Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. 1600-81. Spanish dramatist: El divino Orfeo-“Life is a dream” 1635.

California. 1542 Spain. 1769 Spanish colonize. Serra. 1822 Mexico. 1848 US. 1850 State.

Cambridge Agreement. 1629. Allowed Puritans to manage Massachussets Bay Company.

Campanella, Tommaso. 1568-1639. Italian monk, philosopher. City of the Sun 1602 parallels Plato’s Republic.

Cano, Juan del. c1460-1526. Spanish. First Circumnavigation 1521. Magellan.

Cánovas, Antonio. 1828-97. Spanish premier. Helped restore Alfonso XIII. Wrote constitution.

Carlos, Don. 1788-1855. Claimed Spanish throne 1833, succeeding brother Ferdinand VII. Carlists.

Casablanca, Conference. 1943. Allies agree to fight Axis and Japan to unconditional surrender.

Casals, Pablo. 1876-1973. Spanish cellist/conductor.

Cervantes, Miguel de. 1547-1616. Spanish writer: Don Quixote 1605.

Chikamatsu, Monzaemon. 1653-1724. Japanese playwright. “The Shakespeare of Japan”.

Chillida, Edouardo. 1924-. Spanish sculptor.

Chilpancingo, Congress. 1813. Declared Mexico independent from Spain.

China. T’ang(leg). Yü (leg). c1994BC Hsia. c1500 Shang. c1027 Chou. 481 Warring States. 221 Ch’in. 202BC Han. 220 AD Three Kingdoms. 265 Chin. 386 Northern Dyn(N)/420 Southern Dyn(S). 581 Sui rebuild. 618 T’ang. 10C Five dyn/Ten kingdoms. 960 Sung. 1279 Yüan (Mongol). 1368 Ming. 1644 Ch’ing (Manchu). 1912 Republic. 1938-44 Japanese occupation. 1949 People’s Republic.

Churrigueresque. Very ornate Spanish architectural style. Baroque. Plateresque.

Cid, El. (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar). c1043-99. Spanish hero, who fought for Moors and Christians. Idealized in 1140 epic El Cantar de mio Cid. Conquered and ruled Valencia 1094-99.

Cierva y Cordoniu, Juan de la. 1895-1936. Spanish autogyro inventor 1923. First vertical take-off 1934.

Citroën, André. 1878-1935. French Industrialist, automobile company.

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. 1850-1901. US-British agree not to colonize Central America. Panama Canal.

Coalition, Wars of. 1792-1815. European powers oppose France’s revolutionary ideas and expansion. French Revolutionary Wars. Napoleonic Wars. Third Coalition War.

Cod War. 1972-6. Britain upset at Iceland’s unilateral expansion of fishing limits to 50 miles.

Comunero. 1520-1. Spanish Republican rebellion. Crushed, but effected policy changes.

Conquistadors. Spanish conquerors in America.

Coral Sea, Battle. 1942. US checks Japanese advances. WWII.

Coronado, Francisco de. 1510-54. Spanish explorer. Grand Canyon, 1540.

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