He described these principles in a two-part paper, Experiments on Plant Hybridization, that he read to the Natural History Society of Brno on February 8 and March 8, 1865, and which was published in 1866.

Mahen Theatre in Brno ( in what is now the Czech Republic ) was the first public building in the world to use Edison's electric lamps, with the installation supervised by Edison's assistant in the invention of the lamp, Francis Jehl.

In September 2010, a sculpture of three giant light bulbs was erected in Brno, in front of the theatre.

In 2009 ( 70 years after his death ), a book was published containing extensive correspondence by Karel Čapek, in which the writer discusses the subjects of pacifism and his conscientious objection to military service with lawyer Jindřich Groag from Brno.

Born in 1870 in Brünn ( Brno ) in the Moravia region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to an ethnically German family, Loos was nine when his father, a stonemason, died.

Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach was born in Chrlice (), Moravia ( then in the Austrian empire, now part of Brno in the Czech Republic ).

Trams have a long tradition in Brno, they first went to the streets in 1869, it was the first operation of horse-drawn tram in the current Czech Republic.

Railway transport first started to operate in the city in 1839 on line Brno – Vienna, this was the first operating railway line in the current Czech Republic.

Bohumil Hrabal () ( 28 March 1914, Brno – 3 February 1997, Prague ) was a Czech writer, regarded as one of the best writers of the 20th century.

Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno ( Balbínova ul.

According to the organisers of a recent Hrabal exhibition in Brno, his biological father was “ probably ” Bohumil Blecha ( b. 1893-d, 1970 ), who was a year older than Marie, a friend from the neighbourhood and the son of a teacher.

In September 1925, he spent one year at a grammar school in Brno ( now Gymnázium třída Kapitána Jaroše, which was later attended by another famous Czech writer, Milan Kundera ).

The northern part of the battlefield was dominated by the 700-foot ( 210-meter ) Santon hill and the 880-foot ( 270-meter ) Zuran ( Žuráň ) hill, both overlooking the vital Olomouc / Brno road, which was on an east / west axis.

The world premiere of the opera was given at the National Theatre in Brno on December 18, 1926, conducted by František Neumann.

" After grammar school in Brno and Vienna ," from 1872-1876 Masaryk attended the University of Vienna, where he was a student of Franz Brentano.

Known to her family as Christa, she was born at Židlochovice Castle ( Groß Seelowitz ), near Brno, in Moravia, a daughter of Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria.

Some strong performances on the Honda NSR500 two-stroke bike in the first half of the season including second place at the 2002 Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez circuit, meant he was given a full factory supported four-stroke Honda RC211V for the rest of the season ; his best result on the RC211V was a second place at the Czech Grand Prix at Brno.

From 1836 to 1840 he was a construction supervisor for the railway track from Brno to Břeclav, the so called Emperor Ferdinand North Railway.

" Společné nádraží " was built 1845 – 1848 at Brno.

The third IPhO was arranged by Prof. Rostislav Kostial in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1969.

He invested Bořivoj as duke of Brno in 1097, thus removing the sons of Conrad I from the succession.

The battle took place near Austerlitz ( Slavkov u Brna ) about 10 km ( 6 mi ) south-east of Brno in Moravia, at that time in the Austrian Empire ( present day Czech Republic ).

The battle took place about six miles ( ten kilometers ) southeast of the town of Brno, between that town and Austerlitz () in what is now the Czech Republic.

The town is situated in the Drahanská Highlands, about 30 – 40 km to the north of Brno, the most important city of Moravia.

Later that same year, he gave a series of concerts in Budapest, Prague and Brünn ( today Brno, Czech Republic ).

Hayden had started the year with the same clutch as Pedrosa, but four rounds later it was shelved in favor of a clutch Hayden had used in previous years ; at the Brno round, he had a problem with the clutch that contributed to a 9th-place finish.

In the second round, it beat Brno, Czechoslovakia, for the first time, 91 – 76, on February 15, 1977.

Brno was at that time a bilingual city.

Ludmila Javorová ( born 1932, Brno ) is a Czech Roman Catholic woman who worked in the underground church during the time of communist rule in Czechoslovakia and served as a vicar general of a clandestine bishop.

Klíč worked as photographer, caricaturist and illustrator in Brno, Budapest and Vienna, all the time trying to improve technology of picture reproduction.

His work was greatly influenced by Adolf Loos and his pure constructions with their classicized balance and monumentality are amongst the best works to be constructed in Brno at that time.

In the second round, it beat Brno, Czechoslovakia, for the first time, 91 – 76, on February 15, 1977.

Mendel read his paper to the Natural History Society of Brünn ( Brno ) on February 8 and March 8, 1865.

Soon, additional studios were established: in Ostrava on December 31, 1955, in Bratislava on November 3, 1956, in Brno on July 6, 1961, and in Košice on February 25, 1962.

The sentence of death pronounced on him in February 1822 was finally commuted to fifteen years of jail in harsh condition, and in the following April he was placed in the Spielberg, at Brünn ( today's Brno ), where he was transferred via Udine and Ljubljana.

On February 16, he emigrated to Brno in Czechoslovakia.

Active double bass ensembles include L ' Orchestre de Contrebasses ( 6 members ), Bass Instinct ( 6 members ), Bassiona Amorosa ( 6 members ), the Chicago Bass Ensemble ( 4 + members ), The Bass Gang ( 4 members ), the London Double Bass Ensemble ( 6 members ) founded by members of the Philharmonia Orchestra of London who produced the LP Music Interludes by London Double Bass Ensemble on Bruton Music records, Brno Double Bass Orchestra ( 14 members ) founded by the double bass professor at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and principal double bass player at Brno Philharmonic Orchestra-Miloslav Jelinek, and the ensembles of Ball State University ( 12 members ), Shenandoah Conservatory, and the Hartt School of Music.

* Picture Gallery of the Paleolithic ( reconstructional palaeoethnology ), Libor Balák at the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Archaeology in Brno, The Center for Paleolithic and Paleoethnological Research

Part of this research benefited from the knowledge already expounded on in a book ( printed in German in 1794, in Czech in 1801 ), written by František Ondřej Poupě ( Ger: Franz Andreas Paupie ) ( 1753 – 1805 ) from Brno.

Some sources give Mach's birthplace as Turas / Tuřany ( now also part of Brno ), the site of the Chirlitz registry-office.

Until the age of three, he lived principally with his grandparents, Kateřina Kiliánová ( née Bartlová )( d. 1950 ) and Tomáš Kilián ( d. 1925, a descendant of a French soldier injured at the battle of Austerlitz, on the outskirts of Brno ), in Brno while his mother worked in Polná as an assistant book-keeper in the town's brewery.

* Masaryk University ( muni. cz ), in Brno, Czech Republic

* Josef Neruda ( 1807, Mohelno-1875, Brno ), Moravian organist

From the mouth of the Vistula river and the Prussian region, the Teutonic Knights by force continued the eastward migration up to Estonian Reval ( Tallinn ), Germans also settled in the mountainous border regions of Bohemia and Moravia and formed a distinct social class of citizens in towns like Prague, Havlíčkův Brod ( Deutsch-Brod ), Olomouc ( Olmütz ) and Brno ( Brünn ).