Hanseatic League. 1241-1669. Confederation of N German towns. Dominated N European trade 13-15C.

Hanson, John. 1721-83. American revolutionary. US. ’president’ 1781-2 under Articles of Confederation.

Hansson, Per. 1885-1946. Swedish Prime Minister 1932-. Maintained neutrality in WWII.

Hapsburg. Dynasty ruled Austria 1278-1918, Spain 1516-1700, Holy Roman Empire 1273-1806, Netherlands. 1712-97, Hungary 1526~1918.

Harald I. c850-933. First Norwegian king 860-930. Colonized Iceland c874.

Harald III. Norwegian king 1047-66. Killed invading England.

Harald Blue Tooth. c910-985. First Christian Danish king c940-. Unified Denmark, conquered Norway.

Hardecanute. c1019-42. King of English 1014-, Denmark 1028-.

Hardenberg, Karl von. 1750-1822. Prussian chancellor 1810- during Napoleonic Wars. Citizenship to Jews.

Harding, Warren. 1865-1923. US Pres 1921-. Teapot Dome. Washington Conference.

Hardy, Thomas. 1840-1928. English novelist: Far from the Madding Crowd 1874; Mayor of Casterbridge 1886; Jude the Obscure 1896. Man as victim of fate. -“the worth encompassed by the inevitable”.

Harmony Society. Protestant celibate ascetic communal sect. Founded Harmony, PA 1806.

Harnack, Adolf von. 1851-1930. German theological historian. History of Dogma 1886-9.

Harold II. Last Saxon king of England, 1066. Killed at Hastings.

Harpies. 3 half-woman half-bird creatures.

Harriman, W. Averell. 1891-1986. US negotiator of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963.

Harrington, James. 1611-77. English idealist utopian writer. Oceana 1656.

Harris, Lawren. 1885-1970. Canadian landscape, abstract painter. Group of Seven. Lake and Mountains 1928.

Harris Treaty. 1858. Japan-US trade opened.

Harrison, William. 1773-1841. US Pres 1841. Elected on slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too”. Died of pneumonia caught at inauguration.

Hart, Moss. 1904-61. US playwright. You Can’t Take It with You 1936.

Harun-ar-Rashid. c764-809. Abbasid Caliph, 786-. Subject of One Thousand and One Nights.

Hasdrubal. -207BC. Hannibal’s brother. Carthaginian commander.

Hasideans. Jewish sects. 300-175BC. Strict Talmudic observation.

Haskala. 18-19C Cultural movement to move European Jews from ghettos into mainstream.

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