Biography

In 1596, thanks to Shakespeare’s efforts, his father was granted a noble title.

Throughout his life, including in his prose, Ernest Hemingway emphasized the importance of male strength.

Peter I dreamed of bringing Russia as a strong, modernized, accepted state into the arena of European politics.

During this stay, while in Rome at the Sistine Chapel, the fourteen-year-old Mozart heard Gregorio Allegri's "Miserere."

From Nicaraguan tribesmen he learned of the "rich kingdoms" of the - Mayan and possibly Inca civilizations and of the "great sea" (Pacific Ocean) farther west.

Shortly after his public debut, he published three piano trios, which he gave the opus number 1.

He convened the Council of Nicaea I - an assembly of the Christian bishops of the Roman Empire at Nicaea in Bithynia (a historical land in Asia Minor, on the Black Sea, in present-day Turkey), which lasted from July 19-25, 325.

He became famous for the first non-stop flight over the Mediterranean.

The dying Chopin asked that after his death his heart be taken from his body and sent to Warsaw.

At the age of 15, he received a mallet from Prince Philip - a special wooden hammer used for playing polo.