Eminent and Remarkable Persons-Modern.

2.

Wallace, William, a patriot and hero,

Nation. Death. Age.

Scot. 1305 29

Swiss. 1350

DANTE, Alighieri, a poet; founder of Ital. literature, It. 1321 56
BRUCE, Robert, the deliverer of his country, Scot. 1329 55
TELL, William, the deliverer of Switzerland,
PETRARCH, Francisco, a very eminent poet,
BOCCACIO, John, a celebrated writer,
WICLIFFE, John, a great divine,

CHAUCER, Geoffrey, "father of English poetry,"
FROISSART, John, a chronicler and poet,

It. 1374 70

It. 1375 62

Eng. 1385 61

Eng. 1400 72

Fr. 1400 67

LORENZO DE MEDICI, a sovereign of great influence, It. 1492 44
COLUMBUS, Christopher, discoverer of America,
LIONARDO DA VINCI, a distinguished painter,
MONTEZUMA, a brave Mexican Indian leader,
RAPHAEL, Sanzio (Raffaello), a painter of genius,
MACHIAVELLI, a celebrated writer,

ARIOSTO, Ludovico, a good humored satirist and poet,
CORREGGIO, Antonio Allegri, an eminent painter,
MORE, Sir Thomas, an, eminent statesman,
ERASMUS, Desiderius, a great writer,
COPERNICUS, Nicholas, a great astronomer,
LUTHER, Martin, the great reformer,

CORTEZ, Fernando, a soldier; conqueror of Mexico, Span. 1547 62

CRANMER, Thomas, an eminent prelate,

MELANCTHON (Philip Schwartzerde), a divine,

Eng. 1556 67

Ger. 1560 63

Fr. 1564 55 Span. 1566 75 Scot. 1572 67

MICHAEL ANGELO, Buonarotti, painter and sculptor, It. 1564 89
CALVIN, John, a great reformer, and divine,
LOYOLA, Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuits,
KNOX, John, a great reformer, and divine,
TITIAN (Tiziana Vecelli), a painter, and a genius,
CAMOENS, the most eminent poet of his country,
PALLADIO, Andrea, an architect,

PARÉ, Ambroise, the father of French surgery,
DRAKE, Sir Francis, first English circumnavigator, Eng. 1591 46
MONTAIGNE, Michael, lord of, an essayist,

Spencer, Edmund, one of the earliest Eng. poets, Eng. 1599 46 BRAHE, TYCHо, a celebrated astronomer,

SCALIGER, Joseph, a man of learning and genius,

Swede. 1601 55

Tt. 1609 69

Eminent and Remarkable Persons-Modern.

3.

ARMINIUS, James, a divine; founder of a sect,

Nation. Death. Age.

Hol. 1609 49

Eng. 1618 66

Eng. 1626 66
Ger. 1630 59

Eng. 1632 81

Swede. 1632 38

Span. 1635 73

Eng. 1637 63

Hol. 1640 63

Fr. 1641 82

It. 1642 78

CERVANTES, Miguel, poet; author of Don Quixote, Span. 1616 69
SHAKSPEARE, Wm.,the greatest genius of the world, Eng. 1616 52
RALEIGH, Sir Walter, statesman and author,
BACON, Fr., lord, philosopher and statesman,
KEPLER, John, a celebrated astronomer,
COKE, Edward, a lawyer and author,
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS, an able monarch,
LOPE DE VEGA, a poet and dramatist,
JONSON, Ben, a poet and dramatist,
RUBENS, Peter Paul, a great painter,
SULLY, Maximilian, a peer of France,
GALILEO Galilei, a great astronomer, .
RICHLIEU, Armand, a Cardinal to Henry IV.,
HAMPDEN, John, a patriot, soldier and statesman,
DES CARTES, Réne, a universal genius,
SELDEN, John, a splendid scholar and statesman,
HARVEY, William, an eminent anatomist,
BLAKE, Robert, a distinguished admiral,
CROMWELL, Oliver, lord protector of Great Britian,
PASCAL, Blaizé, author of "Provincial Letters,"
POUSSIN, Nicholas, a painter of eminence,
TAYLOR, Jeremy, a very eminent divine,
MOLIERE (J. P. Poquelin), comedy writer and actor, Fr. 1673 51
REMBRANDT (Van Ryn), a great painter,
Hol. 1674 68

Fr. 1642 56 Eng. 1643 49 Hol. 1650 54

Eng. 1654 70

Eng. 1657 79

Eng. 1657 59

Eng. 1658 59

Fr. 1662 39

Fr. 1665 71

Eng. 1667 54

MILTON, John, poet; author of "Paradise Lost," Eng. 1674 66 TURENNE (Henry D'Auvergne), marshal, a soldier, Fr. 1675 64 HALE, Sir Matthew, an eminent jurist,

