Vasto, Italy

Vasto, Italy was the birthplace of Gabriele Pasquale Guiseppe Rossetti.  At his birth, Vasto was not a part of Italy (which was created later in the nineteenth century but was, rather, part of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

Parent Map

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his Circle

Coordinates

Latitude: 42.104558800000
Longitude: 14.705871100000

Timeline of Events Associated with Vasto, Italy

Date Event Manage
28 Feb 1783

Birth of Gabriele Pasquale Guiseppe Rossetti

On 28 February 1783, Gabriele Pasquale Guiseppe Rossetti (the father of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti) was born in Vasto in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Image: From Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life by H. C. Marillier (1899). This image is in the public domain in the United States as its copyright has expired. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

 Engraving of Gabriele Pasquale Guiseppe Rossetti Engraving of Gabriele Pasquale Guiseppe Rossetti
9 Apr 1787

First settlers depart for Sierra Leone

Free Slaves in Sierra LeoneOn 9 April 1787, 451 people set sail to establish a “Province of Freedom” in Africa, later to become Sierra Leone. Image: An illustration of liberated slaves arriving in Sierra Leone, from the 1835 book, A System of School Geography Chiefly Derived from Malte-Brun, by Samuel Griswold Goodrich. This image is in the public domain in the United States as its copyright has expired.

Articles

Isaac Land, “On the Foundings of Sierra Leone, 1787-1808″