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44 matches to Hart
Aberhart, William. 1878-1943. Canadian Social Credit advocate.
Anti-Corn Law League. 1839-46. Cobden and Bright’s pacifist movement for Free Trade, public education, against social reform and Chartists. Corn Laws.
Atlantic Charter. 1941. British-US declaration of 8 principles of peace and security. Endorsed by >25 nations.
Attwood, Thomas. 1783-1856. British Chartist.
Bayer, Johann. 1572-1625. German astronomer. Star charts, 1603, include magnitude Greek symbols.
Bernard of Chartres. -c1130. French Neoplatonic Idealist philosopher. Real world of eternal ideas vs apparent world of material objects.
Buddha. c566-486BC. Gautama, Siddhartha. Indian prince, Buddhism founder.
Carthusians. 1084. Strict order of monks founded by St Bruno. Inventors of Chartreuse liqueur.
Charter. 1814-1830. French Constitution: Constitutional Monarchy, civil liberties, religious toleration.
Charter to the Nobility. 1785. Rights and prerogatives of Russian nobility.
Chartists. 1836-58. British workers’ reform movement. Petitions 1838,40,48 for universal male suffrage, ballot vote led to riots 1839. Lovett.
Chartreuse. 1084. Isère, French first Carthusian monastery.
Cook, James. 1728-79. English explorer. Sailed to Tahiti to see transit of Venus, 1768. Charted New Zealand 1769. Claimed Australia 1770.
Earhart, Amelia. 1898-1937. US aviator. First solo Atlantic flight by a woman, 1932. Lost in attempt to circle planet.
Eckhart, Johannes. c1260-1328. German mystic. “All existence is God” 1281.
Evatt, Herbert. 1894-1965. Australian statesman. Major influence on UN charter.
Gautama, Siddhartha. -480BC. Prince. Buddha.
Griffith, Arthur. 1872-1922. Founded Sinn Fein 1905. Irish President 1922.
Halley, Edmund. 1656-1742. English astronomer who explained comets 1705. First meteorological chart 1686.
Hart, Lorenz. 1895-1943. US lyricist. Rogers. Pal Joey 1940.
Hart, Moss. 1904-61. US playwright. You Can’t Take It with You 1936.
Hartford Wits. Connecticut Wits.
Hauptman, Gerhart. 1862-1946. Polish/German poet and writer. The Weavers 1892.
Hesse, Hermann. 1877-1962. German/Swiss writer of psychological, mystical. Siddharta 1922. Steppenwolf 1927. Magister Ludi 1943.
Khartoum, Battle. 1885. Mahdi defeat British in Sudan.