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Dred Scott. 1857. US Supreme Court ruled slaves had no rights in court. Missouri Compromise invalid.
Agincourt, Battle. 1415. English victory over French during 100 Years War. High French losses.
Black Hundreds. 1905-9. Russian movement. Opposed revolution. Persecuted Jews-50,000 dead.
Castillon, Battle. 1453. Final English defeat in the Hundred Years War.
Chénier, André de. 1762-94. French poet. Elegies. Guillotined.
Ealdred. -1069. Anglo-Saxon archbishop of York 1060-: crowned William the Conqueror.
Edward III. 1312-77. King of England 1327-. Claimed crown of France, causing Hundred Years War.
Five Hundred, Council of. 508BC. Athens’ representative government.
Five Hundred, Council of. 1795. Lower House of French Parliament.
French Wars. 1701-1815. Second Hundred Years War.
Froissart, Jean. c1333-1400. French Chronicles of the Hundred Years War 1391.
Hill, Mildred and Patty. Wrote Happy Birthday 1893.
Hundred Days. 1815. March 20 to July 8; Napoleon’s escape from Elba to his second abdication. 1933. Began Roosevelt’s administration. New Deal enacted.
Hundred Flowers Movement. China. 1956-7. Increased freedom of intellectuals. Criticism of Party led to backlash.
Hundred Years War. 1337~1453. English defend claims to French throne. Crécy. Poitiers. Agincourt. Joan of Arc. English driven from continent, except Calais.
Isabella of Bavaria. 1371-1435. French Queen consort/regent 1389-1422. Recognized British heir to French throne. Treaty of Troyes. Hundred Years War.
Jacquerie Revolt. 1358. French peasants revolt vs tax increases to support Hundred Years War. Marcel.
John II. The Good. 1319-64. King of France 1350.- Hundred Years War. Captured at Poitiers, ransomed for 3M écus. Annexes SW France.
Kwang-hsü. 1872-1908. Chinese Emperor. 1875-. Aunt Tz’u-hsi regent except 1889 Hundred Days of Reform.
Napoleon I, Bonaparte. 1769-1821. French general. Emperor of France by coup d’etat 1804-14. Disastrous Moscow campaign 1812. Defeated at Waterloo 1815. Exiled to St. Helena. Napoleonic Wars. Napoleonic Code. Hundred Days.
Orléans, Siege. 1428-9. 8 month English siege ended by Joan of Arc. Turning point of 100 Years War.
Paris, Treaties. 1229 Ends Albigensian Crusade. Louis gains Toulouse. 1327. England loses territory to France. 1763 Ends Seven Years War. Britain gets French holdings in Canada. Spain gets American territory. 1783 Ends American Revolution. US borders fixed. 1814 Ends Napoleonic Wars, restoring 1792 borders. Napoleon exiled to Elba. 1815 Ends Hundred Days. 1790 borders, reparations. Napoleon to St. Helena. 1856 Ends Crimean War. Black Sea neutral. Regulated Laws of High Seas. 1898 Ends Spanish American War. Spain cedes Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico to US. 1947. Settled European borders after WWII.
Tours, Truce. 1444-49. Break in Hundred Years War.
Adam, Robert. 1728-92. Scottish architect: Neoclassical English country houses.
Archer, William. 1856-1924. Scottish critic, playwright. Translated Ibsen.