Historical figures in Rome
The atlas holds 173 people and 384 moments here, from 211 BC to 2025. The most recorded lives are Augustus, Galileo Galilei and Michelangelo. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Philosophers, across the Space Age and the Cold War.
Notable people
Marcus Aurelius
from 121 to 176
6 moments here
Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher. This chronology records securely attested physical presence from his birth and Roman residences…
Martin Luther
in 1510
1 moment here
German Augustinian friar, priest, theologian, professor, translator, and leading figure of the Protestant Reformation.…
Maurice Wilkins
in 1981
1 moment here
New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…
Mercedes Sosa
from 1967 to 1994
2 moments here
Argentine folk singer and leading exponent of the nuevo cancionero movement, internationally known for interpreting Latin American popular song and…
Michael Faraday
in 1814
1 moment here
English chemist and physicist whose experimental work transformed the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.…
Michelangelo
from 1496 to 1564
11 moments here
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.…
Michel de Montaigne
from 1580 to 1581
5 moments here
French Renaissance writer, magistrate, diplomat, and two-term mayor of Bordeaux, best known for the Essais.…
Miguel de Cervantes
in 1569
1 moment here
Spanish novelist, playwright, poet, soldier, purchasing agent and tax collector, best known for Don Quixote.…
Mikhail Gorbachev
from 1971 to 1989
3 moments here
Soviet and Russian politician who led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991.…
Mikhail Vrubel
in 1891
1 moment here
Russian painter, draughtsman, sculptor, ceramic artist, and theatrical designer associated with Symbolism and Russian Art Nouveau.…
Millard Fillmore
in 1856
1 moment here
Millard Fillmore was an American lawyer and politician from western New York who served in the New York Assembly, the U.S.…
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
in 1953
1 moment here
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) was the last shah of Iran, reigning from 1941 until the Iranian Revolution of 1979.…
Montesquieu
in 1729
2 moments here
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, was a French jurist, historian, and political philosopher.…
Mother Teresa
in 1983
1 moment here
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa or Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun.…
Muammar Gaddafi
from 2009 to 2010
2 moments here
Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from the 1969 coup until his overthrow and killing during…
Muhammad Ali
in 1960
1 moment here
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.) was an American boxer, activist, humanitarian, and global cultural figure.…
Muhammad Iqbal
in 1932
1 moment here
Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) was a South Asian philosopher, poet, lawyer, and political figure.…
Nelson Mandela
in 1998
1 moment here
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, lawyer and statesman. Mandela helped lead the African National Congress, co-founded its armed wing,…
Nero
from 54 to 68
6 moments here
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was Roman emperor from 13 October 54 to 9 June 68. This chronology records securely documented physical…
Ngô Đình Diệm
in 1950
2 moments here
Ngô Đình Diệm was a Vietnamese civil servant, nationalist politician, prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and first president of the Republic of…
Niccolò Machiavelli
from 1503 to 1525
2 moments here
Florentine diplomat, civil servant, political theorist, playwright, and historian of the Italian Renaissance.…
Nicolaus Copernicus
in 1500
1 moment here
Renaissance astronomer, canon, physician, administrator, and economist whose heliocentric model placed the Sun rather than Earth at the center of the…
Odoacer
in 472
1 moment here
Odoacer (c. 433–15 March 493) was a Roman military officer and ruler of Italy from 476 until his killing by Theodoric at Ravenna.…
Olav V
in 1967
1 moment here
Olav V of Norway (born Prince Alexander of Denmark) was King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991.…
Moments
- 1819 Winter stay in Rome Arthur Schopenhauer
- 1833 Arrives in Rome Hans Christian Andersen
- 1834 Returns to Rome for Easter Hans Christian Andersen
- 1840 Begins winter residence in Rome Hans Christian Andersen
- 1845 Enters Rome through Porta del Popolo Charles Dickens
- 1847 Winter residence in Rome Florence Nightingale
- 1848 Visit to revolutionary Rome Giuseppe Verdi
- 1853 Visit for Il trovatore Giuseppe Verdi
- 1853 Travel to Rome William Makepeace Thackeray
- 1856 Winter stay in Rome Millard Fillmore
- 1863 Visited Rome during the 1863 journey Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 1864 Arrival in Rome Henrik Ibsen
- 1869 Spring stay in Rome George Eliot
- 1870 Visit to Rome and meeting with Pius IX Theodore Roosevelt
- 1877 Audience with Pope Pius IX Oscar Wilde
- 1878 Visit with Pope Leo XIII Ulysses S. Grant
- 1880 Return to Rome Henrik Ibsen
- 1882 Appears in Rome Friedrich Nietzsche
- 1884 Rome visit from Christopher Paus Henrik Ibsen
- 1884 Private audience with Pope Leo XIII Jules Verne
- 1887 Visit to Rome José Rizal
- 1891 Winter work in Rome Mikhail Vrubel
- 1893 Falstaff premiere visit to Rome Giuseppe Verdi
- 1894 Stay in Rome at the outbreak of the Dreyfus affair Émile Zola
- 1897 Audience at Vatican City Chulalongkorn
- 1901 Birth at Via Gaeta Enrico Fermi
- 1902 Negotiates in Rome William Howard Taft
- 1902 Audience with Pope Leo XIII Edmund Barton
- 1906 Arrival in Rome for bank work James Joyce
- 1912 Composition retreat at Piazza di Spagna Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1913 Arrival in Rome Porfirio Díaz
- 1917 Designs Parade in Rome Pablo Picasso
- 1917 Meeting Picasso in Rome Igor Stravinsky
- 1919 Audience with Pope Benedict XV Woodrow Wilson
- 1919 Italian diplomatic visit Woodrow Wilson
- 1920 Italian fresco-study journey Diego Rivera
- 1921 Official visit to Italy Hirohito
- 1922 Rome journey with Amédée Ozenfant Le Corbusier
- 1923 Visits Rome with Anna Freud Sigmund Freud
- 1924 First European journey: Italy Gabriela Mistral
- 1926 Sapienza professorship Enrico Fermi
- 1926 Meets Mussolini in Rome Rabindranath Tagore
- 1928 Work trip to Rome from Provence Gabriela Mistral
- 1929 Signing the Lateran Treaty Benito Mussolini
- 1931 Visits Vatican and meets Mussolini Mahatma Gandhi
- 1932 Italian leg of European journey Muhammad Iqbal
- 1933 First visit to Rome Federico Fellini
- 1933 Summer journey in Italy Jean-Paul Sartre
- 1934 Via Panisperna research group Enrico Fermi
- 1935 Declaration of war on Ethiopia Benito Mussolini