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  More info about: Marie Louise of Austria
  Marie Louise of Austria
Marie Louise, Empress of the French (1810–1815) as consort of Napoleon I and duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla (1816–47), daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I...
         
  More info about: Michael Faraday, Producing Electricity
  Michael Faraday, Producing Electricity
Faraday's research into electricity and electrolysis was guided by the belief that electricity is only one of the many manifestations of the unified forces of nature, whi...
         
  More info about: James Buchanan, 15th US President
  James Buchanan, 15th US President
James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (1857-1861). In the 1850s, the question of slavery divided the United States. Hopes ran high that the new President, "...
         
  More info about: Charles Babbage, Invention Computer
  Charles Babbage, Invention Computer
Charles Babbage was an English mathematician, analytical philosopher, mechanical engineer and (proto-) computer scientist who originated the idea of a programmable comput...
         
  More info about: Morse, Inventor Morse Code - 1836
  Morse, Inventor Morse Code - 1836
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American painter of portraits and historic scenes, the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor, with Alfred Vail, of...
         
  More info about: Napoleonic Wars
  Napoleonic Wars
The major powers of Europe - Austria, Britain, Russia and Prussia - feared the rise of France's revolutionaries because of the effect they could have upon their own popul...
         
  More info about: Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Romantic poet who rebelled against English politics and conservative values. Shelley drew no essential distinction between poetry and politi...
         
  More info about: Gioacchino Rossini
  Gioacchino Rossini
Gioacchino Antonio Rossini was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best known works include Il barbie...
         
  More info about: Stephen F. Austin, Father of Texas
  Stephen F. Austin, Father of Texas
Stephen Fuller Austin, known as the "Father of Texas," led the Anglo-American colonization of the region. The capital city of Austin, Texas and Austin County, Texas, Step...
         
  More info about: John Keats, Poet
  John Keats, Poet
John Keats lived only twenty-five years and four months (1795-1821), yet his poetic achievement is extraordinary. His writing career lasted a little more than five years...
         
  More info about: James Knox Polk, 11th US President
  James Knox Polk, 11th US President
Under James Knox Polk,11th US President (1845-1849), the United States grew by more than a million square miles, across Texas and New Mexico to California and even Oregon...
         
  More info about: The Northern Plains Tribes
  The Northern Plains Tribes
Timeline of Events Relevant to the Northern Plains Tribes. Native American, Literature, Art, Geology, Utah, South Dakota, Wyoming,...
         
  More info about: Franz Schubert
  Franz Schubert
Schubert's fame was long limited to that of a songwriter, since the bulk of his large output was not even published, and some not even performed, until the late 19th cent...
         
  More info about: Gaetano Donizetti, Italian Composer
  Gaetano Donizetti, Italian Composer
Gaetano Donizetti was among the most important composers of bel canto opera in both Italian and French in the first half of the nineteenth Century. Many of Donizetti's mo...
         
  More info about: Mary Shelley, Writer of Frankenstein
  Mary Shelley, Writer of Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Romantic novelist, biographer and editor, best known as the writer of Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). Shelley was 21...
         
         
 
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