🇬🇧 A man riding a penny farthing bicycle over Hammersmith Bridge, London, c. 1910s

Boys playing leap-frog in the street, London, 1953

🇪🇸 The streets of Cordoba, Spain, c. 1930s

US troops pray during the Korean War, 1950s, (colourised)

August 612 BC: The Assyrian capital city of Nineveh falls to the Babylonians and the forces of Medes, leading to the destruction of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and the death of King Sinsharishkun (Painting by John Martin, 1829)

A Romanian woman in traditional dress, c. 1900

🇲🇪 Nicholas I of Montenegro, 1909

Wounded German soldiers taken as POWs by American troops during Operation Dragoon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. August 1944. (colourised)

Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the renowned Seljuk commander Ilghazi at the Battle of Didgori, 12 August 1121

Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina, c. 1910

A Christian procession in Jerusalem, c. 1900

An Adeni Jewish man from Yemen, 1870s

🇫🇷 A view of Metz, France, c. 1900

Girls from Yugoslavia, c. 1920s

US soldiers repair a field telephone line during a German gas attack, WWI, 1918

August 1480: After a 15 day siege of the Italian city of Otranto, invading Ottoman forces breach the walls and take the city. A total of 12,000 inhabitants are killed and 5,000 enslaved. This number includes 800+ Christians beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam after the city fell.

German soldiers playing musical instruments, WWI, 1914

🇸🇪 Girls picking flowers, Leksand, Sweden, c. 1910s-1920s

US soldiers in Paris celebrating the announcement of Japan's surrender, 14-15 August, 1945

15 August 1461: The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to forces of Sultan Mehmed II, the last remnant of the Byzantine Empire to fall; Emperor David is exiled and later murdered