Adams, William. 1564-1620. English navigator established Japan trade c1613.

Adelard of Bath. 1090-c1150. English mathematician/translator introduced Arabic numerals.

Adrian IV. c1100-59. Only English pope 1150-. Crowned Barbarossa.

Agincourt, Battle. 1415. English victory over French during 100 Years War. High French losses.

Airy, George Biddell. 1801-92. English astronomer: Greenwich Observatory.

Alcuin. c735-804. English Counselor to Charlemagne. Set up monastic education system in Europe.

Aldrich, Henry. 1647-1710. English composer/architect: Peckwater Quad, Oxford, 1707-14.

Alexander of Hales. -1245. English Franciscan Aristotelian philosopher, theologian. Summa Theologia 1246.

All the Talents. 1806. English government under Grenville.

Amis, Kingsley. 1922-95. English novelist and poet. Angry Young Men. Lucky Jim 1954.

Anjou. Region, former province of western France. Under English 1151-1204, 1360. 1480 France. Angevin.

Annual Register. 1759-. English political record. Burke.

Antigua. Carib. 1493 Columbus discovers. 1632 English settle. 18C slave trade. 1958-62 West Indies Federation. 1967 Self-government. 1981 Independent +Barbuda.

Appleton, Edward. 1892-1965. English physicist: Appleton ionospheric layer.

Aquitaine. 1C BC Rome. 5C Visigoth. 507 Franks. 700 Independent. 1137 French. 1152 English 1453 French.

Armagnac. Former county of southwest France, now Gascogne. 960 Independent. 1360 English. 1607 France.

Arne, Thomas. 1710-78. English composer: Rule Britannia 1740. Operas.

Art Nouveau. (Jugendstil). 1885-1910. Originally English style of art and architecture. Reaction to Industrial uniformity. Beardsley. Tiffany. Gaudi.

Arthur I. 1187-1203. Duke of Brittany. Claimant to English throne. Defeated by John I.

Ascham, Roger. 1515-68. English humanist, author.

Assandum, Battle. 1016. Danes defeat English in Essex.

Aston, Francis. 1877-1945. English physicist. Mass spectrograph.

Auden, W.H. 1907-73. English/US poet/opera librettist. The Rake’s Progress 1951.

Austen, Jane. 1775-1817. English novelist: Sense and Sensibility, 1811, Pride and Prejudice, 1813. “the exquisite touch which renders the commonplace interesting”-W. Scott. Emma 1816.

Austin, Herbert. 1886-1941. English car manufacturer. Small car pioneer.

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