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Regency. France. 1715-23. Philippe, duc d’Orléans regent for Louis XV.
Regicides. 1649. Those who condemned Charles I. 10 executed 1660.
Reginald of Châtillon. -1187. Crusade leader. Broken truce led to new war. Kingdom of Jerusalem lost.
Regiomontanus. 1436-76. German astronomer. First modern exposition of trigonometry. Decimals 1467.
Regium Donum. 1690~1869. Grant from monarch to Nonconformist ministers in Britain.
Régnier, Mathurin. 1573-1613. French satirical poet.
Regulating Act. 1773. To control East India Company’s administion of India.
Regulator Movement. 1764-71. American colonists in NC vs tax, corruption.
Rehoboam. -c914BC. Last king of united Israel. First king of Judah.
Reich, First. Term applied retroactively to HRE by Bruck.
Reich, Second. 1871-1918. German Empire under Kaisers William I, II.
Reich, Third. 1933-45. Germany under Hitler.
Reich, Wilhelm. 1897-1957. German/US psychiatrist. Theory of Orgone, a force which permeates the body and is released by orgasm.
Reichskammergericht. 1495-1806. Supreme Court of Holy Roman Empire.
Reichstag. Ruling body of HRE and German states. = Imperial Diet.
Reichstag Fire. 1933. Arson. Hitler blamed “red peril” as excuse for assuming dictatorship.
Reinsurance Treaty. 1887-90. Secret Russian-German pledge of non-intervention.
Reis, Philip. 1834-74. Invented and demonstrated telephone 1861. Coined telephony. Bell.
Relativism. Truth depends on the state of the observer relative to the observed.
Relativism, Ethical. What is right depends on what society or individual thinks is right.
Relativity. Einstein’s theories that space and time are not absolute. Special 1905. General 1916.
Religion, Wars of. 1562-1598. Eight French wars between Catholics and Protestants. Ended by Edict of Nantes. Sully. Mornay. Three Henrys War.
Relocation Centers. 1942-6. US confines Japanese, Japanese-Americans in Concentration Camps.
Remak, Robert. 1815-65. Cell division 1852.
Remarque, Erich. 1898-1970. German/US writer. All Quiet on the Western Front 1929.