Curated category
1825 deaths
- Barbara KrafftMaria Barbara Krafft entered the world on the 1st of April 1764 in Iglau. This town now bears the name Jihlava and sits within the borders of modern Czech…
- Ferdinand I of the Two SiciliesFerdinand I of the Two Sicilies was born in Naples on the 12th of January 1751, a third son with no obvious future as a king.
- Abraham ReesAbraham Rees spent the last eighteen years of his life finishing a project that had consumed decades of his energy: a cyclopaedia in forty-five volumes that…
- Alexander I of RussiaAlexander I of Russia was born at 10:45 on the 23rd of December 1777 in Saint Petersburg, held at the baptismal font by Catherine the Great herself and…
- Jacques-Louis DavidJacques-Louis David was born in Paris on the 30th of August 1748, into a world of powdered wigs, gilded ceilings, and a painting style built on prettiness.
- Pauline BonapartePauline Bonaparte was born on the 20th of October 1780 in Ajaccio, Corsica, into a family that was, at that moment, still firmly on the margins of history.
- Eli WhitneyEli Whitney Jr. died on the 8th of January 1825, in New Haven, Connecticut, just one month after his fifty-ninth birthday.
- Henry FuseliHenry Fuseli was born on the 7th of February 1741 in Zürich, the second of eighteen children, and he died on the 17th of April 1825 at the house of the…
- Antonio SalieriAntonio Salieri died in Vienna on the 7th of May 1825, and at his memorial service six weeks later, the music played was his own Requiem in C minor, a piece…
- Vladimir BorovikovskyVladimir Borovikovsky arrived in Saint Petersburg in the autumn of 1788 carrying a name that still sounded of the Ukrainian steppe.