7 July 1520: Hernán Cortés and the Tlaxcalans defeat a numerically superior Aztec force in the Battle of Otumba in Mexico

🇺🇸 Zachary Taylor, c. 1843-1844. Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general and becoming a national hero for his victories in the Mexican–American War. He also serve as the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850.

Young Hitler Youth members being shown how to use a machine gun, 1945. Towards the end of the war, even boys still in the Hitler Youth were called up to fight.

Marie Lassus, an upper class Creole lady from New Orleans, 1860s

16 year old German soldier Walter Kleinfeldt poses in the city of Ulm before heading to the front lines, 1915

🇹🇷 A view of Constantinople, 1890s

🇮🇹 Two stylish ladies in Milan, Italy, 1929

🇺🇸 LIFE magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White takes a photo from the 61st floor of the Chrysler Building, New York City, 1934 (colourized)

🇫🇷 An outdoor market in Paris, 1914. Original autochrome colour photograph.

A neighborhood in Seoul, Korea, c. 1890s

🫖 Victorian era teatime, 1860s

🇺🇸 Migrant workers near Prague, Oklahoma, 1939 (Colourised)

🇦🇱 A young Albanian lad in folk dress, 1920s (Colourised)

🇬🇧 British recruits undergoing bayonet training before going to the front lines, WWI

🇫🇷 An artist at work in Montmartre, Paris, 1961

Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese twins. Born in Siam (Thailand) in 1811, these conjoined twins moved to the USA when they were 18. They spent some time touring in circus "freak shows" until settling down in North Carolina, where they married local sisters and fathered 21 children, some of whom went on to become Confederate soldiers in the US Civil war. Chang and Eng died at age 62 in 1874. (Oil painting by Édouard Pingret, 1836)

🇬🇧 A village street in Avon Dassett, Warwickshire, England, c. 1910s

11 July, 1804: Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel. This famous pistol duel arose from long-standing personal bitterness that developed between the two men over the course of several years, which rose in tension with accusations of defamation.

The Huns led by Attila besiege Aquileia in July 452. Aquileia became the first city in northern Italy to be sacked by the Huns. Illustration from the 14th century Chronicon Pictum.

Alice Roosevelt, daughter of US President Theodore Roosevelt, with Japanese princesses while on a visit at the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, 1905 (Colourised)