Calvinism. New concept of work. Diligence, frugality, beyond satisfaction of material needs. Predestination. Strict Rectitude. Presbyterianism. Calvin. Remonstrants.

Campbell, John. 1635-1716. Glencoe massacre organizer.

Campbell, John. 1678-1743. Scottish general. Suppressed Jacobite revolt 1715.

Canada. 1000 Norse visit. 1497 Cabot explores. 1534 French claim Quebec. 1583 English claim, settle Newfoundland. 1605 French settle Quebec. 1763 British conquer French territory. 1867 Independent Dominion. 1870 +northwest territories. 1871 +British Columbia. 1873 +PEI. 1949 +Newfoundland, Labrador.

Cartwright, John. 1740-1824. English reformer for universal male suffrage, abolition of slavery.

Carver, John. 1576-1621. English pilgrim, First Governor of Plymouth.

Chapman, John. = Johnny Appleseed.

Cheever, John. 1912-82. US writer of middle-class America. Wapshot Chronicle 1957.

Church of Scotland. National Church of Scotland. Reformation led by Knox. 1560 Abolished pope. 1689 Presbyterian.

Churchill, John. 1650-1722. Marlborough.

Cimabue, Giovanni. c1240-1302. Italian painter. Broke from Byzantine to natural style by characterizing individuals. St. John. Pisa Cathedral. Sta Trinita Madonna c1290.

Coca Cola. Invented by Pemberton 1886.

Cockcroft, John. 1897-1967. English physicist. Split nucleus.

Colet, John. 1467-1519. English theologian. Founded St. Paul’s School, 1509.

Comenius, John. 1592-1670. Czech founder of direct method of language education. First use of pictures.

Commonwealth. Organized community by consent of governed. Hobbes. Locke.

Condillac, Étienne de. 1715-80. French sensualist philosopher. Locke follower.

Constable, John. 1776-1837. English Naturalist landscape painter. Hay Wain 1821. Valley Farm. Waterloo Bridge 1831.

Crusades. 1095-1272. European Christian wars to regain Holy Land after Seljuk Turks take Jerusalem in 1072. Literature and the arts benefitted from Eastern cultural infusion. Peasants 1096. Annihilated. First. 1096-99. Genoa financed Godfrey of Bouillon to recapture Jerusalem. Only successful crusade. Second. 1147-49. Louis VII and Conrad III pillage Byzantium. Third. 1189-92. Richard I and Philip II Truce with Saladin allows access to Jerusalem. Fourth. 1202-4. French and Flemish nobles conquer, sack Constantinople, form Latin Empire. Childrens. 1212. Stephen of Cloyes led 30,000 unarmed French youths. Nicholas of Cologne led 20,000 German. All died or enslaved. Fifth. 1218-21. John of Brienne in Egypt. Sixth. 1228-29. Frederick II crowned king of Jerusalem. Seventh. 1248-54. St Louis of France captured by Egypt and ransomed. Eighth. 1270. St Louis dies of plague. Ninth. 1271-2. Prince Edward of England.

Cuban Missile Crisis. 1962. Kennedy blockades Cuba to prevent Soviet missile installation.

Dalton, John. 1766-1844. English scientist. Law of Partial Pressures. Color blindness 1793.

Davis, John. 1550-1605. British explorer, Davis Strait 1585, Falkland Is. 1592. Invented backstaff quadrant 1594.

Deere, John. 1804-86. US inventor of steel plow.

Dewey, John. 1859-1952. US Pragmatist philosopher. -’It is in society’s interest that an individual develop and exercise his talents’. Studies in Logical Theory 1903.

Dillinger, John. 1902-34. Murderous US bank robber. Killed by FBI.

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