Eminent and Remarkable Persons-Modern.

2.

WALLACE, William, a patriot and hero,

Nation. Death. Age.

Scot. 1305 29

Swiss. 1350

Scot. 1329 55

It. 1374 70

It. 1375 62

DANTE, Alighieri, a poet; founder of Ital. literature, It. 1321 56
BRUCE, Robert, the deliverer of his country,
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,

Eng. 1385 61

Eng. 1400 72

Fr. 1400 67

It. 1506 71

It. 1519 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,
Cranmer, Thomas, an eminent prelate,
MELANCTHON (Philip Schwartzerde), a divine,
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,
MONTAIGNE, Michael, lord of, an essayist,

TASSO, Torquato, a mad poet,

Ger. 1560 63

Fr. 1564 55

Span. 1566 75

Scot. 1572 67

It. 1576 96 Port. 1579 62

It. 1580 62 Fr. 1590 81 Eng. 1591 46

Fr. 1592 59

It. 1595 51

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

SCALIGER, Joseph, a man of learning and genius,

Eminent and Remarkable Persons-Modern.

3.

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

Nation. Death. Age.

Hol. 1609 49

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,

Eng. 1618-66
Eng. 1626 66

Ger. 1630 59
Eng. 1632 81
Swede. 1632 38

Span. 1635 73

Eng. 1637 63

Eng. 1657 59

CROMWELL, Oliver, lord protector of Great Britian, Eng. 1658 59

PASCAL, Blaizé, author of "Provincial Letters,"

POUSSIN, Nicholas, a painter of eminence,
TAYLOR, Jeremy, a very eminent divine,

Fr. 1662 39

Fr. 1665 71

Eng. 1667 54

MOLIERE (J. P. Poquelin), comedy writer and actor, Fr. 1673 51
REMBRANDT (Van Ryn), a great painter,
Hol. 1674 68

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,

Eng. 1676 67
Eng. 1679 49

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,

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,

Eng. 1718 74

Swede, 1718 36

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

PENN, William, a just statesman,
CHARLES XII., a brave and powerful monarch,
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. 1764 67

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,

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

Scot. 1793 65

Scot. 1794 90

Eng. 1794 57

Eng. 1794 48

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

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,
Eng. 1800 69

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,

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, Eng. 1816 65
CURRAN, John Philpot, a celebrated orator, Irish, 1817 67

Eminent and Remarkable Persons-Modern.

6.

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,

Nation. Death. Age.

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

Am. 1820 82

Eng. 1820 77

Fr. 1821 52 Eng. 1822 84 It. 1822 65

Scot. 1823 75

Eng. 1823 66

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
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,
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,

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

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, Fr. 1834 77
HEMANS, Mrs. Felicia, an eminent poetess, Eng. 1835 42
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,

Scot. 1844 67

Am. 1845 78

Am. 1845 66

Eng. 1845 47

Irish, 1847 72