Biography

Michelangelo died in Rome in 1564, at the age of 89.

Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770 in a house at Bonnstrasse 20, where the Beethoven-Haus Museum is now located.

Toward the end of his life, Tesla worked obsessively on the concept of free energy.

He grew up in a Roman Catholic family and attended Catholic primary and secondary school.

In the autumn of 1810 the Chopin family moved to Warsaw.

In 1879, Nikola Tesla suffered a nervous breakdown.

The reforms introduced by Peter the Great over the years affected the military, administration, economy, as well as education, culture, and the Orthodox Church.

Lincoln’s embalmed body rests in a mausoleum in Springfield.

In Joe Wright's 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, young lovers struggling with social conventions, barriers, and prejudices were played by Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen.

Rasputin began to seek patronage from well-known centers of Russian Orthodoxy, and to this end began his "great journey" in 1903.