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Biography of Frederick William II of Prussia (excerpt)
Frederick William II (German: Friedrich Wilhelm II; September 25, 1744–November 16, 1797) was the fourth King of Prussia, reigning from 1786 until his death. Frederick William was son of Prince Augustus William of Prussia (the second son of King Frederick William I of Prussia) and of Louise Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. ![]()
Biography of Francis Scott Key (excerpt)
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". Life Francis Scott Key was born to Ann Louis Penn Dagworthy (Charlton) and Captain John Ross Key at the family plantation Terra Rubra in what was Frederick County and is now Carroll County, Maryland. ![]()
Biography of Karl von Clausewitz (excerpt)
Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz (July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831) was a Prussian soldier, military historian and military theorist. He is most famous for his military treatise Vom Kriege, translated into English as On War. Life and times Clausewitz, considered an author of contemporary military strategy, was born in Burg bei Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia, to a poor but middle-class family. ![]()
Biography of Giovanni Belzoni (excerpt)
Giovanni Battista Belzoni; sometimes known as The Great Belzoni (November 5, 1778 (birth time source: no original source) – December 3, 1823) was a prolific Venetian explorer of Egyptian antiquities. Belzoni was born in Padua as the son of a barber. His family was from Rome and when Belzoni was 16 he went to work there, claiming that he 'studied hydraulics'. ![]()
Biography of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (excerpt)
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (June 20, 1786 - July 23, 1859) was a French poet. She was born in Douai. Following the French Revolution, her family emigrated to Guadeloupe. In 1817 she married her second husband, the actor Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore. She published Élégies et Romances, her first poetic work, in 1819. ![]()
Biography of Agustín de Iturbide (excerpt)
Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu (27 September 1783 – 19 July 1824), also known as Augustine of Mexico, was a Mexican army general and politician. During the Mexican War of Independence, he built a successful political and military coalition that took control in Mexico City on 27 September 1821, decisively gaining independence for Mexico. ![]()
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. ![]()
Biography of Luigi Boccherini (excerpt)
Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini (February 19, 1743 – May 28, 1805) was a classical era composer and cellist from Italy, whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is mostly known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. ![]()
Biography of Henri Grégoire (excerpt)
Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire (4 December 1750 – 28 May 1831), often referred to as the Abbé Grégoire, was a French Catholic priest, constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader. He was an ardent slavery abolitionist and supporter of universal suffrage. ![]()
Biography of John Constable (excerpt)
John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection. ![]()
Biography of Marie Dorval (excerpt)
Marie Dorval (January 6, 1798 - May 20, 1849), was a talented French actress. Early life Born Marie Thomase Amélie Delauney; abandoned by her father when she was five years old, and losing her mother to tuberculosis while still a teenager, at age of 15 she married Alain Dorval, a much older actor, who died five years later. ![]()
Biography of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (excerpt)
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (January 10, 1797 – May 25, 1848) was a 19th century German author, and one of the most important German poets. She was born at the family seat of Hülshoff near Münster into an aristocratic, Catholic family in Westphalia. ![]()
Biography of Beau Brummell (excerpt)
Beau Brummell, né George Bryan Brummell (June 7, 1778, London, U.K.–March 30, 1840, Caen, France), was the arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England and a friend of the Prince Regent. He established the mode of men wearing understated, but fitted, beautifully cut clothes, adorned with an elaborately-knotted cravat. ![]()
Biography of Louis-Eugène-Marie Bautain (excerpt)
Louis Eugène Marie Bautain (February 17, 1796 – October 15, 1867), French philosopher and theologian, was born in Paris. At the École Normale he came under the influence of Victor Cousin. In 1816 he adopted the profession of higher teaching, and was soon after called to the chair of philosophy in the university of Strasbourg.
