Biography

Saturday, 31 January 2026

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Frederic Chopin
After completing his studies in 1829, Frederic went to Vienna with his friends. This journey proved to be a phenomenal success.
Chopin aroused the enthusiasm of the public there, and after the publication of his Variations Op. 2 ...
Ada Lovelace
She wanted to be buried next to her father.
Although she didn't know him, he was in her thoughts all her life. She even named her two sons Byron ...
Roland Garros
Eugene Adrien Roland Georges Garros was a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot.
He was born in 1888, when no one in the world dreamed of the existence of such machines as airplanes ...
Frederic Chopin
Frederic was probably born on 1 March 1810 in Żelazowa Wola.
Some sources state that he was born on 22 February 1810.
Charles Darwin
He was born on 12 February 1809 in the small English town of Shrewsbury, in the family home of The Mount.
He came from a wealthy family of Robert Darwin, a physician and financier, and Susannah Wedgwood - h ...
Gaius Julius Caesar
It is not certain whether Caesar, in the last moments of his life, uttered the words "Et tu, Brute?”
According to Svetonius and Plutarch, Caesar remained silent and only covered his head with a toga when he saw his friend Brutus among the assassins.
Frederic Chopin
Since 1927 the Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition has been held in Warsaw.
It is the oldest monographic music competition in the world. Its author was Jerzy Żurawlew, a Polish ...
Constantine the Great
Constantine I the Great was born around 272 in Naissus, part of the province of Dardania in Mesa, a Roman province in the central Balkans (now Niš, a city in Serbia).
He was the son of Flavius Constantius Chlorus, a Roman army officer who was one of the four emperors ...
Peter the Great
Shortly after Ivan V's death, already an independent tsar of Russia, he won his first victory, defeating the Turks and capturing the fortress of Azov.
This made him realize the need for a strong navy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
According to historians, Napoleon was a short man, being 169 centimeters tall.
One anecdote says that during one of his deliberations, Napoleon could not reach a map lying on a sh ...