Biography

To combat inflation, he introduced a new gold coin, the solidus, which became the standard for Byzantine and European currencies for more than a thousand years.

On October 10, 1794, a battle took place near Maciejowice between Polish troops commanded by the head of the insurrection Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Russian troops under General Fyodor Denisov.

When he achieved his first successes as a young boy, his father was only interested in whether money could be made from his work.

As a solo musician and member of The Police, Sting won 17 Grammy Awards, won Song of the Year for "Every Breath You Take," three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and four Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song.

Peter I dreamed of bringing Russia as a strong, modernized, accepted state into the arena of European politics.

Her father guided Hypatia's education. It is likely that he instilled in her an interest in science. She studied philosophy, but also specialised in mathematics and astronomy.

He convened the Council of Nicaea I - an assembly of the Christian bishops of the Roman Empire at Nicaea in Bithynia (a historical land in Asia Minor, on the Black Sea, in present-day Turkey), which lasted from July 19-25, 325.

When Constantine returned from the eastern front to Nicomedia in the spring of 303, he witnessed the beginning of Diocletian's "great persecution," the most severe persecution of Christians in Roman history.

His education was handled by two thinkers and philosophers, Marsilio Ficino, the Athenian school founder in Florence and one of the most famous figures of the early Renaissance, and Count Giovanni della Mirandola.

The decision was made to end Rasputin's life, but he wasn't an easy target.