2019 - Anniversaries - Order of St. John 920, Leeds Castle
900, St. Francis Peace Pilgrimage 800, Leonardo da Vinci 500, Rembrandt
van Rijn 350,
Peace Treaty of Versailles 100, First Men to Walk on the Moon 50
920th Anniversary of the Knights Hospitaller (c.1099) - now represented by the Order of St. John and the St. John Ambulance ...
St. John’s Gate & Museum of the Order of St. John in Clerkenwell, London and
UNESCO World Heritage Sites:
Old Acre (Hospitaller Fortress) and Old
Jerusalem (site of first Hospital of the Knights of St. John of
Jerusalem).
900th Anniversary of the first stone castle built on the site of Leeds Castle (1119)
Celebrations included a Classic Music Concert, Fireworks ...
800th Anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s Pilgrimage of Peace to the Holy Land (1219)
UNESCO World Heritage Sites:
Old Acre (Hospitaller Fortress); Church of
the Nativity, Bethlehem; and Old Jerusalem (Church of the Holy
Sepulchre).
500th Anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - inventor, artist ...
350th Anniversary of the death of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) - draughtsman, painter and printmaker
100th Anniversary of the World War I (WWI) Peace Treaty of Versailles -
signed on June 28, 1919 in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of
Versailles.
UNESCO World Heritage Site: The Palace and Park of Versailles.
50th Anniversary of the first Men to Walk on the Moon (1969)
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to walk on the moon on
July 21, 1969 (Apollo 11) followed by Pete Conrad and Alan Bean in
November 1969 (Apollo 12).