Biography of Maximiliano de Habsburgo - Maximilian I of Mexico… John Locke… Gustavo Adolfo Becquer…

Biography of Maximiliano de Habsburgo - Maximilian I of Mexico

(1832-07-06 - 1867/06/19)

Maximiliano de Habsburgo
Maximilian I of Mexico
Archduke of Austria and Emperor of Mexico

He was born on July 6, 1832 in the Palace of Schönbrunn, near Vienna, Austria.
Prince of the House of Habsburg and brother of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph.
When it was still a very young married the daughter of the Kings of Belgium, Princess Charlotte Amelia. On the recommendation of Napoleón III, he accepted the Crown imperial of Mexico. In April 1864 he became the capital. There he tried to improve the lot of Indians and poor peasants. On April 10, 1865 Maximiliano de Habsburgo publishes the provisional Mexican Empire status. In this settled that the emperor would rule through the following ministries: the Imperial household; of State; foreign businessmen and Marina; of the Interior; of Justice; of public instruction and cults; of war; building; and, finally, the finance.
His works include the Paseo de la Reforma and the Alcazar of Chapultepec Castle. His liberal ideas led him to apply some measures to those proposed by Benito Juárez in the Reform laws, which brought him the displeasure of the ecclesiastical authorities and conservative groups. Abandoned by these and by Napoleón III , he was unable to hold.
Surrendered in Queretaro to the General Mariano Escobedo and was captured and executed in the Cerro de las Campanas alongside Miguel Miramón and Tomás Mejía conservatives on June 19, 1867.

Biography of John Locke

(1632/08/29 - 1704/10/28)

John Locke
English philosopher

He was born August 29, 1632 in Wrington, Somerset. The son of a lawyer.
He studied at the University of Oxford, where he was Professor of Greek, rhetoric and moral philosophy from 1661 to 1664.
Friend of Robert Boyle, Thomas Sydenham, and Isaac Newton. In the year 1667 began its relationship with the statesman Anthony Ashley-Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury, who was friend and physician. In 1675, when Shaftesbury had lost the favour of the Crown, Locke settled in France. From 1683 to 1688 he resides in Holland, and after the so-called glorious revolution of 1688 and the restoration of Protestantism, returned to England. King William III of Orange appointed you to serve the Ministry of Commerce in 1696, charge he resigned in 1700 because of an illness.
He argued that the mind of a person at the time of the birth is a blank page on which the experience print knowledge. He criticized the theory of the divine right of Kings in his two treatises on civil government (1690). He asserted that sovereignty does not reside in the State but in the people, and that the State is Supreme but only if it respects the civil law and which he called "natural" law. He believed in religious freedom and separation of Church and State.
John Locke died October 28, 1704 in Oates, Essex.

Biography of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

(1836/02/17 - 1870/12/22)

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida 
Spanish Poet

He was born on February 17, 1836 in Seville.
Descendant of Dutch noblemen who lived in that city in the 16th century. The son of a famous painter of the Sevillian costumbrismo and brother of another, Valeriano. Bécquer was the maiden name of his father. He studied at the College of San Antonio Abad, then move to take the nautical career at the College of San Telmo.
In 1854 after orphan moved to Madrid. He tried to devote himself to painting and was serving as clerk in the direction of national property, where his skill for drawing was admired by peers, but was that was stopped to the be amazed by the Director making drawings of scenes from Shakespeare.
He decided to devote himself to literature and suffers poverty while he collaborates in periodic short category. Subsequently enters "The contemporary" where he published chronic social, some of its legends and customs trials letters from my cell that brings together nine letters written to the contemporary newspaper published between May and October 1864. That same year he got a very well-paid position, official censor of novels. To 1867 he wrote his famous rhymes and the revolution of 1868 that the manuscript was lost and poet had to prepare another. Becqueriana poetry conveys enthusiasm and excitement with a simple style that gives way to feelings of hopelessness.
He had three children and was separated from his wife in 1868.
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer died on December 22, 1870, due to tuberculosis aggravated by a deep depression.