Ingoldsby, Thomas. 1788-1845. English humourist. Jackdaw of Rheims.

Inkerman, Battle. 1854. Crimean War defeat of Russians by English and French.

Ireland. 400BC-100 Celts. 432 Christianity. 8-14C Norse/British invade, settle. 1002 Brian Boru. 1573 English plantations. 1801 United Kingdom. 1921 Irish Free State/Northern Ireland.

Ireland, John. 1879-1962. English chamber music composer. Forgotten Rite 1913.

Ireland, William. 1777-1835. English forger of Shakespeare manuscripts 1796.

Irish Potato Famine. 1845-51. Blight kills crop. 1M die. Emmigration to North America. Resentment of English.

Iroquois League. (League of 5 Nations). 1570-. Confederation of Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca. Fought for English in American Revolution, Seven Years War.

Isherwood, Christopher. 1904-86. English novelist/playwright. Goodbye to Berlin 1939.

Jacobean Architecture. 1600-1625. English Tudor style refined, restrained and harmonized. U and H plans. Jones.

Jamestown. 1607. First permanent English settlement in North America.

Jeans, James. 1877-1946. English astronomer. Dynamic theory of gases.

Jenner, Edward. 1749-1823. English doctor, discovered smallpox vaccine 1796.

Jerome, Jerome K. 1859-1927. English novelist: Three Men in a Boat.

Joan of Arc, St. c1412-31. Defeated English at Orléans. Burned by the English as heretic. Rehabilitated 1456.

John of Lancaster. 1389-1435. English regent of France. Allowed Joan of Arc’s execution.

Johnson, Samuel. 1709-84. English lexicographer. Dictionary 1755. Subject of Boswell biography.

Jones, Inigo. 1573-1652. English architect who introduced Palladian style. Greenwich House 1616. Whitehall Banquet Hall 1619.

Jonson, Ben. 1572-1637. English poet, dramatist: Drink to me Only with Thine Eyes. Every Man in his Humour 1601. Alchemist 1610. 1598 escaped gallows by Benefit of Clergy.

Joule, James. 1818-89. English physicist. Mechanics of energy. Law of Conservation of Energy. Energy unit, 1843.

Jowett, Benjamin. 1817-93. English scholar. Translated Dialogues of Plato 1871.

Kean, Edmund. 1789-1833. English Shakespearean actor.

Keats, John. 1795-1821. English Romantic sensuous lyric poet: Odes 1819, Isabella.

Keble, John. 1792-1866. English poet/clergyman. National Apostacy 1833 sermon started Oxford Movement.

Key, Francis Scott. 1779-1843. US lawyer/poet. Star Spangled Banner 1814 based on music from English drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven. US National anthem 1931-.

Kilkenny Statute. 1367. Banned English-Irish marriage, use of Irish names by English. Established Pale.

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