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Cakste, Janis. 1859-1927. Latvian independence leader, First president 1922-.
Canterbury, Archbishop. 597-. Primate of all England. Leader of Anglican church world-wide.
Carrera, José. 1785-1821. Chilean rebel leader, First President 1811-14.
Catt, Carrie. 1859-1947. US feminist leader. 19th Amendment.
Caudillo. Latin US term for military-backed leader.
Chiang Kai-shek. 1887-1975. Chinese Kuomintang leader 1928-. In Taiwan 1949-.
Chkheidze, Nikolai. 1864-1926. Russ. Menshevik leader.
Clemenceau, Georges. 1841-1929. French Radical Prime Minister 1917-20. Dreyfus defender. War leader.
Cleon. -422BC. Athenian leader; advocated Pelop. War.
Coligny, Gaspard de. 1519-72. Huguenot leader 1562-. Influence on king caused Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
Condottieri. 14-15C. Ineffective Italian mercenary leaders.
Cyprus. Stone, Bronze Age civilizations. 1450BC Egypt. 1200BC Greek. 1000 Phoenicia. 709 Assyria. 569 Egypt. 6C Persia. 333 Macedonia. 294 Egypt. 47BC Rome...330 AD Byzantine. 7C Moslem. 1191 Crusaders. 1489 Venice. 1571 Turk. 1878 British lease...1914 Britain annexes. 1927 Crown Colony. 1960 Republic. 1963-4 Civil War, Greece and Turkey intervene. 1974 Turkey invades, partition.
Dalai Lama. 14C- Leader of Tibetan Buddhists. Ruled Tibet until 1959 exile to India. Lamaism. Yellow Hats. Tenzin Gyatso.
Danton, Georges. 1759-94. French Cordelier, Jacobin. Girondin leader 1792-3. Defeated foreign interveners. Executed by Robespierre.
Deák, Ferenc. 1803-76. Hungarian leader. Ausgleich.
Debs, Eugene. 1855-1926. US socialist leader. Led Pullman Strike 1894.
Decazes, Elie, duc de. 1780-1860. Minister of Louis XVIII. Moderate leader.
Demagogue. In Greece, leader popular with masses. Now, a politician who plays on popular passions for personal gain.
Deng Xiaoping. 1902-97. Chinese Communist leader 1973~. Purged by Mao, rehabilitated. Tiananmen.
Dimitrov, Georgi. 1882-1949. Bulgarian Communist leader. Prime Minister 45-. Acquitted of Reichstagg fire.
Diomedes. Greek leader in Trojan War.
Divine, Father. 1882-1965. US black leader. Peace Mission Movement.
Douglass, Frederick. 1817-95. US ex-slave abolitionist leader.
Dukhobors. 1755-. Russian Christian pacifist, anarchist sect. Leaders claimed to be Christ reincarnated. Tolstoy sponsored emigration to Canada, 1898.
Eisner, Kurt. 1867-1919. German Socialist Revolutionary leader. First Bavarian Prime Minister.