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66 matches to Camden Town Group
Camden Town Group. 1902-13. English Postimpressionist artists. London Group.
Camden, Battle. 1780 British victory. American Revolution.
Abercrombie, Patrick. 1879-1957. British architect: Greater London town plan, 1943.
Achaean League. 5-4C BC. Greek towns in common defence against pirates in Gulf of Corinth. 280-146BC. Model for federal government. Created to fight Macedonia. Dissolved by Romans.
Bacon’s Rebellion. 1676. Virginia colonists under N.Bacon defeat Indians, take Jamestown.
Boston Massacre. 1770. British soldiers kill 5 colonists rioting vs Townshend Acts. A cause of the American Revolution.
Calais. British siege 1346. Six burghers offer their lives to save town. Britain controls -1558.
Cassino. 1944. Town, monastery destroyed in German defence of route to Rome.
Charlottetown Conference. 1864. Canadian provinces plan Confederation.
Cholula, Massacre. 1519. Cortes razes Mexican town; 3000 dead.
Cornwallis, Charles. 1738-1805. British General. Ended American Revolution by surrender at Yorktown.
Dodge City. 1864. Famed US frontier town.
Five Mile Act. 1665. English Nonconformist clergy banned 5 miles from towns where they had preached.
Hanseatic League. 1241-1669. Confederation of N German towns. Dominated N European trade 13-15C.
Haussman. Baron. 1809-91. Parisian town plan, 1852. Opera House. Bois de Boulogne.
Hôtel de Ville, Paris (Town Hall). Designed by Il Bocardo, 1533.
Jamestown. 1607. First permanent English settlement in North America.
Jonestown Massacre. 1978. 913 followers of US cult leader James Jones commit suicide in Guyana.
L’Enfant, Pierre. 1754-1825. French/US architect. Washington town plan 1792, implemented 1901.
Lewis, Sinclair. 1885-1951. US writer of small town life: Babbit 1922. Elmer Gantry 1927.
Lombardy. 5C BC Celt. c200BC Rome. 5C Ostrogoth. 568 Lombards. 774 Charlemagne. 9C Independent towns. 962 HRE. 12C L League. 1337 Milan. 1535 Spain 1713 Austria. 1796 French republic. 1814 Austria. 1859 Italy.
London Company. 1606. Establishd first permanent English settlement in N America at Jamestown, VA.
Oradour-sur-Glane. 1944. Germans kill residents, burn town. 10 survivors of 652.
Pied Piper of Hamelin. Legend based on Children’s Crusade. Leads children away when townspeople refuse to pay for ridding town of vermin.
Reform Bills. England. 1832: Russell redistributes Parliamentary seats, enfranchises renters. 1867: Disraeli enfranchises workers in towns. 1884: Gladstone enfranchises agricultural workers. Representation of People Acts.