Coligny, Gaspard de. 1519-72. Huguenot leader 1562-. Influence on king caused Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.

COMINFORM. Communist Information Bureau. 1947-56. Coordinated European party activities.

Commune. 1789-94. Paris council. Overode the National Assembly by controlling administration.

Commune, Paris. 1871. Revolutionary government formed when Thiers abandoned Paris to Prussians. Crushed 2 months later by McMahon. 20,000 killed.

Communist Party. USSR. 1918. Name adopted by Bolsheviks for Social Democratic Workers’ Party. Parties started in Britain, USA, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Germany soon after.

Concordat. 1801-1905. Regulation of French church instituted by Napoleon.

Congress (I) Party. 1978-. Split from Congress Party under Indira Gandhi.

Congress Party. 1885-. Indian political party. In power 1947-77.

Conservative Party. Britain. 1832. Successor to Tory Party.

Consulate. 1799-1804. Napoleon’s military triumvirate after Directory overthrown.

Continental System. 1806-12. Napoleon’s European embargo vs Britain. Russian refusal led to 1812 Campaign. British retaliation led to Anglo-American War 1812.

Convention of 1818. Established 49th parallel as US-Canada border.

Convention Parliament. 1660. Restored monarchy. William and Mary 1689.

Corinthian Wars. 395-387BC. Athens and allies overcome Spartan domination.

Country Party. 1913-. Australian pro-agriculture party. Small but influential in coalition governments.

Courbet, Gustave. 1819-77. French Realist painter, socialist activist. Commune. The Artist’s Studio 1855.

Court of Miracles. In Middle Ages in Paris, area where beggars lived at night, shedding their wooden legs, etc.

Crassus, Marcus. c115-53BC. First Roman triumvirate member. Suppressed Spartacus’ slave revolt.

Creole. 16-18C White person born in America of Spanish parents. Now varied meanings.

Croker, JW. 1833. Coined ’Conservative’ for Tory.

Cuvier, Georges. 1769-1832. French creator of comparative anatomy and paleontology.

Cycladic Civilization. Paralleled Minoan and Mycenaean.

Cyprus. Stone, Bronze Age civilizations. 1450BC Egypt. 1200BC Greek. 1000 Phoenicia. 709 Assyria. 569 Egypt. 6C Persia. 333 Macedonia. 294 Egypt. 47BC Rome...330 AD Byzantine. 7C Moslem. 1191 Crusaders. 1489 Venice. 1571 Turk. 1878 British lease...1914 Britain annexes. 1927 Crown Colony. 1960 Republic. 1963-4 Civil War, Greece and Turkey intervene. 1974 Turkey invades, partition.

Dail Eireann. 1919. Irish national parliament.

Dalton, John. 1766-1844. English scientist. Law of Partial Pressures. Color blindness 1793.

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