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110 matches to Easter Rebellion
Collins, Michael. 1890-1922. Led Easter Rebellion. First Prime Minister of Irish Free State 1922. Assassinated by extremists.
Easter Rebellion. 1916. Ireland. Irish Free State.
Pearse, Patrick. 1879-1916. Irish patriot. Led Easter Rebellion 1916. Executed.
Acid Rain. 1940-. Rain and fog of pH<5.5 caused by industrial air pollution. Prevalent in North America, Eastern Europe.
Athos, Mt. 963-. Greek theocracy, site of Orthodox monasteries.
Balkans. Inhabited c6000BC. 6C BC Illyria. 148BC Rome(Illyricum)(N). 285 Byzantine(E). 4-7C Goths, Avars, Huns, Ostrogoths, Lombards, Slavs, Bulgars, Serbs invade. 890 Bulgar Empire. 1159 Serbian empire. 1389 Ottoman. 1699 Austria(E,N)/Venice(S,W). 19C Eastern Question. Albania. Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bulgaria. Croatia. Greece. Macedonia. Montenegro. Romania. Serbia. Slovenia. Yugoslavia.
Basil, St. 330-79. Founder of Basilians...Greek Orthodox Church.
Byzantine Empire. 395-1453. Eastern Roman Empire. Reduced by: 634 Caliphate Empire, 1042 Seljuks, 1204 Crusaders’ Latin Empire, 1453 Ottoman Empire.
Crusades. 1095-1272. European Christian wars to regain Holy Land after Seljuk Turks take Jerusalem in 1072. Literature and the arts benefitted from Eastern cultural infusion. Peasants 1096. Annihilated. First. 1096-99. Genoa financed Godfrey of Bouillon to recapture Jerusalem. Only successful crusade. Second. 1147-49. Louis VII and Conrad III pillage Byzantium. Third. 1189-92. Richard I and Philip II Truce with Saladin allows access to Jerusalem. Fourth. 1202-4. French and Flemish nobles conquer, sack Constantinople, form Latin Empire. Childrens. 1212. Stephen of Cloyes led 30,000 unarmed French youths. Nicholas of Cologne led 20,000 German. All died or enslaved. Fifth. 1218-21. John of Brienne in Egypt. Sixth. 1228-29. Frederick II crowned king of Jerusalem. Seventh. 1248-54. St Louis of France captured by Egypt and ransomed. Eighth. 1270. St Louis dies of plague. Ninth. 1271-2. Prince Edward of England.
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.
East-West Schism. 1054. Separation of Roman and Eastern Catholic churches over filioque.
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.
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.
Fabergé, Peter. 1846-1920. Russian jeweller. Imperial Easter Eggs 1884-1917.
Florence, Union of. 1439. Brief reconciliation of Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches.
Gallienus, Publius. -268 Roman Emperor. 253-. Lost Gaul, eastern areas. Revolt of 30 Tyrants.
Iron Curtain. 1946. Churchill’s name for Russia’s increasing influence in Eastern Europe. Dining à la Russe refers to carving being done behind an iron screen.
Jerusalem, Synod. 1672. Eastern Orthodox Church denounces Calvinism and Lutheranism.
Justinian. 483-565. Eastern Roman Emperor, conquered Africa and Italy. Codified Roman law 529. Closed all non-Christian schools, beginning Dark Ages. Nika Riot. Corpus Juris Civilis. Hagia Sophia. Digest 553. Ulpian.
Makarios III. 1913-77. Orthodox archbishop. Pro-Greek Cyprus president 1959-.
Mannerheim Line. Eastern Finnish fortification. Crossed by Russians 1940.