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Biography of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (excerpt)
Leopold II (born Peter Leopold Joseph) (May 5, 1747 – March 1, 1792) was the penultimate Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792 and Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was a son of Emperor Francis I and his wife, Queen Maria Theresa.
Biography of Ebenezer Sibly (excerpt)
Ebenezer Sibly (1751-1799) was an English physician, astrologer and prolific writer on the occult. He is celebrated for the natal horoscope he cast of the United States of America, published in 1787 and still cited. He joined the Freemasons in 1784. He published the New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences in four volumes, from 1784.
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The source for this event comes from the on-line encyclopedia encyclopediavirginia.org Richmond is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and the Greater Richmond Region. Richmond was incorporated in 1742 and has been an independent city since 1871.
Biography of William IV of the United Kingdom (excerpt)
William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death. William, the third son of George III and younger brother and successor to George IV, was the last king and penultimate monarch of the House of Hanover.
Biography of Baron Georges Cuvier (excerpt)
Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (August 23, 1769–May 13, 1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist. He was the elder brother of Frédéric Cuvier (1773–1838), also a naturalist. He was a major figure in scientific circles in Paris during the early 19th century, and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology by comparing living animals with fossils.
Biography of Jose Gervasio Artigas (excerpt)
José Gervasio Artigas Arnal (June 19, 1764 – September 23, 1850) is a national hero of Uruguay, sometimes called "the father of Uruguayan independence". Life Born in Montevideo to a wealthy family, at age 12 he moved to the countryside and worked on his family's farms.
Biography of Jean Paul (writer) (excerpt)
Jean Paul (21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825), born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. Life and work Jean Paul was born at Wunsiedel, in the Fichtelgebirge mountains (Bavaria). His father was an organist at Wunsiedel.
Biography of Antonio Canova (excerpt)
Antonio Canova (Possagno, Italy, 1 November 1757 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, from a biography written by Pier Alessandro Paravia) – 13 October 1822) was an Italian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh.
Biography of Francisco de Miranda (excerpt)
Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez (Caracas, March 28, 1750 – in prison, El Arsenal de la Carraca, Cadiz, July 14, 1816), commonly known as Francisco de Miranda, was a Venezuelan revolutionary. Although his own plans for the independence of the Spanish American colonies failed, he is regarded as a forerunner of Simón Bolívar, who during the Hispanic American wars of independence successfully liberated a vast portion of South America.
Biography of Charles Lamb (excerpt)
Charles Lamb (London, 10 February 1775 – Edmonton, 27 December 1834) was an English essayist with Welsh heritage, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).
Biography of William Pitt the Younger (excerpt)
William Pitt, the Younger (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He became the youngest Prime Minister in 1783, aged 24. He left office in 1801, but was Prime Minister again from 1804 until his death.
Biography of Thomas Chatterton (excerpt)
Thomas Chatterton (November 20, 1752 – August 24, 1770) was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. Committing suicide by arsenic rather than die of starvation at the young age of 17, he served as an icon of unacknowledged genius for the Romantics.
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Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of 2010, the population was 139,988, and in 2020, the population was estimated to be at 159,200. The city's estimated population has grown by 1% percent annually since 2010 on average.
Biography of Nathan Hale (excerpt)
Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was an officer for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Widely considered America's first spy, he volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission, but was captured by the British. He is best remembered for his speech before being hanged following the Battle of Long Island, in which he reportedly said, "I only regret that I have but one life to give my country.
Biography of Paul I of Russia (excerpt)
Pavel (Paul) I Petrovich of Russia (Russian: Па́вел I Петро́вич; Pavel Petrovich) (October 1 1754 – March 23 1801) was the Emperor of Russia between 1796 and 1801. Childhood Paul was born in the Palace of Empress Elizabeth In St Petersburg.
Biography of Paul Barras (excerpt)
Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras (June 30, 1755—January 29, 1829) was a French politician of the French Revolution, and the main executive leader of the Directory regime of 1795 - 1799. Early life Descended from a noble family of Provence, he was born at Fox-Amphoux, in today's Var département.
Biography of Antoine Drouot (excerpt)
Comte Antoine Drouot (January 11, 1774 (birth time source: birth certificate) - March 24, 1847) was one of Napoleon's generals. Born in Nancy, France, the son of a baker, he trained as an artilleryman and took part in the battles of the French Revolution where he rose through the ranks.
