Biography

Shakespeare’s parents probably got married in 1557. Most likely they were cousins - John’s mother and Mary’s mother were sisters.

He witnessed a series of battles fought between American and German troops in the Hürtgen Forest (Battle of Hürtgen Forest, September 16th - December 19th, 1944) on the German-Belgian border - the longest single battle of the U.S. Army in its history.

She has been numerously commemorated in pop culture.

He tended to squander the family fortune and quickly fell into debt.

Chopin began learning the piano quite early, at the turn of his fourth and fifth year.

It is quite common to attribute the introduction of right-hand traffic to Napoleon.

Chopin's first public concert took place at the Radziwiłł Palace (now the Presidential Palace) in 1818.

In the spring of 1777, Kosciuszko was sent north to the Canadian border, where he fortified various Continental Army military camps for months under General Horatio Gates.

During his stay in the Netherlands, Peter was employed in a shipyard belonging to the East India Company as a simple laborer, demanding to call him Peter Timmerman van Zaandam (Peter, the carpenter of Zaandam).

John Sutter died on June 18, 1880, in a hotel room in Washington D.C.