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27 matches to Puerto Rico
Muñoz Marin, Luis. 1898-1980. First elected governor of Puerto Rico 1948-63.
Paris, Treaties. 1229 Ends Albigensian Crusade. Louis gains Toulouse. 1327. England loses territory to France. 1763 Ends Seven Years War. Britain gets French holdings in Canada. Spain gets American territory. 1783 Ends American Revolution. US borders fixed. 1814 Ends Napoleonic Wars, restoring 1792 borders. Napoleon exiled to Elba. 1815 Ends Hundred Days. 1790 borders, reparations. Napoleon to St. Helena. 1856 Ends Crimean War. Black Sea neutral. Regulated Laws of High Seas. 1898 Ends Spanish American War. Spain cedes Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico to US. 1947. Settled European borders after WWII.
Puerto Rico. Taino. 1493 Columbus discovers. 1508 Spanish colony. 1898 US (Spanish American War). 1998 rejects statehood.
Spain. c3000BC Iberians. c11C BC Phoenicians. c10C Celts. 6C Basques. c5C Carthage. 3C BC Rome. 5C Vandals, Visigoths. 711 Moslems. 801 Charlemagne. 10C independent kingdoms of Castile, León, Aragon, Navarre. 1031-1492 Reconquista. 1143 Portugal independent. 1479 Aragon, Castile unite. 1492 Moors final defeat. 1512 + Navarre =Spain. 1808 Napoleon. 1898 -Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico. Spanish American War. 1931 Republic. 1936 Civil War. 1939 Franco. 1975 Parliamentary Monarchy. ETA. New Spain.
Spanish American War. 1898. US supports Cuban rebellion vs Spain. Gains Cuba, Guam, Philippines for $20M, Puerto Rico. Roosevelt. Maine.
United States of America. USA. 40,000-20,000BC Asians settle. 1492-1776 Spain, Portugal, France, Netherlands, Britain colonize. 1776 American Revolution. 1783 Thirteen Colonies independent. Manifest Destiny. 1845 +Texas. 1848 +California. 1867 +Alaska. 1898 +Hawaii, Puerto Rico.
Agricola, G. J. 40-93. Roman governor who subdued Britain.
Agricola, Johann. 1494-1566. German Protestant reformer and Antinomianist.
Baudricourt, Robert. Brought Joan of Arc to Charles VII.
Caruso, Enrico. 1873-1921. Dramatic Italian tenor.
Chirico, Giorgio de. 1888-1978. Greek/It surrealist painter.
Clay, Henry. 1777-1852. “Great Pacificator”. US statesman. Missouri Compromise.
Dandolo, Enrico. c1108-1205. Blind Venice Doge. Captured Constantinople 1204.
Dred Scott. 1857. US Supreme Court ruled slaves had no rights in court. Missouri Compromise invalid.
Dutra, Enrico. 1885-1974. Brazilian President 1946-51. Restored democracy.
Fellini, Federico. 1920-95. Italian symbolist filmmaker. La Dolce Vita 1960.
Fermi, Enrico. 1901-54. Italian/US atomic physicist. Transuranic elements.
Fleur de Lys. National emblem of France 496-1789. Tricolour.
Garcia Lorca, Federico. 1898-1936. Spanish poet, dramatist. Gypsy Ballads 1928.
Gentili, Alberico. 1552-1608. Italian jurist. International laws on the conduct of war.
Metaphysical Painting. 1911-20. Bizarre surreal imagery in stark landscape. De Chirico.
Miller, Henry. 1891-1980. US autobiographical novelist. Tropic of Cancer 1934. Tropic of Capricorn 1939. Works banned in US for sexual content until 1964.
Missouri Comromise. 1820-54. Simultaneous admission to US of Maine, Missouri, maintaining balance of free, slave states.
Monroe, James. 1758-1831. US President 1817-25. Florida acquired 1819. Missouri Compromise. Monroe Doctrine.
Petronius, Caius. -66 Roman satirist in Nero’s court. Satyricon.