Cuban Missile Crisis. 1962. Kennedy blockades Cuba to prevent Soviet missile installation.

Cuban Revolution. 1956-9. Castro overthrows Batista.

Cubism. 1907. Braque and Picasso reduce painting to minimum geometric forms. Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907. Term coined by Braque 1909.

Cubism, Synthetic. 1913. Braque and Picasso create a collage form of painting.

Cuchulain. Legendary powerful Irish warrior.

Culloden, Battle. 1746. Ended Jacobite Rebellion.

Culpeper’s Rebellion. 1677-79. Carolina colonists vs England. Establish their own government.

Cultural Revolution. 1966-9. Mao’s Red Guards purge China of bourgeois, capitalist elements.

Cumae. 750BC-1205. Oldest Greek colony in Italy. Near Naples.

Cumberland, Richard. 1631-1718. Philosopher, “father” of English Utilitarianism.

Cummings, e.e. 1894-1962. Eccentric US poet. Tulips and Chimneys 1923.

Cunaeus. Leyden jar battery 1745.

Cunard, Samuel. 1787-1865. Canadian. First regular steamship line.

Cunaxa, Battle. 401BC. Failed revolt vs Artaxerxes II. Retreat of the Ten Thousand.

Cuneiform. 3000-1C BC. Sumerian writing form in clay with triangular pointed stick. Spread widely.

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

Cupid. Roman god of love, son of Venus. = Eros.

Curia. Roman political division.

Curie, Irene. Joliot-Curie.

Curie, Marie. 1867-1934, and Pierre 1859-1906. Polish/French discoverers of radium, 1898.

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

Curzon Line. 1920. Russo-Polish armistice line. Became border, 1945.

Cush. Ancient kingdom in Sudan = Nubia = ancient Ethiopia.

Custer, George. 1839-76. US general killed at Little Bighorn.

Cuvier, Georges. 1769-1832. French creator of comparative anatomy and paleontology.

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