Biography of Lazare Carnot (excerpt)
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Comte Carnot (May 13, 1753 (birth time source: Lescaut)—August 2, 1823), the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary Wars, was a French politician, engineer, and mathematician. Education and early life Born in Nolay, Côte-d'Or, Carnot was educated in Burgundy at the Collège d’Autun, an artillery and engineering prep school.
Biography of Tiradentes (excerpt)
Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes (November 12, 1746–-April 21, 1792), was a leading member of the Brazilian seditious movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira whose aim was to shake of the Portuguese colonial power and create an independent Brazilian republic.
Biography of Richard Allen (bishop) (excerpt)
Richard Allen (February 14, 1760 – March 26, 1831) was a minister, educator, writer, and the founder in 1816 of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME), the first independent black denomination in the United States. He opened his first church in 1794 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Biography of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (excerpt)
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (24 June 1771 (source not archived) – 31 October 1834), known as Irénée du Pont, or E.I. du Pont, was a French-born Huguenot chemist and industrialist who immigrated to the United States in 1799 and founded the gunpowder manufacturer, E.
Biography of Luigi Cherubini (excerpt)
Luigi Cherubini (September 8 or September 14, 1760 (birth time source: Barbault, E. Sanchez, BC)– March 15, 1842) was an Italian born composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music.
Biography of Anthony Wayne (excerpt)
Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 – December 15, 1796) was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the sobriquet of "Mad Anthony".
Biography of Caroline of Brunswick (excerpt)
Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Caroline Amelia Elizabeth; later Queen Caroline; 17 May 1768 – 7 August 1821) was the queen consort of George IV of the United Kingdom from 29 January 1820 to her death. Early life Caroline was born on 17 May 1768 at Brunswick (German:Braunschweig) in Germany, daughter of Karl William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Princess Augusta Frederika of Wales, eldest sister of George III.
Biography of John VI of Portugal (excerpt)
John VI, King of Portugal (13 May 1767 – 26 March 1826) KG KGF (Portuguese João, pron. IPA ), the Clement (Port. o Clemente), King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves (later changing the title to just King of Portugal and Algarves, since Brazil was recognized independent in 1825) was born in Lisbon on 13 May 1767, and received the title of prince of Brazil in 1788.
Biography of Robert Adam (excerpt)
Robert Adam (14 July 1728 – 3 March 1792) was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his older brother John, Robert took on the family business, which included lucrative work for the Board of Ordnance, after William's death.
Biography of John Marshall (excerpt)
John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American statesman and jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice of the United States, serving from February 4, 1801, until his death in 1835.
Biography of Dietrich Tiedemann (excerpt)
Dietrich Tiedemann (April 3, 1748-1803) was a German philosopher who was a native of Bremervörde. He was a student at the University of Göttingen, and later a professor at Collegium Carolinum in Kassel (from 1776) and at the University of Marburg (from 1786).
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Southampton is a city and port in Hampshire, South East England. It is located at the end of a coastal inlet from the Solent, approximately 70 miles (110 km) south-west of London and 15 miles (24 km) west of Portsmouth. A major port, and close to the New Forest, it lies at the northernmost point of Southampton Water, at the confluence of the River Test and Itchen, with the River Hamble joining to the south.
Biography of Jérôme Lalande (excerpt)
Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807) was a French astronomer and writer. Lalande was born at Bourg-en-Bresse (now in the département of Ain) to Pierre Lefrançois and Marie‐Anne‐Gabrielle Monchinet. His parents sent him to Paris to study law, but as a result of lodging in the Hôtel Cluny, where Delisle had his observatory, he was drawn to astronomy, and became the zealous and favoured pupil of both Delisle and Pierre Charles Le Monnier.
Biography of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (excerpt)
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (12 January 1746 – 17 February 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. He was born on 12 January 1746 in Zürich, Switzerland. His father died when he was young, and he was brought up by his mother.
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Lancaster is a city in South Central Pennsylvania, that serves as the seat of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County and is one of the oldest inland towns in the United States. With a population at the 2010 census of 59,322, it ranks eighth in population among Pennsylvania's cities.
Biography of Oliver Goldsmith (excerpt)
Oliver Goldsmith (21 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773).
