Writers in Kent

The atlas holds 8 people and 15 moments here, from 55 BC to 1982. The most recorded lives are Karl Marx, Charles Dickens and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Karl Marx
from 1866 to 1879
4 moments here
German philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Trier, Marx studied in Bonn and Berlin, worked in Cologne, and…
Charles Dickens
from 1837 to 1855
3 moments here
English novelist, journalist, editor, social reformer, actor and celebrated public reader. This chronology traces documented residences, workplaces,…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
from 1766 to 1767
2 moments here
Genevan philosopher, writer, composer, and a major figure of the European Enlightenment. Rousseau’s documented movements ranged across Geneva, Savoy,…
Jane Austen
from 1794 to 1796
2 moments here
English novelist Jane Austen spent her life in southern England, principally in Hampshire, Bath, Southampton, Chawton, and Winchester.…
Albert Einstein
in 1933
1 moment here
German-born theoretical physicist who transformed modern physics through special and general relativity, foundational work on quantum theory, and…
Julius Caesar
in 55 BC
1 moment here
Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman politician, general, orator and author whose career spanned the late Roman Republic.…
Pope John Paul II
in 1982
1 moment here
Karol Józef Wojtyła (1920–2005), Pope John Paul II from 1978, was a Polish Catholic priest, bishop, cardinal, and pope.…
Michael Faraday
in 1860
1 moment here
English chemist and physicist whose experimental work transformed the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.…