BARROW, Isaac, a learned divine,
Claude LORRAINE (Gelee), great landscape painter, Fr. 1682 82

MURILLO, Bartolome E., a painter,
CORNEILLE, Peter, a great tragic writer,
BOYLE, Robert, chemist and author,
LA FONTAINE, John, an inimitable fabulist,
DRYDEN, John, first in the second rank of poets,
BOSSUET, Jaques Benigne, a great pulpit orator,
LOCKE, John, philosopher, author, etc.,
RAY, John, a distinguished botanist,

Fr. 1695 74 Eng. 1701 70

Fr. 1704 77

Eminent and Remarkable Persons-Modern.

4.

VAUBAN, an eminent soldier and engineer,
MAZEPPA, John, prince of the Cossacks,
BOILEAU, Nicholas, a distinguished poet,
FENELON, Fr. de S., an author and translator,
LEIBNITZ, Godfrey William, a mathematician,
SOMERS, John, lord, a statesman,

PENN, William, a just statesman,

Eng. 1719 47

Eng. 1722 72 Eng. 1723 91 Russ. 1725 53 Eng. 1727 85 Fr. 1741 80

Eng. 1744 56

Eng. 1745 78

Eng. 1745 69
Eng. 1748 48
Fr. 1751 83
Eng. 1751 73
Ger. 1759 75
Eng. 1761 55

Eng. 1764 67

CHARLES XII., a brave and powerful monarch, Swede, 1718 36
ADDISON, Joseph, essayist, poet and critic,
MARLBOROUGH, Duke of, an able warrior,
WREN, Sir C., architect of St. Paul's Church,
PETER THE GREAT, an enlightened sovereign,
NEWTON, Sir I., astronomer and mathematician,
ROLLIN, Charles, a celebrated historian,
POPE, Alexander, a great poet and critic,
SWIFT, Jonathan, a satiric poet,
WALPOLE, Robert, Earl of Oxford, a statesman,
THOMSON, James, an elegant descriptive poet,
D'AGUESSEAU, Henry F., an eminent statesman,
Bolingbroke, H. St. John, lord, a political writer,
HANDEL, George F., the greatest of musicians,
DOLLOND, John, a great discoverer in optics,
HOGARTH, William, an original painter,
YOUNG, Edward, a melancholy poet,
PONTIAC, a distinguished Indian warrior,
SWEDENBORG, Emanuel, founder of a sect,
BRINDLEY, James, an eminent engineer,
HUME, David, an eminent historian,
VOLTAIRE (Fr. M. Arouet), a poet and infidel writer, Fr. 1778 84
LINNEUS, Carl Von, the greatest botanist of his age, Swe. 1778 71
CHATHAM, Lord (W. Pitt), an eminent statesman,
ROUSSEAU, Jean Jaques, a deistical writer,
Garrick, David, a comedian and tragedian,
Cook, James, an eminent navigator,
BLACKSTONE, Sir Wm., a lawyer and author,
EULER, Leonard, a great mathematician,
JOHNSON, Samuel, lexicographer and author,
FREDERICK II., (the great) a great sovereign,

Eng. 1765 84

N. A. 1767

Swede, 1772 83

Eng. 1772 56

Eminent and Remarkable Persons-Modern.

5.

Nation. Death. Age.

BUFFON, George L. le Clerc, an eminent naturalist, Fr. 1788 81
LA PEROUSE, Jean Fr., an eminent navigator,
Fr. 1788 47
DE L'EPEE (Abbe), first taught the deaf and dumb, Fr. 1789 77
FRANKLIN, Benjamin, a philosopher and statesman, Am. 1790 34
WESLEY, John, the founder of the Methodists, Eng. 1791 88
MIRABEAU, H. G. R. Count de, a celebrated author, Fr. 1791 42
RODNEY, Lord (Geo. Brydges), a great admiral,
REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua, a painter of genius,
SMEATON, John, built the "Eddystone lighthouse," Eng. 1792 68
ARKWRIGHT, Richard, a machinist,

Eng. 1792 74
Eng. 1792 69

Eng. 1792 60

MOZART, Johann, Ch. W. G., a musical composer, Ger. 1792 36 HUNTER, John, a great practical anatomist,

Scot. 1793 65

MANSFIELD, Lord (Wm. Murray), Chief Justice,
GIBBON, Edward, an eminent historian,

Scot. 1794 90

Eng. 1794 57

LAVOISIER, Anthony Laurence, an eminent chemist, Fr. 1794 51
JONES, Sir Wm., the greatest modern linguist,
MARION, Francis, a brave partizan officer,

