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Across centuries, February 14 is far more than candy hearts. Oaths that nudged Europe toward France and Germany were sworn in Strasbourg; a teenage emperor rose on a riverside platform; a ship named Ranger earned America’s first foreign salute. Tragedy and brilliance share the calendar: Cook’s death in Hawaii, Chicago’s infamous 1929 garage, the incandescent debut of ENIAC, and the cosmic humility of Voyager’s “Pale Blue Dot.” Civil rights, parliaments, treaties, uprisings, and even decimal currency launched on this date. In these pages, each event becomes an intricate, historically faithful coloring tableau—architecture, uniforms, instruments, and artifacts rendered for quiet, contemplative making. It’s a museum day in ink: fifty scenes, one shared date, and a reminder that history is a chorus, not a solo. Color carefully; the past is wired to the present.
paperback, 8.5" x 11", 50 illustrations
February 14 history, Feb 14 timeline, Valentine’s Day history not romance, historical events by date, Oaths of Strasbourg, Akbar coronation, James Cook Hawaii, Battle of Cape St Vincent, First Serbian Uprising, Oregon statehood, telephone patent Bell, War of the Pacific Antofagasta, Oscar Wilde Earnest premiere, ENIAC computer unveiling, Knesset first sitting, Sino-Soviet treaty, Sugar Ray Robinson LaMotta, Treaty of Tlatelolco, Decimal Day Australia, St Valentine’s Day Massacre Chicago, Voyager Pale Blue Dot, Torvill and Dean Bolero, Rushdie fatwa, NEAR Shoemaker Eros, San Francisco same-sex marriages 2004, YouTube founded 2005, Rafic Hariri assassination, NIU shooting 2008, Bahrain Day of Rage, IBM Watson Jeopardy, Copenhagen attacks 2015, Parkland shooting 2018, Pulwama attack 2019, first COVID case Africa, Canada Emergencies Act 2022, Cyclone Gabrielle NZ emergency, Kansas City parade shooting, Echoes series coloring pages, historically accurate line art, no shading Format B, white background coloring book, adult coloring history series
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