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1452–1519Leonardo da Vinci
Renaissance genius who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and filled notebooks with designs for flying machines and anatomy
Photo: Attributed to Francesco Melzi · Public domain
1828–1910Leo Tolstoy
Russian novelist who wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina and later became an influential advocate of non-violence
Photo: Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii · Public domain
1707–1783Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician who published more than any other, introducing notation such as e, i and f(x) and founding graph theory
Photo: Jakob Emanuel Handmann · Public domain
1879–1940Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary who helped lead the October Revolution and founded the Red Army before being exiled and murdered by Stalin's agent
Photo: Unknown author · Public domain
b. 1955Leo XIV
Chicago-born Augustinian who became pope in 2025, the first leader of the Catholic Church from the United States
Photo: Ricardo Stuckert · CC BY-SA 4.0
b. 1974Leonardo DiCaprio
American actor of Titanic, Inception and The Wolf of Wall Street who won the Oscar for The Revenant
Photo: Raph_PH · CC BY 4.0
1906–1982Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet leader for 18 years, from 1964 to 1982, whose rule saw the invasion of Czechoslovakia and an era of stagnation
Photo: Vladimir Musaelyan · CC0
1934–2016Leonard Cohen
Canadian poet, novelist and singer-songwriter of Suzanne, So Long, Marianne and the much-covered anthem Hallelujah
Photo: Gorupdebesanez · CC BY-SA 3.0
1810–1903Leo XIII
Italian pope for 25 years whose encyclical Rerum Novarum founded modern Catholic social teaching on workers' rights
Photo: Braun et Compagnie · Public domain
1835–1909Leopold II of Belgium
King of the Belgians and founder of the Congo Free State
Photo: London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company · Public domain
1475–1521Leo X
Renaissance Pope and member of the powerful Medici family
Photo: Francesco Bini · Public domain
1760–1829Leo XII
Pope who led the Catholic Church during the early 1800s
Photo: Charles Picqué · Public domain
1404–1472Leon Battista Alberti
Italian Renaissance architect and author who epitomised the universal man
Photo: Leon Battista Alberti · CC BY 2.5
b. 1949Valery Leontiev
Russian pop singer famed since the Soviet era for flamboyant costumes and energetic shows, a People's Artist of Russia
Photo: Okras · CC BY-SA 4.0
1798–1837Giacomo Leopardi
Italian poet and philosopher of the Canti, including L'infinito, whose pessimistic lyric verse is a summit of Italian literature
Photo: Domenico Morelli · Public domain
1769–1821Napoleon
French general who seized power after the Revolution, crowned himself emperor and conquered much of Europe before defeat at Waterloo
Photo: Jacques-Louis David · Public domain
1564–1642Galileo Galilei
Italian astronomer and physicist who discovered Jupiter's four largest moons, championed a Sun-centred universe and was tried by the Inquisition
Photo: Justus Sustermans · Public domain
1808–1873Napoleon III
Nephew of Napoleon who became France's first elected president, then its last emperor, rebuilding Paris until defeat in 1870
Photo: Mayer & Peirson, France · Public domain
1915–1982Ingrid Bergman
Swedish actress who starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca and won three Oscars, including for Gaslight and Anastasia
Photo: Arthur Cantor · Public domain
1775–1854Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Major figure in German idealism and Romantic philosophy
Photo: Hermann Biow (1804–1850), Berlin · Public domain
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Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), being the last engagement with Napoleon I. The French Imperial Army under the command of Napoleon I was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition.
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict initiated by the United States against the United Kingdom and its allies fought mainly in North America and at sea during the wider Napoleonic Wars. The United States declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812.
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French invasion of Russia
The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign, the Second Polish War, and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812, was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of forcing the Russian Empire to comply with the continental blockade of the United Kingdom.
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Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz was fought on Monday 2 December 1805, near Austerlitz (then in the Austrian Empire, now in the Czech Republic), being the decisive engagement of the War of the Third Coalition. The Grande Armée under the command of Emperor Napoleon I defeated a combined Russo-Austrian army.
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Peninsular War
The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by the Iberian nations Spain and Portugal, along with the United Kingdom, against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence.
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Battle of Borodino
The Battle of Borodino or the Battle of the Moskva took place on the outskirts of Moscow near the village of Borodino on 7 September 1812, during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. The Grande Armée fought against the Imperial Russian Army.
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Hundred Days
The Hundred Days, commonly referred to as The War Of The Seventh Coalition or Napoleon’s Hundred days (French: les Cent-Jours IPA:) marked the period between Napoleon's return from ten months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a…
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Treaty of Campo Formio
The Treaty of Campo Formio (today Campoformido) was signed on 17 October 1797 (26 Vendémiaire VI) by Napoleon Bonaparte and Count Philipp von Cobenzl as representatives of the French Republic and the Austrian monarchy, respectively.
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Continental System
The Continental System or Continental Blockade (French: Blocus continental) was a large-scale embargo by French emperor Napoleon I against the British Empire from 21 November 1806 until 11 April 1814, during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Coup of 18 Brumaire
The Coup of 18 Brumaire (French: Coup d'État du 18 Brumaire) brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of the French First Republic. In the view of most historians, it ended the French Revolution and would soon lead to the coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French.
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Treaties of Tilsit
The Treaties of Tilsit (French: Traités de Tilsit), also collectively known as the Peace of Tilsit (German: Friede von Tilsit; Russian: Тильзитский мир, romanized: Tilzitski mir), were two peace treaties signed by French Emperor Napoleon in the town of Tilsit (today Sovetsk, Russia) in July 1807 in the aftermath of…
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Battle of Marengo
The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy.
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Finnish War
The Finnish War was fought between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Russian Empire from 21 February 1808 to 17 September 1809 as part of the Napoleonic Wars. As a result of the war, the eastern third of Sweden was established as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland within the Russian Empire.
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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed on 30 May 1814, ended the war between France and the Sixth Coalition, part of the Napoleonic Wars, following an armistice signed on 23 April between Charles, Count of Artois, and the allies.
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War of the Fifth Coalition
The War of the Fifth Coalition was a European conflict in 1809 that was part of the Napoleonic Wars and the Coalition Wars. The main conflict took place in Central Europe between the Austrian Empire of Francis I and Napoleon's French Empire.
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Battle of Eylau
The Battle of Eylau (also known as the Battle of Preussisch-Eylau) was a bloody and strategically inconclusive battle on 7 and 8 February 1807 between Napoleon's Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army under the command of General Levin August von Bennigsen near the town of Preussisch Eylau in East Prussia.
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Battle of Friedland
The Battle of Friedland (14 June 1807) was a major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars between the armies of the French Empire and the Russian Empire, led by Napoleon I and General Levin August von Bennigsen respectively.
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Battle of Solferino
The Battle of Solferino (referred to in Italy as the Battle of Solferino and San Martino) on 24 June 1859 was the climactic battle of the Second Italian War of Independence and resulted in the victory of the allied French army under Napoleon III and the Piedmont-Sardinian army under Victor Emmanuel II (together known…
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Battle of Wagram
The Battle of Wagram (5–6 July 1809) was a military engagement of the Napoleonic Wars that ended in a costly but decisive victory for Emperor Napoleon's French and allied army against the Austrian army under the command of Archduke Charles of Austria-Teschen.
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Treaty of Fontainebleau
The Treaty of Fontainebleau was an agreement concluded in Fontainebleau, France, on 11 April 1814 between Napoleon and representatives of Austria, Russia and Prussia. The treaty was signed in Paris on 11 April by the plenipotentiaries of both sides and ratified by Napoleon on 13 April.
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