Biography

Constantine the Great also enacted several new laws regarding the Jews.

During the same period, he met his first wife, Hadley Richardson.

The Kosciuszko family descended from Konstantin Fedorovich, a grand ducal courtier of Alexander Jagiellon and Sigismund I.

Some sources claim Anna wished to be considered a product of her mother’s early marriage, so she claimed her father was a man named Pavel, who died when she was a toddler.

As a future candidate for emperor (there was an informal succession of privileges in the Tetrarchy), Constantine stayed at the court of Diocletian, where he received a proper education.

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

Nikola Tesla was one of the pioneers of roentgenology.

Napoleon Bonaparte suffered from ailurophobia - an irrational, terrifying fear of cats.

Ada Lovelace died of uterine cancer in 1852 at the age of 36. Her father, Lord Byron, died at the same age.

The emperor's body was placed in a golden coffin decorated with imperial purple, transported to Constantinople, and placed in the imperial palace.