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Rhodes. <1000BC Minoan. Dorian. 5C BC Delian League. 43BC Rome alliance. 653 Saracen. 1309 Knights of St John. 1522 Turks. 1912 Italy. 1947 Greece. c1C BC School of rhetoric.
Rhodes, Cecil. 1853-1902. English colonialist in South Africa. Endowed Oxford scholarship to preserve Empire.
Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Federation. 1953-63. Opposed by Malawi, Zambia regions. Dissolved.
Rhys, Ernest. 1859-1946. Welsh writer. Edited 983-volume Everyman’s Library series 1906-.
Rialto. 1588. Venice bridge.
Ribalta, Francisco. 1565-1628. Spanish painter. Light/dark color contrast. Christ Embracing St Bernard.
Ribaut, Jean. 1520-65. French explorer to North America.
Ribbentrop, Joachim von. 1893-1946. German Nazi foreign minister 1933-45. Hanged at Nuremberg.
Ribbonism. 1860-85. Irish agrarian secret societies vs Orange Society. Banned 1871.
Ricardo, David. 1772-1823. British economist. Principles of Political Economy and Taxation 1817.
Ricci, Matteo. 1552-1610. Italian Jesuit missionary to China.
Rice Riots. 1837. Japan. Famine led to riots, reform.
Richard I. Lion Heart. 1157-99. King of England 1189-. Led Third Crusade. Captured and ransomed.
Richard II. 1367-1400. King of England 1377-99. Artistic, erratic, egocentric. Deposed.
Richard III. 1452-85. King of England 1483-. Murdered (?) nephews in tower. Killed at Bosworth by Henry VII, ending War of Roses.
Richard. 1209-72. English. King of the Romans 1256-71.
Richardson, Dorothy. 1873-1957. English stream of consciousness novelist. Pilgrimage 1915-38.
Richardson, Samuel. 1689-1761. English novelist using personal letters. Influenced novel form: Pamela 1740 Clarissa 1747 (at 1M words, the longest English novel).
Richelieu, Cardinal. 1585-1642. French politician 1624-. Built power of Louis XIII.
Richler, Mordecai. 1931-2001. Canadian novelist of human dilemmas. Duddy Kravitz 1959.
Richmond, Virginia. US Confederate capital 1861-5.
Richter, Hans. 1843-1916. Hungarian conductor. Brahms, Wagner expert.
Richthofen, Manfred von. 1892-1918. WWI German air ace. Downed 80 Allied planes.