Examples from the nineteenth century are the transposition of " Horatio Nelson " into " Honor est a Nilo " ( Latin = Honor is from the Nile ); and of " Florence Nightingale " into " Flit on, cheering angel ".

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeremy Bentham, Florence Nightingale and even Queen Victoria are reputed to have stayed there, although there is no real evidence for this.

The participation of women in medical care ( beyond serving as midwives, sitters and cleaning women ) was brought about by Florence Nightingale.

* 1820 – Florence Nightingale, British nurse ( d. 1910 )

** Florence Nightingale, Nurse, CE 1910 ( Anglican Communion )

* Clare Boothe Luce compared her, to Joan of Arc and Florence Nightingale.

Image: Chinese Florence Nightingale. jpg | Soong giving a bandage to an injured Chinese soldier ( c. 1932 )

Notable Unitarians include Béla Bartók the 20th century composer, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker in theology and ministry, Charles Darwin, Joseph Priestley and Linus Pauling in science, George Boole in mathematics, Susan B. Anthony, John Locke in civil government, and Florence Nightingale in humanitarianism and social justice, Charles Dickens, John Bowring and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in literature, Frank Lloyd Wright in arts, Josiah Wedgwood in industry, Thomas Starr King in ministry and politics, and Charles William Eliot in education.

* Florence Nightingale founds school for nurses in 1860.

* August 13 – Florence Nightingale, English nurse ( b. 1820 )

* October 21 – Florence Nightingale leaves for the Crimea with 38 other nurses.

* July 9 – The Nightingale Training School and Home for Nurses, the first nursing school based on the ideas of Florence Nightingale, is opened at St Thomas ' Hospital in London.

* May 12 – Florence Nightingale, English nurse ( d. 1910 )

Dedicated to " the memory of Florence Nightingale ", the plot concerns the travails and romances of young women as they study to become nurses.

Category: Florence Nightingale

* Florence Nightingale, who contributed substantially to the report on the Royal Commission on the Health of the Army ( 1856 – 1857 ), based on her earlier work.

The Lady of the Lamp, Florence Nightingale, visited Falmouth and stayed at the town's Greenbank Hotel.

Many highly educated amateurs now also travelled to Egypt, however, including women such as Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale, who both left fascinatingly philosophical accounts of their travels, which revealed learned familiarity with all the latest European Egyptology.

* Benjamin Disraeli, former British Prime Minister, attended Higham Hall School in Walthamstow, as did William Shore, later father of Florence Nightingale

Nearby and also in the north of the borough is St Thomas ' Hospital, Lambeth Palace and the Florence Nightingale Museum.

* William Smith ( abolitionist ) ( 1756 – 1835 ), grandfather of Florence Nightingale, dissenter and British MP

Young Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale was born into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia, near the Porta Romana at Bellosguardo in Florence, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth.

Girolamo Savonarola (; 1452 – 1498 ) was an Italian Dominican friar and preacher active in Renaissance Florence, and known for his prophecies of civic glory and calls for Christian renewal.

Domenico Ghirlandaio (; 1449 – 11 January 1494 ) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence.

Gino Bartali, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (; born Ponte a Ema, Florence, Italy, 18 July 1914, died Florence, 5 May 2000 ) was a war hero and a champion road cyclist.

Pellegrino Artusi (; Forlimpopoli, near Forlì August 4, 1820 – Florence, March 30, 1911 ) is best known as the author of famous Italian cookbook " La scienza in cucina e l ' arte di mangiare bene " ( The Science of Cooking and the Art of Eating Well ).

Renaissance painters traditionally began an apprenticeship with an established master at about the age of 12 ; Masaccio would likely have had to move to Florence to receive his training, but he was not documented in the city until he joined the painters guild ( the Arte de ' Medici e Speziali ) as an independent master on January 7, 1422, signing as " Masus S. Johannis Simonis pictor populi S. Nicholae de Florentia.

* December 12 – Vincenzo Perugia tries to sell the Mona Lisa in Florence and is arrested.

* March 12 – Giuliano di Lorenzo de ' Medici, ruler of Florence ( d. 1516 )

Both of Keynes's parents outlived him: father John Neville Keynes ( 1852 – 1949 ) by three years, and mother Florence Ada Keynes ( 1861 – 1958 ) by 12 years.

The commission came from the operai of the cathedral of Florence, who intended to decorate the buttresses of the tribunes of the cathedral with 12 statues of prophets.

His work is represented with a collection of 145 recordings: 58 with the State of Mexico Symphony, 41 with the Royal Philharmonic, 19 with the Mexico City Philharmonic, 12 with the London Philharmonic, 9 with the London Symphony, 3 with the Philharmonia, 2 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and 1 with the Toscana Orchestra in Florence, Italy.

The latter has awarded at total of 12 stars to six of the company's restaurants, including Hong Kong ( two restaurants ), Macau, Paris, Florence and Los Angeles.

Polyphemos, Volume 1, Issue 2, May, Florence, South Carolina, U. S. A. pp. 12 – 22.

