Alvarez Quintero, Joaquin. 1873-1944, + Serafin 1871-1938. Spanish playwrights.

Amati. 16-17C. Italian family of violin makers-taught Stradivari.

Amboise Conspiracy. 1560. Failed Huguenot plot to kidnap French king. Led to massacre of 1200 Huguenots.

American Civil War. 1861-5. Abolitionist North defeats slave-owning South. Britain and France support South, Russia supports North. Union. Confederacy.

American Colonization Society. 1816-1912. Transported blacks to Liberia.

America’s Cup. 1851. Royal Yacht Squadron race won by Americans until 1983. Oldest international sports trophy.

Amiens, Mise of. 1264. Louis IX arbitrated annulment of Provisions of Oxford. Barons War.

Amiens, Treaty. 1527. Henry VIII, Francis I ally vs Charles V. 1802. England, France, Spain, Holland end French Revolutionary Wars. Britain cedes captured territory, gains Ceylon, Trinidad.

Amiens Cathedral. 1220-1270. Romanesque/Gothic.

Amin, Idi. c1926-. Uganda dictator 1971-9. Exile to France.

Amish. 17C-. Conservative Mennonites. 19-20C migrated to North America.

Amorites. 1900-1600BC. Babylonian civilization conquered Sumerians. Hammurabi.

Ampère, André. 1775-1836. Physicist: related magnetism to electric current, 1820. Galvanometer 1824.

Amram bar Shishna. -875. Hebrew scholar. Oldest prayer book. Seder Rab Amram.

Amyot, Jacques. 1513-93. French humanist and Plutarch translator.

Anaxagoras. c500-428BC. Ionian rational philosopher. Mind can move matter. Eclipses.

Andorra. Ibericbasc. Greeks/Carthaginians/Romans/Visigoths 8C Muslim. 803 Charlemagne. 1133 Bishop of Urgell. 1159 Fiefdom of Foix. 1278- Principality under joint French, Spanish suzerainty. 1993 Constitution. Coprincipality.

Andrássy, Gyula. 1823-90. Hungary’s first Prime Minister. Arranged Dual Alliance.

Andrusov, Treaty. 1667. Ended Russo-Polish War. Divided Ukraine.

Angelico, Fra. c1400-55. Florentine classical colorist painter: Convent of St. Mark. Madonna and Angel Musicians 1433.

Angevin Dynasty. Descendants of French House of Anjou. France -1480. Plantagenet Kings of England 1154-1485. Charles I of Anjou.

Anglo-American War. 1812-14. US, angry at British blockade of France, and Tippecanoe interference, invades Canada. Toronto and White House burned. US defeated. Ghent Treaty.

Angoulême, Louis duc d’. 1775-1844. Last Dauphin of France 1824-30.

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

Annam. 2000BC Kingdom in north Vietnam 1883 French protectorate.

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