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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



TODLEBEN, Franz Eduard, 1818-84, Russian 

 general. 



TONE, Theobald Wolfe, 1763-98, Ir. patriot ; 

 founder of the United Irishmen. 



TORQUEMADA, Tomas de, 1420-98, Sp. Do- 

 minican monk ; inquisitor-general. 



TORRICELLI, Evangelista, 1608-47, It. 

 physicist. 



TOUSSAINT L'OuvERTURE, Francois Domi- 

 nique, 1743-1803, negro leader of the Haytian 

 rebellion. 



TRAJAN, 52-117, Rom. emperor. 



TROLLOPE, Anthony, 1815-83, Eng. nov- 

 slist. 



TUPPER, Martin Farquhar, 1810-89, Eng. 

 poet and author. 



TURENNE, Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, 

 Vicomte de, 1611-75, Fr. general. 



TURGENEF, Ivan Sergyevich, 1818-83, Rus- 

 sian novelist. 



TURNER, Joseph Mallord William, 1775- 

 1851, Eng. landscape painter. 



TYLER, John, 1790-1862, tenth president 

 of the United States ; born in Va. ; practiced 

 law ; Congress, 1816-21 ; governor of Virginia, 

 1825 ; senator, 1827 ; sympathized with the 

 nulliflers and opposed Jackson ; resigned, 

 1836 ; elected vice-president on Whig ticket, 

 1840; succeeded Harrison in 1841. 



TYNDALL, John, 1820-93, Ir. scientist. 



UHLAND, Johann Ludwig, 1787-1862, Ger. 

 lyric poet. 



ULLOA, Antonio de, 1716-95, Sp. mathema- 

 tician and naval officer ; governor of Louisiana. 



ULPHILAS (or Ulfilas), 313-83, the apostle 

 of the Goths ; translated the Scriptures into 

 Gothic. 



UNGER, Johann Friedrich, 1750-1813, Ger. 

 printer and engraver. 



URQUHART, David, 1805-77, Scot, writer 

 and politician. 



USSHER, James, 1580-1656, Ir. prelate and 

 scholar. 



VALENS, Flavins, 3287-78, emperor of the 

 East. 



VAN BUREN, Martin, 1782-1862, eighth 

 president of the United States ; enrolled at the 

 bar in New York in 1803, and elected to the 

 State Senate ; state attorney-general, 1815 ; 

 leader of the " Albany Regency " ; U. S. sen- 

 ator, 1821 ; governor, 1828 ; secretary of state, 

 1829-31 ; vice-president, 1833-7 ; president, 

 1837-41. 



VANCOUVER, George, 17587-98, Eng. navi- 

 gator. 



VANDERBILT, Cornelius, 1794-1877, Am. 

 capitalist. 



VANDYKE (or Van Dyck), Sir Anthony, 



1599-1641, Flemish painter; resided in Eng- 

 land for several years before his death, where 

 he became the most popular artist of his time. 



VANE, Sir Henry, 1612-62, Eng. republican 

 statesman. 



VAN RENSSELAER, Stephen (the Patroon), 

 1764-1839, Am. statesman and landholder. 



VARUS, Publius Quintilius, fl. 7, Rom. gen- 

 eral ; defeated by Arminius. 



VELASQUEZ, Don Diego Rodriguez de Silva 

 y, 1599-1660, Sp. painter. 



VELDE, Willem van der (the Elder), 1610- 

 93, Dutch marine painter. 



VELDE, Willem van der (the Younger), 

 1633-1707, Dutch marine painter. 



VERBOECKHOVEN, Eugene Joseph, 1799-1881, 

 Belgian painter. 



VERDI, Giuseppe, 1814-98, It. composer. 



VERNET, Antoine Charles Horace, 1758- 

 1836, Fr. painter. 



VESPASIANUS, Titus Flavius, 9-79, Rom. 

 emperor. 



VESPUCCI, Amerigo (Americus Vespucius), 

 1451-1512, It. navigator and astronomer. 

 ^ VICTOR EMMANUEL I., 1759-1824, king of 

 Sardinia; II., 1820-78, first king of Italy; 

 restored Italian unity. 



VINCENT DE PAUL, Saint, 1576-1660, Fr. 

 priest and reformer. 



VINCI, Leonardo da, 1452-1519, Florentine 

 painter. 



VIRGIL (or Vergil) (Publius VirgiliusMaro), 

 70-19 B. C., Latin poet. 



VOLTA, Alessandro, 1745-1827, It. inventor 

 of voltaic pile. 



VOLTAIRE, Francois Marie Arouetde, 1694- 

 1778, Fr. author, poet, wit, dramatist, histo- 

 rian, philosopher, and skeptic, and the great- 

 est critic of modern times ; the son of a notary ; 

 imprisoned in the Bastille in 1716 on an un- 

 founded suspicion of being the author of a 

 libel on the regent, and there produced 

 " (Edipe," and wrote part of the " Hen- 

 riade " ; in England, 1726-9, passing much 

 time in the society of Bolingbroke ; passed the 

 years 1750-3 with Frederick the Great. 



WAGNER, Richard, 1813-83, Ger. composer, 

 poet, and critic. 



WAITE, Morrison Remich, 1816-88, Am. 

 chief justice. 



WALLACE, Sir William, 12707-1305, Scot, 

 general and patriot ; defeated by Edward I. of 

 England ; betrayed and executed. 



WALLENSTEIN, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius 

 von, Count, 1583-1634, Austrian general ; hero 

 of one of Schiller's dramas ; entered the im- 

 perial army at the beginning of the Thirty 

 Years' war ; raised an army at his own ex- 

 pense in 1625, invading Denmark; banished 



