🇹🇷 Jun 15, 1821: Hundreds of Christians killed by Turks in the Constantinople Massacre of 1821. This anti-Christian pogrom saw mass executions, burning of churches, and looting of Christian properties.

🇩🇪 German infantry marching through a bombed village on the eastern front during the Battle of Tannenberg during the first months of WWI, 1914

🇧🇷 Brazilian Expeditionary Force liberating the Italian city of Massarosa during WWII, September 1944.

🇸🇪 The royal barge 'Vasaorden' during the celebration of H.M. King Gustav V of Sweden’s 80th birthday, 16 June, 1938

🇬🇪 Khevsurian soldier wearing chainmail, Georgian Caucasus, 1877.

🇺🇸 Boys playing baseball at a park in Brooklyn, New York, 1943 ⚾️

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The streets of Glasgow, Scotland, 1868.

🇫🇷 In the early morning of 17 June 1939, Eugène Weidmann became the last person to be publicly executed by guillotine in France. He had been convicted of multiple kidnappings and murders. He was executed in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.

🇺🇸🇬🇧 17 June 1775: British and colonial forces clash at the Battle of Bunker Hill outside Boston during the American Revolutionary War.

🇪🇸 Republican soldiers during the siege of Madrid in the Spanish Civil War, winter 1936-37. Colourised

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany in Björkö for the signing of a secret mutual defense accord, July 1905. Colourized

18 June 1815: The French armies of Napoleon were defeated by British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick, and Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington and a Prussian army under the command of Field Marshal von Blücher at the Battle of Waterloo. This marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
Following this defeat, Napoleon was exiled on St Helena, an island off the coast of Africa where he would remain until his death.

🇮🇱 Bedouin soldiers from the Israeli Defense Force on parade in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 1949

🇺🇸 A logging family next to a 1,300+ year old sequoia tree, California, 1890s.

Raphael Semmes, Captain of the Confederate sloop-of-war CSS Alabama, standing aft of the mainsail by his ship's aft 8-inch smooth bore gun during her visit to Cape Town, South Africa, in August 1863.

🇪🇹 An Ethiopian archbishop, June 1931, original colour photo

🇩🇪 A tall and a short German soldier stand next to each other for a humorous height comparison, 1910s

🇬🇧 The 19th century neo-Gothic Palace of Westminster, on the banks of the Thames in London, backlit by German bomb blasts and fires during the Blitz, c. 1940-1941

🇬🇧 20 June 1837: Victoria becomes queen of Britain at 18 years old. At 6 a.m. on June 20, 1837, Victoria was woken from her bed at and informed that her uncle, King William IV, had suffered a heart attack and died during the night. She would reign 63 years until her death in 1901.

🇯🇵 Occupied and soon abandoned: Japanese troops land on Kiska island, Aleutians, Alaska Territory, the first location on American soil to be invaded/occupied by enemy forces briefly during WWII; June 1942.

A couple from Dagestan in the Caucasus near the Caspian Sea, c. 1907-1915. Original autochrome colour photo by Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorski