Clocks. 3500BC Gnomon. 2000BC Chinese. 8C BC sundial 4C BC Greek water clock. 300BC hemispherical sundial 160BC Rome. 12C mechanical. 1379 de Vick. 1657 Huygens pendulum.

Clotaire I. -561. Son of Clovis. Merovingian king of Franks 511-. Reunited empire 558-61.

Clotaire II. 584-629. Merovingian king of Neustria. Reunited Frankish Empire 613, but ceded power to nobles.

Clotho. Youngest Fate. Spinner of thread of life.

Clotilda, St. c475-545. Converted her husband, Clovis.

Cloud, St. (Clodoald). Grandson of Clovis I.

Clovis I. 465-511. Salian Frankish king 481-. Conquered N Gaul. Baptized at Reims. Moved capital to Paris in 506. First Merovingian king of France.

Club of Rome. Published 1972 Limits to Growth showing the dangers of overpopulation.

Clunaics. 910-12C. Strict Benedictine Order.

Clymene. Nymph. Mother of Atlas and Prometheus.

Clytemnestra. Wife and murderess of Agamemnon. Killed by her children, Orestes and Electra.

CND. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

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

Coatlicue. Aztec earth goddess.

Cobbett, William. 1763-1835. English working class pamphleteer.

Cobden, Richard. 1804-65. British Radical MP. Anti-Corn Law League.

Cochise. -1874. Apache warrior Indian chief.

Cockayne, Land of. Legendary medieval land of gluttony and idleness.

Cockcroft, John. 1897-1967. English physicist. Split nucleus.

Cockerell, Christopher. 1910-99. English hovercraft inventor 1955.

Cocoa. 1494 brought to Europe by Columbus.

Cocteau, Jean. 1889-1963. Montparnasse poet. Provençale figurative painter. Filmmaker.

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

Codrus. 11C BC/Legendary last king of Athens.

Coffee. 16/17C to Europe. 1650 Oxford. First coffee house.

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