British Museum. World’s largest museum. Building 1823-52. Founded 1753 from Sloane Collection legacy. Elgin Marbles. Rosetta Stone.

British North America Act. 1867. Granted Canada self-governing Dominion status.

British Somaliland. 1880 British protectorate. 1960 +Italian Somaliland =independent Somalia.

British Virgin Is. Arawak. Carib. 1493 Columbus. 1555 Spain. 1648 Dutch. 1666 British settle. 1960 British Crown Colony.

Britons. 6C BC-6C Celtic inhabitants of England.

Brittany. Inhab c3500BC. Celts. 57BC Rome. 5-6C Britons (Celts) re-settle. 12C Capetian. 1365 Montfort Dukedom. 1532 France.

Britten, Benjamin. 1913-76. Influential English composer of operas and symphonies. Paul Bunyan 1941. Billy Budd 1951. War Requiem 1962. Death in Venice 1973.

Broca, Paul. 1824-80. French pathologist; discovered brain’s speech center.

Brock, Isaac. 1769-1812. British military commander. Upper Canada hero in War of 1812.

Broglie, Louis de. 1892-1987. Italian/French physicist. Wave/particle theory.

Brongniart, Adolph. 1801-76. French father of paleobotany.

Bronte, Anne. 1820-49. English novelist. Agnes Grey 1847. Sister of Charlotte, Emily.

Bronte, Charlotte. 1816-55. English Romantic author: Jane Eyre 1847; Shirley, Villette 1853.

Bronte, Emily. 1818-48. English Romantic novelist of passionate intensity: Wuthering Heights 1847.

Bronze Age. 3500-500BC. First uses of metal for arms and tools. Began in Near East. Society more structured. Specialization begins. Iron Age.

Brook Farm. 1841-7. Massachussets commune. Ripley. Hawthorne.

Brooke, James. 1803-68. British “White Raja”; family ruled Sarawak 1841-1946.

Brosse, Salomon de. 1571-1624. Architect: Luxembourg Palace 1615.

Broussel. Parliamentarian, whose arrest by Anne of Austria began the Fronde 1648.

Brown, Arthur. 1886-1948. First non-stop transatlantic flight, 1919, with Alcock.

Brown, Charles. 1771-1810. “Father of American novel”. Wieland 1798.

Brown, George. 1818-80. Scottish/Canadian statesman. Founded Toronto Globe 1844.

Brown, John. 1800-59. US slavery abolitionist. Harper’s Ferry. Hung.

Brown, Lancelot “Capability”. 1715-83. English landscape architect. Created the definitive “English Garden”: assymmetric, harmonious, accidental. Blenheim. Prior Park.

Brown, Robert. 1773-1858. Scottish botanist: Brownian movement. Plant cell nucleus.

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