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Philip IV. The Fair. 1268-1314. French Capetian king 1285-. Taxed Roman Catholic Church. Ended Templars.
Philip V. The Tall. 1293-1322. French king 1316-. Succeeded over Joan by Salic Law.
Philip VI. 1293-1350. French Valois king 1328-1350.
Philip the Good. 1396-1467. Valois Duke of Burgundy 1419-. Allied with England vs France.
Philippine Revolution. 1896-8. For independence from Spain allowed US control. Insurrection.
Phillips, Wendell. 1811-84. US abolitionist, women’s suffrage, prohibition crusader.
Phoenicians. Canaanites. 30-4C BC. Eastern Mediterranean traders from England to Africa. 20C BC Tyre. 15C BC invented alphabet. 814BC Carthage.
Physiocrats. 18C. Agricultural based philosophy. Land is source of all wealth. Elimination of controls over economy. Laissez-Faire. Quesnay. Turgot.
Piaf, Edith. 1915-63. French music hall singer.
Picard, Jean. 1620-82. French astronomer. Founded Paris Observatory. Computed size of earth.
Picasso, Pablo. 1881-1973. Spanish/French Cubist painter. Desmoiselles d’Avignon 1907. Guernica 1937.
Pichincha, Battle. 1822. Ecuador wins independence from Spain.
Picquart, Georges. 1854-1914. French general imprisoned for defense of Dreyfus.
Picquigney, Truce. 1475. France pays England to withdraw army.
Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste. 1714-85. French sculptor. Mercury 1744.
Pilâtre de Rosier, Jean-François. 1756-85. Physician and balloonist. First ascent 1783 with Montgolfier; First free flight 1783 with d’Arlandes. Killed trying to cross Channel.
Pillnitz, Declaration of. 1791. Holy Roman Empire, Prussia support Restoration in France. French Revolutionary Wars.
Pinel, Philippe. 1745-1826. French physician. Revolutionized care of the insane at Salpêtrière with humane treatment.
Pinturricchio. c1454-1513. Italian religious painter. Vatican frescoes 1492.
Pissarro, Camille. 1830-1903. French Impressionist painter of street scenes. Boulevard Montmartre 1897.
Pius VII. 1742-1823. Pope 1800-. Excommunicated Napoleon after French annexed Papal States. Imprisoned 1809-14.
Pizarro, Francisco. ~1475-1541. Spanish conqueror of Incas in Peru 1531-3. Founded Lima 1535.
Place, Francis. 1771-1854. Fought Combination Act, 1822. Advocated birth control, 1827.
Plain. Moderate party in French Revolution. Montagnards.
Plains of Abraham, Battle. 1759. British defeat French, capture Quebec. New France falls. Wolfe, Montcalm killed.