Hans Christian Andersen
1805–1875 · Person
The cobbler's son from Odense whose fairy tales — the Little Mermaid, the Ugly Duckling, the Emperor's New Clothes — became the world's shared childhood.
On these timelines: Master, Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age, Arts and Thoughts, People
Around 1805
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Napoleon's rule of France (1799)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Battle of Waterloo (1815)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)