Laconia. 1400BC Mycenae. 1100 Dorian. 195BC Achaean L. 146BC Rome. 267 Visigoth. 587 Slavs. 805 Byzantine. 1829 Greece.

Ladd, William. 1778-1841. US pacifist writer. Founder of US Peace Society 1828.

Ladislaus I. 1040-95. King of Hungary 1077-. National hero, defeated Poles, Russians, Tatars. Conquered Croats.

Ladislaus II. 1350-1434. King of Poland, 1386-. Victories made Poland a power. Merged with Lithuania. Tannenberg.

Ladislaus III. 1424-44. Polish King 1434-. Ladislaus V of Hungary 1440-. Led 2 crusades vs Turks.

Lady of the Lake. Gave Excalibur to Arthur. Lived in castle under the lake.

Laënnec, René. 1781-1826. French. Invented stethoscope 1819.

Laertes. King of Ithaca. Odysseus’ father.

Lafayette. 1757-1834. French revolutionary general and political leader in American Revolution, 1776, French Revolutions, 1789, 1830.

LaFayette, Marie. 1634-93. First psychological novelist. Princess of Cleves 1678.

LaFollette, Robert. 1855-1925. US Progressive Party leader. Presidential candidate 1924.

LaFontaine, Jean de. 1621-95. French poet. Fables 1668-94.

Laforgue, Jules. 1860-1887. French symbolist poet. Invented verse libre. Les Complaintes 1885.

Lagash. 6000BC-. Sumerian capital conquered by Sargon c2300BC.

Lagides. 306-30BC. Egyptian dynasty.

Lagos, Battle. 1759. British navy stops French invasion of England.

Lagrange, Louis. 1736-1813. French mathematician. Analysis of mechanical systems. Celestial mechanics.

LaHire. 1390-1443. French commander with Joan of Arc.

Laing, R.D. 1927-89. British Existential psychologist. Madness as form of self-expression.

Laissez-Faire. Motto of 19C liberals calling for free markets and trade. Smith. “Laissez-faire, laissez-passer, laissez-aller”-Legendre 1680.

Lake Poets. 19C. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey of English Lake District.

Lamaism. 1577-. Buddhist state religion of Tibet.

Lamarck, Jean de. 1744-1829. French evolutionary biologist. Classified vertebrates 1809. Transformism 1809. Lysenko.

Lamartine, Alphonse de. 1790-1869. French Romantic poet. Méditations Poétiques 1820.

Lamb, Charles. 1775-1834. English poet and essayist. Essays of Elia 1820-33.

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