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- 1321: Who the Book is About: Hans Christian Andersen
- ... worked for Jonas Collin, director of the Royal Theater, until Collin raised money to who provide him with an education. Hans got a grant from the King of Denmark in 1833-1835, for travel in Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy. He also got a Swedish Order of the Knight of the Palar Star, White Falcon of Weimar, Red Eagle of Prussia, order of the lady of Guadeloupe, and honored Danish Councillor ...
- 1322: The Wright Brothers
- ... Wright through enjoyment, jobs and business. Our history has also been significantly effected by the invention of aircraft. Consider the peace treaty that ended World War I that banned the manufactrue of military aircraft in Germany. During World War I both airplanes and lighter-than-air craft were used by the belligerents. Designers were traind because of the urgency of the war to construct special planes for reconnaissance, attack, pursuit, bombing ...
- 1323: Martin Luther
- ... hopeless, and notorious godlessness" (Luther and Dillenberger 44-45). It would seem statistics would favor the Church of Rome; however, such was not the situation. As the central figure of a violent religious rebellion in Germany, Martin Luther brought forth his principal theological doctrine about Christianity. According to Luther, mankind is justified by faith alone, and not by works. On the concept of this belief in a personal faith instead of ...
- 1324: Adolf Hitler
- ... in 1939. World War 2 begins with Hitler and his troops marching in to Poland. By this time Jews were dying by the thousands. Europe was almost completely taken over by the Nazis. In 1941 Germany had taken over the Soviet Union. By 1945 the Holocaust had taken over 6 million Jews and more and more people were going against Hitlers leadership making it harder for him to keep up ...
- 1325: Saint John of the Cross
- ... States 1986. Three Mystics. Father Bruno de J.M., ed. Sheed and Ward Ltd. London, England 1952. Wilhelmsen, Elizabeth. Knowledge and Symbolization in Saint John of the Cross. Verlag Peter Lang GmbH. Volume 41, Frankfurt, Germany 1993. Wojotyla, Karol. Faith According to Saint John of the Cross. Saint Ignatius Press. San Francisco, California, The United States 1981. The Bible
- 1326: Henry Kissinger
- ... conquest, politics, and theories. Henry Kissinger, perhaps not as known to the public as Caesar, Jefferson, or Marx, but he has helped shape the world we live in today. Born May 27, 1923 in Furth Germany, Kissinger would soon raise to service two presidents, Richard M. Nixon, and Gerald Ford, as the chief foreign policy advisor and secretary of state (Kissinger ). With Kissingers guidance the United States would reopen its ...
- 1327: Napoleon And Unrest In Europe
- ... universal manhood suffrage. Napoleon III surrendered during the Franco Prussian war, forming the third French republic. Through these liberals caused rulers to enact reforms, but divisions in French society led to continuing political instability. In Germany Bismarck enacted the anti catholic Kulturkampf, to limit the power of the Catholic Church. . EH sided with liberals, enacting social and economic reforms to prevent the social democrats from gaining power. On the Iberian Peninsula ...
- 1328: Beethoven
- ... in his instrumental work, including his symphonies. Unlike his predecessor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, for whom writing music seemed to come easily, Beethoven always struggled to perfect his work. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, and was baptized on Dec. 17, 1770. (There is no record of his birth date.) His father and grandfather worked as court musicians in Bonn. Ludwig's father, a singer, gave him his early musical ...
- 1329: Burr, Aaron
- ... took a mere 25 minutes to acquit Burr. Marked as a traitor and threatened by angry mobs in Baltimore, Burr gathered some money from friends and left for Europe. He traveled to England, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and France, and did not return to the United States until May 1812. Soon thereafter he suffered the deaths of his grandson and his daughter. At the age of 76 he married a wealthy New ...
- 1330: Jailhouse Rock: The Story of Elvis Aaron Presley
- ... stationed there for six months, and his parents moved to a temporary house near the base as soon as they could. After a couple of years, Elvis gets promoted to Sergeant before he leaves West Germany for good. On March 5, 1960, he is officially discharged from active duty. He had served his country just like any other GI, with no special privileges one might expect for a person of his ...
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