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Europe in the Age of Revolutions historical figures
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41 figures
Napoleon Bonaparte
General & Emperor
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Catherine the Great
Empress of Russia
Charles Darwin
Naturalist & biologist
Queen Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom
Louis XIV
King of France
Marie Antoinette
Queen of France
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Frederick the Great
King of Prussia
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Blackbeard
Pirate
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
Ada Lovelace
Mathematician & writer
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematician & physicist
Gustave Eiffel
Civil engineer
James Clerk Maxwell
Physicist & mathematician
Michael Faraday
Chemist & physicist
Rembrandt
Painter & printmaker
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
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John Locke
Philosopher & physician
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Civil & marine engineer
James Watt
Inventor & engineer
John A. Roebling
Civil engineer
Alfred Nobel
Chemist & inventor
Taras Shevchenko
Poet & artist
Mary Wollstonecraft
Writer and philosopher
Gregor Mendel
Biologist and friar
Louis Pasteur
Chemist and microbiologist
Frédéric Chopin
Composer and pianist
Giuseppe Verdi
Opera composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer
Rudolf Diesel
Inventor and mechanical engineer
Wilhelm Röntgen
Physicist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Chemist
Georg Cantor
Mathematician
Carl Benz
Automotive engineer
Robert Baden-Powell
Founder of the Scout Movement
Bernardo de Gálvez
Colonial military leader and administrator
Jane Austen
Novelist
Francisco Goya
Painter & printmaker
James Cook
Explorer & naval officer
Charles Babbage
Mathematician & inventor
Jon Sigurdsson
Leader of the Icelandic independence movement
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