Poster of Germinal by Émile Zola (1885)

Trinity College, Oxford (1900)

Amsterdam Bicycle Factory Advertising Poster (1896)

Italian Hot Air Balloon Poster (1880)

French Swordswomen Poster (1885)

Swiss poster advertising books old and new (1897)

Cairo, Egypt (c. 1890)

𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 1825, French painter Jacques-Louis David dies in Brussels.

Cleveland, Ohio (1903)

Ottoman Map of Scotland (1803)

Charleston, South Carolina (1903)

Christmas Recipes (1882)

Christmas Fair in Nuremberg (c. 1870)

𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 1894, in France, Captain Alfred Dreyfus is unjustly convicted of treason.

Berlin, German Empire (1898)

French cavalrymen during the First World War (c. 1915)

Title page from Shakespeare's Sonnets (1913)

Cordoba, Spain (c. 1895)

𝘓𝘦𝘴 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘥'𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘶, 𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘥'𝘶𝘯 𝘫𝘦𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘯. French Sci-Fi magazine (1908)

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (1890)

Salt Lake City, United States (1903)

Cleveland, Ohio (1903)

Somewhere in Virginia (1903)

Advertisment for cocoa (The Graphic - July 1890)

Toulouse, France (c. 1890)

𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 1859, Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book of the century and the foundation of the field of evolutionary biology.

𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 1867, in England, the three Manchester Martyrs, members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, are hanged in front of a crowd of around 9,000 people.

Cannes, France (c. 1890)

A Procession in Kairouan, Tunisia (1899)

𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 1820, an American whaling ship named Essex is destroyed by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean. Survivors will eventually be forced to resort to cannibalism in order to survive. The event will inspire Moby-Dick.

𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 1840, Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone leaves England aboard a British brig heading to the Cape of Good Hope.

Philadelphia, United States (1903)

St. Francis Monastery in Santiago, Chile (c. 1900)

Ashante Empire as depicted by Thomas Edward Bowdich (1819)

Swiss women from Champéry (1900)

𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 1811, Jane Austen anonymously self-publishes her first novel Sense and Sensibility in three volumes.

Temple in Tokyo, Japan (1894)

Clipper ship off Cape Horn (1855)

Map of Palestine in the Fifth Century (1899)

𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 1900, German physicist Max Planck discusses his black-body radiation law for the first time in public thereby revolutionizing the field of physics.

Page from The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog (1819). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-comic-adventures-of-old-mother-hubbard-and-her-dog-1819

Adirondack Mountains, United States (1900)

Calcutta (c. 1880)

Godshill, a small village in the Isle of Wight in southern England (1900)

Adirondack Mountains, New York (1903)

Lake District, England (1900)

Kilmarnock, Scotland (c. 1892) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

New York in 1901

𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 1829, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World by abolitionist David Walker is published in Boston.