Wyat’s Insurrection. 1554. Failed march on London vs Mary’s marriage to Philip II of Spain. Wyat (son of Thomas Wyat) beheaded.

Yeomen of the Guard. 1485 British Monarch’s bodyguard. Beef Eaters, Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London, 1669-.

Zinoviev Letter. 1924. From COMINTERN to London advising worker revolution. Labour defeated.

Boxer Rebellion. 1900. Massacre of ‘foreign devils’ by Chinese led to reprisals and Peking Protocol.

Geneva Protocol. 1924. League of Nations. Prohibits chemical and bacteriological warfare.

Peking Protocol. 1901-43. European powers control Peking. Boxer Rebellion indemnity to be paid.