Much later, after his adventures in England, ( until August 9, 1785 ), Miranda went to Venice, Padua, Verona, Mantua, Parma, Modena, Bologna, Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Livorno, Rome and Naples, ( from November 12, 1785 to around March 16, 1786 ).

On the afternoon of October 12, 1940, Mix was driving his 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton near Florence, Arizona, ( between Tucson and Phoenix ) on Arizona State Route 79.

* July 12 – An Eastern Air Lines Flight 45, a Douglas DC-3-201C en route from Boston Massachusetts, to Miami, Florida, with stops in Washington, D. C. and Columbia, South Carolina, collides with a United States Army Air Forces A-26 Invader bomber above Syracuse, South Carolina, ( about from Florence, South Carolina.

* DGSE personnel were part of a team that arranged the release on June 12, 2005 of French journalist Florence Aubenas, held hostage for five months in Iraq.

On 12 August 1530, the Emperor created the Medici hereditary rulers ( capo ) of the Republic of Florence.

Hermann Scherchen ( 21 June 1891 in Berlin – 12 June 1966 in Florence ) was a German conductor.

On November 12, 1970, a, eight-ton sperm whale beached itself at Florence, Oregon, on the central Oregon Coast.

* Elise Boillet, " L ' Aretin et les papes de son temps ," in Florence Alazard et Frank La Brasca ( eds ), La papauté à la Renaissance ( Paris, Editions Honoré Champion, 2007 ) ( Travaux du Centre d ' Études Supérieures de la Renaissance de Tours, 12 ), 324-363.

Eleanor Florence Rathbone ( 12 May 1872 – 2 January 1946 ) was an independent British Member of Parliament ( MP ) and long-term campaigner for women's rights.

Menzel played the role of Florence in the 21st Anniversary concert of Chess at the Royal Albert Hall, London from May 12 – 13, 2008 alongside Kerry Ellis, Adam Pascal and Josh Groban.

* Nelson H. Minnich, " Julius II and Leo X as Presidents of the Fifth Lateran Council ," in Florence Alazard et Frank La Brasca ( eds ), La papauté à la Renaissance ( Paris, Editions Honoré Champion, 2007 ) ( Travaux du Centre d ' Études Supérieures de la Renaissance de Tours, 12 ), 153-166.

On 12 December the first of 24 aircraft of the 315th Troop Carrier Group touched down from Florence Army Airfield, South Carolina with C-47s and C-53s, having made an emergency landing at Montford Bridge near Shrewsbury in Shropshire.

He coaches the Kenyan-born Qatari Saif Saaeed Shaheen ( 3000m steeplechase world record holder ), 10, 000 meter runner Nicholas Kemboi ( 26: 30. 03 ), Dorcus Inzikuru ( 2005 World 3000m steeplechase Champion ), Moses Mosop ( 2005 World Championships 10000m bronze medalist and 2007 World Cross Country Championships silver medalist, and 25000m and 30000m world record holder in 1: 12: 47. 4 and 1: 26: 25. 4 ), Florence Kiplagat ( 2009 World Cross Country Champion and 2010 World Half-Marathon Champion ), Wilson Kiprop ( 2010 World Half-Marathon Champion and 10000m altitude world record holder in 27: 26. 93 ), Silas Kiplagat ( 2011 World Championships 1500m silver medalist ), Sylvia Kibet ( 2009 and 2011 World Championships 5000m silver ), Imane Merga ( 2011 World Cross Country Champion and 2011 World Championships 10000m bronze medalist ), and Abel Kirui ( 2009 and 2011 World Marathon Champion ).

1985-Atlanta, USA ( 2, 000 participants ); 1986 – Paris, France ( 2, 800 participants ); 1987 – Washington DC, USA ( 6, 300 participants ); 1988 – Stockholm, Sweden ( 7, 500 participants ); 1989 – Montreal, Canada, The Scientific and Social Challenge of AIDS ( 12, 000 participants ); 1990 – San Francisco, USA, AIDS in the Nineties: From Science to Policy ( 11, 000 participants ); 1991 – Florence, Italy, Science Challenging AIDS ( 8, 000 participants ); 1992 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands, A World United Against AIDS ( 8, 000 participants ); 1993 – Berlin, Germany ; 1994 – Yokohama, Japan ; The Global Challenge of AIDS: Together for the Future ( 10, 000 participants ); 1996 – Vancouver, Canada, One World One Hope ( 15, 000 participants ); 1998 – Geneva, Switzerland, Bridging the Gap ( 15, 000 participants including 1, 400 media ); 2000 – Durban, South Africa, Breaking the Silence ( 12, 000 participants, 1, 300 media ); 2002 – Barcelona, Spain, Knowledge and Commitment for Action ( 18, 500 participants ); 2004 – Bangkok, Thailand Access for All ( 18, 500 and 2, 600 media ); 2006 – Toronto, Canada, Time to Deliver ( 26, 000 participants ); 2008 – Mexico City, Mexico, Universal Action Now ( 20, 300 participants ); 2010 – Vienna, Austria, Rights Here, Right Now ( 19, 300 participants ).