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- Adams, John (2,818 bytes)
5: ...s that created the American character. That same year he also prepared his ''Instructions of the Town o... - Asam, Cosmas Damian and Egid Quirin (3,342 bytes)
3: ...l projects. Cosmas Damian died in Munich the same year he built a chapel on his own estate and Egid Quir... - Bach, Johann Sebastian (7,115 bytes)
6: ... a chorister at St. Michael’s. In 1703, the 18-year-old Bach served as a violinist in the chamber orc...
10: ...ach was the leader of the orchestra. In his nine years in Weimar, he became known as one of Europe’s ...
14: ... given to a musician at the time. During his six years at Kothen, Bach wrote predominantly secular musi...
18: During the first five years of his tenure at Leipzig, Bach composed prodigio...
22: Bach’s years in Leipzig were filled with squabbles with town ... - Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de (4,632 bytes)
3: ...Pierre married the widow, who lived only one more year herself. Inheriting Francquet’s business, Pierr...
7: ...Figaro'' (1782). Both plays were held up for two years before gaining government sanction, whereupon bo... - Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana, Marchese di (3,453 bytes)
5: ...t sent a representative to defend him. Later that year, French ''philosophes'' invited Beccaria to Paris... - Berkeley, George (4,398 bytes)
9: ... with his family to Oxford and died the following year. - Black, Joseph (3,609 bytes)
5: ...try classes under William Cullen. He spent three years as Cullen's assistant and a friendship developed...
9: ...s in 1756 and made Black's reputation. That same year William Cullen left the University of Glasgow to ...
11: ...engine. Black served as a mentor to Watt for many years, as the younger man developed his own steam engi... - Blackstone, William (4,844 bytes)
3: ...758, and principal of New Inn Hall in 1761. That year he married Sarah Clitherow (who bore him nine chi... - Bonaparte, Napoleon (5,706 bytes)
5: ...tion of France. Though frequently violated in the years after 1789, the principles of liberty and equali...
9: ...tegrated in the vastness of Russia. The following year, Bonaparte was defeated at Leipzig, where France ...
11: ...blished a small principality for him. Less than a year later, though, he returned to France, raised fres... - Boswell, James (3,088 bytes)
3: ...sent him to an exclusive academy during his early years, an education that reinforced the boy’s shy an...
5: ... in London, he published an ''Ode to Tragedy''; a year later, he published several pieces of comic verse...
13: Frederick A. Pottle, ''James Boswell: The Early Years, 1740-1769'', 1966.
15: Frank Brady, ''James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769-1795'', 1984. - Boucher, François (5,147 bytes)
7: ...professional and financial success and within one year, he received a commission from the King, which en...
11: ...es, such as symbols of the times of day, times of year or labors of the seasons. His ''Cherub Harvester...
17: ...Boucher received a pension from the crown and ten years later a residence in the Louvre Palace, beginnin... - Bougainville, Louis Antoine (2,974 bytes)
3: ...n academic circles. At the outbreak of the Seven Years War, Bougainville was sent to Canada as aide-de-...
11: ...ndre, a woman twenty years his junior. That same year, he sailed to America with the Comte de Grasse's ... - Chambers, Sir William (2,157 bytes)
3: ...year in Paris studying architecture and then five years in Italy. In 1755, he finally returned to Engla...
5: ...ch became a standard text in the field. The next year, he was named one of two Architects of the Works,... - Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte (viscount) de (5,005 bytes)
5: ...ense of Christianity, which had been attacked for years by the French ''philosophes'' and revolutionarie...
7: ...ng a second army stint, Chateaubriand spent seven years in exile in England teaching French. In 1800, he... - Chulkov, Mikail (2,092 bytes)
6: ... who bore him a son, Vladimir, in 1766. The same year was his authorial debut, ''The Mocker''. The fir... - Copley, John Singleton (1,771 bytes)
3: ...w England. After his stepfather died in 1753, 13-year-old Copley began his career painting portraits to... - Coulomb, Charles Augustin (3,391 bytes)
7: ...e was sent to the West Indies where he spent nine years building fortifications. His work here in applie...
9: ...calculating the effects of friction. In the same year, he published his first highly acclaimed memoir o... - David, Jacques-Louis (8,270 bytes)
22: ...nically, this painting was completed in 1815, the year of Napoleon's final defeat and exile. - Defoe, Daniel (6,939 bytes)
9: ...ork, which went through ten editions in its first year, Defoe mixed fact and fiction as he reviewed Engl...
11: ...inued to write about Scotland well into his later years in ''Memoirs of the Church of Scotland'' (1717),...
15: Defoe’s major social novels followed a few years after ''Robinson Crusoe''. ''Moll Flanders'' an...
17: ... is best remembered for ''A Journal of the Plague Year'' (1722). He was only a child when the Great Pla... - Diderot, Denis (7,665 bytes)
5: ...gious life waned, along with his piety during his years at the Jesuit college of Louis-le-Grand in Paris...
7: ...ovel, ''The Indiscreet Jewels'' (1748). That same year he rather unheroically endured a three month impr...
11: ...cques]]. Around the same time he embarked on a 15-year affair with an unconventional, well-to-do woman, ...
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