Domenico Veneziano. 1400-61. Florentine painter. St. Lucy Altarpiece c1445.

Dominican Order. 1216. Mendicant preaching friars with severe rule. Thomists.

Donation of Constantine. 8C. Forged document granting land to the papacy. Exposed 1440.

Donatism. 301-5C. Christian sect believing sacraments given by priests who had sinned are invalid.

Dordrecht Confession. 1632. Mennonite doctrine.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. 1821-81. Russian psychological writer. Crime and Punishment 1866. Idiot 1868. Brothers Karamazov 1880. Exiled to Siberia 1849-59.

Dover, Treaty. 1670. Secret agreement. Louis XIV and Charles II. led to Third Dutch War. Ends Triple Alliance.

Drunken Parliament. 1661. Scotland.

Du Bois, William. 1868-1963. US writer. Founded Niagara movement, NAACP 1909.

Duma. 1906-17. Russian parliament created by Nicholas II after Revolution.

Dunces Parliament. 1404. Coventry. No lawyers.

Eclecticism. 2C BC. Philosophical doctrine combining elements of various, sometimes contradictory, philosophies. Cicero.

Ecumenicalism. 1846-. Movement to unite all Christian churches.

Edison, Thomas. 1847-1931. US inventor: imp telephone 1877, phonograph 1877, lightbulb 1878, movies, cast concrete 1907. Menlo Park, first industrial research laboratory.

Edmund I. 921-46. King of England 939-. Recaptured north England from Norse. Monastic revival.

Egypt. 3100BC Menes unites. 2780 Old Kingdom. 2600 First pyramid. 2040 Middle Kingdom. 1570 New Kingdom. 663 Assyria. 525 Persia. 332 Alexander...323 Ptolemy. 30BC Rome...395 Byzantine. 642 Moslem. 1250 Mameluk. 1517 Ottoman. 1798 Napoleon. 1805 Ottoman. 1882 British occupy. 1914 British protectorate. 1922 Indepedent monarchy. 1952 Coup. 1953 Republic. 1958-61 UAR.

Ehrlich, Paul. 1854-1915. German bacteriologist. Salvarsan syphilis treatment, 1909. Idea of specific drugs as “magic bullets”.

Elgin, James Bruce, 8th Earl of. 1811-63. Governor General. Worked for independent Canadian government.

Eliot, John. 1592-1632. English Puritan leader. Parliamentary liberties.

Emancipation Edict. 1861. Freed Russian serfs. Gave land allotment, paid by loans.

English Civil War. 1642-9. King vs Parliament. Charles beheaded. Monarchy abolished. Commonwealth. Cromwell. Covenanters.

Enlightenment. 17-18C. Intellectual movement. Rationalism, natural laws vs dogma, authority. J-J Rousseau. Smith. Mendlessohn. Fontenelle. Voltaire. Montesquieu. Hume. Berkeley. Sturm und Drang.

Ensor, James. 1860-1949. Belgian painter and engraver. Pessimistic fantasy and social commentary.

Entente Cordiale. 1904. Anglo-French agreement. Defined spheres of influence in Africa and Pacific allowing co-operation vs Germany.

EOKA. 1955-74. Cyprus anti-British movement for union with Greece.

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