Biography

Byron was disappointed by the birth of his daughter, he expected a son, "a wonderful boy". The girl was named after Byron's half-sister (his great love), Augusta Leighi; Byron called her Ada.

Chopin's first public concert took place at the Radziwiłł Palace (now the Presidential Palace) in 1818.

Tadeusz Kosciuszko was born in 1746 in Mereczowszczyzna near Kosovo in Polesia.

She is credited with inventing the astrolabe and the areometer.

He attended elementary school in Smiljan, where he learned German, arithmetic, and religion.

Shakespeare’s works cannot attribute to any era. He was a breakthrough artist, and we can place him between the Renaissance and the Baroque.

Shakespeare’s parents probably got married in 1557. Most likely they were cousins - John’s mother and Mary’s mother were sisters.

While acquiring a maritime practice, Columbus simultaneously educated himself by reading the writings of ancient and classical writers Strabo, Seneca, and Aristotle, as well as his humanist contemporaries.

Hemingway’s marital relations began to deteriorate when he met Pauline Pfeiffer and got into an affair with her, and his wife found out.

Napoleon Bonaparte is the author of the romantic novel "Clisson and Eugenie" ("Clisson et Eugenie").