Biography

Aristotle tutored several crown heads.

Hemingway missed Paris very much, found Toronto boring and wanted to return to a writer’s life instead of living the life of a journalist.

This time the king responded decisively, sending Francisco Fernandez de Bobadilla west, equipped with far-reaching powers.

Peter spent the last years of his life expanding Russian territories in the east.

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 was born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg.

He was the seventh child of Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria, née Pertl.

In 1847, Sutter planted more than two thousand fruit trees, marking the birth of agriculture in the Sacramento Valley.

The family Buonarroti Simoni was one of the old Florentine families.

Towards the end of his life, Beethoven received many tokens of recognition.