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112 matches to Anne
Gujrat, Battle. 1849. British defeat Sikhs, annex Punjab.
Gutenberg, Johannes. 1400-68. German printer, inventor of movable type.
Hague Conferences. 1899, 1907. Arms limitation talks banned poison gas, dum-dum bullets. Established World Court.
Heemskerk, Maerten van. 1498-1574. Dutch Mannerist painter.
Henry VIII. 1491-1547. King of England 1509-. Executed Thomas More. Established Church of England. Dissolved monasteries. Six wives: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr.
Holland, John. 1352-1400. Introduced rack to England. (Banned 1628.)
Hutchinson, Anne. 1591-1643. Expelled from Massachussets. by Puritans, founded Rhode Is. 1637.
Impressionism. 1867-86. European art movement named 1874 for Monet’s Impression Sunrise. Direct from nature with colors to render surfaces and lighting effects. Rejected primacy of subject. Renoir, Pissarro, Degas, Cezanne, Manet. Music: 1892-1910. Restraint and ambiguity. Mood music. Debussy.
Incunabula. Books printed before 1500. Caxton. Gutenberg.
Jaruzelski, Wojciech. 1923-. Polish leader 1981-90. Banned Solidarity -1989. First free elections, 1989, since WWII.
Jennings, Sarah. 1660-1744. Influential Duchess of Marlborough in court of Queen Anne.
John II. The Good. 1319-64. King of France 1350.- Hundred Years War. Captured at Poitiers, ransomed for 3M écus. Annexes SW France.
Kepler, Johannes. 1571-1630. German astronomer, deduced elliptical planetary motions 1609. Explained tides 1598.
Key, Francis Scott. 1779-1843. US lawyer/poet. Star Spangled Banner 1814 based on music from English drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven. US National anthem 1931-.
Kilkenny Statute. 1367. Banned English-Irish marriage, use of Irish names by English. Established Pale.
Ladislaus II. 1350-1434. King of Poland, 1386-. Victories made Poland a power. Merged with Lithuania. Tannenberg.
Lausanne, Peace. 1923. Greco-Turkish War. Resettlement of 1.35M Greeks, 430K Turks.
Lausanne, Treaty. 1912. Turkey cedes Tripoli to Italy after Italo-Turkish War. 1932. Ended German WWI reparations despite US rejection.
Lee, Anne. 1736-84. English/US mystic Shaker leader.
Mannerheim, Carl. 1867-1951. Finnish president. 1944-6. Led fight vs Bolsheviks 1918-21, army 1939-44.
Mannerheim Line. Eastern Finnish fortification. Crossed by Russians 1940.
Mannerism. 16C Exaggerated colorful painting style emphasizing craft, decorum. Palissy. Dürer. Cellini. Bruegel.
Mansart, Jules Hardouin-. 1646-1708. French architect, city planner. Dome Church 1677. Grand Trianon 1687. Place de Vendôme.
March on Rome. 1922. Mussolini’s planned Fascist insurrection. Facta resigned.
Mathieu, Albert. 1802. Suggested English Channel Tunnel to Napoleon.