Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) • Charles IV, King of Spain (1788-1808) • George Washington, 1st President of the United States (1789-1797) Births: • Buchanan, James (1791-1868) • Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Deaths: • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Literature: • Blake, William (1757-1827): Mary…
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1790
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) • Charles IV, King of Spain (1788-1808) • George Washington, 1st President of the United States (1789-1797) Births: • Tyler, John (1790-1862) Literature: • Austen, Jane (1775-1817): Love and Freindship (1790) • Blake, William (1757-1827): Songs of Innocence, and Songs…
1789
Rulers: • Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1762-1796) • Charles IV, King of Spain (1788-1808) • George Washington, 1st President of the United States (1789-1797) Births: • Taylor, Isidore Justin Séverin (1789-1879) • Van Gogh, Vincent, Grandfather (1789-1874) Literature: • Blake, William (1757-1827): Songs of Innocence, and Songs…
1799
Deaths: • Washington, George (1732-1799)
1732
Births: • Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de (1732-1799) • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) • Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) • Lalande, Jérôme (1732-1807) • Washington, George (1732-1799) Literature: • Fielding, Henry (1707-1754): The Old Debauchees. A Comedy (1732) Architecture: • Bush-Holley House built in Cos Cob, Greenwich, CT. Art:…
1809
Rulers: • Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (1801-1809) • James Madison, 4th President of the United States (1809-1817) • Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain and the Indies (1808-1813) • Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (1804-1815) • Napoléon I, King of Italy (1805-1814) Events: •…
1757
Events: • Museo di Capodimonte founded in Naples. Births: • Barrenechea y Morante, María Rita (1757-1795) • Blake, William (1757-1827) • Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Deaths: • Carriera, Rosalba (1675-1757) Art: • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780): La fortezza di Königstein (1756-58) • Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780): La fortezza di Königstein vista…
1068
Architecture: • Arundel Castle built in England.
1945
Rulers: • Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (1933-1945) • Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (1945-1953) Events: • Portrait of a Courtesan, Fillide Melandroni (c.1597) and San Matteo e l’angelo (1602) by Caravaggio (in Kaiser Friedrich Museum) are destroyed during bombardments in Berlin. Births: • Adams, Maud (1945)…
1992
Rulers: • Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom (1952-2022) • George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (1989-1993) Events: • Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza established in Madrid. Births: • Booth, Douglas (1992) • Powley, Bel (1992) Deaths: • Anderson, Judith (1897-1992) • Bacon, Francis (1909-1992)…