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Born the third hour of the night, Leonardo was born to Caterina and Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci as Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci. (Picture: Leonardo's sketch during his studies of the human body and human birth.)
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*Date unknown Leonardo recalls a visiting of a hawk in his bedroom when he was an infant. He states that this visiting was an omen and that his fascination with flight began at this time.
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Leonardo is sent to live with his Grandfather in Vinci at the age of 5. -
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Leonardo, now 14, goes to the center of Florence to find an apprenticeship as an Artisan. His father finds him a mentor, a man named Andrea Del Verrocchio. Andrea Del Verrocchio, immediately impressed by just one drawing, took Leonardo as an apprentice. -
At 21, Leonardo draws the first of his known drawings.
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Leonardo joins the guild of St.Luke for Artists and Doctors of Medicine. -
Charged with sodomy, Leonardo is arrested and held at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. He is later found guilty and, as common with homosexuallity in this time, is sentenced to death.
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On January 3rd 1870, Octave Chanute, an engineer from Paris, began construction of the famous Brooklyn Bridge. This is one of a handful of bridges that he designed and built among other acomplishments such as railroads and stock yards. -
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On January 6, 1889 the Wright brothers, just as their father, became ordained priests in a small church in Dayton, Ohio. -
Click here for primary letter to President Woodrow Wilson from the general of defense urging to retreat from the invasion into Germany.
