Netizens shed light on 30 major historical events that happened about a century ago

In 1826, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first photograph to survive to the present day, capturing the view from his studio window in Le Gras, France. Only a few years passed, and photography had firmly entered people’s lives, and history buffs received a truly invaluable new source of information.

Almost two centuries have passed since then, literally every outstanding person of that period has managed to find themselves on photographic paper, and we know exactly how almost all famous historical events happened. And, of course, there are a lot of not-so-exceptional ones – after all, every person wants to leave a memory of themselves in history, even if it’s just a faded piece of cardboard measuring ten by fifteen inches.

Historical photos are of particular interest – it’s always great to see how people lived, for example, a hundred years ago. By the way, there is an extremely popular community on Reddit called “100 years ago” with more than 686,000 attendees. Initially, it was conceived in August 2013 as an attempt by enthusiasts to historically document the First World War in photographs, day by day.

But as time passed, it was November 12, 2018 — and community members were already so fond of posting photos taken exactly a century before the current date that they continued to do so. As a result, we can now, for example, look at photographs taken in October 1922.

Maybe if all goes well in our world, our descendants will look with interest in this community for some photos from 2022, but for now, bored panda has compiled this selection of the most popular and intriguing community historical photos for you. So fasten your seatbelts, our time machine is going back in time!

More information: Reddit