From the second half of the 19th century to the 20th century, a number of significant events occurred all over the world and these events were captured in 22 spectacular photographs that are displayed below for your viewing pleasure!

1. The world’s largest ever music festival occurred at “Woodstock” in the state of New York USA. (August 14th, 1969).

2. German soldiers standing in front of a 158mm Howitzer during the capture of Belarus during World War II. (1944).

3. The final evacuation of American and South Vietnamese personnel from the US Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam just before the end of the Vietnam War. (1975).

4. A photo of photographer Charles Ebbets sitting at the top of a skyscraper. (1932).

5. The earliest ever photograph of the Sphinx in Egypt. (1880).

6. A slave market in Lexington, Kentucky USA. (1861).

7. A photograph of The Beatles on Abbey Road just before taking the famous album jacket photo scene in London, England. (1969).

8. An allied ship sinking in the Atlantic Ocean after being torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II. (1941).

9. The Theory of relativity – the only photograph in existence of Albert Einstein appear together with the famous equation of the theory of relativity (E = MC^2). (20th Century).

10. A United States Marine is preparing to enter an underground tunnel of the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. (1969).

11. Hideki Tojo after attempting to commit suicide and was later hanged by at the Tokyo Tribunal at the end of World War II. (September 8, 1945).

12. Former soldiers who were active during the US Civil War gather on “Veterans Day”. (1940).

13. Australian troops on top of a Matilda Infantry Tank during World War II (1945).

14. A 102-year-old elephant at the circus in Melbourne, Australia. (1948).

15. A memorial for former US president Abraham Lincoln after his assassination. (April 1865).

16. A girl with a mental disorder who grew up in a concentration camp standing next to a painting she had created that is titled “Home” (1948).

17. Here is a photo of at least three slaves in front of a plantation in the state of Kentucky in the United States. (1850’s).

18. Corporal E. Luther of the US 82nd Airborne Division in Cologne, Germany is on the front lines and advancing on the enemy. (April 4, 1945).

19. A French prisoner of war at the Zwickau POW camp in Germany receives a drink from a fellow prisoner. (1917).

20. The last photo of President Salvador Allende of Chile at the presidential palace during the coup d’etat by the Chilean military. (1973).

21. A photo of the wife of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun just before she committed suicide at an underground bunker in Berlin, Germany (April 29th, 1945).

22. At a prisoner of war (POW) camp in Germany, General Eisenhower receives a lecture on methods of torture. (April 2, 1945).

source: cavemancircus.com