An Indian temple, 1890s

The streets of Hannover, Germany, including the Hannover synagogue, c. 1890s. The synagogue would later be destroyed by the Nazis during Kristallnacht in 1938.

Newhaven fishergirls, Scotland, 1840s

Lt-General Bernard Montgomery, 17-year-old King Peter II of Yugoslavia, and Winston Churchill in July 1941

Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII by Patriarch Euthymius I. He reigned from 913-959 AD

🇬🇧 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, 1844. He was one of the British commanders who ended the Anglo-Mysore wars by defeating Tipu Sultan in 1799 and among those who ended the Napoleonic Wars in a Coalition victory when the Seventh Coalition defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. He also served twice as Prime Minister of the UK.

English and French prisoners of war sit near railroad tracks somewhere in Belgium in 1940

🇳🇴 A Norwegian fishing village, 1890s

🇺🇸 The delegates to the Second Continental Congress representing the 13 colonies authorize the Congress to approve the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The Declaration proclaimed the signatory colonies were now "free and independent States," and no longer colonies of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Young people mark Independence Day with Revolutionary War-era instruments and dress in Takoma Park, Maryland on July 4th, 1922

🇫🇷 Girls from Alsace in folk dress celebrating the return of Alsace to French control at the end of WWI. The region had been under German control since the Franco-Prussian war in 1871.

Elderly Jewish men in Jerusalem, c. 1890s

A dog with a canine gas mask and his handler, France, 1917, WWI

A Berber village in Algeria, c. 1890s-1920s

Crowd in St Petersburg the day before full mobilisation of Russian armed forces for WWI, July 1914

6 July 1944: Fire breaks out during a performance at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hertford, Connecticut, killing 167 people and leaving more than 700 injured. It was one of the worst fire disasters in US history.

🇳🇱 A couple enjoying a day at the seaside at Scheveningen, the Netherlands, 1910.

Cowhands and girls, Custer National Forest, Montana, 1939 (Colourised)