April 24, 1915: Killing of Armenians by the Turks begins. By 1923, about 1.5 million Armenian Christians had been killed by the Turks in what is now known as the Armenian Genocide.
Corpses lie in one of the open wagons of the Dachau death train. The Dachau death train consisted of nearly forty wagons containing the bodies of between 2,000 and 3,000 prisoners transferred from Buchenwald to Dachau concentration camp in April 1945
🇪🇸 Plaza de la Reina, Valencia, Spain, 1890s - photochrome
25 April 1607: The Dutch and Spanish fleets clash at the Battle of Gibralter. In this battle during the Eighty Year's War, a Dutch fleet surprised and engaged a Spanish fleet anchored at the Bay of Gibraltar. During the four hours of action, most of the Spanish ships were destroyed.
🇬🇧 A woman leaves her house, recently bombed during the Blitz, for St George’s Church in Forest Hill, to marry a Royal Air Force flying officer in 1940.
A Japanese farmer, c. 1890s-1920s
🇫🇷 A flower seller on the streets of Paris, 1920s (original autochrome colour photo)
Reading the paper on the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1930s
Shanagolden, County Limerick, Ireland, c. 1900
A young German soldier, WWI
Gamblers in an Arizona saloon, 1895
A boy playing soldier, 1950s
Road repairers at work in rural England, c. 1870s-1880s
The ruins of Cork city in Ireland after being set on fire by British auxiliaries who set the city on fire as revenge for IRA attacks on British forces in the region, 1920.
Prisoners waving a home-made American flag greet U.S. Seventh Army troops upon their arrival and liberation of the Allach concentration camp (a sub-camp of Dachau), 30 April 1945
30 April 711: Islamic Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. Spain would be occupied by the Moors for the next 700+ years until they were finally driven out in 1492.
Jewish families being taken from the Warsaw ghetto to extermination camps at Majdanek or Treblinka, May 1943
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