Nephew of Napoleon Ist , son of Louis Bonaparte, he was the first President of the French Republic, elected on December 10, 1848 by universal male suffrage with 74.2% of the vote, before becoming Emperor of the French from December 2, 1852 to September 4, 1870 under the name of Napoleon III. He gre
Ammien Marcellin (330-400) was a Roman historian of Greek descent and one of the last great historians of Rome. After a fairly significant eclipse in the 3rd century, the art of writing among the Romans found a new hour of glory when the Empire was reborn, from the reign of Diocletian (284-305). Ind
French aviator, Adrienne Bolland was the first woman to cross the Andes Cordillera by plane in incredible conditions. Committed and humanist, she notably took a stand for womens right to vote and became involved in the Resistance during the Second World War. The first woman to cross the Channel by
In AD 1927, there was terrible rain in Gujarat. The city of Ahmedabad received an average of 30 inches of rainfall throughout the year, but 68 inches of rain fell from July 23 to July 28 that year. This caused terrible floods in Ahmedabad and 5093 houses collapsed. Because of this many people died,