# Kuticon illustrations

> Free illustrations of moments in history, drawn as flat vector scenes. Every one is SVG and PNG, CC0: no attribution, commercial use allowed.

Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations. License: CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

## Cleopatra's royal barge on the Nile (c. 41 BC)

Plutarch says Cleopatra VII sailed to meet Mark Antony at Tarsus in 41 BC on a gilded barge with purple sails; her royal barges also travelled the Nile.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/cleopatra-barge
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/cleopatra-barge.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/cleopatra-barge.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/cleopatra-barge.png?w=1024

## Colosseum Games (c. AD 80)

In AD 80, Emperor Titus opened Rome's Flavian Amphitheatre, the Colosseum, with 100 days of games including gladiator fights before tens of thousands.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/colosseum-arena
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/colosseum-arena.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/colosseum-arena.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/colosseum-arena.png?w=1024

## Concorde's first commercial flight (1976)

On 21 January 1976 Concorde began passenger service as British Airways flew from London to Bahrain and Air France flew from Paris to Rio at the same moment.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/concorde
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/concorde.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/concorde.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/concorde.png?w=1024

## First Powered Flight (1903)

On 17 December 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, sustained powered flights at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/first-flight
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/first-flight.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/first-flight.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/first-flight.png?w=1024

## The First Steam Railway (1825)

On 27 September 1825, Locomotion No. 1 pulled the first train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway in County Durham, England, the first public steam railway.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/first-steam-railway
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/first-steam-railway.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/first-steam-railway.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/first-steam-railway.png?w=1024

## Great Wall of China (1570)

Around 1570, under the Ming dynasty, workers rebuilt China's Great Wall in brick and stone, adding watchtowers along the mountain frontier north of Beijing.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/great-wall
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/great-wall.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/great-wall.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/great-wall.png?w=1024

## The first moonwalk on stage (1983)

On 25 March 1983, at the Motown 25 taping in Pasadena, Michael Jackson danced to Billie Jean and did the moonwalk on TV for the first time, seen by 47 million.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/michael-jackson-moonwalk
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/michael-jackson-moonwalk.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/michael-jackson-moonwalk.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/michael-jackson-moonwalk.png?w=1024

## Moon Landing (1969)

On 20 July 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed in the Moon's Sea of Tranquility, the first people to walk on another world.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/moon-landing
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/moon-landing.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/moon-landing.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/moon-landing.png?w=1024

## Landfall in the New World (1492)

On 12 October 1492, Christopher Columbus's expedition made landfall in the Bahamas, on an island its Lucayan Taíno inhabitants called Guanahani.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/new-world-landfall
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/new-world-landfall.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/new-world-landfall.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/new-world-landfall.png?w=1024

## Feluccas on the Nile (Timeless)

At Aswan in southern Egypt, white-sailed feluccas glide on the Nile between golden desert dunes, smooth granite boulders and palm-lined islands and banks.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/nile-river
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/nile-river.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/nile-river.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/nile-river.png?w=1024

## Printing Press (1450)

Around 1450 in Mainz, Germany, Johannes Gutenberg developed printing with movable metal type, which led to the Gutenberg Bible and mass-produced books.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/printing-press
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/printing-press.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/printing-press.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/printing-press.png?w=1024

## Building the Great Pyramid (c. 2560 BC)

Around 2560 BC, workers built the Great Pyramid of Giza as the tomb of Pharaoh Khufu, on the Giza plateau by the Nile near present-day Cairo, Egypt.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/pyramids
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/pyramids.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/pyramids.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/pyramids.png?w=1024

## Founding of Saint Petersburg (1703)

On 27 May 1703 Peter the Great founded Saint Petersburg by laying the Peter and Paul Fortress on Hare Island in the Neva delta, on land just taken from Sweden.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/st-petersburg-founded
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/st-petersburg-founded.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/st-petersburg-founded.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/st-petersburg-founded.png?w=1024

## Titanic Departure (1912)

On 10 April 1912, RMS Titanic left Southampton, England, on her maiden voyage to New York; five days later she struck an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/titanic-departure
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/titanic-departure.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/titanic-departure.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/titanic-departure.png?w=1024

## The White House is built (1800)

In November 1800 John Adams became the first president to live in the President's House in Washington, James Hoban's mansion of white-painted sandstone.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/white-house
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/white-house.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/white-house.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/white-house.png?w=1024

## Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)

On 9 November 1989, East Germany opened the Berlin Wall's border crossings, and crowds climbed and broke the wall that had divided Berlin since 1961.

- Page: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/berlin-wall
- Markdown: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/berlin-wall.md
- SVG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/berlin-wall.svg
- PNG: https://kuticon.com/illustrations/berlin-wall.png?w=1024