Anglo-Irish captain and explorer (died 1922)

Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Born

1874

February 15

Died

1922

Era

1870s

Country

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About

Ernest, in brief

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Key dates

1874 Born
1922 Died

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438 Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus.
590 Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
706 Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
1002 At an assembly at Pavia of Lombard nobles, Arduin of Ivrea is restored to his domains and crowned King of Italy.

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The world in 1922

When Ernest departed

april 1 In newly formed Northern Ireland, six Catholics are murdered in the Arnon Street killings, one week after six others were killed in the McMahon killings.
april 15 U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
april 16 The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
april 20 The Soviet government creates the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1874

Herbert Hoover 1874–1964 American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (died 1964) Arnold Schoenberg 1874–1951 Austrian-American composer and painter (born 1874) Charles A. Beard 1874– American historian, author, and educator, co-founded The New School (died 1948) Erwin Bumke 1874–1945 Polish-German jurist and politician (born 1874) Gustav Holst 1874–1934 English trombonist, composer, and educator (born 1874) Honus Wagner 1874–1955 American baseball player and manager (born 1874) J. S. Woodsworth 1874– Canadian minister and politician (died 1942) Konstantin Päts 1874–1956 Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Estonia (died 1956) Lou Henry Hoover 1874– American philanthropist and geologist, 33rd First Lady of the United States (died 1944)

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