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Paraguay. Guarani. 1526 Cabot explores. 1535 Spanish. 1811 Independent. 1954 Dictatorship.
Paraguayan War. 1864-70. Paraguay decimated by Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay. Reduced population from 525K to 193K women and 28K men.
Paramountcy, Doctrine of. 19C. British East India Company claims right to intervene if any state is misgoverned.
Paré, Ambroise. 1510-90. Father of modern surgery. -“I apply the dressing. God heals the wound.” Invented articulating artificial limbs 1540.
Paris. Son of Priam. Carried Helen back to Troy, starting the Trojan Wars. Shot Achilles. Judged first beauty contest.
Paris. 276BC Parisii. 52BC Caesar conquers. 500 Merovingian. 987 France.
Paris, Congress. 1856. Austria, France, Britain, Russia, Ottomans, Sardinia end Crimean War.
Paris, Matthew. -1259. English monk, historian. Chronica Majora. Historia Anglorum.
Paris, Treaties. 1229 Ends Albigensian Crusade. Louis gains Toulouse. 1327. England loses territory to France. 1763 Ends Seven Years War. Britain gets French holdings in Canada. Spain gets American territory. 1783 Ends American Revolution. US borders fixed. 1814 Ends Napoleonic Wars, restoring 1792 borders. Napoleon exiled to Elba. 1815 Ends Hundred Days. 1790 borders, reparations. Napoleon to St. Helena. 1856 Ends Crimean War. Black Sea neutral. Regulated Laws of High Seas. 1898 Ends Spanish American War. Spain cedes Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico to US. 1947. Settled European borders after WWII.
Paris Peace Conference. 1919-20. Versailles Treaty.
Paris School. 1900-30. Bohemian golden age of arts in Montparnasse.
Paris University. c1170. Sorbonne 1257.
Paris Unrest. 1968. May Demonstrations.
Park, Mungo. 1771-1806. Scottish explorer of Niger.
Park Chung Hee. 1917-79. South Korean president. 1963-79 by 1961 coup. Economic growth.
Parker, Charlie. 1920-55. US Jazz saxophonist. Father of Bebop.
Parker, Dorothy. 1893-1967. US witty urban writer. A Star is Born. Death and Taxes 1931.
Parker, Matthew “Nosey”. 1504-75. Archbishop of Canterbury 1559-. 39 Articles.
Parks, Rosa. 1913-. US ‘mother’ of Civil Rights Movement. Arrested, 1955, for not relinquishing her seat to a white man. King.
Parlement. 12C-1792 French royal supreme courts in Paris, provinces.
Parliament. British Monarch, House of Lords and Commons. 1295 Model Parliament. 1688 Glorious Revolution. 1911 Parliament Act. Curia Regis. Name of legislatures of most former British colonies.
Parliament Act. 1911. House of Lords loses veto after opposing tax on wealthy. Commons term 5 yrs.
Parmenides. 5C BC. Eleatic philosopher. Everything is an illusion. Mind creates the illusion of matter and motion. All is appearance of singular eternal reality.
Parmentier, Antoine. 1737-1813. French agronomist, cultivated potatoes.
Parnassians. 1867-99. French detached anti-Romantic poetry school. Leconte de Lisle. Sully-Prudhomme. Verlaine. Gautier. Baudelaire.