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Dufour, Henri. 1787-1875. Swiss General with Napoleon. Led 1864 Geneva Convention.
Geneva Convention. 1864. Established humane treatment of war wounded. Sanctioned Red Cross. 1949. Agreements concerning wounded, prisoners, and civilians in war.
Red Cross. c1863. Dunant founds International relief organization. Geneva Convention 1864. 1881 US. Solferino.
Bonivard, François de. 1494-1570. Prior of St. Victori, Geneva. Reformer, imprisonned at Chillon, 1530-4. Subject of Byron poem.
Charles Emmanuel I. 1562-1630. Duke of Savoy. Last attack vs Geneva, 1602. Escalade.
Escalade. December 12 celebration of Savoy’s unsuccessful last attack on Geneva, 1602.
Geneva Conference. 1954. Ends French control of Indo-China. Khrushchev, Eisenhower, Eden, Faure.
Geneva 5-Power Agreement. 1932. Allowed German military buildup.
Geneva Protocol. 1924. League of Nations. Prohibits chemical and bacteriological warfare.
Landowski, Paul. 1875-1961. Sculptor: St. Genevieve on Tournelle Bridge, Paris, 1928; la Réformation, Geneva, 1912-18.
Peasants’ War. 1524-6. Geneva Anabaptist peasants crushed by nobles and clergy. Muntzer.
Robert of Geneva. Clement VII, Antipope.
Royaume, Mother. Saved Geneva 1602 by pouring hot stew (and pot) on heads of Savoy soldiers.
Saarinen, Eliel. 1873-1950. Finnish/US modern architect, teacher. Palace of League of Nations (Geneva) 1927.
Summit Conferences. Cold War phenomenon involving meetings of heads of state. Geneva Conference.
Akkerman, Convention. 1826. Russia-Turkey. Serbia autonomous. Russian shipping rights in Turkey.
Biological Weapons Convention. 1972. Britain, US, USSR agreement to ban germ warfare.
Connecticut Compromise. 1787 Constitutional Convention. Bicameral US Congress.
Constitutional Convention. 1787. Philadelphia. Amended Articles of Confederation. Constitution.
Convention of 1818. Established 49th parallel as US-Canada border.
Convention Parliament. 1660. Restored monarchy. William and Mary 1689.
Copyright ©. 1518 Pynson, king’s printer. 1710 Britain. Copyright Act. 1789 Ramsey in US. 1831 US Act. 1838 International. 1886 Berne Convention. 1952 Universal Copyright Convention. 1988 US joins Berne. 1998 US Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
Decadents. 19C. Writers who believed art should be above conventional morality. Mallarmé. Wilde. Verlaine.
Desmoulins, Camille. 1760-94. French journalist, lawyer and conventionnel. Speech inspired the storming of the Bastille. Executed as Moderate.
Gastein, Convention. 1865. Schleswig-Holstein divided between Prussia and Austria.