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Wittstock, Battle. 1636. Sweden defeats Holy Roman Empire in Thirty Years War.
Wladislaus II. c1456-1576. King of Bohemia 1471-, Hungary 1490-. Treaty later gave both to Hapsburgs 1526.
Wobblies. IWW, Industrial Workers of the World.
Wodehouse, P.G. 1881-1975. English humorist. Jeeves 1917.
Wöhler, Friedrich. 1800-82. German. Synthesized urea 1828. Aluminum 1827.
Wolf, Hugo. 1860-1903. Austrian poet/song writer. Subtle interweaving of piano and vocal based on German, Spanish, Italian poems.
Wolfe, James. 1727-59. British general. Captured Quebec in Seven Years War 1759.
Wolfe, Tom. 1900-38. US novelist. Look Homeward, Angel 1929.
Wolfram von Eschenbach. 1170-1220. German lyric poet. Parsifal 1202.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. 1759-97. English feminist author. Vindication of the Rights of Women 1792. Mother of Mary W Shelley.
Wolsey, Thomas. c1475-1530. English cardinal. Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII. Lost influence when unable to secure divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Built Hampton Court Palace as gift for Henry VIII. Unpopularity a cause of Reformation.
Women’s Christian Temperance Union. 1874. US movement vs alcoholic drink.
Wood, Grant. 1892-1942. US midwest regionalist painter. American Gothic 1930.
Wood, John. 1704-54. English Palladian architect: Royal Crescent, Bath 1767.
Wood, Leonard. 1860-1927. US military surgeon. Co-founder of Rough Riders.
Woodhull, Victoria. 1838-1927. US reformer. First female presidential candidate 1872. Suffrage, free love advocate.
Woodstock. 1969. US Rock festival attended by 300,000.
Woolf, Virginia. 1882-1941. English psychological stream of consciousness writer. Captured transience and subtlety of thought. Bloomsbury Group. Mrs Dalloway 1925. To the Lighthouse 1927. Waves 1931.
Woolley, Leonard. 1880-1960. English archeologist. Excavated Ur. Found evidence of Great Flood.
Worcester, Battle. 1651. Cromwell defeats Royalists. Last revolt after English Civil War.
Wordsworth, William. 1770-1850. English Romantic lyric ballad Lake Poet. “Nature’s Priest”.
World Bank. 1944. United Nations agency established at Bretton Woods.
World Council of Churches. 1948. Amsterdam.
World Court. 1899 Permanent Court of Arbitration. 1921 Hague Conference created Permanent Court of International Justice. 1945 International Court of Justice.