Biography

During his student years, Chopin was fascinated by folk music, and it characterises his work from this period.

Michelangelo left Florence for Rome in 1496.

After the death of his brother Kasper, Beethoven tried hard to take care of his son Karl, because he believed that his widow, Johanna, was too promiscuous to take care of the child.

Isabella I of Castile allowed Columbus to organize an expedition to sail under the flag of the Spanish crown.

Garros ended up in German captivity in 1915. During a raid on the Courtrai railway station in German-controlled territory, a fuel line in his plane became clogged, forcing him to land. Garros was captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp at the fortress of Magdeburg, where he spent three years.

To combat inflation, he introduced a new gold coin, the solidus, which became the standard for Byzantine and European currencies for more than a thousand years.

For the sake of Chopin's health and life, as a cholera epidemic was spreading in Paris, his friends found an apartment in Chaillot for him.

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

Oppenheimer was suspected of treason. When the Soviet Union successfully tested an atomic bomb in 1949, it came as a surprise to the United States. Since it came so soon after the Manhattan Project, it was suspected that someone had betrayed the project.

In 2017, a £10 bill with Jane Austen's likeness was introduced into circulation in the United Kingdom.