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John Keats (31 October 1795 - 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, although his poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death. By the end of the century, he was placed in the canon of English literature, strongly influencing many writers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1888 called one ode "one of the final masterpieces". Jorge Luis Borges named his first encounter with Keats an experience he felt all his life. Keats had a style "heavily loaded with sensuality's", notably in the series of odes. Typically of the Romantics, he accentuated extreme emotion through natural imagery. Today his poems and letters remain among the most popular and analyzed in English literature - in particular "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Sleep and Poetry" and the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".- John William Polidori (7 September 1795 - 24 August 1821) was an English writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first published modern vampire story. Although originally and erroneously accredited to Lord Byron, both Byron and Polidori affirmed that the story is Polidori's.
- Thomas Carlyle was born on 4 December 1795 in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK. Thomas was a writer, known for A Tale of Two Cities (1935) and Historians of Genius (2004). Thomas was married to Jane Baillie Welsh. Thomas died on 5 February 1881 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.
- Mary Ann Mantell was born on 9 April 1795 in Paddington, London, England, UK. She was married to Gideon Mantell. She died on 20 October 1869 in London, England, UK.
- He spent his childhood on an estate in Tennessee that was owned by his grandfather. Polk studied law at the University of North Carolina and became active in politics early on, where he appeared as an opponent of bank and land speculators. In the presidential campaign of 1824 he supported the candidacy of Andrew Jackson, who was a friend of his father. In 1825 Polk was elected as a Democratic Jackson supporter to the US House of Representatives, of which he was a member until 1839 and for which he served as speaker from 1835.
From 1839 to 1841 Polk rose to the position of governor of Tennessee, but failed to be re-elected to that office in 1841 and 1843. In 1844 he was chosen as the Democratic presidential candidate, who managed to unite the different branches of the Democrats under his leadership during the election campaign and achieve an electoral victory. The new US President of the United States included in his cabinet, among others, the future President James Buchanan and other ministers who largely represented the different tendencies of the Democratic Party. Nevertheless, he became distant from a democratic faction around Martin Buren. His domestic policy was characterized by successful reforms in the area of financial administration, for which he created an independent treasury.
The greatest successes of his presidency, however, were linked to the foreign policy field. In the conflict with Great Britain over jointly occupied Oregon, he achieved an extension of US territory up to the 49th parallel through the British-American treaty of June 15, 1846. Polk achieved a further increase in territory through the annexation of Texas, which, however, provoked a war with neighboring Mexico in May 1846, which the USA won in April 1848 with the capture of Mexico City. In the subsequent peace negotiations, Polk secured Mexico's renunciation of New Mexico, California and Texas in exchange for $15 million. The war thus resulted in a considerable consolidation of US territory.
On the other hand, during the war against Mexico, an opposition movement against Polk's foreign policy had emerged, partly within the Democrats. In its policy against slavery in the newly acquired southern territories, it anticipated the conflicts that would later lead to the American Civil War. Although James Knox Polk was a principled supporter of slavery, he sought to achieve an intra-party compromise by partially banning it. In 1848, Polk was no longer available as a presidential candidate in accordance with a pre-agreement within the party. Rather, he now supported the election campaign of the Democrat Lewis Cass, who, however, suffered a defeat.
James Knox Polk, who was already in poor health during his presidency, died just three months after leaving the presidential chair on June 15, 1849 in Nashville, Tennessee. - Born in Moscow, Griboyedov studied at Moscow University from 1810 to 1812. He then obtained a commission in a hussar regiment, which he resigned in 1816. The next year, he entered the civil service. In 1818 he was appointed secretary of the Russian legation in Persia, and transferred to Georgia.
His verse comedy The Young Spouses, which he staged in St.Petersburg in 1816, was followed by other similar works. Neither these nor his essays and poetry would have been long remembered but for the success of his verse comedy Woe from Wit, a satire on Russian aristocratic society.
As a high official in the play puts it, this work is "a pasquinade on Moscow". The play depicts certain social and official stereotypes in the characters of Famusov, who hates reform; his secretary, Molchalin, who fawns over officials; and the aristocratic young liberal and Anglomaniac, Repetilov. By contrast the hero of the piece, Chatsky, an ironic satirist just returned from western Europe, exposes and ridicules the weaknesses of the rest. His words echo the outcry of the young generation in the lead-up to the armed insurrection of 1825.
In Russia for the summer of 1823, Griboyedov completed the play and took it to St. Petersburg. It was rejected by the censors. Many copies were made and privately circulated, but Griboyedov never saw it published. After his death manuscript was jointly owned by his wife Nina Alexandrovna Griboyedova and his sister Maria Sergeyevna Durnovo (Griboyedova). The first edition was printed in 1833, four years after his death.Only once did he see it on the stage, when it was performed by the officers of the garrison at Yerevan. Soured by disappointment, he returned to Georgia. He put his linguistic expertise at the service of general Ivan Paskevich, a relative, during the Russo-Persian War of 1826-1828, after which he was sent to St. Petersburg at the time of the Treaty of Turkmenchay. There, thinking to devote himself to literature, he started work on a romantic drama, A Georgian Night.
Several months after his wedding to Nino, the 16-year-old daughter of his friend Prince Chavchavadze, Griboyedov was suddenly sent to Persia as Minister Plenipotentiary. In the aftermath of the war and the humiliating Treaty of Turkmenchay, there was strong anti-Russian sentiment in Persia. Soon after Griboyedov's arrival in Tehran, a mob stormed the Russian embassy.
The incident began when an Armenian eunuch escaped from the harem of Persian shah, and two Armenian women escaped from that of his son-in-law. All three sought refuge at the Russian legation. As agreed in the Treaty of Turkmenchay, Georgians and Armenians living in Persia were permitted to return to Georgia and Eastern Armenia. However, the Shah demanded that Griboyedov return the three. Griboyedov refused. This caused an uproar throughout the city and several thousand Persians encircled the Russian compound demanding their release.
Griboyedov then decided to offer to return the escaped eunuch and Armenian women. But it was too late. Moments later, urged on by the mullahs, the mob stormed the building." A high ranking Muslim scholar with the title of Mojtahed, Mirza Masih Astarabadi known as Mirza Masih Mojtahed, issued a fatwa saying freeing Muslim women from the claws of unbelievers is allowed.
Griboyedov's body, thrown from a window, was decapitated by a kebab vendor who displayed the head on his stall. The mob dragged the uniformed corpse through the city's streets and bazaars, to cries of celebration. It was eventually abandoned on a garbage heap after three days of ill-treatment by the mob, such that in the end it could be identified only by a duelling injury to a finger. Griboyedov was buried there, in the monastery of St David (Mtatsminda Pantheon). - Joseph Légaré (March 10, 1795 - June 21, 1855) was a painter and glazier, artist, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. Légaré painted a number of works depicting the "customs of North American Indians".However, some of his more memorable works include: First Monastery of the Ursulines at Quebec, Memorials of the Jesuits of New France, The Martyrdom of Brothers Brebeuf and Lalement and The Battle of Sainte-Foy.
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Heinrich Marschner was born on 16 August 1795 in Zittau, Saxony, Germany. Heinrich was a writer, known for In the Shadow of the Moon (2019), The Vampyr: A Soap Opera (1992) and De houtdief (1960). Heinrich died on 14 December 1861 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.