Biography

His favorite song was an American chant written by Daniel Emmett, “Dixie.”

Shakespeare’s mother came from the wealthy Arden family, well-known in Warwickshire.

As a "saintly man," he returned to his native village, where a crowd of female admirers awaited him.

The family lived on his father's modest income of £600 a year.

With so much support among Rome's low and middle classes, Caesar set about reforming the state. Laws prepared by him were aimed at centralizing power and unifying the Roman provinces.

Jane Austin's first literary attempts date from 1787 (she was 12 years old at the time).

During this stay, while in Rome at the Sistine Chapel, the fourteen-year-old Mozart heard Gregorio Allegri's "Miserere."

Meddling in the Polish election, Peter I supported the election of August II the Strong as king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1697.

Sting's face inspired the creator of the "Hellblazer" comic book.

William Shakespeare died in Stratford, at New Place on Chapel Street, on April 23, 1616.