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Feudalism. 8-14C. Social system. Lord grants land rights (fiefs) to vassals in return for military or other service. Manorialism. Seignorialism.
Fontainebleau, Treaty. 1807. Established Napoleon’s right to march on Portugal through Spain.
Four Power Pacific Treaty. 1921. Britain, France, Japan, USA agree to mutual respect of rights.
George IV. 1762-1830. King of UK 1820-. Regent from 1811. Scandals led to decline in influence of monarchy. Brighton Pavillion. Regency.
Glorious Revolution. 1688. British Protestant William and Mary depose James II. Declaration of Rights, Bill of Rights 1689.
Graces. Three beautiful attendants of Aphrodite. Aglaia, brightness. Euphrosyne, joy. Thalia, bloom.
Grillparzer, Franz. 1791-1872. Austrian playwright. The Ancestress 1817. Sappho 1818.
Habeas Corpus Act. 1679. England. Right of prisoner to appear in court before being imprisoned.
Hart, Moss. 1904-61. US playwright. You Can’t Take It with You 1936.
Hebbel, Friedrich. 1813-63. German psychological poet, playwright. Nibelungen 1862.
Hellman, Lillian. 1905-84. US playwright. Little Foxes 1939. Pentimiento 1973.
Helsinki Accords. 1975. Human rights, freedom, co-operation. Reduced East-West tensions.
Helsinki Group. 1976. Soviet dissidents who monitor human rights aspect of Helsinki Accord. Orlov. Shscharansky.
Henry, Patrick. 1736-99. US revolutionary. “Give me liberty or give me death” 1775. Bill of Rights.
Henry IV. of Navarre. 1553-1610. King of France 1589-. Converted to Catholicism. Edict of Nantes protected Protestant rights. ’Reign of Rebuilding’. Assassinated by Ravaillac. Margaret of France.
Hooft, Pieter. 1581-1647. Dutch Renaissance poet and playwright.
Huguenots. 1510-18C. Persecuted French Calvinist Protestants. 300,000 expelled 1685. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. Wars of Religion. Edict of Nantes. Henry of Navarre. Declaration of Rights of Man, 1789.
Human Rights. Agreed natural rights for all mankind. Stoics. Declaration of the Rights of Man 1789. Bill of Rights 1791. Buisson. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948. Amnesty International.
Irgun Zvai Leumi. 1931-48. Jewish right-wing terrorist group in Palestine.
Isherwood, Christopher. 1904-86. English novelist/playwright. Goodbye to Berlin 1939.
John Birch Society. 1958-. Right-wing US anti-Communist movement. Birch.
Johnson, Andrew. 1808-75. US President 1865-9. Reconstruction. Civil Rights Act 1866. Barely acquitted in impeachment trial.
Karakhan Manifesto. 1919. USSR renounces Czarist rights in China. Spurs Chinese Communist Party.
Kaufman, George. 1889-1961. US playwright. You Can’t Take it with You 1936.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1929-68. US non-violent black Civil Rights activist. Assassinated.