Hawkins, John. 1532-95. First English slave trader, 1562.

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty. 1903. Established Panama Canal Zone.

Haydn, Joseph. 1732-1809. Austrian Classical composer. Father of modern symphony and string quartet. Solomon Symphony 1791-5. English Symphony 1794. Seasons 1801.

Haymarket Riot. 1886. Anarchist bomb kills 7 police at Chicago labour demonstration.

Hazlitt, William. 1778-1830. English essayist, critic. The Plain Speaker 1826.

Hearn, Lafcadio. 1850-1904. Translator; brought Japanese culture to West.

Heathcoat. Invented lace machine 1809.

Hebbel, Friedrich. 1813-63. German psychological poet, playwright. Nibelungen 1862.

Helen of Troy. Greek wife of Menelaus. Eloped with Paris to Troy causing Trojan War.

Helgoland Bight, Battle. 1914. British defeat Germans in first WWI naval battle.

Heliocentricity. Revolution of the earth around the sun. Once considered heretical. Galileo. Copernicus.

Hellenic Art. 1500-300BC. Prehistoric, Archaic, and Classical periods in Greece.

Hellenistic Art. c330-50BC. Cosmopolitan culturally diverse period of Alexander’s empire. Sensual, emotional sculpture. Dying Gaul. Laocoön.

Hellman, Lillian. 1905-84. US playwright. Little Foxes 1939. Pentimiento 1973.

Heloïse. c1098-1164. Niece of Fulbert, loved by Abelard.

Helots. Spartan slave class. Rebelled 464BC.

Helvetia. Roman name for Switzerland.

Helvétius, Claude-Adrien. 1715-71. French Materialist philosopher. All actions based on self-interest. De l’ésprit 1758.

Hemingway, Ernest. 1898-1961. US novelist: Fairwell to Arms 1929. For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940. Old Man and the Sea 1952. Style:“A stream with stones of nouns and a surface of prepositional ripples” -L. Morrow.

Henderson, Arthur. 1863-1935. British organizer of Labour Party.

Hennepin, Louis. 1626-1701. Missionary explorer of Great Lakes. First European to Niagara Falls.

Henry I. 1069-1135. King of England 1100-. Regained Normandy for England 1106. Defined yard 1101.

Henry II. 1133-1189. Plantagenet king of England 1154-. Common Law system. Married Eleanor of Aquitaine. Angevin Empire. Becket. Rosamund.

Henry II. 1519-59. French king 1547-. Repressed Protestants. Captured Calais 1558. Treaties of Chambord, Cateau-Cambrésis.

Henry IV. 1366-1413. Rebelled vs Richard II. King of England 1399-. Consolidated government. First Lancaster.

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