Biography

Emperor Constantine established an annual holiday - Easter.

Aristotle was married to a Greek embryologist and biologist, Pythias the Elder.

Mozart received a commission from Munich to write a grand opera for the start of the opera season in that city in December 1780.

It is not certain whether Caesar, in the last moments of his life, uttered the words "Et tu, Brute?”

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.

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

Upon his return to Poland, which had been partitioned by Russia, Austria, and Prussia three years earlier, he found no employment in the army (the Polish army at the time was reduced to 10,000 soldiers).

Hadi Karimi, a graphic artist with Iranian roots, has recently made a very realistic portrait, the latest reconstruction of Frederic Chopin's face.

Julius Caesar's return to Rome in the summer of 46 BC was long and lavishly celebrated.

Grigori Rasputin was a Russian peasant claiming to be an Orthodox monk, a mystic, and a favorite of the family of Tsar Nicholas II Romanov.