Annam. 2000BC Kingdom in north Vietnam 1883 French protectorate.

Annan, Kofi. 1938-. Ghana. UN Secretary General. Bosnian peacekeeping.

Annates. Proportion of first year’s income paid to Pope by office holders.

Anne. 1665-1714. British Queen 1702-. Reign notable for literarature, science, architecture. Last Stuart. Acts of Union, Settlement.

Anne of Austria. 1601-66. Wife of Louis XIII. Founded Feuillantines, 1622; Val-de-Grâce, 1638. Regent for Louis XIV until he became of age.

Anne of Bretagne. 1477-1514. Wife of Charles VIII, 1491, then of Louis XII, 1499. Began union of Brittany with France.

Anne of Cleves. 1515-57. Fourth wife of Henry VIII. Divorced.

Annual Register. 1759-. English political record. Burke.

Annunciation. Angel Gabriel’s announcement to Mary re Jesus.

Anouilh, Jean. 1910-87. French dramatist: Antigone, Becket 1959.

Anschluss. Austrian “reunification” with Germany, 1938 by plebiscite-99.75% for.

Anselm, St. 1033-1109. Archbishop of Canterbury, founder of Scholasticism. Proved God exists 1078.

Ansgar, St. 801-65. Patron saint of Scandinavia.

Antaeus. Giant son of Poseiden killed by Heracles.

Antarctic Treaty. 1959. 12 nations agree for 30 years of demilitarized, nuclear free scientific study.

Antarctica. 1773 Cook explores seas. 1820 first sighted. Bransfield. 1821 first landing-Davis. 1911 Amundsen first to S Pole.

Anthony, St. 1195-1231. Franciscan, protector of common people.

Anthony, St. 250-c355. Egyptian hermit, first Christian monk.

Anthony, Susan B. 1820-1906. US temperence, anti-slavery suffragette.

Anthony of Padua, St. 1195-1231. Franciscan teacher in S. France, Italy.

Anthroposophy. Human power to contact spiritual world. Steiner.

Anti-Clericalism. Hostility to church political power.

Anti-Comintern Pact. 1936. Germany and Japan oppose International Communism. Axis.

Anti-Corn Law League. 1839-46. Cobden and Bright’s pacifist movement for Free Trade, public education, against social reform and Chartists. Corn Laws.

Anti-Masonic Party. 1826. US party absorbed into Whigs 1838.

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