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Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military officer and statesman, a republican general during the French Revolution and the Directory -
The Royal Academy of Music is the UK's longest-standing conservatoire and the second oldest in the world. For 200 years, the Academy has been at the forefront of musical performance and education. -
Queen Victoria is famous for ruling the United Kingdom for 63 years, greatly expanding the British Empire.
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Antoine Joseph Sax, better known as Adolphe Sax, was a Belgian musical instrument maker that invented the saxophone. -
A war in the United States between the north and the south of America the dispute was over whether slavery should be allowed to expand into the Northern territories, leading to more slave states or should be prohibited from doing so.
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Edouard de Stoeckl, Russian minister to the United States, negotiated for the Russians. On March 30, 1867 , the two parties agreed that the United States would pay Russia $7.2 million for the territory of Alaska. -
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson spoke to each other by telephone over a wire strung between Cambridge and Boston. -
Edison invented a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound. -
a French political intellectual and anti-slavery activist named Edouard de Laboulaye proposed that a statue representing liberty be built for the United States. This monument would honor the United States' centennial of independence and the friendship with France. -
