Biography

Christopher Columbus was an Italian sailor, voyager, and navigator. He was also a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis.

Urged strongly by his father to return to Salzburg, he stopped in Munich and Mannheim on his way back.

A major boost to the state budget was France's sale of the Louisiana Territory to the United States in 1803.

Just before his death, Mozart began work on the Requiem funeral mass.

Building a sawmill was probably the worst of Sutter's idea.

He subordinated the Orthodox Church to the state, allowing Russia to take over the cultural tradition of Byzantium.

In 1818, the first review of Chopin's works was published in print.

Nikola was the fourth of five children.

He left his job with the archbishop and moved to Vienna.

In the fall of 1808, after turning down a position at the Royal Theater, Beethoven was offered a well-paid position as bandmaster at the court of Cassel by Napoleon's brother, Jerome Bonaparte, then king of Westphalia.