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Fred was born in New York City and travelled extensively after leaving his Swiss boarding school. [16]: 12 He and Clara were married in London in 1878. [6]: 2–5 [7] Their first child, Margaret "Madge" Frary, was born in Torquay in 1879.
Gaius Caesar marries Livilla, daughter of Antonia Minor and Nero Claudius Drusus, in an effort to gain prestige. [5]The Roman theatre in Cartagena, built by Gaius and Lucius Caesar, finishes construction.
Born into slavery on July 4, 1812, in Fluvanna County, Virginia, to Philip and Tina Jasper, John was the youngest of their twenty-four children. Philip was a well known Baptist preacher. He and Tina were slaves of the Peachy Estate. Philip died two months before his son John Jasper's birth. Jasper was hired out to various people.
The Anglo-Saxon historian Bede used the Latin phrase ante incarnationis dominicae tempus ("before the time of the Incarnation of the Lord") in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) (Book 1, Chapter 2) of 731 PCN, and thereby became the first author to describe a year as being before Christ. [7]
Rianti Cartwright: Indonesian actress, model, presenter and VJ; two weeks before departure to the United States to get married, Rianti left the Muslim faith to become a baptized Catholic with the name Sophia Rianti Rhiannon Cartwright [78] [79] Kenneth Clark: British art historian, museum director, and broadcaster. Converted shortly before his ...
Philosophers born in the centuries BC (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically: Note: This list has a minimal criterion for inclusion and the relevance to philosophy of some individuals on the list is disputed.
Li Ka-shing (born 1928), founder of Cheung Kong Holdings, married his first cousin Chong Yuet Ming (c. 1935 – 1990) [31] John Amory Lowell and his first cousin, Susan Cabot Lowell; M. Rob Roy MacGregor (1671–1734), Scottish outlaw, and his cousin Mary Helen MacGregor of Comar, who married in January 1693 [32]
Jonny Lang – blues and rock singer who professed to once "hating" Christianity, before later claiming to have a supernatural encounter with Jesus Christ which led to his conversion [93] Chai Ling – Chinese student leader of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989; converted to evangelical Christianity in 2009 [94] [95]