Sebastapol, Siege. 1854. 11 mos. Allied Crimean War victory. First trench warfare. Florence Nightingale.

SEC. Securities and Exchange Commission. 1934. Founded under New Deal.

Secret Speech. 1956. Khrushchev call for destalinization in USSR leads to Hungarian, Polish uprisings.

Security Council. UN executive. USA, USSR, China, France, UK, + 10 non-permanent.

Sedan, Battle. 1870. Napoleon III surrenders to Germans. Ends second French Empire.

Seguin, Marc. 1786-1875. French inventor of the suspension bridge.

Sempach Battle. 1386. Swiss confederates defeat Austrian Duke Leopold, ensuring independence.

Senegal. Wolof, Fulani, Serer, Tukulor. 1406 Bettencourt explored. 15C Portugal. 1626 French settle. 1895 French colony. 1959 +Sudanese Republic=Mali Federation. 1960 -Mali=Independent republic.

Sennacherib. -681BC. Assyrian king. Besieged Jerusalem 701. Destroyed Babylon 689. Rebuilt Nineveh.

Separatists. 16-17C. Factions who left Church of England. Brownists, Pilgrims, Quakers.

September Massacres. 1792. Paris. 1200 prisoners killed by revolutionaries in 4 days. French Revolution.

Sepulchre, Church of the Holy. c336. Jerusalem.

Serbo-Turkish War. 1876-8. Serbia aids Christian rebellion in Bosnia. Loss caused Russo-Turkish War, Serbian independence 1878. Berlin Treaty.

Servandoni, G.N. 18C Italian/French architect. St. Sulpice facade 1732.

Servetus, Michael. 1511-53. Spanish Reformation writer, scientist. Circulation of blood 1540. Burned by Calvin.

Settlement, Act of. 1701. British established Protestant Hanover succession. Limited monarch’s powers.

Seurat, Georges. 1859-91. French Neo-impressionist originator of Pointillist style of painting. The Bridge at Courbevoie.

Seven Years War. 1756-63. France, Russia, Austria vs England, Prussia who retain Silesia, emerge as major power. French colonial power reduced. England gains New France, India. French-Indian Wars.

Sèvres. 1756-. Royal French porcelain makers.

Seychelles. 1505 Portugal discovers. 1756 France. 1794 British. 1903 Crown Colony. 1976 Independent republic.

Sezession. Groups of artists who seceded from academies in Munich 1892, Vienna 1897, Berlin 1999.

Shaftesbury, 7th earl. 1801-85. English reform politician. Coal Mines Act 1842. Factory Acts. Sponsored schools, housing for poor.

Shakespeare, William. 1564-1616. English dramatic poet. Master of language, characters, perception.Titus Andronicus c1593. Romeo and Juliet c1594. Hamlet c1602. Othello c1604. King Lear c1606. Lover’s Complaint c1609. Sonnets 1609. Tempest 1611.

Shang. c1766-c1122BC. Chinese dynasty. Earliest verified by archeological evidence. = Yin.

Shays, Daniel. c1747-1825. Led Massachussets farmers in rebellion 1786-7 for lower taxes. Defeated.

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