Biography

His mother was Nancy Lincoln, née Hanks. Her descendant, and therefore a descendant of Abraham Lincoln, is actor Tom Hanks.

Beethoven began learning music at the age of five, and because the study regime was strict and intense, it often reduced him to tears.

Chopin studied at the Warsaw School of Music, where he began learning harmony and counterpoint with Joseph Elsner.

State finances improved rapidly with the reform of tax offices and the introduction of indirect taxes on tobacco, liquor, and salt.

After Mozart's death, Constance was in a very bad financial situation.

In the fall of 1808, after turning down a position at the Royal Theater, Beethoven was offered a well-paid position as bandmaster at the court of Cassel by Napoleon's brother, Jerome Bonaparte, then king of Westphalia.

He came from a family of American Jews.

Hypatia was brutally murdered.

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

In 1911, he set an altitude record of 3950 meters.