Eng. 1794 48

Am. 1795 63

BURNS, Robert, one of the most eminent of poets, Scot. 1796 37 BURKE, Edmund, a great orator and statesman, Irish, 1797 67 BLACK, Jos., a chemist; discoverer of "latent heat," Eng. 1799 71 WASHINGTON, George," the father of his country,” Am. 1799 67 COWPER, William, a poet,

Alfieri, Victor, a most eminent tragic poet,
EMMET, Robert, a brave patriot,

PRIESTLY, Joseph, a distinguished chemist,

NELSON, Horatio, lord, a most eminent soldier,
PITT, William, a great statesman,
SCHILLER, Fred. Chr. Von, a great poet,
Fox, Charles James, a great statesman,
BRANT, Joseph, a celebrated Indian orator,
PORSON, Richard, an eminent linguist and author,
PAINE, Thomas, a political and deistical writer,
LA GRANGE, mathematician and philosopher,
TECUMSEH, a brave Indian warrior,

Eng. 1800 69

It. 1803 54

Irish, 1803 21

Eng. 1804 71

Eng. 1805 47
Eng. 1805 46

Ger. 1805 46 Eng. 1806 57 N. A. 1807 65 Eng. 1808 49 Eng. 1809 73 Fr. 1813 77 N. A. 1813 43

Am. 1815 50

FULTON, Robert, the inventor of the steamboat,
NEY, Michael, marshal, "the bravest of the brave," Fr. 1815 46
SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley, dramatist and orator,
CURRAN, John Philpot, a celebrated orator,

Eng. 1816 65

Irish, 1817 67:

Eminent and Remarkable Persons-Modern.

6.

Nation. Death. Age.

Pol. 1817 62 Fr. 1817 51 Scot. 1819 83

Am. 1820 82

Eng. 1820 77

Fr. 1821 52

KOSCIUSKO, Thaddeus, a great soldier and patriot,
DE STAEL, Madame Anne, an elegant writer,
WATT, James, improver of the steam-engine,
WEST, Benjamin, a great painter,
BANKS, Joseph, an eminent botanist,
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, soldier and Emperor,
HERSCHEL, Sir Wm., a great astronomer,
CANOVA, Antonio, the greatest modern sculptor,
ERSKINE, Lord Thomas, a statesman and orator,
KEMBLE, John Philip, an eminent tragedian,
BOZZARIS, Marco, a gallant leader in the revolution, Gk. 1823 43
BYRON, Lord, George, the greatest poet of his age, Eng. 1824 36
JEFFERSON, Thomas, an eminent statesman,
Am. 1826 83

Eng. 1822 84
It. 1822 65

Scot. 1823 75

Eng. 1823 66

TALMA, Francis Joseph, one of the greatest of actors, Fr. 1826 63 ROCHEFOUCAULD, A. F., duke de la, a royalist leader, Fr. 1827 80 ROSCOE, W., biographer, and miscellaneous writer, Eng. 1827 80 LALANDE, Joseph de, a scientific astronomer, Fr. 1827 78

Fr. 1827 78
Ger. 1827 57
Eng. 1829 51

N. A. 1830 80
Eng. 1830 61

Eng. 1831 76

Eng. 1832 84

Ger. 1832 83

LA PLACE, Pierre Simon, a scientific astronomer,
BEETHOVEN, Ludwig Von, a music composer,
DAVY, Sir H., inventor of the "safety lamp,"
RED JACKET, a noted New York Indian Chief,
LAWRENCE, Sir Thomas, a distinguished painter,
BOLIVAR, Simon, an eminent S. American soldier, Col. 1830 47
SIDDONS, Mrs. Sarah, a most eminent actress,
BENTHAM, Jeremy, a political writer,
GOETHE, Von, the greatest German poet,
CUVIER, G. Leo. Chr. Fr. D., an eminent zoologist, Fr. 1832 63
SCOTT, Sir W., a most eminent novelist and poet, Scot. 1832 61
SPURZHEIM, Dr., a celebrated phrenologist, Ger. 1832 56
WILBERFORCE, W., a philanthropist and statesman, Eng. 1833 74
LA FAYETTE, Marquis de, statesman and soldier,
HEMANS, Mrs. Felicia, an eminent poetess,
CHANNING, Wm. E., an eminent author and divine, Am. 1842 62

CAMPBELL, T., a distinguished poet and author,
JACKSON, Andrew, soldier and statesman,
STORY, Joseph, Judge, an eminent jurist,

HOOD, Thomas, poet and comic writer,
O'CONNELL, Daniel, a statesman,

Fr. 1834 77

Eng. 1835 42

Scot. 1844 67

Am. 1845 78