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Albert Einstein – Biography, Theories, Quotes & Death

6May

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Albert Einstein – Biography, Theories, Quotes & Death

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, in Wurttemberg (German Empire), and died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey (United States), was a theoretical physicist. He was successively German, stateless (1896), Swiss (1901), and of dual Swiss - American nationality (1940). He married Mileva Einstein-Maric, then his cousin Elsa Einstein.He published his theory of special relativity in 1905 and his theory of gravitation called general relativity in 1915. He contributed greatly to the development of quantum mechanics and cosmology and received the Nobel Prize in physics of 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.His work is notably known to the general public for the equation E = mc², which establishes an equivalence between the mass and the energy of a ...

William the Conqueror – Biography, Conquest & Death

5May

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William the Conqueror – Biography, Conquest & Death

William the Conqueror, also known as William I (Falaise, 8 November 1028 - Rouen, 9 September 1087), was Duke of Normandy from 1035 with the name of William II and the king of England from 1066 until his death.Although also called William the Bastard because illegitimate or otherwise born from a non-canonical union not recognized by the Church, he was still known as "the Conqueror" already before 1066, for his victories over the Bretons and for the conquest of Maine.William ascended the throne of England after his victory in the Battle of Hastings, with which he began the Norman conquest, defeating the Saxon king Aroldo II. The epic of conquest and the reasons for the war are represented in the famous Bayeux Tapestry.It gave birth to the first census of English properties (the ...

James A. Garfield – Biography, Presidency & Assassination

5May

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James A. Garfield – Biography, Presidency & Assassination

James A. Garfield is also known as James Abram Garfield (Orange, Ohio, 19 of November of 1831 - Long Branch, New Jersey, 19 of September of 1881) was the 20th President of the United States. He became the second president assassinated in the United States - Abraham Lincoln had suffered the same fatality, also while in office.His presidency is the second shortest in United States history, after that of William Henry Harrison, lasting only six months and fifteen days. Quick Facts: James A. GarfieldKnown for: 20th President of the United States Born: November 19, 1831, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio Parents: Abram Garfield, Eliza Ballou Garfield Died: September 19, 1881, in Elberon, New Jersey Education: Williams College Spouse: Lucretia Rudolph Children: seven; two d...

George V – Biography, Marriage, Successor & Death

4May

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George V – Biography, Marriage, Successor & Death

George V was born George Frederick Ernest Albert on June 3, 1865, and died January 20, 1936, was king of the United Kingdom and the dominions (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland), and emperor of India of May 6, 1910, to his death.George was the grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and the first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II and the German Emperor William II. From 1877 to 1891, he served in the Royal Navy and reached the rank of Commander.When Queen Victoria died in 1901, George's father became king under the name of Edward VII and George was made Prince of Wales. On the death of his father in 1910, he succeeded him as king-emperor of the British Empire under the name of George V. He was the only Emperor of India to attend his darbar in Delhi.Following th...

Edward VIII – Biography, Abdication, Wife & Death

3May

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Edward VIII – Biography, Abdication, Wife & Death

Edward VIII of the United Kingdom ( Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David ), later known as Duke of Windsor ( London, June 23, 1894 - Paris, May 28, 1972 ), was king of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth domains British and Emperor of India, from the death of his father King George V on January 20, 1936, until his abdication on December 11 of the same year.Before his ascension to the throne, Edward successively held the titles of Prince Edward of York, Prince Edward of Cornwall and York, Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, and Prince of Wales. In his youth, he served in World War I, toured abroad on behalf of his father, George V, and was associated with a succession of married women older than his own.Just a few months into his reign, Edward VIII caused a constitutio...

James Madison – Biography, Presidency, Facts and Death

3May

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James Madison – Biography, Presidency, Facts and Death

James Madison born on March 16, 1751, in King George County (a colony of Virginia) and died on June 28, 1836, in Orange (Virginia) is a statesman American, 4th president of the United States, based on 1809 to 1817.Member of the Republican-Democratic Party and delegate of Virginia to the Continental Congress, he is one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He has considered one of the main authors of the American Constitution; James Madison is particularly concerned with the balance between legislative, judicial and executive powers and the declaration of rights.He succeeded Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State for the United States in 1801 before being elected president seven years later. He was also proclaimed a French citizen by the National Legislative Assembly in 1792...

Queen Victoria – Biography, Family, Reign & Death

2May

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Queen Victoria – Biography, Family, Reign & Death

Queen Victoria is also known as Victoria I was born on May 24, 1819, at Kensington Palace, London. Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to 1901 and Empress of India (1876-1901). She was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.With the accession of Victoria on June 20, 1837, ended because of the Kingdom of Hanover in force Salic Law, the women from the throne excluded, that has existed since 1714 personal union between Britain and Hanover.During the following 63 years of Victoria's reign, the British Empire reached the peak of its political and economic power, the upper and middle classes experienced an unprecedented economic heyday (Victorian era).The influence of her hu...

Napoleon Bonaparte – Biography, Early Life & Death

1May

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Napoleon Bonaparte – Biography, Early Life & Death

Napoleon Bonaparte is also known as Napoleon I was born on August 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, in Corsica as Napoleon Bonaparte. Coming from a Corsican family, Bonaparte rose in the army during the French Revolution. He proved to be a first-rate military talent. The campaigns in Italy and Egypt made him particularly popular.This enabled him to take power in France through the coup of 18th Brumaire VIII (November 9, 1799), initially as one of three consuls. From 1799 to 1804 as the first consul of the French Republic and then until 1814 and again in 1815 as emperor of the French, he became a dictatorial regime with plebiscitary Elements.Through various reforms - such as those of the judiciary through the civil code or those of the administration - Napoleon has shaped the state structures o...

Alexander the Great | Biography, Early Life and his Conquest

30Apr

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Alexander the Great | Biography, Early Life and his Conquest

Alexander the Great is also known as Alexander III of Macedonia was born on 20 July 356 BC in Pella. Alexander extended the borders of the empire, which his father Philip II had built from the previously rather insignificant small state of Macedonia and several Greek polises, through the so-called Alexander Train and the conquest of the Achaemenid Empire to the Indian subcontinent.After his invasion of Egypt, he was greeted there as Pharaoh. Not least because of his great military success, Alexander's life became a popular subject in literature and art, while Alexander's assessment in modern research, as in ancient times, was ambiguous.When he came to power, the age of Hellenism began, in which Greek culture spread over large parts of the then known world. The cultural influences o...

Henry VIII of England Biography, Early life, and His Wives

29Apr

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Henry VIII of England Biography, Early life, and His Wives

Henry VIII was born on June 28, 1491, in Placentia Palace (Greenwich, England). He was king of England and Ireland from 1509 until his death. He was the second of the Tudor dynasty. Son of Henry VII, the first English monarch of the Tudor dynasty, and Elizabeth of York. He broke with the Roman Church and founded the Church of England or Anglican.The legal and theological controversy relating to the validity of her first marriage to Catherine of Aragon and its recognition of nullity was one of the main causes of the schism in 1534 of the Church of England with Rome and the English Reformation.Henri VIII supervised this separation within particular the dissolution of the monasteries and was for that excommunicated; he nevertheless remained a defender of the fundamentals of Catholic t...