Biography

As early as 1836, Chopin met the French writer Aurora Dudevant, known as George Sand, who was six years older.

Jane Austen was an expert at brewing spruce beer.

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.

When patriotic celebrations of Kosciuszko's death anniversary were to be held in 1861, Russian governor Charles Lambert imposed martial law in the Kingdom of Poland.

Chopin died on the night of October 17, 1849.

After the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer became very popular. He gave lectures all over the country, talking about the responsible use of atomic energy.

In 1954, Hemingway and his wife traveled to Africa, where they were twice involved in plane crashes.

He spent several years of his early childhood in Mongolia.

The young, eight-year-old Chopin played in Warsaw for the Tsarina Maria Feodorovna, to whom he offered two of his Polish dances.

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.