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184 matches to New Granada
Boyacá, Battle. 1819. South American rebels win independence from New Granada from Spain. Bolivar. Santander.
Gran Colombia. 1819-30. Bolivar’s independent republic of former Spanish colonies. Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador. New Granada.
New Granada. 18C-1810 Spanish colony in South America: Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela. 1830-58 =Colombia.
New Spain. 1535-1821. Spanish possessions in North, Central America. New Granada.
Santander, Francisco. 1792-1840. Ally of Bolivar. President of New Granada 1833-7.
Aasen, Ivar. 1813-96. Developed New Norwegian language, officially adopted, 1907.
Abstract Expressionism. 1940s New York style of Pollock, Rothko. Spontaneous expression, free of traditional values. Expressionism.
Action Française. 1898-1945. French right wing political movement and newspaper.
Alexander VI. Pope. Demarcation Bull 1493 divided newly discovered land between Spain, Portugal. Tordesillas.
Antonine Wall. 142. Scotland. North of Hadrian’s. Abandoned ~196. Antoninus.
Antoninus, Pius. 86-161. Roman Emperor 138-. Built Antonine Wall.
ANZAC. Australian+New Zealand forces in WWI. Gallipoli.
Armstrong, Louis. 1900-71. US New Orleans Jazz trumpeter and band leader.
Ayala Plan. 1911. Zapata to renew Mexican Revolution, return land to communal ownership.
Bacon, Francis. 1561-1626. English chancellor and philosopher. First king’s counsel. Favoured inductive over deductive reasoning. Separated Science from religion. New Atlantis 1625. B. Scientific method: Novum Organum 1620. Essays 1625.
Baïf, Jean Antoine de. 1532-89. French Pléiade poet. New metrical forms. Founded Academy of Music and Poetry 1571, in Paris.
Baker, Herbert. 1862-1946. English architect: Pretoria government buildings; New Delhi.
Basil I. 813-886. Byzantine Emperor, 867-. Defeated Arabs. New Golden Age. Founded Macedonian dynasty.
Beaverbrook, Lord. (Maxwell Aitken). 1879-1964. Canadian/British newspaper magnate, politician. Advocated free trade within Commonwealth.
Beelzebub. New Testament prince of Demons. Satan.
Bellini, Giovanni. c1429-1516. Venetian Renaissance painter. New sensuous realism of form and color. Adoration of the Magi. St. Francis 1480.
Black Panthers. 1966-80. Revolutionary US political party. Bobby Seale. Huey Newton.
Blackstone, William. 1723-80. English common law scholar/jurist. Commentaries 1765-9.
Bowditch, Nathaniel. 1773-1838. US self-educated astronomer, mathematician. New American Practical Navigator 1802.
Brains Trust. 1932. Roosevelt’s advisers on New Deal.