Biography

Soon Beethoven began working with Neefe as assistant organist in the court chapel.

At the end of his sophomore year, Tesla lost his scholarship and became addicted to gambling.

Urged strongly by his father to return to Salzburg, he stopped in Munich and Mannheim on his way back.

At the age of 27, he married the widowed aristocrat Josephine de Beauharnais (she was the mistress of many influential politicians after her husband's death).

The son overcame his father's resistance and entered the studio of Domenico Ghirlandaio, a famous Florentine painter at the age of thirteen.

The funeral ceremony took place on January 12.

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.

During the siege of Toulon, Bonaparte was sworn in as captain of an artillery of the revolutionary forces.

At the age of seventeen, Ada was introduced to the royal court.

Peter I's trip to Western Europe is described by chronicles as one of the "milestones" of his reign.