Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Józef Bem across 6 places, from 1794 to 1849.
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Józef Zachariasz Bem (14 March 1794 – 10 December 1850), also known as Murad Tevfik Paşa in Turkey, was a Polish engineer and general, an Ottoman pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European patriotic movements.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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14 March 1794exact date
Tarnówattested“Józef Bem was born on 14 March 1794 in Tarnów in Galicia, a Habsburg crown land created after the First Partition of Poland.”source: Wikipedia: Józef Bem
14 March 1794exact date
Galicia (Eastern Europe)attested“Józef Bem was born on 14 March 1794 in Tarnów in Galicia, a Habsburg crown land created after the First Partition of Poland.”source: Wikipedia: Józef Bem
1830year
Lwówattested“Bem lived in Lwów (now Lviv) and Brody until 1830, and planned on writing a treatise on the subject.”source: Wikipedia: Józef Bem
1831year
Polandattested“In France, he published his next work, on the national uprising in Poland, in which he not only gave an appraisal of the 1831 insurrection, but also tried to present a programme for the continuation of the struggle for the country's free…”source: Wikipedia: Józef Bem
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Franceattested“In France, he published his next work, on the national uprising in Poland, in which he not only gave an appraisal of the 1831 insurrection, but also tried to present a programme for the continuation of the struggle for the country's free…”source: Wikipedia: Józef Bem
31 July 1849exact date
Battle of Segesvárattested“From 12 to 22 July Bem was fighting continually, but finally, on 31 July 1849, his army was annihilated by overwhelming numbers in the Battle of Segesvár (now Sighişoara); Bem escaped after feigning death.”source: Wikipedia: Józef Bem
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French Invasion of Russiamentioned“He joined a Polish artillery regiment as a sub-lieutenant and then lieutenant in the French service, took part in the French invasion of Russia (1812), and subsequently distinguished himself in the defence of Danzig () (JanuaryNovember 1…”source: Wikipedia: Józef Bem
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Congress Polandmentioned“After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Duchy of Warsaw was transformed into the constitutional Kingdom of Poland, a dependent territory of the Russian Empire, and Bem became a teacher at a military college.”source: Wikipedia: Józef Bem
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Portugalmentioned“In 1833, during the Liberal Wars, he went to Portugal to assist the liberal Dom Pedro against the reactionary Dom Miguel, but abandoned the idea when it was found that a Polish legion could not be formed there.”source: Wikipedia: Józef Bem
31 July 1849exact date
Târgu Mureșmentioned“A statue to his honour was erected at Marosvásárhely (now Târgu-Mureş, Romania) but he lives still more enduringly in the verses of the Hungarian national poet Sándor Petőfi, who fell in the fatal action of 31 July 1849 at the Battle of…”source: Wikipedia: Józef Bem
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