Dresden, Battle. 1813. Last major Napoleonic victory in Germany.

Dresden, Treaty. 1745. Prussia gains Saxony. Ends 2nd Silesian War.

Dresden Codex. Pre-Columbian Mayan manuscript.

Drexler, Anton. Founded German Labour Party 1919...National Socialist Party.

Dreyfus, Alfred. 1859-1935. Jewish French officer. Trial divided France, 1894-1906. Unjustly sent to Devil’s Island on forged evidence. Zola. Esterhazy.

Dreyse, Nikolaus von. Invented needle gun, 1827.

Drinkwater, John. 1882-1937. English dramatist: Abraham Lincoln 1918.

Drugs, War on. 1971-. US prohibition and criminalization of recreational drug use. World’s highest incarceration rate.

Drunken Parliament. 1661. Scotland.

Druon Antigonus. Legendary giant. Cut off enemies’ right hands.

Drury Lane. 1663. Oldest English theatre, London. Rebuilt 1674, 1812.

Druze. Small Middle East Shi’ite sect worshipping al-Hakim.

Dryden, John. 1631-1700. British poet laureate, playwright. Marriage a la Mode 1673.

Du Bois, William. 1868-1963. US writer. Founded Niagara movement, NAACP 1909.

Du Gange. 1610-88. French scholar. Latin Dictionary.

Du Maurier, Daphne. 1907-89. English author. Rebecca 1938.

Dual Alliance. 1879-1918. Austria-Germany...Triple Alliance. 1891-1914. Secret, France-Russia. Caused Germany to declare war on France when attacking Russia. WWI.

Dual Monarchy. 1867. Austrian Empire divided into Austrian, Hungarian kingdoms under one king. Ausgleich.

Dualism. Cartesian division of world into mind and matter.

Dualism, Christian. Christ’s nature is human and divine. Nestor. Monophysitism. Monothelitism.

Dualism, Religious. Belief in 2 opposed deities, usually good and evil. Gnosticism.

DuBarry, Marie. 1746-93. Mistress of Louis XV. Guillotined.

Dubcek, Alexander. 1921-92. Czech First Secretary, 1968-9. Attempted reforms led to Soviet Invasion.

Dubois, Eugène. 1858-1940. Dutch discoverer of Java Man 1891.

Dudley. Leicester, Earl of.

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