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Antigua. Carib. 1493 Columbus discovers. 1632 English settle. 18C slave trade. 1958-62 West Indies Federation. 1967 Self-government. 1981 Independent +Barbuda.
Blackbeard (Edward Teach). -1718. English pirate in West Indies.
Grenada. 1498 Columbus discovers. 1651 French colony. 1763 English. 1876 Crown Colony. 1958 Fed of West Indies. 1967 Self-government. 1983 US invades to prevent Marxist insurrection.
St Kitts and Nevis. St Kitts: Carib. 1493 Columbus discovers. 1623,4 British, French settle, dispute. 1783 British. Nevis: 1628 British settle. 1816 St Kitts +Nevis, Anguilla, Virgin Islands. 1871 Leeward Islands Federation. 1958-62 West Indies Federation. 1967 St Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla Autonomous. 1980 -Anguilla. 1983 Independent.
St Lucia. Carib Arawak. 17C English fail to settle. 1650 French settle. 1803 Britain. 1838 Windward Is. 1958-62 West Indies Federation. 1967 Autonomous. 1979 Independent.
St Vincent and the Grenadines. Carib. 1498 Columbus discovers. 1763 English. 1773 Treaty with Caribs. 1795 Carib revolt fails, most deported. 1871 Windward Is. 1958-62 West Indies Federation. 1969 Autonomous. +Grenadines. 1979 Independent.
West Indies. Arawak, Carib. 1492 Columbus discovers. 1620-60 Settled.
West Indies Associated States. 1967 Association of self-governing former Britishcolonies under British suzerainty.
West Indies Federation. Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserat, St Christopher-Nevis-Anguila, St Lucia, St Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago.
Amundsen, Roald. 1872-1928. Norwegian explorer, first to South Pole, 1911; NW Passage, 1906.
Anjou. Region, former province of western France. Under English 1151-1204, 1360. 1480 France. Angevin.
Armagnac. Former county of southwest France, now Gascogne. 960 Independent. 1360 English. 1607 France.
Baader-Meinhof Gang. (Red Army Faction). 1968-92. West German terrorists supported by Stasi.
Barbarians. Greek = foreigners. Roman term for Goths, Huns and Vandals who conquered Western Empire 3-6C.
Baron. 1066-. 5th (lowest) rank of British peerage.
Barry, Charles. 1795-1860. English architect: Westminster Parliament 1840. Trafalgar Square 1840-3.
Bartók, Bela. 1881-1945. Modern Hungarian Nationalist composer. Bridged Hungarian folk to Western music.
Bean, Roy. 1825-1903. US frontier judge. “The Law West of the Pecos”.
Benin.1625 Abomey kingdom = Dahomey. 1892 France. 1895 French West Africa. 1959 Autonomous. 1960 Independent =Dahomey. 1975 =People’s Republic of Benin.
Berlin Wall. 1961-89. Soviet troops erect. US guarantees West Berlin’s freedom.
Bernstein, Leonard. 1918-90. US conductor/ composer. West Side Story 1957.
Black Hawk War. 1832. US decimates Sauk/Fox tribes. Illinois, Iowa Indians flee west.
Blow, John. 1649-1708. Westminster organist. First English opera, Venus and Adonis 1685.
Bonaparte, Jerôme. 1784-1860. King of Westphalia 1807-13. Marshal of France. Napoleon’s brother.
Brandt, Willy. 1913-92. Pragmatic Social Democrat Chancellor of West Germany 1969-74.