Bassi, Agostino. 1773-1856. Italian microscopist: contagion by microbes.

Bataan Death March. 1942. Japanese force 60 mile march; 54 of 70,000 prisoners arrive.

Batavian Republic. 1795-1806. = Netherlands.

Bateau-Lavoir. 1900. Paris birthplace of cubism (Picasso, Braque) and modern poetry (Jacob, Apollinaire, Orlan). Desmoiselles d’Avignon.

Bathory, Elizabeth. -1614. Hungarian Countess. Bathed in blood of 600 young girls to rejuvenate.

Batista, Fulgencio. 1901-73. Authoritarian Cuban right-wing dictator 1933-4, 52-8. Toppled by Castro.

Battenberg. Family name anglicized to Mountbatten.

Baudin, Alphonse. 1811-51. French deputy, killed on the Barricades. Republican martyr.

Baudricourt, Robert. Brought Joan of Arc to Charles VII.

Bauer, Sebastian. 1822-75. Invented submarine, 1850. First underwater photography.

Bauhaus. 1919-33. German art institute. ’Arts and sciences should cooperate in architecture’ -Gropius.

Baum, Frank L. 1856-1919. US writer. Wizard of Oz 1900.

Baumé, Antoine. 1728-1804. French chemist: aromatics discoverer.

Bautzen, Battle. 1813. Napoleon defeats Prussians.

Bavaria. Celts. 15BC Rome. 488 Germanic tribes. 555 Franks. 788 Charlemagne...817 E Franks. 10C Duchy in HRE. 1180 Wittelsbach. 1805 Kingdom. 1871 German Empire. 1918 Republic. 1919 Weimar Republic. 1933 Germany. 1949 W Germany.

Bavarian Succession, War. (Potato War). 1778-9. Prussia stops Austria from taking over Bavarian land ceded to it.

Bay of Pigs. 1961. CIA-financed Cuban invasion by exiles fails. Cuban Missile Crisis.

Bayard, Pierre. 1476-1524. French knight in Italian wars. “The fearless and blameless knight.”

Bayer, Johann. 1572-1625. German astronomer. Star charts, 1603, include magnitude Greek symbols.

Bayeux Tapestry. c1104. 70 meter illustration of Norman Conquest of England.

Baylen, Battle. 1808. Spanish mob defeats French army, humiliating Napoleon.

Bazille, Jean-Frédéric. 1841-70. Early French Impressionist painter.

Beach, Alfred. 1826-96. US inventor. Published Scientific American 1848-.

Bean, Roy. 1825-1903. US frontier judge. “The Law West of the Pecos”.

Beardsley, Aubrey. 1872-98. Controversial Art Nouveau illustrator in black and white. Salomé 1894. Lysistrata 1896.

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