Boniface VIII. c1235-1303. Pope 1294-. Claimed supremacy over kings. Captured by French adviser.

Book of Common Prayer. 1549. Church of England official prayer book.

Boone, Daniel. 1734-1820. US frontier explorer. Alamo.

Booth, Charles. 1840-1916. English social reformer. 17 volume Life and Labour of the People in London 1891-1903.

Booth, William. 1829-1912. British reformer. Founder of Salvation Army, 1878. In Darkest England and the Way Out 1890.

Bordet, Jules. 1870-1961. Belgian bacteriologist, immunologist.

Borga, Assembly. 1809. Recognition of Finland as autonomous Grand Duchy under Russia.

Borges, Jorge Luis. 1899-1986. Argentinian writer. Labyrinths.

Borlaug, Norman. 1914-. US wheat scientist responsible for Green Revolution.

Born, Max. 1882-1970. German/British quantum physicist. Mathematics of atom behavior.

Borneo. 7C BC Indian influence. 3C BC-15C Chinese inf. 3C-15C Funan/Khmer, Malacca, Srivijaya, Majapahit. 15C Moslem. 16C- European inf. 19C Dutch(S)/Eng(N). WWII Japan occupies. Brunei. Malaysia. Indonesia.

Borromeo, St. Charles. 1538-84. Milan Cardinal. First Sunday school, 1580.

Bosnia and Herzegovina. Balkans. 1180 Independent Kingdom. 1350 +Hum (Herzegovina). 1463 Ottoman. 1878 Austria-Hungary. 1797 France. 1805 Russia. 1918 Yugoslavia. 1946 Communist. 1992 Independent. 1993 Yugoslav Serbs invade. 1995 Dayton Accord.

Bosnian Crisis. 1908-9. Russia sides with Serbian rebels after Austria-Hungary annexation. Black Hand.

Bossuet, J.-B. 1627-1704. French prelate known for eloquent funeral orations. De Re Diplomatica 1681.

Botswana. 1884 British occupy =Bechuanaland Protectorate. 1966 Independent.

Böttger, Johann. 1682-1719. European discoverer of porcelain making process, 1709, Dresden.

Bouchardon, Edme. 1698-1762. French Neoclassical sculptor. Equestrian Louis XV, Four Seasons Fountain, Cupid.

Boucher, Francois. 1703-70. French mythological and landscape painter. Louis XV Rococo Style. Mme de Pompadour favourite. “Decorator of Boudoirs”. Déjeuner 1738.

Boulanger, Georges. 1837-91. French popular war minister. Conspired coup 1889. Banished.

Boullée, Étienne. 1728-99. French grandiose Neoclassical architect.

Boumédienne, Houari. 1925-78. Islamic Algerian President from 1965 coup.

Bourgeois, Léon. 1851-1925. French statesman. League of Nations.

Bourgeoisie. French merchant, craft class. Marxist term for those who do not live by the sale of their labour. Proletariat.

Bowring, Treaty. 1855. Opened Siam to British trade.

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