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Camões, Luis de. c1524-80. Portuguese poet: Os Lusiadas, about Portugal’s explorations.
Campo Formio, Peace. 1797. Austria surrenders to Napoleon. Independent Venice abolished.
Canada. 1000 Norse visit. 1497 Cabot explores. 1534 French claim Quebec. 1583 English claim, settle Newfoundland. 1605 French settle Quebec. 1763 British conquer French territory. 1867 Independent Dominion. 1870 +northwest territories. 1871 +British Columbia. 1873 +PEI. 1949 +Newfoundland, Labrador.
Capital Punishment. Abolished: 1863 Venezuela; 1870 Netherlands; 1877 Costa Rica; 1949 Germany; 1965 Britain; 1969 Vatican City; 1972 US (reinstated 1976); 1976 Canada; 1981 France; (96 countries). Retained: Iran, Iraq, N Korea, USA (95 countries).
Carabobo, Battle. 1821. Venezuela defeats Spain, gaining independence.
Cartwright, John. 1740-1824. English reformer for universal male suffrage, abolition of slavery.
Chaldean Empire. 625-538BC. Last Babylonian Empire. Conquered by Persia. Nabopolassar.
Church of Scotland. National Church of Scotland. Reformation led by Knox. 1560 Abolished pope. 1689 Presbyterian.
Concentration Camps. 1862-65 USA. 1899-1902. British internment of Boers in South Africa. 1922-91. USSR. 1933-45 Nazi prisons for extermination and slave labour. Buchenwald. Auschwitz. Dachau. 1942-6 US Relocation Centers. 1942-46 Canada. 1950’s Kenya. 1973 Chile.
Connecticut Wits. 18C US satiric collaborative poets. Anarchiad 1786-87.
Constitution, US. 1787. Effective 1789. Defines government, liberties, basic laws. Amendments I-X 1791 Bill of Rights. XIII 1865 Abolishes slavery. XVIII 1919 Prohibition. XIX 1920 Women suffrage. XXI 1933 Repeals Prohibition. XXVI 1971 Voting age 18.
Coolie.19C Chinese indentured labourer.
Corvée. Statute labour. Abolished 1792 Fr, 1891 Egypt.
Crucifixion. Abolished 4C by Constantine.
Dares Phrygius. Trojan Priest. Wrote about Trojan Wars.
Darlan, François. 1881-1942. French admiral. Built navy 1933-40. Collaborated with Germany, 1941-2, then Americans. Assassinated.
Daudet, Alphonse. 1840-97. French humorist. Lettres de Mon Moulin 1869, about life in Corsica.
Decadents. 19C. Writers who believed art should be above conventional morality. Mallarmé. Wilde. Verlaine.
Derby, Earl of. 1799-1869. English Prime Minister 1852, 58, 66. Abolition of slavery.
Douglass, Frederick. 1817-95. US ex-slave abolitionist leader.
Drexler, Anton. Founded German Labour Party 1919...National Socialist Party.
Durkheim, Emile. 1858-1917. French sociologist. Division of Labour in Society 1893.
Edison, Thomas. 1847-1931. US inventor: imp telephone 1877, phonograph 1877, lightbulb 1878, movies, cast concrete 1907. Menlo Park, first industrial research laboratory.
Encomienda. 16-18C Spanish system of Indian forced labour.
English Civil War. 1642-9. King vs Parliament. Charles beheaded. Monarchy abolished. Commonwealth. Cromwell. Covenanters.