1910 - FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

August 15, 1915 -  

The Angel of the Crimea, The Lady With The Lamp - Florence Nightingale, Founder of Modern Nursing

Born on May 12, 1820 in Florence Tuscany, Florence Nightingale lived to be 90 years old when she died on August 13, 1910 in Mayfair, London, England.

The Daily Mirror August 15, 1915
 

Florence Nightingale laid the foundation for professional nursing, established her nursing school in 1860 at St. Thomas's Hospital in London as the first secular nursing school which is now part of King's College in London.

New nurses take the Nightingale Pledge which was created in 1893. The Florence Nightingale Medal, established in 1912, is an award of the International Committee of the Red Cross, given to those distinguished in nursing.

She died in her sleep in her room at 10 South Street, Mayfair London, on August 13, 1910.  The offer to bury her at Westminster Abbey was declined and she was buried in the churchyard of St. Margaret's Church in Hamshire near Embley Park with a simple marker shwing her initials, dates of birth and death.  

A memorial monument was created in marble in 1913 and placed in the cloister of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence Italy. 

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