Biography

He wrote his first opera "Ottone in villa" at the age of 35.

During Napoleon's reign, France was involved in more than a dozen wars, in variable coalitions, with all European countries taking part.

In 1988, a 10-franc coin with a portrait of Roland Garros was released in France.

In 325 he decided to establish the capital in the city of Byzantium, which he renamed Constantinople - the city of Constantine (now Istanbul).

Beethoven was probably first introduced to Joseph Haydn in late 1790 when he, traveling to London, stopped over Christmas in Bonn.

The performances of talented children brought splendor and, above all, material benefits to the family.

Shakespeare’s family home still stands in Stratford on Henley Street.

Mozart received a commission from Munich to write a grand opera for the start of the opera season in that city in December 1780.

To survive, he had to take on various jobs for a year (from spring 1886 to spring 1887).

Ada Lovelace befriended her tutor Mary Somerville.Mary Somerville was a Scottish physicist, writer and scholar. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel (a British astronomer) were elected as the first honorary members of the Royal Astronomical Society.