Biography of Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti (excerpt)
Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti, « Mademoiselle de Conti » (Paris June 20, 1726 (source not archived for her time of birth) - Paris February 9, 1759), was by marriage Duchess of Chartres (1743-1752) and Duchess of Orléans (1752-1759). She was a daughter of Louis Armand II de Bourbon, prince de Conti and Louise Élisabeth of Bourbon-Condé.
Biography of George Rogers Clark (excerpt)
George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 – February 13, 1818) was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Kentucky (then part of Virginia) militia throughout much of the war.
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Manchester is a city in Hillsborough County in southern New Hampshire, United States. It is the most populous city in northern New England (the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont). As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 115,644.
Biography of Johann Elert Bode (excerpt)
Johann Elert Bode (January 19, 1747 – November 23, 1826) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius-Bode law as well as his works to determine the orbit of Uranus, for which he also suggested the name.
Biography of Louise de Mecklembourg-Strelitz (excerpt)
Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie (Luisa Augusta Wilhelmina Amelia) (March 10, 1776 - July 19, 1810), Queen of Prussia, was born in Hanover, where her father, Karl of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was field marshal of the household brigade. Her mother was princess Friederike Caroline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Biography of Christian VII of Denmark (excerpt)
Christian VII (Danish: Christian den Syvende 29 January 1749 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 13 March 1808) was an Oldenburg monarch who ruled as King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death.
Biography of Dorothy Wordsworth (excerpt)
Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (December 25, 1771 – January 25, 1855) was an English author, poet and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close for all of their lives. Dorothy Wordsworth did not set out to be an author, and her writings comprise a series of letters, diary entries, and short stories.
Biography of Christiane von Goethe (excerpt)
Christiane von Goethe, born Christiane Vilpius June 1, 1765 in Weimar, died June 6, 1816 in Weimar, was the mistress then then wife of Johann von Goethe.
Biography of Nicolas Chamfort (excerpt)
Nicolas Chamfort (6 April 1740 - 13 April 1794) was a French writer and journalist, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary of Louis XIV's sister, and of the Jacobin club. Life He was born Nicolas-Sébastien Roch, Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, according to a baptismal certificate found among his papers, to a grocer named Nicolas.
Biography of Robert Fulton (excerpt)
Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat (also known as Clermont). In 1807, that steamboat traveled on the Hudson River with passengers from New York City to Albany and back again, a round trip of 300 miles (480 km), in 62 hours.
Biography of Gouverneur Morris (excerpt)
Gouverneur Morris (January 30, 1752 – November 6, 1816) was an American statesman and a native of New York who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was also an author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States and one of its "signers".
Biography of Johann Gottfried Herder (excerpt)
Johann Gottfried von Herder (25 August 1744 – 18 December 1803) was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism. Biography Born in Mohrungen (Morąg) in the Kingdom of Prussia, grew up in a poor household, educating himself from his father's Bible and songbook.
Biography of William Bligh (excerpt)
Vice Admiral William Bligh FRS RN (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. A notorious mutiny occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789; Bligh and his loyal men made a remarkable voyage to Timor, after being set adrift by the mutineers in the Bounty's launch.
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Monterey (Spanish: Monterrey; Ohlone: Aacistak) is a city located in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on the U.S. state of California's Central Coast. Founded on June 3, 1770, it functioned as the capital of Alta California under both Spain (1804 to 1821) and Mexico (1822 to 1836).
Biography of Jacques Delille (excerpt)
Jacques Delille (June 22, 1738 – May 1, 1813) was a French poet and translator. He was born at Aigueperse in Auvergne. Life He was an illegitimate child, and was descended by his mother from the chancellor De l'Hôpital. He was educated at the College of Lisieux in Paris and became an elementary teacher.
Biography of Arnaud Berquin (excerpt)
Arnaud Berquin (25 September 1747 in Bordeaux — 21 December 1791 in Paris) was a French children's author and playwright. His most famous work was L'Ami des Enfans (1782-3) which was first translated into English, albeit bowdlerised, by Mary Stockdale and published in London in 1783-4 by Mary's father John Stockdale.
Biography of Francois Joseph Talma (excerpt)
François Joseph Talma (January 15, 1763 - 1826) was a French actor. He was born in Paris. His father, a dentist, moved to London, gave him a good English education. He returned to Paris, where for a year and a half he practised dentistry. |
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