Biography of Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (excerpt)
Louis-Joseph Xavier Francois, Dauphin of France (October 22, 1781–June 4, 1789) was the second child and first son of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette of Austria. As the heir apparent to the French throne, he was called the Dauphin. ![]()
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 Antonio José de Sucre (excerpt)
Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá (February 3, 1795 – June 4, 1830), known as the "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" (English: "Grand Marshal of Ayacucho"), was a Venezuelan independence leader. Sucre was one of Simón Bolívar's closest friends, generals and statesmen. ![]()
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 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 Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (excerpt)
Louis-Antoine of France, Dauphin of France and Duke of Angoulême (born Louis-Antoine of Artois; August 6, 1775 – June 3, 1844) was the eldest son of King Louis XVI of France's youngest brother, the Comte d'Artois, and his wife, Princess Marie Thérèse of Savoy. ![]()
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 Eugène Chevreul (excerpt)
Michel Eugène Chevreul (August 31, 1786 (birth time source: Arno Müller, birth certificate) – April 9, 1889) was a French chemist whose work with fatty acids led to early applications in the fields of art and science. He is credited with discovering margarine and designing an early form of soap made from animal fats and salt. ![]()
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. ![]()
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Santa Cruz (Spanish for 'Holy Cross') is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California. As of 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated Santa Cruz's population at 64,608. Situated on the northern edge of Monterey Bay, about 32 mi (51 km) south of San Jose and 75 mi (120 km) south of San Francisco, the city is part of the 12-county San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area. ![]()
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. It met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after the British Navy instituted a blockade of Boston Harbor and Parliament passed the punitive Intolerable Acts in response to the December 1773 Boston Tea Party. ![]()
Biography of Karoline von Günderrode (excerpt)
Karoline von Günderrode (11 February 1780 - 26 July 1806) was a German Romantic poet who wrote under the male pseudonym Tian. Born into a noble but impoverished family, she left home at 17 to live in a residence for unmarried women in Frankfurt.
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Biography of Charles de Rémusat (excerpt)
Charles François Marie, Comte de Rémusat (14 March 1797 - 6 June 1875), was a French politician and writer. Biography He was born in Paris. His father, Auguste Laurent, Comte de Rémusat, of a good family of Toulouse, was chamberlain to Napoleon Bonaparte, but acquiesced in the restoration and became prefect first of Haute Garonne, and then of Nord. ![]()
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. ![]()
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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 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 Ludwig I of Bavaria (excerpt)
Ludwig I (also rendered in English as Louis I) (August 25, 1786 in Strasbourg – February 29, 1868 in Nice) was king of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states. Crown Prince He was the son of Count Palatine Maximilian Joseph of Zweibrücken by his first wife Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. ![]()
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).
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Biography of Jean Reboul (excerpt)
Jean Reboul, born January 23, 1796 in Nîmes and died May 28, 1864, was a French poet. Publications (extract) * L'Ange et l'enfant, 1828 * Poésies, par Jean Reboul de Nîmes, précédées d'une préface par Alexandre Dumas et d'une lettre à l'éditeur par Alphonse de Lamartine, 1836 ![]()
Biography of Sam Houston (excerpt)
Samuel Houston, known as Sam Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863), was a 19th-century American statesman, politician, and soldier. He was born in Timber Ridge in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, of Scots-Irish descent. Houston became a key figure in the history of Texas, and was elected as the first and third President of the Republic of Texas, US Senator for Texas after it joined the United States, and finally as governor of the state.
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Biography of Pope Pius IX (excerpt)
Pope Pius IX (May 13, 1792 – February 7, 1878), born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from his election in June 16, 1846, until his death more than 31 years later in 1878. Pius IX was elected as the candidate of the liberal and moderate wings on the College of Cardinals, following the pontificate of arch-conservative Pope Gregory XVI. ![]()
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. ![]()
Biography of James Fenimore Cooper (excerpt)
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. ![]()
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 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 John James Audubon (excerpt)
John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of North America in a form far superior to what had gone before. In his outsize personality and achievements, he seemed to represent the new American nation of the United States. ![]()
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 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 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 Thomas Carlyle (excerpt)
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was highly influential during the Victorian era. Coming from a strict Calvinist family, Carlyle was expected by his parents to become a preacher, but while at the University of Edinburgh, he lost his Christian faith. ![]()
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 Bernardo O'Higgins (excerpt)
Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (1778 or 1776, August 20 – 1842), South American independence leader, was one of the commanders – together with José de San Martín – of the military forces that freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. ![]()
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 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. |
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