David II. 1324-71. Scottish King 1329-. Son of Robert the Bruce. Invaded England 1346. Imprisoned 1346-57.

David ap Gaiffudd. -1283. Last native Prince of Wales. Rebelled vs English. Executed.

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

Davy, Humphrey. 1778-1829. English inventor. Nitrous-Oxide anaesthetic 1800. Aluminum 1807. Calcium 1808. Arc lamp 1810. Miner’s lamp 1815. Acetylene 1836.

Dawes, Charles. 1865-1951. US statesman. Dawes Plan.

Dawes Act. 1887. US law granting citizenship and land rights to individual Indians.

Dawes Plan. 1924-9. US economic assistance to Germany during reparations.

De La Mare, Walter. 1873-1956. English children’s poet, novelist.

De La Tour, George. 1593-1652. French Caravaggist painter. Cheater with the Ace of Diamonds.

De Valéra, Eamon. 1882-1975. US/Irish mathematician. Led Easter Uprising. Led Sinn Fein, 1917-26. Founded Fianna Fáil 1926. Prime Minister of Irish Free State, 1931~59. President 59-73.

De Vries. Mutation laws, 1901.

Deacon. Christian cleric. Lowest rank of Episcopal Holy Orders. Protestant lay official.

Deane, Silas. 1737-89. American Revolutionary. First US foreign diplomat.

Debussy, Claude. 1862-1918. French Impressionist composer. System of harmonic images. Nocturnes. La Mer 1905.

Decadents. 19C. Writers who believed art should be above conventional morality. Mallarmé. Wilde. Verlaine.

Decembrists. 1825. Conspiracy to overthrow Czar Nicholas I. Betrayed. Established Russia’s revolutionary tradition.

Declaration of Independence. July 4, 1776. American colonies declare independence from British rule during War of Independence.

Declaration of Rights. 1689. Rights, Bill of.

Declaration of the 26 Nations. 1942. Washington. First reference to United Nations. Agreement to no separate truce with Axis.

Declaration of the Rights of Man. 1789. Rights of Man, Declaration.

Deflation. Rapid fall in prices.

Defoe, Daniel. 1660-1731. English writer: Robinson Crusoe 1719; Moll Flanders 1722. Idea of savings bank, 1697.

DeHavilland, Geoffrey. 1882-1965. British aviation pioneer, Moth series.

Deirdre. Fled Ireland with her lover, who was killed by King Conchobar in old tale.

Deism. Theory that God’s existence can be proven by reason, not just known by revelation (Theism). Rousseau. Voltaire. Jefferson.

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