Biography

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.

Chopin's next teacher was Wilhelm Waclaw Wurfel, also of Czech origin.

At the age of 27, he married the widowed aristocrat Josephine de Beauharnais (she was the mistress of many influential politicians after her husband's death).

Catherine Elizabeth Middleton was born on January 9th, 1982, in Reading.

Sting began his solo career with the album "The Dream of the Blue Turtles," which proved to be a great success - the singles from it are: "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" and "Fortress Around Your Heart."

The battle on the Circus Maximus grounds pitted 2 captive armies against each other to fight to the death.

In the year 305. Diocletian resigned as emperor (as did the second Augustus, Maximian), and the new Augustus were Constantius Chlorus in the West and Galerius in the East.

In October 2020, New York’s Christie’s Auction House reported that a copy of the First Folio sold for $9.97 million.

In 307 Constantine married Maximian's daughter Fausta.

Isabella I of Castile allowed Columbus to organize an expedition to sail under the flag of the Spanish crown.