Yerba Buena. 1776-1846. Spanish mission...San Francisco.

Yermak Timofeyevich. -1584. Cossack. Conquered Siberia for Russia.

Yersin, Alexander. 1863-1943. Swiss/French. Developed serum for bubonic plague.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny. 1933-. Russian poet. Babiy Yar 1961.

Yezhovshchina. 1936-8. Stalin’s Purge led by NKVD chief Yezhovshchina.

Yggdrasill. Ash tree of existence, life and knowledge in Scandinavian legend.

Yi. 1392-1910. Korean dynasty. Isolationist to 1876. Ended by Japanese annexation.

Yiddish. 12C- European Jewish language from High German+Hebrew+Slavic.

Yin. Chinese symbol of earth, dark, female, cold, passive, negative. Yang.

YMCA. 1844. Founded by George Williams.

Yoga. Hindu and Buddhist system of meditation, breathing and exercise to achieve spiritual enlightenment.

Yogacara. 2C- Mahayana meditative Buddhism. Only consciousness is real.

Yom Kippur War. October War.

Yonge, Charlotte. 1823-1901. English Victorian novelist: Heir of Radclyffe 1853. Daisy Chain 1856. Oxford Movement.

York. Branch of the Anjou-Plantegenet family, Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III. War of Roses.

York, Alvin. 1887-1964. US WWI hero.

York Cathedral. 625 Original. 1070-1472 Current.

Yorktown, Siege. 1781. British surrender to American and French forces. American Revolution.

Young, Brigham. 1801-77. US Mormon leader 1844-. Founded Salt Lake City. Utah governor 1850-7.

Young, Edward. 1683-1765. English poet, playwright. Complaint 1742-5.

Young, Thomas. 1773-1829. English physicist. Wave interference of light 1801.

Young Europe. 1834- Conspired to create democratic league of nations by assassination/demonstration.

Young Germany. 1830-50. Literary movement vs Nationalism and Romanticism. Heine. Wienbarg.

Young Italy. 1831-48 Mazzini movement to establish an Italian Republic.

Young Plan. 1930. Fixed German WWI reparations at 37 billion gold marks to be paid by 1988. One payment made.

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