Biography of Enrique IV of Castile, the impotent… Wilhelm Roentgen… Marco Fidel Suárez… Santiago Marino…

Biography of Enrique IV of Castile the impotent

(1425/01/25 - 1474/12/11)

Henry IV of Castile
King of Castile (1454-1474)

He was born January 25, 1425 in Valladolid.
Son of John II of Castile and Maria of Aragon.
In the year 1440 he married Blanche of Navarre, spreading it in 1443 by impotence, and in 1455 with Joan of Portugal. For years he ruled supported in your favourite Juan Pacheco faced Castilian nobility, which favored the interference of Juan II of Aragón.
It supported Charles of Viana, son of Juan II of Aragón, confronted his father. When passed away Carlos, the command of Catalonia, was offered accepting and thereby against the Castilian nobility. 1463-1468 revolt nobles tried to recognize as heir to his brother, Prince Alfonso, and spread the rumor that their daughter Juana was illegitimate, experienced 'la Beltraneja' to indicate that his real father was Beltrán de la Cueva.
With the ceremony known as 'farce of Avila', was symbolically dethroned and proclaimed King Alfonso. The fight between the brothers lasted until the death of Alfonso in July 1468. Enrique again pressured by the nobles recognized as heir his sister Isabel in September of 1468. When the future Elizabeth I, was revealed as a defender of the monarchy, the nobles support Enrique IV and defend the cause of Juana.
The 11 December 1474 with the death of the King in Valladolid, explode the war of succession of Castile.

Biography of Wilhelm Roentgen

(27/03/1845 - 1923/02/10)

Wilhelm Roentgen
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
German physicist and first Nobel Prize in physics

He was born on March 27, 1845 in Lennep, Rhinelandvillage. As a child he moved along with his parents to Holland.
When he was 17 years old enter the Utrecht technical school; in 1865 he began studies at the Polytechnic of Zurich, in Switzerland; and in 1868 he received his mechanical engineeringdegree, PhD a year later. He worked as a teacher of physics in Strasbourg in 1876; at the German University of Giessen, in 1879; and at the Institute of Physics of the University of Würzburg, in 1888. In 1900 he was awarded the Chair of physics at the University of Munich; He was also appointed director of a new physical Institute created in that same city.
In November 1895 he read before the Society Fisico-medica of Würzburg a report on their discovery of short wave radiation which he called X-ray. Subsequent to these rays name gave them but still knowing as x-rays. He also researched and made discoveries in mechanics, heat and electricity.
He received the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1896 and the first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901.
Wilhelm Röentgen died on February 10, 1923 in Munich.

Biography of Marco Fidel Suárez

(1855-04-23 - 1927/04/03)

Marco Fidel Suárez
Colombian writer and politician

He was born on April 23, 1855 in Bello, Antioquia.
Son of a washerwoman, from an early age was noted for his intelligence and received a special education.
At age 14, he entered the seminary and since 1872 was devoted to the Magisterium. He taught philosophy, grammar, arithmetic, algebra, and calligraphy. In 1876 he enrolled in dogmatic theologyand Canon law . He was master of the school of Hatoviejo from October 14, 1877.
He moved to Bogota and from 1880 to 1884 he was student and Professor at the College of the Holy Spirit. In 1881, he won the contest that the Academia Colombiana de la Lengua had opened to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Andrés Bello. He was the author of satirical articles against General Ramon González Valencia, President of Colombia between 1909 and 1910 as"national bridge"and "the marriage of Camacho".
Also author of works of Philology as "Castilian"; "Grammatical studies", "Pax grammatical analysis"; "Spanish in my Earth", "essays on the castellana de Don Andrés Bello grammar". He held various public posts: Deputy Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of public instruction, representative and Senator.
He came to the Presidency of the Republic as a candidate of the Conservative party, in 1918. Under his Government promoted communications. It did not meet his presidential term, retiring, in 1921, by discrepancies with a fraction of the conservative party.
Marco Fidel Suárez died on April 3, 1927 in Bogotá.

Biography of Santiago Marino

(1788/07/25 - 1854/09/04)

Santiago Mariño
Military and Venezuelan politician

He was born 25 July 1788 in Valle del Espíritu Santo (Nueva Esparta).
Son of the captain of the militia ruled Santiago Mariño de Acuña and Isaias Carige Fitzgerald, Irish descendant. He began his studies at Trinity.
On January 11, 1813, along with 44 Patriots constituted the Board that decided an offensive to liberate the Spanish domain East of Venezuela ; to this end was drafted the document known as Act of Chacachacare. Initiated the Venezuelan Revolution, he took an active part in Cumaná and Guiana with the rank of Captain under the orders of Colonel Manuel Villapol. He took refuge in Trinidad after the fall of the I Republic and led an expedition against the royalists in Eastern Venezuela, which, almost without guns, invaded from the small island of Chacachacare on 12 January 1813.
He is autodesignó general in Chief , freeing the provinces of Cumaná and Barcelona. While Simón Bolívar wanted the union, Marino wanted to maintain separate armies of the West and East, respectively commanded by Bolivar and by himself. After the triumph in Bocachica on José Tomás Boves on March 31, 1814, met with Bolívar in La Victoria on 5 April, together rushed with success the first battle of Carabobo on May 28, being defeated by Boves at La Puerta on June 15, and must go to the East, where were banned by their own comrades in arms and fled to Cartagena de Indias , and from there Jamaica and Haiti, from where they returned with the expedition of Los Cayos, in which Marino served as Deputy Chief of May 6, 1816.
His prestige was very large in the East, and this led to damaging dissensions. Bolívar appointed him Chief of Staff at the battle of Carabobo on 24 June 1821. With the first symptoms of separation from the Republic of Gran Colombia, remained beside the general José Antonio Páez. In 1835, led the so-called 'revolution of the reforms' that overthrew the President José María Vargas.
It seems that he was initiated into Freemasonry in Trinidad. Marino at the time of his death held the position of most great teacher. He was twice presidential candidate.
Santiago Marino died on September 4, 1854 in La Victoria, Aragua.