Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1803-82. US essayist/ poet. Transcendentalist. Woodnotes 1846, Brahma 1867, English Traits 1856, Self-Reliance.

England. c1800BC Beaker folk. 8C BC Celt. 150BC Belgae. 55BC-407 Rome. 5C Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. 9C Dane(N,E). 10C A-S/Dane. 1042 Anglo-Saxon. 1066 Norman. 1204 -Normandy. 1707 Great Britain. 1801 United Kingdom.

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

Epstein, Jacob. 1880-1959. US/British portrait sculptor.

Equatorial Guinea. 10-15C Bubi. 1469 Portugal. 1778 Spain 1827 British base. 1843 Spain. 1964 Self-government. 1968 Independent.

Eritrea. 2-9C Aksumite (Ethiopian) Empire. 16C Ottoman. 17-19C Dispute. 1889 Italy. 1941 Britain. 1952 Autonomous within Ethiopian Empire. 1962 Ethiopian province. 1993 Independent.

Esau. Son of Isaac, twin brother of Jacob.

Escalade. December 12 celebration of Savoy’s unsuccessful last attack on Geneva, 1602.

Estrées, Gabrielle d’. 1573-99. Mistress of French Henry IV.

Evans, Arthur. 1851-1941. British Excavated Knossos.

Evans, Timothy. -1953. Wrongful hanging led to abolition of capital punishment in Britain.

Everest, George. 1790-1866. British surveyor of India.

Executive Branch. Department of US government which carries out laws, under supervision of President.

Eyre, Edward. 1815-1901. British explorer in Australia. Dismissed as governor of Jamaica for cruel repression of 1865 revolt.

Ezekial. 6C BC. Hebrew prophet.

Fabre, Henri. 1823-1915. French entomologist: Souvenirs entomologiques.

Fahrenheit, Gabriel. 1686-1736. German physicist, inventor of temperature scale 1712. Alcohol thermometer 1709. Mercury thermometer 1714.

Falkland Is. 1592 Davis discovers. 1764 British settle. 1774-1811 Spanish. 1829 Argentina claims (Malvinas). 1833 British.

Falklands, Battle. 1914. British destroy German fleet.

Falklands War. 1982. Britain defeats Argentine invasion. Falklands remain British.

Fashoda Incident. 1898. British/French dispute over Sudan. French renounce claims. Entente Cordiale 1904.

February Manifesto. 1899-1905. Override of Finnish Constitution. Rule by Czar’s Edict. Russification 1890-1905.

February Revolution. 1848. Established French Second Republic.

February Revolution. 1917. Early phase of Russian Revolution. Czar overthrown. Provisional Gov’t.

Félibrige. 1854. Mistral’s Provençale revival movement.

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