🇳🇱 Windmills on the Nordendijk, Dordrecht, the Netherlands. 1890s

Crowds gather to watch a diving horse stunt, 1905

🇺🇸 A Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington national cemetery, 1910s

A human Confederate flag in front of the memorial to General Lee on Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 1907

🇺🇸 Children watching a Memorial Day parade, c. 1950s-1960s

British troops line up on the beach at Dunkirk to await evacuation, May 1940

Fencers in the 1928 Olympics in the Netherlands

The Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, 27-28 May, 1905. A devastating defeat for the Imperial Russian Navy, the battle was the first in which wireless telegraphy (radio) played a critically important role.

German Stuka dive bombers over the Eastern Front, World War II, 1943. A destroyed city is seen in the foreground.

Two young Jewish girls in Warsaw, Poland, 1930s

The Kreuzbrunnen Colonnade, Marienbad, Bohemia, Austro-Hungary, c. 1890s (photochrome)

🇫🇮 The Finnish minelayer Ruotsinsalmi lays naval mines in the Gulf of Finland in May 1942, WWII

A Bulgarian girl in Vladaya, Bulgaria, in 1918. Original autochrome colour photo

29 May 1453: Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, falls to the Ottoman Turks under Mehmed II after a 53 day siege. The fall of Constantinople marked the end of the Byzantine Empire, and effectively the end of the Roman Empire, a state which dated back to 27 BC and lasted nearly 1,500 years.
Painting above is “The last siege of Constantinople”, a French miniature by Jean Le Tavernier around 1455.

British troops in Dunkirk making their way to boats that have come to rescue them, 1940, original colour photo

Scene from an ancient stele depicting Sumerian king Eannatum of Lagash leading soldiers to victory over Ush, king of Umma, c. 2600–2350 BC

Ho Feng-Shan, a Chinese diplomat, 1930s. While he was consul-general in Vienna during World War II, he risked his life and career to save thousands of Jews by issuing them visas, disobeying the instruction of his superiors.

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30 May 1431: Joan of Arc is burned at the stake. Joan was instrumental in leading French forces to a number of victories in the Hundred Year's War against the English. However On 23 May 1430, she was captured at Compiègne by forces loyal to the English, and was given a sham trial by the pro-English bishop Pierre Cauchon on a variety of charges. After Cauchon declared her guilty, she was burned at the stake on 30 May 1431, at about nineteen years of age. Today she is regarded as a patron saint of France.

A woman in the fashion of the Edwardian era, c. 1900-1910s