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Austria. 400BC Celts. 15BC Rome. 5-7C Huns, Avars ravage. 6C Slovenes settle 8C Charlemagne. 9C Magyar. 955 Otto I...962 HRE. 976 Babenberg(E). 1278 Hapsburg. 1453 Archduchy. 1804 Austrian Empire. 1867 Ausgleich. 1918 Republic. 1938 Germany. 1945 Republic. 1955 Independence from Allies.
Battenberg. Family name anglicized to Mountbatten.
Berg, Alban. 1885-1935. Austrian opera composer. Adopted 12-note method. Atonal-tonal fusion. Wozzeck 1925.
Bergerac, Peace. 1577. Ends 6th French War of Religion.
Bergman, Ingmar. 1918-. Swedish filmmaker dealing with moral issues, psychoses. Persona 1966.
Bergson, Henri. 1859-1941. Philosopher. Creative Evolution 1907. The life force. Vitalism.
Coster, Laurens. 1370-c1440. Dutch inv of moveable type, perhaps before Gutenberg.
Cyrano de Bergerac. 1619-65. French large nosed satirical writer. La Mort d’Agrippine 1654.
Erzberger, Matthias. 1875-1921. German statesman. Led signing of 1918 Armistice.
Fabergé, Peter. 1846-1920. Russian jeweller. Imperial Easter Eggs 1884-1917.
Folies-Bergère. 1869. Paris theater introduced striptease 1894.
Ginsberg, Allen. 1926-97. US Beat poet. Howl 1956.
Goering, Hermann. 1893-1946. German WWI flying ace, Nazi Prime Minister. Gestapo. Condemned at Nuremberg. Suicide.
Gutenberg, Johannes. 1400-68. German printer, inventor of movable type.
Hardenberg, Karl von. 1750-1822. Prussian chancellor 1810- during Napoleonic Wars. Citizenship to Jews.
Hauptman, Bruno. 1899-1936. Kidnaped and killed Lindbergh baby 1932. Executed.
Heidelberg Catechism. 1563. Calvinist confession used by Reformed churches.
Heisenberg, Werner. 1901-76. German quantum physicist: Uncertainty Principle 1927.
Herzberg, Gerhard. 1904-99. Canadian physicist. Electronic structure of molecules.
Hess. Rudolph. 1894-1987. German Nazi leader. Flew to Scotland, 1941. Sentenced to life at Nuremberg.
Holberg, Ludvig. 1684-1754. Norwegian/Danish poet, historian. ’Foundation of Danish Literature’. Peder Paars 1719.
Incunabula. Books printed before 1500. Caxton. Gutenberg.
Jodl, Alfred. 1890-1946. German general. Signed capitulation at Reims. Condemned at Nuremberg.
July Conspiracy. Stauffenberg.