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789 matches to Irish Land Acts
Donation of Constantine. 8C. Forged document granting land to the papacy. Exposed 1440.
Donation of Pepin. 756. Land exchanged for Pope’s recognition. Basis of Papal States.
Donne, John. 1572-1631. English metaphysicist. Dean of St. Paul’s 1621-31. Elegies, Songs, Sonnets, Devotions. “No man is an island.”
Dreadnought. 1905-22. Class of British battleship. Started arms race 1907-14. Jutland. Two-Power Standard.
Dreyfus, Alfred. 1859-1935. Jewish French officer. Trial divided France, 1894-1906. Unjustly sent to Devil’s Island on forged evidence. Zola. Esterhazy.
Drunken Parliament. 1661. Scotland.
Dunes, Battle. 1658. England, France defeat Spanish. Fronde.
Dvaravati. 6-13C. Kingdom in Thailand. Indian culture.
East Anglia. 6C Anglo-Saxon kingdom. c870 Denmark. 917 England.
Edda. c1230. Collections of Icelandic literature, songs.
Edgar. 943-975. English King, 959-. First coronation (Bath) of a king of all England.
Edinburgh, Treaty. 1560. France and England withdraw from Scotland.
Edmund I. 921-46. King of England 939-. Recaptured north England from Norse. Monastic revival.
Edward I. 1239-1307. King of England 1272-. Conquered Wales. Limited power of church and nobles. 1290 expelled Jews. Defined acre 1305.
Edward II. 1284-1327. King of England, 1307-. Defeated by Scots at Bannockburn. Deposed by wife, Isabella. Templars.
Edward III. 1312-77. King of England 1327-. Claimed crown of France, causing Hundred Years War.
Edward IV. 1442-83. First York king of England. 1461~83. Revived monarch’s power. Wars of Roses.
Edward V. 1470-83. King of England 1483. Imprisoned and probably killed by Richard III. Wars of Roses.
Edward VI. 1537-53. King of England and Ireland, 1547-. Protestant reform. Named Jane Grey as successor.
Edward the Elder. 870-924. King of Wessex, 899. Drove Danes from NW England.
EFTA. European Free Trade Association. 1960. Free trade with EEC: Austria, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Switzerland. Until joining EEC: Denmark, Portugal, UK.
Egbert. King of Wessex, 802-39. Temporary control of all England.
Eighty Years War. 1568~1648. Netherlands wins indep from Spain.
Eleanor of Aquitaine. Divorced from Louis VII 1152 after accompanying him on Second Crusade. Married Henry II of England, bringing Aquitaine under English crown...Angevin Empire. Mother of Richard I. Led 1173 revolt vs husband, Henry II.