Historical figures in Aachen
The atlas holds 12 people and 30 moments here, from 768 to 1996. The most recorded lives are Charlemagne, B. J. Habibie and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Among them Musicians and Composers, Educators and Royalty, across the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.
Notable people
Albrecht Dürer
in 1520
1 moment here
German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the Northern Renaissance. Born and died in Nuremberg, Dürer trained there before traveling through the…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
in 1974
1 moment here
Soviet and Russian novelist, essayist, historian, dissident, and Nobel laureate whose writings on Soviet political repression and the Gulag made him…
Anne Frank
in 1933
1 moment here
Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist whose writing from hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam became The Diary of a Young Girl.…
B. J. Habibie
from 1954 to 1963
4 moments here
Indonesian aerospace engineer, technocrat, vice president, and third president of Indonesia.…
Charlemagne
from 768 to 814
16 moments here
Frankish king, Lombard king, and Carolingian emperor who ruled from 768 to 814. His itinerant court moved across Francia, Saxony, Italy, Bavaria, the…
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
in 1520
1 moment here
Charles V (1500–1558), also Charles I of Spain, was Holy Roman Emperor, king of Spain, and ruler of the Habsburg Netherlands.…
Frédéric Chopin
in 1834
1 moment here
Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the early Romantic period. Born in Żelazowa Wola, he grew up and trained in Warsaw, travelled through Central…
George Frideric Handel
in 1737
1 moment here
German-British Baroque composer. Born in Halle, he worked in Hamburg, travelled in Italy, served as Kapellmeister at Hanover, and settled in England.…
Joséphine de Beauharnais
in 1804
1 moment here
Marie-Josèphe-Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, known as Joséphine, was Napoleon Bonaparte’s first wife and Empress of the French from 1804 until the…
Mercedes Sosa
in 1996
1 moment here
Argentine folk singer and leading exponent of the nuevo cancionero movement, internationally known for interpreting Latin American popular song and…
Voltaire
in 1742
1 moment here
François-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, dramatist, and philosopher.…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
in 1763
1 moment here
Austrian composer and performer of the Classical era. Born in Salzburg, Mozart toured Europe as a child prodigy, made three formative journeys to…
Moments
- 768 First recorded Christmas at Aachen Charlemagne
- 769 Issued a charter at Aachen Charlemagne
- 794 Spent Christmas at Aachen Charlemagne
- 795 Maintained residence at Aachen Charlemagne
- 797 Returned to Aachen from the North Sea Charlemagne
- 799 Wintered at Aachen after the Saxon campaign Charlemagne
- 801 Spent Christmas at Aachen Charlemagne
- 802 Held court and synod at Aachen Charlemagne
- 803 Returned to Aachen for winter Charlemagne
- 808 Returned from Nijmegen to Aachen Charlemagne
- 809 Summoned the Filioque council at Aachen Charlemagne
- 810 Held Easter court at Aachen Charlemagne
- 811 Returned to Aachen after northern operations Charlemagne
- 812 Received Byzantine recognition at Aachen Charlemagne
- 813 Crowned Louis co-emperor at Aachen Charlemagne
- 814 Died at Aachen Charlemagne
- 1520 Visit to Aachen and coronation Albrecht Dürer
- 1520 Coronation as King in Germany Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1737 Spa treatment at Burtscheid George Frideric Handel
- 1742 Meets Frederick at Aachen Voltaire
- 1763 Performs for a Prussian princess Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1804 Spa stay at Aix-la-Chapelle Joséphine de Beauharnais
- 1834 Lower Rhenish Music Festival Frédéric Chopin
- 1933 Stay with grandmother in Aachen Anne Frank
- 1954 Arrival for study at RWTH Aachen B. J. Habibie
- 1960 Research and doctoral study in Aachen B. J. Habibie
- 1962 Settlement in Aachen after marriage B. J. Habibie
- 1963 Residence in Oberforstbach B. J. Habibie
- 1974 Residence with Heinrich Böll Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- 1996 CIM-UNESCO Prize in Aachen Mercedes Sosa