Tanganyika. Bantu. 18C Masai. 18-19C Slave source. 1871 Stanley, Livingstone. German East Africa. 1919 British mandate = Tanganyika. 1946 United Nations Trust. 1961 Independent. 1962 Republic. 1964 +Zanzibar=Tanzania. Nyerere.

Tarbell, Ida. 1857-1944. US Muckraker writer. Life of Abraham Lincoln 1900.

Tasmania. 1642 Tasman discovers = Van Diemen’s Land. 1803-52 British penal settlement. 1856 Self-government = Tasmania. 1901 Australia.

Tawney, Richard. 1880-1962. British critic of affluent society. Acquisitive Society.

Tay Son Rebellion. 1771-88. Vietnam. Tay Son brothers take power. 1788-93. Defeat invading Chinese. Social reforms.

Taylor, Brook. 1685-1731. English mathematician. Theorem of Differential Calculus 1715.

Tea Act. 1773. British give British East India Company effective monopoly in North America. Boston Tea Party.

Telford, Thomas. 1757-1834. Menai Bridge 1826.

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. 1809-92. English poet laureate. Charge of the Light Brigade 1855. Enoch Arden 1864. Crossing the Bar.

Thalidomide. 1958-62. German/British sedative with disastrous effects on embryo development. Led to drug regulatory agencies worldwide.

Thames, Battle. 1813. US defeats British, Indians.

Thatcher, Margaret. 1925-. Britain’s first woman Prime Minister 1979-. Conservative. Monetarist. Falklands War.

Théâtre-Libre. 1887. Paris independent experimental theater.

Thetis Disaster. 1939. British submarine fails to resurface.

Thibaut IV. 1201-53. Trouvère count of Champagne, Brie, King of Navarre.

Thirteen Colonies. 1776. British colonies in North America which formed the United States: Virginia, Massachussets, New York, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia.

Thomas, James. 1700-48. British poet. Seasons. Rule Britannia.

Three Holy Children. Biblical Hebrews who survived Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace. Apocrypha.

Thugs. Indian religious sect suppressed by British. Killed travellers to offer to goddess Kali.

Ticonderoga, Battle. 1775. Green Mountain Boys defeat British, capture Fort Ticonderoga.

Tientsin, Treaty. 1858. British, French concessions established.

Tilak, Bal. 1856-1920. Indian leader. United Hindus, Moslems vs British 1916.

Tinchebrai, Battle. 1106. Henry I re-unifies Normandy, England.

Tiradentes. 1748-92. Led Brazilian revolt vs Portuguese.

Titanic. 1912. “Unsinkable” British ship sank on maiden voyage. 1513 died.

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