Adam Mickiewicz was born on 24 December 1798 in Zavosse. A Polish poet, dramatist and political activist, Mickiewicz is regarded as the national poet of Poland and a leading figure of Romanticism. Born in what is now Belarus, at a time when Poland did not exist as a state, he was arrested for his involvement in a student society and exiled to Russia. His epic poem Pan Tadeusz, set among the gentry in Lithuania, and his dramatic poem Dziady, express the longing for national independence. He spent most of his life in exile in Paris, where he taught Slavic literature at the College de France, and he died in Constantinople while organizing a Polish legion.
Before and after
- from 28 June 1798 to 25 March 1802War of the Second Coalition
- from 1 July 1798 to 2 September 1801French invasion of Egypt and Syria
- from 7 July 1798 to 30 September 1800Quasi-War
- from 12 October 1798 to 5 December 1798Peasants' War
- 24 December 1798Birth of Adam Mickiewicz
- from 1799 to 1849Sikh Empire
- 1799Construction of Hawa Mahal
- from March 1799 to December 1799Italian and Swiss expedition
- from 15 April 1799 to 11 September 1799Suvorov's Italian campaign
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- 18 September 1851Founding of The New York Times
- 1857Rise of Symbolism
- 1890Rise of Art Nouveau
- 28 December 1895The Lumiere brothers hold the first public film screening
- 1909Rise of Futurism
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