Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706. He is famous for being an American revolutionary and Founding Father. He was also a scientist who supposedly discovered electricity while flying a kite. He was also a printer who wrote Poore Richards Almanac which was filled with sayings and other things of use to common people. He died in 1790.

Joseph Turner

Joseph Turner was born in 1775. He was a painter who did Romantic style watercolors. His artwork was mainly landscapes. His atwork was fantastic and extreme showing natures beauty and anger in some cases. One of his paintings, The Fighting Temeraire, was polled in Britain as it's greatest painting.   He died in 1851.

Catherine the Great.

Catherine the Great was born in 1729. She married the king of Russia, Peter III, but hated him. She made friends and allies out of the army generals and when she was left alone in Saint Petersburg had a coup against him. She lived a life of extravagance which was a harsh contrast to the life of most of the peasants. she was called "Great" as she was very good at conquering more land for Russia.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850. He is famous for writing the books Treasure Island and Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He married Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne who had been previously married and had 3 children. He died in 1896 leaving an unfinished book.

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David was born in 1748. Many of his paintings portrayed classical Roman and Greek events.
Jacques-Louis David was very into the French Revolution and was a  friend of Robespierre. Jacques-Louis tried to redo the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture as it was royalist and had refused his paintings. He died in 1825 of a carriage accident.

John Singleton Copley

John Singleton Copley was born in 1738. His mother owned a tobacco shop. Around when he was born his father died and his mother remarried.His son became the Lord Chancellor. One of his paintings ,Watson and the Shark, was of Watson ,an orphan and a future mayor of London, being rescued from a shark.

Tokugawa Iemitsu

Tokugawa Iemitsu was born in 1604. He had a fierce rivalry with his brother, Tokugawa Tadanga. He decided to close Japan to most foreigners in 1630's when he had to deal with christian uprisings starting in 1549. Only a few traders were allowed into a small port town to trade with the Japanese and if a Japanese person left Japan he would not be allowed back in.