Imperial army during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War. 110 soldiers died in the charge, 161 were injured and 475 horses killed. The British Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson would go on to immortalize the event in his poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade”.

🇦🇺 Australian soldiers during WWI with their regimental mascot, a kangaroo 🦘

Johann Strauss II, famous Austrian composer of light music and son of Johann Strauss the Elder (who was also a famous composer). He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as "The Waltz King", and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in the 19th century.
🎶 Click here to listen to his famous Blue Danube Waltz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CTYymbbEL4&list=RD_CTYymbbEL4&start_radio=1

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The high street of Clovelly, England, 1890s, photochrome

A squad of American soldiers listening to one of their comrades playing the organ in the bomb damaged old church in Exermont in the Argonne. France, October 1918.

A Dayak headhunter, Borneo, c. 1880s-1900

🇹🇳 The streets of Kairouan, Tunisia, c. 1890s (photochrome)

🇺🇸 U.S. President John F. Kennedy speaks before reporters during a televised speech to the nation during the Cuban missile crisis, October 1962.

Cardinal Richelieu at the Siege of La Rochelle, painting by Henri Motte. The siege was a result of a war between the French royal forces of Louis XIII of France and the Huguenots of La Rochelle in 1627–28. The siege marked the height of the struggle between the Catholics and the Protestants in France, and ended on 28 October 1628 with a complete victory for King Louis XIII and the Catholics.

🇪🇹 Ethiopian warriors in ceremonial dress, 1931

🇫🇷 Charles Godefroy flies through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 1919

Berlin and the Brandenburg gate, c. 1890s

Crowd gathering on Wall Street in New York after the stock market crash, October 1929

30 October 1340: King Afonso IV of Portugal and King Alfonso XI of Castile defeat Sultan Abu al-Hasan 'Ali of Morocco and Yusuf I of Granada at the battle of Rio Salado.

A Russian peasant woman, c. 1900-1910s

Australian infantry crossing Brown’s River on the Kokoda Trail, Papua New Guinea, WWII