Name That Historical Event

[Cookiegod]

Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

[chesser2538]

Aye, the Cookie has it.

[Cookiegod]

[chesser2538]

Gonna guess that is a Gutenberg Bible, so the invention of the printing press?

[Cookiegod]

Yep.

[chesser2538]

[Ἀπολλόδοτος Α΄ ὁ Σωτήρ]

I'd say opening of the Suez Canal but... there's something suspicious about those flags...

[chesser2538]

It is the Suez Canal. Your go.

[Ἀπολλόδοτος Α΄ ὁ Σωτήρ]

Thanks.

[Intranetusa]

Thanks.

No idea what this one is, but I'd like to say the bushy eyebrows guy on the right reminds me of Thomas Edison's eyebrows.

[Ἀπολλόδοτος Α΄ ὁ Σωτήρ]

It's not Thomas Edison, or anyone who's native language is English.

Here's a hint, although it might not be a particularly helpful one, the person on the right is not a native speaker of an Indo-European language, the one on the left is.

[Cookiegod]

Well, the moment I saw it I was pretty convinced that, given that you're a Greek and all, it's probably a deal between Greece and Turkey. But I'm not an expert, so I'm just gonna guess treaty of Lausanne? It's the one event I can think of that fits the time frame the most.

[Ἀπολλόδοτος Α΄ ὁ Σωτήρ]

Oh, we're getting close, not really... It's not the Treaty of Lausanne, which would make the other guy Turkish speaker, but the speaker of Indo-European language in the picture was indeed born in a country whose culture and, most importantly religion, was highly influenced by medieval Greek one...

[Abdülmecid I]

These were very helpful hints. Initially I searched for treaties between Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria, but then I remembered the Finns and Russians. According to Wikipedia, the image must depict the Soviet-Finnish Non-Aggression Pact signed in 1932.

[Ἀπολλόδοτος Α΄ ὁ Σωτήρ]

Correct! The image depicts Aarno Yrjö-Koskinen and Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky.

[Abdülmecid I]

[Spear Dog]

Lacks the later paint job (also just spotted the damaged turret), so, French Battleship Richelieu entering New York for a refit after switching sides from the Vichy in 1943. Served with RAN from 1944.

[Abdülmecid I]

Correct! Richelieu is mainly known for helping to defeat the Allied advance against Dakar, then held by the Vichy regime.

[Spear Dog]

sorry for delay, just getting back into groove of posting images
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[Spear Dog]

hint: an event very early in the current conflict. I hesitate to use the term "terrorist attack" as technically it wasn't, but it was a strategically very successful attack and achieved an outcome that is no longer supposedly 'on the table'.