Biography

Monday, 25 May 2026
21 facts about Ada Lovelace
21 facts about Ada Lovelace
The first female programmer
Ada Lovelace was a British poet and mathematician who lived in the first half of the 19th century. She was the daughter of one of Britain's greatest d ...

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Gaius Julius Caesar
The assassination of Julius Caesar took place on March 15, 44 BC, the day of the Ides of March.
This was a lavishly celebrated holiday dedicated to the Roman god of war, Mars. On this day, the Rom ...
Antonio Vivaldi
He spent the next years of his life traveling around Europe, where he conducted his concerts.
Vivaldi was famous not only in Venice, but his works were also known and admired in France, Holland, Austria, and throughout Italy.
Roland Garros
On the eve of World War I, Garros was in the German Reich. It was there that he learned of the impending conflict.
He arrived in Germany at the invitation of Helmut Hirth, an aeronautical engineer, who gave Garros a ...
Alfred Nobel
The Nobel family came from Östra Nöbbelöv, a village in Skåne, hence the family name.
The first member of the family was Petrus Olai Nobelius, who married Wendela Rudbeck, daughter of th ...
Antonio Vivaldi
In 1740, Vivaldi traveled to Vienna, where he died a year later of an illness that was not fully diagnosed. He was 62 years old.
Perhaps the cause of his death was asthma, which he had suffered from since childhood, and which opp ...
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Also of great distinction was Kosciuszko's admission (as one of three foreigners) by fellow combatants to the Society of the Cincinnati, founded by the most distinguished officers.
The Society of the Cincinnati was an association formed by veterans of the American Revolution on Ma ...
Ludwig van Beethoven
Maximilian Friedrich's successor as Elector of Bonn, Maximilian Franz, appointed Beethoven as court organist and also paid for his visit to Vienna in 1792.
During these years, he was introduced to several people who became important in his life. He often v ...
Hypatia
Hypatia was brutally murdered.
In March 415, a mob of Christians led by the church lector Peter, whom Socrates described as a fanat ...
Antonio Vivaldi
Six months after his ordination, he began working as a music teacher at the Ospedale della Pieta orphanage for girls.
The Ospedale della Pieta was a convent, orphanage and music school for girls in Venice, operating be ...
Kate Middleton
Shortly before her marriage, the Middleton family was granted its own coat of arms.
The Princess and her siblings can use the coat of arms, while in the future, this right will apply o ...