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Champlain, Samuel de. c1567-1635. French explorer of Canada. First Governor of New France. Founded Quebec city 1608.
Frontenac. 1622-98. French Governor of New France. Defeated Iroquois. Expanded fur trade.
New France. c1600-1763. French colonies in North America.
Plains of Abraham, Battle. 1759. British defeat French, capture Quebec. New France falls. Wolfe, Montcalm killed.
Seven Years War. 1756-63. France, Russia, Austria vs England, Prussia who retain Silesia, emerge as major power. French colonial power reduced. England gains New France, India. French-Indian Wars.
Vaucreuil, Cavagnal, Marquis de. 1698-1765. Governor of New France. Surrendered to Britain 1760. Seven Years War.
Aasen, Ivar. 1813-96. Developed New Norwegian language, officially adopted, 1907.
Abstract Expressionism. 1940s New York style of Pollock, Rothko. Spontaneous expression, free of traditional values. Expressionism.
Action Française. 1898-1945. French right wing political movement and newspaper.
Alexander VI. Pope. Demarcation Bull 1493 divided newly discovered land between Spain, Portugal. Tordesillas.
Antonine Wall. 142. Scotland. North of Hadrian’s. Abandoned ~196. Antoninus.
Antoninus, Pius. 86-161. Roman Emperor 138-. Built Antonine Wall.
ANZAC. Australian+New Zealand forces in WWI. Gallipoli.
Armstrong, Louis. 1900-71. US New Orleans Jazz trumpeter and band leader.
Ayala Plan. 1911. Zapata to renew Mexican Revolution, return land to communal ownership.
Bacon, Francis. 1561-1626. English chancellor and philosopher. First king’s counsel. Favoured inductive over deductive reasoning. Separated Science from religion. New Atlantis 1625. B. Scientific method: Novum Organum 1620. Essays 1625.
Baïf, Jean Antoine de. 1532-89. French Pléiade poet. New metrical forms. Founded Academy of Music and Poetry 1571, in Paris.
Baker, Herbert. 1862-1946. English architect: Pretoria government buildings; New Delhi.
Basil I. 813-886. Byzantine Emperor, 867-. Defeated Arabs. New Golden Age. Founded Macedonian dynasty.
Beaverbrook, Lord. (Maxwell Aitken). 1879-1964. Canadian/British newspaper magnate, politician. Advocated free trade within Commonwealth.
Beelzebub. New Testament prince of Demons. Satan.
Bellini, Giovanni. c1429-1516. Venetian Renaissance painter. New sensuous realism of form and color. Adoration of the Magi. St. Francis 1480.
Black Panthers. 1966-80. Revolutionary US political party. Bobby Seale. Huey Newton.
Blackstone, William. 1723-80. English common law scholar/jurist. Commentaries 1765-9.
Bowditch, Nathaniel. 1773-1838. US self-educated astronomer, mathematician. New American Practical Navigator 1802.