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657 matches to East India Act
De Valéra, Eamon. 1882-1975. US/Irish mathematician. Led Easter Uprising. Led Sinn Fein, 1917-26. Founded Fianna Fáil 1926. Prime Minister of Irish Free State, 1931~59. President 59-73.
Deogaon, Treaty. 1803. Marathans cedes land, power to British East India Co.
Diocletian. 245-316. Roman Emperor of the East 284, West 285. Abdicated 305. Regained Britain, Persia. Persecuted Christians. Condemned alchemy 297.
Drang nach Osten. Historic German wish for eastward expansion cited by Hitler.
Druze. Small Middle East Shi’ite sect worshipping al-Hakim.
Dutch East India Company. 1602-1798. Trade, colonies in Orient. Controlled Ceylon, Cape Colony, Jakarta.
East Anglia. 6C Anglo-Saxon kingdom. c870 Denmark. 917 England.
East India Companies. British, Dutch, French. Danish 1614-1729. Austrian, 1720-7.
East-West Schism. 1054. Separation of Roman and Eastern Catholic churches over filioque.
Easter Rebellion. 1916. Ireland. Irish Free State.
Eastern Crisis. 1839-41. British suppression of Muhammed Ali’s Egyptian expansion.
Eastern Empire. Byzantine Empire.
Eastern Orthodoxy. Branch of Christianity. East-West Schism.
Eastern Question. 19-20C. Instability caused by decline of Turkish rule led to Crimean War and WWI.
Eastman, George. 1854-1932. US inventor of roll film and Kodak camera 1888. Bromide print 1871.
Einhard. c770-840. Frankish historian. Life of Charlemagne c830.
Empire of the East. 286-1453. Eastern Roman Empire ruled from Byzantium. =Byzantine Emp.
Empire of the West. 800-. State founded by Charlemagne, continued to 1806 as the Holy Roman Empire. Succeeded Roman Emperor of the West. Split Eastern kingdoms.
Ethiopia. c1000BC Semite. 1C Aksumite Kingdom. 10C Zagwe dynasty. 1270 Solomonic dynasty. 17C Divided. 1855 Re-united. 1935 Italy (Italian East Africa). 1941 Independent. 1952 +Eritrea. 1974 Coup, Republic. 1993 -Eritrea.
Fabergé, Peter. 1846-1920. Russian jeweller. Imperial Easter Eggs 1884-1917.
Fatimid. 909-1171. N African, Middle East Shi’ite Empire.
Filioque. “and from the son” added to Nicene Creed in 6C, causing East-West Schism.
Florence, Union of. 1439. Brief reconciliation of Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches.
Franconia. 843-. Nucleus of E Frankish kingdom. Duke = First elected German king Conrad I.
Frankish Kingdom, East. 843. Division of Carolingian Empire. ≈modern Germany.