Collins, Wilkie. 1824-89. First British detective novel writer. Woman in White 1860. No Name 1862.

Colonial Wars. 1834-1902. British wars against Sikhs, Burmese, Crimeans, Boers.

Concentration Camps. 1862-65 USA. 1899-1902. British internment of Boers in South Africa. 1922-91. USSR. 1933-45 Nazi prisons for extermination and slave labour. Buchenwald. Auschwitz. Dachau. 1942-6 US Relocation Centers. 1942-46 Canada. 1950’s Kenya. 1973 Chile.

Concorde. 1962-76. French/British joint development of a supersonic airliner.

Constantinople Agreements. 1915. Secret French/British pact to give Dardanelles to Russia after WWI. Bolsheviks repudiated all previous treaties, but publicized secret ones-embarrassing.

Continental System. 1806-12. Napoleon’s European embargo vs Britain. Russian refusal led to 1812 Campaign. British retaliation led to Anglo-American War 1812.

Copenhagen, Battle. 1801. Nelson destroys Danish fleet. 1807. British bomb Copenhagen.

Corn Laws. 1804-15. British agricultural price support. Repeal, 1846, marks transformation from agricultural to industrial priorities and free trade.

Cornwallis, Charles. 1738-1805. British General. Ended American Revolution by surrender at Yorktown.

Corsica. 6C BC Phocaean. Etruscan. 278BC Carthage. 259BC Rome. 5C Vandal. 6C Byzantine. 8C Papacy. 10C Saracen. 1077 Pisa. 1296 Genoa, Aragon dispute. 1569 Genoa. 1768 France. 1794 Britain. 1796 France 1814-15 British occupy. WWII Germans occupy.

Crapper, Thomas. 1836-1910. British plumber. Installed Queen Victoria’s toilets. Manufacturer, but not inventor of syphonic flush toilets.

Crick, Francis. 1916-. British discoverer of DNA structure with Watson 1953.

Cripps Mission. 1942. British attempt to negotiate India’s aid in WWII.

Cross, Richard. 1823-1914. British statesman: First urban renewal act.

Cunningham, Andrew. 1883-1963. WWII admiral, British chief of naval staff 1943-6.

Curragh Incident. 1914. 57 British army officers resign rather than fight Ulstermen.

Cymbeline. c40. Legendary British king, resisted Romans.

Cyprus. Stone, Bronze Age civilizations. 1450BC Egypt. 1200BC Greek. 1000 Phoenicia. 709 Assyria. 569 Egypt. 6C Persia. 333 Macedonia. 294 Egypt. 47BC Rome...330 AD Byzantine. 7C Moslem. 1191 Crusaders. 1489 Venice. 1571 Turk. 1878 British lease...1914 Britain annexes. 1927 Crown Colony. 1960 Republic. 1963-4 Civil War, Greece and Turkey intervene. 1974 Turkey invades, partition.

Cyprus Emergency. 1952-9. Pro-Greece EOKA terrorists vs British.

Dalhousie, First Marquess. 1812-60. British Governor General of India 1847-56. Annexed Punjab, 1849, Rangoon, Burma. Built railway, telegraph. Lapse doctrine caused Indian Mutiny.

Dance, George. (The Elder). British designer of Mansion House 1737, London Bridge rebuild 1746.

Davis, John. 1550-1605. British explorer, Davis Strait 1585, Falkland Is. 1592. Invented backstaff quadrant 1594.

Declaration of Independence. July 4, 1776. American colonies declare independence from British rule during War of Independence.

DeHavilland, Geoffrey. 1882-1965. British aviation pioneer, Moth series.

Deogaon, Treaty. 1803. Marathans cedes land, power to British East India Co.

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